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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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JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016 à Paris : 23ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles 31ème Journées d’Études sur la Parole 4-8 July 2016, Paris, France
SECNS 2016 : The 1st Workshop on Speech Engineering and Computational Neuroscience of Speech - See more at: http://www.interspeech2016.org/Satellite-Descriptions#sthash.zU53l58X.dpuf
8 September 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA (a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2016)
MLSLP 2016 : Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP) [satellite of Interspeech 2016]
13 September 2016, Google San Francisco, CA, USA
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3-2-1 | (2016-07-19) Summer school on Advances in Speech and Audio Processing (ASAP), DA-IICT, Gandighar, India The Summer school on Advances in Speech and AudioProcessing (ASAP), will be organizd by the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) Gandighar, India on July 19th-20th. Details can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/daiictasap/ It is a contribution of ISCA DL by Prof. (Dr.) Shri. Narayanan.
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3-2-2 | (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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3-2-3 | (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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3-2-4 | (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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3-2-5 | (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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3-2-6 | (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
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3-2-7 | (2016-09-13) CHiME 2016, 4th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, San Francisco USA CHiME 2016
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3-2-8 | (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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3-2-9 | (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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3-2-10 | Forthcoming ISCA Supported EventsForthcoming ISCA Supported Events
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3-3-1 | (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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3-3-2 | (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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3-3-3 | (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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3-3-4 | (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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3-3-5 | (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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3-3-6 | (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
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ACM SAP 2016 seeks poster submissions describing recently completed work, highly relevant works in progress, or relevant systems. A poster presentation is an opportunity for authors to display and discuss achievements that are not ready for publication or have not been published previously. The poster session is always an integral part of SAP with specific time allotted for participants to view and discuss the work. All poster presenters will have the opportunity to give a one-minute description of their work during a poster fast-forward session. Poster presentations are not formal publications. We encourage all types of scholarly poster submissions that fit the scope of ACM-SAP. Poster abstracts should follow the ACM SIGGRAPH formatting guidelines for papers, except that they should be 1 page long.
Our thirteenth annual event provides an intimate, immersive forum for exchanging ideas about areas of overlapping interests. The ACM SAP 2016 conference will be held in Anaheim, California on July 22nd and 23rd, immediately prior to the 43rd International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH). We aim to further promote communication between the core perception and computer graphics communities. Accordingly, the best posters will also be features at SIGGRAPH.
We invite submissions of original work in all areas of applied perception. Relevant areas include:
- Modeling, rendering, and animation - Visualization - Computational aesthetics - Haptic rendering, haptic input and perception - Perception of virtual characters - Color vision and color appearance modeling - Perception of high dynamic range scenes and images - Interaction techniques and interfaces - Augmented reality - Virtual worlds - Display technologies - Auditory display and interfaces - Perceptual auditory coding - Spatialized sound - Speech synthesis and recognition - Sensory integration - Multimodal rendering - Spatial and temporal vision - Attention and eye movements - Statistical learning and perception of natural scenes - Perception of shapes, surfaces, and materials
Please refer to the call for posters (http://sap.acm.org/2016/cfp.php) for additional information, and for instructions how to submit.
