Monsieur Jens Edlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Suède, viendra nous présenter ses travaux sur : 


'Information transfer and plain old interaction: contrasting human-human chatter with spoken dialogue systems' information transfer'


Date : mercredi 18 avril à 13h30

Résumé :

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 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)                 Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre May 26 - 31, 2013 , Vancouver, Canada www.ICASSP2013.com CALL FOR PAPERS Announcement: New paper submission deadline has been extended to November 30, 2012 due to the recent hurricane. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, with up to four pages for technical content including figures and possible references, and with one additional optional 5th page containing only references. ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and over 120 lecture and poster sessions. Topics include but are not limited to: Audio and acoustic signal processing Bio-imaging and signal processing Signal processing education Speech processing Industry technology tracks Information forensics and security Machine learning for signal processing Multimedia signal processing Sensor array & multichannel signal processing Design & implementation of signal processing systems Signal processing for communications & networking Image, video & multidimensional signal processing Signal processing theory & methods Spoken language processing Vancouver: Vancouver is consistently rated as the most livable city in the world. It is surrounded by dense pine forests, snow-capped mountains and fjords. It is a city with vast beaches and lush parks combined with magnificent architecture. Please see www.ICASSP2013.com for details regarding Paper Submission , “no-show” policy and tutorials Organizing Committee ==================== General Chairs Rabab Ward, University of British Columbia Li Deng, Microsoft Technical Program Chairs Vikram Krishnamurthy, University of British Columbia Kostas Plataniotis, University of Toronto Finance Chair Jane Wang, University of British Columbia Special Sessions Chairs Xiaodong He, Microsoft Wu Chou, Huawei Tutorials Chair Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm Local Arrangement Chair Panos Nasiopoulos, University of British Columbia Social Program Chair Rabab Ward, University of British Columbia Publicity Chairs Lina Karam, Arizona State University Michel Sarkis, Qualcomm Publication Chairs Michael Adams, University of Victoria Vicky Zhao, University of Alberta Exhibit Chairs Dong Yu, Microsoft Wu Chou, Huawei Hank Liao, Google Entrepreneurial Relationship Ton Kalker, Huawei Conference Management Billene Mercer, Conference Management Services, Inc. 

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS

Paris, May 28-29, 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home

We are pleased to invite you to:

The Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computational Models,

which will be held in Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and at the Institut des Systèmes

Complexes

de Paris, on May 28th and 29th 2013.

The goal of this event is to provide a venue for the multidisciplinary discussion of theoretical and

practical research

for computational models of language and cognition. The event centers around recent advances on

computational

models for language acquisition, processing and evolution.

The first day will mainly address language evolution and some of the computational models that

have been proposed

to investigate possible avenues for this phenomenon. The second day will address more varied

issues, ranging from

the origins of language to recent trends in machine translation. All the talks will address key

questions dealing with

cognitive, formal and/or computational issues related to language evolution and/or language

processing.

The event is open to students, researchers and anyone interested in related topics. Attendance is

free but people who plan

to attend are kindly requested to register preferably before May 1st to help with the planning of the

event. The registration

form is available at

https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/registration

The workshop is funded by the cluster of labs (labex) Transfers. It is organized thanks to the support

of Lattice,

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Sciences et Lettres, the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris-

Ile de France,

the Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).

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PROGRAMME:

Tuesday May 28th

09:00 - 09:15 - Opening - ENS - salle Dussane

09:15 - 12:45 - Multidisciplinary Aspects of Language Evolution

• 09:15 - 10:15 - Dan Dediu (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)

• 10:15 - 11:15 - Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge, UK)

A model of L1/L2 Language Acquisition and its implications for language change

• 11:15 - 11:45 - Break

• 11:45 - 12:45 - Anne Reboul (L2C2-CNRS, France)

Social Evolution of public languages: between Rousseau's Eden and Hobbes' Leviathan

12:45 - 14:30 - Lunch Break

14:30 - 17:00 - Modeling Language Evolution: Two Case Studies - ISC-PIF

• 14:30 - 15:30 - Benjamin Fagard (Lattice-CNRS, France)

Case, Prepositions and In Betweens: Sketching

‐ a Model of Grammatical Evolution

• 15:30 - 16:30 - Remi van Trijp (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France)

Linguistic Assessment Criteria for Explaining Language Change: A Case Study on Syncretism

in

German Definite Articles

• 16:30 - 17:00 - Discussions

Wednesday May 29th

09:00 - 11:00 - Cognitive and Computational Approaches to Language Processing - ENS - salle

Dussane

• 09:00 - 10:00 - Robert Berwick (MIT, USA)

The Dead Tell No Tales: Known Unknowns about the Origin of Human Language

• 10:00 - 11:00 - Massimo Poesio (University of Trento, Italy and University of Essex, UK)

Using Data about Conceptual Representations in the Brain for Computational Linguistics

• 11:00 - 11:30 - Break

• 11:30 - 12:30 - Philippe Blanche (LPL, CNRS, France)

Measuring difficulty as well as facilitation: a new perspective for human language

processing

12:30 - 14:30 - Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:30 - From Language Variety to Machine Tanslation - ENS - salle Dussane

• 14:30 - 15:30 - Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, Israel)

The Features of Translationese

• 15:30 - 16:30 - Martin Kay (Stanford University, USA)

Putting Linguistics back into Computational Linguistics

16:30 - 17:00 - Discussions and Closing

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ORGANIZATION

The event is organized by:

• Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice ('Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques et Cognition',

UMR8094, CNRS, École Normale Supérieure & Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)

• Aline Villavicencio, Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

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LOCATIONS

*Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS): Salle Dussane, 45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris

*Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris-Ile de France (ISC-PIF): 57-59 rue Lhomond F-75005,

Paris

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CONTACT INFORMATION

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to

lccmodels2013@gmail.com

More information on

https://sites.google.com/site/lccmodels/home

The interplay between linguistic and biological evolution

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Appel aux 16èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (30-31 mai): modèles et modélisation dans les sciences du langage | date limite: 13 janv. 2013

Créées en 1998, les Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs de l'École Doctorale « Langage et langues» (ED 268, Université Sorbonne nouvelle) offrent la possibilité aux jeunes chercheurs inscrits en Doctorat ou en Master Recherche de présenter leurs travaux sous forme de communication orale ou de poster.

Modèles et modélisation dans les sciences du langage

    Comment appréhender la diversité du réel sans chercher à la structurer et à formuler des règles supposées expliquer ou du moins décrire son fonctionnement ? Comment comprendre un phénomène sans d’abord en concevoir des fonctionnements possibles ? Même si le recours à une réalité idéale ne suffit pas toujours à la compréhension d’un phénomène langagier, d’un fonctionnement psychologique ou encore d’une stratégie cognitive, la construction et l’exploitation de modèles semblent parfois indispensables. Tout

comme apparaît nécessaire la remise en cause et la révision de ces représentations, afin d’appréhender des réalités plus nuancées.

   La multiplicité des approches adoptées par les différentes disciplines engage à interroger non seulement la notion de modèle, mais aussi la modélisation des données langagières, que ce soit à des fins descriptives, explicatives ou prédictives. On peut donc s’intéresser aux différentes définitions du modèle, et se pencher sur leur mise en pratique, leur potentiel transdisciplinaire et leurs éventuelles transformations.

   On peut aussi s’interroger sur la pertinence et les limites de ces modèles, voire de la notion même de modèle. Selon les approches des chercheurs et chercheuses, le modèle peut ainsi être perçu comme une nécessité ou comme un obstacle, comme un indice de rigueur ou comme un biais scientifique. S’agit-il d’un carcan théorique auquel les données empiriques doivent s’ajuster ? Ou s’agit-il d’une construction sans laquelle la dynamique et le fonctionnement d’une réalité seraient impossible à appréhender ?

   Les RJC 2013 invitent les participants à réfléchir sur la conception, l’utilisation, l’adaptation et la remise en cause de modèles en sciences du langage. Nous retiendrons en particulier les communications appartenant aux disciplines suivantes :

acquisition du langage et des langues, analyse du discours, anthropologie linguistique,

didactique des langues et des cultures, histoire des idées linguistiques, linguistique générale,

linguistique historique et comparée, morphologie, neurolinguistique, phonétique, phonologie,

pragmatique, psycholinguistique, rhétorique, sémantique, sociolinguistique, syntaxe, TAL,

traduction et traductologie, typologie linguistique.

Le colloque est ouvert à tous : masterants, doctorants, chercheurs...

Date limite de soumission des propositions : 14 janvier 2013

Contact : rjc.ed268.p3@gmail.com

Appel complet et détails sur la page Internet :

www.univ-paris3.fr/rjc2013

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PAC 2013: Spoken English Corpora: from annotation to interphonologies

We are pleased to announce that the PAC annual conference ‘Spoken English corpora: from annotation to interphonologies’ is due to take place from Thursday May 30 to Saturday June 1, 2013 and will be hosted by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (http://www.lpl.univaix.fr/~PAC2013 , available soon) and the Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence.

The PAC Project (http://www.projet-pac.net), ‘La Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain: usages, variétés et structure; The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure’ is coordinated by Anne Przewozny, Philip Carr and Jacques Durand. Among other things it aims at:

·giving a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social and stylistic);

·testing phonological and phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making room for the systematic study of variation,

·favouring communication between specialists in speech and in phonological theory,

·providing data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language.

Papers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives addressing the above issues and related topics are welcome. Other things being equal, we will give priority to papers focusing on the relationship between corpus studies and the phonological/phonetic modelling of spoken English.

For the 2013 conference, we would particularly welcome proposals on the use of automatic tools for the study of very large data sets. One afternoon will be dedicated to a workshop on tools and annotation: Brigitte Bigi will present SPPAS, a tool to produce automatically phonetic annotations from a recorded speech sound and its orthographic transcription (http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~bigi/sppas/), and Sophie Herment will do a demo on Momel and Intsint for prosodic annotation.

We would also like to open perspectives on L2 research, with papers dealing with interphonologies and will organize a special session on this issue (see below).

The deadline for sending a title with a one-page abstract (excluding references) is extended to 22 February 2013. Please send your proposal in 2 files, one in .doc with name and affiliation, the other anonymous in .pdf to:

gabor.turcsan@univ-amu.fr & sophie.herment@univ-amu.fr

Please indicate whether you would prefer i. oral, ii. poster or iii. any type of presentation. Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid March.

Special session on interphonology

(organisers: V. Lacoste, N. Herry-Bénit & T. Kamiyama)

This special session offers to investigate the phonetic and phonological systems developed by non-native speakers/learners of English who have command of English either as a foreign language (EFL) or a second language (ESL) in various parts of the world and in different contexts of communication. Interphonology will be discussed both as a theoretical, linguistic construct and empirically by looking into aspects of the learners’ new phonological system, while in the process of establishing itself or when it has already been stabilised and/or regularised. Inter-speaker and intra-speaker variation will also be central to our study of interphonology to understand, for instance, how segmental variability is integrated in the newly developed phonological system and how the phonologies of two (or more) languages at work mutually influence each other. Finally, this panel hopes to bring together scholars from the field of variationist sociolinguistics and scholars from a more formal linguistic tradition to deepen our appreciation of interphonology as a phenomenon specifically from a learner’s perspective.

Local organisation team:

Carine André, Laurence Colombo, Stéphanie Desous, Sophie Herment, Valérie Kerfelec, Joëlle Lavaud, Claudia Pichon-Starke, Gabor Turcsan.

