”Physics-based Voice Simulation Techniques”

Call for Participation

The EUNISON FET-Open European project invites PhD/MS/undergraduate students working on voice modelling or similar topics, and interested researchers to join our one-day Summer School to be held in Florence, Italy, as a satellite event of the 9th International MAVEBA Workshop (Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications), on September 5th, 2015.

Those wishing to attend should submit a brief CV and a letter of motivation as to why they want to attend by filling an online registration form. The deadline for application is 19th June 2015 and the decision of acceptance will be made by the 26th June 2015.

The one-day Summer School attendance is free of charge but participants must fund their own travel, accommodation, and living expenses.

Recommended prior attendance:

MAVEBA workshops on replicas and simulation, and PEVOC Round Table on physic-based voice simulation. The final date and time schedule of these activities will be published soon here.

Tutorials (45 minutes each)

• 09:15-10:00 'FEM modeling of voice production'

Oriol Guasch, La Salle-URL, Barcelona, Spain

Sten Ternström, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

• Boundaries of the voice organ: where should the computational domain end?

• Strategies: split domains, or unified?

• Challenges: fluid-structure interaction, contact, turbulence, aeroacoustics, moving boundaries, infinite domains

• 10:00-10:45 'Reality check'

Xavier Pelorson, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France

Stefan Becker, Friedrich Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany

• The need for physical replicas

• Working with excised specimens

• Imaging techniques relevant to FEM

• 11:15-12:00 'Aerodynamics'

Oriol Guasch, La Salle-URL, Barcelona, Spain

Johan Jansson, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Joan Baiges, CIMNE-UPC, Barcelona, Spain

• From flow to sound (acoustic analogies and fully compressible simulations)

• Modelling of fricatives

• Fluid-structure interaction

• Generation of the glottal pulse

• 12:00-12.45 'Acoustical modelling of wave propagation'

Oriol Guasch, La Salle-URL, Barcelona, Spain

• 1d, 2d and 3d modelling

• Radiation: what to do with the infinite field

• Modelling of vowels

• Wave propagation in moving vocal tracts

• Modelling of diphthongs

• 14.15-15:00 'Biomechanical modelling of the voice organ'

Olov Engwall and Örjan Ekeberg, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

• The vocal tract is not an object

• The glottis is not an object

• How deep the skin? Tissue properties

• Controlling the oral and laryngeal structures

• Data from humans – what have we got?

• Data from humans – what have we got?

• 15:00-15.45 'Orders of magnitude, and feasibility'

Johan Jansson and Sten Ternström KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

• Coupling the slow and the fast domains

• Parallel computing and voice problems

• Cheating: Hybrid models

• Dissemination: Providing wide access

• 16:00-17:00 'Group study session'

• Interfacing users to the simulations, application scenarios. For example: phonetics, phoniatrics, logopedics, voice pedagogy, language teaching

• 17:00-17.15 'Summary and adjourn'

Organizers

This one-day Summer School is organized by the FET European project EUNISON (Extensive UNIfied-domain SimulatiON of the human voice).

In the EUNISON project, we seek to build a new voice simulator that is based on physical first principles to an unprecedented degree. From given inputs, representing topology or muscle activations or phonemes, it will render the 3-D physics of the voice, including of course its acoustic output. This will give important insights into how the voice works, and how it fails. The goal is not a speech synthesis system, but rather a voice simulation engine, with many applications; given the right controls and enough computer time, it could be made to speak in any language, or sing in any style. The model will be operable on-line, as a reference and a platform for others to exploit in further studies. The long-term prospects include more natural speech synthesis, improved clinical procedures, greater public awareness of voice, better voice pedagogy and new forms of cultural expression.

More information at www.eunison.eu

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 30887

Contacts

• Dr. Sten Ternström (Project Coordinator), KTH, Stockholm, Sweden (stern@kth.se)

• Dr. Oriol Guasch (Scientific Coordinator), La Salle-URL, Barcelona, Spain (oguasch@salleurl.edu)

• Dr. Francesc Alías (WP8-”Dissemination, Collaboration and Exploitation” leader), La Salle-URL, Barcelona, Spain (falias@salleurl.edu)

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Laboratoire Parole et Langage

UMR 7309 CNRS | Aix-Marseille Université

5 avenue Pasteur ? 13100 Aix-en-Provence (France)

Tél : +33 (0)4 13 55 36 20+33 (0)4 13 55 36 20 ? Fax : +33 (0)4 13 55 37 88

Site du LPL : www.lpl-aix.fr

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Vendredi 15 mai 2015

9h-12h15 LPL, salle de conférences B011, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

Séminaire thématique, cycle TAL

Apprentissage automatique et sciences du langage

Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse)

Pascal Denis (INRIA, Lille)

Vincent Labatut (LIA, Avignon)

Benoît Favre (LIF, Marseille)

Stéphane Rauzy (LPL, Aix-en-Provence)

Résumé  L'apprentissage automatique (AA) (ou Machine Learning ML) a d'abord constitué une ligne de fracture entre le traitement automatique des langues (TAL) et les sciences du langage en raison d'une part du grain relative grossier des premiers travaux de ML et de petite taille des corpus linguistiques. L'évolution de ces deux domaines renouvelle cependant l'intérêt de travaux croisés. D'une part, les techniques d'AA ont évolué très rapidement au point de proposer des méthodes d'apprentissage de structures complexes (voir en en particulier l'exposé de Pascal Denis sur les résolutions anaphores des coréférences en discours). par ailleurs, les outils d'apprentissage automatique sont devenus beaucoup plus accessibles aux non-spécialistes qu'ils ne l'étaient via (i) des package pour les outils statistiques (e.g R), (ii) des API pour des langages de scripts (Orange, Scikit,...), (iii) des outils stand-alone (Weka,...).

D'autre part, la taille des corpus utilisés en linguistique a considérablement évolué, tant pour l'écrit (où utiliser le web comme corpus est devenu pratique courante) qu'à l'oral où la taille des corpus de parole augmente de manière régulière. Le contexte est donc favorable à l'émergence de méthodologies permettant par exemple d'ajouter des contraintes à l'approche typiquement data-driven de l'apprentissage automatique (en particulier présentation de Philippe Muller).  Cette journée est aussi l'occasion d'écouter des collègues d'AMU et de l'Université d'Avignon travaillant sur ces domaines.

Programme

9:00 - 9:15 : Introduction et présentation de la journée

9:15 - 9:55 : Apprentissage de structures linguistiques sous contraintes (Philippe Muller, IRIT, Toulouse)

9:55 - 10:35 : Latent trees for joint anaphoricity and coreference resolution (Pascal Denis, INRIA, Lille)

10:35 - 10:45 : Pause Café

10:45 - 11:15 : Natural language and complex networks (Vincent Labatut, LIA, Avignon)

11:15 - 11:45 : Detecting semantic change with word embeddings (Benoît Favre, LIF, Marseille)

11:45 - 12-15 : Parsing the CID, a corpus of French spontaneous speech in interaction (Stéphane Rauzy, LPL, Aix)

12:15 - 12:45 : Apéritif

Plus d?infos sous http://lpl-aix.fr/event/1614

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Vendredi 22 mai 2015

11h-12h LPL, salle de conférences B011, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

Christopher T. Kello

University of California, Merced

Complexity Matching in Vocal Interactions

Résumé  Spoken conversations require coordination, but it is challenging to formalize and quantify coordination in vocalizations. Much progress has been made by expressing coordination in related terms of synchronization, entrainment, alignment, and convergence. But coordination in speech appears to go beyond these terms of behavioral matching, because interlocutors make distinct contributions to vocal interactions. In this talk, two studies will be presented that employed measures of complexity matching to examine coordination in the acoustics of vocal interactions that are inherently irregular and variable across a wide range of timescales. One study examined speech signals in adult conversations between pairs of individuals, and the other study examined infant vocalizations in conjunction with those of caregivers and other adults in the infant vocalization environment.

