(2018-05-07) AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions , Miyazaki, Japan
AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ========================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The first AREA workshop will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) and is organized as a half-day session with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop. AREA includes a keynote by Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg).
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS ============================================= There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of this workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas in which actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, human-computer communication, document design, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.
While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ?EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation?), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication.
AREA PROGRAMME ============================================================= 9.00 - 9.15 Introduction 9.15 - 10.00 Keynote: Language, Action, and Perception, Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg) 10.00 - 10.10 Discussion 10.10 - 10.30 Action Hierarchy Extraction and its Application, Aliaksandr Huminski, Hao Zhang 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 - 11.20 Human-Robot Dialogue and Collaboration in Search and Navigation, Claire Bonial, Stephanie Lukin, Ashley Foots, Cassidy Henry, Matthew Marge,Ron Artstein, David Traum, Clare R. Voss 11.20 - 12.30 Poster presentations (see below) 12.30 - 13.00 Road Map Discussion
Posters: - Laughter and Body Movements as Communicative Actions in Encounters Kristiina Jokinen, Trung Ngo Trong - Learning Actions from Events Using Agent Motions Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Tuan Do, and James Pustejovsky - Action Identification and Local Equivalence of Action Verbs: the Annotation Framework of the IMAGACT Ontology Massimo Moneglia, Alessandro Panunzi, Lorenzo Gregori - Action Categorisation in Multimodal Instructions Ielka van der Sluis, Renate Vergeer, Gisela Redeker -VANNOTATOR: a Gesture-driven Annotation Framework for Linguistic and Multimodal Annotation Christian Spiekermann, Giuseppe Abrami, Alexander Mehler
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ====================== Jan Alexanderson, DFKI Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland Anja Belz, University of Brighton Johan Bos, University of Groningen Kirsten Bergmann, Bielefeld University Harry Bunt, Tilburg University Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg Eren Erdal Aksoy, Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie Kristiina Jokinen, AIRC AIST Johan Kwisthout, Radboud University Nijmegen Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Brandeis University Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh Andy Lucking, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Siddharth Narayanaswamy, University of Oxford Paul Piwek, Open University Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen Daniel Sonntag, DFKI Michael McTear, University of Ulster Mariet Theune, University of Twente David Traum, USC Institute for Creative Technologies Florentin Wörgötte, Georg-August University Göttingen Luke Zettlemoyer, UW CSE
ORGANIZERS =========== James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University Ielka van de Sluis, University of Groningen
The European Language Resource Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international organisations ? many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural Language Processing - Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand, the Korean Society for Language and Information, the Korean Special Interest Group of Human and Cognitive Language Technology, ...
CONFERENCE AIMS LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, communicate on-going and planned activities, identify industrial uses and needs, and address requirements from e-science and e-society, with respect to scientific, technology, policy and organisational issues.
For this edition, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, LREC goes East in order to support a stronger interaction and synergy with the Asian NLP community and to help promoting Asian Language Resources and Language Technologies.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from a wide spectrum of related disciplines to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LTs) and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.
CONFERENCE TOPICS Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data * Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability * Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation * Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge * Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation * LRs and Semantic Web * LRs and Crowdsourcing * Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up
Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications * Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication * LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, web services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc. * Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc. * Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc. * Industrial LRs requirements * User needs, LT for accessibility
Issues in LT evaluation * LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures * Validation and quality assurance of LRs * Benchmarking of systems and products * Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems * User satisfaction evaluation
General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation * International and national activities, projects and initiatives * Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs * Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages * Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures * Replicability and reproducibility issues * Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues
LREC 2018 HOT TOPICS
Asian Language Resources Special attention will be devoted to highlight the wide variety of initiatives for the creation, use and evaluation of Asian Language Resources and Technologies. Special attention will be paid to Less-Resourced Languages in the Asian area, including (local) Sign Languages.
International Contribution to Olympics 2020 LREC 2018 would like to promote all LTs that would support better interactions and communications between the Olympics 2020 visitors and the local hosts. This involves all speech- and text-based computer interactions, speech/sign to speech/sign translations, human-human communications mediated by computers, etc. Assessment of the above mentioned technologies is also an important area within LREC 2018.
Language Resources in the Online World In a time in which more and more (language) data are generated, either by human beings or by machines, and directly streamed, the question arises how LRs and LTs can cope with this development. A first challenge is to address and to provide for correctives to hate speeches, cyberbullying, fake news, etc. Can LT provide means to process and respond in a timely manner to such language data streamed in a huge amount at high speed? In this context, language technologists have to intensify cooperation with humanities, especially social and political sciences, psychology but also economics, and more.
DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRs! In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map ? now a normal step in the submission procedure of many conferences ? LREC recognises the importance of sharing resources and making them available to the community. When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special LREC repository set up by ELRA. Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before the conference, to be re-used, compared, analysed. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
PROGRAMME The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. We will also organise an Industrial Track.
Submission of extended abstracts for oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 25 September 2017
LREC 2018 asks for a 3 to 4 pages (references excluded) extended abstract which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet. Extended abstracts must be submitted through START @ https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/main/ and will be peer-reviewed. Submissions are NOT anonymous.
Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 25 September 2017
PROCEEDINGS The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format. Final papers will range from 4 to 8 pages, with no difference in quality between shorter and longer submissions. There is also no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered. The importance of LREC in Natural Language Processing is reflected by the H5-Index citation ranking in Google Scholar: LREC is ranked 3rd among Computational Linguistics conferences. In addition, since 2010, LREC Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Nicoletta Calzolari ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair) Khalid Choukri ? ELRA, Paris - France Christopher Cieri ? Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA Thierry Declerck ? DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany Koiti Hasida ? The University of Tokyo, Tokyo - Japan Hitoshi Isahara ? Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi - Japan Bente Maegaard ? Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Denmark Joseph Mariani ? LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay - France Asuncion Moreno ? Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain Jan Odijk ? UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands Stelios Piperidis ? Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece Takenobu Tokunaga ? Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo ? Japan
CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Sara Goggi, CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa, Italy Hélène Mazo, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France
(2018-05-07)CfP AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions, Miyazaki, Japan
AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ========================================== Call for Papers
AREA will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) and is organized as a half-day session with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS ============================================= There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of this workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas in which actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, human-computer communication, document design, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.
While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ?EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation?), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication.
We invite submissions on foundational, conceptual, and practical issues involving modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: - dynamic models of actions - formal semantic models of actions - affordance modeling - manipulation action modeling - linking multimodal descriptions and presentations of actions (image, text, icon, video) - automatic action recognition from text, images, and videos - communicating and performing actions with robots or avatars for joint tasks - action language grounding - evaluation of action models
IMPORTANT DATES ================ Deadline for paper submission: 7 January 2018 Review deadline: 1 February 2018 Notification of acceptance: 11 February 2018 Deadline for camera-ready version: 1 March 2018 Early registration deadline: TBA Workshop Date: 7 May 2018
SUBMISSION ========== Three types of submissions are invited: - Research papers, describing original research; these can be either long (6-8 pages, not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including references); - Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (2-4 pages including references); - Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software, tools, or systems (2-4 pages including references).
We will decide whether to have an oral or poster presentation, depending on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop schedule.
Papers should be in compliance with the style sheet adopted for the LREC Proceedings. The AREA proceedings will be published in the LREC 2018 proceedings.
Papers should be submitted through the START conference manager set up for LREC 2018. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ====================== Jan Alexanderson DFKI Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland Anja Belz University of Brighton Johan Bos University of Groningen Kirsten Bergmann Bielefeld University Harry Bunt Tilburg University Simon Dobnik University of Gothenburg Eren Erdal Aksoy Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie Kristiina Jokinen AIRC AIST Johan Kwisthout Radboud University Nijmegen Nikhil Krishnaswamy Brandeis University Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh Andy Lucking Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Siddharth Narayanaswamy University of Oxford Paul Piwek Open University Matthias Rehm Aalborg University Gisela Redeker University of Groningen Daniel Sonntag DFKI Michael McTear University of Ulster Mariet Theune University of Twente David Traum USC Institute for Creative Technologies Florentin Wörgötte Georg-August University Göttingen Luke Zettlemoyer UW CSE
ORGANIZERS =========== James Pustejovsky Brandeis University Ielka van de Sluis University of Groningen
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
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
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.
