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3-1-1 | (2017-08-20) Important message from Prof. Lacerda, chairman of Interspeech 2017 The Interspeech 2017's organization committee is very proud to announce that we already have a record number of 1845 conference participants, including 1650 regular registrations. The high number of participants raises some inevitable logistics issues that we are dealing with and here is some information on how we will handle the situation:
For the opening ceremony, there will be two overflow lecture halls for streaming of the ceremony from Aula Magna
The plenary sessions will be recorded and streamed to an additional lecture hall with two-way communication (participants in the overflow hall will be able to ask questions and will appear on the main screen, just as for those sitting in Aula Magna)
On Monday, August 21, Interspeech 2017 attendees are invited by Stockholm City to a reception at the City Hall. However, for security reasons, there is an absolute maximum of 1200 persons allowed in the building and therefore a parallel reception organized by Interspeech will be offered to the conference attendees in excess of the 1200 limit for the City Hall reception. Because a detailed guest list must be provided to the City Hall before the reception, all participants who signed up for the welcome reception will receive an e-mail confirmation stating whether they are included in the City Hall's guest list or in the guest list for the parallel reception organized by Interspeech. Attendees who are included in the City Hall guest list but cannot attend the reception or would rather be in the parallel Interspeech reception are kindly requested to contact the Interspeech registration so that their place in the City Hall guest list can be given to other attendees. The location for the parallel Interspeech reception is currently being negotiated and will be announced as soon as possible.
To extend the space and capacity for the Interspeech banquet, additional places for the dinner will be provided by the Ethnographic Museum, face-to-face with the Technology Museum.
Please note that due to the large number of registered participants, some of the conference materials may not be available to late registrants.
We look forward to welcome you in Stockholm!
Francisco Lacerda General chair
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3-1-2 | (2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017 update The preparations for Interspeech 2017 are in full swing! As you may have noticed, we had a serious virus attack to Interspeech 2017 website and it too us a while to restore it. The website is now up and running again, although with still some issues concerning links that are not yet completely operational, at this time. We have received a good number of proposals for Satellite Workshops as well as for Special Sessions and Challenges and we are working on the schedules and logistic details. We can announce that co-registration will be possible. Participants will be able to select participation in Satellite Workshops and pay the registration fee in connection with the registration for Interspeech 2017. The organizers of satellite events will be in touch with our PCO to get information on the registered participants and the universities involved in the satellite events will request from our PCO transfers of the events’ registration amounts. Except for the credit card fee (about 2 %), we do not expect any other costs for the organizers of the satellite events. Sponsorships and exhibition requests are dropping in, which is a very good sign. We have started a Facebook page and taken over a Twitter account for Interspeech 2017. There is still some work to be done to activate properly those social media but we are working on it. The three main Interspeech 2017 partners, Stockholm University, KTH and Karolinska Institute are coordinating efforts to make the conference a success and are deeply involved in the planning. To the good news, we can add that Stockholm University will not be charging Interspeech 2017 for the lecture halls or use of other spaces at the university and KTH/TMH will be hosting the Technical Committee meeting in May. Meanwhile, we are having regular planning meetings involving Stockholm University’s representatives of various infrastructures, like wifi, media services, restaurants and cafeterias, security, etc. and working hard to make sure that Interspeech 2017 will flow as smoothly and effectively as possible. See you in Stockholm in August! Francisco Lacerda
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3-1-3 | (2017-08-20) Satellite Workshops and Events at Interspeech 2017HSCR 2017: Second International Workshop on the HISTORY OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION RESEARCHDates: 18–19 August 2017 Location: University Main Building in the City Center Campus, Helsinki, Finland Website: https://hscr2017.org/ Names and affiliation of organizers:
Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, DiSS 2017Dates: 18–19 August 2017 Location: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden Website: http://diss2017.org/ Names and affiliation of organizers:
MMC 2017: The 12th Workshop on Multimodal CorporaDates: 19 August 2017 Location: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden Website: http://www.multimodalcorpora2017.org Names and affiliation of organizers:
1st International Workshop on Challenges in Hearing Assistive Technology (CHAT-2017)Dates: 19 August 2017 Location: Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Website: http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chat2017 Names and affiliation of organizers:
The 3rd International Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing ASMMC 2017Dates: 25 August 2017 Location: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Website: http://www.nwpu-aslp.org/asmmc2017 Names and affiliation of organizers:
Grounding Language Understanding GLU2017Dates: 25 August 2017 Location: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden Website: http://www.speech.kth.se/glu2017 Names and affiliation of organizers:
And supported by the CHIST-ERA IGLU consortium
AVSP 2017: International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech ProcessingDates: 25–26 August 2017 Location: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden Website: http://avsp2017.loria.fr/ Names and affiliation of organizers:
SLaTE 2017: The seventh ISCA workshop on Speech and Language Technology in EducationDates: 25–26 August 2017 Location: Stockholm archipelago, Sweden Website: http://www.slate2017.org Names and affiliation of organizers:
Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR-2017)Dates: 25–26 August 2017 Location: University of Skövde, Sweden Website: http://vihar-2017.vihar.org Names and affiliation of organizers:
GESPIN 2017: 5th Gesture and Speech in Interaction conferenceDates: 25–27 August 2017 Location: Collegium Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland Website: http://www.gespin.amu.edu.pl Names and affiliation of organizers:
LTLT 2017: Language Teaching, Learning and TechnologyDates: 26–30 August 2017 Location: Alto University Campus, Helsinki, Finland Website: https://sites.google.com/site/l1teachingandtechnology/home Names and affiliation of organizers:
20th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue / TSD 2017Dates: 27–31 August 2017 Location: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Website: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2017/ Names and affiliation of organizers:
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3-1-4 | (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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3-1-5 | (2018-09-02) Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India INTERSPEECH 2018 Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies 2-6 September 2018 Hyderabad, India http://www.interspeech2018,org
Gen. Chair: B. Yegnanarayama
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3-1-6 | (2019) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria.
