SIGDIAL 2019

11-13 September 2019, Stockholm, Sweden

Second Call for Special Sessions

http://workshops.sigdial.org/conference20

Special Session Submission Deadline: January 28, 2019

Special Session Notification: February 18, 2019

The Special Interest Group on Dialogue and Discourse (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session. Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions.

The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by the special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself, taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.

We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End-to-end systems.

Submissions:

Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session).

These proposals should be sent to conference[at]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co-chairs.

Links:

Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings.

• http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference19/sessions.htm

• https://robodial.github.io/

• http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/

SIGDIAL 2019 Organizing Committee

General Chair:

Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Program Chairs:

Milica Gaši

, Cambridge University, UK

Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

Local Chair:

Gabriel Skantze, KTH, Sweden

Sponsorship Chair:

Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

Mentoring Chair:

Alex Papangelis, Uber AI, USA

Publication Chair:

Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany

Publicity Chair:

Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

SIGdial President:

Jason Williams, Apple, USA

SIGdial Vice President:

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

SIGdial Secretary:

Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA

SIGdial Treasurer:

Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President Emeritus:

Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

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Welcome to INTERSPEECH 2019 ? Willkommen in Graz, Austria, Sept 15-19, 2019
http://www.interspeech2019.org

Important Dates Coming Up Soon

• Proposals due for Special Sessions and Challenges: Friday, November 30, 2018
  See Call for Special Sessions and Challenges at https://www.interspeech2019.org/calls/special_sessions_and_challenges!

• Proposals due for Satellite Workshops: to be submitted to ISCA as soon as possible!
  See Call for Satellite Workshops at https://www.interspeech2019.org/calls/satellite_events!

• Sponsoring and Exhibition opportunities: see http://www.interspeech2019.org/sponsorship_and_exhibition/letter_to_our_partners

What is new?

INTERSPEECH 2019 is the 20^th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association ISCA and this anniversary edition will introduce several innovative features. These innovations will certainly contribute to raise the attractiveness of the conference beyond the high levels developed already over the past two decades:

Survey presentations have been evolved from the perspective talks at INTERSPEECH 2018 in Hyderabad. The presentations will be scheduled at the start of suitable oral presentation sessions, and will be allocated a 40-minute time slot for presentation and discussion. Presentations should aim to give an overview of the state-of-the-art for a specific topic covered by one or more of the main technical areas of the conference. The presenters will also be invited to submit survey papers to the ISCA supported journals of Computer, Speech and Language and Speech Communication. For further details, see our Call for Survey Presentations [please add link!] further below.

Childcare – the INTERSPEECH Kids: Bring your family along to Graz, Austria! Childcare will be provided free of charge for conference participants. For terms and conditions, see the conference webpage http://www.interspeech2019.org/venue_and_travel/childcare. To secure a place for your kids, we recommend to apply for this service at your earliest convenience.

Hackathons will set a stimulating atmosphere for the most creative developers in our community and beyond: through jams and challenges, we will bring together some of our brightest minds, students who are speech science and technology aficionados and who come to Graz as conference participants, as well as students who are representing the highly interdisciplinary community of several partner universities in Graz and beyond. Watch out for details to appear soon on our website http://www.interspeech2019.org or contact directly our hackathon chairs Elmar Nöth (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Johanna Pirker (TU Graz) at hackathon@interspeech2019.org.

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INTERSPEECH 2019

 GRAZ – AUSTRIA SEPTEMBER 15th – 19th 2019 WWW.INTERSPEECH2019.ORG

 https://interspeech2019.org

CROSSROADS OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FOR TUTORIALS, SPECIAL SESSIONS/CHALLENGES, AND SHOW & TELL

INTERSPEECH is the world‘s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, INTERSPEECH 2019 will feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sesssions and challenges, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. A number of satellite events will also take place around INTERSPEECH 2019.

