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Tuesday, October 10, 2017 by Chris Wellekens

3 Events
3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(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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3-1-2(2019) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria

Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria.

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3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-2-1(2017-11-13)CfP WOCCI 2017, Glasgow, UK

Call for Papers

WOCCI 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:

  • Speech Interfaces: acoustic and linguistic analysis of children's speech, discourse analysis of spoken language in child machine interaction, age-dependent characteristics of spoken language, automatic speech recognition for children and spoken dialogue systems

  • Multi-modality and Robotics: multi-modal child machine interaction, multi-modal input and output interfaces, including robotic interfaces, intrusive, non-intrusive devices for environmental data processing, pen or gesture/visual interfaces

  • User Modelling: user modelling and adaptation, usability studies accounting for age preferences in child machine interaction

  • Cognitive Models: internal learning models, personality types, user-centred and participatory design

  • Application Areas: training systems, educational software, gaming interfaces, medical conditions and diagnostic tools

The technical committee will select papers for oral/poster presentation.

Submissions

The 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 Dates

July 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

September 18, 2017: Camera-ready paper submission deadline

November 13, 2017: WOCCI 2017 Workshop at ICMI

Send us a note: wocci2017@gmail.com

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3-2-2ISCA Tutorial and Research workshops and supported events

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3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2017-10-16) 11th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP-2017), Tianjin, China



 We take great pleasure to invite you to submit research article in the 11th International
Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP-2017) which will be held on October 16-19, 2017 in
Tianjin, China. ISSP is a triennial conference with the aim of providing an
interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on all aspects of speech production from
fields as diverse as phonology, phonetics, prosody, mechanics, acoustics, physiology,
motor control, neuroscience, computer science and human interaction. ISSP has been held
over the word since 1988.

The ISSP-2017 will be hosted by Tianjin University and Institute of Linguistics of
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Tianjin was the ancient port city to Beijing, and is
the 3rd largest city of China with a population of over 15 million. It has a rich history
and remains characteristics of old British and Italian architecture. The famous Italian
concession area has the largest cluster of old Italian architecture outside of Italy.
Located 85 miles east of Beijing, Tianjin is the largest coastal city in northern China.
Tianjin is now a modern, developed city. Tianjin has a reputation throughout China for
being extremely friendly, safe and a place of delicious food. Welcome to Tianjin.

The proceeding will be published by Springer and indexed by EI. Papers with high quality
will be included in a special issue of ?Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research?/ ?Journal of Phonetics? after revision.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not restricted to the following:

?        Perception-action control
?        Intra- and inter-speaker variability
?        Articulatory synthesis
?        Mapping between articulatory and acoustic events
?        Acoustic-to-articulatory inversion
?        Coarticulation
?        Prosody
?        Biomechanical modeling
?        Models of motor control
?        Audiovisual synthesis
?        Aerodynamic models
?        Cerebral organization and neural correlates of speech
?        Disorders of speech motor control
?        Instrumental techniques
?        Speech and language acquisition
?        Audio-visual speech perception
?        Plasticity of speech production and perception

    For more information about ISSP2017, please refer to the conference webpage:
www.issp2017.org.cn


Important Dates:

2-page abstract submission deadline       1 March 2017

Notification of paper acceptance             1 May 2017

Full paper upload deadline                       1 August 2017

Author?s registration deadline                 1 September 2017

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Qiang Fang
Phonetics Lab.
Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
No.5, Jian Guo Men Nei Da Jie, Beijing, China


 

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3-3-2(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------------------------------------

ESSEM@ACII 2017
3rd International Workshop on
Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM 2017):
User Engagement and Interaction

http://di.unito.it/essem17

Co-located with the seventh International Conference on Affective
Computing and Intelligent Interaction
ACII 2017 (http://acii2017.org/), San Antonio, Texas
October 23, 2017

***Submission deadline: June 15, 2017***

Keynote speaker: Georgios Yannakakis, Institute of Digital Games, Univ.
of Malta

*NEWS*

- ESSEM 2017 is supported by: CELI Language Technology -
https://www.celi.it/en/
- Workshop Proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore (indexed by Scopus)

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The role of emotional intelligence is increasing at fast speed in
everyday computer-mediated interactions, thanks to the integration of
more or less explicit affective elements in social networks, apps,
virtual assistants, etc. Expressed through emojis, color, tags or
speech, affect has become part of our relationships with computers,
adding depth and involvement to them. The technical advancement of the
available expressive means, from 3D to language technologies, is one of
the key factors of this process.
ESSEM 2017 addresses the expression of emotions in many-to-many
interaction and in one-to-one interaction as a tool for promoting,
analysing and measuring user engagement. In particular, we are
interested in tools and models that rely on NLP, acoustic and video
analysis; theories and methods that bridge the expression of emotions
from language to media are especially needed to overcome the limitations
of language-specific and media-specific approaches.
ESSEM 2017 focuses on interaction as a testbed for the models and tools
developed for social and expressive media. The ultimate goal is to
devise socio-emotional strategies to foster user engagement. We
encourage contributions on applications that specifically address the
role of sentiment and emotions in the interactions that occur through
social and expressive media, with a special focus on cultural heritage,
artistic expression, education and entertainment (e.g., storytelling,
artistic curation, audience development, games and edutainment). ESSEM
aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners both from
academia and industry. It wants to take an active part in growing a new
field in terms of multidisciplinary research and to investigate open
issues by cross-validating different approaches in emotion research.
Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Affect-related phenomena in social media
- Affect-related phenomena in expressive media
- Affect-related phenomena in the user's engagement process
- Subjectivity, sentiments and emotions in social & expressive media
- Affect and figurative language, stance or deception in social &
expressive media
- Design of engaging agents
- Socio-emotional strategies for user engagement
- User engagement in human-human and human-agent interactions using NLP
& audio-video analysis
- Grounding affect in conversational context
- Affect and regulation of human-agent interaction
- Affect and emotions in embodiment
- Affect in interactive entertainment (drama, storytelling, games, etc.)
and art (artistic curation, audience development, etc.)
- Applications of affective computing in multimodal interaction
- Applications of sentiment analysis and emotion detection in social &
expressive media

*Important dates*

- June 15, 2017: Paper submission deadline
- July 15, 2017: Notification of acceptance
- August 18, 2017: Final manuscripts due (hard deadline for all workshops)
- Workshop date: October 23, 2017)

*Paper submission*

Standard research papers should be a maximum of 6 pages long. We also
encourage submission of short research papers (including opinion
statements) of maximum 3 pages long.
Submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACII 2017 formatting
guidelines: http://acii2017.org/submission

All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the main
conference platform:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACII2017/, (track ESSEM).

Workshop Proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore.

*Organizers*

Cristina Bosco, University of Torino, Italy
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chloé Clavel, LTCI, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris-Saclay University, Paris,
France
Rossana Damiano, University of Torino, Italy
Viviana Patti, University of Torino, Italy
Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

*Programme Committee*

Alexandra Balahur, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Andrea Bolioli, CELI, Italy
Zoraida Callejas, University of Granada, Spain
Lea Canales, Universitat d?Alacant, Spain
Paula Carvalho, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Marc Cavazza, Teesside University, UK
Antonio Chella, University of Palermo, Italy
Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento, Italy
Dipankar Das, Jadavpur University, India
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Guillaume Dubuisson-Duplessis, Telecom-ParisTech, Paris-Saclay
University, France
Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Aditya Joshi IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India
Emiliano Lorini, IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Nicole Novielli, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Magalie Ochs, LSIS, University of Aix Marseille, France
Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Austria
Rémi Ronfard, INRIA, France
Saif Mohammad, National Research Council, Canada
Björn Schuller, University of Passau, Germany, Imperial College London, UK
Candace Sidner, WPI, US
Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Marko Tkalcic, Free University of Bozen, Italy
Serena Villata, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Emilio Vivancos, UPV, Spain
Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova, Italy
Enrico Zovato, Nuance Communications, USA

**Follow us!* *

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Essem2017
Spread the news: #essem2017

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Essem2017

*Flyer*

http://www.di.unito.it/~patti/essem17/CFP_ESSEM-flyer2017.pdf

If have any enquiries/comments about the workshop or the submission
procedure, please just contact us via email: essem4acii2017@gmail.com

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3-3-3(2017-10-23) 5th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2017), Le Mans, France

The 5th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2017) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. SLSP 2017 will be held in Le Mans (France) on October 23-25, 2017. See

http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2017/

Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.

