International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012 (IALP 2012)
Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov 13-15, 2012
http://www.mica.edu.vn/IALP-2012
Paper Submission deadline: Jul 1,2012

The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) is a series
of conferences with unique focus on Asian Language Processing. The
conference aims to advance the science and technology of all the aspects of
Asian Language Processing by providing a forum for researchers in the
different fields of language study all over the world to meet. The first
meeting of the series was held in Singapore in 1986 and was called the
'International Conference on Chinese Computing (ICCC)' then. This meeting
initiated the study of Chinese and oriental languages processing in
Singapore and resulted in the formation of COLIPS in Singapore in 1988, as
well as the publication of the journal 'Communications of COLIPS' in 1991,
which is known as 'International Journal on Asian Language Processing'
today.

Over the years, IALP has developed into one of important anaual events on
nature language processing in Asia. IALP 2008 was held in Chiang Mai
University, Thailand and the proceedings were indexed by ISTP/ISI. IALP 2009
was held in Singapore and was co-organized by COLIPS and IEEE Singapore
Computer Chapter. IALP 2010 was held in Harbin and was co-organized by
COLIPS and IEEE Singapore Computer Chapter, Chinese Information Processing
Society of China and Heilongjiang Institute of Technology (HIT). IALP 2011
was held in Penang, Malaisia and jointly organized by Chinese and Oriental
Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) of Singapore, IEEE
Singapore Computer Chapter, and Universiti Sains Malaysia. The proceedings
of IALP 2009,2010 and 2011 were published by CPS (Conference Publication
Services) and submitted for indexing in EI, ISTP/ISI and Current Contents on
Diskette.

This year, the International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012
(IALP 2012) will be jointly organized by Chinese and Oriental Languages
Information Processing Society (COLIPS) of Singapore, IEEE Vietnam Computer
Chapter, and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (and MICA
Institute). The conference will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam on Nov 13-15,
2012. The 2012 edition (IALP 2012) will focus on under-resourced languages
studies. We will continue to work with CPS to publish the conference
proceesings. They will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library and
submitted for indexing in INSPEC, EI, ISTP/ISI and Current Contents on
Diskette.

Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Noi, 'River Interior') is the capital and
second-largest city of Vietnam. As the capital of Vietnam for almost a
thousand years. Hanoi hosts more cultural sites than any city in Vietnam,
including over 600 pagodas and temples.Hanoi is is the social, cultural and
economic center of the country.The Old Quarter, near Hoan Kiem lake, has the
original street layout and architecture of old Hanoi. At the beginning of
the 20th century the city consisted of only about 36 streets, most of which
are now part of the old quarter. Each street then had merchants and
households specialized in a particular trade, such as silk traders,
jewellery, etc. The street names nowadays still reflect these
specializations, although few of them remain exclusively in their original
commerce. The area is famous for its small artisans and merchants, including
many silk shops. Local cuisine specialties as well as several clubs and bars
can be found here also. A night market (near Ðong Xuân market) in the heart
of the district opens for business every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
evening with a variety of clothing, souvenirs and food.

We welcome you to Vietnam to experience the nature, history, and cultural in
one of best countries in South-East Asia.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Paper submissions are invited on substantial, original and unpublished
research in all aspects of Asian Language Processing, including, but not
limited to:

 - Under-resourced language studies
 - Input and output of large character sets of Asian languages
 - Typesetting and font designs of Asian languages
 - Asian character encoding and compression
 - Multimodal representations and processing
 - Voice input and output
 - Phonology and morphology
 - Lexical semantics and word sense
 - Grammars, syntax, semantics and discourse
 - Word segmentation, chunking, tagging and syntactic parsing
 - Word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling and semantic parsing
 - Discourse analysis
 - Language, linguistic and speech resource development
 - Evaluation methods and user studies
 - Machine learning for natural language
 - Text analysis, understanding, summarization and generation
 - Text mining and information extraction, summarization and retrieval
 - Text entailment and paraphrasing
 - Text Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and question answering
 - Machine translation and multilingual processing
 - Linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language,
computational psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical
linguistics
 - Language modeling, statistical methods in natural language processing and
speech processing
 - Spoken language processing, understanding, generation and translation
 - Rich transcription and spoken information retrieval
 - Speech recognition and synthesis
 - Natural language applications, tools and resources, system evaluation
 - Asian language learning, teaching and computer-aided language learning
 - NLP in vertical domains, such as biomedical, chemical and legal text
 - NLP on noisy unstructured text, such as email, blogs, and SMS
 - Special hardware and software for Asian language computing

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished
work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be
included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the
attendees. Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee
members. Accepted papers will be presented in one of the oral sessions or
poster sessions as determined by the program committee.
As the reviewing will be blind, manuscripts must not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Authors should ensure that their identities are not
revealed in any way in the paper. Self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...', must be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'.
Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without
review.

All submissions must be electronic and in Portable Document Format (PDF)
only. Paper submissions should follow the IEEE Proceedings' two-column
format without exceeding four (4) pages including references. We strongly
recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files
according to IEEE Proceedings' format. Submissions must conform to the
official style guidelines.

The official language of the conference is English. Papers submitted should
be written in English.

Papers may be submitted until July 1, 2012, in PDF format via the START
system:
https://www.softconf.com/d/ialp2012/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline         Jul 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance  Aug 3, 2012
Final manuscript due        Aug 17, 2012
Earlybird registration due  Aug 19, 2012
Regular registration due    Oct 31, 2012
Conference date             Nov 13-15, 2012

MORE INFORMATION

To get other details and the latest information about the conference, please
visit the conference website at http://www.mica.edu.vn/IALP-2012.

