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

       http://slpat.org/slpat2013

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

                • Automated processing of sign language

                • Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments

                • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility

                • Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living

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

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

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

                • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio

                • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication

                • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies

                • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies

                • NLP for cognitive assistance applications

                • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments

                • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications

                • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications

                • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies

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

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

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

                • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes

                • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology

                • Anything included in this year's special topic

                • Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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

                • Automatic Speech recognition in multi-source environments

                • Distant speech recognition

                • Understanding, modelling or recognition of aged speech

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

                • Assistive speech technology

                • Multimodal speech recognition (context-aware ASR)

                • Multimodal emotion recognition

                • Audio scene and smart home context analysis

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

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

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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  21^st , 2013

Location : Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles, 274 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris

Thursday, August  22nd, 2013

Location : Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles, 274 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris

Friday, August  23rd, 2013

Location : Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles, 274 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris

As for registration, note that it has to be done before the 20^th 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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The 4th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)

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

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

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

Contact: slpat2013.workshop@gmail.com

Colleagues,

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

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

General topics of SLPAT13 include but are not limited to:

                • Automated processing of sign language

                • Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments

                • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility

                • Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living

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

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

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

                • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio

                • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication

                • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies

                • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies

                • NLP for cognitive assistance applications

                • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments

                • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications

                • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications

                • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies

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

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

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

                • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes

                • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology

                • Anything included in this year's special topic

                • Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication

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

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

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

We look forward to your submissions!

Regards,

Organizing Committee, SLPAT13

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Phonetics, Phonology and language contact

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

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

The keynote speakers of the conference are:

- Catherine BEST,  University of Western Sydney

-  Ulrike GUT, University of Münster

- Paul IVERSON, University College London

-  Sabine ZERBIAN, University of Potsdam

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

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

- linguistic description of language contact varieties

- multilingualism 

- linguistic development in contact situations

- attrition, etc.

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

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

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

Important dates:

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

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

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

Organizing committee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Call for papers

     FIRST WORKSHOP ON SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND AUDIO IN MULTIMEDIA

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

               as a satellite event of Interspeech 2013

                 Aug. 22—23, 2013, Marseille, France

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

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

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

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

applied to any media such as:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                                .WASSS’2013

                            22-23 august 2013

                            1^st call for papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-       the cultural contrast of affective social speech

-       psychological/neuropsychological models and cues for social affect processing

-       social and anthropological models for analysing affective processing and

         emotions expressions

-       social affect in Human Machine Interaction and dialog

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

-       the place of social speech affect in L2 learning

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

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

-       speech social affect within personality, social rule and culture

-       lexicon of social affect in  speech

-       sentiment analysis/opinion mining in  speech

-       etc

******* Important dates:

paper submission:   22 april 2103

acceptation notification: 17 june 2013

final submission:  22 july 2013

early registration: 27 june 2013

late registration: 20 july 2013

--- submission

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

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

---WASSS description

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

technology. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://avsp2013.loria.fr

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

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

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

** Conference Topics

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

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

** Important Dates 

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


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

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

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



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

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Workshop on Speech Production in Automatic Speech Recognition

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

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

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

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

30 August 2013 – Aix-en-Provence - France

Calls for papers

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Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody is an

Interspeech 2013 satellite

event.

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

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

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

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

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

harmonisation and collaboration.

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

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

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

corpus will be used:

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

Workshop Topics:

We invite you to submit papers in any area related to

tools and resources for the analysis of:

•

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:

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Submission deadline: April 29, 2013

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Notification of acceptance: May 27, 2013

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Camera-Ready paper due: June 10, 2013

Information are available at:

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

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

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

SPECOM NEWS

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

ABOUT CONFERENCE

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

TOPICS

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

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

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

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

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

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

IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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

CONFERENCE FEES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LOCATION

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

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

ACCOMMODATION

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

ADDRESS

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

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

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

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

See you in Nice!
Viggo Hansen
Local Organizing Committee

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  Call for Papers

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

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

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

Contributions are solicited from the following fields:  

-Artificial Intelligence Research

-Cognitive Sciences and Cognitive Robotics

-Multi-agent System Technology

-Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition

 -Dialogue Systems and Communication

-Modeling Uncertainty and Vagueness

 -Computer Game Development

-User Modeling and Personalization

-Applications using models of emotion

-Persuasive Computing/Technologies

-Affective Computing         

Contributions are expected in the following form:

