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Tuesday, December 07, 2010 by Chris Wellekens

3 Events
3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2011-08-27) CfP INTERSPEECH 2011 Florence Italy
INTERSPEECH2011

Florence, Italy / August 27-31, 2011

http://www.interspeech2011.org

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First Announcement

Dear Colleague,

INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference
on challenges surrounding the science and technology of Spoken
Language Processing (SLP) both in humans and in machines.

It is our great pleasure to announce that the Italian SLP community
will host INTERSPEECH 2011 under the sponsorship of the International
Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

INTERSPEECH 2011 will be the 12th conference in the annual series of
INTERSPEECH events. It will be held in Florence, Italy, 27-31 August
2011, with the support of ISCA, AISV (ISCA Italian Regional SIG), CNR
(National Research Council), and UniFI (University of Florence).

The theme of INTERSPEECH 2011 will be: “Speech science and
technology for real life” and under this theme the conference will
emphasize an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of
speech science and technology spanning the basic theories to
applications. Besides regular oral and poster sessions, plenary talks
by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, exhibits, and special
sessions are planned. A number of satellite events will take place
immediately before and after the conference. Please follow the
details of these and other news at our website

www.interspeech2011.org.

INTERSPEECH Proceedings are indexed in ISI web of science

The venue of Interspeech 2011 will be the “Firenze Fiera Congress
and Exhibition Center”.

For the complete Call for Papers and other Calls please visit our
website at

http://www.interspeech2011.org/conference/calls.php

We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2011 in Florence!

Sincerely,

Piero Cosi, Renato De Mori

Chairs

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Papers

We invite you to submit original papers in any related area,
including but

not limited to:

* Speech Perception and Production

* Phonology, Phonetics

* Para-/Non- linguistic Information

* Language Processing

* Analysis, Enhancement and Coding of Speech and Audio Signals

* Speaker and Language Identification

* Speech & Spoken Language Generation, Speech Synthesis

* Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)

* Technologies and Systems for New Applications

* Spoken Dialogue System, Spoken Language Understanding, Speech
Translation,

 and Information Retrieval

* Application, Evaluation, Standardization, Spoken Language Resource

Special Session Topics will be defined after January 21, 2011

Paper Submission Procedure

Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2011 proceedings should be up to four
pages in length and conform to the format given in the paper
preparation guidelines and author kits which will be available on the
INTERSPEECH 2011 website along with the Final Call for Papers.
Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia
files, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM. Authors shall also
declare that their contributions are original and not being submitted
for publication elsewhere (e.g. another conference, workshop, or
journal). Papers must be submitted via the on-line paper submission
system, which will open in early February 2011. The deadline for
submitting a paper is 31 March 2011. This date will not be extended.

Inquiries regarding paper submissions should be directed via email to

submission@interspeech2011.org.

Language

The working language of the conference is English.

Sincerely,

Roberto Pieraccini, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio

Technical Chairs ( technical_chair@interspeech2011.org )

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Special Sessions

Submissions of Special Session proposals are encouraged for the
upcoming conference, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or
important new emerging areas of interest related to the main
conference topics.

Each special session proposal should contain the following
information:

1. Title of the proposed Session

2. Names/affiliation of organizers (including brief bio and contact
information)

3. An introduction (maximum 1 page) stating the importance of the
topic and the objectives

 of the proposed Session

4. Tentative/confirmed list of papers

5. (titles/affiliations/authors) to be submitted to the proposed
Session (optional)

Proposals should clearly describe the topic and explain why the topic
cannot be covered appropriately in regular sessions.

Papers for approved Special Sessions should be submitted following
the same schedule/procedure as for regular papers, and will undergo
the same reviewing process by anonymous and independent reviewers as
regular papers.

Proposals will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee based on the
relevance/significance of the topic and potential interest to the
conference attendees.

Submission Procedure

Prospective organizers are invited to submit a proposal via email to
specialsessions@interspeech2011.org before January 14, 2011.

Notification of acceptance of proposals is scheduled for January 21,
2011.

Sincerely,

Amanda Stent, Mauro Falcone

Special Sessions Chairs

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Tutorials

Submissions of tutorial proposals are encouraged, covering
interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of
interest related to the main conference topics.

The following information should be included in each proposal:

* Title of the tutorial;

* Duration (a tutorial can last either three or six hours. in the
latter case, it will be

 structured in two sessions of three hours);

* Names/affiliation of the presenters;

* A brief biography of each presenter, including selected
publications and references to

 web pages of relevant interest for the review;

* E-mail address and other possible contact information;

* An introduction (maximum 1 page), including the importance of the
topic,

the objectives

 and the novelty of the proposed tutorial, and a brief outline of the
main target audience;

* A presentation outline (maximum 2 pages), specifying how the
presentation would be

 organized in the case of multiple presenters;

* A brief description of the material that would be distributed to
the participant;

* A list of any type of special equipment necessary for the
presentation, including

 nformation if such equipment is required to be supplied by the
conference organisers;

* Other possible requirements.

Submission Procedure

Prospective tutorial presenters should submit proposals by email to
tutorials@interspeech2011.org before December 15, 2010. Proposals
will be evaluated by the

Organizing Committee for relevance, quality, value, and novelty -
introducing new tools, ideas, and topics to the Interspeech
community. Notification of acceptance is scheduled for 15 January
2011.

Sincerely,

Maurizio Omologo

Tutorial Chair

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Show&Tell

We are delighted to host the first Show and Tell event at Interspeech
2011.

Show&Tell will provide researchers, technologists and practitioners
from academia, industry and government the opportunity to demonstrate
their latest research systems and interact with the attendees in an
informal setting. Demonstrations need to be based on innovations and
fundamental research in areas of human speech production, perception,
communication, and speech and language technology and systems.

Demonstrations will be peer-reviewed by members of the Interspeech
Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance,
quality, and clarity of each submission. At least one author of each
accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and
demonstrate the system during the Show&Tell sessions. Each accepted
demonstration paper will be allocated 2 pages in the conference
proceeding.

At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be evaluated and
considered for the Best Show&Tell Award.

Submission guidelines:

* All manuscripts must be in English.

* The paper must be no longer than two (2) pages.

* All submitted proposals must adhere to the format and style
specified in

the Interspeech

 2011 authors' kit.

* All Show&Tell papers submitted to INTERSPEECH 2011 must be original
contributions

 that have not been submitted to any other conference.

* Authors are invited to submit supporting data files, such as
demonstration videos, to be

 included on the Proceedings CD-ROM if their Show&Tell paper is
accepted.

* Show and Tell events will be held tentatively in the afternoons of
August 28th, and 29th.

 Authors will be provided with a poster board and a table. Wireless
access will be

 available.

* Papers should be submitted by email to
showandtell@interspeech2011.org

Important dates:

Full submission deadline: March 31st, 2011

Acceptance notification: May 26th, 2011

Sincerely,

Mazin Gilbert

Show & Tell Chair

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Satellite Events

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2011 invites proposals for
satellite events at INTERSPEECH 2011 to be held in Florence, Italy,
on 27-31 August 2011.

The Organizing Committee would be pleased to host various workshops
and conferences to be organized as satellite events of INTERSPEECH
2011 in order to stimulate research fields and disciplines related to
speech and language. If you are interested in organizing a satellite
event, or would like a planned event to be listed as an official
satellite event, please email to workshops@interspeech2011.org.

It is strongly recommended that proposals are submitted as soon as
possible, since any INTERSPEECH satellite event needs to get a prior
official approval by ISCA.

Proposals should include: date and location of the workshop, a draft
of the program, a list of the technical/scientific committee members.

A useful cheklist and a document with guidelines for organizing
workshops can be found at

http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/iscaworkshop/workshops.php

Sincerely,

Cinzia Avesani

Satellite Events Chair

____________________________________________________________________________

Sponsors

Any INTERSPEECH is a major undertaking, and INTERSPEECH 2011 is no
different.

We seek the assistance of all organizations to make INTERSPEECH 2011
a success. Donations from corporate, academic, non-profit,
government, and individual sponsors would be immensely appreciated.

Your support brings you various benefits. For details, kindly view
the Support INTERSPEECH 2011 page or Invitation to Sponsor (
http://www.interspeech2011.org/docs/IS2011-Sponsorship.pdf [PDF,
586KB] ) or contact: sponsors@interspeech2011.org

____________________________________________________________________________

Exhibitors

Are you interested in exhibit your speech technologies and
applications at INTERSPEECH 2011?

We think this is an excellent opportunity for you to reach out to the
1000 attendees we expect in Florence.

For details, kindly view the Invitation to Sponsors & Exhibitors
[PDF, 586KB] document or contact: sponsors@interspeech2011.org

Sincerely,

Andrea Fiorio, Andrea Paoloni

Sponsors & Exhibitors Chairs

____________________________________________________________________________

Important dates

Full paper submission deadline: 31 March 2011

Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 26 May 2011

Camera-ready paper due: 09 June 2011

Early/Authors' registration deadline: 10 June 2011

Tutorials dates: 27 August 2011

Conference: 28-31 August 2011

Please visit our website at http://www.interspeech2011.org/

____________________________________________________________________________

Organizing Secretariat

Dott.ssa Alessandra Colombo

Promo Leader Service Congressi

Head quarter PLS Group

Via della Mattonaia, 17

50121 Firenze (Italy)

Phone +39 055 2462 201

 +39 055 2462 201

Fax +39 055 2462 270

interspeech2011@promoleader.com

 

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3-1-2(2011-08-28) Show and tell (at Interspeech 2011)

Interspeech 2011, Florence Italy

 

Show&Tell

 

 

We are delighted to host the first Show and Tell event at Interspeech 2011. Show&Tell will provide researchers, technologists and practitioners from academia, industry and government the opportunity to demonstrate their latest research systems and interact with the attendees in an informal setting. Demonstrations need to be based on innovations and fundamental research in areas of human speech production, perception, communication, and speech and language technology and systems.

