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3-3-1 | (2014-06-16) Odyssey 2014, Joensuu, Finland UPDATEDODYSSEY 2014: THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP
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3-3-2 | (2014-06-17) 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) at St Catherine's College Oxford , UK We are pleased to announce the 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) is to be held at St Catherine's College Oxford from 17 - 20 July, 2014. ODC has a reputation as one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency. The conference brings together researchers and clinicians, providing a showcase and forum for discussion and collegial debate about the most current and innovative research and clinical practices. Throughout the history of ODC, the primary aim has been to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice. The conference seeks to promote research that informs management, with interventions that are supported by sound theory and which inform future research. In 2014, the goal of the Oxford Dysfluency Conference is to lead a challenging international debate about the latest research in disorders of fluency and its clinical applications. The 2014 conference will enable delegates to:
Conference Co-Chairs David Rowley, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, UK
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3-3-3 | (2014-06-18) 12th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Klagenfurt, Austria MODIFIED CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-4 | (2014-06-18) SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE, Philadelphia, PA, USA
SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog will be http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15
CALL FOR PAPERS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS TOPICS OF INTEREST - Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems - Corpora, Tools and Methodology - Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling - Dimensions of Interaction - Open Domain Dialog - Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialog and Written Text - Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology - Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialog for a joint special session with INLG SPECIAL SESSIONS IMPORTANT DATES Special Session Proposal Deadline: Sunday, 9 February 2014 (23:59, GMT-11) Special Session Notification: Monday, 17 February 2014 Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Submission Deadline: Sunday, 9 March 2014 (23:59, GMT-11) Paper Notification: Friday, 18 April 2014 Final Paper Due - For papers accepted subject to receiving mentoring Wednesday, 14 May 2014 - For accepted papers Friday, 23 May 2014 Conference Wednesday, June 18, 2014 to Friday, June 20, 2014
SUBMISSIONS Special Session Proposals The SIGdial organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference; may be organized as a poster session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session; and will be held on the last day of the conference. Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGdial organizers, be held as parallel sessions. Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session). These proposals should be sent to conference[a]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general and program co-chairs. Papers The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demonstration descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. Long papers may, at the discretion of the technical program committee, be accepted for oral or poster presentation. They must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, content, and examples. Two additional pages are allowed for references and appendices, which may include extended example discourses or dialogs, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. Short papers will be presented as posters. They should be no longer than 4 pages, including title and content. One additional page is allowed for references and appendices. Demonstration papers should be no longer than 3 pages, including references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demonstration descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a SIGDIAL special session, which would highlight a particular area or topic. All papers will undergo regular peer review. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission format). A paper accepted for presentation at SIGDIAL 2014 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips or sound clips and examples of available resources for review purposes. Submission is electronic using paper submission software. FORMAT All long, short, and demonstration submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2014 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for the ACL 2014 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2014 style guidelines (http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm), and they must be electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous. MENTORING SERVICE For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring service. Submissions with innovative core ideas that may need language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and conditionally accepted with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. Any questions about the mentoring service can be addressed to the mentoring chair at mentoring[at]sigdial.org. STUDENT SUPPORT SIGdial also offers a limited number of scholarships for students presenting a paper accepted to the conference. Application materials will be posted at the conference website. BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SPONSORSHIP SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email the conference organizers at sponsor-chair[at]sigdial.org. DIALOG AND DISCOURSE SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal Dialog and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGdial. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Technical Program Co-Chairs Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mentoring Chair Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Research Labs, USA
Local Chair Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA
Sponsorships Chair Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA
SIGdial President Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA
SIGdial Vice President Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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3-3-5 | (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:
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:
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:
What does this Challenge contribute to the speech community? For researchers, participation reaps several benefits:
Why should industrial research groups be interested in the Challenge? Industrial research groups should be interested to see:
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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3-3-6 | (2014-06-23) 2ème APPEL À DÉMONSTRATION — JEP’2014 2ème APPEL À DÉMONSTRATION — JEP’2014 Le Mans du 23 au 27 juin 2014 CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 18 mai 2014 Notification aux auteurs : 23 mai 2014 PRÉSENTATION Organisée par l’équipe LST du LIUM (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Maine) et l'équipe TALN du LINA (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique), la conférence JEP’2014 se tiendra du 23 au 27 juin 2014 au Mans. La conférence JEP’2014 comprendra des communications orales et affichées, des conférences invitées et une session de démonstration. ORGANISATION Les organisateurs de la conférence ont le plaisir d’inviter les participants à présenter des démonstrations de logiciels, de prototypes qui s’appuient sur des méthodes de traitement automatique de la parole. Dans ce cadre, les professionnels de l’industrie peuvent faire acte de candidature pour présenter leur logiciel au cours de cette session. L’objet de cette dernière est d’offrir un cadre d’interaction entre les milieux industriel et académique sur les questions inhérentes au traitement automatique de la parole. Lorsqu'elles permettent ce type d'interaction, les présentations d'études sur la parole qui ne concernent ni logiciel ni prototype sont également invitées. La session DEMONSTRATIONS ET INDUSTRIELLE, accueillera des présentations sous les formes suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilités) : stand d’exposant ; affiche de présentation ; démonstration de produits logiciels. La première partie cette session ne sera accessible qu'aux conférenciers inscrits à la conférence. Dans un effort de dissémination scientifique et technique, la seconde partie de la session sera ouverte au grand public. Pour participer, les candidats devront envoyer un résumé (2 page maximum au format de la conférence) aux adresses : yannick.esteve@univ-lemans.fr et emmanuel.morin@univ-nantes.fr le 11 mai 2014 au plus tard. Les participants seront choisis par le comité d’organisation, indépendament du processus de sélection scientifique habituel. Les critères de sélection s’appuieront sur la pertinence des propositions au regard des thématiques affichées par la conférences JEP et de leur potentiel d'interactions entre milieu industriel et académique. Contact : yannick.esteve@univ-lemans.fr et emmanuel.morin@univ-nantes.fr
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3-3-7 | (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 · Linguistics · Psycholinguistics · Linguistic development · Sociolinguistics · Multilingualism · Language didactics, · Natural Language Processing (NLP), · Digital Humanities. CALENDAR · Submission deadline : 15th November 2013 29th November 2013
· Announcement of acceptances : March 3rd, 2013 · Preliminary program : May, 2014 · Reception of final articles : June 2nd, 2014 · 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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3-3-8 | (2014-06-26) 5th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT),Baltimore, USA We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the fifth annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be co-located with ACL 2014 in Baltimore in June 2014. The deadline for submission of papers and demo proposals is 21 March. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline, and formatting of regular papers can be found here here:
http://www.slpat.org/slpat2014
This 2-day workshop will bring together researchers from all areas of speech and language technology with a common interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. This workshop will provide an opportunity for individuals from both research communities, and the individuals with whom they are working, to assist to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. General topics include but are not limited to: • Automated processing of sign language • Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility • Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living • Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language • Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AAC/AT applications • Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies • NLP for cognitive assistance applications • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies • Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of assistive technology • Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols • Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology • Anything included in this year's special topic • Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Please contact the conference organizers at slpat2014-workshop@googlegroups.com with any questions.
Important dates:
21 March: Paper/demo submissions due 11 April: Notification of acceptance 28 April: Camera-ready papers due 26 - 27 June: SLPAT workshop
We look forward to seeing you!