In both studies, the temporal dynamics of vocalizations were boiled down to time series of onsets in acoustic energy, and a single power law was found in all conditions that quantified the nested clustering of onsets across a range of timescales. The parameters of this power law matched for vocalizations of individuals engaged in interaction, indicating a different kind of coordination compared with behavioral matching. This measure of complexity matching was sensitive to different types of conversations and different types of infant vocalizations, and changed with infant age. The talk will end with a discussion of the implications of these results for theories of language development and interaction.

Plus d?infos sous http://lpl-aix.fr/event/1617

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Vendredi 5 juin 2015

9h30-12h15 LPL, salle de conférences B011, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence

Séminaire thématique, cycle Cognition

Language across domains and modalities

Friedemann Pulvermuller*, Philippe Blache**, Kristof Strijkers**

*Brain Language Laboratory, Freie Universtät Berlin (Germany)
** LPL, CNRS & AMU, Aix-en-Provence (France)

Résumé The goal of this seminar is to demonstrate that we can substantially advance in our understanding of the mechanics, architecture and function of language by adopting an interdisciplinary research strategy. Traditionally, language has been approached as a rather encapsulated skill (segregated from other areas of cognition and human behavior). Furthermore, within the domain of language each modality could count on its own separate research tradition, with relatively little cross talk between the production and comprehension of language. While such segregated approach to the topic of language has certainly produced significant progress, by now it is evident that a modular view on language processing comes short to explain the full complexity and diversity of this uniquely human ability. Instead, research in the last decade suggests that there is in fact much more overlap between the different language modalities as originally assumed. Likewise, across domains, evidence has been brought forward which highlights that both the representations and dynamics underpinning language can rely on processes general to other domains of cognition and even recruit systems that were traditionally believed to be fully separated of the linguistic system. If so, it is clear that in order to advance upon our knowledge of how language comes about in the human mind, we need to address empirical questions which take into account the domain-interactive and cross-modal nature of linguistic processing. In this seminar three different talks will be presented which aimed at studying language across domains and modalities. More concretely, in the first talk Friedemann Pulvermuller will demonstrate how the integration of basic neurobiological principles with linguistics predicts that words in the brain rely on overlapping networks between the perception (sensori) and action (motor) of language. In a second talk, Philippe Blache will detail a language architecture, relying on the integration of computer science with linguistics, which relies on the convergence of different and mutli-modal sources of information to construct meaning and syntax. And finally, Kristof Strijkers will discuss the role of top-down processes such as attention during language processing and specify how such domain-general regulatory properties of the brain affect basic psycholinguistic phenomena.

Programme

9h30: Welcome

9h45-10h45: Friedemann Pulvermuller (Brain Language Laboratory, FU Berlin) :
Brain Circuits For Language Understanding: Theory ? Model ? Experiment

10h45-11h: Coffee break

11h-11h30: Philippe Blache (LPL, Aix-en-Provence) :
Integrating domains and modalities: a construction-based architecture for language processing

11h30-12h: Kristof Strijkers (LPL, Aix-en-Provence) :
The Role of Intention and Goal-Directed Behavior in Language Processing.

12h-12h15: Concluding remarks

Plus d?infos sous http://lpl-aix.fr/event/1618

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Jeudi 21 Mai 2015

13h30-14h30  Salle B314 du Département Parole et Cognition (Bâtiment ENSE3, 11 rue des mathématiques, Saint Martin d?Hères)

Pr. David Ostry

Motor Control Laboratory, McGill university / Haskins Laboratory

Abstract
Sensory systems and sensory plasticity play a central role in human motor learning. In this presentation I will talk about sensory systems in the context of speech motor learning. I will show the involvement of the somatosensory system and I will describe recent work showing that there are individual differences in sensory preference (auditory versus somatosensory) in speech motor learning. I will also describe recent electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies showing that speech motor learning changes the neural response to auditory and somatosensory inputs and changes functional connectivity in both motor and sensory networks in the brain.

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La perception de la parole dans le bruit est facilitée par le fait que nous ayons deux oreilles. Ces deux oreilles nous permettent de bénéficier de démasquage spatial : une source de bruit masque moins une source de parole si ces deux sources sont à des positions différentes. Ce mécanisme est malheureusement moins efficace en présence de réverbération, l?ensemble des réflexions sonores dans la salle environnante. Si la source de « bruit » est une voix concurrente à séparer de la voix cible que l?auditeur cherche à comprendre, d?autres indices acoustiques peuvent être utilisés par le système auditif. Les modulations d?enveloppe de la source concurrente pourront être exploitées pour mieux comprendre la cible, la réverbération intervenant à nouveau sur ce mécanisme. Une différence de hauteur tonale entre les voix à séparer peut également être utilisée par l?auditeur. Ces différents mécanismes perceptifs mis en jeu lors de l?écoute de parole dans des salles bruyantes seront décrits au travers de la présentation d?un modèle prédictif de l?intelligibilité qui sera systématiquement confronté à des données expérimentales. Ce type de modèle constitue un outil intéressant pour étudier la réception de la parole dans les situations dites de cocktail-party. Il pourrait s?avérer également utile pour étudier la production de la parole dans ces situations.

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Jeudi 4 Juin 2015

13h30-14h30  Salle B314 du Département Parole et Cognition (Bâtiment ENSE3, 11 rue des mathématiques, Saint Martin d?Hères)

 

Malinda Carpenter

School of Psychology and Neuroscience, university of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland

Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany    

Beyond imperatives and declaratives: The complexity of infants? pointing and iconic gestures

 

Abstract

In this talk I will present an overview of our work on infants? comprehension and production of pointing and iconic gestures, in support of a rich view of early communication.  For example, I will present studies that rule out lower-level explanations of early declarative and imperative pointing, and show that in both their comprehension and production of pointing infants take into account the experiences (common ground) they have shared with the particular person they are communicating with.  In addition, I will present both observational and experimental work showing that infants? pointing serves a wide variety of different functions beyond imperatives and declaratives (including reference to absent objects), and that infants produce creative iconic gestures perhaps earlier than previously thought.  Taken together, this work demonstrates the complexity, flexibility, and richness of infants? early communication, even preverbally.

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Jeudi 11 Juin 2015

13h30-14h30  Salle B314 du Département Parole et Cognition (Bâtiment ENSE3, 11 rue des mathématiques, Saint Martin d?Hères)

 

Christian Herbst

Voice Research Lab, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Palacký university Olomouc, Czech Republic

Laboratory of Bioacustis, Department of Cognititive Biology, university Vienna

 

Elephant on the bench. Ex-vivo investigation of mammalian sound production

Abstract

Excised larynx preparations allow studying the biophysics of mammalian sound production under controlled laboratory conditions. Research done in the past decades focused mainly on humans, but recently the approach has been extended to investigating nonhuman mammals. In this presentation, this author will present a partial overview of his own work with excised larynges, with relevance for the fields of bioacoustics and basic voice science. In particular, it will be shown that:

Elephants? voice production mechanism for infrasound vocalizations below 20 Hz conforms to the myo-elastic aerodynamic theory of voice production (MEAD). This physical principle thus extends across a remarkably large range of fundamental frequencies and body sizes in mammals, spanning more than four orders of magnitude. A method for visually and quantitatively assessing the regularity of vibrations of systems on the way to chaos is being presented. This method is applied to categorizing vibratory states of two excised red deer larynges on the bench, suggesting that irregular vibration increases glottal efficiency by about 3 dB, possibly giving the animals an energetic advantage during acoustic signalling.

