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Friday, October 11, 2013 by Chris Wellekens

3 Events
3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2014-09-14) INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore

 

 

It is a great pleasure to announce that the 15th edition of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) will be held in Singapore during September 14-18, 2014. INTERSPEECH 2014 will bring together the community to celebrate the diversity of spoken languages in the vibrant city state of Singapore.  INTERSPEECH 2014 is proudly organized by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS), the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

 

 

 

Ten steps to Singapore

 

You want to know more about Singapore?

 

During the next ten months, the organization committee will introduce you to Singaporean culture through a series of brief newsletters featuring topics related to spoken languages in Singapore. Please stay tuned!

 

 

 

Workshops

 

Submission deadline:  December 1, 2013

 

Satellite workshops related to speech and language research will be hosted in Singapore as well as in Phuket Island, Thailand (1 hr 20 min flight from Singapore) and in Penang, Malaysia (1 hr flight from Singapore).

 

Proposals must be submitted by email to workshops@interspeech2014.org before December 1, 2013. Notification of acceptance and ISCA approval/sponsorship will be announced by January 31, 2014.

 

 

 

Sponsorship and Exhibition

 

The objective of INTERSPEECH 2014 is to foster scientific exchanges in all aspects of Speech Communication sciences with a special focus on the diversity of spoken languages. We are pleased to invite you to take part in this major event as a sponsor. For more information, view the Sponsorship
Brochure
.

 

 

 

Conference venue

 

INTERSPEECH 2014 main conference will be held in the MAX Atria @ Singapore Expo.

 

 

 

Organizers

 

Lists of the organizing, advisory and technical program committees are available on line (here).

 

 

 

Follow us

 

Facebook: ISCA

 

Twitter: @Interspeech2014 follow hash tags: #is2014 or #interspeech2014

 

LinkedIn Interspeech

 

 

 

Contact

 

Conference website: www.interspeech2014.org

 

organizers.interspeech2014@isca-speech.org— For general enquiries

 

sponsorship@interspeech2014.org — For Exhibition & Sponsorship workshops@interspeech2014.org — For Workshops & Satellite Events

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3-1-2(2015) INTERSPEECH 2015 Dresden RFA

Interspeech 2015

 

September 6-10, 2015, Dresden, Germany

www.interspeech2015.org

 

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:

  • Sebastian Möller, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Technische Universität Berlin (General Chair)
  • Rüdiger Hoffmann, Chair for System Theory and Speech Technology, Technische Universität Dresden
  • Ercan Altinsoy, Chair for Communication Acoustics, Technische Universität Dresden
  • Ute Jekosch, Chair for Communication Acoustics, Technische Universität Dresden
  • Siegfried Kunzmann, European Media Laboratory GmbH, Heidelberg
  • Bernd Möbius, Dept. of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University
  • Hermann Ney, Chair of Computer Science 6, RWTH Aachen
  • Elmar Nöth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Alexander Raake, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Technische Universität Berlin
  • Gerhard Rigoll, Institute of Human-Machine Communication, Technische Universität München
  • Tanja Schultz, Cognitive Systems Lab, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)

 

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(2016) INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA

Interspeech 2016 will take place

from September 8-12 2016 in San Francisco, CA, USA

General Chair is Nelson Morgan.

 

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3-1-4CfP Speech Technology for the Interspeech App

Call for Proposals

Speech Technology for the Interspeech App

During the past Interspeech conference in Lyon, a mobile application (app) was provided for accessing the conference program, designing personal schedules, inspecting abstracts, full papers and the list of authors, navigating through the conference center, or recommending papers to colleagues. This app was designed by students and researchers of the Quality and Usability Lab, TU Berlin, and will be made available to ISCA and to future conference and workshop organizers free-of-charge. It will also be used for the upcoming Interspeech 2014 in Singapore, and is available under both iOS and Android.

In its current state, the app is limited to mostly touch-based input and graphical output. However, we would like to develop the app into a useful tool for the spoken language community at large, which should include speech input and output capabilities, and potentially full spoken-language and multimodal interaction. The app could also be used for collecting speech data under realistic environmental conditions, for distributing multimedia examples or surveys during the conference, or for other research purposes. In addition, the data which is being collected with the app (mostly interaction usage patterns) could be analyzed further.

The Quality and Usability Lab of TU Berlin would like to invite interested parties to contribute to this development. Contributions could be made by providing ready-built modules (e.g. ASR, TTS, or alike) for integration into the app, by proposing new functionalities which would be of interest to a significant part of the community, and preferably by offering workforce for such future developments.

If you are interested in contributing to this, please send an email with your proposals to

interspeechapp@qu.tu-berlin.de

by October 31, 2013. In case that a sufficient number of interested parties can be found, we plan to submit a proposal for a special session around speech technology in mobile applications for the upcoming Interspeech in Singapore.

More information on the current version of the app can be found in: Schleicher, R., Westermann, T., Li, J., Lawitschka, M., Mateev, B., Reichmuth, R., Möller, S. (2013). Design of a Mobile App for Interspeech Conferences: Towards an Open Tool for the Spoken Language Community, in: Proc. 14th Ann. Conf. of the Int. Speech Comm. Assoc. (Interspeech 2013), Aug. 25-29, Lyon.

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3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(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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3-3-2(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.
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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3-3-3(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

 

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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3-3-4(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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3-3-5(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:

 

  • theoretical and computational models of conflict
  • conflict, negotiation, conflict resolution, reconciliation
  • multimodality
  • multimodal corpora
  • social signal processing
  • phonetics, prosody and intonation
  • gesture
  • discourse strategies
  • argumentation and persuasion
  • deception
  • conversational analysis
  • public speaking
  • political communication
  • persuasive dialogue systems
  • speech analysis and synthesis
  • gesture and action recognition
  • applications
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Persuasive Technology

 

 

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

http://sail.usc.edu/shri.php

 

 

 

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:

Authors are invited to submit an abstract of 400-600 words for presentation at the Workshop.

