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3-3-1 | (2018-04-15) ICASSP 2018, Calgary, AB, Canada. Update:new date and new location
IEEE ICASSP 2018 UPDATE
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Welcome to ICNLSP 2018 (www.icnlsp.org), an IEEE technically co-sponsored conference. It is the second edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing. The first edition ICNLSP 2015 (www.icnlsp.org/icnlsp2015) was held in Algiers on October 2015.
In addition to regular papers representing finished work, position papers describing ongoing research are also appreciated.
Signal processing, acoustic modeling
Architecture of speech recognition system
Deep learning for speech recognition
Analysis of speech
Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
Pathological speech and language
Speech coding
Speech comprehension
Summarization
Speech Translation
Speech synthesis
Speaker and language identification
Phonetics, phonology and prosody
Cognition and natural language processing
Information retrieval
Text categorization
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Computational Social Web
Arabic dialects processing
Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
New language models
Arabic OCR
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Lluis Marquez, Principal scientist, QCRI, Qatar
- Gérard Chollet, Emeritus CNRS researcher, France
- Djamel Bouchaffra, Professor, CDTA, Algeria
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chair: Mourad Abbas
Mourad Abbas Researcher, CRSTDLA, Algeria
Ahmed Abdelali Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Mohamed Afify Researcher, Microsoft, Egypt
Mansour Alghamdi Professor, KACST, Saudi Arabia
Farah Benamara Zitoune, Associate Professor, Paul Sabatier Univ., France
Daoud Berkani Professor, ENP, Algeria
Djamel Bouchaffra Professor, CDTA, Algeria
Youcef Chibani Professor, USTHB, Algeria
Gérard Chollet Emeritus researcher,CNRS, France
Kareem Darwish Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Mohamed Elfeky Researcher, Google Inc., USA
Ahmed Guessoum Professor, USTHB, Algeria
Valia Kordoni Associate professor, Humboldt University, Germany
Eric Laporte Professor, UPEM, France
Georges Linarès Professor, University of Avignon, France
Walid Magdy Associate professor, University of Edinburgh, UK
Lluis Marquez Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Preslav Nakov Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea Professor, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Khaled Shaalan Professor, The British University in Dubai, UAE
Otakar Smrz Researcher, D?ám-e D?am Language Institute, Czech Republic
Rudolph Sock Professor, University of Strasbourg, France
Stephan Vogel Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Marcos Zampieri Researcher, University of Wolverhampton, UK
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 18 December 2017
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2018
Camera-ready paper due: 28 February 2018
Conference dates: 25, 26 April 2018
CONTACT
Dr. Mourad Abbas
m_abbas04@yahoo.fr
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Colloque international de Sciences du langage
26-28 avril 2018
Université d’Opole, Pologne
Argumentaire
La rencontre sera centrée sur la perception en langue, en discours et en parole, thème qu’il s’agira avant tout d’aborder sous ses diverses coutures linguistiques, soient-elles grammaticales, morphologiques, syntaxiques, sémantiques, pragmatiques, discursives, logiques, cognitives, phonétiques, sociolinguistiques, psycholinguistiques, etc. L’objectif général du colloque sera ainsi de s’interroger sur la question de savoir comment notre langage prend en charge nos perceptions, tant en termes de construction, de profilage, de transmission que de réception, pour tenter de rendre plus nets les contours encore flous de l’expression linguistique de la perception, d’en approfondir l’étude des propriétés et/ou spécificités connues voire d’en mettre au jour de nouvelles. De manière plus spécifique, il s’agira entre autres, à partir de l’observation de la façon dont elles s’inscrivent dans le langage, de faire ressortir la dualité des ontologies de la perception (sensorielle vs intellectuelle). En pratique, à partir de la langue, du discours et de la parole, l’on interrogera le moule et la matrice linguistiques de la perception à travers, notamment, les axes suivants :
- descriptif (quels outils et/ou mécanismes instruisent nos perceptions, les décrivent, les véhiculent ou en rendent compte ?) ; - lexicologique (comment les dictionnaires traitent-ils des vocables et des structures de la perception ?) ; - prospectif (les grammaires, ouvrages grammaticaux, manuels scolaires ou autres référentiels pédagogiques de demain devront-ils intégrer la perception comme contenu à part entière, et si oui, comment ?) ; - didactique (faut-il enseigner la perception comme un contenu indépendant, et si oui, comment ? ; quel(s) lien(s) établir entre perception et acquisition d’une langue étrangère ?) ; - épistémologique (qu’est-ce qu’une perception, quels en sont les fondements, les modes et les dynamiques de production, d’évolution, d’organisation, de réception et/ou de validation ?) ; - contrastif (qu’est-ce qui distingue la perception d’un évènement de celle d’un objet, d’un fait ou d’une action ? ; qu’est-ce qui distingue un compte rendu de perception en français d’un compte rendu de perception dans d’autres langues données ?) ; - traductologique (quelles difficultés concrètes représente la traduction des comptes rendus de perception du français vers une langue cible donnée, et comment pallier ces problèmes ?) ; - historique (quand les notions de perception, de contenu et compte rendu de perception sont-elles apparues en linguistique, et comment ont-elles évolué ?).
À cet effet, qu’elles soient théoriques ou appliquées, systématiques ou expérimentales, contextuelles ou indépendantes, synchroniques ou diachroniques, prescriptives, descriptives ou programmatiques, intra ou interdisciplinaires, les propositions de communication ainsi sollicitées devront nécessairement s’inscrire dans au moins l’un des domaines fondamentaux des Sciences du langage. En outre, toutes les langues et tous les types de langages, naturels comme non naturels, pourront être pris comme base empirique. Enfin, quelle que soit l’approche envisagée, les démarches expérimentales et/ou cliniques seront très appréciées.
La Perception en langue et en discours (3e éd.) Université d’Opole, 26-28 avril 2018
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Comité scientifique
Elżbieta BIARDZKA (Université de Wrocław, Pologne) – Krzysztof BOGACKI (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Laura CALABRESE (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique) – Joanna CHOLEWA (Université de Białystok, Pologne) – Bernard COMBETTES (Université de Lorraine, France) – Ivana DIDIRKOVÁ (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique) – Christelle DODANE (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – María Luisa DONAIRE FERNANDEZ (Université d’Oviedo, Espagne) – Brigitte GARCIA (Université Paris 8, France) – Teresa GIERMAK-ZIELIŃSKA (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Geneviève GIRARD-GILLET (Université Paris 3, France) – Christopher GLEDHILL (Université Paris 7, France) – Aude GREZKA (CNRS, France) – Fabrice HIRSCH (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – Małgorzata IZERT (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Alicja KACPRZAK (Université de Łodź, Pologne) – Greta KOMUR-THILLOY (Université de Haute-Alsace, France) – Anna KRZYŻANOWSKA (Université Marie Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Pologne) – Radosław KUCHARCZYK (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Katarzyna KWAPISZ-OSADNIK (Université de Silésie, Pologne) – Christelle LACASSAIN-LAGOIN (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France) – Jan LAZAR (Université d’Opole, Pologne) – Sébastien MARENGO (Université de Sherbrooke & Université de Montréal, Canada) – Claude MULLER (Université Bordeaux 3, France) – Sylvester OSU (Université de Tours, France) – Urszula PAPROCKAPIOTROWSKA (Université catholique de Lublin, Pologne) – Sebastian PIOTROWSKI (Université catholique de Lublin, Pologne) – Jean-Christophe PELLAT (Université de Strasbourg, France) – Mária PAĽOVÁ (Université P.J. Šafárik de Košice, Slovaquie) – Ewa PILECKA (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Jérémi SAUVAGE (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – Laura PINO SERRANO (Université de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, Espagne) – Elżbieta SKIBIŃSKA (Université de Wrocław, Pologne) – Dorota ŚLIWA (Université catholique de Lublin, Pologne) – Maciej SMUK (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Rudolph SOCK (Université de Strasbourg, France) – Agnès STEUCKARDT (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – Witold UCHEREK (Université de Wrocław, Pologne) – Danièle VAN DE VELDE (Université Lille 3, France) – Dan VAN RAEMDONCK (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique) – Béatrice VAXELAIRE (Université de Strasbourg, France) – Bertrand VERINE (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – Sadia ZOUBIR-SHAW (Université du Kentucky, États-Unis d’Amérique)
Comité d’organisation
Elżbieta BIARDZKA (Université de Wrocław, Pologne) Magdalena DAŃKO (Université d’Opole, Pologne) Fabrice HIRSCH (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) Greta KOMUR-THILLOY (Université de Haute-Alsace, France) Katarzyna KWAPISZ-OSADNIK (Université de Silésie, Pologne) Christelle LACASSAIN-LAGOIN (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France) Fabrice MARSAC (Université d’Opole, Pologne) Mária PAĽOVÁ (Université P.J. Šafárik de Košice, Slovaquie) Ewa PILECKA (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) Rudolph SOCK (Université de Strasbourg, France) Sadia ZOUBIR-SHAW (Université du Kentucky, États-Unis d’Amérique)
La Perception en langue et en discours (3e éd.) Université d’Opole, 26-28 avril 2018
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Renseignements pratiques
Les propositions de communication, nécessairement établies à partir du fichier « PropCom » ci-joint et non anonymées, devront être envoyées simultanément à Magdalena Dańko : mdanko@uni.opole.pl et à Fabrice Marsac : fmarsac@uni.opole.pl avant le 15 décembre 2017 (indiquer « PLD 2018 » comme objet). Les notifications d’acceptation ou de rejet des propositions de communication seront transmises aux auteurs au plus tard le 25 janvier 2018 et un premier programme provisoire du colloque suivra à compter du 15 février. Les communications devront ne pas dépasser 20 minutes de temps de parole (auxquelles s’ajouteront 10 minutes pour les questions) et la langue de présentation sera préférablement le français (même si l’anglais est également possible). Ultérieurement, les contributions écrites retenues par le Comité scientifique convoqué à cet effet feront l’objet d’une publication, dans le courant de l’année civile 2019, comme volume(s) thématique(s) dans la Collection Dixit Grammatica (L’Harmattan, France). Les frais d’inscription (de 400 PLN ou 100 €) comprennent le dîner de gala du premier jour (jeudi 26), la sortie culturelle nocturne du deuxième jour (vendredi 27) et la publication des contributions. Les frais de logement et autres frais de restauration sont exclusivement à la charge des participants. Le colloque se tiendra au Département des Philologies de l’Université d’Opole (situé au 11a de la Place Kopernika : http://www.uni.opole.pl/en). Le Comité d’organisation prévoit, entre autres activités gratuites, une visite guidée de la ville et de ses principaux attraits culturels et touristiques.
Dans le vif espoir de vous compter parmi nous à l’occasion de cette troisième édition de « La Perception en langue et en discours »,
Pour le Comité d’organisation,
Magdalena Dańko et Fabrice Marsac
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AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ==========================================
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The first AREA workshop will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) and is organized as a half-day session with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop. AREA includes a keynote by Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg).
Date: 7 May 2018
Venue: the Phoenix Seagaia Resort
Location: Miyazaki, Japan
http://www.areaworkshop.org/
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS
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There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of this workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas in which actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, human-computer communication, document design, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.
While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ?EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation?), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication.
AREA PROGRAMME
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9.00 - 9.15 Introduction
9.15 - 10.00 Keynote: Language, Action, and Perception, Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg)
10.00 - 10.10 Discussion
10.10 - 10.30 Action Hierarchy Extraction and its Application, Aliaksandr Huminski, Hao Zhang
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.20 Human-Robot Dialogue and Collaboration in Search and Navigation, Claire Bonial, Stephanie Lukin, Ashley Foots, Cassidy Henry, Matthew Marge,Ron Artstein, David Traum, Clare R. Voss
11.20 - 12.30 Poster presentations (see below)
12.30 - 13.00 Road Map Discussion
Posters:
- Laughter and Body Movements as Communicative Actions in Encounters
Kristiina Jokinen, Trung Ngo Trong
- Learning Actions from Events Using Agent Motions
Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Tuan Do, and James Pustejovsky
- Action Identification and Local Equivalence of Action Verbs: the Annotation Framework of the IMAGACT Ontology
Massimo Moneglia, Alessandro Panunzi, Lorenzo Gregori
- Action Categorisation in Multimodal Instructions
Ielka van der Sluis, Renate Vergeer, Gisela Redeker
-VANNOTATOR: a Gesture-driven Annotation Framework for Linguistic and Multimodal Annotation
Christian Spiekermann, Giuseppe Abrami, Alexander Mehler
MORE INFORMATION
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For more information visit the workshop webpage at: http://www.areaworkshop.org/
Or contact us at: jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu, i.f.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Jan Alexanderson, DFKI
Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland
Anja Belz, University of Brighton
Johan Bos, University of Groningen
Kirsten Bergmann, Bielefeld University
Harry Bunt, Tilburg University
Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg
Eren Erdal Aksoy, Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie
Kristiina Jokinen, AIRC AIST
Johan Kwisthout, Radboud University Nijmegen
Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Brandeis University
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh
Andy Lucking, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Siddharth Narayanaswamy, University of Oxford
Paul Piwek, Open University
Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University
Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen
Daniel Sonntag, DFKI
Michael McTear, University of Ulster
Mariet Theune, University of Twente
David Traum, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Florentin Wörgötte, Georg-August University Göttingen
Luke Zettlemoyer, UW CSE
ORGANIZERS
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James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Ielka van de Sluis, University of Groningen
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The schedule for all the LREC 2018 Workshops and Tutorials is online at
http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/workshops-and-tutorials/
On this web page you will find a link to each Workshop Call for Papers/Web site and each
Tutorial Outline, when available.
