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3-1-1 | (2018-06-13) 9th Speech Prosody Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, NEW DEADLINE The new deadline for manuscript submission to Speech Prosody 2018 is January 8, 2018.
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3-1-2 | (2018-09-02) Call for Papers and Proposals for Show & Tell (Interspeech 2018) , Hyberabad, India
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
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3-1-3 | (2018-09-02) Cfp Interspeech 2018 Show and Tell, Hyderabad, Telangana, India (updated) Dear colleague: 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. 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 Interspeech 2018
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3-1-4 | (2019-09-15) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria. https://www.tugraz.at/events/interspeech-2019/home/
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3-1-5 | Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018
Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18), New Delhi, India on 29-31 August 2018. The 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2018), Microsoft Hyderabad campus, Sept. 07, 2018. http://smmw.iiit.ac.in/
5) Workshop on Speech Processing for Voice, Speech and Hearing Disorders, AIISH, Mysore, India, Sept. 08-09, 2018.
URL: http://wspd.co.in/
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3-2-1 | (2018-07-12) SIGDIAL 2018 CONFERENCE, Melbourne, Australia (Important date change) 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. • Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology SPECIAL SESSIONS SIGDIAL 2018 will include two special sessions: • 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.
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. Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Notification: 20 April 2018 Final Paper Submission: 13 May 2018 (23:59, GMT-11) Conference: 12-14 July 2018
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3-2-2 | (2018-07-12) SIGDIAL 2018 Conference: Call for Special Sessions, Melbourne, Australia
SIGDIAL 2018 Conference: Call for Special Sessions
Special Session Submission Deadline: January 14, 2018 Special Session Notification: January 26, 2018 The SIGDIAL organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session. Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions. The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself but taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, while the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.
We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities.
Submissions:
Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session). These proposals should be sent to conference[at]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general and program co-chairs.
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Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings. http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/ https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/multiling-2015-multilingual-summarization-multiple-documents-online-fora-and-call-centre-con 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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3-2-3 | (2018-09-07) 5th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, Hyderabad, India 5th CHiME Speech Separation
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3-2-4 | (2018-09-07) CfP 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India CHiME 2018
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3-2-5 | (2018-09-08) Speech Processing in Challenging Environments (SPICE) IISc Bangalore, India. Speech Processing in Challenging Environments (SPICE), September 08, 2018, IISc Bangalore, India.
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3-2-6 | (2018-09-08) Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2018, Microsoft, Hyderabad, India. Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2018, September 08, 2018, Microsoft, Hyderabad, India. URL: https://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2018
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3-3-1 | (2018-05-07) AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions , Miyazaki, Japan AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ==========================================
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3-3-2 | (2018-05-07) LREC 2018 Workshops and Tutorials, Miyazaki (Japan) The schedule for all the LREC 2018 Workshops and Tutorials is online at
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3-3-3 | (2018-05-07) LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan (UPDATE) LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - The online registration to the Main conference, the workshops and the tutorials is now open @ http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/registration/ Contact: registration@lrec-conf.org The online registration to O-COCOSDA 2018 will soon open.
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3-3-4 | (2018-05-07)CfP AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions, Miyazaki, Japan AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ==========================================
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3-3-5 | (2018-05-08) 11th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA, Miyazaki, Japan 11th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA
Co-located with LREC 2018, Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Submission deadline: January 20, 2018
SHARED TASK: Identifying parallel sentences in comparable corpora
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MOTIVATION
In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or several languages that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. TOPICS Given that LREC takes place for the first time in Asia, this year's
special theme is 'Comparable Corpora for Asian Languages'. But we solicit contributions also on all other topics related to comparable corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora: ? Human translations
? Automatic and semi-automatic methods ? Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web ? Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora ? Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora ? Rare and minority languages, across language families ? Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Applications of comparable corpora:
? Human translations
? Language learning ? Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization ? Bilingual projections ? Machine translation ? Writing assistance ? Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora:
? Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora
? Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora ? Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, and named entities from comparable corpora ? Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora ? Cross-language distributional semantics SUBMISSION INFORMATION Please follow the style sheet and templates provided for the main conference at http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/
The submission website is https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/BUCC2018/ Papers should be submitted as a PDF file. Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from four (4) to eight (8) pages including references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors? identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop organizers. For further information, please contact Reinhard Rapp: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de For further information see BUCC 2018 website: http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2018/
IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 20 January 2018
Notification of acceptance: 10 February, 2018 Early bird registration (reduced rates): 15 February, 2018 Camera ready final papers: 25 February, 2018 Workshop date: May 8, 2018 SHARED TASK: Identifying parallel sentences in comparable corpora As a continuation of the previous year's shared task, we announce a modified
shared task for 2018. As is well known, a bottleneck in statistical machine translation is the scarceness of parallel resources for many language pairs and domains. Previous research has shown that this bottleneck can be reduced by utilizing parallel portions found within comparable corpora. These are useful for many purposes, including automatic terminology extraction and the training of statistical MT systems. The aim of the shared task is to quantitatively evaluate competing methods for extracting parallel sentences from comparable monolingual corpora, so as to give an overview on the state of the art and to identify the best performing approaches. Any submission to the shared task is expected to be accompanied by a short
paper (4 pages plus references). This will be accepted for publication in the workshop proceedings after a basic quality check: hence the submission will go via Softconf with the standard peer-review process. SHARED TASK SCHEDULE
Shared task sample and training sets released: 22 December 2017
Shared task test set release: 22 January 2018 Shared task test submission deadline: 29 January 2018 Shared task paper submission deadline: 2 February 2018 Shared task camera ready papers: 25 February 2018 For further information concerning the shared task see https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2018/bucc2018-task.html
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany), Chair
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMS, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France), Shared task organizer Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ahmet Aker (University of Sheffield, UK)
Caroline Barrière (CRIM, Montréal, Canada) Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France) Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany) Natalie Kubler (Université Paris Diderot USPC, Frtance) Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US) Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France) Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US) Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US) Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada) Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US) Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France) IDENTIFY, DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LANGUAGE RESOURCES Please make sure that your papers take into account the following information from the LREC-organizers about the LRE Map, the 'Share your LRs!' initiative and the ISLRN number:
* Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the
submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). 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 Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
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3-3-6 | (2018-05-10) CfP LREC 2018 Industry Track, Miyazaki, Japan Call For Papers LREC 2018 Industry Track will take place on 10 May, 2018 http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/industry-track/ Track Description
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/. Important Dates & Deadlines
Industry Track Contact
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3-3-7 | (2018-05-12) Multimodal Corpora 2018, LREC Workshop, Miyazaki, Japan First Call for Papers LREC 2018 Workshop 12 May 2018, Phoenix Seagaia Conference Center, Miyazaki, Japan Introduction ========= The creation of a multimodal corpus involves the recording, annotation and analysis of several communication modalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, body posture, gaze, etc. An increasing number of research areas have transgressed or are in the process of transgressing from focused single modality research to full-fledged multimodality research, and multimodal corpora are becoming a core research asset and an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, concepts and data.
