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Friday, February 13, 2015 by Chris Wellekens

3 Events
3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2015-09-06) Call for Satellite Workshops of INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany
**** Call for Satellite Workshops **** 
INTERSPEECH 2015 will be held in the beautiful city of Dresden, Germany, on September 6-10, 2015
The theme is 'Speech beyond Speech - Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important 
Biosignal'. The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for 
satellite workshops, which will be held in proximity to the main conference. 
The Organizing Committee will work to facilitate the organization of such satellite workshops, 
to stimulate discussion in research areas related to speech and language, at locations in Central 
Europe, and around the same time as INTERSPEECH. We are particularly looking forward to 
proposals from neighboring countries. If you are interested in organizing a satellite workshop, 
or would like a planned event to be listed as an official satellite event, please contact the organizers
 or the Satellite Workshop Chair at fmetze@cs.cmu.edu The Satellite Workshop coordinator along 
with the INTERSPEECH team will help to connect (potential) workshop organizers with local 
contacts in Germany, if needed, and will try to be helpful with logistics such as payment, publicity,
 and coordination with ISCA or other events. Proposals should include:
 * workshop name and acronym 
* organizers' name and contact info 
* website (if already known) 
* date and proposed location of the workshop 
* estimated number of participants 
* a short description of the motivation for the workshop 
* an outline of the program and invited speakers 
* a description of the submission process (e.g. deadlines, target acceptance rate) 
* a list of the scientific committee members 
 
Proposals for satellite workshops should be submitted by email to workshops@interspeech2015.org
 by August 31st, 2014 We strongly recommend that organizers also apply for
 ISCA approval/ sponsorship, which will greatly facilitate acceptance as an INTERSPEECH satellite 
event. We plan to notify proposers no later than October 30, 2014. If you have any questions about 
whether a potential event would be a good candidate for an INTERSPEECH 2015 satellite workshop 
feel free to contact the INTERSPEECH 2015 Satellite Workshops Chair. 
 
Sincerely, 
Florian Metze 
Satellite Workshops Chair fmetze@cs.cmu.edu

 

 
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3-1-2(2015-09-06) 2nd CfP for INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany

 

 

 

2nd Call for INTERSPEECH 2015

 

INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to applications.

 

INTERSPEECH 2015 in Dresden (Germany) will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is evident that not all characteristics of speech are already fully understood. We therefore encourage contributions that analyze and model speech as a biosignal in a broad understanding, e.g. for extracting information about the speaker, for identifying processes leading to speech production, or for generating speech signals with specific bio-characteristics. Contributions to all other areas of speech science and technology are also welcome.

 

Important Dates

 

20 March 2015 Paper: submission deadline

20 March 2015 Tutorial: submission deadline

17 April 2015 Show and Tell: submission deadline

01 May 2015 Tutorial: notification of acceptance/rejection

01 June 2015 Paper: notification of acceptance/rejection

01 June 2015 Show and tell: notification of acceptance/rejection

10 June 2015 Paper: camera-ready

10 June 2015 Show and Tell: camera-ready

20 June 2015 Early registration deadline

6-10 Sep 2015 Conference in Dresden, Germany

 

Call for Papers

 

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting paper submissions. Please refer to our CfP page for more details. 20th March 2015 – Paper: submission deadline

 

Call for Tutorials

 

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for tutorials which will be held on September 6 (first day of conference) in the main venue Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) location. Please refer to here for more details. 20th March 2015 – Tutorial: submission deadline

 

Special Sessions

 

Special Sessions & Challenges will be organized for INTERSPEECH 2015, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Please refer to http://interspeech2015.org/events/special-sessions/ .

List of tentatively accepted Special Sessions and Challenges:

 

Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication

 

Biosignal-based Spoken Communication

 

Interspeech 2015 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE): Degree of Nativeness, Parkinson’s & Eating Condition

 

Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures

 

Zero Ressource Speech Technologies: Unsupervised Discovery of Linguistic Units

 

Robust Speech Processing using Observation Uncertainty and Uncertainty Propagation

 

Speech Science in End User Applications

 

Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies

 

Speech and Language Processing of Children’s Speech

 

Advanced Crowdsourcing for Speech and Beyond

 

Call for Show and Tell

 

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting for contribution to Show and Tell special event. Please refer to our Show and Tell page for more details. 17th April 2015 – Full submission deadline, proposals should be submitted by email to is2015showntell@gmx.de.

 

Call for Satellite Workshops

 

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is still open for proposals for satellite workshops, which will be held in proximity to the main conference. Please refer to here for more details or manually navigate to http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/spl-nl/2014-05/2014-05-is2015/ Proposals for satellite workshops should be submitted by email to Florian Metze

 

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3-1-3(2015-09-06) Calls for INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany

Calls for INTERSPEECH 2015

 

INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to applications.

 

INTERSPEECH 2015 will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is evident that not all characteristics of speech are already fully understood. We therefore encourage contributions that analyze and model speech as a biosignal in a broad understanding, e.g. for extracting information about the speaker, for identifying processes leading to speech production, or for generating speech signals with specific bio-characteristics. Contributions to all other areas of speech science and technology are also welcome.

 

Important Dates

30 Nov 2014   special sessions: paper submission deadline
15 Dec 2014  
special sessions: notification of acceptance/rejection for pre-selection
20 Mar 2015  
tutorial: submission deadline
20 Mar 2015  
paper: submission deadline
01 May 2015 
tutorial: notification of acceptance/rejection
17 Apr 2015  
show and tell: submission deadline
01 Jun 2015   
paper: notification of acceptance/rejection
01 Jun 2015   
show and tell: notification of acceptance/rejection
10 Jun 2015   
paper: camera-ready
10 Jun 2015   
show and tell: camera-ready
20 Jun 2015   
early registration deadline
6-10 Sep 2015 conference

 

Call for Papers

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting for paper submissions. Please refer to our CfP page  for more details.

15.09.2014 – Details on paper submission and topics can be found on our CfP page.

 

Call for Special Sessions

Submissions of Special Sessions & Challenges proposals are encouraged for INTERSPEECH 2015, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics.

16.10.2014 – For more information please refer to our SS-CfP page.

 

Call for Show and Tell

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting for contribution to Show and Tell special event. Please refer to our Show and Tell page for more details.

17.04.2015 – Full submission deadline, proposals should be submitted by email tois2015showntell@gmx.de.

 

Call for Tutorials

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for tutorials, which will be held on September 6 (first day of conference) in the main venue Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) location. Please refer to here for more details.

15.10.2014 – Proposals for tutorials should be submitted by email to Alexander Raake.

 

Call for Satellite Workshops

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for satellite workshops, which will be held in proximity to the main conference. Please refer to here for more details or manually navigate to http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/spl-nl/2014-05/2014-05-is2015/

Proposals for satellite workshops should be submitted by email to Florian Metze.

 

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3-1-4(2015-09-06) Interspeech 2015 Call for tutorials

General conference information – INTERSPEECH 2015

INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to applications. INTERSPEECH 2015 will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is evident that not all characteristics of speech are already fully understood. We therefore encourage contributions that analyze and model speech as a biosignal in a broad understanding, e.g. for extracting information about the speaker, for identifying processes leading to speech production, or for generating speech signals with specific bio-characteristics. Contributions to all other areas of speech science and technology are also welcome.

 

Call for tutorials

INTERSPEECH conferences are attended by researchers with a long-term track-record in speech sciences and technology, as well as by early-stage researchers or researchers interested in a new domain within the INTERSPEECH areas. With the current edition of INTERSPEECH, we seek to specifically reflect different audiences in the choice of tutorials, where it will clearly be indicated what prior knowledge the audience should have.

As a consequence, we encourage proposals for tutorials addressing introductory topics or advanced topics in an introductory style, and tutorials targeting experienced researchers who want to dig deeper into a given new topic.

Tutorials may introduce an uprising area of speech-related research, or present an overview of an important more established area.

The tutorials can be of either three hours or six hours duration. The tutorials are expected to cover the state-of-the-art of the proposed topics rather than to primarily present the authors own research.

INTERSPEECH 2015 will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. As a consequence, we especially encourage tutorials from fields that are directly related with this theme. Of course the call is not restricted to the conference theme, and open to any kind of tutorial related with speech science and technology.

Tutorial Proposal Submission

Proposals for the INTERSPEECH 2015 tutorials should be up to 4 pages long. Proposal submissions must conform to the format defined in the tutorial proposal preparation guidelines and provided in the authors’ kit on the INTERSPEECH 2015 website, along with the Call for Tutorials.

Tutorial proposal submission deadline is on Friday 20 March 2015 midnight (11:59pm) GMT. There will be no extension of deadlines. The working language of the conference is English, and proposals must be written in English, too.

 

All proposals should be submitted to tutorials@interspeech2015.org

Preliminary Tutorial Proposal Template

  1. Tutorial Title
  2. Duration [3 hours – 1 session, 6 hours – 2 sessions]
  3. Presenter(s) [Name and Affiliation]
  4. Description of the proposal [1-2 pages description plus a few relevant references and any webpages/material useful for reviewing the proposal]
  5. Explanation of relevance of the proposed tutorial [0.5-1 page]
  6. Description of Presentation format [e.g. one or more presenters, video conferencing or other media, etc.]
  7. Special equipment required for the tutorial
  8. Contact Information [email, Telephone]
  9. Biography of Presenter(s)
  10. Key Publications of Presenter(s) on the tutorial topic
  11. Target Audience [e.g. new researchers to the field, research students, specialists of adjacent fields, etc.]
  12. Estimated number of participants, possibly first names of interested researchers
  13. Provided accompanying material [handouts, storage devices with media, etc.]
  14. Other considerations/comments

Important Dates

Tutorial submission deadline

:

20 March 2015

Notification of acceptance/rejection

:

1 May 2015

Conference dates

:

6-10 Sept 2015

 

We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2015 in Dresden!

Alexander Raake
Tutorial Chair
Email: tutorials@interspeech2015.org

 

 

Assessment of IP-based Applications

TU Berlin & Deutsche Telekom/T-Labs (Research & Innovation)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Raake
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin
+4930835358462 (Tel.)

+49391580239574 (Fax)

E-Mail: alexander.raake@telekom.de

www.aipa.tu-berlin.de

www.laboratories.telekom.com

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3-1-5(2015-09-06)) CfP INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on

INTERSPEECH 2015
Call for paper: submission for INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on
Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies

Paper submission deadline: March 20, 2015
Special Session page:
http://multimediaeval.org/files/Interspeech2015_specialSession_SynergiesOfSpeechAndMultimediaTechnologies.html
Motivation:

Growing amounts of multimedia content is being shared or stored in
online archives. Alternative research directions in the speech
processing and multimedia analysis communities are developing and
improving speech or multimedia processing technologies in parallel,
often using each others work as ?black boxes?. However, genuine
combination would appear to be a better strategy to exploit the
synergies between the modalities of content containing multiple
potential sources of information.

This session seeks to bring together the speech and multimedia research
communities to report on current work and to explore potential synergies
and opportunities for creative research collaborations between speech
and multimedia technologies. From the speech perspective the session
aims to explore how fundamentals of speech technology can be benefit
multimedia applications, and from the multimedia perspective to explore
the crucial role that speech can play in multimedia analysis.

The list of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to):

- Navigation in multimedia content using advanced speech analysis features;
- Large scale speech and video analysis
- Multimedia content segmentation and structuring using audio and visual
features;
- Multimedia content hyperlinking and summarization;
- Natural language processing for multimedia;
- Multimodality-enhanced metadata extraction, e.g. entity extraction,
keyword extraction, etc;
- Generation of descriptive text for multimedia;
- Multimedia applications and services using speech analysis features;
- Affective and behavioural analytics based on multimodal cues;
- Audio event detection and video classification;
- Multimodal speaker identification and clustering.

Important dates:

20 Mar 2015 paper submission deadline
01 Jun 2015 paper notification of acceptance/rejection
10 Jun 2015 paper camera-ready
20 Jun 2015 early registration deadline
6-10 Sept 2015 Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany

Submission takes place via the general Interspeech submission
system. Paper contributions must comply to the INTERSPEECH paper
submission guidelines, cf. http://interspeech2015.org/papers.
There will be no extension to the full paper submission deadline.
We are looking forward to receive your contribution!

Organizers:

- Maria Eskevich, Communications Multimedia Group, EURECOM, France
(maria.eskevich@eurecom.fr <mailto:maria.eskevich@eurecom.fr>)
- Robin Aly, Database Management Group, University of Twente, The
Netherlands (r.aly@utwente.nl <mailto:r.aly@utwente.nl>)
- Roeland Ordelman, Human Media Interaction Group, University of Twente,
The Netherlands (roeland.ordelman@utwente.nl
< mailto:roeland.ordelman@utwente.nl>)
- Gareth J.F. Jones, CNGL Centre for Global Intelligent Content, Dublin
City University, Ireland (gjones@computing.dcu.ie
< mailto:gjones@computing.dcu.ie>)

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3-1-6(2016) INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA

Interspeech 2016 will take place

from September 8-12 2016 in San Francisco, CA, USA

General Chair is Nelson Morgan.

You may from now on be tempted by the nice pictures of the cover page of its tentative website http://www.interspeech2016.org

 

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3-1-7Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events

Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events

  • SIGDIAL 2015 : 16th Annual SIGdial meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (Interspeech 2015 satellite)
    2-4 September 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

  • HSCR2015 : Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research
    5 September 2015, Technische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany

  • SLaTE 2015 : Workshop on speech and Language Technology for Education (Interspeech 2015 satellite)
    4-5 September 2015, Leipzig, Germany as a Satellite Workshop to INTERSPEECH 2015

  • SLPAT 2015 : Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
    11 September 2015, Dresden, Germany, as a Satellite Workshop to INTERSPEECH 2015

  • IWSR 2015 : International Workshop on Speech Robotics
    11 September 2015, as a Satellite Workshop to INTERSPEECH 2015

  • SAT4DH 2015 : Speech and Audio Technologies for the Digital Humanities
    11 September 2015, Leipzig, Germany, as a Satellite Workshop to INTERSPEECH 2015

  • AVSP 2015 (FAAVSP) : The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
    11-13 September 2015, Vienna, Austria, as a Satellite Workshop to INTERSPEECH 2015

  • ERRARE 2015 : Variation and errors in speech production, perception and in automatic processing of multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data
    11-14 September 2015, as a Satellite Workshop to INTERSPEECH 2015

  • MediaEval 2015 : Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark
    14-15 September 2015, as a Satellite Workshop to INTERSPEECH 2015

  • SPECOM 2015 : 17th international conference on Speech and Computer
    20-24 September 2015, Athens, Greece



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3-1-8INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (December 2014)

Updates from INTERSPEECH 2015

Dear colleague,

Interspeech 2015 in Dresden is approaching at an increasing pace, and the entire team of organizers is trying to ensure that you will get a conference which meets all, and hopefully surpasses some, of your expectations. Regarding the usual program of oral and poster sessions, special sessions and challenges, keynotes, tutorials and satellite workshops, the responsible team is working hard to ensure that you will get a program which is not only of respectable breadth and depth, but which also tackles a couple of innovative topics, some of them centered around the special topic of the conference “Speech beyond speech: Towards a better understanding of our most important biosignal”, some of them also addressing other emergent topics.

We would particularly like to draw your attention to the approaching deadlines:
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          30 Nov 2014: Special sessions submission deadline (passed)
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          15 Dec 2014: Notification of pre-selected special sessions
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          20 Mar 2015: Tutorial submission deadline
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          20 Mar 2015: Paper submission deadline (not extensible)
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          17 Apr 2015: Show and tell paper submission deadline.
Calls

In addition to regular papers, we will also experiment with a virtual attendance format for persons who are – mainly for visa or health reasons – not able to come to Dresden to present their paper. For these persons, a limited number of technology-equipped poster boards will be available where online presentations can be held. The number of virtual attendance slots is strictly limited (thus potentially leading to a lower acceptance rate). The corresponding papers have to pass the normal review process, but the deadline will most probably be around 14 days before the normal paper submission deadline. More details on this format will be announced soon.

In the upcoming months, we will keep you updated via this thread, and we will present some historical instruments and techniques related to speech technology which nicely illustrate that Dresden has a rich history in speech science and technology. Interspeech 2015 will hopefully contribute to this history with the latest scientific and technological advances. The entire organizing team is looking forward to welcoming you in Dresden.

On behalf of the organizing team,

Sebastian Möller (General Chair)

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3-1-9INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (February 2015)

+++ INTERSPEECH 2015 – February Update +++

Dear colleagues,

The preparations for Interspeech 2015 in Dresden are running at an increasing pace, and I got the impression that we have a very active contribution from the community this year. Bernd Möbius and Elmar Nöth, our TCP Chairs, have set up a comprehensive and balanced group of Area Chairs for the new areas we have agreed upon with ISCA, and which will soon be published on our website. The ten preliminarily accepted Special Sessions and Challenges are active in collecting contributions; as an example, the session “Advanced Crowdsourcing for Speech and Beyond” has received 17 requests for research funds, which will now be evaluated according to their fit to the special session topic. And our sponsorship, industry and exhibition chairs, Tim Fingscheidt, Claudia Pohlink, Jimmy Kunzmann and Reinhold Häb-Umbach, are actively soliciting sponsoring money to make the event most affordable for you. 

The 2nd Call for Papers is out (deadline March 20):
http://interspeech2015.org/calls/call-for-papers/

In addition there is a special Call for Papers with Virtual Presentation which solicits contributions to this special format we will experiment with at this year’s Interspeech for the first time, and which will be limited to exceptional cases which otherwise would not be able to participate:
http://interspeech2015.org/calls/call-for-papers-with-virtual-presentation/

In addition, there is still the option to submit proposals for Tutorials (deadline March 20) and Show and Tell contributions (deadline April 17):
http://interspeech2015.org/calls/call-for-tutorials/
http://interspeech2015.org/calls/call-for-show-and-tell/

All further information can be found on our Website which Tim Polzehl is eager to keep updated.

For automatically receiving continuous updates, we recommend that you follow us on Twitter (@interspeech2015), or that you use social channels such as LinkedIn or Facebook. And: Please do not delete your Interspeech 2014 App, it will automatically receive an update for Interspeech 2015.

Finally, Dresden is also polishing her historical charm, and for Interspeech attendants the most important aspect of this might be the second contribution to our historical series, which this time is dedicated to the world’s first successful attempt of a mechanical speech synthesiser.

On behalf of the organizing team,

Sebastian Möller (General Chair),
Oliver Jokisch (Publicity Chair)



A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication

Part 2: Von Kempelen's 'Sprachmaschine' and the beginning of speech synthesis

Complete article including figures available at: http://interspeech2015.org/conference/historical-review/

 

The speaking machine of Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804) can be considered as the first successful attempt of a mechanical speech synthesiser. The Austrian-Hungarian engineer is still famous for his 'chess turk' but it was his 'Sprachmaschine' that can count as a milestone in (speech) technology. In his book 'Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst der Beschreibung einer sprechenden Maschine' (published 1791, no English translation yet) he described the function of the machine which was intended to give a voice for deaf people. Contemporary personalities like Goethe confirmed the authenticity of a child voice when the speaking machine was played.

 

How does the machine work?

