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Sunday, September 23, 2018 by Chris Wellekens

3 Events
3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2019-09-15) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria


Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria.

https://www.tugraz.at/events/interspeech-2019/home/


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3-1-2(2020-09-14) Interspeech 2020 Shanghai, China
 

 

Interspeech 2020
Shanghai, China, September 14-18, 2020
Chair : Helen Meng
21th INTERSPEECH event

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3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2018-03-25) 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, St Petersburg, Russia

13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
 

LATA 2019
 
Saint Petersburg, Russia
 
March 25-29, 2019
 
Organized by:
           
Saint Petersburg State University
and
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London
 
http://lata2019.irdta.eu/
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AIMS:
 
LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2019 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.
 
VENUE:
 
LATA 2019 will take place in Saint Petersburg, whose historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The venue will be Saint Petersburg State University.
 
SCOPE:
 
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
 
algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining
algorithms on automata and words
automata and logic
automata for system analysis and programme verification
automata networks
automatic structures
codes
combinatorics on words
computational complexity
concurrency and Petri nets
data and image compression
descriptional complexity
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata
 
STRUCTURE:
 
LATA 2019 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
 
INVITED SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Krishnendu Chatterjee (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, AT)
Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR)
Manfred Droste (University of Leipzig, DE)
Travis Gagie (Diego Portales University, CL)
Peter Habermehl (Paris Diderot University, FR)
Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI)
Radu Iosif (Verimag, FR)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University, JP)
Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, FI)
Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, CA)
Juha Kärkkäinen (University of Helsinki, FI)
Bakhadyr Khoussainov (University of Auckland, NZ)
Sergey Kitaev (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Shmuel Tomi Klein (Bar-Ilan University, IL)
Olga Kouchnarenko (University of Franche-Comté, FR)
Thierry Lecroq (University of Rouen, FR)
Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE)
Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Filippo Mignosi (University of L'Aquila, IT)
Victor Mitrana (Polytechnic University of Madrid, ES)
Joachim Niehren (INRIA Lille, FR)
Alexander Okhotin (Saint Petersburg State University, RU)
Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Matteo Pradella (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
Jean-François Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT)
Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL)
Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, CA)
Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool, UK)
Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE)
Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku University, JP)
Hans Ulrich Simon (Ruhr-University of Bochum, DE)
William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG)
Martin Sulzmann (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, DE)
Jorma Tarhio (Aalto University, FI)
Stefano Tonetta (Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT)
Rob van Glabbeek (University of New South Wales, AU)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US)
Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU)
Fang Yu (National Chengchi University, TW)
Hans Zantema (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Alexander Okhotin (Saint Petersburg, co-chair)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
Dana Shapira (Ariel)
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). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.
 
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2019
 
PUBLICATIONS:
 
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
 
A special issue of a major journal 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://lata2019.irdta.eu/Registration.php
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: November 11, 2018
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 16, 2018
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 23, 2018
Early registration: December 23, 2018
Late registration: March 11, 2019
Submission to the journal special issue: June 29, 2019
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david (at) irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
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IRDTA ? Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London

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3-3-2(2018-09-17) DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION at MLSP 2018, Aalborg, Denmark
CALL FOR PAPERS:
 
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2018)
Aalborg, Denmark

Special Session:
DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION
 
Research in anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification has advanced significantly in the last five years.  While proposed countermeasures are effective in detecting and deflecting spoofing attacks, current solutions lack a solid grounding in the processes involved in the mounting of spoofing attacks. As a result, and with most current solutions relying on the somewhat blind use of relatively standard features and classifiers, many countermeasures fail
when they encounter different forms of attack and are unlikely to generalise well to attacks encountered in the wild. This special session, organised as part of MLSP 2018, seeks to break the mould in anti-spoofing research. We invite scientific contributions that explore fundamentally disruptive approaches to anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification.  While contributions which use existing standard/common databases are welcome, their use is not required. Preference will instead be given to contributions that explore under-researched aspects of spoofing and non-standard, emerging or blue-sky countermeasure technologies, especially those with an emphasis on previously-unexplored signal processing and machine learning approaches which either shed new light on spoofing or expose promising new research directions for future exploration. Both technological and methodological contributions
are welcome.

Example topics include but are by no means limited to the following:

- theoretical bounds of spoofing attack detectability
- cross-domain feature learning for robust spoofing attack detection
- generative adversarial networks and threats to biometric technology
- one-class, semi-supervised, or reinforcement learning approaches to spoofing countermeasures
- new regularisation and optimisation methods to improve cross-dataset generality
- generation and detection of inaudible, imperceptible or other novel spoofing attacks
- novel hardware/sensor and knowledge-based spoofing countermeasures
- alternatives to GMMs, DNNs, CNNs, RNNs
- unexpected application areas beyond biometrics

Schedule is the same as for regular papers:

Paper submission: May 1 (update until May 4)
Review notifications: June 18
Author rebuttals: June 18-24
Reviewer discussion: June 25-30
Decision notification: July 6
Camera-ready paper & registration: July 31

Organizers:

Nicholas Evans, EURECOM, France (evans@eurecom.fr)
Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland (tkinnu@cs.joensuu.fi)
Sébastien Marcel, IDIAP, Switzerland (sebastien.marcel@idiap.ch)
Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark (zt@es.aau.dk)
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3-3-3(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

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3-3-4(2018-09-18) 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Leipzig, Germany (updated)

 SPECOM-2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018)
Venue: Leipzig, Germany, September 18-22, 2018
Web: www.specom2018.org

ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by Leipzig University of Telecommunications (HfTL, Leipzig, Germany) in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).

SPECOM-2018 CO-CHAIRS
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova, MSLU, Moscow, Russia

CONFERENCE TOPICS
The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of speech technology, human-machine interaction, machine learning and signal processing, particularly:
Affective computing
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
Forensic speech investigations and security systems
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Signal processing and feature extraction
Speaker identification and diarization
Speaker verification systems
Speech and language resources
Speech analytics and audio mining
Speech dereverberation
Speech driving systems in robotics
Speech enhancement
Speech perception and speech disorders
Speech recognition and understanding
Speech translation automatic systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken language processing
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems
Virtual and augmented reality

SPECIAL SESSIONS
Positioning and Power Relations in Conversations: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session1
Advanced Cognitive Models for Human-Machine and Human-Robot Interaction: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session2
Big Data in Speech Computation: www.specom2018.org/satellites/session3

SATELLITE EVENT
3rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2018: http://specom.nw.ru/icr2018 

INVITED SPEAKERS
Tanja Schultz - Advances in Biosignal-Based Spoken Communication 
Sebastian Moller - Quality Engineering of Speech and Language Services
Dongheui Lee - Robot learning through Physical Interaction and Human Guidance
www.specom2018.org/invited-speakers

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of several independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2018
Papers submitted to SPECOM-2018 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major citation databases such as  Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, etc. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2018.

IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
May   30, 2018 ............ Notification of acceptance
June  15, 2018 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and early registration
Sept. 18-22, 2018 ......... Conference dates

VENUE
The conference will be organized at the at the Leipzig University of Telecommunications.

CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM-2018 Secretariat:
E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su; jokisch@hft-leipzig.de
SPECOM-2018 web-site: http://www.specom2018.org; http://specom.nw.ru

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3-3-5(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

 

Venue
 
ISIR, Sorbonne University

http://www.isir.upmc.fr/

 

Website

 Please check the website 

http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html

for updated information about the workshop

 

Organizers
 

Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS ? ISIR, Sorbonne University

Jonathan Ginzburg, University Paris Diderot

Jürgen Trouvain, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University
Nick Campbell, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Khiet Truong, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente/Radboud University
Dirk Heylen, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente

 

Contact information

 Catherine Pelachaud

CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne University

catherine.pelachaud@upmc.fr

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3-3-6(2018-10-11) Retirement of Prof. Jean Schoentgen

Invitation  

Madame,  Monsieur,  

La  présente  afin  de  vous  convier  au  séminaire  organisé  en  l’honneur   du  Professeur  Jean  Schoentgen,  qui  se  déroulera  ce  11  octobre.   Après    quelques    mots    d’accueil,  nous    aurons    le  plaisir  d’écouter  le   Pr  J.  Schoentgen  au  sujet  d’un  thème  passionnant  dont  nous  vous   réservons  la  surprise.   Le  programme  de  la  journée  sera   ensuite  émaillé  de  plusieurs   présentations  (langue  au  choix  des  orateurs),  dont  le  détail  se  trouve   au  verso.   Cette  journée  constituant  une  belle  opportunité  de  réunir  cliniciens  et   chercheurs  en  un  même  lieu,  nous  espérons  sincèrement  que  vous   serez  des  nôtres.   Dans  l’affirmative,  nous  vous  saurions  gré  de  nous  transmettre  votre   inscription  pour  le  4  octobre  au  plus  tard,  ceci  afin  que  nous  puissions   adéquatement  prévoir  les  pauses  café  et  repas  (sandwiches).   Au  plaisir  de  vous  rencontrer  prochainement.            

Dominique  Morsomme  
  
Professeur    au    sein  des  Universités    de    Bruxelles,  Louvain  et  Liège,   J.  Schoentgen  consacre  notamment  ses  travaux  de  recherche  à   l’évaluation  fonctionnelle  des  troubles  de  la  voix,  l’analyse  du   tremblement  vocal  et  la  synthèse  des  voix  dysphoniques

Programme

8h20 Accueil

8h50 Message de bienvenue

9h00 Jean Schoentgen, physicist – FNRS senior scientific researcher  Thème surprise

10h00 Véronique Delvaux, phonéticienne – FNRS researcher Perception de la qualité vocale de locuteurs normophoniques français : effet des variables liées à la tâche, aux auditeurs et aux locuteurs.

10h30 Pause (30’)

11h00 Marc De Bodt, vocologist - PhD - researcher Reliability of perceptual (visual and tactile) assessment of breathing in speaking voice.

11h30 Isabel Schiller, vocologist - PhD student Listening challenge : How noise and dysphonic voice may disrupt children's spoken language processing.

12h00 Remerciements du Département de Logopédie

12h15 Pause repas

13h45 Dominique Morsomme, vocologist – PhD researcher Validation préliminaire de l’adaptation française du Transsexual Voice Questionnaire de Dacakis & Davies.

14h15 Angélique Remacle, vocologist - PhD – FNRS researcher Applications du biofeedback en vocologie.

14h45 Kristiane Van Lierde, vocologist - PhD - researcher  Can we create a functional voice lift ?

15h15 Pause (30’)

15h45 Youri Maryn, vocologist - PhD - researcher Shaken, not stirred … toward objective measurement of perceived vocal tremor severity.

16h15 Abdellah Kacha, electrical engineer – PhD - researcher Analyse en composantes principales du spectrogramme de la parole : interprétation et application à la parole dysarthrique.

16h45 Timothy Pommée, vocologist - PhD student L’AVQI 03.01 appliqué à la langue française : validité, précision diagnostique et corrélation avec la plainte du patient adulte.

17h15 La parole est au public 

17h45 Verre de l’amitié  


Le  lieu  

Université  de  Liège   Amphis  de  l’Europe  (B4)   Salle  R54   Blvd  du  Rectorat  13   4000  Liège  


Le  parking  

Parking  PA   Face  aux  Amphis  Europe  

Participation  :  60€  lunch  inclus.              

Le  paiement  fait  office  d’inscription.   A  verser  sur  le  compte  BE73  3401  5581  3360  pour  le  4  octobre  au  plus  tard   Destinataire  :  JSCH111018  -­‐‑  Communication  :  Nom  prénom  -­‐‑  Sém  JS  1018  


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3-3-7(2018-10-11) The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4) conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (updated)

Link to Call for Papers and Submission Website:
https://easychair.org/cfp/ETAP4 (see also text below)

Conference website: https://etap4.krisyu.org

The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4)
conference will be held from October 11-13, 2018, at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts. This conference
focuses on questions about the production, interpretation, and
characterization of speech prosody, bringing together researchers in
linguistics, psychology, and computer science.

The theme of ETAP4 is ?Sociolectal and dialectal variability in
prosody.? As in many language fields, studies of prosody have focused
on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in
social structures. The goal of ETAP4 is to help diversify prosody
research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as
well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The
conference will bring together prosody researchers and researchers
exploring the role of sociological variation in prosody, with a focus
on understudied dialects and endangered languages, and individual
differences based on gender and sexuality. Invited speakers will (i)
raise what questions and areas they think would benefit from prosodic
research, (ii) teach prosody researchers what they need to know to do
research in these areas, and (iii) share insights from their
experience engaging with the public around issues of understudied and
endangered languages, linguistic bias, and intersectionality in
science.

