The new deadline for manuscript submission to Speech Prosody 2018 is January 8, 2018.  
 

The 9th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from 13 to 16 June 2018 at Collegium Iuridicum Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

The conference theme will be 'Challenges and new prospects on prosody: research and technology', but we invite papers addressing any aspect of the science and technology of prosody.

Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), is the only recurring international conference focused on prosody as an organizing principle for the social, psychological, linguistic, clinical phonetics and technological aspects of spoken language. Past conferences have been attended by 300-400 researchers including experts representing a range of disciplines including linguistics, acoustics, speech technology, cognitive science, neuroscience, speech therapy, audiology and hearing science, language teaching, computer science, electrical engineering and forensic science.

Important Deadlines

15 September 2017    Submission of workshops & special session proposals (by e-mail)
01 October 2017        Online paper submission opens
15 October 2017        Announcement of special sessions
08 January 2018        Full paper submission deadline
12 February 2018       Notification of paper acceptance
15 March 2018        Early bird registration deadline
15 March 2018        Deadline to upload revised accepted papers and abst       

SCIENTIFIC AREA TOPICS

Phonology and phonetics of prosody
Rhythm and timing
Tone and intonation
Cognitive processing and modelling of prosody
Interaction between segmental and suprasegmental features
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Prosody in language and music
Acquisition of first, second and third language prosody
Prosody in Computer Language Learning systems
Speaking style and personality
Speaking style and communication settings
Prosody in speech recognition and understanding
Prosody in speaker characterization and recognition
Identification & description of prosody for multilingual dialogue systems
Measurements of prosodic parameters
Prosody in Audiology and Phoniatrics
Forensic voice and language investigation
Prosody of sign language

PAPER FORMAT and SUBMISSION

Papers for the Speech Prosody 2018 proceedings should be up to 4 pages of text, plus one page (maximum) for references only. Any paper with text on the 5th page other than references will be rejected. The papers must be submitted via the Easy Chair submission site.

SP9 conference website: http://sp9.home.amu.edu.pl/

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Call for Papers and Proposals for Show & Tell

Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. It will be held in India for the first time. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. Contributions to all areas of speech science and technology are welcome. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, Interspeech 2018 will feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. The tutorials will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre. A number of satellite events will also take place around Interspeech 2018.

Original papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
1. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

2. Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody

3. Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language

4. Speaker and Language Identification

5. Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals

6. Speech Coding and Enhancement

7. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation

8. Speech Recognition – Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, and Adaptation

9. Speech Recognition – Architecture, Search, and Linguistic Components

10. Speech Recognition – Technologies and Systems for New Applications

11. Spoken Dialog Systems and Analysis of Conversation

12. Spoken Language Processing – Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Resources, and Evaluation

A complete list of the scientific area topics including special sessions is available at http://interspeech2018.org/areas-and-topics/

Paper Submission
Papers intended for Interspeech 2018 should be up to 4 pages of text. An optional fifth page could be used for references only. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the author's kit on the conference web page. Please be aware that Interspeech 2018 will use new templates and submissions will be accepted only in the new format. Submissions may also be accompanied by additional files such as multimedia files, to be included on the proceedings' USB drive. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and have not been submitted elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English.

Important Dates
Submission portal opens: February 15, 2018
Abstract submission deadline: March 16, 2018
Final paper submission deadline: March 23, 2018
Acceptance/rejection notification: June 3, 2018
Camera-ready paper due: June 17, 2018
Show and Tell proposals due: March 30, 2018
Registration opens: June 10, 2018

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Dear colleague:

Interspeech 2018 will be held in India during September 2-6, 2018, at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India. We invite you to submit your research papers as well as Show & Tell proposals. The call is attached below. For more details, please visit: http://www.interspeech2018.org.

We look forward to your active participation inInterspeech 2018.

Sincerely,
Team Interspeech 2018


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Interspeech 2018
September 2-6, 2018, Hyderabad International Convention Centre
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
http://www.interspeech2018.org


Interspeech 2018: Show & Tell demonstrations

Submission deadline: April 13, 2018

Acceptance notifications sent: June 1, 2018

Camera-ready paper due: June 17, 2018

Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Show & Tell is a special event organized during the conference. Participants are given the opportunity to demonstrate their most recent progress or developments, and interact with the conference attendees in an informal way, such as a demo, mock-up, or any adapted format of their own choice. These contributions must highlight the innovative side of the concept and may relate to a regular paper.

Each accepted proposal paper will be allocated two pages in the conference proceedings. Show & Tell demonstrations will be presented in a dedicated time slot; each presentation space will include one poster board, one table, as well as wireless internet connection and a power outlet. Demonstrations should be based on innovations and fundamental research in areas of speech production, perception, communication, or speech and language technology and systems. Authors are encouraged to submit proposals related to the theme of the main conference: Speech Research for Emerging Markets in Multilingual Societies. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. Reviewers will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of the proposed demonstration. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the Show & Tell sessions.

Paper Submission And Preparation Guidelines

Show& Tell papers should be up to 2 pages (including references). The formatshould conform to that defined in the paper preparation guidelines and asdetailed in the INTERSPEECH 2018 Author’s Kit

Submityour papers to Show & Tell using the START V2 system at https://www.softconf.com/i/IS18-ShowAndTell/

Interspeech 2018
September 2-6, 2018, Hyderabad International Convention Centre
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
http://www.interspeech2018.org

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Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria.

https://www.tugraz.at/events/interspeech-2019/home/

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Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (updated with submission link, important date change, special session links, and keynote speaker list)

SIGDIAL 2018 CONFERENCE July 12-14, 2018

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference19/

The 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2018) will be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, July 12-14, 2018.  SIGDIAL will be co-located with ACL 2018 which will be held July 15-20 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of eighteen successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. 

Keynote Speakers:  Mari Ostendorf, Manfred Stede, Ingrid Zukerman

TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes: 

• Discourse Processing  Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering, and information retrieval.

• Dialogue Systems Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications. 

• Corpora, Tools and Methodology Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.
• Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence).

• Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology

SPECIAL SESSIONS  SIGDIAL 2018 will include two special sessions: 
• Conversational Approaches to Information Search, Retrievals, and Presentation

• Physically Situated Dialogue Please see the individual special session pages for additional information and submission details.

In order for papers submitted to special sessions to appear in the SIGDIAL conference proceedings, they must undergo the regular SIGDIAL review process.

SUBMISSIONS The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be accepted as long papers for oral presentation or long papers for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters. 

• Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages are allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for example discourses or dialogues and algorithms.

• Short papers should be no longer than four pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages are allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for example discourses or dialogues and algorithms.

• Demo descriptions should be no longer than four pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo.

 Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos, sound files, etc. Multiple Submissions: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission link). SIGDIAL 2018 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to programchairs[at]sigdial.org.

Blind Review: Building on last year’s move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2018 will follow the new ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed.  

Submission Format  All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL 2018 format. Authors are expected to use the ACL LaTeX style template or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL 2018 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2018 style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Link and Deadlines You have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload a pdf of your paper before the March 11 deadline. Updates of a final pdf file will be permitted until March 18. The title, authors, abstract and topics submitted on March 11 cannot be changed. https://www.softconf.com/i/sigdial2018/

IMPORTANT NOTE: ADOPTION OF ACL 2018 AUTHOR GUIDELINES

As noted above, SIGDIAL 2018 is adopting the new ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines1 will be rejected without review. Preserving Double Blind Review The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected, or withdrawn.
• You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes). • If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized                                                          
 1 From the first ACL 2018 CFP
version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. • Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make doubleblind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible. Citation and Comparison If you are aware of previous research that appears sound and is relevant to your work, you should cite it even if it has not been peer-reviewed, and certainly if it influenced your own work. However, refereed publications take priority over unpublished work reported in preprints. Specifically: • You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited). • In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version. Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than 3 months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation and/or in-depth analysis. MENTORING Submissions with innovative core ideas that may be in need of language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and accepted with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication.  BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2018 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.  IMPORTANT DATES
 
Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Submission:  11 March 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
Long, Short & Demonstration Final PDF Submission:  18 March 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)

Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Notification: 20 April 2018

Final Paper Submission: 13 May 2018 (23:59, GMT-11) Conference: 12-14 July 2018
 
SIGDIAL 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair:  Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan
 Program Chairs:  Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
 Local Chair:  Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia
 Sponsorship Chair:  Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
 Mentoring Chair:  Alex Papangelis, Toshiba Research, UK SIGdial President: Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA  SIGdial Vice President: Kallirroi Georgila, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, USA SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service, USA SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corp, USA

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5th CHiME Speech Separation
                and Recognition Challenge

                Deadline: August 3, 2018

         Workshop: Microsoft, Hyderabad, Sep 7, 2018

        http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/
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Dear colleague,

It gives us great pleasure to announce the official launch of the CHiME-5 Challenge.

CHiME-5 considers the problem of distant-microphone conversational speech recognition in
everyday home environments. Speech material was elicited using a dinner party scenario
with efforts taken to capture data that is representative of natural conversational
speech. Participants may use a single microphone array or multiple distributed arrays.


