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| 3-3-1 | (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/
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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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| 3-3-2 | (2012-03-31) CfP 2012 International Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning for Speech Processing (IWSML2012)-Kyoto Japan Call for Papers - 2012 International Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning for Speech Processing (IWSML2012) - Scalable Approach in the Era of Abundant Data - These days, an enormous amount of multimedia data is available on various kinds of Web sites and devices. Until now, R&D of statistical speech processing has been focused on high-quality data annotation and parsimonious model construction using the annotated data. However, from now on, the R&D focus will shift to the issue of how to construct a model that is robust against diverse types of noise in a massive amount of data annotated with either no labels or only unreliable ones. Another subject that will receive attention is how to convert domain knowledge based on a massive amount of data into model construction in different domains that have sparse data, e.g., for speech recognition systems for rare languages with few data resources. In such R&D, it is difficult to use a large amount of data from the beginning and it is necessary to investigate scalable methods that suit various amounts and quality-levels of data and domain knowledge. In this workshop, considering the present circumstances, researchers in machine learning and in speech, natural language, and image processing will get together and discuss scalable approaches in the era of abundant data. Location Important dates Invited Speakers Language Organizing Committee Local Chairs: Finance Chair: Technical Chairs: Publications Chair: Secretary: Support For more information please visit http://www.ism.ac.jp/IWSML2012/ or e-mail iwsml-sec@ism.ac.jp.
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| 3-3-3 | (2012-04-01) CREST Symposium on Human-Harmonized Information Technology, Kyoto JapanCREST Symposium on Human-Harmonized Information Technology
--- Behavior, Interaction, Music, and UGC ---
http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/crest/sympo12/
Date: April 1-2, 2012
Venue: Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto, Japan
(http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/clocktower)
Sponsored by JST CREST 'Human-Harmonized Information Technology'
Co-sponsored by IEEE SPS Japan Chapter, Kansai Chapter and IEEE Kansai Section
The symposium features invited talks on frontier topics in speech,
music, and signal processing. Sessions are organized by principal
investigators of four different CREST projects together with IEEE SPS
DL program.
The symposium is free of charge and prior registration is not required.
Program:
April 1 (Sunday) DAY1: Music and User-Generated Content
13:00-15:00 Session 1 organized by Tokuda's project
Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh)
Natural Speech Technology
Alan Black (Carnegie Mellon University)
Making Computers Really Talk like People
Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Spoken dialogue system framework based on user-generated content
15:30-17:30 Session 2 organized by Goto's project
Mark D. Plumbley (Queen Mary University of London)
Making Sense of Sound and Music
Meinard Mueller (Saarland University and MPI Informatik)
Informed Feature Representations for Music and Motion
Masataka Goto (AIST)
Music Technologies for Enhancing Music Appreciation and Creation
April 2 (Monday) DAY2: Human Behavior and Interaction
9:30-11:30 Session 3 organized by Takeda's project
Juan-Carlos De Martin (Politecnico di Torin)
Towards an Internet Science
John Hansen (University of Texas at Dallas)
Speech Communications - Driving Behavior and Safety: Can they co-exist?
Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya University)
Signal Modeling of Human Behavior
13:00-15:00 Session 4 organized by Kawahara's project
Shri Narayanan (University of Southern California)
Multimodal Human Behavioral Informatics
Ivan Tashev (Microsoft)
Audio for Kinect: pushing it to the limit
Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto University)
Multimodal Sensing and Recognition for Smart Posterboard
15:30-16:30 Session 5 IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer Program
Tulay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
ICA and IVA: Theory, Connections, and Applications
16:30-17:15 Session 6 organized by IEEE Kansai Section
Mike Schuster (Google)
Voice Search at Google
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| 3-3-4 | (2012-04-17) 10th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese, Coimbra, Portugal ===== DEADLINE EXTENSION AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ====
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| 3-3-5 | (2012-04-23) EACL 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss EACL 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss http://sites.google.com/site/eaclcogws/ Deadline for Submissions: January, 20th, 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------- The past decades have seen a massive expansion in the application of statistical and machine learning methods to speech and natural language processing. This work has yielded impressive results which have generally been viewed as engineering achievements. Recently researchers have begun to investigate the relevance of computational learning methods for research on human language acquisition and loss. The human ability to acquire and process language has long attracted interest and generated much debate due to the apparent ease with which such a complex and dynamic system is learnt and used on the face of ambiguity, noise and uncertainty. On the other hand, changes in language abilities during aging and eventual losses related to conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia have also attracted considerable investigative efforts. Parallels between the acquisition and loss have been raised, and a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in both, and of how the algorithms used to access concepts are affected in pathological cases can lead to earlier diagnosis and more targeted treatments. The use of computational modeling is a relatively recent trend boosted by advances in machine learning techniques, and the availability of resources like corpora of child and child-directed sentences, and data from psycholinguistic tasks by normal and pathological groups. Many of the existing computational models attempt to study language tasks under cognitively plausible criteria (such as memory and processing limitations that humans face), and to explain the developmental stages observed in the acquisition and evolution of the language abilities. The workshop is targeted at anyone interested in the relevance of computational techniques for understanding first, second and bilingual language acquisition and change or loss in normal and pathological conditions. Long and short papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: *Computational learning theory and analysis of language learning *Computational models of first, second and bilingual language acquisition *Computational models of language changes in e.g. dementia and Alzheimer?s Disease *Computational models and analysis of factors