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3-3 Other Events
| 3-3-1 | (2014-09-11) CfP 2nd Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM 2014), Penang, Malaysia UPDATED SLAM2014 Call for Paper (important update at the end of this announcement) ***** ISCA/IEEE SLAM UPDATE *****
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| 3-3-2 | (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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| 3-3-3 | (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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| 3-3-4 | (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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| 3-3-5 | (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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| 3-3-6 | (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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| 3-3-7 | (2014-10-15) Deuxième appel à inscription à l'Ecole d'Automne en Recherche d’Information Et Applications, Région Grenobloise, France
********************************************************************** Deuxième appel à inscription à l'Ecole d'Automne en Recherche d’Information Et Applications. 15-17 Octobre 2014 Domaine de Parménie – Région Grenobloise ********************************************************************** Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de l'Ecole d'Automne en Recherche d’Information Et Applications, qui se tiendra à Izeaux, à 30 kilomètres au nord-est de Grenoble. EARIA (École d'Automne en Recherche d'Information et Application) a pour objectif principal la formation des doctorants dans le domaine de la Recherche d'Information (RI). Elle est organisée en 2014 par l'équipe Modélisation et Recherche d'Information Multimédia (MRIM) du Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) avec le support de l'Association Francophone de Recherche d'Information et Applications (ARIA http://www.asso-aria.org). L'ARIA est une société savante, association loi 1901, ayant pour but de promouvoir le savoir et les connaissances du domaine de la Recherche d'Information. Cette école permet d'échanger et de faire le point sur les dernières avancées scientifiques et technologies liées à l'indexation automatique et à la recherche des textes multilingues, des images, des vidéos, permettant de construire des Systèmes de Recherche d'Information Multimédia. Ces systèmes sont au cœur des futurs moteurs de recherche du WEB. Les cours sont organisés sur 4 demi-journées (du mercredi 15 octobre 2014 midi au vendredi 17 octobre midi) et offrent un cadre d'échange convivial tant autour des fondements que des thèmes novateurs dans le domaine de la RI, abordés par des chercheurs français et européens faisant autorité dans le domaine. EARIA a vocation à se tenir tous les deux ans et offre une occasion privilégiée de rencontres et de discussions entre séniors du domaine et jeunes chercheurs, permettant ainsi à ces derniers de mieux situer leur projet de recherche. Les domaines couverts par les cours de cette école d'automne sont présentés en 8 sessions, et couvrent aussi bien des éléments généraux du domaine (comme une introduction, des éléments de modélisation théoriques, des aspects logiciels, des éléments expérimentaux), et des aspects plus spécialisés. Parmi les thèmes traités par cette école nous avons : • L'introduction à la Recherche d'Information – les bases communes (M. Boughanem, E. Gaussier) • Le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles et l'Extraction d'Information pour la Recherche d'Information (I. Tellier); • La Recherche d'Information multimédia (G. Quénot, G. Linares); • La Recherche d'Information sociale (J. Kamps); • La Recherche d'Informations sémantique (J.-P. Chevallet);
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| 3-3-8 | (2014-10-16) CfP MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation, Barcelona (SP) --------------------------------------------------
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| 3-3-9 | (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 Les résumés sont à adresser à fabrice.hirsch@univ-montp3.fr ET melissa.barkat@univ-montp3.fr pour cette date. 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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| 3-3-10 | (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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| 3-3-11 | (2014-11-19) ALBAYZIN 2014 SEARCH ON SPEECH EVALUATION, Gran Canaria, SpainALBAYZIN 2014 SEARCH ON SPEECH EVALUATION The Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology (RTTH) and the ISCA Special Interest Group on Iberian Languages (SIG-IL) are pleased to announce the ALBAYZIN 2014 Search on Speech Evaluation, which will be carried out as part of Iberspeech 2014, a biennial event gathering the Spanish researchers on speech Technology. This year’s event will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), on November 19-21, 2014 (see http://iberspeech2014.ulpgc.es for details). Research groups worldwide are invited to participate in this evaluation. Here we just provide the key points. The full evaluation plan can be found in: http://iberspeech2014.ulpgc.es/index.php/albayzin/search-on-speech-evaluation **TASKS** The ALBAYZIN 2014 Search on Speech evaluation involves searching in audio content a list of terms/queries. This evaluation focuses on retrieving the appropriate audio files that contain any of those terms/queries. Four different tasks are defined: 1) KEYWORD SPOTTING (KWS), where the input to the system is a list of terms, which is known when processing the audio and hence word-based recognizers can be effectively used to hypothesize detections. 