ALBAYZIN 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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Technical Program Chairs: Douglas Williams, Timothy Davidson, and Ghassan AlRegib
General Chairs: Geoffrey Li and Fred Juang

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:

• Signal processing in communications and networks, including green communication and optical communications
• Image and video processing
• Selected topics in speech and language processing
• Acoustic array signal processing
• Signal processing in security applications
• Signal processing in finance
• Signal processing in energy and power systems
• Signal processing in genomics and bioengineering (physiological, pharmacological, and behavioral)
• Neural signal processing
• Selected topics in statistical signal processing
• Seismic signal processing
• Graph-theoretic signal processing
• Machine learning and human machine interfaces
• Compressed sensing, sparsity analysis, and applications
• Big data processing, heterogeneous information processing, and informatics
• Radar and array processing including localization and ranging techniques
• Multimedia transmission, indexing and retrieval, and playback challenges
• Hardware and real-time implementations
• Other novel and significant applications of selected areas of signal processing

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
November 22, 2013: Symposium selection decision notification
November 29, 2013: Final version of the call-for-papers for the accepted symposia due

Tentative timeline for paper submission:
May 16, 2014: Paper submission deadline (regular and invited)
June 27, 2014: Review results announced
September 5, 2014: Camera-ready regular and invited papers due

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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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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)

• keynote/guest speakers from machine learning community (e.g. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) and others);

• online panel discussions before/during the conference;

• miniSIGs - small discussion groups to get organized before/during /after the panel discussions or as independent SIG meetings;

• highlight sessions, where 3-5 best papers will be presented orally.

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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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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Call for papers

International 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.
The HMI 2014 conference proceeding will be published in the ASDF Proceedings as one volume, and will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, World Cat, Google Scholar, and sent to be reviewed by Ei Compendex and ISI Proceedings. Selected papers will be recommended to be published in the Journals.

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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International 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
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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

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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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      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.

• Discours analysés dans le domaine de la littératie
  
  Très peu d’études convoquent l’analyse de discours dans les études de littératie, bien qu’elle se révèle particulièrement intéressante pour examiner les rapports exprimés à la lecture/écriture, les productions en tant que telles ainsi que les discours publics sur les questions de littératie. De nombreux paramètres sont à prendre en considération si l’on considère la littératie selon une acception socio-culturelle (New Litteracy Studies) : rapports de pouvoir entre certaines littératies (pratiques hors-normes) et discours dominants (y compris langue commune) ; descriptions sociales et discursives de pratiques innovantes (le parlécrit (Jeay,1991) des textes/SMS) ; parcours interprétatifs imprévus, décalés en contexte de réception : quelles marges discursives pour l’interprétation hors-norme ? On accordera une attention particulière à l’historicité des normes linguistiques. L’accès à la lecture et à l’écriture a une histoire : comment, dans ses différents moments, sa gradualité a-t-elle été appréhendée ? On interrogera l’espace discursif qu’occupent ceux que l’on a pu nommer ici peu-lettrés, ailleurs semicolti, ou encore situer dans le clair-obscur du « substandard ».
  
  
• Discours analysés dans le domaine des situations de travail, de la vie socio-professionnelle, des politiques sociales, de l’emploi, du travail social
  
  Cadrés par de nombreuses injonctions politiques et par des discours prescriptifs, les univers organisés sont des lieux de fabrication et de circulation de normes. Lorsqu’elles sont mises en débat, celles-ci n’induisent-elles que de la légitimation ou de la contestation ? Des discours porteurs de « logiques autres », de rationalités hétérogènes, alternatives, voire dissidentes sont-ils développés ? Le hors-norme exprime-t-il un discours de résistance ? de refus ? de retrait ? de débrouille pour échapper aux contraintes du travail ou des politiques publiques ? Quelles sont ses propriétés (inter)discursives, énonciatives, argumentatives ?
  
  
• Discours analysés dans le domaine de la pathologie du langage, ou des pathologies censées affecter le langage
  
  Quel rôle jouent, dans la perception du hors norme, le « référent interne » (Fex, 1992), la variabilité des canons esthétiques, l’attitude des soignants et aidants ? Quelle correspondance entre cette perception et la description des discours produits ? Quels paramètres (articulatoires, acoustiques, linguistiques,…) caractérisent un discours pathologique par rapport à un discours dit « normal » ? La notion d’art brut a ouvert une approche de certaines de ces productions en tant que phénomènes de création (Adam, 2012), l’AD peut-elle proposer d’autres pistes ?
  
