Shirin Saleem will lead the discussion on 

   "A Unified Approach in Speech-to-Speech Translation: Integrating
    Features of Speech Recognition and Machine Translation"
   Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Taro Watanabe, Frank
   Soong, Wai Kit Lo
   ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
   From Coling 2004 168-209.pdf
   http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/inner/conferences/COLING/2004/MAIN/pdf/168-209.pdf

   and

   "Improved Spoken Language Translation Using N-best Speech Recognition
    Hypotheses"
   Ruiqiang Zhang, Genichiro Kikui, Hirofumi Yamamoto,
   Frank Soong, Wai-Kit Lo, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita
   ATR Spoken Language Translation Laboratories
   From ICSLP2004 WeC2302p.20_p630.pdf
   http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/inner/conferences/ICSLP/ICSLP2004/contents/WeC_pdf/WeC2302p/WeC2302p.20_p630.pdf

Our second speaker is John Kominek who will lead the discussion on

   "Automatic pitch marking and reconstruction of glottal closure instants 
    from noisy and deformed electro-glotto-graph signals"
   Atilla Ferencz, Jeong-Su Koim, Yong-Beom Lee, Jae-Won Lee, 
   From ICSLP2004 ThC1202p.9_p470.pdf.
   http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/inner/conferences/ICSLP/ICSLP2004/contents/ThC_pdf/ThC1202p/ThC1202p.9_p470.pdf