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3-1-1 | (2019-09-15) Welcome to INTERSPEECH 2019Welcome to INTERSPEECH 2019 – Willkommen in Graz, Austria, Sept 15-19, 2019 www.interspeech2019.orgImportant Dates Coming Up Soon
What is new?INTERSPEECH 2019 is the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association ISCA and this anniversary edition will introduce several innovative features. These innovations will certainly contribute to raise the attractiveness of the conference beyond the high levels developed already over the past two decades: Survey presentations have been evolved from the perspective talks at INTERSPEECH 2018 in Hyderabad. The presentations will be scheduled at the start of suitable oral presentation sessions, and will be allocated a 40-minute time slot for presentation and discussion. Presentations should aim to give an overview of the state-of-the-art for a specific topic covered by one or more of the main technical areas of the conference. The presenters will also be invited to submit survey papers to the ISCA supported journals of Computer, Speech and Language and Speech Communication. For further details, see our Call for Survey Presentations [please add link!] further below.Childcare – the INTERSPEECH Kids: Bring your family along to Graz, Austria! Childcare will be provided free of charge for conference participants. For terms and conditions, see the conference webpage http://www.interspeech2019.org/venue_and_travel/childcare. To secure a place for your kids, we recommend to apply for this service at your earliest convenience.Hackathons will set a stimulating atmosphere for the most creative developers in our community and beyond: through jams and challenges, we will bring together some of our brightest minds, students who are speech science and technology aficionados and who come to Graz as conference participants, as well as students who are representing the highly interdisciplinary community of several partner universities in Graz and beyond. Watch out for details to appear soon on our website http://www.interspeech2019.org or contact directly our hackathon chairs Elmar Nöth (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Johanna Pirker (TU Graz) at hackathon@interspeech2019.org.
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3-1-2 | (2019-09-15) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria INTERSPEECH 2019 GRAZ – AUSTRIA SEPTEMBER 15th – 19th 2019 WWW.INTERSPEECH2019.ORG CROSSROADS OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FOR TUTORIALS, SPECIAL SESSIONS/CHALLENGES, AND SHOW & TELL INTERSPEECH is the world‘s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, INTERSPEECH 2019 will feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sesssions and challenges, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. A number of satellite events will also take place around INTERSPEECH 2019.
Original papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas: 1. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition 2. Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody 3. Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
4. Speaker and Language Identification
5. Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals
6. Speech Coding and Enhancement
7. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation
8. Speech Recognition – Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, an Adaptation
9. Speech Recognition – Architecture, Search, and Linguistic Components
10. Speech Recognition – Technologies and Systems for New Applications 11. Dialog Systems and Analysis of Conversation 12.Spoken Language Processing – Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization,
Resources, and Evaluation
A complete list of the scientific areas and topics including special sessions is available at » www.interspeech2019.org
PAPER SUBMISSION Papers intended for INTERSPEECH 2019 should be up to four pages of text. An optional fifth page could be used for references only. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the author’s kit on the conference webpage. Please be aware that INTERSPEECH 2019 will use new templates and submissions will be accepted only in the new format. Submissions may also be accompanied by additional files such as multimedia files, to be included on the proceedings’ USB drive. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and have not been submitted elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and to your participation in INTERSPEECH 2019.
IMPORTANT DATES
» November 30, 2018 Special session/challenges proposals due
» February 1, 2019 Tutorial proposals due
» February 15, 2019 Submission portal opens
» February 28, 2019 Satellite workshops/events proposals due
» March 29, 2019 Paper submission deadline
» April 5, 2019 Final paper submission deadline
» April 26, 2019 Show & Tell proposals due
» June 17, 2019 Acceptance/rejection notification
» June 24, 2019 Registration opens
» July 1, 2019 Camera-ready paper due
General Chairs:
Gernot Kubin, TU Graz, Austria
Zdravko Kacˇicˇ, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Technical Chairs:
Thomas Hain, U Sheffield, UK
Björn Schuller, U Augsburg/Imperial College, Germany/UK
Organising Committee Members:
Michiel Bacchiani, Google NY, USA
Gerhard Backfried, Sail Labs Vienna, Austria
Jamilla Balint, TU Graz, Austria
Eugen Brenner, TU Graz, Austria
Mariapaola D‘Imperio, Aix Marseille U, France
Dina ElZarka, U Graz, Austria
Tim Fingscheidt, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Anouschka Foltz, U Graz, Austria
Anna Fuchs, AVL Graz, Austria
Panayiotis Georgiou, USC Los Angeles, USA
Franz Graf, Joanneum Research Graz, Austria
Markus Gugatschka, MU Graz, Austria
Martin Hagmüller, TU Graz, Austria
Petra Hödl, U Graz, Austria
Robert Höldrich, KU Graz, Austria
Mario Huemer, JKU Linz, Austria
Dorothea Kolossa, RU Bochum, Germany
Christina Leitner, Joanneum Research Graz, Austria
Stefanie Lindstaedt, KNOW Centre Graz, Austria
Helen Meng, CU Hong Kong, China
Ineke Mennen, U Graz, Austria
Florian Metze, CMU Pittsburgh, USA
Pejman Mowlaee, Widex/TU Graz, Denmark/Austria
Franz Pernkopf, TU Graz, Austria
Lukas Pfeifenberger, Ognios Salzburg, Austria
Christopf Prinz, Sail Labs Vienna, Austria
Michael Pucher, ÖAW Vienna, Austria
Philipp Salletmayr, Nuance Vienna, Austria
Barbara Schuppler, TU Graz, Austria
Dagmar Schuller, audEERING, Germany
Wolfgang Wokurek, U Stuttgart, Germany
Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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3-1-3 | (2019-09-15) INTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Satellite WorkshopsINTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Satellite WorkshopsThe Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2019 is now inviting proposals for satellite workshops, to be held in proximity to the main conference. Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to the ISCA workshop portal (https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaproposals/workshop.php) since every satellite workshop needs ISCA endorsement! The Organizing Committee will work to facilitate the organization of such satellite workshops, to stimulate discussion in research areas related to speech and language, at locations in Europe, and around the same time as INTERSPEECH 2019. We are particularly looking forward to proposals from neighboring countries. If you are interested in organizing a satellite workshop, or would like a planned event to be listed as an official satellite event, please contact the Satellite Workshop Chairs at workshops@interspeech2019.org. See http://interspeech2019.org/calls/satellite_events for further details. As possible sites for your satellite events may we propose the following cities within easy reach from the conference location (either by train, bus, or rental car):
Important Dates
If you have any questions about whether a potential event would be a good candidate for an INTERSPEECH 2019 satellite workshop feel free to contact the Satellite Workshop Chairs at workshops@interspeech2019.org. Sincerely Jessica Siddins (U Graz) Satellite Workshop Chairs for INTERSPEECH 2019
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3-1-4 | (2019-09-15) INTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Special Sessions & ChallengesINTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Special Sessions & ChallengesImportant DatesProposal submission deadline: Friday, November 30, 2018 Special Sessions & ChallengesSubmissions of Special Sessions & Challenges proposals are encouraged for INTERSPEECH 2019, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference, Crossroads of Speech and Language(http://www.interspeech2019.org/about/conference_theme), are particularly welcome. Apart from supporting a particular theme, special sessions may also have a format that is different from a regular session. Each special session proposal must contain the following information.
Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee for relevance and significance. Papers for approved Special Sessions have to be submitted following the same schedule and procedure as regular papers; the papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special session organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions. Special session proposers are invited to submit a proposal via email to the Special Session Chairs Tim Fingscheidt (TU Braunschweig), Mariapaola d’Imperio (Aix-Marseille U), and Franz Pernkopf (TU Graz) at special_sessions@interspeech2019.org no later than Friday, November 30, 2018. Please do not hesitate to ask before submitting your proposal if something is not fully clear to you. Notification of pre-selection is scheduled for Tuesday, January 1, 2019. Final acceptance will take place shortly after paper decisions are completed, depending on the number of accepted papers submitted to each special session.
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3-1-5 | (2019-09-15) NEW! INTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Survey Presentations NEW! INTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Survey Presentations NEW! Important Dates Proposal submission deadline: Friday May 3, 2019 Survey Presentations Interspeech is the annual flagship conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), which brings together a truly interdisciplinary group of experts from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest research, technology advances and scientific discoveries in a five-day event. As such Interspeech constantly innovates and adapts. Beyond plenary talks, oral and poster presentations recent years have seen new ideas on how to engage with experts and industry. The 20th edition of Interspeech conferences, to take place in Graz, Austria, will introduce a range of new presentation formats. Given the complexity of speech communication science and technology the need for detailed technical review of sub-areas of research has become more critical than ever. We invite proposals for innovative and engaging Research Survey Presentations. The talks are aimed to be scheduled at the start of suitable oral presentation sessions, and will be allocated a 40-minute time slot for presentation and discussion. Presentations should aim to give an overview of the state of the art for a specific topic covered by one or more of the main technical areas of Interspeech 2019, namely
Proposals for Survey Presentations are required to include
Proposals will be evaluated by the technical programme and organising committees for relevance and significance, taking balance across areas and the available presentation slots into account (maximum 10 presentations). The presenters of the Interspeech 2019 survey talks will be invited to submit survey papers to the ISCA supported journals of Computer, Speech and Language and Speech Communication with the aim to be included in a Special Issue on the State of the Art in Speech Science and Technology. Survey presentation proposers are invited to submit a proposal via email to the Technical Program Chairs: tpc-chairs@interspeech2019.org no later than Friday May 3, 2019. Please do not hesitate to contact the technical chairs for any questions that may arise prior to proposal submission. Notification of selection is scheduled for June 17, 2019. Thomas Hain and Björn Schuller INTERSPEECH 2019 Technical Program Chairs
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3-1-6 | (2020-09-14) Interspeech 2020 Shanghai, China
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3-1-7 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czech Republic INTERSPEECH 2021
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3-2-1 | (2019-09-11) CfSS SIGDIAL 2019, Stockholm, Sweden SIGDIAL 2019 11?13 September 2019, Stockholm, Sweden
Call for Special Sessions http://workshops.sigdial.org/conference20
Special Session Submission Deadline: January 28, 2019 Special Session Notification: February 18, 2019
The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session. Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions.
