3-3-1 | (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.
soumission : 17 juin 2013
notification : 15 septembre
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3-3-2 | (2013-12-03) AIMS2013, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
CALL FOR PAPERS: AIMS2013, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, 3 – 5 December 2013.
Submission: New extended DEADLINE: 25 October 2013.
1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation, AIMS2013
Conference website: http://aims2013.info
Papers are invited on any aspect of the development of concepts, principles, algorithms and architectures, their
mathematical modelling and computer simulation for Artificial Intelligence and their applications in all areas
relevant to system engineering, science, technology, business, management and industry to be presented at AIMS2013.
Accepted papers will be published, subject to meeting quality criteria, by the IEEE Conference Publication Services,
CPS, and submitted to Computer Society Digital Library and I-Xplore for unparalleled worldwide presence.
Selected papers will be submitted for publication in the International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science &
Technology, IJSSST (http://ijssst.info). The event provides authors with an outstanding opportunity for networking
and presenting their work at a top quality international conference. AIMS2013 will be held over 3 day period in
Kota Kinabalu, state of Sabah, Island of Borneo, Malaysia. Tracks/Themes - Algorithms, principles and architectures
for Artificial Intelligence (AI) - emulation to exhibit Natural Intelligence (NI) behaviour - Neural Networks -
Fuzzy Systems - Evolutionary Computation - Autonomous Mental Development - Adaptive Dynamic Programming
and Reinforcement Learning - Computational Finance and Economics - Data Mining - Games, Virtual Reality and
Visualization - Emergent Technologies - AI Applications - Intelligent Systems - Hybrid Intelligent Systems - Soft
Computing and Hybrid Soft Computing - Computational Intelligence - Systems Intelligence - Intelligence Systems -
Control of Intelligent Systems - Control Intelligence - e-Science and e-Systems - Robotics, Cybernetics, Engineering,
Manufacturing and Control - Methodologies, Tools and Operations Research - Bio-informatics and Bio-Medical
Simulation - Discrete Event and Real Time Systems - Image, Speech and Signal Processing - Industry, Business and
Management - Human Factors and Social Issues - Energy, Power Generation and Distribution - Transport, Logistics,
Harbour, Shipping and Marine Simulation - Supply Chain Management - Virtual Reality, Visualization and Computer
Games - Parallel and Distributed Architectures and Systems - Internet Modelling, Semantic Web and Ontologies -
Mobile/Ad hoc wireless networks, mobicast, sensor placement, target tracking - Performance Engineering of Computer
& Communication Systems - Circuits, Sensors and Devices The conference will include all aspects of modelling and
simulation techniques, particularly those involving artificial intelligence and hybrid intelligent systems in systems
engineering, remote sensing and wireless technologies. Topics may include, but not limited to: - applications in industry,
business and management - algorithms, methods and their applications - methodologies and tools - energy, power
generation and distribution - distributed systems and networks - geographical information systems (GIS) - environment
and health - education and training - bio-informatics, biology, medicine, public health - remote sensing applications &
technologies - robotics, fuzzy modelling, control and automation - software agents and agent based simulation -
knowledge and data mining - neural networks and evolutionary computation - swarm intelligence & technology -
architectures of intelligent systems - image, speech and signal processing - internet modelling, semantic web and
ontologies - business, management, finance, economics, global meltdown - leisure, games, war/conflict/rebellion
modelling - psychology, cognitive functions, behaviour, emotion, subjectivity - humanities, literature, semantics
modelling/dynamics - energy, power generation and distribution - manufacturing, planning, control, robotics,
measurement, monitoring - safety critica1 systems - transportation - structural mechanics and civil engineering, oil
and gas; - education and training, military applications. You are invited to submit: - full paper of up to 6 pages (Letter)
for oral presentation, see template on website. Submissions must be original, unpublished work containing new and
interesting results that demonstrate current research
in all areas of artificial intelligence, modelling and simulation and their applications in science, technology, business and
commerce. Proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The conference is organised by
UK Simulation
Society - Asia Modelling & Simulation Section, and supported/co-sponsored by - IEEE Malaysia Section and IEEE
Region 8 (technical co-sponsors) - UK Simulation Society, Asia Modelling & Simulation Section (full sponsor) -
European Simulation federation, EUROSIM (patron/supporter/promoter) - European Council for Modelling and
Simulation, ECMS (patron/supporter/promoter) - University of Malaysia in Sabah - Nottingham Trent University -
University of Liverpool - Queen Mary College, London University - Kingston University - European Simulation
Federation, EUROSIM - European Council for Modelling and Simulation, ECMS Paper Submission: AIMS2013 is
using EDAS for submission, paper processing and registration, authors need to: - create an account with EDAS on
edas.info (after the usual http://) - open the list of conferences managed by EDAS & find AIMS2013 - click on
Submit button on the right to enter your paper title & abstract - upload file. Kindly promote AIMS2013 to all
your contacts in your university, country and worldwide. Kota Kinabalu, Sabah and Borneo are great places to visit
and explore. AIMS2013 is promising to be a top quality international conference and
we don't want anyone to miss a golden opportunity to mix and network with world specialists and forge new friendships
and collaborations with colleagues from Asia, Europe and worldwide. Selected papers will be submitted for publication
in the International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science & Technology, IJSSST: http://ijssst.info,
International Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics,
IJEEI http://www.ijeei.org, and International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and Its Application,
IJASCA s http://www.i-csrs.org/ijasca/index.html Best regards and hope to see you at AIMS2013 in December 2013!!