Pham Thi Ngoc Yen and Deyi Xiong
Program Co-chairs, IALP 2012

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WORKSHOP The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age  November 16, 2012 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Room 2 Lisbon FULL INFORMATION For details on the Program, Speakers, Venue, Regsitration, etc., see here: http://metanet4u.weebly.com/workshop-in-portugal.html REGISTRATION Participation in the workshop is open to everyone interested and gratis. Since attendance is limited to the number of seats available, your participation has to be secured by registering here: http://workshopportugueselanguagedigitalage.eventbrite.com OBJECTIVE With new and increasingly more powerful technologies, we are communicating with more people, more often and more easily. Critically, these new technologies are not only providing extended carriers for the exchange of linguistic information: they are inducing a deep technological shock in the way languages can be used. In sharp rupture with the past, we will be using new technological solutions to communicate instantly in our mother language with people speaking a different language, and accessing information encoded in other languages that we do not speak. And we will be using natural language to interact with all sorts of artificial devices and services in the rapidly unfolding information society. What are the new conditions of usage for natural languages? How will they thrive and which will lose relevance, or eventually get extinct, in the globalized world? And in particular: What are the specific challenges for the Portuguese language? What strategic responses can be devised? Seeking views, answers and strategies that help to answer these questions is the central goal of this workshop. ORGANIZATION This is an event in the International Series of Workshops on 'New Technologies and the Future of Languages' http://metanet4u.weebly.com/ It is organized by the European project METANET4U: http://metanet4u.eu This is a project in the European Network of Excellence META-NET: http://www.meta-net.eu PROGRAM 8h30 Registration opens 9h00 Welcome address 9h10 - 10h20 Session P1 - Presentations 9h10 - Strategies of Camões, IP for the Promotion of the Portuguese Language in the Internet Rui Vaz (Camões, IP -former Instituto Camões) 9h35 - Multilateral Linguistic Policies for Portuguese and for Multilingualism in the Cyberspace Gilvan Müller Oliveira (Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa IILP/CPLP) 10h00 - Languages and Technologies within the European Digital Agenda - A broad overview Roberto Cencioni (European Commission) 10h25 - 10h50 Session D1 - Debates Standup multilateral debates start (fueled by coffee and cookies) 10h50 - 11h40 Session P2 - Presentations 10h50 - The Portuguese Varieties at the Transition to Digital Support José Afonso Furtado (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian) 11h15 - Ideas, Doubts and Realities Helder Coelho (Universidade de Lisboa) 11h40 - 12h05 Session D2 - Debates Standup multilateral debates continue (around coffee) 12h05 - 13h20 Session P3 - Presentations 12h05 - CLARIN: Language Technology for the Humanities Steven Krauwer (CLARIN Research Infrastructure) 12h30 - A Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI and META-NET) 12h55 - The Portuguese Language in the Digital Shock: challenges and opportunities António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa and METANET4U) 13h20 - 13h30 Wrapping address 13h30 - 14h30 Session D3 - Debates Standup multilateral debates conclude (supported by a light meal) 14h30 - Farewell FULL INFORMATION For details on the Program, Speakers, Venue, Registration, etc., see here: http://metanet4u.weebly.com/workshop-in-portugal.html Read more: http://aclweb.org/portal/content/workshop-portuguese-language-digital-age

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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. 
As in previous Albayzin LRE editions, the goal of this evaluation is to promote the exchange of ideas, to foster creativity and to encourage collaboration among research groups worldwide working on language recognition technology. To this end, we propose a language recognition evaluation similar to those carried out in 2008 and 2010, but under more difficult conditions. This time the application domain moves from TV Broadcast speech to any kind of speech found in the Internet, and no training data will be available for some of the target languages (aiming to reflect a common situation for low-resource languages). 
The change in the application domain pursues two objectives: first, the task should reflect a practical application (in this case, indexing of multimedia content in the Internet); and second, the task should be challenging enough for state-of-the-art systems to yield a relatively poor performance. 
Audio signals for development and evaluation will be extracted from YouTube videos, which will be heterogeneous regarding duration, number of speakers, ambient noise/music, channel conditions, etc. Besides speech, signals may contain music, noise and any kind of non-human sounds. In any case, each signal will contain a minimum amount of speech. As for previous evaluations, each signal will contain speech in a single language, except for signals corresponding to Out-Of-Set (OOS) languages, which might contain speech in two or more languages, provided that none of them are target languages. 
Overall, the Albayzin 2012 LRE introduces some interesting novelties with regard to previous Albayzin LRE editions and NIST Language Recognition Evaluations. The most remarkable novelties are the type of signals used for development and test and the evaluation criterion. All the details can be found in the Albayzin 2012 LRE Plan.

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:

• Group name
• Group ID
• Institution
• Contact person
• Email address
• Postal address

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

• May 18 2012: The evaluation plan is released and registration is open.
• June 15 2012: Training and development data are released via web.
• July 16 2012: Registration deadline.
• September 3 2012: Evaluation data are released via web and system submission is open.
• September 24 2012: Deadline for submitting system results and system descriptions.
• October 15 2012: Preliminary results and evaluation keyfile are released via web.
• November 21-23 2012: Albayzin 2012 LRE Workshop at IberSpeech 2012, Madrid, Spain.

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
web: http://gtts.ehu.es e-mail: luisjavier.rodriguez@ehu.es phone: +34 946012716 fax: +34 946013071

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CLARA Thematic training course on evaluation of Human Language Technologies
www.elda.org/clara/
26-29 November 2012, Paris, France

As part of the CLARA Marie Curie Initial Training Network, ELDA and University of Copenhagen organize a four-day thematic training course on evaluation of Human Language Technologies in
Paris.

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Goal and Focus

For any HLT research effort to be successful, it is essential that it be assessed through rigorous evaluations of the developed technologies. This allows performance benchmarking and a
better understanding of possible limitations and challenging conditions. The CLARA Thematic training course on evaluation of HLT aims at providing both ESRs (Early Stage Researchers) and ERs (Experienced Researchers) the background and skills to use and implement state-of-the–art evaluation tools and techniques for speech technologies, grammars and parsing, machine
translation and speech-to- speech translation, information retrieval/filtering, multimodal interfaces, etc.).

The CLARA Thematic training course on evaluation of HLT will introduce and describe some evaluation concepts (comparative evaluation versus competition, technology evaluation versus
usage/usability evaluation). It will also describe the different types of evaluation and how to ensure that evaluation does not kill innovative not-yet-mature approaches.
Additionally, The CLARA Thematic training course on evaluation of HLT will elaborate on the role of evaluation on the research progress, on the need for a truly European infrastructure
for HLT evaluation, on the main reasons to promote an international dimension of the evaluation, insisting on the multilingual issues.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of the workshop, the workshop will be relevant for any ESRs/ERs who are involved in the development of algorithms and systems for speech technologies,
machine translation, parsers, information retrieval, multimodal interfaces, etc.