FORUM

If you are considering participating, please join the CHiME-5 Google group for
discussions and further announcements.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chime5/join


MATERIALS

The Challenge website is now live and contains all the information and data that you will
need for participation:
- a detailed description of the challenge scenario and recording conditions,
- real training and development data,
- full instructions for participation and submission.

Baseline software for array synchronization, speech enhancement, and state-of-the-art
speech recognition will be provided on March 12.

If you have a question that isn't answered by the website and you expect other
participants to have the answer or to be interested by the answer, please post it on the
forum. Otherwise, please email us: chimechallenge@gmail.com.

We look forward to your participation.


IMPORTANT DATES

5th March, 2018 ? Training and development set data released
12th March, 2018 ? Baseline recognition system released
10th June, 2018   ?  Workshop registration open
June/July, 2018   ?  Test data released
3rd Aug, 2018   ? Extended abstract and challenge submission deadline
20th Aug, 2018   ?  Author notification
31st August, 2018   ?  Workshop registration deadline
7th Sept, 2018   ?  CHiME-5 Workshop (satellite of Interspeech 2018) and release of
results
8th Oct, 2018   ?  Final paper (2 to 6 pages)


ORGANISERS

Jon Barker, University of Sheffield
Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University
Emmanuel Vincent, Inria


SPONSORS

Google
Microsoft Research


SUPPORTED BY

International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
ISCA Robust Speech Processing SIG

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                                 CHiME 2018
             5th International Workshop on
Speech Processing in Everyday Environments

          Microsoft, Hyderabad, Sep 7, 2018

           Submission deadline: Aug 3, 2018

   http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

CHiME 2018 will bring together researchers from the fields of computational hearing, speech enhancement, acoustic modelling and machine learning to discuss the robustness of speech processing in everyday environments.

As a focus for discussion, the workshop will host the CHiME-5 Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. To find out more about the challenge, see http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to):
- training schemes: data augmentation, semi-supervised training,
- speaker localization and beamforming,
- single- or multi-microphone enhancement and separation,
- robust features and feature transforms,
- robust acoustic and language modeling,
- robust speech recognition,
- robust speaker and language recognition,
- robust paralinguistics,
- cross-environment or cross-dataset performance analysis,
- environmental background noise modelling.

Papers reporting evaluation results on the CHiME-5 dataset or on other datasets are both welcome.


IMPORTANT DATES

3rd Aug, 2018    Extended abstract submission (2 pages)
20th Aug, 2018  Paper notification
7th Sept, 2018   CHiME-5 Workshop
8th Oct, 2018     Final paper (2 to 6 pages)

ORGANISERS

Jon Barker, University of Sheffield
Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University
Emmanuel Vincent, Inria

LOCAL ORGANISER

Simerpreet Kaur, Microsoft

SPONSORS

Microsoft

SUPPORTED BY

International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
ISCA Robust Speech Processing SIG 

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Speech Processing in Challenging Environments (SPICE), September 08, 2018, IISc Bangalore, India.
  
URL:  https://spiceworkshop2018.wixsite.com/spice2018

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 Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2018, September 08, 2018, Microsoft, Hyderabad, India.

URL: https://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2018

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AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ==========================================
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The first AREA workshop will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) and is organized as a half-day session with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop. AREA includes a keynote by Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg).

Date: 7 May 2018
Venue: the Phoenix Seagaia Resort
Location: Miyazaki, Japan
http://www.areaworkshop.org/


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS
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There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI.  The goal of this workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas in which actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, human-computer communication, document design, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions.  Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.

While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ?EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation?), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication.

AREA PROGRAMME
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9.00 -   9.15     Introduction
9.15 - 10.00     Keynote: Language, Action, and Perception, Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg)
10.00 - 10.10     Discussion
10.10 - 10.30     Action Hierarchy Extraction and its Application, Aliaksandr Huminski, Hao Zhang
10.30 - 11.00     Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.20     Human-Robot Dialogue and Collaboration in Search and Navigation, Claire Bonial, Stephanie Lukin, Ashley Foots, Cassidy Henry, Matthew Marge,Ron Artstein, David Traum, Clare R. Voss
11.20 - 12.30     Poster presentations (see below)
12.30 - 13.00     Road Map Discussion

Posters:
- Laughter and Body Movements as Communicative Actions in Encounters
Kristiina Jokinen, Trung Ngo Trong
- Learning Actions from Events Using Agent Motions
Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Tuan Do, and James Pustejovsky
- Action Identification and Local Equivalence of Action Verbs: the Annotation Framework of the IMAGACT Ontology
Massimo Moneglia, Alessandro Panunzi, Lorenzo Gregori
- Action Categorisation in Multimodal Instructions
Ielka van der Sluis, Renate Vergeer, Gisela Redeker
-VANNOTATOR: a Gesture-driven Annotation Framework for Linguistic and Multimodal Annotation
Christian Spiekermann, Giuseppe Abrami, Alexander Mehler


MORE INFORMATION
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For more information visit the workshop webpage at: http://www.areaworkshop.org/
Or contact us at: jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu, i.f.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Jan Alexanderson, DFKI
Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland
Anja Belz, University of Brighton
Johan Bos, University of Groningen
Kirsten Bergmann, Bielefeld University
Harry Bunt, Tilburg University
Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg
Eren Erdal Aksoy, Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie
Kristiina Jokinen, AIRC AIST
Johan Kwisthout, Radboud University Nijmegen
Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Brandeis University
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh
Andy Lucking, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Siddharth Narayanaswamy, University of Oxford
Paul Piwek, Open University
Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University
Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen
Daniel Sonntag, DFKI
Michael McTear, University of Ulster
Mariet Theune, University of Twente
David Traum, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Florentin Wörgötte, Georg-August University Göttingen
Luke Zettlemoyer, UW CSE


ORGANIZERS
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James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Ielka van de Sluis, University of Groningen

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The schedule for all the LREC 2018 Workshops and Tutorials is online at
http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/workshops-and-tutorials/

On this web page you will find a link to each Workshop Call for Papers/Web site and each
Tutorial Outline, when available.

Don't hesitate to contact Workshop and/or Tutorial organisers if you have specific
questions on their event.

For general LREC 2018 matters, please contact us at lrec@lrec-conf.org.


LREC 2018 in Miyazaki (Japan), May 7-12, 2018

www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2018
Follow us on Twitter: @LREC2018

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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

The online registration to the Main conference, the workshops and the tutorials is now open @ http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/registration/
Early Bird ends February 15, 2018

Contact: registration@lrec-conf.org

Book your accommodation in Miyazaki: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/accommodation-tours/

The online registration to O-COCOSDA 2018 will soon open.

www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2018
Follow us on 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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AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ==========================================
Call for Papers

AREA will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) and is organized as a half-day session with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop.

Date: 7 May 2018
Venue: the Phoenix Seagaia Resort
Location: Miyazaki, Japan
http://www.areaworkshop.org/


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS
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There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI.  The goal of this workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas in which actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, human-computer communication, document design, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions.  Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.

While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ?EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation?), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication.

We invite submissions on foundational, conceptual, and practical issues involving modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
- dynamic models of actions
- formal semantic models of actions
- affordance modeling
- manipulation action modeling
- linking multimodal descriptions and presentations of actions (image, text, icon, video)
- automatic action recognition from text, images, and videos
- communicating and performing actions with robots or avatars for joint tasks
- action language grounding
- evaluation of action models


IMPORTANT DATES
================
Deadline for paper submission: 7 January 2018
Review deadline: 1 February 2018
Notification of acceptance: 11 February 2018
Deadline for camera-ready version: 1 March 2018
Early registration deadline: TBA
Workshop Date: 7 May 2018


SUBMISSION
==========
Three types of submissions are invited:
- Research papers, describing original research; these can be either long (6-8 pages, not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including references);
- Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (2-4 pages including references);
- Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software, tools, or systems (2-4 pages including references).

We will decide whether to have an oral or poster presentation, depending on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop schedule.

Papers should be in compliance with the style sheet adopted for the LREC Proceedings. The AREA proceedings will be published in the LREC 2018 proceedings.

Papers should be submitted through the START conference manager set up for LREC 2018. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).


MORE INFORMATION
=================
For more information visit the workshop webpage at: http://www.areaworkshop.org/
Or contact us at: jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu, i.f.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
======================
Jan Alexanderson        DFKI
Yiannis Aloimonos        University of Maryland
Anja Belz            University of Brighton
Johan Bos            University of Groningen
Kirsten Bergmann        Bielefeld University
Harry Bunt            Tilburg University
Simon Dobnik            University of Gothenburg
Eren Erdal Aksoy        Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie
Kristiina Jokinen        AIRC AIST
Johan Kwisthout        Radboud University Nijmegen
Nikhil Krishnaswamy        Brandeis University
Alex Lascarides        University of Edinburgh
Andy Lucking         Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Siddharth Narayanaswamy    University of Oxford
Paul Piwek             Open University
Matthias Rehm        Aalborg University
Gisela Redeker        University of Groningen
Daniel Sonntag        DFKI
Michael McTear        University of Ulster
Mariet Theune            University of Twente
David Traum            USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Florentin Wörgötte        Georg-August University Göttingen
Luke Zettlemoyer        UW CSE


ORGANIZERS
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James Pustejovsky         Brandeis University
Ielka van de Sluis        University of Groningen

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Call For Papers

LREC 2018 Industry Track will take place on 10 May, 2018

http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/industry-track/

The European Language Resource Association (ELRA, www.elra.info) 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, and a number of industrial partners and supporters.

Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT) with over 1200 attendees from all over the world. LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards. As a hot LREC 2018 topic, an industry track will take place during the main conference.

Track Description
Human language technologies have become increasingly important parts of our lives. These technologies have emerged from decades of collaborations between academic and industrial research organizations; collaborations are made possible by the unique strengths of both communities and a set of shared practices (algorithms, evaluation methods, datasets, and the like). But despite this, there are substantial differences between research in academic and industrial settings.

In contrast to academic research: industrial speech and language technologies may pose unique challenges of scale; language resources from industry may demand different algorithms or evaluation methodologies than in academic settings; and the practices of academic and industrial settings may converge on distinct methods for the same problem; industrial systems and practices may pose ethical challenges not present in academic settings.

Topics of Interest
Topics include but not limited to:

    Industrial systems
For this topic we welcome submissions which discuss industrial systems. They may describe technical innovations which are enabled by the industrial setting, or they may describe the implementation of a deployed industrial system. We also welcome submissions which discuss failures to replicate 'state-of-the-art' performance when provided with the affordances of an industrial setting. Finally, we also welcome opinion papers which discuss similarities and differences between academic and industrial practices for system development and evaluation, or which consider ethical issues specific to systems deployed at industry scale.

    Tools and platforms for data collection
Data collected in an industry setting may pose specific technical, legal, and ethical challenges not normally encountered in academic settings. The infrastructure within which developers in industry operate can provide tremendous advantages, but also unique challenges. There can be significant differences in the context of a tool's operator or a data platform's customer in industry vs. academic applications. Platforms may be globally distributed, and the scale itself of the data and of the deployment of industry technologies can add significant complexity, which may demand innovative approaches. Industry developers may also face special problems in defining users, their orientation to their tasks, and what constitutes a successful interaction from the standpoint of the user and of data acquisition efforts. We welcome submissions which discuss industrial tools and platforms used to collect data.

    Human computation in industry
Industrial language technologies depend on machine learning methods, which in turn require large, diverse collections of labeled data collected from humans for rapid iterative development and refinement. We welcome submissions which discuss issues in experimental design for human computation, the challenges of quality, diversity, and representation in crowdsourcing, and ethical issues posed by data collection via crowdsourcing and outsourcing.

    Asian languages
One goal for this year's LREC is to strengthen connections with the Asian speech and language community. Therefore we welcome submissions which discuss industrial resources and technologies specific to the challenges posed by Asian languages.

    Spoken languages and dialects
We are particularly interested in work which describes industrial resources and technologies for spoken languages, non-standard dialects, and therefore we welcome submissions which focus on these topics, especially those submissions which contrast spoken and written language?or standard and non-standard language?resources and technologies.

    Less-resourced languages
One special topic for this year's LREC is less-resourced languages, especially those used in Asia, and therefore we welcome submissions which discuss resources and technologies for such languages in an industry setting.

Submission

We encourage submissions of papers for oral or poster presentation. Papers should follow theLREC stylesheet. The working language of the track is English. Submitted papers must be written and delivered in English and be up to 4 pages in length.

Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/IndustryTrack/. 

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
Describing your language resources (LRs) in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). This LREC feature is available to submissions within this track and highly recommended.

To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2018 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each LR. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.

Important Dates & Deadlines

•     Paper submission: 10 February 2018
•     Notification of acceptance: 12 March 2018
•     Camera-ready paper: 26 March 2018
•     Track Date: 10 May 2018

Organizing Committee

• Linne Ha, Director of Research Program in NLU, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (New York)
• Kyle Gorman, Software Engineer, Speech & Language Algorithms, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (New York)
• Jimmy Kunzmann, Manager Research and Development, European Media Laboratory GmBH (EML), (Heidelberg)
• Constantine Lignos, Computer Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
• Richard Sproat, Senior Research Scientist, Speech & Language Algorithms, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (New York)
• Martin Jansche, Software Engineer, NLU, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (London)
• Ryan MacDonald, Research Scientist, NLU, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (London)
• Tomoki Nagase, Senior Researcher,  Artificial Intelligence Lab., Fujitsu Laboratories (Tokyo)
• Khalid Choukri, ELDA CEO (Paris)

Industry Track Contact
Send your inquiries to: lrec2018-industry-track@googlegroups.com

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First Call for Papers

MULTIMODAL CORPORA 2018:
Multimodal Data in the Online World

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 IMPORTANT NOTICE: To avoid a clash with ICASSP 2018 new schedule and location, the committee has agreed to reschedule IWSDS to 14-16 May 2018 (see below for all the new dates). 

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2ème APPEL A COMMUNICATION - JOURNÉES D'ÉTUDES SUR LA PAROLE 2018

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Atelier Satellite des JEP'18

*Explorer les interactions sociales conversationnelles avec des agents artificiels*

/le vendredi 8 juin à partir de 9h30/

L?atelier vise à explorer comment les agents artificiels communicants peuvent être
utilisées, ou le sont déjà, pour accroître nos connaissances sur les dimensions sociales
des communications humaines et homme-machine en situation écologique. Un panel d?experts
interdisciplinaire présentera quelques projets en cours et ouvrira la discussion sur les
perspectives. L?objectif est de renforcer l'interaction entre sciences de la parole et du
langage, psychologie cognitive, informatique et neuroscience, et promouvoir l?approche
auprès d?une communauté de chercheurs élargie.

Organisateurs : Thierry Chaminade, (INT, ILCB, AMU), Fabrice Lefèvre (LIA, ILCB, U.
Avignon), Noël Nguyen (LPL, ILCB, AMU) & Magalie Ochs (LIS, ILCB, AMU)

Inscriptions et informations complémentaires (horaires, lieu, contacts...) :
https://jep2018.sciencesconf.org/
******************************

*OBJECTIF* Dans le domaine de la communication parlée, l?un des enjeux majeurs et
/interdisciplinaires/ aujourd?hui est de mieux comprendre les interactions /sociales/
dans des situations écologiques, à l?échelle de la dyade ou du groupe. Les problématiques
de recherche scientifiques sous-jacentes émanent de plusieurs disciplines : sciences de
la parole et du langage, psychologie cognitive, informatique, neuroscience. Les agents
artificiels communicants (en particulier les personnages virtuels ou les robots
humanoïdes) peuvent être utilisés comme plateforme expérimentale pour mieux comprendre
les mécanismes impliqués dans les interactions sociales qu?elles soient humain-humain ou
humain-machine (Wykowska, Chaminade et Cheng, 2016). En partant de cette constatation et
dans le prolongement du workshop ISIA@ICMI 2017 (Chaminade, Nguyen, Ochs et Lefèvre
2017), le but de l?atelier est d?explorer comment les nouvelles technologies associées
aux agents artificiels communicants peuvent être utilisées, ou le sont déjà, pour
accroître notre connaissance des mécanismes des interactions sociales impliquant, par
exemple les émotions, les signaux et fonctions sociales et la cognition. Des contextes
d?interaction réalistes, en particulier utilisant le langage oral, nécessitent des outils
et paradigmes expérimentaux nouveaux, combinant les sciences humaines et sociales avec
les neurosciences etl?informatique, ainsi que de l?ingénierie. Cette vision globale et
interdisciplinaire est nécessaire pour ouvrir la voie aux media sociaux du futur avec
l?objectif d?améliorer la compétence sociale des agents artificiels, qu?il s?agisse de la
compréhension mutuelle, la collaboration et le dialogue, avec des applications dans les
domaines de la santé, de la formation ou des loisirs.

Le principe de l?atelier est de rassembler un groupe d?experts interdisciplinaire dans
trois champs complémentaires. Les recherches en sciences humaines étudient les fondements
comportementaux et linguistiques des interactions sociales naturelles parlées. Pour les
neurosciences, étudier les interactions sociales à l?aide des techniques avancées de
neuroimagerie est la nouvelle frontière à atteindre pour comprendre pleinement les
spécificités physiologiques des comportements humains normaux et pathologiques.
L?informatique quant à elle a fait des progrès considérables pour l?extraction des
signaux sociaux des données multimédia, incluant les enregistrements audio et vidéos
d?interactions naturelles. De plus, l?informatique permet de refermer la boucle en
fournissant des agents artificiels contrôlables ? tels les avatars ou les robots
humanoïdes ? qui peuvent être utilisés comme des outils pour tester des hypothèses sur
les comportements sociaux multimodaux susceptibles de modifier la compétence sociale de
l?agent artificiel et objectiver l?influence de ces comportements sur l?interaction.

Globalement, l?objectif est de renforcer cette interaction triangulaire entre
informatique, humanités et neurosciences. Pour cela l'atelier s'attachera à illustrer au
travers des projets en cours, à quel point ces efforts peuvent être profitables afin de
promouvoir l?approche encore plus largement.

