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3-1-1 | (2018-09-02) Tutorials Interspeech 2018 (updated)Interspeech 2018
September 2-6, 2018
Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) Hyderabad, India
http://interspeech2018.org/
Tutorials at Interspeech 2018
We are happy to announce that the tutorials have been finalized. The Tutorials Committee
has worked hard to put together an exciting set of tutorials on cutting-edge topics.
The tutorials will be held at HICC on September 2, 2018 (both forenoon and afternoon sessions).
The list of tutorials is given below.
1. Deep Learning Based Speech Separation by DeLiang Wang (The Ohio State University)
2. End-To-End Models for Automatic Speech Recognition by Rohit Prabhavalkar (Google Inc., USA)
and Tara Sainath (Google Inc., USA)
3. Spoofing Attacks in Automatic Speaker Verification: Analysis and Countermeasures
by Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Hemant A. Patil (Dhirubhai
Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India),
Nicholas Evans (EURECOM, France)
4. Spoken Dialog Technology for Education Domain Applications by Vikram Ramanarayanan,
Keelan Evanini, David Suendermann-Oeft (Educational Testing Service R&D, San Francisco, USA)
5. Information Theory of Deep Learning: What do the Layers of Deep Neural Networks Represent?
by Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - INTERACTIVE VIDEO MODE
6. Articulatory Representations: Measurement, Estimation, and Application to State-of-the-Art
Automatic Speech Recognition by Carol Espy-Wilson (University of Maryland, USA),
Mark Tiede (Haskins Lab, USA), Hosung Nam (Korea University, Seoul),
Vikramjit Mitra (Apple Inc., USA), Ganesh Sivaraman (Pindrop, Atlanta, USA)
7. Vocal Music Processing for Music Information Retrieval (MIR) by Preeti Rao (Indian Institute
of Technology Bombay, Mumbai), and Hema Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai)
8. Multimodal Speech and Audio Processing in Audio-Visual Human-Robot Interaction by
Petros Maragos (School of E.C.E., National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece),
Athanasia Zlatintsi (Athena Research Center, Robot Perception and Interaction Unit, Greece)
For more details, visit http://interspeech2018.org/program-tutorials.html
We look forward to your participation in the tutorials. Publicity Committee, Interspeech 2018
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3-1-2 | (2018-09-02) Cfp Interspeech 2018 Show and Tell, Hyderabad, Telangana, India (updated) Dear colleague: Acceptance notifications sent: June 1, 2018 Camera-ready paper due: June 17, 2018 Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Show & Tell is a special event organized during the conference. Participants are given the opportunity to demonstrate their most recent progress or developments, and interact with the conference attendees in an informal way, such as a demo, mock-up, or any adapted format of their own choice. These contributions must highlight the innovative side of the concept and may relate to a regular paper. Show& Tell papers should be up to 2 pages (including references). The formatshould conform to that defined in the paper preparation guidelines and asdetailed in the INTERSPEECH 2018 Author’s Kit Interspeech 2018
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3-1-3 | (2018-09-03) Interspeech 2018: Open Doors Interspeech 2018: Open Doors
Date: September 3, 2018; 2 pm - 4 pm
Location: Genesys and Microsoft India Development Center
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) - Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is back with the Open Doors event. This year we are hosted by Genesys and Microsoft India Development Center. The Open Doors event is focused to bring industrial research and academia together.
Participants will have the opportunity to visit one of the companies and engage with their speech application team. The industry professionals will demonstrate their products and related technology, followed by an open discussion, and networking opportunities. The event aims to bring students and researchers together discussing state-of-the-art technologies, potential collaboration, and even possible hiring opportunities.
ISCA-SAC will provide transportation from the conference center. Group sizes will be limited.
Registration (Open!)
https://goo.gl/forms/0Z2PILJGpVYidx0s1
Contact:
Berrak Sisman; Email: berraksisman@u.nus.edu
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3-1-4 | (2018-09-05) Interspeech 2018: Students meet Experts Interspeech 2018: Students meet Experts
Date: September 5, 2018; 2 pm - 4 pm
Location: Hyderabad International Convention Centre
The Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA-SAC) is happy to announce this year’s edition of the Students meet Experts event. After successful editions in Lyon (2013), Singapore (2014), San Francisco (2016), and Stockholm (2017), the Students meet Experts event is now coming to Interspeech 2018 in Hyderabad. We will have a panel discussion with experts from academia and industry, followed by an informal opportunity to mingle and ask more in depth questions at the SME coffee break. All students are welcome to register!
The list of experts will be announced in August, 2018.
Registration (Open!)
https://goo.gl/forms/ubkkjXOAH5SYMMLb2
Contact:
Iona Gessinger; Email: gessinger@coli.uni-saarland.de
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3-1-5 | (2019-09-15) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria. https://www.tugraz.at/events/interspeech-2019/home/
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3-1-6 | Interspeech 2018 New Website; Satellite Events and Workshops Interspeech 2018 September 2-6, 2018
Hyderabad, India
http://interspeech2018.org/
Interspeech 2018 New Website; Satellite Events and Workshops
Dear colleague:
We would like to draw your attention to the satellite events and workshops that will take place around Interspeech 2018. Kindly check the following website for details: http://interspeech2018.org/program-satellite-events-and-workshops.html
We invite you to submit papers, participate in these events and make them a grand success.
We also invite you to check out the new avatar of Interspeech 2018 webpages: http://interspeech2018.org/index.html
We would like to draw your attention to the following new items:
Looking forward to seeing you in Hyderabad,
Publicity Committee
Interspeech 2018
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3-1-7 | Interspeech 2018:Visa and registration information. INTERSPEECH 2018 September 2-6, 2018, Hyderabad, India Dear Colleague:
We would like to draw your attention to the visa information page: http://interspeech2018.org/gn-visa.html which has the necessary details to help you in filing your visa application. If you haven't already applied for a visa, please do so right away.
For any questions or information, please do not hesitate to write to us: travel@interspeech2018.org
The registration information is here: http://interspeech2018.org/registration.html
If you haven't yet registered for the conference, please do so right away.
Team Interspeech 2018
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3-1-8 | Interspeech-2018: Important Points for Special contracted accommodation rates Dear Interspeech-2018 Delegates
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3-1-9 | Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018
Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18), New Delhi, India on 29-31 August 2018. The 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (CHiME 2018), Microsoft Hyderabad campus, Sept. 07, 2018. http://smmw.iiit.ac.in/
5) Workshop on Speech Processing for Voice, Speech and Hearing Disorders, AIISH, Mysore, India, Sept. 08-09, 2018.
URL: http://wspd.co.in/
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3-2-1 | (2018-09-07) 5th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, Hyderabad, India 5th CHiME Speech Separation
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3-2-2 | (2018-09-07) CfP 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India CHiME 2018
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3-2-3 | (2018-09-08) Speech Processing in Challenging Environments (SPICE) IISc Bangalore, India. Speech Processing in Challenging Environments (SPICE), September 08, 2018, IISc Bangalore, India.
