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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 by Chris Wellekens

3 Events
3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2016-09) Interspeech 2016 Satellite events

SECNS 2016: The 1st Workshop on Speech Engineering and Computational Neuroscience of Speech

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/secns16/

Organizers: Edward F. Chang (University of California, San Francisco), Gopala Anumanchipalli (University of California, San Francisco)

Date: 8 September 2016

Location: San Francisco, CA

Several of the goals of speech scientists and neuroscientists working in speech are of mutual relevance and are increasingly converging into each other. The aim of this workshop is to promote exchange of ideas, methods, data and to foster collaborations between researchers working in these fields. This synergy between the neuroscience of speech and computer speech technologies is indispensable for creating the next generation rehabilitative technologies for a range of speech and language disorders and to bring computer based speech technologies closer to human performance in speech recognition, synthesis and understanding.

 

L1TLT 2016: The 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/l1teachingandtechnology/

Organizers: Kay Berkling (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe, Germany), Keelan Evanini (Educational Testing Service, USA), David Suendermann-Oeft (Educational Testing Service, USA)

Dates: 6-7 September 2016

Location: San Francisco, CA

The LTLT workshop intends to join researchers across countries on the topic of language teaching/learning. Papers submitted here do not have to employ any technology yet. We are looking for contributions from users that may not be aware of all the possibilities that the technologies have to offer to solve educational research problems. What these papers bring to the table are problem statements and data collections that the speech and text processing community may in turn not be aware of. Thus we are looking for symbioses between the two disciplines in research about learning/teaching language. It is important for both areas to get to know each other's research questions and potential application for technologies.

 

MLSLP 2016: The 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing

Website: http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~klivescu/MLSLP2016/

Organizers: Karen Livescu (TTI-Chicago, USA), Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, USA), Navdeep Jaitly (Google, USA), Joseph Keshet (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Tara Sainath (Google, USA)

Date: 13 September 2016

Location: TBD

MLSLP is a workshop of SIGML, the ISCA SIG on machine learning in speech and language processing. Prior workshops were held in 2011 and 2012. Speech and language processing is continually mining new ideas from ML and ML, in turn, is devoting more interest to speech and language applications. This workshop aims to be a venue for identifying and incubating the next waves of research directions for interaction and collaboration. In general, the workshop will (1) discuss the emerging research ideas with potential for impact in speech/language and (2) bring together relevant researchers from ML and speech/language who may not regularly interact at conferences.

 

WOCCI 2016: The 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction

Website: http://www.wocci.org/2016/home.html

Organizers: Kay Berkling (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe, Germany), Keelan Evanini (Educational Testing Service, USA), David Suendermann-Oeft (Educational Testing Service, USA)

Dates: 6-7 September 2016

Location: San Francisco, CA

This workshop aims to join researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of child-machine interaction including computer, robotics and multi-modal interfaces. Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level as well as the interaction level. The Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities from cognitive science, robotics, speech processing, linguistics as well as applied areas such as medical and educational technologies. Various state-of-the-art components can be presented here as key components for the next generation of child-centered computer interaction. Technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core wellbeing of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities and capabilities for providing individualized attention. The Workshop will serve as a venue for presenting recent advancements in core technologies as well as experimental systems and prototypes.

 

SLPAT 2016: The 7th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

Website: http://www.slpat.org/slpat2016/

Organizers: Heidi Christensen (University of Sheffield, UK), François Portet (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble), Thomas Quatieri (MIT Lincoln Labs, USA), Frank Rudzicz (University of Toronto, Canada), Keith Vertanen (Michigan Tech)

Date: 13 September 2016

Location: TBD

Assistive technologies (AT) allow individuals with disabilities to do things that would otherwise be difficult or impossible for them to do. Many examples of assistive technologies involve providing universal access, such as modifications to televisions or telephones to make them accessible to those with vision or hearing impairments. An important sub-discipline within the AT research community is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), which is focused on communication technologies for those with impairments that interfere with some aspect of human communication, including spoken or written modalities. Speech and natural language processing (NLP) can be used in AT/AAC in a large variety of ways including, for example, improving the intelligibility of unintelligible speech, and providing communicative assistance for frail people or individuals with severe motor impairments. However, there has not been very much interaction in the intersection between researchers of AT/AAC and speech/NLP. This workshop will bring individuals from both of these research communities together with AAC users to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. The workshop has historically had a strong focus on applications and user inclusion

 

SIGDIAL 2016: The 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

Website: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17/

Organizers: Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University, Germany), Jason Williams (Microsoft, USA)

Dates: 13-15 September 2016

Location: Los Angeles, CA

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of successful sixteen previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest area of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. SIGDIAL 2016 will be co-located with INTERSPEECH 2016 as a satellite event, and also with YRRSDS 2016, the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems.

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3-1-2(2016-09) INTERSPEECH 2016 SPECIAL SESSION: SHARING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING SPEECH PROCESSING

INTERSPEECH 2016 SPECIAL SESSION: SHARING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING SPEECH PROCESSING

Organizers: Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University; Rebecca Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato;  Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University
Contact email: speech-kitchen@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
 
Speech processing systems have become increasingly complex and difficult to share across sites. Significant time is spent reimplementing published methods; even when software is shared, the lack of common environments between sites means that reproducing results can require significant effort. Open software repositories, virtual machines, and tools for automatically building container environments in the cloud are beginning to facilitate cross-site collaboration.
 
We seek contributions from creators of resources (such as software, VMs, web services, frameworks, datasets, etc.) describing their experience in production and usage of these resources in recognition, synthesis, or other speech/language processing technologies. In addition, we welcome essay contributions addressing the use of resources in both research and education settings. Featured virtual machines will be shared with session attendees in order to foster community discussion and encourage use after the session.

Please note that there is a split submission deadline - for resource providers, the standard Interspeech submission deadline applies (March 23), but for the essay contributions, we ask for submissions by March 1.  See the link below for more details.
 
More details: http://speechkitchen.org/interspeech-2016-special-session/

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3-1-3(2016-09) Interspeech 2016 Special session: Sub-Saharan African languages : from speech fundamentals to applications

 

Interspeech 2016 Special Session

 

 

 

Sub-Saharan African languages : from speech fundamentals to applications

 

 

 

Organizers

 

 

 

Martine Adda-Decker (madda@limsi.fr) ? CNRS ? LPP and LIMSI, France.

 

Laurent Besacier (laurent.besacier@imag.fr) - Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, France - LIG laboratory.

 

Marelie Davel (marelie.davel@nwu.ac.za) ? North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa.

 

Larry Hyman (hyman@berkeley.edu) - Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.

 

Martin Jansche (mjansche@google.com) ? Google, London, UK.

 

Francois Pellegrino (francois.pellegrino@univ-lyon2.fr) ? CNRS ? DDL Lyon, France.

 

Olivier Rosec (olivier.rosec@voxygen.fr) ? Voxygen SAS,- Pleumeur-Bodou, France.

 

Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu) - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

 

Martha Tachbelie Yifiru (martha.yifiru@aau.edu.et) ? School of Information Science, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

 

 

 

Call for papers

 

 

 

This special session aims at gathering researchers in speech technology and researchers in linguistics (working in language documentation and fundamentals of speech science). Such a partnership is particularly important for Sub-Saharan African languages which tend to remain under-resourced, under-documented and often also un-written.

 

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers in the following areas:

 

  • ASR and TTS for Sub-Saharan African languages and dialects

  • Cross-lingual and multi-lingual acoustic and lexical modeling

  • Applications of spoken language technologies for the African continent

  • Phonetic and linguistic studies in Sub-Saharan African languages

  • Zero resource speech technologies: unsupervised discovery of linguistic units

  • Language documentation for endangered languages of Africa

  • Machine-assisted annotation of speech and laboratory phonology

  • Resource / Corpora production in African languages

 

 

 

Submission deadline

 

Same as regular Interspeech 2016 papers: 23d March, 2016

 

 

 

Special session web site

 

For more details on this special session: http://alffa.imag.fr/interspeech-2016-special-session-proposal/

 

 

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3-1-4(2016-09) The undergraduate and MS student day at Interspeech 2016.

please encourage any of  your students who have done research as undergrads or MS students (or consider it yourselves if you qualify :-)) to apply to attend this one-day event at Interspeech 2016 in San Francisco this september 8.  this event is supported by the National Science Foundation with additional support for international students from some kind research labs.  here is the website with information on how to apply:
https://sites.google.com/site/yfrsw2016/home
thanks!
julia

--
Julia Hirschberg
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor and
Chair of Computer Science
Columbia University

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3-1-5(2016-09) Updates for Interspeech 2016 San Francisco

The calls for paper, show & tell, and tutorial submissions are OPEN! 

      
To learn about submission procedures, please visit the paper,show & tell, and tutorialswebpages.
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES


 
Monday, 1 February 2016:  Papershow & tell, and tutorial submissions open
Wednesday, 23 March 2016: Paper submission closes
Wednesday, 30 March 2016: Final PDF upload of paper submissions and tutorial and show & tell submission closes
Friday, 6 May 2016: Tutorial notification of acceptance
Friday, 10 June 2016: Papers, special sessions, and show & tell notifications of acceptance
Friday, 24 June 2016: Camera-ready papers, special sessions, and show & tell due
 
 
 
 

VENUE ACCOMMODATIONS

 
 

 

Hyatt Regency San Francisco

5 Embarcadero Center | San Francisco | California | 94111

Interspeech?s Group Rate: $239 Single/double occupancy per night including complimentary wireless internet. The quoted room rate does not include taxes.
 
 
 
 
 
SPECIAL SESSIONS ANNOUNCED!
Click here for more info.

Intelligibility under the microscope


Interspeech 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE): Deception & Sincerity


Clinical and neuroscience-inspired vocal biomarkers of neurological and psychiatric disorders


The RedDots Challenge: Towards Characterizing Speakers from Short Utterances


The Speakers in the Wild (SITW) Speaker Recognition Challenge


Speech, audio, and language processing techniques applied to bird and animal vocalizations


Singing Synthesis Challenge: Fill-In the Gap


Voice Conversion Challenge 2016


Sub-Saharan African languages: from speech fundamentals to applications


Realism in robust speech processing


Sharing Research and Education Resources for Understanding Speech Processing


Speech and Language Technologies for Human-Machine Conversation-based Language Education


Open Data for Under-Resourced Languages


Auditory-visual expressive speech and gesture in humans and machines

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3-1-6(2016-09-08) Important dates for Interspeech 2016 San Francisco

REMINDER! Upcoming Important Dates

 
 
Join us for INTERSPEECH 2016 being held 8 - 12 September 2016 in San Francisco, California! Be sure to save the date for this opportunity to network with over 1,000 of your colleagues in the beautiful City by the Bay. The conference is now accepting applications for satellites!
 

CALL FOR SATELLITE WORKSHOPS

The call for satellite workshop submissions is now open! Click here for more information on the satellite workshop submission process and guidelines. The deadline to submit is Friday, 11 December 2015.
 

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS

INTERSPEECH 2016 will open the call for special sessions Monday, 2 November 2015. Click here for more information on the special session submission process and guidelines. The deadline to submit is Tuesday, 1 December 2015.
 
 
Excited about San Francisco? We are too! The Hyatt Regency hotel will serve as the conference venue and is conveniently located near the Embarcadero, which is close to public transportation, diverse restaurants, and some of San Francisco?s most famous attractions. Click here to learn more about what the city has to offer.
 
INTERSPEECH@ConferenceSolutionsInc.com
www.INTERSPEECH2016.org
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3-1-7(2016-09-08) Interspeech 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA
 
 
 
 
The 17th Annual INTERSPEECH Conference will be held from 8-12 September 2016 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California.
The conference theme is: Understanding Speech Processing in Humans and Machines.

CALL FOR SATELLITE WORKSHOPS
Applications for satellite workshops are now being accepted. For more information, click here
Submission will close on Friday, 11 December 2015.
 
 
 
 
 
PROGRAM 

18 Sep 2015:     Satellite Workshop Submission Opens
2 Nov 2015:       Special Session Submission Opens

1 Dec 2015:       Special Session Submission Closes
11 Dec 2015:     Satellite Workshop Submission Closes
15 Jan 2016:      Satellite Workshop Disposition Notifications Sent

1 Feb 2016:        Paper, Show & Tell and Tutorial Submissions Open
23 Mar 2016:      Paper Submission Deadline
30 Mar 2016:      Deadline for Final Paper PDF Upload. Tutorial
and

                           Show & Tell Submission Closes    
6 May 2016:       Tutorials Disposition Notifications Sent
10 Jun 2016:      Papers, Special Sessions, and Show & Tell
Disposition

                           Notifications Sent

24 Jun 2016:      Camera-Ready Papers, Special Sessions, and Show & Tell Due

 

REGISTRATION AND HOTEL

1 Apr 2016:        Registration Opens

24 Jun 2016:      Early Registration Deadline
17 Aug 2016:     Hotel and Regular Registration Deadline
31 Aug 2016:     Online Registration Closes

 
 
 
INTERSPEECH@ConferenceSolutionsInc.com
www.INTERSPEECH2016.org

 

INTERSPEECH 2016 will be organized around the topic: Understanding Speech Processing in Humans and Machines. The event will be held in the Hyatt Regency San Francisco hotel in the beautiful San Francisco, California. INTERSPEECH 2016 emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of speech science and technology spanning basic theories to applications. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, the conference will also feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. A number of satellite events will take place immediately before and after the conference.

                                                                          
 

Organizers

Conference Chair:

Nelson Morgan

Technical Chairs:

Panayiotis (Panos) Georgiou
Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan

Conference Secretariat:

Conference Solutions

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

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3-1-8(2016-09-08) Submission deadlines Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA

The call for Paper, Show & Tell, and Tutorial submission deadlines are fast approaching!

 

To learn about the submission procedures,
please visit the Paper, Show & Tell, and Tutorials webpages.

 
IMPORTANT DATES


 
Wednesday, 23 March 2016: Paper submission closes
Wednesday, 30 March 2016: Final PDF upload of Paper submissions, Tutorial and Show & Tell submission closes
Friday, 6 May 2016: Tutorial notifications
Friday, 10 June 2016: Papers, Special Sessions, and Show & Tell notifications
Friday, 24 June 2016: Camera-ready Papers, Special Sessions, and Show & Tell due
 
 
 
 
ACCEPTED SATELLITES
 
- The 1st Workshop on Speech Engineering and Computational Neuroscience of Speech (SECNS)
- The 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology (L1TLT)
- The 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP)
- The 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI)
- The 7th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)
- The 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

Click here for a detailed list including descriptions of the accepted satellites.
 

VENUE ACCOMMODATIONS - Reserve now, rooms are limited!

 
 
 
Hyatt Regency San Francisco

Interspeech?s Group Rate: $239 Single/double occupancy per night including complimentary wireless internet. The quoted room rate does not include taxes.
 
 
 
 
BOOK NOW!
 
SPECIAL SESSIONS 
Click here for more info.
 
Intelligibility under the microscope
 
Interspeech 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE): Deception & Sincerity
 
Clinical and neuroscience-inspired vocal biomarkers of neurological and psychiatric disorders
 
The RedDots Challenge: Towards Characterizing Speakers from Short Utterances
 
The Speakers in the Wild (SITW) Speaker Recognition Challenge
 
Speech, audio, and language processing techniques applied to bird and animal vocalizations
 
Singing Synthesis Challenge: Fill-In the Gap
 
Voice Conversion Challenge 2016
 
Sub-Saharan African languages: from speech fundamentals to applications
 
Realism in robust speech processing
 
Sharing Research and Education Resources for Understanding Speech Processing
 
Speech and Language Technologies for Human-Machine Conversation-based Language Education
 
Open Data for Under-Resourced Languages
 
Auditory-visual expressive speech and gesture in humans and machines
 
 
INTERSPEECH@ConferenceSolutionsInc.com
www.INTERSPEECH2016.org
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3-1-9(2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden

INTERSPEECH 2017
Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017
Chair : Francisco Lacerda
18th INTERSPEECH event

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3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-2-1(2016-05-31) Satellites to the Speech Prosody Conference, Boston, MA, USA
We are adding two satellites to the Speech Prosody conference. The first, on the Friday afternoon after the conference, is entitled: 
 

Call for papers

Framing speech: Celebrating 40 years of inquiry with Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

 
and the second, on Saturday, is 

A Common Prosody Platform (CPP) for Comparing Prosodic Theories

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The call for papers for the first satellite is: 
 

Call for papers

Framing speech: Celebrating 40 years of inquiry with Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel


We are pleased to announce a satellite meeting to the Speech Prosody 2016 conference in Boston, the purpose of which is to celebrate Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel?s 40 years of work in our field. The satellite meeting will be held the afternoon of June 3, 2016, after the close of Speech Prosody. We are now opening submissions for either paper or poster presentations at this event. Papers addressing questions related to any of the many areas Stefanie has enjoyed discussing and investigating over the years are equally welcome. Papers need not directly address Stefanie?s own work. A partial list of subject areas, in no particular order, might include: speech errors, planning, disfluencies, intonation analysis and transcription, rhythm, gesture, voice quality, features and cues.


Anyone wishing to present at this meeting should submit a one page abstract (with a second page optional for figures, examples, and references) by March 1. More details on submission instructions can be found here:http://sites.bu.edu/speechprosody2016/satellite-meeting-framing-speech/
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3-2-2(2016-05-31) Speech Prosody 2016, Boston University, MA, USA
 
 
Speech Prosody 2016, the eighth international conference on speech prosody, will be hosted at Boston University, May 31 to June 3, 2016. We invite papers addressing any aspect of the science and technology of prosody. This year, we especially invite submissions concentrating on variation and differences both at the level of the community and that of the individual. Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) <http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/sprosig.php> of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) <http://www.isca-speech.org/>, is the only recurring international conference focused on prosody as an organizing principle for the social, psychological, linguistic, and technological aspects of spoken language. Past conferences in Aix-en-Provence, Nara, Dresden, Campinas, Chicago, Shanghai and Dublin have each attracted 300-400 delegates, including experts in the fields of Linguistics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Speech and Hearing Science, Psychology, and related disciplines.

Keynote Speakers for Speech Prosody 2016, Boston:

Aoju Chen, Universiteit Utrecht
Laura Dilley, Michigan State University
Rupal Patel, Northeastern University
Patrick Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

We are pleased to announce the special sessions of Speech Prosody 2016:

        ? Rising intonation in English and beyond  (Organizers: Meghan Armstrong, Page Piccinini, Amanda Ritchart)
        ? Sentence-final particles and intonation: Similarities, interactions, and historical relationships (Organizers: James Sneed German, K. K. Luke)
        ? Sources of Prosodic Variation across Recording Settings: Measures before measuring speech signals from inside and outside the lab (Organizers: Oliver Niebuhr, Petra Wagner)
        ? Speaker comfort and communication in noisy environments (Special Poster Session) (Organizers: Oliver Niebuhr, Simone Graetzer)

*Important Deadlines*

- Submission of Papers: November 15, 2015
- Notification of Acceptance (by email): January 15, 2016
- Early Registration Deadline: February 15, 2016
 - Author's Registration Deadline: March 1, 2016
 - Conference: May 31 - June 3, 2016

*Contact*    www. speechprosody2016.org
speechprosody2016@gmail.com

*Review Areas*

1.    Phonology and phonetics of prosody
2.    Signal processing
3.    Rhythm and timing
4.    Prosody in computational linguistics
5.    Acquisition of first language prosody
6.    Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
7.    Prosody in language and music
8.    Prosody in Tone Languages
9.    Prosody in language contact and second language acquisition
10.  Prosody of under-resourced languages  and dialects
11.  Audiovisual prosody modeling and analysis
12.  Communicative situation and speaking style
13.  Prosodic aspects of speech and language pathology
14.  Psycholinguistic, cognitive, neural correlates of prosody
15.  Meta-linguistic and para-linguistic communication
16.  Voice quality, phonation, and vocal dynamics
17.  Prosody of sign language
18.  Prosody in automatic speech synthesis, recognition and understanding
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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*

 Latest News

*SPECIAL ISSUE of COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE**APPROVED !!!*

Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization
< http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-papers/recent-advances-in-speaker-and-language-recognition-and-char/>

The goal of this special issue is to highlight the current state of
research efforts
      on speaker and language recognition andcharacterization. New ideas
about features,
      models, tasks, datasetsorbenchmarks are growing, making this a
particularly
      exciting time.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
those of Odyssey 2016
      (follow the link above for more details).

