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3-1-1 | (2012-09-09) INTERSPEECH 2012, Portland, Oregon USA INTERSPEECH 2012 Portland, U.S., 09-13 September 2012
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3-1-2 | (2013-08-23) INTERSPEECH 2013 Lyon France Interspeech 2013 Lyon, France 23-29 August 2013 General Chair: Frédéric Bimbot
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3-1-3 | (2014-09-07) INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore Interspeech 2014 will be held in Singapore, the Garden City, on 7-11 September 2014. Conference Chair: Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research.
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3-2-1 | (2011-12-15) (Call for demos) IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
ASRU 2011
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3-2-2 | (2011-12-15) Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop ASRU 2011ASRU 2011 Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop Big Island, Hawaii December 11-15, 2011 http://www.asru2011.org/ The deadline for submitting papers is 1 July 2011. The website will not accept any submissions after July 1st 11:59PM Hawaiian time. Please be sure to submit your papers by: ** Workshop overview and topics ** The twelfth IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) will be held on December 11-15, 2011. The ASRU workshop meets every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding. Submission of papers in all areas of human language technology is encouraged, with emphasis placed on: - Automatic speech recognition and understanding - Human speech recognition and understanding - Speech-to-text systems - Spoken dialog systems - Multilingual language processing - Robustness in ASR - Spoken document retrieval - Speech-to-speech translation - Text-to-speech systems - Spontaneous speech processing - Speech summarization - New applications of ASR ** Schedule ** Paper submission deadline: 1 July 2011 Paper acceptance/rejection: 20 August 2011 Early registration deadline: 15 October 2011 Workshop: 11-15 December 2011 ** Technical Program ** The workshop program will consist of oral and poster presentations, including invited overview lectures covering major areas of the field. In addition, there will be four keynote addresses by well-known experts on such related topics as machine learning and pattern classification. ** Submission Procedure ** Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the ASRU 2011 website (http://www.asru2011.org). All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with further details. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines. ** Registration and information ** Please note that the number of attendees will be limited and priority will be given to paper presenters. Registration will be handled via the ASRU 2011 website, http://www.asru2011.org/, where more information on the workshop will be available.
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3-2-3 | (2012-06-04) JEP 2012 Grenoble APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS JEP'2012 29e Journées d'Études sur la Parole Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012 CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 31 janvier 2012 Notification aux auteurs : 20 mars 2012 Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 15 avril 2012 Conférence : 4-8 juin 2012 PRÉSENTATION Organisée par l'équipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des langues étrangères et maternelles) et le département DPC du Gipsa-lab, les JEP'2012 se tiendront du 4 au 8 juin 2012 à Grenoble à l'occasion de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012. JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29ème édition des Journées d'Étude sur la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19ème édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14ème édition des Rencontres des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012). Pour la quatrième fois, après Nancy en 2002, Fès en 2004, et Avignon en 2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) et l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) organisent conjointement leur principale conférence afin de réunir en un seul lieu les deux communautés du traitement de la langue orale et écrite. Les JEP'2012 comprendront des communications orales et affichées et des conférences invitées. Thématiques
Critères de Sélection
Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la conférence. Modalités de Soumission Les articles soumis ne devront pas dépasser 4 pages en Times 10, sur deux colonnes, format A4. Les différents modèles (Word, Word 2007, OpenOffice Writer et LaTeX) seront disponibles sur le site internet de la conférence (à venir cet automne). Contact : laurent.besacier@imag.fr Bourses L'ISCA apporte également un soutien financier aux jeunes chercheurs participant à des manifestations scientifiques sur la parole et le langage, voir le site de l'ISCA
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3-3-1 | (2011-09-21) SemDial 2011 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue SemDial 2011 (Los Angelogue) The 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Los Angeles, September 21-23, 2011 http://projects.ict.usc.edu/nld/semdial2011
The SemDial series of workshops aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. In 2011 the workshop will leave Europe for the first time, to be held at the Institute for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The SemDial workshops are always stimulating and fun, and L.A. is a great place to visit.
Invited Speakers:
Jerry Hobbs David Schlangen Additional invited speakers to be announced later
Call for Papers:
Submission is now open.
We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:
- Models of common ground/mutual belief in communication - Modelling agents' information states and how they get updated - Multi-agent models and turn-taking - Goals, intentions and commitments in communication - Semantic interpretation in dialogues - Reference in dialogues - Ellipsis resolution in dialogues - Dialogue and discourse structure - Interpretation of questions and answers - Nonlinguistic interaction in communication - Natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - Multimodal dialogue systems - Dialogue management in practical implementations - Categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora - Designing and evaluating dialogue systems
Submission is through Easychair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2011
On the submission site, choose the category that is the closest fit to your paper; categories are used for assigning papers to area chairs, who follow each paper through its review process (we may reassign papers to distribute the load among the chairs).
Submitted papers should be in the following format:
- Anonymous PDF file - 8 pages total (including data, tables, figures, and references) - US letter paper size - 11pt Times font - 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins - 2-column format
Include a one-paragraph abstract of the entire work (about 200 words). We strongly recommend using the style files provided by ACL-HLT 2011.
Multiple submissions by the same author or group of authors are allowed, but each person may only give one oral presentation at the workshop.
Deadline for receipt of papers is June 5, 2011, at 23:59 UTC-11.
Posters and Demos:
We will have a separate submission of late-breaking system demonstrations and ongoing project descriptions, to be presented in a poster session during the workshop. Late-breaking submissions will be two pages long; they will not be refereed, but evaluated for relevance only by the area chairs. Submission of late-breaking abstracts will be allowed only after review of the main session papers has concluded. The deadline for late-breaking submissions is August 7, 2011.
Proceedings:
Final, 8-page versions of the accepted papers, together with the 2-page accepted late-breaking abstracts, will be compiled in a proceedings volume and distributed (online or in print) at the workshop.
Important Dates:
Paper submissions due: June 5, 2011 (Sunday) Author notification for full papers: July 29, 2011 (Friday) Poster and demo submissions due: August 7, 2011 (Sunday) Author notification for posters and demos: August 12, 2011 (Friday) Camera-ready copies due: August 24, 2011 (Wednesday) SemDial 2011 workshop: September 21-23, 2011 (Wednesday--Friday)
Organizers:
Ron Artstein: Area chair Theoretical Linguistics, Logic, and Conversation Analysis David DeVault: Area chair Natural Language Processing Kallirroi Georgila: Area chair Natural Language Processing Elsi Kaiser: Area chair Psycholinguistics Amanda Stent: Area chair David Traum: Internal coordinator Sudeep Gandhe: Sponsorship and fundraising Mark Core: Demos and posters Anton Leuski: Web site
Program Committee:
Hua Ai, Jennifer Arnold, Srinivas Bangalore, Luciana Benotti, Nate Blaylock, Johan Bos, Harry Bunt, Donna Byron, Herb Clark, Paul Dekker, Myroslava Dzikovska, Raquel Fern‡ndez, Victor Ferreira, Simon Garrod, Jonathan Ginzburg, Amy Isard, Andrew Kehler, Alistair Knott, Kazunori Komatani, Staffan Larsson, Gary Lee, Oliver Lemon, Colin Matheson, Gregory Mills, Yukiko Nakano, Stanley Peters, Martin Pickering, Chris Potts, Matthew Purver, Antoine Raux, Hannes Rieser, David Schlangen, Elizabeth Shriberg, Gabriel Skantze, Ronnie Smith, Matthew Stone, Nigel Ward, Michael White
If you have any questions, please write to one of the organizers. We do not have a dedicated email address.