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Invited Speakers

* Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France
* Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* Joseph Mariani, IMMI, France (to be confirmed)
* Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI, France
* Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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There is no participation fee for the CLARA thematic training course on evaluation of Human Language Technologies but online registration is mandatory.

Please register at: http://survey.elda.org/index.php?sid=67327&lang=en by November 23.

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International 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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SLT 2012: IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Miami Florida, December 2-5, 2012

http://www.slt2012.org

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:

• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Spoken language understanding
• Spoken dialog systems
• Spoken document summarization
• Machine translation for speech
• Question answering from speech
• Speech data mining
• Spoken document retrieval
• Spoken language databases
• Multimodal processing
• Human/computer interaction
• Educational and healthcare applications
• Assistive technologies
• Natural Language Processing

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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UNSW Forensic Speech Science Conference, Sydney, 2012 

The Forensic Voice Comparison Laboratory at the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, University of New South Wales will host a Forensic Speech Science Conference on 3 December 2012 as a satellite event to the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST-12).  

We welcome submissions related to all aspects of forensic speech science.  

Abstract submission deadline: 5 October 2012 

For more infomation see: http://sydney2012.forensic-voice-comparison.net/ 

Contact: sydney2012@forensic-voice-comparison.net

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ISCSLP 2012 online registration is now open! Please visit the conference website (http://iscslp2012.org/registration.html) for details.

The 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP)

will be held during December 5-8, 2012 at the InnoCentre, Hong Kong, China. It will be jointly organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

ISCSLP is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing.  While ISCSLP focuses primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that are applicable to Chinese speech and language are also included.  The working language of ISCSLP is English. ISCSLP takes place in rotation among Singapore, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Technical Program: ISCSLP 2012 will feature world-class invited speakers, and interactive lecture and poster sessions.

-----Keynotes-----

1. Title: From Research to Product, Transforming the Impossible to the Expected.

Speaker: Dr. Eric Chang

Technology Strategy

Microsoft Research Asia

1. Title: Structured Discriminative Models for Speech Recognition

Speaker: Professor Mark Gales

Machine Intelligence Laboratory

Department of Engineering

University of Cambridge

1. Title: The Automatic Analysis By Synthesis Of Speech Prosody With Preliminary Results On Mandarin Chinese

Speaker: Professor Daniel Hirst

CNRS, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille University

School of Foreign Languages, Tongji University, Shanghai, China  

1. Title: Converging Hearing And Speech Enhancement

Speaker: Professor Fan-Gang Zeng

University of California Irvine

-----Tutorial-----

1. Title: Trajectory Modeling for Robust Speech Recognition

Speaker: Professor Khe Chai Sim

The School of Computing

National University of Singapore

1. Title: A Statistical Approach to Voice Conversion and Its Applications for Augmented Human Communication

Speaker:  Professor Tomoki Toda

Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

1. Title: Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Using Deep Neural Networks: Insights, Theory, and Practice

Speaker: Dr. Dong Yu

Microsoft Speech Research Group

The scope of ISCSLP covers all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech input/output, including:

- Speech Production and Perception

- Speech Analysis

- Speech Coding

- Speech Enhancement

- Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implant

- Phonetics and Phonology

- Corpus-based Linguistics

- Speech and Language Disorders

- Speech Recognition

- Spoken Language Translation

- Speaker, Language, and Emotion Recognition

- Speech Synthesis

- Language Modeling

- Speech Prosody

- Spoken Dialog Systems

- Machine Learning Techniques in Speech and Language Processing

- Voice Conversion

- Indexing, Retrieval and Authoring of Speech Signals

- Multi-Modal Interfaces

- Speech and Language Processing in Education

- Spoken Language Resources and Technology Evaluation

- Applications of Spoken Language Processing Technology

- Others

Committee:
Honorary Chair: Professor P. C. Ching, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Steering Committee Chair: Professor Chiu-yu Tseng, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
General Chair: Professor Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Vice Chair and Secretary:  Professor Manwai Mak, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Professor Brian Mak, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Dr. Bin Ma, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Finance Chair: Professor Tan Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Professor Pascale Fung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Professor Grace Ngai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:
Dr. Ida Hui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. Eric Yu, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited, Hong Kong
Registration Co-Chairs:
Dr. Huijun Ding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Manwai Mak, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Publication Co-Chairs:
Professor Peggy Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Zhiyong Wu, Tsinghua University, China
Tutorial Chair: Dr. Lan Wang, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Special Session Co-Chairs:
Dr. James Minett, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Brian Mak, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Exhibition Co-Chairs:
Dr. Eric Yu, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited, Hong Kong
Dr. James Minett, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Webmasters:
Wilson Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. Huijun Ding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

URLs:
Conference website:  www.iscslp2012.org
Registration website: www.iscslp2012.org/registration.html

Secretariat: iscslpsec@se.cuhk.edu.hk
General information: iscslpinfo@se.cuhk.edu.hk

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The 9th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take
place in Hong Kong on December 6-7, 2012.
http://iwslt2012.org/

The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a
yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on
spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system
descriptions are presented. 

Details can be found on the conference website http://iwslt2012.org/

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2nd Call for Papers

3rd Workshop on 'Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon' (CogALex)

Post-conference workshop at COLING 2012
(December 15, Mumbai, India)

Submission deadline: October 15, 2012

Invited speaker: Alain Polguère (Université de Lorraine & ATILF CNRS, France)

http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-3.html

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AIMS and TARGET AUDIENCE

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers involved in the construction and application of electronic dictionaries to discuss modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs, thereby fully exploiting the advantages of the digital form. Given the breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many perspectives, including but not limited to: computational lexicography, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, language learning and ergonomics.


MOTIVATION

The way we look at dictionaries, their creation and use, has changed dramatically over the past 30 years. (1) While being considered as an appendix to grammar in the past, they have in the meantime moved to centre stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP which can be conducted without them. (2) Also, many lexicographers work nowadays with huge digital corpora, using language technology to build and to maintain the lexicon. (3) Last, but not least, rather than being static entities (data-base view), dictionaries are now viewed as graphs, whose nodes and links (connection strengths) may change over time. Interestingly, properties concerning topology, clustering and evolution known from other disciplines (society, economy, human brain) also apply to dictionaries: everything is linked, hence accessible, and everything is evolving. Given these similarities, one may wonder what we can learn from these disciplines.