The remainder of the talk is concerned with a critical evaluation of electroglottography (EGG), a low-cost non-invasive impedance measurement method for monitoring some oscillatory aspects of vocal fold vibration. The EGG waveform?s purported correspondence to the time-varying vocal fold contact area was investigated in an excised hemi-larynx experiment involving two high-speed video HSV cameras operating at 6000 fps, synchronized with EGG, and the results suggest a tolerable but not perfect agreement. Furthermore, an investigation of the coincidence of positive peaks in the derivative of the EGG waveform (dEGG) with incidents of glottal closure and opening, utilizing an excised larynx setup with synchronized ultra-HSV at 27000 fps was performed. Results show that dEGG peaks do not necessarily coincide with incidents of glottal closure and opening. Findings from these last two studies suggest that EGG should be interpreted and analyzed with care, and that further research is necessary to establish expected error margins.

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International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics

Discourse(s)

In Linguistics:

Units and Levels of Analysis

May 28^th and 29^th 2015

Toulouse - France www.jetou2015.fr

Submission Deadline:

Friday October 24^th 2014

EXTENDED

Call for Papers

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

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

IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Obviously, this list does not include all the research possibilities following from the theme of the conference, which is why every submission that addresses the notions of discourse in the Language Sciences will be read and reviewed. Proposals which include theoretical reflections and actual data will be particularly appreciated.

JéTou 2015 offers a challenging theme that every field of Language Sciences can adapt for themselves. This conference will give the opportunity, to those who wish to come, to ask questions, discuss and compare their work, their methods, their reflections in an interdisciplinary context, which favours positive interactions and constructive debates.

Guest Speakers :

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

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

Submission Guidelines:

Articles must be written in French or English.

Submissions must not exceed 3 pages for an oral presentation as well as for a scientific poster (references included). These three pages must include a title, a summary and up to 5 keywords (letter type: Times New Roman 12, simple spacing, normal margin). You can indicate by email your preference for an oral presentation (20 min + 10 min for questions) or for a scientific poster, but the final decision on the format of the presentation will be made by the organization committee alone.

Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair conference system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jtou2015

The conference proceedings will be published and given to the participants (5 pages for a scientific poster and 10 pages for an oral presentation).

Selection Criteria

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two experts in the relevant field. The following elements will be considered:

• The importance and originality of the contribution.

• The validity of the scientific and technical content.

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

. in the field.

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

Schedule

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

Notification of acceptance: Friday November 21^st 2014,

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

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

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

Organising Committee

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

Website www.jetou2015.fr

Contact contact.jetou2015@gmail.com

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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: March 22, 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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      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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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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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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TALN 2015 Conference
Call for Workshops
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Atelier ETeRNAL Ethique et TRaitemeNt Automatique des Langues

Co-organisé avec la conférence TALN 2015 22 juin 2015 Caen, France

http://eternal.loria.fr

Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer la tenue du premier atelier ETeRNAL, qui se tiendra
pendant la conférence TALN 2015, à Caen.

Le Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) est une discipline au coeur des enjeux
éthiques du XXIe siècle : accès aux données personnelles et protection de la vie privée,
traitement (et croisement) des masses de données, délocalisation et crowdsourcing
(myriadisation) sont autant de problématiques qui sont en lien direct avec les
applications que nous développons.

Les questions sous-jacentes que nous souhaitons voir aborder concernent aussi bien les
apports du TAL à l?éthique que nos responsabilités en tant que producteurs d?outils. Nous
ne pouvons en effet pas faire semblant de ne pas savoir que ceux-ci rendent possibles des
abus, des actes criminels, des violations des droits individuels. Aujourd?hui, de quoi
les outils de TAL sont capables ? Jusqu?où s?étend notre responsabilité morale ? Devons-
nous être des lanceurs d?alertes ? Quels mesures peut-on prendre pour limiter les effets
potentiellement négatifs de nos recherche ?

Thèmes abordés

données sensibles
myriadisation (crowdsourcing) et éthique
questions éthiques autour de l?utilisation des outils ou du résultat des traitement
qualité et biais de l?évaluation
aspects juridiques, économiques
TAL pour l?éthique (dont anonymisation)

Dates importantes

Date limite de soumission : 5 avril 2015
Notification aux auteurs : 4 mai 2015
Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 22 mai 2015
Atelier : 22 juin 2015

Soumission des articles

Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en anglais pour ceux qui
ne maîtrisent pas le français. Ils devront suivre le format de TALN-RÉCITAL 2015 et
comprendront un maximum de 12 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle MS Word et
OpenOffice sont disponibles sur le site web de la conférence TALN 2015
(https://taln2015.greyc.fr/soumissionstaln/). Les articles acceptés donneront lieu à une
présentation au cours de l'atelier. Les critères de sélection sont les mêmes que ceux
définis par TALN 2015 pour les articles de recherche.

Les articles, au format pdf, doivent être déposés à l'adresse
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eternal1

Comité d'organisation

Gilles Adda, IMMI / LIMSI-CNRS
Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine / LORIA
Karën Fort, Université Paris 4 / STIH

Comité scientifique

Gilles Adda, IMMI / LIMSI-CNRS
Maxime Amblard, LORIA Université de Lorraine
Olivier Baude, LLL / Université d?Orléans
Philippe Blache, LPL CNRS
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Gaël de Chalendar, CEA LIST
Alain Couillault, Université de La Rochelle / L3i
Cécile Fabre, Université Toulouse 2 / CLLE-ERSS
Karën Fort, Université Paris 4 / STIH
Cyril Grouin, LIMSI-CNRS
Joseph Mariani, IMMI / LIMSI-CNRS
Adeline Nazarenko, Université Paris 13 / LIPN - CNRS
Michel Simard, NRC-CNRC
Isabelle Tellier, Université Paris 3 / LaTTice

Contact : Karën Fort (karen.fort@paris-sorbonne.fr)

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RECITAL 2015 : Call for Papers
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17th Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement
Automatique des Langues (RECITAL)

(Natural Language Processing Students Conference)

University of Caen Lower Normandy, June 22-25, 2015  -  Caen, France


Important dates
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- Submission deadline : Friday, March 20 2015
- Acceptance notification : Tuesday, April 28 2015
- Camera ready : Friday, May 15 2015

Presentation
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RECITAL 2015, the annual meeting for young researchers associated to the TALN
conference, will take place in Caen (France) on June 22 to 25.
RECITAL provides a venue for young researchers investigating topics in
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their
research, meet potential advisors, and receive feedback from the research
community. Authors must be students (Master or Ph.D.) or young researchers who
recently completed their Ph.d. RECITAL 2015 will include oral and poster
presentations. The official language is French but English presentations and
papers are accepted for non-French-speaking authors.

Building on the success of the previous year, we are encouraging the submission
of research proposals and papers describing preliminary works (state-of-the-art,
first experiments, etc.). RECITAL's main goal is to support the work of young
researchers and facilitate their integration into our community. To this aim
we enhance :

 - pedagogic reviews : authors should be able to understand their mistakes and
   correct them in order to improve the quality of their work;

 - positive reviews : it is never necessary to discourage a young researcher,
   watchwords will be encouraging/guiding;

 - direct exchange : all the reviews will be signed. Authors and reviewers are
   encouraged to discuss together during the conference.

A prize will be awarded to the author(s) of the best paper during the closing
ceremony.

A scholarship program is set up to help authors of accepted papers.
These grants include travel to Caen and conference registration.
They shall be granted after examination on a case-by-case requests and
submitted papers.

A scholarship program is set up to help authors of accepted papers.
These grants include travel to Caen and conference registration.
They will be granted after examination of requests and submitted papers.

