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ISCApad #217 |
| Sunday, July 10, 2016 by Chris Wellekens |
3-2 ISCA Supported Events
| 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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