 

Demonstrations will be peer-reviewed by members of the Interspeech Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the Show&Tell sessions. Each accepted demonstration paper will be allocated 2 pages in the conference proceeding.

 

At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be evaluated and considered for the Best Show&Tell Award.

 

 

Submission guidelines:

  • All manuscripts must be in English.
  • The paper must be no longer than two (2) pages.
  • All submitted proposals must adhere to the format and style specified in the Interspeech 2011 authors' kit.
  • All Show&Tell papers submitted to INTERSPEECH 2011 must be original contributions that have not been submitted to any other conference.
  • Authors are invited to submit supporting data files, such as demonstration videos, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM if their Show&Tell paper is accepted.
  • Show and Tell events will be held tentatively in the afternoons of August 28th, and 29th. Authors will be provided with a poster board and a table. Wireless access will be available.
  • Papers should be submitted to showandtell@interspeech2011.org

 

Chair:
Mazin Gilbert (AT&T Labs Research, USA)

Important dates:
Full submission deadline: March 31st, 2011

Acceptance notification: May 27th, 2011

 

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3-1-3(2012-09-09) INTERSPEECH 2012, Portland, Oregon USA

INTERSPEECH 2012

Portland, U.S., 09-13 September 2012
Chair: Jan van Santen, Richard Sproat 
13th INTERSPEECH event

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3-1-4(2013-08-23) INTERSPEECH 2013 Lyon France

Interspeech 2013 Lyon, France 23-29 August 2013 General Chair: Frédéric Bimbot

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3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-2-1(2010-12-12) IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology SLT 2010

IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology

SLT 2010

December 12-15, 2010

Berkeley, CA

www.slt2010.org

 

Call for Papers

 

The Third IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop will be held between December 12-15, 2010 in Berkeley, CA. The goal of this workshop is to allow the spoken language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. This workshop has been endorsed/sponsored by the ISCA and ACL as well. The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010 (http://www.dialrc.org/sdc) will be organized as a special session.

 

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission: July 16, 2010

• Notification: September 1, 2010

• Workshop: December 12-15, 2010

 

Workshop Topics:

• Spoken language understanding

• Spoken document summarization

• Machine translation for speech

• Spoken language based systems

• Spoken language generation

• Question answering from speech

• Human/computer interaction

• Educational/healthcare applications

• Speech data mining

• Information extraction

• Spoken document retrieval

• Multimodal processing

• Spoken dialog systems

• Spoken language systems

• Spoken language databases

• Assistive technologies

 

Organizing Chairs:

• Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI

• Mari Ostendorf, U. Washington

 

Technical Chairs:

• Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, Portugal

• Tim Paek, Microsoft Research

 

Area Chairs:

• Julia Hirschberg, Columbia U.

• Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen

• Andreas Stolcke, SRI/ICSI

• Ye-Yi Wang, Microsoft Research

 

Finance Chair:

• Gokhan Tur, SRI International

 

Advisory Board:

• Mazin Gilbert, AT&T Labs

• Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs

• Giuseppe Riccardi, U. Trento

 

Demo Chairs:

• Alex Potamianos, Tech. U. of Crete

• Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki U. of Tech.

 

Publicity Chair:

• Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM

• Benoit Favre, U. Le Mans

 

Panel Chairs:

• Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Of Tech.

• Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U.

 

Publication Chair:

• Yang Liu, U. Texas, Dallas

 

Local Organizers:

• Dimitra Vergryi, SRI International

• Murat Akbacak, SRI International

• Sibel Yaman, ICSI

• Arindam Mandal, SRI International

 

Europe Liaisons:

• Frederic Bechet, U. Avignon

• Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh

 

Asia Liaisons:

• Helen Meng, C. U. Hong Kong

• Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH

 

Keynote Speakers:

• Michael Jordan, U. California, Berkeley

• Chris Manning, Stanford U.

• James W. Pennebaker, U. Texas, Austin

 

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3-2-2(2011-08-24) CfP SLaTE-2011 workshop Venice, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the SLaTE-2011 workshop
August 24-26, 2011 (before Interspeech-2011 in Florence, Italy)
Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy
http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/SLaTE2011/

ISCA-SIG SLaTE
The ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) promotes the use of speech and language technology for educational purposes, and provides a forum for exchanging information (http://www.sigslate.org).

WORKSHOP THEMES
The workshop will address all topics related to SLaTE, such as:
- Speech technology for education
- Natural language processing for education
- Spoken dialogue systems for education
- Applications using speech and/or natural language processing for education
- Intelligent tutoring systems using speech and natural language
- Development of language resources for SLaTE applications
- Assessment of SLaTE methods and applications

We especially welcome contributions on the future of Speech and Language Technology in Education, e.g. mobile learning, serious gaming, virtual reality, social media (networks), etc.
In addition, we would like to invite demonstrations of systems.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Full 4-page papers should be submitted before April 8, 2011.
Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers will be given by June 10, 2011.
For further information see http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/SLaTE2011/
If you have questions, you can send an e-mail to SLaTE2011-org (at) let.ru.nl

ORGANIZATION
SLaTE-2011 will be organized by Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, technical program), Rodolfo Delmonte and Rocco Tripodi (Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, local organizers), within the framework of the ISCA-SIG SLaTE (see http://www.sigslate.org).

Best regards,
Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini, Rodolfo Delmonte, and Rocco Tripodi
The SLaTE-2011 Organizing Committee

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3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2010-12-12) IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology SLT 2010, Berkeley CA

IEEE  Workshop on Spoken Language Technology                               SLT 2010                       December 12-15, 2010                         
Berkeley, CA                        
www.slt2010.org 
********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************
Apologies for multiple postings. 
The Third IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) workshop will be held from December 12 to December 15, 2010 in Berkeley, CA. The goal of this workshop is to allow the spoken language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. 
WORKSHOP TOPICS: 
* Spoken language understanding
* Spoken document summarization
* Machine translation for speech
* Spoken language based systems
* Spoken language generation
* Question answering from speech
* Human/Computer Interaction
* Educational/Healthcare applications
* Speech data mining
* Information extraction
* Spoken document retrieval
* Multimodal processing
* Spoken dialog systems
* Spoken language systems
* Spoken language databases
* Assistive technologies 

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM: 
The workshop program will consist of tutorials, oral and poster presentations, and panel discussions. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers to the SLT 2010 website http://www.slt2010.org All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with further details. 

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Paper Submission Deadline: July 16, 2010
Paper acceptance/rejection: September 1, 2010
Workshop dates: December 12-15, 2010 

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: 

Organizing Chairs: Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI Mari Ostendorf, U. Washington 

Finance Chair: Gokhan Tur, SRI International 

Advisory Board: Mazin Gilbert, AT&T Labs - Research Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs - Research Giuseppe Riccardi, U. Trento  Technical

Chairs: Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, Portugal Tim Paek, Microsoft Research 

Demo Chairs: Alex Potamianos, Tech. U. of Crete Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki U. of Tech. 

Publicity Chair: Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM Research Benoit Favre, Univ. Le Mans 

Panel Chairs: Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Of Tech. Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U. 

Publication Chair: Yang Liu, U. Texas, Dallas 

Local Organizers: Dimitra Vergryi, SRI International Murat Akbacak, SRI International Sibel Yaman, ICSI Arindam Mandal, SRI International  Europe Liaisons: Frederic Bechet, U. Avignon Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh  Asia Liaisons: Helen Meng, C. U. Hong Kong Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH
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3-3-2(2010-12-13) The Second IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services.

The Second IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services.  13/12/2010 - // DeadLine: 20100712 Taichung  Taiwan

http://cbtv2010.inria.fr/

 Following the success of the first edition of the workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services (CBTV), we are pleased to announce the second one in this series.  

The objective of the workshop is twofold. First, it aims at highlighting the need for powerful and automatic audio and video content-based techniques in building novel TV services. The second objective is to bring in professionals and researchers, and to present the recent advances in the field.  The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International IEEE Symposium on Multimedia 2010.

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3-3-3(2010-12-14) CfP Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology

SST2010: Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Melbourne, Australia, 14-16 December 2010
http://www.assta.org/sst/2010/

Second Call for Papers
Call Deadline: 18 June 2010

ASSTA and La Trobe University are pleased to announce the Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2010). The conference will be held at the La Trobe University City Campus, Melbourne.

*Paper submission guidelines and templates are now available from http://www.assta.org/sst/2010/

Conference Themes
Submissions are invited for oral presentations. Submissions should describe original contributions to spoken language, speech science and/or technology that will be of interest to an audience including scientists, engineers, linguists, psychologists, speech and language therapists, audiologists and other professionals.

Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, but particularly in the following areas:
•       Speech production
•       Acoustic phonetics
•       Acoustics of accent change
•       Phonetics and phonology of Australasian languages (OzPhon)
•       Phonetics and Phonology of Australian and New Zealand English (PANZE)
•       Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice
•       Music and speech processing
•       Applications of speech science and technology
•       Speech processing for forensic applications
•       Speech recognition and understanding
•       Speaker recognition and classification
•       Speech enhancement and noise cancellation
•       Pedagogical technologies for speech and singing
•       Corpus management and speech tools
•       Contributions of speech science and technology to audiology and speech language therapy

Plenary Speakers:

Professor  D.R. Ladd
Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh

Professor Hugh McDermott
Bionic Ear Institute and University of Melbourne

Professor Michael Robb        
Department of Communication Disorders, University of Canterbury

Key dates:

Paper submissions due           Friday 18 June 2010
Notification of acceptance      Friday 27 August 2010
Early-bird registration due     Friday 1 October 2010 

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3-3-4(2010-12-17) ACM DEV 2010: First ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development

*ACM DEV 2010: First ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development*

The First ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2010)  will be co-located with ICTD 2010 and the focus of the symposium will be  on new computing innovations for development. The scope of DEV 2010 is  broad covering a wide range of research areas within computer science  with a direct focus on development. ACM DEV 2010 aims to bring together  all CS researchers with an interest in computing for development.

The  deadline for paper submissions is July 10th, 2010.

We strongly encourage  you to submit your best works here.  The conference website is: http://dev2010.news.cs.nyu.edu  

*Call for Papers*

DEV 2010 provides an international forum for research in the design and  implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for  social and economic development. In particular, we focus on emerging  contexts where conventional computing solutions are often inappropriate  due to various contextual factors - including, but not limited to, cost,  language, literacy, and the availability of power and bandwidth.  Focusing on innovative technical solutions to these unique application,  infrastructure and user challenges, DEV fosters exchange between  computer scientists, engineers, and other scholars and practitioners  interested in the use of ICTs for development.  DEV provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results  and discussing new ideas. We expect paper contributions from different  existing sub-areas of Computer Science and Engineering with a direct  relevance to development.  Papers should describe original and previously unpublished research.  Three metrics will be applied to judge papers: (a) Relevance of the  problem for development; (b) Novelty of the technical solution; (c)  Evaluation of the solution, making a case for development-focused  impact. All ACM DEV paper submissions should either provide or directly  motivate a novel technical solution that has direct implications for  development.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  Networks/Systems/Security/Architecture
    * Low-cost wireless connectivity
   * Intermittent networks and systems
   * Power-efficient systems
   * Low-cost computing devices
   * Mobile systems and applications
   * Security challenges in developing regions
   HCI/Applications
    * User interfaces for low-literacy populations
   * Multi-lingual computing
   * User-interfaces for low-cost devices
   * Participatory methods and user-centered design
   * Accessibility to disabled populations in developing regions
   * Design and evaluation of applications for health, microfinance,
     education, agriculture, entertainment
   AI/NLP/Data Mining/Speech/Vision
    * Machine learning techniques for large-scale data analysis in
     development contexts
   * Adapting content and applications to local languages and education
     levels
   * Understanding social relationships and information flows in
     disadvantaged societies
   * Speech interfaces and speech recognition for low-resource languages
   * Development of new AI-centric tools/solutions for development
   * Computer vision challenges in development  We also welcome papers outside of these topics that address the DEV  focus on computing innovations supporting social and economic development. 

*Important Dates *
Registration Deadline     July 3, 2010
Submission Deadline     July 10, 2010
Paper Acceptance     September 5, 2010
Final Version     October 5, 2010
Conference     December 17-18, 2010

  General Chair   

Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University  PC Chairs   Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, NYU 

*Steering Committee *

Saman Amarasinghe, MIT
Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington
Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley
Deborah Estrin, UCLA
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton
Roni Rosenfeld, CMU
Kentaro Toyama, UC Berkeley 

*Program Committee *

Muneeb Ali, Princeton, USA
 Saman Amarasinghe, MIT, USA
 Richard Anderson, Univ of Washington, USA
 Ravin Balakrishnan, Univ of Toronto, Canada
 Simone Barbosa, PUC - Rio, Brazil
 Etienne Barnard, Meraka Institute, South Africa
 Michael Best, Georgia Tech, USA
 Gaetano Borriello, Univ of Washington, USA
 Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley, USA
 John Canny, UC Berkeley, USA
 Ed Cutrell, MSR India, India
 James Davis, UC Santa Cruz, USA
 Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
 Nathan Eagle, MIT & Santa Fe Institute, USA
 Deborah Estrin, UCLA, USA
 Neil Ferguson, Imperial College, UK
 Beki Grinter, Georgia Tech, USA
 Eric Horovitz, MSR Redmond, USA
 Ravi Jain, Google, USA
 Matt Jones, Swansea, UK
 Matthew Kam, CMU, USA
 Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
 Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China
 Gary Marsden, Univ of Cape Town, South Africa
 Vanessa Frias Martinez, Telefonica Research, Spain
 Margaret Martonosi, Princeton, USA
 Srini Narayanan, UC Berkeley, USA
 Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, USA
 Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley, USA
 Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford, USA
 John Quinn, Makerere University, Uganda
 Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research India, India
 Bhaskaran Raman, IIT-Bombay, India
 Roni Rosenfeld, CMU, USA
 Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan
 Lakshmi Subramanian, NYU, USA
 Bill Thies, MSR India, India
 Kentaro Toyama, UC Berkeley, USA
 Terry Winograd, Stanford, USA

 

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3-3-5(2011-01-24) Mobile Voice Conference 2011 from the Applied Voice Input/Output Society

Mobile Voice Conference 2011 from the Applied Voice Input/Output Society

Speech as part of the mobile user experience

 

The Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) and Bill Meisel's TMA Associates are holding the next Mobile Voice Conference January 24-26, 2010 at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, California (www.mobilevoiceconference.com). The conference examines practical applications of speech recognition, text-to-speech, audio search, speaker authentication, and other speech technologies in mobile environments, as well as proper practices to make those technologies fully effective. Another major theme is the impact that familiarity and the user interface paradigm for mobile phones is affecting expectations of contact centers. The Mobile Voice Conference is the place to discover what companies are doing in this area; how applications and services are evolving; sources of technology, tools, platforms, and advice; what speech technology can and can’t do; best practices; and more.

The Applied Voice Input Output Society is a non-profit professional society dedicated to providing education on the development and diffusion of real world applications of speech technology. For more on AVIOS, see www.avios.org. Contact info@avios.org.

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3-3-6(2011-01-26) 2ème Journée d'Etude et de Formation sur la Parole (JEFP) Avignon (in French)

 2ème Journée d'Etude et de Formation sur la Parole (JEFP) organisée sous l'égide de l'AFCP :

'Description de la voix et de ces pathologies, apports des outils automatiques dans ces descriptions'
le 26 janvier 2011 au LIA (Avignon)


L'étude de la parole conduit des chercheurs de différentes disciplines (sciences humaines, sciences de l’ingénieur, science de la vie,...) à collaborer. Ces disciplines ont chacune leurs références et leurs applications , et il apparaît extrêmement judicieux de mettre ces connaissances et expertises en commun pour appréhender certaines questions de recherche. Sous l'égide de l'Association Française de Communication Parlée, ces journées ont comme objectif premier de permettre aux doctorants d'avoir l'occasion de se familiariser aux  objets, méthodes et questionnements de ces disciplines connexes.

Forte de l'expérience de la première journée qui a eu lieu en septembre dernier sur les descripteurs des voyelles, la seconde édition de ces journées aura lieu le mercredi 26 janvier 2011 de 9h30 à 18h au Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon situé 339, chemin des Meinajaries sur l'Agroparc d'AVIGNON. (possibilité de navettes depuis la gare)

La journée, animée par *Lise Buchmann (LPP), Alain Ghio (LPL) et Corinne Fredouille (LIA) * s'articulera autour de moments présentant les éléments théoriques et d'autres se composant d'exercices pratiques.
Dans cette deuxième journée consacrée à la description de la voix et de ces pathologies on abordera entre autre :
- Les descripteurs (perceptifs, acoustiques) de la voix non-pathologique
- Les particularités des voix pathologiques
- L'usage des outils automatiques pour la classification et l'analyse des voix pathologiques

Pour pouvoir y participer il suffit de s'inscrire à l'adresse suivante http://jefp.univ-avignon.fr/inscription.php
Ces journées sont entièrement gratuites. Elles sont réservées en priorité aux doctorants mais restent ouvertes aux autres participants (nous contacter).

Nous encourageons les participants à effectuer les démarches au près des écoles doctorales de manière à se faire financer leur trajet. Si les écoles doctorales refusent, des *bourses de trajet* financées par l'AFCP sont disponibles pour les non avignonnais. La politique tarifaire de la SNCF nous conduit à vous encourager à prendre vos billets le plus tôt possible. Si la voiture est votre mode de transport, merci de nous le signaler de manière à mettre en place du co-voiturage.

L'équipe d'organisation des JEFP

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3-3-7(2011-01-28) CfP Workshop on New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research, University of Pennsylvania

Call for papers

Workshop on New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research
University of Pennsylvania, January 28-31, 2011.

 

Today, advances in networking, computation and mass storage are promising a new revolution in phonetics research: a movement from the study of small, mostly artificial datasets to the analysis of published corpora of natural speech that are thousands of times larger. To welcome and promote this revolution, we are organizing a workshop on new tools and methods for Very-Large-Scale phonetics research, as part of a newly awarded NSF grant. The themes of the workshop include: integration of speech technology in phonetics studies (including software to facilitate teaching and research); variation and invariance in large speech corpora; and revisiting classic phonetic and phonological problems from the perspective of corpus phonetics.