SemDial 2011 homepage: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/nld/semdial2011 SemDial series homepage: http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial
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3-3-2 | (2011-09-25) AISV Stellaris Summer School 2011, September 25th-30thAISV - STELARIS (late)Summer School 2011, September 25th-30thSoftware Tools and Methods for Advanced Research in Phoneticshttp://www.aisv.it/summerschools/ Confirmed teachers are Paul Boersma, Franco Cutugno, Sarah Hawkins, Mietta Lennes. The maximum number of participants will be fixed at 30 (min to guarantee the budget 22). They will pay a fixed fee (600,00 €) inclusive of lodging, meals and scientific activities. Themes: 1. Advanced use of Tools for Phonetic Research (TBA) 2. Scripting and/or complex procedures (Paul Boersma) 3. Perceptual experiments, methods and tools (Sven Mattys) 4. Data Modeling, querying and Information Retrieval (Francesco Cutugno) 5. Methodology clinics: small groups discuss students' own research questions (Sarah Hawkins (coordination) together with all lecturers) 6. Annotation, Labeling, Descriptive Systems (Mietta Lennes)
Dott.ssa Rosita Lio L@bphon - Laboratorio di Fonetica
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3-3-3 | (2011-09-27) L'Ecole de Recherche Multimodale d'Information - Techniques & Sciences [ERMITES]L'Ecole de Recherche Multimodale d'Information - Techniques & Sciences [ERMITES], édition VI, se tient les 27, 28 et 29 septembre 2011, sur Porquerolles la perle des Iles D’Or - Var Thème ' Décomposition parcimonieuse, abstraction et structuration pour l'analyse de scène acoustique complexe ' Orateurs confirmés : Adam O. ; Bengio Y. ; Glotin H. ; Halkias X. ; Haton J.-P. ; Kowlaski S. ; MALLAT S. : Razik J. ; Stylianou Y. Organisée par le projet DYNI de l'UMR LSIS. Soutenue par l'INRIA, CNRS LSIS, GDRI3-ARIA, AFCP, USTV. Sous le patronage de la Fédération de Recherche en Informatique et Interactions d’Aix-Marseille (FRIIAM) et du PEPS IN2SI DYNI 'Indexation robuste à l’échelle'. Les participants peuvent soumettre un résumé de leurs travaux, qui si accepté sera présenté durant ERMITES et publié dans les actes. -- PROGRAMME -- Ouverture dès 10h le 27 septembre, centre IGESA Porquerolles * J.-P. Haton - Pr univ. Nancy - LORIA & IUF - http://www.loria.fr/~jph/ 'Analyse de scène et reconnaissance stochastique de la parole' Les difficultés spécifiques pour la reconnaissance de la parole sont nombreuses: nombre variable de locuteurs connus ou inconnus, microphones distants, bruit ambiant, effets liés aux locaux (écho, réverbération). Cet exposé rappelle les principes de la reconnaissance automatique de la parole et présentera les niveaux fonctionnels d'un système : prise de son, paramétrisation, analyses syntaxiques et sémantiques. Nous insisterons sur les modèles stochastiques actuellement les plus performants pour la reconnaissance de la parole. * Y. Stylianou – Pr univ. de Crête – ICS - http://www.ics.forth.gr/netlab/stylianou.html 'Adaptive AM-FM decomposition of signals with applications to speech' I will present an adaptive AM-FM decomposition of signals and will comment its application to speech analysis, synthesis, and modifications. As an introduction, I will present the classic Sinusoidal model showing its limitations in modeling non-stationary signals like speech. Then the iterative adaptive AM-FM decomposition algorithm will be presented in the context of time-varying multi-component signals and robustness issues against wrong initial conditions/hypotheses and additive noise will be discussed on synthetic signals. Focusing in speech, it will be shown that this decomposition results in a high-resolution time frequency representation of speech. Comparisons with Gauss-Newton and Reassigned Spectrogram approaches will be presented. Finally, possible applications on signals other than speech, like in vocalizations from marine mammals will be shortly discussed. * M. Kowlaski - MC univ. Paris XI - L2S - http://web1.lss.supelec.fr/perso/kowalski/ 'Parcimonie et structures pour les décompositions des signaux dans des dictionnaires temps-fréquence' Les décompositions parcimonieuses et structurées des signaux dans des dictionnaires de formes d'ondes peuvent s'obtenir par un modèle explicite dans le domaine des coefficients. On s'intéresse dans une première partie aux approches variationnelles, où les normes mixtes permettent d'introduire des couplages sur les coefficients préalablement organisés en groupes. L'optimisation des fonctionnelles s'effectue alors par des algorithmes de seuillage itératifs. En modifiant directement les opérateurs de seuillage, on peut introduire plus de flexibilité sur le couplage des coefficients, en particulier grâce à un Group-Lasso fenêtré. Dans une seconde partie, on regardera des modèles de type Bernoulli-Gaussien, éventuellement multi-varié, pour la décomposition hybrides des signaux (aussi appelée décomposition en composantes morphologiques). Une telle approche à l'avantage de fournir un seuillage adaptatif des coefficients, et ainsi de s'affranchir des réglages parfois fastidieux d'hyper-paramètres intervenant dans les approches variationnelles. * Y. Bengio - Pr univ. Montréal - LISA - http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/yoshua_en/ 'Deep Unsupervised Learning of Representations' Deep Unsupervised Learning of Representations et ferait un survol de découvertes récentes dans le domaine de l'apprentissage non-supervisé de représentations (surtout pour les images, transposable à l'acoustique). Nous montrerons en particulier cette approche dans le but d'apprendre des abstractions de plus en plus haut niveau, et de découvrir les facteurs explicatifs des variations présentes dans les données. * S. Mallat - Ecole X, CMAP - http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/~mallat/ 'Scattering & Matching Pursuit for Acoustic Sources Separation' Signal classes are usually invariant to groups of operators such as translations or scalings, and to larger Lie groups of deformations. Invariants and dimensionality reduction play major roles for classification, as opposed to sparse complete representations. Constructing invariants while keeping discriminant information deeply constraints the representation. We introduce a non-linear invariant representation, that reminds quantum scattering. It is implemented through the architecture of a deep neural network, but learning is needed at a single layer, and computed with O(N) operations. State of the art results are shown for object classification of deformed patterns and random textures. Part of this work is described in http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3023 . * J. Razik - MC univ. USTV LSIS - http://razik.univ-tln.fr/ 'Apprentissage de dictionnaire : de la parole humaine au chant de baleine' L'utilisation des méthodes de dictionary learning non supervisé a montré dans le domaine de l'image être la méthode de l'état de l'art pour des tâches de classification. Dans le domaine de la parole, nous avons montré que ces méthodes permettent également de dépasser les classiques modèles GMM en reconnaissance de phonèmes, tout en restant non supervisé. Nous avons également étudié l'apprentissage non supervisé par dictionary learning dans le cadre de l'analyse et la découverte d'un lexique associé au chant des baleines. L'objectif est d'obtenir des descripteurs plus génériques et plus efficaces que ceux habituellement extraits. Ceci permet également de déterminer des formes récurrentes dans la structure des chants entre les différents individus d'une population et sur plusieurs années. Ces travaux menés en collaboration avec S. Paris et H. Glotin sont illustrés de démonstrations. * X. Halkias - Columbia univ., Rosa Lab & post-doc DYNI Univ. Sud-Toulon Var 'Detection and Tracking of Dolphin Vocalizations' Audio processing has widely affected the field of animal bioacoustics. Many audio engineers are now using their knowledge to advance ou r understanding of the world that surrounds us and especially that of animals. This work falls into that category, where the principles of signal processing, communication theory and machine learning are used to analyze the clandestine world of marine mammals and specif ically dolphins. In this talk, several algorithms are proposed for the successful detection of dolphin calls in long recordings. Starting with the simple and widely used thresholding detectors, several advancements are proposed, based on the