Annonce du Prochain Séminaire AFCP
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Organisé par S. Rossato, L. Besacier, H. Gelas, G. Adda (solange.rossato@imag.fr, laurent.besacier@imag.fr, hadrien.gelas@univ-lyon2.fr, Gilles.ADDA@limsi.fr)
Lieu : Lyon, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL)

Date : Mardi 10 Mai 2011, 10h

Titre : Aspects éthiques et juridiques des corpus oraux

L’objet de cette journée est de s’interroger sur les aspects éthiques et juridiques de la collecte, de
l’annotation, de l’utilisation et de la diffusion de corpus oraux. En effet, on a vu récemment émerger
de nouvelles approches de collecte et d’annotation via des sites collaboratifs ou de crowdsourcing tels
que Amazon Mechanical Turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome). Cette évolution nous amène
à nous interroger sur les différentes pratiques du chercheur (linguiste de terrain, dialectologue,
ingénieur en traitement automatique des langues) face à la collecte et l’annotation de corpus. Il nous a
donc semblé important de mettre en perspective ces nouveaux outils avec les pratiques des linguistes
et des acteurs du domaine du traitement de la parole et du langage naturel.
Le principe de ces journées consiste à recueillir l’expérience de différents chercheurs, sur la collecte
de corpus, leur éthique, les aspects juridiques auxquels ils ont été confrontés, etc. De ces exposés, nous
espérons obtenir un premier matériau pour discussion (ou table ronde) sur les « bonnes pratiques »
nécessaire dans le domaine, quelque soit la (plate)forme de collecte utilisée.

Programme préliminaire
10h : début du séminaire
10h-10h45 : Nouveaux outils de collecte et d’annotation et concept de « crowd-sourcing » :
présentation et réserves : Gilles Adda (LIMSI-CNRS)
10h45-11h30 : L’expérience des linguistes de terrain : Didier Demolin (Université Stendhal, Grenoble
III)
11h30-12h15 : L’expérience des dialectologues : Elisabetta Carpitelli (Université de Nice-Sophia-
Antipolis)
12h15-13h30 : repas sur place (buffet)
13h30-14h15 : L’expérience des organismes qui gèrent et collectent des ressources langagières : Khalid Choukri (ELRA)
14h15-15h : Gestion des droits accès en accord avec le Code du patrimoine : une approche générique pour le modèle OAIS. Bernard Bel (CRDO)
15h-15h45 : Le droit et les corpus oraux : Ibrahim Coulibaly (CDF, Université de Grenoble)
15h45-16h30 : Table ronde et discussions avec les intervenants

La participation à ce séminaire est gratuite, cependant afin d’évaluer le nombre de participants,
et de prévoir le buffet, merci de vous inscrire en envoyant un mail avant le 20 Avril 2011
à solange.rossato@imag.fr (mettre [SEM-AFCP-MAI2011] dans le sujet)

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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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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


Intensive School in Machine Translation
16-20 May 2011, Chelyabinsk, Russia

http://www.mtschool-susu.info/

 

European Association for Machine Translation and South Ural State University are pleased to announce an exciting co-sponsored event “Intensive School in Machine Translation” (ISMT) which will be held in Chelyabinsk, Russia from May 16 through May 20th, 2011. The venue of the school is South Ural State University.

The overall goal of ISMT is to provide participants with a reference frame for major areas of study within the field of MT technology while defining critical problems of MT and the most useful methods for their solutions.

The ISMT courses on the state-of-the-art MT aspects will be delivered by internationally renowned researchers from different countries, - Andrew Way (Ireland), Harold Somers (UK), Robert Frederking (USA) and Svetlana Sheremetyeva (Russia). ISMT will also feature a discussion panel, which will enable participants to discuss specific issues in MT with experts in the field. The working languages are English and Russian. A course certificate will be issued upon completion of the course, based on 90% participation.

 

Please visit the ISMT site http://www.mtschool-susu.info/  for the program and other details of the event.

 

The school invites everyone professionally interested in machine translation. The primary target audience is university students, PhD students and young researchers for whom attendance is free of charge. Participants from industry/commerce will be charged a registration fee.

Since there are a limited number of participant slots we do recommend interested parties to register at the school site as early as possible.  Assistance with accommodation is offered once you have registered.

Important Dates

15 January 2011   Registration opens

15 April      2011   Registration deadline

16-20 May 2011   Intensive School in Machine Translation

Contact:  org@mtschool-susu.info
Svetlana Sheremetyeva, ISMT co-director            

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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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We are pleased to announce that the third FLaReNet Forum 'Language Resources in the Sharing Age - the Strategic Agenda' will take place in Venice, Italy, 26 and 27 May 2011, in the beautiful setting of Auditorium Santa Margherita, Ca' Foscari University.

