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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