Efficient tools for (semi-)automatic prosodic annotation are becoming more and more important for the speech community, as most systems of prosodic annotation rely on the identification of syllabic prominence in spoken corpora (whether they lead a phonological interpretation or not). The use of automatic and semi-automatic annotation has also facilitated multilingual research; many experiments on prosodic prominence identification have been conducted for European and non-European languages, and protocols have been written in order to build large databases of spoken languages prosodically annotated all around the world.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together specialists of automatic prosodic annotation interested in the development of robust algorithms for prominence detection, and linguists who developed methodologies for the identification of prosodic prominence in natural languages on perceptual bases. The conference will include oral and poster sessions, and a final round table.

The following topics will be considered:
1. Annotation of prominence
2. Perceptual processing of prominences: gestalt theories’ background
3. Acoustic correlates of prominence
4. Prominence and its relations with prosodic structure
5. Prominence and its relations with accent, stress, tone and boundary
6. The use of syntactic/pragmatic information in prominence identification
7. Perception of prominence by naive/expert listeners
8. Statistical methods for prominence’s detection
9. Number of relevant prominence degrees : categorical or continuous scale
10.Prosodic prominence and visual perception