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Tipa. Travaux interdisciplinairessur la parole et le langage

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The impact of language contact: from structural interferences to typological convergences

Guest editor: Cyril Aslanov

              The 31st issue of TIPA will be dedicated to the study of the impact of language contact on the hard core of grammatical systems. In order to counterbalance the strictly internalist approaches to diachronic evolution, we will adopt the theoretical perspective provided by the studies on contact-induced linguistic changes.

            The contributors are requested to cast a new light on the results of language contact, either as an occasional interference at the level of social or individual speech or as a structural convergence deeply rooted in the grammatical structure. The contact-induced linguistic changes may be considered in the dynamic perspective of the diachrony of language contact or through the study of a given state of language examined synchronically as the present result of a previous contact.

            Besides the impact of language contact on the inner system of languages, it is important to involve also a sociolinguistic dimension in order to grasp the continuity or the reccursivity that unite the empirical modalities of language contacts (code-switching; code-mixing; hybridization) with considerations more centered on the study of the linguistic systems themselves, especially as far as fusion languages like Yiddish, Romani or Swahili are concerned. Indeed, the very existence of such languages is due to language contact and multilingualism.

            Lastly, the scientific debate on the impact of language contact on the systems should also take into account the individual dimension. Psycholinguists interested in interference, convergence and mimetism, specialists of individual bilingualism and didacticians dealing with Interlingua are invited to enrich this issue on the results of language contact.

The language of publication will be either English or French. Each article should contain a detailed two-page abstract in the other language, in order to make papers in French more accessible to English-speaking readers, and vice versa, thus insuring a larger audience for all the articles.

Important dates
July 25, 2015  (Extension):  deadline for submission of articles
September 15: notification of acceptance
October 30:  receipt of final version
December: publication.

Submission guidelines
Please send your proposal in 3 files to: tipa@lpl-aix.fr
- one in .doc containing the title, name and affiliation of the author(s).
 - the other anonymous in .doc  and .pdf
 Instructions for authors can be found at http://www.lpl-aix.fr/index.php?id=27

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 IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems
Special Issue on Design and Applications of Neuromorphic Computing System

GUEST EDITORS:
Hai (Helen) Li, hal66@pitt.edu, University of Pittsburgh
Qinru Qiu, qiqiu@syr.edu, Syracuse University
Yu Wang, yu-wang@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn, Tsinghua University

TOPIC SUMMARY:
As artificial intelligence technology becomes pervasive in society and ubiquitous in our lives, the desire for embedded-everywhere and human-centric computational intelligence systems calls for an intelligent computation paradigm. However, the applications of machine learning and neural networks involve large, noisy, incomplete, natural data sets that do not lend themselves to convenient solutions from current systems. Neuromorphic systems that are inspired by the working mechanism of human brains possess a massively parallel architecture with closely coupled memory and computing. This special issue aims at the computing methodology and systems across multiple technology scales to accelerate the development the neuromorphic hardware systems and the adoption for machine learning applications. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Neuromorphic circuit, architectures, and systems
- Hardware-software co-design and optimization
- Computing system for neural network applications (machine vision, machine learning, sensor network, big data, signal processing & coding, pattern recognition, nature language processing, etc.)
- Software and hardware architecture for deep learning
- Bio-inspired computing model and/or hardware design

IMPORTANT DATES:
Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: November 1, 2015
Closed for submissions: January 15, 2016
Results of first round of reviews: April 30, 2016
Submission of revised manuscripts: May 31, 2016
Results of second round of reviews: July 31, 2016
Publication materials due: August 31, 2016

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the ?open for submissions? date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tmscs/author). Please submit your papers through the online system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tmscs-cs) and be sure to select the special issue name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly.

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Special Issue on Language and Interaction Technologies for Children
The link:
goo.gl/CFSjTR

Description:
The purpose of this special edition of CSL is to publish the results of new research in the area of speech, text and language technology applied specifically to children?s voices, texts and applications. Children are different to adults both at the acoustic and linguistic level as well as in the way that they interact with people and technology. To address these issues appropriately, it is necessary to work across many disciplines, including cognitive science, robotics, speech processing, phonetics and linguistics, health and education.

Linguistic characteristics of children's speech are widely different from those of adults. This is manifested in their interactions, their writings and their speech. The processing of queries, texts and spoken interactions therefore opens challenging research issues on how to develop effective interaction, language, pronunciation and acoustic models for reliable processing of children?s input. The behavior of children interacting with a computer or a mobile device is also different from that of adults. When using a conversational interface for example, children have a different language strategy for initiating and guiding conversational exchanges, and may adopt different linguistic registers than adults. The aim of the special edition is to provide a platform for collecting mature research in this area.