A satellite workshop on African-American English prosody will be held
on October 10, 2018 to bring together participants to contribute
common data sets and discuss the development of shared data resources
and methodological considerations such as challenges in prosodic
transcription. For updates on this workshop, subscribe to the e-mail
list here: https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4-aae/

We invite submission of abstracts describing work related to the
conference theme as well as topics in prosody more generally from
diverse approaches, including fieldwork, experiments, computational
modeling, theoretical analyses, etc. These topics include:

- Phonology and phonetics of prosody
- Cognitive processing and modelling of prosody
- Tone and intonation
- Acquisition of prosody
- Interfaces with syntax, semantics, pragmatics
- Prosody in natural language processing

In addition to talks from invited speakers, there will be additional
talks, and two poster sessions.

Abstracts for talks and posters must be submitted in a pdf format.
Your abstract must include the submission?s title at the top, and must
not include authors? names and affiliations, or any identifying
information (i.e., ?In Liberman & Pierrehumbert (1984), we
showed...?). Abstracts should be submitted in letter format (8.5' x
11' - not A4), with 1-inch margins on all sides, and in Arial 11 point
font. The abstract itself (text) may be no longer than one page; a
second page containing additional figures, tables, other graphics
and/or references may be included.

To get updates on the conference, subscribe to the e-mail list here:
https://list.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/etap4

Submission deadline: May  14, 2018, 11:59 PM AoE (anywhere on earth). Updated



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3-3-8(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/
 
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AIMS:
 
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2018, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.
 
VENUE:
 
SLSP 2018 will take place in Mons, which was European Capital of Culture in 2015. The venue will be:
 
University of Mons
31 Bvd Dolez, 7000 Mons
Belgium
 
SCOPE:
 
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
 
anaphora and coreference resolution
authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
computer-aided translation
corpora and language resources
data mining and semantic web
information extraction
information retrieval
knowledge representation and ontologies
lexicons and dictionaries
machine translation
multimodal technologies
natural language understanding
neural representation of speech and language
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
parsing
part-of-speech tagging
question-answering systems
semantic role labelling
speaker identification and verification
speech and language generation
speech recognition
speech synthesis
speech transcription
spelling correction
spoken dialogue systems
term extraction
text categorisation
text summarisation
user modeling
 
STRUCTURE:
 
SLSP 2018 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
posters
 
INVITED SPEAKERS:
 
Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield), Crossing Domains in Automatic Speech Recognition
 
Simon King (University of Edinburgh), Does 'End-to-End' Speech Synthesis Make any Sense?
 
Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon), Analysing Speech for Clinical Applications
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Steven Abney (University of Michigan, US)
Srinivas Bangalore (Interactions LLC, US)
Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon et Pays du Vaucluse, FR)
Pierrette Bouillon (University of Geneva, CH)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Italian National Research Council, IT)
Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University, SG)
Kenneth W. Church (Baidu Research, US)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, BE)
Thierry Dutoit (University of Mons, BE)
Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, IT)
Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK)
Ralph Grishman (New York University, US)
Udo Hahn (University of Jena, DE)
Siegfried Handschuh (University of Passau, DE)
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana?Champaign, US)
Keikichi Hirose (University of Tokyo, JP)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, US)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, US)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE)
Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, SG)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, JP)
Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research Institute, QA)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, DE)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montréal, CA)
Elmar Nöth (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)
Cecile Paris (CSIRO Data61, AU)
Jong C. Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KR)
Alexandros Potamianos (National Technical University of Athens, GR)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK)
Mats Rooth (Cornell University, US)
Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES)
Alexander Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Tanja Schultz (University of Bremen, DE)
Holger Schwenk (Facebook AI Research, FR)
Vijay K. Shanker (University of Delaware, US)
Richard Sproat (Google Research, US)
Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, JP)
Gökhan Tür (Google Research, US)
Yorick Wilks (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, US)
Phil Woodland (University of Cambridge, UK)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK)
Junichi Yamagishi (University of Edinburgh, UK)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Stéphane Dupont (Mons)
Thierry Dutoit (Mons, co-chair)
Kévin El Haddad (Mons)
Kathy Huet (Mons)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra Royón (Granada)
Gueorgui Pironkov (Mons)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
 
SUBMISSIONS:
 
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
 
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2018
 
PUBLICATIONS:
 
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.
 
A special issue of Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier, JCR 2016 impact factor: 1.900) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
 
REGISTRATION:
 
The registration form can be found at:
 
http://slsp2018.irdta.eu/Registration.php
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: May 27, 2018
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 3, 2018
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 13, 2018
Early registration: July 13, 2018
Late registration: October 1, 2018
Submission to the journal special issue: January 17, 2019
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Université de Mons
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London

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3-3-9(2018-10-16) 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (MVAR 2018), Munich, Germany

*Note: paper submission deadline extended till 18 July*
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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/
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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/

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3-3-10(2018-10-16) 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, USA

4th International Workshop on

Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction

(MA3HMI 2018)

 

October 16th, 2018 in Boulder, USA.

In conjunction with ICMI2018.

 

http://MA3HMI.cogsy.de

 

 

Scope:

One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction may be how we interact with other humans. Although technology is still far from human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical solutions. They are often represented as artificial agents to facilitate smooth inter-actions. While the analysis of human-human communication has resulted in many insights.

Transferring these to human-machine interactions remains challenging especially if multiple possible interlocutors are present in a certain area. This situation requires that multimodal inputs from the main speaker (e.g., speech, gaze, facial expressions) as well as possible co-speaker are recorded and interpreted. This interpretation has to occur at both the semantic and affective levels, including aspects such as the personality, mood, or intentions of the user, anticipating the counterpart. These processes have to be performed in real-time in order for the system to respond without delays, in a natural environment.

The MA3HMI workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the analysis of multimodal data as a means to develop technical devices that can interact with humans. In particular, artificial agents can be regarded in their broadest sense, including virtual chat agents, empathic speech interfaces and life-style coaches on a smart-phone. More general, multimodal analyses support any technical system being located in the research area of human-machine interaction. For the 2018 edition, we focus on the environment and situation an interaction is situated in extending the investigations on real-time aspects of human-machine interaction. We address the synergy of situation, context, and interaction history in the development and evaluation of multimodal, real-time systems.

We solicit papers that concern the different perspectives of such human-machine interaction. Tools and systems that address real-time conversations with artificial agents and technical systems are also within the scope of the workshop.

 

Topics (but not limited to):

a) Multimodal Environment Analyses

- Multimodal understanding of situation and environment of natural interactions

- Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions

- Novel strategies of human-machine interaction in terms of situation and environment

b) Multimodal User Analyses

- Multimodal understanding of user behavior and affective state

- Dialogue management using multimodal output

- Multimodal understanding of multiple users behavior and affective

- Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions

- Novel strategies of human-machine interactions

c) Applications, Tools, and Systems

- Novel application domains and embodied interaction

- Prototype development and uptake of technology

- User studies with (partial) functional systems

- Tools for the recording, annotation and analysis of conversations

 

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: July 30th, 2018

Notification of Acceptance: September 10th, 2018

Camera-ready Deadline: September 15th, 2018

Workshop Date: October 16th, 2018

 

Submissions:

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) and short papers (5 pages) in ACM format as specified by ICMI 2018. Accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All submissions should be anonymous.

