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| 3-1-1 | (2014-09-07) INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore
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| 3-1-2 | (2015) INTERSPEECH 2015 Dresden RFA Interspeech 2015
September 6-10, 2015, Dresden, Germany
SPECIAL TOPIC Speech Beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal
MOTIVATION Speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is the most common means of human-human communication, and therefore research and development in speech and language are not only paramount for understanding humans, but also to facilitate human-machine interaction. Still, not all characteristics of speech are fully understood, and even fewer are used for developing successful speech and language processing applications. Speech can exploit its full potential only if we consider the characteristics which are beyond the traditional (and still important) linguistic content. These characteristics include other biosignals that are directly accessible to human perception, such as muscle and brain activity, as well as articulatory gestures.
INTERSPEECH 2015 will therefore be organized around the topic “Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal”. Our conviction is that spoken language processing can make a substantial leap if it caters for the full information which is available in the speech signal. By opening our prestigious conference to researchers in other biosignal communities, we expect that substantial advances can be made discussing ideas and approaches across discipline and community boundaries.
ORGANIZERS The following preliminary list of principal organizers plan INTERSPEECH 2015:
LOCATION The event will be staged in the recently built Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) in Dresden, Germany. As the capital of Saxony, an up-and-coming region located in the former eastern part of Germany, Dresden combines glorious and painful history with a strong dedication to future and technology. It is located in the heart of Europe, easily reached via two airports, and will offer a great deal of history and culture to INTERSPEECH 2015 delegates. Guests are well catered for in a variety of hotels of different standards and price ranges, making INTERSPEECH 2015 an exciting as well as an affordable event.
CONTACT Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller, Quality and Usability Lab, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, TU Berlin Sekr. TEL-18, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, D-10587 Berlin, Germany Web: www.interspeech2015.org
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| 3-1-3 | Interspeech 2016 Interspeech 2016 will take place from September 8-12 2016 in San Francisco, CA, USA General Chairs are Nelson Morgan and Roberto Pieraccini.
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| 3-3-1 | (2013-09-16) 7th Workshop: 'emotion and computing - current research and future impact', Koblenz Germany Call for Papers 7th Workshop: 'emotion and computing - current research and future impact' WORKSHOP at the KI 2013 Koblenz, September 16th, 2013 -------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop series “emotion and computing – current research and future impact” has been providing a platform for discussion of emotion related topics of computer science and AI since 2006. In recent years computer science research has shown increasing efforts in the field of software agents which incorporate emotion. Several approaches have been made concerning emotion recognition, emotion modelling, generation of emotional user interfaces and dialogue systems as well as anthropomorphic communication agents. Motivations for emotional computing are manifold. From a scientific point of view, emotions play an essential role in decision making, as well as in perception and learning. Furthermore, emotions influence rational thinking and therefore should be part of rational agents as proposed by artificial intelligence research. Another focus is on human computer interfaces which include believable animations of interface agents. From a user perspective, emotional interfaces can significantly increase motivation and engagement which is of high relevance to the games and e-learning industry. Moreover, motivational and emotional aspects may play a key role in persuasive technologies, which intend to influence the user behaviour. Contributions are solicited from the following fields: -Artificial Intelligence Research -Cognitive Sciences and Cognitive Robotics -Multi-agent System Technology -Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition -Dialogue Systems and Communication -Modeling Uncertainty and Vagueness -Computer Game Development -User Modeling and Personalization -Applications using models of emotion -Persuasive Computing/Technologies -Affective Computing Contributions are expected in the following form: - Presentations should have a duration of 15-20 minutes. Each presenter is required to submit a short paper on the presented topic. Papers are subject to regular peer review and subsequent publication within the workshop proceedings (4-8 pages). - Demonstrations are documented by an extended abstract which should not exceed 1 page in total - Workshop submission is electronic. Submitted papers should conform Springer LNCS style and must be written in English. Papers will be published on the workshop website. Further publication is in discussion and depends on submitted papers. Important Dates: Workshop paper submission deadline: July 1st, 2013 Notification of workshop paper acceptance: July 23rd, 2013 Workshop camera ready copy submission: August 19th, 2013 Organization and Scientific Committee: Prof. Dr. Dirk Reichardt, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart (main contact) Dr. Joscha Bach,Klayo AG, Berlin Dr. Christian Becker-Asano, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Dr. Hana Boukricha,University of Bielefeld Dr. Patrick Gebhard, DFKI Saarbrücken Prof. Dr. Michael Kipp, Hochschule Augsburg Prof. Dr. Paul Levi, University of Stuttgart Prof. Dr. John-Jules Charles Meyer, University of Utrecht Dr. Götz Renner, Daimler AG, Customer Research Center Prof. Dr. Michael M. Richter, University of Calgary Dr.-Ing. Björn Schuller, TU München Prof. Dr. David Sündermann, DHBW Stuttgart Please refer to the workshop website for further information: Workshop Website: http://www.emotion-and-computing.de Email: mailto://info@emotion-and-computing.de
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| 3-3-2 | (2013-09-25) 55th International Symposium ELMAR-2013 Zadar Croatia 55th International Symposium ELMAR-2013 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ September 25-27, 2013 Zadar, Croatia Paper submission deadline: April 17, 2013 http://www.elmar-zadar.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS IEEE Region 8 IEEE Croatia Section IEEE Croatia Section SP, AP and MTT Chapters EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY IEEE Xplore, INSPEC and SCOPUS TOPICS --> Image and Video Processing --> Multimedia Communications --> Speech and Audio Processing --> Wireless Communications --> Telecommunications --> Antennas and Propagation --> e-Learning and m-Learning --> Navigation Systems --> Ship Electronic Systems --> Power Electronics and Automation --> Naval Architecture --> Sea Ecology --> Special Sessions: http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2013/special_sessions/ --> Student Session (B.Sc. and M.Sc. students only): http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2013/student_session/ KEYNOTE SPEAKER * Darko Ratkaj, European Broadcasting Union, SWITZERLAND: Multimedia Broadcasting - Promises and Pitfalls of Internet Distribution SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of full papers: April 17, 2013 Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 20, 2013 Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: May 27, 2013 Preliminary program available online by: June 10, 2013 Registration forms and payment deadline: June 17, 2013
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| 3-3-3 | (2013-09-26) Workshop at ICNAAM: PROSLI - Prosody for self-learning instruction, Rhodes, Greece PROSLI - Prosody for self-learning instruction
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| 3-3-4 | (2013-09-26)IWMMA 2013 - 2nd International Workshop on Mathematical Models and its Applications;Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia Krasnoyarsk, Russia