       Guest Editors:
                Eduardo LleidaUniversity of Zaragoza, Spain
Luis J. Rodríguez-FuentesUniversity of the Basque Country, Spain

       Important dates (tentative):
Submission open:April 11, 2016
Submission deadline:July 22, 2016
Notifications of final decision:February 23, 2017
Scheduled publication:March, 2017

Though the call for papers to this special issue is open, authors with
best reviews
at Odyssey 2016 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers
(at least 30% of the material must be new). Note that CSL papers have no
page limit.
All papers will go through the same rigorous review process as regular
CSL papers,
with a minimum of two reviewers per paper.


For any questions, please contact us at info@odyssey2016.org
< mailto:info@odyssey2016.org&gt;
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*LAST CALL FOR PAPERS*
                       ------------------------

http://www.odyssey2016.org

(follow us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Odyssey2016> and
Twitter <https://twitter.com/odyssey2016>)

*_IMPORTANT DATES_*

*DEADLINES EXTENDED !!! (no further extensions will be done)*

         Regular paper submissions                 February 5, 2016
         Show & Tell / Industry & Forensics       February 22, 2016
         Notifications                               March 22, 2016
         Camera ready papers                          April 8, 2016

*NEW !!!*
*A _Special Issue_of _Computer Speech and Language_is under*
*consideration (see details below). If approved, there will be*
*an open call, and authors with best reviews at Odyssey 2016*
*will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers.*

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*TOPICS*

The general themes of the workshop 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 speaker recognition
o Speaker recognition in multimedia content
o Machine learning for speaker and language 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 Spoofing and tampering attacks: analysis and countermeasures
o Forensic and investigative speaker recognition
o Systems and applications

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*WORKSHOP FORMAT AND PAPER SUBMISSION*

As in previous editions <http://www.speakerodyssey.com>, Odyssey 2016
will consist of plenary
oral and poster sessions, with special sessions on topics of interest,
Show & Tell (demo) sessions and panel discussions with industry partners.

Regular papers (including those for special sessions) and Show & Tell papers
must be uploaded in PDF format to the Odyssey 2016 Submission System:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=odyssey2016

Guidelines for paper preparation and Word/LaTeX templates are available
on the website:

http://odyssey2016.org//?p=Submission#shorthead

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*REGULAR PAPERS*

Regular papers (including those for special sessions) must be
at most 8 pages long and are expected to include scientific or
methodological novelty, which must be stated clearly in the
Introduction, along with a review of the relevant prior work.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the
scientific committee. Accepted papers will appear in electronic
proceedings, and will be accessible through the ISCA Archive
< http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/online-archive>.

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*SHOW & TELL PAPERS*

For the Show & Tell (demo) sessions, authors must submit short papers
(at most, 4 pages long) describing a system or prototype, a target
application, a product, a demonstrator or any combination of them.
These contributions do not have to present scientific or methodological
novelty; therefore, they will not undergo full peer review and will not be
included in the proceedings (though will be available for download
on the website). One or more poster sessions will be allocated for
Show & Tell submissions, 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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*INDUSTRY AND FORENSICS TRACK*

To foster a closer collaboration across industry and academia,
an industry track was introduced in Odyssey 2014. The initiative is
continued in Odyssey 2016 under the name 'Industry and Forensics track',
in order to include forensic and investigative speaker recognition,
an application which involves diverse areas of expertise. Companies,
R&D labs, government agencies and other interested parties (e.g. forensic
experts and labs) are called to participate in the following sessions:

*- Forensic and investigative speaker recognition*
*- Commercial applications of speaker and language recognition*

These sessions are expected to be highly interactive, with a series
of pitch talks (3-5 minutes long each), followed by a panel discussion
open to the audience, addressing practical issues or unsolved problems
'out-in-the-wild' that deserve attention.

To participate, just send an email to info@odyssey2016.org
< mailto:info@odyssey2016.org> with
'Industry and Forensics track' as Subject, providing details of
your company profile (in particular, your involvement with or
your need for speaker and language recognition technology),
your interests (forensics, commercial or other) and contact info.
Besides voice biometrics providers and companies that develop
and exploit speaker/language recognition solutions, we encourage
companies who are IN NEED for speaker or language recognition
technology to participatre in these sessions.

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*SPECIAL SESSION 1: Speaker Recognition in Multimedia Content (SS-SRMC)*

Speaker information is instrumental in better exploiting spoken
multimedia content, as evidenced by recent work on large-scale
speaker indexing and linking, or on speaker naming in broadcast
archives.

The special session 'Speaker recognition in multimedia content',
organized in collaboration with the ISCA SIG on Speech and Language
in Multimedia (SIG-SLIM, http://slim-sig.irisa.fr/), pursues
two main goals: (1) to share recent advances in the field and
to identify synergies between the various multimedia applications
where speaker recognition, indexing and segmentation is considered;
and (2) to raise awareness on speaker-related research in multimedia
so as to strengthen the link between the multimedia and the speaker
recognition communities.

The session targets researchers working on any topic related to
speaker characterization for multimedia content processing, including
(but not limited to) speaker segmentation, speaker indexing, speaker
clustering, speaker naming or discovery, or speaking face detection.
Multimodal (e.g. speech + face recognition) approaches are particularly
welcome. We expect submissions presenting original research results,
ongoing research and development projects, tools and resources that
are being made available, or benchmarking initiatives.

Submissions to this Special Session must be done under the topic:

'Speaker recognition in multimedia content'

Chairs of SS-SRMC at Odyssey 2016

Hervé BredinCNRS/LIMSI, France
Claude BarrasLIMSI, France
Guillaume GravierCNRS/IRISA, France

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*SPECIAL SESSION 2: NIST 2015 Language Recognition*
*i-Vector Machine Learning Challenge (SS-LRiMLC)*

In 2015 NIST launched a Language Recognition i-Vector Machine Learning
Challenge as an alternative evaluation methodology to attract newcomers
to the field by reducing the effort required to preprocess the data
through the use of i-vectors.

This special session focuses on the recent advances in language
recognition in the context of the NIST Challenge as well as on the
Challenge results. As such, we invite participants of the Challenge
as well as researchers who work on the language recognition task
using i-vectors to submit papers about their systems or techniques.
Novel uses of i-vectors for language recognition as well as data
resources and benchmark results are of special interest.

Submissions to this Special Session are expected to present original
ideas or results, and must be done under the topic:

'Machine learning for speaker and language recognition'

Chairs of SS-LRiMLC at Odyssey 2016

Craig GreenbergNIST, USA
Audrey TongNIST, USA

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*AWARDS*

Odyssey 2016 will feature two awards:

*- A best paper award*
*- A best student paper award*

All regular papers (including special session papers) 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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*STEERING COMMITTEE*

Luis J. Rodríguez-Fuentes, chair  University of the Basque Country, Spain
Eduardo Lleida, co-chair          University of Zaragoza, Spain
Jean-François 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' ÄŒernocký              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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*COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE -- Special Issue (AWAITING APPROVAL)*

'Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization'

The goal of this special issue is to highlight the current state
of research  efforts on speaker and language recognition and
characterization. New ideas about features, models, tasks, datasets
or benchmarks are growing, making this a particularly exciting time.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, those of
Odyssey 2016 (as listed above).
Guest Editors:

Eduardo Lleida             University of Zaragoza, Spain
Luis J. Rodríguez-Fuentes  University of the Basque Country, Spain

Important dates (tentative):

Submission deadline                                   July 22, 2016
Notifications                                     December 23, 2016
Scheduled publication                                   March, 2017

Though the call for papers to this special issue is open, authors
with best reviews at Odyssey 2016 will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers (at least 30% of the material must be new).
Note that CSL papers have no page limit. All papers will go through
the same rigorous review process as regular CSL papers, with a minimum
of two reviewers per paper.

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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
< http://www.bilbaoturismo.net/BilbaoTurismo/en/tourists>, a medium-size
city in the north of Spain,
with about 350,000 inhabitants. The venue, Bizkaia Aretoa
< http://www.ehu.eus/en/web/bizkaia-aretoa/home>, 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
< http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite/Aeropuerto-Bilbao/en/Home.html> can
be easily reached from many European airports,
including international hubs such as Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt,
Istanbul, London, Madrid or Paris, 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 (free) 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 <mailto:info@odyssey2016.org>

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*Odyssey 2016 is supported by:*

- ISCA SIG-SpLC
- University of the Basque Country
- University of Zaragoza
- Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology
- AGNITIO VOICE ID
- CIRRUS LOGIC
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3-2-4(2016-06-27) Exling 2016 : Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Exling 2016 : Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics
27 June - 2 July 2016, Saint Petersburg, Russia
http://conferences.phil.uoa.gr/exling/special.html

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3-2-5(2016-07-04) Conférence JEP 2016 | TALN 2016 | RÉCITAL 2016, Paris France

Conférence JEP 2016 | TALN 2016 | RÉCITAL 2016
4 au 8 juillet 2016
Paris, France

https://jep-taln2016.limsi.fr
https://twitter.com/jep_taln2016
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1618858378355966/?fref=ts (groupe
restreint)

** Calendrier **

Articles RÉCITAL (12 pages plus 2 pages maximum pour les références)
Date limite de soumission : 29 mars 2016 (23:59 heure Paris)
Notification aux auteurs : 10 mai 2016
Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 23 mai 2016

** Présentation générale **

Les laboratoires franciliens travaillant dans les domaines de la
parole et du traitement automatique des langues écrites, parlées et
signées organisent la cinquième édition conjointe de la conférence
JEP-TALN-RECITAL qui aura lieu

du 4 au 8 juillet 2016

dans les locaux de l'INalCO (13ème arrondissement de Paris).

Pour la cinquième fois, après Nancy en 2002, Fès en 2004, Avignon en
2008 et Grenoble en 2012, l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la
Communication Parlée) et l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement
Automatique des Langues) organisent conjointement leur principale
conférence afin de réunir en un seul lieu les deux communautés de
l'analyse et du traitement des langues écrites, parlées et signées.

Cette édition regroupera donc :
- les 31e Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole (JEP),
- la 23e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues
  Naturelles (TALN),
- la 18e Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
  Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL).

RECITAL 2016, la conférence annuelle des jeunes chercheurs associée à
TALN, offre aux jeunes chercheurs en Traitement Automatique des
Langues (TAL) l'occasion de présenter leurs travaux et de comparer
leurs approches. Elle est réservée aux étudiants (master et doctorat)
et aux jeunes chercheurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat depuis moins d'un
an.

Fort du succès des années précédentes, nous encourageons la soumission
de travaux même préliminaires, de projets de thèse, et de travaux des
premiers mois de recherche (état de l'art, premières pistes,
etc.). L'objectif premier de RECITAL est de soutenir les travaux des
jeunes chercheurs en TAL, de leur apporter de la visibilité et de
faciliter leur intégration dans notre communauté. À ce titre, nous
visons :

- des relectures pédagogiques : les auteurs doivent pouvoir comprendre
  les erreurs qu'ils ont pu commettre afin de pouvoir les corriger et
  améliorer la qualité de leur travail ;

- des relectures positives : les retours aux jeunes chercheurs sont
  faits dans une perspective constructive, afin d'encourager/guider les
  travaux, à la fois pour reconnaître leur potentiel ou pour prévenir
  de possibles difficultés à venir ;

- l'échange direct : les relectures seront communiquées signées, donc
  non-anonymes, aux auteurs. Libre à eux (ou mieux, aux relecteurs)
  d'aller informellement discuter ensemble lors de la conférence.

Cet appel offre l'opportunité, pour de jeunes chercheurs, de faire
connaître leurs idées et travaux en cours et d'obtenir des avis de la
communauté scientifique, autant lors du processus de relecture que, pour
les articles acceptés, lors de leur présentation pendant la conférence.

Le prix du meilleur article RECITAL sera décerné lors de la cérémonie
de clôture.

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

** Thématiques *

Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes habituels du
TAL, incluant, de façon non limitative :

- Phonétique, phonologie, morphologie, étiquetage morphosyntaxique
- Syntaxe, grammaires, analyse syntaxique, chunking
- Sémantique, Pragmatique, Discours,
- Sémantique lexicale et distributionnelle,
- Aspects linguistiques et psycholinguistiques du TAL,
- Ressources pour le TAL,
- Méthodes d'évaluation pour le TAL,
- Applications du TAL (recherche et extraction d'information,
  question-réponse, génération et résumé, dialogue, analyse
  d'opinions, etc.),
- TAL et interface multi-modale (parole, vision, etc.),
- TAL et multilinguisme,
- TAL pour le Web et les réseaux sociaux,
- TAL et langues peu dotées,
- TAL et langue des signes,
- TAL et éthique.

** Types de communications **

Les auteurs sont invités à proposer deux types de communications :
- des articles présentant des travaux de recherche originaux,
- des prises de position présentant un point de vue sur l'état des
  recherches en TAL.

Les soumissions en anglais sont acceptées dès lors qu'un co-?auteur
n'est pas francophone. Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans
les actes de la conférence.

Les travaux devront présenter des contributions non publiées dans
d?autres conférences. Ainsi, les traductions d?articles déjà publiés
ne seront pas acceptées.

** Critères de sélection **

Les auteurs doivent être des étudiant(e)s ou bien des jeunes docteur(e)s
ayant soutenu leur thèse depuis moins d'un an. Les publications avec des
chercheurs confirmés (ce qui inclut les directeurs de thèses) doivent
être soumises à TALN et non à RECITAL. La double soumission à RECITAL et
TALN n?est pas autorisée.

Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux,
n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications antérieures. Les soumissions
seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine. Seront
considérées en particulier :
- la correction du contenu scientifique et technique
- la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
  internationale
- l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation
- l'adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence

Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la
conférence. Suivant l'avis du comité de programme, les présentations se
feront soit sous forme orale soit sous forme de poster.

** Modalités de soumission **

Les soumissions doivent être conformes aux lignes directrices de style
officielles qui sont contenues dans les fichiers de style et doivent
être en format PDF.
Les relectures sont signées pour permettre un échange supplémentaire plus
approfondi mais le processus de relecture reste en aveugle, ce qui signifie
que les contributions ne doivent inclure ni les noms ni les affiliations
des auteurs. En outre, les auto-références et les noms de projets qui
révèlent l?identité des auteurs, comme par exemple, « Nous avons déjà
démontré (Martin, 1991) » doivent être évitées. Les auteurs devront ainsi
privilégier les citations telles que « Martin a précédemment démontré
(Martin, 1991) ». Les remerciements seront omis dans la première
soumission, et pourront être ajoutés dans la version définitive de
l'article en cas d'acceptation.


** Comité d'organisation **

Co-présidente JEP : Sophie ROSSET, CNRS, LIMSI
Co-président JEP : Nicolas AUDIBERT, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, LPP
Co-président TALN : Thierry HAMON, Université Paris 13, LIMSI
Co-présidente TALN : Laurence DANLOS, Université Paris Diderot, ALPAGE
Co-président RÉCITAL : Damien NOUVEL, INaLCO, ERTIM
Co-présidente RÉCITAL : Ilaine WANG, Université Paris 10, MoDyCo

** Contact **

recital2016_at_limsi.fr

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3-2-6(2016-07-04) Summer school on Speech Source Modeling and its Applications, Gandhinagar, India.

 ISCA supported summer school on Speech Source Modeling and its Applications during July 04-08, 2016.

 Please find the link for this event.
 
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/s4pdaiict2016/
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3-2-7(2016-07-04) TALAf 2016 : Traitement automatique des langues africaines (écrit et parole), Paris France (extended deadline)

PRESENTATION

TALAf workshops take place every two years. The first workshop was held during the JEP-TALN-RÉCITAL 2012 conference on June 8, 2012 in Grenoble (see proceedings: http://aclweb.org/anthology//W/W12/#1300). The second one took place during the TALN 2014 conference on July 1, 2014 in Marseille (see proceedings: http://www.taln2014.org/site/actes-en-ligne/actes-en-ligne-ateliers/).

The third edition of TALAf will be held during the JEP-TALN-RECITAL conference, on July 4, 2016 at INALCO in Paris.

Natural language processing is booming in Africa. Indeed, in many countries, there is an ongoing official recognition of national languages, for instance:

  • In Niger, laws defining alphabets for Hausa, Kanuri, and Tamajaq Zarma were published in 1999. Since then, the National Assembly has set up simultaneous translation of the debates in three languages: French, Hausa and Zarma;

  • In Morocco, the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM), which works for the promotion of Amazigh culture and development of the Berber language was founded by royal decree in 2001;

  • In Senegal, the recognition of national languages of the recognition was mentioned in the first article of the Constitution of 7 January 2001: 'The official language of the Republic of Senegal is French. The national languages are Diola, Malinke, Pular, Serer, Soninke, Wolof and other national language to be codified.' The Department of Technical Education, Vocational Training, Literacy and National Languages (METFPALN) is responsible for this. Since December 9, 2014, the Senegalese parliamentarians debates are translated simultaneously through an interpretation system in six national languages (Fulani, Serere, Wolof, Jola, Mandinka and Soninke) in addition to French, allowing the majority of members to speak in their mother tongue.

Moreover, a number of colleagues / African scholars trained in the North return to their country with the will to continue their work in local languages. There are also some Diasporas that have technological material allowing them to contribute directly online and on a voluntary basis.

Added to this, the development of bilingual education programs (official / national language) in primary schools in many countries is growing. The official language remaining mostly that of the former colonial country (French, English, Portuguese ...).

On the other hand, mobile phones are spreading fast: with 650 million units, Africa has surpassed the United States and Europe. In many areas, it is easier to install a mobile antenna than fixed lines. Therefore, the people who use a telephone for the first time do it with a mobile terminal. Applications are developed such as money transfer or dissemination of weather reports.

The funding of research projects on these languages can now be obtained from the 'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie' with their calls for projects of the 'fonds francophone des inforoutes' (see eg DiLAF or flore projects) or the 'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie'. France also supports projects on these languages through the National Agency for Research (see eg ALFFA project).

So the conditions are gathered for the development of natural language processing in Africa, both written and spoken.