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3-3-3 | (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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3-3-4 | (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
------------------------------------------------------- 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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3-3-5 | (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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3-3-6 | (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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3-3-7 | (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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3-3-8 | (2013-12-16) Int. Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biological Applications, Firenze
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Welcome to MAVEBA http://maveba.dinfo.unifi.it/
Speech is the primary means of communication among humans, and results from complex interaction among vocal folds vibration at the larynx and voluntary articulators movements (i.e. mouth tongue, jaw, etc.). However, only recently has research focussed on biomedical applications. Since 1999, the MAVEBA Workshop is organised every two years, aiming to stimulate contacs between specialists active in clinical, research and industrial developments in the area of voice signal and images analysis for biomedical applications. This eight Workshop will offer the partecipants an interdisciplinary platform for presenting and discussing new knowledge in the field of models, analysis and classification of voice signals and images, as far as both adults, singing and children voices are concerned. Modelling the normal and pathological voice source, analysis of healthy and pathological voices are among the main fields of research. The aim is that of extracting the main voice characteristics, together with their deviation from “healthy conditions”, ranging from fundamental research to all kinds of biomedical applications and related estabilished and advanced technologies.
Special Issues of: Medical Engineering & Physics (2002), Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2006, 2008, 2011), Acta Acustica – Acustica (2006) collect relevant papers presented at past MAVEBA Workshops. Special issues/sections are foreseen also for MAVEBA 2013.
Some of the relevant topics are:
- modelling of the normal and pathological voice source
- diagnosis and classification of pathological voice
- voice quality during rehabilitation
- development of vocal prostheses and aids for disabled
- non-speech vocal emissions(such as infant cry, cough and snoring), as far as developmental aspects are considered, as well as pathological ones such as obstructive apnoea and asthma.
- protocols and reliable objective parameters
- objective parameters extraction from vocal folds images through videolaryngoscopy, videokymography, fMRI and other emerging techniques
- multi-modal analysis
- relationship between speech and neurological dysfunction (e.g. epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia, stress etc.) interaction with hearing impairment.
We are moving rapidly towards a time where many common speech disorders and dysfunctions will be remediable by computer-based or physical prosthetics and, since speech communication is so fundamental to human interaction, the beneficial effects to users of these devices are likely to be immeasurable.
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3-3-9 | (2014) Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.
Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.
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3-3-10 | (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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3-3-11 | (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
![AISV](http://www.lfsag.unito.it/AISV2014/images/logo_aisv.png) ![LFSAG](http://www.lfsag.unito.it/AISV2014/images/logo_lfsag.gif) ![Uni.TO](http://www.lfsag.unito.it/AISV2014/images/logo_unito2.gif)
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:
- Name and Surname of the corresponding author,
- his/her affiliation,
- his/her address e-mail (and telephone number) and
- the presentation options (oral/poster) or the option to join the PhD-student session.
- 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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3-3-12 | (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, …); Multimedia tools (authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, …); Computational multimedia intelligence (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, …); 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,…); 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,…..); 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,… ); 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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3-3-13 | (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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3-3-14 | (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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3-3-15 | (2014-03-19) Semaine du document numérique, Nancy, FR
Semaine du Document Numérique et de la Recherche d'Information
http://sdnri2014.loria.fr
Date : 19-21 mars 2014
Lieu : Nancy L'ARIA (Association francophone de Recherche d'Information et Applications)
et le GRCE (Groupement de Recherche en Communication écrite) ont décidé d'organiser
simultanément les conférences CORIA et CIFED dans le cadre de la semaine du document
numérique et de la recherche d’information (SDNRI) en mars 2014 à Nancy. CORIA et
CIFED sont les points de rassemblement des communautés francophones respectivement
en recherche d'information et en analyse de l'écrit et des documents numérisés. Tout en