Wykowska, A., Chaminade, T., & Cheng, G. (2016). Embodied artificial agents for
understanding human social cognition. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 371(1693). doi:
10.1098/rstb.2015.0375

Thierry Chaminade, Noël Ngyuen, Magalie Ochs, Fabrice Lefèvre: Proceedings of the 1st ACM
SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial
Agents, ISIAA@ICMI 2017, Glasgow, United Kingdom, November 13, 2017. ACM 2017, ISBN
978-1-4503-5558-2

*PROGRAMME*

- Session /Présentation des enjeux/ - Gérard Bailly du Gipsa-Lab fera une présentation
des enjeux de l'approche [45?]

- Session /Projets/ - Présentation par les porteurs des avancées scientifiques réalisées
dans des projets nationaux et internationaux en cours, dont H2020 CHIST-ERA JOKER, H2020
ANIMATAS, ANR IMPRESSIONS, ANR ACCORFORMED, PIA A*MiDex BLRI PSYSOCIAL [60?]

- Session /Posters/ - Les projets, et les participants (voir ci-dessous), pourront
présenter des contributions scientifiques plus précises sous forme de poster [45?]

- Session /Perspectives/ - Discussion ouverte [15?]

*SESSION POSTER*

La session poster permettra des discussions libres en petit comité autour d'activités
liées aux thèmes de l'atelier. Elles sera principalement articulée autour de posters liés
aux projets présentés dans la session Projets. *Toutefois tous les participants peuvent
proposer d'y participer*. Pour cela il suffit d'envoyer un email aux organisateurs
(fabrice.lefevre@univ-avignon.fr) avec une copie du poster (s'il est disponible, sinon le
titre et le contenu textuel principal). Le critère d'acceptation sera la cohérence
thématique avec l'atelier.

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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 & 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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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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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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Call for Projects to eNTERFACE 2018

eNTERFACE 2018, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 6th ? 31st, 2018 The
14th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces enterface18.org

piLab of ELEN/ICTEAM research group at Université Catholique de
Louvain invites project proposals for eNTERFACE?18, the 14th Summer
Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, to be held in Louvain-la-Neuve,
from July 6th to 31st, 2018.
Following the success of the previous eNTERFACE workshops held in Mons
(Belgium, 2005), Dubrovnik (Croatia, 2006), Istanbul (Turkey, 2007),
Paris (France, 2008), Genova (Italy, 2009), Amsterdam (Netherlands,
2010), Plzen (Czech Republic, 2011), Metz (France, 2012), Lisbon
(Portugal, 2013), Bilbao (Spain, 2014), Mons (Belgium, 2015), Twente
(Netherlands, 2016), Porto (Portugal, 2017), eNTERFACE?18 aims at
continuing and enhancing the tradition of collaborative, localised
research and development work by gathering, in a single place, leading
researchers in multimodal interfaces and students to work on specific
projects for 4 complete weeks.

Topics
This year?s special topics will be transmedia storytelling and deep
learning for improved interactions. There will be masterclasses around
those topics during the workshop.
Although not exhaustive, the submitted projects can cover one or
several of the topics listed below:
- Art and Technology
- Affective Computing
- Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies
- Assistive Technologies for Education and Social Inclusion
- Augmented Reality
- Conversational Embodied Agents
- Human Behavior Analysis
- Human Robot Interaction
- Interactive Playgrounds
- Innovative Musical Interfaces
- Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications
- Multimodal Interaction, Signal Analysis and Synthesis
- Multimodal Spoken Dialog Systems
- Search in Multimedia and Multilingual Documents
- Smart Spaces and Environments
- Social Signal Processing
- Tangible and Gesture Interfaces
- Teleoperation and Telerobotics
- Wearable Technology
- Virtual Reality

Important dates
March 10th, 2018 :Submission deadline: 1-page Notification of interest
for a project proposal with a summary of project goals, work-packages
and deliverables March 24th, 2018 : Submission deadline: Final project
proposal March 31st, 2018 : Notification of acceptance to project
leaders April 2nd, 2018 : Start Call for Participation, participants
can apply for projects May 11th, 2018 : Call for Participation is
closed May 14th, 2018 : Notification of acceptance to participants
June 1st, 2018 :  Teams are built 6th ? 31st July 2018 : eNTERFACE?18
Workshop

Proposals should be submitted to macq@ieee.org. They will be evaluated
by eNTERFACE Steering Committee with respect to the suitability to the
workshop goals and format. Authors of the accepted proposals will then
be invited to build their teams.

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École thématique Big Data & Speech

Nouvelles Technologies pour l'Exploration de Corpus de Parole

site WEB (en construction) www.bigdata-speech
Dates : 9 au 13 juillet 2018
Lieu : Centre de Conférences de la Station Biologique de Roscoff

Thématique :

A l'ère des grandes masses de données, l'école thématique CNRS et LabEx EFL Big Data & Speech vise à donner un aperçu de recherches innovantes en linguistique de l'oral s'appuyant sur de grands corpus de parole. De plus, elle vise à présenter une sélection d'approches, méthodes et outils du traitement automatique de la parole et de la langue, pouvant être utile au linguiste travaillant sur la parole dans des domaines aussi divers que la phonétique, la phonologie, la dialectologie, la typologie, l'acquisition, l'apprentissage des langues, la sociophonétique, les pathologies de la parole. . . Ainsi, un alignement forcé automatique entre signal de parole et transcription manuelle permet d'accélérer de nombreuses étapes de mesure et d'analyse linguistique proprement dite ; des applications mobiles d'enregistrement telles que LIG-Aikuma permettent d'accélérer la collecte de corpus du linguiste de terrain ; les grands corpus collectés pour le traitement automatique et reflétant l'usage de la langue parlée à un moment donné peuvent être précieux pour les linguistes afin de tester hypothèses et théories à plus grande échelle, de quantifier des phénomènes connus ou de découvrir des phénomènes ignorés jusque-là. Lors de cette école, il s'agit, en particulier, de fournir les bases nécessaires a la compréhension et la pratique des méthodes statistiques et neuronales, et de montrer leur intérêt pour répondre à des questionnements scientifiques relatifs à la linguistique de corpus. Dans ce but, la moitié du temps sera consacré à des travaux pratiques. Les questions épistémologiques seront également abordées.

Thèmes et intervenants :

La formation consiste en 4,5 jours de cours magistraux et de travaux pratiques (50% cours, 50% TP) articulés autour des thèmes prioritaires: linguistique de corpus, phonétique et phonologie de corpus,  outils et méthodes de traitement automatique de la parole à l'usage des linguistes, fondements de l'apprentissage automatique pour l'analyse de corpus linguistiques, méthodes et outils pour la recherche d'information, questions épistémologiques liées à l?utilisation de méthodes quantitatives en linguistique. 
Les travaux pratiques (essentiellement à l'aide des toolkits Kaldi, Weka, R, Praat) seront réalisés sur des corpus fournis par les
organisateurs. Nous proposons aux participants qui souhaitent travailler sur leurs propres données de prendre contact avec les
organisateurs afin de vérifier la faisabilité de leur projet d?étude.

Parmi les intervenants pressentis et/ou confirmés:
Alexandre Allauzen, LIMSI, Université Paris-Saclay
Nicolas Audibert, LPP, Université Paris 3
Bruno Bachimont, Sorbonne Université / UTC Compiègne
Laurent Besacier, LIG, Université UGA Grenoble
Maud Ehrmann, EPFL, Lausanne
Yannick Estève, LIUM, Université du Maine, Le Mans
Cédric Gendrot, LPP, Université Paris 3
Mark Liberman, UPenn, Philadelphia
Margaret Renwick, Oxford University
...

Public :

L'école s'adresse  prioritairement aux chercheur.e.s, enseignant.e.s-chercheur.e.s et ingénieur.e.s, utilisant des corpus oraux et intéressé.e.s par l'exploitation numérique de leurs données ou souhaitant étendre leurs  travaux à des données de taille importante nécessitant un traitement automatique. En fonction des places disponibles, des étudiant.e.s en doctorat et/ou en master sont également encouragé.e.s à s'inscrire. Les formations s'adressent prioritairement à des participant.e.s du domaine des sciences humaines, mais des participant.e.s issu.e.s du domaine des sciences et technologies de l'information sont également les bienvenu.e.s 
dans la mesure où leurs travaux nécessitent une meilleure prise en compte des enjeux linguistiques liés à la modélisation des données orales.

Inscription :

Le nombre de places est limité. La préinscription se fait via :
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_CO13qhHfPATrD6TpvcwpM7-l7lsx9THXFS6Q74Tbjg

Pour les agents CNRS, les frais d'inscription et de séjour seront pris en charge par la délégation régionale des participants. Les frais d'inscription prévus seront d'environ 350 ? pour les participants académiques et de 170 ? pour les doctorants, et couvrent l'hébergement, les repas et la participation aux cours et travaux pratiques.