The machine consists of bellows that is connected with a tube to a wooden wind chest. On the other side of the wind chest a round wooden block represents the interface to an open rubber funnel (as the vocal tract). In the wind chest there are two modified recorders to produce the fricatives [s] and [S]. The voice generator is located inside the wooden block. The artificial voice is generated with the help of a reed pipe borrowed by the pipe organ. It has an ivory reed vibrating against a wooden hollow shallot (like in a clarinet). The trained human operator plays the machine like a musical instrument. The right elbows control the air pressure by pressing on the bellows, two fingers of the right hand close or open the access for stops and nasals, two other fingers of the right hand for the fricatives. Vowels are performed by the palm of left hand in different ways.

 

Replicas

Apart from parts of one of the originals that are hosted at the Deutsches Museum in Munich there are several reconstructions based on Kempelen's quite detailed descriptions. The replicas built in Budapest, Vienna, York and Saarbrücken allow a lively demonstration of the mechanical generation of speech as well its acoustic analysis but also perception tests with today's listeners. Interestingly, the art of constructing artificial voices led to the profession of 'voice makers' in Eastern-German Thuringia (more information in one of the next newsletters). Original products of the Thuringian 'Stimmenmacher' as well as one of the replicas located at TU Dresden are at display of the HAPS (Historische Akustisch-Phonetische Sammlung) available for ears, eyes (and hands) at the re-opening of HAPS at 4 Sept, which is also the start of the Interspeech satellite Workshop on The History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR 2015).

 

Jürgen Trouvain and Fabian Brackhane

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3-1-10INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (January 2015)

 

+++ INTERSPEECH 2015 Update – and a look back! +++

Dear colleagues,

The regular paper deadline for Interspeech 2015 in Dresden is only 2 months away, so we hope that you are preparing for your submissions. We have received an impressive number of Special Session and Challenges proposals. The list of preliminarily accepted proposals, together with more information on each session and its organizers, can be found under http://interspeech2015.org/events/special-sessions/. Thus, in case that your interests fall within the area of one of these Special Sessions or Challenges, consider submitting there.

Please note that March 20 is – apart from the general paper deadline – also the deadline for tutorial proposals. More details on tutorial proposal submissions can be found under http://interspeech2015.org/calls/call-for-tutorials/. The deadline for Show & Tell papers is then April 17.

The current list of Satellite Workshops will be updated successively and can be found under http://interspeech2015.org/events/workshops/.

From now on, we will have a monthly view back to the history of speech communication and technology which happened in Dresden. On behalf of the organizing team, Sebastian Möller (General Chair)


A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication

Part 1: The historic acoustic-phonetic collection

Information Technology at the TU Dresden goes back to Heinrich Barkhausen (1881–1956), the 'father of the electron valve', who taught from 1911 to 1953. Speech research in a narrower sense started with the development of a vocoder in the 1950s. Walter Tscheschner (1927–2004) performed his extensive investigations on the speech signal using components of the vocoder. In 1969, a scientific unit for Communication and Measurement was founded in Dresden. It is the main root of the present Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication. W. Tscheschner was appointed Professor of Speech Communication and started with research in speech synthesis and recognition, which today continues.

Numerous objects from the history of Speech Communication in Dresden, but also from other parts of Germany, are preserved at the historic acoustic-phonetic collection of the TU Dresden. Until the opening of Interspeech 2015, we will present interesting exhibits from the collection in this newsletter monthly. Today, we give an introduction.

The historic acoustic-phonetic collection of the TU Dresden consists of three parts:

• Objects that illustrate the development of acoustics and speech technology at the TU Dresden. The most interesting devices are speech synthesizers of various technologies.

• Objects illustrating the development of experimental phonetics from 1900 until the introduction of the computer. The items of this part were collected by D. Mehnert from different phonetics laboratories and rehabilitation units throughout Germany.

• Objects which were formerly collected at the Phonetics Institute of Hamburg University. This important collection, which was founded by Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia, was transferred to Dresden in 2005 in accordance with a contract due to the closing of the Hamburg institute.

The collection is presented in the Barkhausenbau at the main campus of the TU Dresden. Recently, it is moving to new rooms which are more convenient for the presentation. The newly installed collection will be re-opened at the opportunity of Interspeech 2015.

For this purpose, we cordially invite to a workshop on the history of speech communication, called HSCR2015, which will be held as a satellite event of Interspeech 2015 at September 4/5, 2015, in the Technical Museum of the City of Dresden. It is organized by the special interest group (SIG) on 'The History of Speech Communication Sciences', which is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the International Phonetic Association (IPA). More information on the workshop is presented on http://www.sig-hist.org/.

Rüdiger Hoffmann (Local Chair)


 





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3-1-11Interspeech 2015: Call for Papers with Virtual Presentation

Interspeech 2015: Call for Papers with Virtual Presentation

http://interspeech2015.org/calls/call-for-papers-with-virtual-presentation/

 

This year, INTERSPEECH pilots the option of virtual attendance for presenters of papers who cannot travel to the conference venue, e.g. for reasons of visa restrictions or for health reasons (authors with insufficient funding are referred to the ISCA grants). The accepted contributions will be presented as posters with the presenter being video streamed via a large display that will be positioned next to the printed poster. There will be a full duplex video and audio connection to allow for questions and comments from the audience.

Note that the number of virtual presentations will be strictly limited to a maximum of 20 papers, and that the deadline for contributions aiming at a virtual presentation is 14 days prior to the regular paper deadline. INTERSPEECH anticipates an overall paper acceptance rate of roughly 50%. For the case that we receive more than 40 submissions aiming at a virtual presentation, authors of papers with virtual presentation might have to expect a lower acceptance rate for these submissions. In that case, the authors will be informed and will be given the option of converting their paper into a regular submission, within the regular paper deadline. Authors not making use of this option will face a potentially lower acceptance rate than that for regular submissions. Papers submitted for virtual presentation must not be submitted for regular on-site presentation in parallel.

Authors wishing to submit for virtual presentation tick the option “virtual presentation only” in the submission portal. All papers submitted for virtual presentation will be subject to the normal review process, to guarantee scientific soundness. Accepted contributions for virtual presentation will be subject to a handling fee of 50€, in addition to the regular conference fee (student or full registrants).

Presenters of contributions with virtual presentation may apply for ISCA grants. In case that the grant is accepted, the provided funding will be restricted to the conference fee and the handling fee.

 

Deadline for submission of full papers aiming at virtual presentation: 06 March 2015 24h00 CET.

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3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-2-1(2015-05-18) International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing (NOLISP) 2015, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy

International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing (NOLISP) 2015.

 

Details are on the website:

 

https://sites.google.com/site/nolisp2015/

 

The conference will be held on May 18-20, 2015 in  Vietri  sul Mare, Salerno, Italy at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS, www.iiassvietri.it) and will be followed by the International workshop WIRN 2015 (http://www.wirn2015.polito.it/) that can be attended also by those registered at NOLISP 2015.

 

NOLISP   is a long-lasting conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing devoted to the discussion of novelties and innovations in the field of speech perception, processing and recognition.

 

This year NOLISP extends speech processing to speech dynamics and social signal processing thanks to the participation of two outstanding invited speakers:

Jonathan Harringthon (http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~jmh/)

Alessandro Vinciarelli (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/vincia/)

 

IMPORTANT DATES

  • ·         REGULAR Paper Submission:                MARCH 15 2015
  • ·         Notification of acceptance:                   APRIL  1, 2015
  • ·         Revised Paper Upload Deadline:          MAY  15, 2015
  • ·         Conference Dates:  18-20  MAY, 2015

 

PUBLICATION AND PAGE LIMITATIONS

The accepted contributions will be published as short chapter on the Springer serie ?Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies?  see http://www.springer.com/series/8767 , indexed by SCOPUS.

 

We will be pleased to have you and your colleagues at this event.

 

Profs  Anna Esposito and Carlo Francesco Morabito

on the behalf of the Local Chairs: Alda Troncone and Gennaro Cordasco

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3-2-2(2015-09-02) SIGDIAL 2015 CONFERENCE
Preliminary Call for Papers SIGDIAL 2015 CONFERENCE Wednesday, September 2 to Friday, September 4, 2015 The 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue 
(SIGDIAL 2015) will be located in Prague, Czech Republic. SIGDIAL will be held September 2-4. The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research 
in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series 
of fifteen successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of 
discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves 
as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome formal, corpus-based, system-building or analytical work on discourse and 
dialogue including but not restricted to the following themes and topics: - Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems - Corpora, Tools and Methodology - Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling - Computational Sociolinguistics - Collaborative Process Analysis - Dimensions of Interaction - Open Domain Dialogue - Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialogue and Written Text - Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology - Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialogue SUBMISSIONS Special Session Proposals The SIGDIAL organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. A SIGDIAL special 
session is the length of a regular session at the conference; may be organized as a poster session,
 a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session. Special sessions may, 
at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions. Those wishing to 
organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the
 topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit 
and participate; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session). These proposals should be 
sent to conference[at]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session 
proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general and program co-chairs. Papers The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and 
demonstration descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference 
proceedings. - Long papers may, at the discretion of the technical program committee, be accepted for oral 
or poster presentation. They must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, content, and 
examples. Two additional pages are allowed for references and appendices, which may include 
extended example discourses or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. - Short papers will be presented as posters. They should be no longer than 4 pages, including
 title and content. One additional page is allowed for references and appendices. - Demonstration papers should be no longer than 3 pages, including references. A separate 
one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demonstration descriptions, 
specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a SIGDIAL special 
session, which would highlight a particular area or topic. All papers will undergo regular peer 
review. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this
 information (see submission format). A paper accepted for presentation at SIGDIAL 2015 must 
not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Any questions 
regarding submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips or sound 
clips and examples of available resources for review purposes. Submission is electronic using paper submission software. FORMAT All long, short, and demonstration submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2015 format. 
We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for 
the ACL 2015 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2015 style guidelines 
ACL 2015 style guidelines, and they must be electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous. Papers may include 
authors' names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. MENTORING SERVICE For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring service. Submissions with 
innovative core ideas that may need language (English) or organizational assistance will be 
flagged for 'mentoring' and conditionally accepted with recommendation to revise with a mentor.
 An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the 
authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. Any questions about 
the mentoring service can be addressed to the mentoring chair Svetlana Stoyanchev at 
mentoring[at]sigdial.org. STUDENT SUPPORT SIGDIAL also offers a limited number of scholarships for students presenting a paper accepted 
to the conference. Application materials will be posted at the conference website. BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue and discourse science and technology,
SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent 
researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SPONSOR THE CONFERENCE SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email the 
sponsorships chair Kristy Boyer at sponsor-chair[at]sigdial.org. DIALOGUE AND DISCOURSE SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal Dialogue and Discourse, 
which is endorsed by SIGdial. IMPORTANT DATES Special Session Proposal Deadline: Sunday, 15 March 2015 (23:59, GMT-11) Special Session Notification: Monday, 30 March 2015 Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Submission Deadline: Thursday, 30 April 2015 
(23:59, GMT-11) Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Notification: Friday, 12 June 2015 Final Paper Submission Deadline (mentored papers only): Monday, 13 July 2015 Final Paper Submission Deadline (all types except for mentored papers): Monday, 20 July 2015 Conference: Wednesday, 2 September 2015 to Friday, 4 September 2015 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam, Germany Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Technical Program Co-Chairs Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Mentoring Chair Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T, USA Local Chair Filip Jurcicek, Charles University, Czech Republic Sponsorships Chair Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University, USA SIGdial President Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA SIGdial Vice President Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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3-2-3Forthcoming ISCA Supported Events

 

Forthcoming ISCA Supported Events

 


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3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2015-02-13) Insights into Metarepresentation: Evidence from English and French, Paris
Title: Insights into Metarepresentation: Evidence from English and French
Date: 13th of February 2015
Place : room B (-1) FMSH, 190 Avenue de France, 75013


The massively distributed nature of human cognition constitutes one of the central challenges of contemporary science, with linguistic communication as a foundational case. Communication crucially rests on the hearer's ability to infer the speaker's intended meaning based on the interaction of particular stimuli and context (Grice 1989, Levinson 2000, Sperber & Wilson 1995 i.a.). The inferential nature of communication draws on the ability to attribute underlying beliefs, intentions and desires to others, known as metarepresentation (Recanati 2000, Sperber 2000). Metarepresentation epitomises the humans' ability to engage in deep cognitive coordination with others by which convergence is brought to the variety of stimuli involved in linguistic interpretation.
The issue of metarepresentation allows a deeper understanding of grammatical dimensions such as interrogatives, point-of-view adverbs, focus, conditional clauses, negation, imperfective aspect, across languages and through linguistic change. Two types of question arise however with metarepresentation whether related to an enunciative source or not:
1. What is the actual psychological reality of metarepresentations, and how are they constrained by the mind/brain substrate?
2. What are the concrete linguistic and communicative cues to identifying metarepresentational readings?
While much has been said about the potential indicators of jocularity, irony and reported speech, relatively little is known about their actual presence in real usage, and their interaction with precise prosodic and gestural dimensions. Furthermore, it is difficult to determine to what extent these indicators are stable across languages. The answer to these questions will contribute to a better understanding of the relation between meta-cognitive and meta-communicative abilities involved in the comprehension process, as well as of the relation between descriptive use and metarepresentation in various contexts.
The whole community is invited to attend the seminar dedicated to metarepresentation. Each presentation will be followed by a significant discussion session where everyone is invited to raise constructive interventions. The seminar's condition of satisfaction is to bring greater consensus about definitions, criteria, and psychological reality of metarepresentation. The seminar will be bilingual. Questions can be asked in English and in French.

Organisers
Elena Albu (elena_albu84@yahoo.com) and Pierre Larrivée (Pierre.Larrivee@Unicaen.fr)

Programme
10h-11h ? A. Reboul (L2C2, CNRS Lyon): Pouvons-nous nous passer de la metareprésentation dans la communication linguistique?
11h-12h ? J. Moeschler (University of Geneva): Qu?y a-t-il de métareprésentationnel dans la négation métalinguistique?
12h-14h - lunch break
14h-15h ? Ph. Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University): Logic with Iconicity in Sign Language
15h-16h ? A. Morgenstern (Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle): Linguistic and Non-linguistic Signs in Adult-child Daily Interaction
16h-16h30 ? coffee break
16h30-17h ? round table discussion
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3-3-2(2015-02-19) Colloque sur le développement des technologies pour les langues régionales de France, Meudon, Région parisienne, F

L’IMMI-CNRS, La DGLFLF, le LIMSI-CNRS et ELRA/ELDA organisent un colloque sur le thème du développement des technologies pour les langues régionales de France. Il se tiendra les 19 et 20 février 2015 en région parisienne (Meudon) et doit réunir une soixantaine de participants, dont des représentants de la DGLFLF, des collectivités territoriales, d’administrations et agences nationales, des experts scientifiques et des membres d’associations de défense des langues régionales, en France et en Europe (http://tlrf2015.sciencesconf.org/).

Nous partons du constat que les avancées en traitement automatique des langues ne concernent qu’1% des langues parlées dans le monde, dont peu de langues régionales, en particulier de France.

Cependant, quelques exemples (langues basque et catalane en Espagne entre autres) nous montrent que, à condition de rassembler volonté politique, savoir scientifique et savoir-faire technique, le développement rapide de technologies à l’état-de-l'art en traitement des langues, est possible pour les langues régionales, en les dotant des ressources et des outils nécessaires. Cela permet de dynamiser des recherches plus fondamentales sur les langues et de s’attaquer au défi de la mise en place d’un multilinguisme véritable tenant compte des variétés dialectales, tout en permettant le développement d'applications à forte valeur ajoutée pour les collectivités locales (par exemple pour le tourisme).

Ce colloque vise donc à réunir des linguistes, des spécialistes du traitement automatique des langues, des représentants des collectivités territoriales, des administrations et agences nationales et des offices des langues régionales, afin de :

  • faire un constat sur le développement des technologies actuelles ;
  • montrer des exemples de développement pour certaines langues ;
  • proposer des solutions réalistes pouvant pallier les manques mis à jour.


Le premier colloque est composé d'exposés oraux, suivis le lendemain de tables rondes ; le résultat sera une ébauche de plan d'action, qui sera renforcé le cas échéant par d'autres colloques.


Inscriptions


La participation est de 160€ (tarif 'Académique') pour les deux jours de colloque et comprend  le dîner du jeudi 19 février et les déjeuners et pauses des deux journées.

Vous avez la possibilité de soutenir le colloque en choisissant le tarif 'Sponsoring' de 260€.

 

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes et se font sur le site AzurColloque :

http://dr04.azur-colloque.cnrs.fr/inscriptions.php


Le processus se fait en deux étapes :

1 - une pré-inscription qui vous sera confirmée

2 - une inscription définitive au cours de laquelle le paiement en ligne ou par bon de commande sera possible.


Organisateurs : CNRS, DGLFLF, ELRA/ELDA, IMMI, LIMSI

-- Gilles ADDA Director IMMI-CNRS Institut des Technologies Multilingues & Multimédias de l'Information Institute for Multilingual & Multimedia Information Institut für Multilinguale & Multimediale Informationsverarbeitung Rue John von Neumann, Campus Universitaire d'Orsay Bât 508 F-91405 Orsay cedex - France phone: +33 (0)1 69 85 81 80+33 (0)1 69 85 81 80 - fax: +33 (0)1 69 85 80 88 
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3-3-3(2015-02-25) IX Congresso Nacional de ABRALIN, Belem do Para (PA), Brazil

Congresso Nacional de ABRALIN, Belem do Para (PA), Brazil

25-28 February 2015

Universidade Federal do Para, Belem do Para, Brazil

www.ixcongresso.abralin.com.br

 

 

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3-3-4(2015-03-02) LATA 2015 (extended submission deadline)
LATA 2015

Nice, France

March 2-6, 2015

Organized by:

CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271
Nice Sophia Antipolis University

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

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/

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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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3-3-5(2015-03-05) International workshop on Audio-Visual Affective Prosody in social interaction & second language learning (AVAP 2015) Bordeaux, France

 

International workshop on Audio-Visual Affective Prosody in social interaction & second language learning (AVAP 2015) Bordeaux, 5 and 6 March 2015

Official Web site : avap2015.labri.fr



Call for communication
 

 Description:
 
The main topic of this workshop is social affective meaning (including emotions, mood, feeling and intentions or attitudes) conveyed by audio as well as visual control. For the past 20 years, expressiveness of various affective meanings in many languages / cultures has become a popular topic of research in various scientific fields: affective computing, cultural psychology, cognitive psychology, linguistic, phonetics, speech processing, visual processing and artificial intelligence. However, these characteristics are not sufficiently analyzed for application to human-human and human-machine interaction. The aim of this workshop is to gather specialists of the above-mentioned fields for a two day meeting in Bordeaux.