préservant les spécificités de chaque conférence, cette édition constituera une opportunité
pour les deux communautés de se retrouver autour de thématiques pour lesquelles il existe
des synergies de recherche (recherche de documents multimédia, modèle d'interaction avec
l'utilisateur, passage à l'échelle de système de recherche de d'information, outils d'évaluation
de performance pour la recherche d'information). L'objectif est le rassemblement de plus
de 120 participants autour de sessions thématiques, spécifiques et communes. Pendant la
conférence CIFED-CORIA 2014 seront également organisées les Rencontres Jeunes
Chercheurs (RJC) en recherche d'information et en analyse de l'écrit et des documents numérisés. Elles ont pour objectif de permettre à tous les doctorants de présenter leur problématique de recherche, d’établir des contacts avec des équipes travaillant sur des domaines similaires ou connexes, et d’offrir à l’ensemble de la communauté un aperçu des axes de recherche actuels. Les travaux sélectionnés pour les RJC donneront lieu à une présentation orale et sous forme de poster. Les soumissions conjointes RJC et CIFED-CORIA sont autorisées. ============================================= Thématiques CIFED ⁃ Théorie et modèles pour la reconnaissance de formes en écrit et document ⁃ Méthodes d’analyse d’images, de segmentation et de reconnaissance de l’écrit ⁃ Numérisation, acquisition et compression ⁃ Analyse de dessins, plans, cartes, reconnaissance de graphiques, formules mathématiques ⁃ Traitement de documents en ligne, multimédia et web ⁃ Architectures matérielles et logicielles pour l’analyse d’images et la reconnaissance des formes ⁃ Extraction et structuration d’informations graphiques, manuscrites, structurées ⁃ Indexation de grandes base d’images de documents (bibliothèques, archives, formulaires, …) ⁃ Recherche/fouille d’information dans les images de documents et les écrits ⁃ Interrogation par l’exemple (CBIR, word spotting, symbol spotting, …) ⁃ Reconnaissance de symboles, de l’écrit, des structures ⁃ O.C.R. et dématérialisation ⁃ Format et codage des documents et plasticité des documents ⁃ Encre électronique, nouvelles modalités d’acquisition et d’interaction ⁃ Interaction multipoints en conception de documents structurés ⁃ Camera-OCR, nouveaux dispositifs mobiles, … ⁃ Reconnaissance de textes incrustés dans les vidéos ⁃ Reconnaissance de textes dans les scènes naturelles ⁃ Identification, authentification des écritures et des signatures manuscrites ⁃ Évaluation de performances ============================================= Thématiques CORIA ⁃ Théorie et modèles formels pour la RI : modèle logique, modèles de langages ⁃ Multilinguisme : Recherche d’information multilingue, traduction automatique ⁃ Multimédia (images, audio, vidéos, son, musique) : indexation, navigation, accès, interactions avec le texte, recherche d’information cross-média, fusion des informations ⁃ Passage à l’échelle : indexation, performances, architectures ⁃ Classification automatique, clustering, ranking, apprentissage automatique ⁃ Filtrage, routage, détection de nouveautés ⁃ Modélisation du contexte, personnalisation ⁃ Traitement Automatique de la Langue Naturelle pour la recherche d’information ⁃ Systèmes de Questions Réponses ⁃ Extraction d’informations : ontologies, ressources et recherche d’informations, détection d’entités nommées et des relations ⁃ Web : grands graphes, utilisation de la topologie du web, lois de puissances, citations, analyse de liens ⁃ RI et documents structurés : RI et XML, RI précise et recherche de passages ⁃ Réseaux sociaux : analyse de blogs et de sites communautaires, suivi de conversations, analyse de rumeurs, analyse de sentiments, détection d’opinion et des styles de vie ⁃ Recherche collaborative : filtrage, systèmes de recommandation ⁃ Interaction utilisateur : interrogation flexible, interfaces, visualisation, modélisation de l’utilisateur, accessibilité, indexation collaborative ⁃ Traitement et représentation des connaissances : logique floue, métadonnées, ontologies, web sémantique, web de données, ingénierie des connaissances ⁃ Bibliothèques numériques : RI sur des livres numérisés, robustesse, OCR et indexabilité ⁃ Systèmes de recherche d’information dédiés : recherche d’information génomique, géographique ⁃ RI distribuée : recherche d’information mobile, située, P2P ⁃ Outils pour la recherche d’information : évaluation, bancs d’essais, métriques, expérimentations qualitatives des systèmes Soumission des articles Les soumissions peuvent être faites en anglais ou en français. Les contributions peuvent concerner des travaux académiques ou des applications industrielles. Les textes de communications doivent comporter 16 pages maximum pour les soumissions à CIFED et CORIA et 10 pages maximum pour les journées RJC. Les articles soumis ou récemment acceptés à des conférences internationales sont recevables, sous réserve qu’ils soient traduits et adaptés pour CORIA ou CIFED. Une version étendue des meilleurs articles sera publiée dans une revue ou dans un livre. ============================================= Dates importantes • Soumission des articles : 15 décembre 2013 • Réponse aux auteurs : 15 janvier 2014 • Dépôt des articles définitifs : 15 février 2014 • Conférence : mercredi 19-21 mars 2014 Présidents des comités de programme CORIA-CIFED ⁃ Marie-Francine Moens (Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgique) ⁃ Christian Viard-Gaudin (IRCCyN - Université de Nantes) Présidents du comité de programme RJC ⁃ Haïfa Zargayouna, LIPN, Université Paris 13 ⁃ Oriol Ramos-Terrades, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Président du comité d’organisation ⁃ Salvatore-Antoine Tabbone, LORIA-Université de Lorraine Vous trouverez sur le site http://sdnri2014.loria.fr toutes les informations sur les thématiques spécifiques et communes des conférences.