  
• Discours analysés dans le domaine des études de l’oralité
  
  Quels ratés de la communication orale, quels dérapages, glissements involontaires qui produisent des équivoques, des lapsus et malentendus ? Quels énoncés constituent les chutes des corpus oraux, les énoncés délaissés, faute de catégories analytiques adéquates ? En quoi certains énoncés ou bribes d’énoncés oraux sortent-ils des cadres d’analyse prévisibles ? Pourquoi ces énoncés semblent-ils défier les outils notionnels et méthodologiques de l’analyste ?
  
  
• Discours analysés dans le domaine de l’acquisition du langage
  
  Le discours de l’enfant, de l’apprenant s’inscrit dans un processus. Par nature « hors-normes », il est pourtant observé en référence à des stades de développement, constituant une forme de norme. Pour comprendre comment s’opèrent perception et signalement du hors-norme, on s’interrogera notamment sur les notions de (hors)-norme scolaire tel qu’il est formulé dans les discours institutionnels et sociaux, sur les attitudes socio-discursives des parents, éducateurs et enseignants.

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 bibliographie

Adam, 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
la Parole, Le Mans, 23-27 juin, http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/jep2014/articles/20.pdf.

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.

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CALL FOR PAPERS SIIE ? 2015

6^th 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.

Submission:

? 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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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/

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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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3rd International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2015)
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Website: http://www.iclr.cc/
Submission deadline:  December 19, 2014
Location:  Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa, May 7-9, 2015

Overview
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It is well understood that the performance of machine learning methods is heavily dependent on the choice of data representation (or features) on which they are applied. The rapidly developing field of representation learning is concerned with questions surrounding how we can best learn meaningful and useful representations of data. We take a broad view of the field, and include in it topics such as deep learning and feature learning, metric learning, kernel learning, compositional models, non-linear structured prediction, and issues regarding non-convex optimization.

Despite the importance of representation learning to machine learning and to application areas such as vision, speech, audio and NLP, there was no venue for researchers who share a common interest in this topic. The goal of ICLR has been to help fill this void.

A non-exhaustive list of relevant topics:
- unsupervised, semisupervised, and supervised representation learning
- metric learning and kernel learning
- dimensionality expansion
- sparse modeling
- hierarchical models
- optimization for representation learning
- learning representations of outputs or states
- implementation issues, parallelization, software platforms, hardware
- applications in vision, audio, speech, natural language processing, robotics, neuroscience, or any other field

The program will include keynote presentations from invited speakers, oral presentations, and posters.
This year, the program will also include a joint session with AISTATS.

ICLR's Two Tracks
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ICLR has two publication tracks.

Conference Track: These papers are reviewed as standard conference papers. Papers should be between 6-9 pages in length. Accepted papers will be presented at the main conference as either an oral or poster presentation and will be included in the official proceedings.
A subset of accepted conference track papers will be selected to participate in a JMLR special topics issue on the subject of Representation Learning. Authors of the selected papers will be given an opportunity to extend their original submissions with supplementary material.

Workshop Track: Papers submitted to this track are ideally 2-3 pages long and describe late-breaking developments. This track is meant to carry on the tradition of the former Snowbird Learning Workshop. These papers are non-archival workshop papers, and therefore may be published elsewhere.

Note that submitted conference track papers that are not accepted to the conference proceedings are automatically considered for the workshop track.

ICLR Submission Instructions
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1. Authors should post their submissions (both conference and workshop tracks) on arXiv: http://arxiv.org
2. Once the arXiv paper is publicly visible (there can be an approx. 30 hour delay), authors should go to the openreview ICLR2015 website to submit to either the conference track or the workshop track.

To register on the openreview ICLR2015 website, the submitting author must have a Google account.