IWMMA 2013 - (Deadline: July 31) 2nd International Workshop on Mathematical Models and its Applications September 26-29, 2013 Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia Krasnoyarsk, Russia Call for Papers ---------------- This Second International Workshop on Mathematical Models and its Applications (IWMMA2013) will provide an international forum for the presentation of original results in mathematical modeling for software- and hardware applications in various fields. It will stimulate lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists. This year's workshop designates 'Mathematical Models an its application in Spoken Dialogue Systems' as a special theme of discussion. Nevertheless, papers which are not related with Spoken Dialogue Systems are also welcome. We would like to encourage the discussion of common issues of theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, general tools and techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Speech recognition and semantic analysis * Dialogue management * Adaptive dialogue modelling * Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, facial expressions and physiological data * User modelling * Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordination and conflict description * Conflict resolution in complex multi-level decisions * Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for input and output * Fusion and information management * Learning and adaptability * Visual processing and recognition for advanced human-computer interaction * Databases and corpora * Evaluation strategies and paradigms * Prototypes and products Contributed papers will be presented at a single-track oral-presentation session. All the contributed papers will appear without distinction in the conference proceedings. For technical program inquiries about the conference, please contact the conference Program Chair by e-mail at: roman.sergienko@uni-ulm.de, maxim.sidorov@uni-ulm.de The maximum number of pages is limited to 9, including figures. Detailed instructions for paper submissions and format can be found on the conference website. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: July 31, 2013 (23:59 GMT): Deadline for Long, Short and Demo Papers August 15, 2013: Author notification August 31, 2013: Deadline for final submission of accepted paper September 10, 2013: Deadline for early registration September 26-29, 2013: Workshop ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------- General Chairs: Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany Eugene Semenkin, Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia Local Committee: Siberian State Aerospace University, Russia: Anna Voroshilova Boris Verbenko Ekaterina Fibikh Roman Sergienko Ulm University, Germany: Alexander Schmitt Maxim Sidorov Stefan Ultes Roman Sergienko
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| 3-3-5 | (2013-09-30) 4th Summer school on Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior, Aix en Provence F The 4th summer school on 'Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior” will be hold in Aix-en-Provence from 30.9.2013 to 4.10.2013. Speakers show phonetic differences while producing the very same utterance. These speaker-specific differences occur at various linguistic levels and they can be realized phonetically by many parameters such as voice quality, speech rate, loudness, fundamental frequency, breathing, articulatory behavior, etc. At the same time, listeners can vary in the way they exploit such cues for the purpose of speech perception and understanding. Speaker-specific behavior has long been regarded irrelevant for linguistic theories and is generally treated as noise in the data. Methodologically, speaker-specific variation has often been ignored in the statistical modelling of speech production and perception data. However, there are numerous recent studies showing that speaker-specific variation allows for new insights into learning processes, speech planning and speech motor control strategies, processing of linguistic and paralinguistic information, among others. We seek to link findings from different disciplines by asking the following questions:
The invited international scholars have been chosen to address these issues. This summer school is mainly intended for graduate students, post-docs or researchers who work in the field of speech production, perception and perception-production interaction. We expect about 50 participants. One of the aims of the summer school is to provide a forum for exchanges between students, junior and senior researchers and encourage all participants to contribute to the dialog. Please send a letter of motivation and an abstract (no longer than 1 page) of your prospective contribution till to the 15th of May 2013. http://summerschool13.sciencesconf.org/ Confirmed invited speakers:
Organizing committee (in alphabetical order) Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin, Germany) Caroline Magister (ZAS Berlin, Germany) Daniel Pape (IEETA + UA Aveiro, Portugal) Caterina Petrone (LPL-CNRS Aix-en-Provence, France)
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| 3-3-6 | (2013-10-15) 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2013) Marseille France NLPCS 2013 10th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science 15-16 October, 2013 (workshop), 17-18 October, 2013 (tutorials, to be confirmed) CIRM, Marseille, France, https://sites.google.com/site/nlpcs2013/home/ The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by taking a Cognitive Science perspective. What characterises this kind of approach is the fact that NLP is considered from various viewpoints (linguistics, psychology, neurosciences, artificial intelligence,...), and that a deliberate effort is made to reconcile or integrate them into a coherent whole. We believe that this is necessary, as the modelling of the process is simply too complex to be addressed by a single discipline. No matter whether we deal with a natural or artificial system (people or computers) or a combination of both (interactive NLP), systems rely on many types of very different knowledge sources. Hence, strategies vary considerably depending on the person (novice, expert), on the available knowledge (internal and external), and on the nature of the information processor: human, machines or both (human-machine communication). This being so we are interested in theoretical or applied work (including simulations). Hence, any of the following aspects are welcomed: structure, representation and processing of information by different agents (natural, artificial or both) and in different communication modes. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: 15 June, 2013 Authors’ Notification: 31 July 15, 2013 Final Paper Submission : 15 September, 2013 CO-CHAIRS Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom b.sharp@staffs.ac.uk Michael Zock, CNRS-LIF, Aix-Marseille Université, France michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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| 3-3-7 | (2013-10-18) The 2013 Similar Segments in Social Speech Task Barcelona Spain The 2013 Similar Segments in Social Speech Task
With users' growing willingness to share personal activity information, the eventual acceptance of social multimedia, including video and audio recordings of casual interactions, is inevitable. To unlock the potential value, we need to develop methods for searching such recordings, and this task is intended to support research in this area. It is likely to be of interest to researchers in the areas of speech technology, information retrieval, dialog, and topic modeling. The task involves searching in social multimedia, specifically conversations between students in an academic department. The scenario is this: A new member has joined an organization or social group that has a small archive of conversations among its members. He starts to listen, looking for any information that can help him better understand, participate in, enjoy, find friends in, and succeed in this group. As he listens to the archive (perhaps at random, perhaps based on some social tags, perhaps based on an initial keyword search) he finds something of interest, and wants to find more like it, across the entire archive. He marks what he found as a region of interest and requests more like it. The system comes back with a set of ``jump-in'' points, places in the archive to which he could jump and start listening/watching with the expectation of finding something similar.
