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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     8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

             (IWSLT 2011)

 

First Call for Participation

 

December 8-9, 2011

    San Francisco, CA, USA

 

      http://www.iwslt2011.org 
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The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system descriptions are presented. The 8th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take place in downtown San Francisco, 8-9 December 2011.

 

=== Scientific Papers ===

 
The IWSLT invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the workshop proceedings and presented at the workshop, either in oral or poster form. The workshop welcomes high quality contributions covering theoretical and practical issues in the field of machine translation (MT), in general, and spoken language translation (SLT), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS), in particular. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

-       MT and SLT approaches and evaluation

-       Integration of ASR and MT

-       Language resources for MT and SLT

-       Open source software for MT and SLT

-       Adaptation in MT

-       Simultaneous speech translation

-       Speech translation of lectures

-       Efficiency in MT

-       Stream-based algorithms for MT

-       Multilingual ASR and TTS

-       Rich transcription of speech for MT

-       Translation of on-verbal events

 
Important dates:

 - Paper submission due                 30 September 2011

 - Notification of acceptance                       31 October 2011

 - Camera-ready paper due                       11 November 2011


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The IWSLT 2011 Evaluation Campaign will focus on the translation of TED Talks, a collection of public speeches on a variety of topics. Four tracks are organized addressing different research tasks:

·      ASR track: automatic transcription of talks from audio to text (in English)

·      SLT track: speech translation of talks from audio (or ASR output) to text (from English to French)

·      MT track: text translation of talks (from English to French, Arabic to English, and Chinese to English)

·      SC track: system combination of ASR outputs (in English) and MT outputs (in English and French)


Training of MT systems and language models for ASR is constrained to data supplied by the organizers. Supplied training, development, and test data will be available under the workshop’s webpage.
 

Important dates: 

-       01 Sep 2011 - Release of ASR test data

-       11 Sep 2011 - Submission of ASR runs

-       13 Sep 2011 - Release of ASR-SC test data

-       18 Sep 2011 - Submission of ASR System Combination runs

-       20 Sep 2011 - Release of SLT and MT test data

-       25 Sep 2011 - Submission of SLT and MT runs

-       27 Sep 2011 - Release of MT System Combination test data

-       30 Sep 2011 - Submission of MT System Combination runs

-       15 Oct 2011 - Submission of system paper

-       31 Oct 2011 - Notification of acceptance

-       11 Nov 2011 - Camera ready version

 

=== Organizers===

- Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / KIT Germany; Workshop Chair)

- Marcello Federico (FBK-irst, Italy; Evaluation Campaign Chair)

- Mei-Yuh Hwang (Microsoft Research, USA; Program Committee Co-Chair)

- Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany; Program Committee Co-Chair)

 
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=== All information as it becomes available can be found at the workshop’s webpage: http://www.iwslt2011.org ===

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                       ASRU 2011
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
                   Big Island, Hawaii
                  December 11-15, 2011
                http://www.asru2011.org

           DEMONSTRATION CALL FOR PROPOSALS

           > Deadline: September 15, 2011 <

The program committee for the 12th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding is accepting proposals for the Show & Tell demonstration session event that will be held during the workshop. The Demonstration session has become an exciting highlight of the ASRU workshops. The event will include demonstrations of latest innovations by research groups in industry, academia and government. Demonstrations can be related to any of the topics defined by ASRU:

- ASR / LV CSR Systems
- Language Modeling
- Acoustic Modeling
- Decoder Search
- Spoken Language Understanding
- Spoken Dialog Systems
- Multilingual Speech & Language Processing
- Robustness in ASR
- Spoken Document Retrieval
- Speech-to-Speech Translation
- Text-to-Speech Systems
- Speech Summarization
- New Applications of ASR
- Speech Signal Processing

The deadline for submission of Show & Tell demos proposals is September 15, 2011 with notification of acceptance by September 29, 2011. Submissions will be mailed to the Demonstration Chairs. Proposals should include the demonstration title, list of authors, and an abstract of no more than one page. The abstract should clearly explain what is novel and innovative in the proposed demonstration. Show & Tell demonstrations should have an interactive component (i.e., should be more than a simple computer simulation or graph).

Each demonstration will be allotted one table, space for a poster, and a power outlet. Presenters are responsible for all other equipment and shipping to and from the workshop.  Wireless Internet will also be available by request.  If you have any special requirements, please contact the Demonstration Chairs.