Scientific committee:

Cyril Auran, Université de Lille 3, France

Nicolas Ballier, Université Paris 7 Diderot, France

Joan Beal, University of Sheffield, England

Ricardo Bermudez-Otero, University of Manchester, England

Brigitte Bigi, LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France

Philip Carr, University of Montpellier III, France

Sylvain Detey, Waseda University, Japan

Jacques Durand, CLLE-ERSS, University of Toulouse II, France

Jean-Michel Fournier, University of Tours, France

Martine Faraco, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France

Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France

Ulrike Gut, Münster University, Germany

Silke Hamann, Düsseldorf University, Germany

Sophie Herment, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France

Nadine Herry-Bénit, Université Paris 8, France

Daniel Hirst, LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France

Patrick Honeybone, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Takeki Kamiyama, Université Paris 8, France

Mariko Kondo, Waseda University, Japan

Véronique Lacoste, University of Freiburg, Germany

Noël Nguyen, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France

Peter Prince, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France

Anne Przewozny, Université Toulouse II, France

Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Gabor Turcsan, LPL, Aix-Marseille Université & CNRS, France

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   2nd International Workshop on
Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2013)

             in conjunction with ICASSP 2013
             June 1, 2013, Vancouver, Canada

       http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/
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*REGISTRATION DEADLINE*: May 11, 2013 (only 2 weeks left!)


*FINAL PROGRAMME*

http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/programme.html


*KEYNOTES*

Model-based Speech Separation and Recognition: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Steven J. Rennie, IBM

Recently, model-based approaches for multi-talker speech separation and recognition have demonstrated great success in highly constrained scenarios, and efficient algorithms for separating data with literally *trillions* of underlying states have been unveiled. In less constrained scenarios, deep neural networks (DNNs) learned on features inspired by human auditory processing have shown great capacity for directly learning masking functions from parallel data. Ideally, a robust speech separation/recognition system should be continuously learning, adapting, and exploiting structure that is present in both target and peripheral signals and interactions, make minimal assumptions about the data to be separated/recognized, not require parallel data streams, and have essentially unlimited information capacity. In this talk I’ll briefly review the current state of robust speech separation/recognition technology--where we are, where we apparently need to go, and how we might get there. I’ll then discuss in more detail recent work that I’ve been involved with that is aligned with these goals. Specifically, I will discuss some new results on efficiently learning the structure of models and efficiently optimizing a wide class of matrix-valued functions, some recent work on Factorial Restricted Boltzmann machines for robust ASR, and finally, Direct product DBNs, a new architecture that makes it feasible to learn DNNs with literally *millions* of neurons.

Recognizing and Classifying Environmental Sounds
Daniel P.W. Ellis, Columbia University

Animal hearing exists to extract useful information out of the environment, and for a lot of animals for a large portion of the evolutionary history of hearing this sound environment has not consisted of speech or music, but of more generic acoustic information arising from collisions, motions, and other events in the external world.  This aspect of sound analysis -- getting information out of non-speech, non-music, environmental sounds -- is finally beginning to gain popularity in research since it holds promise as a tool for automatic search and retrieval of audio/video recordings, an increasingly urgent problem.  I will discuss our recent work in using audio analysis to manage and search environmental sound archives (including personal audio lifelogs and consumer video collections), and illustrate with some of the approaches that work more or less well, with an effort to explain why.


*OVERVIEW*

CHiME 2013 will consider the challenge of developing machine listening applications for operation in multisource environments, i.e. real-world conditions with acoustic clutter, where the number and nature of the sound sources is unknown and changing over time. It will bring together researchers from a broad range of disciplines (computational hearing, blind source separation, speech recognition, machine learning) to discuss novel and established approaches to this problem. The cross-fertilisation of ideas will foster fresh approaches that efficiently combine the complementary strengths of each research field.

One highlight of the Workshop will be the presentation of the results of the 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, that is a two-microphone multisource speech separation and recognition challenge supported by the IEEE AASP, MLSP and SLTC Technical Committees. To find out more, please visit http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge.


*REGISTRATION*

To register, please visit
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/registration.html

The registration fee is 35 UK pounds and includes admission to the sessions, electronic proceedings, buffet lunch, and tee and coffee breaks.


*VENUE*

The workshop is taking place at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, 655 Burrard Street -- close to the ICASSP 2013 venue -- on the day after ICASSP finishes, Saturday 1st June. Information about accommodation and how to get to and from downtown Vancouver can be found on the main ICASSP website:
http://www.icassp2013.com


See you in Vancouver.

Best regards,

CHiME Organising Committee

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International workshop on Field Speech and Mobile Data. 

http://www2.nict.go.jp/univ-com/isp/fsmd2013/index.html

Advances of speech recognition technologies for mobile devices like smart phones has made “speech data” an integral part of mobile data management. More and more attentions from both academics and industries are paid to voice user interfaces (VUI), multilingual translation, audio-video transcription, and even speech-to-blogging for mobile devices. Hereafter, management of real-world “field” speech data will be crucial for searching, analyzing, sharing, and delivering them in mobile service networks. With special emphasis on management of real-world “field” speech data, a new ICT platform integrating speech communication and cyber-physical systems will be introduced. On this platform, we can expect novel applications harnessing mobile speech data management, such as knowledge discovery form speech log data, situation awareness in real-world human communication, hands-free interaction using head-mounted display with speech input augmented by linguistic and sensory data. In this workshop we aim to provide a venue for academic and industrial discussions on “cross-cutting” technologies and open problems on speech data management and their applications for mobile devices.

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The Biometric group at the Idiap Research Institute is organizing the second competition on speaker recognition in mobile environment using MOBIO database for the 2013 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB-2013) to be held in Madrid, Spain on June 4-7, 2013. You are highly invited to participate to this competition.
For more information about the database (MOBIO) and the registration procedure, please visit the following link: http://www.beat-eu.org/evaluations/icb-2013-speaker-recognition-mobio
or please read the attached PDF file.
Please feel free to contact us if you need any additional detail.
Important dates:

Contacts:
    Elie.Khoury@idiap.ch
    Sebastien.Marcel@idiap.ch
   

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CALL FOR PAPERS

C B M I 2013
11th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
17-19 June 2013, Veszprem, Hungary

http://cbmi2013.mik.uni-pannon.hu/
******************************************************************************

The 11th International Content Based Multimedia Indexing Workshop is to bring together the various
communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and
presentation. Following the ten successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001,
Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009, Grenoble 2010, Madrid 2011, and
Annecy 2012), the University of Pannonia, Hungary organizes the 11th Context Based Multimedia Indexing
Workshop on June 17-19 2013 in the historical town of Veszprém, Hungary, near the spectacular Lake Balaton.
The workshop will host invited keynote talks and regular, special and demo sessions with contributed
research papers.

Paper submission: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length and special session papers
of 6 pages and demo papers in 4 pages. All accepted and registered papers will be published in the
CBMI 2013 workshop proceedings which will be indexed and distributed by the IEEE xploreTM. Therefore
authors must prepare manuscript in an IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF version. The submissions are not blind,
the working language of the workshop is English.
Selected papers will appear, after extension and peer-review, in a special issue of Multimedia Tools
and Applications.

* Important dates:
Submission of full papers and demos: February 18, 2013
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2013
Submission of camera-ready papers: April 20, 2013

Submission of special session proposals: January 13, 2013
Notification of session acceptance: January 20, 2013
Submission of papers: March 25, 2013
Notification of paper acceptance: April 12, 2013
Submission of final papers: April 22, 2013


* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Visual Indexing (image, video, graphics)
* Visual content extraction Identification and tracking of semantic regions
* Identification of semantic events
* Audio and Multi-modal Indexing
* Audio indexing (audio, speech, music)
* Audio content extraction
* Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
* Multimedia fusion
* Metadata generation, coding and transformation
* Multimedia Information Retrieval (image, audio, video, …)
* Matching and similarity search
* Content-based search
* Multimedia data mining
* Multimedia recommendation
* Large scale multimedia database management
* Multimedia Browsing and Presentation
* Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
* Personalization and content adaptation
* User interaction and relevance feedback
* Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools

All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will
be indexed and distributed by the IEEExplore. Selected papers will appear, after extension
and peer-review, in a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal.

* Organizing Committee:
General Chair: László Czúni, Univ. Pannonia, Hungary
Technical Program Chairs: Klaus Schöffmann, Univ. Klagenfurt, Austria
Tamás Szirányi, MTA-SZTAKI, Hungary
Demo Chair: Levente Kovács, MTA-SZTAKI, Hungary

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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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ACBLPE & SPCL Joint Meeting

(19th - 21rst June 2013)

1rst Call for Papers

University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Call for papers. Deadline: 09 March 2013.

The

Joint Meeting of the 14th Annual Conference of the ACBLPE - Association for

Portuguese and Spanish Lexically Based Creole Languages with the SPCL - Society for

Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 2013 Summer Conference

will take place at the

University of Lisbon, Portugal, on the 19

th-21rst June 2013.

Abstracts (of papers in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish) on linguistic issues

involving Portuguese and Spanish lexically based pidgin and creole languages or

contact situations involving Portuguese and Spanish are invited.

The format of the abstract must adhere to the requirements specified in sections A and B

below:

A. Abstract: electronic format

1.

Authors must carefully follow the directions concerning the organization of the

abstract, detailed in section B below.

2.

The abstract (including examples) must comprise a minimum of 300 words and a

maximum of 500 words. Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract.

3.

The abstract should be sent as an attachment in WORD or RTF format. If this is not

possible, send the abstract to the postal address shown below.

4.

At the top of the abstract, outside the typing area, put the title.

5.

Your name should only appear in e-mail message carrying the attached abstract.

6.

Special fonts: If your abstract uses any special fonts, there are three options:

i.In addition to the document in WORD or RTF format, send a PDF document.

ii.In the e-mail message, annex the special fonts that are required in your text.

iii.Send a paper copy to the address shown below.

7.

When sending the email submission, please follow this format (use the numbering

system given below):

1.

Title of abstract:

2.

Name:

3.

Address:

4.

Affiliation:

5.

Status (faculty, student):

6.

Email address:

7.

Fax:

8.

Phone numbers:

Deadline:

09 March 2013.

Send abstracts to: Carlos Figueiredo:

carlosgf@umac.mo

If you are unable to send an abstract in an electronic format, mail it to:

Carlos Figueiredo

FSH

– Departmento de Português

Universidade de Macau

Av. Padre Tomás Pereira

Taipa, Macau

China

B. Organization of the abstract

Many abstracts are rejected because they omit crucial information rather than because of

errors in what they include. A suggested outline for abstracts is as follows:

1.

Choose a title that clearly indicates the topic of the paper and is no more than one line

long.

2.

In the abstract, state the topic clearly.

3.

Make reference to prior work on the topic.

4.

When essential to the clarity of the argumentation, present linguistic data (with

glosses). Explain abbreviations at their first occurrence.

5.

If the paper presents the results of experiments, but collection of results is not yet

complete, present the provisional results in detail. Also indicate the nature of the

experimental design and the specific hypothesis tested.

6.

State the relevance of your hypothesis to past work. Describe the analysis in as much

detail as possible. Avoid vague or unsubstantiated statements.

7.

State the contribution to linguistic research made by the analysis.

8.

Citation of the relevant literature is essential within the abstract. However, the

inclusion of a list of references at the end of the abstract is not obligatory.

Abstracts will be assessed on the basis of the following three criteria:

1. The relevance and significance of the proposed topic and/or the originality of the

study.

2. The argumentation (including the clarity of the argument and the

results/conclusions.

3. Knowledge of the relevant research literature and theory.

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The 3^rd Annual World Congress of U-Homes - 2013

Theme: All About Your Smart Life

Date: June 20-22, 2013

Venue: Dalian, China

Website: www.bitconferences.com/u-home2013

We are pleased to announcethe 3rd Annual World Congress of U-Homes-2013 will be held in Dalian, China during June 20-22, 2013.Hereby we cordially and politely welcome you to join this grand and interesting event and give an oral presentation.