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

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

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

Important Dates:

Workshop paper submission deadline: July 1st, 2013

Notification of workshop paper acceptance:   July 23rd, 2013

Workshop camera ready copy submission:   August 19th, 2013

Organization and Scientific Committee:

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

Please refer to the workshop website for further information:

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

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55th International Symposium ELMAR-2013

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September 25-27, 2013

Zadar, Croatia

Paper submission deadline: April 17, 2013

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS

IEEE Region 8

IEEE Croatia Section

IEEE Croatia Section SP, AP and MTT Chapters

EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY

IEEE Xplore, INSPEC and SCOPUS

TOPICS

--> Image and Video Processing

--> Multimedia Communications

--> Speech and Audio Processing

--> Wireless Communications

--> Telecommunications

--> Antennas and Propagation

--> e-Learning and m-Learning

--> Navigation Systems

--> Ship Electronic Systems

--> Power Electronics and Automation

--> Naval Architecture

--> Sea Ecology

--> Special Sessions:

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

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

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

* Darko Ratkaj, European Broadcasting Union, SWITZERLAND:

Multimedia Broadcasting - Promises and Pitfalls of Internet Distribution

SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of full papers: April 17, 2013

Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 20, 2013

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

Preliminary program available online by: June 10, 2013

Registration forms and payment deadline: June 17, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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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

http://iwmma.org/

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

http://iwmma.org/

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

http://iwmma.org/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://summerschool13.sciencesconf.org/

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Alejandrina Cristia (MPI, Nijmegen): Speech acquisition

• Rodger Mundry (MPI, Leipzig): Statistics

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

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

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

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

Organizing committee (in alphabetical order)

Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin, Germany)

Caroline Magister (ZAS Berlin, Germany)

Daniel Pape (IEETA + UA Aveiro, Portugal)

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

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NLPCS 2013

10th International Workshop on

Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science

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

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

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

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

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

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

them into a coherent whole.

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

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

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

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

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

machines or both (human-machine communication).

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

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: 15 June, 2013

Authors’ Notification: 31 July 15, 2013

Final Paper Submission : 15 September, 2013

CO-CHAIRS

Bernadette Sharp,

Staffordshire University, United Kingdom

b.sharp@staffs.ac.uk

Michael Zock,

CNRS-LIF, Aix-Marseille Université, France

michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr

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The 2013 Similar Segments in Social Speech Task

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

Task schedule (tentative)

April 1: Familiarization pack release

May 1: Development data release

July 1: Test set release

September 5 : Run submission deadline

October 18-19: Workshop, in Barcelona

This task is organized under the auspices of MediaEval 2013. 

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

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AVEC 2013

3rd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop

Depression and Continuous Emotion

http://sspnet.eu/avec2013

Satellite Workshop of ACM Multimedia 2013

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

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

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

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

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

 Extended deadline May 22  2013      

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

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

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

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

Calendrier

Date d'ouverture des soumissions : 1 janvier 2013

Nouvelle date limite de soumission : 22 mai 2013

Date de notification aux auteurs : 1 juillet 2013

Programme officiel : 15 juillet 2013

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

Date du colloque : 23 – 25 octobre 2013

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Call for papers: HLT4LL 2013

An interdisciplinary symposium on the contribution of

Human Language Technologies to the future of Language Learning

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

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

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

SCOPE AND AIM OF THE SYMPOSIUM

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

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

Registration and participation are free of charge.

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

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

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES

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

- 14/07/2013: Notification of acceptance

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

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

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

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

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

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

ORGANISERS

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

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

Febe de Wet (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

CONTACT US

HLT4LL@let.ru.nl

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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.
Ces journées offriront aux chercheurs et aux praticiens dans le domaine du multimédia des sessions plénières scientifiques et techniques, des présentations orales, des posters, des démonstrations et des discussions sur des questions pertinentes et stimulantes concernant le futur du multimédia.
Les journées CORESA 2013 seront rythmées par des sessions plénières ainsi que des sessions posters pendant lesquelles une large place sera consacrée à la discussion.
Pour ces journées, des contributions sont attendues dans les domaines suivants :- Analyse, compression, représentation des images, du son, de la vidéo et des données tridimensionnelles (3D) - Développements liés aux services et usages multimédia - Systèmes de communication et d'interface, environnement virtuel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<Call for IWLST2013>

The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a
yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on
spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system
descriptions are presented. The 10th IWSLT will take place in Heidelberg,
Germany on Dec. 05-06, 2013.
Please note the following information on the workshop (http://www.iwslt2013.
org/).