ASRU 2011
the Demonstration Chairs
Patrick Nguyen (e-mail: drpng@google.com)
Olivier Siohan(e-mail: siohan@google.com)

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Show&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:

• 3D technology for gaming, telepresence
• Gesture recognition for games and natural user interfaces
• Digital photography
• 4G wireless
• Robotics
• Multimedia tablets
• SP in automobiles: speech interfaces, cameras
• Voice search
• SP with multicore processors
• IPTV

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

• All manuscripts must be in English.
• One page to describe the demonstration.
• All submitted proposals must adhere to the format and style specified in the ESPA 2012 authors’ kit.
• Authors are invited to submit supporting data files, such as demonstration videos, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM if their Show&Tell paper is accepted.
• Show and Tell events will be held tentatively on January 12th and 13th. Authors will be provided with a poster board and a table. Wireless access will be available.

Papers should be submitted through the standard procedure at www.ieee-espa.org. Send any questions to showandtell@ieee-espa.org.

Chair

Mazin Gilbert (AT&T Labs Research, USA)

Important dates

• Full submission deadline: October 1st, 2011
• Acceptance notification: October 10th, 2011

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IEEE Signal Processing Society Winter School on 'Speech and Audio
Processing for Immersive Environments and Future Interfaces'

Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Institute of
Computer Science (ICS)

January 16-20, 2012

WEB: http://www.s3p-saie.eu
Email: mouchtar@ics.forth.gr


APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 1, 2012

MOTIVATION AND DESCRIPTION
The vision of immersive environments is to enable natural interactions
among people who are geographically distributed. Future interfaces are
envisioned to provide some degree of immersion among the user and a
device, so as to enable a natural means of interaction. The
proliferation of multichannel audio systems (e.g. home-cinema) and of
tele-presence systems, which enhance the realism in entertainment and
collaborative environments respectively, clearly demonstrate the
current technology trend towards immersive environments and
interfaces. The winter school aims to cover multiple research
directions in audio and speech signal processing for immersive
environments and interfaces, including 3D rendering, enhancement in
ubiquitous speech communications, speech capture/synthesis/recognition
for such applications, audio watermarking in interactive broadcast
applications, and so forth.

Among the objectives of this IEEE Signal Processing Winter School are:
* Fruitful interaction between teachers/instructors and participants
* Building communities of Ph.D. students and educators in important
Signal Processing research areas
* Providing hands-on tutorial sessions, where students can experiment
with concepts and methods
* Evolution of high quality tutorial materials that can be
disseminated online to the larger signal processing community.

LIST OF SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE:
Rainer Martin, Universitat Bochum, DE

INSTRUCTORS:
Gernot Kubin, TU Graz, AT
Simon King, CSTR, Edinburgh, UK
Vassilios Digalakis, Technical University of Crete, GR
Yannis Stylianou, FORTH & University of Crete, GR
Athanasios Mouchtaris, FORTH & University of Crete, GR
Jeroen Breebart, Civolution, NL
Sriram Srinivasan, Philips Research, NL
Soren Holdt Jensen, Aalborg University, DK
Ville Pulkki, Aalto University, FI

APPLICATION
The school will be open to graduate students, Ph.D. students,
post-docs, young researchers, senior researchers and practitioners.
Both academic and industrial professionals are encouraged to apply
online:

http://www.s3p-saie.eu

The school fees will be:

* Student, IEEE-SPS member: 100€
* Student, IEEE (non-SPS) member: 150€
* Student, non-IEEE member: 200€
* Non-Student, IEEE-SPS member: 400€ (or 200€ per day)
* Non-student, IEEE (non-SPS) member: 500€ (or 250€ per day)
* Non-student, non-IEEE-SPS member: 600€ (or 300€ per day)

-The fee includes attendance at the courses, handling material, coffee
breaks, and social events.
-The application should be done before January 1, 2012.

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ICPRAM (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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2012 INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL IN METHODS IN BIOINFORMATICS

WSMBio 2012

Tarragona, Spain

February 20-24, 2012

Organized by:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wsmbio2012/

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AIM:

WSMBio 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures on bioinformatics at different levels. The students choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate and foster their research career.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate (and eventually advanced undergraduate) students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science, Biology and Medicine. Other students (for instance, from Mathematics or Engineering) are welcome too.

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 class schedule.

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

- Dan Gusfield (U California Davis), ReCombinatorics: The Algorithmics and Combinatorics of Phylogenetic Networks with Recombination [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]
- Andrey Rzhetsky (U Chicago), Trees, Networks, and their Use in Systems Biology [introductory/ intermediate, 8 hours]
- Richard Simon (US National Cancer Institute, Rockville), Development and Validation of Prognostic and Predictive Classifiers based on High-dimensional Data and their Application to Personalized Medicine [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]
- Robert Stevens (U Manchester) & James Malone (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton), Bio-Ontologies [introductory/intermediate, 4 hours]
- Martin Tompa (U Washington Seattle), Comparative Sequence Analysis in Molecular Biology [introductory/intermediate, 4 hours]
- Alfonso Valencia (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid), Bioinformatics Challenges for Personalized Medicine [advanced, 4 hours]
- Limsoon Wong (National University of Singapore), Using Biological Networks for Protein Function Prediction, Biomarker Identification, and Other Problems in Computational Biology [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours]
- Ying Xu (U Georgia), Cancer Bioinformatics [advanced, 8 hours]
- Zohar Yakhini (Agilent Laboratories, Santa Clara), Algorithmics and Statistics in the Analysis of High Throughput Molecular Measurement Data [intermediate/advanced, 6 hours]

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done on line at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wsmbio2012/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 December 11, 2011), 
- 15 euros (for payments after December 11, 2011). 

