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3-1-1 | (2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden INTERSPEECH 2017
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3-1-2 | (2017-08-25) 7th ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE),Stockholm, Sweden the Seventh ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Workshop on Speech and
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3-1-3 | Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India Welcome to INTERSPEECH 2018
INTERSPEECH 2018 will be held during September 2-6, 2018 in Hyderabad the capital city (population of about 8 million) of Telangana state in india. The venue is the Hyderabad, international Convention Centre (HICC), a state-of-the-art convention centre for holding large (over 5000 delegates) conferences, and it compares with the best in the world in terms of technological, communication and audio-visual tools. The attached Novotel Hyderabad convention centre is a modern 4-star hotel with 287 guest rooms. The surrounding High Tech City area has several options for transport, accommodation, food, shopping and entertainment within 7 Kilometres distance from the HICC. There are many historic places to visit in Hyderabad, and for shoppers, the city offers everthing from antiques to handicrafts to jewellery, and from dresses to leather goods. The HICC is about 40 minutes drive from the Rajiv Gandhi International airport (RIGA), which is rated as among the best in the world for Airport Service Quality. The airport provides domestic flight connections to enable travellers to reach almost any major city in India within about two hours. India is a country (population of over 1.25 billion people) with large diversity in language, culture, food habit, etc, but unified as a single nation. This makes communication among people, especially in spoken form, very unique and challenging for scientific exploration. With a huge market in the country and large penetration of mobile communication (with over 800 million mobile phones) for doing business, the IT-enabled services are really facing the challenge of dealing with casual conversations in multiple languages. In fact, the large speech research community in india is already addressing these issues with generous support from the federal and state governments, and from industry. The theme of the conference is not only topical but also apt, “Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies”. The Organizers expect that the participants of this conference from around the world will get a first hand feel of these unique challenges of providing IT-enabled services to a large population in a multilingual society like India. The organizers of INTERSPEECH 2018 are looking forward to a large participation from around the world, as well as from india, to this once in a life time opportunity of exploiting the challenges facing the scientific community in dealing with spoken form of communication in all its aspects. Please mark your calendars and save 2-6 September 2018 for INTERSPEECH 2018 in Hyderabad, India. We are eagerly looking forward to welcoming you here in Hyderabad.
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3-1-4 | Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria.
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3-2-1 | (2017-08-25) 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2017),Djuronaset, Stockholm,Sweden
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3-2-2 | Forthcoming ISCA Supported EventsForthcoming ISCA Supported Events
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3-3-1 | (2016-10-11) 4th Intern. Conf. on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2016), Pilzen, Czech Republic
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3-3-2 | (2016-10-13) Conferences at the lab Parole et Cognition,Gipsa-Lab, Grenoble, France - Jeudi 13 Octobre: Léo Varnet
Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Paris.
Images de classifications auditives: quand le bruit révèle les indices acoustiques utilisés lors de la catégorisation de phonèmes »
- Jeudi 20 Octobre: Catriona Steele
Swallowing Rehabilitation Research Laboratory, Toronto
Measurement and Rehabilitation of Tongue Function in Swallowing
- Jeudi 10 Novembre: Jean Schoentgen
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Simulation numérique de la qualité vocale
- Vendredi 9 Décembre: Jonathan Harrington
Institute of Phonetics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich(Titre à venir)
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3-3-3 | (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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3-3-4 | (2016-10-17) traitement automatique de la parole pathologique et de ses applications cliniques IRIT Toulouse France Dans le cadre de l?axe santé qui est un axe transversal de l?IRIT, nous organisons le workshop suivant qui aura lieu en octobre 2016.
La thématique est autour du traitement automatique de la parole pathologique et de ses applications cliniques et il se déroulera à l?auditorium de l?IRIT le lundi 17 octobre prochain.
Voici le programme actuel:
9h30-10h Julie Mauclair IRIT Toulouse, France: Introduction + ?Severity assesment in patient suffering from oral cancer'
10h-10h30 Mathew Magimai Doss Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Suisse: 'End-to-end acoustic modeling and its potential implications'
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11h-11h30 Heidi Christensen CATCH , University of Sheffield, UK : ?Dysarthric speech recognition and clinical applications'
11h30-12h Elmar Nöth University of Erlangen, Allemagne: 'Acoustic Analysis of Pathologic Speech'
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14h-14h30 Alberto Abad INESC, Lisbon, Portugal :'Speech and language technology applied to therapy and screening of language and cognitive disorders'
14h30-15h Kris Demuynck University of Ghent, Belgique :'ASISTO: Automatic Speech analysis during Speech Therapy in Oncology'
15h-15h30 Virginie Woisard IUCT, France : ?The Carcinologic Speech Severity Index project?