Task schedule (tentative) April 1: Familiarization pack release May 1: Development data release July 1: Test set release September 5 : Run submission deadline October 18-19: Workshop, in Barcelona This task is organized under the auspices of MediaEval 2013.
Further information is available at http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2013/socialspeech2013/ and http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ssss/, or from the organizers: Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA; David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso, USA; Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan; Elizabeth Shriberg, Microsoft, USA; Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California, USA; Catharine Oertel, KTH, Sweden.
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| 3-3-8 | (2013-10-21) 3rd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop Barcelona, Spain AVEC 2013 3rd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop Depression and Continuous Emotion
Satellite Workshop of ACM Multimedia 2013 Fully‐day Workshop October 21 – 25 (t.b.d.), Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain ____________________________________________________________
This year there will be two sub-challenges: the first is fully continuous dimensional affect recognition (similar to AVEC 2012), but it is the second sub-challenge that makes this AVEC very special indeed: estimation of self-reported level of depression on over 150 recordings of people suffering from depression performing a standardised human computer interaction task. This sub challenge has a single label associated with every recording, making it also a very different machine learning problem compared to the previous challenges.
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| 3-3-9 | (2013-10-23) 5ème Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPhC) , Liège (Belgique). 5ème Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPhC) qui auront lieu à Liège les 23, 24, 25 octobre 2013. Extended deadline May 22 2013 Ces journées ont vu le jour à Paris en 2005 (www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/ilpga/JPC-2005/). En 2007, elles se sont déroulées à Grenoble, en 2009 à Aix-en-Provence (aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~jpc3/) et en 2011 à Strasbourg (journees-phonetique-clinique.u-strasbg.fr/). Elles ont lieu tous les deux ans. L’année 2013 sera Liégeoise (Belgique). En effet, elles seront organisées par le service de Logopédie de la Voix de l'Université de Liège de psychologie: cognition et comportement) en étroite collaboration avec le Laboratoires d'Images, Signaux et Dispositifs de Télécommunications de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles.
La phonétique réunit principalement des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs, ingénieurs, médecins et orthophoniste / logopèdes ; différentes corps de métiers complémentaires qui poursuivent le même objectif : une meilleure connaissance des processus d'acquisition, de développement et de dégénérescence du langage, de la parole et de la voix. Cette approche interdisciplinaire vise à optimiser les connaissances fondamentales relatives à la communication parlée, dans le but de mieux comprendre, évaluer, et remédier aux troubles de la parole et de la voix chez le sujet pathologique.
Dans ce contexte, cette série de colloques internationaux sur la production et la perception de la parole, chez le sujet pathologique, représente une opportunité pour des professionnels, des chercheurs confirmés etdes jeu nes chercheurs de formations différentes de présenter des résultats expérimentaux nouveaux et d’échanger des idées de diverses perspectives. Les communications porteront sur les études de la parole et de la voix pathologiques, chez l’adulte et chez l’enfant.
Nous espérons vous voir nombreux à ces 5ème Journées de Phonétique Clinique. Vous trouverez plus d’informations en visitant le site à l’adresse suivante : https://w3.fapse.ulg.ac.be/conferences/JPhC5/index.php Calendrier Date d'ouverture des soumissions : 1 janvier 2013 Nouvelle date limite de soumission : 22 mai 2013 Date de notification aux auteurs : 1 juillet 2013 Programme officiel : 15 juillet 2013 Date limite d’inscription : 1er septembre 2013 (majoration de 30 euros au-delà de cette date) Date du colloque : 23 – 25 octobre 2013
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| 3-3-10 | (2013-10-29) Multimodal Social Signals of conflict and negotiation in humans, animals, and machines, Roma
Universita’ Roma Tre Aula Magna Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Screen and Stage studies Via Ostiense 234 - Roma
October 29 – 31, 2013 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~vincia/conflict/index.html
International Workshop
Conflict and communication. Multimodal Social Signals of conflict and negotiation in humans, animals, and machines
When in an environment resources are limited, and two or more humans or other animals need the same resource, its attainment by one is incompatible with the attainment by the other: thus conflict arises. Conflict may simply hold between two or more beliefs (cognitive conflict), or between goals of the same person or animal (intraindividual conflict), or finally between the goals of two or more individuals or groups (interpersonal and social conflict). In all cases conflict may cause internal turmoil or social aggression, and yet sometimes may also be a carrier of positive novelty and change. This workshop focuses on interpersonal and social conflict, and on the communication that may arise from it, but also give rise to it, or finally determine conflict escalation or resolution. Since such a complex topic as conflict needs to be confronted by a high level of multidisciplinarity, we encourage contributions from various fields, among which: Psychology, Ethology, Political Sciences, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Argumentation, Social Simulation, Robotics, Social Signal processing, Swarm intelligence….
Some core topics in the workshop, and their leading questions, are the following:
Theoretical issues in conflict What is conflict, and what is the boundary between competition and conflict? Are all cases of aggression determined by conflict, and does conflict always lead to aggression? What are the mechanisms and triggering rules of escalation and what are those of negotiation? Sometimes conflicts are not explicit or evident, but rather deep, underground, covert. What are the signals of overt and covert conflicts? What are the routes of conflict? Is conflict primary (only stemming from context, bare competition over resources) or sometimes secondary to emotions (for instance might one start to raise conflict with another only due to personality clash)? What are the dynamics of conflict? Some theories propose that social hierarchies and leadership arise right with the function of minimizing conflicts. Is this (always) true? Are there types of social organization or leadership more apt than others to prevent conflict? What could / should be changed in an organization to lower the number and level of conflicts? Do the ways people and animals sense and manage conflict and its escalation and resolution change across ontogenetic and phylogenetic evolution, and if so, how do they? Are there neurological bases to the capacity of sensing and managing social conflict?