Don't hesitate to contact Workshop and/or Tutorial organisers if you have specific
questions on their event.
For general LREC 2018 matters, please contact us at lrec@lrec-conf.org.
LREC 2018 in Miyazaki (Japan), May 7-12, 2018
www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2018
Follow us on Twitter: @LREC2018
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LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -
Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan
7-12 May 2018
Main Conference: 9-10-11 May 2018
Workshops and Tutorials: 7-8 & 12 May 2018
Conference web site: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/
Twitter: @LREC2018
The online registration to the Main conference, the workshops and the tutorials is now open @ http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/registration/
Early Bird ends February 15, 2018
Contact: registration@lrec-conf.org
Book your accommodation in Miyazaki: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/accommodation-tours/
The online registration to O-COCOSDA 2018 will soon open.
www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2018
Follow us on Twitter: @LREC2018
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
The European Language Resource Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international organisations ? many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural Language Processing - Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand, the Korean Society for Language and Information, the Korean Special Interest Group of Human and Cognitive Language Technology, ...
CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies
and tools, communicate on-going and planned activities, identify industrial uses and needs, and address requirements from e-science and e-society, with respect to scientific, technology, policy and organisational issues.
For this edition, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, LREC goes East in order to support a stronger interaction and synergy with the Asian NLP community and to help promoting Asian Language Resources and Language Technologies.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from a wide spectrum of related disciplines to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LTs) and development of corresponding products,
services and applications, and standards.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data
* Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
* Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
* Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
* Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
* LRs and Semantic Web
* LRs and Crowdsourcing
* Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up
Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications
* Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
* LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, web services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
* Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
* Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
* Industrial LRs requirements
* User needs, LT for accessibility
Issues in LT evaluation
* LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
* Validation and quality assurance of LRs
* Benchmarking of systems and products
* Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
* User satisfaction evaluation
General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation
* International and national activities, projects and initiatives
* Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
* Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
* Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
* Replicability and reproducibility issues
* Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues
LREC 2018 HOT TOPICS
Asian Language Resources
Special attention will be devoted to highlight the wide variety of initiatives for the creation, use and evaluation of Asian Language Resources and Technologies. Special attention will be paid to Less-Resourced Languages in the Asian area, including (local) Sign Languages.
International Contribution to Olympics 2020
LREC 2018 would like to promote all LTs that would support better interactions and communications between the Olympics 2020 visitors and the local hosts. This involves all speech- and text-based computer interactions, speech/sign to speech/sign translations, human-human communications mediated by computers, etc. Assessment of the above mentioned technologies is also an important area within LREC 2018.
Language Resources in the Online World
In a time in which more and more (language) data are generated, either by human beings or by machines, and directly streamed, the question arises how LRs and LTs can cope with this development. A first challenge is to address and to provide for correctives to hate speeches, cyberbullying, fake news, etc. Can LT provide means to process and respond in a timely manner to such language data streamed in a huge amount at high speed? In this context, language technologists have to intensify cooperation with humanities, especially social and political sciences, psychology but also economics, and more.
DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRs!
In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map ? now a normal step in the submission procedure of many conferences ? LREC recognises the importance of sharing resources and making them available to the community. When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special LREC repository set up by ELRA. Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before the conference, to be re-used, compared, analysed. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. We will also organise an Industrial Track.
SUBMISSIONS AND DATES
General submission page: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/
Submission of extended abstracts for oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 25 September 2017
LREC 2018 asks for a 3 to 4 pages (references excluded) extended abstract which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet. Extended abstracts must be submitted through START @ https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/main/ and will be peer-reviewed. Submissions are NOT anonymous.
Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 25 September 2017
Workshop and Tutorial Proposals must be submitted online @ http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/ and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.
PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format. Final papers will range from 4 to 8 pages, with no difference in quality between shorter and longer submissions.
There is also no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered. The importance of LREC in Natural Language Processing is reflected by the H5-Index citation ranking in Google Scholar: LREC is ranked 3rd among Computational Linguistics conferences. In addition, since 2010, LREC Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Khalid Choukri ? ELRA, Paris - France
Christopher Cieri ? Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA
Thierry Declerck ? DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Koiti Hasida ? The University of Tokyo, Tokyo - Japan
Hitoshi Isahara ? Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi - Japan
Bente Maegaard ? Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Denmark
Joseph Mariani ? LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay - France
Asuncion Moreno ? Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain
Jan Odijk ? UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands
Stelios Piperidis ? Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece
Takenobu Tokunaga ? Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo ? Japan
CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Sara Goggi, CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa, Italy
Hélène Mazo, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France
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AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ==========================================
Call for Papers
AREA will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) and is organized as a half-day session with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop.
Date: 7 May 2018
Venue: the Phoenix Seagaia Resort
Location: Miyazaki, Japan
http://www.areaworkshop.org/
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS
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There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of this workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas in which actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, human-computer communication, document design, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.
While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ?EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation?), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication.
We invite submissions on foundational, conceptual, and practical issues involving modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
- dynamic models of actions
- formal semantic models of actions
- affordance modeling
- manipulation action modeling
- linking multimodal descriptions and presentations of actions (image, text, icon, video)
- automatic action recognition from text, images, and videos
- communicating and performing actions with robots or avatars for joint tasks
- action language grounding
- evaluation of action models
IMPORTANT DATES
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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
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Three types of submissions are invited:
- Research papers, describing original research; these can be either long (6-8 pages, not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including references);
- Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (2-4 pages including references);
- Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software, tools, or systems (2-4 pages including references).
We will decide whether to have an oral or poster presentation, depending on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop schedule.
Papers should be in compliance with the style sheet adopted for the LREC Proceedings. The AREA proceedings will be published in the LREC 2018 proceedings.
Papers should be submitted through the START conference manager set up for LREC 2018. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).
MORE INFORMATION
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For more information visit the workshop webpage at: http://www.areaworkshop.org/
Or contact us at: jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu, i.f.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Jan Alexanderson DFKI
Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland
Anja Belz University of Brighton
Johan Bos University of Groningen
Kirsten Bergmann Bielefeld University
Harry Bunt Tilburg University
Simon Dobnik University of Gothenburg
Eren Erdal Aksoy Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie
Kristiina Jokinen AIRC AIST
Johan Kwisthout Radboud University Nijmegen
Nikhil Krishnaswamy Brandeis University
Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh
Andy Lucking Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Siddharth Narayanaswamy University of Oxford
Paul Piwek Open University
Matthias Rehm Aalborg University
Gisela Redeker University of Groningen
Daniel Sonntag DFKI
Michael McTear University of Ulster
Mariet Theune University of Twente
David Traum USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Florentin Wörgötte Georg-August University Göttingen
Luke Zettlemoyer UW CSE
ORGANIZERS
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James Pustejovsky Brandeis University
Ielka van de Sluis University of Groningen
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Call For Papers
LREC 2018 Industry Track will take place on 10 May, 2018
http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/industry-track/
The European Language Resource Association (ELRA, www.elra.info) is glad to announce the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international organisations ? many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural Language Processing - Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand, the Korean Society for Language and Information, the Korean Special Interest Group of Human and Cognitive Language Technology, and a number of industrial partners and supporters.
Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT) with over 1200 attendees from all over the world. LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards. As a hot LREC 2018 topic, an industry track will take place during the main conference.
Track Description
Human language technologies have become increasingly important parts of our lives. These technologies have emerged from decades of collaborations between academic and industrial research organizations; collaborations are made possible by the unique strengths of both communities and a set of shared practices (algorithms, evaluation methods, datasets, and the like). But despite this, there are substantial differences between research in academic and industrial settings.
In contrast to academic research: industrial speech and language technologies may pose unique challenges of scale; language resources from industry may demand different algorithms or evaluation methodologies than in academic settings; and the practices of academic and industrial settings may converge on distinct methods for the same problem; industrial systems and practices may pose ethical challenges not present in academic settings.
Topics of Interest
Topics include but not limited to:
Industrial systems
For this topic we welcome submissions which discuss industrial systems. They may describe technical innovations which are enabled by the industrial setting, or they may describe the implementation of a deployed industrial system. We also welcome submissions which discuss failures to replicate 'state-of-the-art' performance when provided with the affordances of an industrial setting. Finally, we also welcome opinion papers which discuss similarities and differences between academic and industrial practices for system development and evaluation, or which consider ethical issues specific to systems deployed at industry scale.
Tools and platforms for data collection
Data collected in an industry setting may pose specific technical, legal, and ethical challenges not normally encountered in academic settings. The infrastructure within which developers in industry operate can provide tremendous advantages, but also unique challenges. There can be significant differences in the context of a tool's operator or a data platform's customer in industry vs. academic applications. Platforms may be globally distributed, and the scale itself of the data and of the deployment of industry technologies can add significant complexity, which may demand innovative approaches. Industry developers may also face special problems in defining users, their orientation to their tasks, and what constitutes a successful interaction from the standpoint of the user and of data acquisition efforts. We welcome submissions which discuss industrial tools and platforms used to collect data.
Human computation in industry
Industrial language technologies depend on machine learning methods, which in turn require large, diverse collections of labeled data collected from humans for rapid iterative development and refinement. We welcome submissions which discuss issues in experimental design for human computation, the challenges of quality, diversity, and representation in crowdsourcing, and ethical issues posed by data collection via crowdsourcing and outsourcing.
Asian languages
One goal for this year's LREC is to strengthen connections with the Asian speech and language community. Therefore we welcome submissions which discuss industrial resources and technologies specific to the challenges posed by Asian languages.
Spoken languages and dialects
We are particularly interested in work which describes industrial resources and technologies for spoken languages, non-standard dialects, and therefore we welcome submissions which focus on these topics, especially those submissions which contrast spoken and written language?or standard and non-standard language?resources and technologies.
Less-resourced languages
One special topic for this year's LREC is less-resourced languages, especially those used in Asia, and therefore we welcome submissions which discuss resources and technologies for such languages in an industry setting.
Submission
We encourage submissions of papers for oral or poster presentation. Papers should follow theLREC stylesheet. The working language of the track is English. Submitted papers must be written and delivered in English and be up to 4 pages in length.
Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/IndustryTrack/.
Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
Describing your language resources (LRs) in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). This LREC feature is available to submissions within this track and highly recommended.
To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2018 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each LR. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
Important Dates & Deadlines
Organizing Committee
Industry Track Contact
Send your inquiries to: lrec2018-industry-track@googlegroups.com
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First Call for Papers
MULTIMODAL CORPORA 2018:
Multimodal Data in the Online World
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: To avoid a clash with ICASSP 2018 new schedule and location, the committee has agreed to reschedule IWSDS to 14-16 May 2018 (see below for all the new dates).
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Call for Paper: 2018 The first Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018)
Location: Beijing, China
Website: http://acii-asia-2018.org/index.html
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
Affective Applications:
• Biometrics
• Affective Databases and Annotation Tools
• Virtual Reality, Entertainment, Education, Ambient Intelligence
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2ème APPEL A COMMUNICATION - JOURNÉES D'ÉTUDES SUR LA PAROLE 2018
Les inscriptions pour les Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole (JEP 2018) sont désormais ouvertes !
Organisée conjointement par le Laboratoire Parole et Langage et l’AFCP, la conférence se tiendra du 4 au 8 juin 2018 à Aix-Marseille Université, Campus Schuman, à Aix-en-Provence.
Vous trouverez le programme ainsi que toutes les informations concernant les inscriptions à la conférence et aux ateliers satellites (si uniquement ateliers >>) sur le site des JEP 2018.
Délai d'inscription anticipée (Early bird) : 20 avril 2018
Pensez également à réserver votre hébergement au plus tôt ! Aix en Provence est une ville très touristique qui accueille de nombreux festivals au mois de juin… et les hôtels sont très demandés ;-)
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Atelier PinPex, Patrimoine Instrumental de la Phonétique Expérimentale 8 juin 2018, 9h30 -13h, faculté Arts, Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines, Aix-en-Provence
Le programme de l’atelier compte trois parties. La première porte sur l’exposé par des représentants de cinq laboratoires francophones de leur collection instrumentale (et/ou documentaire) et des actions patrimoniales déjà menées ou en projet, relatives à l’inventaire, la restauration, l’exposition, la valorisation et les institutions partenaires. La seconde propose un focus sur une pièce emblématique de chacune de ces collections ayant donné lieu à une action ou une valorisation particulière, par exemple une restauration, un documentaire, une exposition ou autre. Enfin, après ce tour d’horizon, une discussion s’ouvrira sur les possibilités d’entreprendre des projets conjoints et fédératifs de sauvegarde et valorisation de ces collections et activités patrimoniales. Eparpillées, elles pourraient constitue un ensemble patrimonial de la communauté Parole, ‘exposable’ sur un espace muséal virtuel (web).
