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Tuesday, July 09, 2019 by Chris Wellekens

7 Journals
7-1Special issue of JSTSP on Far-Field Speech Processing in the Era of Deep Learning Speech enhancement, Separation and Recognition

Special Issue on

Far-Field Speech Processing in the Era of Deep Learning
Speech Enhancement, Separation and Recognition

Far-field speech processing has become an active field of research due to recent scientific advancements and its widespread use in commercial products. This field of research deals with speech enhancement and recognition using one or more microphones placed at a distance from one or more speakers. Although the topic has been studied for a long time, recent successful applications (starting with Amazon Echo) and challenge activities (CHiME and REVERB) greatly accelerated progress in this field. Concurrently, deep learning has created a new paradigm that has led to major breakthroughs both in front-end signal enhancement, extraction, and separation, as well as in back-end speech recognition. Furthermore more deep learning provides a means of jointly optimizing all components of far-field speech processing in an end-to-end fashion. This special Issue is a forum to gather the latest findings in this very active field of research, which is of high relevance for the audio and acoustics, speech and language, and machine learning for signal processing communities. This issue is an official post-activity of the ICASSP 2018 special session 'Multi-Microphone Speech Recognition' and the 5th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-5 challenge).

Topics of interest in this special issue include (but are not limited to): 

  • Multi-/single-channel speech enhancement (e.g., dereverberation, noise reduction, separation)
  • Multi-/single-channel noise robust speech recognition
  • Far-field speech processing systems
  • End-to-end integration of speech enhancement, separation, and/or recognition
Prospective authors should follow the instructions given on the IEEE JSTSP webpage, and submit their manuscript through the web submission system.

Guest Editors

  • Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Shoko Araki, NTT, Japan
  • Michiel Bacchiani, Google, USA
  • Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Paderborn University, Germany
  • Michael L. Seltzer, Facebook, USA

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline November 10, 2018
  • 1st review completed: January 15, 2019
  • Revised manuscript due: March 15, 2019
  • 2nd review completed: May 15, 2019
  • Final manuscript due: June 15, 2019
  • Publication: August 2019



 
 
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7-2Topical Issue on Intelligent Methods for Textual Information Retrieval

Topical Issue on Intelligent Methods for Textual Information Retrieval
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Call for Papers: www.degruyter.com/page/1831
Submission deadline: 20th February 2019
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EDITED BY
Guest Editors:
Adrian-Gabriel Chifu, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Sébastien Fournier, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Advisory Editor:
Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS, France
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DESCRIPTION
Machine learning approaches for intelligent text mining and retrieval are actively
studied by researchers in natural language processing, information retrieval and other
related fields. While supervised methods usually attain much better performance than
unsupervised methods, they also require annotated data which is not always available or
easy to obtain. Hence, we encourage the submission of supervised, unsupervised or hybrid
methods for intelligent text retrieval tasks. Methods studying alternative learning
paradigms, e.g. semi-supervised learning, weakly-supervised learning, zero-shot learning,
but also transfer learning, are very welcome as well.
This thematic special issue covers three research areas: natural language processing,
computational linguistics and information retrieval. The submissions may address, but are
not limited to, the following topics:
?        information retrieval
?        information extraction
?        query processing
?         word sense disambiguation/discrimination
?         machine learning in NLP
?         sentiment analysis and opinion mining
?         contradiction and controversy detection
?         social media
?         summarization
?         text mining
?         text categorization and clustering
The submitted papers will undergo peer review process before they can be accepted.
Notification of acceptance will be communicated as we progress with the review process.
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HOW TO SUBMIT
Before submission authors should carefully read the Instruction for Authors:
www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/s22991093_Instruction_for_Authors.pdf
Manuscripts can be written in TeX, LaTeX (strongly recommended) - the journal?s LATEX
template. Please note that we do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. Text files can be
also submitted as standard DOCUMENT (.DOC) which is acceptable if the submission in LATEX
is not possible. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload
their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file.

All submissions to the Topical Issue must be made electronically via online submission
system Editorial Manager:
www.editorialmanager.com/opencs/
All manuscripts will undergo the standard peer-review procedure (single blind, at least
two independent reviews). When entering your submission via online submission system
please choose the article type ?TI on Information Retrieval?.

The deadline for submission is 20th February 2019, but individual papers will be reviewed
and published online on an ongoing basis.

Contributors to the Topical Issue will benefit from:
?        NO submission and publication FEES
?         indexation by Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science (ESCI) and SCOPUS
?         fair and constructive peer review provided by experts in the field
?         no space constraints
?         convenient, web-based paper submission and tracking system ? Editorial Manager
?         free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions
?         fast online publication upon completing the publishing process
?         better visibility due to Open Access
?         long-term preservation of the content (articles archived in Portico)
?         extensive post-publication promotion for selected papers
In case of any questions please contact Dr. Justyna ?uk, Managing Editor,
Justyna.Zuk@degruyteropen.com.We are looking forward to your submission.