PAYMENT PROCEDURE:

The fees must be paid to the School's bank account: 

Uno-e Bank (Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC; account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya, 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain)

Please mention WSMBio 2012 and your full name in the subject. A receipt will be provided on site.

Remarks:

- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.
- People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that they gave the bank transfer order by the deadline.
- Students may be refunded only in the case when a course gets cancelled due to the unavailability of the instructor.

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 do it earlier.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School.

CERTIFICATES:

Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended, their contents, and their duration.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: October 30, 2011
Starting of the registration: October 30, 2011
Early registration deadline: December 11, 2011
Starting of the School: February 20, 2012
End of the School: February 24, 2012 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Florentina-Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat 

WEBSITE:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wsmbio2012/ 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

WSMBio 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
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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                            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/
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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

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===== DEADLINE EXTENSION AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ====

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                   PROPOR'2012

The 10th International Conference on the Computational

                 Processing of Portuguese

                 http://www.propor2012.org/

         Coimbra, Portugal April 17-20, 2012

      *** Paper Submission Deadline: November 13, 2011


    Keynote Speakers: Robert Berwick (MIT)
                      Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam)

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The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
(PROPOR) is the main event in the area of Human Language Processing that
is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken
Portuguese. The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of
ideas and partnerships for the research communities dedicated to the
automated processing of Portuguese, promoting the development of
methodologies,resources and projects that can be shared among
researchers and practitioners in the field. The conference will
consist of 3 days of paper presentations,special tracks and workshops.

PROPOR is in its 10th edition and it has been hosted in Brazil and in
Portugal: Lisbon/PT (1993), Curitiba/BR (1996), Porto Alegre/BR (1998),
Evora/PT (1999), Atibaia/BR (2000), Faro/PT (2003), Itatiaia/BR (2006),
Aveiro/PT (2008) and Porto Alegre/BR (2010).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We invite submissions of papers describing work on any topic of language
and speech processing of Portuguese from the industry or academia, including
but not limited to:

1.  Human speech production, perception and communication, including:
Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; phonetics,
phonology and morphology; paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g.
emotion and expression);

2.  Linguistic Description and Theories: syntactic, semantic, prosodic and
anaphoric phenomena, in (computational) linguistic formalisms like HPSG,
LFG, Categorial Grammars, etc.;

3.  Natural Language Processing Tasks, including: parsing, tagging, chunking
and segmentation, annotation, evaluation, semantic role labelling, grammar
induction, subcategorization acquisition, sentiment analysis and opinion
mining, using symbolic or statistical methods, etc.;

4.  Natural Language Processing Applications, such as word sense
disambiguation dialect identification, machine translation, information
retrieval, plagiarism detection, dialogue systems, question answering,
subtitling, e-learning, etc.;

5.  Speech Technologies, such as spoken language generation and synthesis;
speech and speaker recognition; spoken language understanding;

6.  Speech Applications: Spoken language interfaces and dialogue systems;
systems for information retrieval and information extraction from speech;
systems for speech-speech translation; applications for aged and handicapped
persons; applications for learning and education;

7.  Resources, standardization and evaluation: Spoken language resources,
annotation and tools; Spoken language evaluation and standardization; NLP
resources (raw and annotated corpora, dictionaries, grammars, ontologies,
etc), annotation, tools; NLP evaluation and standardization;

8.  Language and Speech processing in academic disciplines, such as Speech
and Hearing sciences, Psychology, Health, Biology, Linguistics, Cognitive
Sciences, Engineering, Education.

IMPORTANT DATES

*    November 13, 2011 - Deadline for short and full paper submission
*    December 20, 2011 - Notification of acceptance
*    January 15, 2012 - Camera-ready papers due
*    April 17-20, 2012 - Conference

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are
invited to submit two kinds of papers:

*  Full papers: reporting substantial and completed work, especially those
that may contribute in a significant way to the advancement of the area -
wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included.

*  Short papers: reporting ongoing work, position papers and potential ideas
to be discussed.

Authors will be able to express their preference for full/short papers
but the final decision is on the program chairs. Short papers may be
selected for oral or poster presentation and should be up to five (5)
pages of content and one (1) additional page of references in length.
Full papers will be presented in an oral session and should be up to
ten (10) pages of content and two (2) additional pages of references.