Social signals and multimodality How is conflict expressed in communicative interaction between humans? How do the various types of conflict differ from each other, for example, discussion, argument, quarrel, contest? Do different rules apply to them? One of the main communicative forms triggered by conflict is argumentation. Can we distinguish more and less conflictual argumentations? What are the signals that reveal the existence of conflict, escalation, de-escalation, negotiation, smoothing? What are the signals of conflict between non-human animals? Are there signals shared by human and non-human animals? Conflictual communication may be studied in various modalities. In the acoustic modalities, what are the characterizing features of voice or noise in conflict? Can conflict be expressed by music? Are some types of intonation more typically used during conflict? Are there speech acts or other communicative acts typical of conflict, such as accusation, criticism, insult? How is conflict expressed in the structure of turn-taking and floor management? Are there cues of conflict in intonation and voice quality? In the visual modalities, what are the gestures, postures, gaze items and facial expressions typically used in conflict? Can conflict be expressed by art, graphics and other visual artifacts?
Ethical issues, deception and non-cooperative communication in conflict Is there an ethics of conflict? Are there moral rules for negotiation or reconciliation? Are there cases in which conflict cannot be avoided, or negotiation should be skipped, due to ethical reasons? Does negotiation often entail deception? What are the effects of truthful and deceitful communication on conflict? Is deception exploited to avoid conflict or is it a major cause of conflict? Sometimes sincere communication, by making the conflict explicit, may contribute to exacerbate it, so people may try to avoid sincerity or use hypocrisy or vagueness to prevent conflict; but on the other hand, if one lets conflict emerge, might this contribute, and in what cases and ways, to clarify positions, look for agreement, and start negotiation? What is the relation of conflict with truthful and deceitful communication in animals? Generally animals tend to use deception more to prevent conflict than to find a way out of it – see the function of bluff and other deceitful displays – but is this always and necessary so?
Emotions and conflict What emotions are generally a cause of conflict, and what are the most typical effects of it? How are they expressed with or without a conflictual interaction? How can trust, envy, admiration, pride, compassion or other emotions prevent, trigger, enhance, smooth conflict? How can their sincere or simulated expression work in conflict management? What is the role of empathy and other affective states in negotiation and reconciliation?
Simulation, analysis and synthesis of conflict Is it possible to build systems for the automatic detection of conflict, both bottom up – by detecting signals of conflict – and top-down – by analyzing contexts and inferring their likeliness for conflict generation? Is it possible to construct a synthetic “negotiation counselor”? How can automatic argumentative systems be adapted to conflict prevention or resolution? How can the simulation of conflict in robots and neural systems give hints for the prevention and managing of conflict in humans?
The topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to:
Program Committee:
Jens Allwood Francesca Cantù Marco Cristani Anna Esposito Ellen Giebels Emile Hendricks Dirk Heylen Giovanna Leone Giacomo Marramao Elio Matassi David Meghnagi Enrico Menduni Alessandro Neri Magalie Ochs Franca Orletti Fabio Paglieri Albert Ali Salah Björn Schuller
Key-note Speakers:
Judee Burgoon, Center for the Management of Information, University of Arizona http://www.borders.arizona.edu/cms/content/judee-burgoon Cristiano Calstelfranchi, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione – CNR, Roma http://www.istc.cnr.it/it/people/cristiano-castelfranchi Ellen Giebels, Centre for Conflict, Risk and Safety Perception, University of Twente http://www.utwente.nl/gw/pcrv/en/emp/giebels.doc/ Shrikanth Narayanan, Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab, University of South California
The Workshop is open to all motivated scientists, of any nationality, both on the Social Scientists and the Computer Scientists side. To encourage young researchers’ participation, grants are available for up to 8 Participants (maximum of 600 EUROS for accommodation, living and travel expenses), upon selection of the best abstracts, of the applicants’ potential contribution to the Workshop, and the benefits that they may draw from the meeting for their future activities.
SUBMISSIONS: After the Workshop a selection of the papers presented will be published in a book of a Springer series. Abstracts and Papers should be sent to the following addresses: poggi@uniroma3.it; fderrico@uniroma3.it; laura.vincze@gmail.com;
IMPORTAT DATES:
Extended to: June 24th, 2013: Submission of abstracts (400 – 600 words) July 24th, 2013: Notification of acceptance October 29-31, 2013: Workshop November 30th, 2013: Paper submission January 20th, 2014: Notification of acceptance of papers February 28th, 2014: Camera-ready paper
Scientific organization: Isabella Poggi*, Francesca D’Errico**, Alessandro Vinciarelli***, Laura Vincze* *Università Roma Tre **Università Telematica Internazionale UNINETTUNO ***University of Glasgow
Contacts: Isabella Poggi, poggi@uniroma3.it Francesca D’Errico, fderrico@uniroma3.it Alessandro Vinciarelli, Alessandro.Vinciarelli@glasgow.ac.uk Laura Vincze, laura.vincze@gmail.com;
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| 3-3-11 | (2013-11-11) Human Language Technologies to the future of Language Learning Stellenbosch University (South Africa) Call for papers: HLT4LL 2013 An interdisciplinary symposium on the contribution of Human Language Technologies to the future of Language Learning
11-12 November 2013: Stellenbosch University (South Africa) 12 November 2013: Videoconferencing with Radboud University Nijmegen and KU Leuven Kulak http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/hlt4ll-call-for-papers/
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Nick Ellis, Maxine Eskenazi, John Nerbonne, Mathias Schulze, Isabel Trancoso
SCOPE AND AIM OF THE SYMPOSIUM The HLT4LL 2013 symposium will address the possibilities and challenges of using human language technologies (HLT) for language learning (LL) (HLT4LL). We define HLT4LL as any use or integration of language and speech technology to structure, facilitate (support) and evaluate the language learning process. To fully acknowledge and address the complexity of this interdisciplinary domain, the symposium aims to bring together representatives from various but related research fields: language and speech technology, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics (learner and bilingual corpora), data-driven language learning, (second) language acquisition, language pedagogy, computer assisted language learning (CALL), educational technology, semantic web, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction (HCI/CHI), etc. This symposium is intended to provide a state-of-the-art overview of this interdisciplinary domain for people from academia, educational institutions, industry, as well as for policymakers.