In this context, the roles of TALAf workshop are:

  • bring together researchers in the field through meetings at the workshop but also with the talaf@imag.fr mailing list;

  • pooling knowledge using open source tools, standards (ISO, Unicode), and publishing the resources produced with an open license (Creative Commons) to avoid including the loss of information when a project stops and can not be resumed immediately for lack of resources;

  • develop a set of best practices based on the experience of researchers ; set up simple efficient methodologies based on free or very cheap software for the development of resources, exchange about techniques that can avoid the use of non-existent resources and finally avoid loss of time and energy.

TALAf workshops are supported by the non-profit organisation 'Lexicologie Terminologie Traduction': http://www.ltt.auf.org/index.php

We invite all researchers in natural language processing working on African languages, including Creole languages of Africa, whether written or oral, to submit a paper to this workshop.

TYPES OF COMMUNICATION

Publications should contain between 6 and 12 pages. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original research particularly on the themes listed below.

French speaking authors are invited to write in French with a summary in the language of their choice. Non-French speaking writers can write in English with a summary in French and another in the language of their choice.

TOPICS

The workshop is open to research works on the following topics:

Resources:

? written corpora (monolingual, bilingual aligned or comparable)

? speech corpora (including transcription)

? lexicons, dictionaries and databases (monolingual, bilingual, multilingual)

? resources enrichment

? resources quality evaluation

Tools:

? morphological analyzers, spell-checkers

? syntactic analyzers, grammar checkers

? machine translation systems (empirical or rule-based)

? speech recognition

? text-to-speech synthesis

? transliteration

SELECTION CRITERIA

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two specialists of the domain.

The following points will be taken into account:

  • adequacy to the workshop topics

  • importance and originality of the contribution,

  • scientific and technical content precision,

  • organisation and clarity of the presentation.

SUBMISSIONS

The submission formats will be available for OpenOffice, Word and Latex and accessible from:

https://jep-taln2016.limsi.fr/styles/jeptaln2016-v2.zip

The communication proposals must be sent in PDF format to the following address:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=taln2016

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Martine Adda-Decker (CNRS-LPP & LIMSI, Paris, France)

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Sokhna Bao Diop (Université Gaston Berger, St Louis du Sénégal, Sénégal)

Philippe Bretier (Voxygen, Pleumeur-Bodou, France)

Khalid Choukri (ELDA, Paris, France)

Mame Thierno Cissé (ARCIV, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal)

Chantal Enguehard (LINA, Nantes, France)

Núria Gala (LIF, Marseille, France)

Modi Issouf (Ministère de l'Éducation, Niamey, Niger)

Fary Silate Ka (IFAN, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal)

Mathieu Mangeot (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Chérif Mbodj, (Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar, Sénégal)

Kamal Naït-Zerrad (INALCO, Paris, France)

El Hadj Mamadou Nguer (Université Gaston Berger, St Louis du Sénégal, Sénégal)

Donald Osborn (Bisharat, ltd.)

Francois Pellegrino, (DDL, Lyon, France)

Olivier Rosec (Voxygen, Pleumeur-Bodou, France)

Fatiha Sadat (UQAM, Montréal, Canada)

Aliou Ngoné Seck (FLSH, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal)

Emmanuel Schang (Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France)

Gilles Sérasset (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Max Silberztein (ELLIADD, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France)

Sylvie Voisin (DDL, Lyon, France)

Valentin Vydrin (LLACAN-INALCO, Paris, France)

IMPORTANT DATES

- Extended Submission deadline: 8 May 2016

- Notification of acceptance: 11 May 2016

- Final Submission Deadline: 1 June 2016

- Workshop: 4 July 2016

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3-2-8(2016-07-04) Traitement Automatique de la Parole Atypique, Atelier JEP, Paris, France

Traitement Automatique de la Parole Atypique

Atelier JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016 à Paris, 4 juillet 2016

https://www.irit.fr/recherches/SAMOVA/TALPA/

 

Présentation

 

L?atelier TALPA s?inscrit dans le cadre de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL qui aura lieu dans les nouveaux locaux de l?INALCO (Paris 13e). Il s?agit de la première édition de cet atelier. Il vise à favoriser les échanges autour des outils de traitement automatique appliqués à de la parole dite « atypique » ou « non-standard ». Les adjectifs « non-standard », « atypique » ou encore « non-prototypique » sont utilisés pour désigner les types de parole qui, d?une manière ou d?une autre, présentent des différences identifiables par rapport à un « standard », ou, autrement dit, par rapport à une forme canonique de parole. La recherche dans ce domaine tente de caractériser les variations de la parole qui peuvent être normales ou anormales selon les cas. En ce sens, nous pouvons citer, de manière non exhaustive, les cas d?étude suivants, qui répondraient pleinement au thème de cet atelier :

 

  • Parole d?apprenants d?une L2,

  • Parole de locuteurs ayant des troubles de la voix et de l?élocution,

  • Accents étrangers, régionaux et sociaux,

  • Parole d?enfants, de personnes âgées,

  • Parole stressée, fatiguée, avec de lourdes charges cognitives.

 

Toutes les applications qui y sont liées sont également concernées par cet appel : aide à l?apprentissage d?une langue, aide à la réhabilitation d?une pathologie de la voix et de la parole, par exemple.

 

Déroulement

 

  • Une session poster d?une heure et demie de présentation des travaux des participants

  • Une session pratique d?une durée de 45 minutes/1 heure visant à favoriser les échanges de manière informelle sous la forme d?une table ronde. Plus d?informations sur le site Web de l?atelier.



Types de communication

 

Les soumissions prendront la forme d?un résumé, rédigé en français ou en anglais pour les non-francophones, d?une taille maximale de 1000 mots, les références bibliographiques incluses, limitées à un nombre de 10 références au plus. Il n?est et ne sera pas demandé d?article complet, les actes de l?atelier seront une compilation des résumés acceptés qui sera mise en ligne.

 

Modalités de soumission

 

Il est demandé d?utiliser la feuille de style LaTeX, modèle Word ou modèle LibreOffice suivants (adaptés de ceux de la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL) :

https://www.irit.fr/recherches/SAMOVA/TALPA/talpa2016.zip

 

Après réception des soumissions, les organisateurs enverront un mail aux candidats pour demander s?ils peuvent et souhaitent contribuer également à la session pratique. Ceci pourra prendre diverses formes : proposer des échantillons courts de parole atypique avec transcription orthographique, décrire un retour d?expérience sur l?utilisation d?un outil, faire la démonstration d?un outil, exposer les problèmes/ limites d?un outil automatique. Les organisateurs collecteront alors ces données/informations pour valider la possibilité de les intégrer à la partie pratique de l?atelier.

 

Les résumés sont à soumettre sous forme de PDF à l?adresse suivante :

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=taln2016

 

Pour une nouvelle soumission, choisir la 'track' de l'atelier : Traitement automatique de la parole non-standard.

 

Calendrier

 

Date limite de soumission des contributions : 6 mai 2016 (23:59 heure Paris)

Notification aux auteurs : 20 mai 2016

Atelier : 4 juillet 2016 (une demi-journée, horaires à préciser)

 

Comité de programme

 

Martine Adda-Decker, LPP-CNRS

Nicolas Audibert, Université de Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, LPP

Laurent Besacier, Université Joseph Fourier, LIG

Caroline Bogliotti, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, MODYCO

Philippe Boula de Mareüil, LIMSI-CNRS

Jérôme Farinas, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, IRIT

Camille Fauth, Université de Strasbourg, LiLPa

Emmanuel Ferragne, Université Paris 7 Diderot, CLILLAC-ARP

Lionel Fontan, Archean Technologies

Cécile Fougeron, LPP-CNRS

Corinne Fredouille, Université d?Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, CERI-LIA

Cédric Gendrot, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne nouvelle, LPP

Alain Ghio, LPL-CNRS

Lori Lamel, LIMSI-CNRS

Julie Mauclair, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, IRIT

Christine Meunier, LPL-CNRS

Thomas Pellegrini, Université de Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, IRIT

Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne nouvelle Université Paris 3, LPP

Solange Rossato, Université Stendhal, LIG

Halima Sahraoui, Université de Toulouse II Jean Jaurès, Octogone-Lordat

Michel Vacher, Université Stendhal, LIG

 

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Les organisateurs,

 

Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Corinne Fredouille, Thomas Pellegrini

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3-2-9(2016-09-06) 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology, San Francisco, CA, USA

 

1ST Call For Papers LTLT

2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology

September 6./7. 2016
https://sites.google.com/site/l1teachingandtechnology/home

 

The 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology is going to take place in San Francisco on September 6 and 7.

June 12, 2016:     paper submission deadline

June 26, 2016:     notification of paper acceptance

July 10, 2016:      camera-ready paper submission deadline

September 6/7, 2016    workshop

 

The LTLT workshop intends to join researchers across countries on the topic of language teaching/learning. Papers submitted here do not have to employ any technology yet. We are looking for contributions from users that may not be aware of all the possibilities that the technologies have to offer to solve educational research problems. What these papers bring to the table are problem statements and data collections that the speech and text processing community may in turn not be aware of. Thus we are looking for symbioses between the two disciplines in research about learning/teaching language. It is important for both areas to get to know each other's research questions and potential application for technologies.

This goal will be achieved through collocation with workshops that are associated with Interspeech (focusing on technology for automatic processing and synthesis of speech and text) that allows you to meet people with similar interests, share your work and forge new interactions across disciplines. In doing so, we are looking for a broad range of contributions from didactics, psychology and pedagogy from researchers interested in bridging the current gap to automation. Demonstrations as well as samples of data collections and annotations are welcome.

This workshop is endorsed by ISCA and organized by the Special Interest Group for Children (SIG-CHILD) group that has regular WOCCI workshops.

Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:

  • Data collection, methods, annotation, recognition, analysis, diagnostic, progression of skills, for example in:
  • Handwriting
  • Spoken interaction
  • Story telling
  • Text production
  • Spelling errors
  • Evaluation of L1/L2 teaching methods
  • Teaching L2 Kids in an L1 class environment (many classes have a large number of multilingual children in L1 classrooms whose parents to not speak the L1 language)
  • Issues in majority language learning environments for L1 and L2 learners
  • Models of learning
  • Applications for teaching, self-learning, classroom learning
  • Giving Feedback
  • Technology in the classroom
  • Games for language learning
  • Other analyses and ideas that have to do with language teaching
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3-2-10(2016-09-06) 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction, San Francisco, CA, USA

1st Call For Papers WOCCI 2016

5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction

September 6./7. 2016

www.wocci.org

The 2nd Workshop on Language Teaching, Learning and Technology is going to take place in San Francisco on September 6 and 7.

June 12, 2016: paper submission deadline

June 26, 2016: notification of paper acceptance

July 10, 2016: camera-ready paper submission deadline

September 6/7, 2015 workshop

The 5th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2016) will be held in San Francisco on 6-7th of September, 2016. The Workshop is a satellite event of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2016), which will take place in the same city September 8-12, 2016. WOCCI 2016 will be held at the offices of Educational Testing Services (ETS).

This workshop aims to join researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of child-machine interaction including computer, robotics and multi-modal interfaces. Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level as well as the interaction level. The Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities from cognitive science, robotics, speech processing, linguistics as well as applied areas such as medical and educational technologies. Various state-of-the-art components can be presented here as key components for the next generation of child-centered computer interaction. Technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core wellbeing of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities and capabilities for providing individualized attention. The Workshop will serve as a venue for presenting recent advancements in core technologies as well as experimental systems and prototypes.

Papers are solicited on any technical areas relevant to the workshop. The technical scope of the workshop includes, but it is 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

Multi-modality and Robotics: 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 Modelling: user modelling and adaptation, usability studies accounting for age preferences in child machine interaction

Cognitive Models: internal learning models, personality types, user-centred and participatory design

Application Areas: training systems, educational software, gaming interfaces, medical conditions and diagnostic tools

The technical committee will select papers for oral/poster presentation.

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3-2-11(2016-09-12) 19th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2016), Brno, Czech Republic

TSD 2016 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
*****************************

Nineteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2016)
              Brno, Czech Republic, 12-16 September 2016
                    http://www.tsdconference.org/

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

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

    March 15 2016 ............ Submission of abstracts
    March 22 2016 ............ Submission of full papers

Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

TSD SERIES

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

The TSD 2016 conference will be accompanied by a one-day satellite workshop

    Community-based Building of Language Resources, CBBLR

    The main topic of the workshop is directed at building new language
    resources, especially for languages with no or too little existing
    language resources.  The workshop is organized in cooperation with the
    HaBiT CZ-NO project Consortium, submissions from other resource
    development projects are more than welcomed.  The workshop submissions
    will undergo two separate review processes - the best papers which will
    succeed in both review processes (by the TSD 2016 Conference PC and
    CBBLR Workshop 2016 PC) will be published in the TSD 2016 Springer
    Proceedings, all other accepted CBBLR workshop papers will be published
    in a separate proceedings with ISBN.  The CBBLR workshop will take
    place on September 12 2016 in the conference venue.

The TSD 2016 conference will be directly followed by a meeting of the
working groups and management committee of the

    ISCH COST Action IS 1305
    European Network of e-Lexicography (ENeL)
    http://www.elexicography.eu/


TOPICS

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

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

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

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

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3-2-12(2016-09-13) CfP SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE, Los Angeles, CA, USA

====SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS====

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17/

SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest

Group on Discourse and Dialogue, the University of Southern California

Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, USA. September

13-15, 2016 (just after INTERSPEECH)

Submission Deadline: 15 May, 2016

**NEWS**

INVITED SPEAKERS

We are happy to announce our invited speakers:

- Susan Brennan, NSF/Stony Brook

http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/sbrennan-/

- Louis-Philippe Morency, CMU

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~morency/

SPECIAL SESSION

We will have a special session on 'The Future Directions of

Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants'.

website: http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/

Organizers:

- Yoichi Matsuyama (CMU)

- Alexandros Papangelis (Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory)

See below for more details.

====

CALL FOR PAPERS

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of

cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and

industry researchers. Continuing with a series of successful sixteen

previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest area of

discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL

organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse

and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. SIGDIAL 2016 will be co-located

with INTERSPEECH 2016 (http://interspeech2016.org/) as a satellite

event, and also with YRRSDS 2016 (http://www.yrrsds.org/), the Young

Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or

analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not

restricted to, the following themes:

1. Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems

Discourse semantic and pragmatic issues in NLP applications such as

text summarization, question answering, and information retrieval.

Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems, their

components, evaluation and applications.

2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology

Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and spoken, text-based

and multi-modal dialogue, including supporting topics such as

annotation tools and schemes, and corpora.

3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond

a single sentence).

SUBMISSIONS

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short

papers and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be

accepted as long papers for oral presentation, long papers for poster

presentation, or short papers for poster presentation. Short papers

will be presented as posters.

- Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title,

text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages are allowed

for references. Two additional pages are allowed for example

discourses or dialogues and algorithms.

- Short papers should be no longer than four pages including title,

text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages are allowed

for references.

- Demo descriptions should be no longer than four pages including

title, text, examples, figures, tables and references.

Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying

materials such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos,

sound files, etc.

Please use the official ACL style files: http://acl2016.org/files/acl2016.zip

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or

publications must provide this information (see submission

format). SIGDIAL 2016 cannot accept for publication or presentation

work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Any questions

regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs<at>sigdial.org.

INVITED SPEAKERS

- Susan Brennan, NSF/Stony Brook

http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/sbrennan-/

- Louis-Philippe Morency, CMU

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~morency/

SPECIAL SESSION

The Future Directions of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants

Organizers:

- Yoichi Matsuyama (CMU)

- Alexandros Papangelis (Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory)

Today is the era of intelligent personal assistants. All the major

tech giants have introduced personal assistants as the front end of

their services, including Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana,

Facebook's M, and Amazon's Alexa. Several of these companies have also

released bot toolkits so that other smaller companies can join the

fray. However, while the quality of conversational interactions with

intelligent personal assistants is crucial for their success in both

business and personal applications, fundamental problems, such as

discourse processing, computational pragmatics, user modeling, and

collecting and annotating adequate real data, remain

unsolved. Furthermore, the intelligent personal assistants of tomorrow

raise a whole set of new technical problems.

The SIGDIAL special session 'The Future of Dialogue-Based Intelligent

Personal Assistants' will consist of talks and posters that introduce

and evaluate solutions to dialogue system challenges preventing the

development of effective and compelling intelligent personal

assistants. Researchers from both academia and industry are welcome. A

panel of notable academic and industry players will lead to insights

on future directions.

The special session will last 2.5 hours and will consist of long/short

paper presentations, poster presentations, and a panel discussion

entitled 'The Future Directions of Dialogue Based Intelligent Personal

Assistants'. For more information, please visit the special session

website: http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/

The papers submitted to the special session are handled by special

session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL

proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular

papers.

MENTORING

Submissions with innovative core ideas that may be in need of language

(English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring'

and accepted with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An

experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue

will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their

submissions for publication. Any questions about this initiative can

be addressed to the mentoring chair Pierre Lison (University of Oslo,

Norway plison@ifi.uio.no).

BEST PAPER AWARDS

In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog/discourse

science and technology, SIGDIAL will recognize BEST PAPER AWARDs. All

papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A

selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields

of interest will select the recipients of the awards.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission: 15 May, 2016

Notification of acceptance: 28 Jun, 2016

Final submission: 21 Jul, 2016

Conference: 13-15 Sept, 2016

WEBSITES

Conference website: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17

Submission link: To be announced

SIGdial organization website: http://www.sigdial.org

Co-located Conference website:

INTERSPEECH 2016 http://interspeech2016.org/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

For any questions, please contact the appropriate members of the

organizing committee.

General Chairs

Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany

general-chairs<at>sigdial.org

Program Chairs

Giuseppe Carenini, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan

program-chairs<at>sigdial.org

Local Chairs

Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA

Alesia Gainer, University of Southern California, USA

local-organizers<at>sigdial.org

Mentoring Chair

Pierre Lison, University of Oslo, Norway

mentoring<at>sigdial.org

Sponsorships Chair

Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corporation, USA

sponsor-chair<at>sigdial.org

SIGdial President

Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Inc., USA

SIGdial Vice President

Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland

To contact SIGdial President, vice presidents, and secretary/treasurer, send an

email to exec<at>sigdial.org.

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3-2-13(2016-09-13) CfP Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP), San Francisco, CA, USA
*** Call for Papers/Abstracts:
*** Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP)
 
*** September 13, 2016
*** Google San Francisco, CA, USA
 
MLSLP is a workshop of SIGML, the ISCA SIG on machine learning in speech and language processing. Prior workshops were held in 2011 and 2012. While research in speech and language processing has always involved machine learning (ML), current research is benefiting from even closer interaction between these fields. Speech and language processing is continually mining new ideas from ML and ML, in turn, is devoting more interest to speech and language applications. This workshop aims to be a venue for identifying and incubating the next waves of research directions for interaction and collaboration. The workshop will not be yet another venue for applications of deep learning to speech and language processing, as this is already well covered by major conferences. It will, however, include new directions for deep learning in speech/language, as well as other emerging ideas. In general, the workshop will (1) discuss the emerging research ideas with potential for impact in speech/language and (2) bring together relevant researchers from ML and speech/language who may not regularly interact at conferences.
 