In this 3rd edition of the CogALex workshop we therefore intend to also invite scientists working in these fields, our goals being to broaden the picture, i.e. to gain a better understanding concerning the mental lexicon and to integrate these findings into our dictionaries in order to support navigation. Given recent advances in neurosciences, it appears timely to seek inspiration from neuroscientists studying the human brain. There is also a lot to be learned from other fields studying graphs and networks, even if their object of study is something else than language, for example biology, economy or society.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

This workshop is about possible enhancements of existing electronic dictionaries. To perform the groundwork for the next generation of electronic dictionaries we invite researchers involved in the building of such dictionaries. The idea is to discuss modifications of existing resources by taking the users' needs and knowledge states into account, and to capitalize on the advantages of the digital media. For this workshop we invite papers including but not limited to the following topics which can be considered from various points of view: linguistics, neuro- or psycholinguistics (associations, tip-of-the-tongue problem), network-related sciences (complex graphs, network topology, small-world problem), etc.

1) Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user

- What does a language producer start from (bag of words)?
- What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and looking for a word?
- What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the desired output (target word)?

2) The meaning of words

- Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed)
- Meaning representation (concept based, primitives)
- Revelation of hidden information (vector-based approaches: LSA/HAL)
- Neural models, neurosemantics, neurocomputational theories of content representation.

3) Structure of the lexicon

- Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point of view (clustering, topical structure)
- Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations
- Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of weights)
- Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information concerning words, organisation of the mental lexicon)

4) Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes

- Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and indexes (distributional semantics, crowd-sourcing, serious games, etc.)
- Impact and use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter) for building dictionaries, for organizing and indexing the data (clustering of words), and for allowing to track navigational strategies, etc.
- (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym, hypernym, meronym, association, collocation, ...)
- Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to words, their uses, and combinations (associations)

5) Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues

- Semantic-based search
- Search (simple query vs multiple words)
- Context-dependent search (modification of usersí goals during search)
- Recovery
- Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies used by people)
- Interface problems, data-visualisation


IMPORTANT DATES

- Deadline for paper submissions: October 15, 2012
- Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2012
- Camera-ready papers due: November 15, 2012
- Workshop date: December 15, 2012


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

see: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-3.html


INVITED SPEAKER:

Alain Polguère (Université de Lorraine & ATILF CNRS, France)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

* Barbu, Eduard (Universidad de Jaén, Spain)
* Barrat, Alain (Centre de physique théorique, CNRS & Aix-Marseille University)
* Bilac, Slaven (Google Tokyo, Japan)
* Bel Enguix, Gemma (LIF, Aix-Marseille University, France)
* Bouillon, Pierrette (TIM, Faculty of Translation and Interpretating, Geneva, Switzerland)
* Cook, Paul (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
* Cristea, Dan (University of Iasi, Romania)
* Fairon, Cedrick (CENTAL, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
* Fazly, Afsaneh (University of Toronto, Canada)
* Fellbaum, Christiane (University of Princeton, USA)
* Ferret, Olivier (CEA LIST, Palaiseau, France)
* Fontenelle, Thierry (Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union, Luxemburg)
* Granger, Sylviane (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
* Grefenstette, Gregory (3DS Exalead, Paris, France)
* Hansen-Schirra, Silvia (University of Mainz, FTSK, Germany)
* Heid, Ulrich (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
* Hirst, Graeme (University of Toronto, Canada)
* Hovy, Ed (ISI, Los Angeles, USA)
* Joyce, Terry (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)
* Kwong, Olivia (City University of Hong Kong, China)
* L'Homme, Marie Claude (OLST, University of Montreal, Canada)
* Lapalme, Guy (RALI, University of Montreal, Canada)
* Mititelu, Verginica (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
* Pirrelli, Vito (ILC, Pisa, Italy)
* Polguère, Alain (Université de Lorraine & ATILF CNRS, France)
* Rapp, Reinhard (University of Leeds, UK)
* Ruette, Tom (KU Leuven, Belgium)
* Schwab, Didier (LIG, Grenoble, France)
* Serasset, Gilles (IMAG, Grenoble, France)
* Sharoff, Serge (University of Leeds, UK)
* Sinopalnikova, Anna (FIT, BUT, Brno, Czech Republic)
* Sowa, John (VivoMind Research, LLC, USA)
* Tiberius, Carole (Institute for Dutch Lexicology, The Netherlands)
* Tokunaga, Takenobu (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)
* Tufis, Dan (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
* Valitutti, Alessandro (University of Helsinki and HIIT, Finland)
* Vossen, Piek (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
* Wehrli, Eric (LATL, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
* Zock, Michael (LIF, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, France)
* Zweigenbaum, Pierre (LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay & ERTIM - INALCO, Paris, France)


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS and CONTACT PERSONS

Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT lif.univ-mrs.fr
Reinhard Rapp (University of Leeds, UK), reinhardrapp AT gmx.de

For more details see:
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-3.html

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2013 INTERNATIONAL WINTER   SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES

WSLST 2013

(formerly International   PhD School in Language and Speech Technologies)

Tarragona, Spain

January 7-11, 2013

Organized by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2013/

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AIM:

WSLST 2013 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures at different levels on selected topics in language and speech technologies. The students choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate and foster their research career.

The previous event in this series was SSLST 2012: http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2012/

ADDRESSED TO:

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

The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

There will be no overlap in the class schedule.

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

- Simon King (U Edinburgh), Speech Synthesis [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]

- Constantine Kotropoulos (U Thessaloniki), Pattern Recognition Problems Related to Speech [intermediate, 6 hours]

- Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon U), The Theory behind the Resources [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]

- Rainer Martin (U Bochum), Signal Processing for Voice Communication Devices [intermediate, 8 hours]

- German Rigau (U Basque Country, Donostia), Knowledge Resources for Semantic Processing [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]

- Marc Swerts (Tilburg U), Facial Expressions in Human-Human and Human-Machine Interactions [introductory/intermediate, 6 hours]

- Tomoki Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Statistical Voice Conversion [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done on line at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2013/Registration.php

FEES:

They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student takes. The rule is:

1 hour =

- 10 euros (for payments until November 15, 2012),

- 12.50 euros (for payments between November 16 and December 11, 2012),

- 15 euros (for payments after December 11, 2012).