Original papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

1. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

2. Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody

3. Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language

4. Speaker and Language Identification

5. Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals

6. Speech Coding and Enhancement

7. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation

8. Speech Recognition – Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, an Adaptation

9. Speech Recognition – Architecture, Search, and Linguistic Components

10. Speech Recognition – Technologies and Systems for New Applications

11. Dialog Systems and Analysis of Conversation

12.Spoken Language Processing – Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization,

   Resources, and Evaluation

 A complete list of the scientific areas and topics including special sessions is available at » www.interspeech2019.org

 PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers intended for INTERSPEECH 2019 should be up to four pages of text. An optional fifth page could be used for references only. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the author’s kit on the conference webpage. Please be aware that INTERSPEECH 2019 will use new templates and submissions will be accepted only in the new format. Submissions may also be accompanied by additional files such as multimedia files, to be included on the proceedings’ USB drive. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and have not been submitted elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and to your participation in INTERSPEECH 2019.

 IMPORTANT DATES

 » November 30, 2018 Special session/challenges proposals due

 » February 1, 2019 Tutorial proposals due

 » February 15, 2019 Submission portal opens

 » February 28, 2019 Satellite workshops/events proposals due

 » March 29, 2019 Paper submission deadline

 » April 5, 2019 Final paper submission deadline

 » April 26, 2019 Show & Tell proposals due

 » June 17, 2019 Acceptance/rejection notification

 » June 24, 2019 Registration opens

 » July 1, 2019 Camera-ready paper due

 General Chairs:

 Gernot Kubin, TU Graz, Austria

 Zdravko Kacˇicˇ, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Technical Chairs:

 Thomas Hain, U Sheffield, UK

 Björn Schuller, U Augsburg/Imperial College, Germany/UK

Organising Committee Members:

  Michiel Bacchiani, Google NY, USA

 Gerhard Backfried, Sail Labs Vienna, Austria

 Jamilla Balint, TU Graz, Austria

 Eugen Brenner, TU Graz, Austria

 Mariapaola D‘Imperio, Aix Marseille U, France

 Dina ElZarka, U Graz, Austria

 Tim Fingscheidt, TU Braunschweig, Germany

 Anouschka Foltz, U Graz, Austria

 Anna Fuchs, AVL Graz, Austria

 Panayiotis Georgiou, USC Los Angeles, USA

 Franz Graf, Joanneum Research Graz, Austria

 Markus Gugatschka, MU Graz, Austria

 Martin Hagmüller, TU Graz, Austria

 Petra Hödl, U Graz, Austria

 Robert Höldrich, KU Graz, Austria

 Mario Huemer, JKU Linz, Austria

 Dorothea Kolossa, RU Bochum, Germany

 Christina Leitner, Joanneum Research Graz, Austria

 Stefanie Lindstaedt, KNOW Centre Graz, Austria

 Helen Meng, CU Hong Kong, China

 Florian Metze, CMU Pittsburgh, USA

 Pejman Mowlaee, Widex/TU Graz, Denmark/Austria

 Elmar Noeth, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

 Franz Pernkopf, TU Graz, Austria

Ingrid Pfandl-Buchegger, U Graz, Austria

 Lukas Pfeifenberger, Ognios Salzburg, Austria

 Johanna Pirker, TU Graz, Austria

Christoph Prinz, Sail Labs Vienna, Austria

 Michael Pucher, ÖAW Vienna, Austria

 Philipp Salletmayr, Nuance Vienna, Austria

 Barbara Schuppler, TU Graz, Austria

 Dagmar Schuller, audEERING, Germany

Jessica Siddins, U Graz, Austria 

Wolfgang Wokurek, U Stuttgart, Germany

 Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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INTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Satellite Workshops

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2019 is now inviting proposals for satellite workshops, to be held in proximity to the main conference.

Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to the ISCA workshop portal (https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaproposals/workshop.php) since every satellite workshop needs ISCA endorsement!

The Organizing Committee will work to facilitate the organization of such satellite workshops, to stimulate discussion in research areas related to speech and language, at locations in Europe, and around the same time as INTERSPEECH 2019. We are particularly looking forward to proposals from neighboring countries. If you are interested in organizing a satellite workshop, or would like a planned event to be listed as an official satellite event, please contact the Satellite Workshop Chairs at workshops@interspeech2019.org. See http://interspeech2019.org/calls/satellite_events for further details.

