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ISCApad #245

Saturday, November 10, 2018 by Chris Wellekens

3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(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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3-3-2(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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3-3-3(2018-11-29) Workshop by 'Language Intelligence @ Work' ,on Fake News and AI Challenges, Vienna, Austria

Fake News and Other AI Challenges for the
News M
edia in the 21st Century.

Workshop by 'Language Intelligence @ Work' Nov 29-30, 2018.

Location: weXelerate, Praterstrasse 1, 1020, Vienna, Austria

Website:  https://www.liatwork.com/

The News Media are confronted with major challenges and opportunities arising from game-changing technological developments that took place over the last decade.

This event will showcase how AI-powered technologies can help news organisations safeguard the truthfulness and trustworthiness of their sources, stay in control of the news gathering and delivery process and empower their newsrooms, their journalists and, ultimately, their readership.

LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE AND THE FAKE NEWS CHALLENGE

The news production and security industries are undergoing a growing threat from fake news across every media, as are all organisations where accurate, time-bound news on persons, entities and events in specific locations are critical to their business and security.

This threat is two-fold. It is partly due to the ubiquity of digital news sites and an avid readership whose built-in biases are being fed by advertising that can in turn fund the fake news producers. And partly to the existence of digital tools that make it easier to produce such fake content automatically on a massive scale over the internet and especially social media.

The majority of content concerned by the fake news syndrome is textual in nature, whether addressed to readers or listeners. Fake images associated with information sources also play a large role in purveying false information. But text is massively variegated in form (due to the range of words and linguistic structures that can be used), and also comes in different channels (speech/text) and languages. This adds further complexity to the task of fake news identification.


TYPES OF FAKE NEWS

  • The misuse of text, images and videos to illustrate facts they have nothing to do with;
  • The creation and use of false accounts to slander someone?s reputation;
  • The creation and feeding of false websites that visually resemble real sites;
  • The creation and spreading of false documents (false evidence) ;
  • The use of bots to boost the viral nature of messages.
LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE IN FAKE NEWS DETECTION

Is there a reliable automatable decision procedure for identifying the truth or falsity of news items, and can it be integrated into a standard technology stack?

The following automated Language Intelligence (LI) processes are central to the identification of fake news:

  • Text & Voice Search, e.g. Searching online for news and facts about news entities; Searching other journalists? stories and sources to understand news stories; Searching voice streams for all of the above (voice search); Identifying entities & actions in large text corpora; Fact-checking.
  • Sentiment Analysis: Evaluating sentiment in social media streams around news topics; evaluating spoken content reliability from voice quality & psychographics.
  • Voice Transcription: Transcribing spoken stories from recordings, podcasts or radio into written form for fake news evaluation.
  • Captioning: When publishing spoken news stories online, either to be audience-inclusive or for foreign language understanding.
  • Translation: Translating content from a foreign language to be used in a news story (gisting) or Translating news content to evaluate reliability of the material.
  • Text Generation: Create readable texts automatically on the basis of a numerical data source such as financial data, sports results, etc.; creating texts that describe contents of videos or images.

The aim of this workshop is to present various use cases that address the fake news problem using Language Intelligence, and open up broader discussion into how LI can extend its applicability within the news and intelligence industries in their effort to track down fake information. If you want to rgister for the workshop, please go to https://www.liatwork.com/register.

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3-3-4(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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3-3-5(2018-12-11) Journée d'étude: Méthodes pour la recherche autour de la communication multimodale 'artéfactée', Aix-en-Provence, France

Journée d'étude

Méthodes pour la recherche autour de la communication multimodale 'artéfactée'

 

Mardi 11 décembre 2018

Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence

 

https://christellecombe.wixsite.com/comuart

 

 

Regards et pratiques à la croisée de disciplines et du monde industriel.?

 

L?usage de technologies de l?information et de la communication évolutives et interopérables transforment les pratiques de la vie quotidienne que nous soyons au travail, en formation, en mobilité, en activités récréatives ou en soins?Ces usages peuvent être imposés mais aussi spontanés, sous condition matérielle d?accès à ces technologies mais aussi d?un « savoir s?y prendre » n?allant pas nécessairement de soi.

