Call for Papers Special Issue of COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE on Next Generation 

Paralinguistics __________________________________ 

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-papers/next-generation-computational-paralinguistics/ Computational Paralinguistics recently reached a level of maturity allowing for their first real-life 

applications in interaction, coaching, media retrieval, robotics, surveillance, and manifold further 

domains. In particular, an increasing level of realism is recently faced by coping with speaker 

independent analysis of highly naturalistic data in narrow-bandwidth, noisy, or reverberated 

conditions. At the same time, the richness of the range of speaker states and traits analysed 

computationally is increasingly widening up. This includes in particular also the degree of 

subjectivity faced with tasks such as perceived speaker personality, likability, or intelligibility,

 to name a few. Both these aspects require additional experience on the interplay of states 

and traits in speech, singing, and language. Further, with the integration in applications, 

novel aspects arise such as efficiency, reliability, self-learning, mobility, multi-cultural and 

multi-lingual aspects, handling groups of speaker or singers, standardisation, and user 

experience with such systems. This Special Issue thus aims at shaping the Next Generation Computational Paralinguistics. 

It will focus on technical issues for highly improved and reliable state and trait analysis in spoke

this topic. Original, previously unpublished submissions are encouraged within the following n,

 sung, and written language and provide a forum for some of the very best experimental work 

scope: +Analysis of States and Traits in Spoken, Sung, and Written Language +Subjectivity in Computational Paralinguistics (e.g., perceived states and traits) +Interdependence of States and Traits +Intelligibility of Language Varieties and Deviant Speech +Efficiency (low energy and memory consumption, fast adaptation, active learning, etc.) +Reliability (e.g., confidence measures, robustness against regulation and feigning, overlap) +Self-learning (unsupervised, partially supervised, reinforced, and deep learning) +Mobility (client/server distribution, package loss, coding artefacts, privacy preservation, etc.) +Multicultural and Multilingual Issues +Speaker / Singer Group Characterisation +Standardisation (output encoding, feature encoding, etc.) +Application (interaction, voice and writing coaching, retrieval, robotics, surveillance, etc.) +User Experience of Computational Paralinguistics Systems Important Dates __________________________________ Submission Deadline 1 April 2013 First Notification 1 July 2013 Final Version of Manuscripts 1 November 2013 Tentative Publication Date January 2014 Guest Editors __________________________________ Björn Schuller, Technische Universität München, Germany, schuller@IEEE.org Stefan Steidl, FAU, Germany, stefan.steidl@fau.de Anton Batliner, Technische Universität München, Germany, Anton.Batliner@lrz.uni-muenchen.de Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow / IDIAP, UK, alessandro.vinciarelli@glasgow.ac.uk Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany, Felix.Burkhardt@telekom.de Rob van Son, University of Amsterdam / Netherlands Cancer Institute, NL , r.v.son@nki.nl

Submission Procedure __________________________________ Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the Computer Speech and 

Language Journal for electronic submission (http://ees.elsevier.com/csl). During submission 

authors must select for this Special Issue (short name 'NextGen Paralinguistics').