TOPICS

Presentations displaying novel work in progress on statistical models (including machine learning) for language and speech processing are encouraged. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome.

KEY DATES

Poster submission deadline: September 16, 2017

Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: September 23, 2017

SUBMISSION

Please submit a .pdf abstract through:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2017

It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words.

PRESENTATION

Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion.

PUBLICATION

Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings volume of SLSP 2017. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in Computer Speech and Language (JCR 2015 impact factor: 1.324).

REGISTRATION

At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by October 9, 2017. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks, lunches). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.

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3-3-4(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:

  • Recognition of Human Affect: Uni- or multimodal recognition of affect from face, body, gesture, voice text, or physiology; affective face/body animation; expression and gesture recognition; sentiment analysis
  • Synthesis of Human Affect: Affective speech synthesis, modeling and animation, synthesis of auditory affect bursts, synthesis of multimodal affective behavior
  • Affective Interfaces: Affective brain-computer interfaces, design of affective loop and affective dialog systems; mobile, tangible, haptic and virtual/augmented interfaces; affectively-smart environments; affectively proactive interfaces
  • Social and Behavioral Science Involving Affective Computing: Cognitive affective models; models of moral decision-making; tools for social science research; computational models of emotion; psychological factors in affective computing (personality, culture); ethical issues; dyadic and group affective processes
  • Affective and Social Robotics and Virtual Agents: Emotions in robot cognition and action, embodied issues in emotion; affective virtual agents; memory, reasoning, and learning of affective systems; affective architectures for virtual & robotic systems
  • Affective Applications: Databases and tools; biometrics; medical; assistive; virtual reality; entertainment; education; ambient intelligence; industrial

 

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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3-3-5(2017-11-13) CfP Colloque « Corpus oraux, corpus écrits : pratiques croisées », Montpellier France

Appel à communication

Colloque « Corpus oraux, corpus écrits : pratiques croisées », 13 et 14 novembre 2017, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3

Lieu : Site de Saint-Charles 2, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3

Le projet CORAL, les laboratoires PRAXILING (UMR 5267) et DIPRALANG (EA 739) organisent conjointement un colloque intitulé « Corpus oraux, corpus écrits : pratiques croisées », qui aura lieu les 13 et 14 novembre 2017 sur le site Saint Charles.

Les conférenciers invités sont Stefan Evert (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technologie, University of Copenhagen), Damon Mayaffre (BCL UMR 7320, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) et Christophe Parisse (Modyco UMR 7114, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre).

L?objectif de ce colloque est de faire dialoguer ces différentes communautés de chercheurs, qu?ils soient producteurs ou utilisateurs de ressources et/ou d?outils. Les approches méthodologiques qui associent différents modes d?exploitation et d?analyse de corpus oraux et écrits seront particulièrement attendues.
Il s?agira notamment d?aborder les problématiques suivantes :
- Annotation (phonétique, prosodique, gestuelle, morphosyntaxique, sémantique, etc.) ;
- Standardisation des annotations et du balisage ;
- Mise en place d?un format commun aux corpus écrits et oraux, permettant d?assurer l?interopérabilité entre les deux types de données ;
- Exploitation automatique ou semi-automatique et analyse des données ;
- Mutualisation des ressources (corpus annotés, schémas d?annotation, lexiques, patrons ou grammaires?) ;
- Adaptation et/ou création d?applications pour le traitement et l?exploitation des données orales et écrites.

Format des communications :
Les interventions pourront se faire dans trois formats différents : communication orale de 20 minutes, posters et/ou démo (corpus, applications, etc.). Il sera possible de combiner la présentation d?un poster avec une démo. Il est demandé aux auteurs d?exprimer leur préférence au moment de la soumission.

Modalités de soumission :
Les propositions doivent être envoyées à l?adresse suivante : coralmontpellier3@univ-montp3.fr avant le 30 juillet 2017.
Elles prendront la forme d?un résumé anonymisé (en français ou en anglais) d?une longueur maximale de 500 mots (bibliographie non comprise) au format pdf (en Times New Roman 12). Dans le corps du message, doivent être indiqués le nom, prénom et l?affiliation de l?auteur.

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3-3-6(2017-11-13) Colloque « Corpus oraux, corpus écrits : pratiques croisées », Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3

Appel à communication - Extension de la date de soumission des résumés au 31 août 2017

Colloque « Corpus oraux, corpus écrits : pratiques croisées », 13 et 14 novembre 2017, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3

Lieu : Site de Saint-Charles 2, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3

Le projet CORAL, les laboratoires PRAXILING (UMR 5267) et DIPRALANG (EA 739) organisent conjointement un colloque intitulé « Corpus oraux, corpus écrits : pratiques croisées », qui aura lieu les 13 et 14 novembre 2017 sur le site Saint Charles.

Les conférenciers invités sont Stefan Evert (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technologie, University of Copenhagen), Damon Mayaffre (BCL UMR 7320, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) et Christophe Parisse (Modyco UMR 7114, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre).

L?objectif de ce colloque est de faire dialoguer ces différentes communautés de chercheurs, qu?ils soient producteurs ou utilisateurs de ressources et/ou d?outils. Les approches méthodologiques qui associent différents modes d?exploitation et d?analyse de corpus oraux et écrits seront particulièrement attendues.
Il s?agira notamment d?aborder les problématiques suivantes :
- Annotation (phonétique, prosodique, gestuelle, morphosyntaxique, sémantique, etc.) ;
- Standardisation des annotations et du balisage ;
- Mise en place d?un format commun aux corpus écrits et oraux, permettant d?assurer l?interopérabilité entre les deux types de données ;
- Exploitation automatique ou semi-automatique et analyse des données ;
- Mutualisation des ressources (corpus annotés, schémas d?annotation, lexiques, patrons ou grammaires?) ;
- Adaptation et/ou création d?applications pour le traitement et l?exploitation des données orales et écrites.

Format des communications :
Les interventions pourront se faire dans trois formats différents : communication orale de 20 minutes, posters et/ou démo (corpus, applications, etc.). Il sera possible de combiner la présentation d?un poster avec une démo. Il est demandé aux auteurs d?exprimer leur préférence au moment de la soumission.

Modalités de soumission :
Les propositions doivent être envoyées à l?adresse suivante : coralmontpellier3@univ-montp3.fr avant le 31 août 2017.
Elles prendront la forme d?un résumé anonymisé (en français ou en anglais) d?une longueur maximale de 500 mots (bibliographie non comprise) au format pdf (en Times New Roman 12). Dans le corps du message, doivent être indiqués le nom, prénom et l?affiliation de l?auteur.


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3-3-7(2017-11-13) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) , Glasgow, Scotland

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

Glasgow, Scotland. November 13-17th, 2017

https://icmi.acm.org/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

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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:

 

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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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3-3-8(2017-11-16) Workshop on L2 Phonetics & Phonology of L1 Romance Learners (L2PHROL). Turin, Italy


Workshop on L2 Phonetics & Phonology of L1 Romance Learners (L2PHROL). Turin, Italy.

16-17 November 2017

The University of Turin (Laboratorio Sperimentale di Fonetics ?Arturo Genre?) and the University of Paris 8 (Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage) are pleased to announce that the L2PHROL workshop (L2 Phonetics and Phonology of L1 Romance Learners) will be held in Turin (Italy) on 16-17 November 2017. The L2PHROL workshop is jointly organized by universities in France and Italy and aims at bringing together researchers working on the L2 phonetics and phonology of Romance L1 learners.


Topics of the workshop:

We welcome contributions focusing on Romance L1 learners of any L2, involving any of the following 5 broad themes:

1)      The acquisition of new phonological/phonetic/prosodic features in production and/or perception by speakers of a Romance L1, or by simultaneous bilinguals with at least one Romance language.

2)      Common characteristics and common difficulties encountered by Romance native speakers learning an L2, such as tense-lax vowel contrasts, glottal fricative /h/, aspirated stops, stress-timed rhythm, phonological vowel length, lexical tones, prosodic realisation of contrastive focus.

3)      Other phonetic characteristics of L2 speech by L1 Romance speakers.