The European Language Resource Association (ELRA, www.elra.info) is glad to announce the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international organisations ? many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural Language Processing - Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand, the Korean Society for Language and Information, the Korean Special Interest Group of Human and Cognitive Language Technology, and a number of industrial partners and supporters.
Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT) with over 1200 attendees from all over the world. LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards. As a hot LREC 2018 topic, an industry track will take place during the main conference.
Track Description Human language technologies have become increasingly important parts of our lives. These technologies have emerged from decades of collaborations between academic and industrial research organizations; collaborations are made possible by the unique strengths of both communities and a set of shared practices (algorithms, evaluation methods, datasets, and the like). But despite this, there are substantial differences between research in academic and industrial settings.
In contrast to academic research: industrial speech and language technologies may pose unique challenges of scale; language resources from industry may demand different algorithms or evaluation methodologies than in academic settings; and the practices of academic and industrial settings may converge on distinct methods for the same problem; industrial systems and practices may pose ethical challenges not present in academic settings.
Topics of Interest Topics include but not limited to:
Industrial systems For this topic we welcome submissions which discuss industrial systems. They may describe technical innovations which are enabled by the industrial setting, or they may describe the implementation of a deployed industrial system. We also welcome submissions which discuss failures to replicate 'state-of-the-art' performance when provided with the affordances of an industrial setting. Finally, we also welcome opinion papers which discuss similarities and differences between academic and industrial practices for system development and evaluation, or which consider ethical issues specific to systems deployed at industry scale.
Tools and platforms for data collection Data collected in an industry setting may pose specific technical, legal, and ethical challenges not normally encountered in academic settings. The infrastructure within which developers in industry operate can provide tremendous advantages, but also unique challenges. There can be significant differences in the context of a tool's operator or a data platform's customer in industry vs. academic applications. Platforms may be globally distributed, and the scale itself of the data and of the deployment of industry technologies can add significant complexity, which may demand innovative approaches. Industry developers may also face special problems in defining users, their orientation to their tasks, and what constitutes a successful interaction from the standpoint of the user and of data acquisition efforts. We welcome submissions which discuss industrial tools and platforms used to collect data.
Human computation in industry Industrial language technologies depend on machine learning methods, which in turn require large, diverse collections of labeled data collected from humans for rapid iterative development and refinement. We welcome submissions which discuss issues in experimental design for human computation, the challenges of quality, diversity, and representation in crowdsourcing, and ethical issues posed by data collection via crowdsourcing and outsourcing.
Asian languages One goal for this year's LREC is to strengthen connections with the Asian speech and language community. Therefore we welcome submissions which discuss industrial resources and technologies specific to the challenges posed by Asian languages.
Spoken languages and dialects We are particularly interested in work which describes industrial resources and technologies for spoken languages, non-standard dialects, and therefore we welcome submissions which focus on these topics, especially those submissions which contrast spoken and written language?or standard and non-standard language?resources and technologies.
Less-resourced languages One special topic for this year's LREC is less-resourced languages, especially those used in Asia, and therefore we welcome submissions which discuss resources and technologies for such languages in an industry setting.
Submission
We encourage submissions of papers for oral or poster presentation. Papers should follow theLREC stylesheet. The working language of the track is English. Submitted papers must be written and delivered in English and be up to 4 pages in length.
Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! Describing your language resources (LRs) in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). This LREC feature is available to submissions within this track and highly recommended.
To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2018 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each LR. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
Important Dates & Deadlines
Paper submission: 10 February 2018
Notification of acceptance: 12 March 2018
Camera-ready paper: 26 March 2018
Track Date: 10 May 2018
Organizing Committee
Linne Ha, Director of Research Program in NLU, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (New York)
Kyle Gorman, Software Engineer, Speech & Language Algorithms, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (New York)
Jimmy Kunzmann, Manager Research and Development, European Media Laboratory GmBH (EML), (Heidelberg)
Constantine Lignos, Computer Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Richard Sproat, Senior Research Scientist, Speech & Language Algorithms, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (New York)
Martin Jansche, Software Engineer, NLU, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (London)
Ryan MacDonald, Research Scientist, NLU, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (London)
(2018-05-12) Multimodal Corpora 2018, LREC Workshop, Miyazaki, Japan
First Call for Papers
MULTIMODAL CORPORA 2018: Multimodal Data in the Online World
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:
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)!
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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
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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
(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).
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):
Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: 10 January 2018 Notification of Acceptance: 6 March 2018 Camera Ready Papers Due: 23 March 2018 Conference: 20 -22 May 2018
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.
The theme of ACII Asia 2018 will be “Affective Intelligence”. ACII Asia 2018 will emphasize the collaboration between engineering and human sciences (including biological, social and cultural aspects of human life) and highlight the impact and applications of affective computing technologies in the wider world. Within affective science more broadly, there is an explosion of interest in realizing more natural human-computer interaction by taking affective computing into consideration. Also, understanding of how emotion is represented in the brain and how it shapes the body in biological processes is welcomed in ACII Asia 2018.
The meeting will be jointly hosted by the Technical Committee on Human-Computer-Interaction of China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), the Technical Committee on Artificial Psychology and Artificial Emotion of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Local Interest Group Asia of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) and Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science (CASIA).
Proceedings are proposed to be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore.
The conference will address, but is not limited to the following topics:
Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect: • Motion Capture for Affect Recognition • Synthesis of Multimodal Affective Behavior • Multimodal Data Fusion for Affect Recognition • Affective Speech Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis • Affective Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis • Facial and Body Gesture Recognition, Modelling and Animation • Recognition and Synthesis of Auditory Affect Bursts (Laughter, Cries, etc.) • Affect Recognition from Alternative Modalities (Physiology, Brain Waves, etc.)
Affective Interfaces: • Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments • Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces • Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems • Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces • Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces • Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces
Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems: • Ethical Issues in Affective Computing • Computational Models of Emotional Processes • Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction • Social and Behavioral Science Involving Affective Computing • Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems
Affective and Social Robotics and Virtual Agents: • Embodied Issues in Emotion • Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents • Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action • Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents • Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics • Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents • Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics
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.
(2018-06-08) Atelier Satellite des JEP'18, Aix-en-Provence, France
Atelier Satellite des JEP'18
*Explorer les interactions sociales conversationnelles avec des agents artificiels*
/le vendredi 8 juin à partir de 9h30/
L?atelier vise à explorer comment les agents artificiels communicants peuvent être utilisées, ou le sont déjà, pour accroître nos connaissances sur les dimensions sociales des communications humaines et homme-machine en situation écologique. Un panel d?experts interdisciplinaire présentera quelques projets en cours et ouvrira la discussion sur les perspectives. L?objectif est de renforcer l'interaction entre sciences de la parole et du langage, psychologie cognitive, informatique et neuroscience, et promouvoir l?approche auprès d?une communauté de chercheurs élargie.