9h30-9h40 Introduction de PinPex (Y. Meynadier & F. Hirsch)
9h40-11h10 Collections et actions patrimoniales des laboratoires 9h40-9h55 Aix-en- Provence (Y. Meynadier) 9h55-10h10 Montpellier (C. Dodane & F. Hirsch) 10h10-10h25 Belgique (B. Harmegnies) 10h25-10h40 Grenoble (C. Vilain) 10h40-10h55 Paris (D. Demolin) 10h55-11h10 Strasbourg (F. Hirsch, C. Fauth & B. Vaxelaire)
11h10-11h30 Pause-café
11h30-12h20 Pièces emblématiques des laboratoires 11h30-11h40 : Le photonasograph d’Ohala, Paris (A. Amelot) 11h40-11h50 : Le kymographe portable, Paris & Aix-en-Provence (A. Ghio, D. Demolin & Y. Meynadier) 11h50-12h00 : Le segmentateur de Landercy, Mons (V. Delvaux) 12h00-12h10 : L’analyseur de Koenig, Grenoble (C. Savariaux) 12h10-12h20 : La collection ciné-radiographique de Straka, (B. Vaxelaire, F. Hirsch, P. Perrier & R. Sock)
12h20-13h00 : Discussion générale en table ronde Vers un projet fédératif de valorisation du patrimoine instrumental de phonétique expérimentale des laboratoires francophones de la Parole (Y. Meynadier & F. Hisrch)
L’inscription à cet atelier est impérative via le site des JEP 2018 : https://jep2018.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12
Organisateurs / Contact Yohann Meynadier, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), CNRS – Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, yohann.meynadier@univ-amu.fr, maître de conférences en phonétique et phonologie et responsable de la collection scientifique du LPL au sein de la commission Culture et Patrimoine Scientifique d’AMU où il mène des actions de sauvegarde, d’archivage et de valorisation du patrimoine instrumental et scientifique du LPL. Fabrice Hirsch, Laboratoire Praxiling, CNRS – Université Montpellier 3, Montpellier, fabrice.hisrch@univ-monpt3.fr, maître de conférences en phonétique, phonologie et analyse de l’oral, participe aux travaux de sauvegarde et de valorisation du patrimoine instrumental de phonétique au sein du laboratoire Praxiling et de l’Institut de Phonétique de Strasbourg.
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Atelier Satellite des JEP'18
*Explorer les interactions sociales conversationnelles avec des agents artificiels*
/le vendredi 8 juin à partir de 9h30/
L?atelier vise à explorer comment les agents artificiels communicants peuvent être
utilisées, ou le sont déjà, pour accroître nos connaissances sur les dimensions sociales
des communications humaines et homme-machine en situation écologique. Un panel d?experts
interdisciplinaire présentera quelques projets en cours et ouvrira la discussion sur les
perspectives. L?objectif est de renforcer l'interaction entre sciences de la parole et du
langage, psychologie cognitive, informatique et neuroscience, et promouvoir l?approche
auprès d?une communauté de chercheurs élargie.
Organisateurs : Thierry Chaminade, (INT, ILCB, AMU), Fabrice Lefèvre (LIA, ILCB, U.
Avignon), Noël Nguyen (LPL, ILCB, AMU) & Magalie Ochs (LIS, ILCB, AMU)
Inscriptions et informations complémentaires (horaires, lieu, contacts...) :
https://jep2018.sciencesconf.org/
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*OBJECTIF* Dans le domaine de la communication parlée, l?un des enjeux majeurs et
/interdisciplinaires/ aujourd?hui est de mieux comprendre les interactions /sociales/
dans des situations écologiques, à l?échelle de la dyade ou du groupe. Les problématiques
de recherche scientifiques sous-jacentes émanent de plusieurs disciplines : sciences de
la parole et du langage, psychologie cognitive, informatique, neuroscience. Les agents
artificiels communicants (en particulier les personnages virtuels ou les robots
humanoïdes) peuvent être utilisés comme plateforme expérimentale pour mieux comprendre
les mécanismes impliqués dans les interactions sociales qu?elles soient humain-humain ou
humain-machine (Wykowska, Chaminade et Cheng, 2016). En partant de cette constatation et
dans le prolongement du workshop ISIA@ICMI 2017 (Chaminade, Nguyen, Ochs et Lefèvre
2017), le but de l?atelier est d?explorer comment les nouvelles technologies associées
aux agents artificiels communicants peuvent être utilisées, ou le sont déjà, pour
accroître notre connaissance des mécanismes des interactions sociales impliquant, par
exemple les émotions, les signaux et fonctions sociales et la cognition. Des contextes
d?interaction réalistes, en particulier utilisant le langage oral, nécessitent des outils
et paradigmes expérimentaux nouveaux, combinant les sciences humaines et sociales avec
les neurosciences etl?informatique, ainsi que de l?ingénierie. Cette vision globale et
interdisciplinaire est nécessaire pour ouvrir la voie aux media sociaux du futur avec
l?objectif d?améliorer la compétence sociale des agents artificiels, qu?il s?agisse de la
compréhension mutuelle, la collaboration et le dialogue, avec des applications dans les
domaines de la santé, de la formation ou des loisirs.
Le principe de l?atelier est de rassembler un groupe d?experts interdisciplinaire dans
trois champs complémentaires. Les recherches en sciences humaines étudient les fondements
comportementaux et linguistiques des interactions sociales naturelles parlées. Pour les
neurosciences, étudier les interactions sociales à l?aide des techniques avancées de
neuroimagerie est la nouvelle frontière à atteindre pour comprendre pleinement les
spécificités physiologiques des comportements humains normaux et pathologiques.
L?informatique quant à elle a fait des progrès considérables pour l?extraction des
signaux sociaux des données multimédia, incluant les enregistrements audio et vidéos
d?interactions naturelles. De plus, l?informatique permet de refermer la boucle en
fournissant des agents artificiels contrôlables ? tels les avatars ou les robots
humanoïdes ? qui peuvent être utilisés comme des outils pour tester des hypothèses sur
les comportements sociaux multimodaux susceptibles de modifier la compétence sociale de
l?agent artificiel et objectiver l?influence de ces comportements sur l?interaction.
Globalement, l?objectif est de renforcer cette interaction triangulaire entre
informatique, humanités et neurosciences. Pour cela l'atelier s'attachera à illustrer au
travers des projets en cours, à quel point ces efforts peuvent être profitables afin de
promouvoir l?approche encore plus largement.
Wykowska, A., Chaminade, T., & Cheng, G. (2016). Embodied artificial agents for
understanding human social cognition. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 371(1693). doi:
10.1098/rstb.2015.0375
Thierry Chaminade, Noël Ngyuen, Magalie Ochs, Fabrice Lefèvre: Proceedings of the 1st ACM
SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial
Agents, ISIAA@ICMI 2017, Glasgow, United Kingdom, November 13, 2017. ACM 2017, ISBN
978-1-4503-5558-2
*PROGRAMME*
- Session /Présentation des enjeux/ - Gérard Bailly du Gipsa-Lab fera une présentation
des enjeux de l'approche [45?]
- Session /Projets/ - Présentation par les porteurs des avancées scientifiques réalisées
dans des projets nationaux et internationaux en cours, dont H2020 CHIST-ERA JOKER, H2020
ANIMATAS, ANR IMPRESSIONS, ANR ACCORFORMED, PIA A*MiDex BLRI PSYSOCIAL [60?]
- Session /Posters/ - Les projets, et les participants (voir ci-dessous), pourront
présenter des contributions scientifiques plus précises sous forme de poster [45?]
- Session /Perspectives/ - Discussion ouverte [15?]
*SESSION POSTER*
La session poster permettra des discussions libres en petit comité autour d'activités
liées aux thèmes de l'atelier. Elles sera principalement articulée autour de posters liés
aux projets présentés dans la session Projets. *Toutefois tous les participants peuvent
proposer d'y participer*. Pour cela il suffit d'envoyer un email aux organisateurs
(fabrice.lefevre@univ-avignon.fr) avec une copie du poster (s'il est disponible, sinon le
titre et le contenu textuel principal). Le critère d'acceptation sera la cohérence
thématique avec l'atelier.
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The 9th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from 13 to 16 June, 2018 at Collegium Iuridicum Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Speech Prosody is the biennial flagship conference of SProSIG with 300 - 400 participants each time.
The deadline for Workshop, Tutorial & Special Session proposal submission is 15 September. We encourage you to make proposals by sending e-mail to prosodist@gmail.com and jolabachan@gmail.com
The paper submission deadline is 10 December. (Submission page will open on 1 October.)
For details, please go to Speech Prosody 2018 home page http://sp9.home.amu.edu.pl/index.php
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The Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages will be held in Berlin, Germany from Monday June 18 to Wednesday June 20, 2018. This symposium follows the successful TAL 2016 conference in Buffalo, NY, USA. TAL 2018 will be organized at Beuth University Berlin conveniently located in the city center close to all major attractions. TAL 2018 is timed after Speech Prosody 2018 in Poznan, Poland, June 13-16, only a quick train ride away.
Websites and deadlines:
TAL 2018: http://public.beuth-hochschule.de/~mixdorff/tal2018/
Speech Prosody 2018: http://sp9.home.amu.edu.pl/, paper deadline 10 December 2017
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2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology
We are pleased to invite one page research proposals for a workshop on Machine Learning for Speech and Language Technology at Johns Hopkins University June 25 to August 3, 2018 (Tentative)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: Monday, October 9th, 2017.
One-page proposals are invited for the annual Frederick Jelinek Memorial Workshop in Speech and Language Technology. Proposals should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various fields of Human Language Technology (HLT) or related areas of Machine Intelligence, including Computer Vision and Healthcare. Proposals may address emerging topics or long-standing problems. Areas of interest in 2018 include but are not limited to:
* SPEECH TECHNOLOGY: Any aspect of information extraction from speech signals; techniques that generalize in spite of very limited amounts of training data and/or which are robust to input signal variations; techniques for processing of speech in harsh environments, etc.
* NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Knowledge discovery from text; new approaches to traditional problems such as syntactic/semantic/pragmatic analysis, machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, summarization, etc.; domain adaptation; integrated language and social analysis; etc. * MULTIMODAL HLT: Joint models of text or speech with sensory data; grounded language learning; applications such as visual question-answering, video summarization, sign language technology, multimedia retrieval, analysis of printed or handwritten text.
* DIALOG AND LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING: Understanding human-to-human or human-to-computer conversation; dialog management; naturalness of dialog (e.g. sentiment analysis).
* LANGUAGE AND HEALTHCARE: information extraction from electronic health records; speech and language technology in health monitoring; healthcare delivery in hospitals or the home, public health, etc.
These workshops are a continuation of the Johns Hopkins University CLSP summer workshop series, and will be hosted by various partner universities on a rotating basis. The research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops should serve as good examples for prospective proposers: http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/. An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated by October 13th, 2017. Authors passing this initial screening will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in Baltimore on November 10-12th, 2017. Proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two or three research topics and the teams to tackle them will be selected at this meeting for the 2018 workshop. We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop to collaboratively pursue research on the selected topics. Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and students. Authors of successful proposals typically lead these teams. Other senior participants come from academia, industry and government. Graduate student participants familiar with the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance. Undergraduate participants, selected through a national search, are rising star seniors: new to the field and showing outstanding academic promise. If you are interested in participating in the 2018 Summer Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed. If a topic in your area of interest is chosen as one of the topics to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available to participate in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith commitment that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will actively pursue it. We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to make your six-week participation possible.
Proposals must be submitted to jsalt2018@clsp.jhu.edu by 5PM EDT on Monday, 10/09/2017.
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Call for Projects to eNTERFACE 2018
eNTERFACE 2018, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 6th ? 31st, 2018 The
14th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces enterface18.org
piLab of ELEN/ICTEAM research group at Université Catholique de
Louvain invites project proposals for eNTERFACE?18, the 14th Summer
Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, to be held in Louvain-la-Neuve,
from July 6th to 31st, 2018.
Following the success of the previous eNTERFACE workshops held in Mons
(Belgium, 2005), Dubrovnik (Croatia, 2006), Istanbul (Turkey, 2007),
Paris (France, 2008), Genova (Italy, 2009), Amsterdam (Netherlands,
2010), Plzen (Czech Republic, 2011), Metz (France, 2012), Lisbon
(Portugal, 2013), Bilbao (Spain, 2014), Mons (Belgium, 2015), Twente
(Netherlands, 2016), Porto (Portugal, 2017), eNTERFACE?18 aims at
continuing and enhancing the tradition of collaborative, localised
research and development work by gathering, in a single place, leading
researchers in multimodal interfaces and students to work on specific
projects for 4 complete weeks.
Topics
This year?s special topics will be transmedia storytelling and deep
learning for improved interactions. There will be masterclasses around
those topics during the workshop.
Although not exhaustive, the submitted projects can cover one or
several of the topics listed below:
- Art and Technology
- Affective Computing
- Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies
- Assistive Technologies for Education and Social Inclusion
- Augmented Reality
- Conversational Embodied Agents
- Human Behavior Analysis
- Human Robot Interaction
- Interactive Playgrounds
- Innovative Musical Interfaces
- Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications
- Multimodal Interaction, Signal Analysis and Synthesis
- Multimodal Spoken Dialog Systems
- Search in Multimedia and Multilingual Documents
- Smart Spaces and Environments
- Social Signal Processing
- Tangible and Gesture Interfaces
- Teleoperation and Telerobotics
- Wearable Technology
- Virtual Reality
Important dates
March 10th, 2018 :Submission deadline: 1-page Notification of interest
for a project proposal with a summary of project goals, work-packages
and deliverables March 24th, 2018 : Submission deadline: Final project
proposal March 31st, 2018 : Notification of acceptance to project
leaders April 2nd, 2018 : Start Call for Participation, participants
can apply for projects May 11th, 2018 : Call for Participation is
closed May 14th, 2018 : Notification of acceptance to participants
June 1st, 2018 : Teams are built 6th ? 31st July 2018 : eNTERFACE?18
Workshop
Proposals should be submitted to macq@ieee.org. They will be evaluated
by eNTERFACE Steering Committee with respect to the suitability to the
workshop goals and format. Authors of the accepted proposals will then
be invited to build their teams.