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3-1-7 | Interspeech 2017 Update 2017-06-05 The Stockholm team continues preparing for InterSpeech 2017 in August 20-24. Following on the TPC’s intensive review work to handle the 1532 submissions to InterSpeech 2017, we are now dealing with the logistics of scheduling the 797 accepted regular contributions as well as about 40 additional Show & Tell presentations. Registration for InterSpeech 2017 requires an ISCA membership valid during the conference (i.e. 20-24 August 2017) and “InterSpeech 2017 + ISCA membership packages” will be updated within the next couple of days. It will offer integrated options for the simultaneous payment of both registration and ISCA membership fees. Renewing the ISCA membership via the InterSpeech 2017 website is already possible but we are working to make the payment process smoother. Note however, that all the payments must be in SEK and that they will include a service fee. Short announcements and updates concerning InterSpeech 2017 are also published via http://stockholmuniversityphonetics.com and linked to Facebook, Twitter and Google + Welcome to Stockholm!
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3-1-8 | Interspeech 2017 Stockholm ( update July)
InterSpeech 2017 is approaching rapidly and the Stockholm team is working to ensure a positive and giving experience to all participants. Lots of work, lots of fun and we look forward to have you all here in Stockholm! Following the trend of recent InterSpeech conferences, the interest for InterSpeech 2017 is also very high. We are extremely glad and proud of this high number of registrations (that still is increasing) and will make sure to find the best possible solutions to deal with this very welcome large demand. For instance, we will provide a live streaming of plenary sessions from Aula Magna to an additional lecture hall to make sure that everybody can participate and interact with the keynote speakers. Large, non-plenary, sessions will also be held in Aula Magna, where there will be enough space for all the participants. We also want to make sure to include all the participants in the social activities that you have signed up for so we are working with solutions to increase the capacity of the events and considering attractive parallel alternatives, if the event’s capacity cannot be expanded. This work is in progress and must be done based on the demand, so we expect to announce all the solutions by the first week in August. About two weeks before InterSpeech 2017, all registered participants will receive an e-mail with practical instructions and information regarding the registration procedure, options and other details. Short announcements and updates concerning InterSpeech 2017 are also published via http://stockholmuniversityphonetics.com and linked to Facebook, Twitter and Google + Have a nice trip to Stockholm and enjoy InterSpeech 2017!
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3-1-9 | Launch of the the on-line workshop application portal ISCA is pleased to announce the launch of the on-line workshop application portal:
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3-2-1 | (2017-11-13)CfP WOCCI 2017, Glasgow, UKCall for PapersWOCCI aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia 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 but also at the interaction level. WOCCI provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities from cognitive science, computer vision, robotics, speech processing, linguistics and application areas such as medicine and education. Various state-of-the-art systems can be presented here as key components for next generation child-centered computer interaction. Technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core well-being of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities and individualized attention. The workshop will serve as a venue for presenting recent advances 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:
The technical committee will select papers for oral/poster presentation. SubmissionsThe program committee welcomes submissions of papers 4 - 6 pages in length, formatted according to the Interspeech 2017 style guidelines. Submissions can be made at the WOCCI 2017 EasyChair submission page. The technical committee will select papers for oral and poster presentations. Accepted papers will be published in the ISCA archive. WOCCI 2017 reviewing will be double-blind; accordingly, paper submissions should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Important DatesJuly 17, 2017: Initial paper submission deadline (title and authors should not be changed after this date) July 24, 2017: Final paper submission deadline August 21, 2017: Notification of paper acceptance Send us a note: wocci2017@gmail.com
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3-2-2 | ISCA Tutorial and Research workshops and supported eventsForthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events
Forthcoming ISCA Supported Events
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3-3-1 | (2017-08-14) Course: Machine Learning Applied to Bioinformatics and Speech Technology, Univ. Joensuu, FinlandUEF SUMMER SCHOOL 2017 Joensuu, Finland http://summerschool.uef.fi/ August 14-25, 2017 ***** Registration deadline: May 26, 2017 ***** -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Course: Machine Learning Applied to Bioinformatics and Speech Technology http://www.uef.fi/en/web/summerschool/machine-learning-applied-to-bioinformatics-and-speech-technology Course has two options: * Lectures + learning diary (August 14 - 18), total 2 ECTS * Lectures + learning diary + individual project (August 14 - 25), total 5 ECTS Teaching language: English Level: Doctoral, Master University of Eastern Finland (UEF) hosts a number of different summer courses in August 2017. The course on Machine Learning Applied to Bioinformatics and Speech Technology is co-organized by the School of Computing (Speech track) and Institute of Biomedicine (Bioinformatics track). Contact teaching takes place from August 14th to 18th. Individual optional project work is from August 21th to 25th. Contents The first two days include a general introduction to machine learning including topics such as deep learning, Bayesian graphical models and modeling sequential data. Course is intended to be self-contained with no prior knowledge of machine learning required. After the introductory part, the participants will choose one of the alternative course tracks (speech technology or bioinformatics). The lectures are delivered physically in two different locations of the UEF campuses, Joensuu and Kuopio (150 km apart). But it is possible to attend the lectures of either course from both campuses remotely through a video connection provided by UEF. The speech processing teaching takes place in Joensuu and bioinformatics teaching in Kuopio. In the speech/audio track we focus on state-of-the-art automatic speaker verification (ASV) and spoken language identication (LID) technology. In addition to introducing the basic models and software tools for session/channel compensation to increase robustness (e.g. factor analysis and i-vectors), the topics include also audio forensics and speech anti-spoofing (or presentation attack detection) techniques, including the ASVspoof challenge series. Using these techniques system would be able to know whether recorded audio was tampered somehow or that the spoken by a human or produced by a machine. Open-source software tools will also be introduced. The speech track is recommended especially for PhD students (and MSc students close to graduation) who might be already familiar with the basics of speech processing and interested in obtaining a quick overview of both basic principles, state-of-the-art techniques and selected emerging trends in speaker and language recognition. Speech processing confirmed lecturers: Cemal Hanilci, Bursa Technical University, Turkey Ville Hautamäki, University of Eastern Finland (organizer) Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland (organizer) Kong Aik Lee, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Modes of study: Lectures (4 days), hands on practicals (1 day), project work (1 week) and learning diary Social program: We will also organise some guided social programme in the evenings and during the weekend. This will include a welcome dinner, a guided city tour by bus, sauna evening, a one-day trip to Koli national park during the weekend etc. The activities will mostly be included in your course fee, but some of them may have a small participation fee. Assessment: pass/fail. Students who pass will receive certificate. Registration: http://www.uef.fi/en/web/summerschool/how-to-apply Registration fee: 500 EUR Accommodation: http://www.uef.fi/en/web/summerschool/accommodation More information: villeh@cs.uef.fi and tkinnu@cs.uef.fi
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3-3-2 | (2017-08-15 )CfP SigDial 2017 Special Session: Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems, Saarbrüken, Germany ===================================== SigDial 2017 Special Session: Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems First Call for Papers Paper Submission: 18th April 2017 http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/ =====================================
* MOTIVATION
While natural language generation (NLG) for dialogue interaction has been a long-standing research topic, there has been a recent explosion of work due to industrial interest in conversational assistants such as Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant. Recent advances in the field of deep learning together with the availability of large corpora of human dialogues from social media has also contributed to new research techniques for language generation. However, to date, neural methods have not been able to replicate much of the rich dialogue phenomena targeted by previous rule-based, statistical and data-driven approaches for language generation for dialogue.