PAYMENT PROCEDURE:

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

Uno-e Bank

bank’s address: Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142

SWIFT/BIC: UNOEESM1

account holder: C. Martin – GRLMC

account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain

Please mention WSLST 2013 and your name in the subject. A receipt will be provided on site.

Remarks:

- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.

- People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the bank transfer order was carried out by the deadline.

- The organizers reserve the right to cancel a course if the number of students who signed up for it is less than 10.

- Students will be refunded only in the case when a course gets cancelled due to the unavailability of the instructor or because of insufficient registration numbers.

People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much recommended to do it earlier.

ACCOMMODATION:

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

CERTIFICATE:

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

IMPORTANT DATES:

Announcement of the programme: October 19, 2012

Very early registration deadline: November 15, 2012

Early registration deadline: December 11, 2012

Starting of the School: January 7, 2013

End of the School: January 11, 2013

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

Lilica Voicu:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

WEBSITE:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2013/

POSTAL ADDRESS:

WSLST 2013

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

Av. Catalunya, 35

43002 Tarragona,   Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543

Fax: +34-977-558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Diputació de Tarragona

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Tralogy II: Human and Machine Translation. The quest for meaning: where are our weak points and what do we need?
Dates and venue of the Conference: January 17-18, 2013 - CNRS Headquarters Auditorium, Paris (France) ****** Submission Deadline extended to October 15, 2012 ******
http://www.tralogy.eu
The conclusions of the first Tralogy Conference (3-4 March 2011 at the CNRS in Paris) were clear: none of the specialist branches of the language industry can individually hope to offer all the intellectual and professional tools needed to function effectively in the sector. They all need each other: translation has always been interdisciplinary and the translation profession even more so. Accordingly, on the occasion of the second Tralogy Conference, we would like to ask each of our prospective participants not only to present specific contributions from their specialist fields and research into the question of meaning, but also, and in particular, to highlight the limits they face in their specialist fields and research within the wider context of the potential applications of their work. What we would like to find out by the end of Tralogy II is what each of us does not know how to do. We are therefore hoping that, as we map out our respective weak points, these will coincide with the points of contact made at the Conference and with the areas in which there is room for improvement. We will therefore give priority to concise presentations (the published articles will of course be longer) in order to leave time for discussions. And the key question that emerged from Tralogy I will remain at the heart of this analysis: how to measure the quality of a translation with regard to its use.
Canada was the country invited to participate in Tralogy I. This time we would like to honour languages that are very much alive but with lower numbers of users. We have therefore decided to organise this conference under the joint patronage of the Baltic States, Member States of the European Union: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Call for papers: http://www.tralogy.eu/spip.php?article55&lang=en
To submit a paper: http://www.tralogy.eu/spip.php?article10&lang=en

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CALL 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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7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA

THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

LATA 2013

Bilbao, Spain

April 2-5, 2013

Organized by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2013/

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 2013 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 2013 will take place in Bilbao, at the Basque Country in Northern Spain. The venue will be the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM).

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 2013 will consist of:

‐ invited talks

‐ invited tutorials

‐ peer‐reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Jin-Yi Cai (Madison), Complexity Dichotomy for Counting Problems

Kousha Etessami (Edinburgh), Algorithms for Analyzing Infinite-state Recursive Probabilistic Systems

Luke Ong (Oxford), tutorial Languages and Automata for Higher-order Model Checking

Joël Ouaknine (Oxford), tutorial Discrete Linear Dynamical Systems

Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund), Applications of Automata in Database Theory -- Challenges to Automata Theory from Databases

Andrei Voronkov (Manchester), The Lazy Reviewer Assignment Problem in EasyChair

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Uppsala)

Franz Baader (Dresden)

Jos Baeten (CWI, Amsterdam)

Christel Baier (Dresden)

Gerth Stølting Brodal (Aarhus)

John Case (Delaware)

Marek Chrobak (Riverside)

Mariangiola Dezani (Torino)

Rod Downey (Wellington)

Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas)

Ivo Düntsch (Brock)

E. Allen Emerson (Austin)

Javier Esparza (Technical University Munich)

Michael R. Fellows (Darwin)

Alain Finkel (ENS Cachan)

Dov M. Gabbay (King’s, London)

Jürgen Giesl (Aachen)

Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney)

Georg Gottlob (Oxford)

Annegret Habel (Oldenburg)

Reiko Heckel (Leicester)

Sanjay Jain (Singapore)

Charanjit S. Jutla (IBM Thomas J. Watson)

Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern)

Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque)

Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen)

S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins)

Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton)

Hans-Jörg Kreowski (Bremen)

Tak-Wah Lam (Hong Kong)

Gad M. Landau (Haifa)

Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg)

Richard Lipton (Georgia Tech)

Jack Lutz (Iowa State)

Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau)

Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck, Kaiserslautern)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair)

Paliath Narendran (Albany)

Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich)

David A. Plaisted (Chapel Hill)

Jean-François Raskin (Brussels)

Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin)

Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy)

Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna)

Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund)

Colin Stirling (Edinburgh)

Alfonso Valencia (CNIO, Madrid)

Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech)

Heribert Vollmer (Hannover)

Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo Tech)

Pierre Wolper (Liège)

Louxin Zhang (Singapore)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)

Peter Leupold (Tarragona)

Carlos Martín‐Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)

Magaly Roldán (Bilbao)

Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)

Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

Enrique Zuazua (Bilbao, co-chair)

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?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2013

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 is open from August 6, 2012 to April 2, 2013. The registration form can be found at the website of the conference:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2013/

FEES:

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 January 2, 2013 will be excluded from the proceedings.

One registration gives the right to present only one paper.

Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks and lunches.

PAYMENT:

Early (resp. late) registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before January 2, 2013 (resp. March 23, 2013) to the conference bank account:

Uno-e Bank

bank’s address: Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142

BIC/SWIFT: UNOEESM1

account holder: C. Martin – GRLMC

account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain

Please mention LATA 2013 and your name in the subject. A receipt will be provided on site.

Remarks:

- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the conference.

- People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the bank transfer order was carried out by the deadline.

- PhD students will need to provide evidence of their status on site.

People registering on site must pay in cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much recommended to do it earlier.