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16h-16h30 Rob van Son , Université d?Amsterdam : TBA
16h30-17h Helmer Strik, Radboud University, Pays-Bas : TBA
Site web : https://www.irit.fr/ISA/manifestations
Lieu : Auditorium de l'IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III), 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 TOULOUSE CEDEX 9
Julie Mauclair
MCF-IRIT
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3-3-5 | (2016-10-21) MediaEval 2016 Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Call for Participation
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3-3-6 | (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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3-3-7 | (2016-10-31) 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions, Nijmegen, the Netherlands === Announcement for 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech
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3-3-8 | (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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3-3-9 | (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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3-3-10 | (2016-11-23) ALBAYZIN 2016 SEARCH ON SPEECH EVALUATION, Lisbon, Portugal
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3-3-11 | (2016-12-10) NIPS 2016 Workshop: Let's Discuss: Learning Methods for Dialogue? ?, Barcelona, Spain Let's Discuss: Learning Methods for Dialogue? ? NIPS 2016 Workshop 10 December 2016 Barcelona, Spain http://letsdiscussnips2016.weebly.com/
Overview
Humans conversing naturally with machines is a staple of science fiction. Building agents capable of mutually coordinating their states and actions via communication, in conjunction with human agents, would be one of the greatest engineering feats of human history. In addition to the tremendous economic potential of this technology, the ability to converse appears intimately related to the overall goal of AI.
Although dialogue has been an active area within the linguistics and NLP communities for decades, the wave of optimism in the machine learning community has inspired increased interest from researchers, companies, and foundations. The NLP community has enthusiastically embraced and innovated neural information processing systems, resulting in substantial relevant activity published outside of NIPS. The goal of this forum is increased interaction (dialogue!) between these communities at NIPS to accelerate creativity and progress.
Call For Papers
The workshop will consist of a mixture of invited talks and contributed talks, with panel sessions. To avoid the 'mini-conference effect', there is no poster session. We anticipate a total of six contributed talks of 20 minutes each, distributed evenly over the following three high-level areas:
- Being data-driven.
- Build complete applications.
- Model innovation.
The papers should be typeset according to NIPS format. The paper should not exceed more than 4 pages (including references). The authors of all the accepted papers will be expected to give a 20 minute talk (15 for the talk + 5 min for questions) and participate in a panel session. Accepted papers will be displayed on the website. There will be no posters.
Key Dates
- 10/09/2016: Submissions Due - 10/23/2016: Acceptance Notification
Organizers:
- Hal Daume III - Paul Mineiro - Amanda Stent - Jason Weston
Paper submission and more information : http://letsdiscussnips2016.weebly.com/
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3-3-12 | (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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3-3-13 | (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.
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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.
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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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3-3-14 | (2016-12-12) Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-v), Osaka, Japan Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-v) https://sites.google.com/site/cogalex2016/home
Workshop co-lated with coling (the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Osaka, Japan), December 12, 2016
Invited speaker : Chris Biemann (Technische Universität, Darmstadt)
We are pleased to announce the 5th Workshop on ‘Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon’ (Cogalex-V), taking place just before coling (Osaka, Japan), december 12, 2016. 1 Context and backgroundThe way we look at the lexicon (creation and use) has changed dramatically over the past 30 years. While in the past being considered as an appendix to grammar, the lexicon has now moved to centre stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP which can be conducted without it. Also, rather than considering it as a static entity (database view), dictionaries are now viewed as dynamic networks, akin to the human brain, whose nodes and links (connection strengths) may change over time. Linguists work on products, while psychologists and computer scientists deal with processes. They decompose the task into a set of subtasks, i.e. modules between which information flows. There are inputs, outputs and processes in between. A typical task in language processing is to go from meanings to sound or vice versa, the two extremes of language production and language understanding. Since this mapping is hardly ever direct, various intermediate steps or layers (syntax, morphology) are necessary. Most of the work done by psycholinguists has dealt with the information flow from meaning (or concepts) to sound or the other way around. What has not been addressed though is the creation of a map of the mental lexicon, that is a represention of the way how words are organized or connected. In this respect WordNet and Roget's Thesaurus are probably closest to what one can expect these days. This being said, to find a word in a resource one has to reduce the search space (entire lexicon) and this is done via the knowledge one has at the onset of search. While the information stored in the lexicon is a product, its access is clearly a (cognitive, i.e. knowledge-based) process. 1.1 GoalThe goal of Cogalex is to provide a forum for researchers in NLP, psychologists, computational lexicographers and users of lexical resources to share their knowledge and needs concerning the construction, organization and use of a lexicon by people (lexical access) and machines (NLP, IR, data-mining).