Pour toute question relative à l'école d'été, veuillez contacter : Martine Adda-Decker (martine.adda-decker@univ-paris3.fr)  ou Ioana Vasilescu (ioana.vasilescu@limsi.fr)

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2^nd INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
 
DeepLearn 2018
 
Genova, Italy
 
July 23-27, 2018
 
Organized by:
University of Genova
IRDTA ? Brussels/London
 
http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2018/
 
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--- Early registration deadline: March 12, 2018 ---
 
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SCOPE:
 
DeepLearn 2018 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 2 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2018 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
STRUCTURE:
 
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
 
VENUE:
 
DeepLearn 2018 will take place in Genova, the capital city of Liguria, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and with one of the most important ports of the Mediterranean. The venue will be:
 
Porto Antico di Genova ? Centro Congressi
Magazzini del Cotone ? Module 10
16128 Genova, Italy
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications to the Natural Sciences
 
Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Design and Implementation of Deep Learning Applications
 
Joachim M. Buhmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), [introductory/advanced] Model Selection by Algorithm Validation
 
Li Deng (Citadel), tba
 
Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Florida), [introductory/intermediate] Feature Extraction, End-end Deep Learning and Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal Extraction, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware
 
Michael Gschwind (IBM Global Chief Data Office), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning at Enterprise Scale
 
Xiaodong He (Microsoft Research), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Language-Vision Multimodal Intelligence
 
Namkug Kim (Asan Medical Center), [intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Aided Detection/Diagnosis in Radiology and Pathology
 
Li Erran Li (Uber ATG), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning: Foundations, Recent Advances and Frontiers
 
Dimitris N. Metaxas (Rutgers University), [advanced] Adversarial, Discriminative, Recurrent, and Scalable Deep Learning Methods for Human Motion Analytics, Medical Image Analysis, Scene Understanding and Image Generation
 
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
 
Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [introductory/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video
 
Björn Schuller (Imperial College London), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Signal Analysis
 
Michèle Sebag (French National Center for Scientific Research, Gif-sur-Yvette), [intermediate] Representation Learning, Domain Adaptation and Generative Models with Deep Learning
 
Ponnuthurai N Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Algorithms for Classification, Forecasting and Visual Tracking
 
Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning and Kernel Machines
 
Kenji Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology), [introductory/advanced] Deep Learning in Medical Image Processing, Analysis and Diagnosis
 
Gökhan Tür (Google Research), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning in Conversational AI
 
Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] A Statistical Machine Learning Perspective of Deep Learning: Algorithm, Theory, Scalable Computing
 
Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects
 
Yudong Zhang (Nanjing Normal University), [introductory/intermediate] Convolutional Neural Network and Its Variants
 
OPEN SESSION:
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 15, 2018.
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 15, 2018.
 
EMPLOYERS SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. At least one of the people in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 15, 2018.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Francesco Masulli (Genova, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2018/registration.php
 
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
FEES:
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Università degli studi di Genova
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London

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The 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18) will be held in Gurugram, India on 29-31 August 2018

The workshop on spoken language technologies for under- resourced languages is the sixth in a series of even-year SLTU workshops. Five previous workshops were successfully organized: SLTU'16 in Yogyakarta (Indonesia), SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa), SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia) and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam).

There are more than 6000 languages in the world and only few are well represented digitally. India alone, with a country of 780 spoken languages and 86 different scripts that reflect its incredible diversity, has lost around 250 languages in the last 50 years and many more are at the verge of getting extinct. A major focus of this workshop is on Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages, but study on other under resourced languages are also encouraged. The workshop is being planned as a satellite workshop to INTERSPEECH 2018.


Contact: kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com <mailto:kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com>  Website: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018 <http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018>

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for technical content (including figures, tables, etc) plus one additional page containing only references.

Areas/Topics
q Language resource development, acquisition and representation
q Linguistic theories, Corpus Development and Resources
q Linguistic and cognitive studies
q Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units
q Code switched lexical modelling
q Multi-lingual and cross-lingual spoken language processing
q Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing
q Machine translation and dialogue systems
q Application of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages.

Important Dates
q Full Paper Submission: 15th June, 2018
q Acceptance Notification: 10th July, 2018
q Camera Ready Papers: 17th July, 2018
q Early Registration: 24th July, 2018
q Workshop Dates: 29-31st August, 2018

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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

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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CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING 2018
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
Special Session Proposals Due: February 19, 2018
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The International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
(http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/), one of the leading venues in multimedia indexing, will
implement in 2018 two to three special sessions featuring contributions on a focused
trendy, innovative or frontier topics in multimedia indexing. Special sessions
differentiate from regular sessions as they provide focused context for addressing new or
emerging research directions, new developments in various application domains, and
frontier topics in multimedia indexing and retrieval.

Special sessions will be held as plenary sessions and should typically target 4 to 6
high-qualityoral presentations on the topic addressed. Special session organizers will
manage the selection process for their session under the guidance of the special session
chairs.

Important Dates

Special Session Proposals Due: February 19, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: March 09, 2018
Special Sessions Paper Submission: May 18.
Notification of Acceptance:June 29 2018
Camera-Ready Papers Due: July 13 2018

Submission Instructions

Proposals should be submitted by email to the special session chairs
(jenny.benois@labri.fr, guillaume.gravier@irisa.fr), either in plain-text or PDF format.
Please include the following information:
- Title of the proposed special session
- Rationale for the proposal, including target audience
- A brief bio and contact information for the organizers
- A tentative/confirmed list of invited papers (titles/affiliations/authors; if the case)

Contact

For any questions regarding submissions, please email the special session chairs:
jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr, guillaume.gravier@irisa.fr.

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Call for papers CBMI 2018 - La Rochelle, France 4-6 Sept 2018
International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/
(Main submission deadline May 04, 2018)


CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of
content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and
analytics.

After 15 successful editions of the CBMI workshop, the event is now becoming a conference
whose next edition will be held in La Rochelle, France.
The scientific program will include invited keynote talks and regular, special and demo
sessions.

Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers in the broad
field of content-based multimedia indexing and related applications. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to):

·  Semantic multimedia analysis
·  Summarization and semantic abstraction of multimedia content
·  Multimedia content characterization and classification
·  Metadata generation, coding and transformation;
·  Multimodal and cross-modal indexing and retrieval
·  Mobile and social media analysis and retrieval
·  Multimedia recommendation
·  Multimedia analysis and indexing beyond semantics, e.g. affect, sentiment, interest
·  Personalization of multimedia content access
·  Interactive multimedia indexing and retrieval
·  Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems
·  Applications of multimedia indexing and retrieval, e.g. in medicine, lifelogs,
satellite imagery, video surveillance and culture

The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and ACM DL.
In addition, authors of the best papers of the
conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a
special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (MTAP)
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/11042


Important dates:
Full/short paper submission:    May 04, 2018
Demo paper submission:                May 18, 2018
Special sessions paper submission:    May 18, 2018
Notification of acceptance:        June 29, 2018
Camera-ready papers due:            July 13, 2018

More information on CBMI 2018 website: http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/

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EUSIPCO  2018

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  CHiME 2018
             5th International Workshop on
Speech Processing in Everyday Environments

          Microsoft, Hyderabad, Sep 7, 2018

           Submission deadline: Aug 3, 2018

   http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

CHiME 2018 will bring together researchers from the fields of computational hearing,
speech enhancement, acoustic modelling and machine learning to discuss the robustness of
speech processing in everyday environments.

As a focus for discussion, the workshop will host the CHiME-5 Speech Separation and
Recognition Challenge. To find out more about the challenge, see
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to):
- training schemes: data augmentation, semi-supervised training,
- speaker localization and beamforming,
- single- or multi-microphone enhancement and separation,
- robust features and feature transforms,
- robust acoustic and language modeling,
- robust speech recognition,
- robust speaker and language recognition,
- robust paralinguistics,
- cross-environment or cross-dataset performance analysis,
- environmental background noise modelling.

Papers reporting evaluation results on the CHiME-5 dataset or on other datasets are both
welcome.


IMPORTANT DATES

3rd Aug, 2018    Extended abstract submission (2 pages)
20th Aug, 2018  Paper notification
7th Sept, 2018   CHiME-5 Workshop
8th Oct, 2018     Final paper (2 to 6 pages)

ORGANISERS

Jon Barker, University of Sheffield
Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University
Emmanuel Vincent, Inria

LOCAL ORGANISER

Simerpreet Kaur, Microsoft

SPONSORS

Microsoft

SUPPORTED BY

International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
ISCA Robust Speech Processing SIG

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CALL FOR PAPERS

2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
(FedCSIS)

Poznan, Poland, 9 - 12 September, 2018

www.fedcsis.org

Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2018, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions)

www.fedcsis.org

(FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS2018onIEEE)

FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized
jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section
Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of
Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology
and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region
8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society
Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC
Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland
Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society
Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter,
ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation
for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy
of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern
Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and
associates who could be interested in it.

The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly
acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information
systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute
their research results and participate in Events focused on their
scientific and professional interests in computer science and information
systems.

Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of
Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already
Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017.


FedCSIS EVENTS

The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five
conference areas.


* AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial
Intelligence and Applications
--- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in
Machine Vision and Graphics
--- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in
Medical Applications
--- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning,
Information, and Memory
--- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic
Information Retrieval
--- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining
Challenges
--- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks &
Multi-Agent Systems
--- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization
* CSS - Computer Science & Systems
--- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars
--- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing
and Colorization
--- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering
and Data Analysis
--- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information
Security
--- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms
--- C&SS'18 - 5th  International Conference on Cryptography and Security
Systems
--- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation
Research Applications
--- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and
Services Computing Applications
--- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and
Applications
--- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and
Processing
--- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing
* iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and
Applications
--- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications
Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and
Computing Systems
--- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and
Trust
--- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges
and Applications
--- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
* IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society
--- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for
Management
--- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information
Technologies for Sustainable Development
--- ISM'18 -  13th Conference on Information Systems Management
--- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics
--- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management
--- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare
Education
* SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications
--- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System
Development
--- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and
Innovation
--- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software
Development
--- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop
(SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5)
* DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information
Technology



KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

- Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group,
Department of Computer Science, University of Twente
- Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers
University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- W?odzis?aw Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and
NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary
Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University
- Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of
Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7



PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no
extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to
the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will
be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library.
Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI
numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most
Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may
invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference
publications (information can be found at the websites of individual
events, or by contacting Chairs of said events).


IMPORTANT DATES

? Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there
will be no extension)
? Position paper submission: June 12, 2018
? Authors notification: June 24, 2018
? Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018
? Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018
? Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018



CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat@fedcsis.org

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CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum
Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Visualization
10 - 14 September 2018, Avignon - France

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Call for Lab Participation - Registration closes: 27 April 2018

Lab participants must register for the Labs via the CLEF website: http://clef2018-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/


Conference website: http://clef2018.clef-initiative.eu/
Labs flyer (pdf): http://clef2018.clef-initiative.eu/resources/CLEF2018-labs-flyer.pdf

CLEF 2018 is the 19th edition of CLEF which, since 2000, contributes to the systematic evaluation of information access systems. It consists of a peer-reviewed conference (see the separate call for papers) and a set of ten Labs designed to test different aspects of multilingual and multimedia IR systems:
    1. CENTRE@CLEF 2018, CLEF/NTCIR/TREC Reproducibility
    2. CheckThat! Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims
    3. CLEF eHealth
    4. DynSe, Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks
    5. eRISK, Early Risk Prediction on the Internet
    6. ImageCLEF, Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF
    7. LifeCLEF
    8. MC2, Multilingual Cultural Mining and Retrieval
    9. PAN, Lab on Digital Text Forensics
    10. PIR-CLEF, Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval

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Important Dates
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Lab Registration Opens: 8 November 2017
Registration closes: 27 April 2018
End Evaluation Cycle: 11 May 2018
Working Notes papers due: 31 May 2018
Camera Ready Copy: 29 June 2018

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Organizers
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Conference Chairs
Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS LSIS, France
Chiraz Trabelsi, University of Tunis El Manar, T unis

Program Chairs
Josiane Mothe, SIG, IRIT, France)
Fionn Murtagh, University of Huddersfield, UK)

Lab Chairs
Jian Yun Nie, DIRO, Université de Montréal, Canada
Laure Soulier, LIP6, UPMC, France

Proceedings Chairs
Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy
Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy

Publication
Labs Working Notes will be published in the CEUR-WS Proceedings:
http://ceur-ws.org/
Lab Paper Submission via Easychair: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2018

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         LABS        
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CENTRE@CLEF 2018 - CLEF/NTCIR/TREC Reproducibility
The goal of CENTRE@CLEF 2018 is to run a joint CLEF/NTCIR/TREC task on challenging participants: 1) to reproduce best results of best/most interesting systems in previous editions of CLEF/NTCIR/TREC by using standard open source IR systems; 2) to contribute back to the community the additional components and resources developed to reproduce the results in order to improve existing open source systems.
    - Task 1 - Replicability: replicability of selected methods on the same experimental collections.
    - Task 2 - Reproducibility: reproducibility of selected methods on the different experimental collections. Task 3 - Re-reproducibility: using the components developed in T1 and T2 and made available by the other participants to replicate/reproduce their results.
Lab Coordination: Nicola Ferro (University of Padua), Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University), Ian Soboroff (NIST)
Lab website: http://www.centre-eval.org/    
Twitter: @_centre_

LifeCLEF
LifeCLEF lab aims at boosting research on the identification of living organisms and on the production of biodiversity data. Through its biodiversity informatics related challenges, LifeCLEF is intended to push the boundaries of the state-of-the-art in several research directions at the frontier of multimedia information retrieval, machine learning and knowledge engineering. The lab is organized around three tasks:
    - Task 1 - GeoLifeCLEF: location-based species recommendation.
    - Task 2 - BirdCLEF: bird species identification from bird calls and songs.
    - Task 3 - ExpertLifeCLEF: experts vs. machines identification quality.
Lab Coordination: Alexis Joly (INRIA, LIRMM), Henning Müller (HES-SO), Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD, AMAP), Hervé Goëau (CIRAD, AMAP), Hervé Glotin (University of Toulon, LSIS CNRS), Simone Palazzo (University of Catania), Willem-Pier Vellinga (Xeno-Canto)
Lab website: http://lifeclef.org/

PAN - Lab on Digital Text Forensics
PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics.
    - Task 1 - Author Identification: cross-domain authorship attribution. More specifically, cases where the topic of texts varies significantly will be examined. In addition, we will continue the pilot task of style change detection, focusing on finding switches of authors within documents based on an intrinsic style analysis.
    - Task 2 - Author Obfuscation: while the goal of author identification and author profiling is to model author style so as to deanomyize authors, the goal of author obfuscation technology is to prevent that by disguising the authors. We will study author masking vs. authorship verification.
    - Task 3 - Author Profiling: the goal is to identify an author's traits based on their writing style. The focus will be on age and gender, whereas text and image will be used as information sources, offering tweets in English, Spanish and Arabic.
Lab Coordination: Martin Potthast (Leipzig University), Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València), Efstathios Stamatatos (Univerisity of the Aegean), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Lab website: http://pan.webis.de/

CLEF eHealth
Medical content is available electronically in a variety of forms ranging from patient records and medical dossiers, scientific publications and health-related websites to medical-related topics shared across social networks. This lab aims to support the development of techniques to aid laypeople, clinicians and policy-makers in easily retrieving and making sense of medical content to support their decision making.
    - Task 1 - Multilingual Information Extraction: Participants will be required to extract the causes of death from death certificates, authored by physicians in European languages. This can be seen as a named entity recognition, normalization, and/or text classification task.
    - Task 2 - Technologically Assisted Reviews in Empirical Medicine: Participants will be challenged to retrieve medical studies relevant to conducting a systematic review on a given topic. This can be seen as a total recall problem and is addressed by both query generation and document ranking.
    - Task 3 - Patient-centred Information Retrieval: Participants must retrieve web pages that fulfil a given patient?s personalised information need. This needs to fulfil the following criteria: information reliability, quality, and suitability. The task also has a multilingual querying track.
Lab Coordination: Leif Azzopardi (Univ. of Strathclyde), Lorraine Goeuriot (Univ. J.Fourier), Evangelos Kanoulas (Univ. of Amsterdam), Liadh Kelly (Maynooth University), Aurélie Névéol (CNRS-LIMSI), Joao Palotti (Vienna Univ.), Aude Robert (INSERM/CepiDC), Rene Spijker (Cochrane), Hanna Suominen (Australian National Univ.), Guido Zuccon (Queensland Univ. of Technology)
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/view/clef-ehealth-2018/home    
Twitter : @clefehealth

MC2 - Multilingual Cultural Mining and Retrieval
Developing processing methods and resources to mine the social media sphere surrounding cultural events such as festivals. This requires to deal with almost all languages and dialects as well as informal expressions.There are three tasks:
    - Task 1 - Cross Language Cultural Retrieval over MicroBlogs: a) Small Microblogs Multilingual Information Retrieval in Arabic, English, French and Latin languages; b) Microblogs Bilingual Information Retrieval for tuning systems running on language pairs; c) Microblog Monolingual Information Retrieval based on 2017 language identification.
    - Task 2 - Mining Opinion Argumentation: a) Polarity detection in microblogs; b) Automatic identification of argumentation elements over Microblogs and WikiPedia; c) Classification and summarization of arguments in texts.
    - Task 3 - Dialectal Focus Retrieval: a) Arabic dialects in Blogs, MicroBlogs and Video News transcriptions; b) Spanish language variations in Blogs, MicroBlogs and Journals. Lab Coordination: Chiraz Latiri (University Tunis El Manar), Eric SanJuan (LIA, Avignon University), Catherine Berrut (LIG, Grenoble Alpes University), Lorraine Goeuriot (LIG, Grenoble Alpes University), Julio Gonzalo (UNED)
Lab website: https://mc2.talne.eu/
Twitter: @talne_mc2

