Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, LREC 2020 could unfortunately not be held in Marseille in May 2020 as planned.
The LREC 2020 Programme Committee and the ELRA Board have decided that:
1. the 12th edition of LREC, LREC 2020, will not be postponed and is definitely cancelled.
2. the next LREC will be the 13th edition, LREC 2022, which will take place in Marseille (in Pharo) on June 16-24, 2022.
3. ELRA will organize an event around Language Resources and current challenges on Covid-19 in 2021. Details on format, dates and location will follow.
(2020-07-11) CfP FinSBD-2, the 2nd shared task on Sentence Boundary Detection in PDF Noisy Text in the Financial Domain, Yokohama, Japan
We would like to invite you to submit to FinSBD-2, the 2nd shared task on Sentence Boundary Detection in PDF Noisy Text in the Financial Domain, in conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, July 11-13th, 2020, Yokohama, Japan!
Workshop date: IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 @ July 11-13th, 2020, Yokohama, Japan
Motivation ========
Sentences
Sentences are basic units of the written language. Detecting the beginning and end of sentences, or sentence boundary detection (SBD), is the foundational first step in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as POS tagging; syntactic, semantic, and discourse parsing; information extraction; or machine translation.
Despite its important role in NLP, Sentence Boundary Detection has so far not received enough attention. Especially for noisy texts extracted from machine-readable files (generally PDF file format) such as financial documents. They also contain many visual demarcations indicating a hierarchy of sections including bullets and numbering. There are many sentence fragments and titles, and not just complete sentences. The prospectuses more often than not contain punctuation errors. And in order to structure the dense information in a more easily read format, lists are often used.
Lists
This year, we have included the task of extracting lists due to their unique structure and common occurrence in financial documents.
A list can be similar to a sentence that enumerates several items of the same category. For example, the ?Simple List? from Figure 1 [6] can be easily read as one normal sentence. However, looking at Figure 2 [6], the list cannot be read as one sentence; although it is one unit, because there are multiple sentences included and there is a visible hierarchy of information. It is therefore important to make the distinction between sentences and lists and, for these lists, to create a hierarchy that organizes the items. Mastering this distinction and item hierarchy
can pave the way for more accurate information extraction.
Task Description =============
Last year we organized the first edition of FinSBD focusing on extracting well-segmented sentences from Financial prospectuses in PDF format by detecting their beginning and ending boundaries in two languages: English and French. In addition to an improved version of the previously proposed task, this year we are extending this task to include the detection of lists and list items, as well as their hierarchy.
FinSBD'2 is split into two sub-tasks: - Extracting sentence boundaries, including list and list item boundaries. - Organizing the lists items hierarchically.
For each given PDF, a JSON will be provided containing: - text extracted (key 'text') - sentence boundaries (key 'sentence') - list boundaries (key 'list') - list item boundaries (key 'item') - list item boundaries of level 1 (key 'item1') - list item boundaries of level 2 (key 'item2') - list item boundaries of level 3 (key 'item3') - list item boundaries of level 4 (key 'item4')
Item boundaries overlap with item boundaries of different levels. Each item level represents its depth within the list.
Boundaries are represented by indexes of starting and ending characters that the system has to predict.
We also included the PDF coordinates of each boundaries as metadata (which can be used for visualization on PDF if needed).
Sub-task 1 consists in predicting boundaries of sentences, lists and list items.
Sub-task 2 consists in predicting boundaries of item1, item2, item3 and item4. We can also see sub-task 2 as refining item boundaries into 4 classes of boundaries (item = item1 + item2 + item3 + item4).
Last year, participants were only given indexes of tokens. This year, we are providing indexes of characters as well as coordinates of boundaries to allow different kind of character or word tokenization and/or possible usage of spatial and visual cues. Therefore, we hope to encourage novel approaches based on multimodality, especially since lists are often spatially structured to convey information visually.
Improved annotation guidelines will also be provided to explain how the new and richer dataset was created. Participants can choose to work on both languages, or submit systems for one language only. They can participate in one or both sub-tasks.
This task is open to everyone. The only exception are the co-chairs of the organizing team, who cannot submit a system, and who will serve as an authority to resolve any disputes concerning ethical issues or completeness of system descriptions.
Evaluation ======== For each sub-task, the evaluation metrics will be computed based on boundaries which are pairs of character indexes ('start' and 'end'). The F-score will be the official metric and an evaluation script will be provided to all the teams.
Prize ==== A USD$1000 prize will be rewarded to the best-performing teams.
Important dates ============ First announcement of the shared task and beginning of registration: 13 March Release of training data and scoring script: before 30 March
Test set made available: 1 May Registration deadline: 8 May Systems' outputs collected: 8 May Shared task system paper submissions due: 15 May Notification of acceptance: 31 May Camera-ready version of shared task system papers due: 15 June FinNLP 2020 Workshop: 11-13 July
Contact ====== For any questions on the shared task please contact us on fin.sbd.task@gmail.com [5]
Concerning the novel coronavirus pandemic, the ROBOTDIAL workshop organization will follow the guidelines of the main conference IJCAI-PRICAI, which will take place in some form (see https://www.ijcai20.org/ for updates on IJCAI-PRICAIs planning).
Like the main conference, we will keep open the possibility for an in-person meeting, but also make plans for an online workshop. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and the possibility for a special journal issue based on the presented papers will be discussed at the workshop. We will notify the authors and the community accordingly. If you have any questions concerning the workshop or submissions, please contact or contact the organisers at: robotdial2020@easychair.org
==== Important Dates ====
Title and abstract deadline (extended): April 20 May 11 Final submission deadline (extended): April 27 May 18 Author notification (extended): May 22 May 29 Camera ready due: June 3 Workshop day: July 11-13 (actual date to be determined later)
Authors should submit their paper title and abstracts by April 20 May 11 and can revise their paper up until the final submission deadline on April 27 May 18. Paper submission is through EasyChair and uses the paper format for IJCAI. Short papers are a maximum of 4 pages and long papers are a maximum of 8 pages, excluding references. At the workshop, we will discuss the possibility of editing a special issue of a journal based on the presented papers.
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==== Overview ====
Large communities in AI, robotics and interaction technology already work on spoken language-based human-robot interaction. Their different starting points and assumptions call for discussions, exchange of ideas and more integrated approaches to implementations and modelling of spoken dialogues on robot platforms.
This one-day workshop offers a platform for researchers to discuss and elaborate their views at the intersection of AI, robotics and spoken dialogue modelling. Sophisticated interaction models and implementations are critical in this endeavour but are not often explicitly addressed. Dialogue modelling and dialogue system implementations, on their part, are often developed without sufficiently considering how the models could be used in an embodied robotic system which also interacts with the environment. The workshop offers a platform for discussions concerning appropriate architectures and representations, in order to build a joint understanding of the aspects and features that address the pertinent questions in the multidisciplinary field of robot dialogues.
We invite submissions for this workshop based on (but not limited to) the following topics:
- models of human-robot interactions and dialogue - multimodal human-robot dialogue - non-verbal communication in human-robot dialogue - language modeling for robot interactions - robots and unstructured conversation - user studies with human-robot dialogue - paralinguistics for robot interaction - cognitive architectures for spoken dialogues - representations for interaction and dialogue modelling
For further information, please check the workshop website or contact the authors at: robotdial2020@easychair.org
Looking forward to seeing you in Yokohama!
Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan) Martin Heckmann (Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany) Divesh Lala (University of Kyoto, Japan) Pierre Lison (Norsk Regnesentral, Norway)
(2020-07-15)CfP SIG:Prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles, Aix en Provence, France (UPDATED)
IMP0RTANT UPDATE
Due to Coronavirus, we have sadly had to postpone the conference until 2021. We will be updating this page as more information becomes available
In the meantime, keep safe and we hope to see you in Aix in 2021!
Special Interest Group : Prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles
at the PALA conference 2020 (Poetics and Linguistics Association), 15-18 July 2020, Aix-en-Provence, France
Coordinator of the SIG: Sophie Herment, Aix Marseille Univ, Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Call for Papers
The PALA 2020 conference (https://pala.sciencesconf.org/) invites special interest groups (SIGs) this year, among which a session on prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles (SIG 8). This special interest group will gather specialists in the oral language. The different styles of the written language clearly have several lexical and syntactic particularities. The styles of the spoken language are yet to be defined. We would like to investigate phonetic and prosodic phenomena from a stylistic point of view. Segmental aspects can be relevant in the characterisation of style. Phonetic variation will therefore be considered. Rhythm is also a crucial element: tempo, the degree of assimilation, elision and reduction. Intonation is another significant feature: are certain intonation patterns associated with certain speaking styles?
The special session will allow us to question the definition that can be given to phonostyle(s).
Papers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives addressing the above issues will be welcome. We invite studies based on ecological corpora as well as experimental studies.
Submission guidelines
Please upload your abstracts (no more than 300 words, references included, no more than 5 references) on the web site of the conference before February 15 2020. Here is how to proceed:
· Go to login, in the drop-down menu, select 'create an account? and create a login and password.
· You?ll receive an activation email that will direct you to an authentication page. Enter your newly created username and password
· On the website, click on MY SPACE and then on MY SUBMISSION (in the menu)
· Fill in the title and abstract, select ?ABSTRACT?, and add keywords.
· Make sure you indicate clearly that you wish your paper to be considered for a Special Interest Group (SIGs).
All abstracts for SIGs need to be sent via the website and copied to the SIG organizer (please send a doc file or a doc and pdf file if you have special fonts): sophie.herment@univ-amu.fr
SPCOM provides a leading forum for researchers from academia, research laboratories, and industries to come together to share and learn about the current developments and emerging trends in the broad areas of signal processing and communications. SPCOM 2020 will be the thirteenth in the series of conferences and will feature several high-profile plenary talks, tutorials, talks by distinguished researchers from academia and the industry on topics of current interest.
Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high-quality research contributions (up to five pages long). The style files for preparing the manuscript are available on the conference website: https://ece.iisc.ac.in/~spcom/2020/index.html
Submitted manuscripts will go through double-blind peer-review. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which will also be indexed on IEEE Xplore. Each accepted paper must be accompanied by a full registration and presented by one of the contributing authors. Each full registration can cover up to three accepted papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Wireless Communications
Cooperative and D2D Communications
MIMO and Space-Time Signal Processing
Cognitive Radio
Network Coding
Information Theory
Coding for Data Communications and Storage
Sensor Networks
Optical Communications and Networks
Next-Generation Networking and QoS
Cyber-Physical Systems
Multihop and Heterogeneous Networks
Vehicular Networks
THz and RF Systems for Communications
Green Communications
Energy and Smart Grid
Physical Layer Security
Detection and Estimation
Adaptive and Array Signal Processing
Compressive Sensing and Sparse Signal Processing
Signal Processing for Communications
Machine Learning for Signal Processing and Communications
Audio and Speech Signal Processing
Spoken Language Processing
Image and Video Signal Processing
Computational Imaging/Photography and Inverse Problems
Source Coding and Data Compression
Forensics and Security
Signal Processing Algorithms and Architectures
Underwater Communications and Signal Processing
VLSI for Communication and Signal Processing
Systems, Standards, and Implementations
Biological signal Processing
Biological Network and Data Analysis/Modeling
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing
Big Data
Autonomous Navigation and Robotics
Neuromorphic Systems
Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2020
Acceptance notification: April 12, 2020
Camera-ready submission: May 10, 2020
Proposals for tutorials and special sessions will be by invitation only.
(2020-07-27) 4th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico (UPDATED)
Due to Covid-19, DeepLearn 2020 is rescheduled to be held on January 11-15, 2021 in Bilbao, Spain
4th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
DeepLearn 2020 León, Guanajuato, Mexico July 27-31, 2020 Co-organized by: Center for Research in Mathematics, A.C. (CIMAT-CONACyT) Guanajuato Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) Brussels/London https://deeplearn2020.irdta.eu/ *************************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: February 25, 2020 --- *************************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2020 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova and Warsaw. Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 2 keynote lectures and 24 four-hour and a half courses, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles. ADDRESSED TO: Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2020 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. VENUE: DeepLearn 2020 will take place in León, the most populous city in the state of Guanajuato, in central Mexico, and a major economic pole in the country with specialization in leather industry. The venue will be: Poliforum León Blvd. Adolfo López Mateos esq. Blvd. Francisco Villa Col. Oriental, León, Gto., Mexico, C.P. 37510 STRUCTURE: 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Maja Pantic (Imperial College London), Artificial Emotional Intelligence, Faces, Deep Fakes and Other Topics PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Rick S. Blum (Lehigh University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning and Cybersecurity Ben Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), [introductory/advanced] Explainable AI (XAI) Techniques for Science and Engineering -- Toward Statistical Inference for the 21st Century Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, Expressivity, and Adaptivity Ça?lar Gülçehre (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning Vincent Lepetit (ENPC ParisTech), [intermediate] Deep Learning and 3D Geometry Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing: Introduction and Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning Andy Liaw (Merck Research Labs), [introductory] Deep Learning and Statistics: Better Together Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/advanced] Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition Jan Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt), [intermediate] Robot Learning Massimiliano Pontil (Italian Institute of Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Learning Theory Jose Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Fedor Ratnikov (National Research University Higher School of Economics), [introductory] Specifics of Applying Machine Learning to Problems in Natural Science Salim Roukos (IBM Research AI), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning Methods for Natural Language Processing Björn Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Signal Processing Alex Smola (Amazon), [introductory/advanced] Dive into Deep Learning Sargur N. Srihari (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Generative Models in Deep Learning Kunal Talwar (Google Brain), [intermediate] Differentially Private Machine Learning René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning Haixun Wang (WeWork), [introductory/intermediate] Conceptual Understanding and Machine Learning Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 19, 2020. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 19, 2020. EMPLOYER SESSION: Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for, to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 19, 2020. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Teresa Efigenia Alarcón Martínez (Guadalajara) Oscar Dalmau Cedeño (Guanajuato, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) David Silva (London, co-chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at https://deeplearn2020.irdta.eu/registration/ The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time. CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david@irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C. (CIMAT-CONACyT) ? Guanajuato Centro Universitario de los Valles, Universidad de Guadalajara Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London
(2020-08-09) AILA 2020 CONGRESS: EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS, Groningen, The Netherlands
EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF AUDIO-VISUAL TEXTS
At the AILA 2020 CONGRESS
09-14 August 2020 ? Groningen ? The Netherlands
See below for details.
SUBMIT A PROPOSAL Your submission will need to include the following: ? Author(s) and affiliation(s) ? Title: max. 20 words ? Abstract: max. 300 words ? Summary for program: max. 50 words ? Submit your paper proposal via the 'submit your paper'-link on https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers.
Symposium Organisers:
Ielka van der Sluis Gisela Redeker Janina Wildfeuer
AILA 2020 CONGRESS
09-14 August 2020 • Groningen • The Netherlands
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EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS
EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF AUDIO-VISUAL TEXTS
Unfortunately, I have to inform you today that we will have to cancel the TAI conference in Sonderborg, DK for this year (as well as its satellite event, 13th Nordic Prosody). This announcement makes me and the whole organization team very sad, especially because the planning process was already very advanced, including safety preparations such as masks for conference participants, and the first contributions have already been submitted.
However, the Danish government has decided that no major events may take place in Denmark until at least August 31, 2020, and as a public institution, we must abide by this rule. Additionally, although more and more countries seem to be managing the crisis well, making reliable travel bookings for August will most likely still remain a problem for many months. Moreover, we know from the United States and other countries that many of our colleagues won't be allowed to travel to international conferences before the end of August. Of course, we don't want to exclude anyone from the conference and/or expose anyone to unnecessary health risks.
A multilateral, personal exchange of ideas and feedback is essential for a conference and for fostering research in general. It is for this reason that we prefer not to carry out the TAI conference online. Instead, we -- as well as many colleagues with whom we have discussed informally -- would prefer to postpone TAI to next year.
The new preliminary date for TAI is 15-18 June (Wed-Fri), 2021, i.e. right before PaPE 2021 in Barcelona, Spain. The host of TAI remains the University of Southern Denmark, in Sonderborg, DK. We will work hard to confirm the new date for TAI as soon as possible. Please check our website for updates.
Regarding the submission procedure, we have closed the Easychair submission page for now. When the new date for the TAI has been fixed, we will open the submission page again in good time before the conference dates. We expect the new submission deadline to be at the beginning of 2021. In this way, everyone will still have enough time to carry out his/her studies planned for TAI (even if they are currently interrupted due to Corona) without time pressure. Of course, all authors who have already submitted abstracts for TAI are welcome to submit their contributions elsewhere.
We will keep you up to date and hope for your understanding and your active participation in the TAI in 2021.We, the organizing team and I wish you all a productive and successful post-Easter period. Stay healthy and positive!
Warm and sunny regards from Southern Denmark, Oliver Niebuhr, Jan Michalsky, Meg Zellers, Jana Neitsch, Stephanie Berger and Jonas Sikorskis.
Call for Papers
The 13th edition of the Nordic Prosody (NP) conference series is proudly hosted by Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark (https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/centre+for+industrial+elektronics). The conference will be held as a satellite event to the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), 16-20 August 2020. Note that there will be a discount for NP participants who sign up for both conferences!
The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia.
Nordic Prosody conferences take place every 4 years. The first one was in Lund in 1978, organized by Eva Gårding, Gösta Bruce and Robert Bannert. The 12th Nordic Prosody was in 2016 in Trondheim, Norway. The conference series focuses on the forms and functions of prosodic patterns in Nordic languages and in languages spoken around the Baltic Sea. Contributions on all the various aspects of phonetics, phonology, and speech typology are welcome. Papers presenting new corpora, methods, or devices can be submitted as well. We also encourage researchers from neighboring disciplines like (second-language) pedagogy, acoustics, human-machine interaction, and voice pathology to submit contributions to the conference.
Keynote Speakers
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- David House (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) & Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University, Sweden): The multimodal nature of prominence
- Wim van Dommelen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway): Interactions of segmental and prosodic parameters
- Nicolai Pharao (Copenhagen University, Denmark): Processing prosody – recognizing speakers and recognizing words
Important dates:
************** 31 May 2020 Abstract submission deadline 21 June 2020 Early bird registration deadline 13-15 August 2020 13th Nordic Prosody Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark
01 November 2020 Full-paper submission deadline
Registrations are made through the conference website. Abstracts as well as full papers should be sent by email to np2020@sdu.dk. More detailed information about the formatting requirements will be available on the conference website.
Conference proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume of a Peter Lang book series.
NEW
two special sessions at Tone and Intonation 2020 (August 16-20, SDU Sonderborg), as described below. Please visit www.tai2020.org for more information, now including the conference keynote speakers, registration information, etc.
“Perceptual impact of foreign accents and non-standard varieties”
Marta Ortega-Llebaria (University of Pittsburgh, USA) & Jan Volín (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Suprasegmental features of speech have received well-deserved attention in the past decades. In particular, research in the f0 domain has proven especially promising since the melodic and tonal attributes of speech are perceptually salient and robust. They also convey a variety of meanings – lexical, grammatical, affective, pragmatic, conative, social – and they facilitate cerebral speech processing and comprehension. Unprecedented mobility of human populations leads to multilingual contexts that create new situations of language contact and language learning involving typologically different language varieties, many of which are still under-researched. Exactly these new linguistic situations could provide new insights into functioning of melodic and tonal phenomena and their role in, for instance, the linguistic structure, language learning and social stereotyping.