Inscriptions et informations complémentaires (horaires, lieu, contacts...) : https://jep2018.sciencesconf.org/ ******************************
*OBJECTIF* Dans le domaine de la communication parlée, l?un des enjeux majeurs et /interdisciplinaires/ aujourd?hui est de mieux comprendre les interactions /sociales/ dans des situations écologiques, à l?échelle de la dyade ou du groupe. Les problématiques de recherche scientifiques sous-jacentes émanent de plusieurs disciplines : sciences de la parole et du langage, psychologie cognitive, informatique, neuroscience. Les agents artificiels communicants (en particulier les personnages virtuels ou les robots humanoïdes) peuvent être utilisés comme plateforme expérimentale pour mieux comprendre les mécanismes impliqués dans les interactions sociales qu?elles soient humain-humain ou humain-machine (Wykowska, Chaminade et Cheng, 2016). En partant de cette constatation et dans le prolongement du workshop ISIA@ICMI 2017 (Chaminade, Nguyen, Ochs et Lefèvre 2017), le but de l?atelier est d?explorer comment les nouvelles technologies associées aux agents artificiels communicants peuvent être utilisées, ou le sont déjà, pour accroître notre connaissance des mécanismes des interactions sociales impliquant, par exemple les émotions, les signaux et fonctions sociales et la cognition. Des contextes d?interaction réalistes, en particulier utilisant le langage oral, nécessitent des outils et paradigmes expérimentaux nouveaux, combinant les sciences humaines et sociales avec les neurosciences etl?informatique, ainsi que de l?ingénierie. Cette vision globale et interdisciplinaire est nécessaire pour ouvrir la voie aux media sociaux du futur avec l?objectif d?améliorer la compétence sociale des agents artificiels, qu?il s?agisse de la compréhension mutuelle, la collaboration et le dialogue, avec des applications dans les domaines de la santé, de la formation ou des loisirs.
Le principe de l?atelier est de rassembler un groupe d?experts interdisciplinaire dans trois champs complémentaires. Les recherches en sciences humaines étudient les fondements comportementaux et linguistiques des interactions sociales naturelles parlées. Pour les neurosciences, étudier les interactions sociales à l?aide des techniques avancées de neuroimagerie est la nouvelle frontière à atteindre pour comprendre pleinement les spécificités physiologiques des comportements humains normaux et pathologiques. L?informatique quant à elle a fait des progrès considérables pour l?extraction des signaux sociaux des données multimédia, incluant les enregistrements audio et vidéos d?interactions naturelles. De plus, l?informatique permet de refermer la boucle en fournissant des agents artificiels contrôlables ? tels les avatars ou les robots humanoïdes ? qui peuvent être utilisés comme des outils pour tester des hypothèses sur les comportements sociaux multimodaux susceptibles de modifier la compétence sociale de l?agent artificiel et objectiver l?influence de ces comportements sur l?interaction.
Globalement, l?objectif est de renforcer cette interaction triangulaire entre informatique, humanités et neurosciences. Pour cela l'atelier s'attachera à illustrer au travers des projets en cours, à quel point ces efforts peuvent être profitables afin de promouvoir l?approche encore plus largement.
Wykowska, A., Chaminade, T., & Cheng, G. (2016). Embodied artificial agents for understanding human social cognition. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 371(1693). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0375
Thierry Chaminade, Noël Ngyuen, Magalie Ochs, Fabrice Lefèvre: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, ISIAA@ICMI 2017, Glasgow, United Kingdom, November 13, 2017. ACM 2017, ISBN 978-1-4503-5558-2
*PROGRAMME*
- Session /Présentation des enjeux/ - Gérard Bailly du Gipsa-Lab fera une présentation des enjeux de l'approche [45?]
- Session /Projets/ - Présentation par les porteurs des avancées scientifiques réalisées dans des projets nationaux et internationaux en cours, dont H2020 CHIST-ERA JOKER, H2020 ANIMATAS, ANR IMPRESSIONS, ANR ACCORFORMED, PIA A*MiDex BLRI PSYSOCIAL [60?]
- Session /Posters/ - Les projets, et les participants (voir ci-dessous), pourront présenter des contributions scientifiques plus précises sous forme de poster [45?]
La session poster permettra des discussions libres en petit comité autour d'activités liées aux thèmes de l'atelier. Elles sera principalement articulée autour de posters liés aux projets présentés dans la session Projets. *Toutefois tous les participants peuvent proposer d'y participer*. Pour cela il suffit d'envoyer un email aux organisateurs (fabrice.lefevre@univ-avignon.fr) avec une copie du poster (s'il est disponible, sinon le titre et le contenu textuel principal). Le critère d'acceptation sera la cohérence thématique avec l'atelier.
The 9th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from 13 to 16 June, 2018 at Collegium Iuridicum Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Speech Prosody is the biennial flagship conference of SProSIG with 300 - 400 participants each time.
The deadline for Workshop, Tutorial & Special Session proposal submission is 15 September. We encourage you to make proposals by sending e-mail to prosodist@gmail.com and jolabachan@gmail.com
The paper submission deadline is 10 December. (Submission page will open on 1 October.)
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.
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
(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.
(2018-06-25) 2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology
We are pleased to invite one page research proposals for a workshop on Machine Learning for Speech and Language Technology at Johns Hopkins University June 25 to August 3, 2018 (Tentative)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: Monday, October 9th, 2017.
One-page proposals are invited for the annual Frederick Jelinek Memorial Workshop in Speech and Language Technology. Proposals should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various fields of Human Language Technology (HLT) or related areas of Machine Intelligence, including Computer Vision and Healthcare. Proposals may address emerging topics or long-standing problems. Areas of interest in 2018 include but are not limited to:
* SPEECH TECHNOLOGY: Any aspect of information extraction from speech signals; techniques that generalize in spite of very limited amounts of training data and/or which are robust to input signal variations; techniques for processing of speech in harsh environments, etc.
* NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Knowledge discovery from text; new approaches to traditional problems such as syntactic/semantic/pragmatic analysis, machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, summarization, etc.; domain adaptation; integrated language and social analysis; etc. * MULTIMODAL HLT: Joint models of text or speech with sensory data; grounded language learning; applications such as visual question-answering, video summarization, sign language technology, multimedia retrieval, analysis of printed or handwritten text.
* DIALOG AND LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING: Understanding human-to-human or human-to-computer conversation; dialog management; naturalness of dialog (e.g. sentiment analysis).
* LANGUAGE AND HEALTHCARE: information extraction from electronic health records; speech and language technology in health monitoring; healthcare delivery in hospitals or the home, public health, etc.
These workshops are a continuation of the Johns Hopkins University CLSP summer workshop series, and will be hosted by various partner universities on a rotating basis. The research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops should serve as good examples for prospective proposers: http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/. An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated by October 13th, 2017. Authors passing this initial screening will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in Baltimore on November 10-12th, 2017. Proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two or three research topics and the teams to tackle them will be selected at this meeting for the 2018 workshop. We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop to collaboratively pursue research on the selected topics. Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and students. Authors of successful proposals typically lead these teams. Other senior participants come from academia, industry and government. Graduate student participants familiar with the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance. Undergraduate participants, selected through a national search, are rising star seniors: new to the field and showing outstanding academic promise. If you are interested in participating in the 2018 Summer Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed. If a topic in your area of interest is chosen as one of the topics to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available to participate in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith commitment that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will actively pursue it. We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to make your six-week participation possible. Proposals must be submitted to jsalt2018@clsp.jhu.edu by 5PM EDT on Monday, 10/09/2017.
eNTERFACE 2018, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 6th ? 31st, 2018 The 14th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces enterface18.org
piLab of ELEN/ICTEAM research group at Université Catholique de Louvain invites project proposals for eNTERFACE?18, the 14th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, to be held in Louvain-la-Neuve, from July 6th to 31st, 2018. Following the success of the previous eNTERFACE workshops held in Mons (Belgium, 2005), Dubrovnik (Croatia, 2006), Istanbul (Turkey, 2007), Paris (France, 2008), Genova (Italy, 2009), Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2010), Plzen (Czech Republic, 2011), Metz (France, 2012), Lisbon (Portugal, 2013), Bilbao (Spain, 2014), Mons (Belgium, 2015), Twente (Netherlands, 2016), Porto (Portugal, 2017), eNTERFACE?18 aims at continuing and enhancing the tradition of collaborative, localised research and development work by gathering, in a single place, leading researchers in multimodal interfaces and students to work on specific projects for 4 complete weeks.