The last day of the workshop (January 31st) is for those interested in discussing development of tools suitable for teaching acoustic-phonetic analysis to beginners while allowing smooth progression to efficient advanced research protocols. The aim is to capitalize on the strengths of existing freeware systems, losing none of their capabilities, while providing as unified a platform as possible for future development.

Authors of contributions on Very-Large-Scale phonetics may submit either extended abstracts or Interspeech-style papers (up to four pages) via the workshop website at http://ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/workshop. In addition, those interested in participating in the freeware tools workshop on January 31st are warmly invited to apply by emailing speech.tools.workshop@gmail.com with an outline (less than 1000 words) of what you would like to contribute to the workshop, and (if you wish) other topics that you would like discussed.

Selected papers from the workshop will be published in a special issue of The Journal of Experimental Linguistics. A tutorial on forced alignment and the Penn Phonetics Lab Forced Aligner will also be provided prior to the workshop. Further details are available on the workshop website: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/workshop.


Important Dates

* Nov. 21, 2010: Abstract/paper submission deadline
* Jan. 28, 2011: Tutorial on forced alignment
* Jan. 29-31, 2011: Workshop

 

Organizing Committee


Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania (January 29-30)

Andreas Stolcke, SRI International and ICSI (January 29-30)
Jiahong Yuan, University of Pennsylvania (January 29-30)
Suzanne Boyce, University of Cincinnati (January 31)
Sarah Hawkins, University of Cambridge (January 31)
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3-3-8(2011-03-03) TRALOGY'2011 Translation and Technology Conference Paris F


TRALOGY'2011
Translation and Technology Conference

Paris (France), March 3-4, 2011

We no longer translate as we did 50, 20 or even 10 years ago. What form will the translation process take 10, 20 or 50 years from now? What
will be the demand for translation and what kind of tools, what kind of approach, will we need to meet that demand? Who will be the translators
– assuming they will still be called translators – of tomorrow? What skills and disciplines will they need, on what concepts will their work
be based and what form will their training take? What can technology do today and what will it be able to do tomorrow? How far has research in
the field of machine translation and computer-assisted translation come? If there is to be a partnership between human beings and
machines, what approach to human translation will it be based on, and how will it progress?

To try to answer those questions, the TRALOGY international conference is organized in Paris (France), March 3-4, 2011.

This conference is of interest for:
- Translators and Interpretors,
- Researchers in Language Technology, especially Machine Translation,
- Educators in the areas of translation and interpretation.

Deadline for submitting on-line a 500-word abstract is November 30, 2010

All information on the conference is available at:
http://www.tralogy.eu/
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3-3-9(2011-04-07) CfP Comparative Methods and Analysis in the Language Sciences Toulouse France CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS
JéTou 2011  - Comparative Methods and Analysis in the Language Sciences -
April 7th-8th, 2011, Toulouse, France
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The doctoral students and young researchers of the language science laboratories in Toulouse, France:
 
- CLLE-ERSS (équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique)
- Laboratoire Octogone-Lordat (Centre Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Langage et de la Cognition)
 
as well as the computer science laboratory :
 
- IRIT (Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse)
 
are organizing the third edition of JéTou, a conference aimed at doctoral students and young researchers (who have defended their dissertation within the past three years) in the language sciences.
 
The conference will focus on comparative methods and analysis in the language sciences.
 
The need to explore comparative methods is characteristic of the social sciences. Even more so than researchers in the “hard” sciences, researchers in the social sciences are often confronted with certain limitations with respect to their object of study, and therefore must expand their research beyond their own points of reference.
 
When approaching the topic of comparative methods and analysis in linguistics, one might first consider cross-linguistic comparison, which has given rise to several diverse areas of research, such as comparative linguistics, contrastive linguistics, and linguistic typology.  Cross-linguistic comparison has informed certain principles that would not have been brought to light without looking to other languages.  This is the case at all levels of linguistic description (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics).
 
However, comparative or contrastive approaches also come into play in several other fields of study in the language sciences:
 
- While comparative studies between pathological subjects (aphasia, dyslexia, degenerative diseases, etc.) and non-pathological subjects are useful for clinical aims and objectives (diagnosis, description, and treatment of language pathologies), they also provide us with a better understanding of the cognitive aspects related to the development and use of language by healthy subjects.
- Comparing speakers with respect to their first language, their social identity, or even the way that they speak one or several language(s), allows us to determine universals in the acquisition of language, and inversely, to identify determining factors in attrition phenomena.
- Studies in language pedagogy have relied on contrastive analysis (between one’s first language and a second language) since the mid-20th century.  This is due to the fact that learning a first language involves the development of strategies and specific language patterns.  Also, such studies allow us to observe certain language traits, positive or negative, that “cross over” from the first language into the second language.  The question of multilingualism and plurilinguistic learning also falls into this set of issues.
- The notion of norm is ubiquitous in the language sciences, as language is governed by normalisation rules.  However, these rules, whether implicit or not, do not impede the creativity of speakers.  The multitude of different usages that have been brought to light by using comparative approaches is the proof of this individuality.
- In natural language processing, comparative approaches can be used in different areas of research: comparison of annotations to assess the difficulty of a task, comparison of reference annotation during evaluation, etc.  Some applications, such as the detection of plagiarism, are directly based on the notion of comparison.
- Corpus linguistics offers the necessary tools for wide-scale comparison between different corpora (aligned corpora of different languages, reference corpora vs. specialized corpora, etc.)
- Comparison can also be used as an analytical tool at different levels of linguistic description, such as morphology, syntax, semantics, etc.
 
The purpose of JéTou 2011 is to bring together young researchers working in different disciplines within the language sciences around the common theme of comparative approaches.  This topic, inherently cross-disciplinary, invites reflection on the question of method, which, while central to all research, is often neglected in scientific proceedings.
 
Possible contributions could focus on issues related to the following fields:
 
- descriptive linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- psycholinguistics
- neurolinguistics
- terminology
- language acquisition and pedagogy
- translation
- corpus linguistics
- natural language processing
 
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Types of presentations
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Two types of submissions will be accepted: long articles (8 to 10 pages) and short articles (4 to 5 pages).  Long articles will be presented as oral presentations or as posters, while short articles will be presented as posters.  
 
The proceedings of the conference will be published in book form and will also be available on the conference website.
 
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Criteria for selection
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Each submission will be evaluated by at least two specialists in the chosen field of study.  Submissions will be considered based on the following criteria:
 
1. The importance and originality of the contribution
2. The accuracy of the scientific and technical content
3. The critical discussion of results, particularly with respect to other work in the field
4. The organisation and clarity of the writing
5. Conformity to the theme of the conference
 
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Submission Guidelines
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Articles must be written in French or in English.
Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for a long article or 5 pages for a short article (including figures and examples, but not references).  The text must be written in Times 12, single spaced, in A4 format.  LaTeX and Word style sheets are available on the conference website.
The deadline for submissions is October 15th, 2010.  Submissions must be made using the Easychair conference management system.  Further information regarding the submission process can be found on the JéTou 2011 website: http://jetou2011.free.fr

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3-3-10(2011-04-17) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) Trento Italy

 

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR)
http://www.icmr2011.org
17-20 April, Trento, Italy

The First ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR. It is the ideal forum to present and encounter the most recent developments and applications in the area of multimedia content retrieval. Originally set up to illuminate the state-of-the-art in image and video retrieval, ICMR aims at becoming the world reference event in this exciting field of research, where researchers and practitioners can exchange knowledge and ideas.


Important dates:
   October 15, 2010 : Special Session and Tutorials Proposal
   November 5, 2010 : Special Session and Tutorials Selection
   December 3, 2010 : Paper Submission
   February 11, 2011 : Notification of acceptance
   March 4, 2011 : Submission of camera-ready papers


ICMR 2011 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multimedia retrieval. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, and community-based management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   * Content- and context-based indexing, search and retrieval of images and video
   * Multimedia content search and browsing on the Web
   * Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio, image, video and 3D data
   * Multimedia content analysis and understanding
   * Semantic retrieval of visual contents
   * Learning and relevance feedback in media retrieval
   * Query models, paradigms, and languages for multimedia retrieval
   * Multimodal media search
   * Human perception based multimedia retrieval
   * Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image/video users
   * Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for image/video retrieval
   * HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
   * Evaluation of multimedia retrieval systems
   * High performance multimedia indexing algorithms
   * Database architectures for multimedia retrieval
   * Novel multimedia data management systems and applications
   * Community-based multimedia content management
   * Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs
   * Interaction with medical image databases
   * Satellite imagery analysis/retrieval
   * Image/video summarization and visualization


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Honorary Chair: Ramesh Jain (UC Irvine)

General Co-Chairs:
Francesco G.B. De Natale (Univ. Trento)
Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ. Florence)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
B.S Manjunath (UC Santa Barbara)
Alan Hanjalic (TU Delft)
Shin'ichi Satoh (National Inst. of Informatics, Tokyo)

Local Chair:
Nicola Conci (Univ. Trento)
Giulia Boato (Univ. Trento)

Special Session Chair:
Riccardo Leonardi (Univ. of Brescia)

Panel Chair:
Wolfgang Nejdl (Univ. Hannover)

Practitioner Co-Chairs:
Andrea de Polo (Alinari)
Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo!)

Videolympics Chairs:
Cees Snoek (Univ. Amsterdam)
Alan Smeaton (Dublin City Univ.)

