- See more at: http://www.interspeech2016.org/#sthash.IeMcUBi3.dpuf

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Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16)5th
Workshop on Spoken Language
Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16) will be held on 9-12 May 2016 in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

### Important dates ###
- Full paper submission: 25 January 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 07 March, 2016
- Submission of final papers: 21 March, 2016
- Early registration: 21 March, 2016
- Workshop dates: 9-12 May, 2016

The Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages
is the fifth in a series of even-year SLTU Workshops. Four previous Workshops were
organized: SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa),
SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia), and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam). SLTU?16 is held in
Yogyakarta (Indonesia), a centre of classical Javanese culture. There are more than
700 ethnic languages spoken in Indonesian archipelago, but 146 are endangered.
Therefore, SLTU?16 has special focus on under-resourced languages and endangered
languages, but other related topics are also encouraged.

SLTU?16 will continue the tradition of previous SLTUs that features a number of
distinguished keynote speaker, and this year, for the first time, SLTU will also offer
Kaldi Tutorial on Under-Resourced Language.

### Workshop Topics ###
Areas related to processing any under-resourced and
endangered  languages:
- Fast resources acquisition (text and speech corpora, parallel text, dictionary,
grammars, language model)
- Spoken language processing for language without dictionary or written forms
- Cross-lingual and multi-lingual spoken language processing including analysis
and synthesis
- Speech recognition and synthesis of low-resourced languages and dialects
- Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems
- Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages

### Paper submission ###
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for
technical content (including figures, tables, etc) and possible references, plus
one additional (optional) page containing only references.

### Important dates ###
- Full paper submission: 25 January 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 07 March, 2016
- Submission of final papers: 21 March, 2016
- Early registration: 21 March, 2016
- Workshop dates: 9-12 May, 2016

### Organizing Committee Members ###
- Workshop Chair:
   Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan)
- Workshop Co-chair:
   Pascal Nocera (LIA, France)
   Eric Castelli (MICA, Vietnam)
   Laurent Besacier (LIG, France)
- Local Co-chair:
   Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia)
   Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia)

Web-site of the Workshop: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2016

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

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 57th International Symposium ELMAR-2015
 ***************************************
 
 September 28-30, 2015
 Zadar, Croatia
 
 Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2015

 http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
 
 
          CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 
 
 TOPICS
 
 --> Image and Video Processing
 --> Multimedia Communications
 --> Speech and Audio Processing
 --> Wireless Communications
 --> Telecommunications
 --> Antennas and Propagation
 --> e-Learning and m-Learning
 --> Navigation Systems
 --> Ship Electronic Systems
 --> Power Electronics and Automation
 --> Naval Architecture
 --> Sea Ecology
 
 --> Special Sessions:
     http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2015/special_sessions/
 
 
 SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES
 
 Deadline for submission of full papers: March 25, 2015
 Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 6, 2015
 Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: June 3, 2015
 Preliminary program available online by: June 17, 2015
 Registration forms and payment deadline: June 17, 2015

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Young Researchzers in Sciences of Language

Laboratory Praxiling, University of Montpellier, France

Call for papers: CJC2015

« Trace(s) »

15th-16th october 2015

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientific committee forthcoming

Planning committee:

Ivana Didirkova

Nada Jonchère

Nathalie Matheu

Contact : cjcpraxiling2015@gmail.com

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La technologie aux limites de l?humain en didactique des langues

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The Oriental Chapter of COCOSDA (International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) / CASLRE (Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation) is pleased to announce that the 18th Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE Conference will be held during October 28-30 2015 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE is an international conference held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA/CASLRE. It aims at boosting the research and development in the field of speech databases and speech technology and enthusing the interests towards spoken language research in East and Southeast Asia. The past Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE conferences were held in Tsukuba, Taipei, Beijing, Jeju, Huahin, Singapore, Delhi, Jakarta, Penang, Hanoi, Beijing, Kyoto, Katmandu, Hsinchu, Macau, Gurgaon, and Phuket.

The Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE Conference in Shanghai will feature world-class plenary speakers, and interactive lecture and poster sessions. Conference proceedings have been indexed by IEEE Xplore in the past years, and we will continue to submit the accepted papers to the IEEE Xplore database with Engineering Index (EI) this year. Papers are invited to report substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech input/output, including, but not limited to:

• Assessment of speech input and output technologies
• Multilingual speech corpora
• Phonetic/phonological systems for oriental languages
• Romanization of Non-Roman Characters
• Segmentation and labeling
• Speech databases and text corpora
• Speech processing and applications
• Speech prosody
• Standards in annotation and evaluation
• Any other relevant topics

 Prospective authors are invited to submit four-page papers at http://www.ococosda2015.org

 Important Dates:

•  Full Paper Submission June 15, 2015
•  Notification of AcceptanceAugust 15, 2015
•  Final Manuscript SubmissionAugust 30, 2015
•  Early Registration DeadlineSeptember 15, 2015

The conference venue is located in School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which enjoys the beautiful campus along with the active, intellectual and intimate campus atmosphere.

Shanghai is regarded as the Paris of the east; it has a seamless blending of modern and traditional, east and west. Its famous attractions, such as the Bund, Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai World Financial Center, and Oriental Pearl TV Tower have never failed to amaze visitors. We welcome you to Shanghai to experience the culture, architecture, and cuisine of this amazing metropolis.

 For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.ococosda2015.org

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 ACM Multimedia 2015 Workshop

         *Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia*

           30 October 2015, Brisbane, Australia

             http://slim-sig.irisa.fr/slam2015
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The third workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM) aims at bringing
together researchers working in speech, language and audio processing to analyze, index
and access multimedia data. Multimedia data are now available in enormous volumes in a
wide variety of formats and qualities, from professional content to user-generated ones:
Lectures, meetings, interviews, debates, conversational broadcast, podcasts, social
videos on the Web, etc. Such data, along with the associated use scenarios, raise
specific challenges: Robustness facing the high variability in quality; Efficiency to
handle very large amount of data; Semantics shared across modalities; Potentially high
error rates in transcription; etc. Worldwide, several national and international research
projects are focusing on audio and language analysis of multimedia data. Similarly,
various benchmark initiatives have devoted effort to offering tasks related to multimodal
multimedia challenges (e.g., TRECVid, CLEF, MediaEval).

Following SLAM 2013 in Marseille, France, and SLAM 2014 in Pinang, Malaysia, both
collocated with the Interspeech conference, SLAM 2015 moves to the multimedia community.
To make the most of the collocation with ACM Multimedia, the workshop features a
dedicated session to highlight work on multimodality and fusion, at the intersection of
speech, audio, language and computer vision.

SLAM gathers players from the fields of speech and audio processing and of multimedia to
share recent research results, discuss ongoing and future projects, explore potential
areas for interdisciplinary collaboration or sharing or ideas, and develop new
benchmarking initiatives of mutual interest to multimedia and language researchers. We
expect contributions on ongoing research work, project descriptions, evaluation
initiatives, demonstrations and applications emphasizing the speech and/or language
and/or audio contribution to any type of multimedia technology.

As a special focus of SLAM 2015, we particularly welcome contributions on video
hyperlinking, as a case study where the speech and language modalities are complemented
by audio and vision.

*Important dates*

Paper submission deadline        July 10, 2015
Notification of acceptance        August 2, 2015
Camera ready paper                August 10, 2015

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 ICMI 2015 Doctoral Consortium 17th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Nov 9-13, 2015, Seattle, USA. http://icmi.acm.org/2015/<http://icmi.acm.org/2014/>
NOTE: All accepted students will receive financial support to attend ICMI!
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Highlights:

Dates:
Submission deadline: July 14th, 2015
Notifications: August 24th, 2015
Camera-ready deadline: TBA
Consortium Date: November 9th, 2015


Process:
?       Submission format: Five-page, ACM SIGCHI proceedings format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform).
?       Submission system: http://precisionconference.com/~icmi
?       Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
?       Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session
?       Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library
?       Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Carlos Busso (University of Texas at Dallas) and Vidhyasaharan Sethu (University of New South Wales)

Overview:
The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing multimodal interfaces. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing multimodal interfaces. The Consortium will be held on November 9th, 2015. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).

Who should apply?
While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing multimodal interfaces are encouraged to apply.

Submission Guidelines:
Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:

?       Extended Abstract: A five-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SIGCHI proceedings format. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions should not be anonymous and should cover:
?       The key research questions and motivation of your research,
?       Background and related work that informs your research,
?       A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem,
?       Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies,
?       The research approach and methodology,
?       Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work,
?       A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work.

?       Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support. Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.
?       CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.

All materials should be prepared in PDF format into a single document and submitted through the ICMI submission system (http://precisionconference.com/~icmi) in the 'Doctoral Consortium' track.

Review Process:
The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in that order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Students who are in the process of forming their PhD research plan or are developing the research they have planned but are not too close to completing their degrees would most benefit from participating in the consortium. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women are especially encouraged to apply.

Financial Support:
We will provide financial support to all the accepted students, covering the majority of the costs of attending the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference.

Attendance:
All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.

Questions?
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2015 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (http://icmi.acm.org/2015/).

For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:

?       Carlos Busso, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA (busso@utdallas.edu)
?       Vidhyasaharan Sethu, University of New South Wales, Australia (v.sethu@unsw.edu.au)

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== ICMI 2015 - SECOND CALL For WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

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

Important dates:

• workshop proposal:    8th of MAY            NEW DEADLINE  
• Workshop acceptance notification:   11th of May
• workshop day: 13th of November

The International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) will be held in Seattle, USA, November 9-13, 2015. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface designs, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops on a day around the main conference to further foster the mingling and exchanges around new research, technology, social science models, application and business opportunities  Examples of recent workshops include:

• Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction: Eye-Gaze and Multimodality
• Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Human-Computer Interaction System
• Workshop on Smart Material Interfaces: Another Step to a Material Future
• Workshop on Social Behaviour in Music
• Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction
• Roadmapping the Future of Multimodal Interaction Research including Business Opportunities and Challenges

This tradition will continue at ICMI-2015 and workshops will be held on 13th November 2015 after the ICMI main technical program. Of interest are focused workshops on emerging research areas of the main conference topics, and in particular those favoring multi-disciplinary views around application areas, business opportunities, or societal challenges.

The format, style, and content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be included in the conference proceedings thumb drive and indexed by the ACM organization.

Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format via email to odobez@idiap.ch , by  8th of May, 2015. The proposal should include the following:

1. Workshop title,
2. List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short bio,
3. Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact,
4. Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program.
5. Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation (industry/academia)
6. Paper submission procedure (submission via web site, via email, etc.) if applicable. Workshop organizers can rely on the ICMI submission system precisionconference.com, or use their preferred one, e.g. http://cmt.research.microsoft.com/cmt/
7. Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.),
8. Paper submission and acceptance deadlines (camera-ready and early registration deadlines for a workshop must coincide with the corresponding deadlines of ICMI-2015 - see Important Dates).
9. Special space and equipment requests, if any.

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1st CFP International Workshop on Advancements in Social Signal Processing for Multimodal Interaction (ASSP4MI@ICMI2015)

17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015); November 13, 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA

http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/icmi2015-assp4mi
http://icmi.acm.org/2015/

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OVERVIEW
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The last decade has shown a significant increase in research in affective computing and social signal processing (SSP). This body of work is inherently multimodal (e.g. eye gaze, vocal and facial expressions) and multidisciplinary (e.g. psychology, linguistics, computer science) of nature by addressing foci that call for these approaches. Major foci are the understanding and automatic detection and interpretation of emotional and social behavior in spontaneous interactions, as well as the generation of socially normative behavior in specific situations. The interpretation of multimodal behaviors also makes it possible to endow systems, such as virtual agents or robots, with socially intelligent capabilities.

The developments in the field are remarkable, especially with respect to methods and applications, which are tightly intertwined. These developments have also led to the emergence of related (sub)fields such as computational social science where data-driven modeling of massive amounts of behavioral data of groups of people for the understanding of social phenomena is key. SSP seems to be continuously developing as a lively multidisciplinary research domain, bringing along new challenges, methods, application areas and emerging fields of research.

After a decade of the introduction of SSP as a research field, we believe it is time to take stock and look into the future. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers to discuss recent as well as future developments in SSP for multimodal interaction research: where do we stand now, what are the recent developments in novel methods and application areas, what are the major challenges, and how do we further mature and broaden and increase the impact of SSP? We also believe it is necessary to ensure the quality and advancement of the research in SSP and by training students with the necessary expertise. Since SSP is a relatively new research domain, a textbook for teaching SSP is not available (yet). How we may teach SSP is therefore another topic of interest in this workshop.

TOPICS
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We invite both research and position papers and aim for a mix of presentations around recent research and around presentations/discussions about the future of SSP. Papers related to the following topics are in particular encouraged, although other topics are also welcome:

* Recent research *
- Detection and interpretation of social behaviors in human-human and human-agent interaction
- Generation of social agent (virtual and robot) behavior
- Databases and methods for data collection and annotation for SSP research
- Analysis of social group behaviors

* Methodology *
- Standardization: what are standard practices in SSP research?
- Cross-disciplinary methods: what methods can be borrowed from other disciplines?
- What are novel methods used in SSP: e.g., virtual research environments (VRE), virtual reality, novel data collection methods, crowdsourcing, methods dealing with multimodal information, human-in-the-loop machine learning?

* Application Areas *
- What are the novel application areas, e.g., human-robot interaction, health, clinical and therapeutic settings, smart environments, multimedia retrieval, what can they offer SSP and vice versa?
- What could be the killer applications of SSP?
- How is SSP used in other disciplines, such as psychology?

* Education *
- What are the fundamentals in SSP to be taught to students, what would a course in SSP look like?
- What capabilities should a student being trained in SSP have?

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: July 13, 2015
Paper notification:     August 10, 2015
Workshop:         November 13, 2015

* All other dates, including registration and camera-ready submission deadlines, will follow the ICMI 2015 dates and deadlines.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Interested researchers are invited to submit a paper in the same ACM publication format as the main conference, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/pubform.doc (Word) and http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL2 (LaTeX). Papers may be up to six pages long including references. Submissions must be made to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=assp4mi.

ORGANIZERS
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Khiet Truong, University of Twente/Radboud University, the Netherlands
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Mohamed Chetouani, University Pierre and Marie-Curie, France
Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Albert Ali Salah, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

CONTACT
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k dot p dot truong AT utwente dot nl

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3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING

SLSP 2015

Budapest, Hungary

November 24-26, 2015

Organised by:

Laboratory of Speech Acoustics
Department of Telecommunications and Telematics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
http://alpha.tmit.bme.hu/speech/

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

http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2015/

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AIMS:

SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2015, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.

VENUE:

SLSP 2015 will take place in Budapest, on the banks of the Danube and an extensive UNESCO World Heritage site. The venue will be the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

SCOPE:

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

anaphora and coreference resolution
authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
computer-aided translation
corpora and language resources
data mining and semantic web
information extraction
information retrieval
knowledge representation and ontologies
lexicons and dictionaries
machine translation
multimodal technologies
natural language understanding
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
parsing
part-of-speech tagging
question-answering systems
semantic role labelling
speaker identification and verification
speech and language generation
speech recognition
speech synthesis
speech transcription
spelling correction
spoken dialogue systems
term extraction
text categorisation
text summarisation
user modeling

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2015 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer?reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

to be announced

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Steven Abney (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, France)
Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, Pisa, Italy)
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado, Denver, USA)
W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Udo Hahn (University of Jena, Germany)
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA)
Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Tracy Holloway King (A9.com, Palo Alto, USA)
Claudia Leacock (McGraw-Hill Education CTB, Monterey, USA)
Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Carlos Martín?Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, chair)
Alessandro Moschitti (University of Trento, Italy)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montréal, Canada)
Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Adam Pease (IPsoft Inc., New York, USA)
Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Javier Ramírez (University of Granada, Spain)
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Douglas A. Reynolds (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, USA)
Michael Riley (Google Inc., Mountain View, USA)
Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz, Austria)
Tomoki Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Klára Vicsi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Enrique Vidal (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Junichi Yamagishi (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín?Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
György Szaszák (Budapest)
Klára Vicsi (Budapest, 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=slsp2015

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI 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/SLSP2015/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: June 23, 2015 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 28, 2015
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: August 11, 2015
Early registration: August 11, 2015
Late registration: November 10, 2015
Submission to the journal special issue: February 26, 2016

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

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

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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Budapesti M?szaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Dear colleagues,

We would like to inform that the international conference 'ATYLANG - Atypical Language : what are we really talking about ?' will be held on 27-28 november 2015 at University Paris Ouest Nanterre.

Please find all informations on the website https://sites.google.com/site/atylang1english/


Call for Papers

The term atypical, which is used in everyday language to refer to specific and unclassifiable behavior, has also recently started to emerge in research, well beyond the clinical setting and the field of language development. The notion of atypical language is increasingly encountered within the field of linguistics without however being clearly defined. Among numerous individual variations, certain language behaviors intrigue researchers by their ?atypicality? and are thus characterized as unusual. But atypical language, which can involve all levels of a linguistic system, from minimal to maximal items, may sometimes reveal a pathological dimension in language use, in which real difficulties, deficits and disorders are present. While it is not always easy to differentiate individual and unusual variation from genuine language disorders, it is important to establish this distinction in view of the fundamental and crucial role that language plays in social interaction at different ages across the lifespan.

We are thus faced with a paradoxical situation, which, despite its stimulating character, challenges both research and practice. A single notion, at the crossroads of different disciplines, fields and specializations, concerned with fundamental research, applied research and clinical reality is used with different definitions. This raises the question as to what we are basically talking about. Is it possible to identify a concept, a common denominator,  that unites the different uses of ?atypical? between clearly distinct domains? If so, what is this common concept?

Thus, the underlying question of the Atylang conference on clinical linguistics is as follows: how can we move from the intuitive use of the term Atypical language towards a usage based on an explicit and well thought out definition, which allows us to create a consensus on how to problematize the issue, while avoiding, from the outset, limiting it solely to the field of dysfunctions and handicap? More specifically:

(i) At what moment is there a change from a singular, strange and unusual language behavior to a pathological one?  And how can we distinguish a short-term atypical phenomenon from a chronic and established dysfunctional one? Thus, from a developmental viewpoint, how can we characterize and distinguish atypical development from an atypical delay and an apparent specific disorder? As regards ageing, what observable evidence can be found to identify atypical constructions that not only appear as simple markers, inevitably associated  to ageing, but turn into clear indicators of pathological ageing?

 (ii) What references should the arguments that underpin and justify the scientific use of the term atypical be based on: the community in which atypical language may occur (family or school environment), the developmental theories suggested in research, clinical practice? What precise indicators and measures can be applied?

(iii) What is the status of the observer (individual vs. collective, expert vs. non expert, researcher and/or clinician), and, as a result, what are his/her expectations and integrated norms (or observed usage)? Finally, to what extent do phenomena that are considered atypical and specific in one context appear as perfectly natural in another?

Taking these questions as a starting point, the purpose of the Atylang conference is to provide points of reference for practitioners, allowing them to approach the notion of atypical language in a reflective and problematizing manner. A second aim is to provide the opportunity for researchers to benefit from feedback based on actual fieldwork, thus enabling them to explore the continuum covered by this notion, to determine its scope, limits and interest for scientific description.

In practice, this conference aims at including simultaneously the issue of so-called atypical uses and the linguistic markers that account for them. In other words, the focus is on the formal and communicative dimension of the central issue. We welcome papers on 10 major non-exclusive domains, both from clinical experience on the field and from research:

(i) Developmental and ageing language use

(ii) Oral and/or written language

(iii) Vocal language and sign language

(iv) Gestures and multimodality

(v) Atypical Language at the structural vs. the pragmatic level

(vi) Developmental versus acquired disorders

(vii) Diagnosis and remediation

(viii) Family support (development, ageing)

(ix) Delay versus deviance / disorder

(x) Atypical language in monolinguals and bilinguals


Call for Papers

Submissions on EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atylang1

Languages: French, English and French Sign Language (LSF)


Best,
Caroline Bogliotti

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27 et 28 novembre 2015 - Colloque ATYLANG
https://sites.google.com/site/atylang1/home

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Caroline Bogliotti
MCF en Sciences du Langage
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre & Laboratoire MODYCO - CNRS UMR 7114 (bât A.)
200 av de la République
92000 Nanterre

+33 (0)1 40 97 74 89 ou 76 15

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

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12th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
                                 (IWSLT 2015)

                         First Call for Papers

                           December 3-4, 2015
                           Da Nang, Vietnam

http://iwslt.org/


The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a
yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on
spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system
descriptions are presented. The 12th International Workshop on Spoken
Language Translation will take place in Da Nang, Vietnam on Dec. 03-04, 2015.