2) SPOKEN TERM DETECTION (STD), where the input to the system is a list of terms (as in the KWS task), but terms/queries are unknown when processing the audio. This is the same task as in NIST STD 2006 evaluation [1] and Open Keyword Search 2013 [2]. 3) QUERY-BY-EXAMPLE SPOKEN TERM DETECTION (QbE STD), where the input to the system is an acoustic example per query and hence a prior knowledge of the correct word/phone transcription corresponding to each query cannot be made. This task must generate a set of occurrences for each query detected in the audio files, along with their timestamps as output, as in the STD task. QbE STD is the same task as those proposed in MediaEval 2011, 2012 and 2013 [3]. 4) QUERY-BY-EXAMPLE SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL (QbE SDR), where the input to the system is composed of several acoustic examples per query and hence a prior knowledge of the correct word/phone transcription corresponding to each query cannot be made. This task must generate an output score for each of the provided queries, which reflects the probability that each of the queries appears in each audio file, and no information about the timestamp is required. Formally, given a spoken example of a given query q and a spoken document x (whose transcriptions are unknown), a QbE SDR system must carry out some kind of detection procedure and output a score s ∈ R, the higher (the more positive) the score the higher the likelihood that q appears in x. Note that systems are neither required to make a strong decision about whether or not q appears in x, nor to provide the time marks of the place (or places) where q appears. Systems are just required to produce a score, which must be computed by automatic means, with no human supervision. This is the same task as that proposed in MediaEval 2014 Query-by-Example Search on Speech (QUESST) [4]. **REGISTRATION** Interested groups must register for the evaluation before July 15th 2014, by contacting the organizing team at: javiertejedornoguerales@gmail.com luisjavier.rodriguez@ehu.es with CC to the Chairs of Iberspeech 2014(iberspeech2014@ulpgc.es), and providing the following information: Research group (name and acronym) Institution (university, research center, etc.) Contact person (name) Email **SCHEDULE** • June 30, 2014: Release of training and development data • July 15, 2014: Registration deadline • September 3, 2014: Release of evaluation data • September 30, 2014: Deadline for the submission of system outputs and description papers • October 15, 2014: Results distributed to participants • November 19-21, 2014: Evaluation Workshop at Iberspeech 2014 For more information, please follow the link to the Albayzin 2014 Search on Speech Evaluation: http://iberspeech2014.ulpgc.es/index.php/albayzin/search-on-speech-evaluation **REFERENCES** [1] http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/mig/tests/std/2006/index.html [2] http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openkws13.cfm [3] Florian Metze, Xavier Anguera, Etienne Barnard, Marelie Davel and Guillaume Gravier. 'Language Independent Search in Mediaeval's Spoken Web Search Task'. Computer Speech and Language, Special Issue on Information Extraction & Retrieval, 2014. [4] http://multimediaeval.pbworks.com/w/page/79432139/QUESST2014
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| 3-3-12 | (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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| 3-3-13 | (2014-12-03) GlobalSIP Symposium: Machine Learning Applications in Speech Processing GlobalSIP Symposium: Machine Learning Applications in Speech Processing: Submission deadline June 16 This is a reminder of the upcoming submission deadline of June 16, for the Machine Learning Applications in Speech Processing symposium of the IEEE SPS GlobalSIP conference (Atlanta Georgia, December 3-5, 2014). The symposium is accepting papers, as the title suggests, that apply machine learning methods in interesting ways to speech processing tasks. For more information, please see http://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/symposium/mlasp.html