We are pleased to announce that in 2018, the 12th Workshop on Multimodal Corpora will once again be collocated with LREC. This workshop follows similar events held at LREC 00, 02, 04, 06, 08, 10, ICMI 11, LREC 2012, IVA 2013, LREC 2014, and LREC 2016. The workshop series has established itself as of the main events for researchers working with multimodal corpora, i.e. corpora involving the recording, annotation and analysis of several communication modalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, body posture, gaze, etc. Special theme and topics =================== As always, we aim for a wide cross-section of the field of multimodal corpora, with contributions ranging from collection efforts, coding, validation, and analysis methods to tools and applications of multimodal corpora. Success stories of corpora that have provided insights into both applied and basic research are welcome, as are presentations of design discussions, methods and tools. This year, to comply with one of the hot topics of the main conference, we would also like to pay special attention to multimodal corpora collected and adapted from data occurring online rather than especially created for specific research purposes. In addition to this year?s special theme, other topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to: · Multimodal corpus collection activities (e.g. direction-giving dialogues, emotional behaviour, human-avatar and human-robot interaction, etc.) and descriptions of existing multimodal resources · Relations between modalities in human-human interaction and in human-computer or human-robot interaction · Multimodal interaction in specific scenarios, e.g. group interaction in meetings or games · Coding schemes for the annotation of multimodal corpora · Evaluation and validation of multimodal annotations · Methods, tools, and best practices for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, and use of multimedia and multimodal corpora · Interoperability between multimodal annotation tools (exchange formats, conversion tools, standardization) · Collaborative coding · Metadata descriptions of multimodal corpora · Automatic annotation, based e.g. on motion capture or image processing, and its integration with manual annotations · Corpus-based design of multimodal and multimedia systems, in particular systems that involve human-like modalities either in input (Virtual Reality, motion capture, etc.) and output (virtual characters) · Automated multimodal fusion and/or generation (e.g., coordinated speech, gaze, gesture, facial expressions) · Machine learning applied to multimodal data · Multimodal dialogue modelling Programme ========= The workshop will consist primarily of paper and poster presentations. In addition, we want to start discussing a shared task involving multimodal corpus development and/or use for predicting communication behaviour. Therefore, prior to the workshop, participants will be asked to submit ideas for such a shared task. The goal is for the task to be launched next time the workshop is held. There will also be one or two keynote speakers. Important dates ============ Deadline for paper submission: 25 January (extended) Notification of acceptance: 9 February Final version of accepted paper: 23 February Final program and proceedings: 9 March Workshop: 12 May Submissions ========== Submissions should be 4 pages long, must be in English, and follow the LREC?s submission guidelines. Demonstrations of multimodal corpora and related tools are encouraged as well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted). Submissions should be made at the following address: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/MMC2018/ Time schedule and registration fee ========================== The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon session. Registration and fees are managed by LREC ? see the LREC 2018 website (http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/). Identify, Describe and Share your Language Resources (LRs)! ===============================================
Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). 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 Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. Organizing Committee =================
Patrizia Paggio Centre for Language Technology, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, Univ. of Malta, Msida, Malta
Kirsten Bergmann Cluster of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany Institute of Cognitive Science, Univ. Osnabrück, Germany Jens Edlund KTH Speech, Music and Hearing, Stockholm, Sweden Dirk Heylen Univ. Twente, Human Media Interaction, Enschede, The Netherlands Patrizia Paggio
Senior Researcher
University of Copenhagen
Centre for Language Technology
Associate Professor
University of Malta
Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology
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3-3-8 | (2018-05-14) Cf Workshops and special sessions at IWSDS 2018, Singapore UPDATE (new schedule and location) 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).
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2018 invites paper submissions on the following topics:
* Engagement and emotion in human-robot interactions
* Digital resources for interactive applications
* Multi-modal and machine learning methods
* Companions, personal assistants and dialogue systems
* Proactive and anticipatory interactions
* Educational and healthcare robot applications
* Dialogue systems and reasoning
* Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems
* Multi-lingual dialogue systems
* Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages
* Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken dialog systems
However, submissions are not limited to these topics and submission of papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems is encouraged. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration. As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).
Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the paper submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwsds2018
Paper submission deadline: January 14, 2018 (NEW DATES)
Paper notification deadline: February 18, 2018
Camera ready papers due: March 4, 2018
Early bird registration deadline: March 9, 2018
Conference dates: May 14-16, 2018
We distinguish between the following categories of submissions:
* Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-12 pages, including references.
* Short Research Papers should be in the range of 4-6 pages, including references. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts.
* Position Papers deal with novel research ideas or view-points which describe trends or fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion and are not much researched. They should be 2 pages long, excluding references.
* Demo Submissions ? System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.
In addition, three Special Sessions will be collocated with IWSDS 2018:
1.- Empathic dialog systems for elderly assistance
One of the more important applications of spoken dialog systems (SDS) is the development of personal assistants for elderly. The proposed challenge is to provide personalized advice guidance through a spoken dialogue system to improve the quality of life and independency living status of the people as the age. To this end SDS has to deal not only with user goals but also implement health goals through negotiation strategies to convince the user to develop healthy habits. Such SDS has also include perceived user affective status to support the dialog manager decisions. Important related topics are, but not limited to:
* affective computing in SDS
* user centered design
* policies dealing with shared user-task goals
* management strategies to keep the user engagement
* personalization and adaptation
* ontologies and knowledge representation
* privacy preserved SDS
* simulated dialog manager
* applications to assist the elderly
2.- Designing humour in human computer interaction with focus on dialogue technology
We are welcoming original contributions from a wide range of disciplines, such as human-computer interaction, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, social robotics, psychology, media, arts etc. * Topics expected include - but are not limited to:
* Computational humour approaches & applications for dialogue technology
* Humorous virtual agents & social robots & chatbots
* Linguistics and non-linguistics challenges in designing humor
* Evaluation approaches for humorous interactions
* Cultural and social norms for appropriate humorous interactions
3.- Third Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agent Technologies (WOCHAT 2018)
Although chat-oriented dialogue systems have been around for many years, they have been recently gaining a lot of popularity in both research and commercial arenas. From the commercial stand point, chat-oriented dialogue seems to be providing an excellent means to engage users for entertainment purposes, as well as to give a more human-like appearance to established vertical goal-oriented dialogue systems.
This workshop invites original research contributions on all aspects of chat-oriented dialogue, including closely related areas such as knowledge representation and reasoning, language generation, and natural language understanding, among others. In this sense the workshop will invite for both long and short paper submissions in areas including (but not restricted to):
* Chat-oriented dialogue systems
* Data collections and resources
* Information extraction
* Natural language understanding
* General domain knowledge representation
* Common sense and reasoning
* Natural language generation
* Emotion detection and generation
* Sense of humour detection and generation
* Chat-oriented dialogue evaluation
* User studies and system evaluation
* Multimodal human-computer interaction
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3-3-9 | (2018-05-20) CfP 2018 The first Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018), Beijing, China Call for Paper: 2018 The first Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018) Location: Beijing, China Important Dates: The first AAAC Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018) is the premier Asian forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. ACII Asia 2018 will be held in the historic city Beijing, China 20-22 May 2018.