Date: December 5th and 6th, 2013
Venue: at the old castle of Heidelberg, Germany
Important dates for workshop: Sept-Nov 2013 for registration
Sept 29, 2013 for Paper Submission due
November 01, 2013 for Author Notification
November 08, 2013 for Camera-ready paper due

We will look forward to seeing you at the workshop held in the beautiful
Ottheinrichsbau, in the heart of the castle of Heidelberg.
Please contact the following organizers if you have any inquiries:

Workshop Chair
Alex Waibel, KIT&CMU
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI
Evaluation Chair
Marcello Federico, FBK
Sebastian Stuker, KIT
Program Chair
Joy Zhang, CMU
Publicity Chair
Eiichiro Sumita, NICT
Chiori Hori, NICT
Local Chair
Margit Rodder, KIT


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Chiori Hori Ph.D.
Director of Spoken Language Communication Laboratory,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology,
+81-774-98-6328

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The 6th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2013), December 7-9, 2013, Poznan, Poland CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2013), a meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer 

Science of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, will take 

place on December 7-9, 2013. Since very beginning the meetings of the LTC series continue to address Human Language Technologies (HLT) as a challenge for computer science, linguistics and related fields. Fostering language technologies and resources remains an important mission in the 

dynamically changing information-saturated world. We aim at contributing to this mission and we invite you to join us in that at LTC 2013 in December 2013, traditionally held in Poznań, Poland. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference topics include the following (the ordering is not significant): * electronic language resources and tools * formalization of natural languages * parsing and other forms of NL processing * computer modeling of language competence * NL user modeling * NL understanding by computers * knowledge representation * man-machine NL interfaces * Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing * speech processing * NL applications in robotics * text-based information retrieval and extraction * question answering * tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems * translation enhancement tools * corpora-based methods in language engineering * WordNet-like ontologies * methodological issues in HLT * language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages other than English) * validation in all areas of HLTs * HLT standards and best practices * HLTs as a support for foreign language teaching * HLTs as support for e-learning * communicative intelligence * NLP methods in cyber-criminality detection and prevention * legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges) * contribution of HLTs to the Homeland Security problems (technology applications and legal aspects) * visionary papers in the field of HLT * HLT related policies * system prototype presentations This list is by no means closed and we are open to further proposals. Please do not hesitate to contact us with new suggestions

 and ideas. Please help us to understand how to best satisfy your expectations concerning the program. We are open to

 suggestions concerning accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions, ideas and observations may

 be addressed directly to the LTC Chair by email (vetulani@amu.edu.pl <mailto:vetulani@amu.edu.pl>). LANGUAGE: The conference language is English CONTACT: ltc13@amu.edu.pl or vetulani@amu.edu.pl PAPER SUBMISSION The conference accepts papers in English. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by September 4, 2013

 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the author(s) in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have

 decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, have a look at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl 

(Paper Submission section). All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC 2013 web submission system (EasyChair). Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by September 25, 2013. The Word template (ELRA/LREC based format) is available from http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (Paper Submission section). PUBLICATION POLICY Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (anonymous submission model). The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors before October 23, 2013. A post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers is planned to be published. As this was the case for the

 last three conferences, we intend to publish them in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES * Deadline for submission of papers for review: September 4, 2013 * Acceptance/Rejection notification: September 25, 2013 * Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: October 9, 2013 * Conference: December 7-9, 2013 REGISTRATION Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be published at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. AWARDS FOR BEST STUDENT PAPERS As at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Language and Technology Conferences (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011) special awards will be 

granted to the best student papers. The regular or PhD students (on the date of paper submission) are concerned. More

 details at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. OTHER Much more important information is or will be provided at the conference site www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. Please check this site from

 time to time and do not hesitate to ask questions through ltc13@amu.edu.pl. Zygmunt Vetulani and Hans Uszkoreit LTC 2013 Co-Chairs

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

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Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.

