| 3-2-1 | (2016-05-09) 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU'16), Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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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| 3-2-3 | (2016-06-21) ODYSSEY 2016: THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP Bilbao, Spain,
ODYSSEY 2016:
THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP
June 21-24, 2016, Bilbao, Spain
http://www.odyssey2016.org
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Regular paper submissions: January 24, 2016
- Industry track and demos: February 15, 2016
- Notifications: March 15, 2016
- Final papers: April 1, 2016
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CONFERENCE TOPICS:
The general themes of the conference include speaker and
language recognition and characterization. The specific topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:
o Speaker and language recognition, verification, identification
o Speaker and language characterization
o Features for speaker and language recognition
o Speaker and language clustering
o Multispeaker segmentation, detection, and diarization
o Language, dialect, and accent recognition
o Robustness in channels and environment
o System calibration and fusion
o Speaker recognition with speech recognition
o Multimodal and multimedia speaker recognition
o Confidence estimation for speaker and language recognition
o Corpora and tools for system development and evaluation
o Low-resource (lightly supervised) speaker and language recognition
o Speaker synthesis and transformation
o Human and human-assisted recognition of speaker and language
o Analysis and countermeasures against spoofing and tampering attacks
o Forensic and investigative speaker recognition
o Systems and applications
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REGULAR PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
All regular submissions (max 8 pages) will be reviewed by at least
three members of the scientific review committee. The regular
submissions must include scientific or methodological novelty;
the paper has to review the relevant prior work and state clearly
the novelty in the Introduction part. The accepted papers will appear
in electronic proceedings.
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INDUSTRY TRACK AND DEMOS:
The Odyssey Organizing Committee recognizes a large gap between
theoretical research results and real-world deployment of the methods.
To foster a closer collaboration across industry and academia,
an industry track was introduced in Odyssey 2014 and will be
continued in Odyssey 2016.
Submissions to this track may include a description of your target
application, a product, a demonstrator or any combination of them.
In addition to voice biometrics providers, we encourage submissions
from companies who are in need for speaker or language recognition
technology. The industry paper submissions do NOT have to present
methodological novelty, but MUST address one or all of the following
aspects:
- Description of the application, role of speaker/language recognition
- Research results and methods that worked well in your application
- Negative research results that have NOT worked in practice
- Unsolved problems 'out-in-the-wild' that deserve attention
The industry submissions will NOT undergo full peer review nor will be
included in the proceedings. A poster session will be allocated for the
industry track presentations and demos, with auxiliary equipment (tables,
plugs, etc.) available if requested. The organizing committee may select
the most interesting submissions for oral presentation.
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AWARDS:
Odyssey 2016 will feature two awards:
- A best paper award
- A best student paper award
All regular papers and all special session papers (if any is scheduled)
are candidates for the awards. The awards are given based on the review
reports AND the presentation at the conference. For the best student
paper award, the first author must be a student (meaning that she/he
does not yet hold a PhD degree) at the time of paper submission.
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Luis J. RodrÃguez-Fuentes, chair University of the Basque Country, Spain
Eduardo Lleida, co-chair University of Zaragoza, Spain
Jean-Francois Bonastre University of Avignon, France
Niko Brümmer Agnitio, South Africa
Lukáš Burget Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic
Joseph Campbell MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Jan 'Honza' Černocký Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic
Tomi Kinnunen University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Haizhou Li Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Alvin Martin NIST, USA
Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
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VENUE AND TRAVEL:
Odyssey 2016 will be hosted by two Spanish groups: GTTS
(http://gtts.ehu.es),
from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of the Basque
Country,
and ViVoLab (http://vivolab.unizar.es/), from the School of Engineering and
Architecture of the University of Zaragoza.
The workshop will be held in Bilbao, a medium-size city in the north of
Spain,
with about 350,000 inhabitants. The venue, Bizkaia Aretoa, is located in the
heart
of the city. The building, designed by the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza,
hosts all kind of social, cultural, academic and scientific events, most of
them
organized by the University of the Basque Country.
Bilbao is the commercial and administrative head of a large area of about
one million people living by the Ibaizabal-Nervion estuary. After centuries
of trading and iron industry, in the last decades Bilbao has become a
service town,
supported by a huge investment in infrastructure and urban renewal, that
started
with the construction of an underground network (Metro Bilbao) in 1995 and
the opening of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum in 1997.
The Bilbao airport can be easily reached from several European airports,
including international hubs such as Frankfurt, London, Paris, Amsterdam or
Madrid,
which provide worldwide connectivity. The city is connected to the European
road network by the AP-8 toll motorway, to the north of Spain by the A-8
motorway
and to the rest of Spain by the AP-68 toll motorway.
Located in a hilly countryside, Bilbao offers many outdoor activities.
Hiking is very popular as well as rock climbing in the nearby mountains.
Mount Artxanda, easily accessible from the town centre by a funicular
railway,
features a recreational area at the summit, with restaurants, a sports
complex
and a balcony with panoramic views. In the south, the natural wonders of
Mount Pagasarri receive hundreds of hikers every weekend.
A few minutes away by public transport, the Bizkaia Bridge, declared World
Heritage
in 2006, connects Portugalete and Las Arenas at the left and right banks of
the estuary.
In the coast, old fishing villages like Plentzia, Mundaka or Lekeitio have
become
touristic spots due to the nearby beaches, where watersports, especially
surfing,
are practiced. Just an hour away by car, the beautiful city of San
Sebastian,
as well as the vineyards and wineries of La Rioja, are worth a visit.
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For more details:
Website (under construction): http://www.odyssey2016.org
Email: info@odyssey2016.org
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