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3-2-4 | (2018-09-08) Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2018, Microsoft, Hyderabad, India. Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2018, September 08, 2018, Microsoft, Hyderabad, India. URL: https://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2018
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3-2-5 | (2018-09-08) Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018: Speech Processing in Challenging Environments (SPICE), IISc Bangalore, India Satellite Events of INTERSPEECH 2018: Speech Processing in Challenging Environments (SPICE) Date: September 08, 2018
Location: IISc Bangalore, India.
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and DRDO are happy to announce this 1st edition of the International Workshop on Speech Processing in Challenging Environments (SPICE) as a part of the Satellite Events of Interspeech 2018. The automatic speech processing techniques for various tasks have matured steadily from being effective under purely under benign conditions towards more challenging ones. Even then, their performance under noisy environments still remains far from those of humans. Not only the environmental noise, but also the effects of noisy transmission channels pose serious challenges in robust processing of such speech signals. Examples of such signals are speech signals transmitted over radio equipment, far-field recordings, recordings collected from open broadcasts and public meetings and battlefield recordings to name a few. Each of such scenarios brings unique challenges in the pre-processing and feature computation from the speech signal to enhance the quality of the signal and make it suitable for the targeted tasks. The aim of the workshop is to bring experts working in the related areas for pedagogic tutorial sessions.
All researchers are welcomed to register! The list of speaker and tutorial will be announced in August, 2018
Registration will be opened soon
https://spiceworkshop2018.wixsite.com/spice2018/registration
Contact:
spiceworkshop2018@gmail.com
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3-3-1 | (2018-08-13) UEF SUMMER SCHOOL 2018: Machine Learning Applied to Speech Technology and Autonomous Agents, Joensuu campus, Finland UEF SUMMER SCHOOL 2018:
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3-3-2 | (2018-08-29) 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18), Gurugram, India (Updated) 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 and it is endorsed by SIGUL (a joint ISCA-ELRA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages).
Contact: kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com Website: 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 before June 15th (submission page with paper templates will be updated soon)
NEW INFORMATION
-Tutorials: 2 tutorials on ASR and NMT will be given - see http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/index.php?pid=23
-Keynotes: 2 keynotes speeches will be given by Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IITP) and Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS) - see http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/index.php?pid=l5
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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3-3-3 | (2018-09-01) 3rd International Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology (YFRSW-2018) , Hyderabad, India YFRSW-2018, Hyderabad, India, September 1, 2018
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3-3-4 | (2018-09-01) 4th Doctoral Consortium, Hyderabad, India Interspeech 2018: 4th Doctoral Consortium – Submission Open; Deadline Extended
Date: September 1, 2018; 10 am - 5 pm
Location: International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad
The Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA-SAC) is pleased to call for applications for the 4th Doctoral Consortium. This event extends an opportunity for doctoral candidates to present and discuss their research with a panel of experts. The discussion would include a feedback on the evolution and progress of their research. It also helps them to identify the roadmap and additional studies, which could help refine the shape of their thesis.
The doctoral consortium will be a one-day event (including lunch and coffee breaks) being organised on Saturday, September 1, 2018, at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad, Gachibowli. The applicants are required to submit a two-page extended abstract of their PhD research work. The shortlisted candidates would be invited to the consortium where they are required to present a summary of their research. Each candidate will be given 30 minutes for the presentation, which will be followed by a discussion of 15 minutes, led by a panel of experts.
Prospective doctoral students from speech related disciplines are invited to apply. The selection of participants will be based on the submitted abstracts.
Guidelines:
Submissions:
Check-list:
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2018
Notification of Decision: July 22, 2018
Doctoral Consortium: September 1, 2018
Contact:
Ravi Shankar Prasad; Email: ravi.rythem@gmail.com
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3-3-5 | (2018-09-03) 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2018) Rome, Italy (UPDATE)
EUSIPCO 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference Rome, Italy September 3-7, 2018
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EUSIPCO 2018 -- NEWS
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3MT DEADLINE EXTENDED to May 18
Due to the numerous requests, the deadline for the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) contest
submission at EUSIPCO 2018 has been extended to May 18th. After the successful
past editions, the Technical Program Committee of EUSIPCO 2018 is offering for
the fourth consecutive year a 3 Minutes Thesis (3MT) contest, where PhD students
have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its
significance. This activity is sponsored by EURASIP. It is an exercise for
students to consolidate their ideas so they can present them concisely to
an audience specialized in different areas. Together with scientific and
technical quality, EURASIP wants to promote transversal skills of PhD
researchers such as oral and presentation skills, and it also wants to
help PhDs to gain visibility of their work. If you are a PhD student and
you want to participate in the contest, check out the instructions and
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EUSIPCO 2018 -- UPCOMING DEADLINES
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3 Minute Thesis (3MT) 18 May 2018 (extended)
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We are pleased to announce the EUSIPCO 2018 PLENARY SPEAKERS
'Coalitional Multimedia Signal Processing in Smart Device Networks'
Marc Moonen
KU Leuven, Belgium
September, 4th, 2018
'Internet of Bio-Nano-Things'
Ian F Akyildiz
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
September, 5th, 2018
'Deep Convolutional Networks: An Opportunity for Signal Processing'
Stéphane Mallat
Collège de France, France
September, 6th, 2018
'Sensing and Processing with Events'
Tobi Delbruck
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
September, 7th, 2018
************************************************************ The 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) will be held in Rome, the Eternal City, in Italy from September 3 to September 7, 2018. The flagship conference of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) will offer a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing and its applications. It will feature world-class speakers, oral and poster sessions, keynotes and plenaries, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, demo and ongoing work sessions and satellite workshops, and is expected to attract many leading researchers and industry figures from all over the world. Technical Scope We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:
- Audio and acoustic signal processing - Speech and language processing - Image and video processing - Multimedia signal processing - Signal processing theory and methods - Sensor array and multichannel signal processing - Signal processing for communications - Radar and sonar signal processing - Signal processing over graphs and networks - Nonlinear signal processing - Optimization methods - Machine learning - Statistical signal processing - Compressed sensing and sparse modeling - Bio-medical image and signal processing - Signal processing for computer vision and robotics - Computational imaging/Spectral imaging - Information forensics and security - Signal processing for power systems - Signal processing for education - Bioinformatics and genomics - Signal processing for big data - Signal processing for the internet of things - Design/implementation of signal processing systems - Other signal processing areas
Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore®. EURASIP Society enforces a ?no-show? policy. Procedures to submit papers, proposals for special sessions, tutorials and satellite workshops are detailed at the EUSIPCO 2018 website (www.eusipco2018.org).
Important dates Tutorial proposals: 18 February 2018 Satellite Workshop proposals: 21 January 2018
Full paper submissions: 18 February 2018 Notification of paper acceptance: 18 May 2018 Camera-ready papers: 18 June 2018
STUDENT PAPER AWARDS: ?EUSIPCO Best Student Paper Awards? will be presented at the conference banquet. Papers will be selected by a committee composed of area and technical chairs.