that influence language acquisition and loss in different age groups and cultures *Computational models of various aspects of language and their interaction in acquisition and change *Computational models of the evolution of language *Data resources and tools for investigating computational models of human language processes *Empirical and theoretical comparisons of the environment and its impact on acquisition/loss *Cognitively oriented Bayesian models of language processes *Computational methods for acquiring various linguistic information (related to e.g. speech, lexicon, syntax, and semantics) and their relevance to research on human language acquisition *Investigations and comparisons of supervised, unsupervised and weakly-supervised methods for learning (e.g. machine learning, statistical, symbolic, biologically-inspired, active learning, various hybrid models) SUBMISSIONS We invite three different submission modalities: * Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references): Long papers should report on solid and finished research including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques. * Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references): Short papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion. * System demonstration (2 pages): System demonstration papers should describe and document the demonstrated system or resources. We encourage the demonstration of both early research prototypes and mature systems, that will be presented in a separate demo session. All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the EACL 2012 formatting requirements (available at http://eacl2012.org/information-for-authors/index.html). We strongly advise the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files. For long and short papers, the reported research should be substantially original. The papers will be presented orally or as posters. The decision as to which paper will be presented orally and which as poster will be made by the program committee based on the nature rather than on the quality of the work. Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as posters. Submission and reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START system: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2012/Cognitive2012/ Submissions must be uploaded onto the START system by the submission deadline: January 20, 2012 (11:59pm Samoa Time; UTC/GMT -11 hours) Please chose the appropriate submission type from the starting submission page, according to the category of your paper. IMPORTANT DATES Jan 20, 2012 Paper submission deadline Feb 20, 2012 Notification of acceptance Mar 09, 2012 Camera-ready deadline Apr 23 or 24, 2012 Workshop PROGRAM COMMITTEE Afra Alishahi, Tilburg University (Netherlands) Colin J Bannard, University of Texas at Austin (USA) Marco Baroni, University of Trento (Italy) Jim Blevins, University of Cambridge (UK) Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University (Netherlands) Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway, University of London (UK) Robin Clark, University of Pennsylvania (USA) Matthew W. Crocker, Saarland University (Germany) James Cussens, University of York (UK) Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp (Belgium) and Tilburg University (Netherlands) Barry Devereux, University of Cambridge (UK) Sonja Eisenbeiss, University of Essex (UK) Afsaneh Fazly, University of Toronto (Canada) Cynthia Fisher, University of Illinois (USA) Jeroen Geertzen, University of Cambridge (UK) Henriette Hendriks, University of Cambridge (UK) Marco Idiart, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA) Shalom Lappin, King's College London (UK) Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa (Italy) Igor Malioutov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Stanford University (USA) Fanny Meunier, Lumière Lyon 2 University (France) Brian Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Maria Alice Parente, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Massimo Poesio, University of Essex (UK) Brechtje Post, University of Cambridge (UK) Ari Rappoport, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Kenji Sagae, University of Southern California (USA) Sabine Schulte im Walde, University of Stuttgart (Germany) Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge (UK) Maity Siqueira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh (UK) Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa (Israel) Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania (USA) Beracah Yankama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Menno van Zaanen, Macquarie University (Australia) Michael Zock, LIF, CNRS, Marseille (France) WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT Robert Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge (UK) Thierry Poibeau, LaTTiCe-CNRS (France) and University of Cambridge (UK) Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Massachussets Institute of Technology (USA)
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| 3-3-6 | (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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| 3-3-7 | (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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| 3-3-8 | (2012-05-07) CfP 3id International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU’12)- Capa Town, South Africa CALL FOR PAPERS: SLTU'2012 The third International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU’12) will be held near Cape Town, South Africa on 7-9 May 2012. The workshop will focus on spoken language processing for under-resourced languages and aims at gathering researchers working on: ASR, synthesis and translation for under-resourced languages Portability issues Multilingual spoken language processing Fast resource acquisition (speech, text, lexicons, parallel corpora) Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages Other related topics Original research papers in any of these areas are hereby invited – details are available at http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2012/. Previous Workshops on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages were held in 2008 at the Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam (see http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu/) and in 2010 at University Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia (http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu-2010/). SLTU’12 will continue the tradition of providing a forum for the presentation of research results related to under-resourced languages. For SLTU’12, the languages of Africa will receive particular attention, but papers on all under-resourced languages are invited. Students are encouraged to participate in SLTU’12 – financial support for such participation is being sought, and will be announced on the workshop Web site. Important dates : Paper submission: 13 Jan 2012 Notification of Paper Acceptance: 7 Feb 2012 Camera ready papers due: 28 Feb 2012 Author Registration Deadline: 28 Feb 2012
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| 3-3-9 | (2012-05-21) CfP 8th LREC Conference and Workshops, 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 LREC2012 SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN!
20 workshops are announced in this ISCApad issue but listed at the bottom of the 'Other events' list for editorial technical reasons. Do not miss to have a look on them!
