Associate Prof. Tomi Kinnunen, UEF Dr. Ville Hautamäki, UEF
LECTURERS
Prof. Ville Kyrki, Aalto Univ. (autonomous agents) Dr. Ali Ghadirzadeh, Aalto Univ. & KTH Royal Inst. Tech. (autonomous agents) Dr. Md Sahidullah, INRIA (speech) Dr. Cemal Hanilci, Bursa Tech. Univ. (speech) Dr. Dayana Ribas, Univ. of Zaragoza (speech) Prof. Lauri Mehtätalo, UEF (statistics) Dr. Akihiro Kato, UEF (speech) Dr. Rosa Gonzalez Hautamäki, UEF (speech) Dr. Abraham Woubie, UEF (speech)
COURSE OVERVIEW
University of Eastern Finland (UEF) hosts a number of different summer courses in August 2018. The course on Machine Learning Applied to Speech Technology and Autonomous Agents is co-organized by the School of Computing of the UEF and Department of Automation and Systems Technology of Aalto University. Contact teaching takes place from August 13th to 17th, 2018. Individual optional project work is from August 20th to 24th, 2018.
The course is intended to be self-contained with limited or no prior knowledge of machine learning required. It gives a brief overview of the relevant machine learning concepts and their applications to speech technology and autonomous agents. Despite the two different application themes, there are no parallel sessions but the participants learn about both topics.
The first day includes course introduction, introduction to machine learning, linear mixed models and basics of deep learning for modeling sequential data. The next two days focus on audio topics (speaker & speech recognition, speaker diarization, speech enhancement, audio steganography), while the last two lecture days focus on reinforcement learning and autonomous software and physical agents (robots). The teaching takes place at the Joensuu campus of the UEF.
The speech portion of the course is especially recommended for PhD students (and MSc students close to graduation) who might be already familiar with the basics of signal processing and are interested in obtaining a brief overview of basic principles, state-of-the-art techniques and selected emerging trends, especially in speaker and language recognition.
The reinforcement portion of the course gives basics of how autonomous agents, whether physicsal (robots) or software, can be designed and trained in end-to-end fashion. Portion of the course is useful for any PhD or MSc students close to graduation, who is interested to learn more about the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence (AI).
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
Language of the course is English. The primary target group are PhD and MSc students. The course amounts to either 2 ECTS or 5 ECTS, depending on the mode:
A. Lectures + learning diary (August 13 - 17), total 2 ECTS B. + additional individual project (August 20 - 24), total 5 ECTS
The course contains 5 days of lectures, hands on practicals, project work (1 week) and learning diary. The course will be assessed as pass/fail. Students who pass the course will receive a course certificate.
SOCIAL PROGRAM
The course involves social programme organized by the UEF (details TBA). The activities will mostly be included in your course fee, but some of them may have a small participation fee.
(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).
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)
(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
3rd International Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology (YFRSW-2018) Special event of Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India
== Important Dates: - Abstract submission opens: 16 April 2018 - Abstract submission closes: 24 May 2018 - Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2018 - Registration deadline: 5 July 2018 - Workshop date: 1 September 2018
== Topic: The aim of this workshop is to bring women undergraduate and masters students, who are currently working in speech science and technology, together at a special event co-located with Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India. The workshop will take place on 1 September 2018 from 10am to 5pm followed by a dinner with invited senior members of the Interspeech community. It will feature panel discussions with senior female researchers in the field, student poster presentations and a mentoring session. The workshop is the third of its kind, after a successful inaugural event (YFRSW 2016) at Interspeech 2016 in San Francisco and the second event (YFRSW 2017) in Stockholm, Sweden. It is designed to foster interest in research in our field in women at the undergraduate or master level who have not yet committed to getting a PhD in speech science or technology areas, but who have had some research experience in their college and universities via individual or group projects.
== Call for Participation Abstracts describing the student?s (planned) research (maximum of 300 words) should be submitted by email to
Abstracts will be reviewed by the committee and applicants will be notified by June 15, 2018. Emphasis will be on inclusivity although all submissions should be in the core scientific domains covered by Interspeech.
== Preliminary Program: The workshop will include the following events: * A welcome breakfast with introductions (1h) * A panel of senior women talking about their own research and experiences as women in the speech community (1h) * A panel of senior students who work in the speech area to describe how they became interested in speech research (1h) * A poster session for the students to present their own research (2h) * A coaching session between students and senior women mentors (1h) * A networking lunch for students and senior women (1h)
== Organizing committee: Amber Afshan (UCLA), Kay Berkling (Karlsruhe University), Heidi Christensen (University of Sheffield), Maxine Eskenazi (CMU), Milica Gasic (Cambridge University), Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Google Inc), Preethi Jyothi (IIT Bombay), Esther Klabbers (ReadSpeaker), Lori Lamel (LIMSI CNRS) Yang Liu (University of Texas Dallas) Karen Livescu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), Pratibha Moogi (Samsung Electronics), Emily Mower Provost (University of Michigah), Catharine Oertel (EPFL) Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google Inc), Odette Scharenborg (M*Modal), Elizabeth Shriberg (Ellipsis Health Inc), Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico)
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:
The invitation is open to all participants of Interspeech 2018.
The applicants are required to submit an extended two-page abstract on their ongoing doctoral research.
The submission can be extended to a maximum of two pages including all text, figures and tables, plus an additional third page exclusively for references.
The submissions must follow the Interspeech template provided in the author's kit.
The abstracts may incorporate published and in-progress work from the authors.
Submissions are expected to present a fair picture of the research undertaken towards the thesis.
Participants are advised to refrain from submitting a shorter version of their conference papers.
Submissions must have the participant as the sole author. Acknowledgements to their supervisors, supporting agencies/bodies, and contributors to the work,can be made in a separate section.
The submission must highlight the following:
The motivation for the research.
Key issues identified/addressed.
Major contributions
Discussion of results.
Future plans and a roadmap for the thesis.
Major contributions of the research.
Submissions:
Submissions can be made through EasyChair. The link is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dc2018
Submission must be in PDF format.
Accepted submissions will be published on www.isca-students.org and thus a submission inherently indicates consent towards ISCA-SAC publishing the abstract.
Check-list:
Submissions must follow Interspeech paper template.
Submissions must describe the research undertaken towards your thesis.
Submissions must be made through the EasyChair link only.
A maximum of two pages are allowed for submission, with an additional third page exclusively for references. Non-compliance to this limit will automatically lead to cancellation of the submission.
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
* Important dates: Paper submission: May 18, 2018 Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2018 Camera-ready papers due: July 13, 2018
* Organizers: - Klaus Schoeffmann, Klagenfurt University, Austria, ks@itec.aau.at - Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland, cathal.gurrin@dcu.ie - Stefanos Vrochidis, ITI, CERTH, Greece, stefanos@iti.gr - Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA, omarques@fau.edu
* Call for papers: Within the last decade we have observed the emergence of multimedia data analysis and indexing in many new domains, including medicine and personal health. For example, in the field of medical surgery, interventional videos are nowadays recorded and stored in a long-term archive, in order to analyze and use them for post-procedural scenarios, such as operation documentation, surgical error analysis, as well as training and teaching surgery techniques. Similarly, in the field of personal health, images from lifelogging cameras are used to track sports activities, to compute calories consumption, and to create memories for elderly people with dementia, for example. Other relevant lines of research include analysis of medical images for diagnosis decision support, multimedia analysis and multimodal interaction with social agents for basic care, video monitoring and multimedia fusion for remote management of patients. This special session aims to bring together researchers working on analysis and indexing of multimedia data in the field of medicine and health and to provide them a venue for sharing novel ideas and discussing their most-recent works.
* Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Medical image analysis/indexing - Medical video analysis/indexing (e.g., endoscopic videos, microscopic medical videos, OR-videos) - Surgical Quality Assessment (e.g., error analysis through images or videos) - Image and video analysis from personal sensors (e.g., lifelogging cameras) for the purpose of health - Lifelog data analysis in general - Personal experiences of long-term health/wellness studies - Multimedia analysis and retrieval for multimodal interaction in the health domain - Multimodal conversation and dialogue systems for social companion agents - Speech and audio analysis and retrieval for health applications - Facial analysis and gesture recognition of patients - Fusion of multimedia information for health and care-giving applications - Semantic web approaches for multimedia health applications - Visual analytics for human machine interaction in the health domain
* Submission: Authors are invited to submit full length papers (6 pages in IEEE double-column format) via the EasyChair system of CBMI 2018. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members (single-blind). *** Important note: The title and the header of the paper should include the mention ?Submitted to Special Session on Analysis of Multimedia Data for Medicine and Health? (e.g., as sub-title) to avoid any misclassification.