TUTORIAL AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS: Tutorials will be held on September 3, 2018. Brief tutorial proposals should include title, outline, contact information, biography and selected publications for the presenter(s), and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Special session proposals should include title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited papers.
3 MINUTE THESIS (3MT): EUSIPCO 2018 is offering a 3 Minutes Thesis contest, where PhD students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance. It is an exercise for students to consolidate their ideas so they can present them concisely to an audience specialized in different signal processing fields.
SATELLIT? WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: The 2018 edition of EUSIPCO is proud to organize a half day of thematic workshops on Friday, September 7, 2018, after the end of the main conference, which will provide a forum to participate in specific scientific events and present research focused on current innovative topics in signal processing technology and its extension to other fields.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: GENERAL CHAIR Patrizio Campisi, Roma Tre University, Italy
GENERAL CO-CHAIR Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
TECHNICAL CO-CHAIRS Sergio Barbarossa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Augusto Sarti, Polythecnic University of Milan, Italy
PLENARY TALKS Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK Enrico Magli, Polythecnic University of Turin, Italy
SPECIAL SESSIONS Paulo Lobato Correia, IST Lisbon, Portugal Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria
TUTORIALS AND DEMO Bulent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey Marco Carli, Roma Tre University, Italy
STUDENT ACTIVITIES CHAIR Juan Ramon Troncoso-Pastoriza, EPFL, Switzerland
PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Emanuele Maiorana, Roma Tre University, Italy
FINANCE CHAIR Francesco De Natale, University of Trento, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIRS Carmen Garcia Mateo, University of Vigo, Spain Stefania Colonnese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
INTERNATIONAL LIAISON Ajay Kumar, PolyU, Hong Kong Shantanu Rane, PARC, USA Anderson Rocha, University of Campinas, Brazil
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3-3-6 | (2018-09-04) CfP Special Session on Analysis of Multimedia Data for Medicine and Health, CBMI 2018, La Rochelle, France
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3-3-7 | (2018-09-04) CfP Special Session on Indexing, Retrieval, Annotation and Mining in Earth Observation (IR4EO), CBMI 2018 - La Rochelle, France Call for papers: Special Session on Indexing, Retrieval, Annotation and Mining in Earth
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3-3-8 | (2018-09-04) EUSIPCO 2018, Rome, Italy EUSIPCO 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference
Rome, Italy
September 3-7, 2018
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EUSIPCO 2018 -- NEWS
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We are pleased to announce the EUSIPCO 2018 PLENARY SPEAKERS
Inaugural EURASIP Fellow lecture
September, 4th, 2018
'Internet of Bio-Nano-Things'
Ian F Akyildiz
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
September, 5th, 2018
'Deep Convolutional Networks: An Opportunity for Signal Processing'
Stéphane Mallat
Collège de France, France
September, 6th, 2018
'Sensing and Processing with Events'
Tobi Delbruck
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
September, 7th, 2018
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EUSIPCO 2018 -- UPCOMING DEADLINES
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Special Session proposals: 11 December 2017
The information about the organization of a special session at EUSIPCO 2018 is available at
Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to: special_sessions@eusipco2018.org.
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The 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) will be held in Rome,
the Eternal City, in Italy from September 3 to September 7, 2018.
The flagship conference of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)
will offer a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments
in research and technology for signal processing and its applications.
It will feature world-class speakers, oral and poster sessions, keynotes and plenaries,
exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, demo and ongoing work sessions and satellite
workshops, and is expected to attract many leading researchers and industry figures
from all over the world.
Technical Scope
We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including
but not limited to:
- Audio and acoustic signal processing
- Speech and language processing
- Image and video processing
- Multimedia signal processing
- Signal processing theory and methods
- Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
- Signal processing for communications
- Radar and sonar signal processing
- Signal processing over graphs and networks
- Nonlinear signal processing
- Optimization methods
- Machine learning
- Statistical signal processing
- Compressed sensing and sparse modeling
- Bio-medical image and signal processing
- Signal processing for computer vision and robotics
- Computational imaging/Spectral imaging
- Information forensics and security
- Signal processing for power systems
- Signal processing for education
- Bioinformatics and genomics
- Signal processing for big data
- Signal processing for the internet of things
- Design/implementation of signal processing systems
- Other signal processing areas
Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore®. EURASIP Society enforces a ?no-show?
policy. Procedures to submit papers, proposals for special sessions, tutorials and
satellite workshops are detailed at the EUSIPCO 2018 website (www.eusipco2018.org).
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Important dates
Special Session proposals: 11 December 2017
Satellite Workshop proposals: 21 January 2018
Tutorial proposals: 18 February 2018
Full paper submissions: 18 February 2018
3 Minute Thesis (3MT) 18 April 2018
Notification of paper acceptance: 18 May 2018
Camera-ready papers: 18 June 2018
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STUDENT PAPER AWARDS: ?EUSIPCO Best Student Paper Awards? will be presented at the
conference banquet.
Papers will be selected by a committee composed of area and technical chairs.
TUTORIAL AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS:
Tutorials will be held on September 3, 2018.
Brief tutorial proposals should include title, outline, contact information, biography
and selected publications for the presenter(s), and a description of the tutorial and
material to be distributed to participants. Special session proposals should include
title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited papers.
3 MINUTE THESIS (3MT):
EUSIPCO 2018 is offering a 3 Minutes Thesis contest, where PhD students have three
minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance.
It is an exercise for students to consolidate their ideas so they can present
them concisely to an audience specialized in different signal processing fields.
SATELLIT? WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:
The 2018 edition of EUSIPCO is proud to organize a half day of thematic workshops
on Friday, September 7, 2018, after the end of the main conference, which will
provide a forum to participate in specific scientific events and present research
focused on current innovative topics in signal processing technology and its
extension to other fields.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
GENERAL CHAIR
Patrizio Campisi, Roma Tre University, Italy
GENERAL CO-CHAIR
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
TECHNICAL CO-CHAIRS
Sergio Barbarossa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Augusto Sarti, Polythecnic University of Milan, Italy
PLENARY TALKS
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Enrico Magli, Polythecnic University of Turin, Italy
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Paulo Lobato Correia, IST Lisbon, Portugal
Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria
TUTORIALS AND DEMO
Bulent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey
Marco Carli, Roma Tre University, Italy
STUDENT ACTIVITIES CHAIR
Juan Ramon Troncoso-Pastoriza, EPFL, Switzerland
SOCIAL MEDIA CHAIR
Gabriel Emile Hine, Roma Tre University, Italy
PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
Emanuele Maiorana, Roma Tre University, Italy
FINANCE CHAIR
Francesco De Natale, University of Trento, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Carmen Garcia Mateo, University of Vigo, Spain
Stefania Colonnese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
INTERNATIONAL LIAISON
Ajay Kumar, PolyU, Hong Kong
Shantanu Rane, PARC, USA
Anderson Rocha, University of Campinas, Brazil
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3-3-9 | (2018-09-04) International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) 2018 - La Rochelle, France (updated)
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3-3-10 | (2018-09-07) 5th Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing Workshop (MLSLP-2018), Hyderabad, India MLSLP-2018, Hyderabad, India, September 7, 2018
5th Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing Workshop (MLSLP-2018)
Satellite workshop of Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India
https://sites.google.com/view/mlslp/home
== Important Dates:
- Abstracts due: 2 July 2018
- Notification of acceptance: 16 July 2018
- Final abstract/paper deadline: 30 July 2018
- Registration deadline: 30 July 2018 (Registration is free for all attendees!)