The program is dedicated to highlight some recent breakthrough stories and successes in 10 major topics.

Forum 1: Smart Home Technology

Forum 2: Smart Home Network & Communication

Forum 3: Smart Home Multimedia Entertainment

Forum 4: Smart Electronic Appliance, Utilities

Forum 5: New Energy for Smart Home

Forum 6: Smart Grid and Smart Meters

Forum 7: Smart Home Security Systems

Forum 8: Smart Health Telematics

Forum 9: Building Automation, Control and Management

Forum 10: Smart Home Standard, Marketing, and Business Development

Detailed program is available via our website: http://www.bitconferences.com/u-home2013/program.asp

It is worthmentioning that there are some other concurrent events that you can participate at the same time: 2013 China International Software & Information Service Fair（CISIS-2013）, WCEIT-2013, U-World-2013 and Cloud Con-2013, where you will be able to enjoy both scientific program sessions and exhibitions in large scale.

As a famous IT event, CISIS has gained attentions from various levels of people in IT area. There are over 40 events during the same period and around 800 enterprises attending the exhibition. The overseas delegates will be from over 30 countries and regions. The total number of participants and visitors is expected to reach 30,000.

Some honored guests will include ministerial-level officials from Department of Commerce, Department of Science and Technology and other departments, as well as high-level officials and industry association leaders from Japan, India and other countries; SVPs with Intel, IBM, Deloitte, Wipro and other multinational corporations as well as CEOs with some IT leading enterprises in China will participate in this event and give appealing speeches.

Kevin Guo

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Program Coordinator

BIT’s 3rd Annual World Congress of U-Homes (U-Homes-2013)

Dalian, China

Tel:0086-411-84799609-842

Email:kevin@bit-uworld.com

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * Workshop on Machine Learning for Bioacoustics * 30th Internat. Conference on Machine Learning 20-21 June 2013, Atlanta http://icml.cc/2013/?page_id=41 http://sabiod.univ-tln.fr/icml2013 Machine Learning (ML) will become central in biodiversity assessment. This is a highly complex & challenging task, which involves the application of both discriminative & generative approaches. We are pleased to announce the CFP for the workshop Machine Learning for Bioacoustics under the ICML conference, which is an annual, highly regarded conference in the machine learning community. The workshop is comprised of : 1. A regular paper submission regarding common bioacoustic classification topics. 2. A technical challenge on avian and/or marine mammal data, including a prize for the winners! Important Dates : Regular paper deadline: 4/22 Author notification: 5/22 Technical Challenge deadline: 5/6 Publication of results: 5/13 Submission of working notes: 5/27 Keynote speakers will provide informative presentations regarding state of the art methodologies in both the bioacoustic and machine learning fields. Organizers : Pr. Y. LeCun - Computational and Biological Learning Lab at New York USA Pr. C. Clark - Director of Bioacoustics Research Program at Cornell, NY, USA Pr. H. Glotin - Dyni - LSIS Lab at Université Sud Toulon Var, FR Dr. X. Halkias - Dyni - LSIS at Université Sud Toulon Var, FR Dr. Peter Dugan - Cornell University, NY, USA Dr. Jérôme Sueur - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, FR For additional information please visit the website or contact us at icml4b@gmail.com http://sabiod.univ-tln.fr/icml2013

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Call for Papers

2013 Afeka Speech Processing Conference!

Organized by the Afeka Center for Language Processing (ACLP), the 2013 Afeka Speech Processing Conference will be held at the Afeka Academic College of Engineering in Tel Aviv on July 1-2, 2013.

http://fogeli.co.il/afeka/divurim/2013/divur_2801/index_server.html

All interested parties are invited to submit an abstract in a general call for papers for the 3rd annual Speech Processing Conference at Afeka. Authors of selected abstracts will submit a full paper to be presented during the main conference, on Wednesday, July 1, 2013.

The main theme of the 2013 conference will be short and long term research and development directions in speech processing technologies for multi-modal natural user interfaces and speech analytics applications that support the growing needs of the market. Paper proposals from researchers, vendors, developers and providers of speech processing technologies can cover, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:

Speech Recognition

Speaker Identification/Verification/Diarization

Speech Transcription

Speech Analytics

Keyword Spotting

Speech Enhancement

Voice-User Interface

Human-Machine Interaction

Multimodal Interaction

Text-to-Speech

Speech Technology Integration with other technologies such as NLP and AI

Other... (if no appropriate category)

Abstracts can describe research, products, services and/or case studies relevant to any of the speech

processing related topics listed above.
Abstracts and final papers will be submitted via a secure online submission form.

Abstracts should be 300-500 words.

  Final papers should be 3-4 pages and submitted online by June 1.

  All abstracts, final papers and presentations must be in English.

Abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2013.

Acceptance notifications: March 15, 2013.

Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2013.

Presentation submission deadline: June 20, 2013.

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CALL FOR PAPERS French Phonology Network Meeting 2013 (RFP 2013)

After the conferences organized in Orléans 2010, Tours 2011 and Paris 2012, the French Phonology Network (Réseau Français de Phonologie) is launching a call  for papers for a new meeting in the same spirit that will take place in Nantes from July, 1^st to 3^rd, 2013 thanks to the LLing (EA3827, Université de Nantes), FoReLL (Université de Poitiers) and MSH-Ange Guépin. Invited speakers  * Phillip Backley (Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japon). * Didier Demolin (GIPSA Grenoble / UMR 5216 , France). * Andrew Nevins (University College London, Royaume-Uni) * Bert Vaux (King’s College Cambridge, Royaume-Uni). * Sophie Wauquier (Université de Paris 8 / UMR 7023, France). * Leo Wetzels (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Pays-Bas).

Main session Phonologists of every school or background are warmly welcome to participate. Issues at stake may be in the field of general phonology or of the phonological analysis of a linguistic phenomenon of a specific language. Submissions that will be taken into consideration will be those dealing with signal processing, perception, acquisition, diachrony, dialectology, formalism, epistemology and all issues which explicitly file under the field of phonology and its interfaces.
Thematic sessions This year we’d like to draw your attention to the fact that thematic sessions will be organized around 'Acquisition' and 'Harmony'.

Thematic session 1 : Acquisition

This thematic session aims at addressing the latest issues in the field of phonological acquisition of a first or second language. It will bring forward data which are unattested in adult’s languages and challenge phonological theories.

Submissions dealing with any aspect/level of phonological acquisition are welcome. They may be concerned with minimal units in phonology (features, elements, segments), the syllable, prosody, processes (in production or perception) among other topics. Contributions may be couched in any theoretical framework, and may be concerned with the acquisition of a single language or adopt a cross-linguistic/typological perspective.

Thematic session 2 : Harmony Harmony is a wide-spread process among the world’s languages. It may be defined as a syntagmatic change whereby a given segment absorbs some of the properties of another segment in the same phonological domain. When it is perceived as some kind of long-distance assimilation, harmony -which may be local (strict contiguity) or extended to a given domain (syllable, foot, word, phonological phrase)- may target vowels (vowel harmony) or consonants (consonant harmony). If locality seems to play a crucial role in its definition, harmony is also sensitive to directionality. Intervening segments (within the domain within which harmony applies) may prevent harmony to take place or be transparent: are these really invisible or are they somehow involved in the harmony process? Are harmony processes due to phonetic (e.g. phonologization of a coarticulation process) or to strictly phonological principles (e.g. computation of a restricted set of principles)?

This thematic session aims at bringing together people who are concerned with harmony in general phonology as well as with harmonic relations in speech perception and production, prosody, acquisition, development, the structuring of the lexicon, automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis (this list, of course, should not be interpreted as being exhaustive).

Submission format and selection Abstracts will be written either in French or in English and will not exceed two pages in length, (A4 format, Times font, size 12), including examples and references, and will be submitted through Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rfp2013. The abstract must be completely anonymous and do not contain any information that identifies the authors. Submissions will then be forwarded to two peers for assessment and the final selection will be carried out by a board meeting.
Important dates * Call for papers: December 15, 2012 * Deadline for submission: March 1st, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2013 * Conference: July 1^st to 3^rd, 2013.
Organization  Talks will last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes’ debate.
Reviewers J.-P. Angoujard (U. de Nantes), S. Bendjaballah (U. Paris 7), G. Bergounioux (U. d’Orléans), J. Brandao de Carvalho (U. Paris 8), Ph. Carr (U. de Montpellier), C. Dugua (U. d’Orléans), J. Durand (U. de Toulouse), S. Ferré (U. de Tours), J.-M. Fournier (U. de Tours), S. Herment, (U. d’Aix-Marseille), M. D’Imperio (Aix-Marseille), M. Lahrouchi (U. Paris 8), B. Laks (U. Paris 10), J.-L. Léonard (U. Paris 3), J. Lowenstamm (U. Paris 7), N. Nguyen (U. d’Aix-Marseille), R. Noske (U. de Lille), C. Patin (U. de Lille), A. Rialland (U. Paris 3), R. Ridouane (U. Paris 3), M. Russo (U. Paris 8) , P. Sauzet (U. Toulouse), T. Scheer (U. Nice), Ph. Ségéral (U. Paris 7), A. Tifrit (U. de Nantes), N. Vallée (U. de Grenoble), S. Wauquier (U. Paris 8).
Organizing committee J.-M. Beltzung, E. Caratini, O. Crouzet, A. Tifrit

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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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The 9th International Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces;

July 15th - August 9th 2013; Lisbon (Portugal) *

After the previous workshops, held in Mons (Belgium), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Istanbul (Turkey), Paris (France), Genova (Italy), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Plzen (Czech Republic) and Metz (France) which had an impressive success record and had proven the viability and usefulness of this original workshop, the 9th edition will take place in the New University of Lisbon (Portugal). eNTERFACE workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, attached to specific projects, working on free software. Each week will typically consist of working sessions by the teams on their respective projects plus a tutorial given by an invited senior researcher and a presentation of the results achieved by each project group. The last week will be devoted to writing an article on the results obtained by the teams plus a big session where all the groups will present their achievements. Proceedings are expected to be published by Springer, IFIP AICT series (indexed in Web of Science).
The eNTERFACE'13 committee now invites researchers to submit project proposals that will be evaluated by the scientific committee. All the information asked to submit a project is available on the website of the workshop (http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/enterface13). The proposals should contain a full description of the project's objectives, required hardwares/softwares and relevant literatures. When submitting a project proposal, a list of potential candidates can be proposed by the authors. Although not exhaustive, the submitted projects can cover one or several of the topics listed below. A special focus of this year is on assistive, rehabilitation and educational technologies.
Topics:

- Presence and telepresence - Teleoperation and telerobotics - Assistive and rehabilitation technologies - Human-robot and human-environments interactions in smart environments - Game and serious game applications - Multimodal interfaces for collaborative systems - Multimodal signal analysis and synthesis - Signal-level and meaning-level data fusion - Usability in ubiquitous computing - Intuitive interfaces and personalized systems in real and virtual environments - User, context and semantics aware self-learning and adapting systems - Applications of multimodal interfaces
Important dates:

* January 12th, 2013: Reception of a 1 page Notification of Interest, with a summary of project goals, work-packages and deliverables;

* February 2nd, 2013: Reception of the complete project proposal in the format provided by the Author’s kit;

* February 17th, 2013: Notification of project acceptance; publication of the Call for Participation;

* April 1st, 2013: Closing of the Call for Participation;

* April 15th, 2013: Publication of teams;

* July 15th – August 9th, 2013: eNTERFACE’13 Workshop.
Website of the workshop: http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/enterface13

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format to: yr@uninova.pt

The organizing committee of eNTERFACE'13 is looking forward for your submissions.