 

Organisers:

Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany

Francesca Bonin, IBM Research, Ireland

Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Ronald Poppe, Utrecht University, Netherland

 

 

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Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. Ronald Böck

FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems

Building 03, Room 322

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany

Phone: +49 391 67 50061

E-mail:

ronald.boeck@ieee.org

ronald.boeck@ovgu.de

Web: http://www.kognitivesysteme.de

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3-3-11(2018-10-16) Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era, Boulder, CO, USA
Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era

Boulder, Colorado, October 16th, 2018
http://h3-icmi2018.cse.tamu.edu

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


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Theodora Chaspari, Texas A&M University (chaspari@tamu.edu)
Angeliki Metallinou, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning (ametalli@amazon.com)
Leah Stein Duker, University of Southern California (lstein@chan.usc.edu)
Amir Behzadan, Texas A&M University (abehzadan@tamu.edu)
 
For additional information visit http://h3-icmi2018.cse.tamu.edu or write to chaspari@tamu.edu.
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3-3-12(2018-10-16) ICMI-Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions EXTENDED DEADLINE

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018

https://icmi.acm.org/2018/

 

Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions

EXTENDED June 25th, Decisions July 20th, Camera Ready July 31st.

Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfdc  

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The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. The Consortium will be held on October 16, 2018. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).

 

Who should apply?

While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.

 

Submission Guidelines

Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:

 

1) Extended Abstract: A four-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SigConf format. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions will not be anonymous. In particular, it should cover:

  - The key research questions and motivation of your research,

  - Background and related work that informs your research,

  - A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem,

  - Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies,

  - The research approach and methodology,

  - Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work,

  - A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work.

 

2) Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support. Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.

 

3) CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.

 

All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.

 

Review Process

The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

 

Financial Support

We hope to provide most student attendees with partial financial support to cover the costs of attending the Doctoral Consortium and the conference. However, the details on the number of students to be funded and funding coverage is currently unknown, as we are currently working on raising funds. More detail on travel support will be announced on the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website.

 

Attendance

All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.

 

Process

- Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2).

- Submission system: To be updated.

- Selection process: Peer-Reviewed

- Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session

- Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library

- Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Roland Goecke (U Canberra) and Yelin Kim (SUNY Albany)

 

Dates

Submission deadline: EXTENDED to June 25th 2018

Notifications: July 20th 2018

Camera-ready deadline: July 31st 2018

Doctoral Consortium Date: October 16th 2018

 

Questions?

For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfdc)

For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:

- Roland Goecke (U Canberra) Roland.Goecke@canberra.edu.au

- Yelin Kim (SUNY Albany) yelinkim@albany.edu

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3-3-13(2018-10-16) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) , Boulder, CO, USA

International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)

Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018

https://icmi.acm.org/2018/


Second Call for Late Breaking Results

Due August 1st, 2018, Notifications August 31st, Camera-ready Sept 7th.

Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cflbr  

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Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits

 

EXTENDED DATES: Due August 3rd, 2018, Notifications August 8th, Camera-ready August 12th.

 

Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfd   

 

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We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018), located in Boulder, Colorado. October 16-20th, 2018.

 

Demonstrations and Exhibits

 

The ICMI 2018 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. They can also serve to introduce commercial products.

 

Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a two page paper, which will be included in ICMI proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than one page; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers are invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.

 

The theme of the ICMI 2018 conference is Multi-modal Understanding of Multi-party Interactions. Demonstrations in this area will benefit from more exposure to visitors, and will allow visitors to interact with the material.

 

Demonstration Submission

 

A description of the demonstration must be submitted electronically through the main ICMI conference management system:

 

https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/

 

Demo description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than two pages in length including references - template available at:

 

https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

 

Demo proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration and, if possible, the URL of a website where a live version or video of the proposed demo is available. Please note that the accepted demonstration descriptions will be included in ICMI proceedings.

 

The selection process is juried by committee, according to criteria such as: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals (paper submission), along with preparing the short papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.

 

The curated demo program will be selected from the submitted proposals as well as invited demos from among regular conference papers accepted for presentation at the conference which the committee deems suitable for demonstration.

 

The demo and exhibit paper submissions should not be anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).

 

Exhibit Submission

 

Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demo proposals. The main difference is that exhibits proposals should be shorter in length (up to one page) and more suitable for very mature systems (commercial or almost commercial). Exhibits won't have a paper published in the ICMI 2018 proceedings.

 

Important Dates - EXTENDED FINAL DEADLINE

 

Submission of demo and exhibit proposals: August 3rd, 2018 (23:59PM, PST)

 

Demo and exhibit notification of acceptance: August 8th, 2018

 

Submission of demo final papers: August 12th, 2018 (23:59PM, PST)

 

Attendance

 

At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s).

 

Questions?

 

For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Demonstrations and Exhibits, visit the main conference website https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfd. For further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs (wolfgang.minker@uni-ulm.de and abhinav@iitrpr.ac.in)

 

- Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University)

 

- Abhinav Dhall (IIT Ropar)



New this year! The ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is soliciting submissions for a new venue this year: Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of the LBR venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues.


HIGHLIGHTS:

- Submission deadline: August 1st, 2018

- Notifications: August 31st, 2018

- Camera-ready deadline: September 7th, 2018

- Conference Dates: October 16-20th, 2018

- Submission format: Anonymized, four pages not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates)

- Selection process: Peer-Reviewed

- Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session

- Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library

- LBR Co-chairs: Cosmin Munteanu (University of Toronto Mississauga) and Lisa Anthony (University of Florida)


WHAT IS LATE-BREAKING WORK?

Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track.


WHY SUBMIT TO THE LATE-BREAKING WORK TRACK AT ICMI?

Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field.


Late-Breaking Work papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are ?significant? revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Extended Abstract: An anonymized, four-page paper, not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates). The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the 'Late-Breaking Work' track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted.


Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person.


REVIEW PROCESS

LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it ?fits? the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond.


ATTENDANCE

At least one author of all accepted LBR submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference poster session.


QUESTIONS?