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École thématique Big Data & Speech
Nouvelles Technologies pour l'Exploration de Corpus de Parole
site WEB (en construction) www.bigdata-speech
Dates : 9 au 13 juillet 2018
Lieu : Centre de Conférences de la Station Biologique de Roscoff
Thématique :
A l'ère des grandes masses de données, l'école thématique CNRS et LabEx EFL Big Data & Speech vise à donner un aperçu de recherches innovantes en linguistique de l'oral s'appuyant sur de grands corpus de parole. De plus, elle vise à présenter une sélection d'approches, méthodes et outils du traitement automatique de la parole et de la langue, pouvant être utile au linguiste travaillant sur la parole dans des domaines aussi divers que la phonétique, la phonologie, la dialectologie, la typologie, l'acquisition, l'apprentissage des langues, la sociophonétique, les pathologies de la parole. . . Ainsi, un alignement forcé automatique entre signal de parole et transcription manuelle permet d'accélérer de nombreuses étapes de mesure et d'analyse linguistique proprement dite ; des applications mobiles d'enregistrement telles que LIG-Aikuma permettent d'accélérer la collecte de corpus du linguiste de terrain ; les grands corpus collectés pour le traitement automatique et reflétant l'usage de la langue parlée à un moment donné peuvent être précieux pour les linguistes afin de tester hypothèses et théories à plus grande échelle, de quantifier des phénomènes connus ou de découvrir des phénomènes ignorés jusque-là. Lors de cette école, il s'agit, en particulier, de fournir les bases nécessaires a la compréhension et la pratique des méthodes statistiques et neuronales, et de montrer leur intérêt pour répondre à des questionnements scientifiques relatifs à la linguistique de corpus. Dans ce but, la moitié du temps sera consacré à des travaux pratiques. Les questions épistémologiques seront également abordées.
Thèmes et intervenants :
La formation consiste en 4,5 jours de cours magistraux et de travaux pratiques (50% cours, 50% TP) articulés autour des thèmes prioritaires: linguistique de corpus, phonétique et phonologie de corpus, outils et méthodes de traitement automatique de la parole à l'usage des linguistes, fondements de l'apprentissage automatique pour l'analyse de corpus linguistiques, méthodes et outils pour la recherche d'information, questions épistémologiques liées à l?utilisation de méthodes quantitatives en linguistique.
Les travaux pratiques (essentiellement à l'aide des toolkits Kaldi, Weka, R, Praat) seront réalisés sur des corpus fournis par les
organisateurs. Nous proposons aux participants qui souhaitent travailler sur leurs propres données de prendre contact avec les
organisateurs afin de vérifier la faisabilité de leur projet d?étude.
Parmi les intervenants pressentis et/ou confirmés:
Alexandre Allauzen, LIMSI, Université Paris-Saclay
Nicolas Audibert, LPP, Université Paris 3
Bruno Bachimont, Sorbonne Université / UTC Compiègne
Laurent Besacier, LIG, Université UGA Grenoble
Maud Ehrmann, EPFL, Lausanne
Yannick Estève, LIUM, Université du Maine, Le Mans
Cédric Gendrot, LPP, Université Paris 3
Mark Liberman, UPenn, Philadelphia
Margaret Renwick, Oxford University
...
Public :
L'école s'adresse prioritairement aux chercheur.e.s, enseignant.e.s-chercheur.e.s et ingénieur.e.s, utilisant des corpus oraux et intéressé.e.s par l'exploitation numérique de leurs données ou souhaitant étendre leurs travaux à des données de taille importante nécessitant un traitement automatique. En fonction des places disponibles, des étudiant.e.s en doctorat et/ou en master sont également encouragé.e.s à s'inscrire. Les formations s'adressent prioritairement à des participant.e.s du domaine des sciences humaines, mais des participant.e.s issu.e.s du domaine des sciences et technologies de l'information sont également les bienvenu.e.s
dans la mesure où leurs travaux nécessitent une meilleure prise en compte des enjeux linguistiques liés à la modélisation des données orales.
Inscription :
Le nombre de places est limité. La préinscription se fait via :
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_CO13qhHfPATrD6TpvcwpM7-l7lsx9THXFS6Q74Tbjg
Pour les agents CNRS, les frais d'inscription et de séjour seront pris en charge par la délégation régionale des participants. Les frais d'inscription prévus seront d'environ 350 ? pour les participants académiques et de 170 ? pour les doctorants, et couvrent l'hébergement, les repas et la participation aux cours et travaux pratiques.
Pour toute question relative à l'école d'été, veuillez contacter : Martine Adda-Decker (martine.adda-decker@univ-paris3.fr) ou Ioana Vasilescu (ioana.vasilescu@limsi.fr)
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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/
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SCOPE:
DeepLearn 2018 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 2 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
ADDRESSED TO:
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2018 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
STRUCTURE:
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
VENUE:
DeepLearn 2018 will take place in Genova, the capital city of Liguria, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and with one of the most important ports of the Mediterranean. The venue will be:
Porto Antico di Genova ? Centro Congressi
Magazzini del Cotone ? Module 10
16128 Genova, Italy
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
tba
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications to the Natural Sciences
Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Design and Implementation of Deep Learning Applications
Joachim M. Buhmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), [introductory/advanced] Model Selection by Algorithm Validation
Li Deng (Citadel), tba
Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Florida), [introductory/intermediate] Feature Extraction, End-end Deep Learning and Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal Extraction, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware
Michael Gschwind (IBM Global Chief Data Office), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning at Enterprise Scale
Xiaodong He (Microsoft Research), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Language-Vision Multimodal Intelligence
Namkug Kim (Asan Medical Center), [intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Aided Detection/Diagnosis in Radiology and Pathology
Li Erran Li (Uber ATG), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning: Foundations, Recent Advances and Frontiers
Dimitris N. Metaxas (Rutgers University), [advanced] Adversarial, Discriminative, Recurrent, and Scalable Deep Learning Methods for Human Motion Analytics, Medical Image Analysis, Scene Understanding and Image Generation
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [introductory/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video
Björn Schuller (Imperial College London), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Signal Analysis
Michèle Sebag (French National Center for Scientific Research, Gif-sur-Yvette), [intermediate] Representation Learning, Domain Adaptation and Generative Models with Deep Learning
Ponnuthurai N Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Algorithms for Classification, Forecasting and Visual Tracking
Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning and Kernel Machines
Kenji Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology), [introductory/advanced] Deep Learning in Medical Image Processing, Analysis and Diagnosis
Gökhan Tür (Google Research), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning in Conversational AI
Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] A Statistical Machine Learning Perspective of Deep Learning: Algorithm, Theory, Scalable Computing
Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects
Yudong Zhang (Nanjing Normal University), [introductory/intermediate] Convolutional Neural Network and Its Variants
OPEN SESSION:
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 15, 2018.
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 15, 2018.
EMPLOYERS SESSION:
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. At least one of the people in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com by July 15, 2018.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Francesco Masulli (Genova, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2018/registration.php
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
CERTIFICATE:
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david.silva409 (at) yahoo.com
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Università degli studi di Genova
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London
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The 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18) will be held in Gurugram, India on 29-31 August 2018
The workshop on spoken language technologies for under- resourced languages is the sixth in a series of even-year SLTU workshops. Five previous workshops were successfully organized: SLTU'16 in Yogyakarta (Indonesia), SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa), SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia) and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam).
There are more than 6000 languages in the world and only few are well represented digitally. India alone, with a country of 780 spoken languages and 86 different scripts that reflect its incredible diversity, has lost around 250 languages in the last 50 years and many more are at the verge of getting extinct. A major focus of this workshop is on Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages, but study on other under resourced languages are also encouraged. The workshop is being planned as a satellite workshop to INTERSPEECH 2018.
Contact: kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com <mailto:kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com> Website: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018 <http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018>
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for technical content (including figures, tables, etc) plus one additional page containing only references.
Areas/Topics
q Language resource development, acquisition and representation
q Linguistic theories, Corpus Development and Resources
q Linguistic and cognitive studies
q Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units
q Code switched lexical modelling
q Multi-lingual and cross-lingual spoken language processing
q Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing
q Machine translation and dialogue systems
q Application of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages.
Important Dates
q Full Paper Submission: 15th June, 2018
q Acceptance Notification: 10th July, 2018
q Camera Ready Papers: 17th July, 2018
q Early Registration: 24th July, 2018
q Workshop Dates: 29-31st August, 2018
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YFRSW-2018, Hyderabad, India, September 1, 2018
3rd International Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology
(YFRSW-2018)
Special event of Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India
https://sites.google.com/view/yfrsw2018/home
== Important Dates:
- Abstract submission opens: 16 April 2018
- Abstract submission closes: 24 May 2018
- Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2018
- Registration deadline: 5 July 2018
- Workshop date: 1 September 2018
== Topic:
The aim of this workshop is to bring women undergraduate and masters students, who are
currently working in speech science and technology, together at a special event
co-located with Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India. The workshop will take place on 1
September 2018 from 10am to 5pm followed by a dinner with invited senior members of the
Interspeech community. It will feature panel discussions with senior female researchers
in the field, student poster presentations and a mentoring session.
The workshop is the third of its kind, after a successful inaugural event (YFRSW 2016) at
Interspeech 2016 in San Francisco and the second event (YFRSW 2017) in Stockholm, Sweden.
It is designed to foster interest in research in our field in women at the undergraduate
or master level who have not yet committed to getting a PhD in speech science or
technology areas, but who have had some research experience in their college and
universities via individual or group projects.
== Call for Participation
Abstracts describing the student?s (planned) research (maximum of 300 words) should be
submitted by email to
yfrs.workshop@gmail.com by May 24, 2018.
Abstracts will be reviewed by the committee and applicants will be notified by June 15,
2018. Emphasis will be on inclusivity although all submissions should be in the core
scientific domains covered by Interspeech.
== Preliminary Program:
The workshop will include the following events:
* A welcome breakfast with introductions (1h)
* A panel of senior women talking about their own research and experiences as women in
the speech community (1h)
* A panel of senior students who work in the speech area to describe how they became
interested in speech research (1h)
* A poster session for the students to present their own research (2h)
* A coaching session between students and senior women mentors (1h)
* A networking lunch for students and senior women (1h)
== Organizing committee:
Amber Afshan (UCLA),
Kay Berkling (Karlsruhe University),
Heidi Christensen (University of Sheffield),
Maxine Eskenazi (CMU),
Milica Gasic (Cambridge University),
Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Google Inc),
Preethi Jyothi (IIT Bombay),
Esther Klabbers (ReadSpeaker),
Lori Lamel (LIMSI CNRS)
Yang Liu (University of Texas Dallas)
Karen Livescu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago),
Pratibha Moogi (Samsung Electronics),
Emily Mower Provost (University of Michigah),
Catharine Oertel (EPFL)
Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google Inc),
Odette Scharenborg (M*Modal),
Elizabeth Shriberg (Ellipsis Health Inc),
Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico)
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EUSIPCO 2018
26th European Signal Processing Conference
Rome, Italy
September 3-7, 2018
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The 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) will be held in Rome, the Eternal City, in Italy from September 3 to September 7, 2018. The flagship conference of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) will offer a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing and its applications. It will feature world-class speakers, oral and poster sessions, keynotes and plenaries, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, demo and ongoing work sessions and satellite workshops, and is expected to attract many leading researchers and industry figures from all over the world.
Technical Scope
We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:
- Audio and acoustic signal processing
- Speech and language processing
- Image and video processing
- Multimedia signal processing
- Signal processing theory and methods
- Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
- Signal processing for communications
- Radar and sonar signal processing
- Signal processing over graphs and networks
- Nonlinear signal processing
- Optimization methods
- Machine learning
- Statistical signal processing
- Compressed sensing and sparse modeling
- Bio-medical image and signal processing
- Signal processing for computer vision and robotics
- Computational imaging/Spectral imaging
- Information forensics and security
- Signal processing for power systems
- Signal processing for education
- Bioinformatics and genomics
- Signal processing for big data
- Signal processing for the internet of things
- Design/implementation of signal processing systems
- Other signal processing areas
Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore®. EURASIP Society enforces a ?no-show? policy. Procedures to submit papers, proposals for special sessions, tutorials and satellite workshops are detailed at the EUSIPCO 2018 website (www.eusipco2018.org).
Important dates
Tutorial proposals: 18 February 2018
Full paper submissions: 18 February 2018
Notification of paper acceptance: 18 May 2018
Camera-ready papers: 18 June 2018
STUDENT PAPER AWARDS: ?EUSIPCO Best Student Paper Awards? will be presented at the conference banquet. Papers will be selected by a committee composed of area and technical chairs.
TUTORIAL AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS: Tutorials will be held on September 3, 2018. Brief tutorial proposals should include title, outline, contact information, biography and selected publications for the presenter(s), and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Special session proposals should include title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited papers.
3 MINUTE THESIS (3MT):
EUSIPCO 2018 is offering a 3 Minutes Thesis contest, where PhD students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance. It is an exercise for students to consolidate their ideas so they can present them concisely to an audience specialized in different signal processing fields.