Invited Speakers

Pr. Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University)
Pr. Mariko Kondo (Waseda University, Japan)
Pr. Donna Erickson (Kanazawa Medical University, Japan)
Pr. Jean-Claude Martin (LIMSI CNRS, Paris XI University)
Dr. Catherine Pélachaud (LTCI CNRS, Télécom-ParisTech, Paris)
Dr. Sylvain Detey (Waseda University, Japan)
Dr. Yoshimasa Ohmoto (Kyoto University, Japan)
Dr. Albert Rilliard (LIMSI CNRS, Paris XI University)
Dr. Véronique Aubergé (LIG, Grenoble)

 
Interesting scientific topics for
            call for presentation  :

- Affective prosody
- Acquisition of affective prosody
- Visual processing of affective interaction
- Cognitive processing of human interaction
- Speech synthesis
- Modelling of human social interaction
- Artificial Intelligence
- L1 and L2 speech analysis

Submission Guidelines

Please send an abstract of your communication (including title, author?s name, affiliation, text and main references) in A4, 1 page maximum, to the following mail address : avap2015@labri.fr

Important Dates

January 15th: submission of abstract
February 2nd: notification of acceptance
February 2nd: registration open (free but mandatory)
February 13th: registration closed


         

Organization committee :
 
- Aurélie Bugeau, LaBRI
- Jean-Luc Rouas, LaBRI
- Takaaki Shochi, CLLE-ERSSàB & LaBRI
- Marine Guerry, CLLE-ERSSàB
- Zhueng Ming, LaBRI
- Amandine Brousse, Université Bordeaux Montaigne


 Scientific committee :

- Aurélie Bugeau, LaBRI
- Jean-Luc Rouas, LaBRI
- Takaaki Shochi, CLLE-ERSSàB & LaBRI
- Mariko Kondo, Waseda university
- Yoshinori Sagisaka, Waseda university
- Albert Rilliard, LIMSI, Orsey, France
- Sylvain Detey, Waseda university

 

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3-3-6(2015-03-18) CORIA 2015, Paris, France (papers accepted in French and in English)

Appel à communications CORIA 2015 (http://coria2015.lip6.fr/) et RJCRI 2015
(http://coria2015.lip6.fr/rjcri/)

Créée en 2004 par l'association ARIA (http://www.asso-aria.org/), regroupant les
chercheurs francophones du domaine de la recherche d'information (RI), la conférence
CORIA (Conférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications) verra sa douzième édition
se dérouler du 18 au 20 Mars 2015 à Paris, France (http://coria2015.lip6.fr/).

Pendant la conférence CORIA 2015 seront également organisées les 10ièmes Rencontres
Jeunes Chercheurs en Recherche d'Information (RJCRI - http://coria2015.lip6.fr/rjcri/).
Elles ont pour objectif de permettre à tous les doctorants de présenter leur
problématique de recherche, d?établir des contacts avec des équipes travaillant sur des
domaines similaires ou connexes, et d?offrir à l?ensemble de la communauté un aperçu des
axes de recherche actuels.

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Thématiques
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CORIA et RJCRI 2015 encouragent les soumissions d'articles portant sur tous les thèmes de
la recherche d'information, mais aussi sur des thématiques connexes. Ces thématiques
incluent, sans y être limitées :

? Théorie et modèles formels pour la RI (modèle logique, modèles probabilistes, modèles
d'information, ...)
? Multilinguisme : Recherche d?information multilingue, traduction automatique
? Multimédia (images, audio, vidéos, son, musique) : indexation, navigation, accès, ...
? Passage à l?échelle : indexation, performances, architectures
? Classification automatique (y compris filtrage et routage), clustering, apprentissage
automatique, ordonnancement
? Modélisation du contexte, personnalisation
? Traitement Automatique de la Langue Naturelle pour la recherche d?information
? Systèmes de Questions Réponses
? Extraction d?informations : ontologies, ressources et recherche d?informations,
détection d?entités nommées et des relations
? Web : grands graphes, utilisation de la topologie du web, lois de puissances,
citations, analyse de liens
? RI et documents structurés : RI et XML, RI précise et recherche de passages
? Réseaux sociaux : analyse de réseaux, de rumeurs, diffusion d'information, prédiction
d'activités, ...
? Recherche collaborative : filtrage, systèmes de recommandation
? Interaction utilisateur : interrogation flexible, interfaces, visualisation,
modélisation de l?utilisateur, accessibilité, indexation collaborative
? Bibliothèques numériques (RI sur des livres numérisés, reconnaissance optique de
caractères)
? Systèmes de recherche d?information dédiés : recherche d?information génomique,
médicale, géographique
? RI distribuée : recherche d?information mobile, située, P2P
? Outils pour la recherche d?information : évaluation, bancs d?essais, métriques,
expérimentations qualitatives des systèmes

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Soumission des articles
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Les articles, soumis à CORIA et/ou à RJCRI, peuvent être rédigés en anglais ou en
français. Ils doivent cependant être anonymes et ne comporter aucune mention qui pourrait
permettre d'identifier les auteurs. De plus, les articles soumis ou récemment acceptés à
des conférences internationales sont recevables, sous réserve qu?ils soient traduits et
adaptés pour CORIA ou RJCRI.

Les contributions peuvent concerner des travaux académiques ou des applications
industrielles. Les textes de communications doivent comporter 16 pages maximum pour les
soumissions à CORIA, et 10 pages maximum pour les journées RJCRI. Nous acceptons les
soumissions conjointes RJCRI & CORIA. Ces soumissions doivent être déposées sur les deux
sites de soumission. Dans le cas d'une double acceptation, l'article sera publié au
format 16 pages dans le cadre de la conférence CORIA. Dans le cas d'une acceptation seule
aux RJCRI, l'article devra être réduit à 10 pages.

Les articles devront être soumis au format PDF. La première page devra être une page de
garde comportant le titre de l'article, un résumé en anglais et en français, ainsi qu'une
liste de mots-clés, en français et en anglais. La mention « article soumis à CORIA et
RJCRI » doit être portée sur la page de garde le cas échéant. Les articles doivent
respecter le format revue Hermès, dont les feuilles de style Word/Open Office et Latex
peuvent être téléchargées depuis http://coria2015.lip6.fr/.

Modalités spécifiques pour les soumissions RJCRI : les auteurs doivent être EXCLUSIVEMENT
des doctorant(e)s, des étudiant(e)s en Master ou de jeunes docteur(e)s ayant soutenu leur
thèse depuis moins d'un an. Les soumissions pour lesquelles apparaîtront des chercheurs
confirmés dans la liste des auteurs seront exclues. Les soumissions RJCRI doivent
également obligatoirement être accompagnées d'une lettre du directeur de recherche (à
fournir en tant que fichier attaché durant la soumission) qui devra, en particulier,
indiquer si le jeune chercheur est en 1ère, 2ème ou 3ème année de thèse.

Sites de soumission:

- CORIA : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coria2015
- RJCRI : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rjcri2015

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Dates importantes
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? Soumission des articles : 15 décembre 2014
? Réponse aux auteurs : 26 janvier 2015
? Dépôt des articles définitifs : 23 février 2015
? Conférence : 18-20 mars 2015

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Comités
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Présidents des comités de programme CORIA-RJCRI
? Eric Gaussier (Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France)
? Mathias Géry (Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France)


Présidents du comité d?organisation
? Patrick Gallinari (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
- Brigitte Grau (Ecole Nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et
l'entreprise, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

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3-3-7(2015-03-20) Conference:Theory of mind and Language: Experimental data and clinical applications, Aix-Marseille University

Conference

Theory of mind and Language: Experimental data and clinical applications

 

Website

 

Friday 20 March 2015

 

Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille University)

Conference room B011, 5 avenue Pasteur, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France

 

 

Theory of mind is the ability to form representations of other people’s mental states and to use these representations to understand, predict and judge their statements and behaviours (Baron-Cohen, Leslie, & Frith, 1985; Premack & Woodruff, 1978). Study of this ability has become a major focus for cognitive sciences in the last twenty years, showing that this ability plays a fundamental role for social interactions. While loads of researches (particularly in pathology and in development) give support to a relationship between theory of mind and language, the role of this cognitive ability in meaning construction is still under debate.

 

Is theory of mind conveyed by language (e.g. reference marker, prosody, gestures) during social interaction? Does theory of mind play a role in meaning construction? Do speakers take the perspective of the listener to explain or understand meaning? If it is the case, do linguistic forms such as reference markers or intonation contours signal how the speaker takes the listener’s perspective into account? And how do the listeners use this linguistic information to interpret the speaker’s mental states?

 

The aim of this conference will be to present and discuss experimental data dealing with the relationship between theory of mind and language in different population (e.g. development, healthy people, pathology). Our main goal will be to bring together researchers from different backgrounds (cognitive sciences, experimental psychology, neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, phonetics/phonology, and pragmatics) with a view to improve our understanding of how language can convey theory of mind during social interactions.

 

The conference is organized by Maud Champagne-Lavau, Cristel Portes, Amandine Michelas (LPL) and Claire Beyssade (Paris 8 & Institut Jean Nicod).

 

                                                                                                                                

Registration and abstract submission for the conference can be completed at the following link: http://mindprogest.sciencesconf.org

Registration is free but you must register to be able to attend the conference.

 

 

Call for posters

We welcome the submission of abstracts for posters on any area of scientific domains (experimental psychology, cognitive neurosciences, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics) with a view to improve our understanding of the relationship between ToM and Language. 

Abstracts should be written in English or French and not exceed 250 words. An extra page may be added for figures and references. Submissions must be sent with the author’s name(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es).

 

 

Important dates

  • Deadline for abstract submission: 15 February 2015
  • Notification of acceptance: 20 February 2015
  • Deadline for inscription: 6 March 2015

 

 

Program

 

8h30 – 9h00 :                                    Accueil des participants / Welcome

 

9h00 – 10h00 :                  Rethinking the Theory-of-Mind Hypothesis of Autism

Tiziana Zalla, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS UMR 8129, ENS, Paris, France

 

10h00 – 10h30 :                                Pause/coffee break

 

10h30 – 11h15 :                Assessing theory of mind during conversation in Mild cognitive impairment

Noémie Moreau, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université

 

11h15 – 12h00 :                TITRE à venir

Madelyne Klein, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université

 

12h00-13h00 :                                   Pause déjeuner / Lunch break

 

13h00 – 14h00 :                                Session poster / poster session

 

14h00 – 15h00 :                Prosodic and referential marking in oral narratives by Adults with High Functioning Autism

Francesco Cangemi1, Marion Fossard2, Martine Grice1, Martina Krüger1, Kai Vogeley3

1Institute of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics, University of Cologne, Germany.
2Institut des sciences du langage et de la communication, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
3Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Cologne, Germany.

 

15h00 – 15h45 :                The intonational encoding of commitment, attitude attribution and call on addressee in French

Cristel Portes, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université

 

15h45 – 16h15 :                                Pause / coffee break

 

16h15 – 17h00 :                Relationship between theory of mind and intonational focus marking in French: Results from schizophrenia

Amandine Michelas, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université

 

17h00 – 17h30 :                                Conclusion

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3-3-8(2015-03-27) Journées de l'ALOES: Catégories de la grammaire traditionnelle et analyse de l’oral spontané, Aix-en-Provence, France

Catégories de la grammaire traditionnelle et analyse de l’oral spontané

Vendredi 27 mars 2015
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix en Provence

 

Ces dernières années, l’étude linguistique de la langue parlée s’est singulièrement développée, grâce notamment aux nouvelles technologies, qui facilitent de manière inestimable la collecte de données, l’analyse acoustique et les calculs statistiques. L’avancement de la recherche en pragmatique, dialectologie, analyse du discours, phonologie suprasegmentale, et d’autres encore, est considérable. Reste à savoir si la grammaire de l’anglais oral, c’est-à-dire, la connaissance des contraintes en matière d’agencement, de distribution, de combinatoire et de conditions d’emploi des termes, doit ou peut être élucidée avec les mêmes outils que celle de l’écrit.

La question que nous souhaitons poser lors de cette journée d’étude est donc : dans quelle mesure les catégories héritées des traditions grammaticales d’avant l’essor décrit plus haut sont-elles applicables à l’analyse linguistique de l’anglais oral spontané ?  Par exemple, si l’on veut élucider le fonctionnement d’un réseau de marqueurs comme so, I mean, that is, qui peuvent paraître sémantiquement proches ou interchangeables dans certains contextes, est-il utile de savoir qu’ils proviennent de constructions hétérogènes (adverbe de phrase, proposition à sujet personnel ou impersonnel) ?  Y aurait-il un terme apte à les regrouper, ou faudrait-il se contenter de « discourse markers », qui rassemble tellement d’entités que sa valeur explicative est faible ?

Par catégorie, on n’entend pas seulement parties du discours et types de phrases mais aussi des notions telles que subordination, hypothétique, parenthétique, discours  direct et  indirect, portée,  etc …

Face à des passages d’oral spontané, plusieurs entrées sont possibles pour traiter de cette problématique:

  • par  marqueurs ou jeux de marqueurs (ex : I mean, you know : combinaison, alternance, interchangeabilité…)
  • par schéma intonatif et/ou accentuel (ex : ton descendant sur une syntaxe non déclarative…)
  • par catégories grammaticales (ex : sorta (of),  wanna (to), coulda (have) : un marqueur ou plusieurs ?)

Les communicants sont invités à choisir un corpus d’oral spontané, en diffusant des passages sonores de préférence dialogués, ce qui exclut le recours à des textes transcrits sans support oral ainsi qu’à de l’écrit oralisé (discours journalistique et discours préparé).

Les propositions de communication (25 minutes) devront être envoyées pour le 15 janvier 2015 à Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell (isabelle.gaudy-campbell@univ-lorraine.fr). Elles comprendront une vingtaine de lignes et seront accompagnées d’une courte bibliographie. Les langues de travail sont le français et l'anglais. Une notification d’acceptation sera adressée dans les 15 jours.

La journée d’étude se tiendra la veille de la journée de l’ALOES au Laboratoire Parole et Langage, 5 avenue Pasteur, 13100 Aix en Provence.

 

*OSLiA (Oral Spontané et Linguistique Anglaise) est un réseau qui compte parmi les Special Interest Groups de l’ALOES.

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3-3-9(2015-04-14) Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Call for Papers for the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other
Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech
14-15 April 2015, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Following the previous workshops on laughter held in Saarbruecken (2007), Berlin
(2009), and Dublin (2012), we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming
workshop in Enschede, the Netherlands in April 2015.
 
Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play
important roles in displaying social and affective behaviors and in controlling
the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, filled pauses, and short utterances
such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that
have been studied previously from various research fields. However, much is
still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal
vocalisations (production/encoding) and their relations to their intentions and
perceived meanings (perception/decoding) in interaction.
 
The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse research
areas and to provide an exchange forum for interdisciplinary discussions in
order to gain a better understanding of laughter and other non-verbal
vocalisations. The workshop will consist of invited talks and oral presentations
of ongoing research and discussion papers. 
 
We invite contributions concerning laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations
from the fields of phonetics, linguistics, psychology, conversation analysis,
social signal processing, and human-machine/robot interaction. In particular,
topics related to the following aspects are very much welcomed:
 
* Multimodal interaction: visual aspects of non-verbal vocalisations, e.g.,
smiles, relation between non-verbal vocalisations and visual behaviors
* Social and affective behavior: decoding and encoding of emotion/socio-related
states in non-verbal vocalisations
* Conversation: (pragmatic) role of non-verbal vocalisations in dialog
* Computation: automatic analysis and generation of non-verbal vocalisations
 
Submission procedure
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Researchers are invited to submit an extended abstract of their work, including
work in progress. Please send your extended abstract of max. 3 pages, 11pt font
(including references) in PDF format to laughterworkshop2015 at gmail dot com.
Each submission should follow the ICSPhS style - the author kits (LaTeX and
Word) can be downloaded from the workshop website. In the email, please include
the name of the authors, their affiliations and the emailaddress of the
corresponding author, and a title of the abstract. Abstracts will undergo a
review process performed by at least 2 reviewers. The submissions will be made
available online.
 
Registration
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Attendees are asked to register by sending an email to laughterworkshop2015 at
gmail dot com. A registration fee of 50 Euros has to be paid on site (in cash).
 
Important dates
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* Abstract submission deadline: 9 February 2015
* Notification acceptance/rejection: 1 March 2015
* Registration deadline by email: 6 April 2015  
* Workshop dates: 14-15 April 2015
 
Venue
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The DesignLab at University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
 
Website
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Please check the website http://laughterworkshop2015.wordpress.com for updated
information about the workshop!
 
Organizers
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Jürgen Trouvain, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University
Nick Campbell, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity
College Dublin
Khiet Truong, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente/Radboud University
Dirk Heylen, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
 
Contact information
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Khiet Truong | k dot p truong at utwente dot nl
Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University
 
 
 


 
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3-3-10(2015-04-23) Jordanas Pataconicas de Linguistica Formal, Argentina

Jordanas Pataconicas de Linguistica Formal, Argentina

23-25 April 2015

Universidad  Nacional de Comahue, General Roca, Argentina

 

Jordanas2015@jplf.com.ar

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3-3-11(2015-05-07) 3rd International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2015), San Diego, USA

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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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3-3-12(2015-05-28) International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics, Toulouse, France (extended deadline)

International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics

 

 

 

 

 

Discourse(s)

In Linguistics:

Units and Levels of Analysis

 

 

 

May 28th and 29th 2015

Toulouse - France www.jetou2015.fr

 

 

Submission Deadline:

Friday October 24th 2014

EXTENDED

Call for Papers

 

The doctoral students in Linguistics of the laboratories at Toulouse University, France:

 

CLLE-ERSS (Équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique)

IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse)

OCTOGONE-Lordat (Centre Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Langage et de la Cognition)

 

are organizing the 5th edition of JéTou (Journées d'études Toulousaines), an international conference aiming at gathering doctoral students and young researchers (who have defended their dissertation within the past three years) together, from the different disciplines of Linguistics, on an open and multidisciplinary theme.

 

This 2015 edition will be devoted to a reflection on the following theme: “Discourse(s) in Linguistics: Units and Levels of Analysis”.

 

The term discourse, understood in its broadest sense as a multimodal language production (oral, written, verbal, gestural) is at the heart of Linguistics. Both in production and reception, investigation methods have led to analysis levels with variable granularities, where overlapping units maintain relationships with strong interdependence. Therefore, discourse depends on both the object and the meaning given to it.

 

Common issues are: planning, segmentation, organization, modeling. A valuable reflection involving different fields arises from these challenges; more than ever, an interdisciplinary practice is necessary to further the various aspects of discourse.

 

Research in these fields has taken different forms. Besides, the gap between theoretical models and empirical studies based on real data has been significantly reduced in the last few years. Qualitative as well as quantitative, these works have raised new questions: choice of units, collection and annotation of corpora, evaluation procedures, comparison and interpretation of results, etc.

 

This edition will focus mainly on levels of analysis and units in discourse. Possible topics include:

 

  • 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 10th 2014,

Notification of acceptance: Friday November 21st 2014,

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

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

 

Conference: Thursday May 28th and Friday May 29th 2015 at Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (Mirail campus).

 

Organising Committee

 

Francesca Cortelazzo, Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, Laury Garnier, Luce Lefeuvre, Sophie Mayras-Cauchois, Olivier Nocaudie, Florian Savreux, Maxime Warnier.

 

Website www.jetou2015.fr



Contact contact.jetou2015@gmail.com

 

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3-3-13(2015-06-08) Workshop in Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics and Lexical Computing, Tel?, Czech Republic

Workshop in Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics and Lexical Computing
Tel?, Czech Republic
June 8th-12th 2015

Lexicom is a five-day intensive workshop created by the Lexicography MasterClass.  Seminars on theoretical issues alternate with hands-on work at the computer. Working in small groups or individually, you will learn how to create dictionaries and other lexical resources, from the preparation of corpora to the planning, design and writing of entries. This is the workshop's fifteenth year and we now have over 380 graduates, from all parts of the world: reviews of previous events can be found here.