Topics
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Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas
(in alphabetical order):

- Analysis and generation in the following domains:
 + Phonetics
 + Phonology
 + Morphology
 + Syntax
 + Semantics
 + Discourse
- Development of language resources for NLP:
 + Databases containing morphological, syntactic, semantic, and/or
   phonological information
 + Grammars
 + Lexicons
 + Ontologies
 + Corpus linguistics
- NLP applications:
 + Opinion and Sentiment Analysis
 + Automatic Classification or Categorization
 + Word Sense Disambiguation
 + Human machine dialogue
 + Automatic Indexing
 + Information Retrieval and Extraction
 + Summarization
 + Anaphora resolution
 + Question-Answering
 + Machine Translation
 + Semantic Web
- Approaches:
 + Formal Linguistics to support automatic processing
 + Automatic processing for experimental linguistics
 + Computational psycholinguistics
 + Symbolic
 + Logical
 + Statistical
 + Based on Machine Learning

Selection Criteria
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Research Papers must describe original completed work or work in progress and
should clearly indicate directions for future research wherever appropriate.
Authors MUST be students (Master or Ph.D.) or young researchers who recently
completed their Ph.D. Publications with confirmed researchers (which include
Ph.D. supervisors) must be submitted to TALN.

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field.
In particular, will be considered:

 - Correction of scientific and technical content
 - Comparison with previous works
 - The organization and clarity of presentation
 - The adequacy of the conference topics

The selected communications will be published in the conference proceedings.

Submission Procedure
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Papers will be written in French for French-speaking authors or English for
non-French-speaking authors. A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be
available on the conference website (https://taln2015.greyc.fr/recital/).

Contact : Charlotte Lecluze and José Moreno
                  University of Caen Lower Normandy, GREYC CNRS UMR 6072
          firstname.lastname@unicaen.fr

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TALN 2015 : APPEL À DÉMONSTRATIONS
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TALN'2015
22ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, Campus 2 du 22 au 25 juin 2015

CALENDRIER
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- Date limite de soumission : vendredi 8 mai 2015 (23h:59 heure Paris)
- Notification aux auteurs : mercredi 15 mai 2015
- Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : vendredi 22 mai 2015

PRÉSENTATION
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Organisée par l'équipe HuLTech du GREYC (Laboratoire d?Informatique de
l'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie), la 22ème conférence sur le Traitement
Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN) se tiendra du 22 au 25 juin
2015 au Campus 2 de l'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. La
conférence TALN?2015, qui est organisée sous l?égide de l?ATALA, se
tiendra conjointement avec la 17ème édition des Rencontres des Étudiants
Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues
(RECITAL'2015).

La conférence TALN?2015 comprendra des communications orales présentant
des travaux de recherche et des prises de position, des communications
affichées, des conférences invitées et des démonstrations.

La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. Les
communications en anglais sont acceptées pour les participants non
francophones.

ORGANISATION
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Les organisateurs ont le plaisir d?inviter les participants à présenter
des démonstrations de logiciels et/ou de prototypes qui s?appuient sur
des méthodes de Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel. Dans ce
cadre, les professionnels de l?industrie peuvent faire acte de
candidature pour présenter leur logiciel au cours de cette
session. L?objet de cette dernière est d?offrir un cadre d?interaction
entre les milieux industriel et académique sur les questions inhérentes
au TALN.

La session Démonstrations, accueillera des présentations sous les formes
suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilités) :
- stand d?exposant ;
- affiche de présentation ;
- démonstration de produits logiciels.

Pour participer, les candidats devront envoyer un résumé de deux pages
au format de la conférence aux adresses : jean-marc.lecarpentier@unicaen.fr
et paul.martin@unicaen.fr.

Les participants seront choisis par le comité d?organisation,
indépendamment du processus de sélection scientifique habituel. Les
critères de sélection s?appuieront sur la pertinence des outils au
regard des thématiques affichées par les conférences TALN et RECITAL.

Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la
conférence.

MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION
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Les articles seront rédigés en français pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne maîtrisent pas le français.

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word sont disponibles sur le
site web de la conférence (https://taln2015.greyc.fr/).

Contacts : jean-marc.lecarpentier@unicaen.fr et
paul.martin@unicaen.fr

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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 17, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
-Notification: Friday, May 22, 2015
-Camera ready paper due: Monday , June 1, 2015

CALENDRIER
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-Date limite de soumission : vendredi 17 avril 2015 (23h59 heure Paris) sans autre report possible
-Notification aux auteurs : vendredi 22 mai 2015
-Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : lundi 1 juin 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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1^er appel à communication

6^èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique

Montpellier 29 juin - 1^er juillet 2015

http://itic.univ-montp3.fr/JPC6/#p4

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 6^èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, qui font suite aux précédentes éditions, se dérouleront à Montpellier du 29 juin au 1^er 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 6^èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique incluront donc, de façon non exhaustive, les problématiques suivantes :

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.

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CONSECUTIVITY AND SIMULTANEITY

IN LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES AND SPEECH

CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY

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

UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG (UNISTRA) / STRASBOURG (FRANCE)

AND

THE FACULTY OF ARTS

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

1st TO 3rd JULY 2015

STRASBOURG / FRANCE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF THE SYMPOSIUM: FRENCH AND ENGLISH

THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE

TERMS OF SUBMISSION

Proposals should include the following information:

– Title of the paper;

– Outline of the problem of the study providing all relevant details;

– 4-5 keywords.

The entire contribution will not exceed four pages, including references (Times 12, 1.5 spacing).

Proposals will be submitted online, and will be subject to evaluation by the Scientific Committee and by a team of evaluators.

IMPORTANT DATES

♦ Dissemination of the call for papers: November 10, 2014

♦ Opening of the site for the submission of 2-4 page abstracts: December 1, 2014

♦ Deadline for submission: January 18, 2015

♦ Notification: March 29, 2015

♦ Registration opens:

– Early Bird registration: March 30 to April 26, 2015 (special tariff for students / PhD)

– Full tariff registration: from 27 April 2015

♦ Registration deadline: May 18, 2015

♦ Date of the conference: 1 to 3 July 2015

ORGANISERS

LILPA Research Unit (Linguistics, Languages & Speech), Dir. Rudolph Sock

Research Teams (E.R.) composing the Unit:

• Language Didactics (Dir. Laurent Kashema)

• Discourse Functioning and Translation (Dir. Maryvonne Boisseau)

• Research Groupe on European Multilingualism (Dir. Dominique Huck)

• Speech and Cognition (Dir. Béatrice Vaxelaire)

• Scolia (Dir. Pierre Nobel)

Faculty of Arts of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ) / Košice (Slovakia):

• Renáta Panocová

• Štefan Franko

• Mária Paľová

ORGANISING COMMITTEE (IN CONSTITUTION)

Angelina Aleksandrova, Stéphanie Debaize, Camille Fauth, Anna Gilg, Élodie Lang, Jean-Paul Meyer, Rudolph Sock.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

List to be finalised.

WORKSHOPS

Worhshop1: Interpretation and Translation

Workshop 2: Data acquisition systems and databases

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ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems (MLIS'15)
July 11, 2015, Lille, France

Proceedings published in the JMLR Workshop & Conference Series.

Submission dealine: 1 May, 2015

http://mlis-workshop.org/2015

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Call for Papers

Learning systems or robots that interact with their environment by
perceiving, acting or communicating often face a challenge in how
to bring these different concepts together. This challenge arises
because core concepts are typically studied within their respective
communities, such as the computer vision, robotics and natural
language processing communities, among others. Building a bridge
across communities is highly important for practical applications
in robotics, human-robot interaction and intelligent interfaces.
Equally important, it encourages basic and applied advances in
research on adaptive sensorimotor, perception-action and perception-
communication loops in general cognition, and also encourages research
on novel ways for training systems from interaction with people in
their physical environments to form generally intelligent systems.

