Programme de la journée inaugurale du pré-GDR
sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues aura lieu
le jeudi 14 mars 2019
à MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L?HOMME PARIS NORD
sur le thème ?Apprentissage, modèles linguistiques et cognitifs?


La MSH Paris Nord est accessible directement par la ligne 12 du métro (station
Aubervilliers-Front populaire).

Cette journée est soutenue par l'ATALA.

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*Programme *
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9H     Accueil

9H15 - 10H15   *Session GDR TAL général*
9H15 - 9H40     Intervention de Jamal ATIF - INS2I + échanges
9H40 - 10H15   Présentation du préGDR TAL : sa gouvernance, sa
structure et ses actions + échanges - Béatrice Daille (LS2N TALN)

10h15  Pause Café

10h30  à 12H30 **Session GT1 'Apprentissage et modèles pour le TAL*' *

10H30-11H15   Restitution des axes de réflexion :

Modèles computationnels de la langue écrite, de la langue orale et de la langue des signes

Apprentissage et modélisation statistique pour le TAL

Sémantique et compréhension

par Nicholas Asher (IRIT MELODI), Frédéric Béchet (LIS TALEP) et Maxime Amblard (LORIA
SEMMAGRAMME)

 11H15-12H30  Table ronde prospective des travaux à venir du GT1

Discussions animée par Nicholas Asher (IRIT MELODI) et Frédéric Béchet (LIS TALEP)

Intervenants :  Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI TLP), Jean-Francois Bonastre (LIA), Benoit
Crabbé (LLF), Géraldine Damnati (orange labs), Guillaume Gravier (IRISA LinkMedia), Laure
Soulier (LIP6 MLIA)

12h30     Buffet (Offert aux participants)

14H-16H *Sessions Exposés invités prospectifs du GT1*

14h00     Jean Luc Schwartz (GIPSA-lab PCMD)- Modélisation cognitive des unités de la
parole

On peut jusqu'à un certain point concevoir le langage comme une construction humaine
adaptée, en un sens à définir, à nos capacités cognitives. Cette vision ? qui fait débat
? a comme double conséquence de proposer que les formes du langage et les principes de
traitement sont eux-mêmes des produits de principes cognitifs plus généraux. C'est
l'approche qui est suivie ici, dans le cadre des traitements des unités de bas niveau, «
en dessous des mots » ? les syllabes, les consonnes, les voyelles. J'aborderai ces
questions dans le cadre computationnel de la robotique bayésienne, développé en
collaboration avec mes collègues Pierre Bessière et Julien Diard ; et en lien avec les
avancées expérimentales et théoriques que nous avons faites autour de l'hypothèse du «
système miroir », ce système neuronal qui, dans le cerveau des primates et des humains,
permet de comprendre ce que fait l'autre en le simulant mentalement. Il y aura donc des
questions théoriques, des simulations bayésiennes, et des données expérimentales.

15h00    Emmanuel Dupoux  (LSCP CoML) - Apprentissage non supervisé de la parole : le
bébé et la machine

Les systèmes de traitement automatique de la parole sont construit à partir de milliers
d'heures de parole annotées plus des quantités massives de ressources textuelles. Ceci
les rends difficile à déployer dans des langues dites 'faiblement dotées' qui ne
disposent pas de telles ressources. Or, le bébé humain apprends à parler avant qu'il
n'apprenne à lire et écrire. Le but de cette présentation est de passer en revue les
principaux algorithmes d'apprentissage machine non supervisé appliqué à la découverte de
représentations linguistiques, et qui, à l'instar du nourrisson, se passent totalement
d'annotations écrites.

16h00-16H30    Discussion générale avec les participants

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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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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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   Laboratoire de phonétique et phonologie, UMR 7018

CNRS/Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle

April 8 and 9 2019, International Workshop

Embodied Speech

Invited speakers

Alain Berthoz (Collège de France), Peter Birkholz (TU Dresde), Dan Dediu (U. Lyon 2), Guillame Dumas (Institut Pasteur), Bryan Gick (U. British Columbia, Vancouver), Frank Guenther (U. Harvard), John Kingston (U. Amherst), Yves Laprie (Loria, Nancy), Pascal Perrier (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble), Alice Turk (U. of Edinburgh), Zhaoyan Zhang (UCLA)

While any theory of speech behavior must ultimately incorporate the human body, modeling bodies has not been a central program in language research. Speech models underlying phonetic and phonological theories to date have focused mainly on low-dimensional control with little attention given in recent decades to the neurophysiology and biomechanics of fully embodied speech. This workshop aims at discussing aspects of the emerging field of embodied speech that may contribute to understanding how the high-dimensional body may be mapped onto lower-dimensional models. Topics to be discussed will include high-dimensional imaging and modelling of body structures, biologically informed dimensionality reduction approaches, nonlinear (quantal/saturation) effects in body systems such as biomechanics, sensation, and so on. Particular focus will be given to developing the hypothesis that action (including speech action) may be governed by modular neuromuscular structures that emerge and change through use, and that serve to reduce system dimensionality. We hope to explore a theory of embodied phonetics built on an inventory of such functionally defined modular primitives, and to consider implications of such an approach for diverse areas including speech production and perception, phonetics, phonology, sound change, acquisition and evolution of spoken language. The workshop will focus on these issues with presentations on biomechanical oscillation and simulation, neural control, body rhythms and coordination dynamics at neural and behavioral levels.

The workshop will take place at the Université de Sorbonne, salle Durkheim, 1 rue Victor Cousin 75005 Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Escalier I, 1er étage, Salle F658

There will be a limited amount of space available (places will be assigned on a first come, first served basis). Anybody interested to participate or present research results related to the workshop topic is welcome but should contact the organizing committee before the 1^st of March 2019. The final program will be available online the first week of March. Registration is now open at the following address: https://embodiedspeech.ilpga.fr

Organizing committee: Didier Demolin, Léonardo Lancia, Shi Yu

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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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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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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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The 9th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2019), May 17-19, 2019, Poznan, Poland

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS

CONFERENCE CHAIRS: Zygmunt Vetulani (Poland) and Patrick Paroubek (France)

Yes, we started 24 years ago! Our tradition goes back to the Language and Technology Awareness Days, a meeting organized in 1995 with the assistance of the European Commission (DG XIII). Among the key speakers were Antonio Zampolli (Italy), Dafydd Gibbon (Germany), Dan Tufi? (Romania), Orest Kossak (Ukraina). Today, we refer to this event as the first LTC. Since 2005 LTC is organized every two years as  the ?Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics?. Fostering language technologies and resources remains an important challenge in the dynamically changing, information-saturated world and we invite all concerned people to join us in Pozna? at the LTC 2019 in order to face this challenge together.

Zygmunt Vetulani and Patrick Paroubek

NEW LTC WORKSHOPS

We are pleased to inform that the following LTC workshops have been announced:

• The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019)
  
• Prosody Tools Workshop (PTW 2019)
• The 3rd Workshop on Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions (EDO 2019)
• Workshop on Turkic and other Agglutinative Languages as a Challenge for Language Industry (TALC 2019)
• Workshop on eHumanities as a Challenge for Linguistics and Language Technologies
•  Workshop on Human Language Technologies in Crisis and Emergency Management

Workshops are accessible to all LTC participants (no extra inscription fees). See www.ltc.amu.edu.pl for details.

 IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES

• Deadline for submission of papers for review: March 20, 2019
• Acceptance/Refusal notification: April  2, 2019
• Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: April 15, 2019
• Conference: May 17-19, 2019

 CONFERENCE TOPICS

The conference topics include the following (the ordering is not significant and the list is not exhaustive):

• AI-oriented language modelling
• communicative intelligence
• computational semantics
• computer modeling of language competence
• corpora-based methods in language engineering
• electronic language resources and tools
• formalization of natural languages
• HLT related policies
• HLT standards and best practices
• HLTs as support for Digital Humanuties
• HLTs as support for e-learning
• HLTs as support for foreign language teaching and translation
• HLTs as support for Homeland Security (technology applications and legal aspects)
• language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages other than English)
• legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges)
• Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing
• man-machine NL interfaces
• machine translation and translation enhancement tools
• methodological issues in HLT
• neural networks in language engineering
• NL and knowledge representation
• NL applications in robotics
• NL understanding by computers
• NL user modeling
• NLP for cyber-criminality detection and prevention
• paralinguistic phenomena in NLP
• parsing and related NL processing
• question answering
• sentiment, opinion and emotion analysis
• socio-political aspects of HLTs
• speech processing
• statistics-based methods in language engineering
• system prototype presentations
• technological aspects of nonverbal linguistics
• text-based information retrieval and extraction
• tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems
• validation in all areas of HLTs
• visionary papers in the field of HLT
• wordnets and WordNet-like ontologies/taxonomies and their applications

This list is by no means closed and we are open to further proposals. Please do not hesitate to contact us with new suggestions and ideas.

LANGUAGE

The conference language is English

PAPER SUBMISSION

The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by March 20, 2019 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the authorship in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, have a look at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (Paper Submission section).

PUBLICATION POLICY

Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (double-blinded submission model). The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. Proceedings will be published by Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje sp. z o.o. indexed by the Polish Ministry of Higher Education. Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors in due time (dates will be presented at the conference site). One registration fee entitles publication of one paper.

POST-CONFERENCE PAPERS

We intend to publish a post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (Springer Verlag). Papers will be selected on the basis of reviewers? reports among the best evaluated papers of general interest with new, innovative results. Preference will be given to papers providing substantial content extension with respect to the paper presented at the conference.

REGISTRATION

Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be published at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.

OTHER

Please notice that remaining important information on the general conference and workshops is or will be provided at the conference site www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.

CONTACT

vetulani@amu.edu.pl

mkubis@amu.edu.pl

ltc19@amu.edu.pl

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Call for papers: 14^th 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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22^nd Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2019 - ED 268)

?Variation in linguistics: approaches, data, uses?

6^th? 7^thJune 2019

University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Maison de la Recherche) 

4, rue des Irlandais - 75005 PARIS

Dear Colleagues,

The «Langage et langues : description, théorisation, transmission» Doctoral School (ED 268, University Sorbonne Nouvelle) is glad to announce the Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2019). The conference will be held from June 6^th- June 7^th 2019 in Paris.

These Rencontres offer junior researchers preparing a Master?s or a Doctorate degree, as well as post-doctorate students, the opportunity to present their work in individual paper or poster sessions.

This year?s theme tackles the issue of:

?Variation in linguistics: approaches, data, uses?

We encourage proposals concerned with this topic from any linguistic discipline. Everyone who is interested in presenting an individual paper or a poster is welcome to submit a 4000 characters abstract in English or French for double-blind review by January 21^st, 2019 at 7pm (Paris time UTC+1). Abstracts must be uploaded on the platform EasyChair at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rjc2019

Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes, and an additional 10 minutes for discussion.

The size of the posters is A0. Poster authors will be invited to give a short oral presentation of their work.

Agenda

Submission deadline: January 21^st, 2019

Notification of acceptance: March 2019

Conference dates: June 6^th ? 7^th, 2019

Conference location: Maison de la Recherche

Address: 4, rue des Irlandais - 75005 PARIS

Web site: http://www.univ-paris3.fr/rencontres-jeunes-chercheurs-301310.kjsp

Please find attached the call for papers and submission guidelines (in French and in English) for the Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs. 

Please, circulate widely. Many thanks in advance.

Best regards,

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The RJC Organizing Committee

rjc-ed268@univ-paris3.fr

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SLPAT 2019

Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)

7 June 2019, co-located with NAACL-HLT 2019, Minneapolis, USA

Submission deadline:  10 March 2019

Submission website: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2019/slpat/

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We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the Eighth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) on Thursday 6 June 2019 to be co-located with NAACL-HLT 2019 in Minnesota, USA. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline, and formatting of regular papers are here:

http://www.slpat.org/slpat2019/

This workshop will bring together researchers from all areas of speech and language technology with a common interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. The workshop will provide an opportunity for individuals from both research communities, and the individuals with whom they are working, to assist to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. General topics include but are not limited to:

       ? Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments

        ? Speech transformation for improved intelligibility

        ? Speech and language technologies for daily assisted living and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)

        ? Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language

        ? Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AAC and AT applications

? Personalized voices for ACC based on limited data

? Biofeedback for therapy in neurological disorders.

        ? Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or TTS

        ? Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio

        ? Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication

        ? Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies

        ? Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies

        ? NLP for cognitive assistance applications

        ? Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments

        ? Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications

        ? Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications

        ? Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies

        ? Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of AT

        ? Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols

        ? Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field

        ? Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes

        ? Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology

        ? Other topics in AAC and AT

Please contact the conference organizers at slpat2019-organizers@googlegroups.com  with any questions.

Important dates:

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Dear SProSIG member,

Here are details of a workshop on 'Prominence between Cognitive Functions and Linguistic Structures“ (COFLIS, http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/coflis.html ) that might be of interest to you. The workshop is a satellite of the Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) 2019 Conference and will be held immediately after PaPE on 20th June 2019 in Bari, a two-hour train ride from the venue of the main conference (Lecce). Abstract submission deadline for posters: 15th March 2019.

Description:

In the workshop, we capitalise on several decades of research on prosodic prominence to unravel the key components of the notion of prominence. By exploring the contribution of the signal, of meaning and of linguistic structure to the definition of prominence, and by relating prominence to basic cognitive concepts such as chunking and attention, we aim to provide a renewed understanding of prominence. The workshop will feature four invited talks, covering the measurable, structural and functional components of prominence. Rather than share new experimental evidence, invited speakers will be asked to focus on the theoretical implications of their use of prominence in their research. Invited talks will be complemented by regularly submitted and peer-reviewed submissions for poster presentations on prominence in phonetics and phonology. Submissions emphasising the challenges in defining and using the notion of prominence will be particularly welcome.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Francesco Cangemi, Stefan Baumann, Michelina Savino, Martine Grice

(Sent via to the sprosig list.  To subscribe/unsubscribe, please mail list@sprosig.org.  Alternative contact: Nigel Ward, Speech Prosody SIG Chair, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso,  +1-915-747-6827, nigel@utep.edu    http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ )  

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*APPEL A CONTRIBUTION : Atelier Enseignement des langues et TAL ­
ELTAL 2019 (TALN-RECITAL 2019)*

Site web : https://eltal2019.frama.site/

Aujourd¹hui, l¹usage des TICE devient incontournable dans le domaine de
l¹enseignement et de l¹apprentissage des langues. Les applications de
partage de connaissances, et de nouvelles formes de e-learning (MOOC ou
SPOC), ainsi que la banalisation des appareils mobiles connectés
contribuent à la prolifération des outils numériques destinés aux
apprenants de langues (ALAO). Ces outils sont généralement conçus dans
une optique de simple adaptation des contenus pédagogiques traditionnels
au support numérique, sans creuser les possibilités offertes grâce au
traitement automatique des langues, comme dans toute application ayant
trait au langage naturel. A travers cet atelier, nous souhaitons mettre
en évidence ces possibilités en rassemblant les travaux de toute la
communauté francophone autour de cette thématique.