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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

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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

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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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8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2014 Madrid, Spain March 10-14, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Implementation of Language-Driven Software and Applications (ILSA) Complutense University of Madrid Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). VENUE: LATA 2014 will take place in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The venue will be the School of Informatics of Complutense University. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words compilers computability computational complexity data and image compression decidability issues on words and languages descriptional complexity DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life natural language and speech automatic processing parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series quantum, chemical and optical computing semantics string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics symbolic neural networks term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Dana Angluin (Yale, US) Eugene Asarin (Paris Diderot, FR) Jos Baeten (Amsterdam, NL) Christel Baier (Dresden, DE) Jan Bergstra (Amsterdam, NL) Jin-Yi Cai (Madison, US) Marek Chrobak (Riverside, US) Andrea Corradini (Pisa, IT) Mariangiola Dezani (Turin, IT) Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas, US) Michael R. Fellows (Darwin, AU) Jörg Flum (Freiburg, DE) Nissim Francez (Technion, IL) Jürgen Giesl (Aachen, DE) Annegret Habel (Oldenburg, DE) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sampath Kannan (Philadelphia, US) Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern, US) Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque, US) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen, DE) S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins, US) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton, CA) Gad M. Landau (Haifa, IL) Andrzej Lingas (Lund, SE) Jack Lutz (Iowa State, US) Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, FR) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, IT) Faron G. Moller (Swansea, UK) Paliath Narendran (Albany, US) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch, ZA) Jean-François Raskin (Brussels, BE) Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin, DE) Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT) Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio, JP) Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna, IT) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh, UK) Jianwen Su (Santa Barbara, US) Jean-Pierre Talpin (IRISA, Rennes, FR) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Rick Thomas (Leicester, UK) Sophie Tison (Lille, FR) Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney, AU) Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech, AT) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Ana Fernández-Pampillón (Madrid) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Antonio Sarasa (Madrid) José-Luis Sierra (Madrid, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from July 15, 2013 to March 10, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 14, 2013 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2013 Early registration: December 9, 2013 Late registration: February 24, 2014 Starting of the conference: March 10, 2014 End of the conference: March 14, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: June 14, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2014 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: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad Complutense de Madrid Universitat Rovira i Virgili 

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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10^th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014

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

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

• Perception-action control

• Intra- and inter-speaker variability

• Articulatory synthesis

• Mapping between articulatory and acoustic events

• Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion

• Connected speech processes

• Convergence and human interaction

• Coarticulation

• Prosody

• Rhythm and timing

• Biomechanical modeling

• Models of motor control

• Audiovisual synthesis

• Aerodynamic models

• Cerebral organization and neural correlates of speech

• Disorders of speech motor control

• Instrumental techniques

• Speech and language acquisition

• Audio-visual speech perception

• Plasticity of speech production and perception

Invited speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

Further information is provided here:

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

To contact the organizers, please send an email to:

issp-2014@uni-koeln.de

Important dates:

1st October 2013: 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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 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication
            and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2014)

              May 12-14, 2014, Nancy, France

                http://hscma2014.inria.fr/
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* Call for Papers *
HSCMA 2014 will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of interest in the capture, enhancement, and recognition of far-field speech signals. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, speech or speaker recognition in noisy or reverberant environments, single or multi-channel speech enhancement, dereverberation, microphone array processing, source separation, and multiple input/multiple-output (MIMO) acoustic signal processing. Interdisciplinary work that crosses multiple technical areas is especially encouraged. Demonstrations of experimental systems and prototypes are also welcome.

HSCMA 2014 is being held in conjunction with ICASSP 2014 (http://icassp2014.org/) and the REVERB challenge (http://reverb2014.dereverberation.org/).

* Workshop Topics *
Papers in all areas of distant-talking human/human and human/machine interaction are encouraged, including:
 - Multi-channel and single-channel approaches for speech acquisition, noise suppression, source localization and separation, dereverberation, echo cancellation, and acoustic event detection
 - Speech and speaker recognition technology for hands-free scenarios, including robust features, feature-domain enhancement and dereverberation, and model adaptation
 - Microphone array technology and architectures, especially for distant-talking speech recognition and acoustic scene analysis
 - Speech corpora for training and evaluation of distant-talking speech systems
 - Applications based on microphone arrays and hands-free speech systems.