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7-3Journal on data semantics, special issue: big data semantics

JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS
SPECIAL ISSUE: BIG DATA SEMANTICS
Call for papers
The complexity of Big Data applications in conjunction with the lack of standards for representing their components, computations, and processes, have made the design of data-intensive applications a failure prone and resource-intensive activity. One of the reasons behind it can be identified in a lack of sound modeling practices. Indeed, multiple components and procedures must be coordinated to ensure a high level of data quality and accessibility for the application layers, e.g. data analytics and reporting. We believe that a major challenges of Big Data research requires - even more than developing new analytics - devising innovative data management techniques capable to deliver functional and non-functional properties like among others: data quality, data integration, metadata discovery, reconciliation and augmentation, model compliance, or regulatory compliance.
Data Semantics research can address such challenges in future research according to the FAIR principles, for implementing design procedures that generate Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable data. Methods, principles, and perspectives developed by the Data Semantics community can significantly contribute to this goal. Solutions for integrating and querying schema-less data, for example, have received much attention. Standards for metadata management have been proposed to improve data integration among silos and to make data more discoverable and accessible through heterogeneous infrastructures. A further level of application of Data Semantics principles into Big Data technologies involves Representing Processes, i.e. representing the entire pipeline of technologies connected to achieve a specific solution and make this representation shareable and verifiable to support a mature implementation of the Big Data production cycle. This special issue of the Journal on Data Semantics aims at sharing research and practical achievements in the field of Big Data integration, storage, and processing. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
? Big Data Management
? Metadata Management
? Big Data Persistence and Preservation
? Big Data Quality and Provenance Control
? Big Data Storage and Retrieval
? Big Data Integration Architectures and Techniques
? Data Source Discovery
? Big Data Profiling and Semantics Discovery
? Querying Heterogeneous Big Data Repositories
? Caching and Materializing Query Results
? Quality of Big Data Services
? Big Data Service Performance Evaluation
? Big Data Service Reliability and Availability
? Reproducibility of Big Data Services
? Verifiability of Big Data Services
? Assurance in Big Data Services
? Big Data Visualization
? Real Time Visualisation
? Visualization Analytics for Big Data
? Big Social Media Mining
? Big Data Security and Privacy
? Big Data System Security and Integrity
? Big Data Information Security
? Privacy-Preserving Big Data Analytics
? Usable Security and Privacy for Big Data
? Performance of Big Data Architectures
? Query Optimization
? Optimal Selection of Analytics
? Physical Structures

Guest Editors
Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Sylvio Barbon Junior, State University of Londrina, Brazil

Editorial Board
Antonia Azzini, T2C, Italy
Clodis Boscarioli, State University of West Paraná - UNIOESTE, Brazil Fadila Bentayeb, Université Lyon 2, France
Omar Boussaid, Université Lyon 2, France
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Jerome Darmont, Université Lyon 2, France
Luke Immes, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Mariangela Lazoi, University of Salento, Italy
Marcello Leida, StrabioDB, Spain
M. Teresa Gómez López, University of Seville, Spain
Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Czech Republic
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Darja Solodovnikova, University of Latvia, Latvia
Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil Fadi Zaraket, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão, State University of Londrina, Brazil

Timetable:
20 May 2019 - paper submission
10 July 2019 - author notification
31 August 2019 - revision submission
31 October 2019 - final acceptance notification
10 December 2019 - camera-ready submission

Submission Guidelines
JoDS is looking for high-quality papers on any topic relevant to the journal, including regular papers, survey papers, industry papers, short papers, position papers, and reports.
Submissions should contain original material that has not been submitted or published elsewhere. The submission should include an abstract and keywords, authors, and specify which author serves as contact author.All submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions have to be formatted according to the journal?s guidelines at http://www.springer.com/13740
and have to be uploaded into Springer?s Electronic Management System at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jods
JoDS is abstracted/indexed in: Google Scholar, DBLP, OCLC, Summon by ProQuest. Selected sample articles are available at http://www.springer.com/13740
ISSN: 1861-2032 (print version) ISSN: 1861-2040 (electronic version)

Any questions should be addressed to the Guest Editors
Paolo Ceravolo, paolo.ceravolo@unimi.it
Robert Wrembel, robert.wrembel@cs.put.poznan.pl
Sylvio Barbon Junior, barbon@uel.br

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7-4IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Automatic Assessment of Health Disorders Based on Voice, Speech and Language Processing

IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on
Automatic Assessment of Health Disorders Based on
Voice, Speech and Language Processing


The main aim of this special issue is to offer a forum that facilitates professional exchange of knowledge related to signal processing and machine learning methods for the assessment of a variety of health disorders related to voice and speech, and presentation of the recent research advances in the field. The scope of this special issue covers many aspects of voice and speech modelling and analysis, ranging from fundamental research to all kinds of advanced technologies and biomedical applications.