- Workshop date: 7 September 2018
== Topic:
MLSLP is a recurring workshop, often joint with machine learning or speech/natural language processing conferences. While research in speech and language processing has always involved machine learning, current research is benefiting from even closer interaction between these fields. Speech and language processing is continually mining new ideas from machine learning (ML) and ML, in turn, is devoting more interest to speech and language applications. This workshop aims to be a venue for identifying and incubating the next waves of research directions for interaction and collaboration. The workshop will not be yet another venue for applications of deep learning to speech and language processing, as this is already well covered by major conferences. It will, however, include new directions for deep learning in speech/language, as well as other emerging ideas. In general, the workshop will (1) discuss the emerging research ideas with potential for impact in speech/language and (2) bring together relevant researchers from ML and speech/language who may not regularly interact at conferences. MLSLP is a workshop of SIGML, the Special Interest Group on machine learning in speech and language processing of ISCA (the International Speech Communication Association).
== Call for Participation
Abstracts should be submitted electronically via the following submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlslp2018
Abstracts are limited to 2 pages of text, plus one page (maximum) for references only. Please use the main Interspeech two-column format, with the 2-page limit. Submissions that exceed the page limit or do not conform to the guidelines will be rejected without review. Submissions must be submitted in PDF format.
Submitted abstracts may include new work and/or a summary of the authors' work that has been recently published or is under review in another conference or journal. In the interest of spurring discussion, we also encourage authors to submit work in progress with only preliminary results.
== Preliminary Program:
The workshop will include the following events:
* A series of talks by senior researchers in the field of speech and language processing
* A series of short talks by postdoctoral scholars/graduate students
* A poster session for workshop attendees to present their own research
* A lunch for all the attendees
== Organizing committee:
Preethi Jyothi (general chair) / Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Rohit Prabhavalkar (general chair) / Google Inc.
Liang Lu (program chair) / Microsoft Inc.
Tara Sainath (program chair) / Google Inc.
== Scientific committee:
Yossi Adi / Bar-Ilan University
Ebru Arisoy / MEF University
Nancy Chen / Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR
Sriram Ganapathy / Indian Institute of Science
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson / UIUC
Yanzhang (Ryan) He / Google Inc.
Karen Livescu / TTI Chicago
Michael Mandel / Brooklyn College CUNY
Vimal Manohar / Johns Hopkins University
Petr Motlicek / Idiap Research Institute
Arun Narayanan / Google Inc.
Anton Ragni / University of Cambridge
Hao Tang / MIT
For further details, please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/mlslp/home or email at mlslp2018@gmail.com
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3-3-11 | (2018-09-09) 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), Poznan, Poland CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-12 | (2018-09-10) CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum, Avignon, France (Updated) CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum *********************************************************************************** Call for Lab Participation - Registration closes: 27 April 2018 Lab participants must register for the Labs via the CLEF website: http://clef2018-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ Deadline Extension
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3-3-13 | (2018-09-11) 21st International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018), Brno, Czech Republic TSD 2018 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-14 | (2018-09-11) Call for demonstrations at TSD 2018, Brno, Czech Republic TSD 2018 - CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
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3-3-15 | (2018-09-17) DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION at MLSP 2018, Aalborg, Denmark CALL FOR PAPERS:
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2018)
Aalborg, Denmark
Special Session:
DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION
Research in anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification has advanced significantly in the last five years. While proposed countermeasures are effective in detecting and deflecting spoofing attacks, current solutions lack a solid grounding in the processes involved in the mounting of spoofing attacks. As a result, and with most current solutions relying on the somewhat blind use of relatively standard features and classifiers, many countermeasures fail
when they encounter different forms of attack and are unlikely to generalise well to attacks encountered in the wild. This special session, organised as part of MLSP 2018, seeks to break the mould in anti-spoofing research. We invite scientific contributions that explore fundamentally disruptive approaches to anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification. While contributions which use existing standard/common databases are welcome, their use is not required. Preference will instead be given to contributions that explore under-researched aspects of spoofing and non-standard, emerging or blue-sky countermeasure technologies, especially those with an emphasis on previously-unexplored signal processing and machine learning approaches which either shed new light on spoofing or expose promising new research directions for future exploration. Both technological and methodological contributions
are welcome.
Example topics include but are by no means limited to the following:
- theoretical bounds of spoofing attack detectability
- cross-domain feature learning for robust spoofing attack detection
- generative adversarial networks and threats to biometric technology
- one-class, semi-supervised, or reinforcement learning approaches to spoofing countermeasures
- new regularisation and optimisation methods to improve cross-dataset generality
- generation and detection of inaudible, imperceptible or other novel spoofing attacks
- novel hardware/sensor and knowledge-based spoofing countermeasures
- alternatives to GMMs, DNNs, CNNs, RNNs
- unexpected application areas beyond biometrics
Schedule is the same as for regular papers:
Paper submission: May 1 (update until May 4)
Review notifications: June 18
Author rebuttals: June 18-24
Reviewer discussion: June 25-30
Decision notification: July 6
Camera-ready paper & registration: July 31
Organizers:
Nicholas Evans, EURECOM, France (evans@eurecom.fr)
Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland (tkinnu@cs.joensuu.fi)
Sébastien Marcel, IDIAP, Switzerland (sebastien.marcel@idiap.ch)
Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark (zt@es.aau.dk)
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3-3-16 | (2018-09-17) IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, Aalborg, Denmark MLSP2018
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3-3-17 | (2018-09-18) 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Leipzig, Germany (updated) SPECOM-2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-18 | (2018-09-27) LAUGHTER WORKSHOP 2018, Sorbonne, Paris, France 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 Submission procedure
Registration Important dates
Venue
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
Contact information CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne University
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3-3-19 | (2018-10-11) The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4) conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (updated) Link to Call for Papers and Submission Website:
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3-3-20 | (2018-10-15) 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Mons, Belgique 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
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3-3-21 | (2018-10-16) 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (MVAR 2018), Munich, Germany *Note: paper submission deadline extended till 18 July*
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3-3-22 | (2018-10-16) 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, USA 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2018)
October 16th, 2018 in Boulder, USA. In conjunction with ICMI2018.
http://MA3HMI.cogsy.de
Scope: One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction may be how we interact with other humans. Although technology is still far from human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical solutions. They are often represented as artificial agents to facilitate smooth inter-actions. While the analysis of human-human communication has resulted in many insights. Transferring these to human-machine interactions remains challenging especially if multiple possible interlocutors are present in a certain area. This situation requires that multimodal inputs from the main speaker (e.g., speech, gaze, facial expressions) as well as possible co-speaker are recorded and interpreted. This interpretation has to occur at both the semantic and affective levels, including aspects such as the personality, mood, or intentions of the user, anticipating the counterpart. These processes have to be performed in real-time in order for the system to respond without delays, in a natural environment. The MA3HMI workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the analysis of multimodal data as a means to develop technical devices that can interact with humans. In particular, artificial agents can be regarded in their broadest sense, including virtual chat agents, empathic speech interfaces and life-style coaches on a smart-phone. More general, multimodal analyses support any technical system being located in the research area of human-machine interaction. For the 2018 edition, we focus on the environment and situation an interaction is situated in extending the investigations on real-time aspects of human-machine interaction. We address the synergy of situation, context, and interaction history in the development and evaluation of multimodal, real-time systems. We solicit papers that concern the different perspectives of such human-machine interaction. Tools and systems that address real-time conversations with artificial agents and technical systems are also within the scope of the workshop.
