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| Wednesday, November 12, 2014 by Chris Wellekens |
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| 3-1-1 | (2015-01-04) Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WISSAP-2015), Gandhinagar , India WiSSAP 2015
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| 3-1-2 | (2015-09-06) Call for Satellite Workshops of INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany**** Call for Satellite Workshops ****
INTERSPEECH 2015 will be held in the beautiful city of Dresden, Germany, on September 6-10, 2015
The theme is 'Speech beyond Speech - Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important
Biosignal'. The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for
satellite workshops, which will be held in proximity to the main conference.
The Organizing Committee will work to facilitate the organization of such satellite workshops,
to stimulate discussion in research areas related to speech and language, at locations in Central
Europe, and around the same time as INTERSPEECH. We are particularly looking forward to
proposals from neighboring countries. If you are interested in organizing a satellite workshop,
or would like a planned event to be listed as an official satellite event, please contact the organizers
or the Satellite Workshop Chair at fmetze@cs.cmu.edu The Satellite Workshop coordinator along
with the INTERSPEECH team will help to connect (potential) workshop organizers with local
contacts in Germany, if needed, and will try to be helpful with logistics such as payment, publicity,
and coordination with ISCA or other events. Proposals should include:
* workshop name and acronym * organizers' name and contact info
* website (if already known)
* date and proposed location of the workshop
* estimated number of participants
* a short description of the motivation for the workshop
* an outline of the program and invited speakers
* a description of the submission process (e.g. deadlines, target acceptance rate)
* a list of the scientific committee members
Proposals for satellite workshops should be submitted by email to workshops@interspeech2015.org
by August 31st, 2014 We strongly recommend that organizers also apply for
ISCA approval/ sponsorship, which will greatly facilitate acceptance as an INTERSPEECH satellite
event. We plan to notify proposers no later than October 30, 2014. If you have any questions about
whether a potential event would be a good candidate for an INTERSPEECH 2015 satellite workshop
feel free to contact the INTERSPEECH 2015 Satellite Workshops Chair.
Sincerely,
Florian Metze
Satellite Workshops Chair fmetze@cs.cmu.edu
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| 3-1-3 | (2015-09-06) Calls for INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany Calls for INTERSPEECH 2015
INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to applications.
INTERSPEECH 2015 will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is evident that not all characteristics of speech are already fully understood. We therefore encourage contributions that analyze and model speech as a biosignal in a broad understanding, e.g. for extracting information about the speaker, for identifying processes leading to speech production, or for generating speech signals with specific bio-characteristics. Contributions to all other areas of speech science and technology are also welcome.
Important Dates 30 Nov 2014 special sessions: paper submission deadline
Call for Papers The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting for paper submissions. Please refer to our CfP page for more details. 15.09.2014 – Details on paper submission and topics can be found on our CfP page.
Call for Special Sessions Submissions of Special Sessions & Challenges proposals are encouraged for INTERSPEECH 2015, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. 16.10.2014 – For more information please refer to our SS-CfP page.
Call for Show and Tell The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting for contribution to Show and Tell special event. Please refer to our Show and Tell page for more details. 17.04.2015 – Full submission deadline, proposals should be submitted by email tois2015showntell@gmx.de.
Call for Tutorials The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for tutorials, which will be held on September 6 (first day of conference) in the main venue Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) location. Please refer to here for more details. 15.10.2014 – Proposals for tutorials should be submitted by email to Alexander Raake.
Call for Satellite Workshops The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for satellite workshops, which will be held in proximity to the main conference. Please refer to here for more details or manually navigate to http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/spl-nl/2014-05/2014-05-is2015/ Proposals for satellite workshops should be submitted by email to Florian Metze.
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| 3-1-4 | (2015-09-06) INTERSPEECH 2015 Dresden RFA Interspeech 2015
September 6-10, 2015, Dresden, Germany
SPECIAL TOPIC Speech Beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal
MOTIVATION Speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is the most common means of human-human communication, and therefore research and development in speech and language are not only paramount for understanding humans, but also to facilitate human-machine interaction. Still, not all characteristics of speech are fully understood, and even fewer are used for developing successful speech and language processing applications. Speech can exploit its full potential only if we consider the characteristics which are beyond the traditional (and still important) linguistic content. These characteristics include other biosignals that are directly accessible to human perception, such as muscle and brain activity, as well as articulatory gestures.