DEADLINES
Posters: Tuesday, May 10: Poster submission deadline Tuesday, May 24: Decisions announced Tuesday, May 31: Camera ready version of 1-page abstract due
Organizers:
Conference Chairs: Eakta Jain, University of Florida Sophie Joerg, Clemson University
Program Chairs: Reynold Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology Laura Trutoiu, Oculus Research
Poster Chair: Andrew Robb, Clemson University
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3-3-7 | (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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3-3-8 | (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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3-3-9 | (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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3-3-10 | (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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3-3-11 | (2016-09-12) 58th International Symposium ELMAR-2016 , Zagreb, Croatia 58th International Symposium ELMAR-2016
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3-3-12 | (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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3-3-13 | (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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3-3-14 | (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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3-3-15 | (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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3-3-16 | (2016-10-11) 4th Int.Conf. on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, Pilsen, Czech Republic 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
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3-3-17 | (2016-10-16) Linguistic and Behavioral Interaction Analysis at the IEEE International Conference on Cognitive InfoCommunication, Wroclaw (PL), Linguistic and Behavioral Interaction Analysis?, inside the IEEE International Conference on Cognitive InfoCommunication, Wroclaw (PL), the 16thto 18 of October 2016. http://www.coginfocom.hu/conference/CogInfoCom16/tracks.html The deadline for submitting the first version of the paper is July 15 2016
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3-3-18 | (2016-10-21) MediaEval 2016 Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Call for Participation
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3-3-19 | (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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3-3-20 | (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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3-3-21 | (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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3-3-22 | (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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3-3-23 | (2016-11-23) ALBAYZIN 2016 SEARCH ON SPEECH EVALUATION, Lisbon, Portugal
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3-3-24 | (2016-12-10) Symposium on the role of predictability in shaping human language sound patterns, Sydney, Australia Symposium on the role of predictability in shaping human language sound patterns
Date: 10-11 Dec, 2016
Place: Sydney, Australia
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3-3-25 | (2016-12-11) CfP 1st Workshop on 'Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity' (CL4LC), Osaka (Japan)
First Call for Papers
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1st Workshop on 'Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity' (CL4LC).
Collocated with COLING 2016 in Osaka (Japan) on Sunday, 11 December 2016.
https://sites.google.com/site/cl4lc2016/home
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==================== Workshop Description ====================
CL4LC aims at investigating 'processing' aspects of linguistic complexity both from a machine point of view and from the perspective of the human subject to promote a common reflection on approaches for the detection, evaluation and modelling of linguistic complexity.
The term linguistic complexity is highly polysemous and several definitions have been advanced according to different standpoint theories. One major standpoint considers the 'theoretical' distinction between absolute complexity (i.e. the formal properties of linguistic systems) and relative complexity (i.e. covering issues such as cognitive cost, difficulty, level of demand for a user/learner). CL4LC aims at investigating a complementary standpoint which has long attracted great interest in the Computational Linguistics community. This is focused on 'processing' aspects related to linguistic complexity both from a machine point of view and from the perspective of the human subject.
The objective of the workshop is to promote a common reflection on approaches for the detection, evaluation and modeling of linguistic complexity, with a particular emphasis on research questions such as: whether, and to what extent, a machine and human subject perspective can be combined or share commonalities; whether, and to what extent, linguistic complexity metrics specific for the human subject perspective can be extended for handling complexity for machine and vice versa; whether, and to what extent, linguistic phenomena hampering human processing correlate with difficulties in the automatic processing of language. Despite the two perspectives have been separately treated, the interest for the “processing” aspects of linguistic complexity is shared by several initiatives and workshops within the NLP community where the emphasis has been put more on the achievement of specific tasks than on an overt reflection of linguistic complexity underlying the treated phenomena. From the machine point of view, this is the case, for instance, of initiatives focusing on linguistic complexity raised by e.g. the automatic processing of typologically different languages or language varieties deviant with respect to the standard language or by the challenges of parsing languages with morphology richer than English, or non-canonical varieties of language (e.g. spoken language, the language of social media, historical data etc.).
From the human subject perspective the attention is directed to what is complex (i.e. difficult) for a speaker, hearer, reader, learner with the aim of both modeling the cognitive processing underlying language usage and developing human-oriented applications. This is the case e.g. of computational linguistics methods devoted to unravel the difficulties in online language processing or to build applications to improve text accessibility in different scenarios, e.g. education, social inclusion.
============== List of Topics ==============
We encourage the submission of long and short research papers including, but not limited to the following topics:
Detection and Measurement of Linguistic Complexity: - methods to measure and modeling human comprehension difficulty, in terms of e.g. Dependency Locality and Surprisal frameworks; - methods to measure complexity in linguistic systems with respect to different linguistic dimensions (e.g. morphology, syntax); - methods to measure the distance between texts and learners' competences, according to their literacy skills, native language or language impairments; - methods and models to measure text quality, in terms e.g. of grammaticality, style, accessibility, readability; - methods to measure the distance between training corpora and texts in machine learning perspective; - approaches to compute the processing perplexity of machine learning systems. Processing of Linguistic Complexity: - models of human language acquisition in specific linguistic environments, e.g. atypical language acquisition scenarios, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), learning of domain specific sub-languages; - methods to reduce linguistic complexity for improving human understanding, e.g. text simplification and normalization to improve human comprehension; - methods to reduce linguistic complexity for improving machine processing, e.g. text simplification for machine translation, word reordering to improve semantic and syntactic parsing; - experimental approaches to CL4LC: experimental platforms and designs, experimental methods, resources; - automatic processing of non-canonical languages and cross-lingual model transfer approaches; NLP tools and resources for CL4LC; Vision papers discussing the link between human and machine oriented perspectives on linguistic complexity.