4)      The validation of phonetic/phonological theories in the light of L2 data by speakers whose L1 is a Romance language, or by simultaneous bilinguals with at least one Romance language

5)      Teaching techniques or materials addressing L1 pronunciation and phonological awareness for Romance L1 learners of any L2.


Abstract submission

We invite abstracts in English (Times New Roman, 12-point font size, max. 1 page in A4 size plus optionally a second page for references and figures). Anonymous abstracts must be submitted by 1st September 2017 and will be peer-reviewed by members of the scientific committee (see http://www.lfsag.unito.it/ricerca/L2PHROL/committees.html ). More details about the submission procedure will be published on the website.


Registration
Registration will open on 16th September 2017. There will be no registration fee.


For further information, visit our workshop website http://www.lfsag.unito.it/ricerca/L2PHROL/ , or contact L2PHROL2017 AT gmail.com<http://gmail.com/>.

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3-3-9(2017-11-23) Journée Scientifique 'Développement de l?articulation : du développement typique à la dyspraxie verbale' , Grenoble, France
Dernier appel à posters et inscriptions, deadline étendue:
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, le jeudi 23 novembre 2017, une journée scientifique autour du développement de l?articulation de parole typique et pathologique chez l'enfant francophone: nouvelles approches théoriques, nouveaux outils technologiques d?aide à l?identification, l?évaluation et l?intervention, et études cliniques.
L'un des buts de cette journée est de favoriser le dialogue entre personnels de santé (orthophonistes, médecins, psychologues, etc.), chercheurs et étudiants, nationaux et internationaux. Le programme est indiqué ci-dessous.
La journée inclut une session posters permettant de présenter les études récentes sur le développement typique et atypique de l'articulation chez l?enfant. Nous étendons la date limite de soumission des propositions de posters au 15 octobre 2017 (résumé de 500 mots, à envoyer à DyspraxieVerbale2017@chu-grenoble.fr). Notification d'acceptation: 6 novembre 2017.

08h30 - 09h00  Accueil

09h00 - 09h30 Sophie Kern, DDL, Lyon : « Babillage typique et atypique »

09h30 - 10h00 Mélanie Canault, ISTR et DDL, Lyon : « Babirom »

10h00 -11h00 Andrea MacLeod, Ecole d?orthophonie, Université de Montréal, Canada : « Développement typique de la phonétique et de la phonologie chez l'enfant francophone»

11h00 - 11h30 Pause

11h30 - 12h00 Geneviève Meloni, LPNC, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, Université de Montréal, Canada : « Evaluation des troubles du développement de la parole »

12h00 - 13h00 Christelle Maillart, Unité de Logopédie Clinique, Liège, Belgique : « Troubles phonologiques chez les enfants dysphasiques »

13h00  Buffet

13h30 - 14h30  Session posters

14h30 - 15h30 Yvan Rose, Memorial University, Terre-Neuve, Canada : « PhonBank  et phonologie clinique : bilan et perspectives »

15h30 - 16h30 Line Charron, Université Laval Québec & UQTR, Canada : « Aperçu de l'intervention en dyspraxie verbale »

16h30 - 17h00 Pause

17h00 - 17h30 Marion Dohen, Amélie Rochet-Capellan, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble : « Gestualité et parole des enfants porteurs de T21 »

17h30 - 18h00 Thomas Hueber, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble : « Technologies multimodales pour la suppléance vocale et la rééducation orthophonique »

 

Tarif plein: 70 euros, tarif étudiant: 40 euros
L'inscription inclut le buffet du 23/11 midi. Pour les pré-inscriptions, nous écrire à DyspraxieVerbale2017@chu-grenoble.fr


Pour information, auront lieu à Grenoble également sur la même période:

- mercredi 22 novembre 2017: un atelier sur le logiciel PHON, animé par Yvan Rose - COMPLET
- vendredi 24 et samedi 25 novembre 2017 : un atelier sur la dyspraxie verbale, animé par Line Charron      (à destination du public orthophoniste) - COMPLET
 

Pour plus d?informations : www.gipsa-lab.fr/colloque/DeveloppementArticulation

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3-3-10(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

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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
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3-3-11(2017-12-05) International Conference on Natural Language, Signal and Speech Processing (ICNLSSP), Casablanca, Marocco

International Conference on Natural Language, Signal and Speech Processing  (ICNLSSP)  will be held on 5th - 6thDecember 2017 in Casablanca, Morocco.

 

Conference site: http://icnlssp.isga.ma

Submission of papers: Friday, 15 September 2017 23.59 GMT

ICNLSSP is an international conference dedicated to Natural Language Processing and Speech recognition. ICNLSSP is a technical conference not only proposing new researches on the concerned topics but also will permit exchanging ideas between researchers from the world which will be very useful for PhD students and developers in this area. The selection criteria will be similar to those used for large conferences such as Interspeech or ICASSP. The committee program has a strong experience in the subjects of ICNLSSP. Researchers are encouraged to propose papers with new ideas, which have not been yet published. Keynote speeches will be given by Professors and Doctors from Google, Microsoft, University of Waseda and IUF (Institut Universitaire de France).
All the selected papers will be published in the proceedings of ICNLSSP and the best papers will be proposed to be published in a special volume of ISGA Journal

SCOPE

 

  • Signal processing, acoustic modeling.
  • Architecture of speech recognition system.
  • Code-Switching and Arabic dialects
  • Language processing of social network data
  • Deep learning for speech recognition
  • Speech comprehension
  • Speech Translation
  • Speech synthesis.
  • Speaker and language identification
  • Phonetics, phonology and prosody.
  • Cognition and natural language processing
  • Information retrieval on social network
  • Neural network language models.
  • Machine Learning
  • Text Mining
  • Video processing in social network
  • Human-Machine Dialogue
  • Text summarization
  • Image, video & multidimensional signal processing
  • Machine learning for signal processing

 


Invited speakers:

Jean-Paul Haton (Professor Emeritus at university of Lorraine)

Yves Lepage (Professor at University of Waseda ? Japan)

Olivier Siohan (Senior Researcher at Google ? USA)

Imed Zitouni (Senior Researcher at Microsoft ? USA)

 

Program Committee

Frédéric Béchet ( Professor  University Aix-Marseille, France)
Laurent Besacier (Professor  University of Grenoble, France)
Khalid Choukri (Executive director of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA))
Mona Diab (Associate Professor George Washington University)
Yannick Estève (Professor University of Le Mans, France)
Dominique Fohr (researcher  CNRS, France)
Jean-Paul Haton (Professor emeritus, University Lorraine, France)
Salma Jamoussi (Assistant Professor University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Denis Jouvet (Researcher  INRIA Lorraine, France)
David Langlois (Assistant Professor Lorraine University, France)
Chiraz Latiri (Professor University of Tunis, Tunisia)
Yves Lepage (Professor University Waseda, Japan)
Mikolaj Leszcuk (Assistant Professor, Poland)
Khalifa Mansouri (Professor University Hassan II)
Odile Mella (Assistant professor at University of Lorraine)
Franck Poirier (Professor University of Bretagne sud)
Fatiha Sadat (Associate Professor UQAM, Canada)
Khaled Shaalan (Professor The British University in Dubai, UAE)
Olivier Siohan (Researcher  Google, USA)
Yahya Slimani (Professor University of Tunis, Tunisia)
Kamel Smaili (Professor University Lorraine, France)
Juan-Manual Torrès (Assistant Professor University of Avignon, France)
Imed Zitouni (Researcher at Microsoft, USA)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit full-length papers, with up to four pages (double column) for technical content including figures and possible references, and with one additional optional 5th page containing only references. Submissions will be done via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnlsp2017

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3-3-12(2017-12-08) CfP Workshop Conversational AI: 'Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential' at NIPS 2017

Call for papers
Workshop Title: Conversational AI: ?Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential?

