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| 3-3-1 | (2012-08-27) CfP EUSIPCO 2012 Bucharest Romania EUSIPCO 2012 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).
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
More information is available at http://www.eusipco2012.org
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| 3-3-2 | (2012-09-03) CfP INT. SYMPOSIUM ON IMITATION AND CONVERGENCE IN SPEECH (ISICS 2012)-Aix-en-Provence, France INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMITATION AND CONVERGENCE IN SPEECH (ISICS 2012)
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| 3-3-3 | (2012-09-03) Fifteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2012), Brno, Czech RepublicTSD 2012 - CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND PARTICIPATION
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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/
SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS
Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software and
hardware or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference. The authors of the demonstrations should provide the
abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The submission must be
made using an online form available at the conference www pages.
The accepted demonstrations will be presented during a special
Demonstration Session (see the Demo Instructions at
www.tsdconference.org). Demonstrators can present their contribution
with their own notebook with an Internet connection provided by the
organisers or the organisers can prepare a PC computer with multimedia
support for demonstrators.
IMPORTANT DATES
August 3 2012 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 10 2012 ............ Notification of acceptance for
demonstrations sent to the authors
September 3-7 2012 ........ Conference dates
The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the Proceedings of TSD
2012 but they will be published electronically at the conference website.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
The Impact of Anaphora and Coreference Resolution on NLP Applications
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Computational Stylometry
Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK
Getting to Know Your Corpus
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
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
Topics of the MT Workshop include all themes of machine translation (with
stress on hybrid aspects of MT). The workshop is organized in cooperation
with the PRESEMT EU project Consortium, submissions from other EU machine
translation and related projects are more than welcomed. 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
Jan Pomikálek, Czech Republic
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
Pascal Wiggers, the Netherlands
Yorick Wilks, GB
Victor Zakharov, Russia
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.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation are available at the conference website.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
Ales Horak, 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
heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
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| 3-3-4 | (2012-09-03) Hybrid Machine Translation Workshop Brno Czech Rep.*********************************************************
Hybrid Machine Translation - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Hybrid Machine Translation Workshop, satellite workshop of TSD 2012
Brno, Czech Republic, 3 September 2012
http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2012/conf_workshop.html
The MT Workshop is organized by the Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Brno, in cooperation with the PRESEMT EU
project Consortium. The MT Workshop is a satellite workshop of
the Text, Speech and Dialog Conference.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
March 25 2012 ............ Submission of full papers
The submission will be closed during the next day after the deadline.
HYBRID MACHINE TRANSLATION
Interest in flexible and adaptable MT systems, based on the
language-independent hybrid methods, whose principles ensure easy
portability to new language pairs has led us to organizing
an MT Workshop in the framework of the TSD Conference 2012. These
methods attempt to overcome well-known problems of some
MT approaches, e.g. bilingual corpora compilation or the
laborious creation of the new rules per language pair. We also
want to address the issue of effectively managing multilingual
content and would welcome interesting suggestions in the
direction of a language-independent machine-learning-based
methodology.
The key aspects that should be touched at the MT Workshop involve
among others syntactic phrase-based modelling, pattern
recognition approaches (such as extended clustering) or
techniques towards the development of a language-independent
analysis. These aspects are intended to be of a hybrid nature,
combining linguistic processing with the positive aspects of the
corpus-based approaches, such as SMT and EBMT.
The need for easy amenability to new language pairs and
relatively inexpensive, readily available language resources as
well as bilingual lexica should be touched too. Modelling of the
translation context on phrases can improve the translation
quality so it should be considered too. Producing phrases via
a semi-automatic and language-independent process of
morphological and syntactic analysis may remove the need for
compatible NLP tools per language pair.
Another relevant aspect to which the attention has to be paid is
a parallelisation of the main translation processes since their
investigation may help to reach a fast, high-quality translation
system. Furthermore, the optimisation and personalisation of the
system parameters via automated processes (such as GAs or swarm
intelligence) is an issue which deserves to be investigated in
any case.
One of the points relevant for MT systems is a user adaptability
and user feedback with appropriate integrated interactive
interfaces. Such systems can be easily customised to both new
language pairs and specific sublanguages.
