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ISCApad #262 |
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 by Chris Wellekens |
2-1 | Message from ISCA President John H.L.Hansen
Dear ISCA members: Welcome to the next installment of ISCApad for April 2020! As always, this edition has a number of updates from the community including upcoming meetings, job openings, theses, and announcements. Unfortunately, the COVID-19/Coronavirus outbreak is still the major news impacting the world – and certainly many of our ISCA colleagues, researchers and friends. So, I ask that we all continue to practice safe social distancing – and stay safe and healthy! We know COVID-19 is impacting many logistics for conference/workshops worldwide including INTERSPEECH, as well as all forms of human engagement – including speech communication & interaction. INTERSPEECH-2020: [http://www.interspeech2020.org/] (Oct. 26-29, 2020), will still take place in Shanghai, China. The ISCA Board, as well as INTERSPEECH-2020 Organizing Committee continue to monitor and track developments of COVID-19, in an effort to ensure all attendees for IS-2020 as well as satellite workshops are safe and able to participate. INTERSPEECH will still take place this fall in Shanghai, China. We will keep all updated via emails, postings on ISCA Facebook & Twitter feeds. We continue to monitor the WHO (World Health Organization) status on COVID-19 [https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019]. For this month, we do not have any new information, other than to say that we wish to encourage ALL to submit papers for ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020, knowing that we are committed to following the rigorous steps needed to establish a full technical program. The conference will take place on Oct. 26-29, 2020 at the Shanghai International Convention Center, with tutorials on Oct. 25. The submission and review process has also been updated with the following timeline: May 8, 2020 Paper submission deadline June 6, 2020 Show and tell submission due July 24, 2020 Paper acceptance/rejection notification Aug 10, 2020 Notification about ISCA Travel Grants Aug 24, 2020 Early-bird registration deadline Sep 23, 2020 Standard registration deadline Authors who have a paper accepted to INTERSPEECH-2020 will have the option either to attend physically, or to attend remotely. Remote attendance would also be associated with a reduced registration fee. INTERSPEECH-2020 PROCEEDINGS: In the event that the ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 physical conference would need to be canceled due to COVID-19, ALL accepted papers will be published in the standard format in the Proceedings of INTERSPEECH-2020 as usual (i.e., including release on ISCA Archive). The INTERSPEECH-2020 Organizing Committee has established an internationally respected Technical Committee, and as commitment to our ISCA Membership, we encourage all researchers in the field to submit your papers for consideration for IS-2020. 2020 ISCA MEDAL FOR SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT: Last month, I had the pleasure of announcing the recipient of the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement. Again, please join me acongratulating
2020 ISCA FELLOWS Announced: So, now I would like to include additional positive news! Over the past few months, the ISCA Fellows Selection Committee has worked to seek out nominations and endorsements for this year’s ISCA Fellows selection. The ISCA Fellows Selection Committee maintains a rigorous process of collecting and evaluating all nominations (more details are found on the ISCA webpage at: https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/honors/fellows). After extensive evaluations and reviews, the following six distinguished researchers will be elevated to the status of ISCA FELLOW for 2020. Their citations as well as affiliations are highlighted below. Please join me in congratulating these well deserving colleagues for their research contributions to the field of speech communications! All will be recognized at ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 this fall. Prof. Paavo Alku (Finland) 'For contributions in voice source analysis and its applications.' Prof. Catherine Best (Australia) 'For contributions to non-native speech perception, bilingualism, and language acquisition.'
Prof. Thomas Hain (United Kingdom) 'For leadership in the field of automatic speech recognition.'
Prof. Satoshi Nakamura (Japan) 'For contributions to research on multi-lingual and cross-lingual spoken language communication systems' Prof. Bjorn Schuller (United Kingdom) 'For contributions to computational paralinguistics, and research and leadership in the speech processing community.'
Workshops and Challenges surrounding INTERSPEECH-2020: we are continuing to work with organizers of the numerous workshops and challenges which surround the INTERSPEECH-2020 conference. The IS-2020 Organizing Committee as well as the ISCA Board are well aware of these satellite events, and are working with the organizers to facilitate an effective transition to the new dates in Oct. 2020.
