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ISCApad #223

Saturday, January 14, 2017 by Chris Wellekens

2 ISCA News
2-1Message of our Vice President John Hansen

 

  Dear ISCA Members,

 

First, a Happy New Year to all and welcome to the next installment of the ISCApad for January 2017! As we move into 2017, there are a number of activities underway for ISCA and the speech & language science/processing/technology community. Some highlights are here, and more contained in this ISCApad.

 

Interspeech-2017: [http://www.interspeech2017.org/] will take place Aug. 20-14, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the second time Interspeech has been organized in Scandinavia, Interspeech-2001 which was in Aalborg, Denmark was the last one (already 16 years ago!). The theme of INTERSPEECH-2017 is Situated interaction. The deadline for paper submissions is March 14, 2017 (if you watched the very informative informational video which was presented at the closing ceremony at Interspeech-2016, you will know that expert card tricks help highlight great experiences which await us in Sweden and Stockholm, but don’t take chances and submit your papers on time!). The Interspeech-2017 Organizing Committee has already announced the Keynote Speakers for this year (James Allen, Catherine Pelachaud and Björn Lindblom). Please check the website out for more information – and I can promise the weather will be much nicer in Stockholm during August than in most places today in January (if you are in the northern hemisphere at least).

Also, I would also like to encourage industry to consider both Interspeech Sponsorship, and participation as an Interspeech Exhibitor. ISCA is a non-profit organization and conference Sponsorship is critical for supporting the meeting and especially to help allow as many students and young scientists to participate (there are great spots to highlight your company Logo on the Interspeech-2017 website!).

 

ISCA Website: [ http://www.isca-speech.org/] Next, the ISCA Online Archive is now accessible directly from ISCA Web main page. This was in direct response to an analysis that shows that the ISCAweb is the most visited page for the ISCA Website. The archive has excellent links to all the INTERSPEECH conferences (2000-2016) including a “Logos” page! Also, past ICSLP (Inter. Conf. Spoken Lang. Processing) and Eurospeech conferences from 1987 to 1999 are also linked. Finally, there is an excellent listing of Topic-Specific Events regarding workshops as well as ISCA Challenges and Language-Specific Events. If you ever wanted to take a walk back in time for our field, this is a great spot to explore.

 

ISCA DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS:As a reminder from our last ISCApad, Professors Hiroya Fujisaki and Valerie Hazan have been named as the ISCA Distinguished Lecturers 2016-2017. So, if you have interest in having them visit your institution as part of the ISCA DL Lecture series, please see the ISCA DL website for DL Topics and logistics. They are available for lecture tours upon request from host institutions (many of the past ISCA DL reports are available on this page – so review some of these to see the impact ISCA DL is having). [ http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers ]

 

As always, we welcome feedback and input from the ISCA community – if you have suggestions on our society or want to be involved, please let us know!

 

We look forward to your participation in ISCA and Interspeech-2017!

John H.L. Hansen,

ISCA Vice-President

 

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2-2Election of members for the Board of ISCA

Announcement:

Election of members for the Board of ISCA (4-year term: 2017-2021)


The ISCA Board currently has 14 members from 10 countries (see the full list below). Members are elected to the Board for a period of four years and no member may serve on the Board for more than two consecutive terms.  The following Board members will have served for two terms of four years in August 2017: Keikichi HIROSE, Haizhou LI, Douglas O?SHAUGHNESSY, and thus these three will leave the Board.  In addition,  Mark HASEGAWA-JOHNSON, Gérard BAILLY, Martin COOKE, Hynek HERMANSKY, and Kate KNILL will be ending their first term; Martin COOKE and Hynek HERMANSKY are not standing for re-election, while the other three will run for re-election.  Thus we have openings for eight members for the 2017-2021 term.

In accordance with the ISCA by-laws, elections to the Board will take place in April 2017.   We invite nominations from the ISCA membership.  Each nomination requires the support of three members of the Association and agreement from the candidate (e.g., by email).  The ISCA statutes specify a maximum of three Board members from any one country.  Each ISCA member will be asked to cast a anonymous ballot in the election, via a survey website.