SATELLIT? WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:
The 2018 edition of EUSIPCO is proud to organize a half day of thematic workshops on Friday, September 7, 2018, after the end of the main conference, which will provide a forum to participate in specific scientific events and present research focused on current innovative topics in signal processing technology and its extension to other fields.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
GENERAL CHAIR
Patrizio Campisi, Roma Tre University, Italy
GENERAL CO-CHAIR
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
TECHNICAL CO-CHAIRS
Sergio Barbarossa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Augusto Sarti, Polythecnic University of Milan, Italy
PLENARY TALKS
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Enrico Magli, Polythecnic University of Turin, Italy
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Paulo Lobato Correia, IST Lisbon, Portugal
Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria
TUTORIALS AND DEMO
Bulent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey
Marco Carli, Roma Tre University, Italy
STUDENT ACTIVITIES CHAIR
Juan Ramon Troncoso-Pastoriza, EPFL, Switzerland
PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
Emanuele Maiorana, Roma Tre University, Italy
FINANCE CHAIR
Francesco De Natale, University of Trento, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Carmen Garcia Mateo, University of Vigo, Spain
Stefania Colonnese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
INTERNATIONAL LIAISON
Ajay Kumar, PolyU, Hong Kong
Shantanu Rane, PARC, USA
Anderson Rocha, University of Campinas, Brazil
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CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING 2018
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
Special Session Proposals Due: February 19, 2018
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The International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
(http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/), one of the leading venues in multimedia indexing, will
implement in 2018 two to three special sessions featuring contributions on a focused
trendy, innovative or frontier topics in multimedia indexing. Special sessions
differentiate from regular sessions as they provide focused context for addressing new or
emerging research directions, new developments in various application domains, and
frontier topics in multimedia indexing and retrieval.
Special sessions will be held as plenary sessions and should typically target 4 to 6
high-qualityoral presentations on the topic addressed. Special session organizers will
manage the selection process for their session under the guidance of the special session
chairs.
Important Dates
Special Session Proposals Due: February 19, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: March 09, 2018
Special Sessions Paper Submission: May 18.
Notification of Acceptance:June 29 2018
Camera-Ready Papers Due: July 13 2018
Submission Instructions
Proposals should be submitted by email to the special session chairs
(jenny.benois@labri.fr, guillaume.gravier@irisa.fr), either in plain-text or PDF format.
Please include the following information:
- Title of the proposed special session
- Rationale for the proposal, including target audience
- A brief bio and contact information for the organizers
- A tentative/confirmed list of invited papers (titles/affiliations/authors; if the case)
Contact
For any questions regarding submissions, please email the special session chairs:
jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr, guillaume.gravier@irisa.fr.
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Call for papers CBMI 2018 - La Rochelle, France 4-6 Sept 2018
International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/
(Main submission deadline May 04, 2018)
CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of
content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and
analytics.
After 15 successful editions of the CBMI workshop, the event is now becoming a conference
whose next edition will be held in La Rochelle, France.
The scientific program will include invited keynote talks and regular, special and demo
sessions.
Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers in the broad
field of content-based multimedia indexing and related applications. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to):
· Semantic multimedia analysis
· Summarization and semantic abstraction of multimedia content
· Multimedia content characterization and classification
· Metadata generation, coding and transformation;
· Multimodal and cross-modal indexing and retrieval
· Mobile and social media analysis and retrieval
· Multimedia recommendation
· Multimedia analysis and indexing beyond semantics, e.g. affect, sentiment, interest
· Personalization of multimedia content access
· Interactive multimedia indexing and retrieval
· Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems
· Applications of multimedia indexing and retrieval, e.g. in medicine, lifelogs,
satellite imagery, video surveillance and culture
The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and ACM DL.
In addition, authors of the best papers of the
conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a
special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (MTAP)
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/11042
Important dates:
Full/short paper submission: May 04, 2018
Demo paper submission: May 18, 2018
Special sessions paper submission: May 18, 2018
Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2018
Camera-ready papers due: July 13, 2018
More information on CBMI 2018 website: http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/
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Call for papers: Special Session on Analysis of Multimedia Data for Medicine and Health
CBMI 2018 - La Rochelle, France 4-6 Sept 2018 http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/cfp-special-session-on-analysis-of-multimedia-data-for-medicine-and-health -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Important dates: Paper submission: May 18, 2018 Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2018 Camera-ready papers due: July 13, 2018 * Organizers: - Klaus Schoeffmann, Klagenfurt University, Austria, ks@itec.aau.at - Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland, cathal.gurrin@dcu.ie - Stefanos Vrochidis, ITI, CERTH, Greece, stefanos@iti.gr - Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA, omarques@fau.edu * Call for papers: Within the last decade we have observed the emergence of multimedia data analysis and indexing in many new domains, including medicine and personal health. For example, in the field of medical surgery, interventional videos are nowadays recorded and stored in a long-term archive, in order to analyze and use them for post-procedural scenarios, such as operation documentation, surgical error analysis, as well as training and teaching surgery techniques. Similarly, in the field of personal health, images from lifelogging cameras are used to track sports activities, to compute calories consumption, and to create memories for elderly people with dementia, for example. Other relevant lines of research include analysis of medical images for diagnosis decision support, multimedia analysis and multimodal interaction with social agents for basic care, video monitoring and multimedia fusion for remote management of patients. This special session aims to bring together researchers working on analysis and indexing of multimedia data in the field of medicine and health and to provide them a venue for sharing novel ideas and discussing their most-recent works. * Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Medical image analysis/indexing - Medical video analysis/indexing (e.g., endoscopic videos, microscopic medical videos, OR-videos) - Surgical Quality Assessment (e.g., error analysis through images or videos) - Image and video analysis from personal sensors (e.g., lifelogging cameras) for the purpose of health - Lifelog data analysis in general - Personal experiences of long-term health/wellness studies - Multimedia analysis and retrieval for multimodal interaction in the health domain - Multimodal conversation and dialogue systems for social companion agents - Speech and audio analysis and retrieval for health applications - Facial analysis and gesture recognition of patients - Fusion of multimedia information for health and care-giving applications - Semantic web approaches for multimedia health applications - Visual analytics for human machine interaction in the health domain * Submission: Authors are invited to submit full length papers (6 pages in IEEE double-column format) via the EasyChair system of CBMI 2018. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members (single-blind). *** Important note: The title and the header of the paper should include the mention ?Submitted to Special Session on Analysis of Multimedia Data for Medicine and Health? (e.g., as sub-title) to avoid any misclassification. |
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Call for papers: Special Session on Indexing, Retrieval, Annotation and Mining in Earth
Observation (IR4EO)
CBMI 2018 - La Rochelle, France 4-6 Sept 2018
http://cbmi2018.univ-lr.fr/special-session-on-indexing-retrieval-annotation-and-mining-in-earth-observation-ir4eo/
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* Important dates:
Paper submission: May 18, 2018
Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2018
Camera-ready papers due: July 13, 2018
* Organizers:
Sébastien Lefèvre, Université de Bretagne Sud, IRISA (sebastien.lefevre@irisa.fr)
Josiane Mothe, Université de Toulouse, IRIT CNRS (Josiane.Mothe@irit.fr)
* Call for papers:
The proliferation of Earth Observation satellites, together with their
continuously increasing performances, provides today a massive amount of
geospatial data. Analysis and exploration of such data leads to various
applications, from agricultural monitoring to crisis management and
global security. However, they also raise very challenging problems,
e.g. dealing with extremely large and real time geospatial data,
user-friendly querying and retrieval satellite images or mosaics,
semantic indexing and annotation. The purpose of this special session is
to address these challenges, and to allow researchers from multimedia
retrieval and remote sensing to meet and share their experiences in
order to build the remote sensing retrieval systems of tomorrow. This
special session aims to establish connections between researchers from
multimedia retrieval and issues raised in remote sensing, and to provide
interesting problems to the former while providing solutions for the
latter. On the one hand, geospatial data requires specific models of
description, with characteristics very different from other domains. To
name a few, remotely sensed images are not necessarily defined in usual
color spaces, they compose large-scale mosaics enabling a continuous
global cover of the earth, they can be analysed and understood at
various scales, etc. On the other hand, the multimedia retrieval
community propose many scalable algorithms for learning, searching, or
classifying data in a more generalist way. This special session will be
a very interesting opportunity for multimedia researchers to propose
adaptations to geospatial data, and for remote sensing researchers to
create new models compatible with retrieval algorithms, while offering a
context where people from these two domains can meet and share their
experiences. Earth Observation is one of the major resource of visual
data that still greatly lacks of efficient and effective methods for
indexing and retrieval. Major challenges are faced since the geospatial
data available worldwide is at the order of magnitude of ZettaBytes.
Besides, thanks to the efforts of NASA in the USA and Copernicus program
in Europe, satellite images provided free of charge to end-users
represent several new TB every day. To ease the design of new solutions,
the scientific community benefits from the availability of an increasing
number of public benchmarks, such as: UC Merced Land Use Dataset,
Brazilian Coffee Scenes Dataset, SAT-4 and SAT-6 airborne datasets,
Sentinel-2 EuroSAT dataset, ISPRS 2D and 3D Semantic Labeling benchmark,
ImageClef 2017 Remote Pilot task, IEEE Data Fusion Contest, Kaggle
contests, etc. This is expected to ensure fair comparison of methods and
to support the evolution of the state-of-the-art.
* Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Content- and context-based indexing, search and retrieval of EO data
- Semantic annotation
- Deep Learning and CBIR of EO data
- Search and browsing on EO repositories
- Change detection and its applications,
- Near real time monitoring,
- Multimodal / multi-observations (sensors, dates, resolutions) analysis of EO data
- HCI issues in EO retrieval and browsing
- Evaluation of EO retrieval systems, benchmarks for EO indexing and retrieval tasks
- High-performance, large-scale indexing algorithms for EO data
- Data fusion
- Summarization and visualization of very large satellite image datasets
- Applications: deforestation detection, air pollution detection and
prediction, climate change, monitoring of resources, from land cover to
phenology, photosynthetic activity, etc. Submissions should be sent via
easychair and follow the IEEE format (see CBMI call). Each submission
will be peer reviewed by at least 3 PC members (general PC and special
session PC). The title of the submission should include ?(SS on
IR4EO)? to avoid misclassification.
Since the Remote Sensing journal as an open call for a special issue on
these topics
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/ir2s) with a
deadline of 30th of September, the best papers from the special session
will be encouraged to submit an extended journal version to this special
issue. The selection of the papers will be eased by the fact that one
of the special session organizers is also the leading guest editor of
the special issue.
* Invited speaker:
Begüm Demir is associate professor at the University of Trento (Italy).
In 2017, she got an (ERC) Starting Grant with the project « BigEarth -
Accurate and Scalable Processing of Big Data in Earth Observation ».
* Session programme committee members:
Erchan Aptoula, Gebze Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey (eaptoula@gtu.edu.tr) -
http://bte.gtu.edu.tr/~eaptoula/
Alexandre Benoit, Université Savoie Mont Blanc (alexandre.benoit@univ-smb.fr) -
https://sites.google.com/site/benoitalexandrevision/
Piero Boccardo, DIST, Politecnico di Torino, Ithaca (piero.boccardo@polito.it) -
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Piero_Boccardo2
Mihai Datcu, DLR, Germany (mihai.datcu@dlr.de) -
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=nKMSFeIAAAAJ
Fabio Del Frate, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy (Fabio.Del.Frate@uniroma2.it)
Fabio Dell'Acqua, Department of Electrical, Computer, Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of
Pavia, Italy (fabio.dellacqua@unipv.it) - http://unipv.academia.edu/FabioDellAcqua
Begüm Demir, University of Trento, Italie (begum.demir@unitn.it) - http://begumdemir.com
Jefferson Dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
(jefersson@dcc.ufmg.br) - http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~jefersson
Mathieu Roche, Research Scientist (PhD, HDR), CIRAD - Environments and Societies
Department UMR TETIS, (mathieu.roche@cirad.fr)
Sergi Trilles Oliver, Universitat Jaume I, Spain (strilles@uji.es) -
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergi_Trilles_Oliver
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EUSIPCO 2018
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CHiME 2018
5th International Workshop on
Speech Processing in Everyday Environments
Microsoft, Hyderabad, Sep 7, 2018
Submission deadline: Aug 3, 2018
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
CHiME 2018 will bring together researchers from the fields of computational hearing,
speech enhancement, acoustic modelling and machine learning to discuss the robustness of
speech processing in everyday environments.
As a focus for discussion, the workshop will host the CHiME-5 Speech Separation and
Recognition Challenge. To find out more about the challenge, see
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to):
- training schemes: data augmentation, semi-supervised training,
- speaker localization and beamforming,
- single- or multi-microphone enhancement and separation,
- robust features and feature transforms,
- robust acoustic and language modeling,
- robust speech recognition,
- robust speaker and language recognition,
- robust paralinguistics,
- cross-environment or cross-dataset performance analysis,
- environmental background noise modelling.
Papers reporting evaluation results on the CHiME-5 dataset or on other datasets are both
welcome.