* TOPIC SUBMISSION
We invite submissions which address specific issues including but not limited to: - Generation in the context of a dialogue with appropriate use of anaphoric forms, such as pronouns and ellipses; - Generation of turns where information is structured using rhetorical relations, as in the case of recommendations or other persuasive genres; - Selection and organization of content in a dialogue turn; - Sentence planning and lexical choice for dialogue interaction; - Evaluation of language generation for dialogue systems; - Corpus-based analyses of human-human dialogue to inform NLG for dialogue systems; - Critical comparison between capabilities of different kinds of models. - Providing and investigating new resources, such as data sets and tools. - We also welcome submissions which make use of the new E2E NLG challenge data set (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/E2E/).
* SUBMISSION FORMAT Long paper submissions will follow the SigDial 2017 format and will be part of the general conference submission and review system. They will be treated as regular SIGDIAL papers and become archival.
- Long papers must be no longer than eight pages + unlimited pages for references + 2 additional pages for appendix (linguistic examples, algorithms etc.) - Short position papers (2 pages + unlimited pages for references) with a single point to make, e.g. a proposal for a shared task for NLG for dialogue. These will be presented as short talks or posters, and the papers will be added to the web page for the special session (TBA), but will not count as an archival publication.
* IMPORTANT DATES We will follow the SigDial 2017 schedule, and papers should be submitted using the SIGDIAL conference submission site. http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/
Paper Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 18 April 2017 (23:59, GMT-11) Paper Notification: Friday, 9 June 2017 Final Paper Submission: Friday, 7 July 2017 Conference: Tuesday, 15 August 2017 to Thursday, 17 August 2017
* CONTACT Marilyn Walker
* ORGANISING COMMITTEE Marilyn Walker, University of California Santa Cruz (Chair) Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University Vera Demberg, Universität des Saarlandes Dietrich Klakow, Universität des Saarlandes Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Google Research David M. Howcroft, Universität des Saarlandes Shereen Oraby, University of California Santa Cruz
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3-3-3 | (2017-08-16) PACLING 2017, Yangon, Myanmar PACLING 2017 http://pacling.ucsy.edu.mm/pacling/index.html Contact: pacling2017@gmail.com
Submission deadline: April 19, 2017 [MS Word example file] PUBLICATION Program Chair: Koiti Hasida, Professor, Social ICT Research Center University of Tokyo
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3-3-4 | (2017-08-20) CfP INTERSPEECH 2017 Special session on 'Incremental Processing and Responsive Behaviour' Call for Paper INTERSPEECH 2017 Special session on Incremental Processing and Responsive Behaviour Incremental processing ? i. e., the online, and ideally real-time processing of streams of information about an ongoing event, as it happens ? has become a highly relevant research area. Is is particularly true for speech, which is an inherently sequential medium, and in interactive situations, where responsivity is key. Incremental processing techniques are used across speech recognition and synthesis, voice conversion, understanding, generation, syntax parsing, machine translation, and in applications such as dialogue systems, situated and multimodal interaction, robotics, or speech-to-speech translation. The aspect of incrementality is largely orthogonal to the typical session/topic layout at Interspeech and hence work on incremental processing is usually spread over a multitude of sessions at Interspeech (and related conferences), which leads to a fragmentation of expertise and discussions. Our special session sets out to unite the spread-out field in order to provide a venue for joint discussion of incrementality itself rather than having to focus on the individual problems tackled. We are inviting researchers interested in incrementality in all its aspects such as: The topic of our special session is to be connected with a follow-up special issue in Computer, Speech & Language. We invite you to submit original papers on any of the research themes listed above. When submitting papers, please make sure that you select scientific area topic: [11.13] Special Session on ' Incremental Processing and Responsive Behaviour' in the INTERSPEECH 2017 submission system. Sincerely yours,
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3-3-5 | (2017-08-25) 1st International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding, Stockholm, Sweden PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE
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3-3-6 | (2017-08-25) 1st International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR-2017), University of Skövde, Sweden CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/PAPERS
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3-3-7 | (2017-08-25) AVSP2017-The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Stockholm, Sweden AVSP 2017
The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
Stockholm, Sweden, August 25 & 26, 2017
Paper Submission Deadline: May 7th, 2017
Call For Papers
AVSP is a uniquely interdisciplinary conference, focusing on the effects of auditory and visual speech information on human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine interaction. AVSP conferences attract many researchers from various fields, such as psychology, computer engineering, neuroscience, linguistics, and robotic engineering. AVSP 2017 is a satellite workshop of INTERSPEECH 2017, one of the largest conferences on speech communication.
The AVSP conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, August 25 & 26, 2017.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Submission of papers are invited in all areas of auditory-visual speech processing and facial animation and including but not limited to:
- Human recognition of audio-visual speech
- Machine recognition of audio-visual speech
- Human and machine models of multimodal integration
- Multimodal processing of spoken events
- Cross-linguistic studies
- Developmental studies
- Role of gestures accompanying speech
- Modeling, synthesis and recognition of facial gestures
- Audio-visual speech synthesis
- Audio-visual prosody
- Emotion and Expressivity modeling
- Neuropsychology and neurophysiology of audio-visual speech processing
- Scene analysis using audio and visual speech information
INVITED SPEAKER
Sonja A Kotz
Professor and Chair in Neuropsychology and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience
Maastricht University
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submission Deadline: May 7th, 2017
- Notification of Acceptance: June 15th, 2017
- Camera-ready Paper: June 22nd, 2017
- Conference: August 25 & 26, 2017
All the information can be found here: http://avsp2017.loria.fr
The organizing committee of AVSP 2017 is looking forward to your submissions.