Submissions should be written in English. As in previous PROPOR editions,
full papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), the LNCS subseries. Selected short
papers will be taken under consideration for LNAI publication. Papers
must be submitted in PDF, following the LNAI format

( http://www.springer.de/comp/**lncs/authors.html < http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>
),

using Springer Conference Service of PROPOR2012
http://senldogo0039.springer- ** sbm.com/ocs/home/PROPOR2012 < http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/PROPOR2012>

Submissions will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. As reviewing will
be blind, the submission should not include the authors' names and
affiliations, neither contain self-references that reveal identity, like,
'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'. Instead, use citations such as
'Smith (1991) previously showed ...'. Submissions that do not conform to
these requirements will be rejected without review. Separate author
identification information is required as part of the submission process.

ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT

General Chair
Fernando Perdigao (Universidade de Coimbra / IT - Portugal)

Technical Program Chairs
Aline Villavicencio (UFRGS, Brazil)
Antonio Teixeira (Universidade de Aveiro/IEETA, Portugal)

Editorial Chair
Helena Caseli (UFSCar, Brazil)

Demos Chair
Alberto Abad (L2F INESC-ID, Portugal)

Local Organizing Committee
Luis Sa (Universidade de Coimbra/Instituto de Telecomunicacoes)
Sara Candeias (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes)
Ana R. Luis (Universidade de Coimbra/CELGA)
Carla Lopes (IPLEI/Instituto de Telecomunicacoes)
Hugo Goncalo Oliveira (UC/CISUC)

Contact Information

cc@propor2012.org

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CALL FOR DEMOS

== EACL 2012 - CALL FOR DEMOS ==
The Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics
http://eacl2012.org/system-demonstration/index.html

Avignon, France
April 23-27, 2012

EACL 2012 features a special session for demonstrations. Topics
of interest cover all aspects of computational linguistics, as
outlined in the main conference call for papers. Demos will be
presented at specific sessions from the main program of the
conference. The demo track allows researchers and practitioners
to demonstrate their new and innovative systems while interacting
with their audience in an informal setting. Demos’ submissions
should be concerned with mature systems or prototypes in which
computational linguistics or NLP technologies are used to solve
practically important problems. Demo papers should make clear
which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how the
system is used to solve practical problems. It should include
a discussion of the implementation and case studies of how
the system is applied.


== Requirements ==
At least one author of each accepted demo paper must register
for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during
the demo sessions (please see the Conference Policies). Authors
of accepted demos may also be required to demonstrate their systems
at additional events during the conference.  Each accepted demo
paper will be allocated four pages in the conference proceedings;
no extra pages can be purchased.  Demo authors are not required to
transfer copyright.


== Submission Procedure ==
Authors of demos should submit an original paper describing their
proposed presentation. The length of the paper is limited to 4 pages
excluding references which are unlimited. The submission should be in
line with the EACL 2012 main conference formatting styles and instructions
for authors.

Proposals for demos should provide:
 1. an overview of what the demonstration aims to achieve
 2. how the demo illustrates novel ideas
 3. any URLs that link to screen-shots, live demos, or related information
 4. equipment or facilities required for the system demonstration


== Reviewing ==
Demos will be blind peer-reviewed by two members of the Demos Program
Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and
clarity of each submission.


== Demos Chair ==
Frédérique Segond (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Contact: segond@xrce.xerox.com


== PC Members ==
Sophia Annaniadou (University of Manchester, UK)
Galia Angelova, (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria )
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento, Italy
Luca Dini (CELI , Italy)
Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, Nederland)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
Sebastian Padó (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, USA)
Claire Waast (EDF France)


== Important Dates ==
 * Paper submission deadline: December, 4, 2011 (11:59pm Samoa Time (UTC/GMT -11 hours))
 * Notification of acceptance: February, 6, 2012
 * Camera ready copies due: March 9, 2012
 * EACL 2012 Conference: April 23-27, 2012

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EACL 2012, 2nd CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

** Deadline: September 30th, 2011

Proposals are invited for the Tutorial Program of the 13th Conference
of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (EACL 2012), to be held in Avignon, France, from April 23
to April 27, 2012. The selected tutorials will be given on the Monday
and Tuesday preceding the main conference (April 23 and 24).

EACL 2012 seeks proposals for tutorials in all areas of computational
linguistics, broadly conceived to include disciplines such as
linguistics (including phycholinguistics and other subfields), speech,
information retrieval and multimodal processing.

We particularly welcome (1) tutorials which cover advances in newly
emerging areas not previously covered in an (E)ACL related tutorial,
or (2) tutorials which provide introductions into related fields which
are potentially relevant for the CL community (e.g. bioinformatics,
social media, human language processing, machine learning
techniques). In order to gather a widespread audience, the interest of
the tutorial and the quality of the instructors will also be taken
into account.

