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3-2-1 | (2012-05-22) 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2012 May 22-25 http://www.speechprosody2012.org/
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3-2-2 | (2012-05-27) The Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012), Nanjing, China The Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012) Nanjing, China, May 27-29, 2012
The Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012) will be held in Nanjing, China during May 27-29, 2012. This will be a long-awaited event following TAL 2004 (Beijing, China) and TAL 2006 (La Rochelle, France). As a satellite meeting of Speech Prosody 2012 (to be held in Shanghai, China during May 22-25, 2012), TAL 2012 will be organized by Nanjing Normal University under the joint supports of the International Speech Communication Association (especially by SProSIG and SIG-CSLP), the International Phonetic Association, the Phonetic Association of China, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Acoustical Society of China, and the Chinese Dialect Society. The theme of TAL 2012 is ‘Tonal aspects across tone and non-tone languages.’ Following the heritage of the past two symposia, TAL 2012 will continue to focus on tone languages, covering studies of tones from phonetic, phonological, psychological, technological, and pathological points of view; but will also welcome studies on tonal aspects of non-tone languages and singing. In particular, this symposium emphasizes the relationship between phonology and phonetics of tones, the relationship between production and perception of tones, the modeling of tones, and the practical utilization of tonal information in spoken language processing. We will make it a great opportunity for linguists, phoneticians, psychologists, language educators, speech pathologists, and speech engineers from all over the world to get together to share and deepen our understanding of tones. Nanjing, which literally means ‘South Capital,’ has a prominent status in China’s long history and glorious culture. It had been the capital of China during ten dynasties including early Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China. With its beautiful nature and a variety of traditional architectures and historical sights, Nanjing is one of China’s most attractive cities. The transportation to Nanjing is very convenient. There are direct international flights between Nanjing and some cities in Europe, USA and Asian countries. Also, it takes only about 80-90 minutes to travel by train between Nanjing and Shanghai, where the airline connections to almost all main cities in the world are available. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers (up to 6 pages and written in English) on original research related to tonal aspects of languages, including but not limited to: - Phonology and phonetics of tones - Typology of tones and tone languages - Tone production and perception - Tone language acquisition and learning - Evolution of tones and tone change - Tone, accent, and intonation - Tonal variation in continuous speech - Modeling of tonal aspects of languages - Speech processing for tone languages - Tonal processing in speech recognition and synthesis - Psychological and neural mechanisms of tones - Pathology and therapy for tonal aspects of languages - Speech corpus and annotation for tones - Cross-linguistic study of tone languages and non-tone languages - Tonal information in forensic phonetics - Tone in singing and traditional operas We are also calling for exhibits and financial supports. Donations from corporate, academic, government, and individual sponsors would be greatly appreciated. Your support brings you various benefits as stated in our website.
Important Dates Special session proposal: December 20, 2011 Submission of full papers: February 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012 Camera-ready paper due: March 25, 2012 Early registration deadline: March 31, 2012
General Chair: Wentao Gu (Professor, Nanjing Normal University, China) Contact Email: TAL2012nj@gmail.com
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3-2-3 | (2012-06-04) JEP 2012 Grenoble France APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS JEP'2012 29e Journées d'Études sur la Parole Grenoble du 4 au 8 juin 2012 CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 31 janvier 2012 Notification aux auteurs : 20 mars 2012 Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 15 avril 2012 Conférence : 4-8 juin 2012 PRÉSENTATION Organisée par l'équipe GETALP du LIG (Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble), le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de linguistique et didactique des langues étrangères et maternelles) et le département DPC du Gipsa-lab, les JEP'2012 se tiendront du 4 au 8 juin 2012 à Grenoble à l'occasion de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012. JEP-TALN-RECITAL'2012 regroupe la 29ème édition des Journées d'Étude sur la Parole (JEP'2012), la 19ème édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'2012) et la 14ème édition des Rencontres des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'2012). Pour la quatrième fois, après Nancy en 2002, Fès en 2004, et Avignon en 2008, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) et l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) organisent conjointement leur principale conférence afin de réunir en un seul lieu les deux communautés du traitement de la langue orale et écrite. Les JEP'2012 comprendront des communications orales et affichées et des conférences invitées. Thématiques
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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 (http://www.jeptaln2012.org). Contact : laurent.besacier@imag.fr Bourses L'ISCA apporte également un soutien financier aux jeunes chercheurs participant à des manifestations scientifiques sur la parole et le langage, voir le site de l'ISCA