Machine learning topics include, but are not limited to:
- Reinforcement learning (direct and inverse)
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- active learning
- Multi-task and transfer learning
- Learning from human feedback
- Learning from teaching, tutoring, instruction and demonstration
- Combinations or generalisations of the above

Interactive systems using machine learning include, but are not limited to:
- (Socially) Interactive robots
- Embodied virtual agents
- Avatars
- Multimodal systems
- Cognitive (robotics) architectures
- Spoken dialogue systems

Types of communication include, but are not limited to:
- System interacting with a single human user
- System interacting multiple human users
- System interacting with the environment
- System interacting with other machines

Submissions can take two forms. Long papers should not exceed 8 pages,
and short papers should not exceed 4 pages -- both excluding references.
Position papers of either length are also welcome. All papers should 
follow the JMLR format: https://mlis-workshop.org/2015/format.tar.gz

Submissions should be made through the following EasyChair link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlis2015

Overviews of machine learning topics for interactive system can be found here:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2493530
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01073947/file/WACAI_2014_OPML.pdf

Invited Speakers:
Juergen Schmidhuber (tbc), IDSIA, Switzerland
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, university of Toronto, Canada
Bjoern Schuller, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell university, United States

Important Dates:
May 1, Paper due date
May 10, Notification of acceptance
May 24, Camera-ready deadline
July 10-11, MLIS'15 Workshop

Organising Committee:
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull, UK
Lutz Frommberger, University of Bremen, Germany
Martijn van Otterlo, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Olivier Pietquin, University Lille 1, France

Contact: organizers@mlis-workshop.org

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Call for participation

EUROLAN 2015 - First Call

Summer School on
Linguistic Linked Open Data

12th in the series of EUROLAN Schools
13 - 25 July 2015
Sibiu, Romania

http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/

Linguistic Linked Open Data is a topic of emerging importance in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Increasingly, researchers are rendering major linguistic resources, including annotated corpora, lexicons, databases, and ontologies, in a format to enable their exploitation in the Semantic Web. Linking the contents of these resources to each other as well as to common ontologies can enable access to and discovery of detailed linguistic information, which would be otherwise impossible, and which could, in turn, foster a major leap in NLP research and development.

At the same time, the movement toward open data is growing in the field of NLP. For years, research has been constrained by limited access to corpora, lexicons, and other language resources due to licensing requirements. Researchers and data holders alike are now seeking ways to provide open access to these data in order to promote unfettered use, reuse, and enhancement of common datasets throughout the field.

EUROLAN 2015 will provide a comprehensive overview of Linguistic Linked Open Data, including introduction to the formalisms for representing linguistic resources using Semantic Web technologies such as the Resource Description Format (RDF) and the Ontology Web Language (OWL), as well as means to extract knowledge from language resources and exploit it using Semantic Web query languages and reasoning capabilities. Specific topics treated in the school include, but are not limited to:

• Introduction to the semantic web, linked data and knowledge graphs
• Extracting and integrating knowledge on the web from text, semi-structured and structured data
• Ontologies and reasoning
• Query systems using SPARQL
• Design of domain specific query languages
• Linguistic annotations as linked data
• Annotation interoperability
• Taxonomy extraction
• BabelNet as linked data
• Lexicographic linked data

Invited Lecturers
Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University, Australia)
Christian Chiarcos (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Dan Cristea ('Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi, Romania)
Gerard de Melo (Tsinghua University, China)
Asuncion Gomez-Perez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York, USA)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Dan Tufiș (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
Michael Zock (Université Aix-Marseille, France)

Program
EUROLAN 2015 will take place on 13-25 July in Sibiu, Romania, hosted by “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu (ULBS).

Tutorial sessions coupled with hands-on sessions on the school’s topics will be held Monday through Friday in each week and on Saturday morning, July 18. The full schedule will be available on the school’s website soon.

In addition to the excellence of its academic program, the EUROLAN sequence of summer schools is well known for the camaraderie among professors and students, who may enjoy common activities and events at lunches, in the evenings and in the weekend. 

Sibiu offers a host of possibilities for extra-curricular activities, many of which will be organized for members of the school. These include theater events, visits to some of the many Sibiu museums (including the Astra Traditional Folk Civilization Open Air Museum), Romanian Folk entertainment, cultural events arranged by the Sibiu Cultural Agenda 2015, and of course, evenings in local clubs and discos. A full day excursion to one of the magnificent sites in the areas around Sibiu, which include the Salt Lakes Ocna Sibiului, Dumbrava forest and Cisnădioara, and the Adventure Park Arka, will be arranged for Sunday July 19. An alternative would be to visit the Bran Castle (see, for instance, www.bran-castle.com), world-wide known as Dracula's Castle, named after the prince Vlad Țepeș (Vlad 'The Impaler'), who inspired Bram Stoker's story of Dracula. 

Satellite events
A Doctoral Consortium and a Workshop with a topic related to the EUROLAN-2015 theme will be organised. For the workshop a call for organization will be issued. 

Accommodation
Accommodation for EUROLAN students is in the ULBS student dormitories. Prices are 25Ron (~6€)/person/night in rooms with 4 beds, 35Ron (~8€)/person/night in rooms with 3 beds, and 40 Ron(~9€)/person/night in rooms with 2 beds. Other more luxurious options are of course possible too. 

Registration
The registration form will be available HERE.

Important Dates
Early registration deadline: 7 June 2015
Final (late) registration deadline: 12 July 2015

Scientific Steering Committee
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York USA)
Dan Cristea ('Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi, Romania)
Dan Tufiș (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)

Organising Committee
Emil Alexe (“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu)
Dan Cristea ('Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi)
Corina Forăscu ('Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi)
Lucian Gâdioi ('Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi)
Daniela Gîfu ('Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi)
Adrian Iftene ('Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi)
Livia Ilie (“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu)
Alina Pitic (“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu)
Dana Simian (“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu) local chair
Florin Stoica (“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu)
Laura Stoica (“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu)
Diana Trandabăț ('Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi)
Dan Tufiș (Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
Verginica Barbu Mititelu (Romanian Academy, Bucharest)

Contact

Dan Cristea: cristeaATinfoDOTuaicDOTro

Dana Simian: anaDOTsimianATulbsibiuDOTro

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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)
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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

 

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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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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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INVITED SPEAKERS
The workshop will showcase presentations from 5 keynote speakers.         ? Kyunghyun Cho
(Université de Montréal)
? Stephen Clark university of Cambridge)
? Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan university)
? Ray Mooney university of Texas at Austin)
? Jason Weston (Facebook AI Research)


AIMS AND SCOPE

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
modelling 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


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 (Google DeepMind, UK)
Karl Moritz Hermann (Google DeepMind, UK)
Hugo Larochelle (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Scott Wen-tau Yih microsoft Research, USA)


program COMMITTEE

Marco Baroni, university of Trento
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montreal
Phil Blunsom, university of Oxford
Antoine Bordes, Facebook
Leon Bottou, Facebook
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, Google DeepMind
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University of London
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Peter Turney, NRC
Jason Weston, Facebook
Guillaume Wisniewski, LIMSI-CNRS

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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

AlCoB 2015

Mexico City, Mexico

August 4-6, 2015

Organized by:

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

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

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

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AIMS:

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

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

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

VENUE:

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

SCOPE:

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

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

STRUCTURE:

AlCoB 2015 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

to be announced

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

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

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Francisco Hernández-Quiroz (Mexico City)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
David A. Rosenblueth (Mexico City, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2015

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The registration form can be found at:

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

DEADLINES:

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

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

AlCoB 2015
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

National Autonomous University of Mexico
Rovira i Virgili University

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Call for Participation

The NUMEDIART Institute for Creative Technology of University of Mons, Belgium, invites researchers to join eNTERFACE?15, the 11th one-month Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, to be held in Mons, Belgium, the European Capital of Culture 2015, from August 10th to September 4th, 2015.

eNTERFACE workshops gather in a single place a team of senior project leaders, researchers, and students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, each team being attached to a specific project.