The scope of acceptable topics includes but is not limited to:

  • Automatic detection of voice disorders from speech, electroglottographic signals and other associated sequences (e.g., air flow measurements, electromyographic signals, etc.)  
  • Signal processing techniques to extract new biomarkers from speech and the associated signals
  • Automatic assessment and classification of voice quality by machine learning approaches
  • New strategies for parameterization and modelling of normal and pathological voices (e.g., biomechanical-based parameters, complexity modelling, etc)
  • Speech enhancement for pathological and oesophageal speech
  • Technical aids and hands-free devices: vocal prostheses and aids for the disabled
  • Assessment of voice quality in rehabilitation
  • Non-speech vocal emissions (e.g., infant cry, snoring)
  • Multi-modal analysis of disordered voice and speech
  • Automatic assessment and differential evaluation of neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer?s, Parkinson, epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia) from voice and speech
  • Detection and evaluation of depression, stress, mood and risk of suicide from speech and associated signals   
  • Processing and analysis of elderly speech and early detection of dementia
  • Interaction of speech disorders with hearing impairments
  • Computer-based diagnostic and training systems for voice and speech dysfunctions
  • e-health and m-health applications  
  • Child speech in typical and atypical language acquisition

This special issue aims at offering an interdisciplinary platform for presenting new knowledge in the assessment of voice and health disorders from speech. The emphases are on both basic and applied research related to the monitoring of voice and speech production status, as well as clinical evaluation of new developments.

In addition to topic-specific research results, we invite high-quality submissions of tutorial or overview nature. We also welcome creative papers outside the areas listed above but related to the overall scope of the special issue. Prospective authors can contact the Guest Editors to ascertain interest on topics that are not listed above.

Prospective authors should follow the instructions given on the IEEE JSTSP webpages and submit their manuscript to the web submission system.

 

Important Dates

  • Manuscript submission: May 1, 2019                        
  • First review completed: July 1, 2019                   
  • Revised Manuscript Due: Sept 1, 2019
  • Second Review Completed: Oct 15, 2019
  • Final Manuscript Due: December 1, 2019                     
  • Publication: February 2020

 

Guest Editors


 


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7-5IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Compact Deep Neural Networks with Industrial Applications (updated)

IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on

Compact Deep Neural Networks with
Industrial Applications


Artificial neural networks have been adopted for a broad range of tasks in areas like multimedia analysis and processing, media coding, data analytics, etc. Their recent success is based on the feasibility of processing much larger and complex deep neural networks (DNNs) than in the past, and the availability of large-scale training data sets. As a consequence, the large memory footprint of trained neural networks and the high computational complexity of performing inference cannot be neglected. Many applications require the deployment of a particular trained network instance, potentially to a larger number of devices, which may have limitations in terms of processing power and memory e.g., for mobile devices or Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For such applications, compact representations of neural networks are of increasing relevance.

This special issue aims to feature recent work related to techniques and applications of compact and efficient neural network representations. It is expected that these works will be of interest to both academic researchers and industrial practitioners, in the fields of machine learning, computer vision and pattern recognition, media data processing, as well as fields such as AI hardware design etc. In spite of active research in the area, there are still open questions to be clarified concerning, for example, how to train neural networks with optimal performance while achieving compact representations, and how to achieve representations that do not only allow for compact transmission, but also for efficient inference.  This special issue therefore solicits original and innovative works to address these open questions in, but not limited to, following topics:

  • Sparsification, binarization, quantization, pruning, thresholding and coding of neural networks
  • Efficient computation and acceleration of deep convolutional neural networks
  • Deep neural network computation for low power consumption applications
  • Exchange formats and industrial standardization of compact & efficient neural networks
  • Applications e.g. video & media compression methods using compressed DNNs
  • Performance evaluation and benchmarking of compressed DNNs


Prospective authors should follow the instructions given on the IEEE JSTSP webpages and submit their manuscript to the web submission system.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: 1 July 2019
  • First Review: 1 August 2019
  • Revisions due: 1 October 2019
  • Second Review: 15 November 2019
  • Final Manuscripts: 10 January 2020
  • Publication: March 2020 

Guest Editors

  • Diana Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Lixin Fan, JD.COM, Silicon Valley Labs, USA (Lead GE)
  • Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, Austria
  • Yurong Chen, Intel Labs China, China


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7-6ACM Transactions on Internet Technology-Special Section on Computational Modeling and Understanding of Emotions in Conflictual Social Interactions

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)

Special Section on Computational Modeling and Understanding of Emotions in Conflictual Social Interactions 

 

Call for Papers: https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-ECSI-ext.pdf

Paper Submission Deadline: 31st March 2019

Author Guidelines and Templates: https://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm 

Paper Submission Website: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/toit 

 

The expression of social, cultural and political opinions in social media often features a strong affective component, especially when it occurs in highly-polarized contexts (e.g., in discussions on political elections, migrants, civil rights, and so on). In particular, hate speech is recognized as an extreme, yet typical, expression of opinion, and it is increasingly intertwined with the spread of defamatory, false stories. Current approaches for monitoring and circumscribing the spread of these phenomena mostly rely on simple affective models that do not account for emotions as complex cognitive, social and cultural constructs behind linguistic behavior. 

In particular, moral emotions possess a potential for advancing sentiment analysis in social media, especially since they provide insights on the motivations behind hate speech. Understanding these affective dynamics is important also for modelling human behavior in social settings that involve other people and artificial agents, as well as for designing socially-aware artificial systems.