Workshop Website: http://alborz-geramifard.com/workshops/nips17-Conversational-AI
Workshop Date: December 8th
Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CONVERSATIONALAI2017
Submission Due Date:  November 1st, 11:59 PM EST 
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Description:
In the span of only a few years, conversational systems have become commonplace. Every day, millions of people use natural-language interfaces such as Siri, Google Now, Cortana, Alexa, Facebook M and others via in-home devices, phones, or messaging channels such as Messenger, Slack, Skype, among others.  At the same time, interest among the research community in conversational systems has blossomed; For supervised and reinforcement learning, conversational systems often serve as both a benchmark task and an inspiration for new ML methods at conferences which don't focus on speech and language per se, such as NIPS, ICML, IJCAI, and others.  Research community challenge tasks are proliferating, including the sixth Dialog Systems Technology Challenge (DSTC6), the Amazon Alexa prize, and the Conversational Intelligence Challenge live competition at NIPS 2017. Now more than ever, it is crucial to promote cross-pollination of ideas between academic research centers and industry. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in this area, to clarify impactful research problems, to share findings from large-scale real-world deployments, and to generate new ideas for future lines of research. This workshop will include invited talks from academia and industry, contributed work, and open discussion.  In these talks, senior technical leaders from many of the most popular conversational services will give insights into real usage and challenges at scale.  We will prioritize forward-looking papers that propose interesting and impactful contributions.  We will end the day with an open discussion, including a panel consisting of academic and industrial researchers. 

Invited Speakers:
? Satinder Singh (University of Michigan)

? Joelle Pineau (McGill University, Facebook)
? Ashwin Ram (Amazon)
? Lihong Li (Microsoft Research)
? Brian Strope (Google)
? Chris Re (Apple)
? David Nahamoo (IBM)

Organizers:
? Alborz Geramifard (Amazon)
? Jason Williams (Microsoft Research)
? Larry Heck (Google)
? Jim Glass (MIT)
? Antoine Bordes (Facebook)
? Steve Young (University of Cambridge, Apple)
? Gerry Tesauro (IBM)

 

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3-3-13(2017-12-08) Dialog System Technology Challenge 6 (DSTC6) at NIPS; Call for Track Proposals

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DSTC6: Call for Track Proposals
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Dialog System Technology Challenge 6
 
 
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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3-3-14(2017-12-08) Workshop Visually-Grounded Interaction and Language Workshop at NIPS 2017, Long Beach, CA, USA

Visually-Grounded Interaction and Language Workshop
NIPS 2017
Friday, December 8
Long Beach, CA, USA
https://nips2017vigil.github.io/
Please address questions to: nips2017vigil@gmail.com
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Everyday interactions require a common understanding of language, i.e. for people to communicate effectively, words (for example ?cat?) should invoke similar beliefs over physical concepts (what cats look like, the sounds they make, how they behave, what their skin feels like etc.). However, how this ?common understanding? emerges is still unclear. One appealing hypothesis is that language is tied to how we interact with the environment. As a result, meaning emerges by ?grounding? language in modalities in our environment (images, sounds, actions, etc.).

Recent concurrent works in machine learning have focused on bridging visual and natural language understanding through visually-grounded language learning tasks, e.g. through natural images (Visual Question Answering, Visual Dialog), or through interactions with virtual-physical environments. In cognitive science, progress in fMRI enables creating a semantic atlas of the cerebral cortex, or decoding semantic information from visual input. And in psychology, recent studies show that a baby?s most likely first words are based on their visual experience, laying the foundation for a new theory of infant language acquisition and learning.

As the grounding problem requires an interdisciplinary attitude, this workshop aims to gather researchers with broad expertise in various fields ? machine learning, computer vision, natural language, neuroscience, and psychology ? to discuss their cutting-edge work as well as perspectives on future directions in this exciting space of grounding and interactions.

We invite you to submit your paper related to the following topics:

? language acquisition or learning through interactions
? visual captioning, dialog, and question-answering
? reasoning in language and vision
? visual synthesis from language
? transfer learning in language and vision tasks
? navigation in virtual worlds with natural-language instructions
? machine translation with visual cues
? novel tasks that combine language, vision and actions
? understanding and modeling the relationship between language and vision in humans
? semantic systems and modeling of natural language and visual stimuli representations in the human brain


Important dates
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Submission deadline: 3rd November 2017
Acceptance notification: 10th November 2017
Workshop: 8th December 2017


Paper details
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? Contributed papers may include novel research, preliminary results, extended abstract, positional papers or surveys
? Papers are limited to 4 pages, excluding references, in the latest camera-ready NIPS format: https://nips.cc/Conferences/2017/PaperInformation/StyleFiles
? Papers published at the main conference can be submitted without reformatting
? Please submit via email: nips2017vigil@gmail.com


Accepted papers
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? All accepted papers will be presented during 2 poster sessions
? Up to 5 accepted papers will be invited to deliver short talks
? Accepted papers will be made publicly available as non-archival reports, allowing future submissions to archival conferences and journals


Invited Speakers
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Raymond J. Mooney - University of Texas
Sanja Fidler - University of Toronto
Olivier Pietquin - DeepMind
Jack Gallant - University of Berkeley
Devi Parikh - Georgia Tech / FAIR
Felix Hill - DeepMind
... and more to come!


Organizers
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Florian Strub - University of Lille, Inria
Harm de Vries - University of Montreal
Abhishek Das - Georgia Tech
Satwik Kottur - Carnegie Mellon University
Stefan Lee - Georgia Tech
Mateusz Malinowski - DeepMind
Dhruv Batra - Georgia Tech / FAIR
Aaron Courville - University of Montreal
Olivier Pietquin - DeepMind
Devi Parikh - Georgia Tech / FAIR
Jeremie Mary - Criteo

 
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3-3-15(2017-12-11) 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction, Evry, France


 ================================================================================= IHCI
2017: 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction
Evry, France, December 11-13, 2017, http://ihci2017.sciencesconf.org
================================================================================= The 9th
international conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2017) will be
held in Evry, near Paris, France, from 11 to 13 of December 2017.

IHCI allows researchers and practitioners to exchange on recent results in the area of
human-computer interaction, related technologies (including signal processing, multimodal
analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive modelling) and their
applications. The conference will bring together researchers from academia, industry and
research organizations from various disciplines, around theoretical, practical and
application-oriented contributions.

This year, along with usual topics, IHCI 2017 will focus on human cognition modelling for
interaction, including human cognitive process modelling (for task analysis...),
human-robot interaction (for companion robots...), cognition for interaction in virtual
worlds (for autonomous conversational agents...).

Keynotes will be given by :
- Pr. Alain Berthoz, Honorary Professor at Collège de France, member of the French
Academy of Science and Academy of Technology, on 'Simplexity and vicariance. On human
cognition principles for man-machine interaction'
- Pr. Mohamed Chetouani, Professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University, France, on
'Interpersonal Human-Human and Human-Robot Interactions',
- Pr. Antti Oulasvirta, Associate Professor at Aalto University, Finland, on 'Can
Machines Design? Optimizing User Interfaces for Human Performance'.

The IHCI topics include but are not limited to:

Human Cognition Modelling:
- Cognitive models of intelligence
- Modelling perceptual processes
- Modelling of learning and thinking
- Modelling of memory
- Cognitive task analysis

User adaptation and Personalization:
- Adaptive learning
- Affective computing for adaptive interaction
- Reinforcement learning

Brain Computer Interfaces:
- Brain computer integration
- Brain activity understanding for interaction

Machine Perception of Humans:
- Speech detection and recognition
- Natural language processing
- Face and emotion detection
- Body sensors and communication
- Gesture recognition
- Human motion tracking

Tactile interfaces:
- Haptics fundaments
- Haptic feedback for interaction
- Haptic feedback for robot collaboration

Human-Robot Interaction and collaboration:
- Collaborative learning
- Collaborative systems
- Temporal coordination modelling

Applications:
- Natural User Interfaces
- Human-robot interaction
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Remote and face-to-face collaboration
- Embodied conversational agents
- Mobile interfaces
- Interface design for accessibility and rehabilitation
- Interaction and cognition for education
- Health
- Serious games

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**NEW:* The conference proceedings will be published as an open access volume in the
Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and indexed in the ISI
Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Google Scholar,
DBLP, etc. Papers can be either long papers (10 to 12 pages) or short papers (4 to 6
pages), and must conform to the LNCS templates (see the guidelines for authors). *
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Papers must be written in English and describe original work that has not been published
and is not under review elsewhere. In order to enforce blind reviewing, papers must be
made anonymous before submitting (by removing the author?s names and institution from the
header).