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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| 3-3-10 | (2012-05-21) Updated schedule for LREC 2012 workshops and tutorials The updated schedule for LREC 2012 workshops and tutorials is online: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?-Workshops-and-Tutorials-
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| 3-3-11 | (2012-06-04) CfP Journées d'étude de la parole à Grenoble, France APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS JEP'2012 http://www.jeptaln2012.org/ 29e Journées d'Études sur la Parole Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012 le site de soumission des JEP est désormais ouvert. 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 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 Les communications porteront sur la parole dans ses différents aspects. Les thèmes de la conférence incluent, de façon non limitative : •Acoustique de la parole •Acquisition de la parole et du langage •Analyse, codage et compression de la parole •Applications à composantes orales (dialogue, indexation, interaction, etc) •Apprentissage d’une langue seconde •Communication multimodale •Dialectologie •Évaluation, corpus et ressources •Langues en danger •Modèles de langage •Pathologies de la parole •Perception de parole •Phonétique et phonologie •Phonétique clinique •Prises de position présentant un point de vue sur les sciences et technologies de la parole •Production de parole •Prosodie •Psycholinguistique •Reconnaissance et compréhension de la parole •Reconnaissance de la langue •Reconnaissance du locuteur •Signaux sociaux, sociophonétique •Synthèse de la parole Critères de Sélection Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n’ayant pas fait l’objet de publications antérieures. Les contributions proposées seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine. Seront considérées en particulier : •l’importance et l’originalité de la contribution ; •la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine ; •la situation des travaux présentés dans le contexte de la recherche internationale ; •l’organisation et la clarté de la présentation ; •l’adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence. 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’AFCP offre un certain nombre de bourses pour les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs désireux de prendre part à la conférence, voir le site de l’AFCP 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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| 3-3-12 | (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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| 3-3-13 | (2012-06-06) International Symposium on Audiovisual Detection of Errors in Pronunciation Training (IS ADEPT)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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| 3-3-14 | (2012-06-08) Appel pour ateliers et tutoriels TALN FranceAppel 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel <LN@cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/
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| 3-3-15 | (2012-06-08) Workshop of NAACL-HLT 2012 on 'Will We Ever Really Replace the N-gram Model? On the Future of Language Modeling for HLT. 'NAACL-HLT 2012 workshop is 'Will We Ever Really Replace the N-gram Model? On the Future of Language Modeling for HLT. ' The details of our workshop are given on our web page https://sites.google.com/site/wlm2012naacl/
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| 3-3-16 | (2012-06-10) APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2012, Hollywood, CAAPSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2012 (http://www.apsipa2012.org/) Hollywood, California, USA, December 3-6, 2012 Paper submission Deadline: June 10, 2012 Important Dates: Submission of Proposals for Special Sessions, Forum, Panel & Tutorial Sessions: May 10, 2012 Submission of Full and Short Papers: June 10, 2012 Submission of Papers in Special Sessions: July 10, 2012 Notification of Papers Acceptance: Aug. 30, 2012 Submission of Camera Ready Papers: Sep. 30, 2012 Welcome to the APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (ASC) 2012 located in Hollywood, California. Hollywood is home to the stars and to some of the most recognizable attractions in the world. APSIPA ASC 2012 will be the 4th annual conference organized by 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 (2009), Singapore (2010) and China (2011). The regular technical program tracks and topics of interest include (but not limited to): 1. Biomedical Signal Processing and Systems (BioSPS) 1.1 Biomedical Imaging 1.2 Modeling and Processing of Physiological Signals (EKG, MEG, EKG, EMG, etc) 1.3 Biologically-inspired Signal Processing 1.4 Medical Informatics and Healthcare Systems 1.5 Genomic and Proteomic Signal Processing 2. Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation (SPS) 2.1 Nanoelectronics and Gigascale Systems 2.2 VLSI Systems and Applications 2.3 Embedded Systems 2.4 Video Processing and Coding 2.5 Signal Processing Systems for Data Communication 3. Image, Video, and Multimedia (IVM) 3.1 Image/video Coding 3.2 3D image/video Processing 3.3 Image/video Segmentation and Recognition 3.4 Multimedia Indexing, Search and Retrieval 3.5 Image/video Forensics, Security and Human Biometrics 3.6 Graphics and Animation 3.7 Multimedia Systems and Applications 4. Speech, Language, and Audio (SLA) 4.1 Speech Processing: Analysis, Coding, Synthesis, Recognition and Understanding 4.2 Natural Language Processing: Translation, Information Retrieval, Dialogue 4.3 Audio Processing: Coding, Source Separation, Echo Cancellation, Noise Suppression 4.4 Music Processing 5. Signal and Information Processing Theory and Methods (SIPTM) 5.1 Signal Representation, Transforms and Fast Algorithms 5.2 Time Frequency and Time Scale Signal Analysis 5.3 Digital Filters and Filter Banks 5.4 DSP Architecture 5.5 Statistical Signal Processing 5.6 Adaptive Systems and Active Noise Control 5.7 Sparse Signal Processing 5.8 Signal Processing for Communications 5.9 Signal Processing for Energy Systems 5.10 Signal Processing for Emerging Applications 6. Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN) 6.1 Wireless Communications: Physical Layer 6.2 Wireless Communications and Networking: Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, MAC, Wireless Routing and Cross-layer Design 6.3 Wireless Networking: Access Network and Core Network 6.4 Security and Cryptography 6.5 Devices and Hardware Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit either full papers, up to 10 pages in length, or short papers up to 4 pages in length, where full papers will be for the single-track oral presentation and short papers will be mostly for poster presentation. The conference proceedings of the main conference will be published, available and maintained at the APSIPA website. The proceedings will be indexed by EI Compendex. Tutorial Proposals: Tutorials will be held on Monday, December 3, 2012. Proposals must include title, outline, contact and biography information of the presenter, and a short description of the material to be distributed. Special Session Proposals: Proposals must provide title, rationale, contact and biography information of the organizers, and a list of invited papers with tentative title and abstract. Awards will be given to a number of papers with best quality. More information can be found at conference website http://www.apsipa2012.org/. Look forward to seeing you in Hollywood! General Chairs: C.-C. Jay Kuo, Shrikanth Narayanan and Antonio Ortega University of Southern California
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| 3-3-17 | (2012-06-15) CfP XVèmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (French)- Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 École Doctorale 268 « Langage et langues : description, théorisation, transmission » XVèmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs Date limite de soumission reportée au 10 mars. http://www.univ-paris3.fr/rjc2012 Créées en 1998, les Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs de l'École Doctorale « Langage et langues» (ED 268, Université Paris III) offrent la possibilité aux jeunes chercheurs inscrits en Doctorat ou en Master Recherche de présenter leurs travaux sous forme de communication orale ou de poster.