* Paper & Demo Submission *
The workshop technical program will consist of oral presentations, poster sessions, and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to four pages, with a fifth page permitted for references only. Submissions for proposed demonstrations may be up to two pages in length.

* Special Sessions*
The program will also feature special sessions on new or emerging topics of interest. Proposals for special sessions must include the session title, rationale, outline, and a list of four invited papers.

* Important Dates *
Submission of special session proposals: November 8, 2013
Special session decisions announced: December 6, 2013
Submission of papers & demos: January 24, 2014
Paper & demo decisions announced: March 12, 2014
Submission of camera-ready papers & demos: April 4, 2014
Workshop: May 12-14, 2014

* Organizing Committee *
Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France)
Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University, Germany)
Hiroshi Saruwatari (Nara Institute of Technology, Japan)
Mike Seltzer (Microsoft Research, USA)
Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

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SLTU-2014 WORKSHOP - ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'14) 14-16 May 2014 St. Petersburg, Russia www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2014

Organized by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) in cooperation with LIG (France), LIA Russia (France), and MICA (Vietnam).

The Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages is the fourth in a series of even-year SLTU Workshops. Three previous Workshops were organized: SLTU’12 in Cape Town (South Africa), SLTU’10 in Penang (Malaysia), and SLTU’08 in Hanoi (Vietnam). SLTU’14 International Workshop is held in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation) and has the special focus on Eastern European under-resourced languages (Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Altaic, Caucasian, etc.).

SLTU'14 Workshop topics include all areas related to processing under-resourced and endangered languages: - Language resources development, acquisition, and representation: dictionary, language model, grammars, text and speech corpora, etc. - Automatic speech recognition and synthesis of low-resourced Languages and dialects, etc. - Multi-lingual spoken language processing including analysis and synthesis. - Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems.

** Scientific Committee: Etienne Barnard, NWU, South Africa Laurent Besacier, LIG, France Eric Castelli, MICA, Vietnam Dirk Van Compernolle, UCL, Belgium Marelie Davel, NWU, South Africa Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Russia Daniil Kocharov, SPbSU, Russia Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France Haizhou Li, A-star, Singapore Roger K. Moore, Sheffield, UK Pedro Moreno, Google, USA Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan Pascal Nocera, LIA, France Francois Pellegrino, Lyon, France Andrey Ronzhin, SPIIRAS, Russia Yoshinori Sagisaka, Waseda, Japan Ruhi Sarikaya, Microsoft, USA Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe, Germany Pavel Skrelin, SPbSU, Russia Tan Tien Ping, USM, Malaysia

** Imporatnt Dates: - Paper submission: 10 January, 2014 - Update of full paper: 31 January, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: 03 March, 2014  - Submission of final papers: 17 March, 2014  - Registration due: 17 March, 2014  - Workshop dates: 14-16 May, 2014     Independently of the scientific actions we will provide excellent possibilities for acquaintance with cultural and historical valuables of St. Petersburg city and its beautiful surroundings.

For the latest information, please check the conference web page: www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2014   SLTU'14 Workshop Chairs: Alexey Karpov  (SPIIRAS, Russia) Laurent Besacier  (LIG, France) Pascal Nocera  (LIA, France) Eric Castelli  (MICA, Vietnam)

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

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

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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:

                   
• Present the latest research developments and       findings
                   
• Explore issues relating to the nature of       stuttering and its treatment
                   
• Develop knowledge and clinical skills working       with children and adults who stutter
                   
• Consider ways to integrate research into       clinical practice
                   
• Support and encourage new researchers in the       field
                   
• Develop collaborations with researchers       working in dysfluency
                   
• Provide informal opportunities to meet and       discuss ideas with leading experts in the field in a friendly environment
                   
• Advance research in the field of dysfluency
                 

Conference Co-Chairs                    

David Rowley, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, UK
                    Sharon Millard, The Michael Palin Centre, UK                  

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Call for papers

International 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.
The HMI 2014 conference proceeding will be published in the ASDF Proceedings as one volume, and will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, World Cat, Google Scholar, and sent to be reviewed by Ei Compendex and ISI Proceedings. Selected papers will be recommended to be published in the Journals.