INTERSPEECH 2015 will therefore be organized around the topic “Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal”. Our conviction is that spoken language processing can make a substantial leap if it caters for the full information which is available in the speech signal. By opening our prestigious conference to researchers in other biosignal communities, we expect that substantial advances can be made discussing ideas and approaches across discipline and community boundaries.
ORGANIZERS
The following people organize INTERSPEECH 2015:
LOCATION The event will be staged in the recently built Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) in Dresden, Germany. As the capital of Saxony, an up-and-coming region located in the former eastern part of Germany, Dresden combines glorious and painful history with a strong dedication to future and technology. It is located in the heart of Europe, easily reached via two airports, and will offer a great deal of history and culture to INTERSPEECH 2015 delegates. Guests are well catered for in a variety of hotels of different standards and price ranges, making INTERSPEECH 2015 an exciting as well as an affordable event.
CONTACT Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller, Quality and Usability Lab, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, TU Berlin Sekr. TEL-18, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, D-10587 Berlin, Germany Web: www.interspeech2015.org
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| 3-1-5 | (2016) INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA Interspeech 2016 will take place from September 8-12 2016 in San Francisco, CA, USA General Chair is Nelson Morgan. You may from now on be tempted by the nice pictures of the cover page of its tentative website http://www.interspeech2016.org
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| 3-2-1 | (2014-12-07) 2014 Spoken Language Technology Workshop, South Lake Tahoe, NV, USA2014 Spoken Language Technology Workshop December 7-10, 2014 - South Lake Tahoe, NV, USA IEEE - IEEE Signal Processing Society http://www.slt2014.org - Follow @SLT_2014 The Fifth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2014) will be held in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada, on Dec 7-10, 2014. Workshop Technical Theme & Main Goals & Novelties The main theme of the workshop will be 'machine learning in spoken language technologies'. There will be keynote/guest speakers from the machine learning community. One of the workshop goals is to increase both intra and inter community interactions. Towards this goal, in addition to tutorials and keynote speeches on main workshop theme and emerging areas, this year's SLT will host special sessions and self-organizing Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings, as well as panel discussions before/during workshop. If you want to excite the community about a topic and to have an impact on the workshop content, now this is your chance! In addition to submitting papers and/or proposing/organizing SIG meetings, you can get involved in workshop organization in different ways: by nominating keynote speakers (nominations@slt2014.org), or by volunteering to be part of workshop organization (volunteers@slt2014.org). Please visit www.slt2014.org for more details. Call for Papers: Areas/Topics Submission of papers in all areas of spoken language technology is encouraged, with emphasis on the following topics, including both traditional SLT areas as well as emerging ones: - Traditional topic coverage: speech recognition and synthesis, spoken language understanding, spoken dialog systems, spoken document summarization, machine translation for speech, question answering from speech, speech data mining, spoken document retrieval, spoken language databases, speaker/language recognition, multimodal processing, human/computer interaction, assistive technologies, natural language processing, educational and healthcare applications. - Emerging areas: large scale spoken language understanding, massive data resources for SLT, unsupervised methods in SLT, capturing and representing world knowledge in SLT, web search with SLT, SLT in social networks, multimedia applications, intelligent environments. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the SLT 2014 website (slt2014.org). Important Dates Paper submission: July 21, 2014 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2014 Demo submission: September 10, 2014 Notification of Demo acceptance: October 10, 2014 Special Session (SS) proposal submission: June 6, 2014 Notification of SS proposals (1st/2nd decision): June 15 / September 19, 2014 Special Interest Group (SIG) proposal submission: November 21, 2014 Early registration deadline: October 17, 2014 Workshop: December 7-10, 2014 Supported by: - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
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| 3-3-1 | (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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| 3-3-2 | (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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| 3-3-3 | (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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| 3-3-4 | (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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| 3-3-5 | (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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| 3-3-6 | (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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| 3-3-7 | (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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| 3-3-8 | (2015-01-12) International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Lisbon, PortugalInternational Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS website: http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/ January 12 - 15, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Technical Co-sponsorship by: BMES, ESEM and IEEE EMBS In Cooperation with: EUROMICRO, ISfTeH, AAAI and EURASIP Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: WfMC, OMG and FIPA Media Partner: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS IMPORTANT DATES: Position Paper Submission: October 9, 2014 (extended deadline) Position Paper Authors Notification: November 6, 2014 Regular and Position Paper Camera Ready and Registration: November 17, 2014 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear Christian Wellekens, Let me kindly inform you that due to numerous requests the position paper submission deadline for the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS 2015 - http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/) has been extended to 9 October 2014. We hope you can participate in this prestigious conference by submitting a position paper reflecting your current research in any of the conference topics, which are detailed further below. This conference is part of the 8th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC (http://www.biostec.org/) and it is co-located with four related conference, namely: - BIODEVICES - International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (http://www.biodevices.biostec.org/) - BIOIMAGING - International Conference on Bioimaging (http://www.bioimaging.biostec.org/) - BIOINFORMATICS - International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (http://www.bioinformatics.biostec.org/) - HEALTHINF - International Conference on Health Informatics (http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/) Registration to one conference allows free access to all other BIOSTEC conferences. The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), held in cooperation with the EUROMICRO, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and has a technical co-sponsorship by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), European Society for Engineering and Medicine (ESEM) and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS). INSTICC is Member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), Object Management Group (OMG) and Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA). The BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making will be the Media Partner and the Science and Technology Events (SCITEVENTS) the Logistics Partner. BIOSIGNALS is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 70 submissions, 20% were presented as full papers. We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers: - Erik Meijering, Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands - Lionel Pazart, CHU, France - Nuno Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal - David Rose, MIT Media Lab, United States Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). Special Sessions: - Multivariable Processing for Biometric Systems – MPBS 2015 (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/MPBS.aspx) - BEyond SPeech Acoustics: Enhancing Communication through Non-acoustic Signals – BESPA 2015 (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/BESPA.aspx) Tutorials: - From Analysis Pipelines to Biological Insights from ChIP Sequencing Data - Big Data Analytics in Biomedical Informatics Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/BestPaperAward.aspx). Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea. Finally, we also would like to highlight the Doctoral Consortium on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies that will take place in conjunction with BIOSTEC and aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field (http://www.biostec.org/DoctoralConsortium.aspx). Please check further details at the BIOSIGNALS conference website (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/). Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me. Kind regards, Claudia Pinto On behalf of BIOSIGNALS Secretariat Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8813 Email: biosignals.secretariat@insticc.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: Ana Fred, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes / IST, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal Dirk Elias, University of Porto / Fraunhofer, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR: Harald Loose, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Please check the program committee members at http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx CONFERENCE TOPICS: - Speech Recognition - Neural Networks - Biometrics - Pattern Recognition - Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing - Wearable Sensors and Systems - Real-Time Systems - Evolutionary Systems - Acoustic Signal Processing - Time and Frequency Response - Wavelet Transform - Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing - Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear dynamics - Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies - Electromagnetic fields in biology and medicine - Fuzzy Systems and Signals - Monitoring and Telemetry - Cardiovascular Signals - Image Analysis and Processing - Detection and Identification - Motion Control
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| 3-3-9 | (2015-010) Appel à communications : Analyse des discours hors-normes :,approches, concepts et méthodes, Univ. Sherbrooke, Canada Plus d'informations sur http://www.hors-normes2015.evenement.usherbrooke.ca/index.html Depuis peu, on voit émerger un intérêt réciproque entre des sous-disciplines des Sciences du langage qui n’avaient guère coutume de dialoguer : la présente rencontre, qui réunit analystes du discours, phonéticiens, sémanticiens, didacticiens, acquisitionnistes, historiens de la langue et des représentations linguistiques, sociologues du langage etc. en est une illustration. Ce choc des cultures amène l’analyse du discours à considérer des discours oraux, écrits, hybrides sortant de « l’ordinaire », à s’ouvrir à une analyse de discours qui, envisagés depuis les traditions disciplinaires de l’AD et du point de vue de leurs fonctionnements ou encore des présupposés épistémologiques qu’ils interrogent ou bousculent, peuvent être qualifiés de hors-normes. Les domaines d’études où le hors-norme se manifeste ne sont pas limités aux points listés ci-dessous, toute proposition pertinente sera étudiée avec attention.