The organizing committee of SLPAT 2014, Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Germany Dimitra Anastasiou, University of Bremen, Gernany Cui Jian, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen, Germany Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA Rupal Patel, Northeastern University, USA Frank Rudzicz, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and University of Toronto, Canada Annalu Waller, University of Dundee, Scotland Desislava Zhekova, University of Munich, Germany
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3-3-9 | (2014-07-01) 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2014), Marseille, F(MODIFIED) 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
- Extended submission deadline : February 27, 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 ============ 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 ======================= 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 ================== 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 ======================= 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 ===================== 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 ======== philippe.blache[arobas]lpl-aix.fr nadera.bureau[arobas]lpl-aix.fr
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3-3-10 | (2014-07-01) Atelier: Réseaux Lexicaux et Traitement des Langues Naturelles (RLTLN), Marseille (F)
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3-3-11 | (2014-07-01) TALAf 2014 : Traitement automatique des langues africaines (écrit et parole), Marseille, France TALAf 2014 : Traitement automatique des langues africaines (écrit et parole)
Atelier TALN 2014 - Marseille le 1er juillet 2014 ORGANISATEURS Mathieu Mangeot (LIG) et Fatiha Sadat (UQAM)
PRÉSENTATION (voir plus de détails sur http://jibiki.univ-savoie.fr/~mangeot/TALAf/2014/ ) Dans la suite du premier atelier TALAf qui s'est tenu le 8 juin 2012 à Grenoble, lors de la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012 (voir les actes : http://aclweb.org/anthology//W/W12/#1300), nous proposons une nouvelle édition de cet atelier lors de la conférence TALN 2014 le premier juillet à Marseille. Nous accueillons les travaux menés sur toutes les langues peu dotées d'Afrique. Des travaux sur l''arabe dialectal de l'Afrique du nord sont également bienvenus. Cet atelier a pour but d'effectuer un état des lieux des travaux de constitution de ressources linguistiques de base (dictionnaires, corpus oraux et écrits), de mettre au point des méthodologies simples et économes d'élaboration de ressource, d'échanger sur les techniques permettant de se passer de certaines ressources inexistantes et de fixer un certain nombre de principes pour les futurs travaux dans le domaine. L'atelier se déroulera sur une demi-journée. TYPES DE COMMUNICATION Les publications devront comprendre entre 6 et 12 pages. Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des articles présentant des travaux de recherche originaux sur les thèmes proposés ci-dessous. THÈMES L'atelier est ouvert à la présentation de travaux de recherche portant sur les thèmes suivants : Ressources : • constitution de corpus écrits (monolingues, bilingues alignés ou comparables) • constitution de corpus oraux (incluant la transcription) • élaboration de lexiques et dictionnaires (monolingues, bilingues) • évaluation de la qualité des ressources Outils : • analyseurs morphologiques, correcteurs orthographiques • analyseurs syntaxiques, correcteurs grammaticaux • systèmes de TA (statistique ou à base de règles) • reconnaissance de la parole • synthèse vocale CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine. Pour les travaux de recherches, seront considérées en particulier : - l'adéquation aux thèmes de l'atelier. - l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution, - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique, - l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation. MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français. Les formats précis de soumission sont disponibles pour Word et Latex sur le site de taln2014 : http://www.taln2014.org/site/soumission/ Les propositions de communications doivent être envoyées sous forme pdf à l'adresse suivante : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=talaf20140 COMITÉ DE PROGRAMME Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble, France) Philippe Bretier (Voxygen, Pleumeur-Bodou, France) Khalid Choukri (ELDA, Paris, France) Mame Thierno Cissé (ARCIV, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal) Denys Duchier (Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France) Chantal Enguehard (LINA, Nantes, France) Gil Francopoulo (Tagmatica, Paris, France) Mathieu Mangeot (LIG, Grenoble, France) Chérif Mbodj, (Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar, Sénégal) Kamal Naït-Zerrad (INALCO, Paris, France) Pascal Nocera, (Université d'Avignon, France) Francois Pellegrino, (DDL, Lyon, France) Fatiha Sadat (UQAM, Montréal, Canada) Mamadou Lamine Sanogo (INSS, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso) Emmanuel Schang (Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France) Gilles Sérasset (LIG, Grenoble, France) Valentin Vydrin (LLACAN-INALCO, Paris, France) CALENDRIER - Date limite de soumission : 26 avril 2014 - Notification aux auteurs : 24 mai 2014 - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 15 juin 2014 - Atelier : 1 juillet 2014
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3-3-12 | (2014-07-06) Special Session on Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Digital Audio Applications, Beijing ChinaSpecial 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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3-3-13 | (2014-07-07) 2014 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP 2014), Shanghai, China ICALIP2014 CALL FOR PAPERS 2014 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing July 7-9, 2014, Shanghai, China Website: http://www.icalip2014.org/ *********************************************************************
As the flagship conference and the most import event in the region, the 4th International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP2014) will continue the great success of its three previous editions (ICALIP 2008, ICALIP2010 and ICALIP2012) with aiming to provide a unique forum for researchers, engineers and educators interested in audio, language and image processing to learn about recent progresses, to address related challenges and to develop new methods, applications and systems. The conference, to be held on July 7-9, 2014 in Shanghai, the largest city of China, is technically sponsored by IEEE CIS Shanghai Chapter and is co-organized by IET Shanghai Local Network, Shanghai University, Tongji University, Fudan University and Shanghai JiaoTong University. The conference proceedings including all the accepted papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE catalog number: No. CFP1450D-PRT and ISBN: 978-1-4799-3902-2) and submitted to both EI Compendex and ISTP which has indexed all accepted papers of previous three conferences. Best Paper Awards will be granted to the authors of those outstanding papers determined by the International Program Committee of the conference and also the expanded version of the selected papers will be published in four SCI-E indexed IET Research Journals.
IMPORTANT DATES 2 The Submission Deadline March 25, 2014 2 Notification of Acceptance May 10, 2014 2 Camera-ready Copy May 30, 2014
Topics Conference topics include, but are not limited to: A. Audio and Music Processing:
B. Language and Speech Processing:
C. Image Processing:
D. Computer Graphic and Virtual Reality:
E. Bio-informatics:
F. Remote Sensing and GIS:
G. Multimedia SOC Design:
H. Big Data and Cloud Processing:
Paper Submission Prospective authors are invited to send full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the conference website (http://www.icalip2014.org/) following the Instructions for Authors. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. Check the conference website for update.