How can we include finer grained accounts of emotions in computational models of interpersonal and social interactions, with the goal of monitoring and dealing with conflicts in social media and agent interactions? How can we leverage the recent advances in machine learning and reasoning techniques to design more effective computational models of interpersonal and social conflict? We invite contributions that address the foregoing questions by presenting enhanced computational models and processing methods.

 

INDICATIVE TOPICS OF INTEREST 

 

Computational models of emotions 

Moral emotions (e.g. contempt, anger and disgust) in conflictual social interactions

Affective dynamics in human-human and human-agent conflictual interactions 

Interplay of emotions in conflictual interactions

Dimensional and categorical emotion models in conflict representation

 

Automatic processing of affect in polarized debates on social media

Stance and hate speech detection

Affect in online virality and fake news detection

Opinions and arguments on highly controversial topics

Linguistic and multimodal corpora for affect analysis in conflictual interactions

Figurative and rhetorical devices in social contrasts

 

Applications

Conflict detection and hate speech monitoring in political debates

Conflict-aware and conflict-oriented conversational agents

Integration of social cues in human-agent interaction strategies 

Conflict-aware agents in pedagogical and coaching applications 

 

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND GUIDELINES

 

Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript and submission instructions can be found at: https://toit.acm.org/authors.cfm 

Please select ?Computational Modeling and Understanding of Emotions in Conflictual Social Interactions? under Manuscript Type dropdown in the Manuscript Central website.

 

Submission: 31 Mar 2019

First decision: 1 July 2019

Revision: 15 Aug 2019

Final decision: 1 Oct  2019

Final manuscript:  1 Nov  2019

Publication date: 1 Mar  2020

 

SPECIAL SECTION EDITORS

 

Chloé Clavel, Institut-Mines-Telecom, Telecom-ParisTech, LTCI,  France

http://clavel.wp.mines-telecom.fr

Rossana Damiano, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

http://www.di.unito.it/~rossana/

Viviana Patti, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

http://www.di.unito.it/~patti

Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

http://users.dsic.upv.es/~prosso

 

ACM TOIT Editor-in-Chief

 

Ling Liu, Department of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

CONTACT

 

Please send any queries about this CfP to ecsi.toit@gmail.com.

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7-7Computer, Speech and Language: Special Issue on Speech & Dementia


Special Issue on Speech & Dementia,

Computer Speech and Language.

The CfP is online here:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-speech-dementia

Organizers:

Heidi Christensen (University of Sheffield, GBR),

Frank Rudzicz (University of Toronto, CAN),

Johannes Schröder (University Heidelberg, DEU)

Tanja Schultz (University of Bremen, CDEU)

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7-8TIPA- Special issue 'How the Body Contributes to Discourse and Meaning?

Call for papers – TIPA journal vol. 36, 2020

Call for papers

(Interdisciplinary work on speech and language)

https://journals.openedition.org/tipa/?lang=en

TIPA is a journal on open access on the online journal platform 'OpenEdition Journals' and free of charge for submission and publication. The Evaluation Procedure is a double-blind evaluation by a scientific committee.

HOW THE BODY CONTRIBUTES TO DISCOURSE AND MEANING?

Coordination: Brahim AZAOUI (Montpellier University, LIRDEF) & Marion TELLIER (Aix-Marseille University, LPL)

Presentation

Research on the body, taken in a broad sense (gaze, manual gestures, proxemics, etc.), has recently experienced a renewed interest in various fields in human sciences. Since the praxeological shift in linguistics in the 1950s with the theories of speech acts in particular, interactional linguistics (Mondada, 2004, 2007; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 2004) has given it a certain place in its work. Similarly, didactics has gradually recognized its importance in the teaching and learning process (Sime, 2001, 2006; Tellier, 2014 & 2016) thanks in particular to the numerous studies carried out in social semiotics (Jewitt, 2008; Kress et al, 2001), in education sciences (Pujade-Renaud, 1983), psychology and cognitive sciences (Stam, 2013) or linguistics (Aden, 2017, Colletta, 2004; Tellier 2008, 2014; Azaoui, 2015, 2019; Gullberg, 2010).

However, if this field of study is gaining in interest, as shown by the number of articles, books and PhD dissertations dedicated to it, it must be noted that few French journals have devoted an issue to it.

This issue of TIPA journal seeks to contribute to the understanding and dissemination of this theme by collecting various contributions to answer the following question: how does the body of speakers co-constructs discourse and meaning in didactic speech? The term 'didactic speech' will refer to any situation where the discourse of the interlocutors aims to make somebody know/learn. This conception is inspired by Moirand's work on the notion of didacticity (1993), which makes it possible to distinguish discourses whose primary intention is didactic, such as those produced in school situations, from those which are not didactic but have a didactic intent. Therefore, these speeches can take place in contexts other than the classroom, whether in face-to-face or distant interactions (e. g. videoconferencing) or in asymmetric interactions in which an expert must adapt his or her speech to explain to or convince a non-expert (doctor/patient, parent/child, professional/client, political speech...).