-- Prof. Yves Rybarczyk Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa Campus da Caparica 2829-516 Caparica PORTUGAL Tel: +351 917691175 Email: y.rybarczyk@fct.unl.pt Site: https://sites.google.com/a/uninova.pt/yr/

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Call for Participation
3nd Lisbon Machine Learning School - 'Learning with Big Data'
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We invite everyone interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to attend the 3nd Lisbon Machine Learning School - LxMLS 2013.
Important Dates
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* Application Deadline: April 15, 2013 * Decision: May 15, 2013
* Early Registration: June 15, 2013 * Summer School: July 24-31, 2013

Topics and Intended Audience ---------------
The school will cover a range of Machine Learning (ML) topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems that arise in the analysis and use of Web data.
Our target audience is:
* Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics;
* Computer scientists who have interests in statistics and machine learning;
* Industry practitioners who desire a more in depth understanding of these subjects.
Features of LxMLS:
* No deep previous knowledge of ML or NLP is assumed;
* Recommended reading will be provided in advance; * Includes a strong practical component;
* A day zero is scheduled to review basic concepts and introduce the necessary tools for implementation exercises;
* Days will be divided into tutorials and practical sessions (view schedule);
* Both basic and advanced topics will be covered; * Instructors are leading researchers in machine learning.

List of Confirmed Speakers ---------------
LUIS PEDRO COELHO Institute for Molecular Medicine | Portugal
MÁRIO FIGUEIREDO Instituto de Telecomunicações | Portugal KOBY CRAMMER Technion, Israel Institute of Technogly | Israel
SLAV PETROV Google Inc. | USA NOAH SMITH Carnegie Mellon University | USA
XAVIER CARRERAS Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | Spain CHRIS DYER Carnegie Mellon University | USA
MILES OSBORNE University of Edinburgh | UK KEVIN KNIGHT University of Southern California | USA
SEBASTIAN RIEDEL University College London | UK STEFAN RIEZLER Unversity of Heidelberg | Germany

Please visit our webpage for up to date information: http://lxmls.it.pt/.
To apply, please fill the form in https://lxmls.wufoo.com/forms/application-form/. Any questions should be directed to: lxmls-2013@lx.it.pt.

We are looking forward to your participation!
-- The organizers of LxMLS'2013. 

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1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL

LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING

SLSP 2013

Tarragona, Spain

July 29-31, 2013

Organised by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili   University

Research Institute for Information and Language Processing (RIILP)

University of Wolverhampton

http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2013/

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AIMS:

SLSP is the first event in a series to host and promote research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences including papers in any of these fields, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between areas and people will hopefully happen. SLSP will reserve significant space for young scholars at the beginning of their careers.

VENUE:

SLSP 2013 will take place in Tarragona, 100 km. to the south of Barcelona.

SCOPE:

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:

- phonology, morphology

- syntax, semantics

- discourse, dialogue, pragmatics

- statistical models for natural language processing

- supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech

- statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods

- similarity

- alignment

- language resources

- part-of-speech tagging

- parsing

- semantic role labelling

- natural language generation

- anaphora and coreference resolution

- speech recognition

- speaker identification/verification

- speech transcription

- text-to-speech synthesis

- machine translation

- translation technology

- text summarisation

- information retrieval

- text categorisation

- information extraction

- term extraction

- spelling correction

- text and web mining

- opinion mining and sentiment analysis

- spoken dialogue systems

- author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2013 will consist of:

‐ invited talks

‐ invited tutorials

‐ peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Yoshua Bengio (Montréal), tutorial Learning Deep Representations

Christof Monz (Amsterdam), Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information Access

Tanja Schultz (Karlsruhe Tech), Multilingual Speech Processing with a special emphasis on Rapid Language Adaptation

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair)

Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair)

Jerome Bellegarda (Apple Inc., Cupertino)

Robert C. Berwick (MIT)

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble)

Bill Byrne (Cambridge)

Jen-Tzung Chien (National Chiao Tung U, Hsinchu)

Kenneth Church (IBM Research)

Koby Crammer (Technion)

Renato De Mori (McGill & Avignon)

Thierry Dutoit (U Mons)

Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento)

Katherine Forbes-Riley (Pittsburgh)

Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Tech)

Yuqing Gao (IBM Thomas J. Watson)

Ralp Grishman (New York U)

Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Microsoft Research, Mountain View)

Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd., Brighton)

Dietrich Klakow (Saarbrücken)

Philipp Koehn (Edinburgh)

Mikko Kurimo (Aalto)

Lori Lamel (CNRS-LIMSI, Orsay)

Philippe Langlais (Montréal)

Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm    Research, Singapore)

Qun Liu (Dublin   City)

Daniel Marcu (SDL)

Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (INAOEP, Puebla)

Masaaki Nagata (NTT, Kyoto)

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala)

Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Doha)

Miles Osborne (Edinburgh)

Manny Rayner (Geneva)

Giuseppe Riccardi (U Trento)

José A. Rodríguez Fonollosa (Technical U Catalonia, Barcelona)

Paolo Rosso (Technical U Valencia)

Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)

Tomek Strzalkowski (Albany)

Gökhan Tür (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha)

Kuansan Wang (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong)

Min Zhang (Institute for Infocomm    Research, Singapore)

Yunxin Zhao (U Missouri, Columbia)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair)

Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair)

Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)

Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single‐spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions are to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2013

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI topical subseries of 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 will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from November 30, 2012 to July 29, 2013. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2013/Registration

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: March 5, 2013 (23:59h, CET)

Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 9, 2013

Final version of the paper for the LNAI proceedings: April 17, 2013

Early registration: April 24, 2013

Late registration: July 19, 2013

Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: October 31, 2013

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SLSP 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

University of Wolverhampton

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We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be co-located with Interspeech 2013 in Grenoble in August, 2013. The deadline for submission of papers and demo proposals is 17 May and 31 May, respectively. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline and formatting of regular papers is here:

       http://slpat.org/slpat2013

This 2-day workshop will bring together researchers from all areas of speech and language technology with a common interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. This workshop will provide an opportunity for individuals from both research communities, and the individuals with whom they are working, to assist to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. General topics include but are not limited to:

                • Automated processing of sign language

                • Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments

                • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility

                • Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living

                • Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language

                • Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AAC/AT applications

                • Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech

                • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio

                • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication

                • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies

                • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies

                • NLP for cognitive assistance applications

                • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments

                • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications

                • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications

                • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies

                • Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of assistive technology

                • Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols

                • Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field

                • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes

                • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology

                • Anything included in this year's special topic

                • Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication

This year we are introducing a special topic, which is Smart Homes and ambient intelligent technology applied to augmentative communication. Relevant research topics would include (but are not limited to):

                • Automatic Speech recognition in multi-source environments

                • Distant speech recognition

                • Understanding, modelling or recognition of aged speech

                • Speech analysis in the case of elderly with impairments, early recognition of speech capability loss

                • Assistive speech technology

                • Multimodal speech recognition (context-aware ASR)

                • Multimodal emotion recognition

                • Audio scene and smart home context analysis

                • Applications of speech technology (ASR, dialogue, synthesis) for ambient assisted living

Please contact the conference organizers at slpat2013.workshop@gmail.com with any questions.

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The 4th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)

21 and 22 August 2013, Grenoble France (satellite event of Interspeech 2013).

==> Submission deadlines: 17 May (research papers) and 31 May (demo proposals) <==

Full details: http://slpat.org/slpat2013

Contact: slpat2013.workshop@gmail.com

Colleagues,

We invite you to join us in Grenoble for the 4^th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies. This 2-day workshop will combine research in speech and language technology that assists people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. This year we are introducing a special topic -- Smart Homes and ambient intelligent technology applied to augmentative communication. The program committee is now online at http://www.slpat.org/slpat2013/people.html.

We are also happy to announce that we are now a special group of both the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Speech Communication Association. We look forward to being a part of both communities.

General topics of SLPAT13 include but are not limited to:

                • Automated processing of sign language

                • Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments

                • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility

                • Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living

                • Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language

                • Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AAC/AT applications

                • Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech

                • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio

                • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication

                • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies

                • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies

                • NLP for cognitive assistance applications

                • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments

                • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications

                • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications

                • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies

                • Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of assistive technology

                • Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols

                • Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field

                • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes

                • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology

                • Anything included in this year's special topic

                • Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication

The special topic this year is smart homes and intelligent companions. Subtopics include:

• Automatic Speech recognition in distant or multi-source environments
• Understanding, modelling or recognition of aged speech
• Speech analysis in the case of elderly with impairments, early recognition of speech capability loss
• Multimodal speech recognition (context-aware ASR)
• Multimodal emotion recognition
• Applications of speech technology (ASR, dialogue, synthesis) for ambient assisted living

This year, SLPAT will be co-located with the 1^st Workshop on Affective Social Speech Signals (WASSS, http://wasss-2013.imag.fr/, which takes place on 22 and 23 August 2013). Participation in and submission to both workshops will be facilitated by reduced registration fees for double-registration (rather than registering for both individually), co-ordination of topics on the overlapping day (22 August) to enable participation in both, and common lunch and events combining the two communities.

We look forward to your submissions!

Regards,

Organizing Committee, SLPAT13

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Phonetics, Phonology and language contact

 The conference PPLC 13 'Phonetics, Phonology and language contact' is a satellite event of Interspeech 2013 (http://www.interspeech2013.org/) which aims to bring together students and researchers working in the field of language acquisition, bilingualism and language contact situations.  It distinguishes itself from other conferences addressing these issues by wanting to provide a forum for dialogue and exchange between researchers working on second language acquisition, on the one hand, and researchers interested in multilingualism or in language varieties used in contact situations (for example, English or French spoken in Africa) on the other hand.  The possibility of comparing the characteristics of varieties emerging from language contact with the characteristics of varieties used by language learners will allow us to gain new insights on a range of linguistic questions, including among others: Which linguistic elements are acquired most easily, which elements are the ones most likely to disappear in contact situations or in cases of attrition, how to evaluate the complexity of the languages of the world, what impact can this knowledge have for teaching foreign languages?

 The conference will be held at the General Wallonia-Brussels Delegation in Paris (274, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris), and will take place from Wednesday, August 21, 2013 (2:00 p.m.) to Friday, August 23, 2013. The conference will include several oral and poster sessions as well as a half-day tutorial focusing on topics related to the development of resources for working on the phonology and phonetics in language contact situations (tools, transcription systems, construction of corpora, etc.).

The keynote speakers of the conference are:

- Catherine BEST,  University of Western Sydney

-  Ulrike GUT, University of Münster

- Paul IVERSON, University College London

-  Sabine ZERBIAN, University of Potsdam

We invite submissions that deal with the following topics (non-exhaustive list):

- second language acquisition and second language learning (description and error analysis, perception and production of foreign languages, factors that influence variation between learners, learning tools and techniques)

- linguistic description of language contact varieties

- multilingualism 

- linguistic development in contact situations

- attrition, etc.

 We invite submissions of abstracts for 30 minute oral (including questions) and poster presentations.  Abstracts should be submitted by March 5th, 2013, in PDF format using the following Easychair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pplc2013.

 Abstracts must be anonymous and no longer than two pages of A4-format (with an additional page for figures and references), single-spaced and in an easy to read 12pt font (like Times). Proposals will be evaluated anonymously by at least two reviewers. Abstracts should be submitted in English or French, the official languages of the symposium will be English and French.

 Soon after the conference, keynote speakers and selected authors will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their presentation for publication in an edited volume (Peter Lang or CIPA).

Important dates:

First call for papers / opening for abstract submission: December, 2012 Submission deadline of abstracts: March 5th, 2013 Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2013 Conference: August, 21^st-13^th, 2013

Contact: Further information can be found on the conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/ppcpinterspeech2013/home,

or by email: mailto:pplc2013.sat@gmail.com

Organizing committee

The PPLC 13 is being organized conjointly by members of the Labex ‘Empirical Foundations of Linguistics’ (Sorbonne Paris Cité) and members of the University of Mons and the Free University of Brussels.