*** Paper Submission
 
Prospective authors are invited to submit 2-page abstracts or 4-6 page papers through the workshop web site.  Each paper/abstract will be reviewed by at least two reviewers.
 
*** Important Dates
 
May 20:  Submission deadline
June 17:  Accept/reject decisions sent
June 30:  Final papers/abstracts due
 
*** Invited Speakers
 
Confirmed speakers thus far include Ian Goodfellow, Fei Sha, and Kai Yu. Additional speakers TBA!
 
*** Organizing Committee
 
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC (finance chair)
Navdeep Jaitly, Google (local arrangements chair)
Joseph Keshet, Bar-Ilan University
Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago
Tara Sainath, Google
 
*** Contact
 
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3-2-14(2016-09-13) SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS, Los Angeles, CA, USA (extended deadline)

SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17/

The 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2016) will be located in the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technology, Los Angeles, CA, USA. SIGDIAL will be held September 13-15.

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of sixteen successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome formal, corpus-based, system-building or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including but not restricted to the following themes and
topics:

- Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
- Computational Sociolinguistics
- Collaborative Process Analysis
- Dimensions of Interaction
- Open Domain Dialogue
- Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialogue and Written Text
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology
- Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialogue

Call for Special Session Proposals

The SIGDIAL organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals.
A
SIGDIAL special session has the length of a regular session at the conference and may be organized as a poster session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session. Note that Special Session papers can include papers that appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings and/or papers which do not appear in the proceedings. The only firm requirement is that papers which appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings must follow the same review process as normal SIGDIAL papers. Reviews for these papers are managed by the PC as usual. The special session organizers may suggest reviewers for the special session, but that is the extent of their involvement in reviewing special session papers which appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings. Special session organizers can decide how to handle SIGDIAL rejected papers--for example, they may invite papers which will not appear in the proceedings to still be presented. Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions.

Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal
containing:
(i)   Summary of the topic of the special session;
(ii)  List of organizers and sponsors;
(iii) List of people who may submit and participate;
(iv)  Requested format (poster/panel/oral session).

These proposals should be sent to conference[at]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general and program co-chairs.

Special Session Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, 1 March 2016 (23:59, GMT-11) Special Session Notification: Sunday, 27 March 2016

* General SIGDIAL call for papers will be posted in Feb 2016.

Extended deadline: May 22, 2016

SIGDIAL 2016 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs
Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany

Program Chairs
Giuseppe Carenini, The University of British Columbia, Canada Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan

Local Chairs
Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA Alesia Gainer, University of Southern California, USA

Mentoring Chair
Pierre Lison, University of Oslo, Norway

Sponsorships Chair
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corporation, USA

SIGdial President
Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA

SIGdial Vice President
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland _______________________________________________
SIGdial mailing list
SIGdial@list.sigdial.org

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3-2-15(2016-10-17) The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Tianjin, China

The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing

(ISCSLP 2016)

 

October 17 - 20, 2016

Tianjin, China

 

Call for Papers

 

The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP2016) will be held on October 17-20, 2016 in Tianjin, China. ISCSLP is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing. While the Chinese language is emphasized, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged.

 

Conference Website: http://www.iscslp2016.org

 

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to the followings:

1.        Speech Production and Perception

2.        Speech Analysis

3.        Speech Coding

4.        Speech Enhancement

5.        Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implant

6.        Phonetics and Phonology

7.        Corpus-based Linguistics

8.        Speech and Language Disorders

9.        Speech Recognition

10.     Spoken Language Translation

11.     Speaker, Language, and Emotion Recognition

12.     Speech Synthesis

13.     Language Modeling

14.     Speech Prosody

15.     Spoken Dialog Systems

16.     Machine Learning Techniques in Speech and Language Processing

17.     Voice Conversion

18.     Indexing, Retrieval and Authoring of Speech Signals

19.     Multi-Modal Interfaces

20.     Speech and Language Processing in Education

21.     Spoken Language Resources and Technology Evaluation

22.     Applications of Spoken Language Processing Technology

23.     Singing Voice Processing

24.     Others

 

The working language of ISCSLP is English. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, five-page papers in any of the areas listed above. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically and details can be found in the conference website http://www.iscslp2016.org. ISCSLP 2016 also invites proposals of special sessions and welcomes exhibitions of products and demos of research prototypes in the areas relevant to the conference. Please refer to the conference website for details of submission procedures.

 

Important Dates:

Regular and special session paper submission deadline:         June 17, 2016

Notification of paper acceptance:                                       August 05, 2016

Camera-ready paper upload deadline:                                          August 19, 2016

Author’s registration deadline:                                            September 02, 2016

 

ISCSLP 2016 will be hosted by Tianjin University, the first modern university in China and the pioneer of modern higher education in China. Tianjin was the ancient port city of Beijing, and now is the third largest city of China with a population of over 10 million people. It has a rich history and many examples of old British and Italian architecture. The famous Italian concession area has the largest cluster of old Italian architecture outside of Italy. Tianjin is near the coast and is located 85 miles east of Beijing, only 30 minutes by bullet train. Downtown Tianjin is now a modern, developed city. Tianjin has a reputation throughout China for being extremely friendly, safe and a place of delicious food. Welcome to Tianjin to attend the ISCSLP2016.

 

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3-2-16Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events


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

  • SLTU 2016 : The 5th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages
    9-12 May 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

  • Speech Prosody 2016 : Satellite of TAL (Tonal Aspects of Language) 2016
    31 May - 3 June 2016, Boston University , USA

  • Odyssey 2016 : The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop
    21-24 June 2016, Bilbao, Spain

  • Exling 2016 : Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics
    27 June - 2 July 2016, Saint Petersburg, Russia

  • Perceptual Quality of Systems 2016 : Perceptual Quality of Systems 2016
    29-31 August 2016, Berlin, Germany

  • L1TLT : L1 Teaching, Learning and Technology
    6-7 September 2016, San Francisco, USA (a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2016)

  • WOCCI 2016 : Workshop on Child Computer Interaction
    6-7 September 2016, San Francisco, USA (a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2016)

  • SLPAT : Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
    13 September 2016, San Fransisco, USA (a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2016)

  • SIGDIAL 2016 : 17th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
    13-15 September 2016, Los Angelas, USA (a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2016)
  • JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016 à Paris : 23ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles 31ème Journées d’Études sur la Parole 4-8 July 2016, Paris, France

  • SECNS 2016 : The 1st Workshop on Speech Engineering and Computational Neuroscience of Speech - See more at: http://www.interspeech2016.org/Satellite-Descriptions#sthash.zU53l58X.dpuf
    8 September 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA (a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2016)

  • MLSLP 2016 : Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP) [satellite of Interspeech 2016]
    13 September 2016, Google San Francisco, CA, USA



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3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2016-05-13) Conférence au LPL Aix en Provence, France

Vendredi 13 mai 2016

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

 

 

Anne-France Pinget

Université d'Utrecht (Pays-Bas)

 

Le rôle de l'imitation phonétique dans le changement linguistique

 

 

Résumé Cette communication vise à étudier le rôle de la capacité d'imitation phonétique dans le changement linguistique. Notre analyse se base sur l'étude de deux variables soumises au changement au sein de la communauté linguistique néerlandaise de Flandre et des Pays-Bas.

Il a été démontré que le contraste existant entre les fricatives labiodentales sourdes et sonores (/f/ et /v/) en néerlandais est en voie de disparition (Kissine, 2003). En effet, celui-ci laisse place à une seule catégorie phonétique au lieu de deux ('merger'). Les plosives bilabiales semblent présenter une évolution comparable, cependant moins avancée que les fricatives.  Ces changements linguistiques se diffusent graduellement dans les différentes régions néerlandophones de Belgique et des Pays-Bas (Van de Velde, 1996).

Cent locuteurs issus de cinq régions différentes (représentant différentes phases de changement linguistique) ont été sélectionnés pour participer à plusieurs tests expérimentaux de perception, de production et d'imitation des contrastes phonologiques en question. Les résultats de perception et de production ont vérifié de manière expérimentale l'hypothèse de propagation géographique du changement.

Le test d'imitation atteste que la grande majorité des locuteurs est capable de produire le contraste quel que soit leur région d'origine et, par conséquent, indépendamment de leur phase d'avancement dans le changement linguistique. Nous examinerons enfin les processus cognitifs individuels qui mettent en relation les capacités de perception phonétique et d'imitation, ainsi que les implications de ces travaux pour la modélisation des systèmes de perception et production et pour l'étude du rôle de l'imitation dans le changement linguistique.

 

 

Références

Kissine, M., Van de Velde, H., & van Hout, R. (2003). An acoustic study of standard dutch /v/, /f/, /z/ and /s/. Linguistics in the Netherlands, 20 (1), 93-104.

Van de Velde, H. (1996). Variatie en verandering in het gesproken standaardnederlands (1935-1993). Thèse doctorale, Université de Nijmegen.

 

Page web

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3-3-2(2016-05-23) LREC 2016 - 10th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, PORTORO, SLOVENIA, Extended deadline
LREC 2016 - 10th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Grand Hotel Bernardin,  PORTORO?, SLOVENIA
23-28 May 2016


MAIN CONFERENCE: 25-26-27 MAY 2016
WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 23-24-28 MAY 2016
Conference web site: http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org/
Twitter: @LREC2016

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


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!

LREC 2016 Final Submission  and Early-Bird Registration have been moved to March 17, 2016 at 23:59 GMT+1

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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3-3-3(2016-05-23) LREC 2016 Workshops and Tutorials

Schedule of all the LREC 2016 Workshops and Tutorials is online at http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org/en/workshops-and-tutorials/

On this web page you will find a link to each Workshop Call for Papers/Web site and each Tutorial Outline, when available.
For most workshops, the submission information is also provided.

Don't hesitate to contact Workshop and/or Tutorial organisers if you have specific questions on their event.

For general LREC 2016 matters, please contact us at lrec@lrec-conf.org.

www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2016
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3-3-4(2016-05-23) LREC HLT Village

The LREC 2016 HLT Village offer is now online: http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org/en/hlt-projects-village/
An online form is available to apply for a booth online.

Contact us @
lrec@lrec-conf.org

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3-3-5(2016-05-24) CfP ETHI-CA² 2016: ETHics In Corpus Collection, Annotation & Application, Portoro (Slovenia),

Call for Papers: ETHI-CA² 2016: ETHics In Corpus Collection, Annotation & Application
at LREC 2016, Portoro? (Slovenia), 24 May 2016

Dates:

?   Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission: 15 February 2016

?   Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2016

?   Final version of accepted paper: 15 March 2016

?   Workshop: 24 May 2016.

Author Information

1500-2000 words extended abstracts are needed at first for submission. The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the LREC main conference by ELRA. For these, the instructions of LREC need to be followed. The submission will be via the START conference system - a link will follow shortly.

A journal special issue in a related journal is planned for inviting the best papers, but remaining open to further submissions.

Further, a best paper award will be given.

Submissions of extended abstracts need to be made at https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/ETHI-CA/.

Workshop Description:

ETHI-CA²?s focus spans ethical aspects around the entire processing pipeline from speech and language as well as multimodal resource collection and annotation to system development and application.

In the recent time of ever-more collection ?in the wild? of individual and personal multimodal and ?sensorial ?Big Data?, crowd-sourced annotation by large groups of individuals with often unknown reliability and high subjectivity, and ?deep? and autonomous learning with limited transparency of what is being learnt, and how applications such as in health or robotics depending on such data may behave, ethics have become more crucial than ever in the field of language and multimodal resources making it a key concern of the LREC community. There is, however, a surprising if not shocking white spot in the landscape of workshops, special session, or journal special issues in this field, which ETHI-CA² aims to fill in.

The goal is thus to connect individuals ranging across LREC?s fields of interest s uch as human-machine and ?robot and computer-mediated human-human interaction and communication, affective, behavioural, and social computing whose work touches on crucial ethical issues (e.g., privacy, tracability, explainability, evaluation, responsibility, etc.). According systems increasingly interact with and exploit data of humans of all ranges (e.g., children, adults, vulnerable populations) including non-verbal and verbal data occurring in a variety of real-life contexts (e.g., at home, the hospital, on the phone, in the car, classroom, or public transportation) and act as assistive and partially instructive technologies, companions, and/or commercial or even decision making systems. Obviously, an immense responsibility lies at the different ends from data recording, labelling, and storage to its processing and usage.

Motivation:

Emerging interactive systems have changed the way we connect with our machines, modifying how we socialize, our reasoning capabilities, and our behavior. These areas inspire critical questions centering on the ethics, the goals, and the deployment of innovative products that can change our lives and society. - Many current systems operate on private user data, including identifiable information, or data that provides insight into an individual?s life routine. The workshop will provide discussions of user consent and the notion of informed data collection. - Cloud-based storage systems have grown in popularity as the scope of user-content and user-generated content has greatly increased in size. The workshop will provide discussions on best practices for data annotation and storage and evolving views on data ownership. - Systems have become increasingly capable of mimicking human behavior through research in affective computing. These systems have pr ovided demonstrated utility, for interactions with vulnerable populations (e.g., the elderly, children with autism). The workshop will provide discussions on considerations for vulnerable populations. - The common mantra for assistive technology is, ?augmenting human care, rather than replacing human care.? It is critical that the community anticipates this shift and understands the implication of machine-in-the-loop diagnostic and assessment strategies.

Topics of Interest:

Topics include, but are not limited to:

?   Ethics in recording of private content

?   Ethics in multimodal, sensorial data collection

?   Ethics in annotation (crowd-sourced) of private data

?   Data storage/sharing/anonymization

?   Transparency in Machine Learning

?   Ethics in Affective, Behavioural, and Social Computing

?   Responsibility in Educational Software and Serious Games

?   Human-machine interaction for vulnerable populations

?   Computer-mediated Human-Human Communication

?   Responsibility in Decision-Support based on Data

?   The role of assistive technology in health care

Summary of the Call:

The ETHI-CA² 2016 workshop is crucially needed first edition in a planned for longer series. The goal of the workshop is to connect individuals ranging across LREC?s fields of interest such as human-machine and ?robot and computer-mediated human-human interaction and communication, affective, behavioural, and social computing whose work touches on crucial ethical issues (e.g., privacy, tracability, explainability, evaluation, responsibility, etc.). These areas inspire critical questions centering on the ethics, the goals, and the deployment of innovative products that can change our lives and consequently, society. It is critical that our notion of ethical principles evolves with the design of technology. As humans put increasing trust in systems, we must understand how best to protect privacy, explain what information the systems record, the implications of these recordings, what a system can learn about a user, what a third party could learn by gaining access to the data, changes in human behavior resulting from the presence of the system, and many other factors. It is important that technologists and ethicists maintain a conversation over the development and deployment lifecycles of the technology. The ambition of this workshop is to collect the main ethics, goals and societal impact questions of our community including experts in sociology, psychology, neuroscience or philosophy. At LREC 2016, the workshop shall encourage a broad range of its community?s researchers to reflect about and exchange on ethical issues inherent in their research, providing an environment in which ethics co-evolve with technology.

Organizing Committee:

?   Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne University, France, laurence.devillers@limsi.fr

?   Björn Schuller, Imperial College London, UK/University of Passau, Germany, schuller@IEEE.org

?   Emily Mower Provost, University of Michigan, USA, emilykmp@umich.edu

?   Peter Robinson, University Cambridge, UK, pr10@cam.ac.uk

?   Joseph Mariani, IMMI/LIMSI-CNRS/University Paris-Saclay, France, Joseph.Mariani@limsi.fr

Contact: Laurence Devillers
 

Program Committee:

Gilles Adda, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Jean-Yves Antoine, University of Tours, France
Nick Campbell, TCD, Ireland
Raja Chatila, ISIR-CNRS, France
Alain Couillault, GFII, France
Anna Esposito, UNINA, Italy
Karen Fort, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, UPMC, France
Alexei Grinbaum, CEA, France
Hatice Gunes, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, Netherlands
François Hirsch, INSERM, France
Christophe Leroux, CEA, France
Catherine Tessier, ONERA, France
Isabelle Trancoso, INESC, Portugal

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3-3-6(2016-05-27) 1st International Seminar on Voicing in Speech Production and Perception

1st International Seminar on Voicing in Speech Production and Perception (ISVSPP 2016)

May 27, 2016  Aveiro, Portugal

The University of Aveiro, Portugal, is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 1st International Seminar on Voicing in Speech Production and Perception (ISVSPP 2016) on the the 27th of May 2016.

A webpagewhere all details about ISVSPP 2016 is now up and running.

Registration is now open

Register and book your accommodation early  in order to get the best deals in our local hotels. Aveiro is a beautiful small city, so why not book an extra day to explore our wonderful city?
 
This year's program theme is 'Articulatory functioning of the larynx - A Day with Professor John Esling'and includes the following invited speakers: 

The ISVSPP seminars aim to bring together senior and junior scientists working in the multidisciplinary ?eld of Speech Production and Perception, ensuring direct and informal interaction between all participants.
The conference program will include keynotes and ample opportunities to discuss participants' own research

Registration will include lunch and a coffee break.

The venue is the School of Health Sciences at the University of Aveiro?s Campus de Santiago, overlooking the Aveiro lagoon, which is renowned internationally for its many buildings designed by famous Portuguese architects, only a short distance from the city centre.
 
Join us for a day with Professor John Esling, THINK speech production and perception for a day, let yourself be engaged and involved in Professor John Esling's unique lecturing style, with various opportunities for informal discussions with the invited speakers, and perhaps take a short break over the weekend at this unique coastal region we call Aveiro.
 
Luis M. T. Jesus
(General Chair)
University of Aveiro, Portugal
 
 
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3-3-7(2016-06-06) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR 2016, New York, USA

ACM ICMR 2016,  New York, USA
International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
http://www.icmr2016.com/

*** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ***

ACM ICMR-2016 is the premier conference for multimedia information retrieval. We are
seeking high quality and original papers that address novel problems and explore
innovative technical approaches for multimedia retrieval that are of interest to a broad
community of multimedia scientists, engineers, practitioners, and students. Of particular
interest are contributions that investigate multimedia retrieval in practice including
challenges related scale, effectiveness, efficiency, multi-modal integration, user
interfaces and multimedia retrieval deployment across a range of industries. We
particularly welcome contributions on the following topics:

. Multimedia content extraction, analysis and indexing
. Multimedia content-based search and retrieval
. Multimedia semantic modeling, taxonomies, ontologies, facets
. Multi-modal integration (audio, visual, text, metadata)
. Multimedia machine learning, deep learning, neural nets
. Relevance feedback, active learning and transfer learning
. Audio-visual feature design and evaluation
. Multimedia retrieval metrics, data sets and evaluation
. Social media, crowdsourcing and tagging
. Large-scale multimedia indexing and search
. Multimedia analysis/search acceleration: GPU, FPGA, etc.
. Solutions: video repositories, smart albums, media sharing, media
personalization, content management
. Industry applications: medicine, retail, travel, media and entertainment, Web,
advertising, fashion, security


***IMPORTANT DATES***

* FULL PAPERS and SHORT PAPERS
* TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATIONS
        Paper Submission: January 29, 2016 11:59 PM PST
        Notification of Acceptance: March 25, 2016

* BRAVE NEW IDEAS PAPERS
* DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
        Paper Submission: February 12, 2016 11:59 PM PST
        Notification of Acceptance: March 25, 2016

* GRAND CHALLENGE PROPOSALS
* SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS
        Special session paper submission: January 29, 2016
        Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2016

* WORKSHOPS PROPOSALS
        Proposal for a Workshop due: January 5, 2016
        Proposal acceptance:: January 14, 2016
        Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2016
        Workshop Paper Notification: March 25, 2016

* TUTORIALS PROPOSALS
        Proposal for a Tutorial due: February 12, 2016
        Decision for Tutorials proposals: February 26, 2016

Details of each track are available on the conference website
http://www.icmr2016.com/call.html

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3-3-8(2016-06-09) 19th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2016), University Sorbonne-Nouvelle - Paris III, France

19th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2016)

June 9th and 10th, 2016

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

268, Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3) offer junior researchers preparing for a master's or a doctorate degree, as

well as post-doctorates, the opportunity to present their work in paper or poster sessions.