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:

 

June10st, 2013:                                 Submission of abstracts (400 – 600 words)

July 10th, 2013:                  Notification of acceptance

 

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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3-3-6(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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3-3-7(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.
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

 
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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3-3-8(2013-12-03) IEEE GlobalSIP Symposia, Austin Texas
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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3-3-9(2013-12-05)CfP International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) , Heidelberg, Germany

<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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3-3-10(2013-12-07) 6th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2013), Poznan, Poland
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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3-3-11(2013-12-08) 2013 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)-Olomouc, Czech Republic

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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3-3-12(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
challenges and opportunities', will be held in conjunction with the Language
Technology Conference in Poznan, Poland, on 8 December 2013.
The third LTC Workshop on 'Less Resourced Languages, new technologies, new
challenges and opportunities',
General Conference website: http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl/

Workshop Theme:

Many less resourced languages (LRL) that are thriving to get a place in
the digital space and that could profit of the new opportunities offered
by the Internet and digital devices will seriously face digital
extinction if they are not supported by Language Technologies. Language
Technologies (LTs, i.e. spelling and grammar checkers, electronic
dictionaries, localized interfaces, voice dictations, audio
transcriptions and subtitling, as well as multimedia/multimodal search
engines, language translators or information extraction tools) are
essential instruments to secure usability of less resourced languages
within the digital world, thus ensuring those languages equal
opportunities and raising their profile in the eyes of natives but also
non-natives from the younger, digitally-oriented generation. However,
there are many challenges to be faced to equip less resourced languages
with LTs (from basic to advanced): a substantial delay in development of
basic technologies, a lack of cooperation among languages communities, a
chronic shortage of funding (in particular for minority languages not
officially recognized, yet often the most vital ones over the Internet)
and the limited economic value placed over LTs for minority languages by
the market rules. At this critical time, this workshop seeks to continue
the debate as to what new technologies have to offer less resourced
languages, and how the research community might seek to overcome the
challenges and exploit the opportunities.

Paper submission deadline: 22 September 2013

We invite papers addressing the topics listed, but not limited to, the ones
below:

- Experiences in the development of digital applications for LRLs
- LRLs in educational and entertainment applications
- LRTs for securing access and inclusion to speakers of LRLs
- Development of LRs through crowdsourcing
- Youth-oriented applications for revitalisation of LRLs
- Experiences/models of cooperation for development of LRTs for LRLs
- Business models
- Gaps in availability of LRTs for LRLs
- Development of LTs when LRs are missing
- LR&Ts as a booster for the adoption of LRL within the digital world
- Lessons learnt from major recent infrastructure initiatives
- Infrastructures for making available LR and LT in all languages, and
especially in the less-resourced ones
- Assessing Availability, Quality, Maturity and Sustainability of LT and
LR , comparing the LRLs and the major ones
- Requirements for the production, validation and distribution of LR for
less-resourced languages


Program (general framework): The workshop will comprise presentations
(including keynote talks) and a panel session, including an EC
representative . The details of the program is in preparation and will
be published soon on the conference site.

Co-Chairs: Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy), Khalid Choukri (ELRA, ELDA,
France), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, France), Zygmunt Vetulani
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland).

LRL Workshop Program Committee:

Delphine Bernhard (LILPA, Strasbourg University, France)
Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Italy)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA,ELDA, France)
Dafydd Gibbon (Universitat Bielefeld, Germany)
Marko Grobelnik (Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Alfred Majewicz (UAM, Poland)
Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, France)
Asunción Moreno (UPC, Spain)
Girish Nath Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Hungary)
Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Pais Vasco University, Spain)
Kevin Scannell (St. Louis University, USA)
Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Croatia)
Marianne Vergez-Couret (Toulouse University, France)
Zygmunt Vetulani (UAM, Poland)

Paper submission: format and templates are the same as for the general
LTC; see the Workshop website for more information.

Papers should be submitted using EasyChair exactly as for the general
LTC but copies should also be sent to the co-chairs of the Workshop,
i.e. to choukri@elda.org, Joseph.Mariani@limsi.fr,
claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it and vetulani@amu.edu.pl. Please also put
'LRL'13 submission' as Subject of your mail and 'LRL' as a key word
(both in the EasyChair form and in the paper itself).

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3-3-13(2014) Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.

Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.

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3-3-14(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

                                                www.iwsds.org

                                                                  

** 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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3-3-15(2014-01-22) AISV 2014 X Convegno Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce

X Convegno Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce

Università degli Studi di Torino

22-24 gennaio 2014

The conference will take place at the Department of Foreign Languages of the University of Turin, via Verdi, 10.

Contact:  aisv2014@gmail.com

gemellato con l'evento Conferenza TAL 2014

Organizzato da  

Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce

LFSAG

Università degli Studi di Torino

AISVLFSAGUni.TO

 

Besides the topics which are usually discussed in the AISV workshops   you are invited to submit abstracts in the following fields:

  • The speech of the media
  • The speech of narratives
  • Textual Linguistics
  • The Language of popular literature
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Narratives and speech pathology and Therapy
  • Phonetic methods for teaching
  • Speaker and language identification

 

 

 

 

 

Abstract Submission

 

   Your abstract must be formatted in PDF format and composed of about 2000 words (or 10000 characters, included spaces). The deadline for the abstracts' submission is scheduled for October 14, 2013. There is no template for the abstract. Contributions should be in anonymous form avoiding citations and minimizing those elements that would allow reviewers to determine the identity of the authors. For this purpose we invite you NOT to put the bibliography in the abstract (which will be inserted in the final paper). Abstracts containing cues about their authors will be anonymized by a member of the organizing committee.   