Important dates:
- Submission deadline: *June 30, 2017 (EXTENDED) *
- Decision notification: September 10, 2017 (tentative)
- Final version due: October 1st, 2017

Patrick Horain (Telecom SudParis), Chair
Catherine Achard (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Co-Chair
Malik Mallem (Université Evry Val d'Essonne), Co-Chair

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3-3-16(2017-12-13) MAVEBA 2017, Firenze, Italy

 10 th International Workshop MAVEBA2017.

http://maveba.dinfo.unifi.it/

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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3-3-17(2017-12-14) International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Tokyo, Japan


 The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system descriptions are presented. The 14th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take place in Tokyo, Japan, on December 14-15, 2017.
http://workshop2017.iwslt.org/index.php


Evaluation Campaign

IWSLT 2017 will offer three official evaluation tasks: multilingual text translation of TED talks (including zero-shot translation), text translation of dialogues, speech recognition and speech translation of lectures. Multilingual translation will target English, German, Dutch, Italian and Romanian; translations of dialogues will be from Japanese to English; and speech translation of lectures will be from German to English. Additional unofficial text translations of TED talks will be offered à-la-carte according to expressions of interest by the participants. Training and development data will be released to the participants through the workshop website. For the multilingual task both large and small training data constraints will be defined.

Scientific Papers
The IWSLT invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the workshop proceedings and presented in dedicated technical sessions of the workshop, either in oral or poster form. The workshop welcomes high quality, original contributions covering theoretical and practical issues in the fields of automatic speech recognition and machine translation that are applied to spoken language translation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  MT and SLT approaches
  Integration of ASR and MT
  MT and SLT evaluation
  Language resources for MT and SLT
  Open source software for ASR, MT and SLT
  Multilingual MT and ASR
  Applications of MT and SLT
  Adaptation in MT, ASR and SLT
  Post- and Pre-processing for ASR, MT and SLT
  Efficiency in ASR, MT and SLT


IMPORTANT DATES

Evaluation Campaign

  June 5: Release of train and dev data (*)
  Sep. 11 - 17: Multilingual task evaluation
  Sep. 11 - 17: Lectures ASR evaluation
  Sep. 18 - 24: Lectures SLT evaluation
  Sep. 18 - 24: Dialogue task evaluation
  Oct. 22: System description paper
  Nov. 12: Review feedback
  Nov. 26: Camera ready
  (*) Release of training data of the Dialogue task will be announced later.

Scientific Papers

  Sep. 30: Paper submissions
  Oct. 31: Notification of acceptance
  Nov. 12: Camera ready

Submitted manuscripts will be subject to a blind peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers are requested to present their paper at the workshop.

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3-3-18(2017-12-16)CfP IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Okinawa, Japan
ASRU 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 Japanfs 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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3-3-19(2018-04-08) 12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Ramat Gan, Israel

12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
 

LATA 2018
 
Ramat Gan, Israel
 
April 8-12, 2018
 
Organized by:
           
Department of Computer Science
Bar-Ilan University
 
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
 
http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2018/
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AIMS:
 
LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field organized by Rovira i Virgili University since 2002, LATA 2018 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.
 
VENUE:
 
LATA 2018 will take place in Ramat Gan, in the district of Tel Aviv and home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges. The venue will be the Faculty of Exact Sciences of Bar-Ilan University.
 
SCOPE:
 
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
 
algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining
algorithms on automata and words
automata and logic
automata for system analysis and programme verification
automata networks
automatic structures
codes
combinatorics on words
computational complexity
concurrency and Petri nets
data and image compression
descriptional complexity
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata
 
STRUCTURE:
 
LATA 2018 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
 
INVITED SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, DE)
Pablo Barceló (University of Chile, CL)
Francine Blanchet-Sadri (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, US)
Alexander Clark (King's College London, UK)
Frank Drewes (Umeå University, SE)
Manfred Droste (University of Leipzig, DE)
Dora Giammarresi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT)
Erich Grädel (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
Peter Habermehl (Paris Diderot University, FR)
Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University, US)
Pedro Rangel Henriques (University of Minho, PT)
Christian Höner zu Siederdissen (University of Leipzig, DE)
Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom (Leiden University, NL)
David Janin (University of Bordeaux, FR)
Marcin Jurdzi?ski (University of Warwick, UK)
Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, JP)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI)
Shmuel Tomi Klein (Bar-Ilan University, IL)
Salvatore La Torre (University of Salerno, IT)
Salvador Lucas (Polytechnic University of Valencia, ES)
Stuart W. Margolis (Bar-Ilan University, IL)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Fernando Orejas (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ES)
Paritosh K. Pandya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IN)
Gennaro Parlato (University of Southampton, UK)
Dominique Perrin (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, FR)
Detlef Plump (University of York, UK)
Matteo Pradella (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, CA)
Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool, UK)
William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA)
Jiri Srba (Aalborg University, DK)
Benjamin Steinberg (City College of New York, US)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG)
K.G. Subramanian (University Sains Malaysia, MY)
Klaus Sutner (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US)
Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, FR)
Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural State University, RU)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Shmuel Tomi Klein (Ramat Gan, co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Manuel Jesús Parra Royón (Granada)
Dana Shapira (Ariel)
David Silva (London)
 
SUBMISSIONS:
 
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.
 
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2018
 
PUBLICATIONS:
 
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
 
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
 
REGISTRATION:
 
The registration form can be found at:
 
http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2018/Registration.php
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: November 17, 2017
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 24, 2017
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: January 4, 2018
Early registration: January 4, 2018
Late registration: March 25, 2018
Submission to the journal special issue: July 12, 2018
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
 
POSTAL ADDRESS:
 
LATA 2018
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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3-3-20(2018-04-15) ICASSP 2018, Calgary, AB, Canada. Update:new date and new location

 

IEEE ICASSP 2018 UPDATE
New Date and Location

 

15-20 April 2018 | Calgary, AB, Canada

 

Dear SPS Members,

As a follow up to the message sent last week, we are excited to announce that ICASSP 2018 will be held from 15-20 April 2018 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and we are now accepting papers! We are very excited about the level of support and enthusiasm received by SPS members and the global community of this flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. We are looking forward to seeing you all in Calgary!

Call for Papers: Paper Submission Deadline 27 October 2017

 Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers of not more than four pages of technical content including figures and references, with an optional fifth page containing only references. 

As we witness the rapid increase in smart technologies, the theme of ICASSP 2018 is ?Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence: Changing the World.' The conference will feature world-class international speakers, tutorials, exhibits, lectures and poster sessions from around the world. Topics include but are not limited to:

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

 

  • Audio and acoustic signal processing

  • Sensor array & multichannel signal processing

  • Bio-imaging and biomedical signal processing

  • Signal processing education

  • Design & implementation of signal processing systems

  • Signal processing for communication & networking

  • Image, video & multidimensional signal processing

  • Signal processing theory & methods

  • Industry technology tracks

  • Signal processing for Big Data

  • Information forensics and security

  • The Internet of Things & RFID

  • Machine learning for signal processing

  • Speech processing

  • Spoken language processing

  • Multimedia signal processing

  • Remote Sensing and signal processing

  • Signal Processing for Brain Machine Interface

  • Signal Processing for Smart Systems

  • Signal Processing for Cyber Security

  • Computational Imaging

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

 

 

Paper Submission Deadline: 27 October 2017

A selection of best papers will be made by the ICASSP 2018 committee upon recommendations from Technical Committees. All papers must be submitted in PDF form. LaTeX and Word templates will be provided. Authors are encouraged to prepare their papers using LaTeX. For more details, visit: https://2018.ieeeicassp.org/CallForPapers.asp
 
Thanks to the efforts and dedication performed by the ICASSP 2018 Organizing Committee, and especially the engagement from our Korean SPS community, this has all been possible.  We invite you all to submit papers and we look forward to seeing you in Calgary!
 