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: November 9, 2012 (23:59h, CET)

Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 16, 2012

Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 25, 2012

Early registration: January 2, 2013

Late registration: March 23, 2013

Starting of the conference: April 2, 2013

End of the conference: April 5, 2013

Submission to the post‐conference journal special issue: July 5, 2013

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

LATA 2013

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

Av. Catalunya, 35

43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34‐977‐559543

Fax: +34‐977‐558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Basque Center for Applied Mathematics

Diputació de Tarragona

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
          Supported by IEEE Technical Committees

                Deadline: January 15, 2013
        Workshop: June 1, 2013, Vancouver, Canada

      http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/

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Following the success of the 1st PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and
Recognition Challenge, we are happy to announce a new challenge
dedicated to speech recognition in real-world reverberant, noisy conditions,
that will culminate in a dedicated satellite workshop of ICASSP 2013.

The challenge is supported by several IEEE Technical Committees and by
an Industrial Board.


FEATURED TASKS

The challenge consists of recognising distant-microphone speech mixed in
two-channel nonstationary noise recorded over a period of several weeks
in a real family house. Entrants may address either one or both of the
following tracks:

Medium vocabulary track: WSJ 5k sentences uttered by a static speaker

Small vocabulary track: simpler commands but small head movements


TO ENTER

You will find everything you need to get started (and even more) on the
challenge website:
- a full description of the challenge,
- clean, reverberated and multi-condition training and development data,
- baseline training, decoding and scoring software tools based on HTK.

Submission consists of a 2- to 8-page paper describing your system and
reporting its performance on the development and the test set. In
addition, you are welcome to submit an earlier paper to ICASSP 2013,
which will tentatively be grouped with other papers into a dedicated
session.

Any approach is welcome, whether emerging or established.

If you are interested in participating, please email us so we can
monitor interest and send you further updates about the challenge.


BEST CHALLENGE PAPER AWARD

The best challenge paper will distinguished by an award from the
Industrial Board.


IMPORTANT DATES

July 2012          Launch
October 2012       Test set release
January 15, 2013   Challenge & workshop submission deadline
February 18, 2013  Paper notification & release of the challenge results
June 1, 2013       ICASSP satellite workshop


INDUSTRIAL BOARD

Masami Akamine, Toshiba
Carlos Avendano, Audience
Li Deng, Microsoft
Erik McDermott, Google
Gautham Mysore, Adobe
Atsushi Nakamura, NTT
Peder A. Olsen, IBM
Trausti Thormundsson, Conexant
Daniel Willett, Nuance


WORKSHOP SPONSORS

Conexant Systems Inc.
Audience Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories


ORGANISERS

Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA
Jon Barker, University of Sheffield
Shinji Watanabe & Jonathan Le Roux, MERL
Francesco Nesta & Marco Matassoni, FBK-IRST

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2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
         ----------------------------------------------


NEWS

The *test datasets* have been released on the website! Noise-free datasets have also been made available for benchmarking purposes.

Additional *instructions* have been added in order to make the systems more comparable and facilitate scientific analysis of the results. Check the website for details.

We are proud to announce one additional *sponsor* for our workshop. The best challenge papers will receive a monetary prize.

We are envisaging a *special issue* of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine to which the authors of the best challenge papers will be invited to contribute.


FEATURED TASKS

The challenge consists of recognising distant-microphone speech mixed in
two-channel nonstationary noise recorded over a period of several weeks
in a real family house. Entrants may address either one or both of the
following tracks:

Medium vocabulary track: WSJ 5k sentences uttered by a static speaker

Small vocabulary track: simpler commands but small head movements


TO ENTER

You will find everything you need to get started (and even more) on the
challenge website:
- a full description of the challenge,
- clean, reverberated and multi-condition training and development data,
- baseline training, decoding and scoring software tools based on HTK.

Submission consists of a 2- to 8-page paper describing your system and
reporting its performance on the development and test datasets. In
addition, you are welcome to submit an earlier paper to ICASSP 2013,
which will tentatively be grouped with other papers into a dedicated
session.

Any approach is welcome, whether emerging or established.

If you are interested in participating, please email us so we can
monitor interest and send you further updates about the challenge.


BEST CHALLENGE PAPER AWARDS

The best challenge papers will distinguished by an award from the
Industrial Board.


IMPORTANT DATES

July 2012          Launch
October 2012       Test set release
January 15, 2013   Challenge & workshop submission deadline
February 18, 2013  Paper notification & release of the challenge results
June 1, 2013       post-ICASSP workshop


INDUSTRIAL BOARD

Masami Akamine, Toshiba
Carlos Avendano, Audience
Li Deng, Microsoft
Erik McDermott, Google
Gautham Mysore, Adobe
Atsushi Nakamura, NTT
Peder A. Olsen, IBM
Trausti Thormundsson, Conexant
Daniel Willett, Nuance


WORKSHOP SPONSORS

Conexant Systems Inc.
Audience Inc.
Adobe Systems Inc.
Google Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories


ORGANISERS

Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA
Jon Barker, University of Sheffield
Shinji Watanabe & Jonathan Le Roux, MERL
Francesco Nesta & Marco Matassoni, FBK-IRST

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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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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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AVSP 2013 The 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing August 29 - September 1, 2013.
Annecy - France 

http://avsp2013.loria.fr

The 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
(AVSP2013) will be held in Annecy, France, from August 29th to September
1st, 2013. AVSP is a satellite workshop of INTERSPEECH 2013, one of the
largest conferences on speech communication.

Annecy is a charming town in South-eastern France, known for its lake,
'Europe's cleanest lake'. Annecy is about 35km/22miles south of Geneva.

AVSP is a uniquely interdisciplinary conference, focusing on the effects
of auditory and visual speech information on human perception, machine
recognition, and human-machine interaction. AVSP conferences attract
many researchers from various fields, such as psychology, computer
engineering, neuroscience, linguistics, and robotic engineering.