Au carrefour des disciplines : On assiste depuis la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle à un processus de fragmentation des savoirs, à la fois scientifique et politique, qui a contribué à construire le paysage actuel de la recherche. De nouvelles disciplines, telles que la psychologie ou la sociologie, se sont institutionnalisées. Dans le même temps, les différents domaines du savoir ont connu une spécialisation grandissante, tant dans le champ des sciences humaines que dans les autres sciences. Depuis quelques années, un sentiment de « crise d'identité » (Bouvier, 2004) des disciplines se manifeste par le nombre croissant de programmes de recherche qui visent à promouvoir la collaboration ou la confrontation de différentes spécialités, afin d'étudier les phénomènes dans leur globalité. L'étude des faits de langue requiert une multiplication des points de vue (étude du son, de la structure, du sens, etc.) et des emprunts à la logique, aux sciences cognitives, à l'anthropologie, à l'histoire, etc. Ainsi, les sciences du langage se révèlent emblématiques de ces échanges entre les domaines du savoir. S'intéresser aux rapports entre disciplines implique de s'interroger sur la notion de « discipline » elle-même, d'analyser les relations d'englobement (« sous-disciplines », « composantes ») et les délimitations internes d'une discipline donnée. On ne peut circonscrire une discipline sans faire appel à des critères à la fois épistémologiques (définition de l'objet d'étude, méthodologie, formulation d'un ensemble d'explications cohérentes, etc.), sociaux et historiques (institutionnalisation).
Il faut également définir quels sont les modes d'interactions possibles entre les disciplines. À la suite de Frédéric Darbellay (2005) et de Patrick Charaudeau (2010), nous en distinguons trois : la « pluridisciplinarité », l'« interdisciplinarité » et la « transdisciplinarité ». Est « pluridisciplinaire » une démarche de recherche dans laquelle chaque discipline conserve son autonomie, ses méthodes et ses outils ; il s'agit « d'une juxtaposition de points de vue qui apportent chacun une connaissance particulière sur le phénomène étudié » (Charaudeau, 2010). Est « interdisciplinaire » une approche qui s'efforce de faire dialoguer plusieurs disciplines sur un même thème, cherchant ainsi à « établir de véritables connexions entre concepts, outils d'analyse et modes d'interprétation » (ibid.). Enfin, est « transdisciplinaire » une démarche qui transcende les disciplines, réalisant une « intégration des savoirs [...] de telle sorte qu'émerge un discours sui generis construisant son propre lieu de pensée » (ibid.). L'inter- et la transdisciplinarité ne se résument pas à un simple phénomène de « mode intellectuelle ». On peut les envisager comme un « principe de précaution » permettant de mettre à distance « les visions et les divisions du travail scientifique que les disciplines imposent ». Ainsi que le rappellent Nicolas Freymond et al. (2003) : « oublier que c'est le point de vue qui crée l'objet conduit à enfermer la pratique scientifique dans des limites qui ne jouissent d'aucune pertinence théorique ». Le recours critique à plusieurs (sous-)disciplines ou courants disciplinaires paraît donc nécessaire. Dans cette perspective, les RJC 2012 invitent les participants à réfléchir aux possibilités d'échange (de concepts, de méthodes, de résultats, etc.), de confrontation, voire de fusion, entre différentes spécialités. Nous retiendrons en particulier les communications qui s'intéressent aux questions suivantes :
Bibliographie sélective
Conférenciers invités :
Comité Scientifique :
Comité d'Organisation : Le colloque est ouvert à tous : masterants, doctorants, chercheurs... Entrée libre en fonction des places disponibles. Une attestation de présence sera remise aux participants Soumission Les propositions de communication orale se feront en police Times New Roman 12, interligne simple, sous forme d'un résumé de 1000 mots au maximum (références incluses) et les propositions de poster sous forme d'un résumé de 500 mots au maximum (références incluses). Dans le cas de transcriptions phonétiques, veuillez utiliser la police SILDoulos téléchargeable ici. Les propositions sont à envoyer au Comité d'Organisation par courriel (rjc.ed268.2012@gmail.com) en double exemplaire au format .rtf : le premier sera nommé « anon_nom-de-l-auteur_rjc2012. rtf » (par exemple « anon_DUPONT_rjc2012.rtf ») et contiendra :
Le titre 5 mots-clés La ou les discipline(s) Le résumé Le type de présentation (communication orale ou poster) Le second nommé « nom-de-l-auteur_rjc2012.rtf » (par exemple « DUPONT_rjc2012.rtf ») devra comporter les informations suivantes, en plus des précédentes : Les coordonnées (nom, prénom, courriel et adresse postale) L'affiliation (nom de l'université, nom du laboratoire) Le niveau d'études (master / doctorat / post-doc ; préciser le nombre d'années pour le doctorat) Le directeur de recherche Une seule soumission par participant sera examinée. Les communications orales et les posters pourront se faire en anglais ou en français. La durée de la communication est fixée à 20 minutes + 10 minutes de discussion. Contact et soumission: rjc.ed268.2012@gmail.com Calendrier Date limite pour les soumissions : 15 février 2012 Notification et début des inscriptions : 30 mars 2012 Date limite pour les inscriptions et le dépôt du résumé : 15 avril 2012 Colloque : 15 & 16 juin 2012