Elisabeth DELAIS-ROUSSARIE, UMR 7110 – Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS/Paris Diderot University

Barbara KÜHNERT, Institut du Monde Anglophone & UMR 7018 - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, CNRS/University of Paris 3

Claire PILLOT-LOISEAU, ILPGA & UMR 7018 - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, CNRS/University of Paris 3

Mathieu AVANZI, UMR 7110 - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS/Paris Diderot University & University of Neuchâtel

Véronique DELVAUX, Laboratoire de Phonétique, & Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage, University of Mons

Bernard HARMEGNIES, Laboratoire de Phonétique & Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage, University of Mons

Kathy HUET, Laboratoire de Phonétique, & Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage, University of Mons

Myriam PICCALUGA, Laboratoire de Phonétique, & Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage, University of Mons

Dan VAN RAEMDONCK, Centre de Linguistique, ULB-Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique.

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Call for papers

     FIRST WORKSHOP ON SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND AUDIO IN MULTIMEDIA

                           Organized by
             ISCA SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia
         IEEE SIG on Audio and Speech Processing for Multimedia

               as a satellite event of Interspeech 2013

                 Aug. 22—23, 2013, Marseille, France

                   http://slam2013.lif.univ-mrs.fr

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The first Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM)
aims at bringing together researchers working in speech, language and
audio processing to analyze, index and access multimedia data.
Multimedia data are now available in very large amounts with a wide
variety of formats and qualities, from professional content to
user-generated ones: Lectures, meetings, interviews, debates,
conversational broadcast, podcasts, social videos on the Web, etc. Such
data, along with the associated use scenarios, raise specific
challenges: Robustness facing the high variability in quality;
Efficiency to handle very large amount of data; Semantics shared across
modalities; Potentially high error rates in transcription; etc.
Worldwide, several national and international research projects are
focusing on audio analysis of multimedia data. Similarly, various
benchmark initiatives have been initiated such as TRECVID MED,
MediaEval, or ETAPE and REPERE in France.

The SLAM workshop intends to bring together players from the field to
share recent research results, discuss ongoing and future projects,
benchmarking initiatives and applications. We expect communications on
research work, project description, evaluation initiative,
demonstrations and applications dealing with speech and/or language
and/or audio on any type of multimedia material. The list of topics of
interest includes (but is not limited to):

Audio event detection and audio classification
Speech and speaker recognition on multimedia material
Audio-aware genre analysis and classification
Multimodal speaker identification and clustering
Multimedia spoken term detection and content retrieval
Speech and audio aware content segmentation and structuring
Audio indexing and fingerprinting
Robust feature extraction and processing
Natural language processing for multimedia
Metadata extraction : Entity extraction, keyword extraction, etc.
Summarization and hyperlink generation
Multimodal fusion and integration involving audio
Generation of descriptive text for multimedia
Speech and audio multimedia applications and services
Databases and benchmarks
Large scale speech and audio analysis
Navigation in multimedia audio content

applied to any media such as:

Professional broadcasts – TV, radio, podcasts, newsfeeds, synopsis, etc. Social media – YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Voice Social
Network, etc.
Audiovisual archives – Lectures and conferences, meetings, etc.
Music – Music catalogs, music collections, etc.

The workshop is organized in conjunction with Interspeech 2013 over 1.5
days, starting Thu. 22, 2013 at mid-day and ending Fri. 23, 2013
afternoon, right before the main conference. Marseille is conveniently
connected by high-speed train to Lyon where the Interspeech conference
will take place. The format of the workshop will include an invited
talk, oral presentations of scientific work and a poster session for
project and benchmark presentations.

Prospective authors should submit a manuscript following instructions on
the web site. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two
reviewers. Proceedings will be published online in open access and a
special issue in a dedicated journal is targeted.

*Important dates*
full paper submission deadline: April 15, 2013
notification of acceptance: May 17, 2013
camera ready paper: June 28, 2013
workshop: August 22-23, 2013
Interspeech conference: August 25-30, 2013

The first SLAM workshop is jointly organized by the newly created ISCA
SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia and by the IEEE SIG on Audio
and Speech Processing in Multimedia. This first edition is intended as
the first of a series of workshop.

General Chairs:
Frédéric Bechet (LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille Université)
Guillaume Gravier (IRISA, CNRS)

Scientific committee:
Xavier Anguera (Telefónica)
Frédéric Bechet (Aix Marseille Université)
Delphine Charlet (Orange Labs)
Gerald Friedland (ICSI)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Guillaume Gravier (CNRS)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
Martha Larson (TU Delft)
Lin-Shan Lee (National Taiwan University)
Georges Linarès (Université d'Avignon)
Florian Metze (CMU)

Organizing committee:
Hervé Bredin (LIMSI, CNRS)
Benoît Favre (LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille Université)
Sylvain Meigner (LIUM, Université du Maine)
Christian Raymond (IRISA, INSA Rennes)

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**** Workshop  on Affective Social Speech Signals ****

                                .WASSS’2013

                            22-23 august 2013

                            1^st call for papers

http://www.Wasss-2013.imag.fr

satellite of Interspeech 2013 http://www.interspeech2013.org/

Cross-Referencing with the 4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), co-located with Interspeech 2013 in Grenoble, France, on August 21st-22nd, 2013: http://slpat.org/slpat2013

The WASSSS workshop will take place at the University of Grenoble, approximately 1 hour by train, bus or car from Lyon. It will be held over 2 days: the Thursday and Friday before Interspeech.).

--- The intended contributions can be related, but not limited to:

-       social emotions, social affect: theories or models, how and why signalled

-       social affect signals (e.g. expressions of automatic emotions and more social emotions, attitudes, intentions, mental states, cognitive processing, feelings...): corpus,  description, annotation, etc

-       the cultural contrast of affective social speech

-       psychological/neuropsychological models and cues for social affect processing

-       social and anthropological models for analysing affective processing and

         emotions expressions

-       social affect in Human Machine Interaction and dialog

-       multimodality of the social signals in face to face speech interactions

-       the place of social speech affect in L2 learning

-        the challenge of social signals for robots and embodied virtual agents

-       social affect in  speech technologies: speech synthesis, recognition or translation

-       speech social affect within personality, social rule and culture

-       lexicon of social affect in  speech

-       sentiment analysis/opinion mining in  speech

-       etc

******* Important dates:

paper submission:   22 april 2103

acceptation notification: 17 june 2013

final submission:  22 july 2013

early registration: 27 june 2013

late registration: 20 july 2013

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Papers should be a maximum of 4 pages Interspeech format (see submission
guidelines on Interspeech site

Every paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the scientific committee (extension of the program committee).
The workshop contributions be followed by a special publication of selected papers.

---WASSS description

This workshop will provide a meeting place for the  different communities interested into why, how and when speech is used by humans for signalling socio-affective functions. It will be dedicated to building interdisciplinary research and cross-fertilization between the  different scientific communities All areas related to human communication are concerned: language and speech computing, robotics or virtual agents, as well as linguistics, phonetics, pragmatics, didactics, sociology, psychology, neuropsychology, ethology, biology, etc. The organisation of affect is complex – from low-level emotion automatic or reflexive  processing to higher cognitive levels , culture-dependent, language-organized, controlled processing. Speech can signal some very rich social and emotional cues, reflecting personality, social role, the cultural/language  specificities in all human interactions and more broadly  in human communication.  

This workshop will be especially the place where “social emotions” will be debated from different points of view, with different meanings depending on the domain.

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Speech science in end user applications Special session at Interspeech 2013 Lyon, France, 25-29 August 2013 http://www.interspeech2013.org/ ________________________________ The successful injection of speech technology inventions produced by academic institutions into 

innovative industry projects is often difficult because of the fact that important constraints 

stemming from real world application scenarios are largely disregarded in laboratory settings. 

On the other hand, research in industry laboratories is often regarded as of a less 'scientific' 

nature due to time pressure and a pragmatism that is needed to get products on the road. 

To cast a balance between science and technology applications, this special session focuses

 on applications of speech technologies. Junior researchers in particular will appreciate getting 

an idea on how speech technology is used in industrial products designed with the end user 

in mind. We felt that a special session would be a good place to bring the academic and industrial

 world closer together, and exchange experiences in the overlapping areas of science and 

technology. 

 While industry is primarily interested in producing fail-safe products that serve the users in all 

applications, academia searches for merits by finding new algorithms that were not thought of

 before. We don't see a problem in this duality, but want to create an opportunity to meet and foster 

awareness between members of either community about topics of the other, exchange view 

points, and perhaps initiate common projects while raising appreciation. The focus of the session is on common problems in all technological fields of speech and 

language processing. Therefore, we encourage contributions all fields, e.g. recognition, 

synthesis, semantics, classification, etc., but with a focus on real world applications and 

the problems detected in user studies or extracted from real-use log files. We expect submissions from industry SMEs as well as from academia with experience in 

jointly developed projects, or open source projects with a big end-user community. We envision a poster session as this will allow for good individual exchange. This session 

shall begin with an introduction by the organizers followed by a short presentation to introduce 

the posters at display to all. A short panel discussion at the end will ensure a good forum of 

discussion for all. Please feel free to contact the organisers if you are interested in submitting a paper. Organisers: ________________________________ Felix Burkhardt Felix.Burkhardt@telekom.de Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Juergen Schroeter jsh@research.att.com AT&T, USA Björn Schuller schuller@tum.de Technische Universität München, Germany 

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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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Workshop on Speech Production in Automatic Speech Recognition

Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago
Local organization:  Emmanuel Ferragne, Universite Lyon 2

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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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TRASP 2013: Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody

30 August 2013 – Aix-en-Provence - France

Calls for papers

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Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody is an

Interspeech 2013 satellite

event.

This workshop will be the occasion to bring together people involved in developing

tools and resources for the analysis of speech prosody in order to evaluate the state of

the art in this area, summarising what tools and resources are currently available and

what other of tools and resources are in greatest need of development.

It will also be an opportunity to discuss ways in which work in this area might benefit from

harmonisation and collaboration.

In order to increase comparability for the different tools, contributors will be asked to apply

their tools to a common corpus which, when possible, will be made available by the

organisers. Since it is expected that tools may concern several different languages, a multilingual

corpus will be used:

http://crdo.up.univ-aix.fr/voir_depot.php?lang=en&id=805

Workshop Topics:

We invite you to submit papers in any area related to

tools and resources for the analysis of:

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Phonology and phonetics of prosody

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Prosody in perception and production

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Prosody in speech synthesis

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Prosody in speech recognition and understanding

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Prosody in computational linguistics

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Prosody in audiovisual processing

•

Prosodic corpus

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Prosody of dialogues and spontaneous speech

•

Cross-linguistic studies of prosody

Paper Submission Procedure:

Paper submissions must conform to the format which will be defined in the paper

preparation guidelines and provided with the author’s kit, on the TRASP 2013 website.

Papers must be submitted via the on-line paper submission system, which is already open.

The deadline for submitting a paper is April 29, 2013. This date will not be extended. The

working language of the conference is English.

Regular papers should be 6-8 pages in length

which would preferably consist of survey

papers,

and including a 150-200 word abstract. Short papers should be 2-4 pages in length

which will be presented as posters with or without an accompanying demonstration,

and

including a 150-200 word abstract. Accepted regular papers will be considered either for an

oral presentation, or for a poster presentation. All accepted short-papers will be considered

only for a poster presentation. At least one author of each accepted submission must register

for and attend the workshop.