 

Send the abstract in attachment to an e-mail addressed to aisv2014@gmail.com Please state in the body of the message the following data:

  • Abstract submission: October 14, 2013
  • Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2013
  • Conference registration: December 19, 2013
  • Conference days: January 22-24, 2014

 

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3-3-16(2014-02-23) CfP MMEDIA 2014, The Sixth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia, Nice ,F
MMEDIA 2014, The Sixth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia February 23 - 27, 2014 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/MMEDIA14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPMMEDIA14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitMMEDIA14.html Submission deadline: October 12, 2013 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html MMEDIA 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Fundamentals in multimedia Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications; New multimedia platforms; Multimedia architectural specification languages; Theoretical aspects and algorithms for multimedia; Multimedia content delivery networks; Network support for multimedia data; Multimedia data storage; Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems; Multimedia signal coding and processing (audio, video, image); Multimedia applications (telepresence, triple-play, quadruple-play, &#133;); Multimedia tools (authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, &#133;); Computational multimedia intelligence (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, &#133;); Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis; Multimedia networking; Wired and wireless multimedia systems; Distributed multimedia systems; Multisensor data integration and fusion; Multimedia and P2P; Multimedia standards Multimedia content and modeling Interfaces for multimedia creation; Multimedia streaming and services; Image modeling and editing; Audio modeling and transformation; Video modeling and transformation; Image recognition; Multimedia databases; Multimedia coding and encryption; Multimedia modeling for learning content; Multimedia description languages; Image clustering; Media fusion for communication and presentation Self-organizing multimedia architectures Self-organization in multimedia systems; Self-organization in multimedia communities; Self-organized multimedia networks; Multimedia content distribution and consumption; Adaptive multimedia interfaces; Multimedia retrieval Multimedia content-based retrieval and analysis Multimodal data analysis; Multimedia databases; Semi-automatic and automatic methods for multimedia annotation; Image/video/audio databases; Content-based image retrieval; Semantics-based search and integration of multimedia and digital content; Multimedia data modeling, indexing, and mining; Statistical modeling of multimedia data; Multimedia extraction and annotation; Content search/browsing/retrieval; Internet imaging and multimedia; Multimodal content analysis; Multimedia abstraction and summarization; Semantic analysis of multimedia data; Media assimilation and fusion Perception and cognition for multimedia users Quality of experience; Relevance feedback; Human-computer interaction; Multimodal interaction; Multimodal user interfaces; Mobile user-centered interfaces; Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming; Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems (digital TV, mobile systems, gaming,&#133;); Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks; Visualization and virtual reality; Intelligent browsing and visualization; Perception and cognition; Perception and modeling of the environment; Multimedia collaboration; Social networking Multimedia ontology Multimedia semantics; Emergent semantics; Media ontology learning; Ontology for media web mining; Multimedia ontologies; Multimedia information management; Approaches using metadata standards; Conceptual clustering; Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for multimedia mobility; Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in intelligent transportation systems; Enabling platforms for mobile multimedia; Roaming and limited bandwidth; Intermittent connectivity; Streaming mobile multimedia; Mobile multimedia software architectures; Mobile multimedia applications and services; Communication and cooperation via mobile multimedia; Business models for mobile multimedia; Provisioning of mobile multimedia services; Context-aware mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment; Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in ad hoc networks; Personalization, privacy and security in mobile multimedia; Social and regulatory aspects of mobile multimedia; Multimedia in the Extended Home; Ubiquitous/Seamless content sharing Multimedia services Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services; Multimedia content distribution services; Real-time multimedia services; Audio-visual multimedia services; Multimedia signal processing and communications; Media representation and algorithms; Audio, image, video processing, coding and compression; Multimedia database, content delivery and transport; Multimedia service protocols; Mobility of multimedia services; Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems; Media enabled eCommerce service; Case studies, field trials and evaluation of new multimedia services Multimedia applications Real-time interactive multimedia applications Adaptive and context-aware multimedia applications; Ambiance multimedia applications; Media applications on mobile devices; Multi-modal interaction; Virtual environments; Personalization; Collaboration, contextual metadata, collaborative tagging; Web applications; Multimedia authoring; Multimedia-enabled new applications (eLearning, entertainment,&#133;..); Cooperative networks and applications; Mobile multimedia applications & services; Semantic metadata for mobile applications; Semantics enabled multimedia applications; Semantics enabled networks and middleware for multimedia applications; Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks/RFID applications Industrial use-cases and applications Multimedia security and content protection Multimedia security (watermark, encryption,&#133; ); Mobile multimedia systems and services; Security, privacy, and cryptographic protocols; Network security issues and protocols; Key management and authentication; Authentication and access control; Intrusion detection and prevention; Content protection and digital rights management; Trusted computing; Information hiding; Protection of user-generated content Multimedia control and management Wireless and mobile multimedia network management; Multimedia measurement, control, and management; Content management and delivery; IP multimedia system operations and management; Managing the quality of experience and quality of service; Measuring the quality of performance in multimedia systems; Mobile multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization; Monitoring and managing mobile multimedia; Resource reservation for multimedia services; Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management; Management of service oriented architectures; Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services ----------------------- Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComMMEDIA14.html 
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3-3-17(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

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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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3-3-18(2014-03-10) 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY ANDAPPLICATIONS(LATA2014), Madrid, Spain
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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3-3-19(2014-04-03) Workshop on Late Stages in Speech and Communication Development (LSCD 2014), UCL, London, GB
Workshop title: Workshop on Late Stages in Speech and Communication Development (LSCD 2014)

Dates: 3-4 April 2014

Location: UCL, London, UK

Meeting website:  https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/speech/lscd-2014

Contact email:  lscd-2014@langsci.ucl.ac.uk

Submission deadline: 6 January 2014

 

Workshop description:

Much emphasis in research on speech and communication development has been on the rapid developments that occur in the first five years of life. However, less attention has been given to later stages of development. When, in fact, is development truly complete? Research has shown that even when a child is judged to be consistently producing all speech sounds, production is not adult-like, with more dispersed and variable phoneme categories and motor gestures. Similarly, in speech perception, phoneme categories are less clearly defined until early teens and children are more affected by noise and reverberation. Cognitive, attentional and memory factors may also influence children's ability to use speech effectively; communicative and conversational strategies (such as repair and turn-taking) continue to develop in adolescence. The age at which a given linguistic unit or communicative competence has been acquired and what constitutes the criterion for successful acquisition is therefore a far from trivial question.  This will be a particular focus of the workshop, along with the interplay between speech development and cognitive, perceptual and motor systems.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for interactions between researchers from areas of developmental research that rarely meet, even though they are linked:  speech and communication is often investigated either from a purely phonetic/phonological perspective, or focused on interactional/pragmatic principles.  The manner in which the two interact through development is little explored.  These questions are relevant for clinical and educational practice, and also inform theories of language processing and levels of representations.