Sous quelles formes, quels contenus et selon quelles conditions de production, les discours sociaux recourent-ils au hors-norme ? Selon quels paramètres sociaux et discursifs les locuteurs placent-ils le curseur entre norme et hors-norme ? En interrogeant la qualification de « hors-norme » appliquée à des discours, ce colloque invite aussi à repenser les normes de l’analyse de discours. Éléments de bibliographieAdam, Jean-Michel, 2012, Préface de Ecrivainer. La Langue morcelée de Samuel Daiber, par Vincent Capt, Lausanne, Infolio Collection de l’Art Brut, Collection Contre-courant. Angenot, Marc,2008, Dialogues de sourds. Traité de rhétorique antilogique, Paris, Mille et une nuit, collection Essais. Bourdieu, Pierre, 1983 « Vous avez dit 'populaire' ? », Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Vol. 46, L’usage de la parole, p. 98-105. Branca-Rosoff, Sonia, Schneider, Nathalie, 1994, L’écriture des citoyens. Une analyse linguistique de l'écriture des peu-lettrés pendant la période révolutionnaire, Paris, Klincksieck. Bres, Jacques, Haillet, Patrick-Pierre, Mellet, Sylvie, Nolke, Henning, Rosier, Laurence (éds), 2005, Dialogisme et polyphonie, Bruxelles, De Boeck. Collette, Karine, Rousseau, Jean, 2013, « Littératie et responsabilité en santé », Globe, revue internationale d’études québécoises, vol.16, no 1, p. 133-157. De Robillard, Didier, 2008, Perspectives alterlinguistiques, Paris, L’Harmattan, vol. 1 et 2. Demonet Michel, Geffroy Annie, Gouaze Jean, Lafon Pierrre, Mouillaud, Maurice, Tournier, Maurice, 1978 [1975], Des tracts en Mai 68. Mesures de vocabulaire et de contenu, Paris, Champ libre (1re édition : Presses de la FNSP). Didirkova, Ivana, Hirsch, Fabrice, 2014, « Etude préliminaire des caractéristiques phonétiques sur le bégaiement : le cas du français et du slovaque », Actes des XXXe Journées d'Etudes sur Ernst Gerhard, 2003, « Les peu lettrés devant les normes de la textualité », D. Osthus, C. Polzin-Haumann, C. Schmitt (éds), La norme linguistique, Bonn, Romanistischer Verlag. Ernst, Gerhard, 2010, « “qu’il n’y a orthographe ny virgule encorre moins devoielle deconsol et pleinne delacunne“ : la norme des personnes peu lettrées (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles) », M. Iliescu, H. Siller-Runggaldier, P. Danler (éds), Actes du XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes, Innsbruck 2007, Berlin, New York, De Gruyter, vol. 3, p. 543-551. Fairon, Cédric, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie, 2014, SMS Communication. A Linguistic Approach, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins. Fex Sören, « Perceptual evaluation », Journal of Voice, 1992, 6, p. 155-158. Foucault, Michel, 1973, Moi, Pierre Rivière ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère : un cas de parricide au XIX e siècle, Paris, Gallimard. Larrivée, Pierre, 2011, « Au-delà de la polyphonie », Le Français moderne, 79, 1, p.223-234. Macherey, Pierre, 2009, De Canguilhem à Foucault. La force des normes, Paris, La Fabrique. Maingueneau, Dominique, 2014, Discours et analyse de discours, Paris, Armand Colin. Manesse, Danièle, « Les enfants des classes populaires, la langue et la norme », Cahiers pédagogiques, 500, p. 92-94. Panckhurst, Rachel, Moïse, Claudine, 2011, « SMS « conversationnels » : caractéristiques interactionnelles et pragmatiques », 79e colloque Acfas, Sherbrooke, May 9-10, 2011. Paveau, Marie-Anne, 2010, « La norme dialogique. Propositions critiques en philosophie du discours », Semen, n° 19, p. 141-159. Pêcheux, Michel, 1969, L’analyse automatique du discours, Paris, Dunod. Ricoeur, Paul, 1986, l’idéologie et l’utopie, Paris, Seuil, 1997. Sarfati, Georges-Élia, 2008, « Pragmatique linguistique et normativité : remarque sur les modalités discursives du sens commun », Langages vol. 2, 170, p. 92-108. Siouffi, Gilles, Steuckardt, Agnès (éds), 2007, Les linguistes et la norme, Berne, Peter Lang.
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| 3-3-10 | (2015-02-12) 6th International Conference Information Systems and Economic Intelligence, Hammamet, Tunisia CALL FOR PAPERS SIIE ? 2015 6th edition of the International Conference Information Systems and Economic Intelligence February 12-14th., 2015 in Hammamet (Tunisia) (http://siie2015.loria.fr) Special session: structuring multimedia streams More and more documents and multimedia streams are available on the web. To exploit these extremely large and heterogeneous data, it is necessary to index or to annotate. This task cannot be done manually. We must therefore automatically segment, transcribe, classify, extract keywords and named entities, such as personal names, company names or place names. The results of these treatments provide a structured multimedia stream. These data will be very profitable for individuals, corporations and government agencies. This special session focuses on different methodologies for structuring multimedia streams. Important Dates: Paper submissions (deadline): November 15th, 2014 Notification to authors: December 20th, 2014 Final version for accepted papers: January 5th, 2015
Paper Formats (DOC, RTF or PDF):
? Long papers (for completed research): must not exceed 15 pages.