Like in the past (2004, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014), we will invite researchers to address various unsolved problems, by putting this time stronger emphasis though on distributional semantics (DS). Indeed, we would like to see work showing the relevance of DS as a cognitive model of the lexicon. The interest in distributional approaches has grown considerably over the last few year, both in computational linguistics and cognitive sciences. A further boost has been provided by the recent hype around deep learning and neural embeddings. While all these approaches seem to have great potential, their added value to address cognitive and semantic aspects of the lexicon still needs to be shown.
This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources and electronic dictionaries, as well as on any aspect relevant to the achieve a better understanding of the mental lexicon and semantic memory.We solicit contributions including but not limited to the topics listed here below, topics, which can be considered from any of the following points of view:
We also plan to organize a “friendly competition” for corpus-based models of lexical networks and navigation, i.e. lexical access (see below). 1.2 Possible Topics1.2.1 Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user
1.2.2 The meaning of words1.2.3 Structure of the lexicon1.2.4 Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes1.2.5 Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues,2 Description of the shared tasks associated with the workshop.We plan to organize a “friendly competition” of corpus-based models of lexical access and semantic/associative relations between words. This competition will be based on an existing, publicly available data set. We provide an official separation of the data set into training, development and test data as well as a detailed specification of the task and evaluation metrics (implemented as easy-to-use scripts), so that the results obtained by different participants can be compared directly.
The precise design of the task has not been finalized yet, but it will be based on one or more of the following data sets:
3 INVITED SPEAKERChris Biemann, leader of the LT research group in Darmstadt, and well known for his work on graph-based-approaches for NLP, has kindly accepted to give the invited presentation. 4 Deadlines.
5 SubmissionThe submissions should be written in English and be anonymized for review. They must comply with the style-sheets provided by Coling: http://coling2016.anlp.jp/#instructions
Papers should be in PDF format and have to be submitted electronically via the START submission system (https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/ CogALex-V/). You probably have to register first, and then choose: submission, i.e. (https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/CogALex-V/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0). 6 Organizers.
7 Contact personsFor general questions, please get in touch with Michael Zock (michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr), for questions concerning the shared task, send an e-mail to Stefan Evert (stefan.evert@fau.de) 8 Program committeeBieman Chris (Technische Universität, Darmstadt, Germany) Babych, Bogdan (University of Leeds, UK) Brysbaert, Marc (Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium) Cristea Dan ('Al. I. Cuza' University, Iasi, Romania) deDeyne Simon (University of Adelaide, Australia) de Melo Gerard (IIIS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) Evert, Stefan (University of Erlangen, Germany) Ferret Olivier (CEA LIST, France) Fontenelle Thierry (CDT, Luxemburg) Gala Nuria (University of Aix-Marseille, France) Geeraerts Dirk (University of Leuven, Belgium) Granger Sylviane (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Grefenstette Gregory (Inria, Paris, France) Hirst Graeme (University of Toronto, Canada) Hovy Ed (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA) Hsieh, Shu-Kai (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan) Joyce Terry (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan) Lafourcade, Matthieu (LIRMM, université de Montepellier, France Lapalme Guy (RALI, University of Montreal, Canada Lebani Gianluca (University of Pisa, Italy) Lenci Alessandro (University of Pisa, Italy) L'Homme Marie Claude (University of Montreal, Canada) Mititelu Verginica (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania) Navigli, Roberto (Sapienza, Rome, Italy) Paradis Carita (Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University, Sweden) Pihlevar, Taher (university of Cambridge, UK) Pirrelli, Vito (ILC, Pisa, Italy) Polguère Alain (ATILF-CNRS, Nancy, France) Purver, Matthew (King's College, London, UK) Ramisch Carlos (AMU, Marseille, France) Rayson Paul (UCREL, university of Lancaster, UK Rosso, Paol (NLEL, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) Sahlgren, Magnus (Gavagai Inc. & SICS, Sweden) Schulte im Walde Sabine (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Schwab Didier (LIG, Grenoble, France) Sharoff Serge (University of Leeds, UK) Stella Massimo (Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, university of Southhampton, UK) Tokunaga Takenobu (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan) Tufis Dan (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania) Zarcone, Alessandra (Saarland University, Germany) Zock Michael (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France)
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3-3-15 | (2016-12-13) 6th IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), San Juan, Porto Rico