The IWSLT invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the
workshop proceedings and presented in dedicated technical sessions of the
workshop, either in oral or poster form. The workshop welcomes original,
high quality contributions covering theoretical and practical issues in the fields
of automatic speech recognition and machine translation that are applied to
spoken language translation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
*  Speech and text MT
*  Integration of ASR and MT
*  MT and SLT approaches
*  MT and SLT evaluation
*  Language resources for MT and SLT
*  Open source software for MT and SLT
*  Adaptation in MT
*  Simultaneous speech translation
*  Speech translation of lectures
*  Spoken language summarization
*  Efficiency in MT
*  Stream-based algorithms for MT
*  Multilingual ASR and TTS
*  Rich transcription of speech for MT
*  Translation of non-verbal events

IMPORTANT DATES

* Sep 28, 2015: Paper Submission
* Nov 3, 2015:  Notification of acceptance
* Nov 13, 2015 : Camera-ready Submission
* Dec  3-4, 2015: Workshop

CONTACT

Jan Niehues, KIT (jan.niehues@kit.edu)

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NIPS 2015 Workshop on Machine Learning for Spoken Language Understanding and Interaction

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Call for Papers

Machine Learning for Spoken Language Understanding and Interaction

http://slunips2015.wix.com/slunips2015#!call-for-papers/aboutPage

Date: 11th December 2015

A workshop at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference on

Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2015)

Montreal, QC, Canada, December 11, 2015.

Important dates:

4th October 2015 Paper Submission

24th October 2015 Notification of Acceptance

29th October 2015 Camera Ready Submission

11th December 2015 Workshop Day

The emergence of virtual personal assistants such as SIRI, Cortana, Echo, and Google Now, is generating increasing interest in research in speech understanding and spoken interaction. However, whilst the ability of these agents to recognize conversational speech is maturing rapidly, their ability to understand and interact is still limited to a few specific domains, such as weather information, local businesses, and some simple chit-chat. Their conversational capabilities are not necessarily apparent to users.  Interaction typically depends on handcrafted scripts and is often guided by simple commands. Deployed dialogue models do not fully make use of the large amount of data that these agents generate. Promising approaches that involve statistical models, big data analysis, representation of knowledge (hierarchical, relations, etc. ), utilizing and enriching semantic graphs with natural language components, multi-modality, etc. are being explored in multiple communities, such as natural language processing (NLP), speech processing, machine learning (ML), and information retrieval. However, we are still only scratching the surface in this field.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together both applied and theoretical researchers in spoken/natural language processing and machine learning to facilitate the discussion of new frameworks that can help advance modern conversational systems. We invite you to submit original papers. Papers will be peer-reviewed and presented as posters.

Proceedings will be published online in open access. Organizers also target a special issue in a dedicated journal, after the workshop.

Invited Speakers/Panelists:

Jason Weston, Facebook AI

Li Deng - Microsoft Research

Larry Heck - Google

Dan Roth - University of Ilinois - Urbana Champaign

Tomas Mikolov - Facebook AI

Kallirroi Georgila - University of Southern California

Pascal Poupart - University of Waterloo

Alan Black - Carnegie Mellon University

Olivier Pietquin - Lille University

Blaise Thomson - VocalIQ

 Paper format:

4-6 pages + one page for references only. The submission web site is:

http://slunips2015.wix.com/slunips2015#!submission/s1ifo

Organizing committee:

Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft

Milica Ga?i?, University of Cambridge

Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Microsoft Research

Contact:

slunips15@gmail.com

http://slunips2015.wix.com/slunips2015

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   Pre-announcement

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

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

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

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


THE TASK

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

The challenge will feature:

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

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


MATERIALS

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

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

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


ORGANISERS

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

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ASRU 2015 : IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

December 13-17, 2015 Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

http://asru2015.org

Twitter: @ASRU2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

The fourteenth biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) will be held on December 13-17, 2015 in Scottsdale, Arizona - USA. The ASRU workshop meets every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition, understanding, and related fields of research.

TOPICS AND FOCUS

Authors are encouraged to submit contributions in all areas of spoken language processing, with emphasis placed on the following topics:

-              Automatic speech recognition

-              Spoken language understanding

-              Speech-to-text systems

-              Spoken dialog systems

-              Multilingual language processing

-              Robustness in automatic speech recognition

-              Spoken document retrieval

-              Speech-to-speech translation

-              Text-to-speech systems

-              Spontaneous speech processing

-              Speech summarization

-              New applications of automatic speech recognition

FORMAT

The workshop features one keynote and one or two invited talks a day. Regular papers are presented as posters. See http://asru2015.org for formatting guidelines. ASRU 2015 will also include challenge tasks, panel discussions and demo sessions.

CHALLENGE TASKS

Three challenge tasks will be reporting results at ASRU 2015:

-              3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge - http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge

-              Automatic Speech recognition In Reverberant Environments (ASpIRE) - https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9933624

-              Multi-genre Broadcast Media Transcription Challenge - http://www.mgb-challenge.org/

Papers related to the challenges will be submitted, reviewed, and evaluated in the same way as all ASRU papers. Accepted papers will be presented as posters in special sessions for each challenge task. 

The challenges themselves are run by their respective organizers, independently of ASRU 2015.   See http://asru2015.org/Challenges.asp for participation details. 

PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures, plus 1-2 additional pages for references only. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically.

SCHEDULE

Paper due date: Friday July 10, 2015

Paper Notification: Friday Sept 11, 2015

Registration opens: Friday Sept 11, 2015

Demo/toolkit deadline: Friday Sept 25, 2015

Paper Camera ready version due: Friday Oct 2, 2015

Demo/toolkit notification date: Friday Oct 9, 2015

Author and early registration end: Friday Oct 23, 2015

Demo/toolkit camera ready version due: Monday Oct 26, 2015

Workshop: Dec 13-17, 2015

MORE INFORMATION

For updates see www.asru2015.org, or follow us on twitter: @ASRU2015

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Call for demonstrations at ASRU 2015  (extended deadline October 2, 2015)

Demonstration & Toolkit Call for Proposals

The program committee for the 14th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding is accepting proposals for the Demo & Toolkit session that will be held during the workshop. The demonstration session has become an exciting highlight of the ASRU workshops. The event will include demonstrations of latest innovations by research groups in industry, academia, and government. Demonstrations can be related to any of the topics defined by ASRU:

  - ASR / LVCSR systems
  - Language modeling
  - Acoustic modeling
  - Decoder / search
  - Spoken language understanding
  - Spoken dialog systems
  - Multilingual speech & language processing
  - Robustness in speech recognition
  - Spoken document retrieval
  - Speech to speech translation
  - Text-to-speech
  - Speech summarization
  - New applications of ASR
  - Speech signal processing
  - Neural networks in ASR
  - Low / zero resources
  - Mobile applications in speech processing
  - Far field speaker and speech recognition

The deadline for submission of proposals for the Demo & Toolkit session is September 18, 2015 with notification of acceptance by October 2, 2015.

Submissions should be mailed to the Demonstration Chairs (demo-chairs@asru2015.org ).?Proposals should include the demonstration title, list of authors, and an abstract of no more than two pages. The proposal should clearly explain what is novel and innovative in the proposed demonstration or toolkit.  For demonstrations, the proposal should detail what will be demonstrated. For toolkits, the proposal should explain where the toolkit can be obtained.

Each demonstration will be allotted one table, space for a poster, and a power outlet. Presenters are responsible for all other equipment and shipping to and from the workshop. Wireless internet will also be available. If you have any special requirements, please contact the Demonstration Chairs.

ASRU 2015 Demonstration Chairs

Thomas Schaaf, Amazon, (e-mail: thomas.schaaf@ieee.org) Patrick Nguyen, Metanautix, (e-mail: dr.pngx@gmail.com) Marsal Gavaldà, Expect Labs, (e-mail: mgavalda@gmail.com)

MORE INFORMATION
For updates see www.asru2015.org <http://www.asru2015.org>, or follow us on twitter: @ASRU2015

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

CALL FOR CHALLENGE TASKS

http://asru2015.org/CallForChallenges.asp

Submission deadline: December 31, 2014

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

* The task and its intended goal

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

* The data or shared resource that is to be used

  * Details on the availability or its collection process

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

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

  * Licensing terms or conditions for participants

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

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

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

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

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

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Speech Processing in Realistic Environments  - SPIRE

 9 January 2016, Groningen, the Netherlands

 In cooperation with SPIN 2016

 http://spin2016.nl and http://inspire-itn.eu/index.php/inspire-events/workshop-spin2016

 Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 September 2015

Description of the workshop

Although listeners often experience more than one adverse condition simultaneously (e.g., noise and visual distraction), classical research methods have traditionally only addressed adverse conditions individually. This has contributed to the fragmentation of speech communication research into numerous sub-disciplines that rarely interact. While each type of adverse condition can have important consequences on its own, it is often the combination of conditions that conspires to create serious communication problems especially for elderly and hearing-impaired individuals.

In 2012, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network called Investigating Speech Processing in Realistic Environments (INSPIRE) was initiated with the aim of creating a community of researchers who can exploit synergies between the sub-disciplines of speech communication. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers with common interests in human and automatic speech recognition in challenging conditions of real environments (e.g., under increased cognitive load, divided attention, environmental noise, accented speech, non-native knowledge, hearing impairment & hearing loss).

Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• State of the art empirical research on speech perception in challenging, realistic listening environments
• Experimental and clinical methods for research in naturalistic speech perception
• Computational modeling of speech intelligibility for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners under realistic conditions
• Tools and corpora for testing and comparing speech intelligibility
• Integration of human auditory processing and machine speech recognition

Keynote speakers 

• Jonas Obleser
• Jonathan Simon
• Third keynote speaker to be announced

Submission process 

We call for extended abstracts (1 page) covering original, unpublished research, or function as a new review, introduction or opinion of a relevant topic.  Submissions can also include work in progress. Submissions must be written in English and are limited to 1 page, excluding references. Abstracts about conducted research should contain analysis results and a brief discussion. References should be put on the second page. Submissions longer than 1 page will be rejected. The conference will be conducted in English. We accommodate both oral talks and poster presentations.

Submission is managed through the http://spin2016.nl website. Please find a direct link here.

Important dates

20 September: abstract submission deadline to SPIN and SPIRE (authors indicate their preference for SPIN or SPIRE)

15 October: Notification of acceptance of submissions

30 October: registration opens

15 November: final submission deadline for  updates of approved contributions

9 January 2016: SPIRE workshop

Program Chairs

Bert Cranen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Sven Mattys (University of York)

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10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

LATA 2016

Prague, Czech Republic

March 14-18, 2016

Organized by:

Department of Theoretical Computer Science

CzechTechnicalUniversity in Prague

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2016/

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AIMS:

LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i VirgiliUniversity in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2016 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.

VENUE:

LATA 2016 will take place in Prague, a city full of history and cultural attractions, and one of the political and economic cores of central Europe. The venue will be the campus of the CzechTechnicalUniversity in the Dejvice quarter.