 

Invited speakers include:

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL) tbc

Melissa Redford (University of Oregon)

Stuart Rosen (UCL)

Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto)

Bill Wells (University of Sheffield)

Natalia Zharkova (Queen Margaret University)

 

Call for papers:

We invite submissions, for oral and poster presentations, that deal with the following topics focusing on populations aged 5 years to early adulthood:

-          Later developments in speech perception in typically-developing children

-          Later developments in speech production in typically-developing children

-          Development in discourse: structure, repair strategies, dysfluencies

-          Speech and communication development in bilinguals and second-language learners

-          Development in auditory, cognitive, attentional skills and impact on speech and communication development

-          Development of sociolinguistic variations

-          Perception and production in adverse listening conditions

-          Research on speech and communication development in atypical populations that informs on typical development

 

Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 6 January, 2014, via Easychair (submission site open from 15 November). Submitted abstracts should not include authors and affiliations and must not be longer than two pages of A4-format. References and figures can be on an additional page. Abstracts should be single-spaced and in Calibri 11pt font. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by two reviewers. Authors will be requested to submit a final version of the extended abstract after acceptance.

 

Important dates:

First call for papers                                                                       1 October 2013

Abstract submission opens                                                        15 November 2013

Submission deadline of abstracts                                              6 January 2014

Notification of acceptance                                                             31 January 2014

Workshop                                                                                         3-4 April 2014

 

Local Organising committee:

Sonia Granlund

Lorna Halliday

Valerie Hazan (Chair)

Merle Mahon

Caroline Newton

Michèle Pettinato

Outi Tuomainen

 

The workshop is organised under the aegis of the ESRC project on Speaker-controlled Variability in Children's Speech in Interaction based at UCL.

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3-3-20(2014-05-04) ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy

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

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3-3-21(2014-05-05) 10th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014 Cologne Germany MODIFIED

10th 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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3-3-22(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
            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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3-3-23(2014-05-14) 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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3-3-24(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.

The special theme is social prosody, but we invite papers addressing any aspect of the science and technology of prosody, speaking styles, and voice quality.  Papers are due December 15th.

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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3-3-25(2014-05-26) ELRA-LREC Conference, Reykjavik (Iceland)

ELRA         and the LREC Programme Committee are very pleased to announce         that the LREC 2012 Proceedings have been accepted for inclusion         in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index of Thomson         Reuters. The CPCI is searchable through the Web           of Science platform         and will provide authors with with unprecedented recognition.                  LREC 2010 proceedings are currently under review, and chances         that they will be accepted are high! Once published, the         proceedings of LREC 2014 will be submitted for inclusion in the         CPCI.

   

ELRA is glad       to announce the 9th edition of LREC, organised with the support of       a wide range of international organisations.

   

CONFERENCE         AIMS       LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation       for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an       overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions       and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their       applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and       planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming       from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy issues       and to scientific/technological and organisational ones.

   

LREC provides       a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies       from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and       opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for       international cooperation, in support of investigations in       language sciences, progress in language technologies (LT) and       development of corresponding products, services and applications,       and standards.

   

CONFERENCE       TOPICS

   

Issues         in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech,         multimodality       * Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs       interoperability        * Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation       * Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of       knowledge       * Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation       * LRs and Semantic Web        * LRs and Crowdsourcing       * Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up       Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications        * Sign language, multimedia information and         multimodal communication          * LRs in systems and applications such as: information         extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia         search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided         Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication,         machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, web         services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning,         etc.       * Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language       and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, voice-activated       services, etc.       * Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like       e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation, mobile       applications, digital humanities, etc.       * Industrial LRs requirements, user needs       Issues in LT         evaluation       * LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures        * Validation and quality assurance of LRs       * Benchmarking of systems and products       * Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue       systems       * User satisfaction evaluation       General issues         regarding LRs & Evaluation       * International and national activities, projects and       collaboration        * Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and       international policies for LRs       * Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity,       less-resourced languages       * Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative       architectures        * Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues.

   

LREC         2014 HOT TOPICS

   

Big Data, Linked Open Data, LRs and HLT    

   

The       ever-increasing quantities of large and complex digital datasets,       structured or unstructured, multilingual, multimodal or       multimedia, pose new challenges but at the same time open up new       opportunities for HLT and related fields. Ubiquitous data and       information capturing devices, social media and networks, the web       at large with its big data / knowledge bases and other information       capturing / aggregating / publishing platforms are providing       useful information and/or knowledge for a wide range of LT       applications.         LREC 2014 puts a strong emphasis on the synergies of the big       Linked Open Data and LRs/LT communities and their complementarity       in cracking LT problems and developing useful applications and       services.

   

LRs in the         Collaborative Age    

   

The amount of       collaboratively generated and used language data is constantly       increasing and it is therefore time to open a wide discussion on       such LRs at LREC. There is a need to discuss the types of LRs that       can be collaboratively generated and used.        Are lexicons, dictionaries, corpora, ontologies (of language       data), grammars, tagsets, data categories, all possible fields in       which a collaborative approach can be applied? Can collaboratively       generated LRs be standardised/harmonised? And how can quality       control be applied to collaboratively generated LRs? How can a       collaborative approach ensure that less-resourced languages       receive the same digital dignity as mainstream languages?        There is also a need to discuss legal aspects related to       collaboratively generated LRs. And last but not least: are there       different types of collaborative approaches, or is the Wikimedia       style the best approach to collaborative generation and use of       LRs?

   

LREC 2014 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT       Share your LRs!    

   

In addition to       describing your LRs in the LRE Map – now a normal step in the       submission procedure of many conferences – LREC 2014 recognises       that the time is ripe to launch another important initiative, the       LREC Repository of shared LRs!       When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to       share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them       in a special LREC META-SHARE repository set up by ELRA.       Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before       the conference, to be re-used, compared, analysed, …        This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their       description, may become a new 'regular' feature for conferences in       our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where       everyone can deposit and share data.

   

PROGRAMME       The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral       presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in       addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio       Zampolli Prize.

   

SUBMISSIONS         AND DATES       Submission of proposals for oral and poster (or poster+demo)       papers: 15 October 2013       Abstracts should consist of about 1500-2000 words, will be       submitted through START @           https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/main/ and will be peer-reviewed.