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| 3-3-18 | (2012-06-18) 19th International ECSE Summer School in Novel Computing , JOENSUU, FINLAND 19th International ECSE Summer School in Novel Computing
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| 3-3-19 | (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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| 3-3-20 | (2012-06-27) CfP 10th International Workshop On Content –Based Multimedia Indexing, University of Savoie France
the submission date for CBMI'2012 has been extended to February 20th, 2012
********10th International Workshop On Content –Based Multimedia Indexing****** Following the nine successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes International Workshop CBMI 2012 aims at bringing together the various communities Technical Program: All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will Paper submission: Important dates: Chairs: Steering committee: Special issue: Cultural program: CALL FOR PAPERS www.polytech.univ-savoie.fr/cbmi2012
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| 3-3-21 | (2012-07-02) eNTERFACE'12 Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Supelec, Metz, France The 8th International Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces; July 2nd - July 27th, 2012; Supélec (Metz, France) After the previous workshops, held in Mons (Belgium), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Istanbul (Turkey), Paris (France), Genova (Switzerland), Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Plzen (Czech Republic) which had an impressive success record and had proven the viability and usefulness of this original workshop, the 8th editionwill take place in Supélec (Metz, France). eNTERFACE workshops aims at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, attached to specific projects, working on free software. Each week will typically consist of working sessions by the teams on their respective projects plus a tutorial given by an invited senior researcher and a presentation of the results achieved by each project group. The last week will be devoted to writing an article on the results obtained by the teams plus a big session where all the groups will present their achievements. This year, participants will be provided with an especially great technical infrastructure, the SmartRoom. In addition to basic network infrastructure and internet access, robots (Nao, Parrot drone, Koala, Rovio and Bioloid), multimedia devices (2d and 3d cameras, Kinect, array of microphones and even an holophonic room) and sensors (brain computer interfaces, eyetrackers and some biomedical sensors) will be available for the projects. For more details, see the website. The eNTERFACE'12 committee now invites researchers to submit project proposals that will be evaluated by the scientific committee. All the informations asked to submit a project are available on the website of the workshop (http://enterface12.metz.supelec.fr  Back | |  Top | |
Standardization Activities in Multimedia Quality Evaluation: Benchmarking efforts, multimedia databases/ datasets of various modalities (speech, audio, video, sensory, etc.) and fidelities (quality, bitrate, etc.), testing conditions and methods, new objective metrics and models for upcoming standards.
- Dataset hosting as part of COST IC1003 QUALINET [2].
- Citable publication as part of the QoMEX proceedings.
Datasets shall be appropriately anonymized and will be evaluated by the program committee on the basis of the collection methodology and the value of the dataset as a resource for the research community.
*) Submission deadline: February 14, 2012
:- Dr. Christian Timmerer
:- Ass.-Prof., Multimedia Communication, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
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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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EUSIPCO 2012
27-31 August 2012, Bucharest, Romania
The 2012 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2012) is the 20th of its kind organized by the European Association for Signal, Speech, and Image Processing (EURASIP). The conference will be held at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania and is organized by University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and Telecom ParisTech.
The focus will be on signal processing theory, algorithms, and applications. Papers will be accepted based on quality, relevance, and novelty and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of EUSIPCO-2012 and indexed in the main bibliographic databases (IEEExplore inclusion pending, ISI Thomson Web of Knowledge pending).
Areas of Interest
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ScheduleProposal for special sessions:December 4, 2011 Proposals for tutorials: February 19, 2012 Electronic submission of papers: February 26, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2012 Submissions of camera-ready papers: June 17, 2012 |
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
- Vivek Goyal, MIT, USA: 'Space-from-Time Imaging: Acquiring Reflectance and Depth With Less Optics
- Lajos Hanzo, EURASIP Fellow, University of Southampton, UK: 'Shannonian Abstractions, Real-Time Interactive Communications Calamities and Near-Capacity Multimedia Transceivers...'
