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| 3-1-1 | (2013-08-23) INTERSPEECH 2013 Lyon France (Poster) Interspeech 2013 Lyon, France 25-29 August 2013 General Chair: Frédéric Bimbot
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| 3-1-2 | (2013-08-31) 8th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW8) Barcelona SpainCall for Papers 8th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW8) Barcelona, Spain - August 31st- September 2nd, 2013 http://ssw8.talp.cat The Eighth ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Speech Synthesis will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from August 31st 2013 to September 2nd 2013. It is a satellite workshop of Interspeech 2013, to be held from August 25th through August 29th 2013. The Workshop is promoted by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech Synthesis (SynSIG). The workshop is a continuation of the previous ESCA/ISCA workshops, Autrans 1990, Mohonk 1994, Jenolan Caves 1998, Pitlochry 2001, Pittsburgh 2004, Bonn 2007, Kyoto 2010 which aimed to promote research and development of all aspects of speech synthesis. Workshop topics Papers in all areas of speech synthesis technology are encouraged to be submitted, including: - Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for synthesis - Text processing for speech synthesis (text normalization, syntactic and semantic analysis) - Segmental-level and/or concatenative synthesis - Signal processing/statistical model for synthesis - Speech synthesis paradigms and methods; articulatory synthesis, parametric synthesis etc. - Prosody modeling and generation - Expression, emotion and personality generation - Voice conversion and modification, morphing - Concept-to-speech conversion speech synthesis in dialog systems - Avatars and talking faces - Cross-lingual and multilingual aspects for synthesis - Applications of synthesis technologies to communication disorders - TTS for embedded devices and computational issues - Tools and data for speech synthesis - Quality assessment/evaluation metrics in synthesis - Special topic: performative speech and singing synthesis. Call for Demos We are planning to have a demo session: If you have some demonstrations of your work that does not really fit in a regular oral or poster presentation, please let us know. Demonstrations on performative speech and singing synthesis are specially encouraged. The workshop program will consist of invited lectures, oral and poster presentations, and panel discussions. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The SSW8 website http://ssw8.talp.cat/ will provide you with further details. Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: May 27th, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2013 - Camera-ready final versions: July 16th, 2013 - Workshop: August 31st - September 2nd, 2013 - Blizzard Challenge 2013 WS (Barcelona): September 3rd.
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| 3-1-3 | (2014-09-07) INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore
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| 3-1-4 | (2015) INTERSPEECH 2015 Dresden RFA The following preliminary list of principal organizers plan INTERSPEECH 2015:
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| 3-1-5 | Flash news of INTERSPEECH 2013INTERSPEECH 2013 Conference with special focus on 'Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies' 25-29 August 2013, Lyon (France) ------------------ --- FLASH NEWS --- ------------------ Call for *Show & Tell* opened until April 19th, 2013 (midnight GMT): http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/special-events *Registration* to the conference will start by mid April, on: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/registration List of *conference areas*: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/conference-areas Six *tutorials* programmed on Sunday 25th. See below and: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/tutorials ----------------------- --- IMPORTANT DATES --- ----------------------- Call for Papers: now closed Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2013 Camera-ready papers: May 29, 2013 ----------------------------------- --- MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZERS --- ----------------------------------- The submission process for regular papers is closed and the review process is now underway. We thank authors for all the hard work they have put in preparing their submissions. This year, a record has been reached with 1450 regular paper proposals. These submissions are now being processed by the scientific committee with the help of a large panel of reviewers from around the world, who we thank for their involvement in making Interspeech'13 a huge success. Please note that *the call for Show & Tell will remain open until April 19th.* Do not hesitate to submit ! Registration will start by mid-April. Early registration fees for full-delegate ISCA members are set to 520 Euros, including the conference banquet. Students will benefit from a reduced rate of 50% (i.e. 260 Euros). In order to keep overall costs low, an accomodation package will be proposed to students, in the range of 250 Euros for 5 nights + breakfast. Grants will also be available, to further reduce financial burden. Stay tuned for more info on the conference website. Bien amicalement, The Organizing Committee -------------------------------- --- CALL FOR SHOW & TELL --- --- AND OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS --- -------------------------------- *Show and Tell* Show & Tell is a special event organized during the Interspeech 2013 conference, where participants are given the opportunity to demonstrate their most recent progress, developments or innovation tracks, and interact with the conference attendees. Submission deadline is April 19, 2013. Any demonstration of concepts, algorithms, tools, resources, etc... falling within the general scope of the conference are welcome. However, in accordance with the conference special focus, we particularly encourage proposals fitting into the following four main topics: - Brain and Human Language - Speech in Life Sciences and Human Societies - Human-Robot and Human-Machine Spoken Interaction - The Paralinguistic Challenges To participate to the Show & Tell, submit a 2-page proposal (in pdf format) describing the concept from the technical point-of-view, its innovative side and the format under which you intend to present it. Authors are allowed to include links to web pages in the pdf proposal. Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address: is13-showandtell@inria.fr More details on http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/special-events A Google Show & Tell Prize of 500 Euros will be awarded to the most innovative participation. *Panel Session* We are pleased to announce an Industry Panel Session at Interspeech 2013. Linking Research to Industry: The practitioner's view on 'Competitive Manufacturing for Innovative Products and Services based on speech technologies' in Robotics, Video games, Serious games, Therapeutic applications. Objectives: The aim of this panel session is to give Interspeech participants from industry an opportunity to share their views on the recent advances in spoken language research, the remaining challenges, and the diversity of applications and to foster the exchange between academia and industrial practice. ----------------- --- TUTORIALS --- ----------------- We are happy to announce 6 high-level tutorials in conjunction with Interspeech 2013. In accordance with the special focus of the conference, the programme of tutorials intends to provide a good balance between computer sciences and human sciences related topics. Interspeech 2013 also introduces a mix between tutorials on advanced topics (recent advances in ...) and tutorials providing the necessary basis on a particular subject (crash course), mix that we hope will be found attractive by the participants. *List of tutorials* : Spectrogram reading in French and English: language-dependent and independant acoustic cues to phonological features, coarticulation and influence of prosodic position Jacqueline Vaissière, CNRS, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Recent Advances in Incremental Spoken Language Processing Timo Baumann, Universität Hamburg, Germany David Schlangen, Universität Bielefeld,Germany Forensic Automatic Speaker Recognition: Theory, Implementation and Practice Andrzej Drygajlo, Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland Identification and modification of consonant perceptual cues in natural speech Andrea Trevino Carolina, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, USA Jont Allen, affiliation University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, USA Feipeng Li, Johns Hopkins University, USA Recent Advances on Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Jen-Tzung Chien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Georges Saon, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA What speech researchers should know about video technology? Koichi Shinoda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA More info soon on: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/tutorials --------------------- --- MISCELLANEOUS --- --------------------- The following prizes will be awarded at Interspeech 2013 : - ISCA Best Paper Award - Google's Best Show & Tell Prize - 7th Christian Benoit Award More information on: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/prizes-and-awards Keynote talks: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/keynote-speakers Information on satellite workshops: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/satellite-workshops Become a sponsor or an exhibitor at the conference: http://www.interspeech2013.org/content/become-partner-interspeech-2013 ---------------- --- CONTACTS --- ---------------- Conference Chairs: conference-chairs@interspeech2013.org Technical Programme Chairs: technical-chairs@interspeech2013.org Organizers: organizers@interspeech2013.org Webmaster: webmaster@interspeech2013.org .
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| 3-2-1 | (2013-08-22) FIRST WORKSHOP ON SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND AUDIO IN MULTIMEDIA, Marseille, France FIRST WORKSHOP ON SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND AUDIO IN MULTIMEDIA
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| 3-2-2 | (2013-08-23) SIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE, Metz, France Submission openSIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE
14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference14/ Metz, France 23-24 August 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge
research in discourse and dialog to both academic and industry researchers.
Continuing with a series of thirteen successful previous meetings, this conference
spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored
by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on discourse
and dialog for both ACL and ISCA. Topics of Interest We welcome formal, corpus-based,
implementation or analytical work on discourse and dialog including but not restricted
to the following themes and topics:
- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
- Dimensions of Interaction
- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology
For a detailed list, see the complete list of topics of interest on the SIGDIAL 2013 website.
Special Theme: Discourse and Dialogue in Social Media Processing language in social
media has attracted a noticeable amount of interest in recent years.
Language in this new kind of media offers many opportunities and challenges,
from the point of view of discourse and dialogue. To start with, an astounding
amount of conversational data is created each day on Twitter and Facebook,
but also on many blogs. Additionally, social media provides a window into a variety
of human behaviors that rarely appear in the controlled data sets our community is
accustomed to work with. We invite submissions on all aspects of discourse and
dialogue processing of language as used in a variety of social media platforms,
from Twitter and Facebook, to any type of blogs, micro-blogs, collaborative wikis,
and multimedia sharing sites. We particularly welcome contributions that highlight
new insights into discourse and dialogue phenomena in this new genre, or describe
new discourse and dialogue processing models emerging from it.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Dr Jerome R. Bellegarda, Apple Inc, USA
Prof Bonnie L. Webber, University of Edinburgh,UK
SUBMISSIONS
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and
demo descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings.
Long papers will be presented in full plenary presentations. They must be no longer
than 8 pages, including title, content, and examples.
Two additional pages are allowed for references and appendices, which may include
extended example discourses or dialogs, algorithms, graphical representations, etc.
Short papers will be featured in short plenary presentations, followed by posters.
They should be no longer than 4 pages, including title and content. One additional
page is allowed for references and appendices. Demonstrations will be presented in
special sessions, separate from short paper presentations and poster sessions.
Demo descriptions will appear in a dedicated section of the proceedings and should
be no longer than 3 pages, including references. To encourage late breaking demos,
demo submissions have a later deadline. Papers that have been or will be submitted
to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission format).
SIGDIAL 2013 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been)
published elsewhere, except for demonstrations. Any questions regarding submissions
can be sent to the technical program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org.
Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips
or sound clips and examples of available resources for review purposes. Submission
is electronic using paper submission software at https://www.softconf.com/d/sigdial2013/
FORMAT
All long, short, and demo submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2013 format.