Publication Chair:
Marco Carli (Univ. of Roma Tre)

Publicity Chair:
Ioannis Patras (Queen Mary Univ. London)

Web Chair:
Andrea Rosani (Univ. Trento)
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3-3-11(2011-04-18) CfP 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval/ Dublin, Ireland
***** Final Call for Posters/Demos - ECIR 2011 ****** 
33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval
Dublin, Ireland
18 - 21 April 2011
In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, Dublin City University, University of Sheffield
http://ecir2011.dcu.ie
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* Posters/Demos deadline approaching - 29 October (midnight GMT)
* This deadline is final and will not be extended


The 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011) will take place in Dublin, Ireland from 18-21 April 2011. ECIR provides an opportunity for both new and established researchers to present research papers reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within Information Retrieval. ECIR has traditionally had a strong student focus and papers whose sole or main author is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher are especially welcome. As an added incentive at ECIR2011, accepted full-papers whose first author is a student will be given the opportunity to be paired with a senior mentor who will interact with them during the course of the conference. Each mentor will be an expert in the relevant area of the student's work, and will provide questions and subsequent feedback after their presentation.

We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original posters and demos, which will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of Information Retrieval. Papers that demonstrate a high level of research adventure or which break out of the traditional IR paradigms are particularly welcome. 

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

-	Enterprise Search, Intranet Search, Desktop Search, Adversarial IR
-	Web IR and Web log analysis
-	Multimedia IR
-	Digital libraries
-	IR Theory and Formal Models
-	Distributed IR, Peer-to-peer IR, 
-	Mobile IR, Fusion/Combination
-	Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
-	Topic detection and tracking, Routing
-	Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
-	Question answering, NLP for IR
-	Summarization, Lexical acquisition
-	Text Data Mining
-	Text Categorization, Clustering
-	Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
-	Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, 
-	Structure-based representation, XML Retrieval
-	Metadata, Social networking/tagging
-	Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collections
-	Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR
-	User interfaces and visualization
-	Opinion mining, Sentiment Analysis
-	Blog and online-community search
-	Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures)

The ECIR 2011 conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors for both long and short papers are invited to submit their paper on or before 15 October 2010. All paper submissions must be written in English following the LNCS author guidelines [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0]. Posters and demos must not be longer than 4 pages. All papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review so authors should take reasonable care not identify themselves in their submissions. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference. 


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Important dates 

18 Oct 2010: Paper/Short Paper submission deadline (passed)
29 Oct 2010: Poster/Demo submission deadline
10 Dec 2010: Notification of acceptance
18 Apr 2011: Workshops Day / Tutorial Day
19-21 Apr 2011: ECIR 2011 main conference


Organising Committee

General Chair: Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)
Programme Co-chair: Gareth Jones (Dublin City University) and Paul Clough (University of Sheffield)
Student Mentor Chair: Nicola Stokes (University College Dublin)
Workshops Chair: Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow)
Tutorials Chair: Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Sheffield)
Posters Chair: Wessel Kraaij (TNO, Radboud University)
Demos Chair: Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research)
Local organization Chair: Colum Foley (Dublin City University) and Peter Wilkins (Dublin City University)
Advertising Chair: Hyowon Lee (Dublin City University)


Any questions please email: ecir2011@computing.dcu.ie

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Dr Hyowon Lee
CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 9
Ireland
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~hlee/
hlee@computing.dcu.ie
Tel: +353 -1 700 5829
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3-3-12(2011-05-19) Quatrièmes journees de phonetique clinique, Strasbourg (France)

jpc4

quatrièmes journees de phonetique clinique

19-21 mai 2011, strasbourg, France 

colloque international 

universite de strasbourg (uds)

instutut de phonetique de strasbourg (ips)

U.R. 1339 linguistique, langue et parole  (lilpa) – E.R. parole et cognition

programme de la maison interuniversitaire des sciences de l’homme alsace

  USR 3227 (misha)

 

Les modalités de Soumission vont suivre bientôt….

 

 

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3-3-13(2011-05-22) ICASSP 2011, Prague

ICASSP 2011

 

Prague hosts IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and

Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011. Prague Congress Centre, May 22-27, 2011.

 

ICASSP is one of the world's major conferences for signal processing,

bringing together over 2000 participants and experts from industry and

universities.

 

The conference features world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits,

demos, and over 120 lecture and poster sessions on the following topics:

Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Machine Learning for Signal

Processing, Sensor Array and Multichannel Systems, Audio and Acoustic

Signal Processing, Speech and Language Processing, Signal Processing for

Communications and Networking, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal

Processing, Biomedical  Imaging, Information Forensics and Security, and

Signal Processing Education.

 

Important deadlines

Special Session & Tutorial Proposals

Due

September 1, 2010

Notification of Special Session &

Tutorial Acceptance

October 6, 2010

Submission of Camera Ready Papers

October 20, 2010

Notification of Paper Acceptance

January 17, 2011

Revised Paper Upload Deadline

February 20, 2011

Registration Deadline for Authors

March 13, 2011

 

More information can be found at http://www.icassp2011.com/

 

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3-3-14(2011-05-25) 9ème édition des Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP) Grenoble France
Organisée par les jeunes chercheurs des laboratoires GIPSA et LPNC de

Grenoble et parrainée par l’Association Francophone de la Communication

Parlée (AFCP), la 9ème édition des Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en

Parole (RJCP) se tiendra, du 25 au 27 mai 2011, sur le campus universitaire

de Grenoble.

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* Objectif

Cette manifestation donne tous les deux ans aux (futurs) doctorants ou

jeunes docteurs l’occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux

et d’échanger sur les divers domaines de la Parole grâce à un travail

collaboratif. Au-delà de ce cadre purement scientifique, cette rencontre

sur 3 jours sera l’occasion pour les participants de faire leurs premiers

pas dans la communauté de la Parole. Cette édition 2011 est ouverte à

tous : communicants qui présentent leurs travaux ou auditeurs qui désirent

assister aux présentations.



* Langue

La langue officielle de la conférence est le français.



* Domaine

Les travaux présentés porteront sur la communication parlée et le

traitement de la parole dans leurs différents aspects.



* Les thèmes de ces journées incluent :


- Phonétique et Phonologie


- Sociolinguistique de la parole

Variation (dialectologie, etc.)

Style

Perception


- Production/Perception de la parole

En conditions « normales »

En conditions adverses (voix chuchotée, bruit, etc.)

Avec changement de paramètres (chant, récitation, théâtre, etc.)


- Acoustique de la parole

Modèles phonatoires : modélisation acoustique du conduit vocal

Etudes des écoulements

Dispositifs de mesures (outils, maquettes de production, etc.)


- Acquisition et enseignement de la parole

Langue maternelle

Langue seconde

Bilinguisme et multilinguisme


- Corrélats neuro-anatomiques et fonctionnels de la parole

Spécialisation hémisphérique

Neurophonétique

Neurolinguistique


- Synthèse

Synthèse de différentes qualités de voix, Conversion de voix

Synthèse des émotions, Prosodie

Synthèse de visages, Animation

Applications (grand public, handicap)


- Reconnaissance, Indexation

Reconnaissance de la parole spontanée

Modèles de langage

Modèles acoustiques

Systèmes multilingues

Indexation de documents audiovisuels

Vérification et Identification du Locuteur

Applications (grand public, handicap)


- Traduction automatique


- Pathologie de la parole (autisme, surdité, dyslexie, etc.)


- Multi-modalité/Gestualité associée à la parole/Expressivité

Multi-modalité

Développement

Gestualité

Expressivité

Audiovisuel



* Format des communications

Toutes les communications devront être en français


- Présentations orales : chacune aura une durée de 15 minutes et sera suivie de

10 minutes de discussion. Il est suggéré aux communicants de renforcer leur

communication orale avec un diaporama ou un autre type d’illustrations.


- Présentations des affiches : la taille est fixée au format A0 portrait. Une session

d’une heure par jour sera réservée à la présentation des affiches. Pendant cette session,

les communicants resteront près de leur affiche de manière à répondre aux questions de

leurs collègues ou à recevoir et discuter d’éventuelles suggestions.


Dans le cas où des ateliers seraient prévus, ils dureront entre une demi-heure et

une heure. Le communicant animera son atelier de façon vivante et fera participer

son public. Ce type de communication doit faciliter l’échange oral, voire la mise

en situation, entre le communicant et les participants sur la durée de l’atelier.


Notez bien que ces formats pourront être légèrement modifiés selon la quantité et

le type de soumissions acceptées. Ces informations sont données à titre indicatif

pour les jeunes chercheurs qui n’ont jamais participé à un colloque.



* Modalités de soumission des articles

Tous les articles devront être soumis en français, excepté le résumé qui sera en

anglais.


- Format des articles soumis :

Les articles ne devront pas dépasser 4 pages, bibliographie comprise

Les documents devront être déposés sur la plateforme électronique

exclusivement au format PDF


Les modèles d'article (Word et LaTeX) sont disponibles sur le site



* Dates

Date limite pour les soumissions : jeudi 23 décembre 2010 à minuit (24h) GMT+1

La notification et le début des inscriptions : mardi 8 mars 2011

La date limite pour les inscriptions : mardi 22 mars 2011

Dépôt de la version corrigée : mardi 22 mars 2011

La conférence aura lieu du mercredi 25 au vendredi 27 mai 2011



* Informations Complémentaires

Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/colloques/RJCP

Mail : RJCP2011@gmail.com <mailto:RJCP2011@gmail.com>

Tél. : +33 (0)4 04 76 82 41 97



En espérant vous voir nombreux à cet événement.