REMUNERATION

Remuneration for tutorials is regulated by ACL policies:
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Policy_on_tutorial_teacher_payment

The conversion to euros will be done as follows: €550 for up to 20
people, plus €25 per person for registrants between 21 to 50, plus €18
per person for registrants greater than 50.

Please NOTE: Remuneration for Tutorial presenters is fixed according
   to the above policy and does not cover registration fees for the
   main conference.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Proposals for tutorials should contain:

1. A title and brief description of the tutorial content and its
   relevance to the ACL community (not more than 2 pages).

2. A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the
   tutorial's core content can be covered in a three-hour slot
   (excluding a coffee break). In exceptional cases six-hour tutorial
   slots are available as well.

3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of
   the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of
   their research interests and areas of expertise.

4. A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the
   same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere; otherwise an
   estimate of the audience size.

5. A description of special requirements for technical equipment
   (e.g. internet access).  Proposals should be submitted by
   electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, to tutorials at eacl2012 dot
   org, no later than September 30th 2011.

   The subject line should be: 'EACL 2012 TUTORIAL PROPOSASeptember 30th, 2011L'.

PLEASE NOTE:

- only proposals submitted by e-mail will be taken into account.

- you will receive email confirmation from us that your prSeptember 30th, 2011oposal has
  been received. If you do not receive this confirmation 24 hours
  after sending the proposal, please contact us personally using both
  e.agirre at ehu dot es and lieve.macken at hogent dot be


TUTORIAL SPEAKER RESPONSIBILITIES

Accepted tutorial speakers will be notified by November 3rd, 2011,
and must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in
the conference registration material by December 16th, 2011. The
description should be in two formats: an ASCII version that can be
included in email announcements and published on the conference web
site, and a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings
(detailed instructions to follow).

Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials, at least containing
copies of the course slides as well as a bibliography for the material
covered in the tutorial, by February 1st, 2012.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: September 30th, 2011
Notification of acceptance: November 3rd, 2011
Tutorial descriptions due: December 16th, 2011
Tutorial course material due: February 1st, 2012
Tutorial dates: April 23-24, 2012


TUTORIAL CHAIRS

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Lieve Macken, University College Ghent, Belgium

Please send inquiries concerning EACL 2012 tutorials to:
tutorials at eacl2012 dot org

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EACL 2012
Thirteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for 
Computational Linguistics
Avignon, France
April 23-27, 2012
http://eacl2012.org
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First Call For Papers
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>>> Submission deadline: November 4, 2011 <<<

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
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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
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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
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TBA


Best paper awards
-----------------

TBA


Organization
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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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1st 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/

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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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The 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

LREC2012 SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN!

Submit an Abstract for Oral and Poster presentation:

To submit your abstract, please go to: 
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/lrec2012/

Your abstract must consist of 1500 to 2000 words (about 3-4 pages; can contain references, tables, figures)  and must be formatted in PDF. 
There is no template for the pdf abstract. The template will be made available online for the final papers.  Submissions are NOT anonymous.

IMPORTANT NOTE: 
In addition to the LRE Map, for LREC2012 we introduce a new feature, the Language Library: it is an experiment of a collaboratively created repository which can be built with a small effort from each of you. 

We suggest to submit your abstract and the corresponding LRE Map information as soon as possible. Note that you will be able to revise and re-submit an improved version of the abstract and the Map forms at any time (before the call closure). 

Please do not wait until the last moment!

Submit a proposal for Workshop, Tutorial or Panel:

Submission of workshop, tutorial and panel proposals should be made via the LREC2012 conference website. The links for making your submission are the following: 

http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/Submit-a-Workshop-Proposal.html 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Submit-a-Tutorial-Proposal
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?Submit-a-Panel



Important Dates:
Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 15 October 2011
Submission of proposals for oral and poster/demo papers: 15 October 2011 
Notification of acceptance of panels, workshops and tutorials proposals: 20 November 2011
Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters: 1 February 2012 
Conference: 23 - 24 - 25 May 2012 
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 21 and 22 May 2012 
Post-conference workshops and tutorials: 26 and 27 May 2012


More information on the conference: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/

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http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/iscapad/iscapad.php?module=article&id=2022

Invitation to and call for papers for the

International Symposium on Audiovisual Detection of Errors in
Pronunciation Training (IS ADEPT)

KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
6-8 June 2012
www.speech.kth.se/isadept

This symposium is a one-time event endorsed by SLaTE (the ISCA Special
Interest Group on Speech and Language Technologies in Education) and
organized to bring together academia and industry within the field of
Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT). Its aim is to reach a
common understanding of the current state-of-the-art in methods for
pronunciation error analysis and their use in CAPT software in order
to identify the needs and paths for future research.