SCOPE:

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

algebraic language theory

algorithms for semi-structured data mining

algorithms on automata and words

automata and logic

automata for system analysis and programme verification

automata networks

automata, concurrency and Petri nets

automatic structures

cellular automata

codes

combinatorics on words

computational complexity

data and image compression

descriptional complexity

digital libraries and document engineering

foundations of finite state technology

foundations of XML

fuzzy and rough languages

grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)

grammatical inference and algorithmic learning

graphs and graph transformation

language varieties and semigroups

language-based cryptography

parallel and regulated rewriting

parsing

patterns

power series

string and combinatorial issues in bioinformatics

string processing algorithms

symbolic dynamics

term rewriting

transducers

trees, tree languages and tree automata

unconventional models of computation

weighted automata

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2016 will consist of:

invited talks

invited tutorials

peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

tba

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

(to be completed)

Dana Angluin (YaleUniversity, New Haven, USA)

Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)

Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)

Hans L. Bodlaender (UtrechtUniversity, The Netherlands)

Jean-Marc Champarnaud (University of Rouen, France)

Rod Downey (VictoriaUniversity of Wellington, New Zealand)

Frank Drewes (Umeå University, Sweden)

Ding-Zhu Du (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)

Michael Fellows (CharlesDarwinUniversity, Darwin, Australia)

Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)

Oscar H. Ibarra (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Jan Janoušek (CzechTechnicalUniversity in Prague, Czech Republic)

Galina Jirásková (SlovakAcademy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia)

Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)

Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, Finland)

Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Martin Kutrib (University of Giessen, Germany)

Zhiwu Li (Xidian University, Xi'an, China)

Oded Maler (VERIMAG, Gières, France)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, chair)

Ugo Montanari (University of Pisa, Italy)

František Mráz (CharlesUniversity in Prague, Czech Republic)

Mitsunori Ogihara (University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA)

Alexander Okhotin (University of Turku, Finland)

Doron A. Peled (BarIlanUniversity, Ramat Gan, Israel)

Martin Plátek (CharlesUniversity in Prague, Czech Republic)

Daniel Reidenbach (University of Loughborough, UK)

Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo, Italy)

Kai Salomaa (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada)

Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy)

Uli Sattler (University of Manchester, UK)

Pierre Wolper (University of Liège, Belgium)

Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Mengchu Zhou (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)

Jan Janoušek (Prague, co-chair)

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)

Radomír Polách (Prague)

Eliška Šestáková (Prague)

Jan Trávní?ek (Prague)

Bianca Truthe (Giessen)

Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, 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=lata2016

PUBLICATIONS:

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

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

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from August 28, 2015 to March 14, 2016. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2016/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: October 19, 2015 (23:59 CET)

Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 27, 2015

Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 7, 2015

Early registration: December 7, 2015

Late registration: February 29, 2016

Submission to the journal special issue: June 18, 2016

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

LATA 2016

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:

?eské vysoké u?ení technické v Praze

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Welcome to the 10th ICVPB in Viña del Mar

March 14-17, 2016

http://www.icvpb2016.com/

We are pleased to invite you to the 10th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, ICVPB 2016, celebrated for the first time in the Southern hemisphere, in Viña del Mar, Chile. ICVPB is one of the prime international forums for current scientific research on the larynx and voice.

Brief History of the Conference

The International Conference on Vocal Fold Physiology and Biomechanics (ICVPB) dates back to 1980. Initially called the Voice Physiology Conference, it began with five individuals who brought together voice scientists from Japan and the United States. The five people were Wilbur James Gould, Osamu Fujimura, Kenneth Stevens, Minoru Hirano, and Ingo Titze. The first meeting was held in Kurume Japan, in 1980. The focus was and has always been basic science, the physical and biological underpinnings of voice production. In total, nine Vocal Fold Physiology meetings were held. After Kurume, the meeting took place in Madison (1982), Iowa City (1984), New Haven (1985), Tokyo (1987), Stockholm (1990), Denver (1992), Kurume (1994), and Sydney (1995). The name of the conference was then changed to ICVPB to include the influx of biomechanics and biology into our field. The first ICVPB meeting was held in 1997 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, followed by Berlin (1999), Denver (2002), Marseille (2004), Tokyo (2006), Tampere (2008), Madison (2010), Erlangen (2012), Salt Lake City (2014), and now Viña del Mar (2016).

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4th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2016)
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Website: http://www.iclr.cc/
Submission deadline for title and abstract: 5:00 pm EST, November 12th, 2015
Submission deadline for arXiv paper ID: 5:00 pm EST, November 19th, 2015
Location: Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2-4, 2016

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

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

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

The program will include keynote presentations from invited speakers,
oral presentations, and posters.

ICLR's Two Tracks
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As usual, ICLR will feature two tracks: a Conference Track and a
Workshop Track. However, this year, conference and workshop
submissions will be reviewed separately, in two different
periods. This call for paper is thus only for conference
contributions. Workshop submissions will be received a few months
before the conference and be subject to a lighter review. A future
call for papers will be sent with more details on the Workshop Track.

Also, the reviewing period for conference submissions will be
separated into two short rounds (normally 2 reviews in the first
round, 1 review in the second round). The first round will run as
usual. The second round reviews, however, in addition to evaluating
the submissions, will be required to include comments on the content
of the first round reviews. By asking for such comments, we hope to
ensure a minimum of discussion for every paper, and favour
interactions that might either identify factual errors early or reveal
a clearer consensus. Note that some of the submitted conference track
papers that are not accepted to the conference proceedings will be
invited to be presented under the Workshop Track.

ICLR Submission Instructions
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By November 12th, authors are asked to enter in openreview.net the
title, abstract and author list for their paper, along with
conflict information.  Then, as soon as possible, authors must
post on arXiv their submission: http://arxiv.org.  Finally, by
November 19th, authors must update their submission in
openreview.net with the arXiv ID of their paper.

Note that there can be up to 3 days of delay between sending a
manuscript on arXiv and receiving your arXiv ID. It is thus important
to post your submission on arXiv early. Note also that you can always
update your submission on arXiv later on, anytime during the review
process. Submissions without an arXiv ID after November 19th will be
automatically removed from openreview.net.

Remember to download the style files and paper template and use within
LaTeX to format your paper. Use of the ICLR 2016 style is mandatory.

When you make your arXiv submission, please be sure to correctly
classify your submission into CoRR categories. Typically, you should
consider the following categories:

  CS.LG: machine learning
  CS.NE: neural networks
  CS.CV: computer vision
  CS.CL: computational linguistics

Virtually all of the ICLR papers should have both CS.LG and CS.NE as
categories and then additional categories depending on the nature of
the problem.

Submission deadline: 11:59 pm PST, November 12th for title and
abstract, 11:59 pm PST, November 19th for arXiv ID.

Notes
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Regarding the conference submission's 6-9 page limits, these are
really meant as guidelines and will not be strictly enforced. For
example, figures should not be shrunk to illegible size to fit
within the page limit. However, in order to ensure a reasonable
workload for our reviewers, papers that go beyond the 9 pages
should be formatted to include a 9 page submission, with
supplementary material appended at the end of the manuscript and
clearly marked as an appendix, which will be optionally reviewed.

Paper revisions will be permitted, and in fact are encouraged, in
response to comments from and discussions with the reviewers (see
An Open Reviewing Paradigm below).

An Open Reviewing Paradigm
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1.  Submissions to ICLR are posted on arXiv prior to being submitted
    to the conference.
2.  Authors submit their paper to either the ICLR conference track or
    workshop track via the openreview.net ICLR 2016 website.
3.  After the authors have submitted their papers via openreview.net,
    the ICLR program committee designates anonymous reviewers as
    usual.
4.  The submitted reviews are published without the name of the
    reviewer, but with an indication that they are the designated
    reviews.
5.  Anyone can openly (non-anonymously) write and publish comments on
    the paper. Anyone can ask the program chairs for permission to
    become an anonymous designated reviewer (open bidding). The
    program chairs have ultimate control over the publication of each
    anonymous review. Open commenters will have to use their real
    names, linked with their Google Scholar profiles.
6.  Authors can post comments in response to reviews and
    comments. They can revise the paper as many times as they want,
    possibly citing some of the reviews. Reviewers are expected to
    revise their reviews in light of paper revisions.
7.  The review calendar includes a generous amount of time for
    discussion between the authors, anonymous reviewers, and open
    commentators. The goal is to improve the quality of the final
    submissions.
8.  The ICLR program and area chairs will consider all submitted
    papers, comments, and reviews and will decide which papers are to
    be presented in the conference track, which will be invited to be
    presented in the workshop track, and which will not appear at
    ICLR.
9.  Papers that are presented in the workshop track or are not
    accepted will be considered non-archival, and may be submitted
    elsewhere (modified or not), although the ICLR site will maintain
    the reviews, the comments, and the links to the arXiv versions.

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

Senior Program Chair
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Hugo Larochelle, Twitter and Université de Sherbrooke

Program Chairs
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Brian Kingsbury, IBM
Samy Bengio, Google

Contact
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The organizers can be contacted at iclr2016.programchairs@gmail.com

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ELRA is glad to announce the 10th edition of LREC, organised with the support of a wide range of international organisations.

CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy issues and to scientific/technological and organisational ones.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LT) and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, multimodality
?    Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
?    Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
?    Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
?    Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
?    LRs and Semantic Web
?    LRs and Crowdsourcing
?    Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up
?    Best practices in the use of LR citations

Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications
?    Multimedia information and multimodal communication, including Sign Languages
?    LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, audio-visual transcriptions and annotations, computer aided language learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text mining and analytics, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis, etc.
?    Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensorial multi-sensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
?    Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-commerce, e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation, mobile applications, digital humanities, Digital Service Infrastructures, etc.
?    Industrial LRs requirements, user needs

Issues in LT evaluation
?    LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
?    Validation and quality assurance of LRs
?    Benchmarking of systems and products
?    Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
?    User satisfaction evaluation

General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation
?    International and national activities, projects and collaboration
?    Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
?    Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
?    Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
?    Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues.


LREC 2016 HOT TOPICS

LRs for Actionable Knowledge
Important information to support a range of applications is hidden in Big Data. Automated content analytics is needed for the interpretation of the data and their context, so that it is accurately understood and can be integrated and used in applications. Content analytics makes use of various technologies, like semantic search, keyword suggestions, clustering, classification, etc. What is the role of LRs in such correlation of digital content and context? Can for example relations between LRs and Knowledge Graphs for entity linking, disambiguation, reasoning, etc. support the generation of actionable knowledge in Big Data analytics?
More generally we would like to bring to discussion all issues related to LRs and evaluation means for semantic processing in the Big Data environment.