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3-3-14 | (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
Intérêt scientifique Le quatrième Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est organisé par l’Institut de Linguistique Française (ILF), Fédération de Recherche du CNRS (FR 2393) qui est sous la tutelle de cet organisme et du Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche. L’ILF regroupe dix-sept laboratoires de recherche, qui sont les co-organisateurs de ce congrès en partenariat avec de nombreuses associations nationales et internationales. Une telle organisation, conjointement prise en charge par dix-sept unités de recherche, est exceptionnelle par son ampleur et la volonté de partenariat scientifique qu’elle révèle. Le premier Congrès Mondial a été organisé à Paris par l’ILF en 2008, le deuxième à La Nouvelle-Orléans, le troisième à Lyon en 2012. Chacun de ces trois congrès a attiré plus de 300 participants et les résultats ont fait l’objet d’une publication en ligne immédiate accompagnée par un volume de résumés et un CD-ROM d’actes. Ce congrès est organisé sans aucun privilège d'école ou d'orientation et sans exclusive théorique ou conceptuelle. Chaque domaine ou sous-domaine, chaque type d'objet, chaque type de questionnement et chaque problématique portant sur le français peut y trouver sa place. Le CMLF est organisé en 15 sessions, lesquelles soulignent le fait que la linguistique française n’est pas limitée à tel ou tel domaine érigé en modèle pour les autres sousdisciplines du champ. Quatorze thématiques ont été retenues, qui permettent de balayer la plus grande partie du champ scientifique : (1) Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique, (2) Linguistique et Didactique (français langue première, français langue seconde), (3) Discours, Pragmatique et Interaction, (4) Francophonie, (5) Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité, (6) Lexique(s), (7) Linguistique de l’écrit, Linguistique du texte, Sémiotique, Stylistique, (8) Morphologie, (9) Phonétique, Phonologie et Interfaces, (10) Psycholinguistique et Acquisition, (11) Sémantique, (12) Sociolinguistique, Dialectologies et Écologie des langues, (13) Syntaxe, (14) Ressources et Outils pour l’analyse linguistique. A ces quatorze thématiques a été ajoutée une quinzième session « pluri-thématique », laissant ouverte la possibilité de travailler dans plusieurs domaines, voire en marge des territoires disciplinaires traditionnels. Chaque thématique est pilotée par un Président et coordonnée par un Vice-président (membre du Comité directeur de l’ILF, ou bien choisi par ce comité). Les comités scientifiques comportent une proportion équilibrée de spécialistes français et étrangers. Un soin particulier a été accordé à la sélection des comités afin de s’assurer qu’ils présenteraient les plus grandes garanties scientifiques pour le succès du congrès. On trouve donc dans chaque comité des linguistes connu(e)s mondialement pour leur contribution au domaine. Le rôle de ces comités est de sélectionner les propositions de communications. Les soumissions se feront sous la forme de brefs articles de 10 à 15 pages. Toutes les communications (y compris les conférences plénières) seront publiées sous la forme d'un article de 10 à 15 pages dans les actes du congrès (sous forme de CD-ROM accompagnant un livret des titres et des résumés des communications) et maintenues sous forme électronique sur le site du CMLF. L'archive électronique restera accessible après le congrès.
Rappel du calendrier • 15 mai 2013 : Ouverture de la plateforme de dépôt des propositions de communications • 30 novembre 2013 : Date limite de réception des propositions de communication • 25 février 2014 : Notification de l'acceptation ou du refus et directives pour la version définitive • 25 mars 2014 : Réception de la version définitive des articles • Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française : du 19 au 23 juillet 2014
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3-3-15 | (2014-07-22) 4th Lisbon Machine Learning School - 'Learning with Big Data', Lisbon, Portugal
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3-3-16 | (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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3-3-17 | (2014-08-17) Summer school on “Tools & Techniques in Geolinguistics”, Univ Kiel, Germany Summer school on “Tools & Techniques in Geolinguistics”
Dealing with methods and techniques in geolinguistics, an international summer school will take place at the University of Kiel (Germany) 17-27 August 2014. In this new and interdisciplinary research paradigm, regional varieties will be analysed with respect to their linguistic, geographical, social, perceptual and spatial characteristics. With its many Low German dialects and the endangered Frisian language, Northern Germany is a very dynamic language area right on Kiel’s doorstep, and the summer school will take advantage of this. In the case of Low German, students will learn how to collect speech data in the laboratory and in the field, how to compile a text corpus and how to analyse the material multifactorially from a geolinguistic perspective.
The summer school does not only address students and graduates of (German) dialectology and geolinguistics but also provides new insights for everyone interested in speech documentation, field research, phonetics, corpus linguistics, perceptual dialectology, sociolinguistics and typology. International experts in dialectology and geolinguistics will offer a wide range of lectures, interactive workshops and practical exercises. Additionally, participants will be supported by student mentors.
The summer school is addressed to about 50 national and international students. Applicants will be postgraduates holding a bachelor degree (or higher) in linguistics, phonetics, language documentation/typology, German studies or a similar field. Please send the following documents (preferably in pdf format) by email to contact@geoling.uni-kiel.de - relevant academic achievements, i.e. certificates and complementary proofs of qualification - curriculum vitae, including experiences in statistics and speech processing software - letter of motivation briefly summarizing the linguistic expertise and outlining personal research interests and future aims - recommendation letter of a supervising academic teacher
We offer up to 30 full scholarships that cover all costs for travel and accommodation. Please note in your application whether or not you apply for a scholarship. If possible, all successful applicants from outside Kiel will receive a scholarship. The expenses will be reimbursed after the summer school, but other financial arrangements can be made as well, if necessary.
Applications should be sent by email to contact@geoling.uni-kiel.de by 28 February 2014. For further information, please visit our web site on http://www.geoling.uni-kiel.de/en/home
Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the summer school is organised by Prof Dr Oliver Niebuhr, Dr Christina A Anders as well as Dr Uwe Vosberg and hosted by the Institute for Scandinavian studies, Frisian and General Linguistics along with a research centre on “The areality and sociality of language” (http://www.arealitaet.uni-kiel.de) at the University of Kiel.
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3-3-18 | (2014-08-23) 4th WORKSHOP ON COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF THE LEXICON (CogALex), Dublin, Ireland 1st Call for Papers
4th WORKSHOP ON COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF THE LEXICON (CogALex) together with a shared task concerning the ‘lexical access-problem’ Pre-conference workshop at COLING 2014 (August 23d, Dublin, Ireland) Submission deadline: May 25, 2014
6) Dictionary applications
given words: gin, drink, scotch, bottle, soda
expected answer: whisky
given words: wheel, driver, bus, drive, lorry
expected answer: car given words: neck, animal, zoo, long, tall expected answer: giraffe given words: holiday, work, sun, summer, abroad expected answer: vacation given words: home, garden, door, boat, chimney expected answer: house given words: blue, cloud, stars, night, high expected answer: sky
All data releases to be found on the workshop website.
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3-3-19 | (2014-08-23) CfP 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014)
1st (Preliminary) Call for Papers - Coling 2014
The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics August 23 - 29, 2014 Dublin, Ireland
http://www.coling-2014.org
The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) is pleased to announce the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2014), at Dublin City University (DCU, Dublin, Ireland, European Union). DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious university with a mission to transform lives and societies through education, research and innovation. Most of the local organizers are from CNGL, Ireland’s Centre for Global Intelligent Content (formerly the Centre for Next Generation Localization), which embodies the leading position of Ireland in the global localization/internationalization business, a strong focus on language technologies including machine translation, computational linguistics and natural language processing, as well as on intelligent management, search, retrieval, transformation and adaptation of content. Coling will cover a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full papers (presented as oral presentations or posters), demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Coling 2014 solicits papers and demonstrations on original and unpublished research on the following topics, including, but not limited to:
- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon; - cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language processing; - models of communication by language; - lexical semantics and ontologies; - word segmentation, tagging and chunking; - parsing, both syntactic and deep; - generation and summarization; - paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering; - speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding; - multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; - information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base linking; - machine learning for natural language; - modeling of discourse and dialogue; - sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media; - multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; - applications, tools and language resources; - system evaluation methodology and metrics.
