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ISCApad #252 |
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 by Chris Wellekens |
2-1 | A message from our President John Hansen Dear ISCA members: Welcome to the next installment of the ISCApad for June 2019! This edition has a number of updates from the community including upcoming meetings, job openings, theses, and announcements.
Interspeech-2019: [http://www.interspeech2019.org/] will take place September 15-19, 2019, in Graz, AUSTRIA, with the theme being: Crossroads of Speech and Language.The Technical Program Meeting (TPC) have taken place (June 6-7, 2019 in Graz, Austria) and paper decisions will be communicated this morning. More than 2100 initial papers were entered with 1829 papers going out for reviews. ISCA thanks all those who participated in the Interspeech-2019 review process (your service is GREATLY appreciated!).
INTERSPEECH-2019 Events/Highlights: I would also like to point out some additional items taking place at Interspeech-2019…
ISCA Elections: The ISCA Board is represented by 14 volunteers who are elected by the worldwide ISCA Membership. Members are elected for a four year term, with elections taking place every two years for approximately half of the members. This year, ISCA held their election with an open call for nominations, and formal online election process. The ISCA Board election process is now completed, and I am happy to report that the six following candidates have been elected (three new members, and three returning members), and will assume their responsibilities after the ISCA General Assembly at INTERSPEECH-2019. Sebastian Moller Nobuaki Minematsu Margaret Zellers Torbjorn Svendsen Jianhua Tao John H.L. Hansen
completing their service this fall at INTERSPEECH-2019.
Supporting Diversity in Speech Communication: ISCA has launched a new area on the ISCA website to support diversity in speech communication. This is intended to offer opportunities for organizers of workshops and conferences to help expand diversity representation in terms of geographic, gender, and topic/specialization. Please visit the ISCA website to learn more! https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/
ISCA Commitment to our Membership: ISCA is committed to promoting a safe, supportive, and professional experience for all peoples to work and contribute to advancing the field of speech communications. To this end, the ISCA Board is currently developing and expanding several documents to articulate our support: (1) Code-of-Ethics for Authors (e.g., addressing data issues, (self-)plagiarism, copyright, human right issues), as well as . (2) Code-of-Conduct for Conference Attendees (e.g., addressing harassment and discrimination based on on gender, race, religion, etc.) If you have any suggestions, please contact us.
As always, we welcome feedback and input from the ISCA community – if you have suggestions for our society or want to be involved, please let us know!
We look forward to your participation in ISCA and Interspeech-2019!
John H.L. Hansen, ISCA President
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2-2 | Call for reviewers: ACTION REQUIRED At the start of this new year 2019, we invite you to update your contact and If you are one of the people who have multiple START IDs with different emails, please let us know your preferred username and we will see about cleaning this up. We are also updating the reviewer base in anticipation of Interspeech 2019. People should nominate themselves via the ISCA reviewer
portal. https://isca-speech.org/iscareviewers/reviewer.php
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2-3 | Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferencesVideo archives are available in
http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/video-archive
where keynote speeches from IS 2010 can be seen. You will also find video archives
of many other conferences.
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2-4 | ISCA Archive Analysis: a never ending story! The article 'Rediscovering 25 Years of Discoveries in Spoken Language Processing: A Preliminary ISCA Archive Analysis', published at Interspeech 2013 on the occasion of the ESCA/ISCA Silver Jubilee, has been extended to the production and analysis of the NLP4NLP corpus containing close to 65,000 articles published in major conferences and journals in speech and language processing over 50 years (1965-2015) on various aspects (publication, collaboration, citation, innovation, plagiarism,...). The results of those analyses have recently been assembled in a series of two papers published in a special issue on 'Mining Scientific Papers: NLP-enhanced Bibliometrics' of the 'Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics' journal :
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2-5 | Access to ICASSP 2019 papers. All ICASSP-2019 papers are now downloadable from IEEExplore for everyone (not just Explore members), but only for a 30-day period, ending mid-May.
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2-6 | Video of Interspeech 2018 keynotes video of Interspeech 2018 keynotes is uploaded on ISCA website
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2-7 | Women in Speech Research
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