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3-3-10 | (2018-06-04) JEP 2018, Aix en Provence, France (updated) 2ème APPEL A COMMUNICATION - JOURNÉES D'ÉTUDES SUR LA PAROLE 2018 Attention- Changement de dates
Les inscriptions pour les Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole (JEP 2018) sont désormais ouvertes ! Organisée conjointement par le Laboratoire Parole et Langage et l’AFCP, la conférence se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2018 à Aix-Marseille Université, Campus Schuman, à Aix-en-Provence. Vous trouverez le programme ainsi que toutes les informations concernant les inscriptions à la conférence et aux ateliers satellites (si uniquement ateliers >>) sur le site des JEP 2018. Délai d'inscription anticipée (Early bird) : 20 avril 2018 Pensez également à réserver votre hébergement au plus tôt ! Aix en Provence est une ville très touristique qui accueille de nombreux festivals au mois de juin… et les hôtels sont très demandés ;-)
Le Laboratoire Parole et Langage d'Aix-en-Provence organise la XXXIIème édition des Journées d'Études sur la Parole qui aura lieu du 4 au 8 juin 2018 dans les locaux d'Aix-Marseille Université ? Campus Schuman, Aix-en-Provence. Les Journées d?Études sur la Parole réunissent depuis près de 50 ans une centaine de chercheurs de la communauté francophone en sciences et technologies de la parole venant de différents horizons scientifiques : linguistique et phonétique, informatique, ingénierie, technologie, médecine et clinique, psychologie, didactique, physique, neurosciences? Ces Journées visent à diffuser des travaux de recherche originaux et à activer des échanges entre chercheurs confirmés et jeunes chercheurs dans ce domaine. Elles ont une vocation internationale, voulant réunir la communauté francophone au-delà du territoire français. Pour la 5è fois, le Laboratoire Parole et Langage (www.lpl-aix.fr) organise cette conférence sous l?égide et la caution scientifique de l?Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP, www.afcp-parole.org). La dernière édition dans la ville d?Aix-en-Provence date de 1986. Nous souhaitons faire de cette nouvelle édition, une conférence lisible, fédératrice et « historique » en proposant un coloriage thématique tourné vers l?histoire des sciences de la parole. L?édition 2018 des JEP veut attirer les projecteurs sur l?histoire des ciences et des technologies de la parole à travers presque 50 ans de JEP en y dédiant une session spéciale. Les JEP 2018 veulent ainsi rendre hommage à aux anciens ayant ?uvrer au développement scientifique et humain de la communauté ?parole? et de nos laboratoires. Les JEP 2018 comprendront des communications orales et affichées ainsi que des conférences invitées. Par ailleurs, des conférenciers invités seront également sollicités dans le cadre de la session spéciale historique ?Bernard Teston?. La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. Dates importantes ***ATTENTION, CHANGEMENT DE DATES*** - Date limite de soumission des articles complets : 7 février 2018 (23h59, heure de Paris) - Notification aux auteurs : 2 avril 2018 - Ouverture des inscriptions : 2 avril 2018 - Date limite de remise de la version définitive publiable : 15 avril 2018 (23h59, heure de Paris) - Fin d?inscription anticipée : 20 avril 2018 - Fin d?inscription tardive : 11 mai 2018 - Conférence : 4-8 juin 2018 Types de communication Les auteurs sont invités à présenter des travaux de recherche originaux ou comportant un apport substantiel par rapport à de précédents travaux déjà partiellement ou totalement publiés. Dans ce cas, l'article soumis devra faire explicitement référence à la-aux publication-s concernée-s dans sa bibliographie. Les articles seront présentés, lors de la conférence, sous forme d?une communication orale ou affichée. Thématiques scientifiques Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes liés à la communication parlée et au traitement de la parole dans leurs aspects empiriques, théoriques et applicatifs. Les thèmes de la conférence incluent, de façon non limitative : - Phonétique, phonologie - Prosodie - Production, perception - Cognition - Acquisition, apprentissage - Santé, troubles, handicap - Géolinguistique, sociolinguistique - Traitement automatique - Synthèse - Reconnaissance, dialogue, compréhension - Codage, ressources, évaluation - Corpus Critères de sélection Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine considérant en particulier : - l?adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence - l?importance et l?originalité de la contribution - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale - l?organisation et la clarté de la présentation. Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes en ligne dès le début de la conférence. Modalités de soumission Les articles seront rédigés en français et devront être soumis en format pdf. La taille des articles ne devra pas dépasser 8 pages, plus une page dédiée aux références bibliographiques. Une feuille de style LaTeX, un modèle Word et un modèle LibreOffice sont disponibles sur le site web de la conférence dans la rubrique Appel: https://jep2018.sciencesconf.org. Bourses L?AFCP offre un certain nombre de bourses pour les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs désireux de prendre part à la conférence, voir le site de l?AFCP : http://www.afcp-parole.org. L?ISCA apporte également un soutien financier aux jeunes chercheurs participant à des manifestations scientifiques sur la parole et le langage, voir le site de l?ISCA : http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb. Informations et contact Site web : https://jep2018.sciencesconf.org Contact email : jep2018.soumission@lpl-aix.fr
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3-3-11 | (2018-06-08) Atelier Satellite des JEP'18, Aix-en-Provence, France Atelier Satellite des JEP'18
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3-3-12 | (2018-06-13) 9th Speech Prosody Conference, Poznan,Poland
The 9th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from 13 to 16 June, 2018 at Collegium Iuridicum Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Speech Prosody is the biennial flagship conference of SProSIG with 300 - 400 participants each time.
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3-3-13 | (2018-06-13) Workshop AFFECT, COMPAGNON ARTIFICIEL, INTERACTION (WACAI 2018), Ile de Porquerolles, France (IMPORTANT UPDATE) Date limite de soumission repoussée au 15 Janvier 2018
Workshop
AFFECT, COMPAGNON ARTIFICIEL, INTERACTION (WACAI 2018)
1er Appel à Communication
Ile de Porquerolles, 13-15 Juin 2018
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APPEL A SOUMISSION
L?objectif du WACAI (Workshop sur les ?Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions? (ACAI)) est de réunir les recherches et développements en cours autour des Agents Conversationnels Animés (ACA) et des robots interactifs. Cette année, le WACAI souhaite regrouper une communauté pluridisciplinaire de chercheurs en Informatique Affective, en Sciences Cognitive, en Psychologie Sociale, en Linguistique. La participation des industriels sera encouragée.
Les workshops WACAI, regroupant habituellement entre 50 et 80 personnes, sont organisés par le groupe de travail GT ACAI. Le GT-ACAI (Affects, Compagnons Artificiels et Interactions - https://acai.limsi.fr/doku.php) de l'AFIA a été créé en 2012. Ce groupe de travail a pour objectif d'animer et de structurer les activités de recherche en France autour de ces problématiques. Ses travaux se situent donc à la rencontre de plusieurs domaines scientifiques : les agents virtuels, les agents conversationnels/humain virtuels, l'informatique affective, le traitement des signaux sociaux et la robotique interactive. Les recherches dans ces domaines scientifiques partagent plusieurs questions scientifiques : détection et reconnaissance des comportements sociaux et émotionnels (émotions, attitudes sociales, personnalité, présence, engagement, etc.) ; modèles cognitifs du comportement affectif d'agent « socio-émotionnellement intelligent » pour améliorer/optimiser l'interaction; synthèse de comportements socio-affectifs en fonction du contexte (personnalité et attitude sociale, tâche, environnement, capacité perceptive et expressive du système interactif, etc.) ; prise en compte des émotions/affects/signaux sociaux dans le dialogue homme-machine et dans les environnements virtuels. Son objectif est de regrouper les activités en France autour de l'informatique affective et de l'interaction avec des compagnons artificiels.
Après les précédentes éditions biannuelles du workshop WACAI, organisées successivement à Grenoble (2005), à Toulouse (2006), à Paris (2008), à Lille (2010), à Grenoble (2012), à Rouen (2014) et à Brest (2016), cette nouvelle édition se déroulera à Porquerolles du 13 au 15 juin 2018.
DATES IMPORTANTES
Soumission des articles: 15 Décembre 2018 : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wacai2018
Notification aux auteurs : 8 Février 2018
Inscription à la conférence : 15 Février 2018
Version caméra-ready : 8 Mars 2018
FORMATS
Les contributions attendues, rédigées de préférence en français (ou en anglais si vraiment nécessaire), sont de trois ordres :
- Des articles scientifiques (4 à 8 pages) ;
- Des revues de questions ou des revues de l?état de l?art (4 à 8 pages), notamment sur les liens entre les problématiques communes et les spécificités des communautés ACA et robotique ;
- Des descriptions courtes de réalisations, démonstrations, d?expérimentations en cours, d?application et outils industriels (2 pages) ;
Les contributions sont attendues sur les domaines, thématiques pluridisciplinaires et applications de la recherche suivants (à titre indicatif) :
DOMAINES DE RECHERCHE
- Informatique affective ; traitement informatique des émotions
- Traitement des signaux sociaux
- Agents conversationnels animés, agents virtuels, robots humanoïdes, compagnons
- Psychologie sociale, psychologie cognitive, neurosciences
- Dialogue et traitement de la langue
THÉMATIQUES
- Architectures logicielles et technologies des compagnons artificiels
- Traitement automatique de la parole et du langage, modèle de dialogue
- Interactions multimodales (mouvements, expressions faciales, parole, etc.)