For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/ For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (cosmin@taglab.ca and lanthony@cise.ufl.edu)

- Cosmin Munteanu, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada

- Lisa Anthony, University of Florida, USA

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3-3-14(2018-10-22) 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Seoul, Korea

First International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia, October 22-26, 2018, Seoul, Korea

 

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seoul, Korea together with ACM Multimedia 2018. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited

to) topics:

 

– annotation and indexing

– athlete and object tracking

– activity recognition, classification and evaluation

– event detection and indexing

– performance assessment

– injury analysis and prevention

– data driven analysis in sports

– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

– automated training assistance

– camera pose and motion tracking

– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions

 

Please refer to the workshop website for further information:

http://www.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports/

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Submission Due:             July 8, 2018

Acceptance Notification:     August 5, 2018

Camera Ready Submission:     August 12, 2018

Workshop Date:                TBA; either Oct 22 or Oct 26, 2018

 

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3-3-15(2018-10-22) 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Seoul, Korea
Call for Papers (Submission deadline EXTENDED to July 15)
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First International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia, October 22-26, 2018, Seoul, Korea
 
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seoul, Korea together with ACM Multimedia 2018. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:
 
– annotation and indexing
– athlete and object tracking
– activity recognition, classification and evaluation
– event detection and indexing
– performance assessment
– injury analysis and prevention
– data driven analysis in sports
– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports
– automated training assistance
– camera pose and motion tracking
– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions
 
Please refer to the workshop website for further information:
http://www.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports/
 
IMPORTANT DATES
 
Submission Due:              EXTENDED TO: July 15, 2018
Acceptance Notification:     August 5, 2018
Camera Ready Submission:     August 12, 2018
Workshop Date:               TBA; either Oct 22 or Oct 26, 2018
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3-3-16(2018-10-22) 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop -AVEC 2018, Seoul Korea
8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop ? AVEC 2018
Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2018 conference, 22-26 October, Seoul, Korea
 
We are calling for participation in the 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2018), an ACM MM Challenge Workshop themed around two topics: for the first time in a challenge bipolar disorder and emotion recognition. Bipolar disorder (BD) is a serious mental health disorder, with patients experiencing either manic or depressive episodes. Those with BD tend to live with this long-term. The purpose of the Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC) series is to bring together multiple communities from different disciplines, in particular the audio-visual multimedia communities and those in the psychological and social sciences who study expressive behaviour and emotion. The AVEC 2018 challenge theme is on Bipolar disorder and Cross-cultural emotion, and it is the eighth competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual, and audiovisual health and emotion analysis, with all participants competing under strictly the same conditions. It introduces major novelties this year with three separated sub-challenges:
  • 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
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3-3-17(2018-10-28) CfP XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies, Mahé, Seychelles

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies

 

'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages and Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'

 

28 October 2018 - 3 November 2018, Mahé, Seychelles

 

The International Committee for Creole Studies (Comité International des Etudes Créoles (CIEC)) has organized International Conferences on Creole Studies for the past fifty years, at regular intervals. In 2018, the XVIth International Conference of Creole Studies will be held in Seychelles; the organization has been entrusted to the University of Seychelles in liaison with the CIEC.

 

Context

 

The international community (UNESCO, UNDP etc.) and the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) support the educational linguistic policy and the possible institutionalization of Creole languages in the dozen of Creole-speaking countries (France and its Departments, Haiti, Dominica, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, San Tome and Principe) that are members of OIF. Creole studies are called upon to contribute decisively to these programs and endeavours.

The importance of Creole studies stems primarily from its contributions to the linguistic, cultural and social development of Creole -speaking societies. Beyond, the study of the genesis and development of Creole social, linguistic and cultural systems constitutes a remarkable field of study for human and social sciences, because 'Creole' societies have been formed recently (three to four centuries of existence as a rule) and because of how they are composed and evolve.

 

Presentation



The XVIth International Symposium on Creole Studies will focus on:

'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages, Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'.

This theme invites philosophers, historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, linguists and other researchers in human and social sciences to present their work on contemporary Creole societies in their historical, linguistic, social, political, economic and cultural evolution.

 

The focus of the colloquium will be on the following four major themes:

A. Creole languages and education

B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development

C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages

D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching

 

 

Presentation of the themes of the Conference

 

A. Creole languages and education

 

Faced with the challenges of education for all, in basic and middle schools, sovereign countries that use a French Creole language have introduced some measure of Creole language teaching in their schools. Some states, such as Seychelles or Haiti, have acquired a vast experience in the domain that should be examined. Mauritius has recently also embarked on this venture which calls for evaluation. The Creole-speaking Outremer Departments, whose creoles are recognized regional languages of France and which benefit from the texts regulating the teaching of regional languages in France, have also many educational practices to share.

B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development

 

Anthropology and the history of Creole worlds are called upon to account for how the creole-speaking social formations, resulting from European colonial expansion, are facing the challenges of development and globalization.

The role of Creole languages in the development of economy (tourism, reception of migrants, etc.) has to be assessed.

Literary production in the Creole speaking islands of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean has developed greatly in recent years in French and English as well as in Creole languages. The study of this renewal of literature and cultural practices also forms part of theme B.

The migratory movements of creole speakers (see also topic C) will also be discussed.

What are the paths of the institutionalization of the Creole languages in their respective areas of influence (see the question of Creole language academies)? Creole militant practices may also be mentioned.

 

C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages.

 

Recent globalization have caused many displacements of Creole-speaking populations towards more developed economic zones. New Creole-speaking communities have thus been created outside the territories of birth, such as Haitian communities in North America, populations from the Creole speaking Departments in metropolitan France, Mauritians in Australia and Seychellois in the United Kingdom. Creole speaking newcomers are found in prosperous creole-speaking areas, for instance, Haitians in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean.Immigration to Creole-speaking areas also leads to the emergence of neo-learners of Creole languages. Globalization has led to an unprecedented diffusion of Creole languages, including via language and culture industries. These new sociolinguistic situations of diffusion have hardly been described to date. Similarly, little is known about the impact of these migratory movements on the dynamics of Creole languages. To these themes may be added the study of the genesis and evolution of Creole languages.

 

D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching

 

The description of Creole language systems (phonology, grammar) remains necessary. The analysis of the variation of Creole languages and of their linguistic systems is still unsatisfactory. This theme should bring together contributions that attempt to analyze and explain phonological, morphological and grammatical systems in a typological perspective.

This theme may also include work on grammar for teaching. Indeed, in Haiti, the Seychelles and Mauritius, as in the French DROMs, questions arise concerning 'grammar models' and the use of linguistic analyses for teacher training and for teaching of Creole languages as first languages.

