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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 |