? Short papers (for R&D research and state of the art, for professionals): must not exceed 8 pages.
Languages of the conference: - Paper: all papers must be written in English - Data show: all video projection (PowerPoint) must be written in English - Presentation: oral presentations and discussions are permitted in English and/or in French.
? We invite you to submit your contributions from the site EasyChair Conference System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siie2015. Organizers of this special session: Irina Illina and Dominique Fohr (LORIA/INRIA, France)
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| 3-3-11 | (2015-03-02) LATA 2015 (extended submission deadline)LATA 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 16, 2014 (23:59 CET) (extended) 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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| 3-3-12 | (2015-05-07) 3rd International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2015), San Diego, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 3-3-13 | (2015-05-28) International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics, Toulouse, France (extended deadline) 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 24th 2014 EXTENDED 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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| 3-3-14 | (2015-06-22) 22nd conference on Natural Language Processing, Caen, France,
22nd conference on Natural Language Processing
University of Caen Lower Normandy June 22-25, 2015 - Caen, France http://taln2015.greyc.fr ----------------
GOALS ---------------- Workshops are aimed at specific TALN themes in order to gather targeted presentations. Each workshop has its own program committee and president. Each workshop organizer is in charge of the workshop call for papers and paper selection. The TALN conference committee will make take care of the local arrangements and organization (conference rooms, breaks and paper publication).
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IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- -Workshop submission deadline: Friday, January 30, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
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WORKSHOP SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ---------------- Workshop proposals should be sent via email to Jean-Marc Lecarpentier (jean-marc.lecarpentier[at]unicaen.fr). Proposals should include a brief description of the theme and goals of the workshop (1 page in PDF), the composition of the program committee and the wished length of the workshop. The TALN program committee will select workshops amongst the proposals received.
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FORMAT ---------------- Workshop papers are in French (or in English for authors not speaking French). Workshop papers must adhere to the TALN style and are between 12 and 14 pages.
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| 3-3-15 | (2015-06-22) Conférence TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015, Caen, France Conférence TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015
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| 3-3-16 | (2015-07-01) CONSECUTIVITY AND SIMULTANEITY IN LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES AND SPEECH, Strasbourg, France
CONSECUTIVITY AND SIMULTANEITY IN LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES AND SPEECH
CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY THE RESEARCH UNIT 1339 LINGUISTIQUE, LANGUES, PAROLE (LILPA) UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG (UNISTRA) / STRASBOURG (FRANCE) AND THE FACULTY OF ARTS PAVOL JOZEF ŠAFÁRIK UNIVERSITY (UPJŠ) / KOŠICE (SLOVAKIA) 1st TO 3rd JULY 2015 STRASBOURG / FRANCE This international and interdisciplinary conference focuses on original and innovative work on the complex dynamic character of the consecutivity/simultaneity couple in the field of linguistics. It covers all disciplines of linguistics, as well as other related scientific areas (e.g. information sciences, computer sciences, medicine, etc.) preoccupied resolutely by linguistic issues. If the paradigm of consecutivity usually examines phenomena which succeed in time, in space and in a conceptual order, these consecution relationships can also denote dynamic interdependence between causality and simultaneity; the latter referring to phenomena which occur at the same time. In the field of semantics and syntax, some linguistic categories illustrate temporal properties (gerund, the past participle, etc.) and aspectual properties (accomplished, unaccomplished, durational, etc.) of consecutivity and/or simultaneity. Similarly, temporal markers such as and, then, etc., are characterised by their ability to alternatively denote these two properties. Finally, some syntactic constructions, including textual ones, induce through their own iconicity, spatiotemporal interpretation (incidence vs dependence, correlation vs causality, etc.). Regarding languages, interpretation, unlike translation, carried out either consecutively (with or without taking down notes) or simultaneously (in the cabin or outside the cabin – 