Submissions that investigate tone and intonation in relation to the following subtopics are especially welcome:
• perception and interpretation of melodic and tonal features in non-native languages and non-standard varieties
• implicit (unconscious) judgements about the users of non-native languages and non-standard varieties
• explicit (conscious) evaluations of intonation of non-native languages and non-standard varieties in different contexts, e.g., court, L2 proficiency exams, job interviews, business presentations
• emotional response to non-standard varieties and foreign-accented speech
• social consequences of speaking outside standard
• effects of unfamiliar accents into f0 processing and cognitive load
• entrainment/conversational accommodation in f0 domain
• the role of intonation in perceived fluency, accentedness, intelligibility and comprehensibility
• didactic approach to tones and tunes in foreign language teaching
After the opening overview of the field, the special session is planned to host 6 oral presentations of 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for on-spot clarifications and a number of poster presentations. The presentations will be followed by a chaired panel discussion.
“Prosody-oriented studies of social communicative speech in a digitized world”
Barbara Schuppler (TU Graz, Austria) & Wentao Gu (Nanjing Normal University, China)
In the last decade, human-human and human-machine social communicative dialogues have received more and more attention among linguists and speech scientists. For one thing, linguists study social communicative speech in order to go beyond controlled experiments and get additional insights into how spoken languages are processed in dynamic interaction. For another thing, accurate and phenomenologically rich automatic speech/speaker/emotion recognition and expressive text-to-speech synthesis systems are essential for conversational dialogue systems, as these become increasingly more interactional and social rather than solely transactional. Prosody, as the major vehicle of social functions, plays key roles in both types of studies. The investigation of prosodic variation in dialogue does not only require applying existing methods to interactional data. It also requires developing new categories of forms and functions, new modeling techniques and new sources of data/knowledge. This special session aims at bringing together phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists interested in the prosody of conversational speech. Submissions on the following topics and on different languages, including minority languages, are especially welcome:
• tools and data resources for the annotation and analysis of prosody in conversational speech
• the relationship between prosodic forms and communicative functions
• cross-linguistic and individual prosody variation in social speech communication
• co-variation of the segmental and suprasegmental characteristics in speech communication
• models of prosody in conversational speech
• prosody-oriented studies in automatic speech/speaker/emotion recognition and expressive text-to-speech synthesis
• prosody-oriented studies in human-robot interaction
The special session is able to include a maximum of 10 submissions, e.g., subdivided into 7 oral presentations of 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion and 3 oral presentations that showcase new methods, tools, and corpora.
Submissions to the special sessions use the same abstract and paper templates as regular contributions to TAI, and submissions are made through the same Easychair link as for regular contributions to TAI. The deadline for all submissions is 19 April 2020. Please see www.tai2020.org for more information.
We wish all of you a good start into the new lecture term.
The NP13 organizing committee,
Oliver Niebuhr, Jana Neitsch, Jan Michalsky, Meg Zellers, Stephanie Berger, Kerstin Fischer
Oliver Niebuhr
Associate Professor of Communication & Innovation
SDU Electrical Engineering
CIE - Centre for Industrial Electronics
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Rebecca Willett, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Chicago, USA.
Michael Unser, Biomedical Imaging Group, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Robert Heath, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
On behalf of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), it is a great pleasure of the organizing committee to invite you to the 28th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2020, to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. EUSIPCO is the flagship conference of EURASIP and offers a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing. EUSIPCO 2020 will feature worldclass speakers, oral and poster sessions, plenaries, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, and satellite workshops, and is expected to attract many leading academic researchers and people from industry from all over the world.
TECHNICAL SCOPE:
We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:
- Audio and acoustic signal processing - Speech and language processing - Image and video processing Multimedia signal processing - Signal processing theory and methods - Sensor array and multichannel signal processing - Signal processing for communications - Radar and sonar signal processing - Signal processing over graphs and networks - Nonlinear signal processing - Statistical signal processing - Compressed sensing and sparse modelling - Optimization methods - Machine learning - Bio-medical image and signal processing - Signal processing for computer vision and robotics - Computational imaging / spectral imaging - Information forensics and security - Signal processing for power systems - Signal processing for education - Bioinformatics and genomics - Signal processing for big data - Signal processing for the internet of things - Design/implementation of signal processing systems
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IMPORTANT DATES:
- Special Session Proposals? December 6, 2019 - Tutorial Proposals ? January 17, 2020 - Satellite Workshop Proposals ? January 24, 2020 - Full Paper Submission ? March 2, 2020 - Notification of Acceptance ? May 29, 2020 - Final Manuscript Submission ? June 12, 2020
(2020-08=31) 1st Call for paper – RO-MAN 2020 Special Session in Dialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction , Naples, Italy
1st Call for paper – RO-MAN 2020 Special SessioninDialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction
The Special Session Dialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction will be held in Naples during the RO-MAN 2020 Conference (http://ro-man2020.unina.it/) which will take place from August 31st to September 4th. This Special Session is a joint initiative of Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (AILC) and Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce (AISV), i.e. the two Italian scientific societies on Computational Linguistics and Speech Sciences.
The Special Session will focus on SpokenDialogueSystems, currently a leading topic in Social and Interactional Robotics. In this area some ongoing, often unresolved, issues, including accuracy in automatic speech recognition, naturalness of speech synthesis and complexity of semantic domain representation, are fast going toward a revolutionary turning point allowing researchers to concentrate on multimodal integration, spoken language understanding, and automatic evaluation of the speaker’s intents.
SUBMISSION
We invite participants to submit a 6 pages paper. Example submission topics include, but are not limited to:
· Speech and gesture interfaces for robotic interaction
· Spoken language understanding and domain semantic representation
· Persuasive dialogue systems ed empathic strategies
· Dialogic corpora collection
· Dialogue Systems evaluation
· Modelling miscommunication and repair strategies
AUTHORS SHOULD ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING STEPS FOR SUBMITTING THE PAPER (FOR INITIAL SUBMISSION):
Create an account: go to https://ras.papercept.net/, then PIN and fill out the form. Ask all your co-authors to do the same if they do not have an account on the system yet, write down the authors' PINs (this information is needed for manuscript processing purposes).
Go to Support Menu and depending on how you are preparing your paper, download a template: LaTeX or MS-Word, Use these templates/style files to create the paper and save in PDF format.
Fill in the form presented on the next page (make sure to enter all author PINs created in Step 1).
Please note, that our conference policy requires that at least one of the authors of the contributing submission must pay the conference registration fee to upload the final camera ready. This is to ensure that at least one of the presenting authors will be registered to attend the conference and deliver the presentation. The link to the registration system will be available on the conference website soon.
*The proposal must be submitted via the Papercept submission site.*
If you have any questions about the special sessions proposal submission, please contact programchair@ro-man2020.org
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: MARCH 15, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: MAY 27, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: JUNE 15, 2020
With kind regards,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee:
Francesco Cutugno – University of Naples ‘Federico II’
(2020-09-07) CfP Text Mining and Applications (TEMA2020) , Lisboa, Portugal
Call for Papers ? Text Mining and Applications (TEMA?20) Track of EPIA?20
TeMA 2020 will be held at the 20th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2020) taking place at Lisboa, Portugal, from 7th to 9th September 2020. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2020 URL: : https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt/
This announcement contains the following information:
[1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Program Committee and [8] Contacts.
[1] Track Description The 10th Track of Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2020) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following recent advances in general IA sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using text mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind by the members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer?s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2020.
[2] Topics of Interest TM, NLP, and Social Media Content Analysis ? Entity Recognition and Disambiguation ? Relation Extraction ? Analysis of Opinions, Emotions and Sentiments ? Text Clustering and Classification ? Machine Translation ? Summarization ? Word Sense Disambiguation ? Co-Reference Resolution ? Language Modeling ? Syntax and Parsing ? Distributional Models and Semantics ? Multi-Word Units ? Lexical Knowledge Acquisition ? Spatio-Temporal Text Mining ? Entailment and Paraphrases ? Natural Language Generation ? Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage ? Cross-Lingual Approaches ? Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining Applications: ? Information Retrieval and Information Extraction ? Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems ? Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting ? Web Content Annotation ? Computational Social Science ? Computational Journalism ? Health and Well-being ? Big Data Analysis
[3] Important dates Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2020 Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2020 Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2020 EPIA Conference: September 7-9, 2020(Lisboa, Portugal)
[4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNAI series. Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity. References to own work may be included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management website at: https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt/ Authors should consult Springer?s authors? guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
[5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2020 conference.
[6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva, DI ? FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal (Contact person). Pablo Gamallo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain. Paulo Quaresma, DI ? Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal. Irene Rodrigues., DI ? Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal
[7] Program Committee: Adam Jatowt ? Universit of Kioto, Japan Alberto Diaz ? Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Spain Alberto Simões ? Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal Alexandre Rademaker ? IBM / FGV, Brazil Altigran Silva ? Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil Antoine Doucet ? University of Caen, France António Branco ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Béatrice Daille ? University of Nantes, France Bruno Martins ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Eric de La Clergerie ? INRIA, France Fernando Batista ? Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Francisco Couto ? Faculdade de Ciências ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Gabriel Pereira Lopes ? Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ? Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Gaël Dias ? University of Caen Basse-Normandie Hugo Oliveira ? Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Iñaki Vicente - Language Technology, Elhuyar Foundation Irene Rodrigues ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal Jesús Vilares ? University of A Coruña, Spain Joaquim Ferreira da Silva ? Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ? Universidade Nova de Lisboa Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska ? ESIGETEL, France Luisa Coheur ? Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal Manuel Vilares Ferro ? University of Vigo, Spain Marcos Garcia - Universidade da Coruña, Spain Mário Silva ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Miguel Alonso ? Universidade da Coruña, Spain Pablo Gamallo ? Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain Patricia Martín-Rodilla ? Universidade da Coruña, Spain Paulo Quaresma ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal Pavel Brazdil ? University of Porto, Portugal Renata Vieira ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal Sérgio Nunes ? Faculdade de Engenharia ? Universidade do Porto, Portugal
(2020-09-08 )TSD 2020 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS, Brno, Czech Republic
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Twenty-third International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2020) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2020 http://www.tsdconference.org/
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.
CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The TSD 2020 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail tsd2020@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, United States Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Carlos Ferra, Cuba Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Denis Jouvet, France Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Odette Scharenborg, The Netherlands Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Vitomir Struc, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wroblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The conference program will include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 10 2020 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2020 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2020 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2020 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2020 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2020 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-11 2020 ...... Conference date
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2020 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2020@tsdconference.org
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Berlin and Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).
(2020-09-08) TSD 2020 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS, Brno, Czech Republic (UPDATED)
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Twenty-third International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2020) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2020 http://www.tsdconference.org/
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to:
April 27 2020 ............ Submission of full papers
NO CHANGES DUE TO COVID-19
In the current Czech Republic situation, the COVID-19 spread is far from epidemic, almost all the cases are very mild. Moreover, the Czech government is taking strong precautions to stop the COVID-19 spread before it would actually happen. This is why the organizers believe that the actual organization of the TSD 2020 conference in September is not at risk and we plan to continue the preparation process without changes.
THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
April 10 2020 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2020 ............ Submission of full papers
Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. It is still possible to submit both by the full paper deadline.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index/Web of Science. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.
The TSD 2020 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2020@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Carlos Ferrer, Cuba Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Denis Jouvet, France Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Odette Scharenborg, The Netherlands Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Vitomir Struc, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wroblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website.
Papers submitted to TSD 2020 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...', should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'. Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.
The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format. For this service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically.
The paper format for review has to be a PDF file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample File typeinst.zip).
Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 10 2020 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2020 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2020 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2020 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2020 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2020 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-11 2020 ...... Conference date
Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary.
The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to
Ales Horak, TSD 2020 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2020@tsdconference.org
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Milan, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).
For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.
For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
Supporting us in many tasks (thinking, searching, memorizing and communicating) words are important. Hence, one may wonder how to build tools supporting their learning and usage (access/navigation). Alas the answer is not quite as straightforward as it may seem. It depends on various factors: the questioner's background (lexicography, psychology, computer science), the task (production/reception), and the material support (hardware). Words in books, computers and the human brain are not the same. Obviously, being aware of this, different communities have focused on different issues ?(dictionary building; creation of navigational tools; representation and organization of words; time course for accessing a word, etc.)? yet, their views and respective goals have changed considerably over time.
Rather than considering the lexicon as a static entity, where discrete units (words) are organized alphabetically (database view), dictionaries are now viewed dynamically, i.e., as lexical graphs, whose entities are linked in various ways (topical relations; associations) and whose weight links may vary over time. While lexicographers view words as products (holistic entities), psychologists and neuroscientists view them as processes (decomposition), involving various steps or layers (representations) between an input and an output.
Computational linguists have their own ways to look at words, and their proposals have also changed quite a bit during the last decade. Discrete count-based vector representations have successively been replaced by continuous vectors (i.e., word embeddings) and then by language-model-based contextualized representations. These latter are more powerful than any of the other forms, as they are able to account for context ambiguity, outperforming the static models (including word-embeddings) in a broad range of tasks.
As one can see, different communities look at words from different angles, which can be an asset, as complementary views may help us to broaden and deepen our understanding of this fundamental cognitive resource. Yet, this diversity of perspectives can also a problem, in particular if the field is rapidly moving on, as in our case. Hence it becomes harder and harder for everyone, including experts, to remain fully informed about the latest changes (state of the art). This is one of the reasons why we organize this workshop. More precisely, our goal is not only to keep people informed without getting them crushed by the information glut, but also to help them to perceive clearly what is new, relevant, hence important. Last, but not least, we would like to connect people from different communities in the hope that this may help them to gain new insights or inspirations.
2 Scope and Topics
This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources (representation, organization of the data, etc.). To allow for this we invite researchers to submit their contributions. The idea is to discuss the limitations of existing resources and to explore possible enhancements that take into account the users? and the engineers' needs (computational aspects).
Also, just like in the past we propose again a 'shared task'. This time the goal is to provide a common benchmark for testing lexical representations for the automatic identification of lexical semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, hypernymy, part-whole meronymy) in various languages (English, Chinese, and so on).
For this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the following topics, each of which can be considered from various points of view: linguistics (lexicography, computational- or corpus linguistics), neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip-of-the-tongue problem, word associations), network-related sciences (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world problem), and so on.
1 Organization, i.e. structure of the lexicon ? Micro- and macrostructure of the lexicon; ? Indexical categories (taxonomies, thesaurus-like topical structures, etc.); ? Map of the lexicon (topology) and relations between words (word associations).
2 The meaning of words and how to reveal it ? Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed); ? Meaning representation (concept based, primitives); ? Distributional semantics (count models, neural embeddings, etc. )
3 Analysis of the conceptual input given by a dictionary user ? What information do language producers typically provide when looking for a word (terms, relations)? ? What kind of relational information do they give: typed or untyped relations? ? Which relations are typically used?
4 Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes ? Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and indexes (crowdsourcing, serious games, etc.); ? Extraction of associations from corpora to build semantic networks supporting navigation; ? (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g., synonym, hypernym, meronym, ...).
5 Creation of new types of dictionaries ? Concept dictionary; ? Dictionary of larger segments than words (clauses, phrasal elements); ? Dictionary of patterns or concept-patterns; ? Dictionary of syllables.
6 Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues
? Search based on sound (rhymes), meaning or contextually related words (associations); ? Determination of appropriate search space based on the user?s cognitive state (information available at the onset: query) and meta-knowledge (knowledge concerning the relationship between the input and the target word), ... ? Identification of typical word access strategies (navigational patterns) used by people; ? Interface problems, data visualization.
3 Workshop Submissions
The workshop features two tracks:
A regular research track, where the submissions must be substantially original.
A shared task track, with submissions consisting of system description papers.
The regular research track submissions should follow one of the 2 formats:
Long papers (9 content pages + references) should report on solid and finished research including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques.
Short papers (4 content pages + references) should report on small experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.
The FinTOC?2 shared task aims to bring together the community of researchers interested in Financial Document Processing and Document Layout Analysis to advance the state of the art in the automatic processing of financial documents. This task focuses on the automatic generation of reports' Table Of Contents (henceforth TOC), as it is a key building block in the semantic analysis of financial documents. Generating the TOC requires detecting the span of all document sections and subsections, identifying their titles, and organising them into a hierarchy. It is a well-known fact that extracting document structure is a key step in information processing. For example sections can be used to determine areas where algorithms can be applied, such as Information Extraction, thus reducing false positives rate and irrelevant noise.
This is the second edition of the FinTOC shared task which will be held at COLING 2020 in Barcelona (Spain) as part of the FNP-FNS 2020 workshop. Last year?s edition received significant interest, particularly on the Title Detection track. Our aim this year is to increase interest by: - lowering the barriers to the entry to the TOC extraction track, and - opening up the task to a new language: French. We are particularly interested in systems which can be applied to both English and French languages.
This second edition proposes two tracks: one track per language, and it will score systems on both Title detection and TOC generation performance. We have revised the task and greatly simplified data formats to make it as smooth as possible for every interested researcher to participate and submit their systems? outputs at FinTOC?2.
Each of the participating teams will be asked to submit a short paper describing their methods and solutions to be presented at the workshop.
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To register your interest in participating in FinTOC?2 shared task please use the following google form by no later than April 6th, 2020: https://forms.gle/LFsVaw6DqYikhKHx9 __________________________________________
Important dates:
December 1st, 2020: Registration opens. February 17th, 2020: Release of training set & scoring scripts. March 23rd, 2020: Release of test set. April 6th, 2020: Registration deadline. April 13th, Submission deadline. May 1st, 2020: Release of results. Sep 13th, 2020: Workshop day. _________________________________________
Contact: For any questions on the shared task please contact us on: fin.toc.task@gmail.com ______________________________________
(2020-09-15) ADReSS challenge, Shanghai, China (UPDATED)
Due to the COVID19, INTERSPEECH 2020 has new dates: 26-29 October 2020
Call for Participation:
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Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech:
The ADReSS Challenge at INTERSPEECH 2020 (Sep 15-18, Shanghai, China)
Dementia is a category of neurodegenerative diseases that entails a long-term and usually gradual decrease of cognitive functioning. While a number of studies have investigated speech and language features for the detection of Alzheimer's Disease and mild cognitive impairment, and proposed various signal processing and machine learning methods for this prediction task, the field still lacks balanced and standardised data sets on which these different approaches can be systematically compared.
The ADReSS Challenge has made available a benchmark dataset of spontaneous speech, which is acoustically pre-processed and balanced in terms of age and gender, defining a shared task through which different approaches to AD recognition in spontaneous speech can be compared.
We invite researchers working on speech and language analysis methods for detection of AD and/or assessment of cognitive status to develop or test their approaches to these tasks on the ADReSS Challenge dataset, and to submit a paper for presentation at INTERSPEECH'2020, in the Challenge's special session.