- Jean-Paul Haton, IEEE Fellow, IARP Fellow, IUF, France: 'Automatic Speech Recognition: Past, Present and Future'
- Christian Jutten, IEEE Fellow, IUF, GIPSA Lab, France: 'Source Separation in Nonlinear Mixtures: How and Why?'
- Arye Nehorai, IEEE Fellow, RSS Fellow, Washington Univ. in St. Louis: 'Computable performance analysis of sparsity recovery with applications'
- Mihaela van der Schaar, IEEE Fellow, UCLA
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Alle-Jan van der Veen, IEEE Fellow, Delft Univ. of Technology: 'Sensing the universe: Signal processing challenges for large radio telescope arrays'
More information is available at http://www.eusipco2012.org
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMITATION AND CONVERGENCE IN SPEECH (ISICS 2012)
Aix-en-Provence, France, 3-5 September 2012
mail: isics2012@lpl-aix.fr
website: spim.risc.cnrs.fr/ISICS.htm
OVERVIEW
In the course of a conversational interaction, the behavior of each talker often tends to become more similar to that of the conversational partner. Such convergence effects have been shown to manifest themselves under many different forms, which include posture, body movements, facial expressions, and speech. Imitative speech behavior is a phenomenon that may be actively exploited by talkers to facilitate their conversational exchange. It occurs, by definition, within a social interaction, but has consequences for language that extend much beyond the temporal limits of that interaction. It has been suggested that imitation plays an important role in speech development and may also form one of the key mechanisms that underlie the emergence and evolution of human languages. The behavioral tendency shown by humans to imitate others may be connected at the brain level with the presence of mirror neurons, whose discovery has raised important issues about the role that these neurons may fulfill in many different domains, from sensorimotor integration to the understanding of others' behavior.
The focus of this international symposium will be the fast-growing body of research on convergence phenomena between speakers in speech. The symposium will also aim to assess current research on the brain and cognitive underpinnings of imitative behavior. Our main goal will be to bring together researchers with a large variety of scientific backgrounds (linguistics, speech sciences, psycholinguistics, experimental sociolinguistics, neurosciences, cognitive sciences) with a view to improving our understanding of the role of imitation in the production, comprehension and acquisition of spoken language.
The symposium is organized by the laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France (www.lpl.univ-aix.fr). It will be chaired by Noël Nguyen (LPL) and Marc Sato (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble), and will be held in the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences Humaines.
INVITED SPEAKERS
. Luciano Fadiga, University of Ferrara, Italy
. Maëva Garnier, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France
. Simon Garrod, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
. Beatrice Szczepek Reed, University of York, United Kingdom
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited on the topics covered by the symposium. Abstracts not exceeding 2 pages must be submitted electronically and in pdf format by 15 April 2012. They will be selected by the Scientific Committee on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the symposium. Notifications of acceptance/rejection will be sent to the authors by 31 May 2012.
IMPORTANT DATES
. 15 April 2012: Abstract submission deadline
. 31 May 2012: Notification of acceptance / rejection
. 30 June 2012: Early registration deadline
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
. Patti Adank, University of Manchester, UK
. Martine Adda-Decker, laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Paris, France
. Gérard Bailly, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France
. Roxane Bertrand, laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France
. Ann Bradlow, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
. Jennifer Cole, Department of Linguistics, Urbana-Champaign, USA
. Mariapaola D’Imperio, laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France
. Laura Dilley, Department of Psychology and Linguistics, Michigan State University, USA
. Sophie Dufour, laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France
. Carol Fowler, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, USA
. Jonathan Harrington, University of Munich, Germany
. Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
. Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, New York, USA
. Holger Mitterer, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
. Lorenza Mondada, laboratoire ICAR, Lyon, France
. Kuniko Nielsen, Oakland University, Rochester, USA
. Noël Nguyen, laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France
. Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh, UK
. Marc Sato, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France
. Jean-Luc Schwartz, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France
. Véronique Traverso, laboratoire ICAR, Lyon, France
. Sophie Wauquier, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
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TSD 2012 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Fifteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2012)
Brno, Czech Republic, 3-7 September 2012
http://www.tsdconference.org/
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
March 15 2012 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2012 ............ Submission of full papers
Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases
such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.
The TSD 2012 conference will be accompanied by a one-day satellite workshop
Hybrid Machine Translation
The workshop is organized in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU project
Consortium, submissions from other EU machine translation and other
projects are more than welcomed. The MT workshop submissions will
undergo two separate review processes - the best papers which will
succeed in both review processes (by the TSD 2012 Conference PC and MT
Workshop 2012 PC) will be published in the TSD 2012 Springer
Proceedings, all other accepted MT workshop papers will be published
in a separate proceedings with ISBN. The MT workshop will take
place on September 3 2012 in the conference venue.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
(morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
(machine translation, natural language understanding,
question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair)
Eneko Agirre, Spain
Genevieve Baudoin, France
Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, GB
Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
Patrick Hanks, GB
Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
Ales Horak, Czech Republic
Eduard Hovy, USA
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
Diana McCarthy, UK
Hermann Ney, Germany
Elmar Noeth, Germany
Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
Karel Pala, Czech Republic
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
Fabio Pianesi, Italy
Maciej Piasecki, Poland
Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
James Pustejovsky, USA
Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
Milan Rusko, Slovakia
Pavel Skrelin, Russia
Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
Stefan Steidl, Germany
Georg Stemmer, Germany
Marko Tadic, Croatia
Tamas Varadi, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
Yorick Wilks, GB
Victor Zakharov, Russia
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.