TOPICS
Topics of the MT Workshop include all themes of machine
translation (with stress on hybrid aspects of MT).
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.
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
George Tambouratzis, Greece (chair)
Bjorn Gamback, Sweden
Adam Kilgarriff, GB
Karel Pala, Czech Republic
Paul Schmidt, Germany
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
George Tambouratzis
Institute for Lnaguage and Speech Processing, Greece
PRESEMT Machine Translation System
FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
The MT Workshop program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster session.
As a part of the main TSD 2012 Conference, social events including
a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal
interactions.
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.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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 MT Workshop proceedings
with ISBN.
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, MT Workshop
submissions have to tick 'MT Workshop review' check box in the form.
Papers submitted to the MT Workshop must not be under review by any
other conference or publication during the workshop 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).
IMPORTANT DATES
March 25 2012 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2012 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2012 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
September 3 2012 ......... MT workshop date
September 4-7 2012 ....... TSD 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 workshop 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
Karel Pala, MT Workshop, 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
heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
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| 3-3-5 | (2012-09-05) INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMITATION AND CONVERGENCE IN SPEECH (ISICS 2012)INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMITATION AND CONVERGENCE IN SPEECH (ISICS 2012) Aix-en-Provence, France, 3-5 September 2012 Second call for communications - Website: http://isics2012.sciencesconf.org/ Extended deadline to 30th April 2012. 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 neuro ns may fulfill in many different domains, from sensorimotor integration to the understanding of others' behaviour. 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 University, 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 - Alessandro d'Ausilio, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy - Maeva 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 30 April 2012 (http://isics2012.sciencesconf.org/). 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 - 30 April 2012: Abstract submission extended deadline - 31 May 2012: Notification of acceptance / rejection - 30 June 2012: Early registration deadline ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Noël Nguyen (Chair) - Marc Sato (Co-Chair) - Nadéra Bureau - Sophie Dufour - Amandine Michelas - Nadia Monségu 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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| 3-3-6 | (2012-09-09) Cf Participation Speaker Trait Challenge at Interspeech 2012Call 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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| 3-3-7 | (2012-09-09) CfP Special session at Interspeech 2012 on Glottal Source Processing: from Analysis to Applications Special session at the next Interspeech conference Portland, Oregon, September 9-13, 2012. 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
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| 3-3-8 | (2012-09-09) Special Session at Interspeech 2012: Speech and Audio Analysis of Consumer and Semi-Professional Multimedia Special Session at Interspeech 2012
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| 3-3-9 | (2012-09-12) 54th International Symposium ELMAR-201254th 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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| 3-3-10 | (2012-09-14) WOCCI 2012 - Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, Portland, OR, USAWOCCI 2012 - Workshop on Child, Computer and InteractionSatellite Event of INTERSPEECH 2012September 14-15, 2012Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.http://www.wocci.org/ !!! Deadline for full paper (4-8 pages) submission: June 15, 2012 !!! This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of multimodal child-machine interaction with particular emphasis on, but not limited to, speech interactive interfaces. Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level but also at the interaction level. The Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities to demonstrate various state-of-the-art components that can make up the next generation of child centered computer interaction. These technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core well-being of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities, and first and second language learning. The Workshop should serve for presenting recent advancements in all core technologies for multimodal child-machine interaction as well as experimental systems and prototypes. Technical Scope:Papers are solicited on any technical areas relevant to the Workshop. The technical committee will select papers for oral/poster presentation.