Topics (but not limited to): a) Multimodal Environment Analyses - Multimodal understanding of situation and environment of natural interactions - Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions - Novel strategies of human-machine interaction in terms of situation and environment b) Multimodal User Analyses - Multimodal understanding of user behavior and affective state - Dialogue management using multimodal output - Multimodal understanding of multiple users behavior and affective - Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions - Novel strategies of human-machine interactions c) Applications, Tools, and Systems - Novel application domains and embodied interaction - Prototype development and uptake of technology - User studies with (partial) functional systems - Tools for the recording, annotation and analysis of conversations
Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 30th, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: September 10th, 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: September 15th, 2018 Workshop Date: October 16th, 2018
Submissions: Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) and short papers (5 pages) in ACM format as specified by ICMI 2018. Accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All submissions should be anonymous.
Organisers: Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany Francesca Bonin, IBM Research, Ireland Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ronald Poppe, Utrecht University, Netherland
-- Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. Ronald Böck FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems Building 03, Room 322 Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Phone: +49 391 67 50061 E-mail: ronald.boeck@ieee.org ronald.boeck@ovgu.de Web: http://www.kognitivesysteme.de
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3-3-23 | (2018-10-16) Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era, Boulder, CO, USA Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era
Boulder, Colorado, October 16th, 2018 WORKSHOP TOPICS AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS
We invite the submission of papers (max 8 pages), short papers and demos (max 4 pages). According to the ICMI 2018 guidelines, the reviewing will be double blind, so submissions should be anonymous: do not include the authors' names, affiliations or any clearly identifiable information in the paper. It is appropriate to cite past work of the authors if these citations are treated like any other (e.g., 'Smith [5] approached this problem by....') - omit references only if it would be obviously identifying the authors. Submitted papers should conform to the ACM publication format. For templates and examples, please click on this link. Please use the latest ACM_SigConf format for both short and long paper submissions.
The papers should be submitted to PrecisionConference. The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors will need to create a new account to log into the new Precision Conference system for submissions, even if they already have an account though the old Precision Conference system. Paper submission deadline: July 31st, 2018 Notification to authors: August 31st, 2018 Workshop date: October 16th, 2018 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Theodora Chaspari, Texas A&M University (chaspari@tamu.edu) Angeliki Metallinou, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning (ametalli@amazon.com) Leah Stein Duker, University of Southern California (lstein@chan.usc.edu) Amir Behzadan, Texas A&M University (abehzadan@tamu.edu) For additional information visit http://h3-icmi2018.cse.tamu.edu or write to chaspari@tamu.edu.
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3-3-24 | (2018-10-16) ICMI-Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions EXTENDED DEADLINE International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018
Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions EXTENDED June 25th, Decisions July 20th, Camera Ready July 31st. Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfdc **********
The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. The Consortium will be held on October 16, 2018. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).
Who should apply? While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
Submission Guidelines Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
1) Extended Abstract: A four-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SigConf format. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions will not be anonymous. In particular, it should cover: - The key research questions and motivation of your research, - Background and related work that informs your research, - A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem, - Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies, - The research approach and methodology, - Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work, - A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work.
2) Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support. Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.
3) CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
Review Process The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Financial Support We hope to provide most student attendees with partial financial support to cover the costs of attending the Doctoral Consortium and the conference. However, the details on the number of students to be funded and funding coverage is currently unknown, as we are currently working on raising funds. More detail on travel support will be announced on the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website.
Attendance All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
Process - Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2). - Submission system: To be updated. - Selection process: Peer-Reviewed - Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session - Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library - Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Roland Goecke (U Canberra) and Yelin Kim (SUNY Albany)
Dates Submission deadline: EXTENDED to June 25th 2018 Notifications: July 20th 2018 Camera-ready deadline: July 31st 2018 Doctoral Consortium Date: October 16th 2018
Questions? For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfdc) For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs: - Roland Goecke (U Canberra) Roland.Goecke@canberra.edu.au - Yelin Kim (SUNY Albany) yelinkim@albany.edu --
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3-3-25 | (2018-10-16) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) , Boulder, CO, USA International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018 Second Call for Late Breaking Results Due August 1st, 2018, Notifications August 31st, Camera-ready Sept 7th. Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cflbr **********
Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits
EXTENDED DATES: Due August 3rd, 2018, Notifications August 8th, Camera-ready August 12th.
Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfd
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We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018), located in Boulder, Colorado. October 16-20th, 2018.
Demonstrations and Exhibits
The ICMI 2018 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. They can also serve to introduce commercial products.
Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a two page paper, which will be included in ICMI proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than one page; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers are invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.
The theme of the ICMI 2018 conference is Multi-modal Understanding of Multi-party Interactions. Demonstrations in this area will benefit from more exposure to visitors, and will allow visitors to interact with the material.
Demonstration Submission
A description of the demonstration must be submitted electronically through the main ICMI conference management system:
https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/
Demo description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than two pages in length including references - template available at:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Demo proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration and, if possible, the URL of a website where a live version or video of the proposed demo is available. Please note that the accepted demonstration descriptions will be included in ICMI proceedings.
The selection process is juried by committee, according to criteria such as: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals (paper submission), along with preparing the short papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.
The curated demo program will be selected from the submitted proposals as well as invited demos from among regular conference papers accepted for presentation at the conference which the committee deems suitable for demonstration.
The demo and exhibit paper submissions should not be anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).
Exhibit Submission
Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demo proposals. The main difference is that exhibits proposals should be shorter in length (up to one page) and more suitable for very mature systems (commercial or almost commercial). Exhibits won't have a paper published in the ICMI 2018 proceedings.
Important Dates - EXTENDED FINAL DEADLINE
Submission of demo and exhibit proposals: August 3rd, 2018 (23:59PM, PST)
Demo and exhibit notification of acceptance: August 8th, 2018
Submission of demo final papers: August 12th, 2018 (23:59PM, PST)
Attendance
At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s).
Questions?