** Conference Topics

Submission of papers are invited in all areas of auditory-visual speech
processing including but not limited to:

- Human recognition of audio-visual speech
- Machine recognition of audio-visual speech
- Human and machine models of multimodal integration
- Multimodal processing of spoken events
- Cross-linguistic studies
- Developmental studies
- Role of gestures accompanying speech
- Modeling, synthesis and recognition of facial gestures
- Audio-visual speech synthesis
- Prosody
- Neuropsychology and neurophysiology of audio-visual speech processing
- Scene analysis using audio and visual speech information

** Important Dates 

- Paper Submission Deadline: May 5, 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: June 8, 2013
- Camera-ready Paper: June 15, 2013
- Early registration deadline: June 28, 2013
- Registration deadline: July 31, 2013
- Conference Dates: Aug 29 - Sep 1, 2013


For the latest information, please check the conference web page:
http://avsp2013.loria.fr

and feel free to contact us: avsp2013@loria.fr

The organizing committee of AVSP 2013 is looking forward for your submissions.



Slim Ouni (LORIA - Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France)
Frederic Berthommier (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France)
Alexandra Jesse (University of Mass. Amherst, MA, USA)

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SLaTE-2013 (Speech  and Language Technology in Education) will be held in Grenoble, France,

on August 30-31 & September 1st, 2013, just  after Interspeech 2013 in Lyon.
     
      Official conference website: www.slate2013.org.
     
      SLaTE-2013 mailing list: email to 'sympa@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr'       with subject 'sub slate2013-info'.
     
      SLaTE-2013         wellcomes all topics related to speech and language technology         for education (SLaTE). This includes, but is not         limited to, the following topics:
      • Speech technology for first         and second language learning and acquisition
      • Natural language processing         for education
      • Spoken dialogue systems for         education
      • Applications using speech         and/or natural language processing for education
      • Intelligent tutoring         systems using speech and natural language
      • Development of language         resources for SLaTE applications
      • Assessment and user studies         of SLaTE methods and applications
      • Research on first and         second language
      • Theoretical and         methodological issues in SLaTE
      • Pronunciation pedagogy and         phonetic correction
      • Use of speech synthesis for         language learning
      • Serious games in SLaTE      
      • Language learning and         disability
      • Speech and Language         Technology for STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths)

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 5^ème Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPhC) qui auront lieu à Liège les 23, 24, 25 octobre 2013.        

Ces journées ont vu le jour à Paris en 2005 (www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/ilpga/JPC-2005/). En 2007, elles se sont déroulées à Grenoble, en 2009 à Aix-en-Provence (aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~jpc3/) et en 2011 à Strasbourg (journees-phonetique-clinique.u-strasbg.fr/). Elles ont lieu tous les deux ans. L’année 2013 sera Liégeoise (Belgique). En effet, elles  seront organisées par le service de Logopédie de la Voix de l'Université de Liège de psychologie: cognition et comportement) en étroite             collaboration avec le Laboratoires  d'Images, Signaux et Dispositifs de Télécommunications de l’Université Libre de               Bruxelles.

La phonétique réunit principalement des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs, ingénieurs, médecins et orthophoniste / logopèdes ;   différentes corps de métiers complémentaires qui poursuivent le même objectif : une meilleure connaissance des processus d'acquisition, de  développement et de dégénérescence du langage, de la parole et de la voix. Cette approche           interdisciplinaire vise à optimiser les connaissances  fondamentales relatives à la communication parlée, dans le but de mieux comprendre,  évaluer, et remédier aux troubles de la parole et de la  voix chez le sujet pathologique.         

Dans ce contexte, cette série de colloques internationaux  sur la production et la perception de la parole, chez le sujet           pathologique, représente une opportunité pour des professionnels, des chercheurs confirmés etdes jeu nes chercheurs de formations différentes de présenter des résultats expérimentaux nouveaux et d’échanger des idées de diverses           perspectives. Les communications porteront sur les études de la parole et de la voix pathologiques, chez l’adulte et chez l’enfant.

Nous espérons vous  voir nombreux à ces 5^ème  Journées   de Phonétique Clinique. Vous trouverez plus  d’informations en visitant  le site à l’adresse suivante : https://w3.fapse.ulg.ac.be/conferences/JPhC5/index.php
         
         

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Deadline for IEEE GlobalSIP Symposia Proposals: November 15, 2012.

GlobalSIP:  http://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/
Austin, TX. December 3-5, 2013.

IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing is a new
flagship IEEE Signal Processing Society conference. It will focus on
signal and information processing and up-and-coming signal processing
themes.

GlobalSIP comprises symposia selected based on responses to the
call-for-symposia proposals. We are inviting symposia submissions on hot
topics related to signal and information processing. Examples of potential
topics include:

Computational photography
Camera networks and analytics
Computational manufacturing
Information systems for Big Data Processing
Bio signal processing
Machine learning
Emerging sensing modalities
Signal processing, learning and decision making in networks
Green communications
Data and processing for energy management
Sparsity in information processing

Proposals may be focused on a specific mathematical tool, or on a
particular application. Successful symposia may be repeated from year to
year.

We are currently soliciting symposium proposals. For more information on
the preparation of a symposium proposal, please refer to:

http://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/SymposiaGuidelines.pdf

Symposia proposals may be submitted to any one of the technical program
chairs.

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Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.

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                Carnegie Mellon University


Carnegie Mellon University announces a new Master of Science in
Intelligent Information Systems (MIIS) professional degree.  The MIIS
degree provides advanced study and practical experience in areas of
Computer Science focused on the processing and analysis of
unstructured and semi-structured information, for example, text,
image, video, speech, and audio information. It is a practice-oriented professional degree designed for students who want to rapidly master
advanced content-analysis, mining, and intelligent information
technologies prior to beginning or resuming leadership careers in
industry and government.

Just over half of the curriculum consists of graduate courses. The
remainder provides direct, hands-on, project-oriented experience
working closely with CMU faculty to build systems and solve problems
using state-of-the-art algorithms, techniques, tools, and datasets.

A typical MIIS student completes the program in one year (12 months)
of full-time study at the Pittsburgh campus.  Part-time and distance
education options are available to students employed at affiliated
companies.

The application deadline for the Fall 2013 term is December 14, 2012.

For more information about the program, please visit
http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/education/msiis/overview.shtml

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Call for Participation
MediaEval 2012 Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation
http://www.multimediaeval.org
Please register by 31 May 2012
--------------------------------------------------

MediaEval is a multimedia benchmark evaluation that offers tasks promoting research and innovation in areas related to human and social aspects of multimedia. MediaEval 2012 focuses on aspects of multimedia including and going beyond visual content, including speech, language, audio and social factors. Participants carry out one or more of the tasks offered and submit runs to be evaluated. They then write up their results and present them at the MediaEval 2012 workshop.