- Modèle cognitif, formalisation logique des comportements socio-émotionnels
- Plate-formes d?expérimentation
- Construction et traitement de corpus d?interactions
- Apprentissage automatique des comportements socio-émotionnels
- Ergonomie, méthodologies d?évaluation
APPLICATIONS ET RETOURS D?EXPÉRIENCE
- Jeux vidéo, jeux sérieux, environnement virtuel d?apprentissage, coaching, santé
- Robotique sociale, robot compagnon, téléopération
- Réalité virtuelle
- Art et sciences
COMITES
Comité d?Organisation
- Présidente : Magalie OCHS
Comité Scientifique
- Présidents : Chloé CLAVEL & Jean-Claude MARTIN
LIEU et ACCES
Ile de Porquerolles
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3-3-14 | (2018-06-18) 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages , Berlin, Germany The Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages will be held in Berlin, Germany from Monday June 18 to Wednesday June 20, 2018. This symposium follows the successful TAL 2016 conference in Buffalo, NY, USA. TAL 2018 will be organized at Beuth University Berlin conveniently located in the city center close to all major attractions. TAL 2018 is timed after Speech Prosody 2018 in Poznan, Poland, June 13-16, only a quick train ride away.
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3-3-15 | (2018-06-25) 2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA 2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology
We are pleased to invite one page research proposals for a workshop on Machine Learning for Speech and Language Technology at Johns Hopkins University June 25 to August 3, 2018 (Tentative) CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: Monday, October 9th, 2017.
* 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.
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3-3-16 | (2018-07-06) CfP 14th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (eNTERFACE 2018), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Call for Projects to eNTERFACE 2018
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3-3-17 | (2018-07-09) École thématique Big Data & Speech, Roscoff, France École thématique Big Data & Speech
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3-3-18 | (2018-07-20) NEWS 2018: The Seventh Named Entities Workshop and Shared Task on Transliteration of Named Entities, Melbourne, Australia NEWS 2018: The Seventh Named Entities Workshop and Shared Task on Transliteration of Named Entities
Collocated with ACL 2018, in Melbourne, on July 20th 2018.
Named Entities (NE) play a crucial role in many monolingual and multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, such as document search, clustering, information extraction, etc. The phenomenal growth of the Internet and the dramatic changes in the user demographics, especially among the non-English speaking world, has made identification, association and transformation of Named Entities across languages a critical path problem for most NLP and IR Tasks.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in various aspects of NEs in natural language text.
Topics of Interest:
This workshop invites original research contributions on all aspects of Named Entities (NEs), including identification, analysis, extraction, mining, transformation and applications to NLP and IR systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* NE Analysis
- Distributional characteristics of NEs in mono- and multi-lingual text corpus
- Orthographic/phonetic characteristics of NE
* NE Annotated Data
- Annotated data sets in specific languages & Creation experiences
* Monolingual and Multilingual NE Identification & processing
- Named Entity Recognition (approaches & evaluation)
- Monolingual NE set expansion
- Cross-lingual NE data identification & mapping
- Cross-lingual NE data mining
- Social Network Analysis and Entity Resolution
* Machine Transliteration
- Statistical transliteration approaches & evaluation
* NE for IR
- NE for Monolingual IR
- NE Translation/Transliteration for CLIR
* NE in Social Media
- Fuzzy matching of Named Entities
- Multilingual matching of Named Entities
- De-duplication of entities across social media
Paper Format:
Paper submissions to NEWS 2018 should follow the ACL 2018 paper submission policy, including paper format, blind review policy and title and author format convention. Full papers (research papers) are in two-column format without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) extra page for references and short papers (research and task papers) are also in two-column format without exceeding four (4) pages of content plus two (2) extra page for references. Submission must conform to the official ACL 2018 style guidelines. For details, please refer to http://acl2018.org/call-for-papers/#paper-submission-and-templates
Submissions:
Papers are to be submitted in pdf format at https://www.softconf.com/acl2018/NEWS/
Important Dates for Research (long and short) papers:
* 22 April 2018: Research paper submission extended deadline
* 14 May 2018: Acceptance notification
* 28 May 2018: Camera-Ready submission deadline
Important Dates for Shared Task (short) papers:
* 12 March 2018: Training/Development data release
* 07 May 2018: Test data release
* 14 May 2018: Results submission due
* 21 May 2018: Shared task paper submission deadline
* 28 May 2018: Acceptance notification
* 04 June 2018: Camera-Ready submission deadline
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3-3-19 | (2018-07-23) 2nd INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Genova, Italy 2nd INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
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3-3-20 | (2018-08-29) 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18), Gurugram, India 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
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3-3-21 | (2018-09-03) 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2018) Rome, Italy (UPDATE)
EUSIPCO 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference Rome, Italy September 3-7, 2018
Paper Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED
Due to numerous requests, the deadline for paper submission has been extended
to February 28, 2018
************************************************************ The 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) will be held in Rome, the Eternal City, in Italy from September 3 to September 7, 2018. The flagship conference of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) will offer a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing and its applications. It will feature world-class speakers, oral and poster sessions, keynotes and plenaries, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, demo and ongoing work sessions and satellite workshops, and is expected to attract many leading researchers and industry figures from all over the world. Technical Scope We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:
- Audio and acoustic signal processing - Speech and language processing - Image and video processing - Multimedia signal processing - Signal processing theory and methods - Sensor array and multichannel signal processing - Signal processing for communications - Radar and sonar signal processing - Signal processing over graphs and networks - Nonlinear signal processing - Optimization methods - Machine learning - Statistical signal processing - Compressed sensing and sparse modeling - Bio-medical image and signal processing - Signal processing for computer vision and robotics - Computational imaging/Spectral imaging - Information forensics and security - Signal processing for power systems - Signal processing for education - Bioinformatics and genomics - Signal processing for big data - Signal processing for the internet of things - Design/implementation of signal processing systems - Other signal processing areas
Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore®. EURASIP Society enforces a ?no-show? policy. Procedures to submit papers, proposals for special sessions, tutorials and satellite workshops are detailed at the EUSIPCO 2018 website (www.eusipco2018.org).
Important dates Tutorial proposals: 18 February 2018 Satellite Workshop proposals: 21 January 2018
Full paper submissions: 18 February 2018 Notification of paper acceptance: 18 May 2018 Camera-ready papers: 18 June 2018
STUDENT PAPER AWARDS: ?EUSIPCO Best Student Paper Awards? will be presented at the conference banquet. Papers will be selected by a committee composed of area and technical chairs.
TUTORIAL AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS: Tutorials will be held on September 3, 2018. Brief tutorial proposals should include title, outline, contact information, biography and selected publications for the presenter(s), and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Special session proposals should include title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited papers.
3 MINUTE THESIS (3MT): EUSIPCO 2018 is offering a 3 Minutes Thesis contest, where PhD students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance. It is an exercise for students to consolidate their ideas so they can present them concisely to an audience specialized in different signal processing fields.