It will be led by Michael Rundell, Milo? Jakubí?ekAdam Kilgarriff and Vojt?ch Ková?

For more details and registration form see http://www.lexmasterclass.com/lexicom-telc-2015/
 

Milos Jakubicek

CEO, Lexical Computing
Brighton, UK | Brno, CZ
http://www.sketchengine.co.uk
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3-3-14(2015-06-10) 13th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Prague, Czech Republic

CBMI 2015
13th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
June 10.-12. 2015, Prague, Czech Republic
http://siret.ms.mff.cuni.cz/cbmi2015/

*** Call for papers and demos ***

?Full paper                         submission deadline: February 16, 2015
?Demo paper                         submission deadline: March 7, 2015
?Special session on Medical Multimedia Processing                         submission deadline: March 7, 2015
?Special session on High Performance Multimedia Indexing        submission deadline: March 7,
2015

Following the twelve successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999,
Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania
2009, Grenoble 2010, Madrid 2011, Annecy 2012, Veszprem 2013, and
Klagenfurt 2014), it is our pleasure to welcome you to CBMI 2015, the
13th International Content Based Multimedia Indexing Workshop, in
Prague, Czech Republic on June 10-12 2015.

The 13th International CBMI Workshop aims at bringing together the
various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia
indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation. The scientific program
of CBMI 2015 will include invited keynote talks and regular, special and
demo sessions with contributed research papers.

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* Special session on Medical Multimedia Processing

A special session on Medical Multimedia Processing will be organized.
Topics of the special session include, but are not limited to:
? Visual indexing of medical image collections or video archives
? Medical multimedia retrieval
? Browsing and presentation of medical multimedia data
? Endoscopic video processing
? Human computation for medical multimedia processing

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* Special session on High Performance Multimedia Indexing

A special session on High Performance Multimedia Indexing will be
organized. Topics of the special session include, but are not limited
to:
? Vectorized algorithms for multimedia indexing
? GPU and many-core implementations of multimedia indexing
? Cache-aware and cache-oblivious algorithms for content-based multimedia retrieval
? Parallel and NUMA-aware algorithms for multimedia indexing
? Distributed and heterogeneous implementations of multimedia indexing algorithms

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3-3-15(2015-06-10) Appel à communications : Analyse des discours hors-normes :,approches, concepts et méthodes, Univ. Sherbrooke, Canada

      Plus d'informations sur  http://www.hors-normes2015.evenement.usherbrooke.ca/index.html

Depuis peu, on voit émerger un intérêt réciproque entre des sous-disciplines des Sciences du langage qui n’avaient guère coutume de dialoguer : la présente rencontre, qui réunit analystes du discours, phonéticiens, sémanticiens, didacticiens, acquisitionnistes, historiens de la langue et des représentations linguistiques, sociologues du langage etc. en est une illustration. Ce choc des cultures amène l’analyse du discours à considérer des discours oraux, écrits, hybrides sortant de « l’ordinaire », à s’ouvrir à une analyse de discours qui, envisagés depuis les traditions disciplinaires de l’AD et du point de vue de leurs fonctionnements ou encore des présupposés épistémologiques qu’ils interrogent ou bousculent, peuvent être qualifiés de hors-normes.

Les domaines d’études où le hors-norme se manifeste ne sont pas limités aux points listés ci-dessous, toute proposition pertinente sera étudiée avec attention.

  • 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.

Ernst, Gerhard, 2010, « “qu’il n’y a orthographe ny virgule encorre moins devoielle deconsol et pleinne delacunne“ : la norme des personnes peu lettrées (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles) », M. Iliescu, H. Siller-Runggaldier, P. Danler (éds), Actes du XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes, Innsbruck 2007, Berlin, New York, De Gruyter, vol. 3, p. 543-551.

Fairon, Cédric, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie, 2014, SMS Communication. A Linguistic Approach, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.

Fex Sören, « Perceptual evaluation », Journal of Voice, 1992, 6, p. 155-158.

Foucault, Michel, 1973, Moi, Pierre Rivière ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère : un cas de parricide au XIX e siècle, Paris, Gallimard.
Gadet, Françoise, Pêcheux, Michel, 1998,  La langue introuvable, Paris, Maspero.
Jeay, Anne-Marie, Les messageries télématiques, Paris, Eyrolles, 1991.

Larrivée, Pierre, 2011, « Au-delà de la polyphonie », Le Français moderne, 79, 1, p.223-234.

Macherey, Pierre, 2009, De Canguilhem à Foucault. La force des normes, Paris, La Fabrique.

Maingueneau, Dominique, 2014, Discours et analyse de discours, Paris, Armand Colin.

Manesse, Danièle, « Les enfants des classes populaires, la langue et la norme », Cahiers pédagogiques, 500, p. 92-94.

Panckhurst, Rachel, Moïse, Claudine, 2011, « SMS « conversationnels » : caractéristiques interactionnelles et pragmatiques », 79e colloque Acfas, Sherbrooke, May 9-10, 2011.

Paveau, Marie-Anne, 2010, « La norme dialogique. Propositions critiques en philosophie du discours », Semen, n° 19, p. 141-159.

Pêcheux, Michel, 1969, L’analyse automatique du discours, Paris, Dunod.

Ricoeur, Paul, 1986, l’idéologie et l’utopie, Paris, Seuil, 1997.

Sarfati, Georges-Élia, 2008, « Pragmatique linguistique et normativité : remarque sur les modalités discursives du sens commun », Langages vol. 2, 170, p. 92-108.

Siouffi, Gilles, Steuckardt, Agnès (éds), 2007, Les linguistes et la norme, Berne, Peter Lang.
Tournier, Maurice, 2002, Propos d’étymologie sociale 1, 2 et 3, Lyon, ENS Éditions.

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3-3-16(2015-06-11) 18th Meeting Young Researchers (RJC 2015), Paris, France (extended)

18th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2015)

from June 11th, 2015 to June 12th, 2015

Created in 1998, the Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC) of the Doctoral School “Langage

et langues” (ED 268, Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3) offer junior researchers

preparing for a master's or a doctorate degree, as well as post-doctorates, the opportunity to

present their work in paper or poster sessions.

“Language contact: situations, representations, realizations”

Introduced by U. Weinreich (1953), the notion of ‘language contact’ has to do with

any situation where two languages are simultaneously present, thus affecting an individual’s

or a community’s linguistic behavior (Moreau, 1997). ‘Language contact’ is at the heart of

both linguistic variation and linguistic change, in their diachronic and synchronic aspects. The

phenomenon takes place in spaces the borders of which fluctuate depending on migrations,

economic and cultural dynamics, or political policies (colonization, external cultural

domination…). The 18th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs offer an opportunity to think about

connections and interferences between languages on the one hand, and between varieties

inside a given language on the other hand, both from a synchronic and from a diachronic

perspective.

In recent years, an increasing number of research studies on ‘language contact’ have

been led in a renewed methodological and epistemological frame of reference, based on

variability awareness and on rooting linguistic data in materiality (Nicolai, 2007). These

works are at opposite extremes from those conducted during the nineteenth century, since the

latter dismissed the mere idea of ‘language contact’, in order to focus on language filiation

instead (Tabouret-Keller, 1988). The conference addresses the issue of ‘language contact’

through three complementary notions: ‘situation’, ‘representation’ and ‘realization’.

Tackling ‘language contact’ implies observing and making an empirical description

not only of institutional, social, professional and family circumstances, but also of language

learning and language acquisition in plurilinguistic or diglossic contexts. In addition,

‘situation’ is deeply implanted in psycholinguistics as well: mastering several languages

impacts brain structure and cognitive processes. The term should therefore be understood in a

broader sense, as it can refer to both individual and collective levels of analysis. Regional

languages and language choices made by multilingual writers are examples thereof.

Moreover, ‘language contact’ also takes part in the tension between language

description and linguistic prescription. The conference will take into consideration the way

speakers, as well as linguists and grammarians, build and convey social and metalinguistic

representations of languages in contact, based on their own judgement. Studying ‘language

contact’ is an invitation to discuss identity construction processes and to examine further

notions such as ‘linguistic insecurity’ or ‘imagined communities’ (Anderson, 1983).

Realizations pertaining to language contact are many and diverse. They are indeed

compound language productions, some of which may be viewed from a collective standpoint,

like borrowings, or Creole and pidgin languages. Others are to be observed from an individual

angle, for instance interferences (phonic, syntactic, lexical) caused, in part, by transfers

between the various languages known to a multilingual speaker. To this framework belong

‘code switching’ and, in the field of acquisition and didactics, ‘interlanguage’.

The great variety of such realizations sheds new light on current language typologies.

Similarly, new problems arise in the area of natural language processing, where multilingual

corpora are giving birth to methodological issues that differ from those raised by monolingual

corpora. Likewise, translation studies appear as a kind of language contact realization; as a

matter of fact, translators have to deal with theoretical and practical difficulties regarding both

languages brought into contact through translation and languages already in contact in the

original texts (Ballard, 2006).

All of the mentioned theoretical approaches are likely to bring researchers in

linguistics to discuss a shared topic, and allow them to reflect on this discipline’s status within

the Humanities. Participants are encouraged to consider all means of language expression

(oral, written, sign language).

References:

ANDERSON Benedict (1983), Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread

of Nationalism, Londres: Verso.

BALLARD Michel (2005-2006) (dir.), La traduction, contact de langues et de cultures, 2

vol., Arras: Artois Presses Université.

MOREAU Marie-Louise (1997), Sociolinguistique. Concepts de base, Bruxelles: Mardaga.

NICOLAI Robert (2007), « Le contact des langues : point aveugle du ‘linguistique’ », Journal

of Language Contact, Evolution of languages, contact and discourse, Thema n° 1: 1-10.

TABOURET-KELLER Andrée (1988), « Contacts de langues : deux modèles du XIXème

siècle et leurs rejetons aujourd'hui », Langage et société, n° 43: 9-22.

WEINREICH Uriel (1953), Languages in contact, findings and problems, New York:

Linguistic Circle of New York.

Invited speakers :

Robert NICOLAÏ Professor Emeritus at the Sophia Antipolis Nice University (opening

conference).

Valerie SPAETH University Professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (closing

conference).

Scientific committee:

Martine ADDA DECKER, José Ignacio AGUILAR RIO, Angélique AMELOT, Nicolas

AUBRY, Nicolas AUDIBERT, Michelle AUZANNEAU, Eric BEAUMATIN, Irmtraud

BEHR, Violaine BIGOT, Philippe BOULA DE MAREUIL, Maria CANDEA, Jean-Louis

CHISS, Francine CICUREL, Matteo DE CHIARA, Geneviève DE WECK, Jeanne-Marie

DEBAISIEUX, Didier DEMOLIN, Christine DEPREZ, Serge FLEURY, Jean-Marie

FOURNIER, Emmanuel FRAISSE, Florentina FREDET, Cedric GENDROT, Kim GERDES,

Anna GHIMENTON, Daniel GILE, Luca GRECO, Yana GRINSHPUN, Jean-Patrick

GUILLAUME, Pierre HALLE, Rouba HASSAN, Agnès HENRI, Frédéric ISEL, Raphaël

KABORE, Takeki KAMIYAMA, Dominique KLINGLER, René LACROIX, Marie-Christine

LALA, Florence LEFEUVRE, Cécile LEGUY, Catherine MULLER, Valélia MUNI TOKE,

Samia NAIM, Jean-Paul NARCY-COMBES, Gabriella PARUSSA, Claire PILLOTLOISEAU,

Konstantin POZDNIAKOV, Christian PUECH, Sandrine REBOUL-TOURE,

Francis RICHARD, Rachid RIDOUANE, Anne SALAZAR ORVIG, Didier SAMAIN, Pollet

SAMVELIAN, Dan SAVATOVSKY, Valérie SPAËTH, Sofia STRATILAKI, Isabelle

TELLIER, Jacqueline VAISSIERE, Andrea VALENTINI, Daniel VÉRONIQUE, Patricia

VON MÜNCHOW, Geneviève ZARATE.

Organizing committee:

Emre BAYRAKTAR, Marie-Amélie BOTALLA, Laura-Maï DOURDY, Nora FANGELGUSTAVSON,

Ophélie GANDON, Laura GUZMAN, Fanny IVENT, Muriel JORGE, Janina

KLEIN, Mathilde MECHLING, Coraline PRADEAU, Komi SIMNARA, Marco

STEFANELLI, Jane WOTTAWA, Yaru WU.

The conference is open to graduate students (master, doctorate) and young researchers.

Free admission

Participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Important dates :

Submission deadline : February 28th, 2015

Notification of acceptance : end of April 2015

Conference dates : June 11th and 12th, 2015

Corrected article deadline : 30 June 2015

Conference location:

Institut de linguistique et de phonétique générales et appliquées (ILPGA)

Address: 19, rue des Bernardins - 75005 PARIS

Public transportation : Metro : Maubert Mutualité (line 10) ; Bus: 24, 47, 63, 86, 87 ; RER :

Saint Michel (B and C lines)

Presentations:

Oral presentations and posters will be made in English or in French.

Oral presentations will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.

The size of the posters will be A0. Poster authors will be invited to give a short oral

presentation of their work.

Submission :

Paper submissions are to be sent by e-mail to the following address: rjc-ed268@univparis3.

fr, before February 28th, 2015.

The e-mail message should specify :

Personal data (last name, first name, e-mail and personal postal address);

University affiliation;

Educational level (master / doctorate / postdoc; specify the number of years for the doctorate);

Research supervisor(s);

Research field(s) of the submitted paper;

Title of the submitted paper.

Submissions are to be sent in the form of an article, in an attached .rtf file named

“rjc2015_NAME.rtf” (eg: “rjc2015_SMITH.rtf”). This file should contain only the following

information:

Title of the submitted paper;

Summary of about 100 words, in the paper’s language;

5 keywords in French, the same keywords in English;

For oral presentations: a 6 to 8-page article (25 000 characters maximum, spaces included) ;

for posters: a 5-page article (15 000 characters maximum, spaces included);

Bibliography.

The format of the article should be as follows:

- Times New Roman 12 pt font;

- 1,5 line spacing;

- 2,5 cm margins at all edges;

- justified left and right;

- headings: Times New Roman 12 pt, bold, using a hierarchical numbering (1. ; 1.1. ;

1.1.1) and no more than 3 heading levels.

In the case of phonetic transcriptions, please use the SILDoulos font, available here.

Only one submission will be examined for each participant.

The accepted submissions will be sent back to the authors in order to be corrected and laid out

in mid-April.

The corrected article will have to be transmitted to the organizing committee before the

conference.

The organizing committee reserves the right to refuse an article that would not meet the

conference’s scientific requirements after correction.

Publication :

The proceedings will be published on-line after the conference.

All information is available on : www.univ-paris3.fr/rjc-ed268

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3-3-17(2015-06-17) 20th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB'15), Passau, Germany

Call for Papers: 20th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB'15)

Conference website: http://nldb2015.org/

NLDB 2015 invites researchers from academia and industry to submit papers for oral or poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and discussion papers.

Special Track: Semantic and Cognitive Computing
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For the 20th edition of NLDB, we especially solicit submissions for our special track: Natural Language and its connection to Semantic and Cognitive Computing. Semantic computing aims at connecting the meaning of the user?s need with semantics of content in a multidisciplinary fashion. Cognitive Computing systems naturally interact with people and learn over time. While natural language understanding is necessary for semantic understanding and interacting with a cognitive system (e.g. a question answering system or a search application), it is an open question how to leverage direct or indirect user feedback for improving the overall system's output, but also for improving the natural language processing stack and evolving the system's knowledge representations. Further, the interaction of natural language and formalized knowledge repositories is attained differently in the literature.  Papers for the special track especially focus on the adaptivity and the combination of NL and knowledge processing systems: domain adaptation, adaptation over time, adaptivity and user feedback, wisdom of the crowds, information fusion from heterogeneous sources, incremental/online machine learning. We especially encourage submission of survey and discussion papers for the special track.

NLDB'15 Topics
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Further, we encourage submissions on the following topics:

* Applications of NLP in Information Systems: Multilingual Information Systems, NLP in Requirement Engineering, NLP in Knowledge Management, Semantic Data Integration and Data Cleaning.

* Social Media and Web Data: Corpus analysis, Language identification, Text normalization, Robust NLP for social media, Text classification, Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis for social media.

* Semantic Web Open Linked Data: Ontology Learning and Alignment, Populating ontologies, Querying Ontologies and linked data, Semantic tagging and classification, Ontology-driven NLP.

* Question Answering (QA): NL interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, Non-factoid QA (how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets.

* Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive Computing, Embedded, Robotic and Mobile Applications.

* Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling: Analysis of Natural Language Descriptions, Terminological Ontologies, Consistency Checking, Metadata Creation and Harvesting, Ontology-driven Systems Integration, Ontology Management.

* NLP Applications: Business Intelligence, Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, QA systems, Event Detection, Named Entity and Event Detection, Information Extraction, Summarization, NLP for Data Mining, NLP for Data Warehouses, Plagiarism detection, Identity detection.

Submission information
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All accepted papers will be included in Springer proceedings of the conference. We solicit four types of papers:
* Long papers: Up to 12 pages, plus references. Long papers should describe unpublished, complete research
* Short papers: Up to 6 pages, plus references. Short papers describe a comparative evaluation of existing works, a negative result, or consist of a survey, discussion or position paper. 
* Poster and Demo papers: Up to 4 pages, plus references: Poster/Demo papers describe a small focused result, a negative result, or a late-breaking result, or a description of a system that can be demonstrated on-site at the conference.

Organization
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Siegfried Handschuh, University of Passau, Germany (Conference Chair)
Elisabeth Métais, CNAM, France (Conference Chair)
Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK (Conference Chair)
Chris Biemann, TU Darmstadt, Germany (Program Chair)
André Freitas, University of Passau, Germany / Insight, Ireland (Local Organisation Chair)

Senior Programme Committee
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Gerard de Melo, Tsinghua University, China
Valia Kordoni, HU Berlin, Germany
Mathieu Lafourcade, LIRMM, France
Johannes Leveling, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland
Els Lefever, Ghent University, Belgium
Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim, Germany
Mathieu Roche, Cirad, TETIS, France
Maguelonne Teisseire, Irstea, TETIS, France
Christina Unger, CITEC, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Michael Zock, CNRS-LIF, France

Important Dates
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January 31, 2015: Deadline for paper submission
March 15, 2015: Notifications
March 31, 2015: Final versions due
June 17-19, 2015: Conference in Passau, Germany

Conference website: http://nldb2015.org/

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3-3-18(2015-06-22) 22nd conference on Natural Language Processing, Caen, France,


TALN 2015 Conference
Call for Workshops
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22nd conference on Natural Language Processing
University of Caen Lower Normandy
June 22-25, 2015 - Caen, France
http://taln2015.greyc.fr
 
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GOALS
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Workshops are aimed at specific TALN themes in order to gather targeted presentations. Each workshop has its own program committee and president. Each workshop organizer is in charge of the workshop call for papers and paper selection. The TALN conference committee will make take care of the local arrangements and organization (conference rooms, breaks and paper publication).
 