Registration and participation are free of charge. If you want to register, send an email to HLT4LL@let.ru.nl. Mention if you want to be present in Stellenbosch, Nijmegen or Kortrijk. The number of available places is limited, we thus might have to select.
CALL FOR PAPERS We hereby solicit contributions to the research workshop on 12 November 2013. Potential authors are invited to submit a proposal for a paper or poster session related to any of the mentioned fields. Submissions can also provide feedback on the use of current applications, or suggest possible ways of optimization and propose future developments, based on a systematic investigation of the subject. All submissions will be subjected to peer review; only a limited number of contributions will be presented at the workshop. During the workshop, presenters will get feedback from the keynote speakers. During the research workshop, video conferencing facilities will be available at Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and at KU Leuven Kulak (Kortrijk, Belgium), which will allow researchers to present their work from remote locations. We are considering inviting presenters to submit full-length papers after the workshop, which may be published in a special issue of an authoritative, interdisciplinary and international journal in the field.
IMPORTANT DATES - 09/06/2013: Deadline for submission of extended abstract (max. 1000 words) - 14/07/2013: Notification of acceptance - 31/07/2013: Early-bird registration for accepted authors - 11/11/2013: Start of symposium at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) - 11/11/2013: Informative meeting for a general audience, incl. demo’s - 12/11/2013: Research workshop (videoconferencing with RU Nijmegen and Kulak Leuven)
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL Proposals must be sent to HLT4LL@let.ru.nl by 9 June 2013.
ORGANISERS Catia Cucchiarini & Helmer Strik (Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University, The Netherlands) Frederik Cornillie & Piet Desmet (ITEC, KU Leuven Kulak & iMinds, Belgium) Febe de Wet (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
CONTACT US HLT4LL@let.ru.nl
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| 3-3-12 | (2013-11-26) CORESA 2013 Pour sa 16ème édition, le colloque CORESA 2013 (COmpression et REprésentation des Signaux Audiovisuels) sera organisé par le Laboratoire Electronique Informatique et Image (LE2I UMR 6306) et le site universitaire du Creusot de l'université de Bourgogne, les 28 et 29 Novembre 2013. Coresa 2013 est organisé conjointement avec l'Ecole Analyse Multirésolution qui se déroulera les 26 et 27 novembre 2013 (Lien vers l'édition précédente : http://multiresolution.liris.cnrs.fr)
Un tarif préférentiel permettra de participer aux deux évènements.
Dates et informations : www.coresa2013.com
soumission : 17 juin 2013
notification : 15 septembre
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| 3-3-13 | (2013-12-03) IEEE GlobalSIP Symposia, Austin TexasDeadline for IEEE GlobalSIP Symposia Proposals: November 15, 2012. GlobalSIP: http://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/ Austin, TX. December 3-5, 2013. IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing is a new flagship IEEE Signal Processing Society conference. It will focus on signal and information processing and up-and-coming signal processing themes. GlobalSIP comprises symposia selected based on responses to the call-for-symposia proposals. We are inviting symposia submissions on hot topics related to signal and information processing. Examples of potential topics include: Computational photography Camera networks and analytics Computational manufacturing Information systems for Big Data Processing Bio signal processing Machine learning Emerging sensing modalities Signal processing, learning and decision making in networks Green communications Data and processing for energy management Sparsity in information processing Proposals may be focused on a specific mathematical tool, or on a particular application. Successful symposia may be repeated from year to year. We are currently soliciting symposium proposals. For more information on the preparation of a symposium proposal, please refer to: http://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/SymposiaGuidelines.pdf Symposia proposals may be submitted to any one of the technical program chairs.
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| 3-3-14 | (2013-12-05)CfP International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) , Heidelberg, Germany <Call for IWLST2013>
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| 3-3-15 | (2013-12-07) 6th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2013), Poznan, PolandThe 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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| 3-3-16 | (2013-12-08) 2013 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)-Olomouc, Czech Republic 2013 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)
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| 3-3-17 | (2013-12-08) 3rd LTC Workshop on 'Less Resourced Languages, new technologies, new challenges and opportunities', in conjunction with the Language Technology Conference in Poznan, Poland The third LTC Workshop on 'Less Resourced Languages, new technologies, new --
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| 3-3-18 | (2014) Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.
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| 3-3-19 | (2014-01-18) 5th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2014), Napa, CA, USA 5th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2014)
Situated Dialog
Napa, California, US, January 18-20, 2014
** ANNOUNCEMENT **
Following the success of IWSDS-2009 (Irsee, Germany), IWSDS-2010 (Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan), IWSDS-2011 (Granada, Spain), and IWSDS-2012, (Paris, France), the Fifth International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS-2014) will be held in Napa, California, US on January 18-20, 2014.
The IWSDS Workshop series provides an international forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists, with a special interest to the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems in everyday applications.
To date many dialog systems have been developed for well-defined domains most notably information access and simple transactions. As spoken language technologies become more sophisticated more diverse domains have begun to be explored. One direction has been towards systems that are untethered and that do not rely on a clearly demarcated domain. More recently, researchers have begun to explore systems for domains that require a clear awareness of dynamic context and surroundings, also known as situated dialog systems. Such domains include robotic and automotive systems, but also systems found in mobile devices and in the cloud.
Situated dialog represents the next step in creating spoken language systems that can be used by humans as a part of everyday life but it presents new research challenges. For example perception becomes significantly more important as the current state of the world plays a role in the interaction; moreover situated dialog often requires more advanced reasoning capabilities than non-situated systems. Humans might also expect systems to understand and retain new information and be able to accept relatively complex direction. Many of these systems are used in hands-busy eyes-busy situations, where spoken language becomes the principal means of communication.