Important Dates:Full paper (4-8 pages) submission: June 15, 2012 Organizing Committee:Izhak Shafran, Oregon Health and Science University, USA Program Committee:Kay Berkling, Inline GmbH, Germany
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| 3-3-11 | (2012-10-01) Human Activity and Vision Summer School, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FranceHuman Activity and Vision Summer School - Monday 1st to Friday 5th of October 2012 - INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis/Nice on the French Riviera - website: http://www.multitel.be/events/human-activity-and-vision-summer-school == Overview The Human Activity and Vision Summer School will address the broad domains of human activity modeling and human behavior recognition, with an emphasis on vision sensors as capturing modality. Courses will comprise both tutorials and presentations of state-of-the-art methods by active researchers in the field. The goal of the courses will be to cover most of the whole human activity analysis chain, starting from the low level processing of videos and audio for detection and feature extraction, to medium level (tracking and behavior cue extraction) and higher level modeling and recognition using both supervised and unsupervised techniques. Applications of the different methods to action and activity recognition in different domains ranging from Activities of Daily Living to surveillance (individual behavior recognition, crowd monitoring) will be considered. Presentation of real uses cases, market needs, and current bottlenecks in the surveillance domain will also be addressed, with one half day devoted to presentations and panel discussions with professional and industrial presenters. See list of topics and speaker below. == Audience The summer school is open to young researchers (in particular master or Ph.D. students) and researchers from both the academia and industry working or interested in the human activity analysis domain or connected fields like surveillance. == Application/Registration The registration is Euros 300. This includes all the courses, coffee breaks and lunch. The fee does not include accommodation or dinners. A limited number of cheap accommodations for students are available. To apply for a position at the Summer School and find more practical information, please go to: http://www.multitel.be/events/human-activity-and-vision-summer-school == List of topics and confirmed speakers * Object detection and tracking - Francois Fleuret (Idiap Research Institute) - Alberto del Bimbo and Federico Pernici (Università di Firenze) - Cyril Carincotte (Multitel) - Jean-Marc Odobez (Idiap research Institute) * Crowd analysis and Simulation - Mubarak Shah (University of Central Florida) - Paola Goatin (INRIA) - Cyril Carincotte (Multitel) * Action and behavior recognition - Ivan Laptev (INRIA) - Ben Krose (University of Amsterdam) - Francois Bremond (INRIA) * Social Behavior Analysis - Elisabeth Oberzaucher (University of Vienna) - Hayley Hung (University of Amsterdam) * Unsupervised activity discovery and active learning - Tao Xiang (University of Queen Mary) - Jean-Marc Odobez and Remi Emonet (IDIAP) * Body and head Pose estimation - Cheng Chen (Idiap Research Institute) - Guillaume Charpiat (INRIA) * Audio processing - Maurizio Omologo (Foundation Bruno Kessler) - Bertrand Ravera (Thales Communication France) Jean-Marc Odobez, IDIAP Senior Researcher, EPFL Maitre d'Enseignement et de Recherche (MER) IDIAP Research Institute (http://www.idiap.ch) Tel: +41 (0)27 721 77 26 Web:http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez
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| 3-3-12 | (2012-10-22) cfp participation and papers/ 2nd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2012)2nd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2012) in conjunction with ACM ICMI 2012, October 22, Santa Monica, California, USA http://sspnet.eu/avec2012/ http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012/ Register and download data and features: http://avec-db.sspnet.eu/accounts/register/ _____________________________________________________________ Scope The Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2012) will be the second competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual and audiovisual emotion analysis, with all participants competing under strictly the same conditions. The goal of the Challenge is to provide a common benchmark test set for individual multimodal information processing and to bring together the audio and video emotion recognition communities, to compare the relative merits of the two approaches to emotion recognition under well-defined and strictly comparable conditions and establish to what extent fusion of the approaches is possible and beneficial. A second motivation is the need to advance emotion recognition systems to be able to deal with naturalistic behavior in large volumes of un-segmented, non-prototypical and non-preselected data as this is exactly the type of data that both multimedia retrieval and human-machine/human-robot communication interfaces have to face in the real world. We are calling for teams to participate in emotion recognition from acoustic audio analysis, linguistic audio analysis, video analysis, or any combination of these. As benchmarking database the SEMAINE database of naturalistic video and audio of human-agent interactions, along with labels for four affect dimensions will be used. Emotion will have to be recognized in terms of continuous time, continuous valued dimensional affect in the dimensions arousal, expectation, power and valence. Two Sub-Challenges are addressed: The Word-Level Sub-Challenge requires participants to predict the level of affect at word-level and only when the user is speaking. The Fully Continuous