ImageCLEF - Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF
The lab provides an evaluation forum for the language independent annotation and retrieval of images, a domain for which tools are by far not as advanced as for text analysis and retrieval.
    - Task 1 - ImageCLEFlifelog: An increasingly wide range of personal devices, such as smartphones, video cameras as well as wearable devices that allow capturing pictures, videos, and audio clips in every moment of our life are becoming available. The task addresses the problems of lifelogging data understanding, summarization and retrieval.
    - Task 2 - ImageCLEFcaption: Interpreting and summarizing the insights gained from medical images such as radiology output is a time-consuming task that involves highly trained experts and often represents a bottleneck in clinical diagnosis pipelines. The task addresses the problem of bio-medical image concept detection and caption prediction from large amounts of training data.
    - Task 3 - ImageCLEFtuberculosis: The objective of this task is to determine tuberculosis subtypes and drug resistances, as far as possible automatically, from the volumetric image information in computed tomography (CT) volumes (mainly texture analysis) and based on clinical information (e.g., age, gender, etc).
    - Task 4 - VisualQuestionAnswering: With the ongoing drive for improved patient engagement and access to the electronic medical records via patient portals, patients can now review structured and unstructured data from labs and images to text reports associated with their healthcare utilization. Given a medical image accompanied with a set of clinically relevant questions, participating systems are tasked with answering the questions based on the visual image content.
Lab Coordination: Bogdan Ionescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Mauricio Villegas (SearchInk), Henning Müller (HES-SO)
Lab website: http://www.imageclef.org/2018/ 
Twitter: @imageclef

PIR-CLEF - Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval
The primary aim of the PIR-CLEF 2018 laboratory is: 1) to facilitate comparative evaluation of PIR by offering participating research groups a mechanism for evaluation of their personalisation algorithms; 2) to give the participating groups the means to formally define and evaluate their own and novel user profiling approaches for PIR.
    - Task 1 - Personalized Search: we will provide a bag-of-words profile gathered during the query sessions performed by real searchers, the set of queries formulated by each user, together with the corresponding document relevance, and the the search logs of each user. Task participants will be expected to compute search results obtained by applying their personalization algorithms on these queries. The search will be carried out on the ClueWeb12 collection, by using the API provided by DCU.
    - Task 2 - User Profile Models: participants will be required to develop their own user profile models using the information gathered about the real user during her interactions with the system. The same information have been used for creating the baseline (keyword-based user profiles), which is provided in the benchmark.
Lab Coordination: Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano Bicocca), Gareth J. F. Jones (Dublin City University), Stefania Marrara (Consorzio C2T), Debasis Ganguly (IBM Research Dublin) , Procheta Sen (Dublin City University), Camilla Sanvitto (University of Milano Bicocca)
Lab website: http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/pir-clef2018/
Twitter: @clef2018_pir

eRISK - Early Risk Prediction on the Internet
eRisk explores the evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and practical applications (particularly those related to health and safety) of early risk detection on the Internet.
    - Task 1 - Early Detection of Signs of Depression: the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of depression as soon as possible.
    - Task 2 - Early Detection of Signs of Anorexia: the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of anorexia as soon as possible.
Both tasks are mainly concerned about evaluating Text Mining solutions and, thus, we concentrate on texts written in Social Media. Texts should be processed in the order they were posted. In this way, systems that effectively perform this task could be applied to sequentially monitor user interactions in blogs, social networks, or other types of online media.
Lab Coordination: David E. Losada (University of Santiago de Compostela), Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano), Javier Parapar (University of A Coruña)
Lab website: http://early.irlab.org/   
Twitter: @earlyrisk

DynSe - Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks
The primary aim of the CLEF Dynamic Search Lab is to develop algorithms which interact dynamically with user (or other algorithms) towards solving a task, and evaluation methodologies to quantify their effectiveness. The lab is organized along two tasks:
    - Task 1 - Query Suggestion: given a verbose topic description participants will generate and submit a sequence of queries and a ranking of the collection for each query. Queries will be evaluated over their effectiveness (query agent) and/or resemblance to user queries (user simulation). Query suggestion will be performed iteratively.
    - Task 2 - Result Composition: Given the obtained results from the aforementioned queries obtain a single ranked list by merging the individual rankings.
Lab Coordination: Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Amsterdam), Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde)
Lab website: https://ekanou.github.io/dynamicsearch/ 
Twitter: @clef_dynamic

CheckThat! - Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims
CheckThat! aims to foster the development of technology capable of both spotting and verifying check-worthy claims in political debates in English and Arabic.
    - Task 1 - Check-Worthiness: Given a political debate, which is segmented into sentences with speakers annotated, identify which statements (claims) should be prioritized for fact-checking. This will be a ranking problem, and systems will be asked to produce a score, according to which the ranking will be performed.
    - Task 2 - Factuality: Given a list of already-extracted claims, classify them with factuality labels (e.g., true, half-true, false). This task will be run in an open mode. We will not provide any pre-selected set of documents to support the veracity labels. Participants will be free to use whatever resources they have and the Web in general, with the exception of the websites used by the organizers to collect the data.
Lab Coordination: Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Wajdi Zaghouani (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar), Tamer Elsayed, Reem Suwaileh (Qatar University), Pepa Gencheva (Sofia University)
Lab website: http://alt.qcri.org/clef2018-factcheck/
Twitter: @_checkthat_

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 TSD 2018 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018)
              Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018
                    http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE MAIN SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

    March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers

Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Kenneth Church, Baidu, USA
    Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands


TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed in Web of Science by Thomson Reuters and in Scopus.
Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as
DBLP, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The TSD 2018 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops
or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing
committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the
conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by
a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD
review process will appear in the Springer proceedings.  Each workshop is
a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail
tsd2018@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.


TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
    text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
    specialized lexicons, dictionaries)

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
    speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
    alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
    acoustic and language modelling)

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
    disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
    credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
    authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
    fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
    extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
    knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
    disambiguation, plagiarism detection)

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
    (machine translation, natural language understanding,
    question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)

    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
    and personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
    Rodrigo Agerri, Spain
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
    Paul Cook, Australia
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine
    Volker Fischer, Germany
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Eleni Galiotou, Greece
    Björn Gambäck, Norway
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, USA
    Tino Haderlein, Germany
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Hynek Hermansky, USA
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Aidar Khusainov, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia
    Pavel Kral, Czech Republic
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Nikola LjubeÅ¡ić, Croatia
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Bernardo Magnini, Italy
    Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    France Mihelic, Slovenia
    Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
    Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
    Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Columbia
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Marko Robnik Å ikonja, Slovenia
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Pavel Rychly, Czech Republic
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Stefan Steidl, Germany
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Vitomir Å truc, Slovenia
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Aleksander Wawer, Poland
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Alina Wróblewska, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia
    Jerneja Žganec Gros, Slovenia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

The Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be selected by the
Programme Committee and supported with a total prize of EUR 1000 from
Springer.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.

The registration fee is the same as in 2016:

    Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 10,000 CZK (approx. EUR 395)
    Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 12,000 CZK (approx. EUR 475)

The fee has a 'all in one' form, to keep equality between participants.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2018 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...',
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...'.  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of
the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.
Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must
use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the
Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this
service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied
automatically.

The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all
required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters
will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and
electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper
format see http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines,
Sample File typeinst.zip).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference.  The presenters of demonstrations should provide an
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
May 16 2018 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2018 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer
proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time
of the conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation are available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
   
    Ales Horak, TSD 2018
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2018@tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2018 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich,
and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may
also be of interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called
Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St.  James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat
designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important
buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with
Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of
three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz
- Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),
Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice
Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish
cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO
heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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 MLSP2018
    IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING
    September 17-20, 2018    Aalborg, Denmark
    MLSP2018.CONWIZ.DK
   
    CALL FOR PAPERS
    The 28th MLSP workshop in the series of workshops organized by the IEEE
    Signal Processing Society MLSP Technical Committee will present the most
    recent and exciting advances in machine learning for signal processing
    through keynote talks, tutorials, as well as special and regular
    single-track sessions. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers
    on relevant algorithms and applications including, but not limited to:
   
    - Learning theory and modeling
    - Neural networks and deep learning
    - Bayesian Learning and modeling
    - Sequential learning; sequential decision methods
    - Information-theoretic learning
    - Graphical and kernel models
    - Bounds on performance
    - Source separation and independent component analysis
    - Signal detection, pattern recognition and classification
    - Tensor and structured matrix methods
    - Machine learning for big data
    - Large scale learning
    - Dictionary learning, subspace and manifold learning
    - Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning
    - Active and reinforcement learning
    - Learning from multimodal data
    - Resource efficient machine learning
    - Cognitive information processing
    - Bioinformatics applications
    - Biomedical applications and neural engineering
    - Speech and audio processing applications
    - Image and video processing applications
    - Intelligent multimedia and web processing
    - Communications applications
    - Other applications including social networks, games, smart grid,
    security and privacy
   
    DATA ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING COMPETITION
    MLSP2018 seeks proposals for Data Analysis and Signal Processing
    Competition. The goal of competition is to advance the current
    state-of-the-art in theoretical and practical aspects of signal
    processing domains.
   