Christopher Davis, University of Western Sydney (Australia)
Jonas Beskow, KTH Speech Music and Hearing (Sweden)
Slim Ouni , University of Lorraine (France)
Alexandra Jesse, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
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3-3-8 | (2017-08-25) CfP First International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding (GLU 2017), Stockholm, Sweden Call for papers GLU 2017
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3-3-9 | (2017-08-27) CfP 20th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2017), Praha (Prague), Czech Republic TSD 2017 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-10 | (2017-08-28) CfP EUSIPCO 2017, KOS ISLAND, GREECE EUSIPCO 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-11 | (2017-08-28) Cf Proposals EUSIPCO 2017 Satellite Workshops -Deadline Extension =========================================================== EUSIPCO 2017 Satellite Workshops - Call for Proposals : Deadline Extension
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We solicit proposals for half- or full-day workshops that will be held together with the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in Kos Island, Greece, from August 28 to September 2, 2017.
Workshops will take place on Saturday, September 2, 2017, at the same venue as the main conference, that is the Kos International Convention Center.
We welcome proposals on emerging topics that are not anticipated to be fully explored in the main conference, as well as topics of focused interest, including presentations related to international, European and bilateral projects, or other collaborative projects.
The purpose of workshops is to provide a comprehensive forum and encourage in-depth discussion of various technical and application issues in our research field. Workshop registration and venue will be handled as part of the main conference by the EUSIPCO organizers.
The topic coverage, the proposers? credential, the interested audience, and relevance of the topic will all be considered in the selection process. Proposers may be asked to provide additional information, modify part of the proposals, or combine with another one.
Workshop proceedings will be handled by EURASIP and will be publicly available through the repository of EURASIP. Workshop organizers, who have followed a peer-review process and wish to have proceedings, should meet the camera-ready deadline for workshop papers, which is anticipated to be on July 3, 2017. The published workshop papers should follow the EUSIPCO template with a maximum number of pages that will be defined by the Workshop organizers (but it should not be more than 8 pages).
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Submission guidelines
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Proposals should be submitted by email to workshops@eusipco2017.org by February 20, 2017. The candidate workshop organizers will be notified of the decision on February 27, 2017.
Proposals should be in PDF format and include the following information:
-Workshop title.
-Proposers? names, titles, affiliations, and primary contact email.
-Experience that makes the proposers well suited for organizing the workshop.
-Topics that will be covered and relevance to the signal processing community.
-Program outline (including preference for half- or full-day event, and if appropriate estimated numbers of orals, posters, and invited talks).
-Names and bios of any tentative/confirmed invited speakers.
-Anticipated target audience as well as expected number of attendees.
-Any special space or equipment requests.
Organizers of each accepted proposal are expected to announce a Call-for-Papers including basic information about the Woskshop (description, main topics, Organizing and Program Committees, important dates).
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For any questions, please contact the workshop chairs, Kostas Berberidis and Iasonas Kokkinos, via workshops@eusipco2017.org
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3-3-12 | (2017-08-28) Cf Tutorials EUSIPCO 2017, Kos Island Greecel EUSIPCO 2017 Announcement: CALL FOR TUTORIALS ------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Tutorials in the 25th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2017, Kos island, Greece (www.eusipco2017.org) . Prospective tutorial speakers are invited to submit their proposals via e-mail in PDF by February 17, 2017, to the Tutorials Chairs, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu and Aggelos Pikrakis (tutorials@eusipco2017.org), indicating: - Title for the proposed tutorial, its outline and motivation - List of presenters, including their CVs in a total of at most two pages - A short description of the tutorial goal, content and the material to be covered EUSIPCO'2017 tutorial proposals will be judged notably by their technical quality, relevance and timeliness of the topic, quality of the proposal, qualification of the speakers, and presence of similar topics or same speakers at recent EUSIPCOs or other conferences. Eight half-day tutorials are foreseen which will be held on Monday, August 28, 2017. Tutorials with less than 10 registrations a week after the early registration deadline will not be run unless otherwise explicitly decided by the Tutorials Chairs. For details regarding the Tutorial Proposal Form, please visit: http://www.eusipco2017.org/call-for-tutorials/
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3-3-13 | (2017-08-28) EUSIPCO 2017 Announcement: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS EUSIPCO 2017 Announcement: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS ------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Special Sessions in the 25th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2017, Kos island, Greece (www.eusipco2017.org) . Prospective Researchers are invited to submit proposals for Special Sessions related to an emerging area in signal processing and to its applications by December 12th 2016, via e-mail in PDF to the Special Session chairs Alex Potamianos and Maurizio Omologo (special_sessions@eusipco2017.org). EUSIPCO has an excellent track record over the years for organizing Special Sessions in new or emerging areas. This year we are seeking innovative, high-quality and potentially interdisciplinary proposals for Special Sessions that complement the regular program of the conference. Special Sessions should be focused and provide both an overview of the state-of-the-art, as well as highlight the most promising research directions, trends and challenges in the proposed field of signal processing. Proposers should submit the following information with their submission:
Proposals will be evaluated based on topic novelty and associated impact, organizing committee qualifications, as well as the proposed list of contributed papers. Special Session submissions at EUSIPCO 2017 are reviewed via the same exact process as submissions to the regular program, and papers are expected to meet the same quality standards. For Special Sessions that are somewhat undersubscribed (due to paper rejections or limited number of submissions), an effort will be made to identify regular submission papers to complete the session, as deemed appropriate by the conference organizers. If a Special Session is seriously undersubscribed the Special Session may be canceled, in which case the accepted papers from the canceled Special Session will be placed into the regular program. The EUSIPCO 2017 Organizing Committee
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3-3-14 | (2017-08-31) 1st Speech and Swallowing in Parkinson’s Disease School , Aix-en-Provence,France Ecole d’été « 1st Speech and Swallowing in Parkinson’s Disease School » 31 août – 2 septembre 2017
La « 1st Speech and Swallowing in Parkinson’s Disease School » aura lieu du 31 août au 2 septembre 2017 au Laboratoire Parole et Langage à Aix-en-Provence. Organisée par la Movement Disorders Society, cette école d'été porte sur les troubles de la parole et de la déglutition liées la maladie de Parkinson, et plus précisément comment les évaluer et les prendre en charge.