Le comité d’organisation des RJCP 2011

Atef Ben Youssef

Ibrahima Cissé

Sandra Cornaz

Mathilde Fort

Amélie Lelong

Benjamin Roustan

Rosario Signorello

Thi Thuy Hien Tran







********************************************************************* Appel à Communication RJCP 2011 9èmes Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole Grenoble, 25 – 27 mai 2011 Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/colloques/RJCP Organisée par les jeunes chercheurs des laboratoires GIPSA et LPNC de Grenoble et parrainée par l’Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), la 9ème édition des Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP) se tiendra, du 25 au 27 mai 2011, sur le campus universitaire de Grenoble. ********************************************************************* * Objectif Cette manifestation donne tous les deux ans aux (futurs) doctorants ou jeunes docteurs l’occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux et d’échanger sur les divers domaines de la Parole grâce à un travail collaboratif. Au-delà de ce cadre purement scientifique, cette rencontre sur 3 jours sera l’occasion pour les participants de faire leurs premiers pas dans la communauté de la Parole. Cette édition 2011 est ouverte à tous : communicants qui présentent leurs travaux ou auditeurs qui désirent assister aux présentations. * Langue La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. * Domaine Les travaux présentés porteront sur la communication parlée et le traitement de la parole dans leurs différents aspects. * Les thèmes de ces journées incluent : - Phonétique et Phonologie - Sociolinguistique de la parole Variation (dialectologie, etc.) Style Perception - Production/Perception de la parole En conditions « normales » En conditions adverses (voix chuchotée, bruit, etc.) Avec changement de paramètres (chant, récitation, théâtre, etc.) - Acoustique de la parole Modèles phonatoires : modélisation acoustique du conduit vocal Etudes des écoulements Dispositifs de mesures (outils, maquettes de production, etc.) - Acquisition et enseignement de la parole Langue maternelle Langue seconde Bilinguisme et multilinguisme - Corrélats neuro-anatomiques et fonctionnels de la parole Spécialisation hémisphérique Neurophonétique Neurolinguistique - Synthèse Synthèse de différentes qualités de voix, Conversion de voix Synthèse des émotions, Prosodie Synthèse de visages, Animation Applications (grand public, handicap) - Reconnaissance, Indexation Reconnaissance de la parole spontanée Modèles de langage Modèles acoustiques Systèmes multilingues Indexation de documents audiovisuels Vérification et Identification du Locuteur Applications (grand public, handicap) - Traduction automatique - Pathologie de la parole (autisme, surdité, dyslexie, etc.) - Multi-modalité/Gestualité associée à la parole/Expressivité Multi-modalité Développement Gestualité Expressivité Audiovisuel * Format des communications Toutes les communications devront être en français - Présentations orales : chacune aura une durée de 15 minutes et sera suivie de 10 minutes de discussion. Il est suggéré aux communicants de renforcer leur communication orale avec un diaporama ou un autre type d’illustrations. - Présentations des affiches : la taille est fixée au format A0 portrait. Une session d’une heure par jour sera réservée à la présentation des affiches. Pendant cette session, les communicants resteront près de leur affiche de manière à répondre aux questions de leurs collègues ou à recevoir et discuter d’éventuelles suggestions. Dans le cas où des ateliers seraient prévus, ils dureront entre une demi-heure et une heure. Le communicant animera son atelier de façon vivante et fera participer son public. Ce type de communication doit faciliter l’échange oral, voire la mise en situation, entre le communicant et les participants sur la durée de l’atelier. Notez bien que ces formats pourront être légèrement modifiés selon la quantité et le type de soumissions acceptées. Ces informations sont données à titre indicatif pour les jeunes chercheurs qui n’ont jamais participé à un colloque. * Modalités de soumission des articles Tous les articles devront être soumis en français, excepté le résumé qui sera en anglais. - Format des articles soumis : Les articles ne devront pas dépasser 4 pages, bibliographie comprise Les documents devront être déposés sur la plateforme électronique exclusivement au format PDF Les modèles d'article (Word et LaTeX) sont disponibles sur le site * Dates Date limite pour les soumissions : jeudi 23 décembre 2010 à minuit (24h) GMT+1 La notification et le début des inscriptions : mardi 8 mars 2011 La date limite pour les inscriptions : mardi 22 mars 2011 Dépôt de la version corrigée : mardi 22 mars 2011 La conférence aura lieu du mercredi 25 au vendredi 27 mai 2011 * Informations Complémentaires Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/colloques/RJCP Mail : RJCP2011@gmail.com Tél. : +33 (0)4 04 76 82 41 97 En espérant vous voir nombreux à cet événement. Le comité d’organisation des RJCP 2011 Atef Ben Youssef Ibrahima Cissé Sandra Cornaz Mathilde Fort Amélie Lelong Benjamin Roustan Rosario Signorello Thi Thuy Hien Tran
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3-3-15(2011-05-30) CfP HSCMA 2011: 3rd Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Edinborough, UK
HSCMA 2011: The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays
30 May - 1 June 2011, Edinburgh, UK
http://www.hscma2011.org/

The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays will be held from 30 May to 1 June 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland.


The workshop will bring together researchers in microphone arrays and speech/speaker recognition and focusing on recent advances in speech and signal processing techniques based upon multi-microphone systems, and on distant-talking speech communication and human/machine interaction. Demonstrations of experimental systems, applications, and prototypes are especially welcome.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
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The technical scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to:
* Multichannel acoustic signal processing; 
* Speech and speaker recognition technology; 
* Microphone array technology and architectures; 
* Applications based on microphone arrays and distant-talking or hands-free speech systems.
There is an emphasis on work that crosses these technical areas.

PAPER / DEMO SUBMISSION
-----------------------
The workshop programme will consist of talks, posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (up to 6 pages; 2 pages for demo papers).


Authors are encouraged to include a public URL to a video of the demo in their paper submission.


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Paper/demo submission: 13 February 2011 
Notification of paper/demo acceptance: 21 March 2011 
Workshop: 30 May - 1 June 2011

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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General-chairs: Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, UK); Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) 

Technical committee: Gary Elko (MH Acoustics LLC, USA); Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK); Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT, Japan); Maurizio Omologo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler-irst, Italy); Boaz Rafaely (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Michael Seltzer (Microsoft Research, USA) 

Demonstrations: Mike Lincoln (University of Edinburgh, UK) 

Publications: James Hopgood (University of Edinburgh, UK) 

Website: Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh, UK) 

Publicity: Arnab Ghoshal (Saarland University, Germany)
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3-3-16(2011-05-30) CfP 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2011) TARRAGONE SPAIN
1st Call for Papers

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2011)

Tarragona, Spain, May 30 – June 3, 2011

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2011/

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AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. Inheriting the tradition of the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that was developed at Rovira i Virgili University in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2011 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.).

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

- algebraic language theory
- algorithms for semi-structured data mining
- algorithms on automata and words
- automata and logic
- automata for system analysis and programme verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- cellular automata
- combinatorics on words
- computability
- computational complexity
- computational linguistics
- data and image compression
- decidability questions on words and languages
- descriptional complexity
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- document engineering
- foundations of finite state technology
- fuzzy and rough languages
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.)
- grammars and automata architectures
- grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
- graphs and graph transformation
- language varieties and semigroups
- language-based cryptography
- language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life
- neural networks
- parallel and regulated rewriting
- parsing
- pattern recognition
- patterns and codes
- power series
- quantum, chemical and optical computing
- semantics
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics
- string processing algorithms
- symbolic dynamics
- term rewriting
- transducers
- trees, tree languages and tree machines
- weighted machines

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2011 will consist of:

- 3 invited talks
- 2 invited tutorials
- refereed contributions
- open sessions for discussion in specific subfields, on open problems, or on professional issues (if requested by the participants)

INVITED SPEAKERS:

To be announced

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Andrew Adamatzky (Bristol)
Cyril Allauzen (Mountain View)
Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan)
Franz Baader (Dresden)
Marie-Pierre Béal (Marne-la-Vallée)
Philip Bille (Lyngby)
Miklós Bóna (Gainesville)
Symeon Bozapalidis (Thessaloniki)
Vasco Brattka (Cape Town)
Maxime Crochemore (London)
James Currie (Winnipeg)
Jürgen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Cunsheng Ding (Hong Kong)
Rodney Downey (Wellington)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig)
Enrico Formenti (Nice)
Amy Glen (Perth)
Serge Haddad (Cachan)
Shunsuke Inenaga (Fukuoka, co-chair)
Jesper Jansson (Tokyo)
Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Marek Karpinski (Bonn)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle)
Gregory Kucherov (Lille)
Markus Lohrey (Leipzig)
Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam)
Salvador Lucas (Valencia)
Sebastian Maneth (Sydney)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Brussels, co-chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (Milano)
Alexander Meduna (Brno)
Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima)
Sven Naumann (Trier)
Gonzalo Navarro (Santiago, CL)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (St Andrews)
Joachim Niehren (Lille)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala)
Kemal Oflazer (Doha)
Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Witold Pedrycz (Edmonton)
Dominique Perrin (Marne-la-Vallée)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Milano)
Alberto Policriti (Udine)
Lech Polkowski (Warsaw)
Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch)
Mathieu Raffinot (Paris)
Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan)
Ayumi Shinohara (Sendai)
Jamie Simpson (Perth)
Magnus Steinby (Turku)
James Storer (Boston)
Jens Stoye (Bielefeld)
Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw)
Richard Thomas (Leicester)
György Vaszil (Budapest)
Heiko Vogler (Dresden)
Pascal Weil (Bordeaux)
Damien Woods (Pasadena)
Thomas Zeugmann (Sapporo)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Shunsuke Inenaga (Fukuoka, co-chair) 
Carlos Martín-Vide (Brussels, co-chair) 
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). Submissions have to be uploaded at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2011

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing refereed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be open since October 13, 2010 until May 30, 2011. The registration form can be found at the website of the conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2011/

Early registration fees: 500 Euro
Early registration fees (PhD students): 400 Euro
Late registration fees: 540 Euro
Late registration fees (PhD students): 440 Euro
On-site registration fees: 580 Euro
On-site registration fees (PhD students): 480 Euro

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have a registered author who paid the fees by February 28, 2011 will be excluded from the proceedings.

Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks and lunches.

PhD students will need to prove their status on site.

PAYMENT:

Early (resp. late) registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before February 28, 2011 (resp. May 16, 2011) to the conference series account at Uno-e Bank (Julián Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain):

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide – LATA 2011).

Please write the participant’s name in the subject of the bank form. Transfers should not involve any expense for the conference. Please notice that the date that counts is the day when the transfer reached the conference’s account.

On-site registration fees can be paid only in cash. A receipt for payments will be provided on site.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the registration form at the website of the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: January 3, 2011
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 14, 2011
Early registration: February 28, 2011
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: February 28, 2011
Late registration: May 16, 2011
Starting of the conference: May 30, 2011
Submission to the post-conference special issue: August 30, 2011

FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

LATA 2011
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386
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3-3-17(2011-06-12) CfP 9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing

CALL FOR PAPERS


        9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing

                      13-15 June 2011, Madrid, Spain
                      
                     
http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/
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Following the eight successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009 and Grenoble 2010), the Video Processing and Understanding Lab (VPULab) and the Information Retrieval Group (IRG) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will organize the next CBMI event.

CBMI 2011 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation. The scientific program of CBMI 2011 will include invited keynote talks and regular and special sessions with contributed research papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
- Matching and similarity search
- Construction of high level indices
- Multimedia index extraction
- Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes
- Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
- Content-based search
- Multimedia data mining
- Metadata generation, coding and transformation
- Large scale multimedia database management
- Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
- Presentation and visualization tools    
- User interaction and relevance feedback
- Personalization and content adaptation
- Evaluation and metrics

Important Dates
---------------
        Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 14, 2011
        Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011
        Submission of camera-ready papers: March 11, 2011

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3-3-18(2011-06-13) CBMI 2011 9th International Workshop on Comtent-Based Multimedia Indexing

9th International Workshop on Comtent-Based Multimedia Indexing

                      13-15 June 2011, Madrid, Spain
                   
                     
http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/
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Following the eight successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009 and Grenoble 2010), the Video Processing and Understanding Lab (VPULab) and the Information Retrieval Group (IRG) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will organize the next CBMI event.

CBMI 2011 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation. The scientific program of CBMI 2011 will include invited keynote talks and regular and special sessions with contributed research papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
- Matching and similarity search
- Construction of high level indices
- Multimedia index extraction
- Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes
- Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
- Content-based search
- Multimedia data mining
- Metadata generation, coding and transformation
- Large scale multimedia database management
- Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
- Presentation and visualization tools   
- User interaction and relevance feedback
- Personalization and content adaptation
- Evaluation and metrics

Important Dates
---------------
        Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 14, 2011
        Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011
        Submission of camera-ready papers: March 11, 2011

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3-3-19(2011-06-20) CfP 9th International Seminar in Speech Production, Montreal

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À PROPOSITIONS: 9th International Seminar
in Speech Production, Montreal, June 20-23, 2011
<http://www.risc.cnrs.fr/detail_lesechos.php?ID=13623>
De : issp2011 [ à ] uqam.ca

Dear speech researcher,

We are pleased to announce that the the ninth International Seminar on
Speech Production (ISSP'11) will be held in Montreal, Canada from June
20th to 23rd,
2011. ISSP’11 is the continuation of a series of seminars dating back to
Grenoble (1988), Leeds (1990), Old Saybrook (1993), Autrans (1996),
Kloster Seeon (2000), Sydney (2003), Ubatuba (2006), and Strasbourg (2008).
Several aspects of speech production will be covered, such as phonology,
phonetics, linguistics, mechanics, acoustics, physiology, motor control,
neurosciences and
computer science.

For this edition, a special session will be organized in honor of Dr.
Joseph Perkell, for his contribution to the field.

THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS NOVEMBER 15th, 2010.
Technical details will be posted soon on the conference website
(
www.issp2011.uqam.ca).

Looking forward to your venue in Montreal in 2011!

The organizing committee/ Le comité organisateur,
Lucie Ménard (UQAM)
Shari R. Baum (McGill)
Vincent Gracco (McGill)
David Ostry (McGill)

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3-3-20(2011-07-11) JHU Summer Workshops
JHU Summer Workshops
CALL FOR TEAM RESEARCH PROPOSALS (revised)
Deadline: Tuesday, November 9, 2010.

http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws11/CFP

The Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins
University invites one-page research proposals for a
Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, to be held
in Baltimore, MD, USA, July 11 to August 19, 2011.

An interactive peer-review meeting will refine and select proposals
to be funded for a six-week residential team exploration. Proposals
should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various
fields of Human Language Technology (HLT).  This year, proposals in
related areas of Machine Intelligence that share techniques with
HLT, such as Computer Vision (CV), are also strongly solicited.

Proposals are welcome on any topic of interest to HLT, CV and
technically related areas.  For example, proposals may address
novel topics or long-standing problems in one of the following
areas.

* SPEECH TECHNOLOGY:  Proposals are welcomed that address any
  aspect of information extraction from speech signal (message,
  speaker identity, language,...). Of particular interest are
  proposals for techniques whose performance would be minimally
  degraded by input signal variations, or which require minimal
  amounts of training data.

* NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Proposals for knowledge discovery
  from text are encouraged, as are proposals in traditional
  fields such as parsing, machine translation, information
  extraction, sentiment analysis, summarization, and question
  answering.  Proposals may aim to improve the accuracy or enrich
  the output of such systems, or extend their reach by improving
  their speed, scalability, and coverage of languages and genres.

* VISUAL SCENE INTERPRETATION: New strategies are needed to
  parse visual scenes or generic (novel) objects, analyzing an
  image as a set of spatially related components.  Such strategies
  may integrate global top-down knowledge of scene structure (e.g.,
  generative models) with the kind of rich bottom-up, learned
  image features that have recently become popular for object
  detection.  They will support both learning and efficient search
  for the best analysis.

* UNSUPERVISED AND SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING: Novel techniques
  that do not require extensive quantities of human annotated data
  to address any of the challenges above could potentially make
  large strides in machine performance as well as lead to greater
  robustness to changes in input conditions.  Semi-supervised and
  unsupervised learning techniques with applications to HLT and CV
  are therefore of considerable interest.

Research topics selected for investigation by teams in
past workshops may serve as good examples for your proposal
(http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops).

An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals
for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated
no later than November 12, 2010. Authors passing this initial
screening will be invited to Baltimore to present their ideas
to a peer-review panel on December 3-5, 2010.  It is expected
that the proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any
outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two or three research topics and
the teams to tackle them will be selected for the 2011 workshop.

We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop
to collaboratively pursue the selected topics for six weeks.
Authors of successful proposals typically become the team leaders.
Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and
students.  The senior participants come from academia, industry
and government.  Graduate student participants familiar with
the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated
performance. Undergraduate participants, selected through a
national search, are rising seniors: new to the field and showing
outstanding academic promise.

If you are interested in participating in the 2011 Summer
Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for
consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed.  If your
proposal passes the initial screening, we will invite you to join
us for the December 3-5 meeting in Baltimore (as our guest) for
further discussions aimed at consensus.  If a topic in your area
of interest is chosen as one of the two or three to be pursued
next summer, we expect you to be available for participation
in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad
commitment at this juncture, just a good faith understanding
that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will
actively pursue it.  We in turn will make a good faith effort to
accommodate any personal/logistical needs to make your six-week
participation possible.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to clsp@jhu.edu by
4PM EST on Tue, November 9, 2010.
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3-3-21(2011-08-17) 17th International Congress ofPhonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII)

17th International Congress ofPhonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII) 

 in Hong Kong, August 17-21, 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. I

CPhS  XVII is jointly organized by the City University of Hong Kong, the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, and the Academia Sinica,
Taipei, under the auspices of the Permanent Council for the
Organization of the International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences and
the International Phonetic Association. We have the pleasure to invite
you to take part in this world event in Hong Kong 2011. For further
information about ICPhS XVII, please visit the congress website
http://www.icphs2011.hk or contact us at icphs2011@cityu.edu.hk.