Areas of research that touch on Situated Dialog: * Auditory scene analysis and interpretation * Acquisition and tracking of dialog channels * Explicit and implicit grounding * Out-of-Vocabulary inputs and their resolution * Advanced conversational capabilities: Initiation and termination * Managing multi-party dialogs * Multi-modal interaction (gesture and gaze) * Language-based learning and instruction * Dialog interaction for robotic systems or kiosks * Interfaces to automotive systems * Spoken language for mobile applications
Research and development in the following areas are relevant to this meeting; we also invite the submission of original papers in any related area:
* Speech recognition and understanding, Dialog management, Adaptive * Dialog modeling, Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, * Facial expressions and physiological data, Emotional and * Interactional dynamic profile of the speaker during dialog, User * Modeling, Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordination and * Conflict description, Conflict resolution in complex multi-level * Decisions, Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for * Input and output, Fusion, fission and information management, * Learning and adaptability, Visual processing and recognition for * Advanced human-computer interaction, Spoken Dialog databases and * Corpora, including methodologies and ethics, Objective and * Subjective Spoken Dialog evaluation methodologies, strategies and * Paradigms, Spoken Dialog prototypes and products, etc.
PAPER SUBMISSION
We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and we will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. As usual, it is planned that a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference. We distinguish between the following categories of submissions:
* Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 6-10 pages, not including references.
* Short Research Papers should not exceed 6 pages in total. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research.
* Demo - System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.
IMPORTANT DATES: October 13, 2013 (23:59 GMT) Deadline for submission November 18, 2013: Author notification December 2, 2013: Deadline for final submission of accepted paper December 23, 2013: Final Program available online January 18-20, 2014 Workshop
VENUE: IWSDS 2014 will be held as a two-day residential seminar at The Carneros Inn in Napa, USA, where attendees will be accommodated. January 20th will be devoted to visits at laboratories in the Bay Area's Silicon Valley.
IWSDS Steering Committee: Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH, Pohang, Korea), Ramón López-Cózar (Univ. of Granada, Spain), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI and IMMI-CNRS, Orsay, France), Wolfgang Minker (Ulm Univ., Germany), Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Organizing Committee: Alexander Rudnicky (CMU) (Chair), Ian Lane (CMU), Antoine Raux (Lenovo), Teruhisa Misu (HRI USA)
Scientific Committee: Jan Alexandersson - DFKI, Germany; Masahiro Araki - Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan; André Berton - Daimler, Germany; Dan Bohus - Microsoft, USA; Axel Buendia - SpirOps, France; Susan Burger - CMU, USA; Felix Burkhard - Deutsche Telekom Lab., Germany ; oraida Callejas - Univ. Granada, Spain; Heriberto Cuayahuitl - DFKI, Germany; Yannick Estève - LIUM, France; Sadaoki Furui - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; David Griol - Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; Joakim Gustafson - KTH, Sweden; Olivier Hamon - ELDA, France; Paul Heisterkamp - Daimler, Germany; Dirk Heylen - Univ. Twente, The Netherlands; Ryuichiro Higashinaka - NTT, Japan; Julia Hirshberg - Columbia Univ., USA; Kristiina Jokinen - Helsinki Univ., Finland; Tatsuya Kawahara - Kyoto Univ., Japan; Harksoo Kim - Kangwon National University, Korea ;Hong Kook Kim - Gwangju Inst. of Science and Technology, Korea; Seokhwan Kim - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Kazunori Komatani - Nagoya Univ, Japan; Fabrice Lefèvre - LIA, France; Haizhou Li - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Matthew Marge - CMU, USA; Michael McTear - Univ. Ulster, UK; Yasuhiro Minami - NTT, Japan; Teruhisa Misu - HRI, USA; Mikio Nakano - Honda Resaerch Institute, Japan; Shrikanth S. Narayanan - SAIL, USA; Elmar Nöeth - Univ. Erlangen, Germany; Roberto Pieraccini - ICSI - Berkeley, USA; Olivier Pietquin - Sup'Elec, France; Norbert Reithinger - DFKI, Germany; Björn Schuller - Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany; Lizbeth Shriberg - ICSI, SRI and Microsoft, USA; Gabriel Skantze - KTH, Sweden; Sebastian Stüker - KIT, Germany; Kazuya Takeda - Nagoya Univ., Japan; Stefanie Tellex - Brown U., USA; David Traum - USC, USA; Hsin-min Wang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Nigel Ward - UTEP, USA; Jason Williams - Microsoft, USA
Supporting organization: SIGdial
** Please contact air@cs.cmu.edu or visit www.iwsds.org for more information. **
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| 3-3-20 | (2014-03-03) CfP International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS website: http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/ March 3 - 6, 2014 Angers, Loire Valley, France Technical Co-sponsorship by: ESEM In Cooperation with: AAAI and EUROMICRO Co-organized by: ESEO Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: WfMC, OMG and FIPA Logistics Partner: SCIT EVENTS IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: September 19, 2013 Authors Notification (regular papers): December 6, 2013 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: December 20, 2013 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Let me kindly inform you that the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS 2014 - http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/) steering committee cordially invites you to submit a paper to the BIOSIGNALS 2014 Conference, to be held in Angers, France. The deadline for paper submission is scheduled for September 19, 2013.The purpose of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of knowledge, including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological systems. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of these signals is a multidisciplinary area including signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence techniques, amongst others. BIOSIGNALS is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 113 submissions, 13% were accepted as full papers. Additionally, 24% were presented as short papers and 27% as posters.Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/BestPaperAward.aspx). Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea. This conference is part of the 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC (http://www.biostec.org/) and it is co-located with four related conference, namely:- BIODEVICES - International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (http://www.biodevices.biostec.org/)- BIOIMAGING - International Conference on Bioimaging (http://www.bioimaging.biostec.org/)- BIOINFORMATICS - International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (http://www.bioinformatics.biostec.org/)- HEALTHINF - International Conference on Health Informatics (http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/) Registration to one conference allows free access to all other BIOSTEC conferences.We would like to highlight the Doctoral Consortium on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies that will take place in conjunction with BIOSTEC and aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field (http://www.biostec.org/DoctoralConsortium.aspx). We hope to welcome you in Angers, France next March, 2014! Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me. Kind regards,Vera Coelho BIOSIGNALS SecretariatAv. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.2910-595 Setubal, PortugalTel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8813Email: biosignals.secretariat@insticc.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BIOSTEC Conference Co-chairs Guy Plantier, ESEO, GSII, France Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR:Harald Loose, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE:Please check the program committee members at http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx CONFERENCE TOPICS:- Speech Recognition- Neural Networks- Biometrics- Pattern Recognition- Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing- Wearable Sensors and Systems- Real-Time Systems- Evolutionary Systems- Acoustic Signal Processing- Time and Frequency Response- Wavelet Transform- Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing- Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear dynamics- Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies- Electromagnetic fields in biology and medicine- Fuzzy Systems and Signals- Monitoring and Telemetry- Cardiovascular Signals- Image Analysis and Processing- Detection and Identification- Motion Control
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| 3-3-21 | (2014-03-10) 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY ANDAPPLICATIONS(LATA2014), Madrid, Spain8th 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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| 3-3-22 | (2014-05-04) ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy ICASSP 2014
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| 3-3-23 | (2014-05-05) 10th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014 Cologne Germany MODIFIED10th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014We are pleased to announce the 10th International Speech Production Seminar, which will take place in Cologne from 5th to 8th May 2014. This international meeting was launched in 1988 in Grenoble, with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on all aspects of speech production from fields as diverse as phonology, phonetics, prosody, mechanics, acoustics, physiology, motor control, neuroscience, computer science and human interaction. At this meeting we shall be celebrating the tenth anniversary of this series.