Public: orthophonistes, neurologues, professionnels de santé. Inscription : jusqu’au 13 août 2017 sur la page Web de l’école d’été.
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3-3-15 | (2017-09-10) CLEF 2018, Avignon, France ****************************
CLEF 2018 will be the ninth edition of the current CLEF conference launched as a continuation of the annual CLEF evaluation campaign series which ran with great success from 2000 to 2009 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks.
If the organisers of the proposal are new to CLEF or other shared task evaluation campaigns, we highly recommend that a lab workshop first be organised to discuss the format, the problem space, and the practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2018 programme will reserve about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions. The labs will present their overall results 'overview presentations' during the plenary scientific paper sessions to allow non-participants to get a sense of where the research frontiers are moving. Organisers of each lab are expected to organise the separate sessions for their lab at the conference so that they contain ample time for general discussion and engagement by all participants - not just those presenting campaign results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions etc. as appropriate. CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative lab proposals. Potential task proposers who are unsure of the suitability of their task proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact the CLEF 2018 Lab Organizing Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability or design at an early stage.
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3-3-16 | (2017-09-12) Joint SPECOM 2017 and ICR 2017, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK Joint SPECOM 2017 and ICR 2017 SPECOM 2017: 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer ICR 2017: 2nd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics
SPECOM 2017: 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer 12-16 September 2017, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=57860©ownerid=56734
Important Dates April 15, 2017 ......... Submission of full papers (final date) May 15, 2017 ............. Notification of acceptance May 26, 2017 ............. Final papers (camera ready) May 26, 2017 ............. Early registration Sept 12-16, 2017 ??? Conference dates
TOPICS The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of human-machine interaction, particularly: Affective computing; Applications for human-machine interaction; Audio-visual speech processing; Automatic language identification; Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing; Forensic speech investigations and security systems; Multichannel signal processing; Multimedia processing; Multimodal analysis and synthesis; Signal processing and feature extraction; Speaker identification and diarization; Speaker verification systems; Speech analytics and audio mining; Speech and language resources; Speech dereverberation; Speech disorders and voice pathologies; Speech driving systems in robotics; Speech enhancement; Speech perception; Speech recognition and understanding; Speech translation automatic systems; Spoken dialogue systems; Spoken language processing; Text mining and sentiment analysis; Text-to-speech and speech-to-text systems; Virtual and augmented reality.
Special Session 1: Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis The exploitation of natural language from social media data is an intriguing task in the fields of text mining and natural language processing (NLP), with plenty of applications in social sciences and social media analytics. In this special session, we call for research papers in the broader field of NLP techniques for social media analysis. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): sentiment analysis in social media and beyond (e.g., stance identification, sarcasm detection, opinion mining), computational sociolinguistics (e.g., identification of demographic information such as gender, age), and NLP tools for social media mining (e.g., topic modeling for social media data, text categorization and clustering for social media). Organisers: Vasiliki Simaki and Carita Paradis (Lund University, Sweden) Fragkiskos D. Malliaros (UC San Diego, USA) Andreas Kerren (Linnaeus University, Sweden) Michalis Vazirgiannis (École Polytechnique, France)
Special Session 2: Multilingual and Low-Resourced Languages Speech Processing in Human-Computer Interaction Multilingual speech processing has been an active topic for many years. Over the last few years, the availability of big data in a vast variety of languages and the convergence of speech recognition and synthesis approaches to statistical parametric techniques (mainly deep learning neural networks) have put this field in the center of research interest, with a special attention for low- or even zero-resourced languages. In this special session, we call for research papers in the field of multilingual speech processing. The topics include (but are not limited to): multilingual speech recognition and understanding, dialectal speech recognition, cross-lingual adaptation, text-to-speech synthesis, spoken language identification, speech-to-speech translation, multi-modal speech processing, keyword spotting, emotion recognition and deep learning in speech processing. Organisers: Alexandros Lazaridis (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) Ivan Himawan (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Blaise Potard (CereProc Ltd, Edinburgh, UK) Kate Knill (Cambridge University Engineering Department) Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Special Session 3: Real-Life Challenges in Voice and Multimodal Biometrics Complex passwords or cumbersome dongles are now obsolete. Biometric technology offers a secure and user friendly solution to authenticate and have been employed in various real-life scenarios. This special session seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in Real-Life applications of biometrics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Biometric systems and applications; Identity management and biometrics; Fraud prevention; Anti-spoofing methods; Privacy protection of biometric systems; Uni-modalities, e.g. voice, face, fingerprint, iris, hand geometry, palm print and ear biometrics; Behavioural biometrics; Soft-biometrics; Multi-biometrics; Novel biometrics; Ethical and societal implications of biometric systems and applications. Organisers: Saeid Safavi (School of Engineering and Technology, University of Hertfordshire, UK) Lily Meng (School of Engineering and Technology, University of Hertfordshire, UK) Maryam Najafian (CSAIL Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Mohamad Hassan Bahari (Centre for processing speech and images, KU Leuven, Belgium) Abosoud Hanani (Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Birzeit University, Palestine) Hossein Zeinali (Computer and Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Invited Speakers Prof Mark Gales, University of Cambridge: ?Low-Resource Speech Recognition and Keyword-Spotting?. Prof Björn Schuller, University of Passau and Imperial College London: ?Big Data, Deep Learning ? At the Edge of X-Ray Speaker Analysis?. https://sites.google.com/site/specom2017/invited-speakers
Satellite Event 2nd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR 2017) web: http://specom.nw.ru/icr2017.html Topics: Assistive robots; Child-robot interaction; Collaborative robotics; Educational robotics; Human-robot interaction; Medical robotics; Robotic mobility systems; Robots at home; Robot control and communication; Social robotics; Safety robot behaviour.