The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by the special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself, taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.
We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End?to?end systems.
Submissions: Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session).
These proposals should be sent to conference[at]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co?chairs.
Links: Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings. http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference19/sessions.htm http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/
SIGDIAL 2019 Organizing Committee
General Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Program Chairs: Milica Ga?i?, Cambridge University, UK Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia
Local Chair: Gabriel Skantze, KTH, Sweden
Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
Mentoring Chair: Alex Papangelis, Uber AI, USA
Publication Chair: Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany
Publicity Chair: Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
SIGdial President: Jason Williams, Apple, USA
SIGdial Vice President: Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA
SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
SIGdial President Emeritus: Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA
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3-3-1 | (2018-10-15) 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Mons, Belgique 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
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3-3-2 | (2018-10-16) 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (MVAR 2018), Munich, Germany *Note: paper submission deadline extended till 18 July*
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3-3-3 | (2018-10-16) 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, USA 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2018)
October 16th, 2018 in Boulder, USA. In conjunction with ICMI2018.
http://MA3HMI.cogsy.de
Scope: One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction may be how we interact with other humans. Although technology is still far from human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical solutions. They are often represented as artificial agents to facilitate smooth inter-actions. While the analysis of human-human communication has resulted in many insights. Transferring these to human-machine interactions remains challenging especially if multiple possible interlocutors are present in a certain area. This situation requires that multimodal inputs from the main speaker (e.g., speech, gaze, facial expressions) as well as possible co-speaker are recorded and interpreted. This interpretation has to occur at both the semantic and affective levels, including aspects such as the personality, mood, or intentions of the user, anticipating the counterpart. These processes have to be performed in real-time in order for the system to respond without delays, in a natural environment. The MA3HMI workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the analysis of multimodal data as a means to develop technical devices that can interact with humans. In particular, artificial agents can be regarded in their broadest sense, including virtual chat agents, empathic speech interfaces and life-style coaches on a smart-phone. More general, multimodal analyses support any technical system being located in the research area of human-machine interaction. For the 2018 edition, we focus on the environment and situation an interaction is situated in extending the investigations on real-time aspects of human-machine interaction. We address the synergy of situation, context, and interaction history in the development and evaluation of multimodal, real-time systems. We solicit papers that concern the different perspectives of such human-machine interaction. Tools and systems that address real-time conversations with artificial agents and technical systems are also within the scope of the workshop.
Topics (but not limited to): a) Multimodal Environment Analyses - Multimodal understanding of situation and environment of natural interactions - Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions - Novel strategies of human-machine interaction in terms of situation and environment b) Multimodal User Analyses - Multimodal understanding of user behavior and affective state - Dialogue management using multimodal output - Multimodal understanding of multiple users behavior and affective - Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions - Novel strategies of human-machine interactions c) Applications, Tools, and Systems - Novel application domains and embodied interaction - Prototype development and uptake of technology - User studies with (partial) functional systems - Tools for the recording, annotation and analysis of conversations
Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 30th, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: September 10th, 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: September 15th, 2018 Workshop Date: October 16th, 2018
Submissions: Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) and short papers (5 pages) in ACM format as specified by ICMI 2018. Accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All submissions should be anonymous.
Organisers: Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany Francesca Bonin, IBM Research, Ireland Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ronald Poppe, Utrecht University, Netherland
-- Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. Ronald Böck FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems Building 03, Room 322 Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Phone: +49 391 67 50061 E-mail: ronald.boeck@ieee.org ronald.boeck@ovgu.de Web: http://www.kognitivesysteme.de
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3-3-4 | (2018-10-16) Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era, Boulder, CO, USA Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era
Boulder, Colorado, October 16th, 2018 WORKSHOP TOPICS AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS
We invite the submission of papers (max 8 pages), short papers and demos (max 4 pages). According to the ICMI 2018 guidelines, the reviewing will be double blind, so submissions should be anonymous: do not include the authors' names, affiliations or any clearly identifiable information in the paper. It is appropriate to cite past work of the authors if these citations are treated like any other (e.g., 'Smith [5] approached this problem by....') - omit references only if it would be obviously identifying the authors. Submitted papers should conform to the ACM publication format. For templates and examples, please click on this link. Please use the latest ACM_SigConf format for both short and long paper submissions.