LRs for Interaction with Devices
There is a growing interest in adapting and improving Natural Language Processing for providing intelligent language interfaces to all kind of devices that are connected to the Internet (of Things), and also to robots, sensors and the like. We encourage investigating how to relate LRs in this communication set-up with data that are in principle of a non-linguistic nature. How to improve multilingual and multimodal generation of information from sensors, robots and in general from structured data in the Internet of Things? How can LRs optimally be designed and used in this (bi-directional) interaction? How to combine language and sensor streams in multilingual and multimodal virtual worlds?
Are there new or past approaches to Human-Machine dialogue offering easily adaptable solutions, so that we need ?only? to upgrade them to the enormously increased quantity of data and number of interconnected devices?

LREC 2016 HIGHLIGHT
Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences).
To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility,  when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository.  This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2016 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers  will be offered at submission time.

PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize.

SUBMISSIONS AND DATES

 LREC 2016 SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN!

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT FOR ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATION
To submit your abstract, please go to:https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/main

• Your abstract must consist of 1500 to 2000 words (about 3-4 pages; can contain references, tables, figures)  and must be formatted in PDF.
• There is no template for the pdf abstract. The template will be made available online for the final papers. Submissions are NOT anonymous.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
We suggest that you submit your abstract along with the corresponding LRE Map information and ISLRN identifier as soon as possible.
Note that you will be able to revise and re-submit an improved version of the abstract (and  the Map forms) at any time (before the call closure).

Please do not wait until the last moment!

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL FOR WORKSHOP AND/OR TUTORIAL

Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals should be made via the LREC2016 conference website.
Click Submission (http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/) from the conference site Homepage.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of proposals for workshops and tutorials: 15 October 2015
Submission of proposals for oral and poster/demo papers: 15 October 2015

Conference: 25 - 26 - 27 May 2016
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 23 and 24 May 2016
Post-conference workshops and tutorials: 28 May 2016

 The START page for abstract submission to the Main conference and the webforms for workshops and tutorials submissions will be accessible from:
http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/
 


PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format.

There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered.

In addition a Book of Abstracts will be printed.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?,
Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Khalid Choukri  ? ELRA, Paris - France
Thierry Declerck ? DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Marko Grobelnik - Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana - Slovenia
Bente Maegaard  ? CST, University of Copenhagen - Denmark
Joseph Mariani  ? LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, Orsay - France
Asuncion Moreno  ? Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain
Jan Odijk  ? UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands
Stelios Piperidis ? Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens ? Greece

CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
IN ADDITION TO THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Sara Goggi, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Hélène Mazo, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France

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5ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française

Organisé par l’Institut de Linguistique Française (CNRS – FR 2393)

du 4 au 8 juillet 2016,

à l’Université François Rabelais de Tours

APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS

Organisation

Dates : 4 au 8 juillet 2016

Lieu : Université François Rabelais de Tours

Site web : http://cmlf2016.sciencesconf.org/

Contact : fr2393.cmlf2016@cnrs.fr

Institution en charge de l’organisation

Institut de Linguistique Française – FR 2393 du CNRS Courriel : FR2393.secretariat-general@cnrs.fr

Téléphone : 01 43 13 56 45

Adresse : 44, rue de l’Amiral Mouchez – 75014 Paris

Site web : http://www.ilf.cnrs.fr/

Programme prévisionnel

Le Congrès fonctionne par appel à communications. Les réponses à l’appel à communications sont attendues jusqu’au 30 novembre 2015. Le nombre total de communications est estimé à 200 environ.

4 conférences et 2 tables rondes plénières seront organisées.

Les conférences plénières permettent à des chercheurs invités de réputation internationale d’offrir un état de la recherche en linguistique française :

 Marie-José Béguelin, Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse)

 Aidan Coveney, University of Exeter (Royaume-Uni)

 Harriet Jisa, Université Lyon 2

 Alain Polguère, Université de Lorraine

Tables rondes plénières thématiques

 Philologie et herméneutique numérique(s)

 Le français, langue en contact

Calendrier

 15 mai 2015 : Ouverture de la plateforme de dépôt des communications

 30 novembre 2015 : Date limite de réception des communications

 29 février 2016 : Notification de l'acceptation ou du refus des propositions de communication, et directives pour la version définitive

 31 mars 2016 : Réception de la version définitive des articles

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Organisateurs

- Franck Neveu, Directeur de l’ILF (Institut de Linguistique Française), Université Paris-Sorbonne

- Gabriel Bergounioux, Université d‘Orléans

- Marie-Hélène Côté, Université Laval (Québec)

- Jean-Michel Fournier avec l’assistance de Sylvester Osu et Philippe Planchon, Université François Rabelais de Tours

- Linda Hriba, Université d’Orléans

- Sophie Prévost, CNRS, laboratoire Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (Lattice)

Co-organisateurs

Les unités de recherche composant l’Institut de Linguistique Française :

Unités Mixtes de Recherche

Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF)

UMR 7118 CNRS – Université de Lorraine – Direction : Éva Buchi

Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL)

UMR 7320 CNRS – Université Nice Sophia Antipolis – Direction : Damon Mayaffre

Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE)

UMR 5263 CNRS – Université de Toulouse II - Direction : Hélène Giraudo. Responsable de l’équipe de linguistique CLEE-ERSS : Cécile Fabre

Equipe d’informatique linguistique du Laboratoire d’Informatique Gaspard Monge (LIGM)

UMR 8049 – CNRS – Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée – Direction : Marie-Pierre Béal. Responsable de l’équipe d’informatique linguistique : Eric Laporte et Tita Kyriacopoulou

Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations (ICAR)

UMR 5191 CNRS – Université Lumière Lyon 2 – ENS de Lyon – INRP – Direction : Sandra Teston-Bonnard

Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL)

UMR 7309 CNRS – Aix - Marseille Université – Direction : Noël Nguyen

Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (Lattice)

UMR 8094 CNRS – ENS – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Direction : Thierry Poibeau

Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Informatique (LDI)

UMR 7187 CNRS – UP13 – UCP – Direction : Gabrielle Le Tallec Lloret

Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus (MoDyCo)

UMR 7114 CNRS – Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense – Direction : Jean-Luc Minel

Equipe «Linguistique» de l’Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)

UMR 8132 CNRS – Direction : Paolo d’Iorio, Responsable de l’équipe « Linguistique » : Irène Fenoglio

PRAXILING

UMR 5267 CNRS – Université Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3 – Direction : Agnès Steuckardt. Représentante du laboratoire à l’ILF : Christine Béal

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL)

UMR 8163 CNRS – Université de Lille – Direction : Philippe Sabot. Représentante du laboratoire à l’ILF : Georgette Dal

Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique (LLL)

UMR 7270 – Université d’Orléans – Université de Tours – CNRS – BnF – Direction : Gabriel Bergounioux 3

Analyse Linguistique Profonde à Grande Echelle (ALPAGE)

UMR-I 001 – INRIA et Université Paris-Diderot – Direction Benoît Sagot

Équipes d’accueil

Centre de Recherche sur les médiations (CREM)

EA 3476 – Université de Lorraine – Pôle PRAXITEXTE – Direction : Jacques Walter. Représentante du laboratoire à l’ILF : Béatrice Fracchiolla

Centre de Recherches Inter-langues sur la Signification en Contexte (CRISCO)

EA 4255 – Université de Caen Basse-Normandie – Direction : Pierre Larrivée

CLESTHIA

EA 7345 – Langages, systèmes, discours – Direction : Gabriella Parussa. Représentante du laboratoire à l’ILF : Florence Lefeuvre

Linguistique et Didactique des Langues Etrangères et Maternelle (LIDILEM)

EA 609 – Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 – Direction : Marinette Matthey

Linguistique, Langues et Parole (LiLPa)

EA 1339 – Université de Strasbourg – Direction : Rudolph Sock

Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire (STIH)

EA 4509 – Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4) – Direction : Joëlle Ducos

Remarques sur l’évaluation des propositions

Le Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est une grande manifestation internationale sur et pour la linguistique française qui se caractérise par une procédure exigeante en matière d’évaluation des communications présentées au congrès :

 les propositions de communication ne sont pas des résumés mais de véritables articles (10 pages minimum, 15 pages maximum) comprenant une bibliographie ;

 la gestion des propositions, de leur répartition entre comités thématiques et au sein des comités thématiques s'effectue via une plateforme de gestion de congrès scientifique - http://www.sciencesconf.org/ - et d'EDP - http://www.edpsciences.org avec publication des actes sur www.linguistiquefrancaise.org);

 l'évaluation des propositions est faite par des experts au moyen d'une grille unifiée et après une anonymisation des soumissions ;

 la production d'un CD-ROM d'actes avec index, moteur de recherche et d'un livret des résumés est assurée par le logiciel dédié, ce qui assure l'homogénéité et la qualité du résultat ;

 les communications acceptées font l'objet d'une publication en version intégrale dans les actes ;

 les actes sont distribués à l'ouverture du congrès.

Partenaires sollicités pour du financement de la manifestation

 Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie

 CNRS : Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales - Section 34 du CNRS

 Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France

 Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche

 Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

 Ville de Tours

 Communauté d’agglomération Tours Plus

 Département d’Indre-et-Loire

 Région Centre-Val de Loire

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Présentation scientifique

Intérêt scientifique

Le cinquième Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est organisé par l’Institut de Linguistique Française (ILF), Fédération de Recherche du CNRS (FR 2393) qui est sous la tutelle de cet organisme et du Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche. L’ILF regroupe vingt laboratoires de recherche, qui sont les co-organisateurs de ce congrès en partenariat avec de nombreuses associations nationales et internationales. Une telle organisation, conjointement prise en charge par vingt unités de recherche, est exceptionnelle par son ampleur et la volonté de partenariat scientifique qu’elle révèle.

Le premier Congrès Mondial a été organisé à Paris par l’ILF en 2008, le deuxième à La Nouvelle-Orléans, le troisième à Lyon en 2012 et le quatrième à Berlin en 2014. Chacun de ces quatre congrès a attiré plus de 300 participants et les résultats ont fait l’objet d’une publication en ligne immédiate accompagnée par un volume de résumés et un CD-ROM d’actes.

Ce congrès est organisé sans aucun privilège d'école ou d'orientation et sans exclusive théorique ou conceptuelle. Chaque domaine ou sous-domaine, chaque type d'objet, chaque type de questionnement et chaque problématique portant sur le français peut y trouver sa place.