The relevant dates are:
* January 24, 2020: ADReSS training data available * March 15, 2020: ADReSS test data made available * March 17, 2020: Period for submission of results opens * March 30, 2020: *INTERSPEECH'2020 paper submission deadline* * June 19, 2020: Paper acceptance/rejection notification * September 15-18, 2020: INTERSPEECH'2020, in Shanghai, China.
Organizers - Saturnino Luz, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh - Fasih Haider, The University of Edinburgh - Sofia de la Fuente, The University of Edinburgh - Davida Fromm, Carnegie Mellon University - Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
Machine learning, as the driving force of this wave of AI, provides powerful solutions to many real-world technical and scientific challenges. The 30th MLSP workshop, an annual event organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society MLSP Technical Committee, will present the most recent and exciting advances in machine learning for signal processing through keynote talks, tutorials, as well as special and regular single-track sessions. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on relevant algorithms and applications including, but not limited to:
Learning theory and modeling
Neural networks and deep learning
Bayesian Learning and modeling
Sequential learning, sequential decision methods
Information-theoretic learning
Graphical and kernel models
Bounds on performance
Source separation and independent component analysis
Signal detection, pattern recognition and classification
Tensor and structured matrix methods
Machine learning for big data
Large scale learning
Dictionary learning, subspace and manifold learning
Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning
Active and reinforcement learning
Learning from multimodal data
Resource efficient machine learning
Cognitive information processing
Bioinformatics applications
Biomedical applications and neural engineering
Speech and audio processing applications
Image and video processing applications
Intelligent multimedia and web processing
Communications applications
Other applications including social networks, games, smart grid, security and privacy
Special Session Call for Proposals
MLSP is seeking original, high quality proposals for Special Sessions, to be included in the technical program along with the regular track. Special Sessions are expected to address research in focused, emerging, or interdisciplinary areas of particular interest, not covered already by traditional MLSP sessions.
Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to six pages using the electronic submission procedure which will be peer-reviewed.
Accepted papers will be published on on a password-protected website that will be available during the workshop. The presented papers will be published in and indexed by IEEE Xplore.
Schedule 2020
Special session call deadline: March 19
Paper submission deadline: April 19
Decision notification: June 30
Camera-ready paper deadline: July 25
Advance registration deadline: August 22
Organizing Committee
General Chair: Simo Särkkä (Aalto University), Program Chairs: Lassi Roininen (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Andreas Hauptmann (University of Oulu), Manon Kok (TU Delft), Michael Riis Andersen (Technical University of Denmark), Finance Chair: Seppo Sierla (Aalto University), Publicity Chair: Arno Solin (Aalto University), Tutorial Chair: Alexander Ilin (Aalto University), Publications Chair: Roland Hostettler (Uppsala University), Advisory Committee: Zheng-Hua Tan (Aalborg University), Murat Akcakaya (University of Pittsburgh), Bhaskar Rao (University of California San Diego), Raviv Raich (Oregon State University)
ImageCLEF 2020 is an evaluation campaign that is being organized as part of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) labs. The campaign offers several research tasks that welcome participation from teams around the world.
The results of the campaign appear in the working notes proceedings, published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and are presented in the CLEF conference. Selected contributions among the participants will be invited for submission to a special section 'Best of CLEF'20 Labs' in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) of CLEF'21, together with the annual lab overviews.
Target communities involve (but are not limited to): - information retrieval (text, vision, audio, multimedia, social media, sensor data, etc.) - machine learning, deep learning - data mining - natural language processing - image and video processing - computer vision with special attention to the challenges of multi-modality, multi-linguality, and interactive search.
*** 2020 TASKS ***
*ImageCLEFlifelog* (4th edition) https://www.imageclef.org/2020/lifelog An increasingly wide range of personal devices that allow capturing pictures, videos, and audio clips for every moment of our lives, are becoming available. In this context, the task addresses the problems of lifelogging data retrieval and summarization.
Organizers: Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen (University of Bergen), Van-Tu Ninh, Tu-Khiem Le, Liting Zhou & Cathal Gurrin (Dubin City University), Luca Piras (Pluribus One & University of Cagliari), Michael Riegler & Pål Halvorsen (SimulaMet), Minh-Triet Tran (University of Science), Mathias Lux (Klagenfurt University).
*ImageCLEFcoral* (2nd edition) https://www.imageclef.org/2020/coral The increasing use of structure-from-motion photogrammetry for modelling large-scale environments from action cameras has driven the next generation of visualization techniques. The task addresses the problem of automatically segmenting and labeling a collection of images that can be used in combination to create 3D models for the monitoring of coral reefs.
Organizers: Jon Chamberlain, Adrian Clark & Alba García Seco de Herrera (University of Essex), Antonio Campello (Wellcome Trust).
*ImageCLEFmedical* (2nd edition) https://www.imageclef.org/2020/medical Medical images can be used in a variety of scenarios and this task will combine the most popular medical tasks of ImageCLEF and continue the last year idea of combining various applications, namely: automatic image captioning and scene understanding, medical visual question answering and decision support on tuberculosis. This allows to explore synergies between the tasks.
Organizers: Asma Ben Abacha & Dina Demner-Fushman (National Library of Medicine), Sadid A. Hasan (CVS Health), Vivek Datla & Joey Liu (Philips Research Cambridge), Obioma Pelka & Christoph M. Friedrich (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund), Alba García Seco de Herrera (University of Essex), Yashin Dicente Cid (University of Warwick), Serge Kozlovski, Vitali Liauchuk & Vassili Kovalev (United Institute of Informatics Problems), Henning Müller (HES-SO).
*ImageCLEFdrawnUI2020* (new) https://www.imageclef.org/2020/drawnui Enabling people to create websites by drawing them on a piece of paper can make the webpage building process more accessible. The task addresses the problem of automatically recognizing hand drawn objects representing website UIs, that will be further translated into automatic website code.
Organizers: Paul Brie & Fichou Dimitri (teleportHQ), Mihai Dogariu, Liviu Daniel Stefan, Mihai Gabriel Constantin & Bogdan Ionescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest).
*** IMPORTANT DATES *** (may vary depending on the task) - Task registration opens: December 20, 2019 - CLEF long and short paper submission: April 27, 2020 - Run submission: May 11, 2020 - Working notes submission: May 25, 2020 - CLEF 2020 conference: September 22-25, Thessaloniki, Greece
*** OVERALL COORDINATION *** Bogdan Ionescu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Henning Müller, HES-SO, Sierre, Switzerland Renaud Péteri, University of La Rochelle, France
Due to COVID-19 pandemic in the world, SPECOM-2020 conference with satellite events may be partially or completely organized as a teleconference via Zoom service within announced dates. In the case of a teleconference, essentially reduced registration fees are provided for authors, as well as a free registration for participants. The proceedings will be prepared in time and published by Springer in LNCS series, the on-line proceedings will be available before the conference.
EXTENDED DEADLINES (!)
June 15, 2020 .................. Submission of full papers (final date)
July 15, 2020 ................... Notification of acceptance/rejection
July 27, 2020 ................... Camera-ready papers and early registration
ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).
GENERAL CHAIRS
Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Russia
CONFERENCE TOPICS
SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:
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 full papers of 6-10 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM 2020 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. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2020
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 international citation databases. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for October 2020.
CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
(2020-10-12) 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20), Seattle, USA
Call for Papers
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Third International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20) @ ACM Multimedia, October 12-16, 2020, Seattle, USA
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seattle, USA together with ACM Multimedia 2020. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:
– annotation and indexing
– athlete and object tracking
– activity recognition, classification and evaluation
– event detection and indexing
– performance assessment
– injury analysis and prevention
– data driven analysis in sports
– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports
– automated training assistance
– camera pose and motion tracking
– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions
Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of the paper.
Please refer to the workshop website for further information:
(2020-10-12) Third International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20)
Call for Papers
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Third International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20) @ ACM Multimedia, October 12-16, 2020, Seattle, USA
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seattle, USA together with ACM Multimedia 2020. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:
? annotation and indexing
? athlete and object tracking
? activity recognition, classification and evaluation
? event detection and indexing
? performance assessment
? injury analysis and prevention
? data driven analysis in sports
? graphical augmentation and visualization in sports
? automated training assistance
? camera pose and motion tracking
? brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions
Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of the paper.