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IMPORTANT DATES
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-Workshop submission deadline: Friday, January 30, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
-Program Committee response: Friday, February 6 2015
-Camera ready paper due: Friday, May 8, 2015
 
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WORKSHOP SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Workshop proposals should be sent via email to Jean-Marc Lecarpentier (jean-marc.lecarpentier[at]unicaen.fr). Proposals should include a brief description of the theme and goals of the workshop (1 page in PDF), the composition of the program committee and the wished length of the workshop. The TALN program committee will select workshops amongst the proposals received.
 
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FORMAT
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Workshop papers are in French (or in English for authors not speaking French). Workshop papers must adhere to the TALN style and are between 12 and 14 pages.
 

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3-3-19(2015-06-22) CfP TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015 Conference, Caen, Lower Normandy, France

TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015 Conference
Call for Papers TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015
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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

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IMPORTANT DATES
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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: Friday, March 20, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
-Notification: Tuesday, April 28, 2015
-Camera ready paper due: Friday, May 15, 2015

Workshop proposal
-Workshop submission deadline: Friday, January 30, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
-Program Committee response: Friday, February 6, 2015
-Camera ready paper due: Friday, May 8, 2015

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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-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

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CONTACTS
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nadine.lucas@unicaen.fr
charlotte.lecluze@unicaen.fr

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3-3-20(2015-06-29) 6èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique, Montpellier, France

1er appel à communication

6èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique

Montpellier 29 juin - 1er juillet 2015

 

Organisées pour la première fois à Paris en 2005 puis rééditées successivement à Grenoble (2007), Aix-en-Provence (2009), Strasbourg (2011) et Liège  (2013), les Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC) réunissent des chercheurs et des ingénieurs mais aussi des médecins (ORL, phoniatres, chirurgiens,?) ainsi que des orthophonistes s?intéressant tous aux questions liées aux pathologies de la parole et du langage.

Les 6èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, qui font suite aux précédentes éditions, se dérouleront à Montpellier du 29 juin au 1er juillet 2015, où elles sont organisées conjointement par le laboratoire Praxiling (CNRS UMR 5267, Université Paul-Valéry), le Département Universitaire d?Orthophonie (Université Montpellier 1), l?Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier (INSERM U1051) et le CHU Gui de Chauliac de Montpellier (service des troubles de la voix et de la déglutition).

L?objectif de ces Journées interdisciplinaires sera de faire progresser les connaissances fondamentales relatives à la communication parlée, dans le but de mieux comprendre, évaluer, diagnostiquer et remédier aux troubles de la production et de la perception de la parole, du langage et de la voix chez les sujets pathologiques.

Dans ce contexte, cette série de colloques internationaux représente une opportunité pour des professionnels, des chercheurs confirmés et des jeunes chercheurs de formations différentes de présenter des résultats expérimentaux nouveaux et d?échanger des idées de diverses perspectives. Ainsi, des données sur la production et la perception de la parole chez le sujet sain et chez le sujet pathologique peuvent être analysées de manière adéquate et des modèles peuvent être développés, de sorte que les mécanismes qui gouvernent la production et la perception de la parole puissent être mieux compris, et exploités efficacement, en particulier dans le cadre d?applications cliniques.

Les propositions de communications porteront ainsi sur les études de la parole et de la voix pathologiques, chez l?adulte et chez l?enfant.

Les thèmes des 6èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique incluront donc, de façon non exhaustive, les problématiques suivantes :

·       Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé
·       Parole et perturbations des systèmes perceptifs, auditifs et visuels
·       Troubles cognitifs et moteurs de la parole et du langage
·       Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologiques
·       Évaluation fonctionnelle du langage, de la parole et de la voix.
·       Diagnostic et traitement des troubles de la parole et de la voix parlée et chantée
·       Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique
-  ?.

Pour cette 6° édition, une attention toute particulière sera accordée à la question innovante de la prise en charge des populations bilingues et/ou polyglottes. Ainsi, les propositions portant sur la question de l?adaptation (ou de l?inadaptation) des outils de dépistage et de prise en charge dans une perspective translinguistique et/ou transculturelle bénéficieront d?un intérêt tout particulier.

 
Dates Importantes
 
Deadline pour soumission des propositions de communication (résumé de 500 mots hors bibliographie) : 1er mars 2015
Ouverture de la plateforme de dépôt des propositions : 1er février 2015
Notification aux auteurs : 7 avril 2015
Conférence : 29 juin-1er Juillet 2015
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3-3-21(2015-07-01) CONSECUTIVITY AND SIMULTANEITY IN LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES AND SPEECH, Strasbourg, France

 

CONSECUTIVITY AND SIMULTANEITY

IN LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES AND SPEECH

 

CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY

THE RESEARCH UNIT 1339 LINGUISTIQUE, LANGUES, PAROLE (LILPA)

UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG (UNISTRA) / STRASBOURG (FRANCE)

AND

THE FACULTY OF ARTS

PAVOL JOZEF ŠAFÁRIK UNIVERSITY (UPJŠ) / KOŠICE (SLOVAKIA)

1st TO 3rd JULY 2015

STRASBOURG / FRANCE

This international and interdisciplinary conference focuses on original and innovative work on the complex dynamic character of the consecutivity/simultaneity couple in the field of linguistics. It covers all disciplines of linguistics, as well as other related scientific areas (e.g. information sciences, computer sciences, medicine, etc.) preoccupied resolutely by linguistic issues.

If the paradigm of consecutivity usually examines phenomena which succeed in time, in space and in a conceptual order, these consecution relationships can also denote dynamic interdependence between causality and simultaneity; the latter referring to phenomena which occur at the same time.

In the field of semantics and syntax, some linguistic categories illustrate temporal properties (gerund, the past participle, etc.) and aspectual properties (accomplished, unaccomplished, durational, etc.) of consecutivity and/or simultaneity. Similarly, temporal markers such as and, then, etc., are characterised by their ability to alternatively denote these two properties. Finally, some syntactic constructions, including textual ones, induce through their own iconicity, spatiotemporal interpretation (incidence vs dependence, correlation vs causality, etc.).

Regarding languages, interpretation, unlike translation, carried out either consecutively (with or without taking down notes) or simultaneously (in the cabin or outside the cabin – 'chuchotage'), relies mainly on reformulation strategy, this re-expression technique being more rapid and more salient in the context of simultaneous interpretation.

As concerns texts, we shall consider the intricacies of relationships between diachronic and synchronic variations observable in manuscripts, and also syntactic twists or semantic constants.

In didactics of first and foreign languages, it is useful to observe how opposing the simultaneous to the consecutive determines institutional didactic choices (e.g. notional vs action perspective), expert choices (direct vs deferred or face-to-face vs mediated teaching, etc.) and also pedagogical choices (spontaneous vs reformulated production, active vs imitative approach, etc.).

In sociolinguistic investigations carried out by dialectologists, investigators are confronted with linguistic and meta-linguistic formulations of informants, formulations that these very informants may change, for various reasons and at different times of the investigation. It is the tension between consecutivity and simultaneity of productions of the same speaker which help to adequately approach the object of one’s study, and better understand language changes

observed by researchers, together with the reasons for linguistic repositioning carried out by informants.

In speech production and speech perception, we shall confront the (quasi)sequential representation of phonetic and phonological segments within a phonetic and phonological gestural analysis, in terms of coarticulation of segments, or even in terms of their co-production. We shall argue that co-production of articulatory gestures serves to optimise rapid and global perception of speech.

Proposals should highlight, in one of the themes mentioned below:

1) Either the study of a given problem within the linguistic sciences, related to the analysis of consecutivity and simultaneity;

2) Either an issue allowing improvement or development of methods, tools and procedures for the analysis of consecutivity and simultaneity in a field of linguistics.

In all cases, the perspective adopted by the conference will be met to and clarified.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF THE SYMPOSIUM: FRENCH AND ENGLISH

THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE

Different themes or research areas may be considered as part of this call for papers, among which would include, but are not limited to: Analysis of manuscripts

Discourse analysis

Databases

Contact languages and cultures

Foreign language didactics

French didactics

Lexicology

Modelling

Morphology

Oral / Written forms

Philosophy of Language

Phonetics and phonology

Clinical linguistics and phonetics

Multilingualism

Language policy

Pragmatics

Speech production and perception

Semantics

Semiotics

Syntax

Acquisition systems and tools

Translation and Interpretation

Translation

Automatic processing of natural languages

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.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (IN CONSTITUTION) Tijana Ašić (U. Kragujevac)

Štefan Franko (UPJŠ, Košice)

Mária Paľová (UPJŠ, Košice)

Myriam Piccaluga (U. Mons)

Snežana Gudurić (U. Novi Sad)

Bernard Harmegnies, (U. Mons)

Renáta Panocová (UPJŠ, Košice)

Fabrice Marsac (U. Opole)

Natalya Yakovyshena (U. Dniepropetrovsk)

Veran Stanojević (U. Belgrade)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

List to be finalised.

WORKSHOPS

Worhshop1: Interpretation and Translation

Workshop 2: Data acquisition systems and databases

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3-3-22(2015-07-25) Workshop on Adaptive Natural Language Processing at IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Workshop on Adaptive Natural Language Processing at IJCAI 2015

     https://sites.google.com/site/adaptivenlp2015/



        Workshop in conjunction with IJCAI 2015
         Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-27 2015


Motivation and Aims
Natural Language Processing is becoming more and more ubiquitous as technologies become omnipresent in our daily life. This involves a huge effort to develop language-based interfaces, text analytics, search engines, writing assitants among other systems and their related tools and resources. Adaptation has been key to facilitate rapid development of language-based systems, with reuse of existing resources as alternatives to creating tools and resources from scratch. These approaches have benefited from the recent surge of complex Machine Learning approaches as applied to NLP tasks. This is the case for Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Active Learning, Domain Adaptation, and even Representation Learning and Deep Learning, which have had a very positive impact on NLP tasks and applications.

This workshop aims to provide a meeting point for researchers working on the portability of language resources and methodologies across languages and domains, with a special focus on exploiting available knowledge as a base to facilitate and enhance new developments. We understand that there is a common factor between tasks like porting a parser between related languages, adapting a dialogue system for a different domain, using rules inferred from an annotated corpus together with an unannotated corpus to port an information extraction system to another domain, or simplifying texts for different kinds of readers, among others. We believe that sharing insights on such approaches will be enriching and will contribute to a better understanding of the problems and solutions.

We expect that themes like Representation Learning, Deep Learning and Active Learning, and their successful applications to various areas of NLP, will raise interesting, intellectually challenging discussions.


Workshop Topics
Contributions may present results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives.

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Semi-supervised learning, Deep Learning, Active learning and Representation learning for domain adaptation, language portability and task portability
Adaptation and reuse of tools and resources for closely related languages
Adaptation of highly valuable resources, like treebanks, to languages not closely related
Linguistic issues in language portability: false friends, asymmetric discretization of semantic continuum
Learning from multiple domains
Development of multi-domain datasets
Evaluation paradigms for complex learning
Domain adaptation for specific applications: parsing, machine translation, information extraction, document classification, sentiment analysis and author attribution and profiling

Format of submissions
Submissions are invited for papers presenting high quality, previously unpublished research. Selection criteria include originality of ideas, correctness, clarity and significance of results and quality of presentation.

We welcome two types of contributions:

Long papers (10 pages), presenting substantial, original and completed research work. Accepted long papers will be presented orally.
Short papers (6 pages), with a small, focused contribution, work in progress, a negative result or an opinion piece. Accepted short papers will be presented either orally or as a poster.

Short papers can be combined with a system demonstration.

The only accepted format for submitting papers is Adobe PDF. Papers should follow IJCAI-15 formatting Guidelines.

As the review process will be double-blind, your submission must not include the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s). Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Pérez, 2003) ...', must be avoided. Instead, citations such as 'Pérez (2003) previously showed ...', must be used.

Submissions will be electronic, the submission site will be made available soon.


Important Dates
Submission deadline: April 27 2015
Acceptance/rejection notification: May 20 2015
Camera-ready deadline: May 30, 2015
Workshop: July 25-27 2015 at IJCAI 2015


Programme Committee
Luciana Benotti (UNC, Argentina)
Xavier Carreras (XEROX-XRCE, France)
Helena Caseli (UFSCar, Brazil)
José Castaño (UBA, Argentina)
Carlos Iván Chesñevar (UNS, Argentina)
Martín Domínguez (UNC, Argentina)
Pablo Duboue (Les Laboratoires Foulab, Canada)
Marcelo Errecalde (UNSL, Argentina)
Hugo Jair Escalante (INAOE, Mexico)
Paula Estrella (UNC, Argentina)
Mikel Forcada (UA, Spain)
Maria Fuentes Fort (UPC, Spain)
Xavier Gómez Guinovart (UVigo, Spain)
Agustín Gravano (UBA, Argentina)
Franco Luque (UNC, Argentina)
Rada Mihalcea (UNT, USA)
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (USP, Brazil)
Lluís Padró (UPC, Spain)
Muntsa Padró (Nuance, Canada)
Martí Quixal (UTübingen, Germany)
Thiago Pardo (USP, Brazil)
Ted Pedersen (UMN, USA)
German Rigau (UPV, Spain)
Aiala Rosá (UdelaR, Uruguay)
Paolo Rosso (UV, Spain)
Horacio Saggion (UPF, Spain)
Thamar Solorio (UH, USA)
Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno (LIA/UAPV, France)
Cristina Vertan (UH, Germany)
Dina Wonsever (UdelaR, Uruguay)

Organizing Committee

Laura Alonso i Alemany (UNC, Argentina)
Núria Bel (UPF, Spain)
Irene Castellón (UB, Spain)
Manuel Montes y Gómez (INAOE, Mexico)
--
Núria Bel
/Professora Agregada/

Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada
Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge

Roc Boronat, 138 | 08018 Barcelona
[Tel.] +34 935422250+34 935422250 -| +34 935422322+34 935422322
nuria.bel@upf.edu
http://www.upf.edu/pdi/iula/nuria.bel

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 

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3-3-23(2015-07-31) CfP Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (3rd edition), Beijing, China

Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (3rd edition)
Co-located with ACL 2015, Beijing, China
July 31, 2015
Submission deadline: May 14, 2015
https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2015
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First Call for Papers

 

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in algorithms that learn and use
continuous representations for words, phrases, or documents in many natural language
processing applications. Among many others, influential proposals that illustrate this
trend include latent Dirichlet allocation, neural network based language models and
spectral methods. These approaches are motivated by improving the generalization power of
the discrete standard models, by dealing with the data sparsity issue and by efficiently
handling a wide context.  Despite the success of single word vector space models, they
are limited since they do not capture compositionality. This prevents them from gaining a
deeper understanding of the semantics of longer phrases, sentences and documents.

Regarding this issue, some  pertinent questions arise: should word/phrase/sentence
representations be of the same sort? Could different linguistic levels require different
modeling approaches ? Is compositionality determined by syntax, and if so, how do we
learn/define it? Should word representations be fixed and obtained distributionally, or
should the encoding be variable?  Should word representations be task-specific, or should
they be general?

In this workshop, we invite submissions of papers on continuous vector space models for
natural language processing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Neural networks
* Spectral methods
* Distributional semantic models
* Language modeling for automatic speech recognition, statistical machine translation,
and information retrieval
* Automatic annotation of texts
* Phrase and sentence-level distributional representations
* The role of syntax in compositional models
* Formal and distributional semantic models
* Language modeling for logical and natural reasoning
* Integration of distributional representations with other models
* Multi-modal learning for distributional representations
* Knowledge base embedding


INVITED SPEAKERS

The workshop will showcase presentations from 4 to 6 keynote speakers. The confirmed
speakers are:
Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)
Jason Weston (Facebook AI Research)
Kyunghyun Cho (Université de Montréal)


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Authors should submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF format, with up to
2 additional pages for references. The reported research should be substantially
original. The papers will be presented orally or as posters.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the ACL 2015 formatting
requirements (see the ACL 2015 Call For Papers http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html).
Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the
papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Submissions must be made through the
Softconf website set up for this workshop:

https://www.softconf.com/acl2015/CVSC/

Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no distinction will be
made between papers presented orally or as posters.


IMPORTANT DATES

14 May 2015    : Submission deadline
4 June 2015    : Notification of acceptance
21 June 2015    : Camera-ready deadline
31 July 2015    : Workshop



ORGANIZERS

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud, France)
Edward Grefenstette (University of Oxford, UK)
Karl Moritz Hermann (University of Oxford, UK)
Hugo Larochelle (Université de de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in construction)

Marco Baroni, University of Trento
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montreal
Phil Blunsom, University of Oxford
Antoine Bordes, Facebook
Leon Bottou, Microsoft
Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge
Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh
Georgiana Dinu, University of Trento
Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Andriy Mnih, University College London
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University of London
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Peter Turney, NRC
Jason Weston, Facebook
Guillaume Wisniewski, LIMSI-CNRS

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3-3-24(2015-08-04) 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, Mexico City

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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3-3-25(2015-08-26) LVA 2015 - 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation

 

LVA 2015 - 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation

August 24-26, 2015, Liberec, Czech Republic

                  http://amca.cz/lva2015/
       

 *About LVA*

LVA 2015 will be the 12th in a series of international conferences which attracted hundreds of researchers and practitioners over the years. Since its start in 1999 under the banner of Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA), the conference has continuously broadened its horizons. It encompasses today a host of additional forms and models of general mixtures of latent variables. Theories and tools borrowing from the fields of signal processing, applied statistics, machine learning, linear and multilinear algebra, numerical analysis and optimization, and numerous application fields offer exciting interdisciplinary interactions.

*Highlights*

The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation and it will feature the much-awaited results of the 5th Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2015).Keynote talks will be given by three leading researchers:- Tülay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)- Rémi Gribonval (Inria, France)- DeLiang Wang (Ohio State University, USA)

*Call for Papers*

The proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS). Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS format) in areas related to latent variable analysis and signal separation, including but not limited to:- Theory: sparse coding, dictionary learning; statistical and probabilistic modeling; detection, estimation and performance criteria and bounds; causality measures; learning theory; convex/nonconvex optimization tools- Models: general linear or nonlinear models of signals and data; discrete, continuous, flat, or hierarchical models; multilinear models; time-varying, instantaneous, convolutive, noiseless, noisy, over-complete, or under-complete mixtures- Algorithms: estimation, separation, identification, detection, blind and semi-blind methods, non-negative matrix factorization, tensor decomposition, adaptive and recursive estimation; feature selection; time-frequency and wavelet based analysis; complexity analysis- Applications: speech and audio separation, recognition, dereverberation and denoising; auditory scene analysis; image segmentation, separation, fusion, classification, texture analysis; biomedical signal analysis, imaging, genomic data analysis, brain-computer interface- Emerging related topics: sparse learning; deep learning; social networks; data mining; artificial intelligence; objective and subjective performance evaluation.

*Special Sessions*

The program will also feature special sessions on new or emerging topics of interest. Proposals for special sessions must include the session title, rationale, outline, and a list of 4 to 6 invited papers. To submit, see http://amca.cz/lva2015/.