The various articles proposed will pertain to a theoretical framework that considers speech and the body as being in constant interaction, the study and understanding of one makes the functioning of the other explicit, or as part of the same cognitive process (McNeill, 2005; Kendon, 2004). The authors will indicate which of the following three areas their contribution will focus on:

1. Epistemology

Didactic discourse including interactions outside the school context, to what extent is it possible to consider a continuum of pedagogical gestures (Azaoui, 2014, 2015; Tellier 2015) and to qualify gestures made outside the classroom context as pedagogical (Azaoui, 2015)? The work of McNeill or Kendon has made it possible to highlight the coverbal dimension of certain gestures carried out in an interaction situation, what about other non-verbal phenomena? To what extent could proxemics be described as coverbal (Azaoui, 2019a)? How do facial signals (eyebrow movements, eye or lip movements) contribute to the construction of meaning in an exchange (by reporting understanding or non-understanding for example) (Allwood & Cerrato, 2003)? How does recent work on motion capture shed new light on discourse and the construction of meaning?

2. Analysis of practices

Most of our knowledge about the use of gestures and the body in general is the product of work based on the analysis of practices of teachers and other professionals (Tellier & Cadet, 2014; Azaoui, 2016; Mondada, 2013; Saubesty and Tellier, 2015) or learners (Colletta, 2004; Stam, 2013; Gullberg, 2010). The analysis can be considered from the point of view of the recipients of the multimodal discourse by focusing on their verbal comments on the gestures (or the body in general) or on their meta-gestural activity, these gestures made to 'talk' about the observed gestures (Azaoui, 2019b).

Contributions in this perspective of analysis will help to increase our understanding of the link between bodily activity and speech. These proposals could focus in particular on the way in which the body participates in the organisation of exchanges, speaking or moments of meaning construction in explanatory sequences or the resolution of sequences of misunderstanding, for example, by showing how the body's movements are articulated with speech (or not) to explain or to give feedback to an interlocutor on his speech.

3. Training in/through bodily activity?

The relationship between body and speech can finally be considered from the point of view of training. For the past thirty years or so, a call for training in bodily activity has been made (Calbris & Porcher, 1989) and subsequently adopted by a number of researchers (Cadet & Tellier, 2007 and Tellier & Cadet, 2014; Azaoui, 2014; Tellier and Yerian 2018). If the hands of apprentices are said to be intelligent (Fililettaz, St Georges & Duc, 2008), it seems that – to a certain extent - all professionals use their body to organise or carry out their activity. Therefore, training in and through kinaesthetics is necessary, if only to raise awareness. But can we train in kinaesthetics? If so, how?

Some of the work is based on self-confrontation interviews, leaving room for teachers to verbalize gestural or kinaesthetic practices more generally (Gadoni & Tellier, 2014 and 2015; Azaoui, 2014, 2015). Papers may focus on this process of awareness raising through video (used as stimulated recall). In addition, papers analysing the implementation and/or impact of training schemes for the use of the teaching profession are also included in this issue. These proposals may concern any professional field in which interaction is asymmetrical, such as: doctor-patient relations, communication with young children, communication with people with comprehension difficulties (pathological or not), professional and client relations, etc.

Timeline

April 1st, 2019: first call for papers

June 3rd, 2019: second call for papers

August 31st, 2019: submission of the paper (version 1)

November 15th, 2019: Notification to authors: acceptance, proposal for amendments (of version 1) or refusal

January 15th, 2020: submission of the amended version (version 2)

March 15th, 2020: Committee feedback (regarding the final version)

April 15th, 2020: publication

Instructions for authors

Please send 3 files in electronic form to: lpl-tipa@univ-amu.fr, marion.tellier@univ-amu.fr, brahim.azaoui@umontpellier.fr

- a .doc file containing, in addition to the body of the article, the title, name and affiliation of the author(s)

- two anonymous files, one in .doc format and the other in .pdf format.

For more details, please visit the 'instructions to authors' page at https://journals.openedition.org/tipa/222

Selected bibliography

Azaoui, B. (2015). Polyfocal classroom interactions and teaching gestures. An analysis of non verbal orchestration. Proceedings “Gestures and speech in interaction (GESPIN)”, Nantes, 2-4 septembre 2015.

Azaoui, B. (2019b). Ce que les élèves voient et disent du corps de leur enseignant: analyse multimodale de leur discours. Dans V. Rivière & N. Blanc (dirs.), Observer l’activité multimodale en situations éducatives : circulations entre recherche et formation. Lyon : ENS Editions.

Calbris, G. & Porcher, L. (1989). Geste et communication. Paris : Didier.

Colletta, J.-M. (2004). Le développement de la parole chez l’enfant âge de 6 à 11 ans. Liège : Mardaga.

Fililettaz, L. ; St Georges, I. & Duc, B. (dirs., 2008). Cahiers de la section des sciences de l’éducation, no 117, « Vos mains sont intelligentes ! Interactions en formation professionnelle initiale ». Université de Genève : Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l’éducation.

Jewitt, T. (2008). Multimodality and literacy in school classrooms. Review of research in education, 32, 241–267.

Kendon, A. (2004). Gesture. Visible action as utterance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

McNeill, D. (2005). Gesture and thought. Chicago, USA: University of Chicago Press.