Sub-Challenge involves fully continuous affect recognition, where the level of affect has to be predicted for every moment of the recording. Besides participation in the Challenge we are calling for papers addressing the overall topics of this workshop, in particular works that address the differences between audio and video processing of emotive data, and the issues concerning combined audio-visual emotion recognition Topics include, but are not limited to: Audio/Visual Emotion Recognition: . Audio-based Emotion Recognition . Linguistics-based Emotion Recognition . Video-based Emotion Recognition . Social Signals in Emotion Recognition . Multi-task learning of Multiple Dimensions . Novel Fusion Techniques as by Prediction . Cross-corpus Feature Relevance . Agglomeration of Learning Data . Semi- and Unsupervised Learning . Synthesized Training Material . Context in Audio/Visual Emotion Recognition . Multiple Rater Ambiguity Application: . Multimedia Coding and Retrieval . Usability of Audio/Visual Emotion Recognition . Real-time Issues Important Dates ___________________________________________ Paper submission July 31, 2012 Notification of acceptance August 14, 2012 Camera ready paper and final challenge result submission August 18, 2012 Workshop October 22, 2012 Organisers ___________________________________________ Björn Schuller (Tech. Univ. Munich, Germany) Michel Valstar University of Nottingham, UK) Roddy Cowie (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Maja Pantic (Imperial College London, UK) Program Committee ___________________________________________ Elisabeth André, Universität Augsburg, Germany Anton Batliner, Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom, Germany Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia Mohamed Chetouani, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), Fance Laurence Devillers, Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI), France Julien Epps, University of New South Wales, Australia Anna Esposito, International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Italy Raul Fernandez, IBM, USA Roland Göcke, Australian National University, Australia Hatice Gunes, Queen Mary University London, UK Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, USA Marc Méhu, University of Geneva, Switzerland Marcello Mortillaro, University of Geneva, Switzerland Matti Pietikainen, University of Oulu, Finland Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK Stefan Steidl, Uinversität Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Jianhua Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Fernando de la Torre, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Mohan Trivedi, University of California San Diego, USA Matthew Turk, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK Please regularly visit our website http://sspnet.eu/avec2012 for more information.
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| 3-3-13 | (2012-10-26) CfP Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech, Dublin Ireland Call for Papers for the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech
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| 3-3-14 | (2012-10-26) ICMI-2012 Workshop on Speech and Gesture Production in Virtually and Physically Embodied Conversational Agents, S.Monica, CA, USA ICMI-2012 Workshop on Speech and Gesture Production in Virtually and Physically Embodied Conversational Agents
CONFERENCE: 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-2012)
LOCATION: Santa Monica, California, USA
IMPORTANT DATES:
* Submission deadline: Monday, June 4, 2012
* Notification: Monday, July 30, 2012
* Camera-ready deadline: Monday, September 10, 2012
* Workshop: Friday, October 26, 2012
DESCRIPTION:
This full day workshop aims to bring together researchers from the embodied conversational agent (ECA) and sociable robotics communities to spark discussion and collaboration between the related fields. The focus of the workshop will be on co-verbal behavior production — specifically, synchronized speech and gesture — for both virtually and physically embodied platforms. It will elucidate the subject in consideration of aspects regarding planning and realization of multimodal behavior production. Topics discussed will highlight common and distinguishing factors of their implementations within each respective field. The workshop will feature a panel discussion with experts from the relevant communities, and a breakout session encouraging participants to identify design and implementation principles common to both virtually and physically embodied sociable agents.
TOPICS:
Under the focus of speech-gesture-based multimodal human-agent interaction, the workshop invites submissions describing original work, either completed or still in progress, related to one or more of the following topics:
* Computational approaches to:
- Content and behavior planning, e.g., rule-based or probabilistic models
- Behavior realization for virtual agents or sociable robots
* From ECAs to physical robots: potential and challenges of cross-platform approaches
* Behavior specification languages and standards, e.g., FML, BML, MURML
* Speech-gesture synchronization, e.g., open-loop vs. closed-loop approaches
* Situatedness within social/environmental contexts
* Feedback-based user adaptation
* Cognitive modeling of gesture and speech
SUBMISSIONS:
Workshop contributions should be submitted via e-mail in the ACM publication style to icmi2012ws.speech.gesture@gmail.com in one of the following formats:
* Full paper (5-6 pages, PDF file)
* Short position paper (2-4 pages, PDF file)
* Demo video (1-3 minutes, common file formats, e.g., AVI or MP4) including an extended abstract (1-2 pages, PDF file)
If a submission exceeds 10MB, it should be made available online and a URL should be provided instead.
