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ISCApad #265 |
Friday, July 10, 2020 by Chris Wellekens |
2-1 | Message of ISCA President Professor John Hansen Dear ISCA members:
Welcome to the next installment of ISCApad for July 2020! There are a number of updates in this edition from the community for meetings, job openings, theses, and announcements, and of course the main topic on everyone’s mind is COVID-19 Pandemic and how that’s effecting people all over the world.
COVID-19/Coronavirus outbreak is still impacting the world – and many of our ISCA colleagues, researchers and friends. While some countries have recognized and adopted best practices including practicing safe social distancing and the use of masks, others (especially the USA) have completely fallen behind and struggling to work out ways to stop the spread. Here, the science and medical experts with the proper experience know the right steps, even if unfortunately politicians and the government struggle to recognize the seriousness of this worldwide pandemic. At one point many months ago, I had suggested as an option that a USA city might be an alternative location for Interspeeh-2020 if a physical conference could not take place there. I’m very happy that through careful discussions between the IS-2020 committee and ISCA Board, we had clear agreement that staying in Shanghai and allowing options for physical/virtual vs. moving to another location. If Texas or Florida (USA) had been selected – it clearly would not have been a good decision.
INTERSPEECH-2020: [http://www.interspeech2020.org/] (Oct. 26-29, 2020), while the logistics of Interspeech-2020 will still take place in Shanghai, China, it is becoming increasing complex and difficult to realize a complete physical conference this year. I will emphasize that the no official decision has yet been made, and the INTERSPEECH-2020 Organizing Committee continue to monitor and track developments of COVID-19. The ability to have large numbers of people travel from different parts of the world and participate, are increasingly difficult given travel constraints, long-term safety inside aircraft for international flights, etc. Please watch both ISCA website and Interspeech-2020 website for new updates IS-2020 as well as satellite workshops. The INTERSPEECH-2020 Technical Program is moving forward. I thank the countless reviewers worldwide who participated and volunteered their valuable time to provide fair, constructive and balanced comments for the authors of more than 2200 papers that were submitted. The Organizing Committee is working to establish the accepted papers and organize sessions.
Again, INTERSPEECH will still take place this fall in Shanghai, China. We will keep all updated via emails, postings on ISCA Facebook & Twitter feeds. For this month, we do not have any new information, other than to say that as we move forward with the INTERSPEECH-2020 technical program, all options continue to be explored and considered. The conference will currently take place on Oct. 26-29, 2020, with tutorials on Oct. 25. The review process timeline is as follows:
Final decision on the format of INTERSPEECH-2020 will be announced soon, but rest assured that 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). Latest Updates: Please keep informed of the latest events on the ISCA Webpage, INTERSPEECH-2020 webpage, and ISCA Facebook and Twitter feeds (@ISCAFOX). Our goal is to ensure a safe and technologically invigorating conference experience. 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 Latest News A reminder that Interspeech will now take place on 26-29 October 2020 at the Shanghai International Convention Center, with tutorials on 25 October.
The key dates are as follows: 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. More information will be provided soon.
The Student Events at Interspeech have been announced: see http://www.interspeech2020.org/Student_Events/
Please see the Interspeech website http://www.interspeech2020.org for more information about the Conference, Satellite Workshops and Challenges associated with Interspeech.
We look forward to running IS2020 and related events in Shanghai as a well-attended conference, and will augment with remote participation by a fraction of the attendees. Details related remote participation will be announced in due course. Under all circumstances, the IS2020 Organizers will push forward and complete the process of conference proceedings publication. Shanghai has very pleasant weather in October, and we sincerely hope that the COVID-19 threat will be over by then so we can welcome you all to Shanghai for IS2020! In the meantime, please take care and stay healthy!
Best regards, Interspeech 2020 Organising Committee http://www.interspeech2020.org/
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2-3 | 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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2-4 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors Code-of-Ethics for Authors
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2-5 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees
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2-6 | 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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2-7 | Women in Speech Research
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2-8 | SProSig new board officers Dear Fellow Members of SProSIG,
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2-9 | Publications and Videos of Speech Prosody 2020 The papers are already publicly available, at https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/SpeechProsody_2020/ . To also see the videos, you can register for the conference, for only 4000 Yen, at https://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sp2020_registration/vp/ .
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2-10 | SProSIG bids and vote for Speech Prosody 2022 Dear SProSIG members, https://utep.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey?tt=NqiUmMVLUwmO8LCYyW3vp8KIFoBOpt2x
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