IEEE  Workshop on Spoken Language Technology                               SLT 2010                       December 12-15, 2010                         
Berkeley, CA                        
www.slt2010.org 
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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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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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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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*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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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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 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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Call for papers

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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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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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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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***** 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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> * 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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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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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
---------------
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
--------------------
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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