Members elected to the Board will be expected to be responsible for one or more of the areas listed below assigned by the Board, to commit time to furthering the work of ISCA in their area (s), to attend the Board meetings that take place at each annual INTERSPEECH conference and to participate in additional virtual meetings during the year (via teleconference).  All candidates should be aware of these obligations and commit themselves to fulfilling them before agreeing to be nominated.

The Board will accept nominations either from proposers or self-nominations, as long as indication of support (three members of ISCA) is provided. Please send your nomination(s) to the ISCA Secretariat secretariat@isca-speech.org   BEFORE March 1st, 2017  with the following information:
Full Name and Title:
Position and Institution:
Research area: 
Indication of willingness to serve if elected:
E-mail:
URL:
Short biography (one paragraph)
Short statement (one paragraph, acknowledging the willingness to serve the duty assigned by the Board, and the preference of area(s) one would intend to do.)   
Names and emails of three proposers (ISCA members).
Please provide a photo, for posting on the ballot.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require further information about the nomination process or about duties of ISCA Board members. 

Best regards,
Haizhou LI  (ISCA President)   isca-president@isca-speech.org
Douglas O'Shaughnessy (ISCA Secretary)    secretariat@isca-speech.org 

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Areas:  

FINANCE, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, MEMBERSHIP SERVICES AND ISCA WEBSITE, PUBLICATIONS AND ARCHIVE, DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL OUTREACH, SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, TRAINING & EDUCATION, GRANTS, FELLOWS & AWARDS, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, PUBLIC RELATIONS, SECRETARIAT

Current Board:
Haizhou LI (ISCA President)
John HANSEN (ISCA Vice President)
Mark HASEGAWA-JOHNSON (ISCATreasurer)
Douglas O'SHAUGHNESSY (ISCA Secretary)
Gérard BAILLY
Kay BERKLING
Martin COOKE
Hynek HERMANSKY
Keikichi HIROSE
Kate KNILL
Lori LAMEL
Sebastian MOELLER
Torbjorn SVENDSEN
Satoshi NAKAMURA



 
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2-3Nominations for ISCA Fellows
Since its introduction in 2007, ISCA's Fellows Program has recognised and honoured 57 outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. Nominations are now open for the 2017 ISCA Fellows which will be presented at Interspeech 2017 in Stockholm. Any ISCA member can make a nomination. 

To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or more with a minimum of ten years experience in the field. A Fellow may be recognised by their outstanding technical contributions and/or continued significant service to ISCA. The supporting case for the candidate's nomination should include up to 3 major contributions which have had impact on the speech community and/or society in general. A nomination should be supported by 4 references from ISCA Fellows and/or Board Members. Current ISCA Board members are not eligible for nomination. Fellow Selection Committee members will avoid writing references for Fellow candidates. The total number selected in any one year will not exceed one-third percent of the total ISCA membership in that year.   

Nominations should be sent to 'fellows_nomination [at] isca-speech.org' by February 10. Those who plan to nominate are strongly advised to write brief information on candidates (candidate's name and affiliation) to the above address before January 10 with your name and contacting e-mail address. Re-send your e-mail when you do not receive an acknowledgement in a week.

Further information and nomination and reference forms can be found at: http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/honors/fellows
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2-4Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences
Video archives are available in 
http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/video-archive 
where keynote speeches from IS 2010 can be seen. You will also find video archives 
of many other conferences.
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2-5Videos of INTERSPEECH 2016

The videos for the plenary talks at IS2016 are now accessible via https://www.superlectures.com/interspeech2016/ where all the videos of previous conferences are also available.