   

Submission of       proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 15 October 2013       Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC       website (click Submission from the Home page) and       will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.

   

PROCEEDINGS       The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the       same format.

   

There is no       difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only       the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less       interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered.

   

In addition a       Book of Abstracts will be printed.

   

CONFERENCE         PROGRAMME COMMITTEE        Nicoletta Calzolari – CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale       “Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)       Khalid Choukri – ELRA, Paris - France       Thierry Declerck – DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany       Hrafn Loftsson – School of Computer Science, Reykjavík University       - Iceland       Bente Maegaard – CST, University of Copenhagen - Denmark       Joseph Mariani – LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, Orsay - France       Asuncion Moreno – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona       - Spain       Jan Odijk – UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands        Stelios Piperidis – Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece    

   

Follow LREC         News on:       www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2014       @LREC2014

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3-3-26(2014-06-11) 15th ICPLA Conference 2014
15th ICPLA Conference 2014
International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
 
 
 

Dear Colleagues
It is our great pleasure to announce the 15th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference to be held in Stockholm, Sweden in June 11-13, 2014.


We hereby cordially invite you and wish you welcome to Stockholm, at it's best in June, to participate in the conference held at Karolinska Institutet, Solna, at the centrally located campus near Stockholm city center. 

Please, visit www.icpla2014.se for Programme at a glance and important dates for Panel proposals (September 1st) and Abstract submissions (November 1st).  


We are looking forward to welcome you in Stockholm 2014!

Best wishes,
The Organizing Committee of the ICPLA 2014
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3-3-27(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:

                 

                       
  • 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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3-3-28(2014-06-21) The REAL Challenge

The REAL Challenge – Call for Participation

 

The Dialog Research Center at Carnegie Mellon (DialRC) is organizing the REAL Challenge. The goal of the REAL Challenge (dialrc.org/realchallenge) is to build speech systems that are used regularly by real users to accomplish real tasks. These systems will give the speech and spoken dialog communities steady streams of research data as well as platforms they can use to carry out studies. It will engage both seasoned researchers and high school and undergrad students in an effort to find the next great speech applications.

 

Why have a REAL Challenge?

Humans greatly rely on spoken language to communicate, so it seems natural that we would be likely to communicate with objects via speech as well. Some speech interfaces do exist and they show promise, demonstrating that smart engineering can palliate indeterminate recognition. Yet the general public has not yet picked up this means of communication as easily as they have the tiny keyboards. About two decades ago, many researchers were using the internet, mostly to send and receive email. They were aware of the potential that it held and waited to see when and how the general public would adopt it. Practically a decade later, thanks to providers such as AmericaOnline, who had found how to create easy access, everyday people started to use the internet. And this has dramatically changed our lives. In the same way, we all know that speech will eventually replace the keyboard in many situations when we want to speak to objects. The big question is what is the interface or application that will bring us into that era.

 

Why hasn’t speech become a more prevalent interface? Most of today’s speech applications have been devised by researchers in the speech domain. While they certainly know what types of systems are “doable”, they may not be the best at determining which speech applications would be universally acceptable.

 

We believe that students who have not yet had their vision limited by knowledge of the speech and spoken dialog domains and who have grown up with computers as a given, are the ones that will find new, compelling and universally appealing speech applications. Along with the good ideas, they will need some guidance to gain focus. Having a mentor, attending webinars and participating in a research team can provide this guidance.

 

The REAL challenge will combine the talents of these two very different groups. First it will call upon the speech research community who know what it takes to implement real applications. Second, it will advertise to and encourage participation from high school students and college undergrads who love to hack and have novel ideas about using speech.

 

How can we combine these two types of talent?

The REAL Challenge is starting with a widely-advertised call for proposals. Students can propose an application. Researchers can propose to create systems or to provide tools. A proposal can target any type of application in any language. The proposals will be lightly filtered and the successful proposers will be invited to a workshop on June 21, 2014 to show what they are proposing and to team up. The idea is for students to meet researchers and for the latter to take one or more students on their team. Students will present their ideas and have time for discussion with researchers. A year later, a second workshop will assemble all who were at the first workshop to show the resulting systems, measure success and award prizes.

Student travel will be taken care of by DialRC through grants.

 

Preparing students

Students will have help from DialRC and from researchers as they formulate their proposals. DialRC will provide webinars on such topics as speech processing tool basics and how to present a poster. Students will also be assigned mentors. Researchers in speech and spoken dialog can volunteer to be a one-on-one mentor to a student. This consists of being in touch either in person or virtually. Mentors can tell the students about what our field consists of, what the state of the art is, and what it is like to work in research. They can answer questions about how the student can talk about their ideas. If you are a researcher in speech and/or spoken dialog and you would like to be a mentor, please let us know at realchallenge@speechinfo.org

 

What is an entry?

The groups will create entries. Here are the characteristics of a successful entry:

  • there is a stateful interaction (not stateless, not on-off)

  • the interaction is sustained over multiple turns

  • language is central to the entry – it is the primary medium of exchange (not necessarily the only medium, but it is not peripheral to the main use of the entry)

  • the entry makes a meaningful contribution to the interaction (so, it does not just pass messages)

  • the entry must do some meaningful processing (not just passing messages like an email router). It has to make meaningful contributions to the interaction.

 

How can we assess success?

Success will be judged on the basis of originality, amount of regular users and of data and on other criteria to be agreed upon by the Challenge scientific committee and the participants.

 

Possible prize areas for an entry include:

  • how much usage it gets

  • how engaging it is / how novel is the interaction

  • how good it is as a platform for future research – a platform is defined here as the output/result of an entry that would be of use for the research community. A platform is not just a computer program toolkit. It could, for example, be used the following year as the basis for a competition (like best ASR or best belief tracking)

 

Details of the measures of success will be refined at the workshop with input from the participants.

 

 

Timeline

The REAL Challenge was announced at several major conferences during the summer of 2013: SIGDIAL, Interspeech, ACL. It is also being announced to younger participants through their schools and hacker websites.

 

March 20, 2014 : Proposals due

April 20, 2014: Feedback on proposals and invitations to attend the workshop sent out.