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3-3-16 | (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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3-3-17 | (2017-01-03) 3rd Conference on New Advances in Acoustics (NAA 2017), Bangkok, Thailand
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3-3-18 | (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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3-3-19 | (2017-03-01) HSCMA Hands Free Communication and Microphone Arrays, San Francisco, CA, USA HSCMA Hands Free Communication and Microphone Arrays March 1–3, 2017 • San Francisco, CA, USA Call for Papers The Fifth Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays will be held on March 1-3, 2017 at the Google Offices in downtown San Francisco, California. The workshop is devoted to presenting recent advances in distant-talking speech communication and human/machine interaction with an emphasis on multi-microphone systems. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in distant speech and speaker recognition, speech enhancement, high-quality sound capture, and multiple-input/ multiple-output (MIMO) acoustic signal processing. Demonstrations of experimental systems, applications, and prototypes are especially welcome. HSCMA 2017 is being held with technical sponsorship by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and will immediately precede ICASSP 2017. Workshop Topics Papers in all areas of distant-talking human/human and human/machine interaction are encouraged, including: • Multi-channel and single-channel approaches for speech acquisition, noise suppression, source localization and separation, dereverberation, echo cancellation, and acoustic event detection • Speech and speaker recognition technology for hands-free scenarios, including robust acoustic modeling, novel features, feature enhancement, dereverberation, and model adaptation • Microphone array technology and architectures, especially for distant-talking speech recognition and acoustic scene analysis • Multi-channel rendering, including spatial audio for immersive environments, improvements to intelligibility in noisy environments, and privacy of speech communications • Speech corpora for training and evaluation of distant-talking speech systems • Applications based on microphone arrays and hands-free speech systems. Special Sessions The program will also feature special sessions on new or emerging topics of interest. Proposals for special sessions must include the session title, rationale, outline, and a list of four invited papers. Paper & demo submission The workshop technical program will consist of oral presentations, poster sessions, and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to four pages, with a fifth page permitted for references only. Submissions for proposed demonstrations may be up to two pages in length. Manuscripts should be prepared using the same format as for ICASSP submissions using the ICASSP author kit for LaTeX or Word. Accepted papers will be published in IEEEXplore. Committee General Co-chairs Jerome Bellegarda, Apple Malcolm Slaney, Google Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Technical Program Chairs Shoko Araki, NTT Jacob Benesty, INRS-EMT, University of Quebec Bastiaan Kleijn, Victoria University of Wellington Mike Seltzer, Microsoft Finance Chair Mark Thomas, Dolby Publicity/Publications Chair Ozlem Kalinli, Sony Demo/Special Sessions Chair Shiva Sundaram, Amazon Local Arrangements Chair Horacio Franco, SRI
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3-3-20 | (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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3-3-21 | (2017-03-06) 11th INTERN. CONF. ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Umea, Sweden 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
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3-3-22 | (2017-03-30) CfP Workshop (In)Coherence of Discourse 4, LORIA, Nancy, France
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3-3-23 | (2017-04-26) Workshop on Speech perception and production across the lifespan (SPPL 2017), London, UK 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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3-3-24 | (2017-06-12) CfP Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017, Cologne, Germany *First Call for Papers and Workshops: Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017*
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3-3-25 | (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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3-3-26 | (2017-06-29) 7èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique, Paris, France 7èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique
Paris, 29 juin - 30 juin 2017
Organisées pour la première fois à Paris en 2005 puis rééditées successivement à Grenoble (2007), Aix-en-Provence (2009), Strasbourg (2011), Liège (2013) et Montpellier (2015), les Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC) reviennent à Paris en 2017. Elles réunissent des chercheurs et des ingénieurs mais aussi des médecins (ORL, phoniatres, chirurgiens,…) ainsi que des orthophonistes s’intéressant tous aux questions liées aux pathologies de la voix, de la parole et du langage. Les 7èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, se dérouleront à Paris du 29 juin au 30 juin 2017, organisées par le Laboratoire de Phonétique et de Phonologie (LPP-UMR7018), l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris3, l’Université Paris Descartes, l’Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou HEGP (service ORL et Unité d’exploration fonctionnelle des troubles de la voix, de la parole et de la déglutition), le Département Universitaire d’Orthophonie (Université Pierre et Marie Curie UPMC).