Après l¹atelier TAL et ALAO organisé à Louvain (TALN 2006) et la
première édition de l'atelier ELTAL à Paris (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016),
l'atelier ELTAL 2019 sera l'occasion de faire un nouvel état de l¹art
des interactions entre didactique des langues
(enseignement/apprentissage) et TAL. L'objectif sous-jacent reste la
présentation des outils et des ressources brutes ou annotées pour
l¹enseignement/l'apprentissage des langues au sens large, sans
restriction à une aire linguistique ou géographique. Pour cette seconde
édition, nous espérons également resserrer les liens interdisciplinaires
et interuniversitaires initiés lors de la première édition.

Nous souhaitons regrouper les contributions autour de deux axes majeurs
: d'une part, celles qui présentent des ressources brutes ou annotées et
des outils 'clé en main' et, de l'autre, celles qui traitent des
applications et des méthodologies dans une visée
d'enseignement/d'apprentissage des langues. Nous voudrions consacrer une
attention particulière aux approches qui mobilisent des corpus à travers
des outils et des plateformes numériques (ENT, MOOC, SPOC etc.), mais
aussi aux questions d'ordre éthique, prenant en compte les
recommandations de la RGPD.

*Axe 1 : Outils, ressources brutes ou annotées*

   * Lexiques et dictionnaires généraux et spécialisés
   * Corpus généraux ou de spécialité
   * Corpus écrits, oraux ou multimodaux
   * Corpus d'apprenants
   * Jeux sérieux et Jeux avec un but (GWAP - Games With A Purpose)
   * Outils de génération automatique d'exercices (morphologie,
     syntaxe etc.)
   * Outils de diagnostic automatique des erreurs
   * Outils d'exploration des données brutes ou annotées
   * etc.

*Axe 2 : Applications et méthodologies à visée didactique et
  pédagogique*

   * Automatisation de la correction des productions
   * Génération automatique de sujets (outils d'évaluation et de test)
   * Application didactique des outils de génération (outils de
     flexion, de dérivation, etc.)
   * Evaluation et amélioration de la lisibilité des textes
   * Apport de l'intelligence artificielle pour la didactique des
     langues
   * Approche par compétences (selon le CECRL) : outils et méthodes
   * etc.


*Modalités de soumission : *

*Deux formats d'articles peuvent être soumis :*

   * articles longs (de 12 pages plus 2 pages maximum pour les
     références)
   * articles courts (6 pages plus 2 pages maximum pour les références)

Les articles acceptés donneront lieu à une communication orale de 20
minutes suivie d'une discussion de 10 minutes au cours de la journée
réservée à l'atelier (lundi 1er ou mardi 2 juillet 2019). Les articles
sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de l'atelier ELTAL
(publication en ligne). Les critères de sélection sont conformes à ceux
de la conférence principale. Les soumissions doivent être conformes aux
lignes directrices de style officielles (télécharger les fichiers de
style) et doivent être en format PDF. Les soumissions en anglais sont
acceptées dès lors qu'un co-auteur n'est pas francophone.

*Feuilles de style* :

Vous pouvez télécharger les feuilles de style à partir de ce lien :
https://www.irit.fr/pfia2019/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/style_taln2019.tar.gz


*Dépôt des contributions :*

Le dépôt des contributions se fait via EasyChair à l¹adresse suivante :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eltal2019

*Dates importantes :*

   * 12 avril 2019 : date limite de soumission des propositions
   * 3 mai 2019 : notification d'acceptation ou de refus aux auteurs
     (avec relecture)
   * 17 mai 2019 : date limite de retour des versions définitives des
     articles
   * 1 ou 2 juillet (à confirmer) : date de l'atelier ELTAL 2019

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2nd Call for Papers ? ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference - IVA 2019

2-5 July 2019, Paris, France

https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org

The 19th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) will be held on July 2-5 2019 in Paris, France. The conference is organized by CNRS, Sorbonne University and Paris-Saclay University (France), and sponsored by ACM-SIGAI.

The IVA conference started in 1998 as a workshop on Intelligent Virtual Environments at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Brighton, UK, which was followed by a similar one in 1999 in Salford, Manchester, UK. Then dedicated stand-alone IVA conferences took place in Madrid, Spain, in 2001, Irsee, Germany, in 2003, and Kos, Greece, in 2005. Since 2006 IVA has become a full-fledged annual international event, which was first held in Marina del Rey, California, then Paris, France, in 2007, Tokyo, Japan, in 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2011, Santa Cruz, USA, in 2012, Edinburgh, UK, in 2013, Boston, USA, in 2014, Delft, The Netherlands, 2015, Los Angeles, USA, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017. IVA 2018 was held in Sydney, Australia.

PAPER SUBMISSION

We invite submissions of research full papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: theoretical foundations of virtual agents, agent modeling and evaluation, agents in games and simulations, and applications of virtual agents. Extended abstracts presenting late breaking work are also welcome.

IVA 2019 is the 19th meeting of an interdisciplinary annual conference and the main leading scientific forum for presenting research on modeling, developing and evaluating Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) with a focus on communicative abilities and social behavior. IVAs are interactive digital characters that exhibit human-like qualities and can communicate with humans and each other using natural human modalities like facial expressions, speech and gesture. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments. In addition to presentations on theoretical issues, the conference encourages the showcasing of working applications.

IVA 2019?s special topic is ?Social Learning?, that is learning while interaction socially; agents can learn from the humans and humans can learn from the agents. Agents can take different roles such as tutors, peers, motivators, coaches in training and in serious games. They can act as job recruiter, virtual patient, and nurse to name a few applications. With this topic in mind we are seeking closer engagement with industry and also with social psychologists.

For more information, please visit the IVA 2019 website:

https://iva2019.sciencesconf.org

The papers and extended abstracts will be published in the ACM digital library. All submissions will be reviewed via a double-blind review process.