*Important Dates*


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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3-3-26(2015-08-27) 2nd CfP 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association 5EUROSLA 2015),Université d'Aix-Marseille, France

** Second Call for Papers **

 

UMR 7309 Laboratoire Parole et Langage (Université d?Aix-Marseille), in association with the Département de français langue étrangère (Pôle LLC, UFR ALLSHS, Université d?Aix- Marseille), is pleased to announce that it will host EUROSLA 25, the 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association. The general theme of the Conference is « Second Language Acquisition : Implications for language sciences?. You are kindly invited to submit abstracts for papers, posters, thematic colloquia and doctoral workshop related to this theme or to any other domain and subdomain of second language research.

 

The Conference will start in the morning of 27 August 2015 and close at 12 a.m on 29 August 2015. Preceding the Conference, there will be a doctoral workshop and a Language Learning roundtable, both on 26 August 2015. The theme of this year?s roundtable is ?SLA and theories of pidginization / creolization?.

 

Plenary speakers

 

-          Camilla BARDEL (Stockholm University)

-          Sandra BENAZZO (Université Paris 8)

-          Christine DIMROTH (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)

-          Scott H. JARVIS (Ohio University)

-          Gabriele PALLOTI (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE))

 

Key dates:

 

- 1 February 2015: Early bird registration

- 27 February 2015: Abstract submission deadline

- 24 April 2015: Notification of acceptance

- 1 June 2015:  Full fee registration starts

- 18 July 2015: End of registration

 

Language Policy

 

EUROSLA 25 will be a bilingual conference (English and French) ; presentations in one of these languages are particularly encouraged. However, following the Eurosla constitution, any other European language may also be used.

 

Abstract submission policy

 

Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one co-authored (i.e. not first-authored) abstract to be considered for oral presentations, including colloquia and doctoral workshops. More than one abstract can be submitted for poster presentations. Paper and poster proposals should not have been previously published. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific committee and evaluated in terms of rigour, clarity and significance of the contribution, as well as its relevance to second language research. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding the title, but including optional references).

 

Individual papers and posters

 

Papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for discussion.

Poster sessions will be held in two 90-minute slots. In order to foster interaction, all other sessions will be suspended during the poster sessions.

 

Thematic colloquia

 

The Thematic colloquia will be organised in two-hour slots running in parallel with other sessions. Each colloquium will focus on one specific topic, and will bring together contributions to the topic. Each thematic colloquium should include a maximum of 4 presentations. Colloquium convenors should allocate time for opening and closing remarks, individual papers, discussants (if included) and general discussion.

 

Doctoral student workshop

 

The doctoral student workshop is intended to serve as a platform for discussion of ongoing PhD research within any aspect of second language research. PhD students are invited to submit an abstract for a 10-15-minute presentation. The Doctoral workshop focuses on problems of methodology with regard to either data analysis (interpretation of natural conversation, statistical data, interviews, etc.) or research design (experimental design, corpus design, issues of data collection, etc.). These sessions are not intended as opportunities to present research results, but to discuss future directions. Students whose abstracts are accepted will be required to send their paper to a discussant (a senior researcher). The discussant will lead a 10-15-minute feedback/discussion session on their work.

 

Student stipends

 

?As in previous years, several student stipends will be available for doctoral students.?If you wish to apply, please send the following information to 25.eurosla@gmail.com before 27 February 2015:

 

1. Name, institution, and address of institution;

2. Curriculum vitae (attached);

3. Official confirmation of a PhD student status;

4. Statement (email) from supervisor or head of Department that the applicant?s institution cannot (fully) cover the conference-related expenses.

 

Publication of papers

?

A selection of papers presented at EUROSLA 2015 will be published in the EUROSLA 25 or 26 Yearbook following a peer-review process. There is an annual prize for the best EUROSLA Yearbook article. This includes a framed certificate presented at the EUROSLA General Assembly, a fee waiver for the following EUROSLA conference and conference dinner, and free EUROSLA membership for a year.   

 

To submit an abstract please visit

 

http://eurosla25.sciencesconf.org/

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3-3-27(2015-08-27)CfP EUROSLA 25, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France

EUROSLA 25

 

27-29 August 2015

Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France

 

First Call for Papers

 

UMR 7309 Laboratoire Parole et Langage (Aix-Marseille University), in association with the Département de français langue étrangère (Pôle LLC, UFR ALLSHS, Aix-Marseille University), is pleased to announce that it will host EUROSLA 25, the 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association. The general theme of the Conference is « Second Language Acquisition : Implications for language sciences?. You are kindly invited to submit abstracts for papers, posters, thematic colloquia and doctoral workshop related to this theme or to any other domain and subdomain of second language research.

 

The Conference will start in the morning of 27 August 2015 and close at 12 a.m on 29 August 2015. Preceding the Conference, there will be a doctoral workshop and a Language Learning roundtable, both on 26 August 2015. The theme of this year?s roundtable is ?SLA and theories of pidginization / creolization?.

 

Plenary speakers

 

-       Camilla BARDEL (Stockholm University)

-       Sandra BENAZZO (Université Paris 8)

-       Christine DIMROTH (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)

-       Scott H. JARVIS (Ohio University)

-       Gabriele PALLOTI (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE))

 

Key dates

 

- 27 February 2015: Abstract submission deadline

- 24 April 2015: Notification of acceptance

- 27 April 2015: Early bird registration for presenters

- 1 June 2015: End of early bird of registration for presenters

- 2 June 2015: Early Early bird registration for delegates

- 14 July 2015: Full fee registration starts

 

Language Policy

 

EUROSLA 25 will be a bilingual conference (English and French) ; presentations in one of these languages are particularly encouraged. However, following the Eurosla constitution, any other European language may also be used.

 

Abstract submission policy

 

Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one co-authored (i.e. not first-authored) abstract to be considered for oral presentations, including colloquia and doctoral workshops. More than one abstract can be submitted for poster presentations. Paper and poster proposals should not have been previously published. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific committee and evaluated in terms of rigour, clarity and significance of the contribution, as well as its relevance to second language research. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding the title, but including optional references).

  

Individual papers and posters

 

Papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for discussion.

Poster sessions will be held in two 90-minute slots. In order to foster interaction, all other sessions will be suspended during the poster sessions.

 

Thematic colloquia

 

The Thematic colloquia will be organised in two-hour slots running in parallel with other sessions. Each colloquium will focus on one specific topic, and will bring together contributions to the topic. Each thematic colloquium should include a maximum of 4 presentations. Colloquium convenors should allocate time for opening and closing remarks, individual papers, discussants (if included) and general discussion.

 

Doctoral student workshop

 

The doctoral student workshop is intended to serve as a platform for discussion of ongoing PhD research within any aspect of second language research. PhD students are invited to submit an abstract for a 10-15-minute presentation. The Doctoral workshop focuses on problems of methodology with regard to either data analysis (interpretation of natural conversation, statistical data, interviews, etc.) or research design (experimental design, corpus design, issues of data collection, etc.). These sessions are not intended as opportunities to present research results, but to discuss future directions. Students whose abstracts are accepted will be required to send their paper to a discussant (a senior researcher). The discussant will lead a 10-15-minute feedback/discussion session on their work.

 

Student stipends

 

?As in previous years, several student stipends will be available for doctoral students.?If you wish to apply, please send the following information to 25.eurosla@gmail.com before 27 February 2015:

 

1. Name, institution, and address of institution;

2. Curriculum vitae (attached);

3. Official confirmation of a PhD student status;

4. Statement (email) from supervisor or head of Department that the applicant?s institution cannot (fully) cover the conference-related expenses.

 

Publication of papers

?

A selection of papers presented at EUROSLA 2015 will be published in the EUROSLA 25 or 26 Yearbook following a peer-review process. There is an annual prize for the best EUROSLA Yearbook article. This includes a framed certificate presented at the EUROSLA General Assembly, a fee waiver for the following EUROSLA conference and conference dinner, and free EUROSLA membership for a year.   

 

To submit an abstract please visit

 

http://eurosla25.sciencesconf.org/

 

 

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3-3-28(2015-08-31) CfP EUSIPCO 2015, Nice, France (updated)

 EUSIPCO 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS
NICE, COTE D'AZUR, FRANCE
31st AUGUST - 4th SEPTEMBER 2015

EUSIPCO is the flagship conference of the European Association for Signal Processing
(EURASIP). The 23rd edition will be held in Nice, on the French Riviera, from 31st August
­4th September 2015. EUSIPCO 2015 will feature world-class speakers, oral and poster
sessions, keynotes, exhibitions, demonstrations and tutorials and is expected to attract
in the order of 600 leading researchers and industry figures from all over the world.

TECHNICAL SCOPE
The focus will be on signal processing theory, algorithms, and applications. We invite
the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not
limited to:
-Audio and acoustic signal processing
-Machine learning
-Speech processing
-Signal processing for education
-Image and video processing
-Design and implementation of signal processing systems
-Multimedia signal processing
-Signal processing theory and methods
-Information forensics and security
-Sensor array, multichannel and communications signal processing -Bio-inspired image and
signal processing
-Medical image and signal processing
-Nonlinear signal processing
-Signal processing applications

Accepted papers will be included in IEEEXplore. Paper submission details are available at
the conference website: www.eusipco2015.org.

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
Two 'EUSIPCO Best Student Paper Awards' will be presented at the conference banquet.
Papers will be selected by a committee composed of area and technical chairs.

LOCATION AND VENUE
Nestled between the foot of the Alpes and the Mediterranean Sea, the location can be
accessed easily from the Nice Cote d'Azur international airport, France's busiest outside
of Paris, with direct connections to almost 100 European destinations and 14
international destinations including New York (JFK) and Dubai. The conference will be
held at the Nice Acropolis Convention Centre, named 'Europe's number one convention
centre' for three consecutive years. The Acropolis is located in the heart of the city
only minutes away from the Promenades des Anglais and the Baie des Anges.

IMPORTANT DATES
-Special session proposals: 1st December 2014

-Tutorial proposals: 13th February 2015

-Full paper submissions: 13th February 2015  extended to February 27th

-Notification of acceptance: 22nd May 2015


-Camera-ready papers: 19th June 2015

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General chairs
Jean-Luc Dugelay (EURECOM)
Dirk Slock (EURECOM)

Technical chairs
Marc Antonini (I3S/UNS/CNRS)
Nicholas Evans (EURECOM)
Cedric Richard (UNS/OCA)

Plenary Talks
Sergios Theodoridis (UoA)
Josiane Zerubia (INRIA)

Special Sessions
Marco Carli (U. Roma)
Thierry Dutoit (UMONS)
Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT)

Tutorials
Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL)
Patrick Naylor (Imperial)

Publicity
Benoit Huet (EURECOM)
Nikos Nikolaidis (AUTH)

Publications
Patrizio Campisi (U. Roma Tre)
Claude Delpha (Université Paris Sud)

Student activities
Christophe Beaugeant (Intel)
Ana Perez (UPC/CTTC)

Awards
Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Sponsorship
Lionel Fillatre (I3S/UNS/CNRS)
Mounir Ghogho (U. Leeds)

International Liaisons
Thierry Blu (CUHK)
Mohamed Deriche (KFUPM)
Douglas O'Shaughnessy (INRS)
Kenneth Rose (UCSB)

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech, 450 Route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, FRANCE
E-mail: info@eusipco2015.org
Website: www.eusipco2015.org

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Special issue on
Biometric Spoofing and Countermeasures
IEEE TRANS. INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY
http://www.eurecom.fr/~evans/docs/TIFSsi.pdf
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Special issue on
Biometric Security and Privacy
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
http://www.eurecom.fr/~evans/docs/SPMsi.pdf
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23rd European Signal Processing Conference
(EUSIPCO) 2015 in NICE
http://www.eusipco2015.org
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Nick Evans
EURECOM
Multimedia Communications Dept.
Campus SophiaTech
450 route des Chappes
06410 Biot Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE

Tel: +33 (0)4 93 00 81 14+33 (0)4 93 00 81 14
Fax: +33 (0)4 93 00 82 00

My site:
http://www.eurecom.fr/~evans

Official EURECOM page:
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/evans.en.htm

Research group:
http://audio.eurecom.fr
 

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3-3-29(2015-08-31) Joint Conference PEVOC & MAVEBA 2015, Firenze, Italia

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

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3-3-30(2015-08-xx) MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark

MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark
Call for Survey Participation
***********************************

The MediaEval 2015 season kicks off with the MediaEval Multimedia Benchmark Task Survey.
The survey collects the input of the research community about which challenges should be
offered by MediaEval in 2015.

The survey can be found at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mediaeval2015

Please add your email address to the survey, in order to receive more information
specifically about 2015.

MediaEval (http://www.multimediaeval.org) is a benchmarking initiative dedicated to
evaluating new algorithms for multimedia access and retrieval. It emphasizes the 'multi'
in multimedia and focuses on human and social aspects of multimedia tasks.

MediaEval attracts participants who are interested in multimodal approaches to multimedia
involving, e.g., speech recognition, visual analysis, audio analysis, music and musical
scores, user-contributed information (tags, comments), viewer affective response, social
networks, user privacy, geo-coordinates and crowdsourcing.

The survey asks you questions about the 13 tasks that have been proposed for MediaEval
2015. It will take you about 5 minutes if you fill in only the main questions. It will
take about 30 minutes if you choose to answer the additional questions and give comments.
We encourage you to answer the additional questions on the tasks that most interest you.
Your answers contribute to decisions than are made about the design and implementation of
the tasks.

The MediaEval 2015 task list will be finalized and sign up for participation will open at
the end of February. Please be sure to fill your email address in on the first page of
the survey if you would like to receive a mail when sign up opens.

Our goal is to have the survey filled out by as many researchers as possible in the next
three weeks?please pass the survey link along to colleagues in the field of multimedia
who might be interested.

Note that the deadline for results submissions this year will be the end of August. The
MediaEval 2015 workshop will be held 14-15 September near Dresden, Germany. It is a
satellite event of Interspeech 2015, which takes place in Dresden.

For more information see http://www.multimediaeval.org or contact Martha Larson
m.a.larson@tudelft.nl with questions.

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3-3-31(2015-09-02) GESPIN 2015 Gesture and Speech in Interaction, Nantes, France

GESPIN 2015

Gesture and Speech in Interaction

2 - 4 September 2015

Universite de Nantes - FRANCE

http://www.gespin4.univ-nantes.fr/70179108/1/fiche___pagelibre/&RH=1412770436454

First Call for Papers

After Poznań in Poland, Bielefeld in Germany and Tilburg in the Netherlands, the fourth edition

of GESPIN will be held in Nantes, France. GESPIN is an international conference on how

gesture and speech work together to achieve various goals. This edition will focus especially on

“combined units of meaning in gesture and speech”. The following issues may be of particular

interest:

· Mapping of units in different semiotic modes

· Overlapping of units across modalities

· Affordances and relevance of different unit types

· Multimodal models of cognition

· Transliteration of units

· Gesture and speech in development

· Gesture and speech in dialogue

· Multimodal language learning and teaching

Yet, papers on all other topics related to the combination of speech and gesture are welcome as

well. We also invite proposals for tutorials and hands-on data sessions. Papers and tutorial reports

will be published online.

Keynote speakers

· Alan Cienki (FU Amsterdam)

· Jean-Marc Colletta (U. Grenoble)

· Ellen Fricke (TU Chemnitz, Germany)

· Judith Holler (MPI, Nijmegen)

Important dates

· Deadline for full papers and workshop proposals: April 15, 2015

· Acceptance of papers & workshops: June 15, 2015

· Revised version of accepted papers: July 15, 2015

· Gespin conference: September 2-4, 2015

Venue

Faculte des Langues et Cultures Etrangeres (FLCE)

Universite de Nantes

Chemin de la Censive du Tertre

44312 Nantes

FRANCE

Registration fees

· Students: 80 €

· Academics: 150 €

The conference fee will cover the online publication cost of the proceedings, conference package,

snacks and drinks during breaks as well as the conference dinner and social program.

Submission

Please submit full papers (6 pages maximum), written in English (see submission link on website

for submission procedure and paper template). Papers will be sent to two reviewers and final

selection will be discussed collectively by the organizing committee.

Organizing committees

Local organizing committee

· Gaelle Ferre (principle organizer, Gaelle.Ferre@univ-nantes.fr)

· Mark Tutton (principle organizer, Mark.Tutton@univ-nantes.fr)

· Manon Lelandais (conference secretary, Manon.Lelandais@etu.univ-nantes.fr)

· Benjamin Lourenco (conference secretary, Benjamin.Lourenco@etu.univ-nantes.fr)

Scientific board

· Mats Andren (U. Lund, Sweden)

· Dominique Boutet (Evry, France)

· Jana Bressem (TU Chemnitz, Germany)

· Heather Brookes (U. Cape Town, South Africa)

· Alan Cienki (FU Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

· Doron Cohen (U. Manchester, UK)

· Jean-Marc Colletta (U. Grenoble, France)

· Gaelle Ferre (U. Nantes, France)

· Elen Fricke (TU Chemnitz, Germany)

· Alexia Galati (U. Cyprus)

· Marianne Gullberg (U. Lund, Sweden)

· Daniel Gurney (U. Hertfordshire, UK)

· Simon Harrison (U. Nottingham Ningbo, China)

· Judith Holler (MPI, The Netherlands)

· Ewa Jarmołowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Konrad Juszczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Maciej Karpiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Sotaro Kita (U. Warwick, UK)

· Stefan Kopp (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

· Emiel Krahmer (U. Tilburg, The Netherlands)

· Anna Kuhlen (U. Humbolt Berlin, Germany)

· Silva H. Ladewig (Europa-Universitat Frankfurt, Germany)

· Maarten Lemmens (U. Lille 3, France)

· Zofia Malisz (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

· Irene Mittelberg (HUMTEC Aachen, Germany)

· Asli Ozyurek (MPI, The Netherlands)

· Katharina J. Rohlfing (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

· Gale Stam (National Louis University, USA)

· Marc Swerts (U. Tilburg, The Netherlands)

· Michał Szczyszek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Marion Tellier (U. Aix en Provence, France)

· Mark Tutton (U. Nantes, France)

· Petra Wagner (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

GESPIN conference board

· Ewa Jarmołowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Konrad Juszczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Maciej Karpiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Zofia Malisz (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

· Katharina J. Rohlfing (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

· Michał Szczyszek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Petra Wagner (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

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3-3-32(2015-09-04) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2015)

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

Satellite event of Interspeech 2015

Leipzig,Germany


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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3-3-33(2015-09-05) Workshop on the History of Speech Communication, Dresden, Germany

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

Technische Sammlungen,

Dresden, Germany

www.sig-hist.org

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

                  Jürgen Trouvain trouvain@coll.uni-saarland.de

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3-3-34(2015-09-06 ) INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies

INTERSPEECH 2015
Call for paper: submission for INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on
Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies

Paper submission deadline: March 20, 2015
Special Session page:
http://multimediaeval.org/files/Interspeech2015_specialSession_SynergiesOfSpeechAndMultimediaTechnologies.html
Motivation:

Growing amounts of multimedia content is being shared or stored in
online archives. Alternative research directions in the speech
processing and multimedia analysis communities are developing and
improving speech or multimedia processing technologies in parallel,
often using each others work as ?black boxes?. However, genuine
combination would appear to be a better strategy to exploit the
synergies between the modalities of content containing multiple
potential sources of information.