Pour différentes disciplines, le développement et l?usage de plateformes interactives multimodales tout comme les expérimentations de robot de téléprésence, ou d?environnement virtuel multi-utilisateurs actionnant leurs avatars ou communiquant avec des agents virtuels représentent autant d?opportunités de recherches. Mais au-delà d' objets de recherche en émergence en sciences du langage, informatique,  sociologie ou didactique autour de ce qui peut être appelé la communication multimodale « artefactée », c?est la question de l?évolution et adaptation des méthodes qui est posée. Cette question est d?autant plus vive dans une visée de recherche interdisciplinaire et constitue le point d'orgue de cette journée d'étude.

 

Gratuite et ouverte à toutes et tous. Inscription obligatoire.

 

Contact : + 33(0)4 13 55 36 39

christelle.combe(at)univ-amu.fr

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3-3-6(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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3-3-7(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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3-3-8(2019-01-07) 5th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA, Cambridge, UK (update)

5th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
 

BigDat 2019
 
Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
January 7-11, 2019
 
Co-organized by:
 
Cambridge Big Data Initiative, University of Cambridge
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA)
Brussels / London
 
http://bigdat2019.irdta.eu/
 
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--- Early registration deadline: November 11, 2018 
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SCOPE:
 
BigDat 2019 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 2 keynote lectures, 24 four-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2019 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
STRUCTURE:
 
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
 
VENUE:
 
BigDat 2019 will take place in Cambridge, a city home of a world-renowned university. The venue will be:
 
University of Cambridge
Department of Engineering
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1PZ
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
 
Thomas Bäck (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate], Data Driven Modeling and Optimization for Industrial Applications
 
Richard Bonneau (New York University), [introductory] Large Scale Machine Learning Methods for Integrating Protein Sequence and Structure to Predict Gene Function
 
Altan Cakir (Istanbul Technical University), [introductory/intermediate] Processing Big Data with Apache Spark: From Science to Industrial Applications
 
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), [introductory/intermediate] Cross-domain Big Data Fusion and Analytics
 
Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [intermediate/advanced] Network Science: Representation Learning and Higher Order Networks
 
Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), [introductory] The Interface between Big Data and Society
 
Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] High Performance Big Data Computing
 
David Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Data Visualization with R
 
Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California), [intermediate/advanced] Building Knowledge Graphs
 
Geoff McLachlan (University of Queensland), [intermediate/advanced] Applying Finite Mixture Models to Big Data
 
Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory), [intermediate] Skyport2: A Multi Cloud Framework for Executing Scientific Workflows
 
Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences
 
Soumya Mohanty (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), [introductory/intermediate] Swarm Intelligence Methods for Statistical Regression
 
Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute), [introductory/advanced] Machine Intelligence and Soft Granular Mining: Features, Applications and Challenges
 
Lior Rokach (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), [introductory/advanced] Ensemble Learning
 
Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] Synchronization Approach to Time Series Analysis
 
Hanan Samet (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Sorting in Space: Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Applications in Spatial and Spatio-textual Databases, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Location-based Services
 
Rory Smith (Monash University), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Inference: Optimal Methods for Learning from Signals in Noise
 
Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota), [intermediate] Social Computing ? Concepts and Applications
 
Mayte Suárez-Fariñas (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), [intermediate] A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Longitudinal Data Using R
 
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big-data Algorithms That Aren't Machine Learning
 
Andrey Ustyuzhanin (National Research University Higher School of Economics), [intermediate/advanced] Surrogate Modelling for Fun and Profit
 
Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen University), [introductory/intermediate] Process Mining: Data Science in Action
 
Zhongfei Zhang (Binghamton University), [introductory/advanced] Relational and Multimedia Data Learning
 
OPEN SESSION
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by December 30, 2018.
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by December 30, 2018.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for, to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. At least one of the people in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by December 30, 2018.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: (to be completed)
 
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Filippo Spiga (Cambridge, co-chair)
Richard E. Turner (Cambridge)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
http://bigdat2019.irdta.eu/registration/
 
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
FEES:
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
Suggestions for accommodation are available on the event website.
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Cambridge Big Data Initiative, University of Cambridge

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3-3-9(2019-03-06) 30th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV) 2019, Dresden, Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS:

30th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV) 2019

Venue: TU Dresden, Germany

Web: www.essv.de/essv2019

ORGANIZERS:

Peter Birkholz, Simon Stone (TU Dresden, Germany)

CONFERENCE TOPICS:

* Speech recognition and natural language understanding
* Speech synthesis and natural language generation
* Measuring, processing, and modeling articulation
* Phonetic, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects in technical applications
* Multimodal dialog systems
* Models of speech acquisition
* Acoustic and visual pattern recognition
* Musical, biological, and technical signals ? applications and processing
* Applications in medical, healthcare, and rehabilitation technologies
* Cognitive and neural systems
* Speech technology in industrial and home environments