Mondada, L. (2013). Embodied and Spatial Resources for Turn-Taking in Institutional Multi-Party Interactions: Participatory Democracy Debates. Journal of Pragmatics, 46, 39-68.

Stam, G. (2013). Second language acquisition and gesture. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Tellier, M. & Cadet, L. (2014). Le corps et la voix de l’enseignant : théorie et pratique. Paris : Maison des langues.

Tellier, M. & Yerian, K. (2018). Mettre du corps à l’ouvrage : Travailler sur la mise en scène du corps du jeune enseignant en formation universitaire. Les Cahiers de l’APLIUT, n°37(2).

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7-9special issue of Language and Speech

Special issue of Language and Speech

 

The goal of this special issue of Language and Speech is to highlight recent work exploring sociolinguistic variation in prosody. The papers will be based in part on talks and poster presentations from the recent “Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody” conference (ETAP4, etap4.krisyu.org) which featured a special theme entitled: “Sociolectal and dialectal variability in prosody.” Note, however, that this is an open call and submissions are not restricted to papers presented at the conference.

 

As in many language fields, studies of prosody have focused on majority languages and dialects and on speakers who hold power in social structures. The goal of this special issue is to diversify prosody research in terms of the languages and dialects being investigated, as well as the social structures that influence prosodic variation. The issue brings together prosody researchers and researchers exploring sociological variation in prosody, with a focus on the prosody of marginalized dialects and prosodic differences based on gender and sexuality.

 

We invite proposals for papers that will:

• Establish the broad questions in sociolinguistics that would especially benefit from prosodic research

• Address the theoretical and methodological challenges and opportunities that come with studying sociolinguistic prosodic variation

• Share best practices for engaging in prosodic research of understudied languages and social groups to address linguistic bias

We especially encourage proposals for papers that focus on the prosody of marginalized dialects and prosodic differences based on gender and sexuality.

 

The editors of the special issue will be Meghan Armstrong-Abrami, Mara Breen, Shelome Gooden, Erez Levon, and Kristine Yu.  The editors will review submitted paper proposals and then invite authors of selected proposals to submit full papers. Each invited paper will be handled by one of the editors and reviewed by 2-3 additional reviewers. Based on the reviews, the editors plan to accept 10-12 papers for publication in this special issue. Please note that publication is not guaranteed in this special issue. Invited papers will undergo the standard Language and Speech review process and be subject to Language and Speech author guidelines (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/language-and-speech#submission-guidelines). Invited papers can be short reports or full reports (see author guidelines, section 1.2).

 

Paper proposals in PDF file format must be sent to etap4umass@gmail.com by May 15, 2019. Proposals must not be more than 1 page (with an additional page allowed for figures, examples, and references). Authors of selected proposals will be invited to submit their full papers, which will be due by 12/15/19. Acceptance/rejection notifications will be sent in early 2020 with editorial comments. We are hoping to submit our final proofs to the journal by summer 2020.

 

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7-10IT-Information Technology, Special Issue: Affective Computing, Deep Learning & Health

IT-Information Technology

Call for papers

Special Issue:

Affective Computing, Deep Learning & Health


Scope of the Journal: IT - Information Technology is a strictly peer-reviewed scientific journal. It is the oldest German journal in the field of information technology. Today, the major aim of IT - Information Technology is highlighting issues on ongoing newsworthy areas in information technology and informatics and their application. It aims at presenting the topics with a holistic view It addresses scientists, graduate students, and experts in industrial research and development.

Aim of the Special Issue:
Analysis of human behaviours and emotions based on affective computing techniques have received considerable attention in the relevant literature in recent years. The main aim of this interest is to endow computers with the human traits of adequately recognising and responding to emotion or affect. One particularly interesting field of applying affective computing technologies is in healthcare scenarios. In clinical psychology and psychotherapy settings, affective computing can be used to provide objective diagnostic information, accurately track changes in patients? mood or emotion regulations in therapy, or enable Virtual Therapists to have the ability to empathise and appropriately respond to their patients' needs. As in most areas based heavily on Artificial Intelligence, deep learning solutions are the pre-eminent approach in many affective computing applications.

This special issue aims to solicit papers which contribute ideas, methods and case studies for how affective computing technologies can aid healthcare. In particular, these include, but are not limited to, solutions utilising:

  • State-of-the-art deep learning techniques
  • Adversarial training paradigms
  • Attention models
  • End-to-end learning
  • Explainable AI
  • Multitask learning
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Longer-term user adaptation
  • Transfer learning

Authors are asked to kindly submit their manuscript online at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/itit/.

The style guide for preparing the manuscript (Word or Latex) is listed there. A step by step guide through the submission process will be provided after registration.

Language: Publication language is English.