Keynote speakers
Lewis Johnson, Chief scientist at Alelo Inc.
Gary Pelton, Vice President, Speech Development at Rosetta Stone
Horacio Franco, Speech Technology & Research Laboratory SRI International
Gary Pelton, Vice President Carnegie Speech
Helmer Strik, Radboud University Nijmegen
Silke Witt-Ehsani, Vice President, TuVox Design Center
Florian Hoenig, University of Erlangen

The 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.
The symposium program will also include regular scientific
presentations, a demo session, panel discussion plus a social program
(included common lunches, symposium dinner and guided visit to the
Stockholm City Hall).

Paper submissions
Prospective participants should submit a full 4 or 6 page paper, or a
1 page demo proposal.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: 15 February 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 13 April 2012
Demo description Submission: 13 April 2012
Camera-Ready Paper: 4 May 2012
Early registration Deadline: 4 May 2012

www.speech.kth.se/isadept
isadept2012@speech.kth.se

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Appel pour ateliers et tutoriels

OBJECTIFS

Un atelier porte sur une thématique particulière de TALN afin de
rassembler quelques exposés plus ciblés. Il a son propre président et
son propre comité de programme. Le responsable d'un atelier est chargé
de l'appel à candidatures et de la coordination de son comité de
programme. Les organisateurs de TALN ne s'occuperont que de la partie
matérielle (gestion des salles, pauses café, déjeuner et diffusion des
actes). Les ateliers et tutoriels auront lieu en parallèle sur une
journée ou une demi-journée (2 à 4 sessions de 1h30).

MODALITÉS DE PROPOSITION

Les propositions d'ateliers et tutoriels seront envoyées sous forme
électronique à claude.ponton@u-grenoble3.fr ou à
virginie.zampa@u-grenoble3.fr au plus tard le 24 janvier 2012.

Les propositions d'ateliers comprendront une description synthétique (1
page) de la thématique de la conférence ainsi que son comité de
programme et la durée souhaitée.

Les propositions de tutoriel comprendront une description synthétique (1
page) de la thématique, les noms des intervenants ainsi que la durée
souhaitée (1 à 2 sessions de 1h30).

Le comité de programme de TALN choisira parmi toutes les propositions et
donnera sa réponse au plus tard le 6 février 2012.

CALENDRIER

  * Date limite de soumission : 24 janvier 2012
  * Réponse du comité de programme : 6 février 2012
  * Version finale pour actes: 15 avril 2012
  * Date des ateliers et tutoriels: 8 juin 2012

FORMAT

Les conférences auront lieu en français (ou en anglais pour les
non-francophones). Les articles devront suivre le format de TALN et ne
pas dépasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, figures, exemples
et références compris.
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********10th International Workshop On Content –Based Multimedia Indexing******
*******************************************************************************
Call for papers

Following the nine successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes
2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009, Grenoble 2010 and Madrid
2011), LISTIC University of Savoy/CNRS will organize the next Context Based Multimedia
Indexing event on June 27-29 2012 10th. www.polytech.univ-savoie.fr/cbmi2012

 International Workshop CBMI 2012 aims at bringing together the various communities
involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing
and presentation. The scientific program of CBMI 2011 will include invited keynote talks and
regular and special sessions with contributed research papers. Best papers will be published
in a special issue of ACM Multimedia tools and Applications, Springer. The Workshop is supported by IEEE,
French national Research network GDR-CNRS ISIS, Rhône-Alpes Region. ACM SIGMM and Eurasip supports are pending.

Technical Program:
Topics of interest, grouped in technical tracks, include, but are not limited to:   
      * Visual Indexing (image, video, graphics)
      * Visual content extraction Identification and tracking of semantic regions
      * Identification of semantic events   
      * Audio and Multi-modal Indexing
      * Audio indexing (audio, speech, music)
      * Audio content extraction
      * Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
      * Metadata generation, coding and transformation   
      * Multimedia Information Retrieval (image, audio, video, …)
      * Matching and similarity search
      * Content-based search
      * Multimedia data mining
      * Multimedia recommendation
      * Large scale multimedia database management
      * Multimedia Browsing and Presentation
      * Summarisation, browsing and organization of multimedia content
      * Personalization and content adaptation
      * User interaction and relevance feedback
      * Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools

All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will
be indexed and distributed by the IEEExplore. Selected papers will appear, after extension
and peer-review, in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal.