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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 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.
Just over half of the curriculum consists of graduate courses. The remainder provides direct, hands-on, project-oriented experience working closely with CMU faculty to build systems and solve problems using state-of-the-art algorithms, techniques, tools, and datasets.
A typical MIIS student completes the program in one year (12 months) of full-time study at the Pittsburgh campus.  Part-time and distance education options are available to students employed at affiliated companies.
The application deadline for the Fall 2013 term is December 14, 2012.
For more information about the program, please visit http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/education/msiis/overview.shtml

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Call for Participation

INTERSPEECH 2013 ComParE:COMPUTATIONAL PARALINGUISTICS CHALLENGE

  Social Signals, Conflict, Emotion, Autism

Fourth Sub-Challenge now open – obtain the data:

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

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

In summary, four Sub-Challenges are addressed:

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

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

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

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

The measures of competition will be Unweighted Average Area Under receiver operating Curve and Recall. All Sub-Challenges allow contributors to find their own features with their own machine learning algorithm. However, a standard feature set will be provided per corpus that may be used. Participants will have to stick to the definition of training, development, and test sets. They may report on results obtained on the development set, but have only five trials to upload their results on the test sets, whose labels are unknown to them. Each participation will be accompanied by a paper presenting the results that undergoes peer-review and has to be accepted for the conference in order to participate in the Challenge. The organisers preserve the right to re-evaluate the findings, but will not participate themselves in the Challenge. Participants are encouraged to compete in all Sub-Challenges.

Overall, contributions using the provided or equivalent data are sought for (but not limited to):

•             Participation in a Sub-Challenge

•             Contributions focussing on Computational Paralinguistics centred around the Challenge topics

The results of the Challenge will be presented at Interspeech 2013 in Lyon, France. Prizes will be awarded to the Sub-Challenge winners. If you are interested and planning to participate in INTERSPEECH 2013 ComParE, or if you want to be kept informed about the Challenge, please send the organisers an e-mail to indicate your interest and visit the homepage: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is13-compare

Björn Schuller (TUM, Germany)

Stefan Steidl (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Anton Batliner (TUM, Germany)

Alessandro Vinciarelli (University of Glasgow, UK)

Klaus Scherer (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Switzerland)

Fabien Ringeval (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Mohamed Chetouani (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

Paper Submission            18 March             2013

Final Result Upload         24 May                 2013

Camera-ready Paper      29 May                 2013

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

SSPNet                                                 (http://sspnet.eu/)

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

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PD Dr. habil. DI Björn W. Schuller

Head Machine Intelligence & Signal Processing Group

Institute for Human-Machine Communication

Technische Universität München

D-80333 München

Germany

+49-(0)89-289-28548

schuller@tum.de

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

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Master's in Linguistics (Aix-Marseille Université): Linguistic Theories, Field Linguistics and Experimentation
TheLiTEx offers advanced training in Linguistics. This specialty focuses Linguistics is aimed at presenting in an original way the links between corpus linguistics and scientific experimentation on the one hand and laboratory and field methodologies on the other. On the basis of a common set of courses (offered within the first year), TheLiTEx offers two paths: Experimental Linguistics (LEx) and Language Contact & Typology (LCT)
The goal of LEx is the study of language, speech and discourse on the basis of scientific experimentation, quantitative modeling of linguistic phenomena and behavior. It focuses on a multidisciplinary approach which borrows its methodologies to human physical and biological sciences and its tools to computer science, clinical approaches, engineering etc.. Among the courses offered: semantics, phonetics / phonology, morphology, syntax or pragmatics, prosody and intonation, and the interfaces between these linguistic levels, in their interactions with the real world and the individual, in a biological, cognitive and social perspective. Within the second year, a set of more specialized courses is offered such as Language and the Brain and Laboratory Phonology.
LCT aims at understanding the world's linguistic diversity, focusing on language contact, language change and variation (European, Asian and African languages, Creoles, sign language, etc.).. This specialty focuses, from a a linguistic and sociolinguistic perspective, on issues of field linguistics and taking into account both the human and socio-cultural dimension of language (speakers, communities). It also focuses on documenting rare and endangered languages and to engage a reflection on linguistic minorities. This path also provides expertise and intervention models (language policy and planning) in order  to train students in the management of contact phenomena and their impact on the speakers, languages and societies
More info at: http://thelitex.hypotheses.org/678

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REU Site: Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences

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

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

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

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

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

Application deadline: March 31, 2013

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

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