If you are a senior/junior researcher or a PhD/MS/undergraduate student working on similar topics and you want to collaborate in (at least) one of these projects, please fill out the online registration form. You will be asked to upload a short CV in electronic format (doc, docx or pdf) along with a list of skills you can offer to the selected project teams. You can choose up to three projects. The project leaders will select their team members among the applicants.

The workshop attendance is free of charge but participants must fund their own travel, accommodation, and living expenses. The estimated costs are as follows :

• Accommodation in single bedrooms in the University Residence Hall costs from 285? to 329?, (depending on bedclothes renting or not), per person for the whole one-month stay.
• Meals (in the city) will cost about 400? for the 4 weeks, but this can be reduced by about a half if you eat at the university canteen at lunch time and cook for yourself at the dorm for dinner.

What are eNTERFACE workshops?

The eNTERFACE workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of leading professionals in multimodal human-machine interfaces together with students (both graduate and undergraduate), to work on a prespecified list of challenges, for 4 complete weeks. In this respect, it is an innovative and intensive collaboration scheme, designed to allow researchers to integrate their software tools, deploy demonstrators, collect novel databases, and work side by side with a great number of experts. It brings together 80 researchers for a whole month, subsequently it is the largest summer workshop on multimodal interfaces.

The workshop is held on an annual basis and organized around several research projects dealing with multimodal human-machine interfaces design. It is thus radically different from traditional scientific workshops, in which only specialists meet for a few days to discuss state-of-the art problems, but do not really work together.

The eNTERFACE was initiated by the FP6 Network of Excellence SIMILAR. After the completion of SIMILAR, the workshop continued to attract wide interest under the aegis of the OpenInterface Foundation. It was organized by Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) in 2005, University of Zagreb (Croatia) in 2006, Bogaziçi University (Turkey) in 2007, CNRS-LIMSI (France) in 2008, University of Genova (Italy) in 2009, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in 2010, University of West Bohemia (Czech Republic) in 2011, Metz Supélec (France) in 2012, New University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 2013, and University of Basque Country (Spain) in 2014.

How does it work?

1. Experienced researchers are invited to propose research projects to be undertaken by a few people (5-10) during 4 weeks. The proposal should explain what to do, how many people are necessary, profile of these people, etc.
2. Once the projects have been supervised and approved by the technical committee, they are listed on this website.
3. Then there is a call for participation (*this email*): students/researchers from all around the world send their CVs and choose the project they prefer according to their expertise or interest.
4. Teams are built by the project leaders in cooperation with the organizers according to the preferences of the students/researchers and their suitability for the project.
5. Finally, the team members come to Mons and spend four wonderful and productive weeks together. There is no registration fee for participants and accommodation will be relatively cheap.

Organizers

eNTERFACE?15 is organized by the University of Mons (UMONS), and it will take place at the Faculty of Engineering (FPMs) of Mons, Belgium.

The team undertaking eNTERFACE 2015 is part of the NUMEDIART Institute for Creative Technology, with inter­na­tion­ally recog­nised appraisal in the field of sound, image, video, ges­tures and biosig­nals pro­cess­ing for appli­ca­tions where human-computer inter­ac­tion aims to prompt emotion.

The city of Mons, cultural capital of Wallonia, has been chosen as European Capital of Culture 2015.

For the eNTERFACE 2015 organizing committee,

Prof. T. Dutoit

Main Chair

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Call for extended abstracts

Workshop on Phonetic Learner Corpora

Satellite workshop of ICPhS at 12 August 2015 in Glasgow

Most of the data used to explore and explain phonetic variation in the speech of foreign

language learners was recorded on a small-scale in experimental research. Likewise

language learner corpora are usually based on written rather than on spoken data whereas

phonetically annotated corpora of various speech styles do not explicitly consider

language learners as speakers. However, we notice a growing number of research using

large-scale collections of phonetic learner data as well as the development and

investigation of full-fledged phonetic learner corpora.

The aim of this half-day workshop is to bring together researchers working with largescale

data sets of speech in a background of foreign and second language learning. The

targetaudience comprises colleagues setting up learner corpora, experts in phonetic

corpora, researchers with phonetic and phonological experiments in L2 acquisition, and

those with an interest in phonetic aspects of L2 teaching and non-native speech in general.

Invited Speakers

- Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt U Berlin, Germany)

- Sylvain Detey (Waseda U, Japan) and Isabelle Racine (Geneva U, Switzerland).

Submissions

Interested colleagues are invited to submit an extended abstract by mid May. We also

plan to publish a special issue with contributions presented at the workshop. Please note

that the submission deadline for this special issue will be soon after the workshop.

Workshop website: <http://www.ifcasl.org/workshop.html>

Important Dates

15 May 2015 submission deadline of a two-page abstract (ICPhS paper template)

5 June 2015 notification of acceptance

15 June 2015 early registration deadline (mandatory for presenters)

15 July 2015 late registration deadline

12 Aug 2015 workshop

15 Sept 2015 submission deadline for planned special issue

Organisers

Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University, Saarbrücken)

Frank Zimmerer (Saarland University, Saarbrücken)

Mária Gósy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)

Anne Bonneau (LORIA, Nancy)

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IVA 2015 Doctoral Consortium, August 24th in Delft, The Netherlands
http://iva2015.tudelft.nl
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The Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2015 Doctoral Consortium will be held on
Monday, the 24th of August, two days before the main IVA conference (26th of
August - 28th of August, 2015). We invite and encourage PhD students working in
the area of virtual agents to present and discuss their work. PhD students
working on human-human and human-robot interaction with a relevance to
intelligent virtual agents are also encouraged to apply.

The doctoral consortium offers PhD students the opportunity to discuss and
present their research plans and progress to peers and experts in an interactive
way. During the doctoral consortium, several distinguished researchers will
provide feedback and guidance on the students' current research and future
research directions. Students who would like to benefit from this feedback and
guidance are welcome to apply. Students who have a clear topic and have already
made some progress are especially encouraged to apply.

Based on the student's application, the organizing committee will select a group
of students that will be invited to participate. The students selected are
expected to attend and to give an oral presentation at the Doctoral Consortium.
Students will also be given the possibility to present a poster during the
poster session of the main conference.

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Submission Guidelines and Instructions
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In order to apply for the doctoral consortium, the PhD student should follow
these submission guidelines and instructions:

1. An application describing the student’s current and planned research should
be submitted in the IVA paper format (see http://iva2015.tudelft.nl/?q=node/4)
2. Applications should be submitted as PDF documents (not exceeding 6 pages)
through the IVA submission system http://iva2015.confmaster.net/ (select the
doctoral consortium option).

Applications should be well written and organized. They should clearly describe:

* Aim(s) and objective(s) of the research
* The challenge(s) that the student's research is addressing
* The approach and method(s) used by the student to address the objective(s) and
challenge(s)
* The current status of the student's research and future directions
* Optional: Specific issues or questions the student seeks feedback on at the
consortium

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Important dates
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* Submission deadline: 15th of March 2015
* Notification date: 6th of April 2015

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Registration
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* Cost: 25 EUR

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Contact and questions
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Khiet Truong, University of Twente, k.p.truong@utwente.nl
Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Reykjavik University, hannes@ru.is

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4th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2015) co-located with 10th International
Conference on
Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2015)

Universite Paul Sabatier
Toulouse, France
August 24-28, 2015

All accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the Security and
Communication Networks,
Wiley or EURASIP Journal on Information Security.