Latest Updates: Please keep informed of the latest events on the ISCA Webpage, INTERSPEECH-2020 webpage, and ISCA Facebook and Twitter feeds (@ISCAFOX).The Board and the IS-20 Organizers will continue to monitor the situation and will communicate any further changes as soon as possible. Our goal is to ensure a safe and technologically invigorating conference experience. We look forward to welcoming you this October – with the safety of our membership at the forefront.
We look forward to your participation in ISCA and INTERSPEECH-2020! Until the next ISCApad, be safe and stay connected to our community!
John H.L. Hansen (ISCA President)
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2-2 | INTERSPEECH 2020 dates in Shanghai are moved! Dear ISCA Members,
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2-3 | Message from the Interspeech 2020 Organizing Committee Dear ISCA Member,
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2-4 | ISCA social networks We encourage all members tokeep contact with ISCA via our social nets. Also you will bde kept informed about all events on our website. This is particularly important in this time where due to the coronavirus, many modifications may be brought to the conference.
ISCA Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/iscaspeech/ ISCA Twitter : https://twitter.com/ISCAFOX ISCA SAC Student Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/groups/98794207409/ website : www.isca-speech.org
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2-5 | Deadline extension for bids Interspeech 2023 The deadline for bids for Interspeech 2023 has been postponed to February 28, 2020.
The ISCA Conferences team Odette Scharenborg, Margaret Zellers, Sebastian Möller
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2-6 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors Code-of-Ethics for Authors
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2-7 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees
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2-8 | 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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2-9 | Women in Speech Research
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2-10 | Prix de thèse AFCP 2019 www.afcp-parole.org Appel à candidatures Prix de thèse AFCP 2019 Depuis 2004, l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP) décerne un prix scientifique récompensant la grande qualité d'un travail de thèse francophone du domaine (ou anglophone issue d’un laboratoire francophone), afin de promouvoir les recherches en communication parlée, fondamentales ou appliquées, dans le domaine des technologies de la communication, des sciences humaines et de la vie. Ce prix permet de soutenir et diffuser les travaux de jeunes chercheurs du domaine. Le prix est décerné par un jury composé des chercheurs élus du conseil d'administration de l’AFCP. Il sera officiellement remis lors des prochaines Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole. Le ou la lauréat(e) se verra remettre la somme de 500 euros et sera invité(e) à présenter ses travaux à la communauté de la communication parlée lors des prochaines JEP (inscription offerte à la conférence). Il/elle se verra également offrir l’opportunité de publier sa thèse sous la forme d’un livre dans la collection « Recherches en PArole » (éditions CIPA). CALENDRIER Date limite de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2020 Décision du jury AFCP : avril-mai 2020 Remise officielle du prix : JEP 2020 CONDITIONS DE CANDIDATURE À CET APPEL Peut candidater au présent appel : tout docteur dont la thèse, préparée dans un laboratoire francophone, et rédigée en français ou en anglais, a été soutenue entre le 1er janvier et le 31 décembre 2019. Toute candidature est limitée à une seule édition du prix. Seuls les dossiers complets de candidature seront examinés. CANDIDATURE Pour candidater, il suffit de : (1) Envoyer un e-mail déclarant votre intention de candidater, avec vos nom, prénom, titre de la thèse, directeur de thèse, et date de la soutenance à : camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. Vous recevrez un accusé de réception. (2) Déposer votre manuscrit de thèse en PDF sur le serveur du site web de l’AFCP : http://www.afcp-parole.org/spip.php?page=depot_these (3) Envoyer votre dossier complet via un courrier électronique à l’adresse camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. La pièce jointe sera constituée d’un fichier unique (nommé VOTRENOM.pdf), contenant dans l’ordre : (i) le résumé de la thèse (2 pages) ; (ii) la liste des publications ; (iii) les rapports scannés du jury et des rapporteurs de soutenance de thèse ; (iv) une lettre de recommandation scannée du directeur de thèse ; (v) un CV (avec coordonnées complètes dont e-mail). ___________Date de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2020____________
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2-11 | Bourses JEP AFCP L'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP)
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2-12 | Election of SProSig new board officers Dear Fellow Members of SProSIG,
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