IMPORTANT DATES (23h59 UTC/GMT)

Full papers

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2019

Notification of Acceptance: April 8, 2019

Camera Ready: April 22, 2019

Extended abstracts

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2019

Notification of Acceptance: April 8, 2019

Camera Ready: April 22, 2019

INVITED SPEAKERS

Beatrice de Gelder (Maastricht University)

Rachael Jack (Glasgow University)

Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University)

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA - Bordeaux)

COMMITTEE

Conference Chairs

Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS-ISIR, Sorbonne University, France

Jean-Claude Martin, CNRS-LIMSI, University Paris Saclay, France

Program co-chairs

Gale Lucas, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA

Hendrik Buschmeier, Bielefeld University, Germany

Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany

SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS

IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

List of Topics

Socio-emotional agent models: 

• Cognition, machine learning and adaptation

• Emotion, personality and cultural differences

• Model of emotionally communicative behavior

• Model of conversational behavior

• Model of social skills

• Machine learning for endowing virtual agents with social skills

Multimodal interaction:

• Verbal and nonverbal coordination

• Engagement

• Interpersonal relation

• Multi-party interaction

• Model driven by theoretical foundations from psychology

• Data driven model

Social agent architectures:

• Design criteria and design methodologies

• Real-time human-agent interaction

• Incremental agent control

• Real-time integrated system

Evaluation methods and studies:

• Evaluation methodologies and user studies

• Ethical considerations and societal impact

• Applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics)

• Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior

Applications:

• Social skills training

• Virtual agents in games and simulations

• Applications in education, health, games, art

Social learning:

• Learning in social interaction

• Social skills acquisition model

• Learning in interaction with agents

WARNING: There is a conference called ICIVA 2019 that claims to be the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents in Bali in October 2019. This conference is not the official IVA and is launched by an organization World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology that is unfortunately very famous for its predatory publishing practices.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Academy_of_Science,_Engineering_and_Technology)

Please note that no paper submitted to ICIVA 2019 in Bali will be published in the IVA 2019 proceedings.

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The 12th Annual International Conference on Languages & Linguistics is organanized on 8-11 July 2019, Athens, Greece (Academic Responsible: Dr. Valia Spiliotopoulos, Associate Professor of Professional Practice & Academic Director Centre for English Language Learning, Teaching, and Research (CELLTR), Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada). You are more than welcome to submit a proposal for presentation. The abstract submission deadline is 11 March 2019. You may also send us a stream-panel proposal to be organized as part of the conference.

https://euagenda.eu/events/2019/07/08/12th-annual-international-conference-on-languages-linguistics-811-july-2019-athens-greece

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ACM SIGIR 2019

The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on

Research and Development in Information Retrieval

July 21-25, 2019, Paris, France

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Full Papers

The annual SIGIR conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results, and the demonstration of new systems and techniques, in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The 42nd ACM SIGIR conference, to be held in Paris, France, welcomes contributions related to any aspect of information retrieval and access, including theories, foundations, algorithms, applications, evaluation, and analysis. The conference and program chairs invite those working in areas related to IR to submit original papers for review.

Important Dates  (timezone: anywhere on earth)

Committees

Program chairs

• Yoelle Maarek, Amazon Research, Haifa, Israel
• Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
• Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

General chairs

• Max Chevalier, CNRS &  Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
• Eric Gaussier, CNRS & Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
• Benjamin Piwowarski, CNRS, LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Contact

All questions about full paper submissions should be emailed to sigir2019-pcchairs AT easychair DOT org.

follow us on twitter : @sigir2019

follow us on our web site : http://sigir.org/sigir2019/

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HISTORY: On July 20, 1969 at 20:17 UTC, Earth witnessed one of the most challenging technology accomplishments by mankind to date of NASA Apollo-11 with over 600M people witnessing both the landing and first steps on the moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Next July 2019 marks the 50^th Anniversary of the historical Apollo-11 lunar landing and first steps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

NSF CRSS-UTDallas Project: With support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF-CISE), CRSS-UTDallas has spent the last six years developing a hardware/software solution to digitize and recover all 30-track analog tapes from Apollo-11 (plus Apollo-13 and other missions), as well as development of speech diarization technologies to advance speech technology for such data. A total of 19,000 hours of data consisting of all NASA air-to-ground, mission control, and backroom support team discussions was released this year (news releases from this NSF sponsored project this year include: NSF, NASA, BBC, AIP (Acoustical Society of America), NPR, many on-line news sites, and involvement in a planned CNN documentary where this data is contributing, etc.). To date, this will be the largest publically available audio corpus of time synchronized, team based (~600 people) naturalistic communications to accomplish a real-world task.

ANNOUNCEMNT: This email is to announce the release of the FEARLESS STEPS CHALLENGE corpus, which is being shared for a proposed Special Session at ISCA INTERSPEECH-2019. The attached flyer details the 5 challenge tasks involved:

1. SAD: Speech Activity Detection

2. Speaker Diarization

3. SID: Speaker Identification

4. ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition

5. Sentiment Detection

This challenge corpus consists of 100hours from 5 of the 30-track channels spanning three phases of Apollo-11 mission: (i) lift off, (ii) landing, (iii) lunar walk. All data for this challenge will be available soon via a download option for all to participate (this site has sample audio from the NSF funded project: https://app.exploreapollo.org/ ). In addition, any lab/group wishing to have access to the entire 19,000 hours can do so without charge (this is public data, so it will be available via download, or a small fee for a hard-disk and shipping to your lab).   

While diarization efforts in the past have concentrated on single channel broadcast news, interviews, etc. These all represent typically a single speaker, or small group discussing topics of interest. The FEARLESS STEPS CORPUS is all time synchronized (with IRIG Time Channel) across 30 channels, with loops containing anywhere from 3-33 speakers working collaboratively to solve challenging problems. CRSS-UTDallas has produced full diarization output for the entire 19,000hrs of data (SAD, SID, DIAR/ASR) which is available with the corpus.

REQUEST:  We are proposing a Special Session at ISCA INTERSPEECH-2019. If you have interest in getting access to the FEARLESS STEPS CORPUS and potentially participating in the CHALLENGE, please reply to this email Hansen, John' <john.hansen@utdallas.edu>(an expression of interest does not obligate you to submit, we are simply trying to collect a list of interested researchers for the data). 

Many thanks for your interest!

CRSS-UTDallas Fearless Steps Team

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3^rd INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
 
DeepLearn 2019
 
Warsaw, Poland
 
July 22-26, 2019
 
Co-organized by:
 
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
 
IRDTA ? Brussels/London
 
http://deeplearn2019.irdta.eu/
 
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SCOPE:
 
DeepLearn 2019 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 2 keynote lectures, 24 four-hour and a half 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, DeepLearn 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:
 
DeepLearn 2019 will take place in Warsaw, whose historical Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The venue will be:
 
tba
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications to the Natural Sciences
 
Christopher Bishop (Microsoft Research Cambridge), [introductory] Introduction to the Key Concepts and Techniques of Machine Learning
 
Aaron Courville (University of Montréal), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Generative Models
 
Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Florida), [introductory/intermediate] Feature Extraction, End-end Deep Learning and Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal Extraction, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware
 
Tomas Mikolov (Facebook), [introductory] Using Neural Networks for Modeling and Representing Natural Languages (with Armand Joulin)
 
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
 
Navraj Pannu (GoDaddy), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning and Maximum Likelihood in Structural Biology
 
Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video
 
Björn Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Intelligent Signal Processing
 
Alex Smola (Amazon), tba
 
Ponnuthurai N Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Algorithms for Classification, Forecasting and Visual Tracking
 
Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Kernel Machines
 
Alexey Svyatkovskiy (Princeton University), [introductory/intermediate] From Natural Language Processing to Machine Learning on Source Code
 
Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), [intermediate] Representation Learning in Limited Data Settings
 
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 July 14, 2019.
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning 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 July 14, 2019.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning 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 July 14, 2019.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
?ukasz Kobyli?ski (Warsaw, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
http://deeplearn2019.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 estimation 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 will be available in due time.
 
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:
 
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London

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SPECOM-2019 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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21st International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2019)

Venue: Istanbul, Turkey, August 20-25, 2019

Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru

ORGANIZERS

The conference is organized by Bogazici University (BU, Istanbul, Turkey) in cooperation with St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).

