DiSS 2013 - The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech

Following the successes of the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech workshop in Berkeley (1999) and the DiSS workshops in Edinburgh (2001), Göteborg (2003), Aix-en-Provence (2005) and Tokyo (2010), we are proud to present DiSS 2013, to be held at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2013, with invited talks by Martin Corley and Herbert Clark.
What is most often called disfluency ? that is pauses, hesitations, prolongations, truncations, repetitions, self-repairs and similar ? in normal spontaneous speech presents challenges for researchers in many different fields, ranging from speech production and perception in psychology, to conversational analysis and automatic speech recognition in speech technology. Like previous workshops, the aim of this workshop is to discuss and elucidate various aspects of this ubiquitous speech phenomenon from a wide variety of angles.
DiSS 2103 will allow an opportunity for researchers from diverse backgrounds to present their research findings, to discuss common interests, to identify future directions and to establish new research collaborations. DiSS 2013 will be an international workshop with a limited number of active participants. Priority will be given to authors of accepted papers. All accepted papers will be published and available in print and electronic versions and will be made available at the start of the workshop.
Submissions are encouraged within the following fields: disfluency in spontaneous speech, psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics,linguistics, conversation analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, gesture analysis, dialog systems, the borderline between “normal” and pathological speech disfluency and evolutionary aspects on speech production and perception.