The papers should be submitted to PrecisionConference. The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors will need to create a new account to log into the new Precision Conference system for submissions, even if they already have an account though the old Precision Conference system. Paper submission deadline: July 31st, 2018 Notification to authors: August 31st, 2018 Workshop date: October 16th, 2018 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Theodora Chaspari, Texas A&M University (chaspari@tamu.edu) Angeliki Metallinou, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning (ametalli@amazon.com) Leah Stein Duker, University of Southern California (lstein@chan.usc.edu) Amir Behzadan, Texas A&M University (abehzadan@tamu.edu) For additional information visit http://h3-icmi2018.cse.tamu.edu or write to chaspari@tamu.edu.
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3-3-5 | (2018-10-16) ICMI-Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions EXTENDED DEADLINE International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018
Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions EXTENDED June 25th, Decisions July 20th, Camera Ready July 31st. Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfdc **********
The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. The Consortium will be held on October 16, 2018. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).
Who should apply? While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
Submission Guidelines Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
1) Extended Abstract: A four-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SigConf format. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions will not be anonymous. In particular, it should cover: - The key research questions and motivation of your research, - Background and related work that informs your research, - A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem, - Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies, - The research approach and methodology, - Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work, - A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work.
2) Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support. Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.
3) CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
Review Process The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Financial Support We hope to provide most student attendees with partial financial support to cover the costs of attending the Doctoral Consortium and the conference. However, the details on the number of students to be funded and funding coverage is currently unknown, as we are currently working on raising funds. More detail on travel support will be announced on the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website.
Attendance All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
Process - Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2). - Submission system: To be updated. - Selection process: Peer-Reviewed - Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session - Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library - Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Roland Goecke (U Canberra) and Yelin Kim (SUNY Albany)
Dates Submission deadline: EXTENDED to June 25th 2018 Notifications: July 20th 2018 Camera-ready deadline: July 31st 2018 Doctoral Consortium Date: October 16th 2018
Questions? For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfdc) For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs: - Roland Goecke (U Canberra) Roland.Goecke@canberra.edu.au - Yelin Kim (SUNY Albany) yelinkim@albany.edu --
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3-3-6 | (2018-10-16) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) , Boulder, CO, USA International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018 Second Call for Late Breaking Results Due August 1st, 2018, Notifications August 31st, Camera-ready Sept 7th. Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cflbr **********
Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits
EXTENDED DATES: Due August 3rd, 2018, Notifications August 8th, Camera-ready August 12th.
Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfd
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We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018), located in Boulder, Colorado. October 16-20th, 2018.
Demonstrations and Exhibits
The ICMI 2018 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. They can also serve to introduce commercial products.
Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a two page paper, which will be included in ICMI proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than one page; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers are invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.
The theme of the ICMI 2018 conference is Multi-modal Understanding of Multi-party Interactions. Demonstrations in this area will benefit from more exposure to visitors, and will allow visitors to interact with the material.
Demonstration Submission
A description of the demonstration must be submitted electronically through the main ICMI conference management system:
https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/
Demo description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than two pages in length including references - template available at:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Demo proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration and, if possible, the URL of a website where a live version or video of the proposed demo is available. Please note that the accepted demonstration descriptions will be included in ICMI proceedings.
The selection process is juried by committee, according to criteria such as: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals (paper submission), along with preparing the short papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.
The curated demo program will be selected from the submitted proposals as well as invited demos from among regular conference papers accepted for presentation at the conference which the committee deems suitable for demonstration.
The demo and exhibit paper submissions should not be anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).
Exhibit Submission
Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demo proposals. The main difference is that exhibits proposals should be shorter in length (up to one page) and more suitable for very mature systems (commercial or almost commercial). Exhibits won't have a paper published in the ICMI 2018 proceedings.
Important Dates - EXTENDED FINAL DEADLINE
Submission of demo and exhibit proposals: August 3rd, 2018 (23:59PM, PST)
Demo and exhibit notification of acceptance: August 8th, 2018
Submission of demo final papers: August 12th, 2018 (23:59PM, PST)
Attendance
At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s).
Questions?