Language alterity: strategies of adaptation and appropriation

In a now classic book, The Mirror of Herodotus, François Hartog (1980) proposed an analysis of Herodotus’

discourse developed on Scythians. By describing the 'rhetoric of alterity', through which the Greek historian managed

to 'inscribe the world which is told into the world where it is told', he distinguished several ways to make the foreigner

comprehensible in his own language: inversion, comparison and wonder.

By continuing this reflection, we would like to invite participants to explore the strategies through which one

makes place for alterity within one’s language and one’s discourse. Alterity, that is, the nature of what is perceived as

different, foreign, and sometimes even strange, is a necessary focus in the construction of identities (Ferréol & Jucquois,

2003). How can I negotiate this difference, how can I make it familiar or at least comprehensible in my language?

Several strategies can operate in parallel or in opposite ways.

The strategies of appropriation and adaptation are both opposite and complementary. Repetition, interpretation,

citation, transcription, reformulation, translation and foreign language learning are included.

From an epistemological point of view, alterity doesn’t always have the same place in linguistic theories

(Dufaye & Gournay, 2010). From dialogal speech to bakhtinian dialogism, from interdiscourse to the concept of costatement,

alterity takes different forms. We can think of the researches inscribed in the lineage of Michel Pêcheux

(Maldidier, 1990) on discourse analysis, on discursive constraints in which the subject products his discourse, more

broadly on the notion of 'interdiscourse', which shows the discourse through the collective. Works on pragmatics of

discourse (Ducrot, 1980) also conceive the later as built by several people.

The theme of language alterity, from a discourse perspective, also invites us to consider research on alterity

inherent to the subject. Starting from research on reported speech, the problem of cleaved subject and its syntactic

marks can be raised, especially if one thinks about the notion of 'constitutive heterogeneity' elaborated by Jacqueline

Authier-Revuz (1982), which is fully integrated into the proposed themes.

However, the concept of alterity can be expanded to other fields in language sciences. How can a translation be

faithful to the original text when the expressions or the imagination of the target language differ? How can a recognition

system work when a non-standard variant is used? How do learners build their linguistic identities when they are in

contact with the other? These questions are just a sample of those the researchers in language sciences may have when

facing the problem of alterity.

Alterity is also a transversal subject which is related to the way that the speaker encounters the thought, the

language, the discourse and the culture of the other (Bornand & Leguy, 2013). The confrontation with a distant

language, whether the distance is cultural, geographical or chronological, imposes some choices which can lead to the

loss or creation of components (Chauvier, 2011). How can we observe the impact of alterity on a language, individual,

or community?

All of these theoretical approaches allow the researchers in language sciences to gather around a common

problematic. The participants can consider the language in all its media (oral, written, sign language).

Bibliography :

Authier-Revuz, J. (1982). Hétérogénéité montrée et hétérogénéité constitutive, éléments pour une approche de l'autre

dans le discours. In DRLAV, n°26, pp.91-151.

Authier-Revuz, J. (1995). Ces mots qui ne vont pas de soi : Boucles réflexives et non-coïncidences du dire. Paris :

Larousse.

Bakhtine, M. (1978). Esthétique et théorie du roman. Paris : Gallimard.

Bakhtine, M. (1984). Esthétique de la création verbale. Paris : Gallimard.

Bornand, S. & Leguy, C. (2013). Anthropologie des pratiques langagières. Paris : Armand Colin.

Chauvier, E. (2011). Anthropologie de l’ordinaire : une conversion du regard. Toulouse : Anacharsis.

Ducrot, O. (1980). Le Dire et le Dit. Paris : Minuit.

Dufaye, L. & Gournay, L. (2010). L’altérité dans les théories de l’énonciation. Paris/Gap : Ophrys.

Ferréol, G. & Jucquois, G. (2003). Dictonnaire de l’altérité et des relations interculturelles. Paris : Armand Colin.

Hartog, F. (1980). Le Miroir d'Hérodote. Essai sur la représentation de l'autre. Paris : Gallimard.

Maldidier, D. (1990). L’inquiétude du discours : textes de Michel Pêcheux. Paris : Cendres.

Scientific committee:

Martine ADDA DECKER, José Ignacio AGUILAR RIO, Angélique AMELOT, Jacqueline AUTHIER-REVUZ,

Michelle AUZANNEAU, Jean-Claude BEACCO, Eric BEAUMATIN, Irmtraud BEHR, Violaine BIGOT, Philippe

BOULA DE MAREUIL, Maria CANDEA, Jean-Louis CHISS, Francine CICUREL, Jeanne-Marie DEBAISIEUX,

Didier DEMOLIN, Christine DEPREZ, Martine DERIVRY, Claire DOQUET, Serge FLEURY, Jean-Marie

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

Anna GHIMENTON, Yana GRINSHPUN, Jean-Patrick GUILLAUME, Agnès HENRI, Frédéric ISEL, Raphaël

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

LEFEUVRE, Cécile LEGUY, Muriel MOLINIE, Catherine MULLER, Valélia MUNI TOKE, Samia NAIM, Jean-Paul

NARCY-COMBES, Gabriella PARUSSA, Claire PILLOT-LOISEAU, Konstantin POZDNIAKOV, Christian PUECH,

Nicolas QUINT, Christine RAGUET, Sandrine REBOUL-TOURE, Patrick RENAUD, Rachid RIDOUANE, Anne

SALAZAR ORVIG, Didier SAMAIN, Pollet SAMVELIAN, Dan SAVATOVSKY, Valérie SPAËTH, Sofia

STRATILAKI, Isabelle TELLIER, Jacqueline VAISSIERE, Andrea VALENTINI, Daniel VERONIQUE, Patricia VON

MÜNCHOW, Geneviève ZARATE.

Organizing committee:

Sophia AKESBI, Jean ARZOUMANOV, Emre BAYRAKTAR, Marie-Amélie BOTALLA, Carla CAMPOS

CASCALES, Jacopo D'ALONZO, Nada DAOU, Paola GAMBOA DIAZ, Shahrzad KESHVARIRAD, Mathilde

MECHLING, Shima MOALLEMI, Coraline PRADEAU, Magali RUET, Bowei SHAO, Komi SIMNARA, Marco

STEFANELLI, Lucien TISSERAND, Amandine WATTELIER-BRICOUT, Jane WOTTAWA, Yaru WU.

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

Free admission.

Participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

Important dates :

Submission deadline : January 31st, 2016

Notification of acceptance : end of March 2016

Conference dates : June 9th and 10th, 2016

Corrected article deadline : 30 June 2016

Conference location:

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

Address: 19, rue des Bernardins - 75005 PARIS

Public transportation : Metro : Maubert Mutualité (line 10) ; Bus: 24, 47, 63, 86, 87 ; RER : Saint Michel (B and C

lines)

Presentations:

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

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

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

Submission :

Paper submissions are to be sent by e-mail to the following address: rjc-ed268@univ-paris3.fr, before January 31st,

2016.

The e-mail message should specify:

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

University affiliation;

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

Research supervisor(s);

Research field(s) of the submitted paper;

Title of the submitted paper.

Submissions are to be sent in the form of an article, in an attached .rtf file named “rjc2016_NAME.rtf” (eg:

“rjc2016_SMITH.rtf”). This file should contain only the following information:

Title of the submitted paper;

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

5 keywords in French, the same keywords in English;

For oral presentations: a 6 to 8-page article (25 000 characters maximum, spaces included) ; for posters: a 5-

page article (15 000 characters maximum, spaces included);

Bibliography.

The format of the article should be as follows:

Times New Roman 12 pt font;

1,5 line spacing;

2,5 cm margins at all edges;

justified left and right;

headings: Times New Roman 12 pt, bold, using a hierarchical numbering (1. ; 1.1. ; 1.1.1) and no more than 3

heading levels.

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

Only one submission will be examined for each participant.

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

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

The organizing committee reserves the right to refuse an article that would not meet the conference’s scientific

requirements after correction.

Publication:

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

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

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3-3-9(2016-06-10) Journée d'étude Regards croisés sur la voix, Strasbourg, France

Vendredi 10 juin de 9h00 à 18h

Journée d’étude

Regards Croisés sur la Voix

Salle Ourisson Institut Le Bel (Campus Esplanade)

Université de Strasbourg

4, rue Blaise Pascal 67000 STRASBOURG

(N°44 sur le plan, encadré rouge)

Arrêt Observatoire Tram C, E et F

 

Organisateurs : Ivana DIDIRKOVA, Camille FAUTH, Fabrice HIRSCH, Jean-François RODIER, Rudolph SOCK, Béatrice VAXELAIRE, Ming XIU

 

La participation à la journée est gratuite mais l’inscription est souhaitée avant le 3 juin 2016 : http://goo.gl/forms/ZavMR7DEIJ

 

9h00

Accueil

9h20

Ouverture

9h30

Cécile Merckel

Centre d'Analyse des Rhétoriques Religieuses de l'Antiquité – EA 3094 - Université de Strasbourg

Que disent les textes anciens sur la voix ?

10h00

Angélique Remacle

Gipsa-Lab, Département parole et cognition, Grenoble & Unité logopédie de la voix, Université de Liège.

Le repos vocal: état actuel des connaissances et indications thérapeutiques

10h30

Marie-Pascale Diebolt

Orthophoniste

Comment bien utiliser sa voix ? la rééducation vocale avec l'orthophoniste

11h00

Pause

11h20

Dr Marie-Madeleine Eliot

ORL Phoniatre

Traitement des troubles de la voix après thyroïdectomie

11h40

Melissa Barkat-Defradas

ISE-M – Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution UMR 5554 – CNRS – Université Montpellier 2 – France

La raucité, nouvel esthétique vocal ?

12h10

Déjeuner libre

14h15

Claire Pillot-Loiseau

UMR 7018 - Laboratoire de phonétique et phonologie (LPP) Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3

Voix chantée: extrêmes possibles ou dommageables pour la phonation ?

14h45

Yohann Meynadier

LPL, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence

Intelligibilité et chuchotement : le cas du voisement

15h15

Thomas Pellegrini

IRIT UMR 5505, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier

La parole « non-standard » : un défi pour les outils de traitement automatique de la parole

15h45

Benoit Amy de la Bretecque

Praticien attaché des Hôpitaux Publics de Marseille et Montpellier, docteur en sciences du langage

Couplage, serrage et rééducation

16h15

Pause

16h30

Jean-François Rodier

Chirurgien-Groupe Hospitalier Saint Vincent-Clinique Sainte Anne-Strasbourg

Intégrité vocale après thyroïdectomie : critère de qualité chirurgicale ou objectif intangible ?

17h00

Elisabeth Peri-Fontaa

ORL Phoniatre

Les troubles de la voix après chirurgie thyroïdienne

17h20

Ming Xiu & Camille Fauth

IPS & Parole et Cognition – E.A. 1339 LiLPa – Université de Strasbourg

Qualité vocale et Evaluation après thyroïdectomie avec et sans atteinte de la mobilité laryngée

17h50

Clôture




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3-3-10(2016-06-15) CfP 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Bucharest, Romania (Extended deadline)

CBMI 2016
14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
June 15-17 2016, Bucharest, Romania
http://cbmi2016.upb.ro/
https://www.facebook.com/CBMI2016
https://twitter.com/cbmi16


*********************************
*** Call for papers and demos ***
*********************************

Submission deadlines: February 15th, 2016 (extended)
* Full/short papers
* Special session on Deep Learning for Multimedia Indexing
* Special session on Multimedia Indexing for eLearning
* Special session on CBMI for Healthcare

Submission deadline: February 29th, 2016
* Demo papers

Following the thirteen successful previous events of CBMI, the 14th
International CBMI Workshop aims at bringing together the various
communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for
retrieval, browsing, visualization and analytics.

The scientific program of CBMI 2016 will include invited keynote talks and
regular, special and demo sessions with contributed research papers.

Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers
in the broad field of content-based multimedia indexing and
applications. In addition to multimedia and social media search and
retrieval, we wish to highlight related and equally important issues
that build on content-based indexing, such as multimedia content
management, user interaction and visualization, media analytics, etc.

Topics include  (but are not limited to):

? Audio and visual and multimedia indexing;
? Multimodal and cross-modal indexing;
? Deep learning for multimedia indexing;
? Visual content extraction;
? Audio (speech, music, etc) content extraction;
? Identification and tracking of semantic regions and events;
? Social media analysis;
? Metadata generation, coding and transformation;
? Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text);
? Mobile media retrieval;
? Event-based media processing and retrieval;
? Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval;
? Multimedia data mining and analytics;
? Multimedia recommendation;
? Large scale multimedia database management;
? Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content;
? Personalization and content adaptation;
? User interaction and relevance feedback;
? Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools;
? Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems;
? Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, lifelogs,
satellite imagery, video surveillance.

Authors are invited to submit full length (6 pages - to be presented as
oral presentation) and short papers (4 pages - to be presented as
posters). The submissions are peer reviewed in a single blind process.

The CBMI proceedings will be indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and
ACM DL. In addition, authors of selected papers of the conference will
be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a
special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (MTAP).

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3-3-11(2016-07-02) HackaTAL 2016, Paris France

HackaTAL 2016
(hackathon dans le domaine du TAL)

 

Sujet : recherche d?information (détection d?évènements sportifs et développement de
chatbot)
Thématique : Euro 2016
Site web : http://hackatal.github.io/2016/
Dates : 2-3-4 juillet 2016
Lieu : Google Paris (8 rue de Londres, Paris 9ème)
Inscription (gratuite mais obligatoire) : http://goo.gl/forms/qVHC5KMPn0

DESCRIPTION

Dans le cadre de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016 aura lieu la première édition
de HackaTAL, un hackathon sur des problématiques liées au TAL. L?objectif est de réunir
la communauté autour de données et de briques logicielles pour échanger, modéliser,
prototyper, coder, implémenter, développer, expérimenter, tester, évaluer? et bien plus
encore !

Les tâches proposées concernent la détection d?évènement et l?implémentation de système
de gestion de dialogue. La thématique retenue est l?Euro 2016 (qui a lieu du 10 juin au
10 juillet), ce qui permettra d?apporter un cas d?application pratique, des données
(Twiter et structurées) et pourrait également rendre possible des expériences en
quasi-temps-réel.

TÂCHES

1. Détection d?évènements

Description

Détection d?évènements et/ou de faits saillants liés à la compétition sportive à partir
de tweets collectés dans différentes langues (français, anglais et arabe). L?objectif est
de de mettre en place des approches innovantes de détection d?évènements dont les
expérimentations et résultats seront discutés lors de l?atelier TALN (le 4 juillet). Les
évènements extraits peuvent être liés au sport en lui-même (composition d?équipes,
résultats de matches, etc.) ou satellites (scandales, rumeurs, suspicion de triche ou de
dopage, insultes).

Sous tâches

- prétraitements et annotation des tweets (entités, relations, citations, opinions, etc.),
- classification non-supervisée des tweets (clustering),
- détection supervisée ou non d?évènements,
- visualisation graphique des tweets et évènements détectés.

2. Gestion de dialogues

Description

Développer un assistant dialogique répondant à des requêtes en langue naturelle sur le
domaine du football et de l?euro 2016. L?objectif est d?implémenter des agents
conversationnels simples (chatbots) qui interagissent avec des humains et peuvent
déclencher des actions sur la plateforme (obtenir des informations sur les matches,
équipes et joueurs, jouer des vidéos, avertir lors de faits marquants). Ils s?appuieront
sur toute base de donnée structurée disponible décrivant la compétition et les évènements
qui y sont liés.

Sous tâches

- developpement d?interfaces web pour l?interaction,
- traitements TAL de l?entrée utilisateur avec une visée de compréhension (NLU),
- implémentation du module de gestion du dialogue (état, interaction, transitions),
- implémentation du module de génération de texte.

PRIX SYSTRAN

Un prix sera décerné à l?issue du HackaTAL pour récompenser les approches les plus
innovantes et/ou performantes.

PLANNING PRÉVISIONNEL

Cet évènement se tiendra du 2 au 4 juillet 2016 et se focalisera sur le traitement des
données et l?implémentation de prototypes.

Samedi 2 juillet (Google, Paris 9ème)

    14h-15h : présentation du hackathon, café
    15h-16h : échanges, constitution des équipes, précisions sur les objectifs
    16h-20h : développements en équipes
    20h-21h : pause repas
    21h-00h : développements en équipes

Dimanche 3 juillet (Google, Paris 9ème)

    09h-10h : accueil, café
    10h-12h : développements en équipes
    12h-13h : pause repas
    13h-14h : présentation des premiers résultats
    14h-19h : développements en équipes

Lundi 4 juillet (Inalco, Paris 13ème)

    14h-17h : présentation des résultats, discussions, remise de prix

ORGANISATION PRATIQUE

BYOD (amenez votre ordinateur)
Pas de critères pour participer, HackaTAL est ouvert à tous !
Aucune préparation n?est requise de la part des participants en amont de l?évènement.
Données et briques logicielles à disposition en ligne : https://github.com/HackaTAL/2016

ORGANISATEURS
- Jasmine Anteunis (Recast)
- Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis (LIMSI)
- Joseph Le Roux (LIPN)
- Djamel Mostefa (Systran)
- Damien Nouvel (ERTIM)
- Alexander Pak (Google)
- Hicham Tahiri (Vocal Apps)
- Nadi Tomeh (LIPN)
- Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI)

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3-3-12(2016-07-04) 5ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française, Tours, France

 

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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3-3-13(2016-07-04) CfP Atelier JEP « la voix à la barre »

Appel à posters

Atelier « la voix à la barre »

JEP-TALN-RECITAL, Paris le 4 juillet 2016.

Dans l’esprit du grand public mais aussi chez nombre de chercheurs en
communication parlée, la reconnaissance automatique du locuteur et la
comparaison de voix sont confondus, tant en termes de problématiques
scientifiques qu’en termes d’applications pratiques. Pourtant ces deux
aspects divergent significativement !

La reconnaissance automatique du locuteur (RAL) est un domaine très bien
représenté dans les grandes conférences et bénéficie de campagnes
d’évaluation internationales de grande ampleur depuis 1996. Elle propose
des applications comme la signature de transaction électroniques pour
lesquelles le critère principal de mise en œuvre est le ratio financier
bénéfice/coût obtenu par l’opérateur concerné.

La comparaison de voix relève du domaine de l’expertise judiciaire. Elle
consiste à évaluer la potentialité pour qu’un enregistrement vocal ait
été prononcé par une personne donnée. Les enjeux touchent ici le citoyen
et ses libertés fondamentales. Très demandée dans les tribunaux, la
comparaison de voix est néanmoins peu traitée dans la littérature et
constituer des bases de données adaptées à cette question est difficile.