'chuchotage'), relies mainly on reformulation strategy, this re-expression technique being more rapid and more salient in the context of simultaneous interpretation. As concerns texts, we shall consider the intricacies of relationships between diachronic and synchronic variations observable in manuscripts, and also syntactic twists or semantic constants. In didactics of first and foreign languages, it is useful to observe how opposing the simultaneous to the consecutive determines institutional didactic choices (e.g. notional vs action perspective), expert choices (direct vs deferred or face-to-face vs mediated teaching, etc.) and also pedagogical choices (spontaneous vs reformulated production, active vs imitative approach, etc.). In sociolinguistic investigations carried out by dialectologists, investigators are confronted with linguistic and meta-linguistic formulations of informants, formulations that these very informants may change, for various reasons and at different times of the investigation. It is the tension between consecutivity and simultaneity of productions of the same speaker which help to adequately approach the object of one’s study, and better understand language changes observed by researchers, together with the reasons for linguistic repositioning carried out by informants. In speech production and speech perception, we shall confront the (quasi)sequential representation of phonetic and phonological segments within a phonetic and phonological gestural analysis, in terms of coarticulation of segments, or even in terms of their co-production. We shall argue that co-production of articulatory gestures serves to optimise rapid and global perception of speech. Proposals should highlight, in one of the themes mentioned below: 1) Either the study of a given problem within the linguistic sciences, related to the analysis of consecutivity and simultaneity; 2) Either an issue allowing improvement or development of methods, tools and procedures for the analysis of consecutivity and simultaneity in a field of linguistics. In all cases, the perspective adopted by the conference will be met to and clarified. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF THE SYMPOSIUM: FRENCH AND ENGLISH THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE
TERMS OF SUBMISSION Proposals should include the following information: – Title of the paper; – Outline of the problem of the study providing all relevant details; – 4-5 keywords. The entire contribution will not exceed four pages, including references (Times 12, 1.5 spacing). Proposals will be submitted online, and will be subject to evaluation by the Scientific Committee and by a team of evaluators. IMPORTANT DATES ♦ Dissemination of the call for papers: November 10, 2014 ♦ Opening of the site for the submission of 2-4 page abstracts: December 1, 2014 ♦ Deadline for submission: January 18, 2015 ♦ Notification: March 29, 2015 ♦ Registration opens: – Early Bird registration: March 30 to April 26, 2015 (special tariff for students / PhD) – Full tariff registration: from 27 April 2015 ♦ Registration deadline: May 18, 2015 ♦ Date of the conference: 1 to 3 July 2015 ORGANISERS LILPA Research Unit (Linguistics, Languages & Speech), Dir. Rudolph Sock Research Teams (E.R.) composing the Unit: • Language Didactics (Dir. Laurent Kashema) • Discourse Functioning and Translation (Dir. Maryvonne Boisseau) • Research Groupe on European Multilingualism (Dir. Dominique Huck) • Speech and Cognition (Dir. Béatrice Vaxelaire) • Scolia (Dir. Pierre Nobel) Faculty of Arts of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ) / Košice (Slovakia): • Renáta Panocová • Štefan Franko • Mária Paľová ORGANISING COMMITTEE (IN CONSTITUTION) Angelina Aleksandrova, Stéphanie Debaize, Camille Fauth, Anna Gilg, Élodie Lang, Jean-Paul Meyer, Rudolph Sock.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS List to be finalised. WORKSHOPS Worhshop1: Interpretation and Translation Workshop 2: Data acquisition systems and databases
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| 3-3-17 | (2015-08-04) 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, Mexico City 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
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| 3-3-18 | (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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| 3-3-19 | (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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| 3-3-20 | (2015-09-02) GESPIN 2015 Gesture and Speech in Interaction, Nantes, France GESPIN 2015 Gesture and Speech in Interaction 2 - 4 September 2015 Universite de Nantes - FRANCE http://www.gespin4.univ-nantes.fr/70179108/1/fiche___pagelibre/&RH=1412770436454 First Call for Papers After Poznań in Poland, Bielefeld in Germany and Tilburg in the Netherlands, the fourth edition of GESPIN will be held in Nantes, France. GESPIN is an international conference on how gesture and speech work together to achieve various goals. This edition will focus especially on “combined units of meaning in gesture and speech”. The following issues may be of particular interest: · Mapping of units in different semiotic modes · Overlapping of units across