Please refer to the workshop website for further information:
(2020-10-14) 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Cardiff, United Kingdom
SLSP 20208th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING Cardiff, United Kingdom October 14-16, 2020 Co-organized by: School of Computer Science and Informatics Cardiff University Data Innovation Research Institute Cardiff University Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London http://slsp2020.irdta.eu ********************************************************************************** AIMS: SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between the two domains will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2020, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. Previous events took place in Tarragona, Grenoble, Budapest, Pilsen, Le Mans, Mons, and Ljubljana. VENUE: SLSP 2020 will take place in Cardiff, the capital of Wales and its political, commercial and cultural centre. The venue will be: Cardiff University Cardiff Wales CF10 3AT UK SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: anaphora and coreference resolution authorship identification, plagiarism, and spam filtering corpora and resources for speech and language data mining, term extraction, and semantic web dialogue systems and spoken language understanding information retrieval and information extraction knowledge representation and ontologies lexicons and dictionaries machine translation and computer-aided translation multimodal technologies natural language understanding and generation neural representation of speech and language opinion mining and sentiment analysis part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and semantic role labelling question-answering systems for speech and text speaker identification and verification speech recognition, transcription, and synthesis spelling correction text categorization and summarization user modeling STRUCTURE: SLSP 2020 will consist of: invited lectures peer-reviewed contributions posters KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: tba PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: (to be completed) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, US) Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, FR) Fethi Bougares (University of Le Mans, FR) Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, IT) Bill Campbell (Amazon, US) Kenneth W. Church (Baidu Research, US) Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, DE) Nikos Fakotakis (University of Patras, GR) Marcello Federico (Amazon AI, US) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK) Ond?ej Glembek (Brno University of Technology, CZ) Ralph Grishman (New York University, US) Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK) Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE) Martin Karafiát (Brno University of Technology, CZ) Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University, US) Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, SG) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Seiichi Nakagawa (Chubu University, JP) Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES) Irena Spasi? (Cardiff University, UK) Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Netherlands eScience Center, NL) Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, JP) Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT) K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, US) Andy Way (Dublin City University, IE) Caiming Xiong (Salesforce, US) Steve Young (University of Cambridge, UK) Wlodek Zadrozny (University of North Carolina Charlotte, US) Guodong Zhou (Soochow University, CN) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Luis Espinosa-Anke (Cardiff) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) David Silva (London, co-chair) Irena Spasi? (Cardiff, co-chair) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Upload submissions to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2020 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://slsp2020.irdta.eu/registration/ DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: June 1, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 6, 2020 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 15, 2020 Early registration: July 15, 2020 Late registration: September 30, 2020 Submission to the journal special issue: January 16, 2021 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david (at) irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd Data Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd IRDTA ? Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London
(2020-10-25) ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium - 3rd Call for Contributions, Utrecht, The Netherlands
ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium - 3rd Call for Contributions ************************************************************** http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfdc 25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands ************************************************************** ICMI2020 will be held as a virtual conference or partially virtual conference. **************************************************************
The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).
= Who should apply? = While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
= Why should you attend? = The DC provides an opportunity to build a social network that includes the cohort of DC students, senior students, recent graduates, and senior mentors. Not only is this an opportunity to get feedback on research directions, it is also an opportunity to learn more about the process and to understand what comes next. We aim to connect you with a mentor who will give specific feedback on your research and whom you can talk to during the lunch. We specifically aim to create an informal setting where students feel supported in their professional development.
= Agenda =
09:00 - 09:30: Invited talk
09:30 - 11:00: DC talks 1
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00: DC talks 2
13:00 - 14:30: Lunch mentoring session
14:30 - 15:15: Panel discussion (senior PhD students and recent graduates)
15:15 - 15:45: Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00: Table discussions (small group discussions about topics of interest)
= Submission Guidelines = Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
Extended Abstract: A four-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SigConf format. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions will not be anonymous. In particular, it should cover:
The key research questions and motivation of your research;
Background and related work that informs your research;
A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem;
Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies;
The research approach and methodology;
Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work;
A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work;
Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support. Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.
CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
= Review Process = The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
= Financial Support = The conference is pleased to offer partial financial support for doctoral students participating in the Doctoral Consortium and attending the conference. Only students who apply and are accepted for participation in the Doctoral Consortium can be considered for financial support. The number and size of the offers of financial support are contingent upon the number of invited student participants.
= Attendance = All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
= Process = ? Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2) ? Submission system: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/ ? Selection process: Peer-Reviewed ? Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session ? Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library ? Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Juliet Haarman (University of Twente) Emily Mower Provost (University of Michigan) and Catharine Oertel (TU Delft).
= Important Dates = Submission deadline: July 5, 2020 (23:59PM, PST) Notifications: August 10, 2020 Camera-ready: September 2nd, 2020 Doctoral Consortium date: October 25, 2020
= Questions? = For more information and updates on the ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfdc) For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
(2020-10-25) 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA, Beersheba, Israel
7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
BigDat 2020 Autumn
Beersheba, Israel
October 25-29, 2020
Co-organized by:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering Data Science Research Center
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) Brussels / London
https://irdta.eu/bigdat2020a/
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SCOPE:
BigDat 2020 Autumn will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Bilbao, Bari, Timisoara, Cambridge and Ancona.
Big data is a broad field covering a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
ADDRESSED TO:
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2020 Autumn is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
VENUE:
BigDat 2020 Autumn will take place in Beersheba, the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel and an important technology center. The venue will be:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Marcus Family Campus
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/interactive.aspx
STRUCTURE:
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
tba
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
Paolo Addesso (University of Salerno), [introductory/intermediate] Data Fusion for Remotely Sensed Data
Thomas Bäck & Hao Wang (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Driven Modeling and Optimization for Industrial Applications
Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models
Altan Cakir (Istanbul Technical University), [intermediate] Big Data Analytics with Apache Spark
Edward Chang (Stanford University), [intermediate] Artificial Intelligence for Disease Diagnosis and Precision Surgery
Michael X. Cohen (Radboud University Nijmegen), [introductory] Dimension Explosion and Dimension Reduction in Brain Electrical Activity
Ian Fisk (Flatiron Institute), [introductory] The Infrastructure to Support Data Science
Michael Freeman (University of Washington), [intermediate] Interactive Data Visualization Using D3 + Observable
David Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Derive Meaning from Data with R Visualizations
Yifan Hu (Yahoo Research), [introductory/advanced] Data Visualization and Machine Learning
Wagner A. Kamakura (Rice University), [intermediate] Advanced Business Analytics using Excel Addins
Ravi Kumar (Google), [intermediate/advanced] Clustering for Big Data
Victor O.K. Li (University of Hong Kong), [intermediate] Deep Learning and Applications
Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Optimization and Data Sciences Techniques for Large Networks
Valeriu Predoi (University of Reading), [introductory] A Beginner's Guide to Big Data Analysis: How to Connect Scientific Software Development with Real World Problems
Sebastián Ventura (University of Córdoba), [intermediate/advanced] Supervised Descriptive Pattern Mining
Xiaowei Xu (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), [introductory/advanced] Deep Learning for Text Mining
OPEN SESSION
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by October 17, 2020.
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by October 17, 2020.
EMPLOYER SESSION:
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by October 17, 2020.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Stavi Baram (Beersheba) Mark Last (Beersheba) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) Lior Rokach (Beersheba, co-chair) Bracha Shapira (Beersheba, co-chair) David Silva (London, co-chair)
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
https://irdta.eu/bigdat2020a/registration/
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
Refunding of registration fees will not be possible. However, an exception will be made in case the event must be postponed due to the continuation of the coronavirus crisis in Autumn (which is a scenario the organizers do not expect).
ACCOMMODATION:
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
CERTIFICATE:
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david@irdta.eu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London
(2020-10-25) ICMI 2020: First Call for Late-Breaking Results, Utrecht, The Netherlands (COVID 19)
ICMI 2020: First Call for Late-Breaking Results ************************************ http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cflbr 25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands ************************************ ICMI2020 will be held as a virtual conference or partially virtual conference. LBR will be published as scheduled. ************************************
Based on the success of the LBR in ICMI 2018 and 2019, the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2020 continues soliciting submissions for the special venue titled Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of the LBR venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues.
- Submission deadline: August 12th, 2020 - Notifications: September 8th, 2020 - Camera-ready deadline: September 30th, 2020 - Conference Dates: October 24-25, 2020 - Submission format: Anonymized, short paper (four pages not including references), following the submission guidelines (http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors) - Selection process: Peer-Reviewed - Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session - Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library - LBR Co-chairs: Elizabeth Shriberg (Berkeley University) and Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS-Sorbonne University)
What are Late-Breaking Results?
Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track.
Why submit to the Late-Breaking Results track at ICMI?
Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field. Late-Breaking Results papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are 'significant' revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies.
Submission Guidelines
Extended Abstract: An anonymized, four-page paper, not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates). The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the 'Late-Breaking Results' track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted.
Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person.
Review Process
LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it 'fits' the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond.
Attendance
At least one author of all accepted LBR submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference poster session.
We are investigating ways to hold ICMI2020 as a virtual conference or as a partially virtual conference. In any case, the ICMI2020 proceedings will be published as scheduled.
Best, the organizing team of ICMI2020.
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We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020), located in Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 25-29th, 2020.
This year?s conference theme: In this information age, technological innovation is at the core of our lives and rapidly transforming and impacting the state of the world in art, culture, and society, and science as well - the borders between classical disciplines such as humanities and computer science are fading. In particular, we wonder how multimodal processing of human behavioural data can create meaningful impact in art, culture, and society practices. And vice versa, how does art, culture, and society influence our approaches and techniques in multimodal processing? As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Multimodal processing and representation of Human Behaviour in Art, Culture, and Society.
Demonstrations and Exhibits The ICMI 2020 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. It can also serve to introduce commercial products.
Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a 1-2 page paper, which will be included in the ICMI main proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than one page; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers may be invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.
Demonstration Submission Please submit a 1-2 page description of the demonstration through the main ICMI conference management system (https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi). Demonstration description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than 2 pages in length including references (submission format: http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors). Demonstration proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration and, where possible, a video of the proposed demo should accompany the submission (no larger than 200MB). The demo and exhibit paper submissions are not anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).
The demonstration submissions will be peer reviewed, according to the following criteria: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals (paper submission), along with preparing the short papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.
The demo program will include the accepted proposals and may additionally include invited demos from among full-length papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Please note that the accepted descriptions will be included in the ICMI main proceedings.
Exhibit Submission Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demonstration proposals. Exhibit proposals must be shorter in length (up to one page) and more suitable for mature systems. Exhibits will not have a paper published in the ICMI 2020 proceedings.
Attendance At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s).