SATELLIT? WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: The 2018 edition of EUSIPCO is proud to organize a half day of thematic workshops on Friday, September 7, 2018, after the end of the main conference, which will provide a forum to participate in specific scientific events and present research focused on current innovative topics in signal processing technology and its extension to other fields.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: GENERAL CHAIR Patrizio Campisi, Roma Tre University, Italy
GENERAL CO-CHAIR Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
TECHNICAL CO-CHAIRS Sergio Barbarossa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Augusto Sarti, Polythecnic University of Milan, Italy
PLENARY TALKS Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK Enrico Magli, Polythecnic University of Turin, Italy
SPECIAL SESSIONS Paulo Lobato Correia, IST Lisbon, Portugal Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria
TUTORIALS AND DEMO Bulent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey Marco Carli, Roma Tre University, Italy
STUDENT ACTIVITIES CHAIR Juan Ramon Troncoso-Pastoriza, EPFL, Switzerland
PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Emanuele Maiorana, Roma Tre University, Italy
FINANCE CHAIR Francesco De Natale, University of Trento, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIRS Carmen Garcia Mateo, University of Vigo, Spain Stefania Colonnese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
INTERNATIONAL LIAISON Ajay Kumar, PolyU, Hong Kong Shantanu Rane, PARC, USA Anderson Rocha, University of Campinas, Brazil
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3-3-22 | (2018-09-04) CBMI-Cf Special sessions, La Rochelle, France --------------------------------------------------------------------
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3-3-23 | (2018-09-04) CfP International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) 2018 - La Rochelle, France Call for papers CBMI 2018 - La Rochelle, France 4-6 Sept 2018
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3-3-24 | (2018-09-04) EUSIPCO 2018, Rome, Italy EUSIPCO 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference
Rome, Italy
September 3-7, 2018
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EUSIPCO 2018 -- NEWS
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We are pleased to announce the EUSIPCO 2018 PLENARY SPEAKERS
Inaugural EURASIP Fellow lecture
September, 4th, 2018
'Internet of Bio-Nano-Things'
Ian F Akyildiz
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
September, 5th, 2018
'Deep Convolutional Networks: An Opportunity for Signal Processing'
Stéphane Mallat
Collège de France, France
September, 6th, 2018
'Sensing and Processing with Events'
Tobi Delbruck
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
September, 7th, 2018
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EUSIPCO 2018 -- UPCOMING DEADLINES
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Special Session proposals: 11 December 2017
The information about the organization of a special session at EUSIPCO 2018 is available at
Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to: special_sessions@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).
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Important dates
Special Session proposals: 11 December 2017
Satellite Workshop proposals: 21 January 2018
Tutorial proposals: 18 February 2018
Full paper submissions: 18 February 2018
3 Minute Thesis (3MT) 18 April 2018
Notification of paper acceptance: 18 May 2018
Camera-ready papers: 18 June 2018
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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
SOCIAL MEDIA CHAIR
Gabriel Emile Hine, Roma Tre University, Italy
PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
Emanuele Maiorana, Roma Tre University, Italy
FINANCE CHAIR
Francesco De Natale, University of Trento, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Carmen Garcia Mateo, University of Vigo, Spain
Stefania Colonnese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
INTERNATIONAL LIAISON
Ajay Kumar, PolyU, Hong Kong
Shantanu Rane, PARC, USA
Anderson Rocha, University of Campinas, Brazil
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3-3-25 | (2018-09-07) 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME2018), Hyderabad, India CHiME 2018
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3-3-26 | (2018-09-09) 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), Poznan, Poland CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-27 | (2018-09-10) CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum, Avignon, France (Updated) CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum *********************************************************************************** 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/ *****************
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3-3-28 | (2018-09-11) 21st International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018), Brno, Czech Republic TSD 2018 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-29 | (2018-09-17) DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION at MLSP 2018, Aalborg, Denmark CALL FOR PAPERS:
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2018)
Aalborg, Denmark
Special Session:
DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION
Research in anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification has advanced significantly in the last five years. While proposed countermeasures are effective in detecting and deflecting spoofing attacks, current solutions lack a solid grounding in the processes involved in the mounting of spoofing attacks. As a result, and with most current solutions relying on the somewhat blind use of relatively standard features and classifiers, many countermeasures fail
when they encounter different forms of attack and are unlikely to generalise well to attacks encountered in the wild. This special session, organised as part of MLSP 2018, seeks to break the mould in anti-spoofing research. We invite scientific contributions that explore fundamentally disruptive approaches to anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification. While contributions which use existing standard/common databases are welcome, their use is not required. Preference will instead be given to contributions that explore under-researched aspects of spoofing and non-standard, emerging or blue-sky countermeasure technologies, especially those with an emphasis on previously-unexplored signal processing and machine learning approaches which either shed new light on spoofing or expose promising new research directions for future exploration. Both technological and methodological contributions
are welcome.
Example topics include but are by no means limited to the following:
- theoretical bounds of spoofing attack detectability
- cross-domain feature learning for robust spoofing attack detection
- generative adversarial networks and threats to biometric technology
- one-class, semi-supervised, or reinforcement learning approaches to spoofing countermeasures
- new regularisation and optimisation methods to improve cross-dataset generality
- generation and detection of inaudible, imperceptible or other novel spoofing attacks
- novel hardware/sensor and knowledge-based spoofing countermeasures
- alternatives to GMMs, DNNs, CNNs, RNNs
- unexpected application areas beyond biometrics
Schedule is the same as for regular papers:
Paper submission: May 1 (update until May 4)
Review notifications: June 18
Author rebuttals: June 18-24
Reviewer discussion: June 25-30
Decision notification: July 6
Camera-ready paper & registration: July 31
Organizers:
Nicholas Evans, EURECOM, France (evans@eurecom.fr)
Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland (tkinnu@cs.joensuu.fi)
Sébastien Marcel, IDIAP, Switzerland (sebastien.marcel@idiap.ch)
Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark (zt@es.aau.dk)
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3-3-30 | (2018-09-17) IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, Aalborg, Denmark MLSP2018
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3-3-31 | (2018-09-18) 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Leipzig, Germany (updated) SPECOM-2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-32 | (2018-10-11) The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4) conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Link to Call for Papers and Submission Website:
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3-3-33 | (2018-10-16 )International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Boulder, Colorado, USA International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018
Call for Workshop Articles for six confirmed ICMI 2018 Workshops:
- Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction (MHFI): https://multisensoryhfi.wordpress.com/
- Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT) (https://sites.google.com/view/gift18workshop
- Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data (MCPMD): https://www.uni-bremen.de/csl/icmi-2018-mcpmd.html
- Human-Habitat for Health (H3): http://h3-icmi2018.cse.tamu.edu/
- Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI): http://ma3hmi.cogsy.de/
- Cognitive Architectures for Situated Multimodal Human Robot Language Interaction: http://ralli.ofai.at/workshop.html
Overview and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=workshops
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The 20th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018) will be held in Boulder, Colorado. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development.
ICMI 2018 is pleased to announce that six workshops have been confirmed and will run immediately prior to the main conference on October 16th, 2018. Please consider submitting your latest work to these exciting emerging venues.
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3rd International Workshop on Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction (MHFI 2018)
Abstract
There is a growing interest in the context of Human-Food Interaction to capitalize on multisensory interactions in order to enhance our food- and drink- related experiences. This, perhaps, should not come as a surprise, given that flavour, for example, is the product of the integration of, at least, gustatory and (retronasal) olfactory, and can be influenced by all our senses. Variables such as food/drink colour, shape, texture, sound, and so on can all influence our perception and enjoyment of our eating and drinking experiences, something that new technologies can capitalize on in order to ?hack? food experiences.
In this 3rd workshop on Multi-Sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction, we again are calling for investigations and applications of systems that create new, or enhance already existing, eating and drinking experiences (?hacking? food experiences) in the context of Human-Food Interaction. Moreover, we are interested in those works that are based on the principles that govern the systematic connections that exist between the senses. Human Food Interaction also involves the experiencing food interactions digitally in remote locations. Therefore, we are also interested in sensing and actuation interfaces, new communication mediums, and persisting and retrieving technologies for human food interactions. Enhancing social interactions to augment the eating experience is another issue we would like to see addressed in this workshop.