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Demonstrations and Exhibits, visit the main conference website https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfd. For further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs (wolfgang.minker@uni-ulm.de and abhinav@iitrpr.ac.in)
- Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University)
- Abhinav Dhall (IIT Ropar) New this year! The ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is soliciting submissions for a new venue this year: Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of the LBR venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues. HIGHLIGHTS: - Submission deadline: August 1st, 2018 - Notifications: August 31st, 2018 - Camera-ready deadline: September 7th, 2018 - Conference Dates: October 16-20th, 2018 - Submission format: Anonymized, four pages not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates) - Selection process: Peer-Reviewed - Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session - Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library - LBR Co-chairs: Cosmin Munteanu (University of Toronto Mississauga) and Lisa Anthony (University of Florida) WHAT IS LATE-BREAKING WORK? Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track. WHY SUBMIT TO THE LATE-BREAKING WORK TRACK AT ICMI? Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field. Late-Breaking Work papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are ?significant? revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Extended Abstract: An anonymized, four-page paper, not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates). The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the 'Late-Breaking Work' track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted. Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person. REVIEW PROCESS LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it ?fits? the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. ATTENDANCE At least one author of all accepted LBR submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference poster session. QUESTIONS? For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/ For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (cosmin@taglab.ca and lanthony@cise.ufl.edu) - Cosmin Munteanu, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada - Lisa Anthony, University of Florida, USA
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3-3-7 | (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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3-3-8 | (2018-10-22) 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop -AVEC 2018, Seoul Korea 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop ? AVEC 2018
Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2018 conference, 22-26 October, Seoul, Korea
We are calling for participation in the 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2018), an ACM MM Challenge Workshop themed around two topics: for the first time in a challenge bipolar disorder and emotion recognition. Bipolar disorder (BD) is a serious mental health disorder, with patients experiencing either manic or depressive episodes. Those with BD tend to live with this long-term. The purpose of the Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC) series is to bring together multiple communities from different disciplines, in particular the audio-visual multimedia communities and those in the psychological and social sciences who study expressive behaviour and emotion. The AVEC 2018 challenge theme is on Bipolar disorder and Cross-cultural emotion, and it is the eighth competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual, and audiovisual health and emotion analysis, with all participants competing under strictly the same conditions. It introduces major novelties this year with three separated sub-challenges:
In order to participate in the Challenge, please register your team by following the challenge guidelines.
We encourage both - contributions aiming at highest performance w.r.t. the baselines provided by the organisers, and contributions aiming at finding new and interesting insights w.r.t. these challenges. Besides participation in the challenge, we are also encouraging submissions of original contributions on the following topics (not limited to):
Important Dates
Organisers
Fabien Ringeval, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, France
Björn Schuller, Imperial College London/University of Augsburg, UK/Germany
Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham, UK
Roddy Cowie, Queen?s University Belfast, UK
Maja Pantic, Imperial College London/University of Twente, UK/The Netherlands
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3-3-9 | (2018-10-28) CfP XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies, Mahé, Seychelles CALL FOR PAPERS
XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies
'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages and Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'
28 October 2018 - 3 November 2018, Mahé, Seychelles
The International Committee for Creole Studies (Comité International des Etudes Créoles (CIEC)) has organized International Conferences on Creole Studies for the past fifty years, at regular intervals. In 2018, the XVIth International Conference of Creole Studies will be held in Seychelles; the organization has been entrusted to the University of Seychelles in liaison with the CIEC.
The international community (UNESCO, UNDP etc.) and the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) support the educational linguistic policy and the possible institutionalization of Creole languages in the dozen of Creole-speaking countries (France and its Departments, Haiti, Dominica, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, San Tome and Principe) that are members of OIF. Creole studies are called upon to contribute decisively to these programs and endeavours. The importance of Creole studies stems primarily from its contributions to the linguistic, cultural and social development of Creole -speaking societies. Beyond, the study of the genesis and development of Creole social, linguistic and cultural systems constitutes a remarkable field of study for human and social sciences, because 'Creole' societies have been formed recently (three to four centuries of existence as a rule) and because of how they are composed and evolve.
The XVIth International Symposium on Creole Studies will focus on: 'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages, Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'. This theme invites philosophers, historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, linguists and other researchers in human and social sciences to present their work on contemporary Creole societies in their historical, linguistic, social, political, economic and cultural evolution.
The focus of the colloquium will be on the following four major themes: A. Creole languages and education B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
Presentation of the themes of the Conference
A. Creole languages and education
Faced with the challenges of education for all, in basic and middle schools, sovereign countries that use a French Creole language have introduced some measure of Creole language teaching in their schools. Some states, such as Seychelles or Haiti, have acquired a vast experience in the domain that should be examined. Mauritius has recently also embarked on this venture which calls for evaluation. The Creole-speaking Outremer Departments, whose creoles are recognized regional languages of France and which benefit from the texts regulating the teaching of regional languages in France, have also many educational practices to share. B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development
Anthropology and the history of Creole worlds are called upon to account for how the creole-speaking social formations, resulting from European colonial expansion, are facing the challenges of development and globalization. The role of Creole languages in the development of economy (tourism, reception of migrants, etc.) has to be assessed. Literary production in the Creole speaking islands of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean has developed greatly in recent years in French and English as well as in Creole languages. The study of this renewal of literature and cultural practices also forms part of theme B. The migratory movements of creole speakers (see also topic C) will also be discussed. What are the paths of the institutionalization of the Creole languages in their respective areas of influence (see the question of Creole language academies)? Creole militant practices may also be mentioned.
C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages.
Recent globalization have caused many displacements of Creole-speaking populations towards more developed economic zones. New Creole-speaking communities have thus been created outside the territories of birth, such as Haitian communities in North America, populations from the Creole speaking Departments in metropolitan France, Mauritians in Australia and Seychellois in the United Kingdom. Creole speaking newcomers are found in prosperous creole-speaking areas, for instance, Haitians in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean.Immigration to Creole-speaking areas also leads to the emergence of neo-learners of Creole languages. Globalization has led to an unprecedented diffusion of Creole languages, including via language and culture industries. These new sociolinguistic situations of diffusion have hardly been described to date. Similarly, little is known about the impact of these migratory movements on the dynamics of Creole languages. To these themes may be added the study of the genesis and evolution of Creole languages.
