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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-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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3-3-2 | (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)
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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 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.
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:
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 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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3-3-5 | (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
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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
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3-3-9 | (2019-03-06) 30th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV) 2019, Dresden, Germany CALL FOR PAPERS:
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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
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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)
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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 https://easychair.org/cfp/IWSDS2019 http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=80840©ownerid=128361
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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
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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3-3-14 | (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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3-3-15 | (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)
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3-3-16 | (2019-05-12) Call for Special Sessions at ICASSP 2019
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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
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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![]() 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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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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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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