We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files
tailored for the ACL 2013 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2013
style guidelines (http://acl2013.org/site/call.html), and they must be electronic in PDF.
As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous.
MENTORING SERVICE
For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring service.
Submissions with innovative core ideas that may need language (English) or
organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and conditionally accepted
with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously
published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare
their submissions for publication. Any questions about the mentoring service can be
addressed to the mentoring chair, Dr. Kallirroi Georgila, at kgeorgila[at]ict.usc.edu.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse science and technology,
SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent
researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.
SPONSORSHIP
SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email
the conference organizers at sigdial-conf[at]sigdial.org.
DIALOGUE AND DISCOURSE SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to
the journal Dialogue and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGDIAL.
IMPORTANT DATES
Long and Short Papers Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, 3 May 2013 (23:59, GMT-11)
Paper Notification: Friday, 21 June 2013
Final Paper Due
- For papers accepted subject to receiving mentoring Friday, 19 July 2013 - For accepted papers Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Demos
Demo Paper Submission Deadline Tuesday, 2 July 2013 (23:59, GMT-11)
Demo Paper Notification Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Final Demo Paper Due Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Conference Friday-Saturday, 23-24 August 2013
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Co-Chairs
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jason D. Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
Mentoring Chair
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Local Chair
Olivier Pietquin, Supelec, France
Sponsorships Chair
Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA SIGDIAL President
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research,USA
SIGDIAL Vice President
Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
SIGDIAL Secretary/Treasurer
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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| 3-2-3 | (2013-09-02) CfP Fourth International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems, Vienna, Austria --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems PQS 2013 2-4 September 2013 Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The fourth international workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems aims to bring together leading professionals and scientists from different fields that are all related to perceptual quality. Supported by ISCA and the European COST action Qualinet, this event will serve as a forum facilitating for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between both academic and industrial researchers working on different aspects of perceptual quality of systems. Inaugurated in Herne/Mont Cenis (2003) and continued in Berlin (2006) and Bautzen (2010), PQS 2013 will be held in Vienna, Austria.
User perceived quality of technical systems is grounded on human experience and therefore hence a highly complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Thus, any approach to quality assessment and prediction has to take the relevant human perception and judgment factors into account, an issue that has been addressed by a number of scientific disciplines including psychophysics, cognitive psychology, speech and audiovisual quality assessment, human computer interaction (HCI), usability and user experience research, and Quality of Experience (QoE).
Authors are invited to submit extended paper abstracts (1.5-2 pages) until March 31, 2013 using the guidelines and tools available under the following link:
Contributions typically refer to methodological aspects of quality and usability assessment and evaluation, the underlying perception and judgment processes, as well as to user perceived quality of particular technologies, systems or services. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Methodologies and Methods of Quality Assessment and Evaluation * Metrology: Test Design and Scaling * Quality of Speech, Audio and Music * Quality of Images and Video * Quality of Haptics * Quality of Multimodal and Multi-sensory Perception * Perceptual Quality vs. Quality of Experience vs. User Experience vs. Usability * Semio-Acoustics and -Perception * Quality Engineering Processes * Quality and Usability of - Speech Technology Devices - Interactive Telecommunication Systems and Services - Multi-Modal User Interfaces - Haptic and Olfactory Interfaces - Audiovisual, 3D and Virtual Reality Systems
Important Dates: - Submission (Extended Abstracts): March 31, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2013 - Camera-ready submission: June 15, 2013
Local Organizing Committee: Raimund Schatz, FTW Sebastian Egger, FTW
General Organizing Committee: Sebastian Möller, TU Berlin Alexander Raake, TU Berlin Ercan Altinsoy, TU Dresden Tobias Hossfeld, University of Würzburg
Technical Program Committee: Alan Sharpley, Dynastat, USA Ina Wechsung, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany Katrien de Moor, Ghent University, Belgium Durand Begault, NASA-Ames Research Center, USA Hans W. Gierlich, HEAD acoustics GmbH, Germany Jens Blauert, IKA, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany John Beerends, TNO Telecom, The Netherlands Jonas Braasch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA Kate Stevens, MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Australia Margret Pinson, NTIA Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, Boulder, USA Norbert Reithinger, DFKI Projektbüro Berlin, Germany Patrick Le Callet, University of Nantes, France Peter Svensson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Ramón López-Cózar Delgado, Universidad de Granada, Spain Ulrich Heute, DSS, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany Andrew Perkis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Christian Timmerer, Alpe Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Jens Berger, SwissQual / Rohde & Schwarz, Switzerland Ulrich Reiter, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Stefan Winkler, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Akira Takahashi, NTT, Japan Harilaos Koumaras, NCSR Demokritos, Greece Tiago Falk, INRS-EMT, Canada
For further information please visit http://pqs.ftw.at
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| 3-3-1 | (2013-07-15) 9th International Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Lisbon, Portugal 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). - 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 * 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. 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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| 3-3-2 | (2013-07-24) 3nd Lisbon Machine Learning School - 'Learning with Big Data', Lisbon, Portugal Call for Participation
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| 3-3-3 | (2013-07-25) 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14), Tokyo The 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14) will be held from 25 to 27 July at the National Institute for Japanese Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo, Japan. For more details, see its official website, which is now open: http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/labphon14/
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| 3-3-4 | (2013-07-29) 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Tarragone, Spain 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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| 3-3-5 | (2013-08) CfP 4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Grenoble France 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:
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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| 3-3-6 | (2013-08-21) Conference PPLC 13 'Phonetics, Phonology and language contact', Paris arisPhonetics, 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.). Information relative to the program and the registration procedure are available at the conference website : https://sites.google.com/site/ppcpinterspeech2013/home
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
The program is given below: Wednesday, August 21st , 2013Location : Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles, 274 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013Location : Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles, 274 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris
Friday, August 23rd, 2013Location : Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles, 274 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris
As for registration, note that it has to be done before the 20th of july. To do so, you have to follow the instructions given in the attached document or on the website.