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| 3-3-14 | (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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| 3-3-15 | (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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| 3-3-16 | (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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| 3-3-17 | (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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| 3-3-18 | (2015-03-02) LATA 2015LATA 2015 Nice, France March 2-6, 2015 Organized by: CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271 Nice Sophia Antipolis University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/ **************************************************************************************** AIMS: LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas. VENUE: LATA 2015 will take place in Nice, the second largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. The venue will be the University Castle at Parc Valrose. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words computational complexity data and image compression descriptional complexity digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string and combinatorial issues in bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata unconventional models of computation weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2015 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Andrew Adamatzky (West of England, Bristol, UK) Andris Ambainis (Latvia, Riga, LV) Franz Baader (Dresden Tech, DE) Rajesh Bhatt (Massachusetts, Amherst, US) José-Manuel Colom (Zaragoza, ES) Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux, FR) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, HU) Aldo de Luca (Naples Federico II, IT) Susanna Donatelli (Turin, IT) Paola Flocchini (Ottawa, CA) Enrico Formenti (Nice, FR) Tero Harju (Turku, FI) Monika Heiner (Brandenburg Tech, Cottbus, DE) Yiguang Hong (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sanjay Jain (National Singapore, SG) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle, UK) Antonín Kučera (Masaryk, Brno, CZ) Thierry Lecroq (Rouen, FR) Salvador Lucas (Valencia Tech, ES) Veli Mäkinen (Helsinki, FI) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, ES, chair) Filippo Mignosi (L’Aquila, IT) Victor Mitrana (Madrid Tech, ES) Ilan Newman (Haifa, IL) Joachim Niehren (INRIA, Lille, FR) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Arlindo Oliveira (Lisbon, PT) Joël Ouaknine (Oxford, UK) Wojciech Penczek (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Dominique Perrin (ESIEE, Paris, FR) Alberto Policriti (Udine, IT) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (Connecticut, Storrs, US) Jörg Rothe (Düsseldorf, DE) Frank Ruskey (Victoria, CA) Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE) Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku, Sendai, JP) Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund, DE) Frank Stephan (National Singapore, SG) Paul Tarau (North Texas, Denton, US) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Jacobo Torán (Ulm, DE) Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen, NL) Jaco van de Pol (Twente, Enschede, NL) Pierre Wolper (Liège, BE) Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Hans Zantema (Eindhoven Tech, NL) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Sébastien Autran (Nice) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Enrico Formenti (Nice, co-chair) Sandrine Julia (Nice) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Christophe Papazian (Nice) Julien Provillard (Nice) Pierre-Alain Scribot (Nice) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) 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, references, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2015 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from July 21, 2014 to March 2, 2015. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 10, 2014 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2014 Early registration: November 25, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 26, 2014 Late registration: February 16, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2015 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: Nice Sophia Antipolis University Rovira i Virgili University
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| 3-3-19 | (2015-05-28) International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics, Toulouse, France International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics
Discourse(s) In Linguistics: Units and Levels of Analysis
May 28th and 29th 2015 Toulouse - France www.jetou2015.fr
Submission Deadline: Friday October 10th 2014 Call for Papers
The doctoral students in Linguistics of the laboratories at Toulouse University, France:
CLLE-ERSS (Équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique) IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) OCTOGONE-Lordat (Centre Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Langage et de la Cognition)
are organizing the 5th edition of JéTou (Journées d'études Toulousaines), an international conference aiming at gathering doctoral students and young researchers (who have defended their dissertation within the past three years) together, from the different disciplines of Linguistics, on an open and multidisciplinary theme.
This 2015 edition will be devoted to a reflection on the following theme: “Discourse(s) in Linguistics: Units and Levels of Analysis”.
