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ISCApad #236 |
Saturday, February 10, 2018 by Chris Wellekens |
2-1 | Message from President Professor John Hansen Dear ISCA members: Welcome to the next installment of the ISCApad for February 2018! This edition has a number of updates from the community including upcoming meetings, job openings, theses, and announcements.
Interspeech-2018: [http://www.interspeech2018.org/] will take place September 2-6, 2018, at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), Hyderabad, India, with the theme being: Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies. March 23rd is the deadline for full paper submissions (this is really the deadline! - note that initial titles/abstracts are due by March 16th as placeholders). This is the first time Interspeech will be held in India, and it promises to be a great opportunity to experience the diversity of speech and language processing in a country that manages daily life with 122 major languages. There are still opportunities for industry sponsorship, and I encourage companies to consider providing even modest support, since this allows for the organizers to provide expanded opportunities for attendees, particularly for students and young researchers exploring job prospects!
ISCA Website: [ http://www.isca-speech.org/] Next, stay connected with the speech and language community by visiting the ISCA website. As of Jan. 2015, the ISCA Archive has gone Open Access, so past INTERSPEECH and ISCA Sponsored Workshops are available to all exploring challenging research problems in speech and language processing.
ISCA Publication Rules: Finally, I will like to bring to the ISCA community’s attention our need to ensure fair and balanced publishing guidelines. The ISCA Board has recently had to visit this issue regarding “self plagiarism”. We realize there is constant pressures to publish ones work, but as an organization we are committed to ensuring that all ISCA published papers, including conference, workshop, or those submitted to journals, are stand alone/unique efforts that meet the guidelines of our community. As authors, if you are submitting a paper for consideration in an ISCA sponsored meeting (Interspeech, etc.), such a submission must be unique and stand alone. The specific requirement which has been posted on our website is stated below:
All papers submitted to INTERSPEECH 20xx must be original contributions that are not currently submitted to any other conference, workshop, or journal, nor will be submitted to any other conference, workshop, or journal during the review process of INTERSPEECH 20xx. In all such paper submissions, any use of prior material should be cited by a reference to the source of that prior material, including one's own work, i.e., if an author uses earlier existing material, whether from one's own work or that of others, that work should be cited in the paper's list of references. Any violation of this policy may result in sanctions by ISCA, such as a ban on further submissions to ISCA publications by these authors. [ http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/conferences ]
If you as an author have some doubt, please contact either ISCA or Interspeech organizers with any questions. We have recently needed to address this issue and would like to encourage our membership to follow these requirements to ensure the highest quality publications appear in our meetings and journals.
As always, we welcome feedback and input from the ISCA community – if you have suggestions on our society or want to be involved, please let us know!
We look forward to your participation in ISCA and Interspeech-2018!
John H.L. Hansen, ISCA President
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2-2 | Nominations for ISCA’s Distinguished Lecturers for the period 2018-19 Dear ISCA Member, We are now open for nominations for ISCA’s Distinguished Lecturers for the period 2018-19. Details of the scheme are available at http: //www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers Each nomination should include the following information: Please note that the nominator must ensure the candidate is willing to s erve if elected. Also, nominations from previous years will be only c onsidered if updated. Finally, self-nominations are permitted, but mu st include a letter of support from an ISCA Fellow or Board Member. Nominations should be sent to dl_nominations@isca-speech.org before 31 J anuary 2018.
Thank You
Roger K. Moore
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2-3 | Important administration message: ACTION required At the start of this new year 2018, we invite you to update your contact and
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2-4 | SCOOT - Speech Communication On-line Training SCOOT - Speech Communication On-line Training
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2-5 | Our distinguished lecturers 2017-2018 ISCA Distinguished Lecturers for 2017-2018 are as follows. For invitations, please take a look at http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers and contact s-nakamura@is.naist.jp)
(1) Professor Jennifer S. Cole, Linguistics, Northwestern University, USA
(2) Professor Laurence Devillers, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interaction, University of Paris-Sorbonne IV, LIMSI-CNRS, France
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2-6 | Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferencesVideo archives are available in
http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/video-archive
where keynote speeches from IS 2010 can be seen. You will also find video archives
of many other conferences.
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2-7 | ISCA Online Archive
ISCA Online Archive is now accessible directly from ISCA Web main page.
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