IWCC Overview

Today's world's societies are becoming more and more dependent on open networks such as
the Internet -
where commercial activities, business transactions and government services are realized.
This has led to
the fast development of new cyber threats and numerous information security issues which
are exploited
by cyber criminals. The inability to provide trusted secure services in contemporary
computer network
technologies has a tremendous socio-economic impact on global enterprises as well as
individuals.

Moreover, the frequently occurring international frauds impose the necessity to conduct
the
investigation of facts spanning across multiple international borders. Such examination
is often subject
to different jurisdictions and legal systems. A good illustration of the above being the
Internet, which
has made it easier to perpetrate traditional crimes. It has acted as an alternate avenue
for the
criminals to conduct their activities, and launch attacks with relative anonymity. The
increased
complexity of the communications and the networking infrastructure is making
investigation of the crimes
difficult. Traces of illegal digital activities are often buried in large volumes of
data, which are
hard to inspect with the aim of detecting offences and collecting evidence. Nowadays, the
digital crime
scene functions like any other network, with dedicated administrators functioning as the
first
responders.

This poses new challenges for law enforcement policies and forces the computer societies
to utilize
digital forensics to combat the increasing number of cybercrimes. Forensic professionals
must be fully
prepared in order to be able to provide court admissible evidence. To make these goals
achievable,
forensic techniques should keep pace with new technologies.

The aim of 4th International Workshop on Cyber Crime is to bring together the research
accomplishments
provided by the researchers from academia and the industry. The other goal is to show the
latest
research results in the field of digital forensics and to present the development of
tools and
techniques which assist the investigation process of potentially illegal cyber activity.
We encourage
prospective authors to submit related distinguished research papers on the subject of
both: theoretical
approaches and practical case reviews.

The workshop will be accessible to both non-experts interested in learning about this
area and experts
interesting in hearing about new research and approaches.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Cyber crimes: evolution, new trends and detection Cyber crime related investigations
Computer and
network forensics Digital forensics tools and applications Digital forensics case studies
and best
practices Privacy issues in digital forensics Network traffic analysis, traceback and
attribution
Incident response, investigation and evidence handling Integrity of digital evidence and
live
investigations Identification, authentication and collection of digital evidence
Anti-forensic
techniques and methods Watermarking and intellectual property theft Social networking
forensics
Steganography/steganalysis and covert/subliminal channels Network anomalies detection
Novel applications
of information hiding in networks Political and business issues related to digital
forensics and anti-
forensic techniques

SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION

Authors are invited to submit Papers will be accepted based on peer review
(3 per paper) and should contain original, high quality work. All papers must be written
in English.
Authors are invited to submit their papers according the following guidelines: two
columns, single-
spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page.

Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (maximum 8 pages) via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcc20150). Papers accepted by the workshop will
be published
in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Failure to adhere
to the page
limit and formatting requirements will be grounds for rejection.

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the
authors will
register and present the paper in the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 20, 2015 (extended!): Regular Paper Submission [submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcc20150]
May 10, 2015: Notification Date
June 1, 2015: Camera-Ready Paper Deadline

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Artur Janicki, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (Publicity and Publication Chair)

CONTACTS
Contact IWCC 2015 Chair using this email address: iwcc.chairs@gmail.com.

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

August 24-26, 2015, Liberec, Czech Republic

                  http://amca.cz/lva2015/
       

 *About LVA*

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

*Highlights*

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

*Call for Papers*

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

*Special Sessions*

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

*Important Dates*

Jan 16, 2015: Submission of special session proposals

Jan 30, 2015: Special session decisions announced

Apr 10, 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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** 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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EUROSLA 25

http://eurosla25.sciencesconf.org/

27-29 August 2015

Université d?Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France

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

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GESPIN 2015

Gesture and Speech in Interaction

2 - 4 September 2015

Universite de Nantes - FRANCE

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

First Call for Papers

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

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

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

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

interest:

· Mapping of units in different semiotic modes

· Overlapping of units across modalities

· Affordances and relevance of different unit types

· Multimodal models of cognition

· Transliteration of units

· Gesture and speech in development

· Gesture and speech in dialogue

· Multimodal language learning and teaching

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

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

will be published online.

Keynote speakers

· Alan Cienki (FU Amsterdam)

· Jean-Marc Colletta (U. Grenoble)

· Ellen Fricke (TU Chemnitz, Germany)

· Judith Holler (MPI, Nijmegen)

Important dates

· Deadline for full papers and workshop proposals: April 22, 2015 extended

Info on submission on http://www.gespin4.univ-nantes.fr/70179108/0/fiche___pagelibre/&RH=1412770436454&RF=1412770411004

· Acceptance of papers & workshops: June 15, 2015

· Revised version of accepted papers: July 15, 2015

· Gespin conference: September 2-4, 2015

Venue

Faculte des Langues et Cultures Etrangeres (FLCE)

Universite de Nantes

Chemin de la Censive du Tertre

44312 Nantes

FRANCE

Registration fees

· Students: 80 €

· Academics: 150 €

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

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

Submission

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

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

selection will be discussed collectively by the organizing committee.

Organizing committees

Local organizing committee

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

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

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

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

Scientific board

· Mats Andren (U. Lund, Sweden)

· Dominique Boutet (Evry, France)

· Jana Bressem (TU Chemnitz, Germany)

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

· Alan Cienki (FU Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

· Doron Cohen (U. Manchester, UK)

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

· Gaelle Ferre (U. Nantes, France)

· Elen Fricke (TU Chemnitz, Germany)

· Alexia Galati (U. Cyprus)

· Marianne Gullberg (U. Lund, Sweden)

· Daniel Gurney (U. Hertfordshire, UK)

· Simon Harrison (U. Nottingham Ningbo, China)

· Judith Holler (MPI, The Netherlands)

· Ewa Jarmołowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Konrad Juszczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Maciej Karpiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Sotaro Kita (U. Warwick, UK)

· Stefan Kopp (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

· Emiel Krahmer (U. Tilburg, The Netherlands)

· Anna Kuhlen (U. Humbolt Berlin, Germany)

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

· Maarten Lemmens (U. Lille 3, France)

· Zofia Malisz (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

· Irene Mittelberg (HUMTEC Aachen, Germany)

· Asli Ozyurek (MPI, The Netherlands)

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

· Gale Stam (National Louis University, USA)

· Marc Swerts (U. Tilburg, The Netherlands)

· Michał Szczyszek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

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

· Mark Tutton (U. Nantes, France)

· Petra Wagner (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

GESPIN conference board

· Ewa Jarmołowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Konrad Juszczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Maciej Karpiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Zofia Malisz (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

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

· Michał Szczyszek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

· Petra Wagner (U. Bielefeld, Germany)

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

Satellite event of Interspeech 2015

Leipzig,Germany

www.slate2015.org

The ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) promotes the use of speech and language technology for educational purposes, and provides a forum for exchanging information regarding recent developments and other matters of interest related to this topic. For further information please visit http://www.sigslate.org.

The upcoming Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Education (SLaTE 2015) will be organized by the Pattern Recognition Lab of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in cooperation with Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig (HfTL).

The workshop will be held in Leipzig, September 4–5, 2015. It is a satellite event of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), which will take place afterwards in Dresden, September 6–10, 2015. Dresden is only 120 km away from Leipzig and can be reached easily within 72 minutes by train (ICE).

If you are interested, please download our flyer or our posters (poster 1 and poster 2). We will present them at the INTERSPEECH 2015 booth at INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore.

We are looking forward to welcome you in Leipzig!

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

Technische Sammlungen,

Dresden, Germany

www.sig-hist.org

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

                  Jürgen Trouvain trouvain@coll.uni-saarland.de

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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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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Bio-inspired Cyber Security & Networking (BCSN 2015) co-located with 27th
International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 2015)

Workshop website: http://stegano.net/BCSN2015

Het Pand
Ghent, Belgium
September 11th, 2015

OVERVIEW

Nature is probably the most amazing and recognized invention machine on Earth. Its
ability to address complex and large-scale
problems has been developed after many years of selection, genetic drift and mutations.
As a result, it is not surprising that
natural systems continue to inspire inventors and researchers.