Topics This year?s special topics will be transmedia storytelling and deep learning for improved interactions. There will be masterclasses around those topics during the workshop. Although not exhaustive, the submitted projects can cover one or several of the topics listed below: - Art and Technology - Affective Computing - Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies - Assistive Technologies for Education and Social Inclusion - Augmented Reality - Conversational Embodied Agents - Human Behavior Analysis - Human Robot Interaction - Interactive Playgrounds - Innovative Musical Interfaces - Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications - Multimodal Interaction, Signal Analysis and Synthesis - Multimodal Spoken Dialog Systems - Search in Multimedia and Multilingual Documents - Smart Spaces and Environments - Social Signal Processing - Tangible and Gesture Interfaces - Teleoperation and Telerobotics - Wearable Technology - Virtual Reality
Important dates March 10th, 2018 :Submission deadline: 1-page Notification of interest for a project proposal with a summary of project goals, work-packages and deliverables March 24th, 2018 : Submission deadline: Final project proposal March 31st, 2018 : Notification of acceptance to project leaders April 2nd, 2018 : Start Call for Participation, participants can apply for projects May 11th, 2018 : Call for Participation is closed May 14th, 2018 : Notification of acceptance to participants June 1st, 2018 : Teams are built 6th ? 31st July 2018 : eNTERFACE?18 Workshop
Proposals should be submitted to macq@ieee.org. They will be evaluated by eNTERFACE Steering Committee with respect to the suitability to the workshop goals and format. Authors of the accepted proposals will then be invited to build their teams.
Nouvelles Technologies pour l'Exploration de Corpus de Parole
site WEB (en construction) www.bigdata-speech Dates : 9 au 13 juillet 2018 Lieu : Centre de Conférences de la Station Biologique de Roscoff
Thématique :
A l'ère des grandes masses de données, l'école thématique CNRS et LabEx EFL Big Data & Speech vise à donner un aperçu de recherches innovantes en linguistique de l'oral s'appuyant sur de grands corpus de parole. De plus, elle vise à présenter une sélection d'approches, méthodes et outils du traitement automatique de la parole et de la langue, pouvant être utile au linguiste travaillant sur la parole dans des domaines aussi divers que la phonétique, la phonologie, la dialectologie, la typologie, l'acquisition, l'apprentissage des langues, la sociophonétique, les pathologies de la parole. . . Ainsi, un alignement forcé automatique entre signal de parole et transcription manuelle permet d'accélérer de nombreuses étapes de mesure et d'analyse linguistique proprement dite ; des applications mobiles d'enregistrement telles que LIG-Aikuma permettent d'accélérer la collecte de corpus du linguiste de terrain ; les grands corpus collectés pour le traitement automatique et reflétant l'usage de la langue parlée à un moment donné peuvent être précieux pour les linguistes afin de tester hypothèses et théories à plus grande échelle, de quantifier des phénomènes connus ou de découvrir des phénomènes ignorés jusque-là. Lors de cette école, il s'agit, en particulier, de fournir les bases nécessaires a la compréhension et la pratique des méthodes statistiques et neuronales, et de montrer leur intérêt pour répondre à des questionnements scientifiques relatifs à la linguistique de corpus. Dans ce but, la moitié du temps sera consacré à des travaux pratiques. Les questions épistémologiques seront également abordées.
Thèmes et intervenants :
La formation consiste en 4,5 jours de cours magistraux et de travaux pratiques (50% cours, 50% TP) articulés autour des thèmes prioritaires: linguistique de corpus, phonétique et phonologie de corpus, outils et méthodes de traitement automatique de la parole à l'usage des linguistes, fondements de l'apprentissage automatique pour l'analyse de corpus linguistiques, méthodes et outils pour la recherche d'information, questions épistémologiques liées à l?utilisation de méthodes quantitatives en linguistique. Les travaux pratiques (essentiellement à l'aide des toolkits Kaldi, Weka, R, Praat) seront réalisés sur des corpus fournis par les organisateurs. Nous proposons aux participants qui souhaitent travailler sur leurs propres données de prendre contact avec les organisateurs afin de vérifier la faisabilité de leur projet d?étude.
Parmi les intervenants pressentis et/ou confirmés: Alexandre Allauzen, LIMSI, Université Paris-Saclay Nicolas Audibert, LPP, Université Paris 3 Bruno Bachimont, Sorbonne Université / UTC Compiègne Laurent Besacier, LIG, Université UGA Grenoble Maud Ehrmann, EPFL, Lausanne Yannick Estève, LIUM, Université du Maine, Le Mans Cédric Gendrot, LPP, Université Paris 3 Mark Liberman, UPenn, Philadelphia Margaret Renwick, Oxford University ...
Public :
L'école s'adresse prioritairement aux chercheur.e.s, enseignant.e.s-chercheur.e.s et ingénieur.e.s, utilisant des corpus oraux et intéressé.e.s par l'exploitation numérique de leurs données ou souhaitant étendre leurs travaux à des données de taille importante nécessitant un traitement automatique. En fonction des places disponibles, des étudiant.e.s en doctorat et/ou en master sont également encouragé.e.s à s'inscrire. Les formations s'adressent prioritairement à des participant.e.s du domaine des sciences humaines, mais des participant.e.s issu.e.s du domaine des sciences et technologies de l'information sont également les bienvenu.e.s dans la mesure où leurs travaux nécessitent une meilleure prise en compte des enjeux linguistiques liés à la modélisation des données orales.
Pour les agents CNRS, les frais d'inscription et de séjour seront pris en charge par la délégation régionale des participants. Les frais d'inscription prévus seront d'environ 350 ? pour les participants académiques et de 170 ? pour les doctorants, et couvrent l'hébergement, les repas et la participation aux cours et travaux pratiques.
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)
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
(2018-07-23) 2nd INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Genova, Italy
2nd INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
DeepLearn 2018 Genova, Italy July 23-27, 2018 Organized by: University of Genova IRDTA ? Brussels/London http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2018/ *************************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: March 12, 2018 --- *************************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2018 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 2 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles. ADDRESSED TO: Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2018 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. STRUCTURE: 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2018 will take place in Genova, the capital city of Liguria, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and with one of the most important ports of the Mediterranean. The venue will be: Porto Antico di Genova ? Centro Congressi Magazzini del Cotone ? Module 10 16128 Genova, Italy KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: tba PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications to the Natural Sciences Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Design and Implementation of Deep Learning Applications Joachim M. Buhmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), [introductory/advanced] Model Selection by Algorithm Validation Li Deng (Citadel), tba Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Florida), [introductory/intermediate] Feature Extraction, End-end Deep Learning and Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal Extraction, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware Michael Gschwind (IBM Global Chief Data Office), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning at Enterprise Scale Xiaodong He (Microsoft Research), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Language-Vision Multimodal Intelligence Namkug Kim (Asan Medical Center), [intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Aided Detection/Diagnosis in Radiology and Pathology Li Erran Li (Uber ATG), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning: Foundations, Recent Advances and Frontiers Dimitris N. Metaxas (Rutgers University), [advanced] Adversarial, Discriminative, Recurrent, and Scalable Deep Learning Methods for Human Motion Analytics, Medical Image Analysis, Scene Understanding and Image Generation Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [introductory/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Björn Schuller (Imperial College London), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Signal Analysis Michèle Sebag (French National Center for Scientific Research, Gif-sur-Yvette), [intermediate] Representation Learning, Domain Adaptation and Generative Models with Deep Learning Ponnuthurai N Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Algorithms for Classification, Forecasting and Visual Tracking Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning and Kernel Machines Kenji Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology), [introductory/advanced] Deep Learning in Medical Image Processing, Analysis and Diagnosis Gökhan Tür (Google Research), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning in Conversational AI Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] A Statistical Machine Learning Perspective of Deep Learning: Algorithm, Theory, Scalable Computing Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects Yudong Zhang (Nanjing Normal University), [introductory/intermediate] Convolutional Neural Network and Its Variants OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 15, 2018. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 15, 2018. EMPLOYERS SESSION: Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. At least one of the people in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 15, 2018. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Francesco Masulli (Genova, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) David Silva (London, co-chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2018/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time. CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Università degli studi di Genova Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London
(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
The workshop on spoken language technologies for under- resourced languages is the sixth in a series of even-year SLTU workshops. Five previous workshops were successfully organized: SLTU'16 in Yogyakarta (Indonesia), SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa), SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia) and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam).