SPECOM-2019 CO-CHAIRS

Albert Ali Salah - Bogazici University, Turkey / Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, Russia

Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Russia

INVITED SPEAKERS

Hynek Hermansky - Johns Hopkins University, USA - 'If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them'

Odette Scharenborg - Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands - 'The representation of speech in the human and artificial brain'

Vanessa Evers - University of Twente, the Netherlands - 'Socially intelligent robotics'

CONFERENCE TOPICS

SPECOM conference is dedicated to issues of speech technology, human-machine interaction, machine learning and signal processing, particularly:

Affective computing

Applications for human-computer interaction

Audio-visual speech processing

Automatic language identification

Computational paralinguistics

Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing

Deep learning for sound and speech processing

Forensic speech investigations and security systems

Multichannel signal processing

Multimedia processing

Multimodal analysis and synthesis

Signal processing and feature extraction

Speaker identification and diarization

Speaker verification systems

Speech and language resources

Speech analytics and audio mining

Speech dereverberation

Speech driving systems in robotics

Speech enhancement

Speech perception and speech disorders

Speech recognition and understanding

Speech translation automatic systems

Spoken dialogue systems

Spoken language processing

Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems

Virtual and augmented reality

SATELLITE EVENT

4th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2019: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2019

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 10 pages formatted in the LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of several independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2019

Papers submitted to SPECOM-2019 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major citation databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP, etc. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for August 2019.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 15, 2019 ............ Submission of full papers

May 15, 2019 ............ Notification of acceptance

June 01, 2019 ............ Camera-ready papers and early registration

Aug. 20-25, 2019 ......... Conference dates

VENUE

The conference will be organized at the at the Bogazici University, South campus, Albert Long Hall.

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

SPECOM-2019 Secretariat:

E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su; salah@boun.edu.tr

SPECOM-2019 web-site: http://www.specom.nw.ru

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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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                       EUSIPCO 2019
          27th European Signal Processing Conference
                     A Coruña, Spain
                   September 2-6, 2019
                   www.eusipco2019.org
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IMPORTANT DATES

- Satellite Workshop Proposals ? February 4, 2019
- Full Paper Submission ? February 18, 2019
- Notification of Acceptance ? May 17, 2019
- Final Manuscript Submission - May 31, 2019

The 2019 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) will be held in the charming
city of A Coruña, Spain, from September 2 to September 6, 2019. This flagship conference
of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) will feature a comprehensive
technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for
signal processing. EUSIPCO 2019 will feature world-class speakers, oral and poster
sessions, plenaries, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, and satellite workshops, and
is expected to attract many leading researchers and industry figures from all over the
world.


TECHNICAL SCOPE

We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including
but not limited to:

- Audio and acoustic signal processing
- Speech and language processing
- Image and video processing
- Multimedia signal processing
- Signal processing theory and methods
- Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
- Signal processing for communications
- Radar and sonar signal processing
- Signal processing over graphs and networks
- Nonlinear signal processing
- Statistical signal processing
- Compressed sensing and sparse modelling
- Optimization methods
- Machine learning
- Bio-medical image and signal processing
- Signal processing for computer vision and robotics
- Computational imaging /spectral imaging
- Information forensics and security
- Signal processing for power systems
- Signal processing for education
- Bioinformatics and genomics
- Signal processing for big data
- Signal processing for the internet of things
- Design/implementation of signal processing systems


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- General Co-Chairs: Mónica F. Bugallo, Stony Brook University, USA; Luis Castedo,
University of A Coruña, Spain
- Technical Program Chairs: Maria Sabrina Greco , University of Pisa, Italy; Marius
Pesavento, University of Darmstadt, Germany
- Publications Co-Chairs: Andrea Ferrari, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France;
Luca Martino, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
- Financial Chair: Ignacio Santamaría, University of Cantabria, Spain
- Special Sessions Co-Chairs: Markus Rupp, Vienna University of Technology, Austria;
Danilo Mandic, Imperial College London, UK
- Tutorials Co-Chairs: Aleksandar Dogand?i?, Iowa State University, USA; Mario A.T.
Figueiredo, University of Lisboa, Portugal
- Satellite Workshops Chair: Wolfgang Utschick, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Students Activities Co-Chairs: Pau Closas, Northeastern University, USA; Jordi
Vilà-Valls, University of Toulouse / ISAE-SUPAERO, France
- Industrial Program Chair: Víctor Elvira, IMT Lille Douai, France
- Publicity Chair: Javier Vía, University of Cantabria, Spain
- International Liaisons: Ke Guan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China; Henry Argüello,
Industrial University of Santander, Colombia
- Local Chair: Roberto López-Valcarce, atlanTTic, University of Vigo, Spain


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Announcements mailing list
https://lists.eurasip.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements

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*********** CALL FOR PAPERS ***********

Text Mining and Applications (TEMA?19) Track of EPIA?19

TeMA 2019 will be held at the 18th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (EPIA 2018) taking place at Vila Real, Portugal, from 3rd
to 6th September 2019. This track is organized under the auspices of
the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
EPIA 2019 URL http://www.epia2019.utad.pt/index.php/call-for-papers
This announcement contains the following information:
[1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates;
[4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7]
Program Committee and [8] Contacts.

[1] Track Description

The 8th edition of the Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2019) track
will be a forum for researchers working in Human Language
Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational
Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining
(TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas.

The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual
documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information
is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in
natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities
for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies.

Following recent advances in general IA sub?fields such as Natural
Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML), text mining is
now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language
theories and effective use of natural language contents, for
harnessing the power of semi?structured and unstructured data, and to
enable important applications in real?world heterogeneous
environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using
text mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions,
and often with high commercial value.

Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues
identified in section [2]. Papers will be blindly reviewed by at least
three members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be
published by Springer in a volume of Springer?s Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the
19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2019.

[2] Topics of Interest

 Topics include but are not limited to:

Text Mining Natural Language Processing, and Social Media Content Analysis

?       Entity Recognition and Disambiguation
?       Relation Extraction
?       Analysis of Opinions, Emotions and Sentiments
?       Text Clustering and Classification
?       Machine Translation
?       Summarization
?       Word Sense Disambiguation
?       Co?Reference Resolution
?       Language Modeling
?       Syntax and Parsing
?       Distributional Models and Semantics
?       Multi?Word Units
?       Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
?       Spatio?Temporal Text Mining
?       Entailment and Paraphrases
?       Natural Language Generation
?       Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage
?       Cross?Lingual Approaches
?       Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining

Applications:

?       Information Retrieval
?       Information Extraction
?       Question?Answering and Dialogue Systems
?       Text?Based Prediction and Forecasting
?       Web Content Annotation
?       Computational Social Science
?       Computational Journalism
?       Health and Well?being
?       Big Data Analysis

[3] Important dates

April 15, 2019: Paper submission deadline
May 31, 2019: Notification of paper acceptance
June 15, 2019: Deadline for camera?ready versions
September 3?6, 2019: Conference dates

[4] Paper submission

Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original,
and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length
of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting
instructions of Springer LNAI series. Authors should omit their names
from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid
indirectly disclosing their identity. References to own work may be
included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. All
papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference
management website at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2019

[5] Track Fees:

 Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2019 conference. No
extra fee shall be paid for attending this track.