* Important dates: Paper submission: May 18, 2018 Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2018 Camera-ready papers due: July 13, 2018
* Organizers: Sébastien Lefèvre, Université de Bretagne Sud, IRISA (sebastien.lefevre@irisa.fr) Josiane Mothe, Université de Toulouse, IRIT CNRS (Josiane.Mothe@irit.fr)
* Call for papers: The proliferation of Earth Observation satellites, together with their continuously increasing performances, provides today a massive amount of geospatial data. Analysis and exploration of such data leads to various applications, from agricultural monitoring to crisis management and global security. However, they also raise very challenging problems, e.g. dealing with extremely large and real time geospatial data, user-friendly querying and retrieval satellite images or mosaics, semantic indexing and annotation. The purpose of this special session is to address these challenges, and to allow researchers from multimedia retrieval and remote sensing to meet and share their experiences in order to build the remote sensing retrieval systems of tomorrow. This special session aims to establish connections between researchers from multimedia retrieval and issues raised in remote sensing, and to provide interesting problems to the former while providing solutions for the latter. On the one hand, geospatial data requires specific models of description, with characteristics very different from other domains. To name a few, remotely sensed images are not necessarily defined in usual color spaces, they compose large-scale mosaics enabling a continuous global cover of the earth, they can be analysed and understood at various scales, etc. On the other hand, the multimedia retrieval community propose many scalable algorithms for learning, searching, or classifying data in a more generalist way. This special session will be a very interesting opportunity for multimedia researchers to propose adaptations to geospatial data, and for remote sensing researchers to create new models compatible with retrieval algorithms, while offering a context where people from these two domains can meet and share their experiences. Earth Observation is one of the major resource of visual data that still greatly lacks of efficient and effective methods for indexing and retrieval. Major challenges are faced since the geospatial data available worldwide is at the order of magnitude of ZettaBytes. Besides, thanks to the efforts of NASA in the USA and Copernicus program in Europe, satellite images provided free of charge to end-users represent several new TB every day. To ease the design of new solutions, the scientific community benefits from the availability of an increasing number of public benchmarks, such as: UC Merced Land Use Dataset, Brazilian Coffee Scenes Dataset, SAT-4 and SAT-6 airborne datasets, Sentinel-2 EuroSAT dataset, ISPRS 2D and 3D Semantic Labeling benchmark, ImageClef 2017 Remote Pilot task, IEEE Data Fusion Contest, Kaggle contests, etc. This is expected to ensure fair comparison of methods and to support the evolution of the state-of-the-art.
* Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Content- and context-based indexing, search and retrieval of EO data - Semantic annotation - Deep Learning and CBIR of EO data - Search and browsing on EO repositories - Change detection and its applications, - Near real time monitoring, - Multimodal / multi-observations (sensors, dates, resolutions) analysis of EO data - HCI issues in EO retrieval and browsing - Evaluation of EO retrieval systems, benchmarks for EO indexing and retrieval tasks - High-performance, large-scale indexing algorithms for EO data - Data fusion - Summarization and visualization of very large satellite image datasets - Applications: deforestation detection, air pollution detection and prediction, climate change, monitoring of resources, from land cover to phenology, photosynthetic activity, etc. Submissions should be sent via easychair and follow the IEEE format (see CBMI call). Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least 3 PC members (general PC and special session PC). The title of the submission should include ?(SS on IR4EO)? to avoid misclassification.
Since the Remote Sensing journal as an open call for a special issue on these topics (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/ir2s) with a deadline of 30th of September, the best papers from the special session will be encouraged to submit an extended journal version to this special issue. The selection of the papers will be eased by the fact that one of the special session organizers is also the leading guest editor of the special issue.
* Invited speaker: Begüm Demir is associate professor at the University of Trento (Italy). In 2017, she got an (ERC) Starting Grant with the project « BigEarth - Accurate and Scalable Processing of Big Data in Earth Observation ».
(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
FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it.
The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Events focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems.
Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017.
FedCSIS EVENTS
The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five conference areas.
* AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining Challenges --- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems --- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars --- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering and Data Analysis --- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'18 - 5th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and Services Computing Applications --- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information Technologies for Sustainable Development --- ISM'18 - 13th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5) * DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente - Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden - W?odzis?aw Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events, or by contacting Chairs of said events).
IMPORTANT DATES
? Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) ? Position paper submission: June 12, 2018 ? Authors notification: June 24, 2018 ? Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018 ? Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018 ? Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018
CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES
Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki
(2018-09-10) CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum, Avignon, France (Updated)
CLEF 2018 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Visualization 10 - 14 September 2018, Avignon - France
Important Dates --------------- ? Title, authors and abstract upload: 7 May 2018 ? Submission of Long and Short Papers: 14 May 2018 ? Notification of Acceptance: 8 June 2018 ? Camera Ready Copy due: 22 June 2018 ? Conference: 10-14 September 2018
CLEF 2018 is the 19th edition of CLEF which, since 2000, contributes to the systematic evaluation of information access systems. It consists of a peer-reviewed conference (see the separate call for papers) and a set of ten Labs designed to test different aspects of multilingual and multimedia IR systems: 1. CENTRE@CLEF 2018, CLEF/NTCIR/TREC Reproducibility 2. CheckThat! Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims 3. CLEF eHealth 4. DynSe, Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks 5. eRISK, Early Risk Prediction on the Internet 6. ImageCLEF, Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF 7. LifeCLEF 8. MC2, Multilingual Cultural Mining and Retrieval 9. PAN, Lab on Digital Text Forensics 10. PIR-CLEF, Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval
***************** Organizers ***************** Conference Chairs Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS LSIS, France Chiraz Trabelsi, University of Tunis El Manar, T unis
Program Chairs Josiane Mothe, SIG, IRIT, France) Fionn Murtagh, University of Huddersfield, UK)
Lab Chairs Jian Yun Nie, DIRO, Université de Montréal, Canada Laure Soulier, LIP6, UPMC, France
Proceedings Chairs Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
CENTRE@CLEF 2018 - CLEF/NTCIR/TREC Reproducibility The goal of CENTRE@CLEF 2018 is to run a joint CLEF/NTCIR/TREC task on challenging participants: 1) to reproduce best results of best/most interesting systems in previous editions of CLEF/NTCIR/TREC by using standard open source IR systems; 2) to contribute back to the community the additional components and resources developed to reproduce the results in order to improve existing open source systems. - Task 1 - Replicability: replicability of selected methods on the same experimental collections. - Task 2 - Reproducibility: reproducibility of selected methods on the different experimental collections. Task 3 - Re-reproducibility: using the components developed in T1 and T2 and made available by the other participants to replicate/reproduce their results. Lab Coordination: Nicola Ferro (University of Padua), Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University), Ian Soboroff (NIST) Lab website:http://www.centre-eval.org/ Twitter: @_centre_
LifeCLEF LifeCLEF lab aims at boosting research on the identification of living organisms and on the production of biodiversity data. Through its biodiversity informatics related challenges, LifeCLEF is intended to push the boundaries of the state-of-the-art in several research directions at the frontier of multimedia information retrieval, machine learning and knowledge engineering. The lab is organized around three tasks: - Task 1 - GeoLifeCLEF: location-based species recommendation. - Task 2 - BirdCLEF: bird species identification from bird calls and songs. - Task 3 - ExpertLifeCLEF: experts vs. machines identification quality. Lab Coordination: Alexis Joly (INRIA, LIRMM), Henning Müller (HES-SO), Pierre Bonnet (CIRAD, AMAP), Hervé Goëau (CIRAD, AMAP), Hervé Glotin (University of Toulon, LSIS CNRS), Simone Palazzo (University of Catania), Willem-Pier Vellinga (Xeno-Canto) Lab website:http://lifeclef.org/
PAN - Lab on Digital Text Forensics PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics. - Task 1 - Author Identification: cross-domain authorship attribution. More specifically, cases where the topic of texts varies significantly will be examined. In addition, we will continue the pilot task of style change detection, focusing on finding switches of authors within documents based on an intrinsic style analysis. - Task 2 - Author Obfuscation: while the goal of author identification and author profiling is to model author style so as to deanomyize authors, the goal of author obfuscation technology is to prevent that by disguising the authors. We will study author masking vs. authorship verification. - Task 3 - Author Profiling: the goal is to identify an author's traits based on their writing style. The focus will be on age and gender, whereas text and image will be used as information sources, offering tweets in English, Spanish and Arabic. Lab Coordination: Martin Potthast (Leipzig University), Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València), Efstathios Stamatatos (Univerisity of the Aegean), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Lab website:http://pan.webis.de/
