eNTERFACE 2014 - 10th SUMMER WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL INTERFACES
Bilbao, Spain, June 9th – July 5th, 2014
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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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Appel à Communications JEP 2014 (www.jep2014.org)

 Les Journées d'Études de la Parole (JEP) sont consacrées à l'étude de la communication parlée 

ainsi qu'à ses applications. Ces journées ont pour but de rassembler l'ensemble des 

communautés scientifiques francophones travaillant dans le domaine. La conférence se veut 

aussi un lieu d'échange convivial entre doctorants et chercheurs confirmés.

 En 2014, les JEP sont organisées au Mans par le Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université 

du Maine (LIUM) et par le Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique (LINA), sous l'égide 

de l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP). 

Dates importantes 

Soumission des communications : 31 janvier 2014 (modification de la soumission possible 

jusqu'au 7 février, sous condition d'une première version soumise avant le 31 janvier)

Notification d’acceptation : 28 mars 2014 

Soumission des versions définitives : 11 avril 2014 

Conférence : du 23 au 27 juin 2014

Thématiques 

Les communications porteront sur la communication parlée et le traitement de la parole dans

 leurs différents aspects. Les thèmes de la conférence incluent, de façon non limitative : 

Acoustique de la parole 

Acquisition de la parole et du langage 

Analyse, codage et compression de la parole 

Applications à composantes orales (dialogue, indexation, etc) 

Apprentissage d'une langue seconde 

Communication multimodale 

Dialectologie 

Évaluation, corpus et ressources 

Langues en danger 

Modèles de langage 

Parole audio-visuelle 

Pathologies de la parole 

Perception de parole 

Phonétique et phonologie

 Phonétique clinique 

Prises de position présentant un point de vue sur les sciences et technologies de la parole 

Production de parole 

Prosodie 

Psycholinguistique 

Reconnaissance et compréhension de la parole 

Reconnaissance de la langue 

Reconnaissance du locuteur 

Signaux sociaux, sociophonétique 

Synthèse de la parole 

Critères de Sélection 

Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet 

de publications antérieures. Les contributions proposées seront examinées par au moins deux 

spécialistes du domaine. Seront considérées en particulier : - l’importance et l’originalité de la contribution ; - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine ; - la situation des travaux présentés dans le contexte de la recherche internationale ; - l’organisation et la clarté de la présentation ; - l’adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence. Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la conférence. Bourses L’AFCP offre un certain nombre de bourses pour les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs désireux de 

prendre part à la conférence, voir le site de l’AFCP. L’ISCA apporte également un soutien financier aux jeunes chercheurs participant à des 

manifestations scientifiques sur la parole et le langage, voir le site de l’ISCA. Contacts : yannick.esteve@univ-lemans.fr ou emmanuel.morin@univ-nantes.fr 

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17th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2014) Brno, Czech Republic,

8-12 September 2014

http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic

TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Karina Evgrafova, Russia Darja Fiser, Slovenia Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom France Mihelic, Slovenia Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Fabio Pianesi, Italy Maciej Piasecki, Poland Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, GB Marcin Wolinski, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The conference program will include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised.

IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstract

March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers

May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance

May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration

August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts

August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors

September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2014 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2014@tsdconference.org The official TSD 2014 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/

LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Eindhoven, Rome and Prague and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

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2014 Spoken Language Technology Workshop
December 7-10, 2014 - South Lake Tahoe, NV, USA

IEEE - IEEE Signal Processing Society

http://www.slt2014.org - Follow @SLT_2014


The Fifth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2014) will be held in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada, on Dec 7-10, 2014.


Workshop Technical Theme & Main Goals & Novelties

The main theme of the workshop will be 'machine learning in spoken language technologies'. There will be keynote/guest speakers from the machine learning community.
One of the workshop goals is to increase both intra and inter community interactions. Towards this goal, in addition to tutorials and keynote speeches on main workshop theme and emerging areas, this year's SLT will host special sessions and self-organizing Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings, as well as panel discussions before/during workshop. If you want to excite the community about a topic and to have an impact on the workshop content, now this is your chance!
In addition to submitting papers and/or proposing/organizing SIG meetings, you can get involved in workshop organization in different ways: by nominating keynote speakers (nominations@slt2014.org), or by volunteering to be part of workshop organization (volunteers@slt2014.org). Please visit www.slt2014.org for more details.


Call for Papers: Areas/Topics

Submission of papers in all areas of spoken language technology is encouraged, with emphasis on the following topics, including both traditional SLT areas as well as emerging ones:

- Traditional topic coverage: speech recognition and synthesis, spoken language understanding, spoken dialog systems, spoken document summarization, machine translation for speech, question answering from speech, speech data mining, spoken document retrieval, spoken language databases, speaker/language recognition, multimodal processing, human/computer interaction, assistive technologies, natural language processing, educational and healthcare applications.  

- Emerging areas: large scale spoken language understanding, massive data resources for SLT,
unsupervised methods in SLT, capturing and representing world knowledge in SLT, web search with SLT, SLT in social networks, multimedia applications, intelligent environments.

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the SLT 2014 website (slt2014.org).


Important Dates

Paper submission: July 21, 2014
Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2014
Demo submission: September 10, 2014
Notification of Demo acceptance: October 10, 2014
Special Session (SS) proposal submission: June 6, 2014
Notification of SS proposals (1st/2nd decision):  June 15 / September 19, 2014
Special Interest Group (SIG) proposal submission: November 21, 2014
Early registration deadline: October 17, 2014
Workshop: December 7-10, 2014


Supported by:
- Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

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