For more information on paper preparation, including style files and the URL for the openreview ICLR2015 website, please see http://www.iclr.cc/doku.php?id=iclr2015:main

Submission deadline:  December 19, 2014

Notes:
i. Regarding the conference submission's 6-9 page limits, these are really meant as guidelines and will not be strictly enforced. For example, figures should not be shrunk to illegible size to fit within the page limit. However, in order to ensure a reasonable workload for our reviewers, papers that go beyond the 9 pages should be formatted to include a 9 page submission and a separate supplementary material submission that will be optionally reviewed. If the paper is selected for the JMLR special topic issue, this supplementary material can be incorporated into the final journal version.
ii. Workshop track submissions should be formatted as a short paper, with introduction, problem statement, brief explanation of solution, figure(s) and references. They should not merely be abstracts.
iii. Paper revisions will be permitted, and in fact are encouraged, in response to comments from and discussions with the reviewers (see 'An Open Reviewing Paradigm' below).
iv. Authors are encouraged to post their papers to arXiv early enough that the paper has an arXiv number and URL by the submission deadline of 19 Dec. 2014.  However, if these are not yet available, authors have up to one week after the submission deadline to provide the arXiv number and URL. At submission time, simply provide the title, authors, abstract, and temporary arXiv number indicating that the paper has been submitted to arXiv.

An Open Reviewing Paradigm
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1. Submissions to ICLR are posted on arXiv prior to being submitted to the conference.
2. Authors submit their paper to either the ICLR conference track or workshop track via the the openreview ICLR2015 website.
3. After the authors have submitted their papers via openreview.net, the ICLR program committee designates anonymous reviewers as usual.
4. The submitted reviews are published without the name of the reviewer, but with an indication that they are the designated reviews.
5. Anyone can openly (non-anonymously) write and publish comments on the paper. Anyone can ask the program chairs for permission to become an anonymous designated reviewer (open bidding). The program chairs have ultimate control over the publication of each anonymous review. Open commenters will have to use their real names, linked with their Google Scholar profiles.
6. Authors can post comments in response to reviews and comments. They can revise the paper as many times as they want, possibly citing some of the reviews.  Reviewers are expected to revise their reviews in light of paper revisions.
7. The review calendar includes a generous amount of time for discussion between the authors, anonymous reviewers, and open commentators.  The goal is to improve the quality of the final submissions.
8. The ICLR program committee will consider all submitted papers, comments, and reviews and will decide which papers are to be presented in the conference track, which are to be presented in the workshop track, and which will not appear at ICLR.
9. Papers that are presented in the workshop track or are not accepted will be considered non-archival, and may be submitted elsewhere (modified or not), although the ICLR site will maintain the reviews, the comments, and the links to the arXiv versions.

General Chairs
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Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montreal
Yann LeCun, New York University and Facebook

Program Chairs
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Brian Kingsbury, IBM Research
Samy Bengio, Google
Nando de Freitas, University of Oxford
Hugo Larochelle, Université de Sherbrooke

Contact
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The organizers can be contacted at iclr2015.programchairs@gmail.com

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International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics

Discourse(s)

In Linguistics:

Units and Levels of Analysis

May 28^th and 29^th 2015

Toulouse - France www.jetou2015.fr

Submission Deadline:

Friday October 24^th 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 5^th 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:

• Phonetics and Phonology:availability and authenticity of oral corpora, phonetic and phonological features of discourse (monolingual or bilingual) in perception and production.

• Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics:macrosyntax, dynamic semantics, argumentation, speech acts, organizational frameworks, cohesion, coherence.

• Terminology and Text Linguistics:genres of discourse, variations, corpus construction, termino-ontological networks.

• Sociolinguistics : genre diversity, code-switching, code-mixing, dialectal variations.

• Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics:pathological speech, bilingual speech, planning, organizing, processing, development and cognitive aging.

• Acquisition and Learning of Languages:mutual contributions between the study of discourse and learning L1 and L2, interference.

• Natural Language Processing:parsing rhetoric, synthesis and speech recognition, information extraction, importance of discourse in local use (morpho-syntactic tagging, named entity recognition).

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 :

• Nicholas Asher, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France)

• Anne-Catherine Simon, Valibel, Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-laNeuve, Belgium)

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:

• The importance and originality of the contribution.

• The validity of the scientific and technical content.

• The critical discussion of the results, especially when compared to existing work

. in the field.

