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3-1-1 | (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
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3-1-2 | (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:
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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3-1-3 | (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:
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3-1-4 | (2016-09) Updates for Interspeech 2016 San FranciscoThe calls for paper, show & tell, and tutorial submissions are OPEN!
SPECIAL SESSIONS ANNOUNCED!
Click here for more info.
Intelligibility under the microscope
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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.
- See more at: http://www.interspeech2016.org/#sthash.IeMcUBi3.dpuf
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INTERSPEECH 2017
Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-24, 2017
Chair : Francisco Lacerda
18th INTERSPEECH event
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3-2-1 | (2016-06-21) ODYSSEY 2016: THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP Bilbao, Spain,
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3-2-2 | (2016-06-27) Exling 2016 : Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Saint Petersburg, Russia Exling 2016 : Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics
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3-2-3 | (2016-07-04) Conférence JEP 2016 | TALN 2016 | RÉCITAL 2016, Paris France Conférence JEP 2016 | TALN 2016 | RÉCITAL 2016
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3-2-4 | (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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3-2-5 | (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:
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:
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:
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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3-2-6 | (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 :
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
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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3-2-7 | (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
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:
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3-2-8 | (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 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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3-2-9 | (2016-09-12) 19th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2016), Brno, Czech Republic TSD 2016 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-2-10 | (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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3-2-11 | (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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3-2-12 | (2016-09-13) SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS, Los Angeles, CA, USA SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17/
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3-2-13 | (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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3-2-14 | Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored EventsForthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events
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3-3-1 | (2016-05-16) Conférence GIPSA St Martin d'Hères JEUDI 16 Juin 2016 13h30-15h00 Salle B314 du Département Parole et Cognition (Bâtiment ENSE3, 11 rue des mathématiques, Saint Martin d?Hères)
Nicolas Bourguignon Ghent university, Belgique
Prefrontal executive control and language production: a neural-computational approach Fluent language production is widely assumed to involve cognitive control (CC), a central frontal lobe function required for the goal-directed selection of actions and thought amongst competing alternatives. The exact role of CC in the various aspects of spoken language, however, remains poorly understood. In particular, few accounts, if any, have explicitly examined whether the neural-computational mechanisms involved in resolving competition during spoken language are analogous to those underlying nonverbal behaviour. To elucidate this issue, I propose a model of CC in language production in terms of a gradient of selection and retrieval mechanisms organised along the rostro-caudal axis of the human prefrontal cortex and tasked with resolving competition at phonological and semantic levels of representation. In line with information-theoretic, hierarchical approaches to general behaviour, I argue that these selection/retrieval mechanisms can be operationalised by Shannon?s index of uncertainty, predicting distinct patterns of brain activation and behavioural correlates at the word and sentence level. I will present neurophysiological evidence supporting these predictions at the word level and discuss possible avenues of investigation at the level of sentence and discourse
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3-3-2 | (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
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3-3-3 | (2016-06-15) CfP 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Bucharest, Romania (Extended deadline) CBMI 2016
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3-3-4 | (2016-07-02) HackaTAL 2016, Paris France HackaTAL 2016
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3-3-5 | (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 2 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 4 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 ; 7
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 ; 11
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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3-3-6 | (2016-07-04) CfD JEP 2016 | TALN 2016 | RÉCITAL 2016 Joint Conference, Paris France (update)
Les inscriptions pour la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016 sont
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3-3-7 | (2016-07-04) CfP Atelier JEP « la voix à la barre » Appel à posters
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3-3-8 | (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:
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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3-3-9 | (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
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3-3-10 | (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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3-3-11 | (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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 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:
For more information, please visit LabPhon15 website (http://labphon.org/labphon15).
Please feel free to distribute and forward this announcement to your colleagues Best,
LabPhon15 Organizing Committee
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3-3-12 | (2016-07-14) InterACT-25 Baden-Baden Germany Together with our partners at 8 research institutions, we celebrate 25 years of our existence as a lab and center with a Symposium under the theme ?interACT-25: Building Bridges - Breaking Barriers?. The symposium will explore and highlight research and scientific exchange around technologies that break down communication barriers. The event will take place in the beautiful resort town of Baden-Baden (just south of Karlsruhe) on July 14-15, and we look forward to seeing you all there. Here are a few updates:
For all further organizational questions around the symposium, please contact Margit Rödder (margit.roedder@kit.edu), phone: +49 (0) 721 608 48676 or, of course, myself.
I?m looking forward to meeting you in the beautiful town of Baden-Baden and for this once in a life-time event.
Let?s look back, reminisce, and brainstorm the future!