L’objectif premier de cet atelier est triple : montrer les
particularités de ces deux domaines, leurs différences et leurs liens ;
faire le point sur l’état de l’art de la RAL ; Réfléchir en commun à la
question de la comparaison de voix en général et des répercussions des
progrès réalisés en RAL en particulier.

Le second objectif est plus simple : créer l’occasion de faire dialoguer
sur le thème de l’usage de la comparaison de voix à des fins judiciaires
les communautés du traitement automatique de la parole et de la
phonétique ainsi que magistrats, avocats et experts. Notre volonté est
de faciliter ainsi l’émergence de travaux communs.

La matinée de cet atelier sera consacrée à la reconnaissance automatique
du locuteur. Elle se focalisera sur les trois points suivants :

1.Reconnaissance automatique du locuteur : Principes et Etat de l’art
(avec un focus sur les paramètres acoustiques et les modèles)

 2. Reconnaissance automatique du locuteur : Evaluation de la performance
 3. Reconnaissance automatique du locuteur : Quelle démarche
    scientifique pour un progrès des connaissances ?

L’après-midi abordera la thématique des usages de la comparaison de voix
dans les tribunaux en donnant la parole aux différents acteurs du domaine :

1.Point de vue du juge et de l’avocat

2.Point de vue de l’expert

3.Point de vue du scientifique

Chacun des points constitutifs de la journée sera introduit par un ou
deux invités puis enrichi par une à trois interventions de cinq minutes
de participants sélectionnés par cet appel. Un temps libre de discussion
de 30 minutes sera organisé en fin de chaque série de trois points
pendant lequel les participants sélectionnés pourront approfondir leur
point de vue et échanger autour de leur poster.

La journée se clôturera par une discussion de synthèse mettant en
évidence les perspectives de collaborations des différentes communautés.
Les actes de cet atelier seront la compilation des résumés des
interventions et la synthèse faite par l’équipe d’animation.

Les participants à l’atelier doivent, s’ils souhaitent communiquer lors
de l’événement, proposer un résumé de leur communication par affiche
avant le 5 Mai 2015. Ce résumé doit comporter au maximum 800 mots. Si
leur communication est acceptée, ils devront envoyer aux organisateurs
de l’atelier pour le 15 Juin 2015 de une diapositive servant de support
à leur intervention.

Mode de soumission : résumé sur EasyChair

Date de soumission : 5 Mai 2015

Date d’acceptation : 20 Mai 2015

Comité de programme :

·Jean-François Bonastre (Université d’Avignon)

·Juliette Kahn (Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais)

·Anthony Larcher (Université du Maine)

·Guillaume Gravier (INRIA)

·Yohann Meynadier (Laboratoire Parole et Langage)

·Jean-Yves Borel (Avocat, Professeur Associé Université d’Avignon)

·Bertrand Sayn (Avocat)

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3-3-14(2016-07-06) International Workshop on Sensing, Processing and Learning for Intelligent Machines (SPLINE 2016), Aalborg, Denmark
International Workshop on Sensing, Processing and Learning for Intelligent Machines (SPLINE 2016)
July6-8,2016 Aalborg,Denmark
 
Call for Papers
Machines are playing an ever-increasing role in how we conduct our daily lives and business, and this trend is certainly not expected to slow down any time soon. Intelligent machines and robots penetrate into every corner of our environments, and interlink humans, physical and digital worlds. Key scientific areas include sensing, signal and data processing, and machine learning. These areas are challenging, but exciting ones, and require bringing together several central technologies in a harmonious way. It is therefore not surprising that interest in these areas has surged in recent years, and activities are now very high.
This workshop aims at creating a forum for researchers and engineers from a wide variety of disciplines related to creating intelligent machines and robots. We encourage contributions that will bring state-of-the-art forward, and facilitate an active and constructive exchange of ideas on current areas of interest. The workshop will feature keynote speeches, industrial talks, invited presentations and presentations with full paper submissions, and demos.
 
Scope
We invite previously unpublished manuscripts directly targeting the following areas: sensing and processing, machine learning and pattern recognition, social and service robots, big data, biometrics and de-identification. The scope includes, but is not limited to:
  •  Sensing Technology
  • ? Audio and Speech Processing
  • ? Computer Vision and Image Processing
  • ? Signal Processing
  • ? Data Science and Big Data
  • ? Recommender Systems
  • ? Pattern Recognition and
  •  Machine Learning
  •  Deep Learning
  • ? Artificial Intelligence
  • ? Perceptual Models
  • ? Social and Service Robots
  • ? Human-Robot Interaction
  • ? Biometrics, Soft-Biometrics and
  •  De-identification
  • ? Privacy Protection
Important dates
Full-Paper submission deadline: 8 April 
Paper acceptance notification: 2 May 
Camera-ready paper submissions and registration deadline for authors: 15 May
 
 
For paper submission please follow
 
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3-3-15(2016-07-11) Lexicom 2016 (Vienna, Austria)
 
Workshop in Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics and Lexical Computing
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, July 11th-15th 2015


Lexicom is a five-day intensive workshop created by the 
Lexicography MasterClass.  Seminars on theoretical issues alternate with hands-on work using a range of corpus-analysis and other software tools. Working in small groups or individually, you will learn how to develop dictionaries and other lexical resources, from the creation and annotation of corpora to the planning, design and writing of lexical entries. This is the workshop's sixteenth year and we now have over 400 graduates, from all parts of the world: reviews of previous events can be found here.
It will be led by Michael Rundell, Milos Jakubicek and Vojtech Kovar

In 2016, there will be two Lexicom workshops: one in Europe and one in the US. For details of both events, and registration, go to http://www.lexmasterclass.com/

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3-3-16(2016-07-12) Workshop at the Digital Humanities Conference DH2016, Krakow, Poland
*Call for Abstracts*
Audiovisual data and digital scholarship: towards multimodal literacy
Workshop at the Digital Humanities Conference DH2016, Krakow, Poland
Date: 12 July 2016
 
*Workshop Overview*
This full-day workshop will start with a keynote address on multimodal literacy by Dr. Claire Clivaz, Head of Digital Enhanced Learning at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics of Lausanne and active in #dariahTeach for which she is Head of dissemination and developer of the module Multimodal Literacies. This keynote will be followed by three sessions of paper presentations based around three themes:
-Models for training digital humanists in accessing and analyzing audiovisual collections
-Analysis and discovery models for audiovisual materials
-Copyright and sustainability
During the fourth session, workshop participants can give very short lightning talks/project pitches of max 5 minutes of ongoing work, projects or plans. Registration for this session will take place during the workshop so no submission is needed for part of the workshop. The workshop will be closed with a plenary & interactive session.
                       
*Submission Details*
The workshop organisers invite abstracts (max 500 words)  that deal with the aforementioned issues and that can be presented in one of the three sessions.
To submit an abstract, please send a docx or pdf file to avindhworkshop@gmail.com before May 1 2016.
Accepted abstracts will be published  on the website of the AVinDH Special Interest Group.
 
*Important Dates*
Deadline submission: 1 May 2016 23:59 CET
Date for notifications: 15 May 2016
Workshop date: 12 July 2016
 
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3-3-17(2016-07-13) LabPhon15: Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA

LabPhon15: Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation

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

 

Abstract submission is now open for the 15th conference on Laboratory Phonology. LabPhon15 will feature oral sessions that are primarily thematic (see below) as well as poster sessions. Submissions on any aspect of laboratory phonology are welcome.

 

Student submissions are particularly encouraged. Reduced registration fees will be available for all students, and a number of student travel grants will be awarded.

 

The abstract submission deadline is midnight December 1, any time zone. All abstracts must be submitted through EasyChair (via the LabPhon15 website) between October 1 and December 1, 2015.


Thematic sessions

 

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?

Invited Speaker: Khalil Iskarous, University of Southern California
Invited Discussant: Elizabeth Zsiga, Georgetown University

 

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?

Invited Speaker: Meghan Sumner, Stanford University
Invited Discussant: Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury

 

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?

Invited Speaker: Yiya Chen, Leiden University
Invited Discussant: Martine Grice, University of Cologne

 

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?

Invited Speaker: Matthew Goldrick, Northwestern University
Invited Discussant: Keith Johnson, University of California, Berkeley

 

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?

Invited Speaker: Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh
Invited Discussant: Stefan Frisch, University of South Florida

 

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?

Invited Speaker: Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow

Invited Discussant: Erik Thomas, North Carolina State University

 

Abstract Submission

Deadline: December 1, 2015
Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2016

All abstracts must be submitted through EasyChair (via the LabPhon15 website,www.labphon.org/labphon15) between October 1 and midnight December 1 (any time zone).

 

Abstract submission guidelines:

  • Individuals may submit only one abstract as first or sole author.
  • Individuals may be a co-author on more than one abstract.
  • Submitted abstracts must be in .pdf format, with A4 or letter size (8.5 x 11 in.) page setting.
  • Abstracts may be up to 2 pages, including references and figures.
  • Include the paper title in the abstract.
  • Abstracts must have a minimum of 1-inch margins and 11 point font.
  • Authors are allowed (but not required) to include one or more figures in their abstract, but any figures should be clearly labeled and should be described in the abstract text.
  • The filename must be in the form 'Paper_title.pdf', or 'Paper_title_abbreviated.pdf'.
    For example: Longitudinal_study_long_distance_coarticulation.pdf.
  • Review of submitted abstracts is double-blind. Therefore, abstracts must be anonymous; author name(s) must not appear in the abstract or file name. Authors should check that no author name is in the document properties of the .pdf file.
  • During the submission process authors may identify which conference theme(s), if any, their submission relates to.
For more information, please visit LabPhon15 website (http://labphon.org/labphon15).

 

Please feel free to distribute and forward this announcement to your colleagues
and/or members of your institution/mailing-list.

We look forward to welcoming you to Ithaca!

 
Best,
LabPhon15 Organizing Committee
 

 

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3-3-18(2016-07-18) Summer Workshop eNTERFACE'16, Enschede, the Netherlands
Call for Participation eNTERFACE'16
University of Twente, DesignLab, Enschede, the Netherlands, 18 July - 12 Aug 2016
 
The Human Media Interaction group (HMI), University of Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands) invites researchers from all over the world to join eNTERFACE'16,  the 12th one-month Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces. During this workshop, senior project leaders, researchers, and students gather in one single place to work in teams on pre-specified challenges for 4 weeks long. Each team has a project defined and will address specific challenges. The list of projects that participants can choose from can be found here and in more detail on the website http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/enterface16/index.php/projects/
 
- A smell communication interface for affective systems (Adrian David Cheok, Emma Yann Zhang)
 
- CARAMILLA: Combining Language Learning and Conversation in a Relational Agent (Nick Campbell, Benjamin R. Cowan, Emer Gilmartin, Ketong Su)
 
- Collaborative serious gaming in augmented reality for motor function assessment (Marina Cidota, Stephan Lukosch)
 
- Development of low-cost portable hand exoskeleton for assistive and rehabilitation purposes (Matteo Bianchi, Francesco Fanelli)
 
- Embodied conversational interfaces for the elderly user (Marieke Peeters, Mark Neerincx)
 
- Heterogeneous Multi-Modal Mixing for Fluent Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction (Dennis Reidsma, Daniel Davison, Edwin Dertien)
 
- MOVACP: Monitoring computer Vision Applications in Cloud Platforms (Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi, Fabian Lecron)
 
- SCE in HMI: Social Communicative Events in Human Machine Interactions (Hüseyin Çakmak, Kevin El Haddad)
 
- The Roberta IRONSIDE project: A dialog capable humanoid personal assistant in a wheelchair for dependent persons (Hugues Sansen, Maria Inés Torres, Kristiina Jokinen, Gérard Chollet, Dijana Petrovska-Delacretaz, Atta Badii, Stephan Schlögl, Nick Campbell)
 
- The Virtual Human Journalist (Michel Valstar)
 
If you are a senior/junior researcher or a PhD/Master student working on similar topics and you want to collaborate in (at least) one of these projects, please submit your application (pdf) before 1st of April 2016 to enterface16@gmail.com. Your application should contain the following information:
 
1. A short CV.
2. A list of max. 3 preferred projects to work on. 
3. A short motivation and list of skills that you can offer to each of your projects selected.
4. It is expected that participants will attend the full workshop, i.e. for 4 weeks. However, we understand that this may not be possible for everyone. If you are not able to attend for the full 4 weeks, please indicate what days/weeks you will attend the workshop.
 
The project leaders will select their team members among the applicants. We will try to make sure that each participant can participate in their most preferred project. This partly depends on the number of available free spots in the team and the skills as requested by the project leaders.
 
The workshop attendance is free of charge but participants must fund their own travel, accommodation, and living expenses. More information about accommodation can be found on the eNTERFACE'16 website.
 
Important dates
1 April 2016 Call for participation is closed
10 April 2016 Teams are organized, notifications are sent to participants
18 July ? 12 August 2016: eNTERFACE'16 Workshop
 
Contact
Khiet Truong k dot p dot truong at utwente dot nl
 
Organization
Khiet Truong, Dennis Reidsma, Dirk Heylen, Vanessa Evers
Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
 
 
 
 
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3-3-19(2016-07-22) (CfPosters) ACM Symposium on Applied Perception - SAP 2016, Anaheim, USA

CALL FOR POSTERS

 

ACM Symposium on Applied Perception - SAP 2016

July 22-23, 2016, Anaheim, USA

 

Poster submission deadline: May 10

 

http://sap.acm.org/2016/cfp.php

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ACM SAP 2016 seeks poster submissions describing recently completed work, highly relevant works in progress, or relevant systems. A poster presentation is an opportunity for authors to display and discuss achievements that are not ready for publication or have not been published previously. The poster session is always an integral part of SAP with specific time allotted for participants to view and discuss the work. All poster presenters will have the opportunity to give a one-minute description of their work during a poster fast-forward session. Poster presentations are not formal publications. We encourage all types of scholarly poster submissions that fit the scope of ACM-SAP. Poster abstracts should follow the ACM SIGGRAPH formatting guidelines for papers, except that they should be 1 page long.

 

Our thirteenth annual event provides an intimate, immersive forum for exchanging ideas about areas of overlapping interests. The ACM SAP 2016 conference will be held in Anaheim, California on July 22nd and 23rd, immediately prior to the 43rd International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH). We aim to further promote communication between the core perception and computer graphics communities. Accordingly, the best posters will also be features at SIGGRAPH.

 

We invite submissions of original work in all areas of applied perception. Relevant areas include:

 

  - Modeling, rendering, and animation

  - Visualization

  - Computational aesthetics

  - Haptic rendering, haptic input and perception

  - Perception of virtual characters

  - Color vision and color appearance modeling

  - Perception of high dynamic range scenes and images

  - Interaction techniques and interfaces

  - Augmented reality

  - Virtual worlds

  - Display technologies

  - Auditory display and interfaces

  - Perceptual auditory coding

  - Spatialized sound

  - Speech synthesis and recognition

  - Sensory integration

  - Multimodal rendering

  - Spatial and temporal vision

  - Attention and eye movements

  - Statistical learning and perception of natural scenes

  - Perception of shapes, surfaces, and materials

 

Please refer to the call for posters (http://sap.acm.org/2016/cfp.php) for additional information, and for instructions how to submit.

 

DEADLINES

 

Posters:

  Tuesday, May 10: Poster submission deadline

  Tuesday, May 24: Decisions announced

  Tuesday, May 31: Camera ready version of 1-page abstract due

 

Organizers:

 

  Conference Chairs:

    Eakta Jain, University of Florida

    Sophie Joerg, Clemson University

 

  Program Chairs:

    Reynold Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology

    Laura Trutoiu, Oculus Research

 

  Poster Chair:

    Andrew Robb, Clemson University

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3-3-20(2016-08-11) ACL 2016 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning (CogACLL), Berlin, Germany
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              CogACLL 2016 - First Call For Papers
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ACL 2016 Workshop on
Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning (CogACLL)

 

               August 11, 2016
Berlin, Germany

 

 

Deadline for Long and Short Paper Submissions: May 8, 2016 (11:59pm GMT -12)
Deadline for System Demonstrations: May 29, 2016  (11:59pm GMT -12)   

 

This workshop is endorsed by SIGNLL, the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning of theAssociation for Computational Linguistics.
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The human ability to acquire and process language has long attracted interest and generated much debate due to the apparent ease with which such a complex and dynamic system is learnt and used on the face of ambiguity, noise and uncertainty. This subject raises many questions ranging from the nature vs. nurture debate of how much needs to be innate and how much needs to be learned for acquisition to be successful, to the mechanisms involved in this process (general vs specific) and their representations in the human brain. There are also developmental issues related to the different stages consistently found during acquisition (e.g. one word vs. two words) and possible organizations of this knowledge. These have been discussed in the context of first and second language acquisition and bilingualism, with crosslinguistic studies shedding light on the influence of the language and the environment.

 

The past decades have seen a massive expansion in the application of statistical and machine learning methods to natural language processing (NLP). This work has yielded impressive results in numerous speech and language processing tasks, including e.g. speech recognition, morphological analysis, parsing, lexical acquisition, semantic interpretation, and dialogue management. The good results have generally been viewed as engineering achievements. Recently researchers have begun to investigate the relevance of computational learning methods for research on human language acquisition and change.

 

The use of computational modeling is a relatively recent trend boosted by advances in machine learning techniques, and the availability of resources like corpora of child and child-directed sentences, and data from psycholinguistic tasks by normal and pathological groups. Many of the existing computational models attempt to study language tasks under cognitively plausible criteria (such as memory and processing limitations that humans face), and to explain the developmental stages observed in the acquisition and evolution of the language abilities. In doing so, computational modeling provides insight into the plausible mechanisms involved in human language processes, and inspires the development of better language models and techniques. These investigations are very important since if computational techniques can be used to improve our understanding of human language acquisition and change, these will not only benefit cognitive sciences in general but will reflect back to NLP and place us in a better position to develop useful language models.

 

Success in this type of research requires close collaboration between the NLP, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science communities. The workshop is targeted at anyone interested in the relevance of computational techniques for understanding first, second and bilingual language acquisition and language change in normal and clinical conditions. Long and short papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

 

*Computational learning theory and analysis of language learning and organization
*Computational models of first, second and bilingual language acquisition
*Computational models of language changes in clinical conditions
*Computational models and analysis of factors that influence language acquisition and use in different age groups and cultures
*Computational models of various aspects of language and their interaction effect in acquisition, processing and change
*Computational models of the evolution of language
*Data resources and tools for investigating computational models of human language processes
*Empirical and theoretical comparisons of the learning environment and its impact on language processes
*Cognitively oriented Bayesian models of language processes
*Computational methods for acquiring various linguistic information (related to e.g. speech, morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, and discourse) and their relevance to research on human language acquisition
*Investigations and comparisons of supervised, unsupervised and weakly-supervised methods for learning (e.g. machine learning, statistical, symbolic, biologically-inspired, active learning, various hybrid models) from a cognitive perspective

 

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SUBMISSIONS

 

We invite three different submission modalities:

 

* Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references):
 Long papers should report on original, solid and finished research
 including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques.