CLEF eHealth Medical content is available electronically in a variety of forms ranging from patient records and medical dossiers, scientific publications and health-related websites to medical-related topics shared across social networks. This lab aims to support the development of techniques to aid laypeople, clinicians and policy-makers in easily retrieving and making sense of medical content to support their decision making. - Task 1 - Multilingual Information Extraction: Participants will be required to extract the causes of death from death certificates, authored by physicians in European languages. This can be seen as a named entity recognition, normalization, and/or text classification task. - Task 2 - Technologically Assisted Reviews in Empirical Medicine: Participants will be challenged to retrieve medical studies relevant to conducting a systematic review on a given topic. This can be seen as a total recall problem and is addressed by both query generation and document ranking. - Task 3 - Patient-centred Information Retrieval: Participants must retrieve web pages that fulfil a given patient?s personalised information need. This needs to fulfil the following criteria: information reliability, quality, and suitability. The task also has a multilingual querying track. Lab Coordination: Leif Azzopardi (Univ. of Strathclyde), Lorraine Goeuriot (Univ. J.Fourier), Evangelos Kanoulas (Univ. of Amsterdam), Liadh Kelly (Maynooth University), Aurélie Névéol (CNRS-LIMSI), Joao Palotti (Vienna Univ.), Aude Robert (INSERM/CepiDC), Rene Spijker (Cochrane), Hanna Suominen (Australian National Univ.), Guido Zuccon (Queensland Univ. of Technology) Lab Website:https://sites.google.com/view/clef-ehealth-2018/home Twitter : @clefehealth
MC2 - Multilingual Cultural Mining and Retrieval Developing processing methods and resources to mine the social media sphere surrounding cultural events such as festivals. This requires to deal with almost all languages and dialects as well as informal expressions.There are three tasks: - Task 1 - Cross Language Cultural Retrieval over MicroBlogs: a) Small Microblogs Multilingual Information Retrieval in Arabic, English, French and Latin languages; b) Microblogs Bilingual Information Retrieval for tuning systems running on language pairs; c) Microblog Monolingual Information Retrieval based on 2017 language identification. - Task 2 - Mining Opinion Argumentation: a) Polarity detection in microblogs; b) Automatic identification of argumentation elements over Microblogs and WikiPedia; c) Classification and summarization of arguments in texts. - Task 3 - Dialectal Focus Retrieval: a) Arabic dialects in Blogs, MicroBlogs and Video News transcriptions; b) Spanish language variations in Blogs, MicroBlogs and Journals. Lab Coordination: Chiraz Latiri (University Tunis El Manar), Eric SanJuan (LIA, Avignon University), Catherine Berrut (LIG, Grenoble Alpes University), Lorraine Goeuriot (LIG, Grenoble Alpes University), Julio Gonzalo (UNED) Lab website:https://mc2.talne.eu/ Twitter: @talne_mc2
ImageCLEF - Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF The lab provides an evaluation forum for the language independent annotation and retrieval of images, a domain for which tools are by far not as advanced as for text analysis and retrieval. - Task 1 - ImageCLEFlifelog: An increasingly wide range of personal devices, such as smartphones, video cameras as well as wearable devices that allow capturing pictures, videos, and audio clips in every moment of our life are becoming available. The task addresses the problems of lifelogging data understanding, summarization and retrieval. - Task 2 - ImageCLEFcaption: Interpreting and summarizing the insights gained from medical images such as radiology output is a time-consuming task that involves highly trained experts and often represents a bottleneck in clinical diagnosis pipelines. The task addresses the problem of bio-medical image concept detection and caption prediction from large amounts of training data. - Task 3 - ImageCLEFtuberculosis: The objective of this task is to determine tuberculosis subtypes and drug resistances, as far as possible automatically, from the volumetric image information in computed tomography (CT) volumes (mainly texture analysis) and based on clinical information (e.g., age, gender, etc). - Task 4 - VisualQuestionAnswering: With the ongoing drive for improved patient engagement and access to the electronic medical records via patient portals, patients can now review structured and unstructured data from labs and images to text reports associated with their healthcare utilization. Given a medical image accompanied with a set of clinically relevant questions, participating systems are tasked with answering the questions based on the visual image content. Lab Coordination: Bogdan Ionescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Mauricio Villegas (SearchInk), Henning Müller (HES-SO) Lab website:http://www.imageclef.org/2018/ Twitter: @imageclef
PIR-CLEF - Evaluation of Personalised Information Retrieval The primary aim of the PIR-CLEF 2018 laboratory is: 1) to facilitate comparative evaluation of PIR by offering participating research groups a mechanism for evaluation of their personalisation algorithms; 2) to give the participating groups the means to formally define and evaluate their own and novel user profiling approaches for PIR. - Task 1 - Personalized Search: we will provide a bag-of-words profile gathered during the query sessions performed by real searchers, the set of queries formulated by each user, together with the corresponding document relevance, and the the search logs of each user. Task participants will be expected to compute search results obtained by applying their personalization algorithms on these queries. The search will be carried out on the ClueWeb12 collection, by using the API provided by DCU. - Task 2 - User Profile Models: participants will be required to develop their own user profile models using the information gathered about the real user during her interactions with the system. The same information have been used for creating the baseline (keyword-based user profiles), which is provided in the benchmark. Lab Coordination: Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano Bicocca), Gareth J. F. Jones (Dublin City University), Stefania Marrara (Consorzio C2T), Debasis Ganguly (IBM Research Dublin) , Procheta Sen (Dublin City University), Camilla Sanvitto (University of Milano Bicocca) Lab website:http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/pir-clef2018/ Twitter: @clef2018_pir
eRISK - Early Risk Prediction on the Internet eRisk explores the evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and practical applications (particularly those related to health and safety) of early risk detection on the Internet. - Task 1 - Early Detection of Signs of Depression: the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of depression as soon as possible. - Task 2 - Early Detection of Signs of Anorexia: the challenge consists of sequentially processing pieces of evidence (Social Media entries) and detect early traces of anorexia as soon as possible. Both tasks are mainly concerned about evaluating Text Mining solutions and, thus, we concentrate on texts written in Social Media. Texts should be processed in the order they were posted. In this way, systems that effectively perform this task could be applied to sequentially monitor user interactions in blogs, social networks, or other types of online media. Lab Coordination: David E. Losada (University of Santiago de Compostela), Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano), Javier Parapar (University of A Coruña) Lab website: http://early.irlab.org/ Twitter: @earlyrisk
DynSe - Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks The primary aim of the CLEF Dynamic Search Lab is to develop algorithms which interact dynamically with user (or other algorithms) towards solving a task, and evaluation methodologies to quantify their effectiveness. The lab is organized along two tasks: - Task 1 - Query Suggestion: given a verbose topic description participants will generate and submit a sequence of queries and a ranking of the collection for each query. Queries will be evaluated over their effectiveness (query agent) and/or resemblance to user queries (user simulation). Query suggestion will be performed iteratively. - Task 2 - Result Composition: Given the obtained results from the aforementioned queries obtain a single ranked list by merging the individual rankings. Lab Coordination: Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Amsterdam), Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde) Lab website: https://ekanou.github.io/dynamicsearch/ Twitter: @clef_dynamic
CheckThat! - Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims CheckThat! aims to foster the development of technology capable of both spotting and verifying check-worthy claims in political debates in English and Arabic. - Task 1 - Check-Worthiness: Given a political debate, which is segmented into sentences with speakers annotated, identify which statements (claims) should be prioritized for fact-checking. This will be a ranking problem, and systems will be asked to produce a score, according to which the ranking will be performed. - Task 2 - Factuality: Given a list of already-extracted claims, classify them with factuality labels (e.g., true, half-true, false). This task will be run in an open mode. We will not provide any pre-selected set of documents to support the veracity labels. Participants will be free to use whatever resources they have and the Web in general, with the exception of the websites used by the organizers to collect the data. Lab Coordination: Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Qatar Computing Research Institute), Wajdi Zaghouani (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar), Tamer Elsayed, Reem Suwaileh (Qatar University), Pepa Gencheva (Sofia University) Lab website:http://alt.qcri.org/clef2018-factcheck/ Twitter: @_checkthat_
(2018-09-11) 21st International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018), Brno, Czech Republic
TSD 2018 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************
Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018 http://www.tsdconference.org/
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
THE MAIN SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kenneth Church, Baidu, USA Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed in Web of Science by Thomson Reuters and in Scopus. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.
CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The TSD 2018 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail tsd2018@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Björn Gambäck, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Nikola Ljubešić, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Columbia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Marko Robnik Šikonja, Slovenia Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czech Republic Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Vitomir Štruc, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wróblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Žganec Gros, Slovenia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
The Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be selected by the Programme Committee and supported with a total prize of EUR 1000 from Springer.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions.
The registration fee is the same as in 2016:
Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 10,000 CZK (approx. EUR 395) Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 12,000 CZK (approx. EUR 475)
The fee has a 'all in one' form, to keep equality between participants.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website.
Papers submitted to TSD 2018 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...', should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'. Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.
The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically.
The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines, Sample File typeinst.zip).
Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers May 16 2018 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2018 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date
Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary.
The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation are available at the conference website.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2018 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2018@tsdconference.org
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.
For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
(2018-09-11) Call for demonstrations at TSD 2018, Brno, Czech Republic
TSD 2018 - CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS *********************************************************
Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018) Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018 http://www.tsdconference.org/
SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS
Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software and hardware or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The authors of the demonstrations should provide the abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The submission must be made using the online form available at the conference www pages.
The accepted demonstrations will be presented during a special Demonstration Session (see the Demo Instructions at www.tsdconference.org). Demonstrators can present their contribution with their own notebook with an Internet connection provided by the organisers or the organisers can prepare a PC computer with multimedia support for demonstrators.
The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the Proceedings of TSD 2018, they will be published electronically at the conference website.
IMPORTANT DATES
August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for workshop papers and demonstrations sent to the authors September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kenneth Church, Baidu, USA Minsky, Chomsky & Deep Nets
Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Leolani: a reference machine with a theory of mind for social communication
Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Speech Analytics for Medical Applications
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed in Web of Science by Thomson Reuters and in Scopus. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Björn Gambäck, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Denis Jouvet, France Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Nikola Ljubešić, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Marko Robnik Šikonja, Slovenia Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czech Republic Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Vitomir Štruc, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wróblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Žganec Gros, Slovenia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
The Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be selected by the Programme Committee and supported with a total prize of EUR 1000 from Springer.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee has arranged discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation are available at the conference website.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2018 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2018@tsdconference.org
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.
For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION
Research in anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification has advanced significantly in the last five years. While proposed countermeasures are effective in detecting and deflecting spoofing attacks, current solutions lack a solid grounding in the processes involved in the mounting of spoofing attacks. As a result, and with most current solutions relying on the somewhat blind use of relatively standard features and classifiers, many countermeasures fail
when they encounter different forms of attack and are unlikely to generalise well to attacks encountered in the wild. This special session, organised as part of MLSP 2018, seeks to break the mould in anti-spoofing research. We invite scientific contributions that explore fundamentally disruptive approaches to anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification. While contributions which use existing standard/common databases are welcome, their use is not required. Preference will instead be given to contributions that explore under-researched aspects of spoofing and non-standard, emerging or blue-sky countermeasure technologies, especially those with an emphasis on previously-unexplored signal processing and machine learning approaches which either shed new light on spoofing or expose promising new research directions for future exploration. Both technological and methodological contributions
are welcome.
Example topics include but are by no means limited to the following:
- theoretical bounds of spoofing attack detectability
- cross-domain feature learning for robust spoofing attack detection
- generative adversarial networks and threats to biometric technology
- one-class, semi-supervised, or reinforcement learning approaches to spoofing countermeasures
- new regularisation and optimisation methods to improve cross-dataset generality
- generation and detection of inaudible, imperceptible or other novel spoofing attacks
- novel hardware/sensor and knowledge-based spoofing countermeasures
(2018-09-17) IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, Aalborg, Denmark
MLSP2018 IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING September 17-20, 2018 Aalborg, Denmark MLSP2018.CONWIZ.DK CALL FOR PAPERS The 28th MLSP workshop in the series of workshops organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society MLSP Technical Committee will present the most recent and exciting advances in machine learning for signal processing through keynote talks, tutorials, as well as special and regular single-track sessions. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on relevant algorithms and applications including, but not limited to: - Learning theory and modeling - Neural networks and deep learning - Bayesian Learning and modeling - Sequential learning; sequential decision methods - Information-theoretic learning - Graphical and kernel models - Bounds on performance - Source separation and independent component analysis - Signal detection, pattern recognition and classification - Tensor and structured matrix methods - Machine learning for big data - Large scale learning - Dictionary learning, subspace and manifold learning - Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning - Active and reinforcement learning - Learning from multimodal data - Resource efficient machine learning - Cognitive information processing - Bioinformatics applications - Biomedical applications and neural engineering - Speech and audio processing applications - Image and video processing applications - Intelligent multimedia and web processing - Communications applications - Other applications including social networks, games, smart grid, security and privacy DATA ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING COMPETITION MLSP2018 seeks proposals for Data Analysis and Signal Processing Competition. The goal of competition is to advance the current state-of-the-art in theoretical and practical aspects of signal processing domains. SPECIAL SESSIONS Special Sessions will be included to address research in emerging or interdisciplinary areas of particular interest, not covered already by traditional MLSP sessions. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD The MLSP Best Student Paper Award will be granted to the best paper for which a student is the principal author and presenter. NETWORKING MLSP Networking will be organized as a new initiative to focus on stimulating collaboration among participants to solve grand societal challenges using machine learning and signal processing. PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to six pages using the electronic submission procedure at http://mlsp2018.conwiz.dk. Accepted papers will be published on a password-protected website that will be available during the workshop. The presented papers will be published in and indexed by IEEE Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES: Paper submission deadline May 1, 2018 Paper update deadline May 4, 2018 Review notification June 18, 2018 Rebuttal period June 18-24, 2018 Reviewer discussion period June 25-30, 2018 Decision notification July 6, 2018 Camera-ready papers and Author advance registration July 31, 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark Program Chairs: Nelly Pustelnik, ENS Lyon, France Zhanyu Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Finance Chair: Børge Lindberg, Aalborg University, Denmark Data Competition Chairs: Karim Seghouane, University of Melbourne, Australia Yuejie Chi, Ohio State University, USA Publicity and Social Media Chairs: Marc Van Hulle, KU Leuven, Belgium Jen-Tzung Chien, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Web and Publication Chair: Jan Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Advisory Committee: Søren Holdt Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Theodoridis Sergios, University of Athens, Greece Raviv Raich, Oregon State University, USA Vince Calhoun, University of New Mexico, USA
(2018-09-18) 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Leipzig, Germany (updated)
SPECOM-2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************
20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018) Venue: Leipzig, Germany, September 18-22, 2018 Web: www.specom2018.org
ORGANIZERS The conference is organized by Leipzig University of Telecommunications (HfTL, Leipzig, Germany) in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).
SPECOM-2018 CO-CHAIRS Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia Rodmonga Potapova, MSLU, Moscow, Russia
CONFERENCE TOPICS The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of speech technology, human-machine interaction, machine learning and signal processing, particularly: Affective computing Applications for human-computer interaction Audio-visual speech processing Automatic language identification Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing Forensic speech investigations and security systems Multichannel signal processing Multimedia processing Multimodal analysis and synthesis Signal processing and feature extraction Speaker identification and diarization Speaker verification systems Speech and language resources Speech analytics and audio mining Speech dereverberation Speech driving systems in robotics Speech enhancement Speech perception and speech disorders Speech recognition and understanding Speech translation automatic systems Spoken dialogue systems Spoken language processing Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems Virtual and augmented reality
SPECIAL SESSIONS Positioning and Power Relations in Conversations: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session1 Advanced Cognitive Models for Human-Machine and Human-Robot Interaction: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session2 Big Data in Speech Computation: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session3
SATELLITE EVENT 3rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2018: http://specom.nw.ru/icr2018
INVITED SPEAKERS Tanja Schultz - Advances in Biosignal-Based Spoken Communication Sebastian Moller - Quality Engineering of Speech and Language Services Dongheui Lee - Robot learning through Physical Interaction and Human Guidance www.specom2018.org/invited-speakers
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of several independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2018 Papers submitted to SPECOM-2018 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
PROCEEDINGS SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major citation databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, etc. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2018.
IMPORTANT DATES April 15, 2018 ............ Submission of full papers May 30, 2018 ............ Notification of acceptance June 15, 2018 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and early registration Sept. 18-22, 2018 ......... Conference dates
VENUE The conference will be organized at the at the Leipzig University of Telecommunications.