Length: The length of a contribution to the special issue should be at most eight printed pages
 
Important Dates:
  • First Submission: May 31st, 2019
  • First Notification: July 12th, 2019
  • Second Submission: August 9th, 2019
  • Second Notification: September 6th, 2019
  • Camera-ready Version of Papers: September 20th, 2019
Special Issue Editors
  • Björn Schuller, Imperial College London
  • Nicholas Cummins, University of Augsbug
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7-11CfP. Special issue Speech Communication: Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology

Call for papers: Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology

Pluricentric languages (PLCLs) are a common type among the languages of the world. Presently 43 languages have been identified to belong to this category. Languages like English, Spanish, Portuguese, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu etc. fall into this category. A language is identified as pluricentric if it is being used in at least two nations where it is also having an official function and if it is forming national varieties of their own with specific linguistic and pragmatic features. In addition to the variation on the level of national standard varieties, there is also so called “second level variation” on a regional and local level that is often being used in diglossic speech situations where code switching is a salient feature with two or more varieties being used within the same utterance. The amount of linguistic variation in pluricentric languages is considerable and poses a challenge for speech recognition in particular and human language technology in general.

The topic of pluricentric languages overlaps in some aspects with the topic of low-resourced languages. In contrast to “low-resourced” languages, pluricentric languages may already have plenty of resources (e.g., English, French, German), but variant sensitive or variant-independent technology is likely to be absent. In contrast to activities in the field of dialect recognition, the “non-dominant” varieties of pluricentric languages are the standard language in the respective countries and thus are also printed and spoken in media, parliaments and juridical texts.

The motivation for this special issue is the observation that pluricentric languages have so far mainly been described linguistically but not sufficiently been dealt with in the field of speech technology. This is particularly the case with the so-called “non-dominant varieties”. Given the current state of research in the field, we are especially interested in contributions which:

investigate methods for creating speech and language resources, with a special focus on “non-dominant varieties” (e.g., Scots, Saami, Karelian Finnish, Tadczik, Frisian as well as diverse American and African languages: Aymara, Bamabara, Fulfulde, Tuareg, etc.).

develop speech technologies such as speech recognition, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech for the national varieties of pluricentric languages; on the level of standard varieties and on the level of so-called “informal speech”.

investigate novel statistical methods for speech and language technology needed to deal with small data sets.

study the (automatic) processing of speech for code-switched speech in national varieties of pluricentric languages.

investigate methods on how to use speech technology to aid sociolinguistic studies.

present empirical perception and production studies on the phonetics and phonology of national varieties of pluricentric languages.

present empirical perception and production studies on learning a pluricentric language as a second language and on developing computer aided language learning (CALL) tools for pluricentric languages.

study effects on speech technology on language change for pluricentric languages (e.g., compare developments of non-dominant varieties in comparison of dominant varieties for which speech and language technologies are available).

This special issue is inspired by the Sattelite Workshop of Interspeech “Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology” to be held in Graz on September 14, 2019 (http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org/ndv-interspeech-workshop-graz-2019/?id=0). The special issue invites contributions from participants of the workshop as well as from others working in related areas. Papers of interdisciplinary nature are especially welcome! Manuscript submission to this Virtual Special Issue is possible between December 1, 2019 and November 30, 2020.

 

 

Editors:

Rudolf Muhr (University of Graz, Austria), rudolf.muhr@uni-graz.at

Barbara schuppler (Graz University of Technology, Austria), b.schuppler@tugraz.at

Tania Habib (University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan), tania.habib@uet.edu.pk

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7-12CfP: Special issue of Computer, Speech and Language on Advances in Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-spoofing

Call for Papers: Special issue on Advances in Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-spoofing

 
 
Computer Speech and Language Special issue on Advances in Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-spoofing 

The performance of voice biometrics systems based on automatic speaker verification (ASV) technology degrades significantly in the presence of spoofing attacks. Over the past few years considerable progress has been made in the field of ASV anti-spoofing. This includes the development of new speech corpora, common evaluation protocols and advancements in front-end feature extraction and back-end classifiers. The ASVspoof initiative was launched to promote the development of countermeasures which aim to protect ASV from spoofing attacks. ASVspoof 2015, the first edition, focused on the detection of synthetic speech created with voice conversion (VC) and text-to-speech (TTS) methods. The second edition, ASVspoof 2017, focused on the detection of replayed speech.

ASVspoof 2019, the latest edition included two sub-challenges geared towards 'logical access' (LA) and 'physical access' (PA) scenarios. The LA scenario relates to the detection of synthetic speech created with advanced VC and TTS methods developed by academic and non-academic organizations. The PA scenario promotes the develop of countermeasures for the detection of replayed speech signals. More than 60 academic and industrial teams participated in the ASVspoof 2019 challenge. Preliminary results indicate considerable performance improvements in terms of two evaluation metrics adopted for the challenge. The top-ranking teams applied different machine learning algorithms suitable for the discrimination of natural and spoofed speech.

This special issue will feature articles describing top-performing techniques and detailed analyses of some of the systems reported in recent years by leading anti-spoofing researchers. The special issue will also consist of an overview article which covers ASVspoof 2019 challenge results, and meta analyses. The scope of the special issue is, however, not limited to work performed using the ASVspoof challenge datasets; studies conducted with other datasets are also welcome.