June 21, 2014 : Workshop in Baltimore Maryland USA.

Early summer of 2015 : Resulting systems are presented a year after the first workshop.

 

What advantage is there for a student to participate?

For students, participation in the REAL Challenge will present several unique opportunities:

  • the chance to work in a group with real researchers, on a real world problem

  • the chance to see how ideas are turned into reality

  • the chance to make something that works and that people actually use

  • the chance to learn about new technology and use it to solve new problems

  • the chance to observe what careers in technology are like and to be in contact with possible future employers

 

What does this Challenge contribute to the speech community?

For researchers, participation reaps several benefits:

  • the number and type of speech applications will be greatly expanded

  • there will be more datasets available for research

  • there will be more platforms to run studies on and to use in speech and spoken dialog classes

  • the enrichment that comes from mentoring

 

Why should industrial research groups be interested in the Challenge?

Industrial research groups should be interested to see:

  • which types of applications actually appeal to the general public and which ones fail, which could be revenue-generating

  • how students learn to apply the latest speech technologies in novel directions and which of these students could become future collaborators

 

Organization

This Challenge is run by the Dialog Research Center at Carnegie Mellon (DialRC)

 

REAL Challenge Scientific Committee

 

Alan W Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Helen Hastie, Heriot Watt University, Scotland

Gary Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Sungjin Lee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Santoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Elmar Noeth, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Antoine Raux, Lenovo, USA

David Traum, University of Southern California, USA

Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

 

Contact information:

Website : http://dialrc.org/realchallenge

Email : realchallenge@speechinfo.org

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3-3-29(2014-07-01) 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2014), Marseille, F

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

                               TALN-2014

             21st Conference on Natural Language Processing

 

                        http://www.taln2014.org

 

                             July 1-4 2014

 

                           Marseille, FRANCE

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

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1. Long paper

 

    - Paper submission deadline : February 8, 2014

    - Notification : March 29, 2014

    - Camera ready paper due : May 2, 2014

 

2. Short paper

 

    - Paper submission deadline : April 12, 2014

    - Notification : May 10, 2014

    - Camera ready paper due : May 26, 2014

 

3. Demonstrations

 

    - Submission deadline : April 21, 2014

    - Notification : May 10, 2014

    - Camera ready paper due : May 26, 2014

 

 

PRÉSENTATION

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Organized by the LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage) and the LIF

(Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale), the 21st Conference on

Natural Language Processing (TALN) will take place from 1st to the

4th July at Faculté Saint Charles, Marseille (France).

 

TALN'2014 is organised under the aegis of ATALA (Association pour

le Traitement Automatique des Langues) and will be held jointly with

RECITAL'2014, the conference for young researchers (separated call

for papers).

 

TALN'2014 will include oral presentations of research and position

papers, posters, invited speakers and demonstrations. The official

language is French. English presentations and papers are accepted for

non-French-speaking authors.

 

 

TYPES OF COMMUNICATIONS

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Two communication formats are proposed: long papers (from 12 to 14 pages)

and short papers (from 6 to 8 pages).

 

Authors are invited to submit two types of communications:

 

  - original research work

  - position paper on the current state of the research work

 

Papers should present original works, with substantial new material when

comparing to previous publications of the same author(s). Translation of

previously published papers are not

 

There will be two presentation formats: Oral for long papers and Poster

for short papers.

 

All topics of NLP are eligible for a submission.

 

 

SELECTION CRITERIA

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Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts of the domain. For research

papers, decisions will be based on the following criteria:

 

 - relevance to the conference topics

- importance and originality of the paper

- scientific and technical soundness

- comparison of the results obtained with those found in relevant works

- situation of the research in comparison with international work

- clarity of the presentation

 

 

For position papers, decisions will be based on the following criteria:

 

 - originality of the point of view presented

- breadth of view and the taking into account of the state-of-the-art

 

 

The selected communications will be published in the conference proceedings.

 

The program committee will select one paper (TALN Best Paper) among the

 

accepted papers which will be recommended for publication (extended form) in

 

the journal 'Traitement Automatique des Langues' (T.A.L.).

 

 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

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Papers will be written in French for French-speaking authors or English for non-French-speaking authors.

 

A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be made available on the

 

conference website: http://wwwtaln2014.org

 

 

ORGANIZING COMMITEE

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                Philippe Blache (Président)

                Carine André                    Frédéric Béchet

                Sébastien Bermond       Brigitte Bigi

                Nadéra Bureau                Cyril Deniaud

                Stéphanie Desous          Benoît Favre

                Nuria Gala                          Joëlle Lavaud

                Grégoire Montcheuil     Alexis Nasr

                Catherine Perrot             Klim Peshkov

                Laurent Prévot                 Carlos Ramisch

                Stéphane Rauzy              Claudia Starke

 

CONTACTS

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  philippe.blache[arobas]lpl-aix.fr

  nadera.bureau[arobas]lpl-aix.fr

 