CONTACTS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: SPECOM-2018 Secretariat: E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su; jokisch@hft-leipzig.de SPECOM-2018 web-site: http://www.specom2018.org; http://specom.nw.ru
(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 * Social and affective behavior: decoding and encoding of emotion/socio-related states in non-verbal vocalisations * Conversation: (pragmatic) role of non-verbal vocalisations in dialog * Computation: automatic analysis and generation of non-verbal vocalisations
Submission procedure
Researchers are invited to submit an extended abstract of their work, including work in progress. Please send your extended abstract of max. 4 pages, 11pt font (including references) in PDF format to laughterworkshop2018@isir.upmc.fr. Each submission should follow the ACL style ? the author kits (LaTeX and Word) can be downloaded from the workshop web site. In the email, please include the name of the authors, their affiliations and the email address of the corresponding author, and a title of the abstract. Abstracts will undergo a review process performed by at least 2 reviewers. The submissions will be made available online.
Registration
Attendees are asked to register by sending an email to laughterworkshop2018 at isir dot upmc dot fr.
Important dates
* Abstract submission deadline: 26 May 2018 * Notification acceptance/rejection: 29 June 2018 * Registration deadline by email: 14 September 2018 * Workshop dates: 27-28 September 2018
Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS ? ISIR, Sorbonne University
Jonathan Ginzburg, University Paris Diderot
Jürgen Trouvain, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University Nick Campbell, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Khiet Truong, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente/Radboud University Dirk Heylen, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4) conference will be held from October 11-13, 2018, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. This conference focuses on questions about the production, interpretation, and characterization of speech prosody, bringing together researchers in linguistics, psychology, and computer science.
The theme of ETAP4 is ?Sociolectal and dialectal variability in prosody.? As in many language fields, studies of prosody have focused on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in social structures. The goal of ETAP4 is to help diversify prosody research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The conference will bring together prosody researchers and researchers exploring the role of sociological variation in prosody, with a focus on understudied dialects and endangered languages, and individual differences based on gender and sexuality. Invited speakers will (i) raise what questions and areas they think would benefit from prosodic research, (ii) teach prosody researchers what they need to know to do research in these areas, and (iii) share insights from their experience engaging with the public around issues of understudied and endangered languages, linguistic bias, and intersectionality in science.
A satellite workshop on African-American English prosody will be held on October 10, 2018 to bring together participants to contribute common data sets and discuss the development of shared data resources and methodological considerations such as challenges in prosodic transcription. For updates on this workshop, subscribe to the e-mail list here: https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4-aae/
We invite submission of abstracts describing work related to the conference theme as well as topics in prosody more generally from diverse approaches, including fieldwork, experiments, computational modeling, theoretical analyses, etc. These topics include:
- Phonology and phonetics of prosody - Cognitive processing and modelling of prosody - Tone and intonation - Acquisition of prosody - Interfaces with syntax, semantics, pragmatics - Prosody in natural language processing
In addition to talks from invited speakers, there will be additional talks, and two poster sessions.
Abstracts for talks and posters must be submitted in a pdf format. Your abstract must include the submission?s title at the top, and must not include authors? names and affiliations, or any identifying information (i.e., ?In Liberman & Pierrehumbert (1984), we showed...?). Abstracts should be submitted in letter format (8.5' x 11' - not A4), with 1-inch margins on all sides, and in Arial 11 point font. The abstract itself (text) may be no longer than one page; a second page containing additional figures, tables, other graphics and/or references may be included.
(2018-10-15) 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Mons, Belgique
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
SLSP 2018 Mons, Belgium October 15-17, 2018 Co-organized by: NUMEDIART Institute University of Mons LANGUAGE Institute University of Mons Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London http://slsp2018.irdta.eu/ ********************************************************************************** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2018, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2018 will take place in Mons, which was European Capital of Culture in 2015. The venue will be: University of Mons 31 Bvd Dolez, 7000 Mons Belgium SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: anaphora and coreference resolution authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering computer-aided translation corpora and language resources data mining and semantic web information extraction information retrieval knowledge representation and ontologies lexicons and dictionaries machine translation multimodal technologies natural language understanding neural representation of speech and language opinion mining and sentiment analysis parsing part-of-speech tagging question-answering systems semantic role labelling speaker identification and verification speech and language generation speech recognition speech synthesis speech transcription spelling correction spoken dialogue systems term extraction text categorisation text summarisation user modeling STRUCTURE: SLSP 2018 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions posters INVITED SPEAKERS: Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield), Crossing Domains in Automatic Speech Recognition Simon King (University of Edinburgh), Does 'End-to-End' Speech Synthesis Make any Sense? Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon), Analysing Speech for Clinical Applications PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Steven Abney (University of Michigan, US) Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions LLC, US) Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon et Pays du Vaucluse, FR) Pierrette Bouillon (University of Geneva, CH) Nicoletta Calzolari (Italian National Research Council, IT) Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University, SG) Kenneth W. Church (Baidu Research, US) Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, BE) Thierry Dutoit (University of Mons, BE) Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK) Ralph Grishman (New York University, US) Udo Hahn (University of Jena, DE) Siegfried Handschuh (University of Passau, DE) Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana?Champaign, US) Keikichi Hirose (University of Tokyo, JP) Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, US) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, US) Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE) Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK) Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, SG) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JP) Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute, QA) Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montréal, CA) Elmar Nöth (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE) Cecile Paris (CSIRO Data61, AU) Jong C. Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR) Alexandros Potamianos (National Technical University of Athens, GR) Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK) Mats Rooth (Cornell University, US) Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES) Alexander Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Tanja Schultz (University of Bremen, DE) Holger Schwenk (Facebook AI Research, FR) Vijay K. Shanker (University of Delaware, US) Richard Sproat (Google Research, US) Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, JP) Gökhan Tür (Google Research, US) Yorick Wilks (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, US) Phil Woodland (University of Cambridge, UK) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK) Junichi Yamagishi (University of Edinburgh, UK) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Stéphane Dupont (Mons) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, co-chair) Kévin El Haddad (Mons) Kathy Huet (Mons) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra Royón (Granada) Gueorgui Pironkov (Mons) David Silva (London, co-chair) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2018 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2016 impact factor: 1.900) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://slsp2018.irdta.eu/Registration.php DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: May 27, 2018 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 3, 2018 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 13, 2018 Early registration: July 13, 2018 Late registration: October 1, 2018 Submission to the journal special issue: January 17, 2019 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david@irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Université de Mons Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London
(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* ================================ 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (MVAR 2018) at ISMAR 2018, Munich, Germany, October 16, 2018 http://mvar.science.uu.nl/2018/ ================================
MVAR is the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal VR and AR, investigating any aspects about multimodality and multimodal interaction in relation to VR and AR. What are the most pressing research questions? What are difficult challenges? What opportunities do other modalities than vision offer for VR and AR? What are new and better ways for interaction with virtual objects and for an improved experience of VR and AR worlds?
We invite researchers and visionaries to submit their latest results on any aspects that are relevant for multimodality and interaction in VR and AR. Contributions of more fundamental nature (e.g., psychophysical studies and empirical research about multimodality) are welcome as well as more technical contributions (including use cases, best-practice demonstrations, prototype systems, etc.). Position papers and reviews of the state-of-the art and ongoing research are invited, too. Submissions do not necessarily have to address multiple modalities, but work focusing on single modes that go beyond the state-of-the-art of ?purely visual? systems (e.g., papers about smell, taste, and haptics) are suited, as well.
*Important dates*
Jul 18, 2018: Paper submissions (final, extended deadline!) Aug 14, 2018: Notifications Sep 04, 2018: Camera ready papers Oct 16, 2018: MVAR workshop at ISMAR in Munich
*Topics of interest*
- Multisensory experiences and improved immersion, including audio-visual installations, haptics/tactile, smell/olfactory sensations, taste/gustation (contributions focusing on single, but enhancing senses are welcome), perception of virtual objects, etc. - Multimedia & sensory input, including affective computing and human behavior sensing for VR/AR, multisensory analysis, integration, and synchronization, speech, gestures, tracking for AR/VR, virtual humans and avatars, etc. - Multimodal output, including smart and ambient environments, multimedia installations, etc. - Interaction design & new approaches for interaction in AR/VR, incl. tangible interfaces, multimodal communication & collaborative experiences, social aspects in AR/VR interaction, gesture-based interaction design, 3D interaction, advanced interaction devices, etc. - System design & infrastructure for multimodal AR/VR, including real-time and other performance issues, rendering of different modalities, distributed and collaborative architectures, etc. - Applications, incl. use cases, prototypes, or prove of concepts for new and innovative approaches in serious and leisure domains.