 

* Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references):
 Short papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions,
 ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.

 

* System demonstration (2 pages): System demonstration papers should
 describe and document the demonstrated system or resources. We
 encourage the demonstration of both early research prototypes and
 mature systems, that will be presented in a separate demo session.

 

All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the ACL 2016
formatting requirements.

 

We strongly advise the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template
files. For long and short papers, the reported research should
be substantially original. The papers will be presented orally or as
posters. The decision as to which paper will be presented orally
and which as poster will be made by the program committee based
on the nature rather than on the quality of the work.

 

Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information
should be included in the papers; self-reference should be
avoided as well. Papers that do not conform to these requirements
will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings, where no distinction will be made between
papers presented orally or as posters.

 

Submission and reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START system:

 

  

 

Submissions must be uploaded onto the START system by the submission deadline:

 

    May 8, 2016 (11:59pm GMT -12 hours)

 

Please choose the appropriate submission type from the START
submission page, according to the category of your paper.

 

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IMPORTANT DATES

 

May 8, 2016     Long and Short Paper submission deadline
May 29, 2016  System Demonstrations submission deadline
June 5, 2016      Notification of acceptance
June 22, 2016  Camera-ready deadline
August 11, 2016  Workshop

 

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

Dora Alexopoulou,  University of Cambridge (UK)
Afra Alishahi,  Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Colin Bannard, University of Liverpool (UK)
Philippe Blache, LPL-CNRS (France)    
Antal van den Bosch, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Chris Brew, Nuance Communications (USA)
Grzegorz Chrupa?a, Saarland University (Germany)
Alexander Clark,  Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)
Robin Clark,  University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Walter Daelemans,  University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Dan Dediu, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (The Netherlands)
Barry Devereux,  University of Cambridge (UK)
Emmanuel Dupoux, ENS - CNRS (France)
Afsaneh Fazly,  University of Toronto (Canada)
Marco Idiart,  Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Gianluca Lebani, University of Pisa (Italy)
Igor Malioutov,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Tim O'Donnel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Muntsa Padró, Nuance (Canada)
Lisa Pearl, University of California - Irvine (USA)
Ari Rappoport,  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Sabine Schulte im Walde,  University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge (UK)
Maity Siqueira,  Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Mark Steedman,  University of Edinburgh (UK)
Suzanne Stevenson,  University of Toronto (Canada)
Remi van Trijp, Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris (France)
Shuly Wintner,  University of Haifa (Israel)
Charles Yang,  University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Menno van Zaanen,  Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Alessandra Zarcone, Saarland University (Germany)

 

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT

 

Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy)
Brian Murphy (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Thierry Poibeau (LATTICE-CNRS, France)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

 

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email
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3-3-21(2016-08-23) SPECOM 2016, Budapest, Hungary

Call for papers

SPECOM 2016

 18th International Conference

on Speech and Computer

August 23-27, 2016 | Budapest, Hungary

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Rodmonga Potapova

Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia

General Conference Co-Chair

Andrey Ronzhin

SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia,

General Conference Co-Chair

Géza Németh

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Organising Committee Chair

THE CONFERENCE

The International Conference on Speech and Computer – SPECOM is a regular event organized since 1996 and attracts researchers in the area of computer speech processing, multimodal interfaces and applied systems for telecommunication, robotics, intelligent and cyberphysical environments.

ORGANIZERS

The conference is organized by Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Budapest, Hungary) and Scientific Association for Infocommunications (HTE, Hungary), in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia), St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Etienne Barnard, North-West University, South Africa

Laurent Besacier, Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, France

Vlado Delic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Olivier Deroo, Acapela Group, Belgium

Christoph Draxler, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Communication, Germany

Thierry Dutoit, University of Mons, Belgium

Nikos Fakotakis, University of Patras, Greece

Peter French, University of York, UK

Hiroya Fujisaki, University of Tokyo, Japan

Todor Ganchev, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria

Ruediger Hoffmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunication, Germany

Slobodan Jovicic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Dimitri Kanevsky, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA

Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Heysem Kaya, Bogazici University, Turkey

Irina Kipyatkova, SPIIRAS, Russia

Daniil Kocharov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

George Kokkinakis, University of Patras, Greece

Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Lin-shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Boris Lobanov, United Institute of Informatics Problems, Belarus

Elena Lyakso, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Konstantin Markov, The University of Aizu, Japan

Yuri Matveev, ITMO University, Russia

Péter Mihajlik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Konstantinos Moustakas, University of Patras, Greece

Iosif Mporas, University of Patras, Greece

Heinrich Niemann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Alexander Petrovsky, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus

Dimitar Popov, Bologna University, Italy

Elias Potamitis, University of Patras, Greece

Lawrence Rabiner, Rutgers University, USA

Gerhard Rigoll, Munich University of Technology, Germany

Murat Saraclar, Bogazici University, Turkey

Jesus Savage, University of Mexico, Mexico

Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Milan Secujski, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Pavel Skrelin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Viktor Sorokin, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russia

Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece

György Szaszák, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Klára Vicsi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Christian Wellekens, EURECOM, France

Csaba Zainkó, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Milos Zelezny, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic


TOPICS

The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of human-machine interaction, particularly:

 

▪ Applications for human-computer interaction

▪ Audio-visual speech processing

▪ Automatic language identification

▪ Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing

▪ Forensic speech investigations and security systems

▪ Multichannel signal processing

▪ Multimedia processing

▪ Multimodal analysis and synthesis

▪ Signal processing and feature extraction

▪ Speaker identification and diarization

▪ Speaker verification systems

▪ Speech and language resources

▪ Speech analytics and audio mining

▪ Speech dereverberation

▪ Speech driving systems in robotics

▪ Speech enhancement

▪ Speech perception and speech disorders

▪ Speech recognition and understanding

▪ Speech translation automatic systems

▪ Spoken dialogue systems

▪ Spoken language processing

▪ Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems

▪ Virtual and augmented reality

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Details about the social events will be available on the web page.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site.

Papers submitted to SPECOM 2016 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

The paper format for the review has to be the PDF file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, speakers will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for August 2016.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 8, 2016 Submission of full papers

April 15, 2016 Submission of final papers upload

May 15, 2016 Notification of acceptance

June 01, 2016 Camera-ready papers and registration

August 23-27, 2016 Conference date

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

VENUE

The conference will be organized in the Aquincum Hotel Budapest, Hungary (http://www.aquincumhotel.com).

Budapest, 'the pearl of the Danube' is one of the truly historic European capitals with its past stretching back over one thousand years. The picturesque bridges spanning the river Danube, the Castle Hill, the churches and architecture, the sculptures, the wooded hills, the Hungarian cuisine and wine, and the warm hospitality of Hungarian people all ensure that no guest can leave here without longing to return.

ACCOMMODATION

The organising committee has arranged accommodation for reasonable prices in hotels, which are situated near the city center. The rooms with sufficient discount are reserved for the conference days.

CONTACT

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

SPECOM 2016 Secretariat

Scientific Association for Infocommunications, HTE, Hungary

E-mail: specom@hte.hu

Phone: +36 1 353 1027

SPECOM 2016 conference web site: http://www.hte.hu/specom2016

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3-3-22(2016-08-29) EURASIP/IEEE 2016 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Budapest, Hungary

 EURASIP/IEEE 2016 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) that will be held in  Budapest, Hungary, from August 29 to September 2, 2016.

Accepted papers will be included in IEEEXplore.
http://www.eusipco2016.org
http://www.eusipco2016.org/documents/391615/1433605/EUSIPCO2016_CfP_v3.pdf
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3-3-23(2016-09-06) Aix Summer School on Prosody 2016, Aix-Marseille Université, France

 

Aix Summer School on Prosody 2016: 

Methods in Prosody and Intonation Research: Data, Theories, Transcription

Laboratoire de Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, France.

September 6-9, 2016

 

http://aixprosody2016.weebly.com/



We are pleased to announce the Aix Summer School on Prosody 2016 to be held from September 6-9, 2016 in Aix-en-Provence (France).

 

The Aix Summer School on Prosody 2016 will bring together experts on theoretical and practical aspects of the research on prosody. The school will be organized around morning lectures and afternoon tutorials (where participants will practice concepts and skills discussed in lectures) and data clinics (where participants can bring together their own data and questions for discussion).

 

The school is intended for post-graduate students and researchers interested in all the theoretical and practical aspects of the research on prosody and intonation. The school will be suitable both for researchers already working on intonation and prosody, and wishing to learn more about specific topics, and for researchers who wish to better understand how to incorporate and control prosody in their own work.

Topics will include (but not limited to): theoretical models on prosody and intonation; perception of intonation; prosody and language pathologies; prosody, semantics, and discourse; prosody and L2; prosody and neurolinguistics; transcription of intonation and prosody; statistical methods in prosody research; and preparation of stimuli for perception studies.

 

The confirmed invited speakers are:

  • Amalia Arvaniti (Kent University): Theoretical models of prosody
  • Mariapaola  D'Imperio (Aix-Marseille Université - IUF): Experimental protocols for prosody and perception
  • Laura Dilley (Michigan State University): Prosody and perception methods
  • Janet Fletcher (The University of Melbourne): Transcription of under-described languages
  • James Sneed German (Aix-Marseille Université): Prosody and discourse
  • Kiwako Ito (Ohio State University): Prosody and acquisition, prosody and eye tracking
  • Jelena Krivokapi? (University of Michigan): Prosody and articulatory phonology
  • Oliver Niebuhr (University of Southern Denmark): Prosody and experimental methods in acoustics
  • Bert Remeijsen and Otto Gwado Ayoker (University of Edimburgh): Typology and field methods in prosody research: Shilluk prosody workshop
  • Annie Tremblay (Kansas University): Prosody and L2

 

 

Application deadline: May 31st 2016

 

For more information, please visit http://aixprosody2016.weebly.com/

 

A number of scholarships will be offered for PhD students and postdocs. For more information about registration and scholarships, go to http://aixprosody2016.weebly.com/registration.html

The Aix Summer School on Prosody 2016 is co-organized by:

 

Mariapaola D?Imperio ? AMU & Laboratoire Parole et Langage (UMR 7309 CNRS) ? Institut Universitaire de France
Amalia Arvaniti ? University of Kent (UK)

Tamara Rathcke ? University of Kent (UK)

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3-3-24(2016-09-12) 58th International Symposium ELMAR-2016 , Zagreb, Croatia

 58th International Symposium ELMAR-2016
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                    September 12-14, 2016
                      Zadar, Croatia
 
          Paper submission deadline: March 12, 2016
 
                http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
 
 
                      CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 
 
 TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS
 
 IEEE Region 8
 IEEE Croatia Section
 IEEE Croatia Section SP, AP and MTT Chapters   
 EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing
 
 
 
 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/2016/special_sessions/
 
 
 
 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
 
 Prof. Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
   
 
 SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES
 
Deadline for submission of full papers: March 12, 2016
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 20, 2016
Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: May 27, 2016
Preliminary program available online by: June 10, 2016
Registration forms and payment deadline: June 17, 2016

E-mail: elmar2016@fer.hr
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/

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3-3-25(2016-09-12) Nineteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2016), Brno, Czech Republic

             TSD 2016 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
         *********************************************************

Nineteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2016)
              Brno, Czech Republic, 12-16 September 2016
                    http://www.tsdconference.org/

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

    March 22 2016 ............ Submission of full papers

The submission will be closed during the next working day after the
deadline - for individual extension requirements please contact the
organizers (tsd2016@tsdconference.org).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Hinrich Schuetze, University of Munich, Germany
    Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel


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

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


TSD SERIES

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


TOPICS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2016 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...',
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...'.  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of
the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.
Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must
use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the
Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this
service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied
automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file
with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,
presenters will receive further information on submitting their
camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the
final paper format see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample File
typeinst.zip).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference.  The presenters of demonstrations should provide an
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 22 2016 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2016 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2016 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2016 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2016 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 12-16 2016 ..... Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

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


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
   
    Ales Horak, TSD 2016
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2016@tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2016 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Munich,
or Eindhoven and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or
Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may
also be of interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called
Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St.  James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat
designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important
buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with
Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of
three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz
- Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),
Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice
Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish
cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO
heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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3-3-26(2016-09-13) 4th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition, Google, San Francisco, CA, USA

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       4th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition
                 Challenge and Workshop

                 Launch: April 27, 2016
                Deadline: August 19, 2016

      Workshop: Google, San Francisco, Sep 13, 2016

      http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/
      ----------------------------------------------


Dear colleague,

It gives us great pleasure to announce the official launch of the CHiME-4 Challenge and
Workshop.

CHiME-4 revisits the CHiME-3 data, i.e., Wall Street Journal sentences spoken by talkers
in challenging noisy environments, with updated baselines and fewer microphones for test.
Participants may submit to one or more tracks: 1-channel, 2-channel, and 6-channel.


MATERIALS

The Challenge website is now live and contains all the information, tools and data that
you will need for participation:
- a detailed description of the challenge scenario and recording conditions,
- real training and development data,
- baseline software for data simulation, speech enhancement and state-of-the-art
Kaldi-based speech recognition,
- full instructions for participation and submission,
- answers to frequently asked questions.

If you have any question that isn't answered by the website please email
chimechallenge@gmail.com

We look forward to your participation.


STATEMENT OF INTEREST

If you are considering participating, please email chimechallenge@gmail.com with subject
'CHiME4' and you will be added to the email list for receiving further updates.


IMPORTANT DATES

27th April, 2016  ?  Launch - Training/dev data and baselines released
10th June, 2016   ?  Workshop registration open (limited seats available per institution,
preferably for challenge participants)
27th June, 2016   ?  Test data released
19th Aug, 2016    ?  Challenge abstract/paper submission deadline
24th Aug, 2016    ?  Paper notification
13th Sept, 2016   ?  CHiME-4 Workshop
14th Oct, 2016    ?  Final paper (2 to 6 pages)


CHALLENGE ORGANISERS

Emmanuel Vincent, Inria
Shinji Watanabe, MERL
Jon Barker & Ricard Marxer, University of Sheffield


LOCAL ORGANISER

Kean Chin, Google


SPONSORS

Google
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

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3-3-27(2016-09-13) Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT 2016)

SLPAT 2016

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

13 September 2016, co-located with Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, California

Submission deadline:  17 June 2016
     http://www.slpat.org/slpat2016

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We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the seventh Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) on Tuesday 13 September 2016 to be co-located with Interspeech 2016 in San Francisco, California. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline, and formatting of regular papers are here:
           
     http://www.slpat.org/slpat2016
 
This workshop will bring together researchers from all areas of speech and language technology with a common interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. The workshop will provide an opportunity for individuals from both research communities, and the individuals with whom they are working, to assist to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. General topics include but are not limited to:
              
         ? Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments
         ? Speech transformation for improved intelligibility
         ? Speech and language technologies for daily assisted living and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
         ? Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language
         ? Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) / Assistive Technologies (AT) applications

 ? Personalized voices for ACC based on limited data (e.g., nearly nonverbal)
 ? Biofeedback for therapy in neurological disorders.
         ? Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or TTS
         ? Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio
         ? Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication
         ? Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies
         ? Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies
         ? NLP for cognitive assistance applications
         ? Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments
         ? Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications
         ? Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications
         ? Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies
         ? Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of AT
         ? Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols
         ? Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field
         ? Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes
         ? Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology
         ? Other topics in AAC and AT
 
Please contact the conference organizers at slpat-workshop@googlegroups.com  with any questions.
 
Important dates:
? 17 June: Deadline for papers and demos
? 11 July: Notification of acceptance
? 1 August: Camera-ready deadline
? 5 August: Early registration deadline
? 13 September 2016: SLPAT workshop
 
 
Frank Rudzicz, PhD
  Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute;
  Assistant professor (status only), Department of Computer Science,
        University of Toronto;
  Founder and Chief Science Officer, WinterLight Labs Incorporated
  Director, SPOClab (signal processing and oral communications)
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3-3-28(2016-09-26) L'Ecole d'été thématique CNRS 'Sciences et Voix : expressions, usages et prises en charge de l'instrument vocal humain' , centre IGESA de l'ïle de Porquerolles, France.

L'Ecole d'été thématique CNRS 'Sciences et Voix : expressions, usages et prises en charge de l'instrument vocal humain' se tiendra du Lundi 26 Septembre au Vendredi 30 Septembre 2016 au centre IGESA de l'ïle de Porquerolles.
Vous pouvez trouver toutes les informations concernant cette école d'été et son contenu pédagogique sur ce site web:
http://www.gipsa-lab.fr/summerschool/eesv2016/

Ci-joint une plaquette qui vous donne également les informations essentielles concernant l'école.

Nous venons de lancer la phase de pré-inscriptions. Vous avez jusqu'au 1er Juin pour vous pré-inscrire :
https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR11/AzurInscription/?&iColId=78&NaiveForm_id=AzChoixColloque&btnAzurP=Preinscription&lang=fr

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3-3-29(2016-09-29) Call for papers: 12th PAC conference, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France, Extended deadline

 

Call for papers: 12th PAC conference

(Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain / Phonology of Contemporary English)

 

 

PAC 2016: English Melodies

Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France

Sept 29-Oct 1 2016

 

We are pleased to announce the 2016 edition of the annual PAC conference, English Melodies’, due to take place from Thursday September 29 to Saturday October 1 2016,  hosted by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage and Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence. We shall welcome as invited guest speaker Professor Francis Nolan, from the University of Cambridge.

 

The PAC Project, ‘La Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain: usages, variétés et structure; The Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure’ is a project coordinated by Anne Prezwozny, Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Sophie Herment. Among other things it aims at:

ü     giving a better picture of spoken English in its unity and diversity (geographical, social and stylistic);

ü     testing phonological and phonetic models from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, making room for the systematic study of variation,

ü     favouring communication between specialists in speech and in phonological theory,

ü     providing data and analyses which will help improve the teaching of English as a foreign language.

 

Several sessions will be organised, following the development of a variety of thematic research groups with dedicated interests within the PAC program:

  • PAC-Research with a workshop on tools and annotation: Brigitte Bigi and Daniel Hirst will present the latest functions of SPPAS, a tool producing automatic phonetic annotations from a recorded speech sound and its transcription, including Momel and Intsint which are now implemented.
  • PAC-Prosody
  • ICE-PAC (interphonologies of contemporary English)
  • LVTI (Langue Ville Travail Identité), the study of English in urban contexts and its link with the concept of identity.

 

Papers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives addressing the above issues and related topics are welcome. Other things being equal, we will give priority to papers focusing on the relationship between corpus studies and the phonological/phonetic modelling of spoken English. A special emphasis will be given this year to English melodies, in the broadest sense, from intonation to segmental primes. We will welcome proposals on the use of automatic tools for the study of very large data sets as well, in connection with the workshop.

 

The deadline for sending a title with a one-page abstract (excluding references) is March 15,2016 (extended deadline). Please send your proposal in 2 pdf files, one with name and affiliation, the other anonymous to:

gabor.turcsan@univ-amu.fr  & sophie.herment@univ-amu.fr

 

Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of March.