On behalf of the Organising Committee, Iosif Mporas
************************************************ 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM 2017, http://www.herts.ac.uk/specom2017 ************************************************ Dr Iosif Mporas, Dipl-Eng, PhD Senior Lecturer in Information Engineering
Information Engineering and Processing Architectures Group School of Engineering and Technology University of Hertfordshire College Lane Campus Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK http://go.herts.ac.uk/iosif_mporas ************************************************
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3-3-17 | (2017-09-12) Germeval Task 2017 - Shared Task on Aspect-based Sentiment in Social Media Customer Feedback, Berlin, Germany
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3-3-18 | (2017-09-20) 11th Oxford Dsfluency Conference (ODC), Oxford, UK (Now program on line)
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3-3-19 | (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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3-3-20 | (2017-10-16) 11th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP-2017), Tianjin, China
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3-3-21 | (2017-10-23) 3rd International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM 2017), San Antonio, TX, USA ----------------2nd CALL FOR PAPERS------------------------------------
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3-3-22 | (2017-10-23) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING (SLSP 2017), Le Mans, France (updated) 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
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3-3-23 | (2017-10-23) CfP Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2017) , San Antonio, Texas, USA ACII 2017 – Call for Papers Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction October 23-26, 2017 San Antonio, Texas http://www.acii2017.org or follow us on Twitter @acii2017
Call for papers The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in San Antonio, Texas on October 23-26, 2017. The Conference series is the premier international forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena.
A selection of the best articles will appear in a “Best of ACII2017” special section of IEEE’s Transactions on Affective Computing. Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The theme of ACII2017 is “Affective Computing in Action,” highlighting the impact of affective computing technologies in the wider world.
Program ACII2017 will feature a broad program, with regular talks, posters, demos, workshops, special sessions, a doctoral consortium, special industry panel session on affective computing applications and keynote talks by James Russell (Boston College), Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell University) and Thomas R. Insel (former NIHM). We will have two special sessions: “Emotions in Cognition, Adaptive Behavior and Action Selection” and “Utilising Big Unlabelled and Unmatched Data for Affective Computing”.
Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Important dates Proposals for workshops: February 24, 2017 Proposals for tutorials: April 21, 2017 Regular paper submission: May 2, 2017 Doctoral consortium submission: June 9, 2017 Demos submission: July 21, 2017
Organization General Chairs: Carlos Busso and Julien Epps Program Chairs: Hayley Hung, Emily Mower Provost and Mohammad Soleymani
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3-3-24 | (2017-11-13) CfP Colloque « Corpus oraux, corpus écrits : pratiques croisées », Montpellier France Appel à communication
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3-3-25 | (2017-11-13) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) , Glasgow, Scotland International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Glasgow, Scotland. November 13-17th, 2017
Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits Submissions: August 29th, 2017, Decisions on Sept 14th. Camera ready papers due Sept 22nd and materials (e.g. video) due Sept 25th. Submit: http://precisionconference.com/~icmi
Confirmed Keynotes Larry Barsalou, University of Glasgow: http://barsaloulab.org/ Danica Kragic, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology: http://www.csc.kth.se/~danik/ Charles Spence, University of Oxford: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/crossmodal-research-laboratory **********
The 19th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. 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.
The ICMI 2017 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. We particularly encourage demonstration of interactive and multimodal analysis systems and sensors. They can also serve to introduce commercial products.
Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations and exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a short paper (2 pages), which will be included in ICMI proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a short outline (no more than 1 page). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers are invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.
This year will feature a Multimodal Resources track to showcase novel corpora, annotation tools and schemes. Demonstrations in this track will benefit from more exposure to visitors, and will allow visitors to interact with the material.
Demo Submission A 1-2 page description of the demonstration is required, which must be submitted electronically through the main ICMI conference management system (https://precisionconference.com/~icmi). Demo description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than 2 pages in length including references (template available at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2). Demo proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration and, if possible, the URL of a website where a live version or video of the proposed demo is available. Please note that the accepted descriptions will be included in ICMI proceedings.
The selection process is juried (curated) by committee, according to criteria such as: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals (paper submission), along with preparing the short papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.
The curated demo program will be selected from the submitted proposals as well as invited demos from among full-length papers accepted for presentation at the conference which the committee deems suitable for demonstration.
Exhibit Submission Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demo proposals. The main difference is that exhibits proposals should be shorter in length (up to one page) and more suitable for very mature systems (commercial or almost commercial). Exhibits won't have a paper published in the ICMI 2017 proceedings.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system via PCS (https://precisionconference.com/~icmi). The demo and exhibit paper submissions should not be anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).
Important Dates Demonstrations and Exhibits submission deadline: 29th August 2017 Notification of acceptance: 14th September 2017 Camera-ready submission - Papers: 22nd September, 2017 Camera-ready submission - Materials (e.g. Video): 25th September, 2017 Conference dates: 13th-17th November 2017
Further info For more information and updates on the ICMI 2017 Demos and Exhibits, visit the main conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2017/index.php?id=cfd
For further questions, contact the Demos and Exhibits co-chairs:
********** General Conference Information The 2017 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2017, which will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between 13th and 17th November 2017. 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. ICMI 2017 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers including Larry Barsalou (http://barsaloulab.org/), Danica Kragic (http://www.csc.kth.se/~danik/) and Charles Spence (https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/crossmodal-research-laboratory), grand challenges, workshops, technical full and short papers, exhibits and doctoral consortium papers and demonstrations . The proceedings of ICMI'2017 will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library.
