ISCA Awards

ISCA Medal for Scientic Achievement
ESCA Special Service Medal
Best Student Paper Awards and Best Paper published in the Speech Communication Journal

ISCA Medal for Scientic Achievement

In the years since its creation in 1988, ESCA (now ISCA) has presented a major award at every Eurospeech conference. The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement has been awarded to:

• Victor Zue (INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, Belgium)
  
  
• John Ohala (INTERSPEECH 2006, Pittsburgh, USA)
  
  
• Graeme Clark (INTERSPEECH 2005, Lisbon, Portugal)
  
  
• Manfred Schroeder (INTERSPEECH 2004, Jeju, Korea)
  
  
• Jens Blauert (Eurospeech'03, Geneva, Switzerland)
  
  
• Ilse lehiste (ICSLP'02, Denver, Co, USA)
  
  
• Louis Pols (Eurospeech'01, Aalborg)
  Institute of Phonetic Sciences / ACLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  
• Frederick Jelinek (Eurospeech'99, Budapest)
  Johns Hopkins University, USA
  
  
• Mario Rossi (Eurospeech'97, Rhodes)
  Institute of Phonetics, Aix en Provence, France
  
  
• Ken Stevens (Eurospeech'95, Madrid)
  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  
  
• Adrian Fourcin (Eurospeech'93, Berlin)
  University College of London, UK
  
  
• Jim Flanagan (Eurospeech'91, Genoa)
  CAIP, USA
  
  
• Gunnar Fant (Eurospeech'89, Paris)
  Sweden

ESCA Special Service Medal

After celebrating its 10th anniversary, ESCA decided to acknowledge those scientists that were instrumental in the promotion of the Association, creating an ESCA/ISCA Special Service Medal. This medal has been awarded twice:

• Wolfgang J. HESS (Interspeech 2007, Antwerp)
  
  
• Joseph MARIANI (Eurospeech'99, Budapest)
  LIMSI, France

Best Student Paper Awards & Best Paper published in the Speech Communication Journal :

• Interspeech 2007, Antwerp:
  
  - 3 ISCA Award for the best student paper of Interspeech 2007
  
  * "Speech Recognition Techniques for a Sign Language Recognition System", Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Thomas Deselaers, Morteza Zahedi, and Hermann Ney
  
  * "An Empirical Investigation of the Nonuniqueness in the Acoustic-to-Articulatory Mapping" Chao Qin, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan
  
  * "A Unified Approach to Multi-Pose Audio-Visual ASR" Patrick Lucey, Gerasimos Potamianos, and Sridha Sridharan,
  
  - ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal for 2004-2006"
  
  *"Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding"* G. Tur, D. Hakkani-Tur, and R. Schapire Volume 45, issue 2, February 2005 Pages 171-186
  
  
• Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh:
  
  - 3 Best Student Papers Award:
  
  * "Detecting Question-Bearing Turns in Spoken Tutorial Dialogues", Jackson Liscombe, Jennifer J. Venditti, Julia Hirschberg
  
  *"Soft Margin Estimation of Hidden Markov Model Parameters", Jinyu Li, Ming Yuan and Chin-Hui Lee
  
  * "Acoustic cues for the classification of regular and irregular phonation", Kushan Surana and Janet Slifka
  
  - ISCA-Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal during 2003-2005:
  
  "Statistical language model adaptation: review and perspectives", Jérôme Bellegarda, Volume 42, issue 1, January 2004, Pages 83-108
  
  
• Interspeech 2005, Lisbon:
  
  - Best Student Paper Award :
  
  "On the Integration of Speech Recognition and Statistical Machine Translation", E. Matusov, S. Kanthak and H. Ney, Lehrstuhl für Informatik VI, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University.
  
  - ISCA-Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal during 2002-2004:
  
  "Multi-class composite N-gram language model", Hirofumi Yamamoto, Shuntaro Isogai and Yoshinori Sagisaka, Speech Communication, Volume 41, Issues 2-3, October 2003, Pages 369-379.
  
  
  
• Interspeech 2004, Jeju:
  
  - Best Student Paper Award :
  
  Peter Reichl and Florian Hammer, "Hot Discussion or Frosty Dialogue? Towards a Temperature Metric for Conversational Interactivity", Telecommunications Research Center, Vienna, Austria and Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory of the Technical University of Graz, Austria.
  
  - ISCA-Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal during 2002-2003:
  
  J. L. Gauvin, L. Lamel and G. Adda, "The LIMSI Broadcast News Transcription System", Volume 37, Issues 1-2, June 2002, Pages 89-108.

• Eurospeech'03, Geneva:
  
  - Best Student Paper Award :
  
  Xianxian Zhang and John H. L. Hansen, "CRA-BF: A Novel Combined Fixed/Adaptive Beamforming for Robust Speech Recognition in Real Car Environments", University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
  
  - ISCA-Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal during 2001-2002 :
  
  "The auditory organization of speech and other sources in listeners and computational models" by Martin Cooke and Daniel P. W. Ellis. Speech Communication, Vol. 35, pp. 141-177, 2001.
  
  
• ICSLP'02, Denver:
  
  - Best Student Paper Award :
  
  J. Serkhane, et al, "Motor Specifications of a Baby Robot via the Analysis of Infants' Vocalizations"
  
  - ISCA-Award for the best paper published in Speech Communications during 2000-2001:
  
  Tanja Schultz and Alex Waibel: "Language-independent and language-adaptive acoustic modeling for speech recognition", vol.35 nos.1-2, 2001
  
  
• Eurospeech'01, Aalborg:
  
  - ISCA-Award for the best paper published in Speech Communications during 1998-2000:
  
  The paper by Mehryar Mohri and Michael Riley: "Network Optimizations for Large-Vobabulary Speech Recognition", Speech Communication, Vol. 28, No 1, pp. 1-12 (1999), has been selected for this award by the reviewers of Speech Communication.
  
  - ISCA-Award for the best student paper of Eurospeech 2001 addressing original speech communication topics:
  
  The paper by Liang Gu and Kenneth Rose: "Split-band Perceptual Harmonic Cepstral Coefficients as Acoustic Features for Speech Recognition", Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Eurospeech'99, Budapest:
  
  - Best Student Paper Award :
  
  Thomas Kemp, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
  For his paper coauthored by Alex Waibel, entitled:
  "Unsupervised training of a speech recognizer: recent experiments"
  
  - ELSNET prize for the "best student paper addressing integration of language and speech":
  
  Jun Wu, John Hopkins Univ., USA
  For his paper coauthored by Sanjeev Khudanpur, entitled:
  "Combining nonlocal, syntactic and n-gram dependencies in language modeling"
  
  - ELRA prize for the "best student paper addressing issues related to speech and natural language ressources":
  
  Eric Fosler-Lussier, Univ. of California, Berkeley and International Computer Science Inst., USA
  For his paper entitled:
  "Multi-level decision trees for static and dynamic pronunciation models"
  
  
• Eurospeech'97, Rhodes:

- ELSNET prize for the "best student paper addressing integration of language and speech":

Kenney Ng
Spoken Language Systems Group
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Cambridge, MA, USA
For his paper coauthored by Victor W. Zue, entitled:
"Subword unit representations for spoken document retrieval"

- ELRA prize for the "best student paper addressing issues related to speech and natural language ressources":

Philip Clarkson
Cambridge
For his paper coauthored by Ronald Rosenfeld, entitled:
"Statistical language modeling using the CMU-Cambridge toolkit"