The Organizers of ICPhS XVII 2011



Congress website: http://www.icphs2011.hk

Email: icphs2011@cityu.edu.hk

Tel.: (852) 3442-7594

Fax: (852) 3442-0356

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3-3-22(2011-08-31) 9TH Pan European Voice Conference PEVOC 09, Marseille France
> * PEVOC on Facebook / PEVOC sur Facebook 
> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143581129022212
> ********************************************************************
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> We are very pleased to invite you to the ninth Pan European 
> Voice Conference (PEVOC9). It will be held on August 31th - 
> September 3rd, 2011 in Marseille, France. The Pan-European 
> Voice conference has always been a great scientific, medical 
> and artistic event. It focuses both on basic and applied 
> scientific research, and on clinical assessment and 
> treatment. It offers the opportunity for international voice 
> researchers, voice therapists, voice teachers and singers to 
> come together and share their knowledge, ideas and 
> experience. PEVOC conferences are known to provide a forum 
> for the presentation and discussion of current scientific and 
> clinical research on the larynx and voice. After previous 
> meetings of the PEVOCs in London, Regensburg, Utrecht, 
> Stockholm, Groningen, Graz and Dresden, we are proud to host 
> PEVOC for the first time in France. It will be held in 
> Marseille, a major French city on the Riviera Coast. PEVOC9 
> will host three additional meetings :
> 
> - August 31st 2011 : the first meeting of the new European 
> Academy of Voice, a european organization for education in 
> the voice sciences. http://www.european-academy-of-voice.org/
> 
> - September 3rd 2011 : workshop of the *European 
> Laryngological Society on the topic of micro-phono-surgery. 
> http://www.elsoc.org/
> 
> - August 30-31st 2011 : workshop of the European Voice 
> Teachers Association on the topic of Digital Resources in the 
> Voice Teaching Studio. http://www.evta-online.org/
> 
> Please find more details in the PEVOC website: 
> http://www.pevoc9.fr/ We hope very much to see you in end of 
> August 2011 in Marseille !
> 
> Antoine GIOVANNI and Nathalie HENRICH, chairpersons
> 
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3-3-23(2011-09-12) Prosody- Discourse Interface Conference

Conference  IDP 2011

 The Prosody-Discourse Interface (including research training workshop on prosody and special workshop on expressives and affective prosody)

 University of Salford, Greater Manchester  12 September 2011 –  14 September (incl)

 (just after the LAGB  7 – 10 September 2011, at the University of Manchester) http://www.lagb.org.uk/?page_id=128

  

Invited speakers:

Nicole Dehe, University of Konstanz

John Local, University of York

Chris Potts, University of Stanford

Marc Schroeder, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

 

This conference is the fourth in a series which provides a forum for those working on the relationship between prosody and discourse.  As the previous conferences have shown, there is a range of phenomena which illustrate how research in prosody feeds into research in discourse and vice versa – for example, the communication of attitudes and emotions, constraints on implicit meaning, focus and information structure, the communication of irony, interaction and interactive meaning, humour in discourse, parentheticals, the interpretation of anaphora, the identification of processing units, and the identification of genre. The relationship between prosody and discourse has been viewed from the perspective of phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, language acquisition, language processing, language pathology, stylistics, language evolution, and speech synthesis. Moreover, research has been carried out in a wide range of theoretical paradigms. We now aim to build on this research, and in this way develop a greater understanding of phenomena at the prosody-discourse interface.

 

The conference will consist of four parts:

 1.     Research Training Workshop (for research students and academics who wish to develop an understanding of the issues involved in transcribing prosodic structure).

2.     Oral presentations on any area of the prosody-discourse interface

3.     P5oster sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface

4.     Special workshop on expressive and affective prosody (speakers: Diane Blakemore, Chris Potts, Marc Schroeder)

 

 We now invite researchers in prosody and discourse to submit abstract for inclusion in themed sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface (including the topic of the special workshop). We expect abstracts to address the following questions from a range of theoretical paradigms:

 

  • What are the different prosodic subsystems; how do they interact; and how do they contribute to the interpretation of discourse?
  • How should we describe and analyze prosodic facts?
  • What are the relevant units for the analysis of discourse; and what are their prosodic properties?
  • How is discourse processed; and how does prosody affect discourse processing?
  • How do context and prosody interact in the interpretation of discourse?
  • What is ‘tone of voice’ and how does it affect interpretation?
  • How do L1 and L2 speakers acquire an understanding of the relationship between prosody and context?
  • What are the best methodological tools for the description and transcription of the prosodic properties of discourse?

 Please note

  • the conference will be held in English and French. 
  • abstracts must be no more than 1 A4 page and written in Times 12 Font (plus an extra page for references and figures)
  • two copies of the abstract must be submitted – one anonymous and the other marked with the name of the author(s), affiliation(s) and email address of the main author
  • abstracts must be sent to the following address: d.blakemore@salford.ac.uk
  • abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by the scientific committee for the conference.
  • abstracts should indicate if they are for an oral presentation, a poster, or both. Please note that we will not be able to accommodate everybody in the oral sessions.

 Deadlines

Submission of abstracts: 15 April 2011

Notification of acceptance: 6 June 2011

Conference: 12 – 14 September 2011

 Enquiries: 

Diane Blakemore  (local organizer) d.blakemore@salford.ac.uk

Debbie Hughes (conference support) d.hughes1@salford.ac.uk

 

 

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3-3-24(2011-12-11) ASRU 2011 Hawaii (tentative)

ASRU 2011 will be held Dec. 11 - 15, 2011 in Hawaii. Motivated by the success of ICASSP 2007 in Honolulu, and past ASRU workshops (St. Thomas, San Juan, Kyoto and Merano), we plan to provide attendees with a pleasant and informal setting that naturally generates interactions and close collaborations among researchers.

Several venues in Hawaii are currently under consideration, including resorts in Big Island and Honolulu, with a decision on the exact location to be announced in May 2010. The dates have been chosen to accommodate Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holidays, and conferences such as NIPS, that ASRU attendees may wish to participate in. IBM has agreed to be a major sponsor.

As a scientific community, we hope to have participation from countries all over the world at ASRU 2011. In the article published in the February 2010 edition of the SLTC newsletter, it was observed that participation from Asia, Central and South America was low. We hope that the selected location will attract participants from not just those countries, but others as well.

info@asru2011.org

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3-3-252011-06-01) HSCMA 2011: The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays

HSCMA 2011: The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays
30 May - 1 June 2011, Edinburgh, UK
http://www.hscma2011.org/

The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays will be held from 30 May to 1 June 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland.


The workshop will bring together researchers in microphone arrays and speech/speaker recognition and focusing on recent advances in speech and signal processing techniques based upon multi-microphone systems, and on distant-talking speech communication and human/machine interaction. Demonstrations of experimental systems, applications, and prototypes are especially welcome.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
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The technical scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to:
* Multichannel acoustic signal processing;
* Speech and speaker recognition technology;
* Microphone array technology and architectures;
* Applications based on microphone arrays and distant-talking or hands-free speech systems.
There is an emphasis on work that crosses these technical areas.

PAPER / DEMO SUBMISSION
-----------------------
The workshop programme will consist of talks, posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (up to 6 pages; 2 pages for demo papers).


Authors are encouraged to include a public URL to a video of the demo in their paper submission.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper/demo submission: 13 February 2011
Notification of paper/demo acceptance: 21 March 2011
Workshop: 30 May - 1 June 2011

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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General-chairs: Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, UK); Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Technical committee: Gary Elko (MH Acoustics LLC, USA); Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK); Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT, Japan); Maurizio Omologo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler-irst, Italy); Boaz Rafaely (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Michael Seltzer (Microsoft Research, USA)

Demonstrations: Mike Lincoln (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Publications: James Hopgood (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Website: Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Publicity: Arnab Ghoshal (Saarland University, Germany)

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3-3-262011-09-27) XIVth Intern. Conference Speech and Computer- Russia

 

Preliminary information

More precise information about the date of paper submittal, the requirements for

paper formalization and the financial matter of the participation in the conference will

be declared some time later.

XIV International Conference “Speech and Computer”

Organizers of the conference: Moscow State Linguistic University,

Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University

The Conference is organized in cooperation with Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and

Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation.

Approximate dates

of the conference: September 27–30, 2011.

The location of

the conference: Russian Federation, the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan.

Discussion Issues:

• Informatization and public information security

• Automatic processing of multilingual, multimodal and multimedia information

• Speech signal coding and decoding; speech information security

• Linguistic, para- and extralinguistic communicative tactics and strategies

• The legibility of speech transmitted through different communication channels; speech by interference

and noise

• Speech production and perception modeling

• Fundamental and applied problems of modern speechology

• Development and testing of automatic voice and speech systems for speaker verification; speaker

emotional state and native language identification

• Automatic speech recognition and understanding systems

• Language and speech information processing systems in robotechnics

• Automated translation systems

• New information technologies in lingvodidactics; 3-D technologies

• Text-to-speech conversion systems

• Spoken and written natural language corpora linguistics

• Multifunctional expert and information retrieval systems

• Future of multi-purpose and anti-terrorist speech technologies

The aim of the conference

the development of automated human-machine interface systems based on natural language processing and new

information technologies

is the discussion of top priority issues and recent achievements in the field of.

Well-known specialists both from Russia and from such countries as Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Great Britain,

Canada, China, Czekh Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy,

Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Thailand,

Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, Viet Nam etc. regularly participate in the conference.

The International Speech Communication Association, International Association on Forensic Phonetics and

Acoustics, International Society of Phonetic Sciences, Russian Acoustic Society and other organizations actively

participate in this event.

The atmosphere of the conference promotes lively discussion and opinion interchange, as well as decisionmaking

in different fields of fundamental and applied sciences connected with natural language information

processing and high technologies.

Alongside with the intense scientific program, a wide spectrum of cultural and excursion activities will be

provided.

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