Le CMLF est organisé en 15 sessions, lesquelles soulignent le fait que la linguistique française n’est pas limitée à tel ou tel domaine érigé en modèle pour les autres sous-disciplines du champ. Quatorze thématiques ont été retenues, qui permettent de balayer la plus grande partie du champ scientifique : (1) Discours, Pragmatique et Interaction, (2) Francophonie, (3) Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique, (4) Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité, (5) Lexique(s), (6) Linguistique de l’écrit, Linguistique du texte, Sémiotique, Stylistique, (7) Linguistique et Didactique (français langue première, français langue seconde), (8) Morphologie, (9) Phonétique, Phonologie et Interfaces, (10) Psycholinguistique et Acquisition, (11) Ressources et Outils pour l’analyse linguistique, (12) Sémantique, (13) Sociolinguistique, Dialectologie et Écologie des langues, (14) Syntaxe. A ces quatorze thématiques a été ajoutée une quinzième session « pluri-thématique », laissant ouverte la possibilité de travailler dans plusieurs domaines, voire en marge des territoires disciplinaires traditionnels.

Chaque thématique est pilotée par un Président et coordonnée par un Vice-président (membre du Comité directeur de l’ILF, ou bien choisi par ce comité). Les comités scientifiques comportent une proportion équilibrée de spécialistes français et étrangers. Un soin particulier a été accordé à la sélection des comités afin de s’assurer qu’ils présenteraient les plus grandes garanties scientifiques pour le succès du congrès. On trouve donc dans chaque comité des linguistes connu(e)s mondialement pour leur contribution au domaine. Le rôle de ces comités est de sélectionner les propositions de communications.

Les soumissions se feront sous la forme de brefs articles de 10 à 15 pages.

Toutes les communications (y compris les conférences plénières) seront publiées sous la forme d'un article de 10 à 15 pages dans les actes du congrès (sous forme de CD-ROM accompagnant un livret des titres et des résumés des communications) et maintenues sous forme électronique sur le site du CMLF. L'archive électronique restera accessible après le congrès.

Comité scientifique

Le Comité scientifique est composé des comités des 14 thématiques du Congrès et des responsables de la session pluri-thématique : 5

- Discours, Pragmatique et Interaction

Présidente : Sabine Diao-Klaeger (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Allemagne), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Christine Béal (Université Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3)

Autres membres du comité : Chantal Claudel (Université Paris 8), Gaétane Dostie (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), Laurent Fillietaz (Université de Genève, Suisse), Marie-Noëlle Guillot (University of East Anglia, Royaume-Uni), Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (Université Lumière - Lyon 2), Sophie Moirand (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3), Kerry Mullan (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australie), Juan Manuel Lopez Muñoz (Universidad de Cádiz, Espagne), Christian Plantin (Université Lumière - Lyon 2), Agnès Steuckardt (Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3), Britta Thörle (Universität Siegen, Allemagne), Frédéric Torterat (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), Patricia Von Münchow (Université Paris Descartes), Véronique Traverso (Université Lumière - Lyon 2)

Présentation

L’analyse du discours, dans son acception contemporaine, se définit essentiellement par la mise en relation des manifestations concrètes du langage avec ses conditions de production, et implique donc une prise en considération du locuteur, du référent et de la situation de communication. Vu sous cet angle, le discours, qu’il soit écrit ou oral, se caractérise par la présence de la subjectivité de l’énonciateur (linguistique de l’énonciation) et également par la manière dont le locuteur met en scène de façon plus ou moins implicite d’autres voix que la sienne à propos du même objet (dialogisme). La pragmatique possède un champ d’application très large, couvrant tous les aspects pertinents pour l’interprétation des énoncés, liés non seulement au système linguistique mais aussi au contexte de production. Son domaine s’est encore enrichi avec le développement de nouvelles pratiques de constitution de corpus de données orales et vidéo, qui permettent d’intégrer dans les analyses une grande diversité de phénomènes (prosodie, multimodalité notamment). Dans le cas des interactions verbales, c’est la co-présence (en face à face, au téléphone, sur skype) de deux ou plusieurs personnes qui exerce une influence déterminante sur la forme et le contenu que va prendre l’énoncé. Pour certains linguistes, elles constituent simplement une sous-catégorie du discours, qui possède des caractéristiques propres (notamment le contexte interactif), mais qui ne peut être décrite comme un objet entièrement autonome (certains parlent d’ailleurs de discours-en-interaction). Parallèlement, le courant de l’analyse conversationnelle développe une méthodologie et des objectifs distincts de l’analyse du discours (approche strictement empirique et inductive, focalisation sur les usages situés, le contexte séquentiel et les conduites multimodales). Cette section, ouverte à toute forme d’analyse du discours et de l’interaction, privilégiera néanmoins les approches qui sont clairement ancrées sur des données empiriques et qui interrogent les imbrications théoriques des champs de l’analyse du discours, de la pragmatique et de l’interaction.

- Francophonie

Présidente : Chantal Lyche (Université d’Oslo, Norvège), Vice-président/ coordonnateur : André Thibault (Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Autres membres du comité : Fouzia Benzakour (Université de Rabat et Université de Sherbrooke), Peter Blumenthal (Universität zu Köln, Allemagne), Jürgen Erfurt (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Allemagne), Carole de Féral (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), Michel Francard (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique), Andres Kristol (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), Gudrun Ledegen (Université de Rennes 2), Salah Mejri (Université Paris-XIII)

Présentation

L'étude du français en francophonie occupe de plus en plus de place dans la discussion scientifique, de pair avec l'extension de sa diffusion dans le monde. Cet objet polymorphe peut être appréhendé de plusieurs façons : les points de vue internes, qu'il s'agisse des aspects phonétiques/phonologiques, morpho-syntaxiques et lexico-sémantiques, gagnent à être croisés avec les points de vue externes (facteurs de variation diachronique, diastratique, pragmatique et stylistique; contacts de langue, 6

alternance et mélange codiques; étiolement, accommodation et loyauté linguistiques; étymologie, histoire des mots et lexicographie historico-différentielle ; élaboration de normes nationales; sémiotique littéraire). La session invite à soumettre des articles se rattachant à toutes ces approches, dans le respect de tous les cadres théoriques.

- Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique

Présidente : Lene Schøsler (Université de Copenhague, Danemark), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Sophie Prévost (CNRS/ENS/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Autres membres du comité : Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Cambridge University, Royaume Uni) , Eva Buchi (CNRS/Université de Lorraine), Anne Carlier (Université Lille 3), Bernard Combettes (Université de Lorraine), Walter De Mulder (Université d’Anvers, Belgique), Monique Dufresne (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada), Céline Guillot-Barbance (ENS de Lyon), Christiane Marchello-Nizia (ENS de Lyon), Nicolas Mazziotta (Universität Stuttgart, Allemagne), Maria Selig (Universität Regensburg, Allemagne), Richard Waltereit (Newcastle University, Royaume Uni).

Présentation

Les études proprement diachroniques, portant sur l'évolution de phénomènes à travers les siècles ou sur des diachronies courtes (y compris de la langue des 20-21èmes siècles) sont encouragées, quel que soit le domaine dont elle relèvent (phonétique, morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique, ou pragmatique), qu’il s’agisse d’écrit ou d’oral, et que les analyses soient descriptives ou plus spécifiquement théoriques.

Seront également accueillis des travaux visant à approfondir ou discuter des théories sur le changement.

Enfin, des études synchroniques consacrées à une période ancienne précise, antérieure au 20ème siècle, trouveront également leur place dans cette section.

- Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité

Président : Bernard Colombat (Université Paris-Diderot), Vice-président/coordonnateur : Franck Neveu (Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Autres membres du comité : Danielle Candel (CNRS/Université Paris-Diderot), Marie-Christine Lala, (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Jacqueline Léon (Université Paris-Diderot), Sophie Piron (Université du Québec, Montréal), Pierre-Yves Testenoire (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Anne-Gaëlle Toutain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3)

Présentation

L’histoire et l’épistémologie de la science linguistique ont connu au cours des dernières décennies un développement considérable, témoignant en cela de la nécessité cruciale pour les linguistes de s’interroger sur les objets, les orientations, le langage, les frontières et l’historicité de leur domaine de recherche. La session « Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité » du Congrès se donne pour objectif d’établir un état des lieux de cet ensemble de problématiques. Pour ce faire, elle souhaite susciter des propositions de communication orientées, notamment, vers les questions suivantes :

- la grammatisation et l’histoire du français ;

- la linguistique française comme linguistique du français ou comme théorisation française des langues; les modélisations et les pratiques de recherche en linguistique française ; la notion de

« tradition » en linguistique; la « tradition grammaticale française » ; la notion de « linguistique nationale » ;

- l’histoire des théories des langues et du langage comme composante de la réflexivité linguistique ; la notion d’« école linguistique » ;

- la terminologie et la terminographie linguistiques ;

- l’histoire du métalangage français ; l’historicité de la linguistique française ; les fondements et les objectifs de l’historiographie en linguistique française ; la constitution et l’emploi des bases de données textuelles en histoire de la linguistique ; l’édition de textes grammaticaux anciens ;

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l’usage des corpus en terminographie linguistique ; l’exploitation scientifique des premiers outils linguistiques français ;

- l’interface science du langage/philosophie du langage ; le tournant philosophique de la linguistique ; la philosophie de la linguistique, etc.

- Lexique(s)

Président : Jean-François Sablayrolles (Université Paris 13), Vice-président/coordonnateur : Francis Grossmann (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3)

Autres membres du comité : Xavier Blanco (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Espagne), François Gaudin (Université de Rouen et LDI), Alicja Kacprzak (Université de Lodz, Pologne), Marie-Claude L’Homme (Université de Montréal, Canada), Aïno Niklas-Salminen (Université Aix-Marseille), Alain Polguère (Université de Lorraine et IUF), Agnès Tutin (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3), Vorger Camille (Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Esme Winter-Froemel (Universität Trier, Allemagne)

Présentation

Le lexique entretient des relations avec (quasiment) toutes les branches de la langue (à laquelle serait-il complètement étranger ?) et, par voie de conséquence, la lexicologie est donc en relation avec (quasiment) toutes les branches des sciences du langage (à laquelle serait-elle complètement étrangère ?). Les évolutions des approches théoriques dans les sciences du langage (morphologie constructionnelle, études combinatoires, linguistique cognitive, approche computationnelle, linguistique de corpus, lexicométrie, textométrie, analyse du discours… se répercutent donc sur les études lexicales. À côté de ces études synchroniques, diverses, on observe aussi un retour à l’histoire et à l’évolution des mots et de leurs sens. De nouvelles réflexions se sont développées sur la nature des unités lexicales et des éléments qui les forment, sur leur traitement polysémique ou homonymique, sur les processus de figement et de défigement, sur la néologie et sur les évolutions du lexique de la langue, etc. et tout ceci a des répercussions pratiques sur la confection de dictionnaires (traditionnels ou tournés vers le TAL), l’enseignement des langues, la traduction…Cette session souhaite fournir des regards croisés entre lexicologie, terminologie, lexicographie, métalexicographie, constitution de lexiques électroniques pour le traitement automatique de la langue, analyse des textes fondée sur le lexique…La session Lexique(s) invite les contributeurs à soumettre des propositions portant sur tous les aspects de l’étude du lexique français : description et/ ou modélisation soit dans une perspective historico-comparative, soit dans une perspective synchronique.