[6] Organizing Committee:

Joaquim F. Ferreira da Silva. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Altigran Soares da Silva, Universidade Federal do Amzonas

[7] Program Committee:

Adeline Nazarenko ? University of Paris 13, France
Alberto Diaz ? Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Alberto Simões ? Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal
Alexandre Rademaker ? IBM / FGV, Brazil
Altigran Silva ? Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil
Aline Villavicencio ? Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Antoine Doucet ? University of Caen, France
António Branco ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Béatrice Daille ? University of Nantes, France
Belinda Maia ? Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Bruno Martins ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Eric de La Clergerie ? INRIA, France
Fernando Batista ? Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Francisco Couto ? Faculdade de Ciências ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Gaël Dias ? University of Caen Basse-Normandie
Hugo Oliveira ? Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Irene Rodrigues ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Jesús Vilares ? University of A Coruña, Spain
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva ? Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ?
Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska ? ESIGETEL, France
Luciano Baebosa ? Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Luisa Coheur ? Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Manuel Vilares Ferro ? University of Vigo, Spain
Mário Silva ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Mohand Boughanem ? University of Toulouse III, France
Nuno Marques ? Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Pablo Gamallo ? Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain
Paulo Quaresma ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Pavel Brazdil ? University of Porto, Portugal
Pável Calado ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Sebastião Pais, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Sérgio Nunes ? Faculdade de Engenharia ? Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Vitor Jorge Rocio ? Universidade Aberta, Portugal

 [8] Contacts
Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre,
2829?516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ?
Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ? E?mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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                   TSD 2019 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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               The twenty-second International Conference on
                   TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2019)
                            Ljubljana, Slovenia
                           September 10-13, 2019
                       http://www.tsdconference.org


TSD HIGHLIGHTS

* Keynote speakers:
    Denis Jouvet (Loria, Nancy, France),
    Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex, UK),
    Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University, USA),
    Ryan Cotterell (University of Cambridge, UK).

* TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in
  all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings
  Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc.

* The TSD2019 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2019
  satellite event.

* The TSD2019 conference is supported by the International Speech
  Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA
  Supported Event.

* TSD offers a high-standard transparent review process - double blind,
  final reviewers' discussion.

* TSD is going to take place in the beautiful centre of Ljubljana, the
  capital of Slovenia.

* The conference is organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical
  Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

* TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all
  meals, one social event, etc.) for an easily affordable fee.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 31, 2019 ............... Deadline for submission of contributions
May 10, 2019 ................. Notification of acceptance or rejection
May 31, 2019 ................. Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers

September 10-13, 2019 ........ TSD2019 conference date

The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in form of navigable
content. Printed books will be available for extra fee.


TSD SERIES

The TSD series has evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over
the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by
Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major
citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.


TOPICS

Topics of the 22nd conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech,
    handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of
    feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modeling).

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and
    spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized
    lexicons, dictionaries).

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity
    speech synthesis, computer singing).

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual
    processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text
    labeling, summarization, authorship attribution).

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction,
    information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge
    representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism
    detection).

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine
    translation, natural language understanding, question-answering
    strategies, assistive technologies).

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues).

    Multimodal Techniques and Modeling (video processing, facial animation,
    visual speech synthesis, user modeling, emotion and personality
    modeling).


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2019/index.php?page=committees


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues
related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are
strongly encouraged.


LOCATION

Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital - a city, whose name means `The beloved',
is a great place to visit, although you will not find world renowned
attractions here. Nevertheless, it has history, tradition, style, arts
& culture, an atmosphere that is both Central European and Mediterranean;
many also add the adjectives multilingual and hospitable. Being close to
many of the major sights and attractions of Slovenia, Ljubljana can also be
your starting point to discover the country's diversity.

Ljubljana is situated about halfway between Vienna and Venice. Its
character and appearance have been shaped by diverse cultural influences
and historical events. While in winter it is remarkable for its dreamy
Central European character, it is the relaxed Mediterranean feel that
stands out during summer.

Ljubljana is a picturesque city full of romantic views, with a medieval
castle towering over its historical city centre and a calm river spanned by
a series of beautiful bridges running right through it. It's a city with
a medieval heart, a city of the Baroque and Art Nouveau, with an old castle
resting above it like a sleeping beauty.

In Ljubljana eastern and western cultures met; and the Italian concept of
art combined with the sculptural aesthetics of Central European cathedrals.
The city owes its present appearance partly to Italian baroque and partly
to Art Nouveau, which is the style of the numerous buildings erected
immediately after the earthquake of 1895.

The central point of interest in Ljubljana is the Ljubljana Castle,
watching over the city from the centrally located castle hill. The
beginnings of the medieval castle go back to the 9th century, although the
castle building is first mentioned only in 1144. It gained its present
image after the earthquake of 1511 and following further renovations at the
beginning of the 17th century. At present, a funicular connects the Old
Town to the castle hill, adding an even more convenient access alternative
to the tourist train.

Ljubljana lies at the centre of Slovenia. In the morning you can visit the
stunningly beautiful Lake Bled, Lake Bohinj or Soca Valley in the high
mountainous region of the Alps, and in the evening enjoy the sunset in one
of the charming little towns on the Adriatic coast.
It only takes minutes to reach the peaceful and unspoiled countryside of
the city's green surrounding areas, which offer endless opportunities for
hiking, cycling, fishing and horse riding.

We are very excited of the fact that the TSD conference leaves the Czech
Republic for the first time within its 22-year history and that the TSD2019
is going to take place in such a wonderful location as Ljubljana.


ABOUT CONFERENCE

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Pilsen, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University,
Brno, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.


VENUE

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering - University of Ljubljana
    Trzaska cesta 25
    SI-1000 Ljubljana


CONTACT

The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is
writing an e-mail to:

    Ms Lucie Tauchenova, TSD2019 Conference Secretary
    E-mail: tsd2019@tsdconference.org
    Phone: +420 702 994 699

All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

    TSD2019 - NTIS P2
    Fakulta aplikovanych ved
    Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni
    Univerzitni 8
    CZ-306 14 Plzen
    Czech Republic

    Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with large
    capitals 'TSD' on top.

TSD2019 conference website: http://www.tsdconference.org/

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 ICNLSP 2019  , the third edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing will be held on September 12th, 13th 2019 at the  university of Trento , Italy.

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Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019: TTS without T

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ASVspoof 2019 CHALLENGE:
Future horizons in spoofed/fake audio detection
http://www.asvspoof.org/ 
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Can you distinguish computer-generated or replayed speech from authentic/bona fide speech? Are you able to design algorithms to detect spoofs/fakes automatically?

Are you concerned with the security of voice-driven interfaces?

Are you searching for new challenges in machine learning and signal processing?

Join ASVspoof 2019 ? the effort to develop next-generation countermeasures for the automatic detection of spoofed/fake audio. In combining the forces of leading research institutes and industry, ASVspoof 2019 encompasses two separate sub-challenges in logical and physical access control, and provides a common database of the most advanced spoofing attacks to date. The aim is to study both the limits and opportunities of spoofing countermeasures in the context of automatic speaker verification and fake audio detection.

CHALLENGE TASK

Given a short audio clip, determine whether it represents authentic/bona fide human speech, or a spoof/fake (replay, synthesized speech or converted voice). You will be provided with a large database of labelled training and development data and will develop machine learning and signal processing countermeasures to distinguish automatically between the two. Countermeasure performance will be evaluated jointly with an automatic speaker verification (ASV) system provided by the organisers.