Paper submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of not more than six (6) pages including
results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission
through conference management system. Style files (Latex and Word) will be provided for
the convenience of the authors at www.polytech.univ-savoie.fr/cbmi2012

Important dates:
      * Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 13, 2012
      * Notification of acceptance: February 27, 2011
      * Submission of camera-ready papers: March 12, 2011

Chairs: 
General chair: Patrick Lambert, LISTIC, Polytech de Savoie Technical
Technical Program chair: Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva
Technical Program co-chair: Shin’ichi Satoh, NII, Japan
Special Session chair: Philippe Joly, IRIT, France
Publicity chair: Jenny Benois-Pineau, LABRI, University of Bordeaux, France
Publication chair: Alexandre Benoit, University of Savoie, France
Demo chair: Sid-Ahmed Berrani, Orange Labs, France
ACM SIGMM liaison officer: Suzanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Steering committee:
Régine André-Obrecht, IRIT, France
Jenny Benois-Pineau, LABRI, University of Bordeaux, France
Chabane Djeraba, LIFL, France Moncef Gabbouj, University of Tampere, Finland
Patrick Gros, INRIA, France
Ebroul Izquierdo, QMUL, UK
Philippe Joly, IRIT, France
Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy
Bernard Merialdo, EURECOM, France
Georges Quénot, LIG, France
Thomas Sikora, TUB, Germany

Special issue:
Extended communications will be published in a special issue of an open call of ACM
Multimedia Tools and Applications journal, Springer after peer-review.

Cultural program:
The cultural program will be devoted to the history of media production and will comprise a
visit to the French museum of cartoons and a cruise at a historical lake of Annecy with finest
testing of traditional French cuisine.

CALL FOR PAPERS www.polytech.univ-savoie.fr/cbmi2012
contact: patrick.lambert@univ-savoie.fr

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Call for papers

LabPhon 13
The 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology
Stuttgart, Germany, July 27-29, 2012

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2012

Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2012

Conference website:
http://www.labphon13.labphon.org/

Abstracts are solicited for contributed papers for presentation as 20-minute oral contributions or as posters. Contributions relating to the conference themes are especially encouraged; there will also be sessions for non-thematic papers.

The overall theme for the conference is “Phonological and phonetic computations: between grammar and neural activity.” Our goal is to bring together researchers from phonology, phonetics, and adjacent psycho- and neurosciences and to seek to advance these disciplines by encouraging the joint pursuit of interdisciplinary research questions. Specific topics that address this theme are the following:

    Simulation as a research method in Laboratory Phonology.
    Invited speakers: Bruce Hayes (UCLA), Andrew Wedel (Univ. Arizona)
    Invited moderator: Bernd Möbius (Saarland Univ.)

    Computational approaches to sound change: data-driven and model driven.
    Invited speakers: Jonathan Harrington (LMU Munich), Paul Boersma (Univ. Amsterdam)
    Invited moderator: John Coleman (Univ. Oxford)

    Temporal mechanisms in neural processing of sounds and prosodies.
    Invited speakers: Karsten Steinhauer (McGill Univ.), William Idsardi (Univ. Maryland)
    Invited moderator: Carsten Eulitz (Univ. Konstanz)

    Rich memory for rich phonology.
    Invited speakers: Stephen Goldinger (Arizona State Univ.), Robert Port (Indiana Univ.)
    Invited moderator: Holger Mitterer (MPI Nijmegen)

Non-thematic sessions (both oral and poster) will include contributions to other topics of interest to the LabPhon community.

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      CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
           EACL 2012 / NAACL-HLT 2012 / ACL 2012
      (http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~kjokinen/WorkshopCFP/)

The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(EACL), The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (NAACL), and The Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the
EACL, NAACL, or ACL conferences in the spring and summer of 2012. We
solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities.
Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:

 * EACL 2012 is the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the
  Association for Computational Linguistics. It will be held in
  Avignon, April 23 - 27, 2012. The dates for the EACL workshops
  will be April 23-24. The webpage for EACL 2012 is:
  http://eacl2012.org/.

 * NAACL-HLT 2012 is the 13th Annual Meeting of the North American
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. It will
be held Montreal, Canada, June 3 - 8, 2012. The dates for the
NAACL-HLT workshops will be June 7 - 8. The webpage for NAACL-HLT
2012 is: http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/.

 * ACL 2012 is the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL). It will be held in Jeju, Republic
of Korea, July 8 - 14, 2012. The ACL workshops will be held July
12 - 13. The webpage for ACL 2012 is: http://www.acl2012.org/.

Proposals will be jointly reviewed by the workshop organizers for all
three conferences.

    SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Similarly to previous conferences, the submission and reviewing of
workshop proposals for EACL, NAACL-HLT, and ACL will be coordinated.

Proposals for workshops should contain:

  1. A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic
     and content.
  2. The desired workshop length (one or two days), and an estimate of
     the number of attendees.
  3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of
     the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research
     interests and areas of expertise.
  4. A list of potential members of the program committee, with an
     indication of which members have already agreed.
  5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop.
  6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.
  7. A note specifying which venue(s) (EACL versus NAACL-HLT versus
     ACL) would be acceptable to you; if all are acceptable, you may
     express preference for one or the other.