- Linguistique de l’écrit, Linguistique du texte, Sémiotique, Stylistique

Président : Thomas Broden (Université de Purdue, États-Unis), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Irène Fenoglio (ITEM, CNRS-ENS)

Autres membres du Comité d’évaluation : Driss Ablali (Université de Lorraine) Céline Beaudet (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), Christophe Leblay (Université de Turku, Finlande), Julie Lefebvre (Université de Lorraine), Aya Ono (Université de Keio, Japon), Gilles Philippe (Université de Lausanne, Suisse)

Présentation

Cette section invite à s’interroger sur les propriétés linguistiques de l’écrit. Plusieurs angles d’approche peuvent être proposés : l’écriture en production (genèse, cognition, textualisation), l’écrit constitué (formes énonciatives, faits de discours, constitution des genres), le texte (cohérence, composantes, argumentation) mais aussi la sémiotique de l’écrit et la stylistique, dans sa dimension théorique et comparative. Vu l’ampleur de la thématique, on privilégiera les propositions dont les enjeux ne se limitent pas à la seule analyse du corpus d’appui mais manifestent une préoccupation épistémologique et méthodologique claire et innovante. Le Congrès mondial de linguistique française visant tout particulièrement à faire un état des lieux de la recherche et à dégager des perspectives nouvelles, on veillera donc, dans tous les cas, à privilégier la problématique sur le corpus. 8

- Linguistique et Didactique (français langue première, français langue seconde)

Présidente : Carole Fleuret (Université d'Ottawa, Canada), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Béatrice Fracchiolla (Université de Lorraine)

Autres membres du comité : Nathalie Auger ((Université Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3)), Lucile Cadet (Université Paris 8), Pierre Escudé (Université de Bordeaux), Cécile Gois (Université François Rabelais de Tours), Martine Kervran (Université de Brest), Eva Lemaire (University of Alberta, Canada), Jean-François de Pietro (Institut de recherche et de documentation pédagogique de Neuchâtel, Suisse)

Présentation

Les domaines de recherche couverts par la didactique du français (langue première ou seconde) sont en lien étroit – mais non exclusifs – avec différents champs des sciences du langage, comme la psycholinguistique et l'acquisition, la linguistique textuelle, l'analyse du discours et l'enseignement, la sociolinguistique, la morphologie et l'enseignement de l’orthographe, de le la lecture et de l'écriture, la syntaxe et l'enseignement de la grammaire, la sémantique, le lexique, la phraséologie et l'enseignement du vocabulaire, etc. Les liens nombreux, divers et complexes qui peuvent lier ces différents champs mériteront d’être investis lors de cette nouvelle édition du CMLF, dans toute leur variété et avec toute la précision requise. De telles exigences sont d’autant plus fortes que sont remarquables la diversité des situations d’enseignement de la langue française et l’étendue des recherches entreprises dans ce cadre thématique ; sans parler des enjeux sociaux de réussite scolaire qui sont associés à la maîtrise du français.

Les contributions soumises devront circonscrire, dans le cadre d’une problématique linguistique et didactique définie, les fondements notionnels et méthodologiques sur lesquels elles se développent, ainsi que les conditions des observations, des applications et des résultats qu’elles auront permis de mettre à jour.

- Morphologie

Présidente : Angela RALLI (Université de Patras, Grèce), Vice-présidente/ coordonnatrice : Georgette Dal (Université de Lille)

Autres membres du comité : Bernard Fradin (Université Paris-Diderot), Nabil Hathout (Université Jean Jaurès), Marianne Kilani-Schoch (Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Judith Meinschaefer (Freie Universität Berlin, Allemagne), Fiammetta Namer (Université de Lorraine), Angela Ralli (Université de Patras, Grèce), Franz Rainer (Institut für romanische Sprachen Wirtschaftsuniversität, Autriche)

Présentation

La thématique « Morphologie » se conçoit comme un lieu d’échanges, sans exclusive théorique. Elle accueille toute soumission originale portant sur la morphologie constructionnelle ou la morphologie flexionnelle du français, le cas échéant dans une perspective contrastive. La thématique est ouverte aux propositions théoriques ou davantage applicatives, dès lors qu’elles prennent appui sur des données du français. Elles peuvent également porter sur les interfaces, intra- ou extrasystème, se situer dans une perspective psycholinguistique ou dans celle du traitement automatique des langues.

Les principaux critères de sélection des soumissions sont les suivants :

- nouveauté des faits linguistiques étudiés ou originalité de l’analyse proposée,

- assise empirique des analyses et couverture des données,

- clarté de l’exposition et solidité de l’argumentation,

- connaissance de la littérature scientifique du champ, nationale et internationale.

- Phonétique, Phonologie et Interfaces

Président : Zsuzsanna Fagyal (Université d’Illinois Urbana-Champaign, États-Unis), Vice-président/coordonnateur : Rudolph Sock (Université de Strasbourg)

Autres membres du comité : Lorraine Baqué (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Espagne), Marie-Hélène Côté (Université Laval, Québec), Cécile Fougeron (CNRS/ Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Randall Gess (Université Carleton, Canada), Bernard Harmegnies (Université de Mons, Belgique), Yvan Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) 9

Présentation

Les grands phénomènes phonologiques du français, domaine longtemps privilégié des modélisations théoriques, ont reçu ces dernières années un éclairage fructueux grâce aux apports de disciplines connexes. La session phonologie a pour objectif de témoigner des bienfaits de cette synergie et de montrer comment la diversité des approches a permis de réelles avancées dans la compréhension de nombreux problèmes et dans la réflexion phonologique en général. Elle est ouverte à la pluralité des thématiques, et s’intéresse aux regards croisés que la phonologie (phonologie théorique, phonologie de laboratoire), la phonétique, et les disciplines qui les côtoient peuvent apporter aux grandes questions de la phonologie du français et de la théorie phonologique. La session phonologie/phonétique invite à des soumissions d’articles originaux sur tous les aspects de la phonologie/phonétique du français. Cela inclut notamment :

- la phonologie segmentale

- la phonologie autosegmentale

- la phonétique et la phonologie de laboratoire

- la prosodie

- l’interface phonétique/phonologie

- l’interface phonologie/morphologie

- l’interface phonologie/syntaxe

- l’interface phonologie/pragmatique

- l’interface phonologie/sémantique

- l’interface phonologie/psycholinguistique

- l’interface phonologie/sociolinguistique

- les phonologies en contact

- phonétique, phonologie et études cliniques

- Psycholinguistique et Acquisition

Présidente : Michèle Kail (CNRS/Université Paris 8), Vice- président/coordonnateur : Christophe Parisse (INSERM, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)

Autres membres du comité : Sandra Benazzo (Université Paris 8), Séverine Casalis (Université de Lille), Lucile Chanquoy (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), Michèle Guidetti (Université Toulouse II – Le Mirail), Heather Hilton (Université Lumière – Lyon 2), Sophie Kern (CNRS/Université Lumière – Lyon 2), Virginie Laval (Université de Poitiers), Christelle Maillart (Université de Liège, Belgique), Armanda Martins da Costa (Université de Lisbonne, Portugual), Colette Noyau (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), Anne Salazar Orvig (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3), Hélène Delage (Université de Genève, Suisse), Marie-Anne Schelstraete (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique), Annie Tremblay (Université du Kansas, Etats-Unis), Jürgen Weissenborn (Université Humboldt, Allemagne)

Présentation La psycholinguistique étudie les processus mentaux et les structures cognitives intervenant dans la perception, la compréhension, la production et l’acquisition du langage oral et du langage écrit. Elle concerne un large champ de recherches interdisciplinaires. Les études présentées dans la thématique « Psycholinguistique, Acquisition » concerneront des locuteurs adultes et enfants, normaux ou présentant une pathologie du langage. Elles seront centrées sur la langue française notamment lorsque celle-ci est susceptible de mettre en évidence des aspects particuliers du traitement ou du développement, par comparaison ou non avec d’autres langues. Ces études peuvent concerner des locuteurs monolingues francophones ou des locuteurs qui comptent le français dans le répertoire des langues qu’ils utilisent.

- Ressources et Outils pour l’analyse linguistique

Présidente : Christiane Fellbaum (Université de Princeton, Etats-Unis), Vice-président /coordonnateur: Jean-Luc Minel (MoDyCo, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense et CNRS)

Autres membres du comité : Delphine Battistelli (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), Olivier Baude (Université d’Orléans), Farah Benamara (Université Paul Sabatier -Toulouse), Maria Jose Bocorny-Fillato (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sud, Brésil), Anne Condamines (CNRS et Université Toulouse), Serge Heiden (ENS de Lyon), Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal, Canada), Eric Laporte (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée), 10

Dominique Longrée (Université de Liège et Université Saint-Louis, Belgique), Yvette Yannick Mathieu (CNRS et Université Paris-Diderot), Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes), Jean-Marie Pierrel (Université de Lorraine), Dina Wonsever (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)

Présentation La mise à disposition de grands corpus électroniques oraux ou écrits ainsi que celle de ressources annotées à des niveaux divers (morphologique, syntaxique, sémantique et discursif) ouvre la voie à des travaux qui interrogent les approches classiques des Sciences du Langage. Le développement d’outils de traitement informatique (tels que les outils de collectes de données langagières, les outils d'aide à la transcription, les outils d’annotation automatique ou manuelle, les outils d'analyse fondés sur des traitements symboliques et/ou statistiques, les systèmes d’apprentissage, etc.) transforme les méthodes d’accès aux sources et affecte les démarches d'étude linguistique. La question de la mutualisation et de la capitalisation des ressources devient maintenant un enjeu majeur pour l’ensemble de la communauté, soulevant des problématiques d’interopérabilité, de normalisation et des questions d’ordre juridique, éthique et déontologique. Différentes initiatives internationales contribuent ainsi à développer un Web de données linguistiques (LLOD) et l’on observe une tendance des instances à accompagner ce mouvement : divers projets de constitution de « grands » corpus et de groupes de travail d'annotation, mise en place de laboratoires et d’équipements d’excellence dédiés, tels que l’Equipex ORTOLANG, les consortium de la TGIR HumaNum, l’ European Research Infrastructure Consortium DARIAH, etc. Avec une démarche différente des colloques internationaux spécialisés dans le Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL), cette session du CMLF 2016 voudrait ouvrir un espace d’échanges scientifiques entre différentes approches linguistiques, sans exclusive de cadres théoriques, de méthodologies ou de pratiques axées sur la théorie et/ou l’empirisme. Cette session sera l’occasion de mettre en relief tout aussi bien des recherches émergentes que des travaux qui consolident les approches existantes. La session « Ressources et outils pour l’analyse linguistique» invite à soumettre des propositions d’articles originaux dont l’objet est de construire, développer, exploiter des ressources ou des outils dans tous les domaines de la linguistique française, aussi bien à l’oral qu’à l’écrit : morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique, discursif, phonétique, phonologie.