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3-3-16 | (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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3-3-17 | (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 ======================================================== Deadline for the submission of Regular Papers: OCTOBER 27, 2013 ========================================================
The 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Florence, Italy, at the Fortezza da Basso Convention and Exhibition Centre on May 4-9, 2014 (www.firenzefiera.it). ICASSP is the World's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and thematic workshops. Topics include but are not limited to:
• Audio and acoustic signal processing • Bio-imaging and signal processing • Signal processing education • Speech processing • Industry technology tracks • Information forensics and security • Machine learning for signal processing • Multimedia signal processing • Sensor array & multichannel signal processing • Design & implementation of signal processing systems • Signal processing for communications & networking • Image, video & multidimensional signal processing • Signal processing theory & methods • Spoken language processing • Biological and Biomedical Signal Processing
Place: Florence is one of the most renowned cities in the world, not only due to its location in the heart of Tuscany, but also because of its connection to the evolution of art, culture, and scientific thought. It is in this area that Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei made their groundbreaking discoveries during the Renaissance, paving the way to modern science. Now that signal processing has become the science behind a wide range of application areas, from wireless communications to speech processing, from bioinformatics to multimedia, it seems only right to hold the 2014 edition of ICASSP in this city of Culture.
Submission of Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers of up to four pages of technical content (including figures and references), with a possible extension to a 5th page containing only references. The selection of the best papers will be made by the ICASSP 2014 committee based on recommendations from the Technical Committees.
Notice: The IEEE Signal Processing Society enforces a 'no-show' policy. Any accepted paper included in the final program is expected to have at least one author or qualified proxy attend and present the paper at the conference. Authors of the accepted papers included in the final program who do not attend the conference will be subscribed to a 'No-Show List', compiled by the Society. The 'no-show' papers will not be published by IEEE on IEEEXplore or other public access forums, but these papers will be distributed as part of the on-site electronic proceedings and the copyright of these papers will belong to the IEEE.
Tutorial and Special Sessions Proposals: Tutorials will be held on May 4 and 5, 2014. Brief tutorial proposals should include title, outline, contact information, biography and selected publications for the presenter(s), and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Special session proposals should include title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited papers. Please refer to the ICASSP 2014 website www.icassp2014.org for additional information.
Show & Tell: The 2014 edition of ICASSP is proud to bring back the S&T sessions. S&T offers the perfect stage for showcasing innovative ideas in all technical areas of interest of ICASSP. S&T sessions are expected to be highly interactive, involving, and very visible. Please refer to the ICASSP 2014 website www.icassp2014.org for additional information.
GENERAL CHAIRS Fulvio Gini, University of Pisa, Italy Marco Luise, University of Pisa, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS Abdelhak Zoubir, University of Darmstadt, Germany Mauro Barni, University of Siena, Italy FINANCE CHAIR Petar Djuric, Stony Brook University, NY, USA ADVISORY BOARD Enrico Del Re, University of Florence, Italy Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genova, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIRS G. Tong Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Filippo Giannetti, University of Pisa, Italy PUBLICATION CHAIRS Maria S. Greco, University of Pisa, Italy Alessandro Piva, University of Florence, Italy SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIRS Sergio Barbarossa, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy Ananthram Swami, ARL, Adelphi MD, USA TUTORIALS CHAIRS Ercan E. Kuruoglu, CNR, Pisa, Italy Antonio Napolitano, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy PLENARIES CHAIRS Ezio Biglieri, Italy Ali H. Sayed, UCLA, California, USA STUDENT PAPER CONTEST CHAIRS Alberto Carini, University of Urbino, Italy Antonio De Maio, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy SHOW AND TELL CHAIR Augusto Sarti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy EXHIBIT CHAIRS Luca Sanguinetti, University of Pisa, Italy Giacomo Bacci, University of Pisa, Italy WEB MASTER CHAIRS Pietro Stinco, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Fortunati, University of Pisa, Italy LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Fabrizio Argenti, University of Florence, Italy LOCAL LIAISON Marco Moretti, University of Pisa, Italy US LIAISON Georgios B. Giannakis, University of Minnesota, USA FAR EAST LIAISONS H.C. So, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Giuseppe A. Fabrizio, DSTO, Australia INDUSTRY LIAISON Alfonso Farina, SELEX-ES, Rome, Italy CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT Graciela Stiavetti, DGMP srl, Pisa, Italy
IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Special Session and Tutorial Proposals: August 30, 2013 Notification of Special Session and Tutorial Acceptance: September 30, 2013 Submission of Regular Papers: October 27, 2013 Signal Processing Letters Due: January 7, 2014 Notification of Paper Acceptance: January 27, 2014 Show and Tell Proposal Deadline: February 14, 2014 Revised Paper Upload Deadline: March 7, 2014 Author’s Registration Deadline: March 14, 2014
https://twitter.com/icassp2014 http://www.facebook.com/pages/ICASSP-2014/279577105503957 http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICASSP-2014-4815619
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3-3-18 | (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:
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Perception-action control
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Intra- and inter-speaker variability
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Articulatory synthesis
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Mapping between articulatory and acoustic events
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Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion
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Connected speech processes
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Convergence and human interaction
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Coarticulation
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Prosody
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Rhythm and timing
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Biomechanical modeling
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Models of motor control
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Audiovisual synthesis
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Aerodynamic models
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Cerebral organization and neural correlates of speech
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Disorders of speech motor control
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Instrumental techniques
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Speech and language acquisition
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Audio-visual speech perception
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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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3-3-19 | (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/ ----------------------------------------------
* 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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3-3-20 | (2014-05-13) CfP 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2014) will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
The Fourth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2014) will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 13-16 May 2014. The symposium, which follows the successful TAL 2012 in Nanjing, is held on a vibrant campus, which boasts three highly visible academic institutions whose research is relevant to the topic of the symposium: the Centre for Language Studies, the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, both part of Radboud University Nijmegen, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
TAL 2014 is held in the week before the International Conference on Speech Prosody 2014, which is held in Dublin from 21 to 25 May 2014 and like that conference enjoys the support of ISCA SProSig and ISCA SIG-CSLP.