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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| 3-3-7 | (2013-08-21) 4th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Grenoble, France 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 4th 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:
This year, SLPAT will be co-located with the 1st 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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| 3-3-8 | (2013-08-21) Conference PPLC 13 'Phonetics, Phonology and language contact', Paris 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, 21st-13th, 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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| 3-3-9 | (2013-08-22) CfP FIRST WORKSHOP ON SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND AUDIO IN MULTIMEDIA, Marseille,F Call for papers
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| 3-3-10 | (2013-08-22) Workshop on Affective Social Speech Signals WASS 2013 Lyon France **** Workshop on Affective Social Speech Signals **** .WASSS’2013 22-23 august 2013 1st call for papers 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
--- submission Every paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the scientific committee (extension of the program committee).
---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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| 3-3-11 | (2013-08-25) Speech science in end user applications Lyon FranceSpeech 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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| 3-3-12 | (2013-08-29) 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Annecy - FranceAVSP 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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| 3-3-13 | (2013-08-29) Thirteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents , Edinburgh, Scotland UK Thirteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/iva2013/ August 29-31st Edinburgh, Scotland, UK ***Submission EXTENDED to April 21st **** Submit at: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/iva2013/Submission.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are interactive characters that exhibit human-like qualities and communicate with humans or with each other using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition and action that allows them to participate in dynamic social environments. IVA 2013 is an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modelling, developing and evaluating intelligent virtual agents with a focus on communicative abilities and social behaviour. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications. Researchers from the fields of human-human and human-robot interaction are also encouraged to share work with a relevance to intelligent virtual agents. SPECIAL TOPIC: 'Virtual Agents and Cognition'. In 2013 the IVA conference will have a special theme on cognitive modelling in Virtual Agents. This topic will touch on many aspects of Intelligent Virtual Agent theory and application. To name a few areas, we will especially encourage submissions that deal with IVAs and models of personality; theory of mind; learning and adaptation; motivation and goal-management; creativity; social and culturally-specific behaviour. Models must be explicitly related to IVAs but need not be implemented as yet. Application areas include social and culture training, heritage, entertainment and persuasive interaction. Issues include how systems relate to the original theory and how they can be evaluated. TOPICS OF INTEREST Design, Modelling and Evaluation of IVAs * design criteria and design methodologies * evaluation methodologies and user studies * ethical considerations and social impact * applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics) * improvisational or dramatic interaction * dimensions of intelligence, cognition and behaviour * models of multimodal perception and action * models of emotionally communicative behaviour * models of conversational behaviour * design of virtual actors * Other (non cognition-inspired) conceptual frameworks and models for IVAs Implementation and Applications of IVAs * software engineering issues * real-time integrated systems * portability and reuse * standards / measures to support interoperability * specialized tools, toolkits and tool chains * specialized modelling and animation technologies * applications in games, education, art, etc. * delivery platforms: desktop, single vs. multi-user, virtual or augmented or mixed reality, robots * future or current experience in various fields, e.g.: Interactive narrative and story-telling, computer games, art and entertainment, education and training, simulation and visualization Special Topic: IVAs and Cognition: Conceptual Frameworks and Models ***Note that papers are expected to relate models discussed SPECIFICALLY to IVAs** * selecting a 'good' cognitive model for agents (theoretical foundations, formal models for virtual agents and proofs of concept) * stages of autonomy (from avatars to agents) * cognitive models for perception and/or ?behaviour generation * simulations of groups and crowds (crowd behaviours, action-perception loops in crowds) * learning and adapting IVAs (learned, evolved or emergent knowledge and/or behaviour) * long-term management of IVA goals * drives, motivations, action selection systems for IVAs * socially and culturally competent IVAs * personality and emotion models for IVAs * Theory of Mind models for IVAs * evaluation approaches for IVAs with embedded cognitive models SUBMISSION DETAILS Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (12 pages), short papers (6 pages), or poster papers (1-2 pages) in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. For details on how to submit your paper, consult the conference web site:http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/iva2013/Submission.html Papers should be identified as within one of four thematic sections: 1.Technologies; 2. Theory and models; 3. Novel systems and applications; 4.Evaluation and studies. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of all papers: April 21st * Notification of acceptance: May 27th * Camera-ready copies: June 10th * Conference: August 29th-31st ORGANIZATION Conference Chairs * Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Brigitte Krenn, OFAI, Austria * Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France * Hiroshi Shimodaira, Edinburgh University, UK Poster and Demo Chair * Matthew Aylett, Edinburgh University, UK Workshop Chair: * Jonas Beskow, KTH, Sweden Doctoral Consortium Chair * Lynne Hall, University of Sunderland, UK Publicity Chair: * Ana Paiva, INESC-ID
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| 3-3-14 | (2013-08-30) Workshop on Speech Production in Automatic Speech Recognition Lyon France Workshop on Speech Production in Automatic Speech Recognition August 30, 2013
Lyon, France
http://www.ttic.edu/livescu/SPASR2013