- Sémantique

Président : Maj-Britt Mosegaard-Hansen (University of Manchester, Royaume Uni), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Catherine Schnedecker (Université de Strasbourg)

Autres membres du comité : Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (Tel Aviv University, Israël), Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS Paris), Jacques François (Université Caen Basse Normandie et Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Catherine Fuchs (ENS/Université Paris 3), Agatha Jackiewicz (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Anne Le Draoulec (CNRS/Université Toulouse II - Le Mirail), Wiltrud Mihatsch (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Allemagne), Jacques Moeschle (Université de Genève), Henning Nolke (Université d’Aarhus, Danemark), Coco Noren (Université d’Uppsala, Suède), Iva Novakova (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3), Vincent Nyckees (Université Paris-Diderot), Corinne Rossari (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), Marleen Van Peteghem (Université de Gand, Belgique)

Présentation

Le comité scientifique de la thématique Sémantique du CMLF est ouvert à toute proposition de communication en rapport avec le champ tel que caractérisé ci-dessous, sans aucune exclusive, ni théorique ni méthodologique.

Outre l’exploration des sous-domaines désormais bien identifiés (cf. axes 1 à 8) que couvre la sémantique, sera également envisagée une dimension prospective (axes 9 à 10) :

1. Sémantique lexicale et grammaticale en synchronie et en diachronie ;

2. Sémantique et interfaces avec d’autres disciplines linguistiques : prosodie, morphologie lexicale, syntaxe, pragmatique du discours, linguistique textuelle …;

3. Sémantique pragmatique (présupposition, implicatures, …

4. Sémantique générale et typologie des langues, sémantique contrastive ;

5. Sémantique et applications dans les domaines de :

a. la lexicographie uni- et multi-lingue ;

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b. le TAL ((faisceaux d’)indices sémantiques utilisés pour la fouille textuelle ; constitution d’ontologies, … ;

c. …

6. Sémantique cognitive

7. Sémantique(s) formelle(s)

8. Sémantique et modélisation(s)

9. Place et rôle de la sémantique dans la réflexion épistémologique en Sciences du Langage

10. Perspectives pour la sémantique de demain

11. Nouvelles méthodes d’investigation en sémantique (apports des grands corpus, techniques de fouille documentaire, …

- Sociolinguistique, Dialectologie et Écologie des langues

Présidente : Annette Gerstenberg (Freie Universität Berlin, Allemagne), Vice-président/coordonnateur : Gabriel Bergounioux (Université d'Orléans)

Autres membres du comité : Hélène Blondeau (Université de Floride, Etats-Unis), Janice Carruthers (Université de Belfast, Royaume-Uni), Federica Diémoz (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), Martin Elsig (Université de Francfort, Allemagne), Dominique Fattier (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Narcis Iglesias (Université de Gérone, Espagne), Marinette Matthey (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3), Chérif Mbodj (CLAD/Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal)

Présentation

La sociolinguistique est à concevoir comme la prise en compte, dans la linguistique, de la variation inhérente aux langues et à leurs emplois. Longtemps fondée sur une pratique philologique des textes et sur une analyse des auteurs qui sous-estimaient l’hétérogénéité des productions, la linguistique, confrontée à la description de langues à tradition orale, a dû établir des données finalisées en constituant des corpus représentatifs du savoir et des pratiques des locuteurs. Les enquêtes ont mis en évidence la grande diversité et variabilité des formes phonétiques, morphosyntaxiques ou lexicales. Elles ont rendu sensibles les différences qu’introduisent les genres du discours et l’imbrication des faits de langue et de culture. L’étude des dialectes et des créoles, des langues mixtes et des pidgins, et plus généralement la notation des langues à tradition orale dans des contextes où les relations d’échange étaient inégales ont transformé les représentations traditionnelles et les outils de description. Les réalités plurilingues des sociétés contemporaines comportent des nouveaux enjeux sociolinguistiques. La sociolinguistique, dans son acception la plus large, participe à une compréhension des phénomènes qui, dans le temps, relèvent de la diachronie, dans l’espace, de la dialectologie, dans l’espace social de la sociologie du langage, dans les emplois de la pragmatique, de la théorie de la communication, voire de l’ethnométhodologie. Cependant, au lieu d’une conception qui raisonne en termes d’écarts les réalisations qui ne coïncident pas avec une image de la langue fixée par une écriture et des principes normatifs, elle conçoit la diversité interne (sociologie) et externe (écologie des langues) comme étant au principe même de leur analyse, précédant les réductions opérées pour en sélectionner une forme stabilisée à des fins de transcription ou d’étude. Dès lors que l’oral a prévalu sur l’écrit, que les langues vivantes ont supplanté les langues mortes, que les effets omniprésents du contact des langues ont ruiné le mythe de leur pureté, les circonstances de leur usage ont été mises en avant et, en même temps, des outils d’analyse efficaces ont été développés. La sociolinguistique est devenue le lieu d’un débat avec des disciplines qui, dans leur domaine, se trouvaient confrontées aux mêmes phénomènes. En linguistique, le français, par l’importance de sa diffusion internationale et les flux migratoires dans son aire d’expansion, par son horizon de rétrospection, son observation attentive des effets du changement linguistique et la grande diversité de ses variations, par sa créolisation et sa présence sur les nouveaux canaux de communication, le français, donc, représente un terrain d’observation privilégié, un champ d’expérimentation pour les théories contemporaines. La tradition sociolinguistique 12

du français l’a illustré qui ne demande qu’à poursuivre son déploiement dans la session « Sociolinguistique, dialectologie et écologie des langues ».

- Syntaxe

Président : Michel Pierrard (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgique),

Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Florence Lefeuvre (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3)

Autres membres du comité :

Christophe Benzitoun (Université de Lorraine), Gilles Corminboeuf (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), Antoine Gautier (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Eva Havu (Université d’Helsinki, Finlande), Hans Petter Helland (Université d’Oslo, Norvège), Dominique Legallois (Université de Caen Basse Normandie), Nathalie Rossi-Gensane (Université Lumière - Lyon 2), Elisabezth Stark (Université de Zurich, Suisse)

Présentation

La syntaxe du français est un domaine fondamental dans la connaissance de la langue et sa description. Elle participe à la diversification des méthodes de recherche et au renouveau des approches théoriques qui recouvre les divers domaines linguistiques. Elle s’enrichit de la confrontation à la diversité des structures syntaxiques qui sont étudiées en typologie et syntaxe générale. Grâce à l’élaboration actuelle de corpus variés, aussi bien oraux qu’écrits, elle peut affiner ses modèles conceptuels.

La section « syntaxe » a pour objectif de faire état des dernières avancées sur les plans descriptif et théorique. Elle accueillera des thèmes variés et des approches diversifiées tout en privilégiant des sujets originaux et des démarches novatrices qui contribuent à une meilleure compréhension de la syntaxe du français ou qui constituent des avancées dans la modélisation théorique. Les personnes intéressées sont invitées à soumettre des communications portant sur tous les phénomènes syntaxiques (syntaxe des catégories, syntaxe (inter-)propositionnelle, ordre des mots, variation synt

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Conference JEP 2016 | TALN 2016 | RÉCITAL 2016
4th to 8th July 2016
Paris, France
https://jep-taln2016.limsi.fr
https://twitter.com/jep_taln2016
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1618858378355966/?fref=ts (restricted group)

The laboratories of Paris area working on speech and on written,
spoken and signed language processing organize

from the 4th to 8th of July, 2016,
at the INalCO (13rd arrondissement of Paris),

the fifth joint edition of the JEP-TALN-RECITAL conference. It will
gather:

- the 31st Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole (JEP),

- the 23rd French Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN),

- the 18th Meeting of Student Researchers in Computer Science for
  Natural Language Processing (RECITAL).

** Organization **
President JEP : Sophie ROSSET, LIMSI-CNRS
Co-President JEP : Nicolas AUDIBERT, LPP & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
President TALN : Thierry HAMON, LIMSI-CNRS et Université Paris 13
Co-President TALN : Laurence DANLOS, Alpage & Université Paris Diderot
President RÉCITAL : Damien NOUVEL, INaLCO, ERTIM

** Contact **
contact-jeptaln2016_at_limsi.fr

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LabPhon 15: Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation

July 13-16, 2016, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA

Phonological representations are dynamic, shaped by forces on diverse timescales.  On the timescale of utterances, interactions between perceptual, motoric, and memory-related processes provide constraints on phonological representations. These same processes, embedded in learning systems and dynamic social networks, shape representations on developmental and life-span timescales, and in turn influence sound systems on historical timescales. Laboratory phonology, through its rich quantitative and experimental methodologies, contributes to our understanding of phonological systems by providing insight into the mechanisms from which representations emerge.

Conference themes:

Production dynamics: How are representations constructed and implemented in speech, and what does articulation reveal about the dynamics of production mechanisms? How do these mechanisms shape representations on longer timescales?

Perceptual dynamics: What forms of perceptual representation do speaker-hearers use and what are the temporal dynamics of perception? How does the interaction between perception and production constrain phonological systems on life-span and diachronic timescales?

Prosodic organization: What are the mechanisms of prosodic organization and how do they give rise to cross-linguistic differences? What are the connections between perception and production of prosodic structure?

Lexical dynamics and memory: How do experience and lexical memory influence phonological representations? What are the relations between lexical representation, production, and perception across diverse timescales?

Phonological acquisition and changes over the life-span: What is the nature of early representations and how do they change? How does learning a second-language interact with existing representations?

Social network dynamics: How does the structure of social networks influence phonological representations on diverse timescales? What are the roles of perception and production in relation to social network dynamics?

Contributions to any of these themes or to any other aspects of laboratory phonology will be welcome. A call for papers will be circulated in the fall of 2015.

Questions can be addressed to LabPhon15@cornell.edu

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