BACKGROUND:
The ASVspoof 2019 challenge follows on from two previous ASVspoof challenges, held in 2015 and 2017. The 2015 edition focused on spoofed speech generated with text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) technologies. The 2017 edition focused on replay spoofing. The 2019 edition is the first to address all three forms attack and the latest, cutting-edge spoofing attack technology.

ADVANCES:

Today?s state-of-the-art, TTS and VC technologies produce speech signals that are as good as perceptually indistinguishable from bona fide speech. The LOGICAL ACCESS sub-challenge aims to determine whether the advances in TTS and VC pose a greater threat to the reliability of automatic speaker verification and spoofing countermeasure technologies. The PHYSICAL ACCESS sub-challenge builds upon the 2017 edition with a far more controlled evaluation setup which extends the focus of ASVspoof to fake audio detection in, e.g. the manipulation of voice-driven interfaces (smart speakers).

METRICS:

The 2019 edition also adopts a new metric, the tandem detection cost function (t-DCF). Adoption of the t-DCF metric aligns ASVspoof more closely to the field of ASV. The challenge nonetheless focuses on the development of standalone spoofing countermeasures; participation in ASVspoof 2019 does NOT require any expertise in ASV. The equal error rate (EER) used in previous editions remains as a secondary metric, supporting the wider implications of ASVspoof involving fake audio detection.

SCHEDULE:

Training and development data release: 19th December 2018

Evaluation data release: 15th February 2019

Deadline to submit evaluation scores: 22nd February 2019

Organisers return results to participants: 15th March 2019

INTERSPEECH paper submission deadline: 29th March 2019

REGISTRATION:

Registration should be performed once only for each participating entity and by sending an email to registration@asvspoof.org with ?ASVspoof 2019 registration? as the subject line. The mail body should include: (i) the name of the team; (ii) the name of the contact person; (iii) their country; (iv) their status (academic/non-academic), and (v) the challenge scenario(s) for which they wish to participate (indicative only). Data download links will be communicated to registered contact persons only.

MAILING LIST:

Subscribe to general mailing list by sending e-mail with subject line ?subscribe asvspoof2019? to sympa@asvspoof.org. To post messages to the mailing list itself, send e-mails to asvspoof2019@asvspoof.org

ORGANIZERS^*:

Junichi Yamagishi, NII, Japan & Univ. of Edinburgh, UK

Massimiliano Todisco, EURECOM, France

Md Sahidullah, Inria, France

Héctor Delgado, EURECOM, France

Xin Wang, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Nicholas Evans, EURECOM, France

Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Kong Aik Lee, NEC, JAPAN

Ville Vestman, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

* Equal contribution

CONTRIBUTORS:

University of Edinburgh, UK; Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, University of Science and Technology of China, China; iFlytek Research, China; Saarland University / DFKI GmbH, Germany; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan; HOYA, Japan; Google LLC (Text-to-Speech team, Google Brain team, Deepmind); University of Avignon, France; Aalto University, Finland; University of Eastern Finland, Finland; EURECOM, France.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

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SpeD 2019 Organizing Committee invites you to attend the 10th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, at Timisoara, Romania. SpeD 2019 celebrates its 10th edition by extending the topics of interest from spoken language technology and human-computer dialogue towards broader, related domains: multimodal signal processing, biosecurity, human-robot interaction and embedded systems.

Furthermore, ?SpeD 2019? conference and international forum will reflect some of the latest tendencies in machine learning for audio, speech, image and multimodal information processing, biometrics and security for IoT, intelligent robots and embedded systems. ?SpeD 2019? will also focus on the most recent applications in these domains.

The series of ?SpeD? conferences is sponsored by IEEE and EURASIP. As all previous editions since 2009, ?SpeD 2019? Proceedings will be indexed by the IEEE Xplore and by Thomson Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

Topics:

• Speech Analysis, Representation and Models
• Spoken Language Recognition and Understanding
• Computational Resource Constrained Speech Recognition
• Text-to-Speech Synthesis
• Speech-to-Speech Translation
• Affective Speech Recognition, Interpretation and Synthesis
• Speaker Identification and Diarization
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning for Speech and Speaker Recognition
• Speech Enhancement
• Natural Language Processing
• Speech and Language Resources ? Data Collection, Transcription and Annotation
• Spoken Dialogue Systems
• Speech Interface Design and Human Factors Engineering
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Speech Disorders and Voice Pathologies
• Educational / Healthcare Applications
• Assistive Technologies
• Forensic Speech Investigations and Security Systems
• Speaker Recognition in Biometric Systems and Security
• Biosecurity in Man-Machine Interfaces
• IoT Security
• Speech Emotion Recognition ? Technologies and Applications
• Speech Interface Implementation for Embedded / Network-Based Applications
• Audio-Visual Speech Processing
• Multimodal Information Retrieval
• Multivariate Information Analysis
• Applications for Multimodal and Multimedia Processing
• Compressed Sensing (for Speech and/or Image Processing)
• Intelligent Robots and Human-Robot Interaction
• Cyber-physical Systems
• Machine Learning Applications for Embedded Systems
• Applications of Modeling, Simulation and Verification in Automotive

Schedule:

• Paper submission (6 to 10 pages, IEEE format): June 17, 2019.
• Notification of acceptance and reviewers? comments: September 9, 2019.
• Submission of final papers: September 23, 2019.
• Conference: October 10-12, 2019.

Conference website: https://sped.pub.ro/'

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Call for Workshops

The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019) will be held in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, during October 14-18, 2019. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. The theme of the ICMI 2019 conference is Multimodal representation of human behavior in context. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:

• Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction

• Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology

• Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data

• Human-Habitat for Health

• Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction

• Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents

• Child Computer Interaction

• Multimodal Interaction for Education

We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.).

The format, style, and content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM.

Submission

Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Hongwei Ding (hwding@sjtu.edu.cn), Carlos Busso (busso@utdallas.edu) and Tadas Baltrusaitis (tadyla@gmail.com). The proposal should include the following:

• Workshop title

• List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies

• Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact

• Tentative list of keynote speakers

• Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program

• Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation

• Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)

• Paper submission and acceptance deadlines

• Special space and equipment requests, if any

Important Dates

• Workshop proposal submission: Saturday, February 16, 2019

• Notification of acceptance: Saturday, March 2, 2019

• Workshop Date: Monday, October 14, 2019

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Call for Papers

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Second International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia, October 21-25, 2019, Nice, France

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Nice, France together with ACM Multimedia 2019. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:

– annotation and indexing

– athlete and object tracking

– activity recognition, classification and evaluation

– event detection and indexing

– performance assessment

– injury analysis and prevention

– data driven analysis in sports

– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

– automated training assistance

– camera pose and motion tracking

– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions

Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of the paper.