This session seeks to bring together the speech and multimedia research
communities to report on current work and to explore potential synergies
and opportunities for creative research collaborations between speech
and multimedia technologies. From the speech perspective the session
aims to explore how fundamentals of speech technology can be benefit
multimedia applications, and from the multimedia perspective to explore
the crucial role that speech can play in multimedia analysis.

The list of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to):

- Navigation in multimedia content using advanced speech analysis features;
- Large scale speech and video analysis
- Multimedia content segmentation and structuring using audio and visual
features;
- Multimedia content hyperlinking and summarization;
- Natural language processing for multimedia;
- Multimodality-enhanced metadata extraction, e.g. entity extraction,
keyword extraction, etc;
- Generation of descriptive text for multimedia;
- Multimedia applications and services using speech analysis features;
- Affective and behavioural analytics based on multimodal cues;
- Audio event detection and video classification;
- Multimodal speaker identification and clustering.

Important dates:

20 Mar 2015 paper submission deadline
01 Jun 2015 paper notification of acceptance/rejection
10 Jun 2015 paper camera-ready
20 Jun 2015 early registration deadline
6-10 Sept 2015 Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany

Submission takes place via the general Interspeech submission
system. Paper contributions must comply to the INTERSPEECH paper
submission guidelines, cf. http://interspeech2015.org/papers.
There will be no extension to the full paper submission deadline.
We are looking forward to receive your contribution!

Organizers:

- Maria Eskevich, Communications Multimedia Group, EURECOM, France
(maria.eskevich@eurecom.fr <mailto:maria.eskevich@eurecom.fr>)
- Robin Aly, Database Management Group, University of Twente, The
Netherlands (r.aly@utwente.nl <mailto:r.aly@utwente.nl>)
- Roeland Ordelman, Human Media Interaction Group, University of Twente,
The Netherlands (roeland.ordelman@utwente.nl
< mailto:roeland.ordelman@utwente.nl>)
- Gareth J.F. Jones, CNGL Centre for Global Intelligent Content, Dublin
City University, Ireland (gjones@computing.dcu.ie
< mailto:gjones@computing.dcu.ie>)

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3-3-35(2015-09-11) FAAVSP - The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Vienna, Austria
Call For Papers 
 
FAAVSP - The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing
 
The International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation (FAA) 
The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) 
 
11-13 September, 2015
Vienna, Austria
 
 
 
Description
This conference brings together two established interdisciplinary conferences: 
 
The International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation (FAA) 
and 
The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) 
 
Both conferences have a common focus on facial communication research. FAA focuses on facial animation analysis and synthesis addressed in the fields of computer graphics, computer vision and psychology. AVSP focuses on how auditory and visual speech information plays a role in human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine interaction.
 
The two conferences attract researchers from diverse fields, such as speech processing, computer graphics and computer vision, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, robotics and electrical engineering.
 
The aim of this first joint conference is to bring together, from both academia and industry, the two communities of facial animation (FAA) and audiovisual speech (AVSP) to discuss research and exchange ideas, data and experiences.
 
Topics
Submission of papers are invited in all areas of facial animation and auditory-visual speech processing including but not limited to:
 
- Acquisition of Facial Shape, Motion and Texture
- Facial animation and rendering techniques
- Facial Model Based Coding and Compression
- Facial Analysis and Animation for Mobile Applications
- Embodied Virtual Agents
- Visual and Audiovisual Speech Synthesis
- Human and machine recognition of audio-visual speech
- Human and machine models of multimodal integration
- Multimodal and perceptual processing of facial animation and audiovisual events
- Cross-linguistic studies of audio-visual speech processing
- Developmental studies of audio-visual speech processing
- Audio-visual prosody
- Emotion and Expressivity modeling
- Gestures accompanying speech and non-linguistic behavior
- Neuropsychology and neurophysiology of audio-visual speech processing
- Scene analysis using audio and visual speech information
- Data collection and corpora for audio-visual speech processing
 
 
The conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, 11.-13. September 2015. The session on September 11 will be devoted to FAA topics and those on September 12-13 to AVSP topics. The keynotes will present topics relevant to both communities.
 
 
* Important Dates:
8 May 2015:    Deadline for paper submission
12 June 2015: Notification of acceptance
19 June 2015: Camera-ready paper
11-13 September 2015: Conference
 
 
Two types of submission are possible: Abstracts (1 page) for FAA and AVSP topics, and full papers (4 to 6 pages) for AVSP topics. 
 
 
The organizing committee of FAAVSP 2015 is looking forward to your submissions.
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3-3-36(2015-09-11) Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Dresden, Germany

SLPAT 2015

Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)


11th September 2015, co-located with Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany

Submission deadline:  8th June 2015
     http://www.slpat.org/slpat2015

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We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) on Friday 11 September 2015 to be co-located with Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline, and formatting of regular papers are here:

           

     http://www.slpat.org/slpat2015

 

This workshop will bring together researchers from all areas of speech and language technology with a common interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. The workshop will provide an opportunity for individuals from both research communities, and the individuals with whom they are working, to assist to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. General topics include but are not limited to:

              

         • Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments

         • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility

         • Speech and language technologies for daily assisted living and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)

         • Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language

         • Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) / Assistive Technologies (AT) applications

         • Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or TTS

         • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio

         • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication

         • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies

         • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies

         • NLP for cognitive assistance applications

         • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments

         • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications

         • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications

         • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies

         • Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of AT

         • Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols

         • Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field

         • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes

         • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology

         • Other topics in AAC and AT

 

Please contact the conference organizers at slpat2015-workshop@googlegroups.com with any questions.

 

Important dates:

  • 8 June: Paper due     
  • 15 July: Notification of acceptance
  • 1 August: Camera-ready papers due
  • 11 September SLPAT workshop

 

 

Frank Rudzicz, PhD

   Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute;

   Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science,

         University of Toronto;

   Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Thotra Incorporated

   Director, SPOClab (signal processing and oral communications)

|| Website: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~frank

|| Phone (office) : 416 597 3422 x7971

|| Fax : 416 597 3031

 

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3-3-37(2015-09-14) 18th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2015), Plzen, Czech Republic

  TSD 2015 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
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Eighteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2015)
            Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 14-17 September 2015
                       http://www.tsdconference.org




TSD HIGHLIGHTS


* Invited speakers Hermann Ney, Dan Roth, Björn W. Schuller, Peter D. Turney,
  and Alexander Waibel.
* TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed
  in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings
  Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc.
* TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final
  reviewers discussion.
* TSD will take place in Pilsen, the European Capital of Culture 2015.
* TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material,
  all meals, one social event etc) for an easily affordable fee starting
  at 270 EUR for students and 330 EUR for full participants.




TSD SERIES


TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over
the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in
their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD
proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation
databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.




TOPICS


Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):


    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
    text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
    specialized lexicons, dictionaries)


    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
    speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
    alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
    acoustic and language modelling)


    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility
    analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship
    attribution)


    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
    fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)


    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
    extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
    knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
    disambiguation, plagiarism detection)


    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
    (machine translation, natural language understanding,
    question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)


    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)


    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
    and personality modelling)




OFFICIAL LANGUAGE


The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on
processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.




IMPORTANT DATES


March 31, 2015 ............ Submission of full papers
May 10, 2015 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31, 2015 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration


September 14-17, 2015 ....... Conference date


The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that
will be made available on a CD to participants at the time of the
conference.




CONFERENCE FEES


The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It
includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee
breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event
admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as
possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included.


Full participant:
early registration by May 31, 2015 - CZK 9.000 (approx. 330 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2015 - CZK 10.000 (approx. 370 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 10.700 (approx. 390 EUR)


Student (reduced):
early registration by May 31, 2015 - CZK 7.400 (approx. 270 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2015 - CZK 9.000 (approx. 330 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 10.000 (approx. 370 EUR)


LOCATION


The city of Plzeň (Pilsen) is situated in Western Bohemia at the
confluence of four rivers. With its 170,000 inhabitants it is the fourth
largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial,
commercial, and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the
Pilsen Region. In addition, Pilsen won the title of the European Capital
of Culture for the upcoming year 2015.


Pilsen is well-known for its brewing tradition. The trademark
Pilsner-Urquell has a good reputation all over the world thanks to the
traditional recipe, high quality hops and good groundwater. Beer lovers
will also appreciate a visit to the Brewery Museum or the Brewery itself.


Apart from its delicious beer, Pilsen hides lots of treasures in its core.
The city can boast the second largest synagogue in Europe. The dominant of
the old part of the city center is definitely the 13th-century Gothic
cathedral featuring the highest church tower in Bohemia (102.34 m). It is
possible to go up and admire the view of the city. Not far from the
cathedral is the splendid Renaissance Town Hall from 1558 and plenty of
pleasant cafes and pubs are situated on and around the main square.


There is also the beautiful Pilsen Historical Underground - under the city
center, a complex network of passageways and cellars can be found. They
are about 14 km long and visitors can see the most beautiful part of this
labyrinth during the tour. It is recommended to visit the City Zoological
Garden, having the second largest space for bears in Europe and keeping
several Komodo dragons, large lizards which exist only in a few zoos in
the world.


The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen provides a variety of courses for
both Czech and international students. It is the only institution of
higher education in this part of the country which prepares students for
careers in engineering (electrical and mechanical), science (computer
science, applied mathematics, physics, and mechanics), education (both
primary and secondary), economics, philosophy, politics, archeology,
anthropology, foreign languages, law and public administration, art and
design.




ABOUT CONFERENCE


The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
 of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University,
Brno. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA).


Venue: Plzeň (Pilsen), Parkhotel Congress Center Plzeň, Czech Republic




ADDRESS


All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
Ms Anna Habernalová, TSD2015 Conference Secretary
E-mail: tsd2015@tsdconference.org
Phone: (+420) 724 910 148
Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with capitals
                        'TSD' on top.
TSD 2015 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2015

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3-3-38(2015-09-17) 16th Science of Aphasia (SoA) Conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal

The University of Aveiro, Portugal is pleased to announce that
will be hosting the 16th Science of Aphasia (SoA) Conference between
the 17th and 22nd of September 2015.

This year's program theme is Neuroplasticity and Language and includes
the following invited speakers: 
Argye Hillis(Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Hugues Duffau (CHU Montpellier, France)

Cathy Price (UCL, UK)

Alexandre Castro Caldas (UCP, Portugal)

Alexandra Reis (UAlg, Portugal)

Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France, France)

Uri Hasson (Princeton University, USA)

Jenny Crinion (UCL, UK)

Brenda Rapp (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

David Poeppel (New York University, USA)

Dan Bub (University of Victoria, Canada)

David Caplan (Harvard Medical School, USA)

The SoA conferences have brought together, for the past 15 years,
senior and junior scientists working in the multidisciplinary field
of Neurocognition of language and deal with normal function as well
as disorders. The conference structure ensures direct and informal
interaction between all participants.

The conference program will include keynotes (mornings), and contributed
oral and poster presentations (afternoons) over 4 days (between the 18th and
the 21st of September 2015). Full/student registration will include the
conference proceedings, lunches, coffee breaks, a social program and conference
dinner. Participants will be able to register only for a day as well.

Abstracts can be submitted at http://www.soa-online.com/submission/
until the 1st of April. Selected abstract authors will then be invited to submit full
length papers.

Conference proceeding will be published as part of a special number
of the journal Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologi. The papers are published
online at the journal's website (see previous conference proceedings here)
and a printed copy is distributed to all conference participants.

The venue is the School of Health Sciences at University of Aveiro's
Campus de Santiago, overlooking the Aveiro's lagoon, which is
renowned internationally for its many buildings designed by famous
Portuguese architects, only at a short distance from the city centre
(5 minute walk).

 

Luis M. T. Jesus
(Local Chair)
University of Aveiro, Portugal
http://www.soa-online.com/                                                                

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3-3-39(2015-09-20) 17th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2015), Athens, Greece

   SPECOM 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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17th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2015)
Venue: Athens, Greece, September 20-24, 2015
Web: http://specom.nw.ru


ORGANIZERS

The conference is organized by University of Patras (Patras, Greece), in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia) and St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia).

SPECOM conferences

Ten years later the SPECOM conference returns to Greece. Recently SPECOM venue is significantly varied: Patras, Greece, 2005; St.Petersburg, Russia, 2006; Moscow, Russia, 2007; St.Petersburg, Russia, 2009; Kazan, Russia, 2011; Plzen, Czech Republic, 2013; Novi Sad, Serbia, 2014. The last conferences were organized in parallel with TSD'2013 and DOGS'2014 and had a great success and benefits of joining the various research teams.
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2015.

TOPICS

The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of human-machine interaction, particullly:
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
Forensic speech investigations and security systems
Нuman-robot interaction
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Signal processing and feature extraction
Speaker identification and diarization
Speaker verification systems
Speech and language resources
Speech driving systems in robotics
Speech enhancement
Speech perception and speech disorders
Speech recognition and understanding
Speech translation automatic systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken language processing
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Etienne Barnard, North-West University, South Africa
Laurent Besacier, Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, France
Vlado Delic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Christoph Draxler, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Communication, Germany
Thierry Dutoit, University of Mons, Belgium
Nikos Fakotakis, University of Patras, Greece
Peter French, University of York, UK
Hiroya Fujisaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Slobodan Jovicic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Ruediger Hoffmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Dimitri Kanevsky, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Walter Kellerman, Erlangen-Nurnberg University, Germany
George Kokkinakis, University of Patras, Greece
Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Lin-shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Boris Lobanov, United Institute of Informatics Problems, Belarus
Benoit Macq, University Сatholique de Louvain, Belgium
Roger Moore, Sheffield University, UK
Yuri Matveev, ITMO University, Russia
Geza Nemeth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Heinrich Niemann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Alexander Petrovsky, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus
Rodmonga Potapova, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia
Dimitar Popov, Bologna University, Italy
Lawrence Rabiner, Rutgers University, USA
Gerhard Rigoll, Munich University of Technology, Germany
Andrey Ronzhin, SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Murat Saraclar, Bogazici University, Turkey
Jesus Savage, University of Mexico, Mexico
Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Milan Secujski, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Pavel Skrelin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Viktor Sorokin, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russia
Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece
Christian Wellekens, EURECOM, France
Milos Zelezny, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
Details about the social events will be available on the web page.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site.
Papers submitted to SPECOM 2015 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
As the reviewing is blind, the paper should not include authors' names and affiliations.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 15, 2015 ............ Submission of full papers
June  01, 2015 ............ Notification of acceptance
June  15, 2015 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and registration

September 20-24, 2015 ........ Conference date

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.


CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, meals during the conference, the accommodation, and the conference trip are not included.

Full participant:
early registration by June 15, 2015 – 380 EUR
late registration by August 20, 2015 – 420 EUR
on-site registration – 470 EUR

Student (reduced):
early registration by June 15, 2015 – 300 EUR
late registration by August 20, 2015 – 330 EUR
on-site registration – 370 EUR

The payment may be refunded up until August 20, at the cost of 60 EUR. No refund is possible after this date.
At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration fee by June 15, 2015 for their paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included in the regular registration fee. An author with more than one paper pays the additional paper rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid the full registration fee. In the case of uncertainty, feel free to contact the organising committee for clarification.

VENUE

The conference will be organized in Athens, Greece.
Each year, more and more travelers are choosing Athens for their leisure and business travel all year round. Athens offers a variety of things to see and do, and most of the times, under favorable weather conditions. Athens is considered one of Europe's safest capitals; its transportation network is user-friendly; there are numerous museums and archeological sites and hundreds of restaurants to satisfy every taste.

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM Secretariat
E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su
Phone/Fax: +7 812 328 7081
Fax: +7 812 328 4450 — Please, designate the faxed material with capitals 'SPECOM' on top.
SPECOM 2015 conference web site: www.specom.nw.ru

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3-3-40(2015-09-xx) MultiLing 2015:Multilingual Summarization of Multiple Documents, Online Fora and Call Centre Conversations, Prague, Czech Republic

= Call for Participation =

= MultiLing 2015: Multilingual Summarization of Multiple Documents,
          Online Fora and Call Centre Conversations =

= Introduction =

From Caesar's `Veni, Vidi, Vici' to `What might be in a summary?'
(Karen Sparck-Jones, 1993) summarization techniques have been key to
successfully grasping the main points of large amounts of information,
and much research has been devoted to improving such techniques.  In
the past two decades, the progress of summarization research has been
supported by evaluation exercises and shared tasks such as DUC, TAC
and, more recently, MultiLing (2011, 2013). Multiling is a
community-driven initiative for benchmarking multilingual
summarization systems, nurturing further research, and pushing the
state-of-the-art in the area.  The aim of MultiLing 2015 is to
continue this evolution and, in addition, to introduce new tasks
promoting research on summarizing free human interaction in online
fora and customer call centres. With this call we wish to invite the
summarization research community to participate in MultiLing 2015.

= The Tasks =

MultiLing 2015 will feature the Multilingual Multi-document Summarization
task familiar from previous editions and its predecessor, the Multilingual
Single-document Summarization. In addition, we will pilot two new tracks,
Online Forum Summarization (OnForumS) and Call Centre Conversation
Summarization (CCCS), in collaboration with the SENSEI EU project
(http://www.sensei-conversation.eu). We describe each task in turn below.

== Multilingual Multi-document Summarization (MMS) ==

The multilingual multi-document summarization track aims to evaluate the
application of (partially or fully) language-independent summarization
algorithms on a variety of languages. Each system participating in the track
will be called to provide summaries for a range of different languages,
based on a news corpus. Participating systems will be required to
apply their methods to a minimum of two languages.
Evaluation will favor systems that apply their methods to more languages.

The corpus used in the Multilingual multi-document summarization track
will be based on WikiNews texts (http://www.wikinews.org/). Source
texts will be UTF-8, clean texts (without any mark-up, images,etc.).

The task requires systems to generate a single, fluent, representative
summary from a set of documents describing an event sequence. The language of
the document set will be within a given range of languages and all documents
in a set share the same language. The output summary should be of the same
language as its source documents. The output summary should be 250 words at
most.

== Multilingual Single-document Summarization (MSS) ==

Following the pilot task of 2013, the multi-lingual single-document
summarization
task will be to generate a single document summary for all the given Wikipedia
feature articles from one of about 40 languages provided. The provided training
data will be the 2013 Single-Document Summarization Pilot Task data
from MultiLing 2013.
A new set of data will be generated based on additional Wikipedia
feature articles.
For each language 30 documents are given. The documents will be UTF-8
without mark-ups and images.
For each document of the training set, the human-generated summary is
provided. For MultiLing 2015
the character length of the human summary for each document will be
provided, called the target length.
Each machine summary should be as close to the target length provided
as possible. For the purpose of
evaluation all machine summaries greater than the target length will
be truncated to the target length.
The summaries will be evaluated via automatic methods and participants
will be required to perform
some limited summarization evaluations.

The manual evaluation will consist of pairwise comparisons of
machine-generated summaries. Each evaluator
will be presented the human-generated summary and two
machine-generated summaries.  The evaluation task
is to read the human summary and then judge if the one
machine-generated summary is significantly closer to
the human generated summary information content (e.g.  system A >
system B or system B > system A) or if
the two machine-generated summaries contain comparable quanties of
information as the human-generated summary.