 

Organising committee:

Gabor Turcsan, AMU, LPL

Sophie Herment, AMU, LPL

Anne Tortel, AMU, LPL

Stéphanie Desous, CNRS-AMU, LPL

Joëlle Lavaud, CNRS-AMU, LPL

Catherine Perrot, CNRS-AMU, LPL

Claudia Pichon-Starke, CNRS-AMU, LPL

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3-3-30(2016-10-11) 4th Int.Conf. on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, Pilsen, Czech Republic

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING

 
SLSP 2016
 
Pilsen, Czech Republic
 
October 11-13, 2016
 
Organized by:
 
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Cybernetics
University of West Bohemia
 
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
 
http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2016/
 
**********************************************************************************
 
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 2016, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.
 
VENUE:
 
SLSP 2016 will take place in Pilsen, nominated one of the two European Capitals of Culture in 2015. The venue will be the the NTIS research centre at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of West Bohemia.
 
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
neural representation of speech and language
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 2016 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
 
INVITED SPEAKERS:
 
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), Advances in Statistical Approaches to Personality Prediction from Text
 
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University), tba
 
Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington), tba
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions LLC, Murray Hill, USA)
Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, France)
Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, Pisa, Italy)
Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy)
Guillaume Gravier (IRISA, Rennes, France)
Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France)
Udo Hahn (University of Jena, Germany)
Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Microsoft Research, Mountain View, USA)
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA)
Xiaodong He (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA)
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Tracy Holloway King (A9.com, Palo Alto, USA)
Tomi Kinnunen (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland)
Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Pavel Král (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic)
Claudia Leacock (McGraw-Hill Education CTB, Monterey, USA)
Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Qun Liu (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, chair)
Alessandro Moschitti (University of Trento, Italy)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar)
John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Vincent Ng (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montréal, Canada)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University ? Qatar, Doha, Qatar)
Adam Pease (Articulate Software, San Francisco, USA)
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, United Kingdom)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Waltham, USA)
Manny Rayner (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Douglas A. Reynolds (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, USA)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Murat Saraçlar (Bo?aziçi University, ?stanbul, Turkey)
Björn W. Schuller (University of Passau, Germany)
Richard Sproat (Google, New York, USA)
Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Greece)
Yannis Stylianou (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, Japan)
Xiaojun Wan (Peking University, Beijing, China)
Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Phil Woodland (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Junichi Yamagishi (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Heiga Zen (Google, Mountain View, USA)
Min Zhang (Soochow University, Suzhou, China)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI, Orsay, France)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Tomá? Hercig (Pilsen)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Manuel J. Parra (Granada)
Daniel Soutner (Pilsen)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
Jan Zelinka (Pilsen, co-chair)
 
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=slsp2016
 
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 Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2014 impact factor: 1.753) 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/SLSP2016/Registration.php
 
DEADLINES:
 
Paper submission: May 17, 2016 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 21, 2016
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 1, 2016
Early registration: July 1, 2016
Late registration: September 27, 2016
Submission to the journal special issue: January 13, 2017
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat
 
POSTAL ADDRESS:
 
SLSP 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:
 
Západo?eská univerzita v Plzni
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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3-3-31(2016-10-21) MediaEval 2016 Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark, Amsterdan, The Netherlands

Call for Participation
MediaEval 2016 Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark
First data releases: May 2016
Regular registration: Open through June 2016
For dates per task see: http://multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2016
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MediaEval offers shared-tasks in multimedia retrieval and analysis.
Successful approaches make use of multiple modalities and go beyond
visual content to also exploit audio, text, and other contextual
information. For each task, participants receive a task definition, task data, and
accompanying resources (dependent on task) such as keyframes, visual features, and social
metadata.

Participating teams submit results, which are evaluated. The teams then
write up their results and present them at the MediaEval 2016 workshop.
This year?s workshop will be held 20-21 October, right after ACM
Multimedia in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Over its lifetime, MediaEval
teamwork and collaboration has given rise to nearly 600 publications in
the workshop proceedings, at conferences, and in journals.

MediaEval 2016 is offering the following tasks:

*Verifying Multimedia Use Task*
Detect misleading or deceptive images and videos shared on Twitter.

*Emotional Impact of Movies Task*
Infer the affective impact of film clips based on audio-visual content.

*C@MERATA: Querying Musical Scores with English Noun Phrases Task*
Information retrieval on musical scores.

*Predicting Media Interestingness Task*
Infer interesting frames and segments of movies (using audio, visual
features, text).

*Zero Cost Speech Recognition Task (ex QUESST)*
Train the best possible speech recognition system (for Vietnamese) using
only free resources.

*Placing Task*
Automatically estimate the locations of photos and videos (using audio,
visual features, text).

*Multimodal Person Discovery in Broadcast TV Task*
Automatically name the people occurring in broadcast content (audio,
visual features, text).

*Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task*
Diversify image results lists (text, visual features).

*Context of Multimedia Experience Task*
Predict multimedia content suitable for watching in stressful situations.

Participation is open to all interested research groups.
Click the ?MediaEval 2016 registration page? link at:
http://multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2016

***MediaEval 2016 Timeline***
(dates vary slightly from task to task, see the individual task pages
for the individual deadlines: http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2016)
May-June: Release of development/training data.
June-July: Release of test data.
Begin-Mid.  September: Run submission
End Sept.: Participants submit their 2-page working notes papers
20-21 October: MediaEval 2016 Workshop right after ACM Multimedia in
Amsterdam, Netherlands

*Contact*
For questions or additional information please contact Martha Larson
m.a.larson@tudelft.nl or visit http://www.multimediaeval.org

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3-3-32(2016-10-31) 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions

=== Announcement for 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech
Recognition in Adverse Conditions  ===

31 October 2016 -1 November 2016
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Website: http://odettescharenborg.ruhosting.nl/pasrac2016/

The second workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition
in Adverse Conditions (PASRAC) will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
The workshop is a follow-up on the first workshop organised in Bristol in
March 2010.

The aim of the two-day workshop is to bring together scientists from
different disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, computer
science, neuroscience, and cognitive science, working on the topic of
speech recognition in adverse conditions.

Basic themes will be, but are not limited to:
- Sensory degradation
    * Extrinsic: Noise and other distortions, such as atypical speech,
accented speech, conversational speech
    * Intrinsic: Hearing impairments and cochlear implants
- Incomplete knowledge (L1-L2, adults-children)
- Limited processing resources (dual tasking, divided attention, etc).

We are inviting abstracts (maximum length is 500 words, excluding
references) for oral or poster presentations.

*  IMPORTANT DATES:
1 May 2016: Submission portal opens
1 June 2016: Registration opens
30 June 2016: Abstract submission deadline
31 July 2016: Notification of abstract acceptance

* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University, IL)
Sophie Scott (University College London, UK)

* INVITED SPEAKERS:
Helen Blank (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, UK)
Maria Chait (University College London, UK)
Antje Heinrich (MRC Institute of Hearing Research, UK)
Bob McMurray (University of Iowa, IA)
Bernd Meyer (Johns Hopkins University, MD / University of Oldenburg,
Germany)
Kevin Munro (University of Manchester, UK)
Kathy Pichora-Fuller (University of Toronto, Canada)
Adriana Zekveld (VU University Medical Centre, the Netherlands)

* ORGANISERS:
Polina Drozdova (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Florian Hintz (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Sven Mattys (University of York, UK)
Odette Scharenborg (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)

* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Helen Blank
Florian Hintz
Sven Mattys
Bernd Meyer
Kathy Pichora-Fuller
Odette Scharenborg
Adriana Zekveld

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3-3-33(2016-10-31) XVème Colloque International des Etudes Créoles, Baie Mahault - Guadeloupe

APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS

XVème Colloque International des Etudes Créoles

« Pourquoi étudier les langues, cultures et sociétés créoles aujourd?hui ? »

31 octobre 2016 - 4 novembre 2016, Baie Mahault - Guadeloupe

 

  Le Comité International des Etudes Créoles réalise depuis presqu?une cinquantaine d?années, à intervalle régulier, le colloque des études créoles. En 2016, le XVème colloque International des Etudes Créoles se tiendra à Baie Mahault - Guadeloupe. L?organisation du XVème colloque du CIEC a été confiée au CRENEL en collaboration avec l?Université des Antilles, l?ESPE de Guadeloupe, le CREF et le CRILLASH. Le colloque sera organisé avec le soutien de l?association Haïti Monde et de la Mairie de Baie Mahault, Guadeloupe.

 

Présentation

 

     Les études sur les langues, cultures et sociétés créoles s?inscrivent dans plusieurs perspectives définies comme majeures aussi bien par la communauté internationale (UNESCO, PNUD, Objectifs du Millenium, etc.), que par l?Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). Cette dernière Organisation regroupe une dizaine d?Etats ou de pays créolophones : France et ses Départements d?Outre-Mer (Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, Réunion), Haïti, La Dominique, Maurice, Sainte Lucie, Seychelles ; Cap-Vert, Guinée Bissau, San Tome et Principe.

 

     L?importance des études créoles pour les sciences humaines et sociales n?est plus à démontrer. Cette importance tient d?abord à la jeunesse de ces systèmes sociaux, linguistiques et culturels (quatre à cinq siècles d?existence au maximum), mais plus encore, sans doute, à ce que ces langues, cultures et sociétés ont, en quelque sorte, fait rarissime, un « état-civil » (Chaudenson). Il est constitué, comme tout état-civil, d?un lieu de naissance (le plus souvent une île, souvent déserte ou vidée de ses premiers habitants, ce qui dispense de se poser les épineuses questions des limites territoriales de l?investigation comme des substrats indigènes), d?une date de naissance (ou en tout cas de conception que détermine le début de la colonisation européenne) et d?ascendants (des populations introduites pour l?exploitation coloniale de ces terres, dont on connaît souvent avec précision l?importance et l?origine, car on compte, on pèse et on enregistre sur les navires).

 

Argumentaire

 

     Etudier les langues, cultures et sociétés créoles suscite de nombreuses interrogations scientifiques. Ce XVème colloque se demandera :

 

« Pourquoi étudier les langues, cultures et sociétés créoles aujourd?hui ? »

 

     Cette thématique invite les universitaires, les spécialistes et les intellectuels à réfléchir et à présenter leurs travaux autour des sociétés créoles d?aujourd?hui dans leurs trajectoires historiques, linguistiques, sociales, politiques, économiques et culturelles. Comment l?évolution linguistique de ces sociétés a-t-elle influencé leur devenir social ? Qu?est-ce que le monde créole d?aujourd?hui a à dire aux autres aires géographiques et culturelles ?

 

     Philosophes, historiens, anthropologues, sociologues et linguistes sont conviés à contribuer aux questions relatives  à l?oralité, à l?interculturalité, aux phénomènes de migration et aux répertoires artistiques qui se développent au sein des sociétés créoles.

Où en est l?étude de la genèse et du développement des langues créoles ? Qu?en est-il de l?intercompréhension des langues créoles ? Quels sont les cheminements de l?institution des langues créoles dans leurs zones d?influences respectives (voir la question des académies de langue créole) ? Les pratiques militantes en créole pourront également être évoquées.

 

     Les communications et conférences plénières de ce colloque tenteront d?une part de faire avancer les travaux linguistiques (linguistique théorique, descriptive, sociolinguistique et didactiques), littéraires et anthropologiques consacrés aux langues et cultures créoles, et d?autre part, de dégager des perspectives pour des recherches futures.

Un des axes majeurs devrait être le développement des politiques concertées de coopération entre les trois espaces francophone, lusophone et hispanophone, dans le prolongement de propositions faites lors des colloques du Cap-Vert (2005), de Haïti (2008), de Maurice (2012), d?Aix-en-Provence (2014). Cet axe s?inscrit dans la volonté, clairement manifestée au sein de l?OIF.

 

Organisation et calendrier

Les communications et propositions d?ateliers pourront s?inscrire dans l?un des thèmes du colloque et / ou dans une thématique transversale.

Parmi les sujets qui pourraient être abordées, citons, à titre illustratif, les questions suivantes :

  • Les diasporas « créoles » et leurs pratiques linguistiques
  • Les variétés créoles développées hors des territoires d?origine
  • Les variétés des néo-apprenants de langues créoles
  • Le développement des programmes de littéracie en créole
  • Les programmes d?éducation bilingue intégrant la langue créole
  • Les littératures des pays de langue créole
  • L?état des recherches sur les corpus de langue créole
  • L?aménagement du créole à l?école
  • Morphologie, Syntaxe etc. des langues créoles
  • Les études diachroniques des langues créoles
  • Les rapports entre les langues créoles et les langues africaines
  • Histoire, paysage et société créoles à travers les ans.
  • Créolisation et devenir des sociétés créoles
  • Philosophie et histoire des idées dans les sociétés créoles.

     Les propositions de communications rédigées en langue française, en anglais ou dans une langue créole française avec l?adresse et l?appartenance institutionnelle du ou des communiquant(e)s devront parvenir à l?adresse suivante : colloqueciec2016@gmail.com avant le 15 mars 2016. Elles indiqueront le thème, les données traités, les résultats escomptés et ne dépasseront pas 3 000 caractères ou 500 mots (bibliographie incluse).

      Après évaluation, l?acceptation ou le refus de la proposition de communication sera notifiée dans la semaine du 15 avril 2016.

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3-3-34(2016-11-12) CfP 18th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016), Tokyo, Japan

ICMI 2016 call for Long and Short Papers

 

ICMI 2016, Tokyo, Japan (November 12-16, 2016)

http://icmi.acm.org/2016/

 

The 18th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016) will be held in Tokyo, Japan.  ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development.

 

This year, ICMI welcomes contributions on machine learning for multimodal interaction as a special topic of interest. ICMI 2016 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of ICMI'2016 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

 

- Affective Computing and interaction

- Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction

- Gesture, touch and haptics

- Healthcare, assistive technologies

- Human communication dynamics

- Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction

- Interaction with smart environment

- Machine learning for multimodal interaction

- Mobile multimodal systems

- Multimodal behavior generation

- Multimodal datasets and validation

- Multimodal dialogue modeling

- Multimodal fusion and representation

- Multimodal interactive applications

- Speech behaviors in social interaction

- System components and multimodal platforms

- Visual behaviors in social interaction

- Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction

 

Important dates

Long and short paper submission: May 6th, 2016

Reviews available for rebuttal: July 21st, 2016

Paper notification: August 24th, 2016

Main Conference: November 13-15, 2016

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3-3-35(2016-12-xx) CfP Dialog State Tracking Challenge 5 (DSTC5)
Dialog State Tracking Challenge 5 (DSTC5) @SLT 2016 San Juan Porto Rico
Call for Participation
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* MOTIVATION
Dialog state tracking is one of the key sub-tasks of dialog management, which defines the representation of dialog states and updates them at each moment on a given on-going conversation. To provide a common testbed for this task, the first Dialog State Tracking Challenge (DSTC) was initiated [1], and then two more challenges (DSTC 2&3) [2][3] had been organized keeping the aim at human-machine conversations. On the other hand, the fourth challenge (DSTC 4) which has been most recently completed [4] has shifted the target of state tracking to human-human dialogs. In the challenge, a dialog state was defined for each sub-dialog segment level as a frame structure filled with slot-value pairs representing the main subject of the segment. Then, trackers were required to fill out the frame considering all dialog history prior to each turn in a given segment.
The previous DSTCs have contributed to the spoken dialog research community by providing opportunities for sharing the resources, comparing results among the proposed algorithms, and improving the state-of-the-art. However, the impacts of the outcomes from the challenges could be restricted to English dialogs only, because all the resources including the corpora, ontologies, and databases were collected under monolingual settings in English.
 
In the fifth challenge, we introduce a cross-lingual dialog state tracking task addressing the problem of adaptation to a new language. The goal of this task is to build a tracker in the target language with given the existing resources in the source language and their translations generated automatically by machine translation technologies to the target language. In addition to this main task, we propose a series of pilot tracks for the core components in developing end-to-end dialog systems also in the same cross-lingual settings. We expect that these shared efforts on cross-lingual tasks would contribute to progress in improving the language portability of state-of-the-art monolingual technologies and reducing the costs for building resources from the scratch to develop dialog systems in a resource-poor target language.
 
 
* DATASETS
At the beginning of the challenge, TourSG corpus which was used in DSTC 4 will be provided as a training set in the source language English. TourSG consists of 35 dialog sessions on touristic information for Singapore collected from Skype calls between three tour guides and 35 tourists. All the recorded dialogs have been manually transcribed and annotated with various labels.
 
In addition to the original dialogs in English, their translations generated by a machine translation system to Chinese which is the target language in the challenge will be also given along with the word alignment information, so that participants will not need to run their own system to generate the translated pairs of the dialogs.
 
Then, a test set will be released to evaluate the trackers developed in the first phase. It consists of Chinese dialogs collected and annotated under the equivalent conditions to the English dataset TourSG. At the beginning of the test phase, only the unlabelled set will be given with their English translations which were also generated by machine translation. The full annotations for the test set will be available after the challenge period.
 
 
* PROPOSED TASKS
Main task:
- Dialog state tracking at sub-dialog level: Fill out the frame of slot-value pairs for the current sub-dialog considering all dialog history prior to the turn.
 
Pilot tasks (optional):
- Spoken language understanding: Tag a given utterance with speech acts and semantic slots.
- Speech act prediction: Predict the speech act of the next turn imitating the policy of one speaker.
- Spoken language generation: Generate a response utterance for one of the participants.
- End-to-end system: Develop an end-to-end system playing the part of a guide or a tourist.
 
Open track (optional):
- Proposed by teams willing to work on any task of their interest over the provided dataset.
 
 
* IMPORTANT DATES
- 01 Apr 2016: Registration opens
- 14 Apr 2016: Training set is released
- 18 Jul 2016: Registration closes
- 21 Jul 2016: Test set is released
- 27 Jul 2016: Entry submission deadline
- 29 Jul 2016: Evaluation results are released
- 19 Aug 2016: Paper submission deadline
- December 2016: Workshop is held @ SLT 2016
 
 
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Seokhwan Kim (I2R, Singapore)
Luis Fernando D?Haro (I2R, Singapore)
Rafael E. Banchs (I2R, Singapore)
Matthew Henderson (Google, USA)
Jason D. Williams (Microsoft, USA)
Koichiro Yoshino (NAIST, Japan)
 
 
* CONTACT DETAILS
Seokhwan Kim: kims AT i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Luis Fernando D?Haro: luisdhe AT i2r.a-star.edu.sg
1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01, Singapore 138632
Fax: (+65) 6776 1378
 
 
* REFERENCES
[1] Jason D. Williams, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran, and Alan Black. 2013. The Dialog State Tracking Challenge. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Metz, France.
[2] Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, and Jason D. Williams. 2014. ?The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge?. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Philadelphia, USA.
[3] Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, and Jason D. Williams. 2014. ?The Third Dialog State Tracking Challenge?. In Proceedings of IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, South Lake Tahoe, USA.
[4] Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson. 2016. ?The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge?. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2016), Saariselkä, Finland.
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3-3-36(2017-06-21) International Conference Subsidia: Tools and Resources for Speech Sciences, Málaga (Costa del Sol, Spain).

The Phonetics Laboratory of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Málaga are happy to announce the upcoming celebration of the International Conference SubsidiaTools and Resources for Speech Sciences, which will take place on June 21-23, 2017, in the city of Málaga (Costa del Sol, Spain).
During this quarter of 2016 we will be sending further information concerning the Conference, as well as its website address.
If you have any questions, please contact Juana Gil: 
juana.gil@cchs.csic.es, or José Villa:jovillavilla@hotmail.com

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