IMPORTANT DATES
3rd Aug, 2018 Extended abstract submission (2 pages)
20th Aug, 2018 Paper notification
7th Sept, 2018 CHiME-5 Workshop
8th Oct, 2018 Final paper (2 to 6 pages)
ORGANISERS
Jon Barker, University of Sheffield
Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University
Emmanuel Vincent, Inria
LOCAL ORGANISER
Simerpreet Kaur, Microsoft
SPONSORS
Microsoft
SUPPORTED BY
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
ISCA Robust Speech Processing SIG
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CALL FOR PAPERS
2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
(FedCSIS)
Poznan, Poland, 9 - 12 September, 2018
www.fedcsis.org
Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2018, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions)
www.fedcsis.org
(FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS2018onIEEE)
FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized
jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section
Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of
Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology
and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region
8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society
Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC
Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland
Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society
Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter,
ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation
for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy
of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern
Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and
associates who could be interested in it.
The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly
acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information
systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute
their research results and participate in Events focused on their
scientific and professional interests in computer science and information
systems.
Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of
Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already
Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017.
FedCSIS EVENTS
The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five
conference areas.
* AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial
Intelligence and Applications
--- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in
Machine Vision and Graphics
--- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in
Medical Applications
--- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning,
Information, and Memory
--- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic
Information Retrieval
--- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining
Challenges
--- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks &
Multi-Agent Systems
--- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization
* CSS - Computer Science & Systems
--- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars
--- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing
and Colorization
--- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering
and Data Analysis
--- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information
Security
--- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms
--- C&SS'18 - 5th International Conference on Cryptography and Security
Systems
--- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation
Research Applications
--- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and
Services Computing Applications
--- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and
Applications
--- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and
Processing
--- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing
* iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and
Applications
--- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications
Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and
Computing Systems
--- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and
Trust
--- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges
and Applications
--- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
* IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society
--- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for
Management
--- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information
Technologies for Sustainable Development
--- ISM'18 - 13th Conference on Information Systems Management
--- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics
--- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management
--- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare
Education
* SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications
--- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System
Development
--- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and
Innovation
--- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software
Development
--- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop
(SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5)
* DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information
Technology
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group,
Department of Computer Science, University of Twente
- Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers
University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- W?odzis?aw Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and
NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary
Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University
- Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of
Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no
extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to
the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will
be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library.
Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI
numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most
Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may
invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference
publications (information can be found at the websites of individual
events, or by contacting Chairs of said events).
IMPORTANT DATES
? Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there
will be no extension)
? Position paper submission: June 12, 2018
? Authors notification: June 24, 2018
? Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018
? Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018
? Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018
CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES
Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki
CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat@fedcsis.org
FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook
FedCSIS on LinkedIN: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonLinkedIN
FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS
FedCSIS on XING: http://preview.tinyurl.com/FedCSISonXING
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CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum
Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Visualization
10 - 14 September 2018, Avignon - France
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Call for Lab Participation - Registration closes: 27 April 2018
Lab participants must register for the Labs via the CLEF website: http://clef2018-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/
Conference website: http://clef2018.clef-initiative.eu/
Labs flyer (pdf): http://clef2018.clef-initiative.eu/resources/CLEF2018-labs-flyer.pdf
Deadline Extension
Important Dates
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? Title, authors and abstract upload: 7 May 2018
? Submission of Long and Short Papers: 14 May 2018
? Notification of Acceptance: 8 June 2018
? Camera Ready Copy due: 22 June 2018
? Conference: 10-14 September 2018
CLEF 2018 is the 19th edition of CLEF which, since 2000, contributes to the systematic evaluation of information access systems. It consists of a peer-reviewed conference (see the separate call for papers) and a set of ten Labs designed to test different aspects of multilingual and multimedia IR systems:
1. CENTRE@CLEF 2018, CLEF/NTCIR/TREC Reproducibility
2. CheckThat! Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims
3. CLEF eHealth
4. DynSe, Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks
5. eRISK, Early Risk Prediction on the Internet
6. ImageCLEF, Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF
7. LifeCLEF
8. MC2, Multilingual Cultural Mining and Retrieval
9. PAN, Lab on Digital Text Forensics
10. PIR-CLEF, Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval
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Organizers
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Conference Chairs
Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS LSIS, France
Chiraz Trabelsi, University of Tunis El Manar, T unis
Program Chairs
Josiane Mothe, SIG, IRIT, France)
Fionn Murtagh, University of Huddersfield, UK)
Lab Chairs
Jian Yun Nie, DIRO, Université de Montréal, Canada
Laure Soulier, LIP6, UPMC, France
Proceedings Chairs
Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy
Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
Publication
Labs Working Notes will be published in the CEUR-WS Proceedings:
http://ceur-ws.org/
Lab Paper Submission via Easychair: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2018
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LABS
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CENTRE@CLEF 2018 - CLEF/NTCIR/TREC Reproducibility
The goal of CENTRE@CLEF 2018 is to run a joint CLEF/NTCIR/TREC task on challenging participants: 1) to reproduce best results of best/most interesting systems in previous editions of CLEF/NTCIR/TREC by using standard open source IR systems; 2) to contribute back to the community the additional components and resources developed to reproduce the results in order to improve existing open source systems.
- Task 1 - Replicability: replicability of selected methods on the same experimental collections.
- Task 2 - Reproducibility: reproducibility of selected methods on the different experimental collections. Task 3 - Re-reproducibility: using the components developed in T1 and T2 and made available by the other participants to replicate/reproduce their results.
Lab Coordination: Nicola Ferro (University of Padua), Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University), Ian Soboroff (NIST)
Lab website: http://www.centre-eval.org/
Twitter: @_centre_
LifeCLEF
LifeCLEF lab aims at boosting research on the identification of living organisms and on the production of biodiversity data. Through its biodiversity informatics related challenges, LifeCLEF is intended to push the boundaries of the state-of-the-art in several research directions at the frontier of multimedia information retrieval, machine learning and knowledge engineering. The lab is organized around three tasks:
- Task 1 - GeoLifeCLEF: location-based species recommendation.
- Task 2 - BirdCLEF: bird species identification from bird calls and songs.
- Task 3 - ExpertLifeCLEF: experts vs. machines identification quality.
Lab Coordination: Alexis Joly (INRIA, LIRMM), Henning Müller (HES-SO), Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD, AMAP), Hervé Goëau (CIRAD, AMAP), Hervé Glotin (University of Toulon, LSIS CNRS), Simone Palazzo (University of Catania), Willem-Pier Vellinga (Xeno-Canto)
Lab website: http://lifeclef.org/
PAN - Lab on Digital Text Forensics
PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics.
- Task 1 - Author Identification: cross-domain authorship attribution. More specifically, cases where the topic of texts varies significantly will be examined. In addition, we will continue the pilot task of style change detection, focusing on finding switches of authors within documents based on an intrinsic style analysis.
- Task 2 - Author Obfuscation: while the goal of author identification and author profiling is to model author style so as to deanomyize authors, the goal of author obfuscation technology is to prevent that by disguising the authors. We will study author masking vs. authorship verification.
- Task 3 - Author Profiling: the goal is to identify an author's traits based on their writing style. The focus will be on age and gender, whereas text and image will be used as information sources, offering tweets in English, Spanish and Arabic.
Lab Coordination: Martin Potthast (Leipzig University), Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València), Efstathios Stamatatos (Univerisity of the Aegean), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Lab website: http://pan.webis.de/
CLEF eHealth
Medical content is available electronically in a variety of forms ranging from patient records and medical dossiers, scientific publications and health-related websites to medical-related topics shared across social networks. This lab aims to support the development of techniques to aid laypeople, clinicians and policy-makers in easily retrieving and making sense of medical content to support their decision making.
- Task 1 - Multilingual Information Extraction: Participants will be required to extract the causes of death from death certificates, authored by physicians in European languages. This can be seen as a named entity recognition, normalization, and/or text classification task.
- Task 2 - Technologically Assisted Reviews in Empirical Medicine: Participants will be challenged to retrieve medical studies relevant to conducting a systematic review on a given topic. This can be seen as a total recall problem and is addressed by both query generation and document ranking.
- Task 3 - Patient-centred Information Retrieval: Participants must retrieve web pages that fulfil a given patient?s personalised information need. This needs to fulfil the following criteria: information reliability, quality, and suitability. The task also has a multilingual querying track.
Lab Coordination: Leif Azzopardi (Univ. of Strathclyde), Lorraine Goeuriot (Univ. J.Fourier), Evangelos Kanoulas (Univ. of Amsterdam), Liadh Kelly (Maynooth University), Aurélie Névéol (CNRS-LIMSI), Joao Palotti (Vienna Univ.), Aude Robert (INSERM/CepiDC), Rene Spijker (Cochrane), Hanna Suominen (Australian National Univ.), Guido Zuccon (Queensland Univ. of Technology)
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/view/clef-ehealth-2018/home
Twitter : @clefehealth
MC2 - Multilingual Cultural Mining and Retrieval
Developing processing methods and resources to mine the social media sphere surrounding cultural events such as festivals. This requires to deal with almost all languages and dialects as well as informal expressions.There are three tasks:
- Task 1 - Cross Language Cultural Retrieval over MicroBlogs: a) Small Microblogs Multilingual Information Retrieval in Arabic, English, French and Latin languages; b) Microblogs Bilingual Information Retrieval for tuning systems running on language pairs; c) Microblog Monolingual Information Retrieval based on 2017 language identification.
- Task 2 - Mining Opinion Argumentation: a) Polarity detection in microblogs; b) Automatic identification of argumentation elements over Microblogs and WikiPedia; c) Classification and summarization of arguments in texts.
- Task 3 - Dialectal Focus Retrieval: a) Arabic dialects in Blogs, MicroBlogs and Video News transcriptions; b) Spanish language variations in Blogs, MicroBlogs and Journals. Lab Coordination: Chiraz Latiri (University Tunis El Manar), Eric SanJuan (LIA, Avignon University), Catherine Berrut (LIG, Grenoble Alpes University), Lorraine Goeuriot (LIG, Grenoble Alpes University), Julio Gonzalo (UNED)
Lab website: https://mc2.talne.eu/
Twitter: @talne_mc2
ImageCLEF - Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF
The lab provides an evaluation forum for the language independent annotation and retrieval of images, a domain for which tools are by far not as advanced as for text analysis and retrieval.
- Task 1 - ImageCLEFlifelog: An increasingly wide range of personal devices, such as smartphones, video cameras as well as wearable devices that allow capturing pictures, videos, and audio clips in every moment of our life are becoming available. The task addresses the problems of lifelogging data understanding, summarization and retrieval.
- Task 2 - ImageCLEFcaption: Interpreting and summarizing the insights gained from medical images such as radiology output is a time-consuming task that involves highly trained experts and often represents a bottleneck in clinical diagnosis pipelines. The task addresses the problem of bio-medical image concept detection and caption prediction from large amounts of training data.
- Task 3 - ImageCLEFtuberculosis: The objective of this task is to determine tuberculosis subtypes and drug resistances, as far as possible automatically, from the volumetric image information in computed tomography (CT) volumes (mainly texture analysis) and based on clinical information (e.g., age, gender, etc).
- Task 4 - VisualQuestionAnswering: With the ongoing drive for improved patient engagement and access to the electronic medical records via patient portals, patients can now review structured and unstructured data from labs and images to text reports associated with their healthcare utilization. Given a medical image accompanied with a set of clinically relevant questions, participating systems are tasked with answering the questions based on the visual image content.
Lab Coordination: Bogdan Ionescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Mauricio Villegas (SearchInk), Henning Müller (HES-SO)
Lab website: http://www.imageclef.org/2018/
Twitter: @imageclef
PIR-CLEF - Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval
The primary aim of the PIR-CLEF 2018 laboratory is: 1) to facilitate comparative evaluation of PIR by offering participating research groups a mechanism for evaluation of their personalisation algorithms; 2) to give the participating groups the means to formally define and evaluate their own and novel user profiling approaches for PIR.
- Task 1 - Personalized Search: we will provide a bag-of-words profile gathered during the query sessions performed by real searchers, the set of queries formulated by each user, together with the corresponding document relevance, and the the search logs of each user. Task participants will be expected to compute search results obtained by applying their personalization algorithms on these queries. The search will be carried out on the ClueWeb12 collection, by using the API provided by DCU.
- Task 2 - User Profile Models: participants will be required to develop their own user profile models using the information gathered about the real user during her interactions with the system. The same information have been used for creating the baseline (keyword-based user profiles), which is provided in the benchmark.
Lab Coordination: Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano Bicocca), Gareth J. F. Jones (Dublin City University), Stefania Marrara (Consorzio C2T), Debasis Ganguly (IBM Research Dublin) , Procheta Sen (Dublin City University), Camilla Sanvitto (University of Milano Bicocca)
Lab website: http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/pir-clef2018/
Twitter: @clef2018_pir
eRISK - Early Risk Prediction on the Internet
eRisk explores the evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and practical applications (particularly those related to health and safety) of early risk detection on the Internet.
- Task 1 - Early Detection of Signs of Depression: the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of depression as soon as possible.
- Task 2 - Early Detection of Signs of Anorexia: the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of anorexia as soon as possible.
Both tasks are mainly concerned about evaluating Text Mining solutions and, thus, we concentrate on texts written in Social Media. Texts should be processed in the order they were posted. In this way, systems that effectively perform this task could be applied to sequentially monitor user interactions in blogs, social networks, or other types of online media.