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Demonstrations and Exhibits, visit the main conference website https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfd. For further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs (wolfgang.minker@uni-ulm.de and abhinav@iitrpr.ac.in)
- Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University)
- Abhinav Dhall (IIT Ropar) New this year! The ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is soliciting submissions for a new venue this year: Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of the LBR venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues. HIGHLIGHTS: - Submission deadline: August 1st, 2018 - Notifications: August 31st, 2018 - Camera-ready deadline: September 7th, 2018 - Conference Dates: October 16-20th, 2018 - Submission format: Anonymized, four pages not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates) - Selection process: Peer-Reviewed - Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session - Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library - LBR Co-chairs: Cosmin Munteanu (University of Toronto Mississauga) and Lisa Anthony (University of Florida) WHAT IS LATE-BREAKING WORK? Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track. WHY SUBMIT TO THE LATE-BREAKING WORK TRACK AT ICMI? Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field. Late-Breaking Work papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are ?significant? revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Extended Abstract: An anonymized, four-page paper, not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates). The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the 'Late-Breaking Work' track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted. Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person. REVIEW PROCESS LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it ?fits? the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. ATTENDANCE At least one author of all accepted LBR submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference poster session. QUESTIONS? For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/ For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (cosmin@taglab.ca and lanthony@cise.ufl.edu) - Cosmin Munteanu, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada - Lisa Anthony, University of Florida, USA
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3-3-26 | (2018-10-22) 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Seoul, Korea First International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia, October 22-26, 2018, Seoul, Korea
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seoul, Korea together with ACM Multimedia 2018. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:
– annotation and indexing – athlete and object tracking – activity recognition, classification and evaluation – event detection and indexing – performance assessment – injury analysis and prevention – data driven analysis in sports – graphical augmentation and visualization in sports – automated training assistance – camera pose and motion tracking – brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions
Please refer to the workshop website for further information: http://www.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports/
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Due: July 8, 2018 Acceptance Notification: August 5, 2018 Camera Ready Submission: August 12, 2018 Workshop Date: TBA; either Oct 22 or Oct 26, 2018
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3-3-27 | (2018-10-22) 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Seoul, KoreaCall for Papers (Submission deadline EXTENDED to July 15) ---------------------------------------------------------
First International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia, October 22-26, 2018, Seoul, Korea
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seoul, Korea together with ACM Multimedia 2018. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:
– annotation and indexing
– athlete and object tracking
– activity recognition, classification and evaluation
– event detection and indexing
– performance assessment
– injury analysis and prevention
– data driven analysis in sports
– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports
– automated training assistance
– camera pose and motion tracking
– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions
Please refer to the workshop website for further information:
http://www.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports/ IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Due: EXTENDED TO: July 15, 2018 Acceptance Notification: August 5, 2018
Camera Ready Submission: August 12, 2018
Workshop Date: TBA; either Oct 22 or Oct 26, 2018
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3-3-28 | (2018-10-22) 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop -AVEC 2018, Seoul Korea 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop ? AVEC 2018
Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2018 conference, 22-26 October, Seoul, Korea
We are calling for participation in the 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2018), an ACM MM Challenge Workshop themed around two topics: for the first time in a challenge bipolar disorder and emotion recognition. Bipolar disorder (BD) is a serious mental health disorder, with patients experiencing either manic or depressive episodes. Those with BD tend to live with this long-term. The purpose of the Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC) series is to bring together multiple communities from different disciplines, in particular the audio-visual multimedia communities and those in the psychological and social sciences who study expressive behaviour and emotion. The AVEC 2018 challenge theme is on Bipolar disorder and Cross-cultural emotion, and it is the eighth competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual, and audiovisual health and emotion analysis, with all participants competing under strictly the same conditions. It introduces major novelties this year with three separated sub-challenges:
In order to participate in the Challenge, please register your team by following the challenge guidelines.
We encourage both - contributions aiming at highest performance w.r.t. the baselines provided by the organisers, and contributions aiming at finding new and interesting insights w.r.t. these challenges. Besides participation in the challenge, we are also encouraging submissions of original contributions on the following topics (not limited to):
Important Dates
Organisers
Fabien Ringeval, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, France
Björn Schuller, Imperial College London/University of Augsburg, UK/Germany
Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham, UK
Roddy Cowie, Queen?s University Belfast, UK
Maja Pantic, Imperial College London/University of Twente, UK/The Netherlands
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3-3-29 | (2018-10-28) CfP XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies, Mahé, Seychelles CALL FOR PAPERS
XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies
'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages and Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'
28 October 2018 - 3 November 2018, Mahé, Seychelles
The International Committee for Creole Studies (Comité International des Etudes Créoles (CIEC)) has organized International Conferences on Creole Studies for the past fifty years, at regular intervals. In 2018, the XVIth International Conference of Creole Studies will be held in Seychelles; the organization has been entrusted to the University of Seychelles in liaison with the CIEC.
The international community (UNESCO, UNDP etc.) and the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) support the educational linguistic policy and the possible institutionalization of Creole languages in the dozen of Creole-speaking countries (France and its Departments, Haiti, Dominica, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, San Tome and Principe) that are members of OIF. Creole studies are called upon to contribute decisively to these programs and endeavours. The importance of Creole studies stems primarily from its contributions to the linguistic, cultural and social development of Creole -speaking societies. Beyond, the study of the genesis and development of Creole social, linguistic and cultural systems constitutes a remarkable field of study for human and social sciences, because 'Creole' societies have been formed recently (three to four centuries of existence as a rule) and because of how they are composed and evolve.
The XVIth International Symposium on Creole Studies will focus on: 'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages, Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'. This theme invites philosophers, historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, linguists and other researchers in human and social sciences to present their work on contemporary Creole societies in their historical, linguistic, social, political, economic and cultural evolution.
The focus of the colloquium will be on the following four major themes: A. Creole languages and education B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
Presentation of the themes of the Conference
A. Creole languages and education
Faced with the challenges of education for all, in basic and middle schools, sovereign countries that use a French Creole language have introduced some measure of Creole language teaching in their schools. Some states, such as Seychelles or Haiti, have acquired a vast experience in the domain that should be examined. Mauritius has recently also embarked on this venture which calls for evaluation. The Creole-speaking Outremer Departments, whose creoles are recognized regional languages of France and which benefit from the texts regulating the teaching of regional languages in France, have also many educational practices to share. B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development
Anthropology and the history of Creole worlds are called upon to account for how the creole-speaking social formations, resulting from European colonial expansion, are facing the challenges of development and globalization. The role of Creole languages in the development of economy (tourism, reception of migrants, etc.) has to be assessed. Literary production in the Creole speaking islands of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean has developed greatly in recent years in French and English as well as in Creole languages. The study of this renewal of literature and cultural practices also forms part of theme B. The migratory movements of creole speakers (see also topic C) will also be discussed. What are the paths of the institutionalization of the Creole languages in their respective areas of influence (see the question of Creole language academies)? Creole militant practices may also be mentioned.
C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages.