Submitted papers and abstracts should conform to the ACM publication style; for templates and examples, follow the link: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings in ACM Digital Library; video submissions and accompanying abstracts will be published on the workshop website. Contributors will be invited to give either an oral or a video presentation at the workshop.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
* Dan Bohus (Microsoft Research)
* Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire)
* Jonathan Gratch (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)
* Alexis Heloir (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
* Takayuki Kanda (ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories)
* Jina Lee (Sandia National Laboratories)
* Stacy Marsella (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)
* Maja Matarić (University of Southern California)
* Louis-Philippe Morency (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)
* Bilge Mutlu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
* Victor Ng-Thow-Hing (Honda Research Institute USA)
* Catherine Pelachaud (TELECOM ParisTech)
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:
* Ross Mead (University of Southern California)
* Maha Salem (Bielefeld University)
CONTACT:
* Workshop Questions and Submissions (icmi2012ws.speech.gesture@gmail.com)
* Ross Mead (rossmead@usc.edu)
* Maha Salem (msalem@cor-lab.uni-bielefeld.de)
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| 3-3-15 | (2012-10-29) Workshop on Audio and Multimedia Methods for Large‐Scale Video Analysis, Nara, Japan Audio and Multimedia Methods for Large‐Scale Video Analysis First ACM International Workshop at ACM Multimedia 2012 ***Extended submission deadline: July 15th 2012 *** Media sharing sites on the Internet and the one‐click upload ca‐ The diversity in content, recording equipment, environment, qual‐ The goal of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Audio and Mul‐ Topics include novel acoustic and multimedia methods for Submissions: Workshop submissions of 4‐6 pages should be format‐ Important dates: Organizers: Panel Chair:
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| 3-3-16 | (2012-11-01) AMTA Workshop on Translation and Social Media (TSM 2012) AMTA Workshop on Translation and Social Media
(TSM 2012) Call for Papers November 1st, 2012 San Diego, CA, USA http://www.eu-bridge.eu/tsm_amta2012.php -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
--------------- The Workshop ---------------
During the last couple of years, user generated content on the World Wide Web has increased significantly. Users post status updates, comments, news and observations on services like Twitter; they communicate with networks of friends through web pages like Facebook; and they produce and publish audio and audio-visual content, such as comments, lectures or entertainment in the form of videos on platforms such as YouTube, and as Podcasts, e.g., via iTunes.