For up to date information, see the conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2017/
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3-3-26 | (2017-11-16) Workshop on L2 Phonetics & Phonology of L1 Romance Learners (L2PHROL). Turin, Italy
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3-3-27 | (2017-11-23) Journée scientifique:Développement de l'articulation : du développement typique à la dyspraxie verbale, Grenoble, France Appel à communication
Journée Scientifique
Développement de l?articulation : du développement typique à la dyspraxie verbale
23 novembre 2017, Grenoble Le CRTLA-CHU Grenoble Alpes, le laboratoire LPNC, le laboratoire GIPSA-lab, et l?Association Coridys-Isère organisent 3 événements autour du développement de l?articulation de parole typique et pathologique, à destination des personnels de santé (orthophonistes, médecins, psychologues, etc.), des chercheurs et des étudiants :
Le mercredi 22 novembre 2017: un atelier sur le logiciel PHON, animé par Yvan Rose
Le jeudi 23 novembre 2017 : une journée scientifique sur les nouvelles approches théoriques, les nouveaux outils technologiques d?aide à l?identification, l?évaluation et l?intervention, ainsi que des études cliniques, avec les conférences plénières de Andrea McLeod (U. Montréal, Canada), Christelle Maillart (U. Liège, Belgique), Line Charron (U. Laval, Canada), Yvan Rose (U. Memorial Terre-Neuve, Canada)
Les 24 et 25 novembre 2017 : un atelier sur la dyspraxie verbale, animé par Line Charron (à destination du public orthophoniste)
Au cours de la journée scientifique du 23 novembre, est prévue une session posters, permettant de présenter les études récentes sur le développement typique et atypique de l'articulation chez l?enfant.
Les participants à cette journée sont invités à soumettre leur proposition de poster, sous forme d'un résumé de 500 mots, à envoyer à DyspraxieVerbale2017@chu-grenoble.fr .
La date limite de soumission est fixée au 15 juin 2017.
Pour plus d?informations : www.gipsa-lab.fr/colloque/DeveloppementArticulation
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3-3-28 | (2017-12-01) The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), Taipei, Taiwan Call for Papers: The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), Taipei, Taiwan, November 27 °V December 1, 2017 (http://ijcnlp2017.org/)
The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017) invites the submission of long and short papers reporting substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of automated language processing. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to the following areas: * Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics * Dialog and interactive systems * Discourse and pragmatics * Document analysis including text categorization, topic models, and retrieval * Generation * Information extraction, text mining, and question answering * Machine learning in NLP * Machine translation and Multilinguality * Phonology, morphology, and word segmentation * Resources and evaluation * Semantics * Sentiment analysis and opinion mining * Social media * Speech * Summarization * Tagging, chunking, syntax, and parsing Important Dates Deadline Submission deadline for long and short papers: July 7, 2017 Author response period: August 7 - 9, 2017 Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2017 Camera ready due: September 30, 2017 ** All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC-7). Events Workshops, tutorials and shared tasks: November 27, 2017 and December 1, 2017 Main conference: November 28 - 30, 2017 Submission Information Paper submission for IJCNLP will be handled by the Softconf START system. The submission deadline is July 7, 2017. Long Papers IJCNLP 2017 long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Each long paper submission consists of a paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus two pages for references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page (up to nine pages with unlimited pages for references) so that reviewers°¶ comments can be taken into account. Short Papers IJCNLP 2017 also solicits short papers. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. A short paper is not a shortened long paper and should have a point that can be made in a few pages. For example: * A small, focused contribution * Work in progress * A negative result * An opinion piece * An interesting application nugget Each short paper submission consists of up to four (4) pages of content, plus 2 pages for references; final versions of short papers will be given one additional page (up to five pages in the proceedings and unlimited pages for references) so that reviewers°¶ comments can be taken into account. Submission Format Submissions must be in PDF, and must conform to the official style guidelines in two-column format for IJCNLP 2017. We ask you to use the provided LaTeX style files (they will be posted on the conference site). Authors are strongly discouraged from modifying the style files. Please do not use other templates (e.g., Word). Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. As the reviewing will be blind, papers should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., °ßWe previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...°®, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as °ßSmith (1991) previously showed ...°®. Acknowledgments of funding or assistance should be omitted. Submissions that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Separate author identification information is required as part of the online submission process. IJCNLP 2017 encourages the submission of supplementary material such as software and data mentioned in the paper. The supplementary material should be supplementary (rather than central) to the paper. It may include explanations or details of proofs or derivations that do not fit into the paper, lists of features or feature templates, sample inputs and outputs for a system, pseudo-code or source code, and data. It may also include reports on preprocessing decisions, model parameters, and other details necessary for the exact replication of the experiments described in the paper. The paper should be self-contained and not rely on the supplementary material. Reviewers are not asked to review or even download the supplemental material. If the pseudo-code or derivations or model specifications are an important part of the contribution, or if they are important for the reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work, they should be a part of the main paper, not as appendices. Multiple Submission Policy Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted by IJCNLP 2017. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Authors submitting more than one paper to IJCNLP 2017 must ensure that submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results. Preprint servers such as arXiv.org and workshops that do not have published proceedings are not considered archival for purposes of submission. To preserve the spirit of blind review, authors are encouraged to refrain from posting until the completion of the review process. Otherwise, authors must state in the online submission form the name of the workshop or preprint server and title of the non-archival version. The submitted version should be suitably anonymized and not contain references to the prior non-archival version. Reviewers will be told: 'The author(s) have notified us that there exists a non-archival previous version of this paper with significantly overlapping text. We have approved submission under these circumstances, but to preserve the spirit of blind review, the current submission does not reference the non-archival version.' Presentation Requirement All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for IJCNLP 2017. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as a poster (at the discretion of the program chairs based on the nature rather than the quality of the work). There will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally or as posters. Program Co-Chairs Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta, gkondrak@ualberta.ca Taro Watanabe, Google, taro.wtnb@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute for Anthropomatics
Research Group 3-01 'Multilingual Speech Recognition'
Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Stüker
research group leader
Adenauerring 2, Building 50.20, Room 231
76131 Karlsruhe
Phone: +49 721 608 46284
Fax: +49 721 607 721
Email: sebastian.stueker@kit.edu
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3-3-29 | (2017-12-05) International Conference On Natural Language Processing and Speech Processing , Casablanca, Morocco First call for papers ICNLSP 2017
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3-3-30 | (2017-12-08) Dialog System Technology Challenge 6 (DSTC6) at NIPS; Call for Track Proposals ------------------------------ Dialog System Technology Challenge 6
Website: http://workshop.colips.org/dstc6/
Background
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The DSTC shared task has now been running since 2013. This year?s challenge has been renamed to Dialog System Technology Challenge, which reflects the wider scope we aim for. The DSTC6 workshop will be co-located to one of conferences such as NIPS or IWSDS.
The challenge will include 3-4 tracks, which should reflect the interests of the community. We will ask the community to cast expressions of interest via an online voting system in order to ensure sufficient numbers of participants per track.