Recent globalization have caused many displacements of Creole-speaking populations towards more developed economic zones. New Creole-speaking communities have thus been created outside the territories of birth, such as Haitian communities in North America, populations from the Creole speaking Departments in metropolitan France, Mauritians in Australia and Seychellois in the United Kingdom. Creole speaking newcomers are found in prosperous creole-speaking areas, for instance, Haitians in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean.Immigration to Creole-speaking areas also leads to the emergence of neo-learners of Creole languages. Globalization has led to an unprecedented diffusion of Creole languages, including via language and culture industries. These new sociolinguistic situations of diffusion have hardly been described to date. Similarly, little is known about the impact of these migratory movements on the dynamics of Creole languages. To these themes may be added the study of the genesis and evolution of Creole languages.
D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
The description of Creole language systems (phonology, grammar) remains necessary. The analysis of the variation of Creole languages and of their linguistic systems is still unsatisfactory. This theme should bring together contributions that attempt to analyze and explain phonological, morphological and grammatical systems in a typological perspective. This theme may also include work on grammar for teaching. Indeed, in Haiti, the Seychelles and Mauritius, as in the French DROMs, questions arise concerning 'grammar models' and the use of linguistic analyses for teacher training and for teaching of Creole languages as first languages.
Questions
Topics that could be addressed, either in the form of individual papers or as workshops (please contact the organizers), include the following:
- 'Creole' diasporas and their linguistic practices - Creole varieties developed outside the territories of birth - The linguistic varieties of neo-learners of Creole languages - The co - presence of Creole and French - The development of literacy programs in Creole - Bilingual education programs integrating the Creole language - Literatures of Creole-speaking countries - The state of research on Creole language corpora - Creole development at school - Morphology, Syntax etc. of creole languages - The diachronic studies of Creole languages - Relations between Creole languages and languages of the slave population (African languages, Malagasy, etc.) - Creole history, landscape and society - Creolization and the development of Creole societies - Philosophy and history of ideas in Creole societies.
Enoch Aboh, Christian Barat, Arnaud Carpooran, Penda Choppy, Guillaume Fon Sing, Renaud Govain, Marie-reine Hoareau, Thom Klingler, Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig, Carpanin Marimoutou, Salikoko Mufwene, Joelle Perreau, Laurence Pourchez, Lambert-Félix Prudent, Gillette Staudacher-Valliamee, Albert Valdman, Justin Valentin, Daniel Véronique
The papers and proposals for workshops may be included in one of the themes of the Conference and / or in a cross-cutting theme. Proposals for papers or workshops (groupings of 3/4 papers) written in French, English or any French Creole language, with the address and institutional affiliation of the communicant (s) must reach the following e-mail address: Ciec.Sez2018@gmail.combefore 15 January 2018. The abstracts will describe the theme of the paper, the database, the results expected and will not exceed 3,000 characters or 500 words (including bibliography). Submit 2 copies of the proposal, one anonymous (which will be used for the review), the other with the author's name, address and institutional affiliation.
After evaluation, acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be notified as from the 9 April 2018.
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3-3-30 | (2018-11-05)11 th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Tilburg, The Netherlands 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 5-8 November, 2018
Website: https://inlg2018.uvt.nl Contact: inlg2018@uvt.nl
The 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018) will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018. The conference takes place immediately after EMNLP 2018, organised in nearby Brussels, Belgium.
INLG 2018 is organised by the Tilburg University Language Production (TULP) research group, part of the Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) The event is organised under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters.
Important dates
- Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2018 - Notification: September 7, 2018 - Camera ready: October 1, 2018 - INLG 2018: November 5-8, 2018
All deadlines are at 11.59 PM, UTC-8.
Topics
INLG 2018 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. The conference will include two special tracks:
(1) Generating Text with Affect, Style and Personality (sponsored by The Netherlands Organization for Scienfitic Research, NWO), and (2) Conversational Interfaces, Chatbots and NLG (organised in collaboration with flow.ai).
General topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Affect/emotion generation - Applications for people with disabilities - Cognitive modelling of language production - Content and text planning - Corpora for NLG - Deep learning models for NLG - Evaluation of NLG systems - Grounded language generation - Lexicalisation - Multimedia and multimodality in generation - Storytelling and narrative generation - NLG and accessibility - NLG in dialogue - NLG for embodied agents and robots - NLG for real-world applications - Paraphrasing and Summarisation - Personalisation and variation in text - Referring expression generation - Resources for NLG - Surface realisation - Systems architecture
A separate call for workshops and generation challenges will be released soon.
Submissions & Format
Submissions should follow the new ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. ACL 2018 offers both LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates Papers should be submitted electronically through the START conference management system (to be opened in due course).
Three kinds of papers can be submitted:
- Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for references.
- Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, with up to one extra page for references.
- Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems which are of relevance to the NLG community. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2018.
All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2018 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2018 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the 'Acknowledgements' section of the paper when submitted. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice.
Program chairs
- Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Martijn Goudbeek, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Albert Gatt, Malta University, Malta
Workshop & Challenges chairs
- Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University, Germany - Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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3-3-31 | (2018-11-08) CfP Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, Aix-en-Provence,France Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018
Call for Papers
We invite submissions for the Workshop Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, to be held at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018.
The Workshop is co-located with the 22nd SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 8-10 November 2018.
Aim Signaling the information structure of utterances has been shown to be one of the main dimensions of prosodic meaning in many languages, and remains a driving force behind the research on the typological variety of prosodic systems. Other aspects of prosodic meaning that have been investigated are the role of prosody in the generation of implicatures, in speech-act dynamics, in dialogue management, or in the marking of various kinds of questions, owing much to collaborations between phonologists and semanticists/pragmaticists. Other recent advances in the field are supported by the development of corpus resources and of new experimental methods for the investigation of the empirical validity of specific theoretical claims. This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and psycholinguists working on the prosody/meaning interface in different languages as well as computational linguists developing tools for prosody-meaning corpus annotation, exploration and processing.
Invited Speakers Michael Wagner, McGill University Pilar Prieto, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Topics Topics include, but are not limited to: - prosodic reflexes of information structure in different languages and their relationship with other grammatical reflexes of information structure (morphological or syntactical), - the relationship between information structure, ellipsis or clause fragments and prosody, - the interplay between information structure and other aspects of prosodic meaning such as speech acts, attitude signaling, or turn-taking management, - more generally, the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse and dialogue.
Submissions We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous, in English, and should not exceed one page (2.5 cm margins, 12pt font size), with an extra page for examples, figures and references.
Important dates Abstract deadline: 27 May 2018 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2018 Workshop: 8 November 2018
Organisers Cristel Portes, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU), Arndt Riester and Uwe Reyle, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart.