Following the usual successful formula, the third Forum is conceived as a collaborative workshop designed to raise discussion in a very interactive way, thus creating a breeding ground for open questions, new ideas and visions for the field of Language Resources/Technologies.

The Venice Forum sessions are devoted to the following topics:

- Identification and tracking of Language Resources
- Open Data
- Go green: reuse, repurpose, and recycle resources
- Innovation needs data
- Data for all languages: think big

- Long life to our resources
- From recommendations to actions: what’s next?

A description of the sessions is now available on the web site.

*Registration now open*

Participation to the Forum is open but subject to online registration due to the limited number of admissible participants (up to a maximum of 150). Make sure to register well in advance to secure your place through the Forum Registration page.

*Preliminary list of  Speakers*

While the final program is taking shape, we are pleased to announce that the following speakers have agreed to give a talk at the Forum:

Anne Cambon-Thomsen, CNRS, France

Timos Sellis, IMIS, Greece

Key Sun Choi, KAIST, Korea

Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA

Chris Cieri, LDC, USA

James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA

Bill Dolan, Microsoft Inc., USA

Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI, Germany

Andrejs Vasiljevs, Tilde

Frederique Segond, Xerox, France

Dunja Mladenic, JSI, Slovenia

Kenneth Church, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Peter Wittenburg, MPI, The Netherlands

David Giaretta, STFC, UK

David Haskiya, Europeana

*Important notice*

Venice is a worldwide top tourist destination attracting millions of tourists each year. Do not hesitate to make your hotel reservation as soon as possible. A list of hotels close to the Forum venue is available at the Forum Accommodation page.

FLaReNet Forum PC

Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy)

Khalid Choukri (ELDA, Paris, France)

Stelios Piperidis (ILSP / “Athena” R. C., Athens, Greece)

Jan Odijk (Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Núria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Joseph Mariani (LIMSI/IMMI-CNRS, Paris, France)

Claudia Soria (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Rodolfo Delmonte (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy)

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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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Extended  submission deadline January 9 2011

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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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 outline programme of the workshop is now available online at: http://www.hscma2011.org/Programme.html 

If you would like to attend, please register online as soon as possible, and by 29 April at the latest: http://www.hscma2011.org/Registration.html 

The workshop is located in central Edinburgh, where there are many good quality hotels and guest houses, and we recommend looking at the usual hotel/travel websites. In particular, some accommodation options at the higher and lower ends are listed at: http://www.hscma2011.org/Accommodation.html 

Regarding travel, Edinburgh Airport (http://www.edinburghairport.com) has frequent flights to the main European hubs, and is a short journey (25 minutes) from the city centre.  If you are travelling from Prague (ICASSP) there is a budget airline with a direct flight, Jet2.com: 
http://www.jet2.com/timetables/cheap-flights/timetable.aspx?from=edinburgh&to=prague&lang=EN 

Looking forward to seeing you in Edinburgh. 

any)

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First Call for Papers

Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP)

www.sanlp.org/wssanlp2011

a collocated event at

International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)

www.ijcnlp2011.org

Motivation

The main motive behind the organization of South and Southeast Asian Natural Languages Processing (SSANLP) workshop is to bring together the community working on the South and Southeast Asian languages covering all aspects of natural language processing and computational linguistics such as development of computational resources, morphology, syntax, semantics and machine translation. This is a long term commitment and goal, which cannot be achieved through a single workshop. Hence, we are planning to make this workshop an annual event collocated with one of the major Computational Linguistics conferences and focusing on certain specific NLP issues. We have successfully organized the 1^st Workshop on South and Southeast Asian NLP at COLING 2010 in Beijing, China. The current workshop again focuses on the phenomena of rich Morphology of South and South East Asian languages and the complex segmentation in these languages. More details about the current workshop are available at www.sanlp.org/wssanlp2011

Topics

Morphology is one of the core processes of Natural Language Processing (NLP). With the knowledge of rules for inflection, derivation, and compounding, we are able to generate and understand the word forms that are mandatory to communicate, including the creation of new words from existing words. To be acquainted with a language, we have to master the rules of syntax and morphology as these are crucial rudiments for dealing with semantics or even pragmatics. In NLP, morphological resources are the basis for all higher level developments and applications. It is especially true for languages with rich morphology like Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, etc. A morphological analysis component is crucial for analyzing word forms in the whole corpus. Generation of surface forms corresponding to a root is also essential from practical point of view. Another major challenge for understanding the word forms is the segmentation of the source text. The task of morphology, however, is intimately linked with segmentation for said languages. Apart from the uses in NLP, there are useful practical applications where morphological analysis and/or generation are required, e.g., in text processing, user interfaces, and information retrieval.