For each task, participants receive a task definition, task data and accompanying resources (dependent on task) such as shot boundaries, keyframes, visual features, speech transcripts and social metadata. In order to encourage participants to develop techniques that push forward the state-of-the-art, a 'required reading' list of papers will be provided for each task. Participation is open to all interested research groups. Please sign up via http://www.multimediaeval.org (regular sign up will remain open until 31 May).

The following tasks are available to participants at MediaEval 2012:

Placing Task
This task involves automatically assigning geo-coordinates to Flickr videos using one or more of: Flickr metadata, visual content, audio content, social information (Data: Creative Commons Flickr data, predominantly English language, extended from the 2011 data set.)

Social Event Detection Task
This task requires participants to discover events and detect media items that are related to either a specific social event or an event-class of interest. By social events we mean that the events are planned by people, attended by people and that the social media are captured by people. (Data: URLs of images and videos available on Flickr and other internet archives together with metadata).

Spoken Web Search Task
This task involves searching FOR audio content WITHIN audio content USING an audio content query. It is particularly interesting for speech researchers in the area of spoken term detection. (Data: Audio from four different Indian languages and four South African languages. Each of the ca. 2000 data item is an 8 KHz audio file 4-30 secs in length.)

Tagging Task
Given a set of tags and a video collection, participants are required to automatically assign the tags to each video based on a combination of modalities, i.e., speech, metadata, audio and visual. (Data: Creative Commons internet video, nearly exclusively English, extended from the 2011 collection.)

Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection
This task requires participants to deploy multimodal features to automatically detect portions of movies containing violent material. Any features automatically extracted from the video, including the subtitles, can be used by participants. (Data: A set of ca. 18 Hollywood movies that must be purchased by the participants.)

Visual Privacy Task
For this task, participants propose methods whereby human faces occurring in digital imagery can be obscured so as to render them unrecognizable.  An optimal balance should be struck between obscuring identity and maintaining the quality of the viewing experience from the user perspective. (Data: about 100 high resolution video files of ca 1m30s each and containing one or more persons in an indoor environment.)

Brave New Tasks
This year, MediaEval will also run three new tasks in the areas of social media, spoken content search and hyperlinking, and music tagging. These tasks are 'by invitation only' and are not included in the general registration form. In order to receive an invitation, please contact the task organizers.

MediaEval 2012 Timeline (dates vary slight from task to task, see the individual task pages for the individual deadlines: http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2012)

31 May: Last day for regular sign up
1 June: Latest day for development data release
1 July: Latest day for test data release
ca. 10 September: Run submission deadline
28 September: Working notes papers due
4-5 October: MediaEval 2012 Workshop, Pisa, Italy*
*The workshop is timed so that it is possible to attend the 12th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2012 (http://eccv2012.unifi.it/), held 7-13 October in Firenze, Italy, in the same trip.

MediaEval 2012 Coordination
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University

Contact
For questions or additional information please contact Martha Larson m.a.larson@tudelft.nl or visit visit http://www.multimediaeval.org

MediaEval 2012 Organization Committee:

Robin Aly, University of Twente, Netherlands
Xavier Anguera, Telefonica, Spain
Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK
Etienne Barnard, CSIR, South Africa
Claire-Helene Demarty, Technicolor, France
Maria Eskevich, Dublin City University, Ireland
Gerald Friedland, ICSI, USA
Isabelle Ferrané, University of Toulouse, France
Guillaume Gravier, IRISA, France
Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, Netherlands
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Pascal Kelm, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Christoph Kofler, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Chattun Lallah, University of Reading, UK
Martha Larson, TU Delft, Netherlands
Cynthia Liem, TU Delft, Netherlands
Florian Metze, CMU, USA
Vasileios Mezaris, ITI Certh, Greece
Roeland Ordelman, University of Twente and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands
Nicola Orio, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Geoffroy Peeters, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique Paris, France
Cedric Penet, Technicolor, France
Tomas Piatrik, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Adam Rae, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India
Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Sebastian Schmiedeke, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Mohammad Soleymani, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Robin Sommer, ICSI/LBNL, USA
Raphael Troncy, Eurecom, France

A large number of projects make a contribution to MediaEval organization, including (alphabetically): AXES (http://www.axes-project.eu), Chorus+ (http://www.ist-chorus.org), CUbRIK (http://www.cubrikproject.eu/), Glocal (http://www.glocal-project.eu), IISSCoS (http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/IISSCoS/), LinkedTV (http://www.linkedtv.eu/), Promise (http://www.promise-noe.eu/), Quaero (http://www.quaero.org), Sealinc Media (http://www.commit-nl.nl/), VideoSense (http://www.videosense.eu/) and SocialSensor (http://www.socialsensor.org/).

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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.

• Proposed Dates (March or April 2017)
• Organizing Committee Members
  • Name
  • Biographical information
  • Membership in the IEEE Signal Processing Society
• List of scientific and research groups who reside in the local area who are in favor of the proposal and who are committed to attend and participate.
• Proposed budget. (For advice on building an IEEE budget please contact Kartik Patel at kartik.patel@ieee.org.)
• Support that can be anticipated from the local government, universities and or corporations
• Why this location?
  • Airport information
  • Customs and Visa regulations
  • Hotel and convention center information (i.e. space diagrams, maps, etc.)
  • Tourist destinations (i.e. museums, natural wonders, etc.)
  • Average weather conditions for the time of year

Submission of Proposal
Proposals for ICASSP are currently being accepted for 2017. Proposals should be sent no later than 15 August 2012. Notification of acceptance will be made after ICIP 2012 in Orlando, FL. Send the proposal to Lisa Schwarzbek, Manager, Conference Services IEEE Signal Processing Society (l.schwarzbek@ieee.org).

For additional guidelines for ICASSP please contact Lisa Schwarzbek, Manager, Conference Services (l.schwarzbek@ieee.org).

Proposal Presentation
Proposals that are of interest to the Conference Board may be asked to present their proposal at the Conference Board meeting to be held in Orlando, Florida tentatively scheduled for Thursday, 4 October 2012.

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