There are more than 6000 languages in the world and only few are well represented digitally. India alone, with a country of 780 spoken languages and 86 different scripts that reflect its incredible diversity, has lost around 250 languages in the last 50 years and many more are at the verge of getting extinct. A major focus of this workshop is on Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages, but study on other under resourced languages are also encouraged. The workshop is being planned as a satellite workshop to INTERSPEECH 2018.
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for technical content (including figures, tables, etc) plus one additional page containing only references.
Areas/Topics q Language resource development, acquisition and representation q Linguistic theories, Corpus Development and Resources q Linguistic and cognitive studies q Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units q Code switched lexical modelling q Multi-lingual and cross-lingual spoken language processing q Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing q Machine translation and dialogue systems q Application of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages.
Important Dates q Full Paper Submission: 15th June, 2018 q Acceptance Notification: 10th July, 2018 q Camera Ready Papers: 17th July, 2018 q Early Registration: 24th July, 2018 q Workshop Dates: 29-31st August, 2018
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
(2018-09-04) CBMI-Cf Special sessions, La Rochelle, France
-------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING 2018 CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS Special Session Proposals Due: February 19, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------
The International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/), one of the leading venues in multimedia indexing, will implement in 2018 two to three special sessions featuring contributions on a focused trendy, innovative or frontier topics in multimedia indexing. Special sessions differentiate from regular sessions as they provide focused context for addressing new or emerging research directions, new developments in various application domains, and frontier topics in multimedia indexing and retrieval.
Special sessions will be held as plenary sessions and should typically target 4 to 6 high-qualityoral presentations on the topic addressed. Special session organizers will manage the selection process for their session under the guidance of the special session chairs.
Important Dates
Special Session Proposals Due: February 19, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: March 09, 2018 Special Sessions Paper Submission: May 18. Notification of Acceptance:June 29 2018 Camera-Ready Papers Due: July 13 2018
Submission Instructions
Proposals should be submitted by email to the special session chairs (jenny.benois@labri.fr, guillaume.gravier@irisa.fr), either in plain-text or PDF format. Please include the following information: - Title of the proposed special session - Rationale for the proposal, including target audience - A brief bio and contact information for the organizers - A tentative/confirmed list of invited papers (titles/affiliations/authors; if the case)
(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 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/ (Main submission deadline May 04, 2018)
CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics.
After 15 successful editions of the CBMI workshop, the event is now becoming a conference whose next edition will be held in La Rochelle, France. The scientific program will include invited keynote talks and regular, special and demo sessions.
Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers in the broad field of content-based multimedia indexing and related applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
· Semantic multimedia analysis · Summarization and semantic abstraction of multimedia content · Multimedia content characterization and classification · Metadata generation, coding and transformation; · Multimodal and cross-modal indexing and retrieval · Mobile and social media analysis and retrieval · Multimedia recommendation · Multimedia analysis and indexing beyond semantics, e.g. affect, sentiment, interest · Personalization of multimedia content access · Interactive multimedia indexing and retrieval · Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems · Applications of multimedia indexing and retrieval, e.g. in medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery, video surveillance and culture
The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and ACM DL. In addition, authors of the best papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (MTAP) http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/11042
Important dates: Full/short paper submission: May 04, 2018 Demo paper submission: May 18, 2018 Special sessions paper submission: May 18, 2018 Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2018 Camera-ready papers due: July 13, 2018
CHiME 2018 will bring together researchers from the fields of computational hearing, speech enhancement, acoustic modelling and machine learning to discuss the robustness of speech processing in everyday environments.
As a focus for discussion, the workshop will host the CHiME-5 Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. To find out more about the challenge, see http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to): - training schemes: data augmentation, semi-supervised training, - speaker localization and beamforming, - single- or multi-microphone enhancement and separation, - robust features and feature transforms, - robust acoustic and language modeling, - robust speech recognition, - robust speaker and language recognition, - robust paralinguistics, - cross-environment or cross-dataset performance analysis, - environmental background noise modelling.
Papers reporting evaluation results on the CHiME-5 dataset or on other datasets are both welcome.
IMPORTANT DATES
3rd Aug, 2018 Extended abstract submission (2 pages) 20th Aug, 2018 Paper notification 7th Sept, 2018 CHiME-5 Workshop 8th Oct, 2018 Final paper (2 to 6 pages)
ORGANISERS
Jon Barker, University of Sheffield Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University Emmanuel Vincent, Inria
LOCAL ORGANISER
Simerpreet Kaur, Microsoft
SPONSORS
Microsoft
SUPPORTED BY
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) ISCA Robust Speech Processing SIG
FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it.
The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Events focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems.
Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017.
FedCSIS EVENTS
The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five conference areas.
* AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining Challenges --- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems --- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars --- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering and Data Analysis --- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'18 - 5th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and Services Computing Applications --- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information Technologies for Sustainable Development --- ISM'18 - 13th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5) * DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente - Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden - W?odzis?aw Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events, or by contacting Chairs of said events).
IMPORTANT DATES
? Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) ? Position paper submission: June 12, 2018 ? Authors notification: June 24, 2018 ? Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018 ? Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018 ? Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018
CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES
Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki
(2018-09-10) CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum, Avignon, France (Updated)
CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Visualization 10 - 14 September 2018, Avignon - France
CLEF 2018 is the 19th edition of CLEF which, since 2000, contributes to the systematic evaluation of information access systems. It consists of a peer-reviewed conference (see the separate call for papers) and a set of ten Labs designed to test different aspects of multilingual and multimedia IR systems: 1. CENTRE@CLEF 2018, CLEF/NTCIR/TREC Reproducibility 2. CheckThat! Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims 3. CLEF eHealth 4. DynSe, Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks 5. eRISK, Early Risk Prediction on the Internet 6. ImageCLEF, Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF 7. LifeCLEF 8. MC2, Multilingual Cultural Mining and Retrieval 9. PAN, Lab on Digital Text Forensics 10. PIR-CLEF, Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval
***************** Important Dates *****************
Lab Registration Opens: 8 November 2017 Registration closes: 27 April 2018 End Evaluation Cycle: 11 May 2018 Working Notes papers due: 31 May 2018 Camera Ready Copy: 29 June 2018
***************** Organizers ***************** Conference Chairs Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS LSIS, France Chiraz Trabelsi, University of Tunis El Manar, T unis
Program Chairs Josiane Mothe, SIG, IRIT, France) Fionn Murtagh, University of Huddersfield, UK)
Lab Chairs Jian Yun Nie, DIRO, Université de Montréal, Canada Laure Soulier, LIP6, UPMC, France
Proceedings Chairs Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
CENTRE@CLEF 2018 - CLEF/NTCIR/TREC Reproducibility The goal of CENTRE@CLEF 2018 is to run a joint CLEF/NTCIR/TREC task on challenging participants: 1) to reproduce best results of best/most interesting systems in previous editions of CLEF/NTCIR/TREC by using standard open source IR systems; 2) to contribute back to the community the additional components and resources developed to reproduce the results in order to improve existing open source systems. - Task 1 - Replicability: replicability of selected methods on the same experimental collections. - Task 2 - Reproducibility: reproducibility of selected methods on the different experimental collections. Task 3 - Re-reproducibility: using the components developed in T1 and T2 and made available by the other participants to replicate/reproduce their results. Lab Coordination: Nicola Ferro (University of Padua), Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University), Ian Soboroff (NIST) Lab website:http://www.centre-eval.org/ Twitter: @_centre_
LifeCLEF LifeCLEF lab aims at boosting research on the identification of living organisms and on the production of biodiversity data. Through its biodiversity informatics related challenges, LifeCLEF is intended to push the boundaries of the state-of-the-art in several research directions at the frontier of multimedia information retrieval, machine learning and knowledge engineering. The lab is organized around three tasks: - Task 1 - GeoLifeCLEF: location-based species recommendation. - Task 2 - BirdCLEF: bird species identification from bird calls and songs. - Task 3 - ExpertLifeCLEF: experts vs. machines identification quality. Lab Coordination: Alexis Joly (INRIA, LIRMM), Henning Müller (HES-SO), Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD, AMAP), Hervé Goëau (CIRAD, AMAP), Hervé Glotin (University of Toulon, LSIS CNRS), Simone Palazzo (University of Catania), Willem-Pier Vellinga (Xeno-Canto) Lab website:http://lifeclef.org/