CALL FOR PAPERS The use of speech production knowledge and data to enhance speech recognition is being actively pursued by a number of widely dispersed research groups using different approaches. The goal of this workshop is to bring together these research groups, as well as other researchers who are interested in learning about or contributing ideas to this area, to share ideas, results, and perspectives in an intimate and productive setting. The range of techniques currently being explored is rapidly growing, and is increasingly benefiting from new ideas in machine learning and availability of data, making this a particularly good time for such a workshop. The workshop will feature a series of invited talks and general submissions. Submissions focusing on on novel research, review papers, and position papers are solicited. Topics of interest include speech production models in speech recognition, the collection and use of speech production data, acoustic-to-articulatory inversion, silent speech interfaces, and the use of speech production in related areas such as speech synthesis and voice conversion. *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Prospective authors are invited to submit papers written in English via the workshop web site. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Each accepted paper must have at least one registered author. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** June 10, 2013 Papers due July 10, 2013 Notification of acceptance July 20, 2013 Deadline for registration August 30, 2013 Workshop *** VENUE, ACCOMMODATION, AND REGISTRATION *** The workshop will be held at the Institut des Sciences de l'Homme in Lyon, Frsnce. A wide variety of lodging is available in the area. Please see the website for registration details. *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *** Scientific co-chairs:
Jeff Bilmes University of Washington
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State University
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago
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| 3-3-15 | (2013-08-30) SLaTE-2013 (Speech and Language Technology in Education) Grenoble, France 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.
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| 3-3-16 | (2013-08-30)TRASP 2013: Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody Aix en Provence France TRASP 2013: Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody 30 August 2013 – Aix-en-Provence - France Calls for papers **************************************** 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: • Phonology and phonetics of prosody • Prosody in perception and production • Prosody in speech synthesis • Prosody in speech recognition and understanding • Prosody in computational linguistics • Prosody in audiovisual processing • Prosodic corpus • 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: • 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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| 3-3-17 | (2013-09-01) 15th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2013) Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic 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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| 3-3-18 | (2013-09-02) Machine Translation Summit XIV, Nice France MT Summit XIV, 2 - 6 September 2013
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| 3-3-19 | (2013-09-16) 7th Workshop: 'emotion and computing - current research and future impact', Koblenz Germany Call for Papers 7th Workshop: 'emotion and computing - current research and future impact' WORKSHOP at the KI 2013 Koblenz, September 16th, 2013 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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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| 3-3-20 | (2013-09-25) 55th International Symposium ELMAR-2013 Zadar Croatia 55th International Symposium ELMAR-2013 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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| 3-3-21 | (2013-09-26) Workshop at ICNAAM: PROSLI - Prosody for self-learning instruction, Rhodes, Greece PROSLI - Prosody for self-learning instruction
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| 3-3-22 | (2013-09-26)IWMMA 2013 - 2nd International Workshop on Mathematical Models and its Applications;Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia Krasnoyarsk, Russia
IWMMA 2013 - (Deadline: July 31) 2nd International Workshop on Mathematical Models and its Applications September 26-29, 2013 Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia Krasnoyarsk, Russia Call for Papers ---------------- This Second International Workshop on Mathematical Models and its Applications (IWMMA2013) will provide an international forum for the presentation of original results in mathematical modeling for software- and hardware applications in various fields. It will stimulate lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists. This year's workshop designates 'Mathematical Models an its application in Spoken Dialogue Systems' as a special theme of discussion. Nevertheless, papers which are not related with Spoken Dialogue Systems are also welcome. We would like to encourage the discussion of common issues of theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, general tools and techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Speech recognition and semantic analysis * Dialogue management * Adaptive dialogue modelling * Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, facial expressions and physiological data * User modelling * Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordination and conflict description * Conflict resolution in complex multi-level decisions * Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for input and output * Fusion and information management * Learning and adaptability * Visual processing and recognition for advanced human-computer interaction * Databases and corpora * Evaluation strategies and paradigms * Prototypes and products Contributed papers will be presented at a single-track oral-presentation session. All the contributed papers will appear without distinction in the conference proceedings. For technical program inquiries about the conference, please contact the conference Program Chair by e-mail at: roman.sergienko@uni-ulm.de, maxim.sidorov@uni-ulm.de The maximum number of pages is limited to 9, including figures. Detailed instructions for paper submissions and format can be found on the conference website. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: July 31, 2013 (23:59 GMT): Deadline for Long, Short and Demo Papers August 15, 2013: Author notification August 31, 2013: Deadline for final submission of accepted paper September 10, 2013: Deadline for early registration September 26-29, 2013: Workshop ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------- General Chairs: Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany Eugene Semenkin, Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia Local Committee: Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia: Anna Voroshilova Boris Verbenko Ekaterina Fibikh Roman Sergienko Ulm University, Germany: Alexander Schmitt Maxim Sidorov Stefan Ultes Roman Sergienko
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| 3-3-23 | (2013-09-30) 4th Summer school on Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior, Aix en Provence F 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:
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 15th of May 2013. http://summerschool13.sciencesconf.org/ Confirmed invited speakers:
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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| 3-3-24 | (2013-10-15) 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2013) Marseille France 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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| 3-3-25 | (2013-10-18) The 2013 Similar Segments in Social Speech Task Barcelona Spain 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.