Alex Waibel,
Karlsruhe University
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3-3-13 | (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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3-3-14 | (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 ============================================================
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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3-3-15 | (2016-08-11) ACL 2016 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning (CogACLL), Berlin, Germany ==================================================
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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3-3-16 | (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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3-3-17 | (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
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3-3-18 | (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/
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:
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 Tamara Rathcke ? University of Kent (UK)
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3-3-19 | (2016-09-12) 58th International Symposium ELMAR-2016 , Zagreb, Croatia 58th International Symposium ELMAR-2016
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3-3-20 | (2016-09-12) Nineteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2016), Brno, Czech Republic TSD 2016 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-21 | (2016-09-13) 4th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition, Google, San Francisco, CA, USA ---------------------------------------------
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3-3-22 | (2016-09-13) Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT 2016) SLPAT 2016 ? 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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3-3-23 | (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.
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3-3-24 | (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:
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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3-3-25 | (2016-10-11) 4th Int.Conf. on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, Pilsen, Czech Republic 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
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3-3-26 | (2016-10-21) MediaEval 2016 Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark, Amsterdan, The Netherlands Call for Participation
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3-3-27 | (2016-10-26) CLARIN Annual Conference 2016, Aix-en-Provence, France CLARIN Annual Conference 2016 26-28 October, 2016
CLARIN is happy to announce the 5th CLARIN Annual Conference and calls for the submission of papers. The series of CLARIN Annual Conferences is the main forum for those working on the construction, operation and exploration of CLARIN across Europe. CLARIN is the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, a European initiative which aims to provide easy and sustainable access for scholars in the humanities and social sciences to digital language data and advanced tools to discover, explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine them. The CLARIN Annual Conference is organized for the Humanities and Social Sciences community in order to exchange ideas and experiences on the CLARIN infrastructure's design, construction and operation, the data and services that it contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure. A novel feature of this year’s conference will be a thematic session, on Language resources and historical sources.
CALL FOR PAPERS CLARIN calls for EXTENDED ABSTRACTS of about 4 pages with a deadline of 15 July, 2016. It is not required that the authors are or have been directly involved in national or international CLARIN projects, but their work must be clearly related to the CLARIN activities, resources, tools or services. The full call for papers, with instructions for submission, is available on the CLARIN website: http://www.clarin.eu/news/call-papers-clarin-annual-conference-2016 A template for papers to be submitted is available from a link on that page. Conference website: http://www.clarin.eu/event/2016/clarin-annual-conference-2016-aix-en-provence-france
On behalf of the CLARIN 2016 program committee, Prof. Lars Borin, chair
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3-3-28 | (2016-10-31) 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions === Announcement for 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech
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3-3-29 | (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.
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).
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.
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 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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3-3-30 | (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)
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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3-3-31 | (2016-11-23) ALBAYZIN 2016 SEARCH ON SPEECH EVALUATION, Lisbon, Portugal
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3-3-32 | (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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3-3-33 | (2017-02-15) (Dis)Fluency2017: Fluency and disfluency across languages and language varieties, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique (Dis)Fluency2017: Fluency and disfluency across languages and language varieties
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3-3-34 | (2017-04-26) Workshop on Speech perception and production across the lifespan (SPPL 2017) Workshop on Speech perception and production across the lifespan (SPPL 2017) 26/27 April 2017, UCL, London, UK Workshop website: www.sppl2017.org Contact email: sppl2017@pals.ucl.ac.uk Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2017 Workshop description Although the focus of much research into speech development has been to establish when ?adult-like? performance is reached (with young adult speakers taken as a ?norm?), it is increasingly clear that speech perception and production abilities are undergoing constant change across the lifespan as a result of physical changes, exposure to language variation, and cognitive changes at various periods of our lives. Few studies have examined changes in speech production or perception measures across the lifespan using common materials and experimental designs. Lifespan studies can further our understanding of the extent and direction of these changes for key measures of speech communication and of how these changes interact with cognitive, social or sensory factors. Such knowledge is essential to refine and extend models of speech perception and production.
The workshop will provide an opportunity for interactions between researchers from areas of speech and language sciences research that may be focused on different developmental stages, e.g. early development and ageing. It will also discuss methodological issues, such as how to overcome the difficulty of developing tests that are equally appropriate for children, younger and older adults, and will consider ?missing gaps? in the developmental trajectory, e.g. data for older teenagers and middle-aged adults. Invited speakers Paul FOULKES (University of York) Sandra GORDON-SALANT (University of Maryland) Mitchell SOMMERS (Washington University) Hayo TERBAND (University of Utrecht) Call for papers We invite submissions for oral and poster presentations. Presentations can include or consist of demonstrations of tests and software. We expect submitted papers to report experimental and modelling studies relating to more than one age group or longitudinal work. See further detail of topics at http://sppl2017.org/call-for-papers
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3-3-35 | (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 Subsidia: Tools and Resources for Speech Sciences, which will take place on June 21-23, 2017, in the city of Málaga (Costa del Sol, Spain).
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