In all relevant areas, we encourage authors to include analysis of the influence of theories (intuitions, methodologies, insights, ? to technologies (computational algorithms, methods, tools, data, ? and/or contributions of technologies to theory development. In technologically oriented papers, we encourage in-depth analysis and discussion of errors made in the experiments described, if possible linking them to the presence or absence of linguistically-motivated features. Contributions that display and rigorously discuss future potential, even if not (yet) attested in standard evaluation, are welcome.
PAPER REQUIREMENTS
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work or well-advanced ongoing research rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included.
Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Submissions presented at the conference should mostly contain new material that has not been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted in parallel to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.
REVIEWING
Reviewing will be double blind. It will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs, members of the Scientific Advisory Board and Area Chairs, who will be assisted by invited reviewers.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
For Coling 2014, there will be one category of research papers only. All of the papers will be included in conference proceedings, this time in electronic form only.
The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4), plus two extra pages for references. Authors of accepted papers will be given additional space in the camera-ready version to reflect space needed for changes stemming from reviewers?comments. Authors can indicate their preference for presentation mode (i.e. oral or poster presentation) in the submission form, and the reviewers will recommend an appropriate mode of presentation to the program committee which will then decide. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between research papers presented orally vs. as posters.
Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymized with regard to the authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style as usual. Papers must conform to official Coling 2014 style guidelines, which will be available on the Coling 2014 website. Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is in Adobe’s PDF.
Submissions must be uploaded on the START system by the submission deadlines; submissions after that time will not be reviewed. To minimize network congestion, we request authors to upload their submissions as early as possible.
Important Notice
[1] In order to allow participants to be acquainted with the published papers ahead of time which in turn should facilitate discussions at Coling 2014, we have set the official publication date two weeks before the conference, i.e., on August 11, 2014. On that day, the papers will be available online for all participants to download, print and read. If your employer is taking steps to protect intellectual property related to your paper, please inform them about this timing.
[2] While submissions are anonymous, we strongly encourage authors to plan for depositing language resources and other data as well as tools used and/or developed for the experiments described in the papers, if the paper is accepted. In this respect, we encourage authors then to deposit resources and tools to available open-access repositories of language resources and/or repositories of tools (such as META-SHARE, Clarin, ELRA, LDC or AFNLP/COCOSDA for data, and github, sourceforge, CPAN and similar for software and tools) and refer to them instead of submitting them with the paper, even though it will also be an open possibility (through the START system). The details will be given in the submission site for camera-ready versions of accepted papers.
[3] There will be a separate call for demonstrations in February. Accepted papers on demonstrations will also be included in the proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
January, 2014: Opening of the submission website March 21, 2014: Paper submission deadline May 9-12, 2014: Author response period May 23, 2014: Author notification June 6, 2014: Camera-ready PDF due August 11, 2014: Official paper publication date August 25-29, 2014: Main conference
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Committee Co-chairs
Junichi Tsujii (Microsoft Research, China) Jan Hajic (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Scientific Advisory Board members
Ralph Grishman (New York University, USA) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) Michael Picheny (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Donia Scott (Unviersity of Sussex, United Kingdom) Chengqing Zong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Area Chairs
1. Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP Emily M. Bender (University of Washington, USA) Eva Hajicova (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Igor Boguslavsky (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
2. Machine Learning for CL and NLP Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
3. Cognitive Issues in CL and NLP Philippe Blache (CNRS & CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France) Ted Gibson (MIT, USA)
4. Morphology, Word Segmentation, Tagging and Chunking Reut Tsarfaty (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) Yue Zhang (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
5. Syntax, Grammar Induction, Syntactic and Semantic Parsing Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany) Ryan McDonald (Google, USA)
6. Lexical Semantics and Ontologies Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Alessandro Oltramari (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
7. Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional Semantics Stephen Clark (University of Cambridge, UK) Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
8. Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue Nicolas Asher (CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, France) Marilyn Walker (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
9. Natural Language Generation and Summarization Albert Gatt (University of Malta, Malta) Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
10. Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Kentaro Inui (Tohoku University, Japan)
11. Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan, USA) Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
12. Information Retrieval and Question Answering Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland) Siddharth Patwardhan (IBM Research, USA)
13. Information Extraction and Database Linking James Curran (University of Sydney, Australia) Seung-won Hwang (Postec, Korea)
14. Applications Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) Heyan Huang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China) Guillaume Jacquet (Joint Research Centre, Italy)
15. Multimodal and Natural Language Interfaces and Dialog Systems Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki, Finland) David Traum (University of Southern California, USA)
16. Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Alex Potamianos (National Technical University Crete, Greece)
17. Machine Translation Phillip Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK / Johns Hopkins University, USA) Chris Quirk (Microsoft Research, USA) Tiejun Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
18. Resources Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IIT Bombay, India) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy) Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, USA)
19. Languages with less resources Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia) Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Rajeev Sangal (IIT Banaras Hindu University, India) Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen, Norway)
20. Software and Tools Jesús Cardeñosa (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Jing-Shin Chang (National Chi Nan University,Taiwan)
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3-3-20 | (2014-08-23) SHARED TASK ON THE LEXICAL ACCESS PROBLEM (with COGALEX) SHARED TASK ON THE LEXICAL ACCESS PROBLEM
(COMPUTING ASSOCIATIONS WHEN BEING GIVEN MULTIPLE STIMULI)
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3-3-21 | (2014-09-01) 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2014) Lisbon, PortugalThe 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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3-3-22 | (2014-09-03) Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology 7 (LARP VII), Aix en Provence, FR Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology 7 (LARP VII) Aix-en-Provence, France Sept. 3-5, 2014 The biannual conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (LARP) seeks to bring together international researchers interested in all areas of Romance phonetics and phonology, in particular within the laboratory phonology approach. In the past decades, research in the laboratory phonology paradigm has expanded significantly so that the disciplines of phonetics and phonology are being investigated from a unique interdisciplinary angle. LARP aims at providing an interdisciplinary forum for world-wide research focusing on the experimental investigation of Romance phonetics and phonology and their related areas, such as language acquisition, language variation and change, prosody, speech pathology, speech technology, as well as the phonology-phonetics interface. LARP VII will be hosted for the first time in Europe, by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage in Aix-en-Provence, and will be the result of a joint effort between Aix-Marseille University (Aix-en-Provence, France) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Meeting Dates: Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology VII will be held from 03-Sept-2014 to 05-Sept-2014. Contact Information: Mariapaola D'Imperio: larp7conference@gmail.com Organizers: Mariapaola D'Imperio (Aix-Marseille University & LPL,CNRS) Pilar Prieto (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Conference webpage: http://larp7.sciencesconf.org/ Abstract Submission Information: Abstracts can be submitted from 15-Dec-2013 until 15-April-2014.