As possible sites for your satellite events may we propose the following cities within easy reach from the conference location (either by train, bus, or rental car):

• Graz, Austria, the INTERSPEECH 2019 host city, with several supporting institutions;

• Maribor, Slovenia, just 50 km away, where we provide local support via the University of Maribor;

• Vienna, Austria, just 200 km away, where we provide local support via the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Important Dates

• Submission to ISCA workshop portal: As soon as possible since every satellite workshop needs ISCA endorsement!

• Once ISCA endorsement has been granted, requests for co-registration with INTERSPEECH2019 have to be submitted by February 28, 2019.

• Confirmation as an INTERSPEECH2019 satellite event by March 15, 2019.

If you have any questions about whether a potential event would be a good candidate for an INTERSPEECH 2019 satellite workshop feel free to contact the Satellite Workshop Chairs at workshops@interspeech2019.org.

Sincerely

Jessica Siddins (U Graz)
Zdravko Kačič (U Maribor)
Michael Pucher (ÖAW Vienna)

Satellite Workshop Chairs for INTERSPEECH 2019

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INTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Special Sessions & Challenges

Important Dates

Proposal submission deadline: Friday, November 30, 2018
Notification of pre-selection: Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Final list of special sessions: Monday, June 17, 2019

Special Sessions & Challenges

Submissions of Special Sessions & Challenges proposals are encouraged for INTERSPEECH 2019, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference, Crossroads of Speech and Language(http://www.interspeech2019.org/about/conference_theme), are particularly welcome. Apart from supporting a particular theme, special sessions may also have a format that is different from a regular session.

Each special session proposal must contain the following information.

• The title of the proposed special session.

• The names and affiliations of the organizers, including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer.

• Up to five bullet points explaining what factors make the proposed session special.

• A summary (up to one page) stating the importance of the session’s topic and objectives. Furthermore, the session format should be clearly defined. The summary should also explain why the topic cannot be properly covered by regular conference sessions.

• A tentative list of researchers who could contribute papers to the session. Note that with a nominal 50% acceptance rate for Interspeech papers, this means that special sessions should have a minimum of 12 anticipated submissions, unless their format allocates time to something other than paper presentations.

• Additional or non-standard resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster stands, etc.) required for organizing the special session.

Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee for relevance and significance. Papers for approved Special Sessions have to be submitted following the same schedule and procedure as regular papers; the papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special session organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions.

Special session proposers are invited to submit a proposal via email to the Special Session Chairs Tim Fingscheidt (TU Braunschweig), Mariapaola d’Imperio (Aix-Marseille U), and Franz Pernkopf (TU Graz) at special_sessions@interspeech2019.org no later than Friday, November 30, 2018. Please do not hesitate to ask before submitting your proposal if something is not fully clear to you. Notification of pre-selection is scheduled for Tuesday, January 1, 2019. Final acceptance will take place shortly after paper decisions are completed, depending on the number of accepted papers submitted to each special session.

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NEW! INTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Survey Presentations NEW!

Important Dates

Proposal submission deadline: Friday May 3, 2019
Notification of selection: Monday, June 17, 2019

Survey Presentations

Interspeech is the annual flagship conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), which brings together a truly interdisciplinary group of experts from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest research, technology advances and scientific discoveries in a five-day event. As such Interspeech constantly innovates and adapts. Beyond plenary talks, oral and poster presentations recent years have seen new ideas on how to engage with experts and industry.

The 20th edition of Interspeech conferences, to take place in Graz, Austria, will introduce a range of new presentation formats. Given the complexity of speech communication science and technology the need for detailed technical review of sub-areas of research has become more critical than ever.

We invite proposals for innovative and engaging Research Survey Presentations. The talks are aimed to be scheduled at the start of suitable oral presentation sessions, and will be allocated a 40-minute time slot for presentation and discussion. Presentations should aim to give an overview of the state of the art for a specific topic covered by one or more of the main technical areas of Interspeech 2019, namely

1. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

2. Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody

3. Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language

4. Speaker and Language Identification

5. Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals

6. Speech Coding and Enhancement

7. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation

8. Speech Recognition — Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, Adaptation

9. Speech Recognition — Architecture, Search, and Linguistic Components

10. Speech Recognition — Technologies and Systems for New Applications

11. Spoken Dialog Systems and Analysis of Conversation

12. Spoken Language Processing — Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Resources and Evaluation

Proposals for Survey Presentations are required to include

• The presenter’s name, title, and short bio (100 words), and (if applicable) a list of co-contributors.