=========== Submissions ===========
We invite submissions of both long and short papers, including opinion statements. All of the papers will be included in conference proceedings, this time in electronic form only.
Long papers may consist of up to eight pages (A4), plus two extra pages for references. Short papers may consist of up to four pages (A4), plus two extra pages for references. Authors of accepted papers will be given additional space in the camera-ready version to reflect space needed for changes stemming from reviewers comments.
Papers shall be submitted in English, anonymised with regard to the authors and/or their institution (no author-identifying information on the title page nor anywhere in the paper), including referencing style as usual. Authors should also ensure that identifying meta-information is removed from files submitted for review.
Papers must conform to official COLING 2016 style guidelines, which are available in coling2016.zip. coling2016.zip has LaTeX files, Microsoft Word template file, and sample PDF file.
Submission and reviewing will be managed online by the START system. The only accepted format for submitted papers is in Adobe's PDF. Submissions must be uploaded on the START system (to be anounced soon) by the submission deadlines.
=============== Important Dates ===============
June 2016: First call for workshop papers September 25, 2016: Workshop paper due October 16, 2016: Notification of acceptance October 30, 2016: Camera-ready due November 30, 2016: Official proceedings publication date December 11, 2016: Workshop date
================= Program committee =================
Delphine Bernhard (LilPa, France) Nicoletta Calzolari (European Language Resources Association (ELRA), France) Angelo Cangelosi, (Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at the University of Plymouth, UK) Benoît Crabbé (Université Paris 7, INRIA, France) Matthew Crocker (Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany) Scott Crossley (Georgia State University, USA) Rodolfo Delmonte (Department of Computer Science, Università Ca’ Foscari, Italy) Piet Desmet (KULeuven, Belgium) Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza (IXA NLP Group, University of the Basque Country) Cédrick Fairon (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Marcello Ferro (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, ILC-CNR, Italy) Nuria Gala (Aix-Marseille Université, France) Ted Gibson (MIT, USA) Itziar Gonzalez-Dios (IXA NLP Group, University of the Basque Country) Alex Housen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh, UK) Kristopher Kyle (Georgia State University, USA) Alessandro Lenci (Università di Pisa, Italy) Annie Louis (University of Essex, UK) Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Ryan Mcdonald (Google) Detmar Meurers (University of Tübingen, Germany) Simonetta Montemagni (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, ILC-CNR, Italy) Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington, USA, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, CA) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden) Gabriele Pallotti (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Katerina Pastra (Cognitive Systems Research Institute, Greece) Vito Pirrelli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, ILC-CNR, Italy) Barbara Plank (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, UK) Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen, UK) Paul Smolensky (John Hopkins University, USA) Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KULeuven, Belgium) Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii (University of Tokyo, Japan) Joel Tetreault (Yahoo! Labs) Sara Tonelli (FBK, Trento, Italy) Sowmya Vajjala (Iowa State University, USA) Aline Villavicencio (Institute of Informatics Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Elena Volodina (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Daniel Wiechmann (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Victoria Yaneva (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
========== Organisers ==========
Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi
ItaliaNLP Lab @ Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale 'A. Zampolli', Pisa (Italy)
Thomas François
CENTAL, IL&C, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Philippe Blache
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS & Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France)
======= Contact =======
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to: cl4lc.ws@gmail.com
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3-3-26 | (2016-12-13) 6th IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), San Juan, Porto Rico
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3-3-27 | (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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3-3-28 | (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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3-3-29 | (2017-03-05) 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017), New Orleans, USA 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017)
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3-3-30 | (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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3-3-31 | (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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