There will be a single workshop committee, coordinated by the three sets
of workshop chairs. This single committee will review the quality of the
workshop proposals. Once the reviews are complete, the workshop chairs
will work together to assign workshops to each of the three conferences,
taking into account the location preferences given by the proposers.

The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's
general policies on workshops at
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshop-support-general-policy.html,
the financial policy for workshops at
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshop-conf-financial-policy.html,
and the financial policy for SIG workshops at
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~carberry/ACL/Workshops/workshops-Sig-financial-policy.html.

  * Please submit proposals in plain text in the body of an email to the
    workshop organizers:
    eacl.naacl.acl.workshops.2012_AT_helsinki_DOT_fi

    no later than *October 28, 2011, 23:59:59 UTC/GMT*
    (which is 18:59:59 EST, 15:59:59 PST, and 08:59:59 JST on Oct 29).

  * Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later
    than *November 11, 2011*.

Since the three conferences will occur at different times, the
timescales for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the
preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each
conference. Suggested timescales for each of the conferences are given
below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless
absolutely necessary.

Workshop organisers are also requested to pay attention to the fact that
there will be only a week between the notification of the workshop
acceptance and sending out the first CFPs for the workshop (in case of EACL
and ACL). Thus it is important that the workshop proposals are already well
structured and organised at the time of the submission, to allow quick launch
of the first CFP.


TIMELINES FOR 2012 WORKSHOPS

 * SHARED DATES
  Oct 28, 2011 Workshop proposal deadline
  Nov 11, 2011 Notification of acceptance


 * EACL 2012
  Nov 18, 2011  Proposed 1st workshop CFP
  Jan 27, 2012  Proposed paper due date
  Feb 24, 2012  Proposed notification of acceptance
  Mar 09, 2012  Camera-ready deadline
  Apr 23-24, 2012  Workshops


 * NAACL-HLT 2012
  Dec 16, 2011  Proposed 1st workshop CFP
  Mar 02, 2012  Proposed paper due date
  Mar 30, 2012  Proposed notification of acceptance
  Apr 13, 2012  Camera-ready deadline
  Jun 7-8, 2012  Workshops


 * ACL 2012
  Nov 21, 2011  Proposed 1st workshop CFP
  Mar 18, 2012  Proposed paper due date
  Apr 15, 2012  Proposed notification of acceptance
  Apr 30, 2012  Camera-ready deadline
  Jul 12-13, 2012  Workshops


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

 * EACL 2012
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki - http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~kjokinen/
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento - http://disi.unitn.it/moschitti/

 * NAACL-HLT 2012
Colin Cherry, National Research Council Canada - https://sites.google.com/site/colinacherry/
Mona Diab, Columbia University - http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~mdiab/

 * ACL 2012
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex - http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poesio/
Satoshi Sekine, New York University - http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/sekine/

For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers:
   eacl.naacl.acl.workshops.2012_AT_helsinki_DOT_fi

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AFCP, French-speaking regional branch of ISCA, and the partners of the project ETAPE (1) are proud to announce an evaluation campaign on vocal technologies for the French language. The ETAPE 2011 campaign follows the series of ESTER campaigns organized in 2003, 2005 and 2009, targeting a wider variety of speech quality and the more difficult challenge of spontaneous speech. Speech transcription and information extraction (speaker turns, named entities) will be evaluated, focusing on TV material with various level of spontaneous speech and multiple speaker speech.

A corpora of about 30h of radio and TV shows covering various types and topics (news, debates, etc.), including the reference transcription with named entity annotations, will be made available to participants. After completion of the evaluation campaign, the corpus will be complemented with phonetic alignments and syntactic trees that will be available to participants for research purposes. The entire ETAPE data set will also be made availble to non participants via ELRA.

Tentative calendar:
   may 2011     proposal of an evaluation plan for discussion
   june 2011    release of training and development data
   dec. 2011    evaluation campaign (to be defined with participants)
   feb. 2012    workshop

For more information:

  - visit the ETAPE page of the AFCP website (http://www.afcp-parole.org/etape.html)

  - subscribe to the ester-info mailing list: send a mail to sympa@listes.afcp-parole.org with the following line in the mail body

SUBSCRIBE ester-info firstname lastname

  - contact us: guillaume.gravier@irisa.fr, gilles.adda@limsi.fr

(1) ETAPE is a French national project targeting the organisation of evaluation campaigns in the field of automatic speech processing. Partially funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), the project brings together national experts in the organisation of such campaigns under the scientific leadership of the AFCP, the French-speaking Speech Communication Association, a regional branch of ISCA.

Partners of the ETAPE projects are, in alphabetical order: Association
Francophone de la Communication Parlée, Direction Générale de
l'Armement, ELDA S.A., Laboratoire National d'Essais, Laboratoire de
Linguistique Formelle (Univ. Paris 7), Laboratoire de Phonétique et
Phonologie (Univ. Paris 3).

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