data, leading to more intricate classifiers like Support Vector Machines (SVM) that are known for their robustness. Lastly, two systems for pitch extraction are provided. The first system is based on a probabilistic framework and deals with the extraction of dolphin whistle calls while providing a first attempt on resolving simple overlaps. The second system assumes that the desired calls have already been detected and proceeds to identify the pitch for both whistle and burst calls using hierarchically driven Hidden Markov Models (HMM). * O. Adam - Pr univ. Paris6 - LAM (Equipe Lutherie Acoustique Musicale) et CNPS (Centre de Neuroscience de Paris-Sud) - http://www.cb.upsud.fr/Olivier.htm 'Estimation de densité de population de baleine par analyse de leurs chants' L’étude des cétacés passe par leurs observations. Plusieurs méthodes sont possibles et récemment le recours à l’acoustique passive a montré un grand intérêt, soit pour des observations d’espèces discrètes et/ou pour des observations à distance et/ou pour des observations continues. Les techniques développées, relevant de l’acoustique sous-marine, l’instrumentation, du traitement du signal, de la reconnaissance des formes, ont pour but de détecter les sons émis par ces mammifères marins, de les classer, et de localiser lorsque cela est possible. Nous présenterons une nouvelle activité dans ce domaine qui consiste à estimer la taille du groupe de cétacés à partir de leurs émissions sonores et des extrapolations statistiques. Plusieurs exemples sur différentes espèces seront présentés comme illustrations. * H. Glotin - Pr univ. USTV - LSIS & IUF - http://glotin.univ-tln.fr 'Suivi de cachalot par acoustique passive' Nous posons la problématique de l'analyse de scène acoustique au travers de la structuration de signaux bioacoustiques acquis dans des conditions variables. Nous nous intéresserons essentiellement au plus grand des odontocètes, le cachalot (45 tonnes, 18 mètres de long). Cet extraordinaire plongeur, qui sonde plus d'une heure à moins 2000 mètres, possède le biosonar le plus puissant. Avec plusieurs canaux (ici 4 hydrophones), nous montrons qu'il est possible de reconstruire la trajectoire de ses plongées écoutées à plusieurs kilomètres (voir démonstrations 3D http://glotin.univ-tln.fr/PIMC/DEMO et http://lsis.univ-tln.fr/tcan/pimc/ ). Nous montrons aussi que d'autres informations sont mesurables sur un seul canal, comme la taille de l’animal, son comportement. Des démonstrations sont faites sur des signaux que nous avons enregistrés au large de Porquerolles cette année, et sur des bases de référence de la communauté bioacoustique enregistrés au large des Bahamas par l'AUTEC == Inscription : Les pré-inscriptions sont ouvertes dès maintenant par simple email à ermites@univ-tln.fr renseignant le type d'inscription, votre téléphone, email et affiliation. Les places seront limitées aux trente premiers à avoir validé leur inscription par paiement à l'AFCP avant le 26 août (détails : http://glotin.univ-tln.fr/ERMITES11 ). == Tarifs : A/ Formule pension complète (incluant 2 nuitées, 5 repas, 2 pts déj, pauses café / boissons, actes papier, en chambre studio 2 lits / salle de bain) : A1/ Doctorant, Postdoc, Master = 280 euros, A2/ Autre = 410 euros. B/ Formule journée avec repas midi, actes, pauses café / boisson : B1/ Doctorant, Postdoc, Master = 70 euros, B2/ Autres = 100 euros. == Comité de Programme : H. Glotin (prés.), Pr univ. Sud-Toulon Var & IUF, LSIS DYNI S. Paris, MC univ. Aix-Marseille, LSIS DYNI J. Razik, MC univ. Sud-Toulon Var, LSIS DYNI Y. Bengio, Pr univ. Montréal, LISA S. Mallat, Ecole Polytechnique O. Adam, Pr univ. Paris VI, LAM Y. Stylianou, Pr univ. de Crête J.-P. Haton, univ. Nancy & IUF, LORIA Comité d’Organisation : S. Paris (prés.) J. Razik H. Glotin F. Chamroukhi, MC USTV, LSIS DYNI R. Abeille, doctorant USTV, LSIS DYNI M. Chouchane, doctorant, LSIS DYNI R. Delaye, ingénieur du son, P. Machart, doctorant LSIS DYNI & LIF F. Bénard, doctorant LSIS DYNI Y. Doh, master, LSIS DYNI == Contexte général d'ERMITES : L’Ecole Recherche Multimodale d’Information : Technologies et Sciences fait intervenir, sur 3 jours, devant des chercheurs et ingénieurs en devenir, une dizaine de spécialistes qui travaillent sur les analyses conjointes de textes, images, sons et vidéos pour en extraire de l’information. La recherche d’information est de plus en plus complexe et hasardeuse compte tenu du volume sans cesse croissant des informations disponibles et de leur nature multimodale (images, sons, musique, parole, bio-acoustique, vidéos…). Nous avons décidé d’organiser ERMITES 2011 avec l'USTV, le support de l'UMR Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes (LSIS), du CNRS, de l'INRIA, du GDRI3-ARIA, du CNRS et LSIS, afin : - d’analyser les dernières avancées théoriques, et pratiques, des systèmes robustes de recherche d’information multimodale de grande dimension et sur des masses de données, - de montrer que ces nouveaux outils forment une base pour une domaine plus vaste que celui d’origine pour lequel ils ont été développés (plus particulièrement leur application au domaine audio et audio-vidéo), - de sensibiliser les jeunes scientifiques au vaste champ scientifique mis en jeu par ces nouvelles avancées aux problèmes de fiabilité, robustesse, apprentissage, sous contrainte du passage à l'échelle. Chaque spécialiste présentera un condensé de son savoir. L'esprit d’ERMITES étant de mettre l'accent sur les analyses jointes (transversales sur diverses modalités), ceci étant un défi majeur et encore peu pris en compte par la majorité des équipes qui restent plutôt dans le pré carré de leur spécialité de départ. Site web de l'édition 2010 avec actes audiovisuels : http://glotin.univ-tln.fr/ERMITES10 SITE WEB 2011 : http://glotin.univ-tln.fr/ERMITES11
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3-3-4 | (2011-09-27) XIVth Intern. Conference Speech and Computer- Russia
Preliminary information More precise information about the date of paper submittal, the requirements for paper formalization and the financial matter of the participation in the conference will be declared some time later. Organizers of the conference: Moscow State Linguistic University, Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University The Conference is organized in cooperation with Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. Approximate dates The location of Discussion Issues: • Informatization and public information security • Automatic processing of multilingual, multimodal and multimedia information • Speech signal coding and decoding; speech information security • Linguistic, para- and extralinguistic communicative tactics and strategies • The legibility of speech transmitted through different communication channels; speech by interference and noise • Speech production and perception modeling • Fundamental and applied problems of modern speechology • Development and testing of automatic voice and speech systems for speaker verification; speaker emotional state and native language identification • Automatic speech recognition and understanding systems • Language and speech information processing systems in robotechnics • Automated translation systems • New information technologies in lingvodidactics; 3-D technologies • Text-to-speech conversion systems • Spoken and written natural language corpora linguistics • Multifunctional expert and information retrieval systems • Future of multi-purpose and anti-terrorist speech technologies The aim of the conference the development of automated human-machine interface systems based on natural language processing and new information technologies Well-known specialists both from Russia and from such countries as Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, China, Czekh Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, Viet Nam etc. regularly participate in the conference. The International Speech Communication Association, International Association on Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, International Society of Phonetic Sciences, Russian Acoustic Society and other organizations actively participate in this event. The atmosphere of the conference promotes lively discussion and opinion interchange, as well as decisionmaking in different fields of fundamental and applied sciences connected with natural language information processing and high technologies. Alongside with the intense scientific program, a wide spectrum of cultural and excursion activities will be provided.