Papers submitted to TSD 2012 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
As reviewing will be 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) ...'. Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.
The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX
or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final
versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the
final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the
submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper
to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of
CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.
The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file
with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,
presenters will receive further information on submitting their
camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on
the final paper format see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings).
Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference. The presenters of the demonstration should provide the
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 15 2012 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2012 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2012 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2012 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
July 26 2012 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts
July 31 2012 ............. Notification of acceptance for
demonstrations sent to the authors
September 3-7 2012 ....... Conference date
Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.
The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
Vendula Halkova, TSD 2012
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
email: tsd2012@tsdconference.org
The official TSD 2012 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/
LOCATION
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow,
Saint Petersburg, Eindhoven, Rome and Prague and by trains or
buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may
also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called
Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat
designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important
buildings of between-war Czech architecture.
For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with
Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of
three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz
- Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),
Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice
Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish
cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO
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Call for Participation INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge Personality, Likability, Pathology http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is12-speaker-trait-challenge _____________________________________________ The Challenge Whereas the first open comparative challenges in the field of paralinguistics targeted more 'conventional' phenomena such as emotion, age, and gender, there still exists a multiplicity of not yet covered, but highly relevant speaker states and traits. In the last instalment, we focused on speaker states, namely sleepiness and intoxication. Consequently, we now focus on speaker traits. The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge broadens the scope by addressing three less researched speaker traits: the computational analysis of personality, likability, and pathology in speech. Apart from intelligent and socially competent future agents and robots, main applications are found in the medical domain. In these respects, the INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge shall help bridging the gap between excellent research on paralinguistic information in spoken language and low compatibility of results. Three Sub-Challenges are addressed: . In the Personality Sub-Challenge, the personality of a speaker has to be determined based on acoustics potentially including linguistics for the OCEAN five personality dimensions, each mapped onto two classes. . In the Likability Sub-Challenge, the likability of a speaker's voice has to be determined by a learning algorithm and acoustic features. While the annotation provides likability in multiple levels, the classification task is binarised. . In the Pathology Sub-Challenge, the intelligibility of a speaker has to be determined by a classification algorithm and acoustic features. The measures of competition will be Unweighted Average Recall of the two classes. Transcription of the train and development sets will be known. All Sub-Challenges allow contributors to find their own features with their own machine learning algorithm. However, a standard feature set will be provided per corpus that may be used. Participants will have to stick to the definition of training, development, and test sets. They may report on results obtained on the development set, but have only five trials to upload their results on the test sets, whose labels are unknown to them. Each participation will be accompanied by a paper presenting the results that undergoes peer-review and has to be accepted for the conference in order to participate in the Challenge. The organisers preserve the right to re-evaluate the findings, but will not participate themselves in the Challenge. Participants are encouraged to compete in all Sub-Challenges. Overall, contributions using the provided or equivalent data are sought in (but not limited to) the following areas: . Participation in the Personality Sub-Challenge . Participation in the Likability Sub-Challenge . Participation in the Pathology Sub-Challenge . Novel features and algorithms for the analysis of speaker traits . Unsupervised learning methods for speaker trait analysis . Perception studies, additional annotation and feature analysis on the given sets . Context exploitation in speaker trait assessment The results of the Challenge will be presented at Interspeech 2012 in Portland, Oregon. Prizes will be awarded to the Sub-Challenge winners. If you are interested and planning to participate in the Speaker Trait Challenge, or if you want to be kept informed about the Challenge, please send the organisers an e-mail to indicate your interest and visit the homepage: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is12-speaker-trait-challenge _____________________________________________ Organisers: Björn Schuller (TUM, Germany) Stefan Steidl (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Anton Batliner (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Elmar Nöth (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Alessandro Vinciarelli (University of Glasgow, UK) Felix Burkhardt (Deutsche Telekom, Germany) Rob van Son (Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands) _____________________________________________ If you want to participate, please find the License Agreement at: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/IS12-STC-Agreement.pdf Thank you for excusing cross-postings. All the best, Björn Schuller On behalf of the Organisers ___________________________________________ Dr. Björn Schuller Senior Lecturer Technische Universität München Institute for Human-Machine Communication D-80333 München Germany +49-(0)89-289-28548 schuller@tum.de www.mmk.ei.tum.de/~sch ___________________________________________
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Special session at the next Interspeech conference Portland, Oregon, September 9-13, 2012.
This special session is entitled “Glottal Source Processing: from Analysis to Applications”.
The special session aims at gathering researchers interested in speech processing techniques dealing with the analysis of the glottal excitation, and in its applicability in various speech technologies such as voice pathology detection, speech synthesis, speaker identification and emotion recognition.
The deadline for full paper submission is April 1, 2012. Note that your paper will go through the regular reviewing system and will be included in the special session if it is accepted and fits the scope.