The symposium continues the tradition of the previous three symposia of focusing on tone languages, aiming to present state-of-the–art research on the typological, phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic, acquisitional and technological aspects of tonal contrasts, but will also welcome contributions on non-tone languages and art forms like songs and poetry.
Important dates
- Submission of full papers
- 15 February 2014 (this date will not be postponed)
- Notification of acceptance
- 20 March 2014
- Camera-ready paper due
- 15 June 2014
- Registration deadline
- 30 April 2014
- Registration desk open
- 13 May 2014, 2 p.m.
- Conference meeting
- 14-16 May 2014
- Tutorial Speech Analysis
- 13 May 2014, 4 p.m.
- Final versions paper due
- 15 June 2014
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3-3-21 | (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)
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3-3-22 | (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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3-3-23 | (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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3-3-24 | (2014-05-26) 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation 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 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,
* Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-culture, ehealth,
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 lessresourced
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 reused,
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
voice-activated services, etc.
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3-3-25 | (2014-06-09) eNTERFACE 2014 - 10th SUMMER WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL INTERFACES, Bilbao, Spain
eNTERFACE 2014 - 10th SUMMER WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL INTERFACES Bilbao, Spain, June 9th – July 5th, 2014 ==============================================================
http://aholab.ehu.es/eNTERFACE14
CALL FOR PROJECTS
Aholab Signal Processing research group, Faculty of Engineering of the University of the Basque Country, in Bilbao (Spain), invites project proposals for eNTERFACE’14.
Following the tremendous success of the previous eNTERFACE workshops (www.enterface.net), eNTERFACE’14 aims at continuing and enhancing the tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, leading researchers in multimodal interfaces and students to work on specific projects for 4 complete weeks.
eNTERFACE’14 will encompass presentation sessions, including tutorial state-of-the-art surveys on several aspects of design of multimodal interfaces, given by invited senior researchers, and periodical presentations of the results achieved by each project group. The ultimate goal is to make this event a unique opportunity for students and experts all over the world to meet and effectively work together, so as to foster the development of tomorrow’s multimodal research community. The results of the projects are expected to be published in the Workshop proceedings.
THEMES (not exhaustive list):
- Multimodal signal analysis and synthesis - Intuitive interfaces and personalized systems in real and virtual environments - Assistive technologies for education and social inclusion - Assistive and rehabilitation technologies - Search in multimedia and multilingual documents - Affective and social signal processing - Multimodality for biometrics and security - Innovative musical interfaces - Augmented reality - Embodied agents - Human-robot and human-environment interactions in smart environments - Multimodal conversational systems - Self-learning and adapting systems - Innovative modalities and modalities conversion - Applications of Multimodal interfaces - Performing arts applications - Teleoperation and telerobotics
IMPORTANT DATES
November 30th, 2013 Reception of a 1-page Notification of Interest, with a summary of projects goals, temptative workpackages, and deliverables.
December 15th, 2013 Reception of the Full Project Proposal.
January 10th, 2014 Notification of acceptance to project leaders. Start Call for Participation.
February 28th, 2014 End Call for Participation. Team building.
March 28th, 2014 Notification of acceptance to participants.
IMPORTANT NOTES
Proposals should be submitted in PDF format to enterface14@aholab.ehu.es.
The proposals will be evaluated by the Scientic Committee with respect to suitability to the workshop goals and format. A call for PhD students and researchers participation will then be launched on January 10th, 2014. Authors of the accepted proposals will then be invited to build their teams.
There is no registration fee for participants. Participants are expected to pay for their own lodging and meals (see http://aholab.ehu.es/eNTERFACE14 for information about facilities and prices). Some grants for students will be offered in due course.
CONTACT
For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us: enterface14@aholab.ehu.es.