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3-3-5 | (2011-09-28) Workshop autour de la syllable avec Louis Goldstein et Nathalie Vallée, Paris Workshop autour de la syllable avec Louis Goldstein et Nathalie Vallée
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3-3-6 | (2011-09-29) 4eme JEFPl, Paris « Le développement de la perception: du signal aux unités phonologiques 1ere annonce : 4eme JEFP le 29 septembre à Paris sur « Le développement de la perception: du signal aux unités phonologiques » ** **Attention: le nombre de place limité, merci de vous inscrire avant le 19 septembre** Bonjour, L'année universitaire commence avec une nouvelle édition des Journées d'Etude et de Formation sur la Parole, dès septembre. Cette année, les 3 volets des JEFP auront un thème commun 'la perception de la parole', et ils se dérouleront lors de 3 journées exceptionnelles durant l'année 2011-2012. Ces journées, soutenues par l'Association Française de Communication Parlée, ont pour objectif de permettre aux doctorants d'avoir l'occasion de se familiariser aux habitudes, objets, méthodes et questionnements des disciplines ayant pour étude la parole. La quatrième édition des JEFP aura lieu le jeudi 29 septembre de 10h à 17h45 au Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie situé 19 rue des Bernardins 75005 PARIS. (accueil à partir de 9h15) Le thème de cette journée sera 'le développement de la perception: du signal aux unités phonologiques'. La journée sera animée par Pierre Hallé (chercheur au Laboratoire de Phonétique et de Phonologie) et Willy Serniclaes (chercheur au Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception) qui reviendront sur des éléments théoriques relatifs à la perception inter-langues, au développement de la perception et sur des notions de psychoacoustique. Lors de travaux dirigés, Coralie Vincent (Ingénieure à Paris 8) abordera les diverses distorsions que peut subir un signal ou comment avoir de bon stimuli pour ses recherches et Erwan Pépiot (doctorant à Paris) montrera comment développer un test sur la perception de la syllabation avec le logiciel Perceval. Ces journées sont entièrement gratuites. Pour pouvoir y participer il suffit de s'inscrire à l'adresse suivante: http://jefp.univ-avignon.fr/inscription.php ou d'envoyer un mail à laurianne.georgeton@univ-paris3.fr en précisant vos nom, prénom, statut (doctorant, chercheur, autre) et institution à laquelle vous êtes rattachés. Un nombre conséquent de bourses AFCP sont disponibles pour le remboursement (total ou partiel) de vos frais de transport, le remboursement se fera sur pièces justificatives après la journée. Merci de nous prévenir lors de votre inscription si vous souhaitez bénéficier d’une bourse de transport et de nous donner une idée du montant. Bonne rentrée à tous. Laurianne Georgeton pour l'organisation des JEFP
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3-3-7 | (2011-10-04) SiPS 2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems SiPS 2011
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3-3-8 | (2011-10-16) 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
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3-3-9 | (2011-10-19) APSIPA ASC 2011, Xi'an, China APSIPA ASC 2011
website: http://www.apsipa2011.org
Call for papers
With great honor, the City of Xi'an hosts the APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2011 (APSIPA ASC 2011). Xi'an, the eternal city, records the great changes of the Chinese nation just like a living history book. Called Chang'an in ancient times, Xi'an is one of the birthplaces of the ancient civilization in the Yellow River Basin area of the country. During 3,100 year development of Xi'an, 13 dynasties such as Western Zhou (11th century BC-771 BC), Qin (221 BC-206 BC), Western Han (206 BC-24 AD) and Tang (618-907) placed their capitals here. So far, Xi'an enjoys equal fame with Athens, Cairo, and Rome as one of the four major ancient civilization capitals in the world. Xi'an enjoys the laudatory title of 'China Natural History Museum'. The Museum of Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses is praised as 'the eighth major miracle of the world', the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang is listed on the World Heritage List, and the Famen Temple holds the precious finger bones of Sakyamuni the founder of Buddhism? APSIPA ASC 2011 is the third great event of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). Founded in 2009, APSIPA aims to promote research and education on signal processing, information technology and communications. The annual conference was previously held in Japan in 2009 and in Singapore in 2010. The field of interest of APSIPA concerns all aspects of signals and information including processing, recognition, classification, communications, networking, computing, system design, security, implementation, and technology with applications to scientific, engineering, and social areas. Accepted papers in regular sessions and accepted papers in special sessions will be published in APSIPA ASC 2011 proceedings which will be indexed by EI Compendex. The topics for regular sessions include, but are not limited to: 1. Signal Processing (SP) 2. Communication Systems (Com) 3. Information Processing (IP) 4. Multimedia & Computer Graphics (MM&CG) 5. Circuits and Systems/VLSI (Circuits) Submission of Papers Important Dates
Organizing CommitteeHonorary Co-Chairs General Co-Chairs Technical Program Co-Chairs Forum Co-Chairs Panel Session Co-Chairs Special Session Co-Chairs Tutorial Session Co-Chairs Publicity Co-Chairs Publication Co-Chairs Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Sponsorship Co-Chairs Industrial & Government Advisors Financial Co-Chairs Registration Co-Chairs Organizers Tsinghua University Northwestern Polytechnical University
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3-3-10 | (2011-10-26) CfP Oriental COCOSDA Taiwan CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-11 | (2011-10-31) 2011 INTERNATIONAL FALL SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS2011 INTERNATIONAL FALL SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS FSFLA 2011 (formerly International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications) Tarragona, Spain October 31 – November 4, 2011 Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/ ********************************************************************* ADDRESSED TO: Undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Mathematics. Other students (for instance, from Linguistics, Electrical Engineering, Molecular Biology or Logic) are welcome too provided they have a good background in discrete mathematics. The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field. There will be no overlap in the schedule of the courses. The previous event was SSFLA 2011 (http://grammars.grlmc.com/ssfla2011/). COURSES AND PROFESSORS: - Franz Baader (Technische Dresden), Reasoning in Description Logics [intermediate, 6 hours] - Manfred Droste (Leipzig), Weighted Automata and Weighted Logic [introductory/advanced, 8 hours] - Max H. Garzon (Memphis), DNA Codeword Design and DNA Languages [introductory/intermediate, 10 hours] - Venkatesan Guruswami (Carnegie Mellon), The Complexity of Approximate Constraint Satisfaction [intermediate, 6 hours] - Tao Jiang (California Riverside), Average-case Analysis and Lower Bounds by the Incompressibility Method [intermediate, 6 hours] - Michael Moortgat (Utrecht), Type-logical Grammars: Expressivity, Parsing Complexity [introductory/advanced, 8 hours] - Helmut Seidl (Technische München), Macro Treetransducers for XML Processing [intermediate, 6 hours] - Alan Selman (Buffalo), Probabilistic Complexity Classes [intermediate, 10 hours] - Jeffrey Shallit (Waterloo), Automatic Sequences, Decidability, and Enumeration [intermediate, 6 hours] SCHOOL PAPER: On a voluntary basis, within 6 months after the end of the School, students will be expected to draft an individual or jointly-authored research paper on a topic covered during the classes under the guidance of the lecturing staff. REGISTRATION: It has to be done on line at http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/Registration.php FEES: They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student takes. The rule is: 1 hour = - 10 euros (for payments until July 31, 2011), - 15 euros (for payments after July 31, 2011). The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 – Swift/BIC code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC; account holder's address: Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain) Please mention FSFLA 2011 and your full name in the subject. A receipt will be provided on site. Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School. For early reduced rates, please notice that the date that counts is the date of the arrival of the fees to the School’s account. People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much recommended to complete the registration and the payment earlier. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATES: Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended, their contents, and their duration. Those participants who will choose to be involved in a research paper will receive an additional certificate at the completion of the task, independently on whether the paper will finally get published or not. IMPORTANT DATES: Announcement of the programme: June 4, 2011 Starting of the registration: June 4, 2011 Early registration deadline: July 31, 2011 Starting of the School: October 31, 2011 End of the School: November 4, 2011 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat WEBSITE: http://grammars.grlmc.com/fsfla2011/ POSTAL ADDRESS: FSFLA 2011 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Diputació de Tarragona Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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3-3-12 | (2011-11-25) (Extended deadline) 5th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2011), Poznan, Poland Deadline extended to August 9 The 5th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2011), November 25-27, 2011, Poznań, Poland CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th Language and Technology Conference (LTC'11), a meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, will take place on November 25-27, 2011. Since very beginning the meetings of the LTC series continue to address Human Language Technologies (HLT) as a challenge for computer science, linguistics and related fields. Fostering language technologies and resources remains an important mission in the dynamically changing information-saturated world. We aim at contributing to this mission and we invite you to join us in that at LTC'11 in November 2011, traditionally held in Poznań, Poland. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference topics include the following (the ordering is not significative): * electronic language resources and tools * formalization of natural languages * parsing and other forms of NL processing * computer modeling of language competence * NL user modeling * NL understanding by computers * knowledge representation * man-machine NL interfaces * Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing * speech processing * NL applications in robotics * text-based information retrieval and extraction * question answering * tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems * translation enhancement tools * corpora-based methods in language engineering * WordNet-like ontologies * methodological issues in HLT * language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages other than English) * validation in all areas of HLTs * HLT standards and best practices * HLTs as a support for foreign language teaching * HLTs as support for e-learning * communicative intelligence * legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges) * contribution of HLTs to the Homeland Security problems (technology applications and legal aspects) * visionary papers in the field of HLT * HLT related policies * system prototype presentations This list is by no means closed and we are open to further proposals. Please do not hesitate to contact us in order to feed us with your suggestions and ideas of how to satisfy your expectations concerning the program. The Program Committee is also open to suggestions concerning accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions, ideas and observations may be addressed directly to the LTC Chair by email (vetulani@amu.edu.pl ). Language: The conference language is English Contact: ltc@amu.edu.pl Paper submission The conference accepts papers in English. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by June 20, 2011 (midnight, any time zone) and should not identify the author(s) in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, however, do observe the following: 1. Accepted fonts for texts are Times Roman, Times New Roman. Courier is recommended for program listings. Character size for the main text should be 10 points, with 11 points leading (line spacing). 2. Text should be presented in 2 columns, 8,42 cm each with 0,95 cm between columns (gutter). 3. The document size is 5 pages formatted according to (1) and (2) above. 4. The use of PDF format is strongly recommended, although MS Word will also be accepted. (Please no latex and other formats) You may also use the templates (ELRA/LREC based format), to be found at http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (soon). Detailed guidelines for the final submission of accepted papers will be published on the conference web site before September 12, 2011. All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC'11 web submission system (EasyChair). Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by September 12, 2011. PUBLICATION POLICY Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (anonymous submission model). The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors before October 12, 2011. A post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers is planned to be published. As this was the case for post-LTC'07 (v. 5603) and LTC'09 (v. 6562), it is planned to publish them in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES * Deadline for submission of papers for review: June 20, 2011 * Acceptance/Rejection notification: September 12, 2011 * Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: October 12, 2011 * Conference: November 25-27, 2011 REGISTRATION Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be published at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. CONFERENCE FEES Non-student participants: Regular registration fee (payment before October 13, 2011) 190 EURO Late registration fee (payment after October 12, 2011) 240 EURO Student participants: Regular registration fee (payment before October 13, 2011) 120 EURO Late registration fee (payment after October 12, 2011) 160 EURO To be entitled to student rates the participant must present a student identity card (or equivalent document)valid on June 20, 2011. The conference fee covers: * participation in the scientific program * conference materials * proceedings on CD and paper * social events (banquet,...) * coffee breaks EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS *Poster forum* Although all accepted papers will be presented by the authors in the traditional, standard way (oral presentation + discussion), the organizers will offer to the authors an additional opportunity to present (mini) posters containing the abstract and the key ideas of the paper. Posters will be presented by the organizers during the LTC in the conference area. No extra fee will be charged for this form of presentation. The poster size will be A1, horizontal. (Notice. The Poster forum should not be confused with traditional poster sessions. In particular, there will be no limited presentation time and the posters do not have to be accompanied by the authors) *Hyde park corner* We intend to arrange 'A Hyde Park Corner' for non-reviewed presentations and positions. Limited number of presentations (depending on the available space) will be accepted. The content must meet the conference scope and aims. Both form and content must conform to the Polish and International Law. Texts will be presented on the sole responsibility of the authors/presenters and will not be published or reproduced in the Conference documents. *A book exhibition* is intended (call for exhibitors in preparation). Also, registered participants are invited to bring hard copies of their papers and books. We plan to make special presentations of the achievements of the conference participants, irrespective of whether they are directly related to the conference topic. *Tutorials* A tutorial program is under construction. *Special events.* Besides the standard conference presentation of papers, the Organizers are open to various kinds of initiatives (expos, demos, satellite workshops, panels, awards). A program of special events is now under construction. You are welcome to contact us with your suggestions. AWARDS FOR BEST STUDENT PAPERS As at the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Language and Technology Conferences (2005, 2007, 2009) special awards will be granted to the best student papers. The regular or PhD students (on the date of paper submission) are concerned. Co-authored papers will be considered provided that the students' contributions exceeds 60% and that the main author(s) is (are) student(s)(this fact must be documented by a written declaration signed by all co-authors). In 2005 the Jury, composed of the Program Committee members present at the conference, awarded this distinction to: Ronny Melz (University of Leipzig, Germany), Hartwig Holzapfel (University of Karlsruhe, Germany), Marcin Woliński (IPI PAN, Warsaw, Poland). In 2007 this distinction went to Daria Fišer (University of Ljubljana) In 2009 two awards were granted: to Mahmoud EL-Haj (University of Essex, UK) and Alexander Pak (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France). VISAS Participants from some non-EC countries may need visas to enter the Polish territory. Visa delivery is exclusively in competence of the Visa Authorities of the Schengen Convention countries. If you have any doubts, we recommend you to check your situation with the nearest Polish Consulate in your residence country. If you are author (co-author) of an accepted paper, we can confirm - if necessary - that we expect your presence at the conference for paper presentation. Upon request, we may also write a confirmation letter (in Polish) directly to the Polish Consulate indicated by you. To do this we will need a request letter (e-mail) from you in which you will provide us with the address of the Consulate you wish us to contact. To get information about countries whose citizens are not required to have a visa when entering Poland and to find important telephone numbers you may also visit the web site of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (see Consular Information ) Conference location: Poznań, Poland. Further details will be announced soon at http://ltc.amu.edu.pl. ACCOMODATION There are several large scale events in Poznań at the LTC 2009 time (November 25-27, 2011). Therefore, we strongly recommend you to make hotel reservation in advance. There are several standard possibilities to book via Internet. Also, a special offer for Conference participants has been prepared by the travel agency Zimny (zimny@zimny.pl ). OTHER MANY important information will is provided at http://ltc.amu.edu.pl. Please check it from time to time and do not hesitate to ask questions at ltc@amu.edu.pl.