modalities · Affordances and relevance of different unit types · Multimodal models of cognition · Transliteration of units · Gesture and speech in development · Gesture and speech in dialogue · Multimodal language learning and teaching Yet, papers on all other topics related to the combination of speech and gesture are welcome as well. We also invite proposals for tutorials and hands-on data sessions. Papers and tutorial reports will be published online. Keynote speakers · Alan Cienki (FU Amsterdam) · Jean-Marc Colletta (U. Grenoble) · Ellen Fricke (TU Chemnitz, Germany) · Judith Holler (MPI, Nijmegen) Important dates · Deadline for full papers and workshop proposals: April 15, 2015 · Acceptance of papers & workshops: June 15, 2015 · Revised version of accepted papers: July 15, 2015 · Gespin conference: September 2-4, 2015 Venue Faculte des Langues et Cultures Etrangeres (FLCE) Universite de Nantes Chemin de la Censive du Tertre 44312 Nantes FRANCE Registration fees · Students: 80 € · Academics: 150 € The conference fee will cover the online publication cost of the proceedings, conference package, snacks and drinks during breaks as well as the conference dinner and social program. Submission Please submit full papers (6 pages maximum), written in English (see submission link on website for submission procedure and paper template). Papers will be sent to two reviewers and final selection will be discussed collectively by the organizing committee. Organizing committees Local organizing committee · Gaelle Ferre (principle organizer, Gaelle.Ferre@univ-nantes.fr) · Mark Tutton (principle organizer, Mark.Tutton@univ-nantes.fr) · Manon Lelandais (conference secretary, Manon.Lelandais@etu.univ-nantes.fr) · Benjamin Lourenco (conference secretary, Benjamin.Lourenco@etu.univ-nantes.fr) Scientific board · Mats Andren (U. Lund, Sweden) · Dominique Boutet (Evry, France) · Jana Bressem (TU Chemnitz, Germany) · Heather Brookes (U. Cape Town, South Africa) · Alan Cienki (FU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) · Doron Cohen (U. Manchester, UK) · Jean-Marc Colletta (U. Grenoble, France) · Gaelle Ferre (U. Nantes, France) · Elen Fricke (TU Chemnitz, Germany) · Alexia Galati (U. Cyprus) · Marianne Gullberg (U. Lund, Sweden) · Daniel Gurney (U. Hertfordshire, UK) · Simon Harrison (U. Nottingham Ningbo, China) · Judith Holler (MPI, The Netherlands) · Ewa Jarmołowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Konrad Juszczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Maciej Karpiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Sotaro Kita (U. Warwick, UK) · Stefan Kopp (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Emiel Krahmer (U. Tilburg, The Netherlands) · Anna Kuhlen (U. Humbolt Berlin, Germany) · Silva H. Ladewig (Europa-Universitat Frankfurt, Germany) · Maarten Lemmens (U. Lille 3, France) · Zofia Malisz (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Irene Mittelberg (HUMTEC Aachen, Germany) · Asli Ozyurek (MPI, The Netherlands) · Katharina J. Rohlfing (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Gale Stam (National Louis University, USA) · Marc Swerts (U. Tilburg, The Netherlands) · Michał Szczyszek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Marion Tellier (U. Aix en Provence, France) · Mark Tutton (U. Nantes, France) · Petra Wagner (U. Bielefeld, Germany) GESPIN conference board · Ewa Jarmołowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Konrad Juszczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Maciej Karpiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Zofia Malisz (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Katharina J. Rohlfing (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Michał Szczyszek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Petra Wagner (U. Bielefeld, Germany)
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| 3-3-21 | (2015-09-04) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2015) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2015) Satellite event of Interspeech 2015 Leipzig,Germany The ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) promotes the use of speech and language technology for educational purposes, and provides a forum for exchanging information regarding recent developments and other matters of interest related to this topic. For further information please visit http://www.sigslate.org. The upcoming Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Education (SLaTE 2015) will be organized by the Pattern Recognition Lab of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in cooperation with Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig (HfTL). The workshop will be held in Leipzig, September 4–5, 2015. It is a satellite event of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), which will take place afterwards in Dresden, September 6–10, 2015. Dresden is only 120 km away from Leipzig and can be reached easily within 72 minutes by train (ICE). If you are interested, please download our flyer or our posters (poster 1 and poster 2). We will present them at the INTERSPEECH 2015 booth at INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore. We are looking forward to welcome you in Leipzig!