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3-3-30(2014-07-06) Special Session on Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Digital Audio Applications, Beijing China
Special Session on Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Digital Audio Applications WCCI 2014 Special Session - Call for Papers 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2014) Beijing, China, 
July 6-11 2014. 
 www.ieee-wcci2014.org Theme and Scope of the Session ___________________________________________ Computational Intelligence (CI) is widely used to face complex modelling, prediction, and recognition tasks, and is largely addressed in different research fields. One of these, characterized by a mature orientation to market for many years already, is represented by Digital Audio, which finds application in diverse contexts like entertainment, security, and health. Scientists and technicians worldwide actively cooperate to develop new solutions and propose them for commercial exploitation, and, from this perspective, the employment of advanced CI techniques, in combination with suitable Digital Signal Processing algorithms, surely constitutes a plus. In particular, this is typically accomplished with the aim of extracting and manipulating useful information from the audio stream to pilot the execution of automatized services, also in an interactive fashion. This often happens in conjunction with data coming from other media, like textual and visual, for which specific and application-driven fusion techniques are needed (which also require the involvement of advanced CI algorithms). Several are the Digital Audio topics touched by such a paradigm. In digital music applications we have music transcription, onset detection, genre recognition, just to name a few. Then, moving to speech processing, speech/speaker recognition, speaker diarization, and source separation are surely representative subjects with a florid literature already. Furthermore, auditory scene analysis, acoustic monitoring and sound detection and identification have lately encountered a certain success in the scientific community and can be thus included in this illustrative list. In dealing with the problems correlated to these different topics, the adoption of data-driven learning systems is often a ``must''. This is not, however, immune to technological issues. Indeed, big amount of data frequently needs to be managed and processed, data which features can change over time due to the time-varying characteristics of the audio stream and of the acoustic environment. Moreover, in many applicative scenarios hard real-time processing constraints must be taken into account. It is indeed of great interest for the scientific community to understand how and to what extent novel CI techniques can be efficiently employed in Digital Audio, in the light of all aforementioned aspects. The aim of this session is therefore to offer a CI oriented look at the large variety of Digital Audio research topics and applications and to discuss the most recent technological efforts from this perspective. Topics ___________________________________________ Intelligent Audio Analysis Audio Information Retrieval Music Content Analysis and Understanding Speech and Speaker Analysis and Classification Cross-domain Audio Analysis Sound Detection and Identification Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Acoustic Monitoring Context-aware Audio Source Separation Intelligent Audio Interfaces Important Dates ___________________________________________ •20 December 2013: Due date for paper submission •15 March 2014: Notification to authors •15 April 2014: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers •6-11 July 2013: Conference Days Organisers ___________________________________________ Stefano Squartini Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) s.squartini@univpm.it Aurelio Uncini Università La Sapienza (Italy) aurel@ieee.org Francesco Piazza Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) f.piazza@univpm.it Björn Schuller Imperial College London (UK), TUM (Germany) schuller@tum.de 
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3-3-31(2014-07-19) Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française at l’Université Libre de Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin)

Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française 2014

Organisé par l’

 

Institut de Linguistique Française (CNRS – FR 2393)

du 19 au 23 juillet 2014,

à l’Université Libre de Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin)

APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS

Dates

: 19 au 23 juillet 2014

Lieu

: Université Libre de Berlin

Site web

: http://www.ilf.cnrs.fr/, rubrique Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française

Contact

: cmlf2014@ling.cnrs.fr

 

Intérêt scientifique

Le quatrième Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est organisé par l’Institut de

Linguistique Française (ILF), Fédération de Recherche du CNRS (FR 2393) qui est sous la

tutelle de cet organisme et du Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche.

L’ILF regroupe dix-sept laboratoires de recherche, qui sont les co-organisateurs de ce

congrès en partenariat avec de nombreuses associations nationales et internationales. Une

telle organisation, conjointement prise en charge par dix-sept unités de recherche, est

exceptionnelle par son ampleur et la volonté de partenariat scientifique qu’elle révèle.

Le premier Congrès Mondial a été organisé à Paris par l’ILF en 2008, le deuxième à La

Nouvelle-Orléans, le troisième à Lyon en 2012. Chacun de ces trois congrès a attiré plus de

300 participants et les résultats ont fait l’objet d’une publication en ligne immédiate

accompagnée par un volume de résumés et un CD-ROM d’actes.

Ce congrès est organisé sans aucun privilège d'école ou d'orientation et sans exclusive

théorique ou conceptuelle. Chaque domaine ou sous-domaine, chaque type d'objet, chaque

type de questionnement et chaque problématique portant sur le français peut y trouver sa

place.

Le CMLF est organisé en 15 sessions, lesquelles soulignent le fait que la linguistique

française n’est pas limitée à tel ou tel domaine érigé en modèle pour les autres sousdisciplines

du champ. Quatorze thématiques ont été retenues, qui permettent de balayer la

plus grande partie du champ scientifique : (1) Histoire du français : perspectives

diachronique et synchronique, (2) Linguistique et Didactique (français langue première,

français langue seconde), (3) Discours, Pragmatique et Interaction, (4) Francophonie, (5)

Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité, (6) Lexique(s), (7) Linguistique de l’écrit, Linguistique

du texte, Sémiotique, Stylistique, (8) Morphologie, (9) Phonétique, Phonologie et

Interfaces, (10) Psycholinguistique et Acquisition, (11) Sémantique, (12)

Sociolinguistique, Dialectologies et Écologie des langues, (13) Syntaxe, (14) Ressources

et Outils pour l’analyse linguistique. A ces quatorze thématiques a été ajoutée une quinzième

session « pluri-thématique », laissant ouverte la possibilité de travailler dans plusieurs

domaines, voire en marge des territoires disciplinaires traditionnels.

Chaque thématique est pilotée par un Président et coordonnée par un Vice-président

(membre du Comité directeur de l’ILF, ou bien choisi par ce comité). Les comités

scientifiques comportent une proportion équilibrée de spécialistes français et étrangers. Un

soin particulier a été accordé à la sélection des comités afin de s’assurer qu’ils présenteraient

les plus grandes garanties scientifiques pour le succès du congrès. On trouve donc dans

chaque comité des linguistes connu(e)s mondialement pour leur contribution au domaine. Le

rôle de ces comités est de sélectionner les propositions de communications.

Les soumissions se feront sous la forme de brefs articles de 10 à 15 pages.

Toutes les communications (y compris les conférences plénières) seront publiées sous la

forme d'un article de 10 à 15 pages dans les actes du congrès (sous forme de CD-ROM

accompagnant un livret des titres et des résumés des communications) et maintenues sous

forme électronique sur le site du CMLF. L'archive électronique restera accessible après le

congrès.

 

Rappel du calendrier

15 mai 2013 : Ouverture de la plateforme de dépôt des propositions de communications

30 novembre 2013 : Date limite de réception des propositions de communication

25 février 2014 : Notification de l'acceptation ou du refus et directives pour la version

définitive

25 mars 2014 : Réception de la version définitive des articles

Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française : du 19 au 23 juillet 2014

 

 

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3-3-32(2014-07-25) 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14), Tokyo, Japan.