 

Questions

 

Topics that could be addressed, either in the form of individual papers or as workshops (please contact the organizers), include the following:

 

- 'Creole' diasporas and their linguistic practices

- Creole varieties developed outside the territories of birth

- The linguistic varieties of neo-learners of Creole languages

- The co - presence of Creole and French

- The development of literacy programs in Creole

- Bilingual education programs integrating the Creole language

- Literatures of Creole-speaking countries

- The state of research on Creole language corpora

- Creole development at school

- Morphology, Syntax etc. of creole languages

- The diachronic studies of Creole languages

- Relations between Creole languages and languages of the slave population (African languages, Malagasy, etc.)

- Creole history, landscape and society

- Creolization and the development of Creole societies

- Philosophy and history of ideas in Creole societies.

 

 

Scientific Committee of the XVIth International Conference of the CIEC

 

Enoch Aboh, Christian Barat, Arnaud Carpooran, Penda Choppy, Guillaume Fon Sing, Renaud Govain, Marie-reine Hoareau, Thom Klingler, Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig, Carpanin Marimoutou, Salikoko Mufwene, Joelle Perreau, Laurence Pourchez, Lambert-Félix Prudent, Gillette Staudacher-Valliamee, Albert Valdman, Justin Valentin, Daniel Véronique

 

Organization and timetable

 

The papers and proposals for workshops may be included in one of the themes of the Conference and / or in a cross-cutting theme.

Proposals for papers or workshops (groupings of 3/4 papers) written in French, English or any French Creole language, with the address and institutional affiliation of the communicant (s) must reach the following e-mail address: Ciec.Sez2018@gmail.combefore 15 January 2018.

The abstracts will describe the theme of the paper, the database, the results expected and will not exceed 3,000 characters or 500 words (including bibliography). Submit 2 copies of the proposal, one anonymous (which will be used for the review), the other with the author's name, address and institutional affiliation.

 

After evaluation, acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be notified as from the 9 April 2018.

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3-3-18(2018-11-05)11 th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Tilburg, The Netherlands

11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 5-8 November, 2018

 

Contact: inlg2018@uvt.nl

 

The 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018) will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018. The conference takes place immediately after EMNLP 2018, organised in nearby Brussels, Belgium.

 

 

We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters.

 

Important dates

 

- Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2018

- Notification: September 7, 2018

- Camera ready: October 1, 2018

- INLG 2018: November 5-8, 2018

 

All deadlines are at 11.59 PM, UTC-8.

 

Topics

 

INLG 2018 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. The conference will include two special tracks:

 

(1) Generating Text with Affect, Style and Personality (sponsored by The Netherlands Organization for Scienfitic Research, NWO), and

(2) Conversational Interfaces, Chatbots and NLG (organised in collaboration with flow.ai).

 

General topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

- Affect/emotion generation

- Applications for people with disabilities

- Cognitive modelling of language production

- Content and text planning

- Corpora for NLG

- Deep learning models for NLG

- Evaluation of NLG systems

- Grounded language generation

- Lexicalisation

- Multimedia and multimodality in generation

- Storytelling and narrative generation

- NLG and accessibility

- NLG in dialogue

- NLG for embodied agents and robots

- NLG for real-world applications

- Paraphrasing and Summarisation

- Personalisation and variation in text

- Referring expression generation

- Resources for NLG

- Surface realisation

- Systems architecture

 

A separate call for workshops and generation challenges will be released soon.

 

Submissions & Format

 

Submissions should follow the new ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. ACL 2018 offers both LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates  Papers should be submitted electronically through the START conference management system (to be opened in due course).

 

Three kinds of papers can be submitted:

 

- Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for references.

 

- Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, with up to one extra page for references.

 

- Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems which are of relevance to the NLG community. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2018.

 

All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2018 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2018 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the 'Acknowledgements' section of the paper when submitted. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice.

 

Program chairs

 

- Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

- Martijn Goudbeek, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

- Albert Gatt, Malta University, Malta

 

Workshop & Challenges chairs

 

- Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University, Germany

- Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands

 

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3-3-19(2018-11-08) CfP Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, Aix-en-Provence,France

Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond

Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018

 

Call for Papers

 

 

We invite submissions for the Workshop Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, to be held at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018.

 

The Workshop is co-located with the 22nd SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 8-10 November 2018.

 

 

Aim

Signaling the information structure of utterances has been shown to be one of the main dimensions of prosodic meaning in many languages, and remains a driving force behind the research on the typological variety of prosodic systems. Other aspects of prosodic meaning that have been investigated are the role of prosody in the generation of implicatures, in speech-act dynamics, in dialogue management, or in the marking of various kinds of questions, owing much to collaborations between phonologists and semanticists/pragmaticists. Other recent advances in the field are supported by the development of corpus resources and of new experimental methods for the investigation of the empirical validity of specific theoretical claims.

This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and psycholinguists working on the prosody/meaning interface in different languages as well as computational linguists developing tools for prosody-meaning corpus annotation, exploration and processing.

 

Invited Speakers

Michael Wagner, McGill University

Pilar Prieto, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- prosodic reflexes of information structure in different languages and their relationship with other grammatical reflexes of information structure (morphological or syntactical),

- the relationship between information structure, ellipsis or clause fragments and prosody,

- the interplay between information structure and other aspects of prosodic meaning such as speech acts, attitude signaling, or turn-taking management,

- more generally, the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse and dialogue.

 

Submissions

We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous, in English, and should not exceed one page (2.5 cm margins, 12pt font size), with an extra page for examples, figures and references.

 

Important dates

Abstract deadline: 27 May 2018

Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2018

Workshop: 8 November 2018

 

Organisers

Cristel Portes, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU),

Arndt Riester and Uwe Reyle, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart.

 

Scientific committee

Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne),
Roxane Bertrand (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Bettina Braun (University of Constance),
Daniel Büring (University of Wien),
Sasha Calhoun (University of Wellington),
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (CNRS, Université de Nantes),
Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen),
Mariapaola D’Imperio (Aix-Marseille University),
James German (Aix-Marseille University),
Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart),
Frank Kügler (University of Cologne),
Amandine Michelas (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Caterina Petrone (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Giuseppina Turco (CNRS, Université Paris Diderot),
Pauline Welby (CNRS, Aix-Marseille University),
Margaret Zellers (University of Kiel)

 

More information are available on the Workshop webpage: https://semdial.hypotheses.org/prosody

Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: cristel.portes@lpl-aix.fr

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3-3-20(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-CSLPISCA.

The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018) will be held on November 26-29, 2018 in Taipei.

While ISCSLP is focused primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English.