Please refer to the workshop website for further information:

http://multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2019/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                           July 8, 2019

Acceptance Notification:             August 5, 2019

Camera Ready Submission:        August 19, 2019

Workshop Date:                           TBA; either Oct 21 or Oct 25, 2019

____________________________________________

Prof. Dr. Rainer Lienhart

Multimedia Computing & Computer Vision

Institut für Informatik, Universität Augsburg

Informatik Building N, Room # 1013

Universitätsstr. 6 a, 86159 Augsburg, Germany

email: Rainer.Lienhart@informatik.uni-augsburg.de

phone: +49 (821) 598-5703 cell: +49 (163) 960 5367

Skype: skype@videoanalysis.org. Threema oder FaceTime

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 Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie  UMR 7018 CNRS/Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle 
 
‘R-atics6   [paʁi] 7th - 8th November 2019

 ‘R-atics6 The Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology of the Université Sorbonne nouvelle organizes the ’R-atics 6 colloquium in Paris the 7th and 8th November 2019. ‘R-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning r sounds and has been previously organized in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Bruxelles (Belgium), Bozen (Italy), Grenoble (France) and Leeuwarden (Nethrelands). This is an international mid-size specific conference that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological and sociolinguistic aspects of rhotics. The 2019 edition will propose to emphasize, in addition to the usual themes, r's in indigenous languages and the automatic treatment of rhotic consonants variation.

Invited speakers 

Martine Adda-Dekker: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle & Limsi CNRS

Koen Sebreghts: University of Utrecht 

Moges Yigezu: University of Addis Ababa Organizing committee  

Didier Demolin: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle  

Alexis Dehais Underdown: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle 

Cédric Gendrot: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle 

Naomi Yamaguchi: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle

Key dates 

Abstract deadline: 1st July 2019. 

Authors notification: 15th July 2019 

Registration: 30th September 2019 

Colloquium: 7th-8th November 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite contributions specifically to any theme concerning the r and the two themes chosen for this edition: 'r's in indigenous languages and the automatic treatment of the variation of rhotics'.
 


the diversity of r realizations 

the socio-phonetic aspects of r realizations 

the production the perception of rhotics in a language or in a language family 

the description of rhotics in the world’s languages 

the phonological status of r sounds 

issues in the acquisition of rhotics in L1 and L2  

aspects of corrective phonetics in the pronunciation of r sounds 

r sounds in clinical phonetics
 
Abstracts of 500 words (plus bibliographic references) should be sent in PDF format to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ratics6 by 1 July 2019. Authors will take care to anonymize their communication (do not indicate names and affiliations of authors, do not refer directly to one’s own publications) and specify the type of presentation (oral, poster, indifferent).

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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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LREC 2020, 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -
Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
11-16 May 2020

Main Conference: 13-14-15 May 2020
Workshops and Tutorials: 11-12 & 16 May 2020

Conference web site: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/
Twitter: @LREC2020


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 12th edition of LREC, organised with the support of national and international organisations among which AFCP, AILC, ATALA, CLARIN, ILCB, LDC, ...

CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy issues as well as to scientific/technological and organisational ones.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LT) and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data

•     Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
•     Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
•     Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
•     Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
•     LRs and Semantic Web (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.)
•     LRs and Crowdsourcing
•     Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up

Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications

•     Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
•     LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
•     Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
•     Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
•     Industrial LRs requirements
•     User needs, LT for accessibility

LRs in the age of deep neural networks

•     Semi-supervised, weakly-supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches
•     Representation Learning for language
•     Techniques for (semi-)automatically generating training data
•     Cross-language NLP & Cross-domain NLP with reduction of human effort

Issues in LT evaluation

•     LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
•     Validation and quality assurance of LRs
•     Benchmarking of systems and products
•     Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
•     User satisfaction evaluation

General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation

•     International and national activities, projects and initiatives
•     Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
•     Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
•     Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
•     Replicability and reproducibility issues
•     Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues

LREC 2020 HOT TOPICS

Less Resourced and Endangered Languages
Special attention will be devoted to less resourced and endangered languages: it is expected that LREC2020 makes room to activities carried out to support indigenous languages, building on the United Nations/UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages being celebrated in 2019.

Language and the Brain
Studying the neural basis of language helps in understanding both language processing and the brain mechanisms. LREC2020 will encourage all submissions addressing language and the brain. Among possible subtopics, submissions could focus on new datasets and resources (neuroimaging, controlled corpora, lexicons, etc.), methods aiming at new multimodal experimentations (e.g. EEG in virtual reality), language processing applications (e.g. brain decoding, brain-computer interfaces), etc.

Machine/Deep Learning
The availability of LRs is a key element of the development of high quality Human Language Technologies based on AI/Machine Learning approaches, and LREC is the best place to get access to this data, in many languages and for many domains. In addition to submissions addressing ML issues based on large quantities of data, those applied to languages for which only small, noisy or sparse data exist are also most welcomed.

DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRs!
In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map ? now a normal step in the submission procedure of many conferences ? LREC recognises the importance of sharing resources and making them available to the community.
When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special LREC repository set up by ELRA. Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before the conference, to be re-used, compared, analysed. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize.
We will also organise an Industrial Track and a Reproducibility Track: for these there will be separate Calls.

SUBMISSIONS AND DATES

Submission of oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 25 November 2019

    LREC2020 asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed) , which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet which will be available on the conference website. Papers must be submitted through the LREC2020 submission platform (it uses START from Softconf) and will be peer-reviewed.

Submission of proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels: 24 October 2019

    Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC website and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.

PROCEEDINGS

The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format.

There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered.

LREC 2010, LREC 2012 and LREC 2014 Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. The other editions are being processed.

LREC Proceedings are indexed in Scopus (Elsevier).

Substantially extended versions of papers selected by reviewers as the most appropriate will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal published by Springer (a SCI-indexed journal).

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Frédéric Béchet ? LIS-CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille- France
Philippe Blache ? CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, Marseille- France
Christopher Cieri ? Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA
Khalid Choukri ? ELRA, Paris - France
Thierry Declerck ? DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Hitoshi Isahara ? Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi - Japan
Bente Maegaard ? Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Denmark
Joseph Mariani ? LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay - France
Asuncion Moreno ? Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain
Jan Odijk ? UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands
Stelios Piperidis ? Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece

CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Sara Goggi ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy
Hélène Mazo ? ELDA/ELRA, Paris - France

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Dear SProSIG Members,

We are pleased to announce that the 2020 Speech Prosody conference

will be held in Tokyo, tentatively in late May or early June.

Also, there are two upcoming special sessions relating to prosody, at

ICPhs 2019, with submission deadlines for both of December 4:

'Interacting Channels of Speech - Tune and Text'

https://timo-roettger.weebly.com/icphs---tune-and-text.html and

'Modeling Meaning-Bearing Configurations of Prosodic Features'

http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/pconstructions/icphs-configs.html .

We'd also like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves, the

incoming officers of SProSig for 2018-2020: namely Martine Grice,

Plinio Barbosa, Hongwei Ding, Aoju Chen and myself.  We look forward

to serving the membership and are eager to hear your ideas and

suggestions.

Finally, the SProSIG mailing list is now hosted at the University of

Texas at El Paso. Subscription/unsubscription instructions are below.

Mailings will continue to be infrequent and focus on conference

announcements and the like. If you have such information to share,

please contact any of us.

Hongwei Ding, Aoju Chen, Martine Grice, Plinio Barbosa, Nigel Ward

Speech Prosody Special Interest Group  www.sprosig.org

This mail was sent through the SProSIG mailing list, which is for

announcements of interest to the speech prosody research community.

Subscribe/unsubscribe at http://listserv.utep.edu/mailman/listinfo/sprosig

Nigel Ward, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

CCSB 3.0408,  +1-915-747-6827

nigel@utep.edu    http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/   

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