In case of problems, they can also be watched on our the website of the conference http://www.interspeech2016.org/

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2-6Call for Bids for INTERSPEECH 2020

Dear ISCA members:

Those who have plans to organize INTERSPEECH 2020 are encouraged to

submit their proposals to: conferences@isca-speech.org before

November 1, 2016. A proposal must be submitted by the interested institution,

usually by the person who will act as chairman of the conference, including the

basic proposed data such as:

** Name and position of the proposed General Chair and Vice Chair or Chairpersons

** Proposed period when the conference would be held (between end of August and beginning of October)

* The institution assuming financial responsibility for the conference

** The city and conference center proposed (with information on that center's capacity)

* Information on transportation and housing for conference participants

* Commercial conference organizer (if any) to be employed

* Likely support from local bodies (e.g. governmental)

* Preliminary budget and fees (not exceeding a prescribed limit)

* Other information supporting the application

If you need more time to prepare all the information above, let us know 'basic information' indicated by '**' temporarily. Do not hesitate to ask us, if you have any questions.

A standard bid and budget template can be downloaded

from http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/conferences.

 

Keikichi Hirose, Sebastian Möller (Conferences, ISCA Board)
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2-7An ISCA Distinguished Lecturer: Valerie Hazan.
ISCA Distinguished Lecturer
Valerie Hazan has just completed her first lecture tour as ISCA Distinguished Lecturer, in Chile. She gave well attended talks at the University of Santiago, hosted by the Department of Linguistics and Literature, and at the University of Concepcion, hosted by the Departments of Foreign Languages, of Spanish and the Faculty of Education. She also had research discussions with staff and students, and introduced them to ISCA. Valerie received a very warm welcome at both institutions during this successful and enjoyable lecture tour.
 
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2-8Two messages to SProSIG members

Voting for the location of Speech Prosody 2018 is now concluded. The vote clearly demonstrated that both teams were capable of running an outstanding conference: 200 members expressed the intention to 'likely,' 'certainly,' or 'maybe' attend Speech Prosody 2018, regardless of the venue, therefore the venue was decided by the preference vote.  The winner received 122 of 230 votes.

The officers of SProSIG are pleased to announce that Speech Prosody 2018 will take place in Poznan, Poland, 13-16 June, 2018.

Thank you all for participating in this uniquely open conference selection process.  The strong membership participation speaks to the health of SProSIG; we look forward to seeing all of you in Poznan in 2018!

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Dear Fellow Members of SProSIG,

The constitution of SProSIG calls for election of officers once every two years; elections are usually held after Speech Prosody.  Officers may serve for up to four consecutive two-year terms.  The current officers were first elected in 2010, and have, thus far, served three consecutive terms; they are President Keikichi Hirose, Secretary Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Treasurer Hansjoerg Mixdorff, and Society Liaison Yi Xu. They all agreed to serve for their fourth (last) term, if re-elected.  However, this does not prevent SProSIG members to raise their hands to serve as one of the officers for the coming term. 

Therefore the Permanent Advisory Council of SProSIG has agreed on the following schedule:

October 27 - November 26, 2016: Nominations for SProSIG officers may be sent to Past President Daniel Hirst, djhirst@me.com.  Nominations must be submitted by a SProSIG member (self-nominations are accepted), and must include a short (~100 words) statement of qualifications and vision.  The person being nominated must be a SProSIG member, and must agree to hold the position if elected.

November 27 ? December 26, 2016: If there are nominations other than the current officers, elections will be held at sprosig.org, opening November 27, and closing December 26.  The role of the new officers will be decided after election.  If there are no nominations, Permanent Advisory will approve the current offices to serve their fourth term. 

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2-9ISCA Distinguished lecturers Nominations of candidates for 2017-2018

ISCA Distinguished lecturers Nominations of candidates for 2017-2018

  

Dear ISCA Member,

Open call for nominations of ISCA Distinguished lecturers Nominations of candidates for 2017-2018 terms are now open. 
Each nomination should include the following information:

  • - a short biography of the candidate,
  • - selected publications,
  • - a website, or a resume that provides this information,
  • - plus topics/titles of up to 3 possible lectures that the candidate could give. 

Please note that the nominator must ensure the candidate is willing to serve if elected. 
Nominations from previous years will be only considered if updated. 
Self nominations must include a letter of support from an ISCA Fellow or Board Member. 
Nominations should be sent to dl_nominations{at}isca-speech.org before January 31, 2017.

Isabel Trancoso, head of DL selection committee.
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2-10ISCA Online Archive

 

ISCA Online Archive is now accessible directly from ISCA Web main page.
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