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| Monday, May 12, 2014 by Chris Wellekens |
7 Journals
| 7-1 | Special Issue on Natural Language Processing 2014 (Int. Jl Adv. Comp.SCience and Applic.) Call for papers: Special Issue on Natural Language Processing 2014 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS ISSN : 2156-5570(Online), ISSN : 2158-107X(Print) DOI : 10.14569/issn.2156-5570 http://thesai.org/Publications/NLP2014
Scope of this Special Issue This special issue of IJACSA aims to bring together articles that report advances in Natural Language Processing, both experimental as well practical applications, related to the exploitation and distillation of textual material for information access and knowledge creation. We are therefore calling for contributions in the areas of Automatic Text Summarization, Adaptable Information Extraction and Knowledge Population, Knowledge Induction from Text, Text Simplification, Text Entailment and Learning by Reading, and Natural Language Processing for the Social Media.
Paper submission Manuscripts should be submitted via email to editorijacsa@thesai.org. Subject line should be: 'NLP_SpecialIssue: Paper Title'. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. Authors may submit their manuscripts as per the following schedule:
This issue will be submitted for indexing in various databases, for more information please visit: http://thesai.org/Publications/Citations?code=IJACSA. For more information on the special issue, please visit: http://thesai.org/Publications/NLP2014 or contact the Editor at editorijacsa@thesai.org.
Guest Editor: Dr T.V Prasad
Regards,
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| 7-2 | Special Issue on 'Signal Processing Techniques for Assisted Listening' of IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE IEEE Signal Processing Society Special Issue IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE Special Issue on 'Signal Processing Techniques for Assisted Listening'
Aims and Scope This special issue focuses on technical challenges of assisted listening from a signal processing perspective. Prospective authors are invited to contribute tutorial and survey articles that articulate signal processing methodologies which are critical for applying assisted listening techniques to mobile phones and other communication devices. Of particular interest is the role of signal processing in combining multimedia content, voice communication and voice pick-up in various real-world settings. Tutorial and survey papers are solicited on advances in signal processing that particularly apply to the following applications:
These can include the following suggested topics as they relate to the above applications:
Submission Process Important Dates: Expected publication date for this special issue is March 2015.
Guest Editors
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| 7-3 | Special Issue on Spatial Audio of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing Special Issue on Spatial Audio
Spatial audio is an area that has gained in popularity in the recent years. Audio reproduction setups evolved from the traditional two-channel loudspeaker setups towards multi-channel loudspeaker setups. Advances in acoustic signal processing even made it possible to create a surround sound listening experience using traditional stereo speakers and headphones. Finally, there has been an increased interest in creating different sound zones in the same acoustic space (also referred to as personal audio). At the same time, the computational capacity provided by mobile audio playback devices has increased significantly. These developments enable new possibilities for advanced audio signal processing, such that in the future we can record, transmit and reproduce spatial audio in ways that have not been possible before. In addition, there have been fundamental advances in our understanding of 3D audio. Due to the increasing number of different formats and reproduction systems for spatial audio, ranging from headphones to 22.2 speaker systems, it is major challenge to ensure interoperability between formats and systems, and consistent delivery of highquality spatial audio. Therefore, the MPEG committee is in the process of establishing new standards for 3D Audio Content Delivery. The scope of this Special Issue on Spatial Audio is open to contributions ranging from the measurement and modeling of an acoustic space to reproduction and perception of spatial audio. While individual submissions may focus on any of the sub-topics listed below, papers describing a larger spatial audio signal processing systems will be considered as well. We invite authors to address some of the following spatial audio aspects:
Prospective authors should visit http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/jstsp/ for information on paper submission. Manuscripts should be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jstsp-ieee. Manuscript Submission: July 1, 2014 Guest Editors:
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| 7-4 | CFP: CSL Special Issue on Speech and Language for Interactive RobotsCFP: CSL Special Issue on Speech and Language for Interactive RobotsAims and Scope
Speech-based communication with robots faces important challenges for their application in real world scenarios. In contrast to conventional interactive systems, a talking robot always needs to take its physical environment into account when communicating with users. This is typically unstructured, dynamic and noisy and raises important challenges. The objective of this special issue is to highlight research that applies speech and language processing to robots that interact with people through speech as the main modality of interaction. For example, a robot may need to communicate with users via distant speech recognition and understanding with constantly changing degrees of noise. Alternatively, the robot may coordinate its verbal turn-taking behaviour with its non-verbal one such as generating speech and gestures at the same time. Speech and language technologies have the potential of equipping robots so that they can interact more naturally with humans, but their effectiveness remains to be demonstrated. This special issue aims to help fill this gap. The topics listed below indicate the range of work that is relevant to this special issue, where each article will normally represent one or more topics. In case of doubt about the relevance of your topic, please contact the special issue associate editors. Topics