Important Dates Submission of demo and exhibit proposals July 17, 2020 Demo and exhibit notification of acceptance July 31, 2020 Submission of demo final papers August 17, 2020
(2020-10-?) The VoicePrivacy2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan
The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan is available on the website:
https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/docs/VoicePrivacy_2020_Eval_Plan_v1_1.pdfThe VoicePrivacy initiative Challenge is spearheading the effort to develop privacy preservation solutions for speech technology. It aims to gather a new community to define the task and metrics and to benchmark initial solutions using common datasets, protocols and metrics. VoicePrivacy takes the form of a competitive challenge. The challenge is to develop anonymization solutions which suppress personally identifiable information contained within speech signals. At the same time, solutions should preserve linguistic content and speech quality/naturalness. The challenge will conclude with a session/event held in conjunction with Interspeech 2020 at which challenge results will be made publicly available.
Participants/teams are requested to register for the evaluation. Registration should be performed once only for each participating entity and by sending an email to: organisers@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org with ?VoicePrivacy 2020 registration? as the subject line. The mail body should include: (i) the name of the team; (ii) the name of the contact person; (iii) their country; (iv) their status (academic/nonacademic).
Subscription:
Participants are encouraged to subscribe to the VoicePrivacy 2020 mailing list by sending an email to: sympa@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.orgwith ?subscribe 2020? as the subject line. Successful registrations are confirmed by return email.
Jean-François Bonastre - University of Avignon - LIA, France Nicholas Evans - EURECOM, France Fuming Fang - NII, Japan Andreas Nautsch - EURECOM, France Paul-Gauthier Noé - University of Avignon - LIA, France Jose Patino - EURECOM, France Md Sahidullah - Inria, France Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava - Inria, France Natalia Tomashenko - University of Avignon - LIA, France Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM, France Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France Xin Wang - NII, Japan Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan and University of Edinburgh, UK
Le séminaire Traitement de l?Information Multimodale est organisé par la DGA et se tiendra dans ses locaux parisiens du 02 au 04 novembre 2020. Il rassemble les acteurs civils et Défense du traitement d?images et du traitement automatique du langage naturel, afin de promouvoir les collaborations au sein de la communauté. Ce séminaire scientifique s?adresse à l?ensemble des acteurs techniques de l?écosystème : laboratoires académiques, équipes R&D industrielles, etc. Il a notamment pour objectif de favoriser les échanges autour d?approches et de solutions innovantes pour répondre aux enjeux du traitement de l?information multimodale, en particulier dans une perspective de développement de systèmes étatiques ; un intérêt particulier est donc porté aux traitements et domaines d?application non couverts par les applications grand public.
Les contributions scientifiques, théoriques comme appliquées, sont les bienvenues concernant plusieurs domaines liés à l?intelligence artificielle : traitement automatique du langage naturel (parole et écrit), traitement d?images, traitement de données multimodales et aspects méthodologiques de la mise au point de tels traitements. Dans le cas d'une contribution appliquée, les illustrations sur cas représentatif seront particulièrement appréciées.
Deux types de contributions sont sollicités :
* communications : deux formats possibles (poster ou présentation orale) sur proposition du contributeur et suivant l?avis du comité de programme ;
* démonstrations.
Liste non limitative de thématiques :
* Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel
- Fouille de données, recherche d'information et extraction d'information
- Enrichissement automatique de bases de connaissances et d'ontologies
- Traitements spécifiques pour les données Web et réseaux sociaux : détection de fake news, gestion du langage non-canonique, etc.
- Author profiling
- Génération de langage naturel
- Traitement de la parole : identification de la langue / du locuteur / de la voix, synthèse et reconnaissance automatique de la parole, détection de mots-clés, détection d'événements acoustiques, diarization, etc.
- Prise en compte du code-switching
- Traduction neuronale : texte, parole
- Travaux sur des langues spécifiques : dialectes arabes, langues d'Afrique sub-saharienne, etc.
- Conception de modèles multilingues
- Conception de modèles end-to-end
* Traitement Images (optiques, SAR et Hyperspectrales) ou vidéos
- Recherche et indexation d'images et de vidéos par le contenu
- Biométrie : forte (visage, iris, etc.) et faible (taille, cheveux, etc.)
- Calcul de MNS / MNT, Reconstruction 3D
- Détection, reconnaissance et identification d'anomalies, d'objets, de personnes ou de logos
- Détection de changement et d?activité
- Anticipation d?événements à base de détections élémentaires dans des séries d'images
* Multimodalité
- Tâches multimodales, visual grounding
- Analyse de documents : reconnaissance de caractères, reconnaissance de l?écriture manuscrite, compréhension de documents, etc.
- Détection et génération de Deepfake : voice conversion, voice cloning, face swapping, incrustation, etc.
- Interaction naturelle Homme-machine : assistants vocaux, détection d'émotions, etc.
- Synthèse et fusion d'information
- Recherche et indexation multimodales : recherche textuelle d'images, génération de légendes, alignement texte-vidéo, etc.
- Géolocalisation à partir du contenu
* Méthodologie et thématiques communes
- Interprétabilité des systèmes de TIM
- Apports et limites des méthodes d'apprentissage profond pour le TIM
- Adaptation de systèmes : adaptation de domaine, de tâche, méthodes de transfert, etc.
- Apprentissage de représentations, en particulier embeddings
- Apprentissage en cours de vie : apprentissage continu, interactions utilisateurs, etc.
- Traitement des données bruitées
- Techniques pour le 'small data' : langues peu dotées, petits corpus, zero-shot learning, augmentation de données, etc.
- Génération automatique de données synthétiques
- Compression (audio, image, vidéo)
- Environnements, frameworks, outils d'évaluation
- Corpus : annotation, apprentissage actif, capitalisation de données, etc.
- Retour d'expériences de campagnes d'évaluation et de défis
** Modalités de soumission et sélection des contributions **
Les contributeurs sont invités à proposer un résumé entre 2000 et 4000 caractères, en français sauf exception (auteur ou équipe non francophone), en identifiant les auteurs et leurs affiliations et en précisant s'il s'agit d'une communication (indiquer une préférence entre présentation orale ou poster) ou d'une démonstration.
Les travaux présentés doivent être originaux et constituer une avancée par rapport à l?état de l?art, toutefois la présentation de travaux déjà soumis ou publiés à une conférence internationale durant l?année en cours est également la bienvenue (à mentionner clairement dans le résumé soumis). Les contributions se feront en français, sauf exception (auteur ou équipe non francophone).
Les soumissions reçues feront l?objet d?un examen par plusieurs relecteurs du domaine. Elles seront notamment évaluées eu égard à leur pertinence vis-à-vis du positionnement et des thématiques du séminaire, leur justesse technique, la clarté du résumé. En cas de sélection, une phase d?échanges entre le comité de programme et les auteurs est prévue en amont de la présentation, afin d?en valider les modalités et la forme. L'envoi des supports de communication sera donc demandé plusieurs semaines en avance.
* Soumission des résumés : date limite le 06 juillet 2020 ===> possibilité de modification des soumissions jusqu'au lundi 20/07 inclus <===
* Notification aux auteurs : au plus tard le 02 septembre 2020
* Date du séminaire : du 02 au 04 novembre 2020
** Situation sanitaire due au Covid-19 **
En fonction de l?évolution de la situation sanitaire en France due à la pandémie de Covid-19, en cas d'impossibilité de tenue du séminaire TIM aux dates initialement prévues une adaptation sera proposée (présentiel à effectif réduit, report, passage en virtuel...).
(2020-11-18) Two challenges at IberSPEECH2020, Valldolid, Spain
IberSPEECH'2020 will hold two evaluation challenges, the traditional ALBAYZÍN evaluation organized by the Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technologies and the ALLIES evaluation organized by the ALLIES European project: LNE (Laboratoire national de métrologie et d?essais, France), LIUM (Le Mans Université, France), IDIAP (Switzerland) and UPC (Spain).
ALLIES evaluation focuses on speaker segmentation on a new corpus of audio-visual documents (news, debates, talk-shows...) from the French channel LCP. More information about ALLIES evaluation can be found in https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/allies-evaluation/
ALBAYZÍN evaluation challenges focus on evaluating different audio-visual technologies over TV and radio broadcast, and Basque Parliament content.
Five evaluations are proposed:
Speech to Text Challenge (S2TC), organized by RTVE (Spanish public radio and television) and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of automatically transcribe different types of TV shows.
Speaker Diarization and Identity Asignement (SDIAC), organized by RTVE(Spanish public radio and television) and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of segmenting broadcast audio documents according to different speakers, linking those segments which originate from the same speaker and identify a closed set of speakers.
Multimodal Diarization and Scene Description Challenge (MDSDC), organized by RTVE (Spanish public radio and television) and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of segmenting broadcast audio-visual documents according to a closed set of speakers, faces and scene descriptors and linking those segments which originate from the same speaker, face and scene descriptor.
Search on Speech Challenge (SoSC), organized by Universidad San Pablo-CEU and AuDIaS from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, consists of searching in audio content a list of terms/queries.
Text-to-Speech Alignment Evaluation (S2TAC), organized by University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), consists of aligning text and audio extracted from a plenary session of the Basque Parliament (bilingual audio).
The 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2020) will be held during December 15-18, 2020 at Ashoka University, India. The conference will be organized by Ashoka University. BDA 2020 provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results, practical experiences and thoughts on big data from different perspectives including storage models, data access, computing paradigms, analytics, information sharing and privacy, redesigning mining algorithms, open issues and future research trends.