Nowadays, users do not publish content mainly in English anymore, instead they publish in a multitude of languages. This means that due to the language barrier, many users cannot access all available content. The use of machine and speech translation technology can help bridge the language barrier in these situations. However, in order to automatically translate these new domains we expect several obstacles to be overcome: · Speech recognition and translation systems need to be able to rapidly adapt to rapidly changing topics as user generated content shifts in focus and topic. · Text and speech in social media will be extremely noisy, ungrammatical and will not adhere to conventional rules, instead following its own, continuously changing conventions. At the same time we expect to discover new possibilities to exploit social media content for improving speech recognition and translation systems in an opportunistic way, e.g., by finding and utilizing parallel corpora in multiple languages addressing the same topics, or by utilizing additional meta-information available to the content, such as tags, comments, key-word lists. Also, the network structure in social media could provide valuable information in translating its content. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of machine and speech translation in order to discuss the challenges brought up by the content of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube videos and podcasts. --------------- Call for Papers ---------------
We expect participants to submit discussion papers that argue for new research and techniques necessary for dealing with machine and speech translation in the domain outlined above, as well as papers presenting results of related and potentially preliminary research that is breaking new ground. --------------- Important Dates ---------------
· Full Paper submission deadline: July 31st
· Acceptance/Rejection: August 25th · Camera Ready Paper: September 1st ·Workshop: November 1st
--------------- Organizing Committee ---------------
· Chairs: Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan) and Alex Waibel (KIT, Germany) · Program Chairs: Graham Neubig (NAIST, Japan), Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany), and Joy Ying Zhang (CMU-SV, USA) · Publicity Chair: Margit Rödder (KIT, Germany)
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| 3-3-17 | (2012-11-13) International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012 (IALP 2012),Hanoi, Vietnam
International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012 (IALP 2012) The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) is a series Over the years, IALP has developed into one of important anaual events on This year, the International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012 Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Noi, 'River Interior') is the capital and We welcome you to Vietnam to experience the nature, history, and cultural in CONFERENCE TOPICS Paper submissions are invited on substantial, original and unpublished - Under-resourced language studies PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished All submissions must be electronic and in Portable Document Format (PDF) The official language of the conference is English. Papers submitted should Papers may be submitted until July 1, 2012, in PDF format via the START
IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline Jul 1, 2012 MORE INFORMATION To get other details and the latest information about the conference, please Pham Thi Ngoc Yen and Deyi Xiong
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| 3-3-18 | (2012-11-21) Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation, Madrid Spain Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation The Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation (Albayzin 2012 LRE) is supported by the Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology (RTTH) and organized by the Software Technologies Working Group (GTTS) of the University of the Basque Country, with the key collaboration of Niko Brümmer, from Agnitio Research, South Africa, for defining the evaluation criterion and coding the script used to measure system performance. The evaluation workshop will be part of IberSpeech 2012, to be held in Madrid, Spain from 21 to 23 November 2012. Registration Deadline: July 16th 2012 Procedure: Submit an e-mail to the organization contact: luisjavier.rodriguez@ehu.es, with copy to the Chairs of the Albayzin 2012 Evaluations: javier.gonzalez@uam.es and javier.tejedor@uam.es, providing the following information:
Data delivery Starting from June 15th 2012, and once registration data are validated, the training (108 hours of broadcast speech for 6 target languages) and development (around 2000 audio segments including 10 target languages and Out-Of-Set languages) datasets will be released via web (only to registered participants). Schedule
Contact Luis Javier Rodríguez Fuentes Software Technologies Working Group (GTTS) Department of Electricity and Electronics (ZTF-FCT) University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Barrio Sarriena s/n 48940 Leioa - SPAIN
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| 3-3-19 | (2012-11-28) International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2012) Paris FInternational Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2012) Towards a Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones. Paris, France, November 28-30, 2012 http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/iwsds2012 Second Announcement Following the success of IWSDS'2009 (Irsee, Germany), IWSDS'2010 (Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan) and IWSDS'2011 (Granada, Spain),the Fourth International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2012) will be held in Paris (France) on November 28-30, 2012. The IWSDS Workshop series provides an international forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists, with a special interest to the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems in everyday applications. Scientific achievements in language processing now results in the development of successful applications such as IBM Watson, Evi, Apple Siri or Google Assistant for access to knowledge and interaction with smartphones, while the coming of domestic robots advocates for the development of powerful communication means with their human users and fellow robots. We therefore put this year workshop under the theme 'Towards a Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones', which covers: -Dialog for robot interaction (including ethics), -Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access, -Dialog for interacting with smartphones, -Mediated dialog (including multilingual dialog involving Speech Translation), -Dialog quality evaluation. We would also like to encourage the discussion of common issues of theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, general tools and techniques, and therefore also invite the submission of original papers in any related area, including but not limited to: -Speech recognition and semantic analysis, -Dialog management, Adaptive dialog modeling, -Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, facial expressions and physiological data, -Emotional and interactional dynamic profile of the speaker during dialog, User modeling, -Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordination and conflict description, -Conflict resolution in complex multi-level decisions, -Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for input and output, -Fusion, fission and information management, Learning and adaptability -Visual processing and recognition for advanced human-computer interaction, -Spoken Dialog databases and corpora, including methodologies and ethics, -Objective and subjective Spoken Dialog evaluation methodologies, strategies and paradigms, -Spoken Dialog prototypes and products, etc. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and we will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. *PAPER SUBMISSION* We distinguish between the following categories of submissions: Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-12 pages. Short Research Papers should not exceed 6 pages in total. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts Demo - System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total. As usual, it is planned that a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference. *IMPORTANT DATES* Deadline for submission: July 16, 2012 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2012 Deadline for final submission of accepted paper: October 8, 2012 Deadline for Early Bird registration: October 8, 2012 Final program available online: November 5, 2012 Workshop: November 28-30, 2012 VENUE: IWSDS 2012 will be held as a two-day residential seminar in the wonderful Castle of Ermenonville near Paris, France, where all attendees will be accommodated. IWSDS Steering Committee: Gary Geunbae Lee(POSTECH, Pohang, Korea), Ramón López-Cózar (Univ. of Granada, Spain), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI and IMMI-CNRS, Orsay, France), Wolfgang Minker (Ulm Univ., Germany), Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) IWSDS 2012 Program Committee: Joseph Mariani (LIMSI & IMMI-CNRS, Chair), Laurence Devillers (LIMSI-CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sorbonne 4), Martine Garnier-Rizet (IMMI-CNRS), Sophie Rosset (LIMSI-CNRS) Organization Committee: Martine Garnier-Rizet (Chair), Lynn Barreteau, Joseph Mariani (IMMI-CNRS) Supporting organizations (to be completed): IMMI-CNRS and LIMSI-CNRS (France), Postech (Korea), University of Granada (Spain), Nara Institute of Science and Technology and NICT (Japan), Ulm University (Germany) Scientific Committee: To be announced Sponsors: To be announced Please contact iwsds2012@immi-labs.org <mailto:iwsds2012@immi-labs.org> or visit http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/iwsds2012 to get more information.
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| 3-3-20 | (2012-12-02) SLT 2012: 4-th IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Miami Florida, December 2-5, 2012 SLT 2012: IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Miami Florida, December 2-5, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) will be held between December 2-5, 2012 in Miami, FL. The goal of this workshop is to allow the speech/language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. SLT will include oral and poster presentations. In addition, there will be three keynote addresses by well-known experts on topics such as machine learning and speech/language processing. The workshop will also include free pre-workshop tutorials on introduction or recent advances in spoken language technology. Submission of papers in all areas of spoken language technology is encouraged, with emphasis on the following topics:
Important Deadlines
Submission Procedure Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the SLT 2012 website. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.
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| 3-3-21 | (2012-12-03) UNSW Forensic Speech Science Conference, Sydney, 2012UNSW Forensic Speech Science Conference, Sydney, 2012
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| 3-3-22 | (2012-12-06) 9th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Hong Kong, China The 9th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take Details can be found on the conference website http://iwslt2012.org/
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| 3-3-23 | (2013-01-17) Tralogy II: The quest for meaning: where are our weak points and what do we need?, CNRS, Paris Tralogy is back: http://www.tralogy.eu
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| 3-3-24 | (2013-02-11) International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS, BarcelonaCALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS
website: http://www.biosignals.biostec.org February 11 - 14, 2013 Barcelona, Spain In
Collaboration with: UVIC Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: WfMC
IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: September 3, 2012 (deadline extended)
Authors Notification (regular papers): October 23, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: November 13, 2012
The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information,
Control and Communication (INSTICC) and held In Collaboration with the Universitat
de Vic (UVIC). INSTICC is Member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC).
We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers:
- Pedro Gomez Vilda, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
- Christian Jutten, GIPSA-lab, France
- Adam Kampff, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
- Richard Reilly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Vladimir Devyatkov, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russian Federation
Details of which can be found on the Keynotes webpage available at:
http://www.biostec.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx
Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers
(full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN
reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. JHPZ A short list of presented papers
will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation
by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). We also would like to highlight the possibility to submit to the following Special Session:
- 3rd International Special Session on Multivariable Processing for
Biometric Systems - MPBS (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/MPBS.aspx)
Please check further details at the BIOSIGNALS conference website
(http://www.biosignals.biostec.org).