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3-3-26 | (2014-06-11) 15th ICPLA Conference 2014
15th ICPLA Conference 2014
International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
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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 | (2014-06-16) Odyssey 2014, Joensuu, Finland
ODYSSEY 2014: THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP
June 16-19, 2014, Joensuu, Finland
http://cs.uef.fi/odyssey2014/
IMPORTANT DATES:
NIST i-vector challenge (details TBA):
- Challenge opens: November 2013
- Challenge papers due: February 2014
- Submissions without a paper: April 2014
Regular paper submission: January 22, 2014
Industry submissions + demos February, 2014
Notifications: March 22, 2014
Final papers: April 7, 2014
KEYNOTE TALKERS:
Dr. Samy Bengio, Google Research http://research.google.com/pubs/bengio.html
'Large scale learning of a joint embedding space'
Prof. Martin Cooke, University of the Basque Country http://laslab.org/martin
'Speaking in adverse conditions: from behavioural observations to intelligibility-enhancing speech
modifications'
Third keynote XX (TBA)
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The general themes of the conference include speaker and language recognition and
characterization.
The specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Speaker characterization and adaptation
- Features for speaker and language recognition
- Multi-speaker training, detection and diarization
- Robustness in channels and environment
- Robust classification and fusion
- Speaker recognition corpora and evaluation
- Speaker recognition with speech recognition
- Forensics, multimodality, and multimedia speaker recognition
- Speaker and language confidence estimation
- Language, dialect, and accent recognition
- Speaker synthesis and transformation
- Human recognition of speaker and language
- Analysis and countermeasures against spoofing attacks
- Commercial applications
REGULAR PAPER SUBMISSIONS
All regular submissions (max 8 pages) will be reviewed by at least three members of the scientific review committee.The regular submissions must include scientific or methodological novelty; the paper has to review the relevant prior work and state clearly the novelty in the Introduction part.The accepted papers will appear in electronic proceedings.
INDUSTRY TRACK AND DEMOS
Odyssey committee recognizes a large gap between theoretical research results and real-world deployment of the methods. To foster closer collaboration across industry and academia, Odyssey 2014 features an industry submission track. This can include a description of your target application, a product, a demonstrator, or any combination. In addition to voice biometrics providers, we encourage submissions from companies who are in need for speaker or language recognition technology.The industry paper submissions do NOT have to present methodological novelty, but the submission MUST address one or all of the following aspects:
- Description of the application, role of speaker/language recognition
- Research results and methods that worked well in your application
- Negative research results that have NOT worked in practice
- Unsolved problems 'out-in-the-wild' that deserve attention
The industry submissions will NOT undergo full peer review nor will be included to the proceedings. All the industry track submissions can be presented as a posters. The organizing committee may select a few most interesting ones for oral presentation.
NIST SPECIAL SESSIONS: I-VECTOR CHALLENGE & NIST SRE-2012 FOLLOW-UP
In addition to regular and industry paper submissions, Odyssey 2014 features two special sessions co-organized with National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST). NIST SRE-2012 special session focuses on extended analyses on the latest, NIST 2012 speaker recognition evaluation (SRE) benchmark, and is targeted for the participants of NIST SRE 2012. The i-vector challenge is a new type of challenge targeted for anyone interested for a 'quick start-up' in speaker recognition. Building modern speaker and language recognition systems requires a lot of preprocessing, corpus engineering and computations, making it challenging for newcomers to enter the field. This prohibits piloting of possibly promising modeling ideas developed outside of speaker recognition community (e.g. machine learning and image processing communities). To bridge this gap, NIST organizes a new type of benchmark, i-vector challenge, synchronized with Odyssey 2014. Preliminary due-date for paper submissions to both special sessions is February 2014. Submissions by this deadline will undergo review both by NIST and by the scientific review committee, and will be included to the conference proceedings if accepted. Late challenge submissions (without a paper) are also encouraged; they can be presented as posters, but will not undergo peer review nor will be included to the conference proceedings. To ensure smooth organization, early (non-binding) preliminary sign-up is required. More details and registration for the i-vector challenge will be available in November 2013.
AWARDS
Odyssey 2014 features three awards:
- A best paper award
- A best student paper award
- Free registration for 1 to 2 top-performers in the i-vector challenge
All regular and special session papers submitted in time are candidates for the awards. The awards are given based on the review reports AND the presentation at the conference. For the best student paper award, the first author must be a student (does not yet hold a PhD degree) at the time of paper submission. Best 1 to 2 teams (max 1 person per site) in i-vector challenge are provided FREE REGISTRATION to the full Odyssey 2014 workshop.
VENUE and TRAVEL :
Odyssey 2014 will be hosted by School of Computing of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF).
Joensuu is a small town of 75,000 inhabitants in the lakeside Finland -- the capital of green.
It is famous for its peaceful nature, excellent outdoor opportunities as well as many saunas.