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

* Ercan Altinsoy
* Sidney Fels
* Christian Herbst
* Jose Gonzalez
* Korin Richmond

IMPORTANT DATES:

* Conference: March 6 - 8, 2019
* Submission deadline for extended abstract (1 page): November 30, 2018
* Notification of acceptance: until December 14, 2018
* Camera-ready paper submission deadline: January 25, 2019

CONFERENCE LANGUAGES:

German and English

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3-3-10(2019-03-25) 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2019), Saint Petersburg, Russia (updated)

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 conference site shall be the historical Twelve Collegia building (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Collegia), built in ca. 1740,
which was used for the Russian government in the 18th century, and which
has been the main building of Saint Petersburg State University since 1835.
 
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:
 
Henning Fernau (University of Trier), Modern Aspects of Complexity within Formal Languages
 
Pawe? Gawrychowski (University of Wroc?aw), tba
 
Edward A. Lee (University of California, Berkeley), Observation, Interaction, Determinism, and Free Will
 
Vadim Lozin (University of Warwick), From Words to Graphs, and Back
 
Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki), Pattern Discovery in Biological Sequences
 
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)
Markus Holzer (University of Giessen, DE)
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)
Karen Rudie (Queen's University, CA)
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 (Data61, CSIRO, 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 18, 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

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3-3-11(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:
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  * 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:
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Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rainer Lienhart, Universitat Augsburg, Germany
Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama, USA


Program Co-Chairs:
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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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3-3-12(2019-04-24) CfP IWSDS 2019: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS
IWSDS 2019: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue 
Systems Technology
Place: Siracusa, Sicily, Italy
Main Conference Dates: April 24-26, 2019
Web site: https://iwsds2019.unikore.it/

https://easychair.org/cfp/IWSDS2019 

http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=80840&copyownerid=128361 

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The  INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS 
TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2019 invites paper submissions in any 
topic related to the main conference theme 'Increasing 
naturalness and flexibility in spoken dialogue 
interaction:'


* Dialogue systems and reasoning
* Machine learning methods for spoken dialogue systems
* Multi-party and multi-lingual dialogue systems
* Open and multi domain systems
* Engagement and emotion in human-robot interactions
* Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages
* Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems
* Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken 
dialog systems
* Spoken dialogue systems applications
* Connecting spoken dialogue systems to global AI
* Personalized conversational agents
* Human-Robot dialogue systems
* Resources for creating dialogue systems
* Multimodal dialogue systems
* Reasoning and Q&A through dialogue interactions

However, submissions are not limited to these topics, and 
submission of papers in all areas of spoken dialogue 
systems is encouraged. We particularly welcome papers that 
can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize 
the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, 
whatever their category.

As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published 
in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer 
LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).

Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their 
manuscripts using the paper submission system: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwsds2019

We distinguish between the following categories of 
submissions:

* Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature 
research results. The expected length of a long paper 
should be in the range of 8-12 pages, including 
references.
* Short Research Papers should be in the range of 4-6 
pages, including references. Authors may choose this 
category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or 
ongoing but interesting and original research efforts.
* Position Papers deal with novel research ideas or 
view-points which describe trends or fruitful starting 
points for future research and elicit discussion and are 
not much researched. They should be 2 pages long, 
excluding references.
* Demo Submissions - System Papers: Authors who wish to 
demonstrate their system may choose this category and 
provide a description of their system and demo. System 
papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.

IWSDS 2019 requires that all authors wishing to present a 
paper take into account:

* The paper is substantially original and will not be 
submitted to any other conference or journal during the 
IWSDS 2019 review period.
* The paper does not contain any plagiarism.
* The paper will be presented by one of the authors 
in-person at the conference site according to the schedule 
published. Any paper accepted in the technical program, 
but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the 
official conference proceedings.