D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
The description of Creole language systems (phonology, grammar) remains necessary. The analysis of the variation of Creole languages and of their linguistic systems is still unsatisfactory. This theme should bring together contributions that attempt to analyze and explain phonological, morphological and grammatical systems in a typological perspective. This theme may also include work on grammar for teaching. Indeed, in Haiti, the Seychelles and Mauritius, as in the French DROMs, questions arise concerning 'grammar models' and the use of linguistic analyses for teacher training and for teaching of Creole languages as first languages.
Questions
Topics that could be addressed, either in the form of individual papers or as workshops (please contact the organizers), include the following:
- 'Creole' diasporas and their linguistic practices - Creole varieties developed outside the territories of birth - The linguistic varieties of neo-learners of Creole languages - The co - presence of Creole and French - The development of literacy programs in Creole - Bilingual education programs integrating the Creole language - Literatures of Creole-speaking countries - The state of research on Creole language corpora - Creole development at school - Morphology, Syntax etc. of creole languages - The diachronic studies of Creole languages - Relations between Creole languages and languages of the slave population (African languages, Malagasy, etc.) - Creole history, landscape and society - Creolization and the development of Creole societies - Philosophy and history of ideas in Creole societies.
Enoch Aboh, Christian Barat, Arnaud Carpooran, Penda Choppy, Guillaume Fon Sing, Renaud Govain, Marie-reine Hoareau, Thom Klingler, Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig, Carpanin Marimoutou, Salikoko Mufwene, Joelle Perreau, Laurence Pourchez, Lambert-Félix Prudent, Gillette Staudacher-Valliamee, Albert Valdman, Justin Valentin, Daniel Véronique
The papers and proposals for workshops may be included in one of the themes of the Conference and / or in a cross-cutting theme. Proposals for papers or workshops (groupings of 3/4 papers) written in French, English or any French Creole language, with the address and institutional affiliation of the communicant (s) must reach the following e-mail address: Ciec.Sez2018@gmail.combefore 15 January 2018. The abstracts will describe the theme of the paper, the database, the results expected and will not exceed 3,000 characters or 500 words (including bibliography). Submit 2 copies of the proposal, one anonymous (which will be used for the review), the other with the author's name, address and institutional affiliation.
After evaluation, acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be notified as from the 9 April 2018.
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3-3-10 | (2018-11-05)11 th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Tilburg, The Netherlands 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 5-8 November, 2018
Website: https://inlg2018.uvt.nl Contact: inlg2018@uvt.nl
The 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018) will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018. The conference takes place immediately after EMNLP 2018, organised in nearby Brussels, Belgium.
INLG 2018 is organised by the Tilburg University Language Production (TULP) research group, part of the Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) The event is organised under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters.
Important dates
- Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2018 - Notification: September 7, 2018 - Camera ready: October 1, 2018 - INLG 2018: November 5-8, 2018
All deadlines are at 11.59 PM, UTC-8.
Topics
INLG 2018 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. The conference will include two special tracks:
(1) Generating Text with Affect, Style and Personality (sponsored by The Netherlands Organization for Scienfitic Research, NWO), and (2) Conversational Interfaces, Chatbots and NLG (organised in collaboration with flow.ai).
General topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Affect/emotion generation - Applications for people with disabilities - Cognitive modelling of language production - Content and text planning - Corpora for NLG - Deep learning models for NLG - Evaluation of NLG systems - Grounded language generation - Lexicalisation - Multimedia and multimodality in generation - Storytelling and narrative generation - NLG and accessibility - NLG in dialogue - NLG for embodied agents and robots - NLG for real-world applications - Paraphrasing and Summarisation - Personalisation and variation in text - Referring expression generation - Resources for NLG - Surface realisation - Systems architecture
A separate call for workshops and generation challenges will be released soon.
Submissions & Format
Submissions should follow the new ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. ACL 2018 offers both LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates Papers should be submitted electronically through the START conference management system (to be opened in due course).
Three kinds of papers can be submitted:
- Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for references.
- Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, with up to one extra page for references.
- Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems which are of relevance to the NLG community. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2018.
All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2018 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2018 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the 'Acknowledgements' section of the paper when submitted. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice.
Program chairs
- Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Martijn Goudbeek, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Albert Gatt, Malta University, Malta
Workshop & Challenges chairs
- Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University, Germany - Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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3-3-11 | (2018-11-08) CfP Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, Aix-en-Provence,France Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018
Call for Papers
We invite submissions for the Workshop Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, to be held at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018.
The Workshop is co-located with the 22nd SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 8-10 November 2018.