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3-2-4 | (2012-06-04) JEP 2012 Grenoble, France- Invitation to students Dans le cadre de sa politique d’ouverture internationale, et en
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3-2-5 | (2012-07-05) CfP SIGDIAL 2012 Conference, Seoul, South KoreaCALL FOR PAPERS SIGDIAL 2012 CONFERENCE: 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog Seoul, South Korea July 5-6, 2012 Deadline for submissions: March 26, 2012 GMT-11 CALL FOR PAPERS The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialog to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of twelve successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialog. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization (http://www.sigdial.org/), which serves as the Special Interest Group on discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA. Topics of Interest We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation or analytical work on discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following themes and topics: 1. Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems 2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology 3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling 4. Dimensions of Interaction 5. Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology For a detailed list of topics of interest, see http://nlp.postech.ac.kr/sigdial2012/topics.htm. Special Theme Coherence, whether understood as 'general overall interrelatedness' or 'continuity in meaning and context' (Louwerse and Graesser, 2005) is a topic that spans research on discourse and on dialog and has strong connections to research on coreference, discourse structure, dialog/task modeling, natural language generation, etc. The special theme for SIGDIAL 2012 is 'characterizing dialog coherence', where dialog includes multi-party interaction. We welcome theoretical, analytical, computational or interdisciplinary submissions on this topic. SUBMISSIONS The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. * Long papers will be presented in full plenary presentations. They must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, content, and examples. Two additional pages are allowed for references and appendices which may include extended example discourses or dialogs, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. * Short papers will be featured in short plenary presentations, followed by posters. They should be no longer than 4 pages. One additional page is allowed for references and appendices. * Demonstrations will be presented in special sessions, separate from short paper presentations and poster sessions. Demo descriptions will appear in a dedicated section of the proceedings and should be no longer than 3 pages, inclusive of references. To encourage late breaking demos, demo submissions have a later deadline. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission format). SIGDIAL 2012 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere, except for demonstrations. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the technical program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips or sound clips and examples of available resources for review purposes. Submission is electronic using paper submission software at: https://www.softconf.com/c/sigdial2012/ FORMAT All long, short, and demo submissions should follow the two-column ACL-HLT 2012 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for ACL-HLT 2012 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL-HLT 2012 style guidelines (http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp), and they must be electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous. MENTORING SERVICE The mentoring service offered last year has been very beneficial. We will follow the same practice this year. Submissions with innovative core ideas that may need language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and conditionally accepted with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. Any questions about the mentoring service can be addressed to the mentoring service chair, Dr. Kallirroi Georgila, at kgeorgila[at]ict.usc.edu. BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SPONSORSHIP SIGDIAL also offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email Jason Williams, Sponsorship Chair, at jdw[at]research.att.com. Dialogue and Discourse SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal Dialogue and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGDIAL. IMPORTANT DATES Long and Short Papers Submission Deadline March 26, 23:59, GMT-11, 2012 Paper Notification May 7, 2012 Final Paper Due June 4, 2012 Demos Submission Deadline May 14, 2012 Notification May 21, 2012 Final Paper Due June 4, 2012 Conference July 5-6, 2012 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE For any questions, please contact the appropriate members of the organizing committee: General Co-Chairs Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, South Korea Jonathan Ginzburg, Universite Paris-Diderot, France Technical Program Co-Chairs Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA Nancy, France Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Mentoring Chair Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies Local Chair Minhwa Chung, Seoul National University Sponsorships Chair Jason Williams AT&T Labs - Research, USA SIGDIAL President Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA SIGDIAL Vice President Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA SIGDIAL Secretary/Treasurer Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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3-2-6 | (2012-09-09) Special Session at Interspeech 2012 Speech and Audio Analysis of Consumer and Semi-Professional Multimedia Special Session at Interspeech 2012 Assistant Research Professor
Language Technologies Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
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