Important dates

Feb 22, 2018   Submission of special session proposals

Apr 30, 2018   Submission of tutorial proposals

Jun 11, 2018    Submission of regular and special session papers

Aug 01, 2018   Submission of demo proposals

 

ISCSLP2018 conference website: http://iscslp2018.org/

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3-3-21(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.
  
  

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3-3-22(2018-12-07) Conversational AI: ?Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential? , Montreal, Canada
Call for papers
Workshop Title:Conversational AI: ?Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential?
Workshop Date:December 7th
Workshop Location:Montreal, Canada
Deadline:October 25th, 11:59 PM EST
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Description:
In the span of only a few years, conversational systems have become commonplace. Every day, millions of people use natural-language interfaces such as Siri, Google Now, Cortana, Alexa and others via in-home devices, phones, or messaging channels such as Messenger, Slack, Skype, among others.  At the same time, interest among the research community in conversational systems has blossomed: for supervised and reinforcement learning, conversational systems often serve as both a benchmark task and an inspiration for new ML methods at conferences which don't focus on speech and language per se, such as NIPS, ICML, IJCAI, and others.  Research community challenge tasks are proliferating, including the seventh Dialog Systems Technology Challenge (DSTC7), the Amazon Alexa prize, and the Conversational Intelligence Challenge live competitions at NIPS (2017, 2018).

 

Following the overwhelming participation in our NIPS workshop last year (9 invited talks, 26 submissions, 3 orals papers, 13 accepted papers, 37 PC members, and couple of hundreds of participants), we are excited to continue promoting cross-pollination of ideas between academic research centers and industry. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in this area, to clarify impactful research problems, share findings from large-scale real-world deployments, and generate new ideas for future lines of research. This workshop will include invited talks, contributed work, and open discussion.  In these talks, senior technical leaders from both academia and industry will give insights into real usage and challenges at scale. We will prioritize forward-looking papers that propose interesting and impactful contributions. We will end the day with an open discussion, including a panel consisting of academic and industrial researchers.

 

Invited Speakers:
? Maxine Eskenazi (Carnegie Mellon University)
? Milica Gasic (University of Cambridge)
? Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington)
? Lazaros C Polymenakos (IBM)
? Alexander Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)
? Ruhi Sarikaya (Amazon)

 

Co-chairs:
? Alborz Geramifard (Amazon)
? Jason Williams (Apple)

 

Organizers:
? Y-Lan Boureau (Facebook)
? Maxine Eskenazi (CMU)
? Milica Ga?i? (University of Cambridge)
? Jim Glass (MIT)
? Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Amazon)
? Larry Heck (Samsung)
? Lazaros C Polymenakos (IBM)
? Steve Young (Apple)
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3-3-23(2018-12-18) Spoken Language Technologies Workshop, Athens, Greece

CfP and Speakers announced for IEEE's SLT2018

Submit your paper and join us for the next Spoken Language Technologies workshop
18-21 December 2018, Athens, Greece
www.slt2018.org

Deadline for paper submission: 2 July 2018
Notification of acceptance: 2 September 2018
We invite the submission of papers related to these topics:
  • Speech recognition and synthesis
  • Spoken language understanding and generation
  • Spoken document retrieval
  • Assistive technologies
  • Question answering from speech
  • Natural language processing
  • Human/computer interaction
  • Spoken dialog systems
  • Speech data mining
  • Spoken document summarization
  • Spoken language corpora
  • Speaker/language recognition
  • Multimodal processing
  • Evaluation methodologies (Educational, Healthcare, Assistive technology, Gaming)
Use our dedicated hashtag #SLT2018 for Twitter updates
 
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3-3-24(2018-??-??) FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018

 

FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018

 

 

 

Proposal Submission Deadline: October 22, 2017

 

Notification of Acceptance: November 17, 2017

 

 

 

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), and the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACL 2018, COLING 2018, EMNLP 2018, or NAACL HLT 2018. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:

 

 

 

ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be held in Melbourne, Australia, July 15 - July 20, 2018, with workshops to take place on July 19-20: http://acl2018.org/

 

 

 

COLING 2018 (the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20 - August 25, 2018, with workshops to be held on August 20-21, 2018: http://coling2018.org/

 

 

 

NAACL HLT 2018 (the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1 - June 6, 2018 with workshops to be held on June 5-6, 2018: http://naacl2018.org/

 

 

 

EMNLP 2018 (the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018) will be held later in 2018 (after the other three conferences). Exact details on dates and venue for EMNLP workshops will be announced later.

 

 

 

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

 

 

 

Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines below).

 

 

 

The proposals should contain:

 

 

 

- A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.

 

 

 

- The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.

 

 

 

- A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to: (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.

 

 

 

- A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers.

 

 

 

- An estimate of the number of attendees.

 

 

 

- A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants.

 

 

 

- A description of special requirements and technical needs.

 

 

 

- The preferred venue(s) (ACL/COLING/NAACL/EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g. if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise)

 

 

 

- If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g. shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.

 

 

 

Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.

 

 

 

In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you submit via the START System (not in the PDF proposal):

 

 

 

- A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).

 

 

 

- A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.

 

 

 

- A list of organizers’ names which will be shown in the web-based survey.

 

 

 

The proposals should be submitted no later than October 22, 2018, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at

 

https://www.softconf.com/i/acl-workshops2018

 

 

 

The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. In addition, to estimate the attendance of the different workshops, a new voting mechanism will be implemented, where attendees of ACL-affiliated events from the past 3-5 years will be able to vote on which workshops they would like to attend in 2018. (A representative prototype of the survey is shown here, but is subject to change: https://goo.gl/3cuZON.) The overall diversity of the workshops will also be taken into account to ensure the conference program is varied and balanced. The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the four conferences, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers.

 

 

 

Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes.  Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs.