Invited speakers
Laura Bosch, Univ. Barcelona
Martine Grice, Univ. Koeln, Germany
Thierry Nazzi, CNRS, Paris
Daniel Recasens, Univ. Autonoma, Barcelona
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3-3-23 | (2014-09-10) 56th International Symposium ELMAR-2014 , Zadar, Croatia 56th International Symposium ELMAR-2014
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September 10-12, 2014 Zadar, Croatia
Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2014
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS IEEE Region 8
IEEE Croatia Section
IEEE Croatia Section SP,
AP and MTT Chapters
EURASIP -
European Association for Signal Processing
TOPICS
--> Image and Video Processing
--> Multimedia Communications
--> Speech and Audio Processing --> Wireless Communications
--> Telecommunications
--> Antennas and Propagation --> e-Learning and m-Learning
--> Navigation Systems
--> Ship Electronic Systems --> Power Electronics and Automation
--> Naval Architecture
--> Sea Ecology
--> Special Sessions: http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2014/special_sessions/
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Milo Oravec, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, SLOVAKIA:
Feature Extraction and Classification by Machine Learning Methods for Biometric Recognition
of Face and Iris
SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of full papers: May 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: June 3, 2014
Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: June 10, 2014
Preliminary program available online by: June 17, 2014
Registration forms and payment deadline: June 17, 2014
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3-3-24 | (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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3-3-25 | (2014-09-11) CfP 2nd Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM 2014), Penang, Malaysia Deadline extension SLAM2014 Call for Paper
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3-3-26 | (2014-09-12) ISCSLP in SingaporeWelcome to ISCSLP 2014第九届中文口语语言处理国际会议 The 9th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2014) will be held on September 12-14, 2014 in Singapore. ISCSLP 2014 is a joint conference between ISCA Special Interest Group on Chinese Spoken Language Processing and National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication of China. ISCSLP is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing. While the ISCSLP is focused primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to the following:
Important Dates
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3-3-27 | (2014-09-22) 8th Workshop: 'emotion and computing - current research and future impact', Stuttgart, Germany Call for Papers WORKSHOP at the KI 2014
- Presentations should have a duration of 15-20 minutes. Each - Demonstrations are documented by an extended abstract which - Workshop submission is electronic. Submitted papers Important Dates: Workshop paper submission deadline: July 4th, 2014
Workshop Website: http://www.emotion-and-computing.de
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3-3-28 | (2014-09-25) XLVIII Congresso Internazionale - Società di Linguistica Italiana , Udine, Italy XLVIII Congresso Internazionale - Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI) 2014 (Udine, 25-27.9.2014)
WORKSHOP
Between linguistics and linguistic medical clinic. The role of the linguist
Workshop topics - Medical terminology - The medical discourse and the effectiveness of corporate communication health - Communicative interaction doctor-patient in multilingual contexts - Oral language, written language, and specific disabilities - Grammar diseases: the role of the linguist - Linguistic symptoms in the context of specific diseases
Invited speakers Charles Antaki Maria Teresa Guasti
Scientific Committee Grazia Basile Anna Cardinaletti Francesca M. Dovetto Vincenzo Orioles Franca Orletti Patrizia Sorianello
Abstract submission guidelines Scholars, researchers and PhD students interested in presenting a paper or poster should send an abstract by email to <medcli.sli2014@libero.it>. The deadline for submission is 20st February 2014. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by email by 31th March 2014. Authors must submit an anonymous abstract (.doc/.pdf format) while in the email they should clearly include: name of the author(s), affiliation(s) and email address(es). Abstracts should be no longer than 1000 words including the bibliography. Conference languages: Italian, English, French and Spanish.
Info: <dovetto@unina.it>
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3-3-29 | (2014-10-05) 16th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2014), Novi Sad, Serbia SPECOM 2014 - CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************
16th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2014) Venue: Novi Sad, Serbia, 5-9 October 2014 Web: www.specom.nw.ru
SPECOM NEWS
SPECOM this year is organized in parallel with DOGS (The Tenth Conference on Digital Speech and Image Processing) in the same time at the same place. Participants will be able to attend both conferences.
ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad (UNS, Novi Sad, Serbia), in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MGLU, Moscow, Russia) and St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia).
SPECOM conferences
The SPECOM conferences are long time being organised by SPIIRAS (St.Petersburg) and MGLU (Moscow). Recently SPECOM venue is significantly varied: Patras, Greece, 2005; Kazan, Russia, 2011; Plzen, Czech Republic, 2013. The last conference was organized in parallel with TSD'2013 (The 16th International Conference of Text, Speech and Dialogue) and had a great success and benefits of joining the various research teams. Continue this tradition SPECOM'2014 and DOGS'2014 will be organized jointly. The both conferences are devoted to issues of human-machine interaction and their topics harmonically add each other. Since 2013 due to extending contribution of University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic the SPECOM proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Signal processing and feature extraction Speech enhancement Multichannel signal processing Speech recognition and understanding Spoken language processing Spoken dialogue systems Speaker identification and diarization Speech forensics and security Language identification Text-to-speech systems Speech perception and speech disorders Speech translation Multimodal analysis and synthesis Audio-visual speech processing Multimedia processing Speech and language resources Applications for human-computer interaction
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and a poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip to the Krusedol monastery and wine makers on Fruska Gora will allow for additional informal interactions. Details about the social event will be available on the web page.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site. Papers submitted to SPECOM 2014 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As the reviewing is blind, the paper should not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...', should be avoided. Instead, use citations, such as 'Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'. Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are determined to be rejected without review. The paper format for the review has to be the PDF file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, speakers will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
IMPORTANT DATES
May 18, 2014 ............. Submission of full papers June 1, 2014 ............. Notification of acceptance June 15, 2014 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and registration October 5-9, 2014 ........ Conference dates
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.
CONFERENCE FEES
The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, meals during the conference, the accommodation, and the conference trip are not included.
Full participant: early registration by June 15, 2013 – RSD 40000 (approx. 350 EUR) late registration by September 1, 2013 – RSD 43000 (approx. 380 EUR) on-site registration – RSD 50000 (approx. 440 EUR)
Student (reduced): early registration by June 15, 2013 – RSD 32000 (approx. 280 EUR) late registration by September 1, 2013 – RSD 35000 (approx. 310 EUR) on-site registration – RSD 40000 (approx. 350 EUR)
The payment may be refunded up until September 15, at the cost of RSD 6.500. No refund is possible after this date. All costs are in Serbian Dinar (RSD), see e.g. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for the current exchange rate. At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration fee by June 15, 2014 for their paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included in the regular registration fee. The additional paper and page charge is RSD 5000 per page. Any additional paper is treated as extra pages. An extra page charge is RSD 5000 per page. An author with more than one paper pays the additional paper rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid the full registration fee. In the case of uncertainty, feel free to contact the organising committee for clarification.