*Further information*
For more information about aims, submission guidelines and criteria, etc. please refer to the workshop's website at http://mvar.science.uu.nl/2018/
(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.
(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
Workshop in conjunction with: 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Boulder, Colorado, USA, October 16-20th, 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS In the Internet of Things era, digital human interaction with the habitat environment can be perceived as the continuous interconnection and exchange of cognitive, social, and affective signals between an individual or a group, and any type of environment built for humans. Through the integration of various interconnected devices, we can collect multimodal data including speech, spoken content, physiological, psychophysiological, and environmental signals, that enable the sensing of a person?s activity, mood, emotions, preferences, and/or health state, and ultimately provide appropriate feedback. Applications of these include artificial conversational agents, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home, that enable voice powered human computer interaction to provide new information or conduct procedural tasks, in-the-moment automatic habitat adaptation systems that provide comfort and relaxation, human health and well-being support systems that are able to track the progress of a disease, detect high-risk episodes, and ultimately provide feedback or take appropriate. For example, such systems can monitor linguistic and acoustic markers of patients with depression, predict suicidal tendencies, and take appropriate action, or track individuals? stress levels and guide them through mini-interventions. Some of the challenges involved in these tasks include the diverse nature of the acquired data, the high variability present in habitat environments, and the inherent unpredictability and multi-faceted nature of human behavior. The H3 workshop aims to bring together experts from academia and industry spanning a set of multi-disciplinary fields, including computer science, speech and spoken language understanding, construction science, life-sciences, health sciences, and psychology, to discuss their respective views of the problem and identify synergistic and converging solutions.
A special issue of a journal based on the selected contributions from the workshop is planned.
WORKSHOP TOPICS We encourage submissions including, but not limited to, the following topics: * Open challenges in capturing and modeling human-habitat interaction (e.g., scarcity of available data) * Audio processing applications for habitat environments, including speech recognition, speaker identification, emotion and mood recognition * Spoken language understanding applications that consider user state, emotions, personalization, and other user or environment context * Physiological signal processing, including noise removal, motion artifact elimination, feature extraction * Integration of environmental sensors (e.g., temperature, humidity, lighting) for building context-specific models of human behavior and affect * Human-computer interaction in the habitat environment (e.g., conversational agents, assistive/leisure robots) * Well-being and clinical applications including promoting user comfort, or heath-state monitoring and intervention * Human interaction with virtual reality environments * Privacy and ethical considerations when developing smart environments and related applications
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.
IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: July 31st, 2018 Notification to authors: August 31st, 2018 Workshop date: October 16th, 2018
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.
- 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:
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:
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:
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).
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.
(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:
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:
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:
Bipolar Disorder Sub-challenge (BDS) ? participants have to classify patients suffering from bipolar disorder into remission, hypo-mania and mania, as defined by the young mania rating scale, from audio-visual recordings of structured interviews (BD corpus); performance is measured by the unweighted average recall over the three classes.
Cross-cultural Emotion Sub-challenge (CES) ? participants have to predict the level of three emotional dimensions (arousal, valence, and likability) time-continuously in a cross-cultural setup (German => Hungarian) from audio-visual recordings of dyadic interactions (SEWA corpus); performance is the concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) averaged over the dimensions.
Gold-standard Emotion Sub-Challenge (GES) ? participants have to generate a gold-standard (i.e., a single time series of emotion labels) from individual ratings of emotional dimensions (arousal, valence) that will be evaluated by a multimodal (audio, video, physiology) emotion recognition system from recordings of dyadic interactions (RECOLA corpus); performance is the concordance correlation coefficient (CCC) averaged over the dimensions.
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):
Multimodal Affect Sensing
Audio-based Health/Emotion Recognition
Video-based Health/Emotion Recognition
Physiological-based Health/Emotion Recognition
Multimodal Representation Learning
Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning
Multi-view learning of Multiple Dimensions
Personalised Health/Emotion Recognition
Context in Health/Emotion Recognition
Multiple Rater Ambiguity and Asynchrony
Application
Multimedia Coding and Retrieval
Mobile and Online Applications
Important Dates
Paper submission: June 30, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2018
Camera ready paper: August 14, 2018
Workshop: October 22-26, 2018 (to be communicated)
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
'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages and Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'
28 October 2018 - 3 November 2018, Mahé, Seychelles
The International Committee for Creole Studies (Comité International des Etudes Créoles (CIEC)) has organized International Conferences on Creole Studies for the past fifty years, at regular intervals. In 2018, the XVIth International Conference of Creole Studies will be held in Seychelles; the organization has been entrusted to the University of Seychelles in liaison with the CIEC.
Context
The international community (UNESCO, UNDP etc.) and the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) support the educational linguistic policy and the possible institutionalization of Creole languages in the dozen of Creole-speaking countries (France and its Departments, Haiti, Dominica, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, San Tome and Principe) that are members of OIF. Creole studies are called upon to contribute decisively to these programs and endeavours.
The importance of Creole studies stems primarily from its contributions to the linguistic, cultural and social development of Creole -speaking societies. Beyond, the study of the genesis and development of Creole social, linguistic and cultural systems constitutes a remarkable field of study for human and social sciences, because 'Creole' societies have been formed recently (three to four centuries of existence as a rule) and because of how they are composed and evolve.
Presentation
The XVIth International Symposium on Creole Studies will focus on:
'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages, Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'.
This theme invites philosophers, historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, linguists and other researchers in human and social sciences to present their work on contemporary Creole societies in their historical, linguistic, social, political, economic and cultural evolution.
The focus of the colloquium will be on the following four major themes:
A. Creole languages and education
B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development
C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages
D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
Presentation of the themes of the Conference
A. Creole languages and education
Faced with the challenges of education for all, in basic and middle schools, sovereign countries that use a French Creole language have introduced some measure of Creole language teaching in their schools. Some states, such as Seychelles or Haiti, have acquired a vast experience in the domain that should be examined. Mauritius has recently also embarked on this venture which calls for evaluation. The Creole-speaking Outremer Departments, whose creoles are recognized regional languages of France and which benefit from the texts regulating the teaching of regional languages in France, have also many educational practices to share.
B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development
Anthropology and the history of Creole worlds are called upon to account for how the creole-speaking social formations, resulting from European colonial expansion, are facing the challenges of development and globalization.
The role of Creole languages in the development of economy (tourism, reception of migrants, etc.) has to be assessed.
Literary production in the Creole speaking islands of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean has developed greatly in recent years in French and English as well as in Creole languages. The study of this renewal of literature and cultural practices also forms part of theme B.
The migratory movements of creole speakers (see also topic C) will also be discussed.
What are the paths of the institutionalization of the Creole languages in their respective areas of influence (see the question of Creole language academies)? Creole militant practices may also be mentioned.
C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages.
Recent globalization have caused many displacements of Creole-speaking populations towards more developed economic zones. New Creole-speaking communities have thus been created outside the territories of birth, such as Haitian communities in North America, populations from the Creole speaking Departments in metropolitan France, Mauritians in Australia and Seychellois in the United Kingdom. Creole speaking newcomers are found in prosperous creole-speaking areas, for instance, Haitians in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean.Immigration to Creole-speaking areas also leads to the emergence of neo-learners of Creole languages. Globalization has led to an unprecedented diffusion of Creole languages, including via language and culture industries. These new sociolinguistic situations of diffusion have hardly been described to date. Similarly, little is known about the impact of these migratory movements on the dynamics of Creole languages. To these themes may be added the study of the genesis and evolution of Creole languages.
D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
The description of Creole language systems (phonology, grammar) remains necessary. The analysis of the variation of Creole languages and of their linguistic systems is still unsatisfactory. This theme should bring together contributions that attempt to analyze and explain phonological, morphological and grammatical systems in a typological perspective.
This theme may also include work on grammar for teaching. Indeed, in Haiti, the Seychelles and Mauritius, as in the French DROMs, questions arise concerning 'grammar models' and the use of linguistic analyses for teacher training and for teaching of Creole languages as first languages.