Joensuu can be easily reached from Helsinki (50 min flight), which can be reached via direct flights
from several European, North American and Asian cities.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Tomi Kinnunen, chair University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Pasi Franti, co-chair University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Jean-Francois Bonastre University of Avignon, France
Niko Brummer Agnitio, South Africa
Lukas Burget Brno Univ. Technology, Czech Republic
Joseph Campbell MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Jan 'Honza' Cernocky Brno Univ. Technology, Czech Republic
Haizhou Li Inst. Infocomm Research, Singapore
Alvin Martin NIST, USA
Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
For more details: http://cs.uef.fi/odyssey2014/ Email: odyssey@cs.uef.fi
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3-3-28 | (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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3-3-29 | (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:
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there is a stateful interaction (not stateless, not on-off)
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the interaction is sustained over multiple turns
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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)
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the entry makes a meaningful contribution to the interaction (so, it does not just pass messages)
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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:
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how much usage it gets
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how engaging it is / how novel is the interaction
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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:
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the chance to work in a group with real researchers, on a real world problem
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the chance to see how ideas are turned into reality
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the chance to make something that works and that people actually use
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the chance to learn about new technology and use it to solve new problems
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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:
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the number and type of speech applications will be greatly expanded
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there will be more datasets available for research
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there will be more platforms to run studies on and to use in speech and spoken dialog classes
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the enrichment that comes from mentoring
Why should industrial research groups be interested in the Challenge?
Industrial research groups should be interested to see:
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which types of applications actually appeal to the general public and which ones fail, which could be revenue-generating
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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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3-3-30 | (2014-06-24) CfP International Conference of young researchers in Language Didactics and Linguistics, Grenoble Fr.
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference of young researchers in Language Didactics and Linguistics
Multidisciplinary conference on the study of language
24 juin – 27 juin 2014
LIDILEM laboratory Stendhal University, Grenoble, France
http://cedil2014.u-grenoble3.fr
In line with the areas of research of our laboratory, this multidisciplinary conference’s objective is to allow the community of PhD
students and young researchers to submit their research topics in the fields of language, its teaching and or literacy, psychology,
education sciences, ethnology, neurolinguistics, human-machine communication.
RESEARCH THEMES
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Linguistics
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Psycholinguistics
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Linguistic development
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Sociolinguistics
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Multilingualism
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Language didactics,
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Natural Language Processing (NLP),
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Digital Humanities.
CALENDAR
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Submission deadline : 15th November 2013 29th November 2013
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Announcement of acceptances : March 3rd, 2013
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Preliminary program : May, 2014
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Reception of final articles : June 2nd, 2014
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Conference dates : Tuesday, 24 June (afternoon) to Friday, 27 June 2014
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Laurent BESACIER (Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, France), Jacqueline BILLIEZ (Université
Stendhal de Grenoble, France), Annette BOUDREAU (Université de Moncton, Canada), Gabrièle BUDACH (University of
Southampton, England) , Cécile CANUT (Université Paris-Descartes, France), Jean-Pierre CHEVROT (Université Stendhal de
Grenoble, France), Jean-Louis CHISS (Université Paris 3, France), Jean-François de PIETRO (Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de
Recherche et de Documentation Pédagogique, Switzerland), Jean-Marc DEWAELE (Birbeck, University of London, England),
Cécile FABRE (ERSS, Université de Toulouse, France), Isabel GONZALEZ REY (Université St Jacques de Compostelle, Spain),
Heather HILTON (Université Paris 8, France), Alexandra JAFFE (California State University Long Beach, United-States), Sophie
KERN (Université de Lyon 3, France), Marinette MATTHEY (Université Stendhal de Grenoble, France), Christophe PARISSE
(Université de Paris 10, France), Ludovic TANGUY (ERSS, Université de Toulouse, France).
LANGUAGES
The languages used during the conference will be French or English.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
This conference addresses only young researchers (PhD students and recent doctors). Abstracts must be in French or in English.
The abstract should not be more than 2 pages long, including references.
Deadline for submission : 15
th November 2013 29th November 2013
For more information refer to the instructions indicated on the conference site:
http://cedil2014.u-grenoble3.fr
MODALITIES OF COMMUNICATION
Presentations and posters of young researchers will follow one another and will be accompanied with plenary conferences of
renowned lecturers and researchers stemming from different disciplinary fields.
Communication in workshops (20 minutes presentation and an additional 10 minutes for discussion).
Presentation of posters.
PUBLICATION OF ACTS
The abstracts accepted for oral or displayed may be published in the form of articles (8-10 pages) to be submitted before June 2
nd,
2014. Articles will be subjected and selected to a proofreading committee with the possibility of being published in the University
Press of Grenoble (PUG) at the beginning of 2015.
CONTACT
For any further information about submissions or registrations, please email to:
cedil2014@gmail.com
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3-3-31 | (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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3-3-32 | (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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3-3-33 | (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
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15 mai 2013 : Ouverture de la plateforme de dépôt des propositions de communications
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30 novembre 2013 : Date limite de réception des propositions de communication
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25 février 2014 : Notification de l'acceptation ou du refus et directives pour la version
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Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française : du 19 au 23 juillet 2014
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3-3-34 | (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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3-3-35 | (2014-08-23) COLING 2014
COLING 2014
Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014
http://www.coling-2014.org/
COLING 2014 (http://www.coling-2014.org/), the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, will be organised by CNGL (Centre for Global Intelligent Content) at the Helix Convention Centre at Dublin City University (DCU) from 23-29 August 2014. The COLING conference is organised under the auspices of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).