Website
Organizers
Carlos Velasco
Anton Nijholt
Marianna Obrist
Katsunori Okajima
Charles Spence
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Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT)
Abstract
The Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT) workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse fields related to group interaction, team dynamics, people analytics, multi-modal speech and language processing, social psychology, and organizational behaviour. The workshop will provide a unique opportunity to researchers to share their knowledge and gain insights outside their respective fields and will hopefully lead to inter-disciplinary networking and fruitful collaboration.
Website
Organizers
Hayley Hung
Joann Keyton
Catherine Lai
Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock
Gabriel Murray
Catherine Oertel
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Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data (MCPMD)
Abstract
Multimodal signals allow us to gain insights about internal cognitive processes of a person, for example: Speech and gesture analysis yield cues about hesitations, knowledgeability, or alertness, eye tracking yields information about a person's focus of attention, task, or cognitive state, EEG yields information about a person's cognitive load or information appraisal. Capturing cognitive processes is an important research tool to understand human behavior as well as a crucial part of a user model to an adaptive interactive system such as a robot or a tutoring system. As cognitive processes are often multifaceted, a comprehensive model requires the combination of multiple complementary signals.
Website
Organizers
Felix Putze, University of Bremen
Jutta Hild, Fraunhofer IOSB
Enkelejda Kasneci, University of Tübingen
Akane Sano, MIT Media Lab/Cornell University
Erin Solovey, Drexel University
Tanja Schultz, University of Bremen
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Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era
Abstract
In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, digital human interaction with the habitat environment can be perceived as the continuous interconnection and exchange of cognitive, social, and affective signals between an individual or a group, and any type of environment built for humans (e.g., home, work, clinic). Through the integration of various interconnected devices (e.g., built-in microphones of home devices, acceleration, GPS, and physiological sensors embedded in smartphones or wearable devices, proximity sensors installed in smart objects), we can collect multimodal data including speech, spoken content, physiological, psychophysiological, and environmental signals, that enable the sensing of a person?s activity, mood, emotions, preferences, and/or health state, and ultimately provide appropriate feedback. Applications of these include artificial conversational agents (e.g., Amazon Alexa, Google Home) that enable voice powered human computer interaction to provide new information (e.g., nutritional food content, weather forecast) or conduct procedural tasks (e.g., update daily food intake diary, book a flight), in-the-moment automatic habitat adaptation systems that provide comfort and relaxation, human health and well-being support systems that are able to track the progress of a disease (e.g., depression tracking through linguistic and acoustic markers), detect high-risk episodes (e.g., suicidal tendencies), and ultimately provide feedback (e.g., guide individuals through a brief intervention) or take appropriate action (e.g., call 911). Special focus will be given on the technical considerations and challenges involved in these tasks ranging from the nature of the acquired data (e.g., noise, lack of structure, issues of multi-sensory integration) to the high variability present in habitat environments (e.g., different lighting conditions, room acoustic characteristics), and the inherent unpredictability and multi-faceted nature of human behavior. The H3 workshop aims to bring together experts from academia and industry spanning a set of multi-disciplinary fields, including computer science, speech and spoken language understanding, construction science, life-sciences, health sciences, and psychology, to discuss their respective views of the problem and identify synergistic and converging solutions.
Website
Organizers
Theodora Chaspari, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University (chaspari@tamu.edu)
Angeliki Metallinou, Senior Speech Scientist, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning (ametalli@amazon.com)
Leah Stein Duker, Assistant Professor of Research, Occupational Science and Therapy, University of Southern California (lstein@chan.usc.edu)
Amir Behzadan, Associate Professor, Construction Science, Texas A&M University (abehzadan@tamu.edu)
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Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI)
Abstract
One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible in a situation as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction can be considered how we interact with other humans. Although technology is still far from being human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical solutions. They are often represented as artificial agents to facilitate smooth interactions. While the analysis of human-human communication has resulted in many insights, transferring these to human-machine interactions remains challenging especially if multiple possible interlocutors are present in a certain area. This situation requires that multimodal inputs from the main speaker (e.g., speech, gaze, facial expressions) as well as possible co-speaker are recorded and interpreted. This interpretation has to occur at both the semantic and affective levels, including aspects such as the personality, mood, or intentions of the user, anticipating the counterpart. These processes have to be ideally performed in real-time in order for the system to respond without delays, in a natural environment. Therefore, the MA3HMI workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the analysis of multimodal data as a means to develop technical devices that can interact with humans. In particular, artificial agents can be regarded in their broadest sense, including virtual chat agents, empathic speech interfaces and life-style coaches on a smart-phone. We focus on the environment and situation an interaction is situated in extending the investigations on real-time aspects of human-machine interaction. We address the synergy of situation, context, and interaction history in the development and evaluation of multimodal, real-time systems.
Website
Organizers
Ronald Böck - Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Francesca Bonin - IBM Research, Ireland
Nick Campbell - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ronald Poppe - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Cognitive Architectures for Situated Multimodal Human Robot Language Interaction
Abstract
In many application fields of human robot interaction, robots need to adapt to changing contexts and thus be able to learn tasks from non-expert humans through verbal and non-verbal interaction. Inspired by human cognition, we are interested in various aspects of learning, including multimodal representations, mechanisms for the acquisition of concepts (words, objects, actions), memory structures etc., up to full models of socially guided, situated, multimodal language interaction. These models can then be used to test theories of human situated multimodal interaction, as well as to inform computational models in this area of research. In the Workshop on Cognitive Architectures for Situated Multimodal Human Robot Language Interaction, we focus on robot action and object learning from multimodal-interaction with a human tutor. Inspired by human cognition, the research interests of this workshop tackle different aspects of robot learning, such as (i) the kind of data used to develop socially guided models of language acquisition, (ii) the collection and preprocessing of empirical data to develop cognitively inspired models of language acquisition, (iii) the multimodal complexity of human interaction, (iv) multimodal models of language learning, and (v) adequate machine learning approaches to handle these high dimensional data. The workshop aims at bringing together linguists, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and psychologists with a particular focus on embodied models of situated natural language interaction and the challenges will be discussed under a multidisciplinary perspective.
Website
Organizers
Stephanie Gross, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria
Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria
Matthias Scheutz, Department of Computer Science at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA
Matthias Hirschmanner, Automation and Control Institute at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
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3-3-34 | (2018-10-16) 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING ( SLSP 2018) , Mons, Belgium
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3-3-35 | (2018-10-16) 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, USA 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2018)
October 16th, 2018 in Boulder, USA. In conjunction with ICMI2018.
http://MA3HMI.cogsy.de
Scope: One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction may be how we interact with other humans. Although technology is still far from human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical solutions. They are often represented as artificial agents to facilitate smooth inter-actions. While the analysis of human-human communication has resulted in many insights. Transferring these to human-machine interactions remains challenging especially if multiple possible interlocutors are present in a certain area. This situation requires that multimodal inputs from the main speaker (e.g., speech, gaze, facial expressions) as well as possible co-speaker are recorded and interpreted. This interpretation has to occur at both the semantic and affective levels, including aspects such as the personality, mood, or intentions of the user, anticipating the counterpart. These processes have to be performed in real-time in order for the system to respond without delays, in a natural environment. The MA3HMI workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the analysis of multimodal data as a means to develop technical devices that can interact with humans. In particular, artificial agents can be regarded in their broadest sense, including virtual chat agents, empathic speech interfaces and life-style coaches on a smart-phone. More general, multimodal analyses support any technical system being located in the research area of human-machine interaction. For the 2018 edition, we focus on the environment and situation an interaction is situated in extending the investigations on real-time aspects of human-machine interaction. We address the synergy of situation, context, and interaction history in the development and evaluation of multimodal, real-time systems. We solicit papers that concern the different perspectives of such human-machine interaction. Tools and systems that address real-time conversations with artificial agents and technical systems are also within the scope of the workshop.