VENUE
The conference will be organized in Hotel Park, Novi Sad, Serbia (http://hotelparkns.com). Novi Sad is the second largest city in Serbia. The city has population of 231,798 inhabitants. It is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain, on the border of the Bačka and Srem regions, on the banks of the Danube river and Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal, facing the northern slopes of Fruška Gora mountain. The city was founded in 1694, when Serb merchants formed a colony across the Danube from the Petrovaradin fortress, a Habsburg strategic military post. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it became an important trading and manufacturing centre, as well as a centre of Serbian culture of that period, earning the nickname Serbian Athens. Today, Novi Sad is an industrial and financial centre of the Serbian economy, as well as a major cultural center. The University of Novi Sad was founded on 28 June 1960. Today it comprises 14 faculties located in the four major towns of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina: Novi Sad, Subotica, Zrenjanin, and Sombor. The University of Novi Sad is now the second largest among six state universities in Serbia. The main University Campus, covering an area of 259,807m², provides the University of Novi Sad with a unique and beautiful setting in the region and the city of Novi Sad. Having invested considerable efforts in intensifying international cooperation and participating in the process of university reforms in Europe, the University of Novi Sad has come to be recognized as a reform-oriented university in the region and on the map of universities in Europe. The Faculty of Technical Sciences (Fakultet Tehničkih Nauka, FTN, www.ftn.uns.ac.rs) with 1,200 employees and more than 12,000 students is the largest faculty at UNS. FTN offers engineering education within 71 study programmes. As a research and scientific institution, FTN has 13 departments and 31 research centres. FTN also publishes 4 international journals and organises 16 scientific conferences on various aspects of engineering, including the conference DOGS which is dedicated to the area of speech technologies where FTN has the leading position in the Western Balkan region.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee has arranged accommodation for reasonable prices in the same Hotel Park, which is situated near the city center. The rooms with sufficient discount are reserved for the conference days.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: SPECOM Secretariat E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su Phone/Fax: +7 812 328 7081 Fax: +7 812 328 4450 — Please, designate the faxed material with capitals 'SPECOM' on top. SPECOM-2014 conference web site: www.specom.nw.ru
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3-3-30 | (2014-10-14) 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING SLSP 2014 Grenoble, France October 14-16, 2014 Organised by: Équipe GETALP Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/ ********************************************************************************** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well‐known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi‐supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically‐inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part‐of‐speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription text‐to‐speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer‐reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Martín‐Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes‐y‐Gómez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Gaël Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Björn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co‐chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) Carlos Martín‐Vide (Tarragona, co‐chair) 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 prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/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=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/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 January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post‐conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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3-3-31 | (2014-10-16) CfP MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation, Barcelona (SP) --------------------------------------------------
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3-3-32 | (2014-10-16) Journées de pausologie à Montpellier France Deadline extension
Journées de pausologie http://itic.univ-montp3.fr/pausologie/
D’un point de vue purement formel, une séquence de parole peut être décrite comme une succession de sons entrecoupée par des phases silencieuses. Si la phonétique s’est largement appliquée à décrire ces séquences sonores du point de vue de leurs caractéristiques articulatoires, de leur dimension acoustique et de leurs conséquences au niveau perceptif, les pauses ont fait l’objet d’un nombre d’études moins conséquent, alors même qu’un certain nombre de recherches (Goldman-Eisler, 1968 par ex.) ont révélé la nécessité de marquer de brèves interruptions lors de la production de la parole.
Ce caractère essentiel de la pause s’explique notamment par le fait qu’elle est le reflet à la fois du mouvement respiratoire mais aussi d’une activité cognitive importante. En effet, la pause permet au locuteur de reprendre son souffle mais aussi de planifier le contenu de son message pour structurer son énoncé et le mettre en scène, comme dans le cas des discours politiques par exemple (Duez, 1999 par ex.). En outre, la pause est également l’un des éléments révélant la fin d’un tour du parole et le signal du début de la prise de parole pour l’interlocuteur (Sacks et al., 1974). A l’écrit, les fonctions prosodiques, mais aussi syntaxiques et sémantiques, de la pause sont traditionnellement marquées par des signes de ponctuation dont l’interprétation a varié au cours de l’histoire (Catach, 1994 ; 2001).
La dimension cognitive de la pause qui a été évoquée plus haut permet également d’exploiter ce paramètre rythmique en linguistique clinique dans la mesure où la pause, prise en tant que disfluence, est révélatrice des capacités langagières de l’individu : la localisation et la durée des pauses peuvent en effet servir d’indices pour respectivement identifier des difficultés pathologiques d’accès au lexique (Gayraud et al., 2011) ou pour différencier une disfluence classique et un bégayage (Starkweather, 1987 ; Hirsch et al., 2012).
Les propositions de communication devront répondre à une des thématiques suivantes :
Le lien avec le sujet du colloque devra être explicité dans le résumé. Par ailleurs, des propositions n’entrant pas directement dans l’une des thématiques proposées ci-dessus peuvent également être acceptées à la condition que soit manifesté le lien avec le thème des Journées.
Bibliographie :
Catach N., (1994) La ponctuation : histoire et système, collection Que sais-je ?, n° 2818, Paris, PUF. Catach N. (2001) Histoire de l'orthographe française, éd. posthume réalisée par Renée Honvault, avec la collab. de Irène Rosier-Catach, collection Lexica, n° 9, Paris, Champion. Duez D. (1999), La fonction symbolique des pauses dans la parole de l'homme politique, Faits de langues, vol. 13, p. 91-97. Gayraud, F., Lee H.R., Barkat-Defradas, M. (2010), Syntactic and lexical context of pauses and hesitations in the discourse of Alzheimer patients and healthy elderly subjects, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, vol. 25(3):198-209 (DOI : 10.3109/02699206.2010.521612). Goldman-Eisler F. (1968) Psycholinguistics. Experiments in spontaneous speech, New York, Academic Press. Hirsch F., Monfrais-Pfauwadel M.C., Crevier-Buchman L., Sock R., Fauth C., Pialot H. (2012) Using nasovideofibroscopic data to observe abnormal laryngeal behavior in stutterers, Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Fluency Disorders, 2-5 juillet, Tours. Sacks H., Schegloff E A., Jefferson G. (1974), A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation, Language, n° 50, 4, p. 696-735. Starkweather C. (1987), Fluency and Stuttering. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
Comité Scientifique :
Barkat-Defradas Mélissa, Praxiling CNRS UMR5267-Université de Montpellier Bres Jacques, Praxiling CNRS-Université de Montpellier Delais-Roussare Elisabeth, CNRS-Université Paris 7 Paris Diderot, Dodane Christelle, CNRS-Université de Montpellier Ferré Gaëlle, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes Gayraud Frédérique, Université Lyon 2 & CNRS (Dynamique du Langage UMR5596) Ghio Alain, Laboratoire Parole et Langage UMR 7309 CNRS - Université Aix-Marseille Goldman Jean-Phillipe, Université de Genève Hirsch Fabrice, Praxiling CNRS UMR5267-Université de Montpellier Kleiber Georges, Université de Strasbourg, EA 1339 Lilpa Rochet-Capellan Amélie, GIPSA Lab CNRS UMR 5216, Grenoble Simon Anne-Catherine, Université Catholique de Louvain Sock Rudolph, Université de Strasbourg, EA 1339 Lilpa Steuckardt Agnès, Praxiling CNRS UMR5267-Université de Montpellier Vaxelaire Béatrice, Université de Strasbourg, EA 1339 Lilpa
Comité d’Organisation :
Barkat-Defradas Mélissa, Université Paul Valéry, UMR5267 Praxiling Bellemouche Hacène, Université Paul Valéry, UMR5267 Praxiling Didirkova Ivana, Université Paul Valéry, UMR5267 Praxiling Dodane Christelle, Université Paul Valéry, UMR5267 Praxiling Hirsch Fabrice, Université Paul Valéry, UMR5267 Praxiling Maturafi Lavie, Université Paul Valéry, UMR5267 Praxiling Sauvage Jérémi, Université Paul Valéry, UMR5267 Praxiling
Calendrier : La date limite de soumission des propositions de communications (résumé de 500 mots hors bibliographie) a été repoussée au 30 Juin 2014 Date de notification aux auteurs : 15 juillet 2014 Journées d’Etudes de Pausologie : 16-17 octobre 2014
Soumission :
Les soumissions aux Journées de Pausologie se présentent sous la forme de résumés rédigés en français, d'une longueur maximale de 500 mots (hors bibliographie), police Times New Roman, 12pt, interligne simple. Les résumés devront être soumis au format PDF aux adresses suivantes : fabrice.hirsch@univ-montp3.fr ET melissa.barkat@univ-montp3.fr. Dans un souci d’anonymisation, ne figureront dans le fichier PDF que le titre de la proposition, le résumé et la bibliographie. Le nom des auteurs et leur affiliation devront être présents dans le courriel mais pas dans le fichier PDF.