Submissions
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We would like to encourage you to submit a 2-page proposal (+ unlimited references, + an appendix of unlimited size containing examples of the data, annotations, and expected output to be generated), including but not limited to:
- end-to-end systems
- dialogue state tracking
- spoken language understanding
- natural language generation for SDS
- dialogue breakdown detection
- automatic evaluation metrics
- question-answering
- text to API call
Your proposal should contain:
1) The names and affiliations of the organisers;
2) A description of the task, with particular reference to its relevance for the dialog community;
3) A description of the data that will be provided for participants;
4) A description of the evaluation methods that will be used to compare peer systems;
5) An appendix of unlimited size containing examples of the data, annotations, and expected output to be generated
Send your proposal document as an attached PDF file (no specific format required) to the DSTC distribution list dstc@lists.research.microsoft.com. See instructions on how to join the mailing list at http://workshop.colips.org/dstc6/contact.html
Important Dates:
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- 13 Feb 2017: Track Proposal Submission
- 15 Feb - 1 March: Voting Period
- 3 Mar 2017: Notification
- mid-Mar to mid-Jun 2017: Challenge Preparation
- mid-Jun to mid-Sep 2017: Challenge Period
- mid-Sep to mid-Oct 2017: Paper Preparation
- Dec 8-9 2017: NIPS Workshop
DSTC6 Organising Committee:
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- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
- Julien Perez - Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
- Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Seokhwan Kim - Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR), Singapore
DSTC6 Steering Committee:
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- Rafael E. Banchs - Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR), Singapore
- Julien Epps - The University of New South Wales, Australia
- Luis Fernando D'Haro - Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR), Singapore
- Matthew Henderson - Google, USA
- Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University
- Jason Williams - Microsoft Research, USA
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3-3-31 | (2017-12-11) 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction, Evry, France
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3-3-32 | (2017-12-13) MAVEBA 2017, Firenze, Italy 10 th International Workshop MAVEBA2017. Since 1999 the MAVEBA Workshop aims at stimulating contacts between specialists active in bioengineering, clinical and industrial development in the area of voice signal and image analysis for biomedical applications.
This tenth Workshop will offer again the participants an interdisciplinary platform for presenting and discussing new knowledge in the field of models and analysis of signal and images of the human vocal apparatus and any related field such as neurology, psychiatry, linguistics and singing. Both adult, pediatric and newborn voices are concerned. The MAVEBA Workshop welcomes contributions ranging from fundamental research to all kinds of biomedical applications and related established and advanced technologies with emphasis on translational research. Proposal for Special Sessions, sw and hw demos, round tables on specific themes are welcome. As for past editions a book of Proceedings will be available at the time of the conference, edited by Firenze University Press.
Moreover a Special Issue of an international journal included in all the major database is foreseen, collecting extended version of selected contributions presented at the MAVEBA Workshop. I am looking forward to welcoming you again next December in Firenze and enjoy together the Florentine Christmas atmosphere!
Claudia Manfredi
MAVEBA2017 Chair
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3-3-33 | (2017-12-14) International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Tokyo, Japan
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3-3-34 | (2017-12-16)CfP IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Okinawa, JapanASRU 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop December 16-20, 2017 Okinawa, Japan http://asru2017.org CALL FOR PAPERS The biennial IEEE ASRU workshop has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition, understanding, and related fields of research. The workshop includes keynotes, invited talks, poster sessions and will also feature challenge tasks, panel discussions, and demo sessions. TOPICS AND FOCUS We invite papers in all areas of spoken language processing, with emphasis placed on the following topics: - Automatic speech recognition (ASR) - ASR in adverse environments - New applications of ASR - Speech-to-speech translation - Spoken document retrieval - Multilingual language processing - Spoken language understanding - Spoken dialog systems - Text-to-speech systems VENUE The ASRU workshop will take place in Okinawa, Japan. Okinawa is a subtropical island located roughly 640 kilometers (400 mi) south of the main islands of Japan. It is one of Japanfs main tourist destinations because of its warm weather, its rich natural resources, and its unique blend of cultures that evolved through centuries of trade with China, Korea and other Southeast Asian countries. FORMAT The workshop features one keynote and one or two invited talks a day. Regular papers are presented as posters. ASRU 2017 will also include challenge tasks, panel discussions and demo sessions. SCHEDULE Paper Submission............. June 29, 2017 Paper Notification........... August 31, 2017 Early Registration Period:... August 31 - Oct 5, 2017 Camera Ready Deadline........ Sept 21, 2017 Workshop..................... Dec 16-20, 2017 MORE INFORMATION For updates see http://www.asru2017.org
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3-3-35 | (2018-04-18) Cf Workshops and special sessions at IWSDS 2018, Singapore CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS IWSDS 2018: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology Place: Singapore Main Conference Dates: April 18-20, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2018 invites proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions in any topic related to the main conference theme: 'Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies.'
Authors are requested to submit PDF files (maximum three pages) of their proposal to the following email: iwsds2018@gmail.com
The proposal must indicate:
1. Whether the proposal is for a workshop or for a special session:
2. Workshop / Special Session title
3. Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the organizers
4. Tentative program committee members (only for workshop proposals)
5. A description of the workshop / Special Session including:
6. Special audio-visual, internet, computer or equipment requirements
7. Whether the workshop / special session have been run before: - Where and when - Number of participants
8. Any additional information that might be relevant for the proposal evaluation
Proposal submission deadline: August 15, 2017 Proposal submission notification: September 1, 2017
Important notice:
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3-3-36 | (2018-04-18) International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems Technology (IWSDS 2018), Singapore
Call for papers
International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems Technology (IWSDS 2018)
Singapore, April 18-20, 2018
http://www.iwsds.org
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The INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2018 invites paper submissions especially on the following topics:
However, submissions are not limited to these topics, and submission of papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems is encouraged. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category.
As in previous years, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).
Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwsds2018)
We distinguish between the following categories of submissions:
IWSDS 2018 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2017
Paper notification deadline: December 29, 2017
Templates for formatting are available at:
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3-3-37 | (2018-04-22) ICASSP 2018, Seoul, Korea 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
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3-3-38 | (2018-05-07) LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -
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