• The adequacy with the conference themes. - The organization and clarity of writing.

Schedule

Deadline for submission of summaries: Friday October 10^th 2014,

Notification of acceptance: Friday November 21^st 2014,

Submission deadline for long papers: Friday January 16^th 2015,

Submission deadline for final versions: Friday April 10^th 2015,

Conference: Thursday May 28^th and Friday May 29^th 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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TALN 2015 Conference
Call for Workshops
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Conférence TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015

Appel à communications TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015

22ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
17èmes Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues

Université de Caen Basse-Normandie,
Caen, du 22 au 25 juin 2015.
http://taln2015.greyc.fr

** Dates importantes **
    Articles longs TALN (10 à 12 pages)
        Date limite de soumission : vendredi 30 janvier 2015 (23:59 heure Paris)
        Notification aux auteurs : lundi 30 mars 2015
        Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : vendredi 8 mai 2015

    Articles courts TALN (4 à 6 pages)
        Date limite de soumission : vendredi 3 avril 2015 (23:59 heure Paris)
        Notification aux auteurs : mercredi 13 mai 2015
        Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : vendredi 22 mai 2015

    Démonstrations TALN (1 à 2 pages)
        Date limite de soumission : vendredi 8 mai 2015 (23:59 heure Paris)
        Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 15 mai 2015
        Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : vendredi 22 mai 2015

    Articles RÉCITAL (10 à 12 pages)
        Date limite de soumission : vendredi 20 mars 2015  (23:59 heure Paris)
        Notification aux auteurs : mardi 28 avril 2015
        Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : vendredi 15 mai 2015

** Comité d’organisation **
    Président TALN : Nadine Lucas GREYC, Université Caen Basse Normandie, France
    Vice-Président TALN : Gaël Dias GREYC, Université Caen Basse Normandie, France
    Président RÉCITAL : Charlotte Lecluze GREYC, Université Caen Basse Normandie, France    
    Vice-Président RÉCITAL : Jose G Moreno GREYC, Université Caen Basse Normandie, France    

** Contacts **
    nadine.lucas@unicaen.fr
    charlotte.lecluze@unicaen.fr


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TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015 Conference

Call for Papers TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015

22nd conference on Natural Language Processing
17th Meeting of Student Researchers in Computer Science for Natural Language Processing

University of Caen Lower Normandy
June 22-25, 2015  -  Caen, France
http://taln2015.greyc.fr

** Important Dates **
    TALN Long paper (10 to 12 pages)
        Paper submission deadline: Friday, January 30, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
        Notification: Monday, March 30, 2015
        Camera ready paper due: Friday, May 8, 2015

    TALN Short paper (4 to 6 pages)
        Paper submission deadline: Friday, April 3, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
        Notification: Wednesday, May 13, 2015
        Camera ready paper due: Friday, May 22, 2015

    TALN Demonstration (1 to 2 pages)
        Submission deadline: Friday, May 8, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
        Notification: Friday, May 15, 2015
        Camera ready paper due: Friday, May 22, 2015

    RÉCITAL paper (10 to 12 pages)
        Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
        Notification: May 13, 2015
        Camera ready paper due: May 22, 2015

** Organizing Committee **
    TALN Chair: Nadine Lucas GREYC, Université Caen Basse Normandie, France
    TALN Co-Chair: Gaël Dias GREYC, Université Caen Basse Normandie, France
    RÉCITAL Chair: Charlotte Lecluze GREYC, Université Caen Basse Normandie, France    
    RÉCITAL Co-Chair: Jose G Moreno GREYC, Université Caen Basse Normandie, France    

** Contacts **
    nadine.lucas@unicaen.fr
    charlotte.lecluze@unicaen.fr

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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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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

AlCoB 2015

Mexico City, Mexico

August 4-6, 2015

Organized by:

Centre for Complexity Sciences (C3)
School of Sciences
Institute for Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS)
Graduate Program in Computing Science and Engineering
National Autonomous University of Mexico

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/

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AIMS:

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction.

The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.

Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.