Please contact at info@asvspoof.org if you have any questions about the relevance of your work for this special issue.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

-Speaker verification anti-spoofing on ASVspoof 2019 
-Datasets for speaker verification anti-spoofing 
-Deep learning for spoofing and anti-spoofing  
-Joint evaluation of countermeasures and speaker verification  
-Evaluation methodology for speaker verification anti-spoofing  
-Voice conversion for spoofing speaker verification systems  
-Text-to-speech for spoofing speaker verification systems  
-Robust spoofing countermeasures  
-Generalized spoofing countermeasures  
-Audio watermarking for spoofing countermeasures  
-Acoustic fingerprinting for spoofing countermeasures 
-Knowledge-based approaches for spoofing countermeasures 
-Open source toolkit for speaker verification anti-spoofing

Important Dates:

Submission open: June 1, 2019
Submission deadline: September 30, 2019
Acceptance deadline: February 10, 2020
Publication: March, 2020

Guest Editors:

Andreas Nautsch, EURECOM, France
Hector Delgado, Nuance Communications, Spain
Massimiliano Todisco, EURECOM, France
Md Sahidullah, Inria, France
Ville Vestman, UEF, Finland
Xin Wang, NII, Japan

Advisory Committee:

Junichi Yamagishi, NII, Japan
Kong-Aik Lee, NEC Corp, Japan
Nicolas Evans, EURECOM, France
Tomi Kinnunen, UEF, Finland
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7-13CfP : Journal of Phonetics: Special Issue on Vocal Accommodation in Speech Communication

We would like to announce  the Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Vocal Accommodation
in Speech Communication in Journal of Phonetics, co-edited by Jennifer Pardo, Elisa
Pellegrino, Volker Dellwo and Bernd Möbius.

We especially invite contributions which:

- examine and ideally compare instances of vocal accommodation in human-human and
human-computer interactions according to their underlying mechanism (e.g. automatic
perception production link) and social functions (e.g. to signal social closeness or
distance; to become more intelligible; to sound dominant, trustworthy or attractive);

- investigate the effect of task-specific and talker-specific characteristics (gender,
age, personality, linguistic and cultural background, role in interaction) in degree and
direction of convergence towards human and computer interlocutors;

- integrate articulatory and/or perceptual/neurocognitive/multimodal data to the analysis
of vocal accommodation in interactive and non-interactive speech tasks;

- investigate the contribution of short/long-term accommodation in human-human and
human-computer interactions to the diffusion of linguistic innovation and ultimately
language variation and change;

- explore the implications of accommodation for human and machine speaker recognition,
language learning technologies, and speech rehabilitation.

Important Dates and Timeline

Deadline for submission of 1-page abstract: 31 July 2019

Invitation for full paper submission: 31 August 2019

Deadline for submission of full paper: 31 December 2019

Further information
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-phonetics/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-vocal-accommodation-in-speech-communication With best wishes from the
editors

Jennifer Pardo (pardoj@montclair.edu <mailto:pardoj@montclair.edu&gt;), Elisa Pellegrino
(elisa.pellegrino@uzh.ch <mailto:elisa.pellegrino@uzh.ch&gt;), Volker Dellwo
(volker.dellwo@uzh.ch <mailto:volker.dellwo@uzh.ch&gt;), Bernd Möbius
(moebius@coli.uni-saarland.de <mailto:moebius@coli.uni-saarland.de&gt;)

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7-14JSTSP special issue on Deeep Learning for Multi-modal Ingtelligence across Speech, Language, Vision, and Heterogeneous Signals

Call for Papers
IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on

Deep Learning for Multi-modal Intelligence across
Speech, Language, Vision, and Heterogeneous Signals


In the past years, thanks to the disruptive advances in deep learning, significant progress has been made in speech processing, language processing, computer vision, and applications across multiple modalities. Despite the superior empirical results, however, there remain important issues to be addressed. Both theoretical and empirical advancements are expected to drive further performance improvements, which in turn would generate new opportunities for in-depth studies of emerging novel learning and modeling methodologies. Moreover, many problems in artificial intelligence involve more than one modality, such as language, vision, speech and heterogeneous signals. Techniques developed for different modalities can often be successfully cross-fertilized. Therefore, it is of great interest to study multimodal modeling and learning approaches across more than one modality. The goal of this special issue is to bring together a diverse but complementary set of contributions on emerging deep learning methods for problems across multiple modalities. The topics of this special issue include but not limit to the following:

Topics of interest in this special issue include (but are not limited to):

  • Fundamental problems and methods for processing multi-modality data including language, speech, image, video, and heterogeneous signals
  • Pre-training, representation learning, multitask learning, low-shot learning, and reinforcement learning of multimodal problems across natural language, speech, image, and video
  • Deep learning methods and applications for cross-modalities, such as image captioning, visual question answering, visual story-telling, text-to-image synthesis, vision-language navigation, etc.
  • Evaluation metrics of multimodal applications


Prospective authors should follow the instructions given on the IEEE JSTSP webpages and submit their manuscript to the web submission system.

 

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: 1 September 2019
  • First review: 1 November 2019
  • Revised manuscript due: 15 December 2019
  • Second Review: 1 February 2020
  • Final Manuscripts: 15 March 2020

 

Guest Editors



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