PAN - Lab on Digital Text Forensics PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics. - Task 1 - Author Identification: cross-domain authorship attribution. More specifically, cases where the topic of texts varies significantly will be examined. In addition, we will continue the pilot task of style change detection, focusing on finding switches of authors within documents based on an intrinsic style analysis. - Task 2 - Author Obfuscation: while the goal of author identification and author profiling is to model author style so as to deanomyize authors, the goal of author obfuscation technology is to prevent that by disguising the authors. We will study author masking vs. authorship verification. - Task 3 - Author Profiling: the goal is to identify an author's traits based on their writing style. The focus will be on age and gender, whereas text and image will be used as information sources, offering tweets in English, Spanish and Arabic. Lab Coordination: Martin Potthast (Leipzig University), Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València), Efstathios Stamatatos (Univerisity of the Aegean), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Lab website:http://pan.webis.de/
CLEF eHealth Medical content is available electronically in a variety of forms ranging from patient records and medical dossiers, scientific publications and health-related websites to medical-related topics shared across social networks. This lab aims to support the development of techniques to aid laypeople, clinicians and policy-makers in easily retrieving and making sense of medical content to support their decision making. - Task 1 - Multilingual Information Extraction: Participants will be required to extract the causes of death from death certificates, authored by physicians in European languages. This can be seen as a named entity recognition, normalization, and/or text classification task. - Task 2 - Technologically Assisted Reviews in Empirical Medicine: Participants will be challenged to retrieve medical studies relevant to conducting a systematic review on a given topic. This can be seen as a total recall problem and is addressed by both query generation and document ranking. - Task 3 - Patient-centred Information Retrieval: Participants must retrieve web pages that fulfil a given patient?s personalised information need. This needs to fulfil the following criteria: information reliability, quality, and suitability. The task also has a multilingual querying track. Lab Coordination: Leif Azzopardi (Univ. of Strathclyde), Lorraine Goeuriot (Univ. J.Fourier), Evangelos Kanoulas (Univ. of Amsterdam), Liadh Kelly (Maynooth University), Aurélie Névéol (CNRS-LIMSI), Joao Palotti (Vienna Univ.), Aude Robert (INSERM/CepiDC), Rene Spijker (Cochrane), Hanna Suominen (Australian National Univ.), Guido Zuccon (Queensland Univ. of Technology) Lab Website:https://sites.google.com/view/clef-ehealth-2018/home Twitter : @clefehealth
MC2 - Multilingual Cultural Mining and Retrieval Developing processing methods and resources to mine the social media sphere surrounding cultural events such as festivals. This requires to deal with almost all languages and dialects as well as informal expressions.There are three tasks: - Task 1 - Cross Language Cultural Retrieval over MicroBlogs: a) Small Microblogs Multilingual Information Retrieval in Arabic, English, French and Latin languages; b) Microblogs Bilingual Information Retrieval for tuning systems running on language pairs; c) Microblog Monolingual Information Retrieval based on 2017 language identification. - Task 2 - Mining Opinion Argumentation: a) Polarity detection in microblogs; b) Automatic identification of argumentation elements over Microblogs and WikiPedia; c) Classification and summarization of arguments in texts. - Task 3 - Dialectal Focus Retrieval: a) Arabic dialects in Blogs, MicroBlogs and Video News transcriptions; b) Spanish language variations in Blogs, MicroBlogs and Journals. Lab Coordination: Chiraz Latiri (University Tunis El Manar), Eric SanJuan (LIA, Avignon University), Catherine Berrut (LIG, Grenoble Alpes University), Lorraine Goeuriot (LIG, Grenoble Alpes University), Julio Gonzalo (UNED) Lab website:https://mc2.talne.eu/ Twitter: @talne_mc2
ImageCLEF - Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF The lab provides an evaluation forum for the language independent annotation and retrieval of images, a domain for which tools are by far not as advanced as for text analysis and retrieval. - Task 1 - ImageCLEFlifelog: An increasingly wide range of personal devices, such as smartphones, video cameras as well as wearable devices that allow capturing pictures, videos, and audio clips in every moment of our life are becoming available. The task addresses the problems of lifelogging data understanding, summarization and retrieval. - Task 2 - ImageCLEFcaption: Interpreting and summarizing the insights gained from medical images such as radiology output is a time-consuming task that involves highly trained experts and often represents a bottleneck in clinical diagnosis pipelines. The task addresses the problem of bio-medical image concept detection and caption prediction from large amounts of training data. - Task 3 - ImageCLEFtuberculosis: The objective of this task is to determine tuberculosis subtypes and drug resistances, as far as possible automatically, from the volumetric image information in computed tomography (CT) volumes (mainly texture analysis) and based on clinical information (e.g., age, gender, etc). - Task 4 - VisualQuestionAnswering: With the ongoing drive for improved patient engagement and access to the electronic medical records via patient portals, patients can now review structured and unstructured data from labs and images to text reports associated with their healthcare utilization. Given a medical image accompanied with a set of clinically relevant questions, participating systems are tasked with answering the questions based on the visual image content. Lab Coordination: Bogdan Ionescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Mauricio Villegas (SearchInk), Henning Müller (HES-SO) Lab website:http://www.imageclef.org/2018/ Twitter: @imageclef
PIR-CLEF - Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval The primary aim of the PIR-CLEF 2018 laboratory is: 1) to facilitate comparative evaluation of PIR by offering participating research groups a mechanism for evaluation of their personalisation algorithms; 2) to give the participating groups the means to formally define and evaluate their own and novel user profiling approaches for PIR. - Task 1 - Personalized Search: we will provide a bag-of-words profile gathered during the query sessions performed by real searchers, the set of queries formulated by each user, together with the corresponding document relevance, and the the search logs of each user. Task participants will be expected to compute search results obtained by applying their personalization algorithms on these queries. The search will be carried out on the ClueWeb12 collection, by using the API provided by DCU. - Task 2 - User Profile Models: participants will be required to develop their own user profile models using the information gathered about the real user during her interactions with the system. The same information have been used for creating the baseline (keyword-based user profiles), which is provided in the benchmark. Lab Coordination: Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano Bicocca), Gareth J. F. Jones (Dublin City University), Stefania Marrara (Consorzio C2T), Debasis Ganguly (IBM Research Dublin) , Procheta Sen (Dublin City University), Camilla Sanvitto (University of Milano Bicocca) Lab website:http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/pir-clef2018/ Twitter: @clef2018_pir
eRISK - Early Risk Prediction on the Internet eRisk explores the evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and practical applications (particularly those related to health and safety) of early risk detection on the Internet. - Task 1 - Early Detection of Signs of Depression: the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of depression as soon as possible. - Task 2 - Early Detection of Signs of Anorexia: the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of anorexia as soon as possible. Both tasks are mainly concerned about evaluating Text Mining solutions and, thus, we concentrate on texts written in Social Media. Texts should be processed in the order they were posted. In this way, systems that effectively perform this task could be applied to sequentially monitor user interactions in blogs, social networks, or other types of online media. Lab Coordination: David E. Losada (University of Santiago de Compostela), Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano), Javier Parapar (University of A Coruña) Lab website: http://early.irlab.org/ Twitter: @earlyrisk
DynSe - Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks The primary aim of the CLEF Dynamic Search Lab is to develop algorithms which interact dynamically with user (or other algorithms) towards solving a task, and evaluation methodologies to quantify their effectiveness. The lab is organized along two tasks: - Task 1 - Query Suggestion: given a verbose topic description participants will generate and submit a sequence of queries and a ranking of the collection for each query. Queries will be evaluated over their effectiveness (query agent) and/or resemblance to user queries (user simulation). Query suggestion will be performed iteratively. - Task 2 - Result Composition: Given the obtained results from the aforementioned queries obtain a single ranked list by merging the individual rankings. Lab Coordination: Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Amsterdam), Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde) Lab website: https://ekanou.github.io/dynamicsearch/ Twitter: @clef_dynamic
CheckThat! - Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims CheckThat! aims to foster the development of technology capable of both spotting and verifying check-worthy claims in political debates in English and Arabic. - Task 1 - Check-Worthiness: Given a political debate, which is segmented into sentences with speakers annotated, identify which statements (claims) should be prioritized for fact-checking. This will be a ranking problem, and systems will be asked to produce a score, according to which the ranking will be performed. - Task 2 - Factuality: Given a list of already-extracted claims, classify them with factuality labels (e.g., true, half-true, false). This task will be run in an open mode. We will not provide any pre-selected set of documents to support the veracity labels. Participants will be free to use whatever resources they have and the Web in general, with the exception of the websites used by the organizers to collect the data. Lab Coordination: Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Wajdi Zaghouani (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar), Tamer Elsayed, Reem Suwaileh (Qatar University), Pepa Gencheva (Sofia University) Lab website:http://alt.qcri.org/clef2018-factcheck/ Twitter: @_checkthat_
(2018-09-11) 21st International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018), Brno, Czech Republic
TSD 2018 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************
Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018 http://www.tsdconference.org/
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
THE MAIN SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kenneth Church, Baidu, USA Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed in Web of Science by Thomson Reuters and in Scopus. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.
CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The TSD 2018 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail tsd2018@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Björn Gambäck, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Nikola Ljubešić, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Columbia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Marko Robnik Šikonja, Slovenia Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czech Republic Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Vitomir Štruc, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wróblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Žganec Gros, Slovenia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
The Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be selected by the Programme Committee and supported with a total prize of EUR 1000 from Springer.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions.
The registration fee is the same as in 2016:
Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 10,000 CZK (approx. EUR 395) Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 12,000 CZK (approx. EUR 475)
The fee has a 'all in one' form, to keep equality between participants.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website.
Papers submitted to TSD 2018 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...', should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'. Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.
The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically.
The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines, Sample File typeinst.zip).
Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers May 16 2018 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2018 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date
Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary.
The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation are available at the conference website.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2018 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2018@tsdconference.org
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.
For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
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
(2018-09-17) IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, Aalborg, Denmark
MLSP2018 IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING September 17-20, 2018 Aalborg, Denmark MLSP2018.CONWIZ.DK CALL FOR PAPERS The 28th MLSP workshop in the series of workshops organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society MLSP Technical Committee will present the most recent and exciting advances in machine learning for signal processing through keynote talks, tutorials, as well as special and regular single-track sessions. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on relevant algorithms and applications including, but not limited to: - Learning theory and modeling - Neural networks and deep learning - Bayesian Learning and modeling - Sequential learning; sequential decision methods - Information-theoretic learning - Graphical and kernel models - Bounds on performance - Source separation and independent component analysis - Signal detection, pattern recognition and classification - Tensor and structured matrix methods - Machine learning for big data - Large scale learning - Dictionary learning, subspace and manifold learning - Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning - Active and reinforcement learning - Learning from multimodal data - Resource efficient machine learning - Cognitive information processing - Bioinformatics applications - Biomedical applications and neural engineering - Speech and audio processing applications - Image and video processing applications - Intelligent multimedia and web processing - Communications applications - Other applications including social networks, games, smart grid, security and privacy DATA ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING COMPETITION MLSP2018 seeks proposals for Data Analysis and Signal Processing Competition. The goal of competition is to advance the current state-of-the-art in theoretical and practical aspects of signal processing domains. SPECIAL SESSIONS Special Sessions will be included to address research in emerging or interdisciplinary areas of particular interest, not covered already by traditional MLSP sessions. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD The MLSP Best Student Paper Award will be granted to the best paper for which a student is the principal author and presenter. NETWORKING MLSP Networking will be organized as a new initiative to focus on stimulating collaboration among participants to solve grand societal challenges using machine learning and signal processing. PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to six pages using the electronic submission procedure at http://mlsp2018.conwiz.dk. Accepted papers will be published on a password-protected website that will be available during the workshop. The presented papers will be published in and indexed by IEEE Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES: Paper submission deadline May 1, 2018 Paper update deadline May 4, 2018 Review notification June 18, 2018 Rebuttal period June 18-24, 2018 Reviewer discussion period June 25-30, 2018 Decision notification July 6, 2018 Camera-ready papers and Author advance registration July 31, 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark Program Chairs: Nelly Pustelnik, ENS Lyon, France Zhanyu Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Finance Chair: Børge Lindberg, Aalborg University, Denmark Data Competition Chairs: Karim Seghouane, University of Melbourne, Australia Yuejie Chi, Ohio State University, USA Publicity and Social Media Chairs: Marc Van Hulle, KU Leuven, Belgium Jen-Tzung Chien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Web and Publication Chair: Jan Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Advisory Committee: Søren Holdt Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Theodoridis Sergios, University of Athens, Greece Raviv Raich, Oregon State University, USA Vince Calhoun, University of New Mexico, USA
(2018-09-18) 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Leipzig, Germany (updated)
SPECOM-2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************
20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018) Venue: Leipzig, Germany, September 18-22, 2018 Web: www.specom2018.org
ORGANIZERS The conference is organized by Leipzig University of Telecommunications (HfTL, Leipzig, Germany) in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).
SPECOM-2018 CO-CHAIRS Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia Rodmonga Potapova, MSLU, Moscow, Russia
CONFERENCE TOPICS The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of speech technology, human-machine interaction, machine learning and signal processing, particularly: Affective computing Applications for human-computer interaction Audio-visual speech processing Automatic language identification Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing Forensic speech investigations and security systems Multichannel signal processing Multimedia processing Multimodal analysis and synthesis Signal processing and feature extraction Speaker identification and diarization Speaker verification systems Speech and language resources Speech analytics and audio mining Speech dereverberation Speech driving systems in robotics Speech enhancement Speech perception and speech disorders Speech recognition and understanding Speech translation automatic systems Spoken dialogue systems Spoken language processing Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems Virtual and augmented reality
SPECIAL SESSIONS Positioning and Power Relations in Conversations: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session1 Advanced Cognitive Models for Human-Machine and Human-Robot Interaction: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session2 Big Data in Speech Computation: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session3
SATELLITE EVENT 3rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2018: http://specom.nw.ru/icr2018
INVITED SPEAKERS Tanja Schultz - Advances in Biosignal-Based Spoken Communication Sebastian Moller - Quality Engineering of Speech and Language Services Dongheui Lee - Robot learning through Physical Interaction and Human Guidance www.specom2018.org/invited-speakers
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of several independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2018 Papers submitted to SPECOM-2018 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
PROCEEDINGS SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major citation databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, etc. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2018.
IMPORTANT DATES April 15, 2018 ............ Submission of full papers May 30, 2018 ............ Notification of acceptance June 15, 2018 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and early registration Sept. 18-22, 2018 ......... Conference dates
VENUE The conference will be organized at the at the Leipzig University of Telecommunications.