Topics of interest for ISSP 2014 include, but are not restricted to, the following:
Invited speakers: Christian Kell (Brain Imaging Center, Frankfurt, Germany) Oscillatory signatures of speech preparation and production D. Robert Ladd (University of Edinburgh, UK) (title to be announced) Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (MIT, USA) The role of prosody in speech production planning Michael J. Richardson (University of Cincinnati, USA) Behavioural dynamics of social coordination and speech production Caroline Palmer (McGill University, CA) Auditory-motor integration in ensemble music performance Further information is provided here: http://www.issp2014.uni-koeln.de/
To contact the organizers, please send an email to:
Important dates: 1st October 2013: Two page paper submission 15th December 2013: Notification of acceptance 15th January 2014: Online registration open 25th February 2014: Revised version of four page paper 15th March: Deadline for early bird registration 5th May - 8th May 2014 : ISSP 2014
The organizers: Susanne Fuchs, Martine Grice, Anne Hermes, Leonardo Lancia, Doris Muecke
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| 3-3-24 | (2014-05-12) 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2014), Nancy France 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication
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| 3-3-25 | (2014-05-14) 4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages , St Petersburg, 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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| 3-3-26 | (2014-05-16) SLTU-2014 WORKSHOP - ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS, St Petersburg, Russia 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 (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
** Important 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.
SLTU'14 Workshop Chairs: Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russia) Laurent Besacier (LIG, France) Pascal Nocera (LIA, France) Eric Castelli (MICA, Vietnam)
For the latest information, please check the conference web page: www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2014
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| 3-3-27 | (2014-05-20) The 7th Speech Prosody Conference, Dublin, Ireland The 7th Speech Prosody Conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland, May 20-23, 2014, at Trinity College Dublin, directly preceding LREC, the Linguistic Resources and Evaluation Conference. Topics of interest include: communicative situation and speaking style, dynamics of register and style, l2 prosody, phonology and phonetics of prosody, pitch accent, prosody and spoken language systems, prosody and the sounds of language, prosody development in first language acquisition, prosody for forensic applications, prosody in face-to-face interaction: audiovisual modeling and analysis, prosody in neurological disorders, prosody in speech synthesis, recognition and understanding; prosody models and theoretical issues, prosody of sign language, prosody of under-resourced languages and dialects; psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural correlates of prosody; signal processing; voice quality, phonation, and vocal dynamics, and prosodic characteristics of individuals; and as special review areas, the prosody of nonverbal vocalisations, speech-gesture interaction, and joint/choral speech. More information is available at http://www.speechprosody2014.org/ .
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| 3-3-28 | (2014-05-26) ELRA-LREC Conference, Reykjavik (Iceland) ELRA, the European Language Resources Association, is very pleased to announce that the 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference will take place in Reykjavik (Iceland) on May 26-June 1, 2014.
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| 3-3-29 | (2014-06-11) 15th ICPLA Conference 2014
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| 3-3-30 | (2014-06-17) 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) at St Catherine's College Oxford , UK We are pleased to announce the 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) is to be held at St Catherine's College Oxford from 17 - 20 July, 2014. ODC has a reputation as one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency. The conference brings together researchers and clinicians, providing a showcase and forum for discussion and collegial debate about the most current and innovative research and clinical practices. Throughout the history of ODC, the primary aim has been to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice. The conference seeks to promote research that informs management, with interventions that are supported by sound theory and which inform future research. In 2014, the goal of the Oxford Dysfluency Conference is to lead a challenging international debate about the latest research in disorders of fluency and its clinical applications. The 2014 conference will enable delegates to:
Conference Co-Chairs David Rowley, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, UK
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| 3-3-31 | (2014-09-10) CfP 3ème SWIP - Swiss Workshop on Prosody, Université de Genève, Switzerland Appel à communications
3ème SWIP - Swiss Workshop on Prosody
Special Theme : PhonoGenres and Speaking Styles
10-11 Septembre 2014 - Université de Genève
SWIP (Swiss Workshop on Prosody) est un évènement annuel sur les
avancées de recherches en prosodie, organisé en Suisse. Après le
1er SWIP à Zurich en 2012, et le 2ème à Neuchâtel en 2013, le
3ème SWIP aura lieu à Genève les 10 et 11 septembre 2014. Pour
cette édition, la thématique principale porte sur les phonogenres
et les styles de parole. Elle marquera la clôture des trois ans
du projet FNS 'Caractérisation prosodique et linguistique de
phonogenres'.