Important Deadlines:

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Submission deadline: April 29, 2013

•

Notification of acceptance: May 27, 2013

•

Camera-Ready paper due: June 10, 2013

Information are available at:

http://www.lpl-aix.fr/~trasp/

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 SPECOM 2013 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************

15th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2013) Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 1-5 September 2013 WWW: http://specom.zcu.cz

SPECOM NEWS

SPECOM this year is organized in parallel with TSD (in the same time at the same place). Participants will be able to attend both conferences for a single fee.

ABOUT CONFERENCE

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia (UWB), Pilsen, Czech Republic in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation). Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), angelo Hotel (city center), Czech Republic

TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

Signal processing and feature extraction Multichannel signal processing Speech recognition and understanding Spoken language processing Spoken dialogue systems Speaker identification and diarization Speech forensics and security Language identification Text-to-speech systems Speech perception and speech disorders Multimodal analysis and synthesis Audio-visual speech processing Multimedia processing Speech and language resources Applications for human-computer interaction

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site.

IMPORTANT DATES

March 31, 2013 ............ Submission of full papers May 12, 2013 .............. Notification of acceptance June 9, 2013 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration

September 1-5, 2013 ....... Conference date

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.

CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs.

Full participant: early registration by June 9, 2013 – CZK 8.200 (approx. 320 EU

late registration by August 1, 2013 – CZK 9.400 (approx. 370 EU

on-site registration – CZK 10.000 (approx. 390 EU

Student (reduced): early registration by June 9, 2013 – CZK 7.000 (approx. 280 EU

late registration by August 1, 2013 – CZK 8.400 (approx. 330 EU

on-site registration – CZK 8.900 (approx. 350 EU

At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration fee by June 9, 2013 for their paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included in the regular registration fee. The additional paper and page charge is CZK 1000 per page. Any additional paper is treated as extra pages. An extra page charge is CZK 1000 per page. An author with more than one paper pays the additional paper rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid the full registration fee. In the case of uncertainty, feel free to contact the organising committee for clarification.

LOCATION

The city of Plzen (Pilsen) is situated in Western Bohemia at the confluence of four rivers. With its 170,000 inhabitants it is the fourth largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial, commercial, and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the Pilsen Region. In addition, it has been selected as the European capital of culture for 2015 by the Council of European Union.

The city has access from the D5 motorway connecting Prague (Praha) with Germany. Pilsen has very good bus and train connections with the capital of Prague (it takes about 1 – 1.5 hour to get from Prague to Pilsen). Fr m Vaclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) you can reach Pilsen by frequent public transport in 1.5 – 2 hour

ACCOMMODATION

The organising committee has arranged accommodation for reasonable prices in the angelo Hotel Pilsen, which is situated in the city center in walking distance from the main railway station and opposite to the historical entrance of the Pilsen brewery. There are a lot of restaurants in hotel neighbourhood offering specialities of national and foreign cuisine. Student halls of residence will be also available at the time of conference.

ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: Dr. Milos Zelezny E-mail: zelezny@kky.zcu.cz Phone: +420 377 632 548 Fax: +420 377 632 502 — Please, designate the faxed material with capita s 'SPECOM' on top. SPECOM 2013 conference web site: http://specom.zcu.cz

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MT Summit XIV, 2 - 6 September 2013
Nice, France
www.mtsummit2013.info

You can now register for the MT Summit
As there is a great demand for hotels in Nice in September we recommend you to make an early registration and take advantage of the reduced rates we have secured for a number of hotel rooms during the conference. However, the number of rooms at a reduced rate is limited, why we strongly recommend you to make an early booking.

MT Summit is an international conference, which takes place every two years and brings together people from the academic world and commercial companies developing machine translation (MT), and, what is very important, users of MT systems and other MT - related tools. The conference overviews state of the art in MT, its major contemporary trends and practical applications.
The conference programme for the MT Summit 2013 will include keynote speeches by renowned experts in the field of Machine Translation, panel discussions and presentations of submitted and invited papers organized in two programme tracks - research and commercial/user.
An exhibition of commercial and research systems will be held during the conference as well as a 'Project Village' featuring the best of recently funded collaborative work.
Why attend?
The MT Summit 2013 is sure to be of great interest for people from both academia and industry. For scientists it provides a unique opportunity to share their research results with colleagues and understand user demands. Business participants will benefit from updates on leading-edge R & D in MT and have a chance to present their products to potential customers.
Tutorials and workshops
Before the main conference two full days will be devoted to Tutorials and Workshops.
Nice
Located between the sea and mountains, Nice reveals unsuspected treasures to become the stage for an unforgettable stay. Everything is here: enchanting settings, cultural and historical venues, stimulating activities at sea, on land and in the air. Fresh air breaks, treasure hunts, sailing regattas, rafting, trekking, parasailing, 4WD trails; or even more innovative experiences: cookery classes, or perfume creation workshops, gastronomic meals, shows and opera, glamour evenings in luxurious residences...
To register, click here or go to the MT Summit website www.mtsummit2013.info

See you in Nice!
Viggo Hansen
Local Organizing Committee

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  Call for Papers

 7th Workshop:      'emotion and computing  - current research and future impact'

WORKSHOP at the KI 2013 Koblenz, September 16th, 2013

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The workshop series “emotion and computing – current research and future impact” has been providing a platform for discussion of emotion related topics of computer science and AI since 2006. In recent years computer science research has shown increasing efforts in the field of software agents which incorporate emotion. Several approaches have been made concerning emotion recognition, emotion modelling, generation of emotional user interfaces and dialogue systems as well as anthropomorphic communication agents. Motivations for emotional computing are manifold. From a scientific point of view, emotions play an essential role in decision making, as well as in perception and learning. Furthermore, emotions influence rational thinking and therefore should be part of rational agents as proposed by artificial intelligence research. Another focus is on human computer interfaces which include believable animations of interface agents. From a user perspective, emotional interfaces can significantly increase motivation and engagement which is of high relevance to the games and e-learning industry. Moreover, motivational and emotional aspects may play a key role in persuasive technologies, which intend to influence the user behaviour.

Contributions are solicited from the following fields:  

-Artificial Intelligence Research

-Cognitive Sciences and Cognitive Robotics

-Multi-agent System Technology

-Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition

 -Dialogue Systems and Communication

-Modeling Uncertainty and Vagueness

 -Computer Game Development

-User Modeling and Personalization

-Applications using models of emotion

-Persuasive Computing/Technologies

-Affective Computing         

Contributions are expected in the following form:

- Presentations should have a duration of 15-20 minutes. Each    presenter is required to submit a short paper on the presented   topic. Papers are subject to regular peer review and subsequent   publication within the workshop proceedings (4-8 pages).

- Demonstrations are documented by an extended abstract which   should not exceed 1 page in total

- Workshop submission is electronic. Submitted papers   should conform Springer LNCS style and must   be written in English. Papers will be published on the   workshop website. Further publication is in discussion   and depends on submitted papers.

Important Dates:

Workshop paper submission deadline: July 1st, 2013

Notification of workshop paper acceptance:   July 23rd, 2013

Workshop camera ready copy submission:   August 19th, 2013

Organization and Scientific Committee:

Prof. Dr. Dirk Reichardt, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart (main contact) Dr. Joscha Bach,Klayo AG, Berlin Dr. Christian Becker-Asano, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Dr. Hana Boukricha,University of Bielefeld Dr. Patrick Gebhard, DFKI Saarbrücken Prof. Dr. Michael Kipp, Hochschule Augsburg Prof. Dr. Paul Levi, University of Stuttgart Prof. Dr. John-Jules Charles Meyer, University of Utrecht Dr. Götz Renner, Daimler AG, Customer Research Center Prof. Dr. Michael M. Richter, University of Calgary Dr.-Ing. Björn Schuller, TU München Prof. Dr. David Sündermann, DHBW Stuttgart

Please refer to the workshop website for further information:

Workshop Website:       http://www.emotion-and-computing.de Email:                  mailto://info@emotion-and-computing.de

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55th International Symposium ELMAR-2013

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September 25-27, 2013

Zadar, Croatia

Paper submission deadline: April 17, 2013

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 and SCOPUS

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/2013/special_sessions/

--> Student Session (B.Sc. and M.Sc. students only):

http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2013/student_session/

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

* Darko Ratkaj, European Broadcasting Union, SWITZERLAND:

Multimedia Broadcasting - Promises and Pitfalls of Internet Distribution

SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of full papers: April 17, 2013

Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 20, 2013

Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: May 27, 2013

Preliminary program available online by: June 10, 2013

Registration forms and payment deadline: June 17, 2013

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PROSLI - Prosody for self-learning instruction
Workshop at ICNAAM
26-27 September 2013, Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece
http://www.icnaam.org/

Prosody addresses fundamental components of speech communication - such as intonation and rhythm - which must be mastered by language learners in order to understand and make themselves understood properly in the target language. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) almost never incorporates such components. As a result, speech technologies for self-learning instructions (SLI) are unable to offer feedback to learners as to their prosodic skills. In most cases, prosody is made object of specific separate tools.
The workshop will try to cover the whole spectrum of topics both theoretical and practical, that deal with prosody and self-learning instructions. It will include demonstration and state of the art of such tools, their effectiveness in self-learning contexts. It will address prosodic issues in language learning from both the analysis and the perception viewpoint and their accountability in real world applications. In particular, of interest to the workshop will also be ASR systems for languages like Chinese, which naturally incorporate tone level parameters in their language models; or like Japanese which need to account for durational differences at phonemic and subphonemic level.

Submission: look for formatting details in the main conference website, and then send a 4 pages extended abstract with your affiliation to this address, delmont@unive.it.

Deadlines
   •    Early-bird registration: April 20, 2013
   •    Paper submission: May 30, 2013
   •    Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013
   •    Submission of camera ready paper: July 28, 2013
   •    Conference days: September 26-27, 2013

Program Committee
Björn Granström, KTH, Center Speech Technology
Daniel Hirst, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université
Philippe Martin, Université Paris Diderot
Ruediger Hoffmann - Technische Universität Dresden
Helmer Strik, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Anton Batliner, University of Munich
Barbara Gili Favela, Università di Lecce
Fabio Tamburini, Università di Bologna
Jared Bernstein, Pearson Knowledge Technologies
Brigitte Bigi, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université
Anne Bonneau, LORIA, France
Uwe Reichel, University of Munich
Rodolfo Delmonte, Ca' Foscari University Venice

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The 4th summer school on 'Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior”

will be hold in Aix-en-Provence from 30.9.2013 to 4.10.2013.

Speakers show phonetic differences while producing the very same utterance. These speaker-specific differences occur at various linguistic levels and they can be realized phonetically by many parameters such as voice quality, speech rate, loudness, fundamental frequency, breathing, articulatory behavior, etc. At the same time, listeners can vary in the way they exploit such cues for the purpose of speech perception and understanding.

Speaker-specific behavior has long been regarded irrelevant for linguistic theories and is generally treated as noise in the data. Methodologically, speaker-specific variation has often been ignored in the statistical modelling of speech production and perception data.

However, there are numerous recent studies showing that speaker-specific variation allows for new insights into learning processes, speech planning and speech motor control strategies, processing of linguistic and paralinguistic information, among others. We seek to link findings from different disciplines by asking the following questions: 

• Which speaker-specific behaviors are crucial for a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying speech production and perception and which are less important? What can it tell us? Why?

• Does information about the speaker help listeners to extract meaning?

• Do physical and cognitive differences among individuals matter for native language acquisition?

• How do we deal with speaker-specific behavior statistically?

The invited international scholars have been chosen to address these issues.