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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| 3-3-26 | (2013-10-21) 3rd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop Barcelona, Spain AVEC 2013 3rd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop Depression and Continuous Emotion
Satellite Workshop of ACM Multimedia 2013 Fully‐day Workshop October 21 – 25 (t.b.d.), Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain ____________________________________________________________
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.
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| 3-3-27 | (2013-10-23) 5ème Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPhC) , Liège (Belgique). 5ème 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 5ème 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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| 3-3-28 | (2013-10-29) Multimodal Social Signals of conflict and negotiation in humans, animals, and machines, Roma
Universita’ Roma Tre Aula Magna Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Screen and Stage studies Via Ostiense 234 - Roma
October 29 – 31, 2013 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~vincia/conflict/index.html
International Workshop
Conflict and communication. Multimodal Social Signals of conflict and negotiation in humans, animals, and machines
When in an environment resources are limited, and two or more humans or other animals need the same resource, its attainment by one is incompatible with the attainment by the other: thus conflict arises. Conflict may simply hold between two or more beliefs (cognitive conflict), or between goals of the same person or animal (intraindividual conflict), or finally between the goals of two or more individuals or groups (interpersonal and social conflict). In all cases conflict may cause internal turmoil or social aggression, and yet sometimes may also be a carrier of positive novelty and change. This workshop focuses on interpersonal and social conflict, and on the communication that may arise from it, but also give rise to it, or finally determine conflict escalation or resolution. Since such a complex topic as conflict needs to be confronted by a high level of multidisciplinarity, we encourage contributions from various fields, among which: Psychology, Ethology, Political Sciences, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Argumentation, Social Simulation, Robotics, Social Signal processing, Swarm intelligence….
Some core topics in the workshop, and their leading questions, are the following:
Theoretical issues in conflict What is conflict, and what is the boundary between competition and conflict? Are all cases of aggression determined by conflict, and does conflict always lead to aggression? What are the mechanisms and triggering rules of escalation and what are those of negotiation? Sometimes conflicts are not explicit or evident, but rather deep, underground, covert. What are the signals of overt and covert conflicts? What are the routes of conflict? Is conflict primary (only stemming from context, bare competition over resources) or sometimes secondary to emotions (for instance might one start to raise conflict with another only due to personality clash)? What are the dynamics of conflict? Some theories propose that social hierarchies and leadership arise right with the function of minimizing conflicts. Is this (always) true? Are there types of social organization or leadership more apt than others to prevent conflict? What could / should be changed in an organization to lower the number and level of conflicts? Do the ways people and animals sense and manage conflict and its escalation and resolution change across ontogenetic and phylogenetic evolution, and if so, how do they? Are there neurological bases to the capacity of sensing and managing social conflict?
Social signals and multimodality How is conflict expressed in communicative interaction between humans? How do the various types of conflict differ from each other, for example, discussion, argument, quarrel, contest? Do different rules apply to them? One of the main communicative forms triggered by conflict is argumentation. Can we distinguish more and less conflictual argumentations? What are the signals that reveal the existence of conflict, escalation, de-escalation, negotiation, smoothing? What are the signals of conflict between non-human animals? Are there signals shared by human and non-human animals? Conflictual communication may be studied in various modalities. In the acoustic modalities, what are the characterizing features of voice or noise in conflict? Can conflict be expressed by music? Are some types of intonation more typically used during conflict? Are there speech acts or other communicative acts typical of conflict, such as accusation, criticism, insult? How is conflict expressed in the structure of turn-taking and floor management? Are there cues of conflict in intonation and voice quality? In the visual modalities, what are the gestures, postures, gaze items and facial expressions typically used in conflict? Can conflict be expressed by art, graphics and other visual artifacts?
Ethical issues, deception and non-cooperative communication in conflict Is there an ethics of conflict? Are there moral rules for negotiation or reconciliation? Are there cases in which conflict cannot be avoided, or negotiation should be skipped, due to ethical reasons? Does negotiation often entail deception? What are the effects of truthful and deceitful communication on conflict? Is deception exploited to avoid conflict or is it a major cause of conflict? Sometimes sincere communication, by making the conflict explicit, may contribute to exacerbate it, so people may try to avoid sincerity or use hypocrisy or vagueness to prevent conflict; but on the other hand, if one lets conflict emerge, might this contribute, and in what cases and ways, to clarify positions, look for agreement, and start negotiation? What is the relation of conflict with truthful and deceitful communication in animals? Generally animals tend to use deception more to prevent conflict than to find a way out of it – see the function of bluff and other deceitful displays – but is this always and necessary so?