Lab Coordination: David E. Losada (University of Santiago de Compostela), Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano), Javier Parapar (University of A Coruña)
Lab website: http://early.irlab.org/
Twitter: @earlyrisk
DynSe - Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks
The primary aim of the CLEF Dynamic Search Lab is to develop algorithms which interact dynamically with user (or other algorithms) towards solving a task, and evaluation methodologies to quantify their effectiveness. The lab is organized along two tasks:
- Task 1 - Query Suggestion: given a verbose topic description participants will generate and submit a sequence of queries and a ranking of the collection for each query. Queries will be evaluated over their effectiveness (query agent) and/or resemblance to user queries (user simulation). Query suggestion will be performed iteratively.
- Task 2 - Result Composition: Given the obtained results from the aforementioned queries obtain a single ranked list by merging the individual rankings.
Lab Coordination: Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Amsterdam), Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde)
Lab website: https://ekanou.github.io/dynamicsearch/
Twitter: @clef_dynamic
CheckThat! - Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims
CheckThat! aims to foster the development of technology capable of both spotting and verifying check-worthy claims in political debates in English and Arabic.
- Task 1 - Check-Worthiness: Given a political debate, which is segmented into sentences with speakers annotated, identify which statements (claims) should be prioritized for fact-checking. This will be a ranking problem, and systems will be asked to produce a score, according to which the ranking will be performed.
- Task 2 - Factuality: Given a list of already-extracted claims, classify them with factuality labels (e.g., true, half-true, false). This task will be run in an open mode. We will not provide any pre-selected set of documents to support the veracity labels. Participants will be free to use whatever resources they have and the Web in general, with the exception of the websites used by the organizers to collect the data.
Lab Coordination: Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Wajdi Zaghouani (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar), Tamer Elsayed, Reem Suwaileh (Qatar University), Pepa Gencheva (Sofia University)
Lab website: http://alt.qcri.org/clef2018-factcheck/
Twitter: @_checkthat_
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TSD 2018 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018)
Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018
http://www.tsdconference.org/
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
THE MAIN SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kenneth Church, Baidu, USA
Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed in Web of Science by Thomson Reuters and in Scopus.
Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as
DBLP, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.
CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The TSD 2018 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops
or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing
committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the
conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by
a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD
review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is
a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail
tsd2018@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
(morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
(machine translation, natural language understanding,
question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
Rodrigo Agerri, Spain
Eneko Agirre, Spain
Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
Paul Cook, Australia
Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
Karina Evgrafova, Russia
Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine
Volker Fischer, Germany
Darja Fiser, Slovenia
Eleni Galiotou, Greece
Björn Gambäck, Norway
Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, USA
Tino Haderlein, Germany
Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
Yannis Haralambous, France
Hynek Hermansky, USA
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
Ales Horak, Czech Republic
Eduard Hovy, USA
Maria Khokhlova, Russia
Aidar Khusainov, Russia
Daniil Kocharov, Russia
Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
Valia Kordoni, Germany
Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia
Pavel Kral, Czech Republic
Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
Nikola 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 Å ikonja, Slovenia
Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
Anna Rumshisky, USA
Milan Rusko, Slovakia
Pavel Rychly, Czech Republic
Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
Pavel Skrelin, Russia
Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
Stefan Steidl, Germany
Georg Stemmer, Germany
Vitomir Å truc, Slovenia
Marko Tadic, Croatia
Tamas Varadi, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
Aleksander Wawer, Poland
Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom
Marcin Wolinski, Poland
Alina Wróblewska, Poland
Victor Zakharov, Russia
Jerneja Žganec Gros, Slovenia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
The Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be selected by the
Programme Committee and supported with a total prize of EUR 1000 from
Springer.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.
The registration fee is the same as in 2016:
Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 10,000 CZK (approx. EUR 395)
Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 12,000 CZK (approx. EUR 475)
The fee has a 'all in one' form, to keep equality between participants.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.
Papers submitted to TSD 2018 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...',
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...'. Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.
The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of
the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.
Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must
use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the
Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this
service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied
automatically.
The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all
required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters
will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and
electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper
format see http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines,
Sample File typeinst.zip).
Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
May 16 2018 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2018 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for
demonstrations sent to the authors
September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date
Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.
The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer
proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time
of the conference.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation are available at the conference website.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
Ales Horak, TSD 2018
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
email: tsd2018@tsdconference.org
The official TSD 2018 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/
LOCATION
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich,
and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may
also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called
Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat
designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important
buildings of between-war Czech architecture.
For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with
Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of
three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz
- Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),
Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice
Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish
cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO
heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
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MLSP2018
IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING
September 17-20, 2018 Aalborg, Denmark
MLSP2018.CONWIZ.DK
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 28th MLSP workshop in the series of workshops organized by the IEEE
Signal Processing Society MLSP Technical Committee will present the most
recent and exciting advances in machine learning for signal processing
through keynote talks, tutorials, as well as special and regular
single-track sessions. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers
on relevant algorithms and applications including, but not limited to:
- Learning theory and modeling
- Neural networks and deep learning
- Bayesian Learning and modeling
- Sequential learning; sequential decision methods
- Information-theoretic learning
- Graphical and kernel models
- Bounds on performance
- Source separation and independent component analysis
- Signal detection, pattern recognition and classification
- Tensor and structured matrix methods
- Machine learning for big data
- Large scale learning
- Dictionary learning, subspace and manifold learning
- Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning
- Active and reinforcement learning
- Learning from multimodal data
- Resource efficient machine learning
- Cognitive information processing
- Bioinformatics applications
- Biomedical applications and neural engineering
- Speech and audio processing applications
- Image and video processing applications
- Intelligent multimedia and web processing
- Communications applications
- Other applications including social networks, games, smart grid,
security and privacy
DATA ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING COMPETITION
MLSP2018 seeks proposals for Data Analysis and Signal Processing
Competition. The goal of competition is to advance the current
state-of-the-art in theoretical and practical aspects of signal
processing domains.
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Special Sessions will be included to address research in emerging or
interdisciplinary areas of particular interest, not covered already by
traditional MLSP sessions.
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
The MLSP Best Student Paper Award will be granted to the best paper for
which a student is the principal author and presenter.
NETWORKING
MLSP Networking will be organized as a new initiative to focus on
stimulating collaboration among participants to solve grand societal
challenges using machine learning and signal processing.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to
six pages using the electronic submission procedure at
http://mlsp2018.conwiz.dk. Accepted papers will be published on a
password-protected website that will be available during the workshop.
The presented papers will be published in and indexed by IEEE Xplore.
IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES:
Paper submission deadline May 1, 2018
Paper update deadline May 4, 2018
Review notification June 18, 2018
Rebuttal period June 18-24, 2018
Reviewer discussion period June 25-30, 2018
Decision notification July 6, 2018
Camera-ready papers and
Author advance registration July 31, 2018
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General Chair:
Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark
Program Chairs:
Nelly Pustelnik, ENS Lyon, France
Zhanyu Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Finance Chair:
Børge Lindberg, Aalborg University, Denmark
Data Competition Chairs:
Karim Seghouane, University of Melbourne, Australia
Yuejie Chi, Ohio State University, USA
Publicity and Social Media Chairs:
Marc Van Hulle, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jen-Tzung Chien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Web and Publication Chair:
Jan Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Advisory Committee:
Søren Holdt Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Theodoridis Sergios, University of Athens, Greece
Raviv Raich, Oregon State University, USA
Vince Calhoun, University of New Mexico, USA
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SPECOM-2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018)
Venue: Leipzig, Germany, September 18-22, 2018
Web: www.specom2018.org
ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by Leipzig University of Telecommunications (HfTL, Leipzig, Germany) in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).
SPECOM-2018 CO-CHAIRS
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova, MSLU, Moscow, Russia
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of speech technology, human-machine interaction, machine learning and signal processing, particularly:
Affective computing
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
Forensic speech investigations and security systems
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Signal processing and feature extraction
Speaker identification and diarization
Speaker verification systems
Speech and language resources
Speech analytics and audio mining
Speech dereverberation
Speech driving systems in robotics
Speech enhancement
Speech perception and speech disorders
Speech recognition and understanding
Speech translation automatic systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken language processing
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems
Virtual and augmented reality
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Positioning and Power Relations in Conversations: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session1
Advanced Cognitive Models for Human-Machine and Human-Robot Interaction: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session2
Big Data in Speech Computation: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session3
SATELLITE EVENT
3rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2018: http://specom.nw.ru/icr2018
INVITED SPEAKERS
Tanja Schultz - Advances in Biosignal-Based Spoken Communication
Sebastian Moller - Quality Engineering of Speech and Language Services
Dongheui Lee - Robot learning through Physical Interaction and Human Guidance
www.specom2018.org/invited-speakers
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of several independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2018
Papers submitted to SPECOM-2018 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major citation databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, etc. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2018.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
May 30, 2018 ............ Notification of acceptance
June 15, 2018 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and early registration
Sept. 18-22, 2018 ......... Conference dates
VENUE
The conference will be organized at the at the Leipzig University of Telecommunications.
CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM-2018 Secretariat:
E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su; jokisch@hft-leipzig.de
SPECOM-2018 web-site: http://www.specom2018.org; http://specom.nw.ru
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LAUGHTER WORKSHOP 2018
Following the previous workshops on laughter held in Saarbruecken (2007), Berlin (2009), Dublin (2012) and Enschede (2015), we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming workshop in Paris, France in September 2018.
Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play important roles in displaying social and affective behaviors and in controlling the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, filled pauses, and short utterances such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that have been studied previously from various research fields. However, much is still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations (production/encoding) and their relations to their intentions and perceived meanings (perception/decoding) in interaction.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse research areas and to provide an exchange forum for interdisciplinary discussions in order to gain a better understanding of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations. The workshop will consist of invited talks and oral presentations of ongoing research and discussion papers.
We invite contributions concerning laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations from the fields of phonetics, linguistics, psychology, conversation analysis, social signal processing, and human-machine/robot interaction. In particular, topics related to the following aspects are very much welcomed:
* Multimodal interaction: visual aspects of non-verbal vocalisations, e.g., smiles, relation between non-verbal vocalisations and visual behaviors
* Social and affective behavior: decoding and encoding of emotion/socio-related states in non-verbal vocalisations
* Conversation: (pragmatic) role of non-verbal vocalisations in dialog
* Computation: automatic analysis and generation of non-verbal vocalisations
Submission procedure
Researchers are invited to submit an extended abstract of their work, including work in progress. Please send your extended abstract of max. 4 pages, 11pt font (including references) in PDF format to laughterworkshop2018@isir.upmc.fr. Each submission should follow the ACL style ? the author kits (LaTeX and Word) can be downloaded from the workshop web site. In the email, please include the name of the authors, their affiliations and the email address of the corresponding author, and a title of the abstract. Abstracts will undergo a review process performed by at least 2 reviewers. The submissions will be made available online.
Registration
Attendees are asked to register by sending an email to laughterworkshop2018 at isir dot upmc dot fr.
Important dates
* Abstract submission deadline: 26 May 2018
* Notification acceptance/rejection: 29 June 2018
* Registration deadline by email: 14 September 2018
* Workshop dates: 27-28 September 2018
Venue
ISIR, Sorbonne University
Website
Please check the website
http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html
for updated information about the workshop
Organizers
Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS ? ISIR, Sorbonne University
Jonathan Ginzburg, University Paris Diderot
Jürgen Trouvain, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University
Nick Campbell, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Khiet Truong, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente/Radboud University
Dirk Heylen, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
Contact information
Catherine Pelachaud
CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne University
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Link to Call for Papers and Submission Website:
https://easychair.org/cfp/ETAP4 (see also text below)
Conference website: https://etap4.krisyu.org
The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4)
conference will be held from October 11-13, 2018, at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. This conference
focuses on questions about the production, interpretation, and
characterization of speech prosody, bringing together researchers in
linguistics, psychology, and computer science.
The theme of ETAP4 is ?Sociolectal and dialectal variability in
prosody.? As in many language fields, studies of prosody have focused
on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in
social structures. The goal of ETAP4 is to help diversify prosody
research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as
well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The
conference will bring together prosody researchers and researchers
exploring the role of sociological variation in prosody, with a focus
on understudied dialects and endangered languages, and individual
differences based on gender and sexuality. Invited speakers will (i)
raise what questions and areas they think would benefit from prosodic
research, (ii) teach prosody researchers what they need to know to do
research in these areas, and (iii) share insights from their
experience engaging with the public around issues of understudied and
endangered languages, linguistic bias, and intersectionality in
science.
A satellite workshop on African-American English prosody will be held
on October 10, 2018 to bring together participants to contribute
common data sets and discuss the development of shared data resources
and methodological considerations such as challenges in prosodic
transcription. For updates on this workshop, subscribe to the e-mail
list here: https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4-aae/
We invite submission of abstracts describing work related to the
conference theme as well as topics in prosody more generally from
diverse approaches, including fieldwork, experiments, computational
modeling, theoretical analyses, etc. These topics include:
- Phonology and phonetics of prosody
- Cognitive processing and modelling of prosody
- Tone and intonation
- Acquisition of prosody
- Interfaces with syntax, semantics, pragmatics
- Prosody in natural language processing
In addition to talks from invited speakers, there will be additional
talks, and two poster sessions.
Abstracts for talks and posters must be submitted in a pdf format.
Your abstract must include the submission?s title at the top, and must
not include authors? names and affiliations, or any identifying
information (i.e., ?In Liberman & 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.
To get updates on the conference, subscribe to the e-mail list here:
https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4
Submission deadline: May 14, 2018, 11:59 PM AoE (anywhere on earth). Updated
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6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
SLSP 2018
Mons, Belgium
October 15-17, 2018
Co-organized by:
NUMEDIART Institute
University of Mons
LANGUAGE Institute
University of Mons
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London
http://slsp2018.irdta.eu/
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AIMS:
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2018, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.