Kind regards,
Monty Hayes & Hanseok Ko
Co-General Chairs, IEEE ICASSP 2018
http://2018.ieeeicassp.org




 

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3-3-21(2018-04-18) Cf Workshops and special sessions at IWSDS 2018, Singapore UPDATE

 CALL FOR PAPERS
IWSDS 2018: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology
Place: Singapore
Main Conference Dates: April 18-20, 2018
http://www.colips.org/conferences/iwsds2018/wp/

 
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2018 invites paper submissions on the following topics:
* Engagement and emotion in human-robot interactions
* Digital resources for interactive applications
* Multi-modal and machine learning methods
* Companions, personal assistants and dialogue systems
* Proactive and anticipatory interactions
* Educational and health-care robot applications
* Dialogue systems and reasoning
* Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems
* Multi-lingual dialogue systems
* Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages
* Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken dialog systems
 
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. As usual, 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/account/signin.cgi?key=60052599.SUbqoTUuk8bTicqc
 
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2017
Paper notification deadline: December 29, 2017
 
We distinguish between the following categories of submissions:
 
* Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-12 pages, including references.
* Short Research Papers should be in the range of 4-6 pages, including references. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts.
* Position Papers deal with novel research ideas or view-points which describe trends or fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion and are not much researched. They should be 2 pages long, excluding references.
* Demo Submissions ? System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.
 
In addition, three Special Sessions will be collocated with IWSDS 2018:
 
1.- Empathic dialog systems for elderly assistance
http://www.empathic-iwsds.com/  
 
One of the more important applications of spoken dialog systems (SDS) is the development of personal assistants for elderly. The proposed challenge is to provide personalized advice guidance through a spoken dialogue system to improve the quality of life and independency living status of the people as the age. To this end SDS has to deal not only with user goals but also implement health goals through negotiation strategies to convince the user to develop healthy habits. Such SDS has also include perceived user affective status to support the dialog manager decisions. Important related topics are, but not limited to:

* affective computing in SDS
* user centered design
* policies dealing with shared user-task goals
* management strategies to keep the user engagement
* personalization and adaptation
* ontologies and knowledge representation
* privacy preserved SDS
* simulated dialog manager
* applications to assist the elderly
 
2.- Designing humour in human computer interaction with focus on dialogue technology
http://www.colips.org/conferences/iwsds2018/wp/index.php/collocated-sessions/humic-dial-2018/
 
We are welcoming original contributions from a wide range of disciplines, such as human-computer interaction, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, social robotics, psychology, media, arts etc. * Topics expected include - but are not limited to:
* Computational humour approaches & applications for dialogue technology
* Humorous virtual agents & social robots & chatbots
* Linguistics and non-linguistics challenges in designing humor
* Evaluation approaches for humorous interactions
* Cultural and social norms for appropriate humorous interactions
 
3.- Third Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agent Technologies (WOCHAT 2018)
http://workshop.colips.org/wochat/@iwsds2018/  
 
Although chat-oriented dialogue systems have been around for many years, they have been recently gaining a lot of popularity in both research and commercial arenas. From the commercial stand point, chat-oriented dialogue seems to be providing an excellent means to engage users for entertainment purposes, as well as to give a more human-like appearance to established vertical goal-oriented dialogue systems.
This workshop invites original research contributions on all aspects of chat-oriented dialogue, including closely related areas such as knowledge representation and reasoning, language generation, and natural language understanding, among others. In this sense the workshop will invite for both long and short paper submissions in areas including (but not restricted to):

* Chat-oriented dialogue systems
* Data collections and resources
* Information extraction
* Natural language understanding
* General domain knowledge representation
* Common sense and reasoning
* Natural language generation
* Emotion detection and generation
* Sense of humour detection and generation
* Chat-oriented dialogue evaluation
* User studies and system evaluation
* Multimodal human-computer interaction












                     

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3-3-22(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:
  • Engagement and emotion in human-robot interactions
  • Digital resources for interactive applications
  • Multi-modal and machine learning methods
  • Companions, personal assistants and dialogue systems
  • Proactive and anticipatory interactions
  • Educational and healthcare robot applications
  • Dialogue systems and reasoning
  • Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems
  • Multi-lingual dialog systems
  • Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages
  • Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken dialog systems
 
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:
 
  • Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-12 pages, including references.
  • Short Research Papers should be in the range of 4-6 pages, including references. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts.
  • Position Papers deal with novel research ideas or view-points which describe trends or fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion and are not much researched. They should be 2 pages long, excluding references.
  • Demo Submissions - System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.
 
IWSDS 2018 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:
  • The paper is substantially original and will not be submitted to any other conference or journal during the IWSDS 2018 review period.
  • The paper does not contain any plagiarism.
  • The paper will be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule published. Any paper accepted in the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official conference proceedings.
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2017
Paper notification deadline: December 29, 2017
 
Templates for formatting are available at:
  • Latex Style and Template: http://workshop.colips.org/iwsds2018/resources/svmult.zip
  • Word Template: http://workshop.colips.org/iwsds2018/resources/T1-book.zip
  • Requirements for submitting figures that are acceptable: http://workshop.colips.org/iwsds2018/resources/Art_Guidelines.pdf
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3-3-23(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 -
Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan
7-12 May 2018

Main Conference: 9-10-11 May 2018
Workshops and Tutorials: 7-8 & 12 May 2018

Conference web site: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/
Twitter: @LREC2018

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Language Resource Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international organisations ? many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural Language Processing - Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand, the Korean Society for Language and Information, the Korean Special Interest Group of Human and Cognitive Language Technology, ...

CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies
and tools, communicate on-going and planned activities, identify industrial uses and needs, and address requirements from e-science and e-society, with respect to scientific, technology, policy and organisational issues.

For this edition, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, LREC goes East in order to support a stronger interaction and synergy with the Asian NLP community and to help promoting Asian Language Resources and Language Technologies.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from a wide spectrum of related disciplines to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote  initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LTs) and development of corresponding products,
services and applications, and standards.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data
* Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
* Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
* Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
* Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
* LRs and Semantic Web
* LRs and Crowdsourcing
* Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up

Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications
* Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
* LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, web services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
* Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
* Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
* Industrial LRs requirements
* User needs, LT for accessibility

Issues in LT evaluation
* LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
* Validation and quality assurance of LRs
* Benchmarking of systems and products
* Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
* User satisfaction evaluation

General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation
* International and national activities, projects and initiatives
* Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
* Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
* Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
* Replicability and reproducibility issues
* Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues

LREC 2018 HOT TOPICS

Asian Language Resources
Special attention will be devoted to highlight the wide variety of initiatives for the creation, use and evaluation of Asian Language Resources and Technologies. Special attention will be paid to Less-Resourced Languages in the Asian area, including (local) Sign Languages.

International Contribution to Olympics 2020
LREC 2018 would like to promote all LTs that would support better interactions and communications between the Olympics 2020 visitors and the local hosts. This involves all speech- and text-based computer interactions, speech/sign to speech/sign translations, human-human communications mediated by computers, etc. Assessment of the above mentioned technologies is also an important area within LREC 2018.

Language Resources in the Online World
In a time in which more and more (language) data are generated, either by human beings or by machines, and directly streamed, the question arises how LRs and LTs can cope with this development. A first challenge is to address and to provide for correctives to hate speeches, cyberbullying, fake news, etc. Can LT provide means to process and respond in a timely manner to such language data streamed in a huge amount at high speed? In this context, language technologists have to intensify cooperation with humanities, especially social and political sciences, psychology but also economics, and more.

DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRs!
In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map ? now a normal step in the submission procedure of many conferences ? LREC recognises the importance of sharing resources and making them available to the community. When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special LREC repository set up by ELRA. Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before the conference, to be re-used, compared, analysed. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. We will also organise an Industrial Track.

SUBMISSIONS AND DATES

General submission page: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/

Submission of extended abstracts for oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 25 September 2017

    LREC 2018 asks for a 3 to 4 pages (references excluded) extended abstract which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet. Extended abstracts must be submitted through START @ https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/main/ and will be peer-reviewed. Submissions are NOT anonymous.

Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 25 September 2017

    Workshop and Tutorial Proposals must be submitted online @ http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/ and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.


PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format. Final papers will range from 4 to 8 pages, with no difference in quality between shorter and longer submissions.
There is also no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered. The importance of LREC in Natural Language Processing is reflected by the H5-Index citation ranking in Google Scholar: LREC is ranked 3rd among Computational Linguistics conferences. In addition, since 2010, LREC Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Khalid Choukri ? ELRA, Paris - France
Christopher Cieri ? Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA
Thierry Declerck ? DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Koiti Hasida ? The University of Tokyo, Tokyo - Japan
Hitoshi Isahara ? Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi - Japan
Bente Maegaard ? Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Denmark
Joseph Mariani ? LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay - France
Asuncion Moreno ? Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain
Jan Odijk ? UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands
Stelios Piperidis ? Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece
Takenobu Tokunaga ? Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo ? Japan

CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Sara Goggi, CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa, Italy
Hélène Mazo, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France

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3-3-24(2018-06-13) 9th Speech Prosody Conference, Poznan,Poland

 

The 9th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from 13 to 16 June, 2018 at Collegium Iuridicum Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Speech Prosody is the biennial flagship conference of SProSIG with 300 - 400 participants each time. 