Technical Scope:
The special issue will focus on how children use text and speech in all aspects of communication, including human-human and human-computer interaction. We invite the submission of original, unpublished papers on topics including but not limited to:

- Speech Interfaces: acoustic and linguistic analysis of children's speech, discourse analysis of spoken language in child-machine interaction, age-dependent characteristics of spoken language, automatic speech recognition for children and spoken dialogue systems
- Text Analysis: Analysis of complexity and accuracy in children?s text productions, understanding progression and development in orthography and syntax skills, use of vocabulary and registers or handwriting skills.
- Multi-modality, Robotics and Avatars: multi-modal child-machine interaction, multi-modal input and output interfaces, including robotic interfaces, intrusive, non-intrusive devices for environmental data processing, pen or gesture/visual interfaces
- User Modeling: user modeling and adaptation, usability studies accounting for age preferences in child-machine interaction
- Cognitive Models: internal learning models, personality types, user-centered and participatory design
- Application Areas: training systems, educational software, gaming interfaces, medical conditions, such as autism or speech disorders, diagnostic tools and (speech) therapy

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2016
Target publication date: January 1, 2017

Guest Editors:
Berkling Kay, Cooperative State University, Berkling@dhbw-karlsruhe.de
Russell Martin, University of Birmingham, m.j.russell@bham.ac.uk
Evanini Keelan, ETS, kevanini@ets.org

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 Computer Speech and Language Journal, Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding and Interaction

For more information:

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-spoken-language-understanding-and-interacti/

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un numéro spécial de la revue TAL sera consacré à l'éthique dans le TALP.
Voici les informations, que vous retrouverez aussi sur :
http://tal-57-2.sciencesconf.org/

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Call for papers - Journal TIPA no 32, 2016

Tipa. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage

https://tipa.revues.org/

Conflict in discourse and discourse in conflict

Guest editors: Tsuyoshi KIDA* & Laura-Anca PAREPA**

*Language and Communication Science Laboratory (LCSL)-Institute for Comparative Research in Human and Social Sciences (ICR), University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

**Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow, University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Description

Nowadays, conflict between individuals, countries or groups seems omnipresent. The reasons for this are numerous, be they religious, cultural, ideological, territorial, patrimonial or familial. Conflict manifests itself in numerous forms of expression and resolution, which can include diplomatic declarations, civil demonstrations, ideological clashes, family disputes, intercultural misunderstandings, lawsuits or other negotiations.

In the public or private sphere, conflict is triggered through the process of discourse being produced, disseminated, interpreted and amplified –therefore having an effect the opinions and attitudes of its receivers. At the same time, human beings are inherently endowed with the ability to manage and overcome these conflicts through lexical choice, ways of speaking, non-verbal communication, deconfliction techniques and conflict resolution methods. In other words, conflict is mediated through discourse.

The thematic concept for volume 32 of TIPA –conceived following collaboration between a linguist and an expert in political discourse – proposes to focus on the relations between discourse and conflict, within various disciplinary frameworks, in order to address the following questions: What type of discourse engenders conflict? What are the features specific to conflictual discourse in terms of prosody, semantics, pragmatics, discursive or interactional structure? How can conflict be dealt with and resolved? How can identities and images be constructed or deconstructed through speech acts? How can lexical choice influence the success or failure of strategic narratives in an official speech?

These are just some of the questions to which linguistics and language sciences, as well as other neighbouring disciplines, can be sensitive and to which the scientific community may propose comprehensive answers by engaging in interdisciplinary research.

This call for papers is open to theoretical and/or empirical contributions coming from researchers and experts from a wide range of disciplines including but not limited to: discourse analysis (political, media, forensic, international relations), pragmatics, sociolinguistics, interactional analysis, rhetoric, semantics, intercultural communication, discourse prosody, multimodality, neurolinguistics, etc.

The language of publication will be either English or French. Each article should contain a detailed two-page abstract in the other language, in order to make papers in French more accessible to English-speaking readers, and vice versa, thus insuring a larger audience for all the articles.

Important dates

June 30: due date for submission of articles

September 15: notification of acceptance

October 30: receipt of final version

December: publication.

Submission guidelines

Please send your proposal in three files to: tipa@lpl-aix.fr
- one file in .doc containing the title, name and affiliation of the author(s).

- two anonymous files, in .doc and .pdf format
 Instructions for authors can be found at http://tipa.revues.org/222

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Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Special Issue on Signal Processing Platforms and Algorithms for Real-life Communications and Listening to Digital Audio

Call for Papers:

Design of modern electronic communication systems involves diversified scientific areas including algorithms, architectures, and hardware development. Variety of existent multimedia devices gives rise to development of platform-dependent signal processing algorithms. Their integration into existent digital environment is an urgent problem for application engineers.

Considering a wide range of applications including hearing aids, real-life communications, and listening to digital audio, the following research areas are of particular importance: advanced time-frequency representations, audio user interfaces, audio and speech enhancement, assisted listening, and perception and phonation modeling.

This special issue aims at publishing papers presenting novel methodologies and techniques (including theoretical methods, algorithms, software, and hardware) correspondent to these research areas indicated above.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Speech modeling, analysis, and synthesis

• Signal processing for hearing aids and natural hearing

• Speech intelligibility improvement in noisy environment

• Low-delay speech and audio processing

• Automatic speech recognition

• Text-to-speech synthesis

• Speech-based assistive technologies

• Hardware platforms for real-time signal processing

• Rapid prototyping and project portability

Authors can submit their manuscripts via the Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jece/signal.processing/spp/.

Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hindawi publishing corporation) is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece). According to the publisher policy, publishing a research article in this journal requires article processing charges ($600) that will be billed to the submitting author following the acceptance of an article for publication.

Important Dates:

• Manuscript Due Friday, 24 June 2016

• First Round of Reviews Friday, 16 September 2016

• Publication Date Friday, 11 November 2016

Guest Editors:

• Alexander Petrovsky, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus (Lead Guest Editor), palex@bsuir.by

• Wanggen Wan, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, wanwg@staff.shu.edu.cn

• Manuel R. Zurera, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain, manuel.rosa@uah.es

• Alexey Karpov, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, karpov@iias.spb.su

Web: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece/si/324109/cfp/

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