First we have to collect a list of potential papers that could be submitted to the special session.
If you think that you could have a contribution to submit, please return the tentative title, authors and affiliations by email: thomas.drugman - at - umons.ac.be
If you think that you could have a contribution to submit in April, could you please return by email for January 12 the tentative title, authors and affiliations
T. Drugman, P. Alku, B. Yegnanarayana and A. Alwan
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Special Session at Interspeech 2012
Speech and Audio Analysis of Consumer and Semi-Professional Multimedia
http://interspeech2012.org/Special.html
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Consumer-grade and semi-professional multimedia material (video) is becoming abundant on the Internet and other online archives. It is easier than ever to download material of any kind. With cell-phones now featuring video recording capability along with broadband connectivity, multimedia material can be recorded and distributed across the world just as easily as text could just a couple of years ago. The easy availability of vast amounts of text gave a huge boost to the Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval research communities, The above-mentioned multimedia material is set to do the same for multi-modal audio and video analysis and generation. We argue that the speech and language research community should embrace that trend, as it would profit vastly from the availability of this material, and has significant own know-how and experience to contribute, which will help shape this field.
Consumer-created (as opposed to broadcast news, “professional style”) multimedia material offers a great opportunity for research on all aspects of human-to-human as well as man-machine interaction, which can be processed offline, but on a much larger scale than is possible in online, controlled experiments. Speech is naturally an important part of these interactions, which can link visual objects, people, and other observations across modalities. Research results will inform future research and development directions in interactive settings, e.g. robotics, interactive agents, etc., and give a significant boost to core (offline) analysis techniques such as robust audio and video processing, speech and language understanding, as well as multimodal fusion.
Large-scale multi-modal analysis of audio-visual material is beginning in a number of multi-site research projects across the world, driven by various communities, such as information retrieval, video search, copyright protection, etc. While each of these have slightly different targets, they are facing largely the same challenges: how to robustly and efficiently process large amounts of data, how to represent and then fuse information across modalities, how to train classifiers and segmenters on un-labeled data, how to include human feedback, etc. Speech, language and audio researchers have considerable interest and experience in these areas, and should be at the core and forefront of this research. To make progress at a useful rate, researchers must be connected in a focused way, and be aware of each other’s work, in order to discuss algorithmic approaches, ideas for evaluation and comparisons across corpora and modalities, training methods with various degrees of supervision, available data sets, etc. Sharing software, databases, research results and projects' descriptions are some of the key elements to success which are at the core of the Speech and Language in Multimedia (SLIM) SIG's objectives.
The special session will serve these goals by bringing together researchers from different fields – speech, but also audio, multimedia – to share experience, resources and foster new research directions and initiatives. Contributions are expected on all aspects of speech and audio processing for multimedia contents: research results but also presentation of ongoing research projects or software, multimedia databases and benchmarking initiatives, etc. A special session, as opposed to a regular session, offers unique opportunities to emphasize interaction between participants with the goal of strengthening and growing the SLIM community. The following format will be adopted: a few selected talks targeting a large audience (e.g., project or dataset descriptions, overview) will open the session, followed by a panel and open discussion on how to develop our community along with poster presentations.
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54th International Symposium ELMAR-2012
September 12-14, 2012
Zadar, Croatia
Paper submission deadline: March 19, 2012
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS
TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS
IEEE Region 8
IEEE Croatia Section
IEEE Croatia Section SP, AP and MTT Chapters
EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY
IEEE Xplore, INSPEC, SCOPUS and CPCI
(Conference Proceedings Citation Index)
TOPICS
--> Image and Video Processing
--> Multimedia Communications
--> Speech and Audio Processing
--> Wireless Communications
--> Telecommunications
--> Antennas and Propagation
--> e-Learning and m-Learning
--> Navigation Systems
--> Ship Electronic Systems
--> Power Electronics and Automation
--> Naval Architecture
--> Sea Ecology
--> Special Sessions:
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2012/special_sessions/
--> Student Session (B.Sc. and M.Sc. students only):
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2012/student_session/
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
* Prof. Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Germany:
Recent Advances on Bootstrap for Signal Processing
* Prof. Alan Hanjalic, The Netherlands:
Advances in Multimedia Information Retrieval
SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of full papers: March 19, 2012
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 21, 2012
Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: May 29, 2012
Preliminary program available online by: June 12, 2012
Registration forms and payment deadline: June 19, 2012
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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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The MediaEval 2012 season kicks off with the MediaEval 2012 Survey. The survey is used to collect your opinion on which tasks should be run in MediaEval 2012:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mediaeval2012tasksurvey
The survey will take you 5 minutes if you fill in only the main questions and about 25 minutes if you chose to answer the additional questions and give comments (which we encourage).
Our goal is to have the survey filled out by as many researchers as possible by the end of the month -- please pass this mail along to colleagues in the field of multimedia.
The MediaEval 2012 task list will be finalized in mid-February and sign up will open soon after. Please be sure to fill your email address in on the first page of the survey if you would like to receive a mail when sign up opens.
See http://www.multimediaeval.org for further information. Note that this year runs will be due early to mid-September and the workshop will be held early October (i.e., a month later than last year).
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Martha Larson -- m.a.larson@tudelft.nl
Guillaume Gravier -- guig@irisa.fr
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