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| 3-3-22 | (2015-09-05) Workshop on the History of Speech Communication, Dresden, Germany Workshop on the History of Speech Communication, (Sig-Hist) Technische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany Organizers: Rüdiger Hoffmann ruediger.hoffmann@tu-dresden.de Jürgen Trouvain trouvain@coll.uni-saarland.de
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| 3-3-23 | (2015-10-12) CfP 6th International Conference Information Systems and Economic Intelligence: special session: structuring multimedia streams (updated)
CALL FOR PAPERS SIIE ̓ 2015 6th edition of the International Conference Information Systems and Economic Intelligence February 12-14th., 2015 in Hammamet (Tunisia) (http://siie2015.loria.fr) Special session: structuring multimedia streams More and more documents and multimedia streams are available on the web. To exploit these extremely large and heterogeneous data, it is necessary to index or to annotate. This task cannot be done manually. We must therefore automatically segment, transcribe, classify, extract keywords and named entities, such as personal names, company names or place names. The results of these treatments provide a structured multimedia stream. These data will be very profitable for individuals, corporations and government agencies. This special session focuses on different methodologies for structuring multimedia streams. Important Dates: Paper submissions (extended deadline): December 1st, 2014 Notification to authors: December 20th, 2014 Final version for accepted papers: January 5th, 2015
Paper Formats (DOC, RTF or PDF):
– Long papers (for completed research): must not exceed 15 pages.
– Short papers (for R&D research and state of the art, for professionals): must not exceed 8 pages.
Languages of the conference: - Paper: all papers must be written in English - Data show: all video projection (PowerPoint) must be written in English - Presentation: oral presentations and discussions are permitted in English and/or in French.
– We invite you to submit your contributions from the site EasyChair Conference System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siie2015. Organizers of this special session: Irina Illina and Dominique Fohr (LORIA/INRIA, France)
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| 3-3-24 | (2015-12-13) Calls for Challenge Task Proposals ASRU 2015, Scottsdale, Az, USA (updated)
IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2015
CALL FOR CHALLENGE TASKS
http://asru2015.org/CallForChallenges.asp
Submission deadline: December 31, 2014
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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| 3-3-25 | (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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| 3-3-26 | (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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| 3-3-27 | 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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| 3-3-28 | 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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| 3-3-29 | Conferences by John Esling, President of International Phonetic Association, Paris Chers collègues, Dear Colleagues,
Dans le cadre des séminaires de Professeurs Invités organisées par le LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, nous avons le plaisir de recevoir à Paris en novembre 2014 le Professeur John Esling de l’université de Victoria (Vancouver, Canada). Within the conferences organised by the LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, we are pleased to announce the seminars that will be given by John Esling (University of Vancouver), Invited Professor.
John Esling, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria http://web.uvic.ca/ling/faculty/esling.htm
Les conférences auront lieu les vendredis 7, 14, 21 et 28 novembre de 10h à 12h, au Laboratoire de Phonétique et de Phonologie (LPP) 19 rue des Bernardins, 75005 Paris The conferences will take place on Fridays November the 7, 14, 21, & 28, from 10 to 12 am, at Laboratoire de Phonétique et de Phonologie (LPP)
19 rue des Bernardins, 75005 Paris, France
Pour tout renseignement, contacter Lise Crevier-Buchman lise.buchman@numericable.fr
Contact person
En attaché et sur le site du LabEx, vous trouverez les résumés des 4 conférences prévues. http://www.labex-efl.org/?q=fr/node/266 See attached and on the website the detailed program.
Programme :
7 nov. : Voice and Voice Quality, and Voice classification Voice and Voice Quality: Description of VQ, definitions, anatomy, physiology, states of the larynx, phonation types, the Laryngeal Articulator Model Voice Quality Classification: Laryngeal and supralaryngeal voice quality categories, canonical phonetic categories
14 nov. : Infant Acquisition of Speech and Voice Quality Infant Acquisition of Speech and Voice Quality: Infant speech, ‘learning’ the laryngeal vocal tract, audio exemplars
21 nov. : Phonetic Modelling of Voice Quality and Phonological Implications Phonetic Modelling of Voice Quality: Review of the analysis of oral voice quality and of laryngeal voice quality, images, drawings, computer analysis, computer modelling Phonological Implications: The place of the laryngeal articulator in phonological analysis, the place of voice quality in phonological analysis, the Phonological Potentials Model
28 nov. : Linguistic Exemplars and Voice Quality in Linguistic Theory Linguistic Exemplars: Language examples, laryngeal and supralaryngeal voice quality categories, images Voice Quality in Linguistic Theory: Conclusion, voice quality as the driver of sound change
Biography Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Victoria President of International Phonetic Association Pour en savoir plus: http://web.uvic.ca/ling/faculty/esling.htm
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| 3-3-30 | 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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| 3-3-31 | 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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| 3-3-32 | 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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