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Important dates:

Paper submission deadline: December 10, 2018
Acceptance/rejection notification: January 25, 2019
Camera-ready paper due: February 15, 2019
Early bird registration deadline: February 26, 2019
Conference dates: April 24-26, 2019
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Templates for formatting are available on the conference 
website: https://iwsds2019.unikore.it

* Latex Style and Template: 
https://iwsds2019.unikore.it/resources/svmult.zip
* Word Template: 
https://iwsds2019.unikore.it/resources/T1-book.zip
* Requirements for submitting figures that are acceptable: 
https://iwsds2019.unikore.it/resources/Art_Guidelines.pdf

For more information, you can visit the official website 
of the conference: https://iwsds2019.unikore.it/


General Chairs
   Sabato Marco Siniscalchi
   Haizhou Li (Curtesy Assistant)

Technical Program Chairs
    Sandro Cumani
    Valerio Mario Salerno

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3-3-13(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 

http://www.esann.org/

 

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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ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,

Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning

http://www.esann.org/

 

* For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations:

Michel Verleysen

Univ. Cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group

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3-3-14(2019-04-24)CfW and SS, IWSDS 2019: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, Siracusa, Sicily, Italy
 

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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: 

iwsds2019@gmail.com

 

 

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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3-3-15(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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3-3-16(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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3-3-17(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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3-3-18(2019-06-04) 14th PAC conference (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain / Phonology of Contemporary English), Aix-en -Provence, France

Call for papers: 14th PAC conference

(Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain / Phonology of Contemporary English)

 

PAC AIX 2019

Phonetic and phonological variation in contemporary English:

Xperience-Xperimentation

 

Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France

June 4-5 2019

 

Guest Speakers : Dominic Watt (U. York)

&

Emmanuel Ferragne (U. Paris Diderot)

 

We are pleased to announce the 2019 edition of the annual PAC conference, ‘Phonetic and phonological variation in contemporary English: Xperience / Xperimentation’, due to take place from Tuesday June 4 to Wednesday June 5 2019 and, hosted by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage and Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence. We shall welcome as invited guest speakers Dominic Watt, from the University of York and Emmanuel Ferragne from  The Paris Diderot University of Paris Diderot. Both have worked on varieties of English and are currently working on forensic phonetics, among other topics.

 

The PAC programme (http://www.pacprogramme.net) gathers researchers interested in the study of variation in contemporary spoken English, adhering to a common protocol for data collection and annotation. The PAC conferences have been organized annually since 2000 and have been willing to welcome researchers studying spoken English worldwide and from a wide variety of backgrounds.

 

The 2019 edition of the conference will focus on « experience/experimentation », in French « l’expérience » (which is polysemic). People working in the framework of the PAC programme are used to following a field approach. The data collected within the framework of the PAC programme may easily be exploited by experimentalists as well. The idea is to open the conference to researchers working in a more experimental setting. We would like to make the link between the 2 two domains and our guest speakers will show that the two approaches may be complementary in the study of language. Papers concerned by either field work or experimental methods or combining the two domains are welcome. A wide range of issues can be explored, matching the research axes of the PAC programme, such as,  and among others, studies of English in urban contexts, analyses of prosodic variation, of L2 English or papers concerned with tools and annotation strategies..

The audience will consist of colleagues and students working on spoken English corpora and the presentations are all in English.

 

The deadline for sending a title with a one-page anonymous abstract (excluding references) is January 7, 2019.

 

Please visit the conference web site, where you can find a template for abstracts and upload your abstract submission: https://pacaix2019.sciencesconf.org/ (you will need to create a sciencesconf account if you don’t already have one).

 

Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid February 2019.

 

For any questions, you can contact us at the following address: pacaix2019@sciencesconf.org

 

Local Organising committee:

Julia Bongiorno

Stéphanie Desous

Sophie Herment

Joëlle Lavaud

Catherine Perrot

Claudia Pichon-Starke

Paul Sartre

Anne Tortel

Gabor Turcsan

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3-3-19(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.

 
 


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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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3-3-20(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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3-3-21(2019-08-24) 2019 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology , Montreal, Canada

2019 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology


We are pleased to invite one page research proposals for a workshop on Machine Learning for Speech and Language Technology at ÉTS (École de Technologie Supérieure) in Montreal, CA June 24 to August 2, 2019 (Tentative)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: Monday, November 5th, 2018.
 