Un article sera demandé à l’issue des Journées en vue d’une publication.
Pour toute question, écrire à : fabrice.hirsch@univ-montp3.fr
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3-3-33 | (2014-11-03) CfP ACM Multimedia 2014 - Area on Music, Speech, and Audio Processing in Multimedia, Orlando, Florida, USACall for short and long paper contributions for ACM Multimedia 2014 -
Area on Music, Speech, and Audio Processing in Multimedia
November 3-7, 2014 Orlando, Florida, USA
(For general information and information on other areas check http://www.acmmm.org/2014/)
As a core part of multimedia data, the acoustic modality is of great importance as a source of
information that is orthogonal to other modalities like video or text. This allows for richer
information to be extracted when performing content analysis, as well as a rich mean of
communication of information. We are seeking strong technical submissions revolving around
music, speech and audio processing in multimedia. One topic of interest is submissions
performing an analysis of the acoustic signals in order to extract information from multimedia
content (e.g. what notes are being played, what is being said, or what sounds appear), or the
context (e.g. language spoken, age and gender of the speaker, localization using sound).
Another topic of interest is submissions performing synthesis of acoustic content for multimedia
purposes (e.g. speech synthesis, singing voices, acoustic scene synthesis). Furthermore, we are
also interested in ways to represent acoustic data as multimedia; for example, in symbolic form
(e.g. closed captioning of speech), in the form of sensor input and visual images (e.g. recordings
of gestures in musical performances). or others. Another topic of interest is applications that
involve the acoustic modality. The inclusion of acoustics opens up interesting possibilities for
novel multimedia interfaces and user interactions. In addition, contextual, social and affective
aspects play an important role when using acoustics, which can be seen, for example, in the
consumption and enjoyment of music, and the sound design of cinematic productions.
All submissions should maintain a clear relation to multimedia: there either should be an
explicit relation to multimedia items, applications or systems, or an application of a multimedia
perspective, in which information sources from different modalities are considered.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Multimedia audio analysis and synthesis · Multimedia audio indexing, search, and retrieval
· Music, speech, and audio annotation, similarity measures, and evaluation
· Multimodal and multimedia approaches to music, speech, and audio
· Multimodal and multimedia context models for music, speech, and audio
· Computational approaches to music, speech, and audio inspired by other domains (e.g.
computer vision, information retrieval, musicology, psychology)
· Multimedia localization using acoustic information
· Social data, user models and personalization in music, speech, and audio
· Music, audio, and aural aspects in multimedia user interfaces
· Algorithms and applications of music, speech, and audio
· New and interactive musical instruments, systems and other music, speech, and audio
applications · Novel interaction interfaces using/with music, speech, and audio
· Music, speech, and audio coding, transmission, and storage for multimedia applications
Deadlines for long papers is March 31st, 2014 and for short papers is April 14th, 2014
For other deadlines please check http://www.acmmm.org/2014/important_dates.html
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3-3-34 | (2014-12-01) CfP IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing - Atlanta Georgia 2014 Technical Program Chairs: Douglas Williams, Timothy Davidson, and Ghassan AlRegib 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:
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 Tentative timeline for paper submission:
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3-3-35 | (2014-12-07) 3rd Dialog State Tracking Challenge (DSTC3). We are pleased to announce the opening of the third Dialog State Tracking Challenge (DSTC3). Complete information, including the challenge handbook, training data, evaluation scripts, and baseline trackers are available on the DSTC3 website: http://camdial.org/~mh521/dstc/ The Dialog State Tracking Challenge (DSTC) is a research challenge focused on improving the state of the art in tracking the state of spoken dialog systems. State tracking refers to accurately estimating the user's goal as a dialog progresses. Accurate state tracking is desirable because it provides robustness to errors in speech recognition, and helps reduce ambiguity inherent in language within a temporal process like dialog. In this challenge, participants are given labelled corpora of dialogs to develop state tracking algorithms. The trackers will then be evaluated on a common set of held-out dialogs which are released, un-labelled, during a one week period. This is a corpus-based challenge: participants do not need to implement a speech recognizer, a semantic parser, or an end-to-end dialog system. The first DSTC completed in 2013, with 9 teams participating and a total of 27 entries, with 9 papers presented at SIGDIAL 2013, advancing the state-of-the-art in several dimensions. DSTC2 introduced a completely new dataset, in a new domain (restaurant information), with more complicated and dynamic dialog states that may change throughout the dialog. DSTC2 concluded a few months ago, again with 9 participating teams (about half new) -- results have been submitted to and will be presented at a special session at SIGDIAL 2014. DSTC3 will focus on the task of adapting and expanding to a new domain, when there is a lot of labelled data in a smaller domain. The 'smaller domain' is the restaurants domain from DSTC2; the 'new extended domain' is a larger tourist information domain: DSTC3 includes restaurants and adds pubs and coffee shops, and more detail (slots) for restaurants relative to the DSTC2 data. Participants are encouraged to submit papers describing their work to SLT 2014, whose deadline will be approx. 20 July. The organisers are awaiting confirmation of a proposed special session at the conference. DSTC3 schedule: - 4 April 2014 : Labelled tourist information seed set released - 9 June 2014 : Unlabelled tourist information test set released - 16 June 2014 : Tracker output on tourist information test set due - 23 June 2014 : Results on tourist information test set given to participants - 20 July 2014 : SLT paper deadline (approximate) - 7-10 Dec 2014 : SLT workshop (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA) The training data, scoring scripts, baselines, domain ontology and database are all available for public download. Prospective participants are strongly encouraged to join the mailing list, to ensure you receive notifications of updates to data or scripts, and are included in discussions about the challenge. To join, email listserv@lists.research.microsoft.com with 'subscribe DSTC' in the body of the message (without quotes). Feel free to direct questions to the organizers. We hope you will consider participating! DSTC3 organizers Matt Henderson (lead) - Cambridge University [matthen@gmail.com] Blaise Thomson - Cambridge University [brmt2@cam.ac.uk] Jason D. Williams - Microsoft Research [jason.williams@microsoft.com] DSTC3 advisory board Bill Byrne - University of Cambridge Paul Crook - Microsoft Research Maxine Eskenazi - Carnegie Mellon University Milica Gasic - University of Cambridge Helen Hastie - Herriot Watt Kee-Eung Kim - KAIST Sungjin Lee - Carnegie Mellon University Oliver Lemon - Herriot Watt Olivier Pietquin - SUPELEC Joelle Pineau - McGill University Deepak Ramachandran - Nuance Communications Brian Strope - Google Steve Young - University of Cambridge
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3-3-36 | (2014-12-07)The 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014) , South Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada, USA The 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014) will be held in South Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, on Dec 7-10, 2014. The main theme of the workshop will be 'machine learning in spoken language technologies'. One of our goals is to increase both intra and inter community interaction, by means of (inter alia)
Following tradition from the last two SLT workshops in 2010 (Berkeley, CA) and 2012 (Miami, FL), we are looking forward to hosting challenges and special or themed sessions. Submission of papers in all areas of spoken language technology is encouraged, with emphasis on the following topics: · 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 · Multimodal processing · Human/computer interaction · Educational and healthcare applications · Assistive technologies · Natural Language Processing Important Deadlines Paper Submission Monday, July 21, 2014 Notification of Acceptance Friday, September 5, 2014 Demo Submission September 2014 Demo Acceptance October 2014 Early registration deadline October 17, 2014 Workshop December 7-10, 2014 Submission Procedure
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the SLT 2014 website. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.