== Online Forum Summarization (OnForumS) ==

Most major on-line news publishers, such as The Guardian or Le Monde,
publish articles on different topics and encourage reader engagement
through the provision of an on-line comment facility. A given news
article can often give rise to thousands of reader comments -- some
related to specific points within the article, others that are replies
to previous comments. The great volume of such user-supplied comments
suggests the need for automated methods to summarize this content,
which in turn poses an exciting and novel challenge for the
summarization community.

The purpose of the Online Forum Summarization (OnForumS) track at
MultiLing'15 is to set the ground for investigating how such a  mass
of comments can be summarised. We posit that a crucial initial step in
developing reader comment summarization systems is to determine what
comments relate to, be that either specific points within the text of
the article, the global topic of the article, or comments made by
other users. This constitutes a linking task. Furthermore, a set of
link types or labels may be articulated to capture whether, for
example, a comment agrees with, elaborates, disagrees with, etc., the
point made in the commented-upon text. Solving this labelled linking
problem should facilitate the creation of reader comment summaries by
allowing, for example, that comments relating to the same article
content can be clustered, points attracting the most comment can be
identified, representative comments can be chosen for each key point,
and the implications of labelled links can be digested (e.g., numbers
for or against a particular point), etc.

The SMS task at MultiLing'15 is a particular specification of the
linking task, in which systems will take as input a news article with
a reduced set of comments (sifted, according to predefined criteria,
from what could otherwise be thousands of comments) and are asked to
link and label each comment to sentences in the article (which, for
simplification, are assumed to be the appropriate units here), to the
article topic as a whole, or to preceding comments. Precise guidelines
for when to link and for the link types, will be released as part of
the formal task specification, but we anticipate the condition for
linking will require sentences addressing the same assertion, and that
link types will include at least agreement, disagreement,  and
sentiment indicators. The data will cover at least three
languages (English, Italian, and French); a small set of
link-labelled articles will be provided by the SENSEI project
for each of these languages for illustration and for
development. Additional languages may be covered if the data for these
are provided by the participants in the task. These data could be
either translations of the data for other languages, or comparable
articles *on the same topics*.

Evaluation will be based on the results of a crowd-sourcing exercise,
in which crowd workers are asked to judge whether potential links, and
associated labels, are correct for each given test article plus
associated comments.


== Call Centre Conversation Summarization (CCCS) ==

Speech summarization has been of great interest to the community
because speech is the principal modality of human communications and
it is not as easy to skim, search or browse speech transcripts as it
is for textual messages. Speech recorded from call centers offers a
great opportunity to study goal-oriented and focused conversations
between an agent and a caller. The Call Centre Conversation
Summarization (CCCS) task consists in automatically generating
summaries of spoken conversations in the form of textual synopses that
shall inform on the content of a conversation and might be used for
browsing a large database of recordings. Compared to news
summarization where extractive approaches have been very successful,
the CCCS task's objective is to foster work on abstractive
summarization in order to depict what happened in a conversation
instead of what people actually said.

The MultiLing'15 CCCS track leverages conversations from the DECODA
and LUNA corpora of French and Italian call center recordings, both
with transcripts available in their original language as well as
English translation (both manual and automatic). Recording duration
range from a few minutes to 15 minutes, involving two or sometimes
more speakers. In the public transportation and help desk domains, the
dialogs offer a rich range of situations (with emotions such as anger
or frustration) while staying in a coherent domain.

Given transcripts, participants to the task shall generate abstractive summaries
informing a reader about the main events of the conversations, such as
the objective of the caller, whether and how it was solved by the
agent, and the attitude of both parties. Evaluation will be performed
by comparing submissions to reference synopses written by experts.
Both conversations and reference summaries are kindly provided by the
SENSEI project.

= How can I participate? =
For now you only need to fill in your contact details in the following form:
http://go.scify.gr/multiling2015participation
Make sure you also visit the MultiLing community website:
http://multiling.iit.demokritos.gr/

= Roadmap =
Finalization pending.
(PLEASE PROVIDE FEEDBACK on the submission dates, if you plan to participate,
by e-mailing: ggianna AT iit DOT demokritos DOT gr.)


* Training data ready: (date to be finalized per task) Dec 12th, 2014
* Test data available: Feb 15th, 2015
* System submissions due: Feb 28th, 2015
* Evaluation starts: Mar 1st, 2015
* Evaluation ends: Mar 31st, 2015
* Paper submission due: May 1st, 2015
* Paper reviews due: May 15th, 2015
* Camera-ready due: Jun 15th, 2015
* Workshop: 1st week of Sep , 2015

*NOTE*: Individual task dates may differ. Please check the MultiLing
website (http://multiling.iit.demokritos.gr) for more information.


= Venue =
(Finalization pending)
Collocated with SIGDIAL, Prague, Czech Republic

= Program Committee Members =
(Full list of PC members pending)

The Program Committee members are:
George Giannakopoulos - NCSR Demokritos (overall chair, MMS Task chair)
Jeff Kubina, John Conroy - IDA Center for Computing Sciences (MSS Task chairs)
Mijail Kabadjov - University of Essex (OnForumS Task co-chair)
Josef Steinberger - University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
(OnForumS Task co-chair)
Benoit Favre - University of Marseille (CCCS Task co-chair)
Udo Kruschwitz and Massimo Poesio - University of Essex
Emma Barker, Rob Gaizauskas and Mark Hepple - University of Sheffield
Vangelis Karkaletsis - NCSR Demokritos
Fabio Celli - University of Trento

Data Contributors (from MultiLing 2013)
===========================================
Georgios Petasis, George Giannakopoulos - NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece
Josef Steinberger - University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Mahmoud El-Haj - Lancaster University, UK
Ahmad Alharthi - King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Maha Althobaiti - Essex University, UK
Corina Forascu - Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial
         Intelligence (RACAI), and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of
Iasi (UAIC), Romania
Jeff Kubina, John Conroy, Judith Shleshinger - IDA/Center for
Computing Sciences, USA
Lei Li - Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China
Marina Litvak - Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel
Sabino Miranda - Center for Computing Research, Instituto Politécnico
Nacional, Mexico

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3-3-41(2015-10-15) Young Researchers in Sciences of Language, Laboratory Praxiling, University of Montpellier, France

Young Researchzers in Sciences of Language

 

Laboratory Praxiling, University of Montpellier, France

 

Call for papers: CJC2015

« Trace(s) »

15th-16th october 2015

http://www.praxiling.fr/colloque-jeunes-chercheurs-2015,370.html

The aim of this 9th edition is to bring together researchers interested in the notion of the trace, from theoretical and methodological perspective in various disciplines. The term trace raises both by its multiple meanings and by its recurring presence in the scientific literature. While trace is a common term used in everyday language, the apparent straightforwardness of its meaning hides a number of complex questions in the literature about the contextualization of the term. These questions are all the more relevant in the digital age where the trace is playing an increasingly important role in IT environments (review Intellectica, No. 59). To begin with, an epistemological questioning calls for a multidisciplinary approach. In 2002, A. Serres drew up an inventory of possible meanings of the term trace (as a marker, as an clue) and discussed its presence in literature, linguistics and philosophy. His approach constitutes a solid basis for our thinking. Serres also reviewed intrinsic links between trace and memory (Ricoeur) and trace and writing (Derrida). Secondly, this notion of trace is omnipresent in the field of Linguistics and can be found at all levels of research (epistemological, pragmatic and praxeological). Therefore, it is worth revisiting, at a methodological level, the practices of identification, creation, exploitation and conservation of objects of research, considered as traces of this research : what about the positioning and choices of young researchers on data collection, analysis of corpus, archiving ?

Phonetics and phonology: If we consider sound as a trace in the elastic medium represented by the air, it is worthwhile discussing the notion of the trace in relation to the acoustic signal. In fact, sound traces the acoustic signal thanks to the articulatory gestures. Those gestures can be altered by a communication disorder which will leave a number of traces in the speech. Finally, in the voice, other traces can be observed allowing one to identify the speaker’s gender or his/her emotions.

Language acquisition, didactics and language learning: In the learning process, the target language acquisition is based on existing knowledge and skills that will be progressively transferred from the source language. Therefore, various traces of the first language can be found in the second language, reflecting different levels of the language: linguistics, pragmatics or sociocultural.

Written communication: In the written communication, the participants are not in a situation of co-presence. Therefore, we can talk about a delayed communication that seems to be an interesting subject for discussion. Indeed, the written communication fits into the framework of elaboration and conservation of the traces. As this communication mode is not subject to the constraints that are tied up with the speech flow, it allows backtracking, corrections or erasing all of which may be studied by the researcher. Finally, the four basic operations of substitution (addition, removal, substitution and displacement) can also be detected thanks to their graphic traces.

Digital communication: When considering interactions within the computing environment, it is impossible not to include traces which result from the usage of these devices. Indeed, every user or machine profile leaves a binary line (internet identity). This binary line constitutes a form of digital writing which contributes to a synchronous and an asynchronous communication. This raises several questions related to the trace: its acquisition, its development, its visualization, its archiving, its annotation, its suppression and its recovery.

Language processing: Language processing is essential when it comes to make use of the trace, recover it, repair it or rebuild it. To intercept the trace, researchers create algorithmic models in the form of procedures using a software architecture that will run a program on one or more computers, on condition that those computers are connected together via social networks or internet. These models are developed with adjustable variables allowing to specify the task through the gathered trace. Therefore, we will be able to work with the trace: cut or label it, define its structure, evaluate its meaning, contextualize or generate it.

Contributions from the following areas of linguistics will be considered with the utmost attention: Syntax, Morphology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Phonetics, Phonology, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, TAL, etc. Proposals combining theoretical reflections and naturally occurring data will be particularly appreciated.

Submission: Submitted abstracts should be 800 words long (excluding references and tables). The deadline for our call for papers is March 31st 2015. Submissions must be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?... Proposals will be reviewed anonymously by two members of the Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance will be communicated in May.

Registration: Registration should be made via Azur Colloque : http://www.azur-colloque.cnrs.fr/

Fees: Standard registration – early : 70 EUR (on or before September 1st, 2015) Standard registration – regular : 80 EUR (after September 1st, 2015) Visitor registration – early : 80 EUR (on or before September 1st, 2015) Visitor registration – regular : 90 EUR (after September 1st, 2015)

Registration fees include: Access to all sessions / Coffee breaks / Lunch

Scientific committee forthcoming

Planning committee:

Ivana Didirkova

Nada Jonchère

Nathalie Matheu

Contact : cjcpraxiling2015@gmail.com

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3-3-42(2015-10-18) 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA15), New Paltz, NY, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA15)
Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, New York
October 18-21, 2015

 

Important Dates
Submission of papers: April 10, 2015
Notification of acceptance: June 26, 2015
Early registration until: August 14, 2015
Workshop: October 18-21, 2015

The 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA?15) will be held at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York, and is supported by the Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The objective of this workshop is to provide an informal environment for the discussion of problems in audio and acoustics and signal processing techniques leading to novel solutions. Technical sessions will be scheduled throughout the day. Afternoons will be left free for informal meetings among workshop participants. Papers describing original research and new concepts are solicited for technical sessions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Acoustic Signal Processing:

  • Source separation: Single- and multi-microphone techniques
  • Source localization
  • Signal enhancement: Dereverberation, noise reduction, echo reduction
  • Microphone and loudspeaker array processing
  • Acoustic sensor networks: Distributed algorithms, synchronization
  • Acoustic scene analysis: Event detection and classification
  • Room acoustics

Audio and Music Signal Processing:

  • Content-based music retrieval: Fingerprinting, matching, cover song retrieval
  • Musical signal analysis: Segmentation, classification, transcription
  • Music signal synthesis: Waveforms, instrument models, singing
  • Music separation: Direct-ambient decomposition, vocal and instruments
  • Audio effects: Artificial reverberation, guitar amplifier modeling
  • Upmixing and downmixing

Audio and Speech Coding:

  • Waveform coding and parameter coding
  • Spatial audio coding
  • Sparse representations
  • Low-delay audio and speech coding
  • Digital rights

Hearing and Perception:

  • Hearing aids
  • Computational auditory scene analysis
  • Auditory perception
  • Spatial hearing
  • Speech and audio quality assessment
Workshop Committee

General Chairs
Laurent Daudet
Université Paris Diderot
Gaël Richard
Telecom ParisTech

Technical Program Chair
Bryan Pardo
Northwestern University

Finance Chair
Dorothea Kolossa
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Far East Liaison
Nobutaka Ono
National Institute of Informatics (Japan)

Publ. Chair & Industry Liaison
John Hershey
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Local Arrangements Chair
Juan Bello
New York University

Registration Chair
Bob L. Sturm
Queen Mary University of London

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3-3-43(2015-11-09) ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015), Seattle, WA, USA

Call for Contributions

 

ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015)

November 9-13, 2015, Seattle, WA, USA

 

http://icmi.acm.org/2015/

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ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal interaction and multimodal interfaces. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and integrative, multimodal system development.

ICMI'2015 will take place between November 9th and 13th at Motif Hotel in Seattle (USA). The main conference is single-track and includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), special sessions, demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI'2015 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings.

 

Calls for Contributions (chronological order):

 

* Grand Challenge Proposals. Deadline: February 21, 2015

(http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfc)

* Workshop Proposals. Deadline: April 11, 2015

(http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfw)

* Long and Short Papers. Deadline: May 15, 2015

(http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfp)

* Doctoral Consortium Papers. Deadline: July 14, 2015

(http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfdc)

* Demonstration Proposals. Deadline: August 14, 2015

* Exhibit Proposals. Deadline: September 4, 2015

(http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfd)

 

TOPICS

 

* Multimodal signal and interaction processing technologies

                - Multimodal signal processing, inference, and input fusion

                - Combinations of signals and semantic interpretations

                - Multimodal output planning and coordination

                - Machine learning approaches for multimodal signals

* Multimodal models for human-human and human-machine interaction

                - Multimodal models for human communication dynamics

                - Models for physically situated human-robot/computer interaction

                - Models for multiparty, group and social interaction

                - Affective computing and interaction models

                - Models for long-term multimodal interaction

* Multimodal data, evaluation and tools

                - Multimodal corpora, resources and tools

                - Evaluation methodologies, assessment and metrics

                - Multimodal annotation methodologies and coding schemes

                - Design issues, principles and best practices for multimodal interfaces

* Multimodal systems and applications

                - Ambient intelligence and smart environments

                - Human-robot interaction and embodied conversational agents

                - Multimodal interfaces for internet-of-things

                - Meeting spaces and meeting analysis systems

                - Multimodal mobile applications

 

For more information, please visit the conference website:

http://icmi.acm.org/2015/

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3-3-44(2015-12-13) 3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge at ASRU 2015

   Pre-announcement

3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
              Supported by IEEE ASRU 2015
                Launch Date: February  2015
               Results: ASRU, Dec 13-17 2015,

          http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/
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Dear colleague,

Following the success of the 2011 and 2013 CHiME challenges it gives us great pleasure to
pre-announce the 3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-3)

CHiME-3 will be an official IEEE ASRU 2015 Challenge Task. Participants will be invited
to submit CHiME-3 papers to the ASRU workshop to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona 13-17
December. Papers will be presented at a Special Session.


THE TASK

The CHiME-3 scenario will be ASR for a multi-microphone tablet device in everyday, noisy
environments. It will represent a significant step forward in terms of both realism and
difficulty with respect to the previous CHiME challenges.

The challenge will feature:

- 6-channel microphone array data,
- real acoustic mixing, i.e. talkers speaking in challenging noisy environments,
- varied noise settings including cafe, street junction, public transport.

To maintain compatibility with the 2nd CHiME challenge, the new challenge will re-use the
WSJ evaluation framework. Utterances will be provided embedded in continuous audio with
ground truth VAD annotations.


MATERIALS

At time of launch in February we will provide:
- a development test set, recorded by 4 US talkers across 4 noise environments,
- a real training set, comprised of 2000 utterances spoken by 4 US talkers in noisy
environments plus several hours of noise background per environment,
- tools for generating a simulated training set by remixing WSJ and background audio with
impulse responses estimated from the real data,
- a reference speech enhancement system and a state-of-the-art DNN-based Kaldi ASR system.

As with previous CHiME challenges we invite participation from both the signal processing
and the speech recognition communities. To support teams who lack access to the necessary
GPU infrastructure required to run the evaluation system, we will offer 'remote
evaluation' as a service.

If you are considering participating please email chimechallenge@gmail.com and you will
be added to the email list for receiving further updates.


IMPORTANT DATES

Feb 20, 2015         --  Launch - Training data + dev data release
May 15, 2015         --  Test set released
July 15, 2015        --  Challenge paper submission deadline
September 11, 2015   --  Paper notification & release of CHiME-3 results
December 13-17, 2015 --  ASRU Workshop


ORGANISERS

Jon Barker, University of Sheffield, j.p.barker@sheffield.ac.uk
Ricard Marxer, University of Sheffield, r.marxer@sheffield.ac.uk
Emmanuel Vincent, Inria, emmanuel.vincent@inria.fr
Shinji Watanabe, MERL, watanabe@merl.com

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3-3-45(2015-12-13) Calls for Challenge Task Proposals ASRU 2015, Scottsdale, Az, USA (updated)

 

IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2015

 

CALL FOR CHALLENGE TASKS

 

http://asru2015.org/CallForChallenges.asp

 

 

 

Submission deadline: December 31, 2014

 

 

 

ASRU 2015 welcomes proposals for challenge tasks. In a challenge task, participants compete or collaborate to accomplish a common or shared task. The results of the challenge will be presented at the ASRU workshop event in the form of papers reporting the achievements of the participants, individually and/or as a whole. We invite organizers to concretely propose such challenge tasks in the form of a 1-2 page proposal. The proposal should include a description of

 

 

 

* The task and its intended goal

 

* The task organizers and key contact people for the various aspects of the task

 

* The data or shared resource that is to be used

 

  * Details on the availability or its collection process

 

  * Required labeling or other pre-processing and the expected timeline of this process

 

  * Privacy concerns around the data or resource as it will be released to all participants

 

  * Licensing terms or conditions for participants

 

* the evaluation process, how will a test set be defined, what figure of merit will be used to measure success, and how will a common scoring process be put in place to arrive at comparable results for all participants

 

* the timeline; when will training/test material be made available, when are participant (sub-)system submissions due

 

* the expected (number of) participants, and whether this is a new installment of an existing challenge or a new challenge series altogether

 

* any special requests or circumstances, e.g., required timing or format of the challenge execution

 

 

 

Participants will report their achievements in the form of regular format paper submissions to the ASRU workshop. These submissions will undergo the normal ASRU review process, but the organizers can suggest reviewers that would be particularly insightful for the challenge subject matter. Accepted papers will be organized in a special session at the conference (in poster format; the only format used at ASRU). The accepted papers will appear in the ASRU proceedings. Given the possibly lengthy process of organizing and executing a special challenge, prospective organizers are encouraged to submit proposals as soon as possible. The ASRU technical program committee will make acceptance decisions based on a rolling schedule -- i.e., proposals are reviewed as soon as they come in. Challenge proposals should be sent to Technical Program co-chair Michiel Bacchiani at michiel@google.com, and will be accepted until the end of 2014.

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3-3-46(2016-00-00) Speech Prosody Boston, USA
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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3-3-47(2016-05-23) LREC 2016, Portorož (Slovenia)

ELRA is very pleased to announce that the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference will take place in Portorož (Slovenia) on May 23-28, 2016.
More information will be available soon at: http://www.lrec-conf.org.  

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