Emotions and conflict What emotions are generally a cause of conflict, and what are the most typical effects of it? How are they expressed with or without a conflictual interaction? How can trust, envy, admiration, pride, compassion or other emotions prevent, trigger, enhance, smooth conflict? How can their sincere or simulated expression work in conflict management? What is the role of empathy and other affective states in negotiation and reconciliation?
Simulation, analysis and synthesis of conflict Is it possible to build systems for the automatic detection of conflict, both bottom up – by detecting signals of conflict – and top-down – by analyzing contexts and inferring their likeliness for conflict generation? Is it possible to construct a synthetic “negotiation counselor”? How can automatic argumentative systems be adapted to conflict prevention or resolution? How can the simulation of conflict in robots and neural systems give hints for the prevention and managing of conflict in humans?
The topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to:
Program Committee:
Jens Allwood Francesca Cantù Marco Cristani Anna Esposito Ellen Giebels Emile Hendricks Dirk Heylen Giovanna Leone Giacomo Marramao Elio Matassi David Meghnagi Enrico Menduni Alessandro Neri Magalie Ochs Franca Orletti Fabio Paglieri Albert Ali Salah Björn Schuller
Key-note Speakers:
Judee Burgoon, Center for the Management of Information, University of Arizona http://www.borders.arizona.edu/cms/content/judee-burgoon Cristiano Calstelfranchi, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione – CNR, Roma http://www.istc.cnr.it/it/people/cristiano-castelfranchi Ellen Giebels, Centre for Conflict, Risk and Safety Perception, University of Twente http://www.utwente.nl/gw/pcrv/en/emp/giebels.doc/ Shrikanth Narayanan, Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab, University of South California
The Workshop is open to all motivated scientists, of any nationality, both on the Social Scientists and the Computer Scientists side. To encourage young researchers’ participation, grants are available for up to 8 Participants (maximum of 600 EUROS for accommodation, living and travel expenses), upon selection of the best abstracts, of the applicants’ potential contribution to the Workshop, and the benefits that they may draw from the meeting for their future activities.
SUBMISSIONS: After the Workshop a selection of the papers presented will be published in a book of a Springer series. Abstracts and Papers should be sent to the following addresses: poggi@uniroma3.it; fderrico@uniroma3.it; laura.vincze@gmail.com;
IMPORTAT DATES:
Extended to: June 24th, 2013: Submission of abstracts (400 – 600 words) July 24th, 2013: Notification of acceptance October 29-31, 2013: Workshop November 30th, 2013: Paper submission January 20th, 2014: Notification of acceptance of papers February 28th, 2014: Camera-ready paper
Scientific organization: Isabella Poggi*, Francesca D’Errico**, Alessandro Vinciarelli***, Laura Vincze* *Università Roma Tre **Università Telematica Internazionale UNINETTUNO ***University of Glasgow
Contacts: Isabella Poggi, poggi@uniroma3.it Francesca D’Errico, fderrico@uniroma3.it Alessandro Vinciarelli, Alessandro.Vinciarelli@glasgow.ac.uk Laura Vincze, laura.vincze@gmail.com;
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| 3-3-29 | (2013-11-11) Human Language Technologies to the future of Language Learning Stellenbosch University (South Africa) 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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| 3-3-30 | (2013-11-26) CORESA 2013 Pour sa 16ème édition, le colloque CORESA 2013 (COmpression et REprésentation des Signaux Audiovisuels) sera organisé par le Laboratoire Electronique Informatique et Image (LE2I UMR 6306) et le site universitaire du Creusot de l'université de Bourgogne, les 28 et 29 Novembre 2013. Coresa 2013 est organisé conjointement avec l'Ecole Analyse Multirésolution qui se déroulera les 26 et 27 novembre 2013 (Lien vers l'édition précédente : http://multiresolution.liris.cnrs.fr)
Un tarif préférentiel permettra de participer aux deux évènements.
Dates et informations : www.coresa2013.com
soumission : 17 juin 2013
notification : 15 septembre
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| 3-3-31 | (2013-12-03) IEEE GlobalSIP Symposia, Austin TexasDeadline 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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| 3-3-32 | (2013-12-08) 2013 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)-Olomouc, Czech Republic 2013 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)
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| 3-3-33 | (2014) Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.