Topics (but not limited to): a) Multimodal Environment Analyses - Multimodal understanding of situation and environment of natural interactions - Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions - Novel strategies of human-machine interaction in terms of situation and environment b) Multimodal User Analyses - Multimodal understanding of user behavior and affective state - Dialogue management using multimodal output - Multimodal understanding of multiple users behavior and affective - Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions - Novel strategies of human-machine interactions c) Applications, Tools, and Systems - Novel application domains and embodied interaction - Prototype development and uptake of technology - User studies with (partial) functional systems - Tools for the recording, annotation and analysis of conversations
Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 30th, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: September 10th, 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: September 15th, 2018 Workshop Date: October 16th, 2018
Submissions: Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) and short papers (5 pages) in ACM format as specified by ICMI 2018. Accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All submissions should be anonymous.
Organisers: Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany Francesca Bonin, IBM Research, Ireland Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ronald Poppe, Utrecht University, Netherland
-- Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. Ronald Böck FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems Building 03, Room 322 Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Phone: +49 391 67 50061 E-mail: ronald.boeck@ieee.org ronald.boeck@ovgu.de Web: http://www.kognitivesysteme.de
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3-3-36 | (2018-10-28) CfP XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies, Mahé, Seychelles CALL FOR PAPERS
XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies
'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages and Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'
28 October 2018 - 3 November 2018, Mahé, Seychelles
The International Committee for Creole Studies (Comité International des Etudes Créoles (CIEC)) has organized International Conferences on Creole Studies for the past fifty years, at regular intervals. In 2018, the XVIth International Conference of Creole Studies will be held in Seychelles; the organization has been entrusted to the University of Seychelles in liaison with the CIEC.
The international community (UNESCO, UNDP etc.) and the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) support the educational linguistic policy and the possible institutionalization of Creole languages in the dozen of Creole-speaking countries (France and its Departments, Haiti, Dominica, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, San Tome and Principe) that are members of OIF. Creole studies are called upon to contribute decisively to these programs and endeavours. The importance of Creole studies stems primarily from its contributions to the linguistic, cultural and social development of Creole -speaking societies. Beyond, the study of the genesis and development of Creole social, linguistic and cultural systems constitutes a remarkable field of study for human and social sciences, because 'Creole' societies have been formed recently (three to four centuries of existence as a rule) and because of how they are composed and evolve.
The XVIth International Symposium on Creole Studies will focus on: 'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages, Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'. This theme invites philosophers, historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, linguists and other researchers in human and social sciences to present their work on contemporary Creole societies in their historical, linguistic, social, political, economic and cultural evolution.
The focus of the colloquium will be on the following four major themes: A. Creole languages and education B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
Presentation of the themes of the Conference
A. Creole languages and education
Faced with the challenges of education for all, in basic and middle schools, sovereign countries that use a French Creole language have introduced some measure of Creole language teaching in their schools. Some states, such as Seychelles or Haiti, have acquired a vast experience in the domain that should be examined. Mauritius has recently also embarked on this venture which calls for evaluation. The Creole-speaking Outremer Departments, whose creoles are recognized regional languages of France and which benefit from the texts regulating the teaching of regional languages in France, have also many educational practices to share. B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development
Anthropology and the history of Creole worlds are called upon to account for how the creole-speaking social formations, resulting from European colonial expansion, are facing the challenges of development and globalization. The role of Creole languages in the development of economy (tourism, reception of migrants, etc.) has to be assessed. Literary production in the Creole speaking islands of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean has developed greatly in recent years in French and English as well as in Creole languages. The study of this renewal of literature and cultural practices also forms part of theme B. The migratory movements of creole speakers (see also topic C) will also be discussed. What are the paths of the institutionalization of the Creole languages in their respective areas of influence (see the question of Creole language academies)? Creole militant practices may also be mentioned.
C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages.
Recent globalization have caused many displacements of Creole-speaking populations towards more developed economic zones. New Creole-speaking communities have thus been created outside the territories of birth, such as Haitian communities in North America, populations from the Creole speaking Departments in metropolitan France, Mauritians in Australia and Seychellois in the United Kingdom. Creole speaking newcomers are found in prosperous creole-speaking areas, for instance, Haitians in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean.Immigration to Creole-speaking areas also leads to the emergence of neo-learners of Creole languages. Globalization has led to an unprecedented diffusion of Creole languages, including via language and culture industries. These new sociolinguistic situations of diffusion have hardly been described to date. Similarly, little is known about the impact of these migratory movements on the dynamics of Creole languages. To these themes may be added the study of the genesis and evolution of Creole languages.
D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
The description of Creole language systems (phonology, grammar) remains necessary. The analysis of the variation of Creole languages and of their linguistic systems is still unsatisfactory. This theme should bring together contributions that attempt to analyze and explain phonological, morphological and grammatical systems in a typological perspective. This theme may also include work on grammar for teaching. Indeed, in Haiti, the Seychelles and Mauritius, as in the French DROMs, questions arise concerning 'grammar models' and the use of linguistic analyses for teacher training and for teaching of Creole languages as first languages.
Questions
Topics that could be addressed, either in the form of individual papers or as workshops (please contact the organizers), include the following:
- 'Creole' diasporas and their linguistic practices - Creole varieties developed outside the territories of birth - The linguistic varieties of neo-learners of Creole languages - The co - presence of Creole and French - The development of literacy programs in Creole - Bilingual education programs integrating the Creole language - Literatures of Creole-speaking countries - The state of research on Creole language corpora - Creole development at school - Morphology, Syntax etc. of creole languages - The diachronic studies of Creole languages - Relations between Creole languages and languages of the slave population (African languages, Malagasy, etc.) - Creole history, landscape and society - Creolization and the development of Creole societies - Philosophy and history of ideas in Creole societies.
Enoch Aboh, Christian Barat, Arnaud Carpooran, Penda Choppy, Guillaume Fon Sing, Renaud Govain, Marie-reine Hoareau, Thom Klingler, Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig, Carpanin Marimoutou, Salikoko Mufwene, Joelle Perreau, Laurence Pourchez, Lambert-Félix Prudent, Gillette Staudacher-Valliamee, Albert Valdman, Justin Valentin, Daniel Véronique
The papers and proposals for workshops may be included in one of the themes of the Conference and / or in a cross-cutting theme. Proposals for papers or workshops (groupings of 3/4 papers) written in French, English or any French Creole language, with the address and institutional affiliation of the communicant (s) must reach the following e-mail address: Ciec.Sez2018@gmail.combefore 15 January 2018. The abstracts will describe the theme of the paper, the database, the results expected and will not exceed 3,000 characters or 500 words (including bibliography). Submit 2 copies of the proposal, one anonymous (which will be used for the review), the other with the author's name, address and institutional affiliation.
After evaluation, acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be notified as from the 9 April 2018.
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3-3-37 | (2018-11-05)11 th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Tilburg, The Netherlands 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 5-8 November, 2018
Website: https://inlg2018.uvt.nl Contact: inlg2018@uvt.nl
The 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018) will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018. The conference takes place immediately after EMNLP 2018, organised in nearby Brussels, Belgium.
INLG 2018 is organised by the Tilburg University Language Production (TULP) research group, part of the Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) The event is organised under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters.
Important dates
- Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2018 - Notification: September 7, 2018 - Camera ready: October 1, 2018 - INLG 2018: November 5-8, 2018
All deadlines are at 11.59 PM, UTC-8.
Topics
INLG 2018 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. The conference will include two special tracks:
(1) Generating Text with Affect, Style and Personality (sponsored by The Netherlands Organization for Scienfitic Research, NWO), and (2) Conversational Interfaces, Chatbots and NLG (organised in collaboration with flow.ai).
General topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Affect/emotion generation - Applications for people with disabilities - Cognitive modelling of language production - Content and text planning - Corpora for NLG - Deep learning models for NLG - Evaluation of NLG systems - Grounded language generation - Lexicalisation - Multimedia and multimodality in generation - Storytelling and narrative generation - NLG and accessibility - NLG in dialogue - NLG for embodied agents and robots - NLG for real-world applications - Paraphrasing and Summarisation - Personalisation and variation in text - Referring expression generation - Resources for NLG - Surface realisation - Systems architecture
A separate call for workshops and generation challenges will be released soon.
Submissions & Format
Submissions should follow the new ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. ACL 2018 offers both LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates Papers should be submitted electronically through the START conference management system (to be opened in due course).
Three kinds of papers can be submitted:
- Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for references.
- Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, with up to one extra page for references.
- Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems which are of relevance to the NLG community. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2018.
All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2018 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2018 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the 'Acknowledgements' section of the paper when submitted. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice.
Program chairs
- Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Martijn Goudbeek, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Albert Gatt, Malta University, Malta
Workshop & Challenges chairs
- Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University, Germany - Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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3-3-38 | (2018-11-08) Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, Aix-en-Provence, France Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018
Call for Papers
We invite submissions for the Workshop Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, to be held at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018.
The Workshop is co-located with the 22nd SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 8-10 November 2018.
Aim Signaling the information structure of utterances has been shown to be one of the main dimensions of prosodic meaning in many languages, and remains a driving force behind the research on the typological variety of prosodic systems. Other aspects of prosodic meaning that have been investigated are the role of prosody in the generation of implicatures, in speech-act dynamics, in dialogue management, or in the marking of various kinds of questions, owing much to collaborations between phonologists and semanticists/pragmaticists. Other recent advances in the field are supported by the development of corpus resources and of new experimental methods for the investigation of the empirical validity of specific theoretical claims. This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and psycholinguists working on the prosody/meaning interface in different languages as well as computational linguists developing tools for prosody-meaning corpus annotation, exploration and processing.
Invited Speakers Michael Wagner, McGill University Pilar Prieto, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Topics Topics include, but are not limited to: - prosodic reflexes of information structure in different languages and their relationship with other grammatical reflexes of information structure (morphological or syntactical), - the relationship between information structure, ellipsis or clause fragments and prosody, - the interplay between information structure and other aspects of prosodic meaning such as speech acts, attitude signaling, or turn-taking management, - more generally, the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse and dialogue.
Submissions We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous, in English, and should not exceed one page (2.5 cm margins, 12pt font size), with an extra page for examples, figures and references.
Important dates Abstract deadline: 27 May 2018 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2018 Workshop: 8 November 2018
Organisers Cristel Portes, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU), Arndt Riester and Uwe Reyle, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart.
Scientific committee Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne) Bettina Braun (University of Constance) Sasha Calhoun (University of Wellington) Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (CNRS, Université de Nantes) James German (Aix-Marseille University) Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart) Frank Kügler (University of Cologne) Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen) Pauline Welby (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University), Amandine Michelas (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University), Mariapaola D’Imperio (Aix-Marseille University), Roxane Bertrand (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University), Caterina Petrone (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University), Margaret Zellers (University of Kiel)
More information are available on the Workshop webpage: https://semdial.hypotheses.org/prosody Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: cristel.portes@lpl-aix.fr
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3-3-39 | (2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan (2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan
International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing. Since 1998, it has been successfully held in Singapore (1998), Beijing (2000), Taipei (2002), Hong Kong, (2004), Singapore (2006), Kuming (2008), Tainan (2010), Hong Kong (2012), Singapore (2014), and Tianjin (2016). ISCSLP is the flagship conference of SIG-CSLP, ISCA. The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018) will be held on November 26-29, 2018 in Taipei. While ISCSLP is focused primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English. Important dates Feb 22, 2018 Submission of special session proposals Apr 30, 2018 Submission of tutorial proposals Jun 11, 2018 Submission of regular and special session papers Aug 01, 2018 Submission of demo proposals
ISCSLP2018 conference website: http://iscslp2018.org/
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3-3-40 | (2018-11-29) CfP Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang),Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (updated) Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang)
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3-3-41 | (2018-12-18) IEEE SLT2018 , Athens, Greece IEEE SLT2018 | 18 - 21 December 2018 Athens, Greece The next IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) conference will be held in Athens, Greece from 18-21 December 2018. Athens is a historic city and the capital of Greece, located in the most southern-east part of the Mediterranean Sea. The emblematic city of democracy provides for amazing sightseeing, great food tastings and endless strolls for shopping in the buzzing festive capital. The special theme for SLT2018 will be “Spoken Language Technology in the Era of Deep Learning: Challenges and Opportunities”. Important Dates:
You can browse all conference information on the website: www.slt2018.org. Follow updates on Twitter #SLT2018. All papers related to spoken language technology are welcome. As part of special theme, we particularly welcome the submission of papers that address challenges and limitations in current deep learning approaches and opportunities for overcoming them (including but not limited to hybrid approaches using deep learning and traditional knowledge-based methods).
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3-3-42 | (2018-??-??) FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 22, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: November 17, 2017
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), and the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACL 2018, COLING 2018, EMNLP 2018, or NAACL HLT 2018. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:
ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be held in Melbourne, Australia, July 15 - July 20, 2018, with workshops to take place on July 19-20: http://acl2018.org/
COLING 2018 (the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20 - August 25, 2018, with workshops to be held on August 20-21, 2018: http://coling2018.org/
NAACL HLT 2018 (the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1 - June 6, 2018 with workshops to be held on June 5-6, 2018: http://naacl2018.org/
EMNLP 2018 (the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018) will be held later in 2018 (after the other three conferences). Exact details on dates and venue for EMNLP workshops will be announced later.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines below).
The proposals should contain:
- A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.
- The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.
- A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to: (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.
- A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers.
- An estimate of the number of attendees.
- A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants.
- A description of special requirements and technical needs.
- The preferred venue(s) (ACL/COLING/NAACL/EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g. if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise)
- If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g. shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.
Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.
In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you submit via the START System (not in the PDF proposal):
- A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).
- A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.
- A list of organizers’ names which will be shown in the web-based survey.
The proposals should be submitted no later than October 22, 2018, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at
https://www.softconf.com/i/acl-workshops2018
The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. In addition, to estimate the attendance of the different workshops, a new voting mechanism will be implemented, where attendees of ACL-affiliated events from the past 3-5 years will be able to vote on which workshops they would like to attend in 2018. (A representative prototype of the survey is shown here, but is subject to change: https://goo.gl/3cuZON.) The overall diversity of the workshops will also be taken into account to ensure the conference program is varied and balanced. The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the four conferences, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers.
Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs.
The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at:
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook
TIMELINE FOR 2018 WORKSHOPS
Timeline:
October 22, 2018: Proposal Submission Deadline
November 17, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
Individual dates:
* ACL:
Dec 11, 2018: First Call for Workshop Papers
Mar 5, 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
April 8, 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
May 7, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
May 28, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
July 19-20, 2018: Workshop Dates
* COLING:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
Aug 20-21, 2018: Workshop Dates
* NAACL:
27 November 2017: First Call for Workshop Papers
8 January 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
2 March 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
2 April 2018: Notification of Acceptance
16 April 2018: Camera-ready papers due
5-6 June 2018: Workshop Dates
* EMNLP:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
TBA: Workshop Dates
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
* ACL:
Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge
* COLING:
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University
* NAACL:
Marie Meteer, Brandeis University
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research
* EMNLP:
TBA
For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers at:
acl-coling-emnlp-naacl-workshops@googlegroups.com
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3-3-43 | (2019-08-04) International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia![]() Don't miss your opportunity to be a part of ICPhS 2019!
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