This summer school is mainly intended for graduate students, post-docs or researchers who work in the field of speech production, perception and perception-production interaction. We expect about 50 participants. One of the aims of the summer school is to provide a forum for exchanges between students, junior and senior researchers and encourage all participants to contribute to the dialog. Please send a letter of motivation and an abstract (no longer than 1 page) of your prospective contribution till to the 15^th of May 2013.

http://summerschool13.sciencesconf.org/

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Alejandrina Cristia (MPI, Nijmegen): Speech acquisition

• Rodger Mundry (MPI, Leipzig): Statistics

• Pascal Perrier (GIPSA-lab, Grenoble): Biomechanics

• Benjamin Swets (Grand Valley State University, Allendale): Psycholinguistics

• Melanie Weirich (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena): Articulation 

• Rachel Smith (University of Glasgow): Speech perception and fine phonetic detail

Organizing committee (in alphabetical order)

Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin, Germany)

Caroline Magister (ZAS Berlin, Germany)

Daniel Pape (IEETA + UA Aveiro, Portugal)

Caterina Petrone (LPL-CNRS Aix-en-Provence, France)

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NLPCS 2013

10th International Workshop on

Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science

15-16 October, 2013 (workshop), 17-18 October, 2013 (tutorials, to be confirmed)

CIRM, Marseille, France, https://sites.google.com/site/nlpcs2013/home/

The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in Natural

Language Processing (NLP) by taking a Cognitive Science perspective. What characterises this kind of

approach is the fact that NLP is considered from various viewpoints (linguistics, psychology,

neurosciences, artificial intelligence,...), and that a deliberate effort is made to reconcile or integrate

them into a coherent whole.

We believe that this is necessary, as the modelling of the process is simply too complex to be addressed

by a single discipline. No matter whether we deal with a natural or artificial system (people or

computers) or a combination of both (interactive NLP), systems rely on many types of very different

knowledge sources. Hence, strategies vary considerably depending on the person (novice, expert), on

the available knowledge (internal and external), and on the nature of the information processor: human,

machines or both (human-machine communication).

This being so we are interested in theoretical or applied work (including simulations). Hence, any of the

following aspects are welcomed: structure, representation and processing of information by different

agents (natural, artificial or both) and in different communication modes.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: 15 June, 2013

Authors’ Notification: 31 July 15, 2013

Final Paper Submission : 15 September, 2013

CO-CHAIRS

Bernadette Sharp,

Staffordshire University, United Kingdom

b.sharp@staffs.ac.uk

Michael Zock,

CNRS-LIF, Aix-Marseille Université, France

michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr

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The 2013 Similar Segments in Social Speech Task

With users' growing willingness to share personal activity information, the eventual acceptance of social multimedia, including video and audio recordings of casual interactions, is inevitable. To unlock the potential value, we need to develop methods for searching such recordings, and this task is intended to support research in this area.  It is likely to be of interest to researchers in the areas of speech technology, information retrieval, dialog, and topic modeling. The task involves searching in social multimedia, specifically conversations between students in an academic department. The scenario is this: A new member has joined an organization or social group that has a small archive of conversations among its members. He starts to listen, looking for any information that can help him better understand, participate in, enjoy, find friends in, and succeed in this group. As he listens to the archive (perhaps at random, perhaps based on some social tags, perhaps based on an initial keyword search) he finds something of interest, and wants to find more like it, across the entire archive. He marks what he found as a region of interest and requests more like it. The system comes back with a set of ``jump-in'' points, places in the archive to which he could jump and start listening/watching with the expectation of finding something similar.
In the task, the input to the systems will be a 1-10 second audio/video region of interest, and the desired output an ordered list of regions similar to it, matching as closely as possible the judgments of human searchers. Task participants will receive a 2-hour collection of dyadic conversations, each 5-10 minutes in length, by members of semi-cohesive group. These will include video, two-microphone stereo audio, speech recognition transcripts and a small set of prosodic features computed every 10 milliseconds. Metadata will include the native languages of the speakers. The dataset will be supplied under a permissive Creative Commons license. There will be several dozen similarity sets, each containing 5-40 regions, each about 3-20 seconds long, which were judged by one of the user population to all be similar in some way.
The test set will be a smaller set of conversations and a set of regions of interest, or seeds. For each seed, a system will return a list of jump-in points for its inferred similar-region set.

Task schedule (tentative)

April 1: Familiarization pack release

May 1: Development data release

July 1: Test set release

September 5 : Run submission deadline

October 18-19: Workshop, in Barcelona

This task is organized under the auspices of MediaEval 2013. 

Further information is available at http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2013/socialspeech2013/ and http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ssss/, or from the organizers: Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA; David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso, USA; Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan; Elizabeth Shriberg, Microsoft, USA; Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California, USA; Catharine Oertel, KTH, Sweden.

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AVEC 2013

3rd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop

Depression and Continuous Emotion

http://sspnet.eu/avec2013

Satellite Workshop of ACM Multimedia 2013

Fully‐day Workshop October 21 – 25 (t.b.d.), Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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This year there will be two sub-challenges: the first is fully continuous dimensional affect recognition (similar to AVEC 2012), but it is the second sub-challenge that makes this AVEC very special indeed: estimation of self-reported level of depression on over 150 recordings of people suffering from depression performing a standardised human computer interaction task. This sub challenge has a single label associated with every recording, making it also a very different machine learning problem compared to the previous challenges.

The full Call for Participation, together with more information about the mechanics of the challenge, can be found on the SSPNet portal: http://sspnet.eu/avec2013/. The data can be downloaded from http://avec2013-db.sspnet.eu/.

Please note that this year, due to the nature of the data, we have to be stricter about participation and data distribution. We would kindly request all participating teams to contact the organisers by email with name and affiliation of all team members. As an extra data protection measure, all zip files in the dataset are encrypted and a password to decrypt them will be provided by the organisers upon team registration. We would also kindly request all participants to read the EULA thoroughly, in particular the sections on data confidentiality.

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

 Extended deadline May 22  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
         
 

Calendrier

Date d'ouverture des soumissions : 1 janvier 2013

Nouvelle date limite de soumission : 22 mai 2013

Date de notification aux auteurs : 1 juillet 2013

Programme officiel : 15 juillet 2013

Date limite d’inscription : 1er septembre 2013 (majoration de 30 euros au-delà de cette date)

Date du colloque : 23 – 25 octobre 2013

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Call for papers: HLT4LL 2013

An interdisciplinary symposium on the contribution of

Human Language Technologies to the future of Language Learning

11-12 November 2013: Stellenbosch University (South Africa)

12 November 2013: Videoconferencing with Radboud University Nijmegen and KU Leuven Kulak

http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/hlt4ll-call-for-papers/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Nick Ellis, Maxine Eskenazi, John Nerbonne, Mathias Schulze, Isabel Trancoso

SCOPE AND AIM OF THE SYMPOSIUM

The HLT4LL 2013 symposium will address the possibilities and challenges of using human language technologies (HLT) for language learning (LL) (HLT4LL). We define HLT4LL as any use or integration of language and speech technology to structure, facilitate (support) and evaluate the language learning process. To fully acknowledge and address the complexity of this interdisciplinary domain, the symposium aims to bring together representatives from various but related research fields: language and speech technology, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics (learner and bilingual corpora), data-driven language learning, (second) language acquisition, language pedagogy, computer assisted language learning (CALL), educational technology, semantic web, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction (HCI/CHI), etc.

This symposium is intended to provide a state-of-the-art overview of this interdisciplinary domain for people from academia, educational institutions, industry, as well as for policymakers.

Registration and participation are free of charge.

If you want to register, send an email to HLT4LL@let.ru.nl.

Mention if you want to be present in Stellenbosch, Nijmegen or Kortrijk.

The number of available places is limited, we thus might have to select.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We hereby solicit contributions to the research workshop on 12 November 2013.

Potential authors are invited to submit a proposal for a paper or poster session related to any of the mentioned fields. Submissions can also provide feedback on the use of current applications, or suggest possible ways of optimization and propose future developments, based on a systematic investigation of the subject. All submissions will be subjected to peer review; only a limited number of contributions will be presented at the workshop. During the workshop, presenters will get feedback from the keynote speakers.

During the research workshop, video conferencing facilities will be available at Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and at KU Leuven Kulak (Kortrijk, Belgium), which will allow researchers to present their work from remote locations.

We are considering inviting presenters to submit full-length papers after the workshop, which may be published in a special issue of an authoritative, interdisciplinary and international journal in the field.

IMPORTANT DATES

- 09/06/2013: Deadline for submission of extended abstract (max. 1000 words)

- 14/07/2013: Notification of acceptance

- 31/07/2013: Early-bird registration for accepted authors

- 11/11/2013: Start of symposium at Stellenbosch University (South Africa)

- 11/11/2013: Informative meeting for a general audience, incl. demo’s

- 12/11/2013: Research workshop (videoconferencing with RU Nijmegen and Kulak Leuven)

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

Proposals must be sent to HLT4LL@let.ru.nl by 9 June 2013.

ORGANISERS

Catia Cucchiarini & Helmer Strik (Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University, The Netherlands)

Frederik Cornillie & Piet Desmet (ITEC, KU Leuven Kulak & iMinds, Belgium)

Febe de Wet (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

CONTACT US

HLT4LL@let.ru.nl

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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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2013 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)
December 8-12, 2013 – Olomouc, Czech Republic
Regular Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2013
Sponsored by IEEE SPS

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Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.

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ICASSP 2014
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
“Fortezza da Basso” Convention and Exhibition Centre
May 4-9, 2014 - Florence, Italy
www.icassp2014.org
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Deadline for the submission of Regular Papers: OCTOBER 27, 2013
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The 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Florence, Italy, at the Fortezza da Basso Convention and Exhibition Centre on May 4-9, 2014 (www.firenzefiera.it). ICASSP is the World's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and thematic workshops. Topics include but are not limited to:

•    Audio and acoustic signal processing
•    Bio-imaging and signal processing
•    Signal processing education
•    Speech processing
•    Industry technology tracks
•    Information forensics and security
•    Machine learning for signal processing
•    Multimedia signal processing    •    Sensor array & multichannel signal processing
•    Design & implementation of signal processing systems
•    Signal processing for communications & networking
•    Image, video & multidimensional signal processing
•    Signal processing theory & methods
•    Spoken language processing
•    Biological and Biomedical Signal Processing


Place: Florence is one of the most renowned cities in the world, not only due to its location in the heart of Tuscany, but also because of its connection to the evolution of art, culture, and scientific thought. It is in this area that Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei made their groundbreaking discoveries during the Renaissance, paving the way to modern science. Now that signal processing has become the science behind a wide range of application areas, from wireless communications to speech processing, from bioinformatics to multimedia, it seems only right to hold the 2014 edition of ICASSP in this city of Culture.

Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers of up to four pages of technical content (including figures and references), with a possible extension to a 5th page containing only references. The selection of the best papers will be made by the ICASSP 2014 committee based on recommendations from the Technical Committees.

Notice: The IEEE Signal Processing Society enforces a 'no-show' policy. Any accepted paper included in the final program is expected to have at least one author or qualified proxy attend and present the paper at the conference. Authors of the accepted papers included in the final program who do not attend the conference will be subscribed to a 'No-Show List', compiled by the Society. The 'no-show' papers will not be published by IEEE on IEEEXplore or other public access forums, but these papers will be distributed as part of the on-site electronic proceedings and the copyright of these papers will belong to the IEEE.

Tutorial and Special Sessions Proposals: Tutorials will be held on May 4 and 5, 2014. Brief tutorial proposals should include title, outline, contact information, biography and selected publications for the presenter(s), and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Special session proposals should include title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited papers. Please refer to the ICASSP 2014 website www.icassp2014.org for additional information.

Show & Tell: The 2014 edition of ICASSP is proud to bring back the S&T sessions. S&T offers the perfect stage for showcasing innovative ideas in all technical areas of interest of ICASSP. S&T sessions are expected to be highly interactive, involving, and very visible. Please refer to the ICASSP 2014 website www.icassp2014.org for additional information.