Special Issue Associate Editors Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Heriot-Watt University, UK (contact: hc213@hw.ac.uk) Paper Submission All manuscripts and any supplementary materials will be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System at http://ees.elsevier.com/csl/. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at here. Please select “SI: SL4IR” as Article Type when submitting the manuscripts. For further details or a more in-depth discussion about topics or submission, please contact Guest Editors. Dates 23 May 2014: Submission of manuscripts
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| 7-5 | CfP IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on Spatial Audio IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing Special Issue on Spatial Audio
Spatial audio is an area that has gained in popularity in the recent years. Audio reproduction setups evolved from the traditional two-channel loudspeaker setups towards multi-channel loudspeaker setups. Advances in acoustic signal processing even made it possible to create a surround sound listening experience using traditional stereo speakers and headphones. Finally, there has been an increased interest in creating different sound zones in the same acoustic space (also referred to as personal audio). At the same time, the computational capacity provided by mobile audio playback devices has increased significantly. These developments enable new possibilities for advanced audio signal processing, such that in the future we can record, transmit and reproduce spatial audio in ways that have not been possible before. In addition, there have been fundamental advances in our understanding of 3D audio. Due to the increasing number of different formats and reproduction systems for spatial audio, ranging from headphones to 22.2 speaker systems, it is major challenge to ensure interoperability between formats and systems, and consistent delivery of high-quality spatial audio. Therefore, the MPEG committee is in the process of establishing new standards for 3D Audio Content Delivery. The scope of this Special Issue on Spatial Audio is open to contributions ranging from the measurement and modeling of an acoustic space to reproduction and perception of spatial audio. While individual submissions may focus on any of the sub-topics listed below, papers describing a larger spatial audio signal processing systems will be considered as well. We invite authors to address some of the following spatial audio aspects:
Prospective authors should visit http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/jstsp/ for information on paper submission. Manuscripts should be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jstsp-ieee. Manuscript Submission: July 1, 2014 Guest Editors:
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| 7-6 | CfP CSL Special Issue on Speech Production in Speech TechnologiesCall for Papers:CSL Special Issue on Speech Production in Speech TechnologiesThe use of speech production knowledge and data to enhance speech recognition and other technologies is being actively pursued by a number of widely dispersed research groups using different approaches. The types of speech production information may include continuous articulatory measurements or discrete-valued articulatory or phonological features. These quantities might be directly measured, manually labeled, or unobserved but considered to be latent variables in a statistical model. Applications of production-based ideas include improved speech recognition, silent speech interface, language training tools, and clinical models of speech disorders. The goal of this special issue is to highlight the current state of research efforts that use speech production data or knowledge. The range of data, techniques, and applications currently being explored is growing, and is also benefiting from new ideas in machine learning, making this a particularly exciting time for this research. A recent workshop, the 2013 Interspeech satellite workshop on Speech Production in Automatic Speech Recognition (SPASR), as well as the special session on Articulatory Data Acquisition and Processing, brought together a number of researchers in this area. This special issue will expand on the topics included in these events and beyond. Submissions focusing on research in this area are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The collection, labeling, and use of speech production data - Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion - Speech production models in speech recognition, synthesis, voice conversion, and other technologies - Silent speech interfaces - Atypical speech production and pathology - Articulatory phonology and models of speech production Submission procedure Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the Computer Speech and Language Journal for electronic submission (http://ees.elsevier.com/csl). During submission authors must select 'SI: Speech Production in ST' as Article Type. Review procedure All manuscripts will be submitted through the editorial submission system and will be reviewed by at least 3 experts. Schedule: June 1, 2014: Deadline for submissionsAugust 1, 2014: Notification of decision September 15, 2014: Deadline for resubmission November 1, 2014: Final decision December 1, 2014: Deadline for camera-ready version February, 2015: Publication
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U., fosler@cse.ohio-state.edu Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, jhasegaw@uiuc.edu Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago, klivescu@ttic.edu Frank Rudzicz, U. Toronto, frank@cs.toronto.edu