The topics of interest for SSANLP workshop include (but not limited to) the following related to the morphology and segmentation of South and Southeast Asian languages:

The complexity of word level processing

Frameworks for morphological processing

Universal morphotactic phenomena across South and Southeast Asian languages

Lexicon and Rule-basis for morphological analysis

New formalisms, or computational treatments of existing linguistic formalisms for the said languages

Probabilistic models and machine learning for morphology and segmentation

Analysis or exploitation of multilingual, multi-dialectal, and diachronic data

Algorithms, including finite-state methods

Algorithms and methods for automatic development of morphological analysis from the corpus

Generic morphological analyzer for South and Southeast Asian Languages

Communication of morpho-tactics with its neighboring layers in the linguistic process (i.e. Morpho-syntactics and Morpho-phonemics) for the said languages

Usability or extensibility of existing tools like KIMMO, XFST, ATEF, etc. for the development of morphological analyzer for South and Southeast Asian languages

Tools and resources

Author Instructions

Authors are invited to submit substantial, original and completed research work relevant to the topics of the workshop in form of regular papers. Authors are also invited to submit a small, focused contribution, work in progress, a negative result and an opinion piece in form of short papers. More detailed paper format guidelines will be provided, once we get these information from IJCNLP – main conference organizers.

Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...', must be avoided. Instead, citations such as 'Smith (1991) previously showed ...', must be used. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

Dual submission policy: If you have submitted or plan to submit your paper in other venues, then you must indicate this fact during submission to SSANLP. Note that if your paper is accepted in SSANLP then you must withdraw the same paper from other venues in order to get it published in the proceedings of SSANLP.

Important Dates

Journal Special Issue

The organizers plan to publish selected high quality submissions to SSANLP as a special issue of a reputed scientific journal.

Any query can be sent on wssanlp2011@sanlp.org

Please feel free to forward this call for paper to all interested people, thank you.

---
M. G. Abbas Malik
Assistant Professor

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Lahore - Campus

Department of Computer Science,

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Building,

Defence Road, Off Raiwind Road,

Lahore, Pakistan
E-mail: abbas.malik at ciitlahore.edu.pk

             abbas.malik at imag.fr

             abbas.malik at gmail.com

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3ème Journée d'Etude et de Formation sur la Parole (JEFP)
'Langues du monde : description, typologie et modèles acoustiques'
Le 08 juin 2011 à l'Université de Grenoble (LIG, Gipsa-Lab)


L'étude de la parole conduit des chercheurs de différentes disciplines 
(sciences humaines, sciences de l’ingénieur, sciences 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*.

La dernière édition des JEFP pour cette année 2010-2011 aura lieu le 
mercredi 8 juin de 9h30 à 18h sur le campus de l'Université de Grenoble 
(Maison Kuntzmann et Université Stendhal). Elle est organisée par le 
Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble et Gipsa-Lab.

La journée, animée par *Laurent Besacier (LIG), Didier Demolin 
(Gipsa-Lab) et Nathalie Vallée (Gipsa-Lab) * s'articulera autour de 
moments présentant les éléments théoriques (matin) et d'autres se 
composant d'exercices pratiques (après-midi).
Dans cette troisième journée, consacrée aux *langues du monde*, nous 
aborderons entre autre :
- La diversité des systèmes linguistiques
- La mise en évidence d'universaux par la typologie des langues (bases 
de données de description des langues du monde)
- Les modèles acoustiques (reconnaissance des phonèmes) pour les 
systèmes de reconnaissance automatique de la parole, appliqués notamment 
aux langues peu dotées

L'ensemble des résumés des interventions sont accessibles sur 
http://jefp.univ-avignon.fr/.

Pour pouvoir participer à cette journée 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 auprès 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 grenoblois. 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

-- 
Juliette Kahn
Doctorante-Monitrice/PhD student

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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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Second Call for Papers and Participation
The 7th Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems
(YRRSDS 2011)
www.yrrsds.org

Deadline extended accomodate SIGdial notification:      April 22
ISCA Travel Grants:     More Information Provided at yrrsds.org 

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) is an annual workshop designed for graduate students, post-docs and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The YRRSDS provides an open forum where participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future plans. Previous workshops have been co-located with SIGdial or InterSpeech, and YRRSDS’10 was recently held in Japan. YRRSDS’11 will be hosted by the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR, USA, and will be directly before SIGdial and ACL 2011.

