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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 by Chris Wellekens

3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-2-1(2011-06-27) CfP Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing, Bellevue, Washington

                                                   

 

Call for Participation

 Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing

June 27, 2011

Bellevue, Washington, USA

http://www.ttic.edu/sigml/symposium2011/

 

The symposium will be held in Bellevue, Washington on June 27th, 2011. It will bring together members of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( http://www.aclweb.org/ ), the International Speech Communication Association (http://www.isca-speech.org/), and The International Machine Learning Society (http://www.machinelearning.org/) .  Its goal is to foster communication and collaboration between researchers in these synergistic areas, taking advantage of the nearby locations of ACL-HLT 2011 and ICML 2011.

 

Topics

The workshop will feature a series of invited talks and general submissions. Submissions focusing on novel research are solicited and we especially encourage position and review papers addressing topics that are relevant both to Speech, Machine Learning and NLP. These areas include but are not limited to the use of: SVMs, log-linear models, neural networks, kernel methods, discriminative transforms, large margin training, discriminative training, active, semi-supervised & unsupervised training, structured prediction, Bayesian modeling, deep learning , and sparse representations. Application areas include natural language processing, speech recognition, language modeling, and speaker verification.

 

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers written in English via the symposium website. Style guidelines and further submission information will be available from the website. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, and each accepted paper must have at least one registered author.

 

Important Dates

  • April 15 - Papers due
  • May 6 - Notification of acceptance
  • May 27 – Deadline for early registration
  • June 27 - Workshop

 

Venue, Accommodation and Registration

Venue: SIG-ML will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, Washington, the site of ICML.

Accommodation:  A wide variety of lodging is available in the Bellevue area.

Registration: Please see the website for details.

 

Organizing Committee

Hal Daume III, University of Maryland; Joseph Keshet, TTI-Chicago;

 Dan Roth, UIUC; Geoffrey Zweig, Microsoft 

 

Scientific Program Committee

Jeff Bilmes, University of Washington; Brian Kingsbury, IBM; Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago

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3-2-2(2011-07-20)1st Lisbon Machine Learning School - 'Learning For the Web' Lisbon Portugal
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1st Lisbon Machine Learning School - 'Learning For the Web'
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We invite everyone interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to attend the 1st Lisbon Machine Learning School - LxMLS 2011.

Important Dates
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* Application Deadline: March 31, 2011
* Decision: April 15, 2011
* Early Registration: May 31, 2011
* Summer School: July 20-26, 2011 (right in-between UAI and EMNLP)


Topics and Intended Audience
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The school will cover a range of Machine Learning (ML) topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving
Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems that arise in the analysis and use of Web data.

Our target audience is:

* Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics;
* Computer scientists who have interests in statistics and machine learning;
* Industry practitioners who desire a more in depth understanding of these subjects.

Features of LxMLS:

* No deep previous knowledge of ML or NLP is assumed;
* Recommended reading will be provided in advance;
* Includes a strong practical component;
* A day zero is scheduled to review basic concepts and introduce the necessary tools for implementation exercises;
* Days will be divided into tutorials and practical sessions (view schedule);
* Both basic and advanced topics will be covered;
* Instructors are leading researchers in machine learning.


List of Speakers
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* MÁRIO FIGUEIREDO - Instituto Superior Técnico | Portugal
* KOBY CRAMMER - Technion, Israel Institute of Technogly | Israel
* SLAV PETROV - Google Inc. | USA
* NOAH SMITH - Carnegie Mellon University | USA
* JASON EISNER - Johns Hopkins University | USA
* XAVIER CARRERAS - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | Spain
* FERNANDO PEREIRA - Google Inc. | USA
* MILES OSBORNE - University of Edinburgh | UK
* PHIL BLUNSOM - University of Oxford | UK
* JOÃO GRAÇA - University of Pennsylvania | USA



Please visit our webpage for up to date information: http://lxmls.it.pt/.

To apply, please send a brief summary of your research interests (maximum 1 page) along with your CV
mentioning name, country, and affiliation to: lxmls-2011@lx.it.pt.


We are looking forward to your participation!

-- The organizers of LxMLS'2011.
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3-2-3(2011-08-24) CfP SLaTE-2011 workshop Venice, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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3-2-4(2011-08-31) AVSP 2011 The 11th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing

AVSP 2011 The 11th International Conference
on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing

August 31 - September 3, 2011

Volterra, Italy

http://www.avsp2011.org


The 11th international conference on Auditory-Visual Speech
Processing (AVSP) will be held from August 31 to September 3,
2011, directly following the INTERSPEECH2011 conference.

AVSP is a uniquely interdiciplinary conference, being focused on
synergy effects of auditory and visual speech information on
human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine
interaction. AVSP conferences have attracted a lot of researchers
in various fields, such as psychologists, computer engineers,
neuroscientists, linguists, phoneticians, and robot engineers.

The AVSP2011 conference will consist of oral and poster
presentations, a demo session and lectures by invited speakers
(announced later).

Submission of papers or demo proposals are invited in any areas
of auditory-visual speech processing including but not limited
to:
* Audio-visual speech synthesis
* Audio-visual speech recognition by humans and machines
* Models of multimodal integration
* Multimodal processing of spoken events
* Cross-linguistic studies of audio-visual speech processing
* Developmental studies of audio-visual speech processing
* Role of gestures accompanying speech
* Audio-visual prosody
* Modeling, animation and recognition of gestures and expressions
* Neurophysiology and neuropsychology of audition and vision
* Scene analysis using audio and visual information
* Novel techniques for animation of talking faces
* Data collection and corpora for audio-visual speech processing


Important Dates


Paper Submission Deadline      5 May 2011 (Final)
Notification of Acceptance     16 June 2011
Camera-ready Paper             1 July 2011
Early Registration Deadline    27 June 2011
Late Registration Deadline     22 August 2011
Conference                     31 August - 3 September 2011


Submission


Prospective participants can submit a contribution in one of two
formats:
1. Full 4 or 6 page papers
2. 1 page demo proposals. Accepted proposals will be presented
  during a demo session at the conference

Submission instructions can be found on the conference website
http://www.avsp2011.org. Submissions in both formats will be
reviewed by members of the scientific committee.