 

 

 

The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at:

 

http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook

 

 

 

TIMELINE FOR 2018 WORKSHOPS

 

 

 

Timeline:

 

October 22, 2018: Proposal Submission Deadline

 

November 17, 2018: Notification of Acceptance

 

 

 

Individual dates:

 

 

 

* ACL:

 

 

 

Dec 11, 2018: First Call for Workshop Papers

 

Mar 5, 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers

 

April 8, 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date

 

May 7, 2018: Notification of Acceptance

 

May 28, 2018: Camera-ready papers due

 

July 19-20, 2018: Workshop Dates

 

 

 

* COLING:

 

 

 

TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers

 

TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers

 

TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date

 

TBA: Notification of Acceptance

 

TBA: Camera-ready papers due

 

Aug 20-21, 2018: Workshop Dates

 

 

 

* NAACL:

 

 

 

27 November 2017: First Call for Workshop Papers

 

8 January 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers

 

2 March 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date

 

2 April 2018: Notification of Acceptance

 

16 April 2018: Camera-ready papers due

 

5-6 June 2018: Workshop Dates

 

 

 

* EMNLP:

 

 

 

TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers

 

TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers

 

TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date

 

TBA: Notification of Acceptance

 

TBA: Camera-ready papers due

 

TBA: Workshop Dates

 

 

 

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

 

 

 

* ACL:

 

 

 

Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge

 

 

 

* COLING:

 

 

 

Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne

 

Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University

 

Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University

 

 

 

* NAACL:

 

 

 

Marie Meteer, Brandeis University

 

Jason Williams, Microsoft Research

 

 

 

* EMNLP:

 

 

 

TBA

 

 

 

For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers at:

 

acl-coling-emnlp-naacl-workshops@googlegroups.com

 

 

 

 

 

 









 

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3-3-25(2019-03-28) The Second (2019) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'19); San José, CA, USA

The Second (2019) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'19)

http://www.ieee-mipr.org
San Jose, CA, USA
March 28-30, 2019

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

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3-3-26(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

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3-3-27(2019-05-12) Call for Special Sessions at ICASSP 2019

Call for Special Session Proposals

 

The program for ICASSP 2019 will include Special Sessions that complement the traditional program with new and emerging  topics of interest to the signal-processing community, especially those in line with our theme of Empowering Science and Technology for Humankind . The aim of a special session is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art as well as to highlight current research directions and challenges in specific fields of signal processing.

Prospective organizers of Special Sessions should submit proposals indicating:
  • Title of the Special Session
  • Motivation, indicating the novelty of the topic and why it is timely
  • Short biography of the organizers
  •  List of six (6) contributed papers (including titles, authors, contact information of the corresponding author, and a short abstract of each contribution). Each organizer may not contribute more than one paper, and organizers should contact the authors of contributed papers and secure their participation prior to submission of the proposal
Only a maximum of three organizers per Special Session is permitted.

Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness and attractiveness of the topic as well as on the quality of the organizers and the authors of the contributed papers.

Special session proposals are due by September 10, 2018, and notification of accepted proposals will be on September 24, 2018. As with regular conference papers, five page papers for approved Special Sessions must be submitted by October 29, 2018.

The papers in each accepted Special Session will undergo a review process identical to that of regular papers. It is the responsibility of the organizers to ensure that their Special Session papers meet ICASSP quality standards. In case a paper in a Special Session does not meet the expected quality, it will be rejected, and an effort will be made to draw papers from the regular-submission process to fill the gap. If too few papers for a given Special Session are accepted in the review process, and we are unable to find suitable substitutes from the regular review pool, the Special Session may be cancelled?in such a case, the accepted papers from a cancelled Special Session will be placed into the regular program.

Inquiries about Special Sessions can be sent to specialsessions@icassp2019.com and the submissions can be made through https://2019.ieeeicassp.org.

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3-3-28(2019-05-14) 8èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, Mons, Belgique

Les 8èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique auront lieu à l¹Université de
Mons. Les informations relatives tant aux aspects organisationnels qu¹au
fonctionnement scientifique de ces JPC suivront prochainement.

Mais déjà, nous vous engageons à bloquer dans vos agendas les dates
arrêtées: du 14 au 16 mai 2019.

Très cordialement,

V. Delvaux, B. Harmegnies, K. Huet, M. Piccaluga

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3-3-29(2019-08-04) International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia
Music Monthly - MAY
 

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.

 

Call for special sessions are now open

The organisers of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences invite proposals for special sessions covering emerging topics, challenges, interdisciplinary research, or subjects that could foster useful debate in the phonetic sciences.

The ICPhS themes are ?Endangered Languages, and Major Language Varieties?. Special sessions related to these themes are especially welcome, but we are interested in proposals related to any of the scientific areas covered in the Congress. The submission deadline will be 30 April 2018.
 

 

Satellite meetings and workshops

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.

 
 

Meet our keynote speakers

The organising committee is pleased to announce the keynote speakers who will be presenting at the ICPhS 2019 Congress:

  • Professor Amalia Arvaniti
  • Professor Jonas Beskow
  • Professor Nicholas Evans
  • Professor Bryan Gick
  • Professor Lucie Menard
 
 

Scientific areas

The scientific committee have put together a list of scientific areas for the 2019 ICPhS program based on previous editions and current developments within phonetics

Please click on the button below to see the full list.

 
 

Stay in the loop!

If you would like to stay up to date with the Congress and ensure you don't miss out on any milestones, let us know by clicking the button below.

 
 


JOIN US IN MELBOURNE

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.

Find our more about Melbourne here.

 


CONGRESS KEY DATES

Call for special sessions proposals
Now open!
Deadline for proposals
30 April 2018
Deadline for on-line full paper submission
4 December 2018
Registration opens
Late 2018
Author notification deadline
15 February 2019
Congress Dates
4-10 August 2019

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3-3-30(2019-08-05) ICPHS 2019 SPECIAL SESSION on Computational Approaches for Documenting and Analyzing Oral Languages, Melbourne, Australia

Presentation

http://lig-getalp.imag.fr/icphs-2019-special-session/

The special session Computational Approaches for Documenting and Analyzing Oral Languages welcomes submissions presenting innovative speech data collection methods and/or assistance for linguists and communities of speakers: methods and tools that facilitate collection, transcription and translation of primary language data. Oral languages is understood here as referring to spoken vernacular languages which depend on oral transmission, including endangered languages and (typically low-prestige) regional varieties of major languages.

The special session intends to provide up-to-date information to an audience of phoneticians about developments in machine learning that make it increasingly feasible to automate segmentation, alignment or labelling of audio recordings, even in less-documented languages. A methodological goal is to help establish the field of Computational Language Documentation and contribute to its close association with the phonetic sciences. Computational Language Documentation needs to build on the insights gained through phonetic research; conversely, research in phonetics stands to gain much from the availability of abundant and reliable data on a wider range of languages.

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)

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3-3-31(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

========================================

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:

- Sentence Selection Track
- Sentence Generation Track
- Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track

Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate,
non-profit, government).

Important Dates
------------------------
- 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
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Join the DSTC mailing list to get the latest updates about DSTC7:

- To join the mailing list: send an email to
listserv@lists.research.microsoft.com and put 'subscribe DSTC' in the
body of the message (without the quotes).
- To post a message: send your message to dstc@lists.research.microsoft.com.

For specific enquiries about DSTC7:
- Please feel free to contact any of the Organizing Committee members
directly.


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