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3-3-13 | (2011-12-04) International Symposium on Audiovisual Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training (IS ADEPT)International Symposium on Audiovisual Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training (IS ADEPT) Cairo University, Egypt 4-6 December 20011 www.speech.kth.se/isadept The aim of this symposium is to bring together academia and industry within the field of Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training in order to reach a common understanding of the current state-of-the-art in pronunciation error analysis and identifying needs and paths for future research. Keynote speakers Lewis Johnson, Chief scientist at Alelo Inc. Horacio Franco, Speech Technology & Research Laboratory SRI International Gary Pelton, VP Carnegie Speech Helmer Strik, Radboud University Nijmegen Silke Witt-Ehsani, Vice President, TuVox Design Center Florian Hoenig, University of Erlangen Invited speakers will give presentations focusing on overviews of automatic pronunciation detection methods in commercial applications and research projects, ongoing development of pronunciation analysis algorithms, and the pedagogical or pragmatic needs in future development. Paper submissions Prospective participants should submit a full 4 or 6 page paper, or a 1 page demo proposal. Please refer to www.speech.kth.se/isadept for the list of topics. Important Dates Paper Submission 10 September 2011 Notification of Acceptance 10 October 2011 Camera-Ready Paper 4 November 2011 Registration Deadline 4 November 2011 Social program The program includes a symposium river cruise dinner on the Nile, an excursion to the nearby pyramids in Giza and common lunches during the symposium. www.speech.kth.se/isadept isadept2011@speech.kth.se ******************************** International Symposium on Audiovisual Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training (IS ADEPT) Cairo University, Egypt 4-6 December 20011 www.speech.kth.se/isadept Call for Papers IS ADEPT is a symposium jointly organized by the Centre for Speech Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden and the Faculty of Computers and Information (FCI), Cairo University, Egypt with the support of the Arabic Language Technology Center (ALTEC). Scope The aim of this symposium is to bring together academia and industry within the field of Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training. That is, on the one hand, researchers working on methods to create and evaluate algorithms for automatic detection and analysis of language learners' pronunciation errors and, on the other, representatives from companies marketing language learning software. The goal is to reach a common understanding of the current state-of-the-art in pronunciation error analysis and identifying needs and paths for future research. Keynote speakers Lewis Johnson, Chief scientist at Alelo Inc. Horacio Franco, Speech Technology & Research Laboratory SRI International Gary Pelton, VP Carnegie Speech Helmer Strik, Radboud University Nijmegen Silke Witt-Ehsani, Vice President, TuVox Design Center Florian Hoenig, University of Erlangen Invited speakers will give presentations focusing on overviews of automatic pronunciation detection methods in commercial applications and research projects, ongoing development of pronunciation analysis algorithms, and the pedagogical or pragmatic needs in future development. Paper submissions Prospective participants should submit a full 4 or 6 page paper, or a 1 page demo proposal. Both types of submissions will be reviewed by members of the scientific committee. Important Dates Paper Submission 10 September 2011 Notification of Acceptance 10 October 2011 Camera-Ready Paper 4 November 2011 Registration Deadline 4 November 2011 Symposium Dates 4-6 December 2011 Topics (non-exhaustive) Automatic pronunciation scoring Automatic pronunciation error detection and analysis Audiovisual methods for pronunciation analysis Articulation-based pronunciation analysis Evaluation of pronunciation analysis algorithms Evaluation of commercial products Technology vs. pedagogy: match and misses Feedback based on automatic pronunciation analysis Robustness and portability of analysis methods (exercises, speakers, dialects, languages) Effect of intonation/stress on pronunciation errors Social program One aim of the symposium is to promote future exchange between the participants and a social program will be organized in order to allow for more informal discussions and exchanges of ideas. The program includes a symposium river cruise dinner on the Nile, an excursion to the nearby pyramids in Giza and common lunches during the symposium. Registration fees $250, $150 for students www.speech.kth.se/isadept isadept2011@speech.kth.se
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3-3-14 | (2011-12-08) CfP 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
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3-3-15 | (2011-12-11) Call for demos ASRU 2011
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3-3-16 | (2012-01-12) call for demos- IEEE Intl Conf on Emerging Signal Processing Applications, Las Vegas, USAShow&Tell Demonstrations (www.ieee-espa.org)[Download the PDF Show&Tell Call for Papers] We are delighted to host Show&Tell at the first IEEE International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications. Show&Tell will provide researchers, technologists and practitioners from academia, industry and government the opportunity to demonstrate their latest systems and interact with the attendees in an informal setting. Demonstrations in the following or other related areas are encouraged:
Demonstrations will be peer-reviewed by members of the ESPA Program Committee, who will judge the 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. Submission guidelines
Papers should be submitted through the standard procedure at www.ieee-espa.org. Send any questions to showandtell@ieee-espa.org. ChairMazin Gilbert (AT&T Labs Research, USA) Important dates
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3-3-17 | (2012-02-06) ICPRAM 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and MethodsICPRAM (1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - http://www.icpram.org/) has an open call for papers, whose deadline is set for July 26, 2011. We hope you can participate in this conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research in any of the following tracks: - Theory and Methods - Applications ICPRAM 2012 will be held in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal next year, on February 6-8, 2012. The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning (PASCAL2), and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee of IEEE, AERFAI (Asociacion Espanola de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes) and APRP (Associacao Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padroes). INSTICC is member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). ICPRAM would like to become a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives. Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged. The conference program features a number of Keynote Lectures to be delivered by distinguished world-class researchers, including those listed below. The proceedings of ICPRAM will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI. All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. BWRB A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a AISC Series book. Top selected papers in specific areas of interest will be published as a special issue in the Neurocomputing Journal. Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.icpram.org/best_paper_awards.asp). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose a workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please contact the secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea. Please check further details at the ICPRAM's conference website (http://www.icpram.org). Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me. ICPRAM 2012 will be held in conjunction with ICAART 2012 (http://www.icaart.org/home.asp) in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal next year, on February 6-8, 2012. Registration to ICPRAM will enable free access to the ICAART conference (as a non-speaker). We hope to welcome you in Vilamoura, Algarve next February 2012! Kind regards, Patricia Alves ICPRAM Secretariat Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100033 Fax: +44 203 014 8556 Email: icpram.secretariat@insticc.org ICPRAM website: http://www.icpram.org IMPORTANT DATES: Conference date: 6-8 February, 2012 Regular Paper Submission: July 26, 2011 Authors Notification: October 6, 2011 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 26, 2011 TECHNICALLY CO-SPONSORED BY - IEEE - Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee of IEEE - AERFAI - APRP IN COOPERATION WITH - AAAI - PASCAL2 CONFERENCE TRACKS: TRACK 1: THEORY AND METHODS - Exact and Approximate Inference - Density Estimation - Bayesian Models - Gaussian Processes - Model Selection - Graphical and Graph-based Models - Missing Data - Ensemble Methods - Neural Networks - Kernel Methods - Large Margin Methods - Classification - Regression - Sparsity - Feature Selection and Extraction - Spectral Methods - Embedding and Manifold Learning - Similarity and Distance Learning - Matrix Factorization - Clustering - ICA, PCA, CCA and other Linear Models - Fuzzy Logic - Active Learning - Cost-sensitive Learning - Incremental Learning - On-line Learning - Structured Learning - Multi-agent Learning - Multi-instance Learning - Reinforcement Learning - Instance-based Learning - Knowledge Acquisition and Representation - Meta Learning - Multi-strategy Learning - Case-based Reasoning - Inductive Learning - Computational Learning Theory - Cooperative Learning - Evolutionary Computation - Information Retrieval and Learning - Hybrid Learning Algorithms - Planning and Learning - Convex Optimization - Stochastic Methods - Combinatorial Optimization TRACK 2: APPLICATIONS - Natural Language Processing - Information Retrieval - Ranking - Web Applications - Economics, Business and Forecasting Applications - Bioinformatics and Systems Biology - Audio and Speech Processing - Signal Processing - Image Understanding - Sensors and Early Vision - Motion and Tracking - Image-based Modelling - Shape Representation - Object Recognition - Video Analysis - Medical Imaging - Learning and Adaptive Control - Perception - Learning in Process Automation - Learning of Action Patterns - Virtual Environments - Robotics KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ludmila Kuncheva, Bangor University, U.K. Tiberio Caetano, NICTA, Australia Francis Bach, INRIA, France Jose C. Principe, University of Florida, U.S.A. Joachim M. Buhmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (list not yet complete) CONFERENCE CHAIR: Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: J. Salvador Sanchez, Jaume I University, Spain Pedro Latorre Carmona, Jaume I University, Spain PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. A 'double-blind' paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. Submission types: A) Regular Paper Submission A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a 'full paper' (30 min. oral presentation), a 'short paper' (20 min. oral presentation) or a 'poster'. B) Position Paper Submission A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of 'short paper' or 'poster', i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as 'full paper'. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Please check the program committee members at http://www.icpram.org/program_committee.asp
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3-3-18 | (2012-03-25) cfp ICASSP Kyoto Japan*********************************************************************** IEEE ICASSP 2012 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing March 25 - 30, 2012 Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto JAPAN http://www.icassp2012.org/ *********************************************************************** We are very glad to announce that paper submission will be open soon at the IEEE ICASSP 2012 web site (http://www.icassp2012.org/). Important Deadlines Special Session & Tutorial Proposals Due August 11, 2011 Notification of Special Session & Tutorial Acceptance September 15, 2011 Submission of Regular Papers September 27, 2011 Notification of Paper Acceptance December 22, 2011 Revised Paper Upload Deadline January 19, 2012 Author's Registration Deadline January 26, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS The 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan, on March 25 - 30, 2012. The ICASSP meeting is the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and over 50 lecture and poster sessions on: * Audio and acoustic signal processing * Bio imaging and signal processing * Design and implementation of signal processing systems * Image, video and multidimensional signal processing * Industry technology tracks * Information forensics and security * Machine learning for signal processing * Multimedia signal processing * Sensor array and multichannel signal processing * Signal processing education * Signal processing for communications and networking * Signal processing theory and methods * Speech processing * Spoken language processing Welcome to Kyoto: The Cultural Heart of Japan. Kyoto is special because it reigned as the national capital of Japan for more than 1000 years. Seventeen UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites are situated in a cityscape dominated by 2000 temples and shrines. The rich heritage is also reflected in modern technical advances of Japanese frontier and leading industries. You and your family will be welcomed with all the hospitality of the cultural heart of Japan. Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, four-page papers, including figures and references, to the ICASSP Technical Committee. All ICASSP papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The ICASSP 2012 website (http://www.icassp2012.org/) will provide you with further details. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines. Tutorial and Special Session Proposals: Tutorials will be held on March 25 and 26, 2012. Brief proposals must include title, outline, contact information, biography and selected publications for the presenter, a description of the tutorial, and material to be distributed to participants. Special sessions proposals must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited speakers. Tutorial and special session authors are referred to the ICASSP 2012 website for additional information regarding submissions. For more detailed information, please visit the ICASSP 2012 official website, http://www.icassp2012.org/. The ICASSP 2012 Organizing Committee ================================================================================ You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE Signal Processing Society . To unsubscribe, please go to http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?SN=Wellekens&LN=CONF and be certain to include your IEEE member number. If you need assistance with your E-Notice subscription, please contact Khanh Luu.