ABOUT COLING
The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. The conference is held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The 1st conference was held in New York, 1965. Since then, the conference has developed into one of the premier Natural Language Processing conferences world-wide. The last five conferences were held in Geneva (COLING 2004), Sydney (COLING - ACL 2006), Manchester (COLING 2008), Beijing (COLING 2010) and Mumbai (COLING 2012).
COLING covers a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.
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SUBMISSION TIMELINE
Workshops and Tutorials
Call for Workshop and tutorial proposals 18th October 2013
Workshop and tutorial proposals submission 19th January 2014
Workshop and tutorials notification 26th January 2014
Main Conference
Call for Papers To be announced
Paper submission 21st March 2014
Paper notification 23rd May 2014
Camera-ready paper submission 6th June 2014
Formal publication date for all COLING 2014 papers: 11th August 2014
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COLING 2014 CHAIRS
Program Co-Chairs
Prof. Junichi Tsujii (Microsoft Research, China)
Prof. Jan Hajic (Charles Univ., Czech)
General Chair
Prof. Josef van Genabith (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Scientific Advisory Board
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala Univ., Sweden)
Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan)
Michael Picheny (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Donia Scott (Univ. of Sussex, UK)
Chengqing Zong (CAS, China)
Workshop Chairs
Dr. Jennifer Foster (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Prof. Dan Gildea (University of Rochester, USA)
Prof. Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Tutorial Chairs
Prof. Qun Liu (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Prof. Fei Xia (University of Washington, USA)
Demo Chair
Dr. Lamia Tounsi (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Sponsorship Chairs
Dr. Sharon O’Brien (SALIS / CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Prof. Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany)
Dr. Huaping Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Publicity Chairs
Dr. Dorothy Kenny (SALIS, DCU, Ireland)
Professor Seong-Bae Park (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing Associations)
Publication Chairs
Dr. Joachim Wagner (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Dr. Liadh Kelly (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Dr. Lorraine Goeuriot (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Local Chair
Dr. Cara Greene (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Local Co-Chair
Dr. John Judge (CNGL / NCLT, DCU, Ireland)
CONTACT
conference@coling-2014.org
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3-3-36 | (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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3-3-37 | (2014-09-10) CfP 3rd SWIP - Swiss Workshop on Prosody, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Second Call for contributions
3rd SWIP - Swiss Workshop on Prosody
Special Theme : PhonoGenres and Speaking Styles
10-11 September 2014 - University of Geneva
The SWIP (Swiss Workshop on Prosody) is an annual meeting gathering
researchers in the field of prosody. After Zurich in 2012, and
Neuchâtel in 2013, the 3rd SWIP will take place in Geneva on
10-11 September 2014. For this edition, the special theme is
PhonoGenres and Speaking Styles. By this event we mark the end
of the three year FNS research project 'Prosodic and linguistic
characterisation of speaking styles: semi-automatic approach and
applications'.
Phonostylistic prosodic variation, whether regional, social or
situational, is the object of a growing number of studies. They are
systematic or isolated, based on phonetic-phonological studies of
large-scale corpora or on the examination of narrow samples. Approaches
vary between systematic methodologies and ad hoc procedures. Thus, one
of the major goals of the conference is to index different approaches
and to confront their results.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
*PhonoGenres: phonetic-prosodic dimensions; situational, regional,
communicative, macro- or micro-social variations; comparative analysis
*speaker-specific behavior: cliché, idiosyncrasy, distinctive features
*diachronic speaking style variation
*identification of discourse genres and styles
*methodologies and tools for corpus processing of speech in general,
and especially those developed to process the speaking style variation
Invited speakers:
Julia Hirschberg
Philippe Boula de Mareüil
Submission:
First, a one page abstract, plus references, shall be submitted in
English or in French via EasyChair by the 1st of February 2014.
Second, the definitive version of paper shall be submitted by the
1st of June 2014 in order to publish the proceedings - both in paper
and electronic format - at the beginning of the conference. Proceedings
will be published in Cahiers de la Linguistique Française in a short
(6 pages max., about 2000 words) or in a long version (12 pages max.,
about 4000 words). Papers can be written in English or in French with
an abstract in the other language and they must follow style sheet
Please note that the conference language is English.
Important dates:
Submission of abstracts : 1 February 2014
Notification of acceptance: 1 Mars 2014
Submission of final paper for proceedings publication: 1 June 2014
Conference: 10-11 September 2014
Scientific committee:
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
Organising committee:
Antoine Auchlin
Jean-Philippe Goldman
Tea Pršir
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3-3-38 | (2014-12-01) CfP IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing - Atlanta Georgia 2014 IEEE GlobalSIP’14 – Call for Symposium ProposalsIEEE 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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3-3-39 | (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
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- 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
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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
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Listener Registration
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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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3-3-40 | Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems
Carnegie Mellon University
degree designed for students who want to rapidly master advanced content-analysis, mining, and intelligent information technologies prior to beginning or resuming leadership careers in industry and government. 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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3-3-41 | Master 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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3-3-42 | Research 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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