    SPECIAL SESSIONS
    Special Sessions will be included to address research in emerging or
    interdisciplinary areas of particular interest, not covered already by
    traditional MLSP sessions.
   
    BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
    The MLSP Best Student Paper Award will be granted to the best paper for
    which a student is the principal author and presenter.
   
    NETWORKING
    MLSP Networking will be organized as a new initiative to focus on
    stimulating collaboration among participants to solve grand societal
    challenges using machine learning and signal processing.
   
    PAPER SUBMISSION
    Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to
    six pages using the electronic submission procedure at
    http://mlsp2018.conwiz.dk. Accepted papers will be published on a
    password-protected website that will be available during the workshop.
    The presented papers will be published in and indexed by IEEE Xplore.
   
    IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES:
    Paper submission deadline      May 1, 2018
    Paper update deadline          May 4, 2018
    Review notification            June 18, 2018
    Rebuttal period                June 18-24, 2018
    Reviewer discussion period     June 25-30, 2018
    Decision notification          July 6, 2018
    Camera-ready papers and
    Author advance registration    July 31, 2018
   
    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
    General Chair:
    Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark
   
    Program Chairs:
    Nelly Pustelnik, ENS Lyon, France
    Zhanyu Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
   
    Finance Chair:
    Børge Lindberg, Aalborg University, Denmark
   
    Data Competition Chairs:
    Karim Seghouane, University of Melbourne, Australia
    Yuejie Chi, Ohio State University, USA
   
    Publicity and Social Media Chairs:
    Marc Van Hulle, KU Leuven, Belgium
    Jen-Tzung Chien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
   
    Web and Publication Chair:
    Jan Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
   
    Advisory Committee:
    Søren Holdt Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
    Theodoridis Sergios, University of Athens, Greece
    Raviv Raich, Oregon State University, USA
    Vince Calhoun, University of New Mexico, USA

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 SPECOM-2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018)
Venue: Leipzig, Germany, September 18-22, 2018
Web: www.specom2018.org

ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by Leipzig University of Telecommunications (HfTL, Leipzig, Germany) in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).

SPECOM-2018 CO-CHAIRS
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova, MSLU, Moscow, Russia

CONFERENCE TOPICS
The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of speech technology, human-machine interaction, machine learning and signal processing, particularly:
Affective computing
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
Forensic speech investigations and security systems
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Signal processing and feature extraction
Speaker identification and diarization
Speaker verification systems
Speech and language resources
Speech analytics and audio mining
Speech dereverberation
Speech driving systems in robotics
Speech enhancement
Speech perception and speech disorders
Speech recognition and understanding
Speech translation automatic systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken language processing
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems
Virtual and augmented reality

SPECIAL SESSIONS
Positioning and Power Relations in Conversations: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session1
Advanced Cognitive Models for Human-Machine and Human-Robot Interaction: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session2
Big Data in Speech Computation: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session3

SATELLITE EVENT
3rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2018: http://specom.nw.ru/icr2018 

INVITED SPEAKERS
Tanja Schultz - Advances in Biosignal-Based Spoken Communication 
Sebastian Moller - Quality Engineering of Speech and Language Services
Dongheui Lee - Robot learning through Physical Interaction and Human Guidance
www.specom2018.org/invited-speakers

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of several independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2018
Papers submitted to SPECOM-2018 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major citation databases such as  Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, etc. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2018.

IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
May   30, 2018 ............ Notification of acceptance
June  15, 2018 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and early registration
Sept. 18-22, 2018 ......... Conference dates

VENUE
The conference will be organized at the at the Leipzig University of Telecommunications.

CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM-2018 Secretariat:
E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su; jokisch@hft-leipzig.de
SPECOM-2018 web-site: http://www.specom2018.org; http://specom.nw.ru

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Link to Call for Papers and Submission Website:
https://easychair.org/cfp/ETAP4 (see also text below)

Conference website: https://etap4.krisyu.org

The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4)
conference will be held from October 11-13, 2018, at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. This conference
focuses on questions about the production, interpretation, and
characterization of speech prosody, bringing together researchers in
linguistics, psychology, and computer science.

The theme of ETAP4 is ?Sociolectal and dialectal variability in
prosody.? As in many language fields, studies of prosody have focused
on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in
social structures. The goal of ETAP4 is to help diversify prosody
research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as
well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The
conference will bring together prosody researchers and researchers
exploring the role of sociological variation in prosody, with a focus
on understudied dialects and endangered languages, and individual
differences based on gender and sexuality. Invited speakers will (i)
raise what questions and areas they think would benefit from prosodic
research, (ii) teach prosody researchers what they need to know to do
research in these areas, and (iii) share insights from their
experience engaging with the public around issues of understudied and
endangered languages, linguistic bias, and intersectionality in
science.

A satellite workshop on African-American English prosody will be held
on October 10, 2018 to bring together participants to contribute
common data sets and discuss the development of shared data resources
and methodological considerations such as challenges in prosodic
transcription. For updates on this workshop, subscribe to the e-mail
list here: https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4-aae/

We invite submission of abstracts describing work related to the
conference theme as well as topics in prosody more generally from
diverse approaches, including fieldwork, experiments, computational
modeling, theoretical analyses, etc. These topics include:

- Phonology and phonetics of prosody
- Cognitive processing and modelling of prosody
- Tone and intonation
- Acquisition of prosody
- Interfaces with syntax, semantics, pragmatics
- Prosody in natural language processing

In addition to talks from invited speakers, there will be additional
talks, and two poster sessions.

Abstracts for talks and posters must be submitted in a pdf format.
Your abstract must include the submission?s title at the top, and must
not include authors? names and affiliations, or any identifying
information (i.e., ?In Liberman &amp; Pierrehumbert (1984), we
showed...?). Abstracts should be submitted in letter format (8.5&quot; x
11&quot; - not A4), with 1-inch margins on all sides, and in Arial 11 point
font. The abstract itself (text) may be no longer than one page; a
second page containing additional figures, tables, other graphics
and/or references may be included.

To get updates on the conference, subscribe to the e-mail list here:
https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4

Submission deadline: April 30, 2018, 11:59 PM AoE (anywhere on earth).

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 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING

SLSP 2018

Mons, Belgium

October 15-17, 2018

Co-organized by:

NUMEDIART Institute
University of Mons

LANGUAGE Institute
University of Mons

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London

http://slsp2018.irdta.eu/

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AIMS:

SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2018, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.

VENUE:

SLSP 2018 will take place in Mons, which was European Capital of Culture in 2015. The venue will be:

University of Mons
31 Bvd Dolez, 7000 Mons
Belgium

SCOPE:

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

anaphora and coreference resolution
authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
computer-aided translation
corpora and language resources
data mining and semantic web
information extraction
information retrieval
knowledge representation and ontologies
lexicons and dictionaries
machine translation
multimodal technologies
natural language understanding
neural representation of speech and language
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
parsing
part-of-speech tagging
question-answering systems
semantic role labelling
speaker identification and verification
speech and language generation
speech recognition
speech synthesis
speech transcription
spelling correction
spoken dialogue systems
term extraction
text categorisation
text summarisation
user modeling

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2018 will consist of:

invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
posters

INVITED SPEAKERS: (to be completed)

Simon King (University of Edinburgh), tba
Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon), tba

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Steven Abney (University of Michigan, US)
Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions LLC, US)
Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon et Pays du Vaucluse, FR)
Pierrette Bouillon (University of Geneva, CH)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Italian National Research Council, IT)
Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University, SG)
Kenneth W. Church (Baidu Research, US)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, BE)
Thierry Dutoit (University of Mons, BE)
Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT)
Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK)
Ralph Grishman (New York University, US)
Udo Hahn (University of Jena, DE)
Siegfried Handschuh (University of Passau, DE)
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana?Champaign, US)
Keikichi Hirose (University of Tokyo, JP)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, US)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, US)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE)
Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, SG)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JP)
Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute, QA)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montréal, CA)
Elmar Nöth (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)
Cecile Paris (CSIRO Data61, AU)
Jong C. Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR)
Alexandros Potamianos (National Technical University of Athens, GR)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK)
Mats Rooth (Cornell University, US)
Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES)
Alexander Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Tanja Schultz (University of Bremen, DE)
Holger Schwenk (Facebook AI Research, FR)
Vijay K. Shanker (University of Delaware, US)
Richard Sproat (Google Research, US)
Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, JP)
Gökhan Tür (Google Research, US)
Yorick Wilks (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, US)
Phil Woodland (University of Cambridge, UK)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)
Junichi Yamagishi (University of Edinburgh, UK)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Stéphane Dupont (Mons)
Thierry Dutoit (Mons, co-chair)
Kévin El Haddad (Mons)
Kathy Huet (Mons)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra Royón (Granada)
Gueorgui Pironkov (Mons)
David Silva (London, co-chair)

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).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2018

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2016 impact factor: 1.900) 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://slsp2018.irdta.eu/Registration.php

DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):

Paper submission: May 27, 2018
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 3, 2018
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 13, 2018
Early registration: July 13, 2018
Late registration: October 1, 2018
Submission to the journal special issue: January 17, 2019

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david@irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Université de Mons
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London