The deadline for Workshop, Tutorial &amp; Special Session proposal submission is 15 September. We encourage you to make proposals by sending e-mail to prosodist@gmail.com and jolabachan@gmail.com

The paper submission deadline is 10 December. (Submission page will open on 1 October.)

For details, please go to Speech Prosody 2018 home page http://sp9.home.amu.edu.pl/index.php

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3-3-25(2018-06-13) Workshop AFFECT, COMPAGNON ARTIFICIEL, INTERACTION (WACAI 2018), Ile de Porquerolles, France
Workshop 
AFFECT, COMPAGNON ARTIFICIEL, INTERACTION (WACAI 2018)
 
1er Appel à Communication
 
Ile de Porquerolles, 13-15 Juin 2018
 
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APPEL A SOUMISSION
 
L?objectif du WACAI (Workshop sur les ?Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions? (ACAI)) est de réunir les recherches et développements en cours autour des Agents Conversationnels Animés (ACA) et des robots interactifs. Cette année, le WACAI souhaite regrouper une communauté pluridisciplinaire de chercheurs en Informatique Affective, en Sciences Cognitive, en Psychologie Sociale, en Linguistique. La participation des industriels sera encouragée. 
 
Les workshops WACAI, regroupant habituellement entre 50 et 80 personnes,  sont organisés par le groupe de travail GT ACAI. Le GT-ACAI (Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions - https://acai.limsi.fr/doku.php) de l'AFIA a été créé en 2012. Ce groupe de travail a pour objectif d'animer et de structurer les activités de recherche en France autour de ces problématiques. Ses travaux se situent donc à la rencontre de plusieurs domaines scientifiques : les agents virtuels, les agents conversationnels/humain virtuels, l'informatique affective, le traitement des signaux sociaux  et la robotique interactive. Les recherches dans ces domaines scientifiques partagent plusieurs questions scientifiques : détection et reconnaissance des comportements sociaux et émotionnels (émotions, attitudes sociales, personnalité, présence, engagement, etc.) ; modèles cognitifs du comportement affectif d'agent « socio-émotionnellement intelligent » pour améliorer/optimiser l'interaction; synthèse de comportements socio-affectifs en fonction du contexte (personnalité et attitude sociale, tâche, environnement, capacité perceptive et expressive du système interactif, etc.) ; prise en compte des émotions/affects/signaux sociaux dans le dialogue homme-machine et dans les environnements virtuels. Son objectif est de regrouper les activités en France autour de l'informatique affective et de l'interaction avec des compagnons artificiels. 
 
Après les précédentes éditions biannuelles du workshop WACAI, organisées successivement à Grenoble (2005), à Toulouse (2006), à Paris (2008), à Lille (2010), à Grenoble (2012), à Rouen (2014) et à Brest (2016), cette nouvelle édition se déroulera à Porquerolles du 13 au 15 juin 2018.
 
 
DATES IMPORTANTES
Soumission des articles: 15 Décembre 2018 : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wacai2018
Notification aux auteurs : 8 Février 2018
Inscription à la conférence : 15 Février 2018
Version caméra-ready : 8 Mars 2018
 
FORMATS
Les contributions attendues, rédigées de préférence en français (ou en anglais si vraiment nécessaire), sont de trois ordres :
- Des articles scientifiques (4 à 8 pages) ;
- Des revues de questions ou des revues de l?état de l?art (4 à 8 pages), notamment sur les liens entre les problématiques communes et les spécificités des communautés ACA et robotique ;
- Des descriptions courtes de réalisations, démonstrations, d?expérimentations en cours, d?application et outils industriels (2 pages) ; 
 
Les contributions sont attendues sur les domaines, thématiques pluridisciplinaires et applications de la recherche suivants (à titre indicatif) : 
 
 
DOMAINES DE RECHERCHE
- Informatique affective ; traitement informatique des émotions
- Traitement des signaux sociaux 
- Agents conversationnels animés, agents virtuels, robots humanoïdes, compagnons
- Psychologie sociale, psychologie cognitive, neurosciences
- Dialogue et traitement de la langue
 
 
THÉMATIQUES
- Architectures logicielles et technologies des compagnons artificiels
- Traitement automatique de la parole et du langage, modèle de dialogue 
- Interactions multimodales (mouvements, expressions faciales, parole, etc.)
- Modèle cognitif, formalisation logique des comportements socio-émotionnels
- Plate-formes d?expérimentation 
- Construction et traitement de corpus d?interactions 
- Apprentissage automatique des comportements socio-émotionnels
- Ergonomie, méthodologies d?évaluation 
 
 
APPLICATIONS ET RETOURS D?EXPÉRIENCE
- Jeux vidéo, jeux sérieux, environnement virtuel d?apprentissage, coaching, santé 
- Robotique sociale, robot compagnon, téléopération 
- Réalité virtuelle 
- Art et sciences
 
 
COMITES
Comité d?Organisation 
- Présidente : Magalie OCHS
 
Comité Scientifique
- Présidents : Chloé CLAVEL & Jean-Claude MARTIN
 
 
LIEU et ACCES
Ile de Porquerolles
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3-3-26(2018-06-18) 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages , Berlin, Germany

The Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages will be held in Berlin, Germany from Monday June 18 to Wednesday June 20, 2018.  This symposium follows the successful TAL 2016 conference in Buffalo, NY, USA.  TAL 2018 will be organized at Beuth University Berlin conveniently located in the city center close to all major attractions.  TAL 2018 is timed after Speech Prosody 2018 in Poznan, Poland, June 13-16, only a quick train ride away. 

Websites and deadlines:

TAL 2018: http://public.beuth-hochschule.de/~mixdorff/tal2018/

Speech Prosody 2018: http://sp9.home.amu.edu.pl/, paper deadline 10 December 2017

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3-3-27(2018-06-25) 2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA


2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology

 

We are pleased to invite one page research proposals for a workshop on Machine Learning for Speech and Language Technology at Johns Hopkins University June 25 to August 3, 2018 (Tentative)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: Monday, October 9th, 2017.


 One-page proposals are invited for the annual Frederick Jelinek Memorial Workshop in Speech and Language Technology. Proposals should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various fields of Human Language Technology (HLT) or related areas of Machine Intelligence, including Computer Vision and Healthcare. Proposals may address emerging topics or long-standing problems. Areas of interest in 2018 include but are not limited to:

* SPEECH TECHNOLOGY: Any aspect of information extraction from speech signals; techniques that generalize in spite of very limited amounts of training data and/or which are robust to input signal variations; techniques for processing of speech in harsh environments, etc.

* NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Knowledge discovery from text; new approaches to traditional problems such as syntactic/semantic/pragmatic analysis, machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, summarization, etc.; domain adaptation; integrated language and social analysis; etc. * MULTIMODAL HLT: Joint models of text or speech with sensory data; grounded language learning; applications such as visual question-answering, video summarization, sign language technology, multimedia retrieval, analysis of printed or handwritten text.

* DIALOG AND LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING: Understanding human-to-human or human-to-computer conversation; dialog management; naturalness of dialog (e.g. sentiment analysis).

* LANGUAGE AND HEALTHCARE: information extraction from electronic health records; speech and language technology in health monitoring; healthcare delivery in hospitals or the home, public health, etc.


These workshops are a continuation of the Johns Hopkins University CLSP summer workshop series, and will be hosted by various partner universities on a rotating basis. The research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops should serve as good examples for prospective proposers: http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/. An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated by October 13th, 2017. Authors passing this initial screening will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in Baltimore on November 10-12th, 2017. Proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two or three research topics and the teams to tackle them will be selected at this meeting for the 2018 workshop. We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop to collaboratively pursue research on the selected topics. Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and students. Authors of successful proposals typically lead these teams. Other senior participants come from academia, industry and government. Graduate student participants familiar with the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance. Undergraduate participants, selected through a national search, are rising star seniors: new to the field and showing outstanding academic promise. If you are interested in participating in the 2018 Summer Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed. If a topic in your area of interest is chosen as one of the topics to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available to participate in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith commitment that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will actively pursue it. We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to make your six-week participation possible.
 Proposals must be submitted to jsalt2018@clsp.jhu.edu by 5PM EDT on Monday, 10/09/2017. 