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3-3-37 | (2014-12-10) 4th International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration (ISAV2014), Tehran, Iran
The Iranian Society of Acoustics and Vibration (ISAV) has the great pleasure of inviting you to the 4th International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration (ISAV2014). ISAV2014 is jointly organized by ISAV and Iran University of Science and Technology and will be held in Tehran, Iran from 10-11 December, 2014. Following three successful conferences in three last years (ISAV2011, ISAV2012 and ISAV2013), we look forward to welcoming you to another memorable and exciting ISAV conference in 2014. Through keynote lectures and oral and poster presentations, the conference will present an overview of the latest developments in theoretical and applied acoustics and vibration. We cordially invite you to submit your papers for oral and poster sessions through the conference website www.isav.ir/2014. We also invite sponsors and exhibitors to participate in the conference exhibition where they can present their latest scientific and industrial achievements, advertise their new products and services, and learn about the latest developments in acoustics and vibration. Please use the link here to go to the conference website. The deadline for paper submission is 22th June 2014. We look forward to seeing you at ISAV2014 in December 2014 in Tehran. Sincerely, ISAV2014 Secretariat
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3-3-38 | (2014-12-23) CfP International Conference on Human Machine Interaction, New Delhi IndiaCall for papersInternational Conference on Human Machine Interaction 2014 23 – 25, December 2014 http://intconfhmi.com In association with SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia. and ASDF (Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties) Chennai Chapter, we will organize the International Conference HMI 2014 which will be held in New delhi -INDIA. Human Machine Interaction (HMI), is a main annual research conference aimed at presenting current research being carried out. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. HMI 2014 is co-sponsored by Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties and SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia and technical co-sponsored by many other universities and institutes. Area of Submission
Topics of interest for HMI is widely declared for the above, but not limited to. Conference Registration Fees Rebate (Discount)We are pleased to inform you that the organizing committee of the HMI2014 allocates a financial support for all participants from developing or emerging countries. This Financial support of among of 150 Dollars is available to help participants to attend HMI2014 You can find more details in: http://intconfhmi.com/register.html
We are waiting for seeing you in India. NB : A select number of Post Conference Excursions will take place during 5 days. As examples : 1 Day Tour to Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Mathura in AC Bus : 25 $ per person 1 Day Tour to Qutub Minar, Parliament, Lotus Temple, India Gate, Gandhi Smiriti, Red Fort, Humayun's Tomb, Rajghat: 25 $ per person
Best Regards Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL General Co-Chair, HMI2014 Head of Research Unit: Sciences & Technologies of Image and Telecommunications ( Sfax University ) GSM +216 20 200005
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3-3-39 | (2016-00-00) Bids invitation for the conference Speech Prosody 2016 (SProSIG)The Advisory Board of SProSIG, the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group, invites bids from sites interested in hosting its flagship conference Speech Prosody in 2016. The bid process will proceed as follows: (1) Optional: Groups interested in hosting a bid are invited to express interest in an e-mail to the current SProSIG Secretary and/or President (e.g., by replying to this e-mail). (2) Optional: Each group interested in hosting the conference is invited to give a presentation on May 23, 2014 at the Speech Prosody 2014 conference in Dublin. (3) Required: Each bid should then be formalized in a written document, mailed to the secretary of SProSIG by June 15, 2014. These documents will be posted at sprosig.isle.illinois.edu for all SProSIG members to read. (4) Selection of the site for Speech Prosody 2016 will then be conducted using an on-line ballot at http://sprosig.isle.illinois.edu. Each current member of SProSIG will be allowed to vote. Bids to host Speech Prosody 2016 should include the following information: (a) Names and affiliations of members of the organizing committee. (b) Information about institutional support for the conference if any. (c) Tentative location of the conference (city and, if possible, venue). Oral and written presentation of the bid should highlight attributes that make both city and site suitable for hosting an international conference, including transportation to/from and within the city, lodging and dining options near the proposed venue, facilities in the proposed venue for a 300-person oral session and a 40-poster poster session, and any other attributes likely to be of interest to the members of SProSIG. (d) Tentative dates of the proposed conference (typically four days in late May 2016) (e) Proposed theme of the conference and/or proposed new session topics that will be included, along with existing session topics of the Speech Prosody conference, in the Conference Call for Papers.
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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 | CALL FOR PROPOSALS ICASSP 2019 ICASSP 2019
The IEEE Signal Processing Society is accepting proposals for the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP®). SPS Members are invited to submit a proposal to host ICASSP. If you are interested in submitting a proposal please contact Nicole Allen to get the forms and guidelines. ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing applications. The series is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and has been held annually since 1976. The conference features world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and over 120 lecture and poster sessions. ICASSP is a cooperative effort of the IEEE Signal Processing Technical Committees:
To submit a proposal, send a notice of intent to bid to the Vice President – Conferences and the Conference Service Coordinator using the email addresses as shown below. Include in the notice your contact information and the proposed location. The Signal Processing Society Conference Services staff will issue the proposal submission form and guidlines upon receipt of the letter of intent. The form must be completed and the proposal submitted to the Conference Services staff by 21 March 2014. Proposals will be assessed by the Conference Board Executive Subcommittee. Accepted bidding teams [finalists] will be invited to present at the Conference Board meeting held at ICASSP 2014, May 4-9, 2014 in Florence, Italy.
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3-3-42 | 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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3-3-43 | NEW MASTER IN BRAIN AND COGNITION AT UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, BARCELONA NEW MASTER IN BRAIN AND COGNITION AT UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, BARCELONA
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3-3-44 | Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences at USC CA USA REU Site: Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences --------------------------------------------------------------------
The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) offers a 10-week summer research program for undergraduates in interactive virtual experiences. A multidisciplinary research institute affiliated with the University of Southern California, the ICT was established in 1999 to combine leading academic researchers in computing with the creative talents of Hollywood and the video game industry. Having grown to encompass a total of 170 faculty, staff, and students in a diverse array of fields, the ICT represents a unique interdisciplinary community brought together with a core unifying mission: advancing the state-of-the-art for creating virtual reality experiences so compelling that people will react as if they were real.
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of ICT research, we welcome applications from students in computer science, as well as many other fields, such as psychology, art/animation, interactive media, linguistics, and communications. Undergraduates will join a team of students, research staff, and faculty in one of several labs focusing on different aspects of interactive virtual experiences. In addition to participating in seminars and social events, students will also prepare a final written report and present their projects to the rest of the institute at the end of summer research fair.
Students will receive $5000 over ten weeks, plus an additional $2800 stipend for housing and living expenses. Non-local students can also be reimbursed for travel up to $600. The ICT is located in West Los Angeles, just north of LAX and only 10 minutes from the beach.
This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The site is expected to begin summer 2013, pending final award issuance.
Students can apply online at: http://ict.usc.edu/reu/ Application deadline: March 31, 2013
For more information, please contact Evan Suma at reu@ict.usc.edu.
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