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| 7-7 | Third Call for Papers - Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) on Speech and Language Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology Third Call for Papers - Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) On Speech and Language Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology Guest Editors: François Portet, Frank Rudzicz, Jan Alexandersson, Heidi Christensen Assistive technologies (AT) allow individuals with disabilities to do things that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. Many assistive technologies involve providing universal access, such as modifications to televisions or telephones to make them accessible to those with vision or hearing impairments. An important sub-discipline within this community is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), which has its focus on communication technologies for those with impairments that interfere with some aspect of human communication, including spoken or written modalities. Another important sub-discipline is Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) which facilitates independent living; these technologies break down the barriers faced by people with physical or cognitive impairments and support their relatives and caregivers. These technologies are expected to improve quality-of-life of users and promote independence, accessibility, learning, and social connectivity. Speech and natural language processing (NLP) can be used in AT/AAC in a variety of ways including, improving the intelligibility of unintelligible speech, and providing communicative assistance for frail individuals or those with severe motor impairments. The range of applications and technologies in AAL that can rely on speech and NLP technologies is very large, and the number of individuals actively working within these research communities is growing, as evidenced by the successful INTERSPEECH 2013 satellite workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). In particular, one of the greatest challenges in AAL is to design smart spaces (e.g., at home, work, hospital) and intelligent companions that anticipate user needs and enable them to interact with and in their daily environment and provide ways to communicate with others. This technology can benefit each of visually-, physically-, speech- or cognitively- impaired persons. Topics of interest for submission to this special issue include (but are not limited to):
Submission process Contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere, although substantial extensions of conference or workshop papers will be considered. as long as they adhere to ACM's minimum standards regarding prior publication (http://www.acm.org/pubs/sim_submissions.html). Studies involving experimentations with real target users will be appreciated. All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.rit.edu/gccis/taccess/. Submissions should follow the journal's suggested writing format (http://www.gccis.rit.edu/taccess/authors.html) and should be submitted through Manuscript Central http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taccess , indicating that the paper is intended for the Special Issue. All papers will be subject to the peer review process and final decisions regarding publication will be based on this review. Important dates: ◦ Extended deadline for full paper submission: 28th April 2014 ◦ Response to authors: 30th June 2014 ◦ Revised submission deadline: 31st August 2014 ◦ Notification of acceptance: 31st October 2014 ◦ Final manuscripts due: 30th November 2014
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| 7-8 | Revue TAL: numéro spécial numéro spécial sur le traitement automatique du langage parlé
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| 7-9 | Message of the editor of Speech Communication to the editorial board Dear members of the editorial board of Speech Communication, Speech Communication has two special issues in 2014, one on 'Processing under-resourced languages' (published as vol. 56), and one on 'Gesture and Speech in Interaction' (published as vol. 57). Currently, there are no other special issues in the pipeline. If you are aware of hot topics or emerging research areas that you think would be suitable for special issues, please let me know. Let us all keep our eyes and ears open at the upcoming major conferences (ICASSP, EUSIPCO, Interspeech, etc.) and their special sessions and satellite workshops. Please be proactive in talking to possible guest editors. Feel free to nominate yourself as a guest editor.
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| 7-10 | CfP IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on Spatial Audio IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing Special Issue on Spatial Audio
Spatial audio is an area that has gained in popularity in the recent years. Audio reproduction setups evolved from the traditional two-channel loudspeaker setups towards multi-channel loudspeaker setups. Advances in acoustic signal processing even made it possible to create a surround sound listening experience using traditional stereo speakers and headphones. Finally, there has been an increased interest in creating different sound zones in the same acoustic space (also referred to as personal audio). At the same time, the computational capacity provided by mobile audio playback devices has increased significantly. These developments enable new possibilities for advanced audio signal processing, such that in the future we can record, transmit and reproduce spatial audio in ways that have not been possible before. In addition, there have been fundamental advances in our understanding of 3D audio. Due to the increasing number of different formats and reproduction systems for spatial audio, ranging from headphones to 22.2 speaker systems, it is major challenge to ensure interoperability between formats and systems, and consistent delivery of high-quality spatial audio. Therefore, the MPEG committee is in the process of establishing new standards for 3D Audio Content Delivery. The scope of this Special Issue on Spatial Audio is open to contributions ranging from the measurement and modeling of an acoustic space to reproduction and perception of spatial audio. While individual submissions may focus on any of the sub-topics listed below, papers describing a larger spatial audio signal processing systems will be considered as well. We invite authors to address some of the following spatial audio aspects:
Prospective authors should visit http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/jstsp/ for information on paper submission. Manuscripts should be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jstsp-ieee. Manuscript Submission: July 1, 2014 Guest Editors:
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