The workshop has three main goals:
    1) to offer an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research
    2) to provide young researchers with career advice from senior researchers and professionals from both academic and industrial backgrounds
    3) to develop a stronger international network of young researchers working in the field

Submission Information:
We invite any researcher who is at a relatively early stage of their career (e.g students, post-docs, or junior researchers in industry) to submit a 2-page position paper. This should include their past, present and future work, a short bio and topic suggestions for the workshop.  Acceptance is on a first-come, first-served basis and the number of participants is generally capped at 50. Poster presentation by all participants is expected. However, posters need only present current work and are not necessarily from a published paper. Further format and outline information are provided at yrrsds.org under Submissions.

Please submit via  the EasyChair system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yrrsds2011
If you experience any problems with submission please contact the organizers at:
yrrsds2011@gmail.com

Important Dates:
    Submissions deadline: April 22 , 2011
    Author notification: May 9, 2011
    Camera ready deadline: May 20, 2011

YRRSDS'11 will feature:
    a senior researcher panel (both academia and industry)
    a demo and poster session (Best Poster Award!)
    a special session on Embodied Conversational Agents
    two Roundtable discussion and presentation sessions


Some Topics of Interest (more complete list at yrrsds.org)
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Models of dialogue: Statistical, Symbolic and Hybrid dialogue modeling
The Spoken Dialogue Challenge: SDS evaluation
Psycholinguistic influences of dialogue system design
Dialogue system development beyond “toy” research domains
The importance of establishing social relations with the user in automated dialogues
Interacting with virtual and robotic agents
Semantics and Pragmatics of dialogue systems
Context and spoken dialogue systems
Building truly incremental spoken dialogue systems
Dialogue data collection, sharing data sets and formats for statistical models
Understanding industry development cycles, requirements, and future application domains for dialogue systems


We thank our Sponsors: IBM, Microsoft Research, LG, AT&T, and BioSpeech                               

YRRSDS 2011 is endorsed by: SIGdial, ACL, ISCA, ISCA-Students, dialogs on dialogs

Organizing Committee
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William Y. Wang, Columbia University, USA
Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Sungjin Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Lina Maria Rojas Barahona, LORIA, France
Hamid R. Chinaei, Laval University, Canada
Ethan Selfridge, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

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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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Workshop on Multimodal Audio-based Multimedia 

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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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eNTERFACE’11

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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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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 28^th, and 29^th. 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 31^st, 2011

Acceptance notification: May 27^th, 2011

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

6th DGfS-CL Computational Linguistics Fall School 2011


The Computational Linguistics Fall School is a biennial event for students who wish to
broaden their knowledge of techniques and methods used in natural language processing, in
particular of innovative and emerging fields in computational linguistics not
traditionally taught in standard degree programmes.

Date: August 29th - September 9th, 2011

Venue: University of Zurich, Switzerland

Scientific organizer: German Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft)

Local organizer: Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland



Programme:

Track 1: Computational Linguistics and Cultural Heritage
Lecturer: Dr. Michael Piotrowski (University of Zurich)

Track 2: Summarization and Generation: From 'Extracting' to 'Abstracting'
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam)

Track 3: Connectionist Modelling of Language and Cognitive Processes
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Gert Westermann (Oxford Brookes University)

Track 4: Introduction to Tree Adjoining Grammar
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer and Timm Lichte (Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf)

Tracks are non-concurrent (i.e. any number of tracks can be booked). One lecture (90
minutes) in each track each weekday. Weekend 3/4 Sept.: Social programme (field trip).

Language: The language of instruction will be English.

ECTS: Each course is worth 4 ECTS credits (upon successful completion).

Credit certificates as well certificates of attendance will be issued by the Institute of
Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich.

You do not have to be a member of DGfS to attend the Fall School.


Dates and Fees:

    * Early Registration by May 15, 2011 (CHF 200.00)
    * Final Registration by June 30, 2011 (CHF 250.00)
    * On Site Registration possible (CHF 300.00)

Registration online through:

www.cl.uzh.ch/events/fallschool2011/registration.html


Grants: Ten grants (EUR 150 each, intended to cover part of the registration fee) are
available from DGfS for enrolled students. Please apply to the local organizers, with
proof of eligibility, by e-mail to fallschool2011@cl.uzh.ch (first come first served).

Additional grants (to cover part of the cost for accommodation) may become available
later.

Accommodation: Cheap(ish) accommodation is available (see URL below). Please note
deadline!

Additional information: www.cl.uzh.ch/fallschool2011

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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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Dear Colleague,

at Interspeech 2011 in Florence there will be a special event on 'Speech Processing Tools' with the focus on interoperability:

http://www.interspeech2011.org/specialevents/se-1.php

If you're interested, please submit a regular four-page paper via the Interspeech submission system and select as the ONLY (!) option the special event on 'Speech Processing Tools'. The deadline is 31st March 2011!

Best regards - and I hope to see you in Florence!

Christoph Draxler


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