Les thèmes de ces 7èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique incluront, de façon non exhaustive, les problématiques suivantes : - troubles phonétiques / phonologiques - troubles de la production / de la perception - troubles de la voix / de la parole - communication verbale / non verbale - troubles moteurs de la parole - Instrumentation, ressources et modélisations en phonétique clinique
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3-3-27 | (2017-09-20) 11th Disfluency Conference, Oxford, UK
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3-3-28 | (2017-09-28) Workshop at BICLCE2017 (7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English), Vigo, Spain Speech Rhythm in L1, L2 and Learner Varieties of English Workshop at BICLCE2017 (7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English) in Vigo, 28-30 September 2017 https://sites.google.com/site/rflinguistics/workshops/rhythm2017 Convenor: Robert Fuchs (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Speech rhythm has long been recognised as an important supra-segmental category of speech, yet its measurement, relevance and the theoretical soundness of the concept continue to be hotly debated. The arguably most widely supported approach considers speech rhythm to consist of a continuum ranging from (1) a syllable-timed pole, with relatively small differences in prominence between syllables, to (2) a stress-timed pole, with relatively large differences in prominence between syllables. Most L1 varieties of English are widely regarded to be more stress-timed than most L2 and learner varieties, and this is supported by a considerable amount of empirical evidence (e.g. Deterding 1994, 2001, Fuchs 2016, Gut 2005, Gut and Milde 2002, Low 1998). Yet, upon closer inspection, many of the concepts underlying this research appear to be contested. For one, L1 varieties of English are themselves heterogeneous in their rhythm. There is, for example, regional variation, with some dialects spoken in the British Isles being more syllable-timed than others (Ferragne 2008, Ferragne and Pellegrino 2004, White and Matty 2007a, 2007b, White et al. 2007). Similarly, in L2 varieties, sociolinguistic differences such as that between acrolect and basilect might go hand in hand with a difference in speech rhythm. As for learner Englishes, while there is good evidence of the transfer of rhythmic characteristics from L1 to L2 (e.g. Dellwo et al. 2009, Gut 2009, Jang 2008, Sarmah et al. 2009), more research is needed to show that this has consequences in terms of foreign accent and accent recognition. More generally, research on speech rhythm would benefit from studies showing that quantitative measures of speech rhythm (so-called rhythm metrics) are perceptually relevant and psychologically ?real? in the sense that what is measured is reflected in a certain kind of percept. Finally, the very nature and reliability of these rhythm metrics has been discussed extensively, but arguably inconclusively, in the past years, with some researchers attempting to identify those duration-based metrics that are most reliable (White and Mattys 2007a, White et al.2007, Wiget et al. 2010), others concluding that none of them are reliable (Arvaniti 2009, 2012, Arvaniti et al. 2008), and yet others suggesting metrics that focus on acoustic correlates of prominence other than duration, such as intensity (Fuchs 2016, He 2012, Low 1998), loudness (Fuchs 2014a), f0 (Cumming 2010, 2011, Fuchs 2014b) and sonority (Galves et al. 2012).
In order to address these issues, this workshop aims to bring together researchers working on one or more of the following aspects:
Apart from addressing one or more of the issues above, papers need be concerned with (a variety of) English or a language contact situation involving English (in keeping with the scope of the conference).
The workshop will consist of full papers and work in progress reports, which will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation (plus 10 minutes for discussion). The deadline for submission of abstracts (ca. 500 words, excluding title, references and keywords) is 15 December 2016. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by the end of January 2017. Abstracts should be sent to rfuchs@hkbu.edu.hk .