• Title, an outline and a description of the proposed talk (max 500 words). The description should include statements on the relevance of the talk, and the potential target audience.

• A current CV of the presenter including a list of publications

Proposals will be evaluated by the technical programme and organising committees for relevance and significance, taking balance across areas and the available presentation slots into account (maximum 10 presentations). The presenters of the Interspeech 2019 survey talks will be invited to submit survey papers to the ISCA supported journals of Computer, Speech and Language and Speech Communication with the aim to be included in a Special Issue on the State of the Art in Speech Science and Technology.

Survey presentation proposers are invited to submit a proposal via email to the Technical Program Chairs: tpc-chairs@interspeech2019.org no later than Friday May 3, 2019. Please do not hesitate to contact the technical chairs for any questions that may arise prior to proposal submission.  Notification of selection is scheduled for June 17, 2019.

Thomas Hain and Björn Schuller

INTERSPEECH 2019 Technical Program Chairs

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Call for Tutorials at INTERSPEECH 2019

INTERSPEECH conferences are attended by researchers with a long-term track-record in speech sciences and technology, as well as by early-stage researchers or researchers interested in a new domain within the INTERSPEECH areas. An important part of the conference are the tutorials to be held on the first day of the conference, September 15, 2019. Presented by speakers with long and deep expertise in speech, they will provide their audience with a rich learning experience and an exposure to longstanding research problems, contemporary topics of research as well as emerging areas.

We encourage proposals for addressing fundamental or advanced topics in an introductory style as well as for targeting experienced researchers who want to dig deeper into a given new topic.

Tutorials, each of three-hour duration, shall introduce an emerging area of speech-related research, or present an overview of an established area of research, rather than focus on the presenter’s individual research.

Date and Venue of the Tutorials

September 15, 2019; two 3h sessions, in the morning and in the afternoon, in the main conference location (Messecongress Graz).

Proposals Should Include (in this Order)

Tutorial title

Presenter(s) (name and affiliation)

Contact information (email, telephone)

3-4 sentence abstract summarizing the proposed tutorial that could be used as an advertisement

Description of the proposal (1-2 pages description plus a few relevant references and any webpages/material useful for reviewing the proposal)

Explanation of relevance of the proposed tutorial (0.5 – 1 page)

Tutorial logistics, including

• Duration (1 session = 3 hours = 2 x 90 minutes plus refreshment break)

• Description of presentation format (e.g., one or more presenters etc.)

• Equipment required for the tutorial

• Preference for type of accompanying material (handouts, storage devices with media, etc.)

Presenter information

• Biography of presenter(s)

• Key publications of presenter(s) on the tutorial topic

• List of previous tutorial experience

Audience information

• Target audience (e.g., new researchers to the field, research students, specialists of adjacent fields, etc.)

• Other considerations/ comments

• Bibliography (from description)

Submission Procedure

Proposals for INTERSPEECH 2019 tutorials may be no more than 4 pages long and must conform to the format stated above; please use clear headings to indicate each point. Proposals should be submitted by email to tutorials@interspeech2019.orgby February 1, 2019 and notification of accepted proposals will be given by March 1, 2019.

By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video-recording of the tutorials for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. Access to recording materials will be given via ISCA Video Archives.

To access the online call for tutorials, visit http://interspeech2019.org/calls/tutorials.

Questions? Please Contact: tutorials@interspeech2019.org

The tutorial chairs:

Barbara Schuppler, Graz University of Technology

Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Dorothea Kolossa, Ruhr University Bochum

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INTERSPEECH 2021
Brno, Czech Republic, August 30 - September 3, 2021
Chairs : Hynek Hermansky and Honza Cernocky 
22^nd INTERSPEECH event

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