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3-3-28(2018-09-03) 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2018) Rome, Italy

 

EUSIPCO  2018

26th European Signal Processing Conference

Rome, Italy

September 3-7, 2018

http://www.eusipco2018.org

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The 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) will be held in Rome, the Eternal City, in Italy from September 3 to September 7, 2018. The flagship conference of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) will offer a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing and its applications. It will feature world-class speakers, oral and poster sessions, keynotes and plenaries, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, demo and ongoing work sessions and satellite workshops, and is expected to attract many leading researchers and industry  figures from all over the world. 

Technical Scope

We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:

 

- Audio and acoustic signal processing

- Speech and language processing

- Image and video processing

- Multimedia signal processing

- Signal processing theory and methods

- Sensor array and multichannel signal processing

- Signal processing for communications

- Radar and sonar signal processing

- Signal processing over graphs and networks

- Nonlinear signal processing

- Optimization methods

- Machine learning

- Statistical signal processing

- Compressed sensing and sparse modeling

- Bio-medical image and signal processing

- Signal processing for computer vision and robotics

- Computational imaging/Spectral imaging

- Information forensics and security

- Signal processing for power systems

- Signal processing for education

- Bioinformatics and genomics

- Signal processing for big data

- Signal processing for the internet of things

- Design/implementation of signal processing systems

- Other signal processing areas

 

Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore®. EURASIP Society enforces a ?no-show? policy. Procedures to submit papers, proposals for special sessions, tutorials and satellite workshops are detailed at the EUSIPCO 2018 website (www.eusipco2018.org). 

 

Important dates 

Tutorial proposals:                                     18 February 2018

Satellite Workshop proposals:                     21 January 2018

Full paper submissions:                              18 February 2018

Notification of paper acceptance:                18 May 2018

Camera-ready papers:                                18 June 2018

 

STUDENT PAPER AWARDS: ?EUSIPCO Best Student Paper Awards? will be presented at the conference banquet. Papers will be selected by a committee composed of area and technical chairs.

 

TUTORIAL AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS: Tutorials will be held on September 3, 2018. Brief tutorial proposals should include title, outline, contact information, biography and selected publications for the presenter(s), and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Special session proposals should include title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited papers.

 

3 MINUTE THESIS (3MT):

EUSIPCO 2018 is offering a 3 Minutes Thesis contest, where PhD students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance. It is an exercise for students to consolidate their ideas so they can present them concisely to an audience specialized in different signal processing fields.

 

SATELLIT? WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:

The 2018 edition of EUSIPCO is proud to organize a half day of thematic workshops on Friday, September 7, 2018, after the end of the main conference, which will provide a forum to participate in specific scientific events and present research focused on current innovative topics in signal processing technology and its extension to other fields.

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: 

GENERAL CHAIR

Patrizio Campisi, Roma Tre University, Italy

 

GENERAL CO-CHAIR

Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK

 

TECHNICAL CO-CHAIRS

Sergio Barbarossa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Augusto Sarti, Polythecnic University of Milan, Italy

 

PLENARY TALKS

Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK

Enrico Magli, Polythecnic University of Turin, Italy

 

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Paulo Lobato Correia, IST Lisbon, Portugal

Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria

 

TUTORIALS AND DEMO

Bulent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey

Marco Carli, Roma Tre University, Italy

 

STUDENT ACTIVITIES CHAIR

Juan Ramon Troncoso-Pastoriza, EPFL, Switzerland 

 

PUBLICATIONS CHAIR

Emanuele Maiorana, Roma Tre University, Italy

 

FINANCE CHAIR

Francesco De Natale, University of Trento, Italy

 

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Carmen Garcia Mateo, University of Vigo, Spain

Stefania Colonnese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

 

INTERNATIONAL LIAISON

Ajay Kumar, PolyU, Hong Kong

Shantanu Rane, PARC, USA 

Anderson Rocha, University of Campinas, Brazil

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3-3-29(2018-XX-XX) FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018

 

FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018

 

 

 

Proposal Submission Deadline: October 22, 2017

 

Notification of Acceptance: November 17, 2017

 

 

 

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), and the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACL 2018, COLING 2018, EMNLP 2018, or NAACL HLT 2018. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:

 

 

 

ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be held in Melbourne, Australia, July 15 - July 20, 2018, with workshops to take place on July 19-20: http://acl2018.org/

 

 

 

COLING 2018 (the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20 - August 25, 2018, with workshops to be held on August 20-21, 2018: http://coling2018.org/

 

 

 

NAACL HLT 2018 (the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1 - June 6, 2018 with workshops to be held on June 5-6, 2018: http://naacl2018.org/

 

 

 

EMNLP 2018 (the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018) will be held later in 2018 (after the other three conferences). Exact details on dates and venue for EMNLP workshops will be announced later.

 

 

 

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

 

 

 

Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines below).

 

 

 

The proposals should contain:

 

 

 

- A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.

 

 

 

- The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.

 

 

 

- A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to: (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.

 

 

 

- A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers.

 

 

 

- An estimate of the number of attendees.

 

 

 

- A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants.

 

 

 

- A description of special requirements and technical needs.

 

 

 

- The preferred venue(s) (ACL/COLING/NAACL/EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g. if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise)

 

 

 

- If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g. shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.

 

 

 

Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.

 

 

 

In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you submit via the START System (not in the PDF proposal):

 

 

 

- A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).

 

 

 

- A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.

 

 

 

- A list of organizers’ names which will be shown in the web-based survey.

 

 

 

The proposals should be submitted no later than October 22, 2018, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at

 

https://www.softconf.com/i/acl-workshops2018

 

 

 

The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. In addition, to estimate the attendance of the different workshops, a new voting mechanism will be implemented, where attendees of ACL-affiliated events from the past 3-5 years will be able to vote on which workshops they would like to attend in 2018. (A representative prototype of the survey is shown here, but is subject to change: https://goo.gl/3cuZON.) The overall diversity of the workshops will also be taken into account to ensure the conference program is varied and balanced. The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the four conferences, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers.

 

 

 

Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes.  Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs.

 

 

 

The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at:

 

http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook

 

 

 

TIMELINE FOR 2018 WORKSHOPS

 

 

 

Timeline:

 

October 22, 2018: Proposal Submission Deadline

 

November 17, 2018: Notification of Acceptance

 

 

 

Individual dates:

 

 

 

* ACL:

 

 

 

Dec 11, 2018: First Call for Workshop Papers

 

Mar 5, 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers

 

April 8, 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date

 

May 7, 2018: Notification of Acceptance

 

May 28, 2018: Camera-ready papers due

 

July 19-20, 2018: Workshop Dates

 

 

 

* COLING:

 

 

 

TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers

 

TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers

 

TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date

 

TBA: Notification of Acceptance

 

TBA: Camera-ready papers due

 

Aug 20-21, 2018: Workshop Dates

 

 

 

* NAACL:

 

 

 

27 November 2017: First Call for Workshop Papers

 

8 January 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers

 

2 March 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date

 

2 April 2018: Notification of Acceptance

 

16 April 2018: Camera-ready papers due

 

5-6 June 2018: Workshop Dates

 

 

 

* EMNLP:

 

 

 

TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers

 

TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers

 

TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date

 

TBA: Notification of Acceptance

 

TBA: Camera-ready papers due

 

TBA: Workshop Dates

 

 

 

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

 

 

 

* ACL:

 

 

 

Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge

 

 

 

* COLING:

 

 

 

Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne

 

Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University

 

Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University

 

 

 

* NAACL:

 

 

 

Marie Meteer, Brandeis University

 

Jason Williams, Microsoft Research

 

 

 

* EMNLP:

 

 

 

TBA

 

 

 

For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers at:

 

acl-coling-emnlp-naacl-workshops@googlegroups.com

 

 

 

 

 

 









 

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