The 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14) will be held from 25 to 27 July at the National Institute for Japanese Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo, Japan. For more details, see its official website, which is now open: http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/labphon14/

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3-3-33(2014-09-01) 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2014) Lisbon, Portugal
The 22nd European Signal Processing Conference  September 1 – 5, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.eusipco2014.org/ ============================================================== Deadline for the submission of Full Papers: FEBRUARY 17, 2014 ============================================================== EUSIPCO 2014 will be held on September 1- 5, 2014, in Lisbon, Portugal. This is one of the largest international conferences in the field of signal processing and will address all the latest developments in research and technology. The conference will bring together individuals from academia, industry, regulation bodies, and government, to exchange and discuss ideas in all the areas and applications of signal processing. EUSIPCO 2014 will feature world-class keynote speakers, special sessions, plenary talks, tutorials, and technical sessions. We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on signal processing topics, including but not limited to: • Audio and acoustic signal processing • Design and implementation of signal processing systems • Multimedia signal processing • Speech processing • Image and video processing • Machine learning • Signal estimation and detection • Sensor array and multichannel signal processing • Signal processing for communications including wireless and optical communications and networking • Signal processing for location, positioning and navigation • Nonlinear signal processing • Signal processing applications including health and biosciences Submitted papers must be camera-ready and no more than five pages long, and conforming to the format that will soon be specified on the EUSIPCO website (http://www.eusipco2014.org/ ). ============================================================== Best Paper Awards ============================================================== Two “EUSIPCO best young author paper awards” will be given at the dinner banquet of EUSIPCO 2014 to the two best papers from authors under the age of 30. ============================================================== Important Dates ============================================================== Proposal for special sessions: December 9, 2013 Proposal for tutorials: February 17, 2014 Electronic submission of full papers: February 17, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2014 Submission of camera-ready papers and copyright forms: June 23, 2014 _______________________________________________
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3-3-34(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
--   Jean-Philippe Goldman

 
 
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3-3-35(2014-12-01) CfP IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing - Atlanta Georgia 2014
IEEE GlobalSIP’14 – Call for Symposium Proposals
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing - Atlanta Georgia 2014

Technical Program Chairs: Douglas Williams, Timothy Davidson, and Ghassan AlRegib
General Chairs: Geoffrey Li and Fred Juang

The IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) is a recently launched flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. GlobalSIP’14 will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, during the week of December 1, 2014. The conference will focus broadly on signal and information processing with an emphasis on up-and-coming signal processing themes. The conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and technical sessions consisting of poster or oral presentations. GlobalSIP’14 will be comprised of colocated symposia selected competitively based on responses to this call-for-symposium proposals. Symposium topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Signal processing in communications and networks, including green communication and optical communications
  • Image and video processing
  • Selected topics in speech and language processing
  • Acoustic array signal processing
  • Signal processing in security applications
  • Signal processing in finance
  • Signal processing in energy and power systems
  • Signal processing in genomics and bioengineering (physiological, pharmacological, and behavioral)
  • Neural signal processing
  • Selected topics in statistical signal processing
  • Seismic signal processing
  • Graph-theoretic signal processing
  • Machine learning and human machine interfaces
  • Compressed sensing, sparsity analysis, and applications
  • Big data processing, heterogeneous information processing, and informatics
  • Radar and array processing including localization and ranging techniques
  • Multimedia transmission, indexing and retrieval, and playback challenges
  • Hardware and real-time implementations
  • Other novel and significant applications of selected areas of signal processing

Symposium proposals should include the title of the symposium; length of the symposium (one day or two days); projected selectivity of the symposium; paper length requirements (submission: from 2 to 6 pages, final: 4-6 pages, invited papers may be longer); names, addresses, and short CVs (up to 250 words) of the organizers, including the general organizers and the technical chairs; an up-to two page description of the technical issues that the symposium will address (including timeliness and relevance to the signal processing community; names of (potential) technical program committee members; name of (potential) invited speakers (up to 2 for one-day symposia and 4 for two-day ones)); and a draft call-for-papers. Please package everything in a single pdf file. More detailed information can be found at http://renyi.ece.iastate.edu/globalsip2014/cfs.html

Symposium proposals should be emailed to Doug Williams (doug.williams@ece.gatech.edu) and Geoffrey Li (liye@ece.gatech.edu) according the following timeline:

November 8, 2013: Symposium proposals due
November 22, 2013: Symposium selection decision notification
November 29, 2013: Final version of the call-for-papers for the accepted symposia due

Tentative timeline for paper submission:
May 16, 2014: Paper submission deadline (regular and invited)
June 27, 2014: Review results announced
September 5, 2014: Camera-ready regular and invited papers due

 

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3-3-36(2014-12-23) CfP International Conference on Human Machine Interaction, New Delhi India

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

 

  • Active Vision
  • Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Applications of Perception
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Brain Machine Interfaces
  • Cognitive Engineering
  • Collaborative Design and Manufacturing
  • Collaboration Technologies and Systems
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Cooperative Design
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Distributed Intelligent Systems
  • Ergonomics
  • Fuzzy Systems
  • Health Care
  • Human Centered Transportation System
  • Human Factors
  • Human Perception
  • Hybrid Intelligent System Design
  • Image Analysis
  • Intelligent Transportation
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Machine Learning
  • Material Appearance Modeling Medical Imaging
  • Mental Workload
  • Multimedia
  • Multiview Learning
  • Next Generation Network
  • Network Security and Management
  • Ontologies
  • Patient Safety
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Perceptual Factors
  • Physiological Indicators
  • Production Planning and Scheduling
  • Protocol Engineering
  • Semi-Supervised Learning
  • Service-Oriented Computing
  • Simulator Training
  • Systems Integration and Collaboration
  • Systems Safety and Security
  • Team Performance
  • Video Processing
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualization

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

  • REGISTRATION without discount

    Author Registration (Full Paper)

    250 USD

    Author Registration (Short Paper / Poster) 200 USD

    Listener Registration

    200 USD

    Extra Pages

    15 USD

  • REGISTRATION with discount

    Author Registration (Full Paper)

    100 USD

    Author Registration (Short Paper / Poster) 50 USD

    Listener Registration

    50 USD

    Extra Pages

    15 USD

 

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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3-3-37Announcing 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. 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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3-3-38Master in linguistics (Aix-Marseille) France

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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3-3-39Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences at USC CA USA

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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