References
Arvaniti, Amalia. 2009. Rhythm, timing and the timing of rhythm. Phonetica 66(1/2): 46?63. Arvaniti, Amalia. 2012. The usefulness of metrics in the quantification of speech rhythm. Journal of Phonetics 40: 351?373. Arvaniti, Amalia, Tristie Ross, and Naja Ferjan. 2008. On the reliability of rhythm metrics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(4): 2495.Dellwo, Volker, Francisco Gutiérrez Diez, and Nuria Gavalda. 2009. The development of measurable speech rhythm in Spanish speakers of English. In Actas de XI Simposio Internacional de Comunicacion Social, Santiago de Cuba, 594?597. Cumming, Ruth E. 2010. The language-specific integration of pitch and duration. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge. Cumming, Ruth E. 2011. Perceptually informed quantification of speech rhythm in pairwise variability indices. Phonetica 68(4): 256?277. Deterding, David. 1994. The rhythm of Singapore English. In Proceedings of the fifth Australian international conference on speech science and technology, ed. Roberto Togneri, 316?321. Perth: Uniprint. Deterding, David. 2001. The measurement of rhythm: A comparison of Singapore and British English. Journal of Phonetics 29: 217?230. Ferragne, Emmanuel. 2008. Etude Phonétique des Dialectes Modernes de l?Anglais des Iles Britanniques: Vers l?Identification Automatique du Dialecte. PhD thesis. Université Lumière Lyon 2. Ferragne, Emmanuel, and François Pellegrino. 2004. A comparative account of the suprasegmental and rhythmic features of British English dialects. Actes de Modelisations pour l?Identification des Langues, Paris, 121?126. Fuchs, Robert. 2014a. Integrating variability in loudness and duration in a multidimensional model of speech rhythm: Evidence from Indian English and British English. In Proceedings of speech prosody 7, Dublin, ed. Nick Campbell, Dafydd Gibbon, and Daniel Hirst, 290?294. Fuchs, Robert. 2014b. Towards a perceptual model of speech rhythm: Integrating the influence of f0 on perceived duration. In Proceedings of interspeech 2014, ed. Haizhou Li, Helen Meng, Bin Ma, Eng Siong Chng, and Lei Xie, Singapore, 1949?1953. Fuchs, Robert. 2016. Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English: Evidence from Educated Indian English and British English. Singapore: Springer. Galves, Antonio, Jesus Garcia, Denise Duarte, and Charlotte Galves. 2002. Sonority as a basis for rhythmic class discrimination. In Proceedings of speech prosody 2002, Aix-en-Provence, 323?326. Gut, Ulrike. 2005. Nigerian English prosody. English World-Wide 26(2): 153?177. Gut, Ulrike. 2009. Non-native speech. A corpus-based analysis of phonological and phonetic properties of L2 English and German. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Gut, Ulrike, and Jan-Torsten Milde. 2002. The prosody of Nigerian English. In Proceedings of the speech prosody 2002 conference, ed. Bel Bell and Isabelle Marlien, 367?370. Aix-en-Provence: Laboratoire Parole et Langage. He, Lei. 2012. Syllabic intensity variations as quantification of speech rhythm: Evidence from both L1 and L2. In Proceedings of the 6th international conference on speech prosody, Shanghai, 22?26 May 2012, ed. Qiuwu Ma, Hongwei Ding, and Daniel Hirst, 466?469. Shanghai: Tongji University Press. Jang, Tae-Yeoub. 2008. Speech rhythm metrics for automatic scoring of English speech by Korean EFL learners. Malsori Speech Sounds 66: 41?59. Low, Ee Ling. 1998. Prosodic Prominence in Singapore English. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge. Sarmah, Priyankoo, Divya Verma Gogoi, and Caroline Wiltshire. 2009. Thai English. Rhythm and vowels. English World-Wide 30(2): 196?217. White, Laurence, and Sven L. Mattys. 2007a. Calibrating rhythm: First language and second language studies. Journal of Phonetics 35(4): 501?522. White, Laurence, and Sven L. Mattys. 2007b. Rhythmic typology and variation in first and second languages. Segmental and Prosodic Issues in Romance Phonology 282: 237?257. White, Laurence, Sven L. Mattys, Lucy Series, and Suzi Gage. 2007. Rhythm metrics predict rhythmic discrimination. In Proceedings of the 16th international congress of phonetic sciences, Saarbrücken, 1009?1012. Wiget, Klaus, Laurence White, Barbara Schuppler, Izabelle Grenon, Oleysa Rauch, and Sven L. Mattys. 2010. How stable are acoustic metrics of contrastive speech rhythm? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127(3): 1559?1569.
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