Nature's footprint is present in the world of Information Technology, where there are an
astounding number of computational
bio-inspired techniques. These well-regarded approaches include genetic algorithms,
neural networks, ant algorithms just to name a
few. For example several networking management and security technologies have
successfully adopted some of nature's approaches,
which take form of swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, sensor networks, etc.

Nature has also developed an outstanding ability to recognize individuals or foreign
objects to protect a group or a single
organism.
Those abilities have great possibility to improve the area of security and network.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together the research accomplishments provided by
the researchers from academia and the
industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the field of
bio-inspired security and networking.

The workshop will be accessible to both non-experts interested in learning about this
area and experts interesting in hearing about
new research and approaches.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Bio-inspired security and networking algorithms & technologies
- Moving-target techniques
- Bio-inspired anomaly & intrusion detection
- Adaptation algorithms
- Biometrics
- Biomimetics
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Adaptive and Evolvable Systems
- Machine Learning, neural networks, genetic algorithms for cyber security & networking
- Prediction techniques
- Expert systems
- Cognitive systems
- Sensor networks
- Information hiding solutions (steganography, watermarking) for network traffic
- Cooperative defense systems
- Theoretical development in heuristics
- Management of decentralized networks
- Bio-inspired algorithms for dependable networks

SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION

Submissions are limited to 6 pages 2-column IEEE conference style with minimal font size
of 10 pt. Papers will appear in the
conference proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore. Submissions are handled
through the EDAS system. Upon final
camera-ready paper submission, authors will need to sign an IEEE copyright form for each
accepted paper to comply with IEEE
regulations.

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the
authors will register and present the paper in
the conference.

The extended versions of all papers accepted for BCSN will be published in a special
issue of the JCR journal (tentative).

IMPORTANT DATES

May 22, 2015 (extended!): Regular Paper Submission
June 15, 2015: Notification Date
July 1, 2015: Camera-Ready Paper Deadline

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Errin W. Fulp, Wake Forest
University, USA Hiroshi Wada, Unitrends,
Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Contact BCSN 2015 chairs using this email address:
contact@cybersecurity.bio. --

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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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Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing – ERRARE 2015

12-13 September 2015, Sinaia (Romania)


The Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Draganescu” (ICIA) of the Romanian Academy in collaboration with IMMI-CNRS, LIMSI-CNRS and the LAbEx EFL organizes the second edition of the “Errare” workshop, in September 12-13, 2015, as a satellite event of Interspeech 2015 (http://interspeech2015.org/).


The workshop will be organized around the topic of errors produced and processed by humans and machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data with a particular focus on spoken language. It distinguishes itself from other conferences addressing these issues by providing a forum for dialogue and exchange between researchers working in linguistics, including psycho- and neurolinguistics, on the one hand, and researchers in computer science, machine learning and multimedia speech and language processing, on the other hand. 
For this interdisciplinary workshop, we would like to gather these different communities around the issues of variation, ambiguity and errors in speech and language.  The purpose of this workshop is to share interdisciplinary expertise on a heterogeneous phenomenon referred to as “variation” and “ambiguity” in some domains and as “errors” in others. Researchers are invited to share their thoughts and observations through case studies run in the context of various initiatives.


A large panel of research areas shares a common object of study:  human language. These areas encompass historically well-established research communities: classical humanities and social sciences (phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, etc.), and more recent domains of the sciences (brain and computer science). Research objectives include analyzing, modeling, understanding and theorizing the human processing of speech variation. For linguists and psycholinguists variation in speech involves some matching process between variable surface forms and stable underlying forms: in such a framework errors may naturally arise as mismatches occurring at the interface of surface and underlying representations. Yet by which mechanisms errors may arise and how to interpret the patterning of errors within theoretical models of speech production and perception has been a matter of controversy. Speech error research in recent years has particularly highlighted the fuzzy boundary between the concepts of 'variability', ambiguity' and 'error'.
Research activities most often include corpora consisting of various types of recorded speech from controlled (laboratory) speech to large scale data. Such corpora may be a result of a variety of capturing techniques from standard audio recordings to multi-sensor capturing of either articulation gestures or brain activities. Errors can also be envisioned as a result of noisy data capturing conditions.

sharing experience with errors, variation and ambiguity is expected to produce beneficial insights for the different communities:

Concerning humanities, variation and ambiguity are central to the different branches of linguistics. Furthermore, human production and perception errors challenge the existing language acquisition, production and perception models.

For automatic speech and language processing, residual errors indicate regions which escape current modeling capacities. In-depth analyses in collaboration with linguists, psycholinguists and speech scientists may contribute to a better understanding of these phenomena and to the proposal of innovative strategies.

Brain sciences, a recent rapidly evolving research area, open new opportunities and the study of errors can contribute to reveal the hidden organization of the brain.



We invite contributions focusing on errors produced by humans and/or machines from (but not limited to) the following areas:

Cognition and brain studies related to errors in speech
Speech production (e.g. slips of the tongue...)
Speech perception
First and second language acquisition
Bilingualism and code switching 
Voice pathologies / clinical phonetics

Prosody
Natural language processing
Corpus linguistics
Automatic speech processing

Speech and multimodality
Speech and language translation
Spoken Interaction
Information retrieval
Evaluation methods


“Errare 2015” will welcome about 80 participants, with both invited and submitted papers.


Important dates:
15 May  2015: updated submission deadline
15 June 2015 : notifications of acceptance
29 June 2015 : final papers
Workshop dates : 12-13 September 2015


Organizing committee:
Ioana Vasilescu (LIMSI-CNRS)
Gilles Adda (IMMI-LIMSI)
Joseph Mariani (IMMI-LIMSI)
Verginica Mititelu (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Dan Tufis (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Maria Candea (Un iversity Paris 3)
Ioana Chitoran university Paris 7)
Sophie Rosset (LIMSI-CNRS)
Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS)
Laurence Devillers university Paris 4/LIMSI)

program committee:
Gilles Adda (IMMI-LIMSI)
Martine Adda-Decker (University Paris 3/LIMSI)
Tiberiu Boros (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Maria Candea (University Paris 3)
Ioana Chitoran (University Paris 7)
Laurence Devillers (University Paris 4/LIMSI)
Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)
Lori Lamel (LIMSI-CNRS)
Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania)
Joseph Mariani (IMMI-LIMSI)
Verginica Mititelu (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Bernd T. Meyer (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
Marianne Pouplier (Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung Munchen)
Sophie Rosset (LIMSI-CNRS)
Dan Tufis (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Ioana Vasilescu (LIMSI-CNRS)
Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS)


Scientific committee:
To be announced soon.

Website :
http://errare2015.racai.ro


Contact:
Ioana Vasilescu ioana@limsi.fr
Verginica Mititelu vergi@racai.ro
Gilles Adda gadda@limsi.fr
Joseph Mariani joseph.mariani@limsi.fr

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  TSD 2015 - FIRST 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


* Keynote 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 is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2015 satellite event.
* 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.


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


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.


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.


TOPICS


Keynote topic:
    Challenges of Modern Era in Speech and Language Processing


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)




PROGRAM COMMITTEE


    Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Genevieve Baudoin, France
    Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
    Paul Cook, Australia
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Eleni Galiotou, Greece
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, United Kingdom
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Hynek Hermansky, USA
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Bernardo Magnini, Italy
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    France Mihelic, Slovenia
    Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Stefan Steidl, Germany
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia




OFFICIAL LANGUAGE


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


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