One-page proposals are invited for the annual Frederick Jelinek Memorial Workshop in Speech and Language Technology. Proposals should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various fields of Human Language Technology (HLT) or related areas of Machine Intelligence, including Computer Vision and Healthcare. Proposals may address emerging topics or long-standing problems. Areas of interest in 2019 include but are not limited to: * SPEECH TECHNOLOGY: Any aspect of information extraction from speech signals; techniques that generalize in spite of very limited amounts of training data and/or which are robust to input signal variations ; techniques for processing of speech in harsh environments, etc.
 * NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Knowledge discovery from text; new approaches to traditional problems such as syntactic/semantic/pragmatic analysis, machine translation, cross - language information retrieval, summarization, etc.; domain adaptation; integrated language and social analysis; etc.
 * MULTIMODAL HLT: Joint models of text or speech with sensory data; grounded language learning; applications such as visual question - a nswering, video summarization, sign language technology, multimedia retrieval, analysis of printed or handwritten text. * DIALOG AND LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING: U n d e r s t a n din g h u m a n - to - h u m a n o r h u m a n - to - computer conversation; dialog manag ement; naturalness of dialog (e.g. sentiment analysis).
 * LANGUAGE AND HEALTHCARE: information extraction from electronic health records; speech and language technology in health monitoring; healthcare delivery in hospitals or the home, public health, etc.
 These workshops are a continuation of the Johns Hopkins University CLSP summer workshop series, and will be hosted by various partner universities on a rotating basis. The research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops should serve as good examples for prospective proposers: http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/. An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated by November 9th, 2018. Authors passing this initial screening will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in Baltimore on December 7-9th, 2018. Proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two or three research topics and the teams to tackle them will be selected at this meeting for the 2019 workshop. We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop to collaboratively pursue research on the selected topics. Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and students. Authors of successful proposals typically lead these teams. Other senior participants come from academia, industry and government. Graduate student participants familiar with the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance. Undergraduate participants, selected through a national search, are rising star seniors: new to the field and showing outstanding academic promise. If you are interested in participating in the 2019 Summer Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed. If a topic in your area of interest
is chosen as one of the topics to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available to participate in the six - week workshop . We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith commitment that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will actively pursue it. We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to make your six-week participation possible.
 
Proposals must be submitted to jsalt2019-planning@jhu.edu by 23:59PM EDT on Monday, 11/05/2018. 

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3-3-22(2019-09-20) SSW10 - The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Vienna, Austria
 
Call for Papers
 
SSW10 - The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop
20-22 September 2019
Vienna, Austria
 
 
The 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop will be held in Vienna, Austria, 20-22 September 2019. The workshop is a satellite event of the INTERSPEECH 2019 conference in Graz, Austria.
 
Confirmed invited speakers
Aäron van den Oord (Google DeepMind, UK)
Claire Gardent (CNRS, France)
 
Workshop topics
Papers in all areas of speech synthesis technology are encouraged to be submitted, including but not limited to:
 
Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for synthesis
Text processing for speech synthesis (text normalization, syntactic and semantic analysis)
Segmental-level and/or concatenative synthesis
Signal processing/statistical model for synthesis
Speech synthesis paradigms and methods; articulatory synthesis, parametric synthesis etc.
Prosody modeling and generation
Expression, emotion and personality generation
Voice conversion and modification, morphing
Concept-to-speech conversion speech synthesis in dialog systems
Avatars and talking faces
Cross-lingual and multilingual aspects for synthesis
Applications of synthesis technologies to communication disorders
TTS for embedded devices and computational issues
Tools and data for speech synthesis
Quality assessment/evaluation metrics in synthesis
Singing synthesis
Synthesis of non-human vocalisations
End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis
Direct speech waveform modelling and generation
Speech synthesis using non-ideal data (?found?, user-contributed, etc.)
Natural language generation for speech synthesis
Special topic: Synthesis of non-standard language varieties (sociolects, dialects, second language varieties)
 
Call for Demos
We are planning to have a demo session to showcase new developments in speech synthesis. If you have some demonstrations of your work that does not really fit in a regular oral or poster presentation, please let us know.
 
The workshop program will consist of a single track with invited talks, oral and poster presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references. Papers can be submitted via the website http://ssw10.oeaw.ac.at.
 
 
Important dates:
Deadline for paper submission: May 10th, 2019
Final deadline for paper submission: May 17th, 2019
Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2019
Camera-ready final versions: July 19th, 2019
Workshop: 20-22 September 2019
Blizzard Challenge Workshop 2019: 23. September
 
We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna.
Sincerely,
The SSW organising committee (Michael Pucher, Junichi Yamagishi, Sebastian Le Maguer, Christian Kaseß, Friedrich Neubarth)
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3-3-23(2019-X-X) Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (DSTC7)

Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (DSTC7)
Call for Participation: Data distribution has been started
Website: http://workshop.colips.org/dstc7/index.html

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Background
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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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