Organizing Committee


Jonas Beskow
Olov Engwall
Giampiero Salvi
Samer Al Moubayed

(Department of Speech, Music, and Hearing. KTH, Sweden.)


Scientific Committee


Gerard Bailly (GIPSA)
Piero Cosi (U.PADOVA)
Darren Cosker (U. BATH)
Sacha Fagel (ZOOBE)
Gabriele Fanelli (ETZH)
Björn Granström (KTH)
Valerie Hazan (UCL)
David House (KTH)
Carlos Ishi (ATR)
Alexandra Jesse (UMASS AMHERST)
Christian Kroos (MARCS)
Francisco Lacerda (STOCKHOLM U.)
Dominic W. Massaro (UCSC)
Slim Ouni (LORIA)
Catherine Pelachaud (PARIS TECH)
Gerasimos Potamianos (FORTH)
Laurel Riek (CAMBRIDGE)
Kaoru Sekiyama (U. KUMAMOTO)
Barry-John Theobald (UEA)


Registration Fees


Registration for the conference includes accommodation (3 nights),
meals and printed proceedings. Preliminary rates for early
registrants are 500 EUR for single room and 400 EUR for shared
double. Student attendees are encouraged to seek grants for
participation through ISCA.


Conference Website and Contact Info


http://www.avsp2011.org
info@avsp2011.org

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3-2-5(2011-09-01) CfP IWSDS2011 - Special Tracks

Call for Papers
IWSDS2011 - Special Tracks
Granada, Spain, September 1-3, 2011

Following on the success of IWSDS2009 (in Irsee, Germany) and IWSDS2010
(in Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan) this 3rd International Workshop on
Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS2011) will bring together researchers from
all over the world working in the field of spoken dialogue systems. It
will provide an international forum for the presentation of research and
applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists.

This year's workshop designates 'Paralinguistic Information and its
Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems' as a special theme of
discussion, considering three Special Tracks:

- Spoken dialogue systems for robotics
- Emotions and spoken dialogue systems
- Spoken dialogue systems for real-world applications

We would also like to encourage discussions of common issues of spoken
dialogue systems.

The workshop will be held just after INTERSPEECH 2011, Florence, Italy,
August 28-31, 2011. It is endorsed by SIGDIAL, a SIG of ISCA and ACL,
and is supported by the Korean Society of Speech Scientists. The
workshop proceedings will be published in a book by Springer.

Web page of the workshop

http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/iwsds2011

Important dates

June  3, 2011: Deadline for Long, Short and Demo papers
June 13, 2011: Author notification
June 19, 2011: Deadline for final submission of accepted paper
June 26, 2011: Deadline for early registration
September 1-3, 2011: Workshop

Chairs

Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado - University of Granada, Spain
Tetsunori Kobayashi - Waseda University, Japan

Steering Committee

Gary Geunbae Lee - POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
Joseph Mariani - LIMSI-CNRS and IMMI, Orsay, France
Wolfgang Minker - Ulm University, Germany
Satoshi Nakamura - NICT, Kyoto, Japan

Local Committee

Zoraida Callejas - University of Granada, Spain
David Griol - Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Gonzalo Espejo - University of Granada, Spain
Nieves Abalos - University of Granada, Spain

Scientific Committee

Jan Alexandersson - DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Masahiro Araki- Interactive Intelligence lab, Kyoto Institute of
Technology, Japan
André Berton - Daimler R&D, Ulm, Germany
Sadaoki Furui - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Joakim Gustafson - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Tobias Heinroth - Ulm University, Germany
Paul Heisterkamp - Daimler Research, Ulm, Germany
Kristiina Jokinen - University of Helsinki, Finland
Tatsuya Kawahara - Kyoto University, Japan
Hong Kook Kim - Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Lin-Shan Lee - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Mike McTear - University of Ulster, UK
Mikio Nakano - Honda Research Institute, Japan
Elmar Nöth - University of Erlangen, Germany
Norbert Reithinger - DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Gabriel Skantze - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Alexander Schmitt - Ulm University, Germany
Kazuya Takeda - Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya
University, Japan
Hsin-min Wang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan

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3-2-6(2011-09-01) IWSDS2011 Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems: satellite event of Interspeech 2011

Introduction

Dear colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in this

IWSDS2011 Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems

to be held at Saray hotel in Granada, Spain from September 1 to September 3, 2011.

Following on the success of IWSDS2009 (in Irsee, Germany) and IWSDS2010 (in Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan) this 3rd International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS2011) will bring together researchers from all over the world working in the field of spoken dialogue systems. It will provide an international forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists.

This year's workshop designates 'Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems' as a special theme of discussion.  We would also like to encourage discussions of common issues of spoken dialogue systems.

The workshop will be held just after INTERSPEECH 2011; Florence, Italy, August 28-31, 2011 and is endorsed by SIGDIAL, a SIG of ISCA, and ACL. It is also supported by the Korean Society of Speech Scientists. The workshop proceedings will be published in a book by Springer.

We welcome you to the workshop.

Ramón López-Cózar - University of Granada (Spain)
Tetsunori Kobayashi - Waseda University (Japan)
Chairs of IWSDS2011

For questions, please contact:
iwsds2011(at)ugr.es

http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/iwsds2011

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