Workshops

The 1988 Workshop on Cognitive Models of Speech Processing was held at Park Hotel Fiorelle, Sperlonga, Italy, on 16-20 May 1988. Twentyfive participants gathered in this small coastal village, where the Emperor Tiberius once kept a summer house, to discuss psycholinguistic and computational issues in speech and natural language processing. The main aim of the workshop was to draw together current research trends within the fields of human speech perception and natural language processing. Cognitive psychologists have attempted to model what goes on at the many different levels at which speech perception can be described; they have also been concerned with the interaction, if any, between these levels. The mechanisms that have been proposed have varied in the degree to which they are amenable to detailed computational modeling.