VENUE:
SLSP 2018 will take place in Mons, which was European Capital of Culture in 2015. The venue will be:
University of Mons
31 Bvd Dolez, 7000 Mons
Belgium
SCOPE:
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
anaphora and coreference resolution
authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
computer-aided translation
corpora and language resources
data mining and semantic web
information extraction
information retrieval
knowledge representation and ontologies
lexicons and dictionaries
machine translation
multimodal technologies
natural language understanding
neural representation of speech and language
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
parsing
part-of-speech tagging
question-answering systems
semantic role labelling
speaker identification and verification
speech and language generation
speech recognition
speech synthesis
speech transcription
spelling correction
spoken dialogue systems
term extraction
text categorisation
text summarisation
user modeling
STRUCTURE:
SLSP 2018 will consist of:
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
posters
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield), Crossing Domains in Automatic Speech Recognition
Simon King (University of Edinburgh), Does 'End-to-End' Speech Synthesis Make any Sense?
Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon), Analysing Speech for Clinical Applications
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
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4th International Workshop on
Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction
(MA3HMI 2018)
October 16th, 2018 in Boulder, USA.
In conjunction with ICMI2018.
http://MA3HMI.cogsy.de
Scope:
One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction may be how we interact with other humans. Although technology is still far from human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical solutions. They are often represented as artificial agents to facilitate smooth inter-actions. While the analysis of human-human communication has resulted in many insights.
Transferring these to human-machine interactions remains challenging especially if multiple possible interlocutors are present in a certain area. This situation requires that multimodal inputs from the main speaker (e.g., speech, gaze, facial expressions) as well as possible co-speaker are recorded and interpreted. This interpretation has to occur at both the semantic and affective levels, including aspects such as the personality, mood, or intentions of the user, anticipating the counterpart. These processes have to be performed in real-time in order for the system to respond without delays, in a natural environment.
The MA3HMI workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the analysis of multimodal data as a means to develop technical devices that can interact with humans. In particular, artificial agents can be regarded in their broadest sense, including virtual chat agents, empathic speech interfaces and life-style coaches on a smart-phone. More general, multimodal analyses support any technical system being located in the research area of human-machine interaction. For the 2018 edition, we focus on the environment and situation an interaction is situated in extending the investigations on real-time aspects of human-machine interaction. We address the synergy of situation, context, and interaction history in the development and evaluation of multimodal, real-time systems.
We solicit papers that concern the different perspectives of such human-machine interaction. Tools and systems that address real-time conversations with artificial agents and technical systems are also within the scope of the workshop.
Topics (but not limited to):
a) Multimodal Environment Analyses
- Multimodal understanding of situation and environment of natural interactions
- Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions
- Novel strategies of human-machine interaction in terms of situation and environment
b) Multimodal User Analyses
- Multimodal understanding of user behavior and affective state
- Dialogue management using multimodal output
- Multimodal understanding of multiple users behavior and affective
- Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions
- Novel strategies of human-machine interactions
c) Applications, Tools, and Systems
- Novel application domains and embodied interaction
- Prototype development and uptake of technology
- User studies with (partial) functional systems
- Tools for the recording, annotation and analysis of conversations
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: July 30th, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: September 10th, 2018
Camera-ready Deadline: September 15th, 2018
Workshop Date: October 16th, 2018
Submissions:
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) and short papers (5 pages) in ACM format as specified by ICMI 2018. Accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All submissions should be anonymous.
Organisers:
Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany
Francesca Bonin, IBM Research, Ireland
Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ronald Poppe, Utrecht University, Netherland
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Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. Ronald Böck
FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems
Building 03, Room 322
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Phone: +49 391 67 50061
E-mail:
ronald.boeck@ieee.org
ronald.boeck@ovgu.de
Web: http://www.kognitivesysteme.de
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CALL FOR PAPERS
XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies
'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages and Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'
28 October 2018 - 3 November 2018, Mahé, Seychelles
The International Committee for Creole Studies (Comité International des Etudes Créoles (CIEC)) has organized International Conferences on Creole Studies for the past fifty years, at regular intervals. In 2018, the XVIth International Conference of Creole Studies will be held in Seychelles; the organization has been entrusted to the University of Seychelles in liaison with the CIEC.
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.
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11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 5-8 November, 2018
Website: https://inlg2018.uvt.nl
Contact: inlg2018@uvt.nl
The 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018) will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018. The conference takes place immediately after EMNLP 2018, organised in nearby Brussels, Belgium.
INLG 2018 is organised by the Tilburg University Language Production (TULP) research group, part of the Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) The event is organised under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters.
Important dates
- Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2018
- Notification: September 7, 2018
- Camera ready: October 1, 2018
- INLG 2018: November 5-8, 2018
All deadlines are at 11.59 PM, UTC-8.
Topics
INLG 2018 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. The conference will include two special tracks:
(1) Generating Text with Affect, Style and Personality (sponsored by The Netherlands Organization for Scienfitic Research, NWO), and
(2) Conversational Interfaces, Chatbots and NLG (organised in collaboration with flow.ai).
General topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Affect/emotion generation
- Applications for people with disabilities
- Cognitive modelling of language production
- Content and text planning
- Corpora for NLG
- Deep learning models for NLG
- Evaluation of NLG systems
- Grounded language generation
- Lexicalisation
- Multimedia and multimodality in generation
- Storytelling and narrative generation
- NLG and accessibility
- NLG in dialogue
- NLG for embodied agents and robots
- NLG for real-world applications
- Paraphrasing and Summarisation
- Personalisation and variation in text
- Referring expression generation
- Resources for NLG
- Surface realisation
- Systems architecture
A separate call for workshops and generation challenges will be released soon.
Submissions & Format
Submissions should follow the new ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. ACL 2018 offers both LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates Papers should be submitted electronically through the START conference management system (to be opened in due course).
Three kinds of papers can be submitted:
- Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for references.
- Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, with up to one extra page for references.
- Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems which are of relevance to the NLG community. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2018.
All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2018 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2018 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the 'Acknowledgements' section of the paper when submitted. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice.
Program chairs
- Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Martijn Goudbeek, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Albert Gatt, Malta University, Malta
Workshop & Challenges chairs
- Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond
Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018
Call for Papers
We invite submissions for the Workshop Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, to be held at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018.
The Workshop is co-located with the 22nd SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 8-10 November 2018.
Aim
Signaling the information structure of utterances has been shown to be one of the main dimensions of prosodic meaning in many languages, and remains a driving force behind the research on the typological variety of prosodic systems. Other aspects of prosodic meaning that have been investigated are the role of prosody in the generation of implicatures, in speech-act dynamics, in dialogue management, or in the marking of various kinds of questions, owing much to collaborations between phonologists and semanticists/pragmaticists. Other recent advances in the field are supported by the development of corpus resources and of new experimental methods for the investigation of the empirical validity of specific theoretical claims.
This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and psycholinguists working on the prosody/meaning interface in different languages as well as computational linguists developing tools for prosody-meaning corpus annotation, exploration and processing.
Invited Speakers
Michael Wagner, McGill University
Pilar Prieto, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- prosodic reflexes of information structure in different languages and their relationship with other grammatical reflexes of information structure (morphological or syntactical),
- the relationship between information structure, ellipsis or clause fragments and prosody,
- the interplay between information structure and other aspects of prosodic meaning such as speech acts, attitude signaling, or turn-taking management,
- more generally, the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse and dialogue.
Submissions
We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous, in English, and should not exceed one page (2.5 cm margins, 12pt font size), with an extra page for examples, figures and references.
Important dates
Abstract deadline: 27 May 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2018
Workshop: 8 November 2018
Organisers
Cristel Portes, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU),
Arndt Riester and Uwe Reyle, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart.
Scientific committee
Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne),
Roxane Bertrand (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Bettina Braun (University of Constance),
Daniel Büring (University of Wien),
Sasha Calhoun (University of Wellington),
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (CNRS, Université de Nantes),
Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen),
Mariapaola D’Imperio (Aix-Marseille University),
James German (Aix-Marseille University),
Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart),
Frank Kügler (University of Cologne),
Amandine Michelas (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Caterina Petrone (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Giuseppina Turco (CNRS, Université Paris Diderot),
Pauline Welby (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Margaret Zellers (University of Kiel)
More information are available on the Workshop webpage: https://semdial.hypotheses.org/prosody
Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: cristel.portes@lpl-aix.fr
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(2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan
International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing. Since 1998, it has been successfully held in Singapore (1998), Beijing (2000), Taipei (2002), Hong Kong, (2004), Singapore (2006), Kuming (2008), Tainan (2010), Hong Kong (2012), Singapore (2014), and Tianjin (2016). ISCSLP is the flagship conference of SIG-CSLP, ISCA.
The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018) will be held on November 26-29, 2018 in Taipei.
While ISCSLP is focused primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English.
Important dates
Feb 22, 2018 Submission of special session proposals
Apr 30, 2018 Submission of tutorial proposals
Jun 11, 2018 Submission of regular and special session papers
Aug 01, 2018 Submission of demo proposals
ISCSLP2018 conference website: http://iscslp2018.org/
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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.
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IEEE SLT2018 | 18 - 21 December 2018
Athens, Greece
www.slt2018.org
The next IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) conference will be held in
Athens, Greece from 18-21 December 2018.
Athens is a historic city and the capital of Greece, located in the most southern-east
part of the Mediterranean Sea. The emblematic city of democracy provides for
amazing sightseeing, great food tastings and endless strolls for shopping in the
buzzing festive capital.
The special theme for SLT2018 will be “Spoken Language Technology in the Era
of Deep Learning: Challenges and Opportunities”.
Important Dates:
July 2, 2018: Paper submission deadline
May 7, 2018: Special Session/Tutorial proposal deadline
Sept 3, 2018: Notification of paper acceptance
Sept 17, 2018: Author registration & revised paper upload
Sept 24, 2018: Demo submission deadline
Nov 5, 2018: Early-registration deadline
You can browse all conference information on the website: www.slt2018.org.
Follow updates on Twitter #SLT2018.
All papers related to spoken language technology are welcome. As part of
special theme, we particularly welcome the submission of papers that address
challenges and limitations in current deep learning approaches and opportunities for
overcoming them (including but not limited to hybrid approaches using deep
learning and traditional knowledge-based methods).
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FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 22, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: November 17, 2017
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), and the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACL 2018, COLING 2018, EMNLP 2018, or NAACL HLT 2018. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:
ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be held in Melbourne, Australia, July 15 - July 20, 2018, with workshops to take place on July 19-20: http://acl2018.org/
COLING 2018 (the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20 - August 25, 2018, with workshops to be held on August 20-21, 2018: http://coling2018.org/
NAACL HLT 2018 (the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1 - June 6, 2018 with workshops to be held on June 5-6, 2018: http://naacl2018.org/
EMNLP 2018 (the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018) will be held later in 2018 (after the other three conferences). Exact details on dates and venue for EMNLP workshops will be announced later.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines below).
The proposals should contain:
- A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.
- The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.
- A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to: (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.
- A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers.
- An estimate of the number of attendees.
- A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants.
- A description of special requirements and technical needs.
- The preferred venue(s) (ACL/COLING/NAACL/EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g. if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise)
- If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g. shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.
Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.
In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you submit via the START System (not in the PDF proposal):
- A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).
- A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.
- A list of organizers’ names which will be shown in the web-based survey.
The proposals should be submitted no later than October 22, 2018, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at
https://www.softconf.com/i/acl-workshops2018
The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. In addition, to estimate the attendance of the different workshops, a new voting mechanism will be implemented, where attendees of ACL-affiliated events from the past 3-5 years will be able to vote on which workshops they would like to attend in 2018. (A representative prototype of the survey is shown here, but is subject to change: https://goo.gl/3cuZON.) The overall diversity of the workshops will also be taken into account to ensure the conference program is varied and balanced. The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the four conferences, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers.
Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs.
The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at:
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook
TIMELINE FOR 2018 WORKSHOPS
Timeline:
October 22, 2018: Proposal Submission Deadline
November 17, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
Individual dates:
* ACL:
Dec 11, 2018: First Call for Workshop Papers
Mar 5, 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
April 8, 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
May 7, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
May 28, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
July 19-20, 2018: Workshop Dates
* COLING:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
Aug 20-21, 2018: Workshop Dates
* NAACL:
27 November 2017: First Call for Workshop Papers
8 January 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
2 March 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
2 April 2018: Notification of Acceptance
16 April 2018: Camera-ready papers due
5-6 June 2018: Workshop Dates
* EMNLP:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
TBA: Workshop Dates
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
* ACL:
Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge
* COLING:
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University
* NAACL:
Marie Meteer, Brandeis University
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research
* EMNLP:
TBA
For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers at:
acl-coling-emnlp-naacl-workshops@googlegroups.com
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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.
The ICPhS 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 organising committee is pleased to announce the keynote speakers who will be presenting at the ICPhS 2019 Congress:
The scientific committee have put together a list of scientific areas for the 2019 ICPhS program based on previous editions and current developments within phonetics
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Located on the south-east coast of Australia, Melbourne has been voted The World?s Most Liveable City on a number of occasions.
Melbourne is a thriving and cosmopolitan city with a unique balance of graceful old buildings and stunning new architecture surrounded by parks and gardens.
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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
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