VENUE:

AlCoB 2015 will take place in Mexico City, the oldest capital city in the Americas and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. The venue will be the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

Exact sequence analysis
Approximate sequence analysis
Pairwise sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment
Sequence assembly
Genome rearrangement
Regulatory motif finding
Phylogeny reconstruction
Phylogeny comparison
Structure prediction
Compressive genomics
Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ...
Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis ?
Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ...
Microbiome analysis
Systems biology

STRUCTURE:

AlCoB 2015 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

to be announced

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Stephen Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA)
Yurii Aulchenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Daniel G. Brown (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Yuehui Chen (University of Jinan, China)
Keith A. Crandall (George Washington University, Washington, USA)
Joseph Felsenstein (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA)
Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, Japan)
Igor Grigoriev (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA)
Yike Guo (Imperial College, London, UK)
Javier Herrero (University College London, UK)
Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Hsuan-Cheng Huang (National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Ian Korf (University of California, Davis, USA)
Nikos Kyrpides (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA)
Yun Li (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
Jun Liu (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
Mingyao Li (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Rodrigo López (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
Andrei N. Lupas (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany)
B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Carlos Martín-Vide (chair, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain)
Tarjei Mikkelsen (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA)
Henrik Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
Christine Orengo (University College London, UK)
Modesto Orozco (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain)
Christos A. Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Manuel Peitsch (Philip Morris International R&D, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
David A. Rosenblueth (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico)
Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Alessandro Sette (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA)
Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
Alfonso Valencia (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain)
Kai Wang (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Zidong Wang (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK)
Harel Weinstein (Cornell University, New York, USA)
Jennifer Wortman (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA)
Jun Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA)
Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Hongyu Zhao (Yale University, New Haven, USA)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Francisco Hernández-Quiroz (Mexico City)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
David A. Rosenblueth (Mexico City, 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, references, proofs, 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=alcob2015

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI 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 registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: March 2, 2015 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 10, 2015
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: April 19, 2015
Early registration: April 19, 2015
Late registration: July 21, 2015
Submission to the journal special issue: November 6, 2015

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

AlCoB 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:

National Autonomous University of Mexico
Rovira i Virgili University

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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*

Jan 16, 2015: Submission of special session proposals

Jan 30, 2015: Special session decisions announced

Mar 27, 2015: Paper submission deadline

May 22, 2015: Notification of acceptance

Jun 12, 2015: Submission of camera-ready papers

Aug 26-28, 2015: Conference dates Jan 16, 2015: Submission of special session proposals

*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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Joint Conference PEVOC & MAVEBA 2015:  August 31 - September 4, 2015, Palazzo degli Affari, Piazza Adua 1, Firenze, Italy
http://pevoc-maveba.dinfo.unifi.it/

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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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Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2015)

Satellite event of Interspeech 2015

Leipzig,Germany

www.slate2015.org

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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Workshop on the History of Speech Communication,  (Sig-Hist)

Technische Sammlungen,

Dresden, Germany

www.sig-hist.org

Organizers:  Rüdiger Hoffmann ruediger.hoffmann@tu-dresden.de

                  Jürgen Trouvain trouvain@coll.uni-saarland.de

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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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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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Speech 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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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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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:

• Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing
• Bio Imaging and Signal Processing
• Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
• Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing
• Information Forensics and Security
• Machine Learning for Signal Processing
• Multimedia Signal Processing
• Sensor Array and Multichannel
• Signal Processing for Communications and Networking
• Signal Processing Theory and Methods
• Speech and Language Processing
• Standing Committee on Industry DSP Technology

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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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
(with Scott Moisik, MPI, Nijmegen)

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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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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NEW MASTER IN BRAIN AND COGNITION AT UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, BARCELONA

A new, one-year Master in Brain and Cognition will begin its activities in the Academic Year 2014-15 in Barcelona, Spain, organized by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (http://www.upf.edu/mbc/).

The core of the master's programme is composed of the research groups at UPF's Center for Brain and Cognition  (http://cbc.upf.edu). These groups are directed by renowned scientists in areas such as computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, vision, multisensory perception, human development and comparative cognition. Students will  be exposed to the ongoing research projects at the Center for Brain and Cognition and will be integrated in one of its main research lines, where they will conduct original research for their final project.

Application period is now open. Please visit the Master web page or contact luca.bonatti@upf.edu for further information.

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REU Site: Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences

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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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