Questions
Topics that could be addressed, either in the form of individual papers or as workshops (please contact the organizers), include the following:
- 'Creole' diasporas and their linguistic practices
- Creole varieties developed outside the territories of birth
- The linguistic varieties of neo-learners of Creole languages
- The co - presence of Creole and French
- The development of literacy programs in Creole
- Bilingual education programs integrating the Creole language
- Literatures of Creole-speaking countries
- The state of research on Creole language corpora
- Creole development at school
- Morphology, Syntax etc. of creole languages
- The diachronic studies of Creole languages
- Relations between Creole languages and languages of the slave population (African languages, Malagasy, etc.)
- Creole history, landscape and society
- Creolization and the development of Creole societies
- Philosophy and history of ideas in Creole societies.
Scientific Committee of the XVIth International Conference of the CIEC
Enoch Aboh, Christian Barat, Arnaud Carpooran, Penda Choppy, Guillaume Fon Sing, Renaud Govain, Marie-reine Hoareau, Thom Klingler, Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig, Carpanin Marimoutou, Salikoko Mufwene, Joelle Perreau, Laurence Pourchez, Lambert-Félix Prudent, Gillette Staudacher-Valliamee, Albert Valdman, Justin Valentin, Daniel Véronique
Organization and timetable
The papers and proposals for workshops may be included in one of the themes of the Conference and / or in a cross-cutting theme.
Proposals for papers or workshops (groupings of 3/4 papers) written in French, English or any French Creole language, with the address and institutional affiliation of the communicant (s) must reach the following e-mail address: Ciec.Sez2018@gmail.combefore 15 January 2018.
The abstracts will describe the theme of the paper, the database, the results expected and will not exceed 3,000 characters or 500 words (including bibliography). Submit 2 copies of the proposal, one anonymous (which will be used for the review), the other with the author's name, address and institutional affiliation.
After evaluation, acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be notified as from the 9 April 2018.
The 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018) will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018. The conference takes place immediately after EMNLP 2018, organised in nearby Brussels, Belgium.
We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters.
Important dates
- Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2018
- Notification: September 7, 2018
- Camera ready: October 1, 2018
- INLG 2018: November 5-8, 2018
All deadlines are at 11.59 PM, UTC-8.
Topics
INLG 2018 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. The conference will include two special tracks:
(2) Conversational Interfaces, Chatbots and NLG (organised in collaboration with flow.ai).
General topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Affect/emotion generation
- Applications for people with disabilities
- Cognitive modelling of language production
- Content and text planning
- Corpora for NLG
- Deep learning models for NLG
- Evaluation of NLG systems
- Grounded language generation
- Lexicalisation
- Multimedia and multimodality in generation
- Storytelling and narrative generation
- NLG and accessibility
- NLG in dialogue
- NLG for embodied agents and robots
- NLG for real-world applications
- Paraphrasing and Summarisation
- Personalisation and variation in text
- Referring expression generation
- Resources for NLG
- Surface realisation
- Systems architecture
A separate call for workshops and generation challenges will be released soon.
Submissions & Format
Submissions should follow the new ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. ACL 2018 offers both LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates Papers should be submitted electronically through the START conference management system (to be opened in due course).
Three kinds of papers can be submitted:
- Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for references.
- Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, with up to one extra page for references.
- Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems which are of relevance to the NLG community. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2018.
All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2018 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2018 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the 'Acknowledgements' section of the paper when submitted. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice.
Program chairs
- Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Martijn Goudbeek, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Albert Gatt, Malta University, Malta
Workshop & Challenges chairs
- Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands
(2018-11-08) 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.
Signaling the information structure of utterances has been shown to be one of the main dimensions of prosodic meaning in many languages, and remains a driving force behind the research on the typological variety of prosodic systems. Other aspects of prosodic meaning that have been investigated are the role of prosody in the generation of implicatures, in speech-act dynamics, in dialogue management, or in the marking of various kinds of questions, owing much to collaborations between phonologists and semanticists/pragmaticists. Other recent advances in the field are supported by the development of corpus resources and of new experimental methods for the investigation of the empirical validity of specific theoretical claims.
This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and psycholinguists working on the prosody/meaning interface in different languages as well as computational linguists developing tools for prosody-meaning corpus annotation, exploration and processing.
Invited Speakers
Michael Wagner, McGill University
Pilar Prieto, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- prosodic reflexes of information structure in different languages and their relationship with other grammatical reflexes of information structure (morphological or syntactical),
- the relationship between information structure, ellipsis or clause fragments and prosody,
- the interplay between information structure and other aspects of prosodic meaning such as speech acts, attitude signaling, or turn-taking management,
- more generally, the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse and dialogue.
Submissions
We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous, in English, and should not exceed one page (2.5 cm margins, 12pt font size), with an extra page for examples, figures and references.
Important dates
Abstract deadline: 27 May 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2018
Workshop: 8 November 2018
Organisers
Cristel Portes, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU),
Arndt Riester and Uwe Reyle, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart.
Scientific committee
Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne), Roxane Bertrand (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University), Bettina Braun (University of Constance), Daniel Büring (University of Wien), Sasha Calhoun (University of Wellington), Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (CNRS, Université de Nantes), Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen), Mariapaola D’Imperio (Aix-Marseille University), James German (Aix-Marseille University), Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart), Frank Kügler (University of Cologne), Amandine Michelas (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University), Caterina Petrone (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University), Giuseppina Turco (CNRS, Université Paris Diderot), Pauline Welby (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University), Margaret Zellers (University of Kiel)
(2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan
(2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan
International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing. Since 1998, it has been successfully held in Singapore (1998), Beijing (2000), Taipei (2002), Hong Kong, (2004), Singapore (2006), Kuming (2008), Tainan (2010), Hong Kong (2012), Singapore (2014), and Tianjin (2016). ISCSLP is the flagship conference of SIG-CSLP, ISCA.
The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018) will be held on November 26-29, 2018 in Taipei.
While ISCSLP is focused primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English.
Important dates
Feb 22, 2018 Submission of special session proposals
Apr 30, 2018 Submission of tutorial proposals
Jun 11, 2018 Submission of regular and special session papers
(2018-11-29) CfP Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang),Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (updated)
Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang) Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand 29-30 November 2018 Call for Papers We invite submissions for the Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang), to be held at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand, 29-30 November 2018. The Workshop is coordinated with the 17th Speech Science & Technology Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 4-7 December 2018. Aim As an integral part of spoken language, prosody has been shown to play an important role in many speech production and perception processes. However, our knowledge of the role of prosody in speech processing draws on a relatively narrow range of (mostly closely related) languages. There is an urgent need for more psycholinguistic research looking at commonalities and differences in the use of prosodic cues in speech processing across different languages, and also different varieties of major languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in this area. We are particularly interested in research on: (i) the role of prosody in semantic interpretation, including information structure; and (ii) prosody as an organisational structure for speech production and perception, including multimodal perspectives. Invited Speakers Anne Cutler, MARCS, Western Sydney University Bettina Braun, Universität Konstanz Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne Nicole Gotzner, Leibniz-ZAS Berlin Topics Topics include, but are not limited to, cross-linguistic and cross-varietal commonalities and differences in: - the role of prosody in signalling information structure, particularly in the activation and resolution of contrast and contrastive alternatives - the integration of prosody and morphosyntactic cues in speech comprehension, e.g. as cues to information structure - the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse - prosodic structure as an organisational frame in speech production or perception - links between prosodic structure and multimodal speech cues such as gesture Submissions We invite submissions of one-page abstracts following the guidelines on the Workshop website: https://proslang.wordpress.com/about/ *** Abstract deadline extended: 23 April 2018 *** Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2018 Workshop: 29-30 November 2018 Organisers Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren, Olcay Türk, Mengzhu Yan, VUW; Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: proslangworkshop@gmail.com.
(2018-??-??) FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 22, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: November 17, 2017
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), and the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACL 2018, COLING 2018, EMNLP 2018, or NAACL HLT 2018. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:
ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be held in Melbourne, Australia, July 15 - July 20, 2018, with workshops to take place on July 19-20: http://acl2018.org/
COLING 2018 (the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20 - August 25, 2018, with workshops to be held on August 20-21, 2018: http://coling2018.org/
NAACL HLT 2018 (the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1 - June 6, 2018 with workshops to be held on June 5-6, 2018: http://naacl2018.org/
EMNLP 2018 (the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018) will be held later in 2018 (after the other three conferences). Exact details on dates and venue for EMNLP workshops will be announced later.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines below).
The proposals should contain:
- A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.
- The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.
- A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to: (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.
- A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers.
- An estimate of the number of attendees.
- A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants.
- A description of special requirements and technical needs.
- The preferred venue(s) (ACL/COLING/NAACL/EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g. if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise)
- If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g. shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.
Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.
In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you submit via the START System (not in the PDF proposal):
- A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).
- A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.
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The proposals should be submitted no later than October 22, 2018, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at
The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. In addition, to estimate the attendance of the different workshops, a new voting mechanism will be implemented, where attendees of ACL-affiliated events from the past 3-5 years will be able to vote on which workshops they would like to attend in 2018. (A representative prototype of the survey is shown here, but is subject to change: https://goo.gl/3cuZON.) The overall diversity of the workshops will also be taken into account to ensure the conference program is varied and balanced. The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the four conferences, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers.
Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs.
The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at:
(2019-01-07) 5th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA (BigDat 2019), Cambridge, United Kingdom
5th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
BigDat 2019 Cambridge, United Kingdom January 7-11, 2019 Co-organized by: Cambridge Big Data Initiative, University of Cambridge Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) Brussels / London http://bigdat2019.irdta.eu/ ******************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: August 22, 2018 --- ******************************************************** SCOPE: BigDat 2019 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 2 keynote lectures, 24 four-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles. ADDRESSED TO: Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2019 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. STRUCTURE: 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: BigDat 2019 will take place in Cambridge, a city home of a world-renowned university. The venue will be: tba KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: tba PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Thomas Bäck (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate], Data Driven Modeling and Optimization for Industrial Applications Richard Bonneau (New York University), [introductory] Large Scale Machine Learning Methods for Integrating Protein Sequence and Structure to Predict Gene Function Altan Cakir (Istanbul Technical University), [introductory/intermediate] Processing Big Data with Apache Spark: From Science to Industrial Applications Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), [introductory/intermediate] Cross-domain Big Data Fusion and Analytics Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [intermediate/advanced] Network Science: Representation Learning and Higher Order Networks Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), [introductory] The Interface between Big Data and Society Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] High Performance Big Data Computing David Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California), [intermediate/advanced] Building Knowledge Graphs Geoff McLachlan (University of Queensland), [intermediate/advanced] Applying Finite Mixture Models to Big Data Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory), [intermediate] Skyport2: A Multi Cloud Framework for Executing Scientific Workflows Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences Soumya Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods for Statistical Regression Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute), [introductory/advanced] Machine Intelligence and Soft Granular Mining: Features, Applications and Challenges Lior Rokach (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), [introductory/advanced] Ensemble Learning Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Synchronization Approach to Time Series Analysis Hanan Samet (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Sorting in Space: Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Applications in Spatial and Spatio-textual Databases, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Location-based Services Rory Smith (Monash University), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Inference: Optimal Methods for Learning from Signals in Noise Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota), [intermediate] Social Computing: Computing as an Integral Tool to Understanding Human Behavior and Solving Problems of Social Relevance Mayte Suárez-Fariñas (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), [intermediate] A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Longitudinal Data Using R Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big-data Algorithms That Aren't Machine Learning Andrey Ustyuzhanin (National Research University Higher School of Economics), [intermediate/advanced] Surrogate Modelling for Fun and Profit Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen University), [introductory/intermediate] Process Mining: Data Science in Action Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Relational and Multimedia Data Learning OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by December 30, 2018. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by December 30, 2018. EMPLOYER SESSION: Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for, to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. At least one of the people in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by December 30, 2018. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: (to be completed) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) David Silva (London, co-chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://bigdat2019.irdta.eu/registration/ The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time. CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david@irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Cambridge Big Data Initiative, University of Cambridge Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London
New forms of multimedia data (such as text, numbers, tags, networking, signals, geo-tagged information, graphs/relationships, 3D/VR/AR and sensor data, etc.) has emerged in many applications in addition to traditional multimedia data (image, video, audio). Multimedia has become the biggest of big data as the foundation of today's data-driven discoveries. Almost all disciplines of science and engineering, as well as social sciences, involve multimedia data in some forms, such as recording experiments, driverless cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, smart communities, biomedical instruments, security surveillance. Some recent events demonstrate the power of real-time broadcast of unfolding events on social networks. Multimedia data is not just big in volume, but also multi-modal and mostly unstructured. Storing, indexing, searching, integrating, and recognizing from the vast amounts of data create unprecedented challenges. Even though significant progress has been made processing multimedia data, today's solutions are inadequate in handling data from millions of sources simultaneously.
The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR) aims to provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval for single modality or multiple modalities. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry practitioners, software engineers, and graduate students who need to become acquainted with technologies for big data analytics, machine intelligence, information fusion in multimedia information processing and retrieval. A collection of keynotes, open panels, and workshops will be held, together with paper/poster sessions.
The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages), short papers (4 pages), and demo papers (2 pages). Authors are encouraged to compare their approaches, qualitatively or quantitatively, with existing work and explain the strength and weakness of the new approaches. Selected submissions will be invited to submit to journal special issues.
The conference includes (but not limited) the following topics of multimedia data processing and retrieval.
Multimedia Retrieval * Multimedia Search and Recommendation * Web-Scale Retrieval * Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning * 3D and sensor data retrieval * Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval * High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features
Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining * Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and / or Multimodal Fusion * Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection * High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures) * Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
Content Understanding and Analytics * Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis * Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration * Affective and Perceptual Multimedia * Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans
Multimedia and Vision * Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality * Visual Concept Detection * Object Detection and Tracking * 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications
Systems and Infrastructures * Multimedia Systems and Middleware * Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality * Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics * Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing
Data Management * Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage * Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy * Standards and Policies for Data Management
Novel Applications * Multimedia applications for health and sports * Multimedia applications for culture and education * Multimedia applications for fashion and living * Multimedia applications for security and safety * Any other novel applications
Internet of Multimedia Things * Real-Time Data Processing * Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones * Mobile and Wearable Multimedia
Important Dates: =============== * Workshop proposals: September 15, 2018 * Workshop notification: October 1, 2018 * Paper submission: October 1, 2018 * Notification of acceptance: November 20, 2018 * Camera ready due: January 20, 2019 * Author registration due: January 20, 2019
General Co-Chairs: =============== Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore Rainer Lienhart, Universitat Augsburg, Germany Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama, USA
Program Co-Chairs: =============== Min Chen, University of Washington, USA Leonel Sousa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Guan-Ming Su, Dolby Labs, USA Yonghong Tian, Beijing University, China
(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) 12-17 May 2019 ? Brighton, UK Special Session Proposal Deadline: 20 August 2018 Tutorial Proposal Deadline: 22 October 2018 Paper Submissions Deadline: 29 October 2018 Signal Processing Letters Deadline: 14 January 2019 Sponsored by IEEE SPS
(2019-08-04) International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia
Don't miss your opportunity to be a part of ICPhS 2019!
Call for papers
Authors will be invited to submit papers in December 2018 on original, unpublished research in the phonetic sciences. Papers related to the Congress themes are especially welcome, but we welcome papers related to any of the following list of scientific areas below. The submission deadline will be 4 December 2018.
The organisers of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences invite proposals for special sessions covering emerging topics, challenges, interdisciplinary research, or subjects that could foster useful debate in the phonetic sciences.
TheICPhS themes are ?Endangered Languages, and Major Language Varieties?. Special sessions related to these themes are especially welcome, but we are interested in proposals related to any of the scientific areas covered in the Congress. The submission deadline will be 30 April 2018.
There are opportunities for holding satellite meetings as well as workshops associated with ICPhS 2019. We invite those interested in arranging a satellite event to contact the organising committee now.
The scientific committee have put together a list of scientific areas for the 2019ICPhSprogram based on previous editions and current developments within phonetics
Please click on the button below to see the full list.
Located on the south-east coast of Australia, Melbourne has been voted The World?s Most Liveable City on a number of occasions.
Melbourne is a thriving and cosmopolitan city with a unique balance of graceful old buildings and stunning new architecture surrounded by parks and gardens.
Call for special sessions proposals Now open! Deadline for proposals 30 April 2018 Deadline for on-line full paper submission 4 December 2018 Registration opens Late 2018 Author notification deadline 15 February 2019 Congress Dates 4-10 August 2019
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.
Papers will be submited directly to the conference by December 4th and will then be evaluated according to the standard ICPhS review process [see here]. Accepted papers will be allocated either to this special session or a general session. When submitting you can specify if you want to be considered for this special session.
Organizers
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)
Endorsement
This special session is endorsed by SIGUL (Joint ELRA and ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages)
(2019-X-X) Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (DSTC7)
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 ----------------- 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:
Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government).
Important Dates ------------------------ - 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 -------------------------------------------- - 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 ------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------- - 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 --------------------------------------- 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.