Aim Signaling the information structure of utterances has been shown to be one of the main dimensions of prosodic meaning in many languages, and remains a driving force behind the research on the typological variety of prosodic systems. Other aspects of prosodic meaning that have been investigated are the role of prosody in the generation of implicatures, in speech-act dynamics, in dialogue management, or in the marking of various kinds of questions, owing much to collaborations between phonologists and semanticists/pragmaticists. Other recent advances in the field are supported by the development of corpus resources and of new experimental methods for the investigation of the empirical validity of specific theoretical claims. This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and psycholinguists working on the prosody/meaning interface in different languages as well as computational linguists developing tools for prosody-meaning corpus annotation, exploration and processing.
Invited Speakers Michael Wagner, McGill University Pilar Prieto, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Topics Topics include, but are not limited to: - prosodic reflexes of information structure in different languages and their relationship with other grammatical reflexes of information structure (morphological or syntactical), - the relationship between information structure, ellipsis or clause fragments and prosody, - the interplay between information structure and other aspects of prosodic meaning such as speech acts, attitude signaling, or turn-taking management, - more generally, the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse and dialogue.
Submissions We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous, in English, and should not exceed one page (2.5 cm margins, 12pt font size), with an extra page for examples, figures and references.
Important dates Abstract deadline: 27 May 2018 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2018 Workshop: 8 November 2018
Organisers Cristel Portes, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU), Arndt Riester and Uwe Reyle, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart.
Scientific committee Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne),
More information are available on the Workshop webpage: https://semdial.hypotheses.org/prosody Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: cristel.portes@lpl-aix.fr
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3-3-12 | (2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan (2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan
International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing. Since 1998, it has been successfully held in Singapore (1998), Beijing (2000), Taipei (2002), Hong Kong, (2004), Singapore (2006), Kuming (2008), Tainan (2010), Hong Kong (2012), Singapore (2014), and Tianjin (2016). ISCSLP is the flagship conference of SIG-CSLP, ISCA. The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018) will be held on November 26-29, 2018 in Taipei. While ISCSLP is focused primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English. Important dates Feb 22, 2018 Submission of special session proposals Apr 30, 2018 Submission of tutorial proposals Jun 11, 2018 Submission of regular and special session papers Aug 01, 2018 Submission of demo proposals
ISCSLP2018 conference website: http://iscslp2018.org/
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3-3-13 | (2018-11-29) CfP Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang),Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (updated) Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang)
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3-3-14 | (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 Website:http://alborz-geramifard.com/workshops/nips18-Conversational-AI
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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3-3-15 | (2018-12-18) Spoken Language Technologies Workshop, Athens, Greece
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3-3-16 | (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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3-3-17 | (2019-01-07) 5th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA, Cambridge, UK 5th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
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3-3-18 | (2019-03-06) 30th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV) 2019, Dresden, Germany CALL FOR PAPERS:
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3-3-19 | (2019-03-25) 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, St Petersburg, Russia 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
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3-3-20 | (2019-03-28) The Second (2019) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'19); San José, CA, USA The Second (2019) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'19)
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3-3-21 | (2019-04-24) CfP IWSDS 2019: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS https://easychair.org/cfp/IWSDS2019 http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=80840©ownerid=128361
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3-3-22 | (2019-04-24) European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2019), Bruges, Belgium ESANN 2019: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges, Belgium, 24-25-26 April 2019
Call for papers
The call for papers is available at http://www.esann.org/. The deadline for submitting papers is November 19, 2018.
The ESANN conferences cover machine learning, artificial neural networks, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered. In addition to regular sessions, 7 special sessions will be organized on the following topics: - Streaming data analysis, concept drift and analysis of dynamic data sets - Embeddings and Representation Learning for Structured Data - Parallel and Distributed Machine Learning: Theory and Applications - Societal Issues in Machine Learning: When Learning from Data is Not Enough - Reliable Machine Learning - Statistical physics of learning and inference - 60 Years of Weightless Neural Systems
ESANN 2019 builds upon a successful series of conferences organized each year since 1993. ESANN has become a major scientific event in the machine learning, computational intelligence and artificial neural networks fields over the years.
The conference will be organized in Bruges, one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Designated as the 'Venice of the North', the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its center, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum.
We hope to receive your submission to ESANN 2019 and to see you in Bruges next year!
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* For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations: Michel Verleysen Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group
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3-3-23 | (2019-04-24)CfW and SS, IWSDS 2019: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, Siracusa, Sicily, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS IWSDS 2019: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology Place: Siracusa, Sicily, Italy Main Conference Dates: April 24-26, 2019 Conference website: https://iwsds2019.unikore.it/
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The INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2019 invites proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions in any topic related to the main conference theme: 'Increasing naturalness and flexibility in spoken dialogue interaction'
Authors are requested to submit PDF files (maximum three pages) of their proposal to the following email:
The proposal must indicate:
1. Whether the proposal is for a workshop or for a special session:
- Workshops are half day events collocated either before or after the IWSDS 2019 main program. Registration to workshops is not included with IWSDS registration. Participants only interested in attending the workshops do not need to register for IWSDS.