La variation phonostylistique prosodique, qu’elle soit régionale,
sociale, ou situationnelle, fait aujourd’hui l’objet de nombreuses
études. Elles sont ponctuelles ou systématiques, empiriquement
fondées sur l’étude phonétique-phonologique de corpus de grandes
dimensions ou sur l’examen d’échantillons restreints. Les approches
sont variées, entre les méthodologies systématiques et des
procédures ad hoc. Ainsi, l’un des objectifs principaux de la
conférence est de répertorier les différentes approches et de
confronter leurs résultats.
Les thèmes suivants peuvent être abordés:
*phonogenres: dimensions phonético-prosodiques; variation
situationnelle, communicative, micro- ou macro-sociale; analyses
comparatives
*styles de parole - clichés, idiosyncrasies, particularités
remarquables
*variation diachronique des phonostyles
*identification des genres et des styles de discours
*méthodologies et outils de traitement de corpus, avec un intérêt
particulier pour l’étude phonostylistique et la variation
phonostylistique
Les contributions en dehors de ces thèmes sont également les bienvenues.
Conférenciers Invités
Julia Hirschberg
Philippe Boula de Mareüil
Format de soumission
La soumission de la contribution consiste en deux étapes.
Dans un premier temps, nous attendons pour le 1er février 2014
les propositions de contribution (une page + références) en français,
ou en anglais. La soumission se fait au moyen de cette page EasyChair.
Dans un deuxième temps, nous attendons pour le 1er juin 2014 la version
définitive de l'article, en version courte (6 pages max., environ 2000 mots)
ou longue (12 pages max., environ 4000 mots) en vue d'une publication dans
les Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique française (papier et format
électronique), à paraître pour le colloque. Les articles peuvent être
rédigés en français ou en anglais avec un résumé dans l'autre langue.
La mise en forme doit impérativement suivre ces consignes.
Veuillez noter que la langue de la conférence est l'anglais.
Dates à retenir
Soumission de la contribution : 1er février 2014
Notification d’acceptation: 1er mars 2014
Envoi de l'article complet pour les actes : 1er juin 2014
Dates de la conférence: 10-11 septembre 2014
Comité scientifique
Antoine Auchlin
Mathieu Avanzi
Philippe Boula de Mareüil
Nick Campbell
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie
Céline De Looze
Volker Dellwo
Jean-Philippe Goldman
Julia Hirschberg
Daniel Hirst
Ingrid Hove
Adrian Leemann
Joaquim Llisterri
Philippe Martin
Piet Mertens
Anne Lacheret
Nicolas Obin
Tea Pršir
Stephan Schmid
Sandra Schwab
Elizabeth Shriberg
Anne Catherine Simon
Comité d'organisation
Antoine Auchlin
Jean-Philippe Goldman Tea Pršir
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| 3-3-32 | (2014-12-23) CfP International Conference on Human Machine Interaction, New Delhi IndiaCall for papersInternational Conference on Human Machine Interaction 2014 23 – 25, December 2014 http://intconfhmi.com In association with SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia. and ASDF (Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties) Chennai Chapter, we will organize the International Conference HMI 2014 which will be held in New delhi -INDIA. Human Machine Interaction (HMI), is a main annual research conference aimed at presenting current research being carried out. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. HMI 2014 is co-sponsored by Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties and SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia and technical co-sponsored by many other universities and institutes. Area of Submission
Topics of interest for HMI is widely declared for the above, but not limited to. Conference Registration Fees Rebate (Discount)We are pleased to inform you that the organizing committee of the HMI2014 allocates a financial support for all participants from developing or emerging countries. This Financial support of among of 150 Dollars is available to help participants to attend HMI2014 You can find more details in: http://intconfhmi.com/register.html
We are waiting for seeing you in India. NB : A select number of Post Conference Excursions will take place during 5 days. As examples : 1 Day Tour to Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Mathura in AC Bus : 25 $ per person 1 Day Tour to Qutub Minar, Parliament, Lotus Temple, India Gate, Gandhi Smiriti, Red Fort, Humayun's Tomb, Rajghat: 25 $ per person
Best Regards Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL General Co-Chair, HMI2014 Head of Research Unit: Sciences & Technologies of Image and Telecommunications ( Sfax University ) GSM +216 20 200005
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| 3-3-33 | Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems Carnegie Mellon University
degree designed for students who want to rapidly master advanced content-analysis, mining, and intelligent information technologies prior to beginning or resuming leadership careers in industry and government.
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| 3-3-34 | Master in Linguistics (Aix Marseille France) Master's in Linguistics (Aix-Marseille Université): Linguistic Theories, Field Linguistics and Experimentation
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| 3-3-35 | Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences at USC CA USA REU Site: Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences --------------------------------------------------------------------
The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) offers a 10-week summer research program for undergraduates in interactive virtual experiences. A multidisciplinary research institute affiliated with the University of Southern California, the ICT was established in 1999 to combine leading academic researchers in computing with the creative talents of Hollywood and the video game industry. Having grown to encompass a total of 170 faculty, staff, and students in a diverse array of fields, the ICT represents a unique interdisciplinary community brought together with a core unifying mission: advancing the state-of-the-art for creating virtual reality experiences so compelling that people will react as if they were real.
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of ICT research, we welcome applications from students in computer science, as well as many other fields, such as psychology, art/animation, interactive media, linguistics, and communications. Undergraduates will join a team of students, research staff, and faculty in one of several labs focusing on different aspects of interactive virtual experiences. In addition to participating in seminars and social events, students will also prepare a final written report and present their projects to the rest of the institute at the end of summer research fair.
Students will receive $5000 over ten weeks, plus an additional $2800 stipend for housing and living expenses. Non-local students can also be reimbursed for travel up to $600. The ICT is located in West Los Angeles, just north of LAX and only 10 minutes from the beach.
This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The site is expected to begin summer 2013, pending final award issuance.
Students can apply online at: http://ict.usc.edu/reu/ Application deadline: March 31, 2013
For more information, please contact Evan Suma at reu@ict.usc.edu.
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