GENERAL CHAIRS
Fulvio Gini, University of Pisa, Italy
Marco Luise, University of Pisa, Italy
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS
Abdelhak Zoubir, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Mauro Barni, University of Siena, Italy
FINANCE CHAIR
Petar Djuric, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
ADVISORY BOARD
Enrico Del Re, University of Florence, Italy
Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genova, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
G. Tong Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Filippo Giannetti, University of Pisa, Italy
PUBLICATION CHAIRS
Maria S. Greco, University of Pisa, Italy
Alessandro Piva, University of Florence, Italy
SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS
Sergio Barbarossa, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Ananthram Swami, ARL, Adelphi MD, USA
TUTORIALS CHAIRS
Ercan E. Kuruoglu, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Antonio Napolitano, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy
PLENARIES CHAIRS
Ezio Biglieri, Italy
Ali H. Sayed, UCLA, California, USA
STUDENT PAPER CONTEST CHAIRS
Alberto Carini, University of Urbino, Italy
Antonio De Maio, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
SHOW AND TELL CHAIR
Augusto Sarti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
EXHIBIT CHAIRS
Luca Sanguinetti, University of Pisa, Italy
Giacomo Bacci, University of Pisa, Italy
WEB MASTER CHAIRS
Pietro Stinco, University of Pisa, Italy
Stefano Fortunati, University of Pisa, Italy
LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Fabrizio Argenti, University of Florence, Italy
LOCAL LIAISON
Marco Moretti, University of Pisa, Italy
US LIAISON
Georgios B. Giannakis, University of Minnesota, USA
FAR EAST LIAISONS
H.C. So, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Giuseppe A. Fabrizio, DSTO, Australia
INDUSTRY LIAISON
Alfonso Farina, SELEX-ES, Rome, Italy
CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT
Graciela Stiavetti, DGMP srl, Pisa, Italy

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Special Session and Tutorial Proposals: August 30, 2013
Notification of Special Session and Tutorial Acceptance: September 30, 2013
Submission of Regular Papers: October 27, 2013
Signal Processing Letters Due: January 7, 2014
Notification of Paper Acceptance: January 27, 2014
Show and Tell Proposal Deadline: February 14, 2014
Revised Paper Upload Deadline: March 7, 2014
Author’s Registration Deadline: March 14, 2014

https://twitter.com/icassp2014
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ICASSP-2014/279577105503957
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICASSP-2014-4815619

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10^th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014

We are pleased to announce the 10th International Speech Production Seminar, which will take place in Cologne from 5th to 8th May 2014. This international meeting was launched in 1988 in Grenoble, with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum for  researchers working on all aspects of speech production from fields as diverse as phonology, phonetics, prosody, mechanics, acoustics, physiology, motor control, neuroscience, computer science and human interaction. At this meeting we shall be celebrating the tenth anniversary of this series.

Topics of interest for ISSP 2014 include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• Perception-action control

• Intra- and inter-speaker variability

• Articulatory synthesis

• Mapping between articulatory and acoustic events

• Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion

• Connected speech processes

• Convergence and human interaction

• Coarticulation

• Prosody

• Rhythm and timing

• Biomechanical modeling

• Models of motor control

• Audiovisual synthesis

• Aerodynamic models

• Cerebral organization and neural correlates of speech

• Disorders of speech motor control

• Instrumental techniques

• Speech and language acquisition

• Audio-visual speech perception

• Plasticity of speech production and perception

Invited speakers:

Christian Kell (Brain Imaging Center, Frankfurt, Germany) Oscillatory signatures of speech preparation and production

D. Robert Ladd (University of Edinburgh, UK) (title to be announced)

Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (MIT, USA) The role of prosody in speech production planning

Michael J. Richardson (University of Cincinnati, USA) Behavioural dynamics of social coordination and speech production

Caroline Palmer (McGill University, CA) Auditory-motor integration in ensemble music performance

Further information is provided here:

http://www.issp2014.uni-koeln.de/

To contact the organizers, please send an email to:

issp-2014@uni-koeln.de

Important dates:

1st October 2013: Four page paper submission         

15th December 2013: Notification of acceptance   

15th January 2014: Online registration open

25th February 2014: Revised version of four page paper

15th March: Deadline for early bird registration     

5th May - 8th May 2014 : ISSP 2014

The organizers:

Susanne Fuchs, Martine Grice, Anne Hermes, Leonardo Lancia, Doris Muecke

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ELRA, the European Language Resources Association, is very pleased to announce that the 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference will take place in Reykjavik (Iceland) on May 26-June 1, 2014.

More information will be available soon on: http://www.lrec-conf.org.

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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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REU Site: Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences

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The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) offers a 10-week summer research program for undergraduates in interactive virtual experiences. A multidisciplinary research institute affiliated with the University of Southern California, the ICT was established in 1999 to combine leading academic researchers in computing with the creative talents of Hollywood and the video game industry. Having grown to encompass a total of 170 faculty, staff, and students in a diverse array of fields, the ICT represents a unique interdisciplinary community brought together with a core unifying mission: advancing the state-of-the-art for creating virtual reality experiences so compelling that people will react as if they were real.

Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of ICT research, we welcome applications from students in computer science, as well as many other fields, such as psychology, art/animation, interactive media, linguistics, and communications. Undergraduates will join a team of students, research staff, and faculty in one of several labs focusing on different aspects of interactive virtual experiences. In addition to participating in seminars and social events, students will also prepare a final written report and present their projects to the rest of the institute at the end of summer research fair.

Students will receive $5000 over ten weeks, plus an additional $2800 stipend for housing and living expenses.  Non-local students can also be reimbursed for travel up to $600.  The ICT is located in West Los Angeles, just north of LAX and only 10 minutes from the beach.

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The site is expected to begin summer 2013, pending final award issuance.

Students can apply online at: http://ict.usc.edu/reu/

Application deadline: March 31, 2013

For more information, please contact Evan Suma at reu@ict.usc.edu.

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Call for Bids -

                                                   SLT-2014

Following on the tremendous success of SLT 2012, the SPS-SLTC invites proposals to host the 2014 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT-2014). Past SLT workshops have fostered a collegiate atmosphere through a thoughtful selection of venues, thus offering a unique opportunity for researchers to interact and learn.
The proposal should include the information outlined below.
* Workshop location and practicalities     o Geographical location     o Workshop venue (facilities, meeting rooms, network access      during the workshop, audio/visual equipment)     o Accommodation -- hotel availability and pricing
   o Meals     o Transportation options -- major airports, logistics, visas     o Climate
* Approximate workshop dates     o Previous workshops have been held in the month of December.
* Rough budget and expected sponsorship.     o Approximately how much will participants need to pay to attend,     including accommodation and meals as well as registration.     o Estimated budget for e.g. 100/150 participants and expected     sponsorships. This should include venue costs, administration,    banquet, coffee breaks, publication costs, etc.(Note, unlike  larger conferences such as ICASSP, Interspeech, smaller workshops
    do not have sufficient registration fees to cover the total workshop costs. The IEEE Signal Processing Society is particularly
    motivated to see that both workshop and conference costs are held      to levels which allow the diverse membership equal opportunities      to participate without registration costs being a major barrier).
* Technical committee
* Local arrangements.     o Who will be in charge of organizing the workshop, and how      will finances be handled (e.g., will participants be able to      pay by credit card)?
* Tentative schedule.     o Paper submission, notification of acceptance, proposals for      demonstrations, early registration
   o Reception, talks, posters, demo session, banquet, etc.

If you would like to be the organizer(s) of SLT-2014, please send the Workshop Sub-Committee a draft proposal before April 1, 2013. (Point of contact:gsaon@us.ibm.com). Proposals will be evaluated by the SPS SLTC, with a decision expected in June.
The organizers of the ASRU workshop do not have to be SLTC members, and we encourage submissions from all potential organizers. So we encourage you to distribute this call for proposals far and wide to invite members of the speech and language community at large to submit a proposal to organize the next SLT workshop.
For more information on the most recent workshops, please see:
*http://www.slt2012.org/for information about SLT-2012 in Miami, Florida
*http://www.slt2010.org/for information about SLT-2010 in Berkeley, California
*http://www.slt2008.org/for information about SLT-2008 in Goa, India
SPS-SLTC Workshop Sub-Committee Nick Campbell George Saon Geoffrey Zweig

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Call for Participation

INTERSPEECH 2013 ComParE:COMPUTATIONAL PARALINGUISTICS CHALLENGE

  Social Signals, Conflict, Emotion, Autism

Fourth Sub-Challenge now open – obtain the data:

http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/IS13-Challenge-Agreements-SC2.pdf

After four consecutive Challenges at INTERSPEECH, there still exists a multiplicity of not yet covered, but highly relevant paralinguistic phenomena. In the last instalments, we focused on single speakers. With a new task, we now want to broaden to analysing discussion of multiple speakers in the Conflict Sub-Challenge. A further novelty is introduced by the Social Signals Sub-Challenge: For the first time, non-linguistic events have to be classified and localised – laughter and fillers. In the Emotion Sub-Challenge we are literally “going back to the roots”. However, by intention, we use acted material for the first time to fuel the ever on-going discussion on differences between naturalistic and acted material and hope to highlight the differences. Finally, the Autism Sub-Challenge picks up on Autism Spectrum Condition in children’s speech in this year. Apart from intelligent and socially competent future agents and robots, main applications are found in the medical domain and surveillance. The Challenge corpora feature rich annotation such as speaker meta-data, orthographic transcript, phonemic transcript, and segmentation. All four are given with distinct definitions of test, development, and training partitions, incorporating speaker independence as needed in most real-life settings. Benchmark results of the most popular approaches will be provided as in the years before. In these respects, the INTERSPEECH 2013 COMPUTATIONAL PARALINGUISTICS CHALLENGE (ComParE) shall help bridging the gap between excellent research on paralinguistic information in spoken language and low compatibility of results.

In summary, four Sub-Challenges are addressed:

•             In the Social Signals Sub-Challenge, non-linguistic events – laughter and fillers – of a speaker have to be classified and localised based on acoustics.

•             In the Conflict Sub-Challenge, group discussions have to be automatically evaluated aiming at retrieving conflicts.

•             In the Emotion Sub-Challenge, the emotion of a speaker’s voice has to be determined by a suited learning algorithm and acoustic features.

•             In the Autism Sub-Challenge, the type of pathology of a speaker has to be determined by a suited classification algorithm and acoustic features.

The measures of competition will be Unweighted Average Area Under receiver operating Curve and Recall. 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 for (but not limited to):

•             Participation in a Sub-Challenge

•             Contributions focussing on Computational Paralinguistics centred around the Challenge topics

The results of the Challenge will be presented at Interspeech 2013 in Lyon, France. Prizes will be awarded to the Sub-Challenge winners. If you are interested and planning to participate in INTERSPEECH 2013 ComParE, 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/is13-compare

Björn Schuller (TUM, Germany)

Stefan Steidl (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Anton Batliner (TUM, Germany)

Alessandro Vinciarelli (University of Glasgow, UK)

Klaus Scherer (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Switzerland)

Fabien Ringeval (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Mohamed Chetouani (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

Paper Submission            18 March             2013

Final Result Upload         24 May                 2013

Camera-ready Paper      29 May                 2013

HUMAINE Association                   (http://emotion-research.net/)

SSPNet                                                 (http://sspnet.eu/)

ASC-Inclusion                                    (http://www.asc-inclusion.eu/)

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PD Dr. habil. DI Björn W. Schuller

Head Machine Intelligence & Signal Processing Group

Institute for Human-Machine Communication

Technische Universität München

D-80333 München

Germany

+49-(0)89-289-28548

schuller@tum.de

www.mmk.ei.tum.de/~sch

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