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| 3-3-25 | (2013-06-01) 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, Vancouver, Canada 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
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| 3-3-26 | (2013-06-18) Urgent Cf Participation NTCIR-10 IR for Spoken Documents Task (SpokenDoc-2)Call for Participation
NTCIR-10 IR for Spoken Documents Task (SpokenDoc-2)
http://www.cl.ics.tut.ac.jp/~sdpwg/index.php?ntcir10
== INTRODUCTION
The growth of the internet and the decrease of the storage costs are
resulting in the rapid increase of multimedia contents today. For
retrieving these contents, available text-based tag information is
limited. Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) is a promising technology for
retrieving these contents using the speech data included in them.
Following the NTCIR-9 SpokenDoc task, we will continue to evaluate the
SDR based on a realistic ASR condition, where the target documents are
spontaneous speech data with high word error rate and high
out-of-vocabulary rate.
== TASK OVERVIEW
The new speech data, the recordings of the first to sixth annual
Spoken Document Processing Workshop, are going to be used as the
target document in SpokenDoc-2. The larger speech data, spoken
lectures in Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ), are also used as in
the last SpokenDoc-1. The task organizers are going to provide
reference automatic transcriptions for these speech data. These
enabled researchers interested in SDR, but without access to their own
ASR system to participate in the tasks. They also enabled comparisons
of the IR methods based on the same underlying ASR performance.
Targeting these documents, two subtasks will be conducted.
Spoken Term Detection:
Within spoken documents, find the occurrence positions of a queried
term. The evaluation should be conducted by both the efficiency
(search time) and the effectiveness (precision and recall).
Spoken Content Retrieval:
Among spoken documents, find the segments including the relevant
information related to the query, where a segment is either a
document (resulting in document retrieval task) or a passage
(passage retrieval task). This is like an ad-hoc text retrieval
task, except that the target documents are speech data.
== FOR MORE DETAILS
Please visit
http://www.cl.ics.tut.ac.jp/~sdpwg/index.php?ntcir10
A link to the NTCIR-10 task participants registration page
is now available from this page.
Please note that the registration deadline is Jun 30, 2012 (for
all NTCIR-10 tasks).
== ORGANIZERS
Kiyoaki Aikawa (Tokyo University of Technology)
Tomoyosi Akiba (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Xinhui Hu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Yoshiaki Itoh (Iwate Iwate Prefectural University)
Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto University)
Seiichi Nakagawa (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Hiroaki Nanjo (Ryukoku University)
Hiromitsu Nishizaki (University of Yamanashi)
Yoichi Yamashita Ritsumeikan University)
If you have any questions, please send e-mails to the task
organizers mailing list: ntcadm-spokendoc2@nlp.cs.tut.ac.jp
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| 3-3-27 | (2013-07-03) CorpORA and Tools in Linguistics, Languages and Speech, Strasbourg, France Colloque organisé par l’Unité de Recherche 1339 Linguistique, Langues, Parole (LiLPa) Université de Strasbourg – Unistra 3 – 5 juillet 2013 Strasbourg - France CorpORA and Tools in Linguistics, Languages and Speech: Status, Uses and Misuse Conference organised by the Research Unit 1339 Linguistics, Languages and Speech (LiLPa) University of Strasbourg – UNISTRA 3 – 5 July 2013 Strasbourg - France
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| 3-3-28 | Call for Participation MediaEval 2012 Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation Call for Participation
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| 3-3-29 | CfProposals 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017) 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017) Sponsored By The IEEE Signal Processing Society
This Call for Proposal is distributed on behalf of IEEE Signal Processing Society Conference Board for the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) to be held in March or April of 2017. ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing theory and applications. The series is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and has been held annually since 1976. The conference features world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and over 120 lecture and poster sessions. ICASSP is a cooperative effort of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees:
The conference organizing team is advised to incorporate into their proposal the following items.
Submission of Proposal For additional guidelines for ICASSP please contact Lisa Schwarzbek, Manager, Conference Services (l.schwarzbek@ieee.org). Proposal Presentation
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