- Special sessions are 90-minute sessions that are part of the IWSDS main program. Registration to special sessions is included with IWSDS registration.
2. Workshop / Special Session title
3. Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the organizers
4. Tentative program committee members (only for workshop proposals)
5. A description of the workshop / Special Session including:
- Objectives
- Topics of interest
- Justification
- Expected number submissions
- Tentative program
6. Special audio-visual, Internet, computer or equipment requirements
7. Whether the workshop / special session have been run before:
- Where and when
- Number of participants
8. Any additional information that might be relevant for the proposal evaluation
Proposal submission deadline: October 25, 2018
Proposal submission notification: October 30, 2018
Important notice:
1. Based on the volume of submissions and other logistic constrains, accepted workshops can be converted into special sessions or vice versa.
2. IWSDS 2019 organization will not provide any kind of financial support to workshop and special session organizers. IWSDS 2019 organization will only cover expenses related to venue, audio-visual equipment and coffee breaks for workshops and special sessions.
General Chairs Sabato Marco Siniscalchi Haizhou Li (Curtesy Assistant)
Technical Program Chairs Sandro Cumani Valerio Mario Salerno
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3-3-24 | (2019-05-12) 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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3-3-25 | (2019-05-12) Call for Special Sessions at ICASSP 2019
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3-3-26 | (2019-05-14) 8èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, Mons, Belgique Les 8èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique auront lieu à l¹Université de
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3-3-27 | (2019-08-04) International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia![]() Don't miss your opportunity to be a part of ICPhS 2019!
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Presentation
http://lig-getalp.imag.fr/icphs-2019-special-session/
The special session Computational Approaches for Documenting and Analyzing Oral Languages welcomes submissions presenting innovative speech data collection methods and/or assistance for linguists and communities of speakers: methods and tools that facilitate collection, transcription and translation of primary language data. Oral languages is understood here as referring to spoken vernacular languages which depend on oral transmission, including endangered languages and (typically low-prestige) regional varieties of major languages.
The special session intends to provide up-to-date information to an audience of phoneticians about developments in machine learning that make it increasingly feasible to automate segmentation, alignment or labelling of audio recordings, even in less-documented languages. A methodological goal is to help establish the field of Computational Language Documentation and contribute to its close association with the phonetic sciences. Computational Language Documentation needs to build on the insights gained through phonetic research; conversely, research in phonetics stands to gain much from the availability of abundant and reliable data on a wider range of languages.
Laurent Besacier ? LIG UGA (France)
Alexis Michaud ? LACITO CNRS (France)
Martine Adda-Decker ? LPP CNRS (France)
Gilles Adda ? LIMSI CNRS (France)
Steven Bird ? CDU (Australia)
Graham Neubig ? CMU (USA)
François Pellegrino ? DDL CNRS (France)
Sakriani Sakti ? NAIST (Japan)
Mark Van de Velde ? LLACAN CNRS (France)
This special session is endorsed by SIGUL (Joint ELRA and ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages)
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Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (DSTC7)
Call for Participation: Data distribution has been started
Website: http://workshop.colips.org/dstc7/index.html
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Background
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The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog
research community since 2013.
From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System
Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.
For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and
selected the following three parallel tracks by peer-reviews:
- Sentence Selection Track
- Sentence Generation Track
- Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track
Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate,
non-profit, government).
Important Dates
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- Jun 1, 2018: Training data is released
- Sep 10, 2018: Test data is released
- Sep 24, 2018: Entry submission deadline
- Oct or Nov 2018: Paper submission deadline
- Spring 2019: DSTC7 special session or workshop (venue: TBD)
DSTC7 Organizing Committee
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- Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Julien Perez - Naver Labs Europe, France
- Luis Fernando D'Haro - Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
DSTC7 Track Organizers
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Sentence Selection Track:
- Lazaros Polymenakos - IBM Research, USA
- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research, USA
- Walter S. Lasecki - University of Michigan, USA
- Jonathan Kummerfeld - University of Michigan, USA
Sentence Generation Track:
- Michel Galley - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Chris Brockett - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Jianfeng Gao - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Bill Dolan - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track:
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Tim K. Marks - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Devi Parikh - Georgia Tech, USA
- Dhruv Batra - Georgia Tech, USA
DSTC Steering Committee
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- Jason Williams - Microsoft Research (MSR), USA
- Rafael E. Banchs - Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
- Seokhwan Kim - Adobe Research, USA
- Matthew Henderson - PolyAI, Singapore
- Verena Rieser - Heriot-Watt University, UK
Contact Information
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Join the DSTC mailing list to get the latest updates about DSTC7:
- To join the mailing list: send an email to
listserv@lists.research.microsoft.com and put 'subscribe DSTC' in the
body of the message (without the quotes).
- To post a message: send your message to dstc@lists.research.microsoft.com.
For specific enquiries about DSTC7:
- Please feel free to contact any of the Organizing Committee members
directly.
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