CONTACTS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: SPECOM-2018 Secretariat: E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su; jokisch@hft-leipzig.de SPECOM-2018 web-site: http://www.specom2018.org; http://specom.nw.ru
The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4) conference will be held from October 11-13, 2018, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. This conference focuses on questions about the production, interpretation, and characterization of speech prosody, bringing together researchers in linguistics, psychology, and computer science.
The theme of ETAP4 is ?Sociolectal and dialectal variability in prosody.? As in many language fields, studies of prosody have focused on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in social structures. The goal of ETAP4 is to help diversify prosody research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The conference will bring together prosody researchers and researchers exploring the role of sociological variation in prosody, with a focus on understudied dialects and endangered languages, and individual differences based on gender and sexuality. Invited speakers will (i) raise what questions and areas they think would benefit from prosodic research, (ii) teach prosody researchers what they need to know to do research in these areas, and (iii) share insights from their experience engaging with the public around issues of understudied and endangered languages, linguistic bias, and intersectionality in science.
A satellite workshop on African-American English prosody will be held on October 10, 2018 to bring together participants to contribute common data sets and discuss the development of shared data resources and methodological considerations such as challenges in prosodic transcription. For updates on this workshop, subscribe to the e-mail list here: https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4-aae/
We invite submission of abstracts describing work related to the conference theme as well as topics in prosody more generally from diverse approaches, including fieldwork, experiments, computational modeling, theoretical analyses, etc. These topics include:
- Phonology and phonetics of prosody - Cognitive processing and modelling of prosody - Tone and intonation - Acquisition of prosody - Interfaces with syntax, semantics, pragmatics - Prosody in natural language processing
In addition to talks from invited speakers, there will be additional talks, and two poster sessions.
Abstracts for talks and posters must be submitted in a pdf format. Your abstract must include the submission?s title at the top, and must not include authors? names and affiliations, or any identifying information (i.e., ?In Liberman & Pierrehumbert (1984), we showed...?). Abstracts should be submitted in letter format (8.5" x 11" - not A4), with 1-inch margins on all sides, and in Arial 11 point font. The abstract itself (text) may be no longer than one page; a second page containing additional figures, tables, other graphics and/or references may be included.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2018, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.
VENUE:
SLSP 2018 will take place in Mons, which was European Capital of Culture in 2015. The venue will be:
University of Mons 31 Bvd Dolez, 7000 Mons Belgium
SCOPE:
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
anaphora and coreference resolution authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering computer-aided translation corpora and language resources data mining and semantic web information extraction information retrieval knowledge representation and ontologies lexicons and dictionaries machine translation multimodal technologies natural language understanding neural representation of speech and language opinion mining and sentiment analysis parsing part-of-speech tagging question-answering systems semantic role labelling speaker identification and verification speech and language generation speech recognition speech synthesis speech transcription spelling correction spoken dialogue systems term extraction text categorisation text summarisation user modeling
STRUCTURE:
SLSP 2018 will consist of:
invited talks peer-reviewed contributions posters
INVITED SPEAKERS: (to be completed)
Simon King (University of Edinburgh), tba Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon), tba
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Steven Abney (University of Michigan, US) Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions LLC, US) Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon et Pays du Vaucluse, FR) Pierrette Bouillon (University of Geneva, CH) Nicoletta Calzolari (Italian National Research Council, IT) Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University, SG) Kenneth W. Church (Baidu Research, US) Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, BE) Thierry Dutoit (University of Mons, BE) Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK) Ralph Grishman (New York University, US) Udo Hahn (University of Jena, DE) Siegfried Handschuh (University of Passau, DE) Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana?Champaign, US) Keikichi Hirose (University of Tokyo, JP) Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, US) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, US) Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE) Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK) Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, SG) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JP) Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute, QA) Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montréal, CA) Elmar Nöth (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE) Cecile Paris (CSIRO Data61, AU) Jong C. Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR) Alexandros Potamianos (National Technical University of Athens, GR) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK) Mats Rooth (Cornell University, US) Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES) Alexander Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Tanja Schultz (University of Bremen, DE) Holger Schwenk (Facebook AI Research, FR) Vijay K. Shanker (University of Delaware, US) Richard Sproat (Google Research, US) Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, JP) Gökhan Tür (Google Research, US) Yorick Wilks (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, US) Phil Woodland (University of Cambridge, UK) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK) Junichi Yamagishi (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Stéphane Dupont (Mons) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, co-chair) Kévin El Haddad (Mons) Kathy Huet (Mons) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra Royón (Granada) Gueorgui Pironkov (Mons) David Silva (London, co-chair)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2018
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2016 impact factor: 1.900) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The registration form can be found at:
http://slsp2018.irdta.eu/Registration.php
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
Paper submission: May 27, 2018 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 3, 2018 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 13, 2018 Early registration: July 13, 2018 Late registration: October 1, 2018 Submission to the journal special issue: January 17, 2019
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david@irdta.eu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Université de Mons Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London
(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.
'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.
Context
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.
Presentation
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.
Scientific Committee of the XVIth International Conference of the CIEC
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
Organization and timetable
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.
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.
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:
(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
(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.
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)
(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
(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) Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand 29-30 November 2018 Call for Papers We invite submissions for the Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang), to be held at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand, 29-30 November 2018. The Workshop is coordinated with the 17th Speech Science & Technology Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 4-7 December 2018. Aim As an integral part of spoken language, prosody has been shown to play an important role in many speech production and perception processes. However, our knowledge of the role of prosody in speech processing draws on a relatively narrow range of (mostly closely related) languages. There is an urgent need for more psycholinguistic research looking at commonalities and differences in the use of prosodic cues in speech processing across different languages, and also different varieties of major languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in this area. We are particularly interested in research on: (i) the role of prosody in semantic interpretation, including information structure; and (ii) prosody as an organisational structure for speech production and perception, including multimodal perspectives. Invited Speakers Anne Cutler, MARCS, Western Sydney University Bettina Braun, Universität Konstanz Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne Nicole Gotzner, Leibniz-ZAS Berlin Topics Topics include, but are not limited to, cross-linguistic and cross-varietal commonalities and differences in: - the role of prosody in signalling information structure, particularly in the activation and resolution of contrast and contrastive alternatives - the integration of prosody and morphosyntactic cues in speech comprehension, e.g. as cues to information structure - the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse - prosodic structure as an organisational frame in speech production or perception - links between prosodic structure and multimodal speech cues such as gesture Submissions We invite submissions of one-page abstracts following the guidelines on the Workshop website: https://proslang.wordpress.com/about/ *** Abstract deadline extended: 23 April 2018 *** Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2018 Workshop: 29-30 November 2018 Organisers Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren, Olcay Türk, Mengzhu Yan, VUW; Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: proslangworkshop@gmail.com.
(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
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:
(2019-08-04) International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia
Don't miss your opportunity to be a part of ICPhS 2019!
Call for papers
Authors will be invited to submit papers in December 2018 on original, unpublished research in the phonetic sciences. Papers related to the Congress themes are especially welcome, but we welcome papers related to any of the following list of scientific areas below. The submission deadline will be 4 December 2018.
The organisers of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences invite proposals for special sessions covering emerging topics, challenges, interdisciplinary research, or subjects that could foster useful debate in the phonetic sciences.
TheICPhS themes are ?Endangered Languages, and Major Language Varieties?. Special sessions related to these themes are especially welcome, but we are interested in proposals related to any of the scientific areas covered in the Congress. The submission deadline will be 30 April 2018.
There are opportunities for holding satellite meetings as well as workshops associated with ICPhS 2019. We invite those interested in arranging a satellite event to contact the organising committee now.
The scientific committee have put together a list of scientific areas for the 2019ICPhSprogram based on previous editions and current developments within phonetics
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Call for special sessions proposals Now open! Deadline for proposals 30 April 2018 Deadline for on-line full paper submission 4 December 2018 Registration opens Late 2018 Author notification deadline 15 February 2019 Congress Dates 4-10 August 2019