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| 3-3-34 | (2014-03-03) CfP International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS website: http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/ March 3 - 6, 2014 Angers, Loire Valley, France Technical Co-sponsorship by: ESEM In Cooperation with: AAAI and EUROMICRO Co-organized by: ESEO Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: WfMC, OMG and FIPA Logistics Partner: SCIT EVENTS IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: September 19, 2013 Authors Notification (regular papers): December 6, 2013 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: December 20, 2013 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Let me kindly inform you that the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS 2014 - http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/) steering committee cordially invites you to submit a paper to the BIOSIGNALS 2014 Conference, to be held in Angers, France. The deadline for paper submission is scheduled for September 19, 2013.The purpose of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of knowledge, including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological systems. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of these signals is a multidisciplinary area including signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence techniques, amongst others. BIOSIGNALS is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 113 submissions, 13% were accepted as full papers. Additionally, 24% were presented as short papers and 27% as posters.Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/BestPaperAward.aspx). Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea. This conference is part of the 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC (http://www.biostec.org/) and it is co-located with four related conference, namely:- BIODEVICES - International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (http://www.biodevices.biostec.org/)- BIOIMAGING - International Conference on Bioimaging (http://www.bioimaging.biostec.org/)- BIOINFORMATICS - International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (http://www.bioinformatics.biostec.org/)- HEALTHINF - International Conference on Health Informatics (http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/) Registration to one conference allows free access to all other BIOSTEC conferences.We would like to highlight the Doctoral Consortium on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies that will take place in conjunction with BIOSTEC and aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field (http://www.biostec.org/DoctoralConsortium.aspx). We hope to welcome you in Angers, France next March, 2014! Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me. Kind regards,Vera Coelho BIOSIGNALS SecretariatAv. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.2910-595 Setubal, PortugalTel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8813Email: biosignals.secretariat@insticc.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BIOSTEC Conference Co-chairs Guy Plantier, ESEO, GSII, France Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR:Harald Loose, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE:Please check the program committee members at http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx CONFERENCE TOPICS:- Speech Recognition- Neural Networks- Biometrics- Pattern Recognition- Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing- Wearable Sensors and Systems- Real-Time Systems- Evolutionary Systems- Acoustic Signal Processing- Time and Frequency Response- Wavelet Transform- Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing- Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear dynamics- Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies- Electromagnetic fields in biology and medicine- Fuzzy Systems and Signals- Monitoring and Telemetry- Cardiovascular Signals- Image Analysis and Processing- Detection and Identification- Motion Control
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| 3-3-35 | (2014-05-04) ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy ICASSP 2014
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| 3-3-36 | (2014-05-05) 10th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014 Cologne Germany10th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014We 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:
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:
Important dates: 1st October 2013: Two 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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| 3-3-37 | (2014-05-12) 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2014), Nancy France 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication
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| 3-3-38 | (2014-05-26) ELRA-LREC Conference, Reykjavik (Iceland) 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.
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| 3-3-39 | (2014-06-17) 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) at St Catherine's College Oxford , UK We are pleased to announce the 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) is to be held at St Catherine's College Oxford from 17 - 20 July, 2014. ODC has a reputation as one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency. The conference brings together researchers and clinicians, providing a showcase and forum for discussion and collegial debate about the most current and innovative research and clinical practices. Throughout the history of ODC, the primary aim has been to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice. The conference seeks to promote research that informs management, with interventions that are supported by sound theory and which inform future research. In 2014, the goal of the Oxford Dysfluency Conference is to lead a challenging international debate about the latest research in disorders of fluency and its clinical applications. The 2014 conference will enable delegates to:
Conference Co-Chairs David Rowley, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, UK
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| 3-3-40 | (2014-12-23) CfP International Conference on Human Machine Interaction, New Delhi IndiaCall for papersInternational Conference on Human Machine Interaction 2014 23 – 25, December 2014 http://intconfhmi.com In association with SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia. and ASDF (Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties) Chennai Chapter, we will organize the International Conference HMI 2014 which will be held in New delhi -INDIA. Human Machine Interaction (HMI), is a main annual research conference aimed at presenting current research being carried out. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. HMI 2014 is co-sponsored by Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties and SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia and technical co-sponsored by many other universities and institutes. Area of Submission
Topics of interest for HMI is widely declared for the above, but not limited to. Conference Registration Fees Rebate (Discount)We are pleased to inform you that the organizing committee of the HMI2014 allocates a financial support for all participants from developing or emerging countries. This Financial support of among of 150 Dollars is available to help participants to attend HMI2014 You can find more details in: http://intconfhmi.com/register.html
We are waiting for seeing you in India. NB : A select number of Post Conference Excursions will take place during 5 days. As examples : 1 Day Tour to Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Mathura in AC Bus : 25 $ per person 1 Day Tour to Qutub Minar, Parliament, Lotus Temple, India Gate, Gandhi Smiriti, Red Fort, Humayun's Tomb, Rajghat: 25 $ per person
Best Regards Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL General Co-Chair, HMI2014 Head of Research Unit: Sciences & Technologies of Image and Telecommunications ( Sfax University ) GSM +216 20 200005
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| 3-3-41 | Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems Carnegie Mellon University
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.
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| 3-3-42 | Interspeech 2013 ComParE: Computational Paralinguistics Challenge 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
The Challenge 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
Organisers:
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)
Dates:
Paper Submission 18 March 2013 Final Result Upload 24 May 2013 Camera-ready Paper 29 May 2013
Sponsors:
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
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| 3-3-43 | Master in Linguistics (Aix Marseille France) Master's in Linguistics (Aix-Marseille Université): Linguistic Theories, Field Linguistics and Experimentation
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| 3-3-44 | Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences at USC CA USA REU Site: Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences --------------------------------------------------------------------
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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