Scientific committee Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne),
More information are available on the Workshop webpage: https://semdial.hypotheses.org/prosody Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: cristel.portes@lpl-aix.fr
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3-3-32 | (2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan (2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan
International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing. Since 1998, it has been successfully held in Singapore (1998), Beijing (2000), Taipei (2002), Hong Kong, (2004), Singapore (2006), Kuming (2008), Tainan (2010), Hong Kong (2012), Singapore (2014), and Tianjin (2016). ISCSLP is the flagship conference of SIG-CSLP, ISCA. The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018) will be held on November 26-29, 2018 in Taipei. While ISCSLP is focused primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English. Important dates Feb 22, 2018 Submission of special session proposals Apr 30, 2018 Submission of tutorial proposals Jun 11, 2018 Submission of regular and special session papers Aug 01, 2018 Submission of demo proposals
ISCSLP2018 conference website: http://iscslp2018.org/
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3-3-33 | (2018-11-29) CfP Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang),Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (updated) Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang)
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3-3-34 | (2018-12-18) Spoken Language Technologies Workshop, Athens, Greece
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3-3-35 | (2018-??-??) FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 22, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: November 17, 2017
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), and the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACL 2018, COLING 2018, EMNLP 2018, or NAACL HLT 2018. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:
ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be held in Melbourne, Australia, July 15 - July 20, 2018, with workshops to take place on July 19-20: http://acl2018.org/
COLING 2018 (the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20 - August 25, 2018, with workshops to be held on August 20-21, 2018: http://coling2018.org/
NAACL HLT 2018 (the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1 - June 6, 2018 with workshops to be held on June 5-6, 2018: http://naacl2018.org/
EMNLP 2018 (the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018) will be held later in 2018 (after the other three conferences). Exact details on dates and venue for EMNLP workshops will be announced later.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines below).
The proposals should contain:
- A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.
- The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.
- A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to: (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.
- A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers.
- An estimate of the number of attendees.
- A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants.
- A description of special requirements and technical needs.
- The preferred venue(s) (ACL/COLING/NAACL/EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g. if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise)
- If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g. shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.
Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.
In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you submit via the START System (not in the PDF proposal):
- A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).
- A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.
- A list of organizers’ names which will be shown in the web-based survey.
The proposals should be submitted no later than October 22, 2018, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at
https://www.softconf.com/i/acl-workshops2018
The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. In addition, to estimate the attendance of the different workshops, a new voting mechanism will be implemented, where attendees of ACL-affiliated events from the past 3-5 years will be able to vote on which workshops they would like to attend in 2018. (A representative prototype of the survey is shown here, but is subject to change: https://goo.gl/3cuZON.) The overall diversity of the workshops will also be taken into account to ensure the conference program is varied and balanced. The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the four conferences, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers.
Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs.
The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at:
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook
TIMELINE FOR 2018 WORKSHOPS
Timeline:
October 22, 2018: Proposal Submission Deadline
November 17, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
Individual dates:
* ACL:
Dec 11, 2018: First Call for Workshop Papers
Mar 5, 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
April 8, 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
May 7, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
May 28, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
July 19-20, 2018: Workshop Dates
* COLING:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
Aug 20-21, 2018: Workshop Dates
* NAACL:
27 November 2017: First Call for Workshop Papers
8 January 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
2 March 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
2 April 2018: Notification of Acceptance
16 April 2018: Camera-ready papers due
5-6 June 2018: Workshop Dates
* EMNLP:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
TBA: Workshop Dates
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
* ACL:
Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge
* COLING:
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University
* NAACL:
Marie Meteer, Brandeis University
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research
* EMNLP:
TBA
For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers at:
acl-coling-emnlp-naacl-workshops@googlegroups.com
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3-3-36 | (2019-01-07) 5th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA (BigDat 2019), Cambridge, United Kingdom 5th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
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3-3-37 | (2019-03-28) The Second (2019) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'19); San José, CA, USA The Second (2019) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'19)
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3-3-38 | (2019-05-12) 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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3-3-39 | (2019-08-04) International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia![]() Don't miss your opportunity to be a part of ICPhS 2019!
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Presentation
http://lig-getalp.imag.fr/icphs-2019-special-session/
The special session Computational Approaches for Documenting and Analyzing Oral Languages welcomes submissions presenting innovative speech data collection methods and/or assistance for linguists and communities of speakers: methods and tools that facilitate collection, transcription and translation of primary language data. Oral languages is understood here as referring to spoken vernacular languages which depend on oral transmission, including endangered languages and (typically low-prestige) regional varieties of major languages.
The special session intends to provide up-to-date information to an audience of phoneticians about developments in machine learning that make it increasingly feasible to automate segmentation, alignment or labelling of audio recordings, even in less-documented languages. A methodological goal is to help establish the field of Computational Language Documentation and contribute to its close association with the phonetic sciences. Computational Language Documentation needs to build on the insights gained through phonetic research; conversely, research in phonetics stands to gain much from the availability of abundant and reliable data on a wider range of languages.
Laurent Besacier ? LIG UGA (France)
Alexis Michaud ? LACITO CNRS (France)
Martine Adda-Decker ? LPP CNRS (France)
Gilles Adda ? LIMSI CNRS (France)
Steven Bird ? CDU (Australia)
Graham Neubig ? CMU (USA)
François Pellegrino ? DDL CNRS (France)
Sakriani Sakti ? NAIST (Japan)
Mark Van de Velde ? LLACAN CNRS (France)
This special session is endorsed by SIGUL (Joint ELRA and ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages)
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Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (DSTC7)
Call for Participation: Data distribution has been started
Website: http://workshop.colips.org/dstc7/index.html
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Background
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The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog
research community since 2013.
From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System
Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.
For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and
selected the following three parallel tracks by peer-reviews:
- Sentence Selection Track
- Sentence Generation Track
- Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track
Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate,
non-profit, government).
Important Dates
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- Jun 1, 2018: Training data is released
- Sep 10, 2018: Test data is released
- Sep 24, 2018: Entry submission deadline
- Oct or Nov 2018: Paper submission deadline
- Spring 2019: DSTC7 special session or workshop (venue: TBD)
DSTC7 Organizing Committee
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- Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Julien Perez - Naver Labs Europe, France
- Luis Fernando D'Haro - Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
DSTC7 Track Organizers
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Sentence Selection Track:
- Lazaros Polymenakos - IBM Research, USA
- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research, USA
- Walter S. Lasecki - University of Michigan, USA
- Jonathan Kummerfeld - University of Michigan, USA
Sentence Generation Track:
- Michel Galley - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Chris Brockett - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Jianfeng Gao - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Bill Dolan - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track:
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Tim K. Marks - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Devi Parikh - Georgia Tech, USA
- Dhruv Batra - Georgia Tech, USA
DSTC Steering Committee
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- Jason Williams - Microsoft Research (MSR), USA
- Rafael E. Banchs - Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
- Seokhwan Kim - Adobe Research, USA
- Matthew Henderson - PolyAI, Singapore
- Verena Rieser - Heriot-Watt University, UK
Contact Information
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Join the DSTC mailing list to get the latest updates about DSTC7:
- To join the mailing list: send an email to
listserv@lists.research.microsoft.com and put 'subscribe DSTC' in the
body of the message (without the quotes).
- To post a message: send your message to dstc@lists.research.microsoft.com.
For specific enquiries about DSTC7:
- Please feel free to contact any of the Organizing Committee members
directly.
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