The term discourse, understood in its broadest sense as a multimodal language production (oral, written, verbal, gestural) is at the heart of Linguistics. Both in production and reception, investigation methods have led to analysis levels with variable granularities, where overlapping units maintain relationships with strong interdependence. Therefore, discourse depends on both the object and the meaning given to it.
Common issues are: planning, segmentation, organization, modeling. A valuable reflection involving different fields arises from these challenges; more than ever, an interdisciplinary practice is necessary to further the various aspects of discourse.
Research in these fields has taken different forms. Besides, the gap between theoretical models and empirical studies based on real data has been significantly reduced in the last few years. Qualitative as well as quantitative, these works have raised new questions: choice of units, collection and annotation of corpora, evaluation procedures, comparison and interpretation of results, etc.
This edition will focus mainly on levels of analysis and units in discourse. Possible topics include:
Obviously, this list does not include all the research possibilities following from the theme of the conference, which is why every submission that addresses the notions of discourse in the Language Sciences will be read and reviewed. Proposals which include theoretical reflections and actual data will be particularly appreciated.
JéTou 2015 offers a challenging theme that every field of Language Sciences can adapt for themselves. This conference will give the opportunity, to those who wish to come, to ask questions, discuss and compare their work, their methods, their reflections in an interdisciplinary context, which favours positive interactions and constructive debates.
Guest Speakers :
Submission Guidelines:
Articles must be written in French or English.
Submissions must not exceed 3 pages for an oral presentation as well as for a scientific poster (references included). These three pages must include a title, a summary and up to 5 keywords (letter type: Times New Roman 12, simple spacing, normal margin). You can indicate by email your preference for an oral presentation (20 min + 10 min for questions) or for a scientific poster, but the final decision on the format of the presentation will be made by the organization committee alone.
Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jtou2015
The conference proceedings will be published and given to the participants (5 pages for a scientific poster and 10 pages for an oral presentation).
Selection Criteria
Each submission will be reviewed by at least two experts in the relevant field. The following elements will be considered:
. in the field.
Schedule
Deadline for submission of summaries: Friday October 10th 2014, Notification of acceptance: Friday November 21st 2014, Submission deadline for long papers: Friday January 16th 2015, Submission deadline for final versions: Friday April 10th 2015,
Conference: Thursday May 28th and Friday May 29th 2015 at Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (Mirail campus).
Organising Committee
Francesca Cortelazzo, Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, Laury Garnier, Luce Lefeuvre, Sophie Mayras-Cauchois, Olivier Nocaudie, Florian Savreux, Maxime Warnier.
Website www.jetou2015.fr Contact contact.jetou2015@gmail.com
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| 3-3-20 | (2015-08-26) LVA 2015 - 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation
LVA 2015 - 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation August 24-26, 2015, Liberec, Czech Republic http://amca.cz/lva2015/ *About LVA* LVA 2015 will be the 12th in a series of international conferences which attracted hundreds of researchers and practitioners over the years. Since its start in 1999 under the banner of Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA), the conference has continuously broadened its horizons. It encompasses today a host of additional forms and models of general mixtures of latent variables. Theories and tools borrowing from the fields of signal processing, applied statistics, machine learning, linear and multilinear algebra, numerical analysis and optimization, and numerous application fields offer exciting interdisciplinary interactions. *Highlights* The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation and it will feature the much-awaited results of the 5th Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2015).Keynote talks will be given by three leading researchers:- Tülay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)- Rémi Gribonval (Inria, France)- DeLiang Wang (Ohio State University, USA) *Call for Papers* The proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS). Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS format) in areas related to latent variable analysis and signal separation, including but not limited to:- Theory: sparse coding, dictionary learning; statistical and probabilistic modeling; detection, estimation and performance criteria and bounds; causality measures; learning theory; convex/nonconvex optimization tools- Models: general linear or nonlinear models of signals and data; discrete, continuous, flat, or hierarchical models; multilinear models; time-varying, instantaneous, convolutive, noiseless, noisy, over-complete, or under-complete mixtures- Algorithms: estimation, separation, identification, detection, blind and semi-blind methods, non-negative matrix factorization, tensor decomposition, adaptive and recursive estimation; feature selection; time-frequency and wavelet based analysis; complexity analysis- Applications: speech and audio separation, recognition, dereverberation and denoising; auditory scene analysis; image segmentation, separation, fusion, classification, texture analysis; biomedical signal analysis, imaging, genomic data analysis, brain-computer interface- Emerging related topics: sparse learning; deep learning; social networks; data mining; artificial intelligence; objective and subjective performance evaluation. *Special Sessions* The program will also feature special sessions on new or emerging topics of interest. Proposals for special sessions must include the session title, rationale, outline, and a list of 4 to 6 invited papers. To submit, see http://amca.cz/lva2015/. *Important Dates*
*Organizing Committee* General chairs:Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic)Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)Program chairs:Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France)Special sessions: Shoji Makino (University of Tsukuba, Japana)SiSEC chair: Nobutaka Ono (NII, Japan)Overseas liaison: Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN, Japan)
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| 3-3-21 | (2015-08-31) Joint Conference PEVOC & MAVEBA 2015, Firenze, Italia Joint Conference PEVOC & MAVEBA 2015: August 31 - September 4, 2015, Palazzo degli Affari, Piazza Adua 1, Firenze, Italy
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| 3-3-22 | (2015-12-13) Calls for Challenge Task Proposals ASRU 2015, Scottsdale, Az, USA ASRU 2015 welcomes proposals for challenge tasks. In a challenge task, participants compete or collaborate to accomplish a common or shared task. The results of the challenge will be presented at the ASRU workshop event in the form of papers reporting the achievements of the participants, individually and/or as a whole. We invite organizers to concretely propose such challenge tasks in the form of a 1-2 page proposal. The proposal should include a description of ● the task and its intended goal ● the task organizers and key contact people for the various aspects of the task ● the data or shared resource that is to be used ○ Details on the availability or its collection process ○ Required labeling or other pre-processing and the expected timeline of this process ○ Privacy concerns around the data or resource as it will be released to all participants ○ Licensing terms or conditions for participants ● the evaluation process, how will a test set be defined, what figure of merit will be used to ● measure success, and how will a common scoring process be put in place to arrive at ● comparable results for all participants ● the timeline; when will training/test material be made available, when are participant (sub-)system submissions due ● the expected (number of) participants, and whether this is a new installment of an existing challenge or a new challenge series altogether ● any special requests or circumstances, e.g., required timing or format of the challenge execution Participants will report their achievements in the form of regular format paper submissions to the ASRU workshop. These submissions will undergo the normal ASRU review process, but the organizers can suggest reviewers that would be particularly insightful for the challenge subject matter. Accepted papers will be organized in a special session at the conference (in poster format; the only format used at ASRU). The accepted papers will appear in the ASRU proceedings. Given the possibly lengthy process of organizing and executing a special challenge, prospective organizers are encouraged to submit proposals as soon as possible. The ASRU technical program committee will make acceptance decisions based on a rolling schedule -- i.e., proposals are reviewed as soon as they come in. Challenge proposals should be sent to Technical Program co-chair Michiel Bacchiani at michiel@google.com, and will be accepted until the end of 2014.
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| 3-3-23 | (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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| 3-3-24 | (2016-00-00) Speech Prosody Boston, USASpeech Prosody 2016 will be held in Boston, USA. Congratulations to Dr. Veilleux, Dr. Barnes, Dr. Shattuck-Hufnagel and Alejna Brugos for presenting an outstanding bid, and we look forward to an outstanding conference in Boston in 2016!
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| 3-3-25 | 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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| 3-3-26 | 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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| 3-3-27 | 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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| 3-3-28 | 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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| 3-3-29 | 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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