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3-3-19 | (2012-04-23) call for tutorials EACL 2012, Avignon France EACL 2012, 2nd CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
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3-3-20 | (2012-04-23) EACL Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational LinguisticsEACL 2012 Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Avignon, France April 23-27, 2012 http://eacl2012.org ======================================================================== First Call For Papers ========================================================================
EACL 2012 is the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include disciplines such as psycholinguistics, speech, information retrieval, multimodal language processing. The conference welcomes theoretical, empirical, and application-orientated papers as well as papers targeting emerging domains such as bioinformatics and social media. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - phonetics, phonology, and morphology - word segmentation, tagging and chunking - syntax, parsing, grammar formalisms, and grammar induction - semantics - pragmatics, discourse, and dialogue - generation and summarization - information retrieval and question answering - information extraction - sentiment analysis and opinion mining - machine translation and multilingual systems - spoken language processing and language modeling - dialogue systems and multimodal systems - language resources and tools - psychological and mathematical models of language and language acquisition - machine learning and algorithms for natural language - natural language processing applications - evaluation methodology Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: November 4, 2011 Author response period: December 27-30, 2011 Notification of acceptance: January 13, 2012 Camera-ready papers due: March 9, 2012 Papers available on-line: April 19, 2012 EACL 2012 Conference: April 23 - 27, 2012 All deadlines refer to 11:59pm Samoa time (UTC/GMT -11 hours) Requirements ------------ Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at EACL 2012 cannot be presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the submission page. If the paper is accepted by both EACL 2012 and another meeting or publication, it must be withdrawn from one of them. Furthermore, its authors must notify the program chairs, within a week of receiving the EACL 2012 acceptance notification, whether or not they have chosen EACL 2012 for presentation of their work. Review and Selection -------------------- Reviewing of papers will be double-blind, and all submissions will receive three independent reviews. Final decisions on the program will be made by the Program Committee, consisting of the Program Co-Chairs and Area Chairs. Submissions will be assessed with respect to appropriateness, clarity, soundness/correctness, meaningful comparison, originality/innovativeness, and impact of ideas or results. Publication and Presentation ---------------------------- All papers that are accepted will be published in the proceedings of the conference, and will be presented orally or as a poster presentation as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather than on the quality of the work. Authors will be also asked on submission to state their preferred mode of presentation. EACL 2012 will continue aiming to give poster presentations a high status. There will be no distinction in the conference proceedings between papers that are assigned different presentation modes. Submission Information ---------------------- All submissions must be submitted electronically as PDF and must follow the two-column format of EACL proceedings. Authors are strongly recommended to use the style files available on the conference web site. Papers may consist of up to nine (9) pages of content and any number of additional pages containing references only. EACL 2012 will also accept papers accompanied by the resource(s) (software or data) described in the paper. In addition to the regular review of the research quality of the paper, these papers will also be reviewed for the quality of the resource that is being made available. Acceptance or rejection decision will be made based on the quality of both the research and the software/data component. As reviewing will be double-blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...', should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'. Authors should not use anonymous citations and should not include any acknowledgments. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. The deadline for submission is 11:59pm Samoa Time (UTC/GMT -11 hours) on November 4, 2011. Additional instructions for electronic submission will be posted on the conference website at http://eacl2012.org Mentoring service ----------------- EACL is providing a mentoring (coaching) service for authors from regions of the world where English is less emphasized as a language of scientific exchange. Many authors from these regions, although able to read the scientific literature in English, have little or no experience in writing papers in English for conferences such as the E/ACL meetings. If you would like to take advantage of the service, please upload your paper in PDF format by September 23, 2011 using the paper submission software for the mentoring service which will be available at the conference website. Questions about the mentoring service should be referred to Invited speakers ---------------- TBA Best paper awards ----------------- TBA Organization ------------ General Chair: Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Program Co-Chairs: Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh, UK) Lluis Marquez (Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya, Spain) Area Chairs: TBA Mentoring Chairs: Caroline Sporleder (Saarland University,Germany) Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Publications Chairs: Adri de Gispert (University of Cambridge, UK) Fabrice Lefevre (University of Cambridge, UK) Local Chair: Marc El-Beze (University of Avignon, France) Local Co-Chair: Tania Jimenez (University of Avignon, France)
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3-3-21 | (2012-05-05)CfP 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS1st Call for Papers 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2012 A Coruña, Spain March 5-9, 2012 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2012/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the International Schools in Formal Languages and Applications developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2012 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.). VENUE: LATA 2012 will take place in A Coruña, at the northwest of Spain. The venue will be the Faculty of Computer Science, University of A Coruña. 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 - automatic structures - 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 - foundations of XML - 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 - 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 - symbolic neural networks - term rewriting - transducers - trees, tree languages and tree automata - weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2012 will consist of: - 3 invited talks - 2 invited tutorials - peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: To be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Eric Allender (Rutgers) Miguel Á. Alonso (A Coruña) Amihood Amir (Bar-Ilan) Dana Angluin (Yale) Franz Baader (Dresden) Patricia Bouyer (Cachan) John Case (Delaware) Volker Diekert (Stuttgart) Paul Gastin (Cachan) Reiko Heckel (Leicester) Sanjay Jain (Singapore) Janusz Kacprzyk (Warsaw) Victor Khomenko (Newcastle) Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland) Claude Kirchner (Paris) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle) Salvador Lucas (Valencia) Sebastian Maneth (Sydney) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (Milano Bicocca) Aart Middeldorp (Innsbruck) Faron Moller (Swansea) Angelo Montanari (Udine) Joachim Niehren (Lille) Mitsunori Ogihara (Miami) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm) Dominique Perrin (Marne-la-Vallée) Alberto Policriti (Udine) Alexander Rabinovich (Tel Aviv) Mathieu Raffinot (Paris) Jörg Rothe (Düsseldorf) Olivier H. Roux (Nantes) Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio) Eljas Soisalon-Soininen (Aalto) Frank Stephan (Singapore) Jens Stoye (Bielefeld) Howard Straubing (Boston) Masayuki Takeda (Kyushu) Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen) Sophie Tison (Lille) Jacobo Torán (Ulm) Tayssir Touili (Paris) Esko Ukkonen (Helsinki) Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen) Manuel Vilares (Vigo) Todd Wareham (Newfoundland) Pierre Wolper (Liège) Hans Zantema (Eindhoven) Thomas Zeugmann (Sapporo) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Miguel Á. Alonso (A Coruña, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Gómez Rodríguez (A Coruña) Jorge Graña (A Coruña) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Jesús Vilares (A Coruña) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) 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=lata2012 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 peer-reviewed 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 July 16, 2011 until March 5, 2012. The registration form can be found at the website of the conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2012/ 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 December 5, 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 December 5, 2011 (resp. February 24, 2012) to the conference series account at Uno-e Bank (Julián Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 – Swift/BIC code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide – LATA 2012; address: Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain). Please write the participant’s name in the subject of the bank form. Transfers should not involve any expense for the conference. People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that they gave the transfer order to the bank by the deadline. 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: October 7, 2011 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2011 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 27, 2011 Early registration: December 5, 2011 Late registration: February 24, 2012 Starting of the conference: March 5, 2012 Submission to the post-conference special issue: June 9, 2012 FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2012 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386
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3-3-22 | (2012-05-21) 8th LREC Conference Istambul TurkeyThe 8th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference will take place in Istanbul (Turkey) on May 21-27, 2012. More information will be available soon on: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/lrec2012.htm Helene Mazo on behalf of LREC 2012 Programme Committee
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3-3-23 | (2012-06-04)CfP 19e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles PREMIER APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
TALN'2012
19e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012
CALENDRIER
- Articles LONGs :
- Date limite de soumission : 24 janvier 2012
- Notification aux auteurs : 1 mars 2012
- Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 15 avril 2012
- Articles COURTs et Démonstrations :
- Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2012
- Notification aux auteurs : 15 avril 2012
- Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 20 avril 2012
PRÉSENTATION
Organisée par l'équipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des langues étrangères et maternelles) et le département DPC du Gipsa-lab, la conférence TALN'2012 se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2012 à Grenoble à l'occasion de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012.
JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29ème édition des Journées d'Étude sur la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19ème édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14ème édition des Rencontres des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012).
Pour la quatrième fois, après Nancy en 2002, Fès en 2004, et Avignon en 2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) et l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) organisent conjointement leur principale conférence afin de réunir en un seul lieu les deux communautés du traitement de la langue orale et écrite.
La conférence TALN'2012 comprendra des communications orales et affichées, des conférences invitées et des ateliers.
La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. Les communications en anglais sont acceptées pour les participants non-francophones.
TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
Deux formats de communications sont prévus : les articles longs (de 10 à 12 pages) et les articles courts (de 4 à 6 pages).
Les auteurs sont invités à présenter deux types de communications :
- des articles présentant des travaux de recherche originaux,
- des prises de position présentant un point de vue sur l'état des recherches en TAL (traitement automatique de la langue), fondées sur une solide expérience du domaine.
Les articles longs seront présentés sous forme de communication orale, les articles courts sous forme de poster.
THÈMES
Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes habituels du TAL, incluant, de façon non limitative :
- Analyse et génération dans les domaines suivants :
- Phonétique
- Phonologie
- Morphologie
- Syntaxe
- Sémantique
- Discours
- Développement de ressources linguistiques pour le TAL :
- Bases de données comportant des informations morphologiques, syntaxiques, sémantiques, et/ou phonologiques
- Grammaires
- Lexiques
- Ontologies
- Linguistique de corpus
- Applications du TAL :
- Analyse de sentiments ou d'opinions
- Catégorisation ou classification automatique
- Désambiguïsation lexicale
- Dialogue homme-machine en langage naturel
- Enseignement assisté par ordinateur
- Indexation automatique
- Recherche et extraction d'information
- Résumé automatique
- Résolution d'anaphores
- Systèmes de question-réponse
- Traduction automatique
- Web sémantique
- Approches:
- Linguistiques formelles destinées à soutenir les traitements automatiques
- Symboliques
- Logiques
- Statistiques
- Basées sur l'apprentissage automatique
-Prises de position présentant un point de vue sur le TAL
CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION
Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine.
Pour les travaux de recherches, seront considérées en particulier :
- l'adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence.
- l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution,
- la correction du contenu scientifique et technique,
- la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine,
- la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale,
- l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation,
Pour les prises de position, seront privilégiées :
- la largeur de vue et la prise en compte de l'état de l'art,
- l'originalité et l'impact du point de vue présenté.
Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la conférence.
Le comité de programme sélectionnera parmi les communications acceptées un article (prix TALN) pour recommandation à publication (dans une version étendue) dans la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (Revue TAL).
MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION
Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français.
Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word seront disponibles sur le site web (à venir) de la conférence.
Contact : herve.blanchon@imag.fr et Georges.Antoniadis@u-grenoble3.fr
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3-3-24 | (2012-06-25) 2012 Summer Workshop on Language Engineering,Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Johns Hopkins University
Center for Language and Speech Processing
2012 Summer Workshop on Language Engineering
One-page proposals are invited for the 18th annual JHU summer workshop. Proposals should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various fields of Human Language Technology (HLT) or of related areas of Machine Intelligence, such as Computer Vision (CV).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Proposal Submission .................................................... October 24, 2011
Preliminary Review Notification .................................... November 1, 2011
Invitations to Review Meeting ....................................... November 1-4, 2011
Main Planning Meeting ................................................. December 2-4, 2011
Workshop Dates ........................................................... June 25 - August 7, 2012
Proposals are welcome (via e-mail to clsp@jhu.edu) 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 to improve the accuracy or to enrich the output of such systems, or extend their reach by improving their speed, scalability, and coverage of languages and genres are desired.
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.
TASK-BASED EVALUATION METHODS: Different tasks that utilize human language technology impose different types of demands on the technology and require different levels of performance. Proposals are solicited that address task-based evaluation of functionality as well as usability of various technologies such as speech transcription, spoken term detection, information extraction, machine translation, and text, image and video retrieval.
Research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops may serve as good examples for prospective proposers (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 by November 1, 2011. Authors passing this initial screening will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in Baltimore on December 2-4, 2011. It is expected that the proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two to three research topics and the teams to tackle them will be selected at this meeting for the 2012 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 star seniors: new to the field and showing outstanding academic promise.
If you are interested in participating in the 2012 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 2-4 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 topics 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 Mon, October 24, 2011.
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3-3-25 | (2012-07-27) LabPhon 13 Stuttgart, Germany Call for papers
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3-3-26 | Call for Nominations IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) Member Positions Call for Nominations IEEE Signal Processing Society
Past SLTC members are eligible to be nominated for a second term. Current SLTC members may also be nominated for a second consecutive term, but would then not be eligible to vote in this new member election. Additional terms are allowed after leaving the SLTC, but at least a 3-year gap in service is required.
New members must be willing to review papers that are submitted to the Society's conferences within the area of the SLTC, review papers for workshops owned or co-owned by the SLTC, serve in the subcommittees established by the SLTC, and perform other duties as assigned. SLTC members will be elected by the members of the SLTC itself based on the needs of the SLTC. The election results will be finalized by 15 November 2011.
Please use the nomination form outlined below and submit a completed nomination form no more than one page in length:
- Name of nominee: - Short Biography (not more than 150 words): - Affiliation: - Address and phone number, email: - Link to web page (optional): - IEEE SPS membership (yes/no): - IEEE volunteer work and leadership activities: - Other professional volunteer work: - Previous SLTC/AE memberships (list periods of service): - Confirmation that the member will serve if elected: - Area of suggested expertise of the nominee (choose ONE from among the following): 1. Speech recognition 2. Speech production 3. Natural language processing 4. Dialogue systems 5. Speaker recognition 6. Speech synthesis 7. Speech analysis 8. Speech enhancement 9. Speech perception 10. Speech coding
The rights and duties of an SLTC member are described here: http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/
The following are nominee requirements: * The candidate may not be a current AE of TASLP. * The candidate must be a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. * The candidate should be willing to serve if elected. This means active participation including prompt paper reviews for 4 ICASSPs (2012-2015), active participation in accomplishing SLTC sub-committee duties, and best efforts to attend meetings and responding appropriately to action items.
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3-3-27 | Evaluation of automatic speech processing Etape 2011
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