BDA 2020 invites original, technically sound, high-quality research papers proposing novel solutions addressing the problems related to big data analytics as well as case studies and practical experiences with big data. Major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
Analytics as a Service
Architectural Design for Big Data
Big Data Analytics for Governance
Conceptual/cognitive/programming Models for Big data analytics
Clustering of Big Data
Data Fusion and Multi Modal Analytics
Data Models for Big Data Analytics
Domain-specific Analytics
Index Structures for Big Data Analytics
Interaction Design for Exploratory Analytics
Machine Learning techniques for Big Data
Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis
Model Discovery from Big Data
NoSQL and non-standard Data Models
Physical Data Organization for Big Data
Predictive Modelling
Rule Mining from Big Data
Scalability and Performance issues
Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data
Semantics of Big Data
Streaming Data Analytics
Summarization and Materialized views
Topic Modelling
Unstructured and Semi-structured Data Mining
Research Track Submissions
Each paper should contain an abstract of approximately 300 words having a page limit of 20 pages in the LNCS style. The submissions including the title page, references and appendix. For preparing the manuscript, please see instructions for authors by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS)
Research paper notifications: September 14, 2020, 23:59 PST
Camera-ready submission: October 1, 2020, 23:59 PST
Call for Workshops and Tutorials
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The BDA 2020 organizing committee invites proposals for half ? day and full - day workshops and tutorials on established and emerging topics in the areas of Big Data Analytics and other related areas. Information for submission of each type of proposal is provided on the conference website.
Note: Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the conference is proposed to be held online. We are closely monitoring the situation and shall provide updates as necessary
(2021-01-04) Bioacoustics Winter School, University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne, France
Bioacoustics Winter School- January 4-15, 2021, University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne, France
The Bioacoustics Winter School (BWS) is an intensive course on animal and human acoustic communication (2 weeks; > 80 hours class + group projects). BWS is organized every January at the University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne by the Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team (ENES team, ENES/CRNL CNRS INSERM).
The teaching staff of BWS is made up of researchers from the ENES team as well as researchers from other institutions, from France and abroad.
BWS is open to PhD and master students, researchers, engineers, veterinarians, wildlife managers, members of wildlife conservation organizations, etc.
Learning objectives
Training in bioacoustic scientific investigations and tools.
At the end of the course and the group project, the following skills will have been acquired:
- knowledge in how to use the basic material necessary for any study in bioacoustics (digital recorder, microphones, speakers);
- basic knowledge in sound and signal processing (use of softwares such as PRAAT and Seewave);
- skills in how to set up a bioacoustic study (scientific question, experimental design, realization of experiments, results' analysis);
- general knowledge on the bioacoustics world and its interests, bot in basic and applied research.
The two week training is concluded by an oral & written exam. BWS students receive a degree in bioacoustics, certified by the University of Lyon / Saint-Etienne.
Registrations for the 2021 session (January 4-15) are now open.
To get the provisional program and to apply, please go to:
So that you can submit your abstract and register with confidence we are relaxing our cancellation terms due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 situation. Rest assured that we will refund your registration fee, with no penalty, should you wish to cancel during the uncertainty of the outbreak.
Dear Colleague,
As the spread of COVID-19 continues and the situation is still uncertain, Elsevier and the Conference Chairs have taken the decision to postpone the 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) to 6-9 January 2021 in the same venue, St Catherine?s College Oxford.
Due to the re-scheduling of the conference we are able to extend the submission deadline for oral and poster abstracts to 21 August 2020.
The Oxford Dysfluency Conference has a reputation as one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency.
The conference brings together researchers and clinicians, providing a showcase and forum for discussion and collegial debate about the most current and innovative research and clinical practices.
Throughout the history of the Oxford Dysfluency Conference, the primary aim has been to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice. The conference seeks to promote research that informs management, with interventions that are supported by sound theory and which inform future research.
We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford in January.
Regards,
Conference Chairs
Sharon Millard, The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering, UK Shelley B. Brundage, George Washington University, USA
(2021-01-11) 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Milan, Italy
4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
DeepLearn 2021 Winter Milan, Italy January 11-15, 2021 Co-organized by: Department of Information Engineering Marche Polytechnic University Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA Brussels/London https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/ ****************************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: July 28, 2020 --- *********************************************** In conjunction with ICPR 2020 https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/ SCOPE: DeepLearn 2021 Winter will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova and Warsaw. Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles. ADDRESSED TO: Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2021 Winter is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. VENUE: DeepLearn 2021 Winter will take place in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe. The venue will be: MiCo Milano Convention Centre Piazzale Carlo Magno 1 Milan https://www.micomilano.it/it/ The venue will be shared with the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition ? ICPR 2020 https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/ STRUCTURE: 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), Data, Intelligence and Shortcuts Petia Radeva (University of Barcelona), Uncertainty Modeling and Deep Learning in Food Analysis PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (University of the Basque Country), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis Mikhail Belkin (Ohio State University), [intermediate/advanced] Understanding Deep Learning through the Lens of Over-parameterization Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University), [introductory/intermediate] Safe and Robust Artificial Intelligence: Robustness, Calibration, Rejection, and Anomaly Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, Expressivity, and Adaptivity Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning Fundamentals and Their Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal and Feature Extraction, End-to-end Deep Learning, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware Ça?lar Gülçehre (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning Balázs Kégl (Huawei Technologies), [introductory] Deep Model-based Reinforcement Learning Ludmila Kuncheva (Bangor University), [intermediate] Classification of Non-i.i.d. Data Vincent Lepetit (ENPC ParisTech), [intermediate] Deep Learning and 3D Geometry Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing: Introduction and Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning Andy Liaw (Merck Research Labs), [introductory] Deep Learning and Statistics: Better Together Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/advanced] Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition Sayan Mukherjee (Duke University), [introductory/intermediate] Integrating Deep Learning with Statistical Modeling Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Lyle John Palmer (University of Adelaide), [introductory/advanced] Epidemiology for Machine Learning Investigators Razvan Pascanu (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Understanding Learning Dynamics in Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning Jan Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt), [intermediate] Robot Learning José C. Príncipe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Björn W. Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Signal Processing Sargur N. Srihari (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Generative Models in Deep Learning Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), [intermediate] Representation Learning in Limited Data Settings René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by January 3, 2021. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 3, 2021. EMPLOYER SESSION: Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 3, 2021. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Moccia (Ancona) Sara Morales (Brussels) Marina Paolanti (Ancona) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) Luca Romeo (Ancona) David Silva (London, co-chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/registration/ The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time. CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david@irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA, Brussels/London
(2021-01-17) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) ,Autrans ( Grenoble Area), France
SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) January, 17-22 2021 Autrans (Grenoble area) - France
We are opening the registration for the first Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) in Grenoble, co-organized by University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe.
*Target Audience* This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved for academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry.
*Characteristics* This winter school aims to provide talks of renowned NLP researchers, as well as creating an ideal environment to foster collaborations
The speakers are: - Isabelle Augenstein: _Interpretability and Explainability for NLP_ - Tim Baldwin: _Natural Language Processing for User Generated Content_ - Kyunghyun Cho: _Neural Sequence Modeling: Learning and Inference_ - Yejin Choi: _Neural Commonsense Knowledge and Reasoning_ - Grzegorz Chrupa?a: _Visually Grounded Models of Spoken Language and their Analysis_ - Claire Gardent: _Neural approaches to Natural Language Generation_ - Sanjeev Khudanpur: _Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (TBC)_
In addition to the talks, an important aspect of this school is the interaction between participants. The registration fee covers full board in a residence close to a ski resort, and some of the afternoons there will be organised social activities. In view of the current public health situation, we are preparing to hold the event virtually in case it will not be possible to do so physically in January. Registration fees will be adapted in that case.
*Application* To apply to this winter school, please follow the instructions at http://alps.imag.fr/index.php/application/ . The deadline for applying is July 31st, and we will notify acceptance in September
(2021-01-18) EUSIPCO2020 Announcement , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
EUSIPCO 2020 Announcement
The organising committee of the 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020) has been closely monitoring the evolution of the COVID-19 outbreak as well as the recommendations issued by public health experts. As the safety and well-being of all participants is our top priority, the EUSIPCO 2020 Organising Committee and the EURASIP Board of Directors have decided that EUSIPCO 2020 will maintain the current schedule for submission, review and publication of papers. The physical meeting in Amsterdam, however, will be rescheduled from August 24 - 28, 2020, to January 18 - 22, 2021, when it is expected to be safe to travel.
The policy for paper publication remains unchanged. Each paper needs to be linked to a full registration at a non-student rate by July 2nd, 2020. Papers without a full registration will be withdrawn from the program and the proceedings. Each registration includes admission to the technical sessions, welcome reception, coffee breaks, and exhibits in Amsterdam in January 2021, and one copy of the electronic proceedings.
The following deadlines remain unchanged:
Final Manuscript Submission ? June 12, 2020 Early Bird Registration ? July 2, 2020 Publication date papers ? August 24, 2020
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Amsterdam in January 18-22, 2021!
Richard Heusdens Cedric Richard General Chairs, EUSIPCO 2020
(2021-06-28) CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
The spread of COVID-19 in many countries worldwide, including France, has led to increased safety measures in these countries. As the organization committee of CBMI, it is essential for us to ensure that everyone can attend the conference safely as well as submit their work in the best conditions. As a consequence, it was decided to postpone the 18th edition of CBMI. The conference will be held in Lille on June 28-30, 2021. The new important dates for the submission process are listed below. A new website for the conference will be set up soon. The conference should operate as usual. During the conference, we will abide by the recommendations of the local and international health authorities at that time to offer a safe conference to everyone. Meanwhile, please keep yourself and others safe if you live in an affected region, and see you in great shape at CBMI 2021!
CBMI (eighteenth edition) aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following: audio and visual and multimedia indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for multimedia indexing, visual content extraction, audio (speech, music, etc.) content extraction, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis.
The eighteenth edition of CBMI will be organized by the CRIStAL laboratory at University of Lille, Lille, France, following the successful previous editions of Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009, Grenoble 2010, Madrid 2011, Annecy 2012, Veszprem 2013, Klagenfurt 2014, Prague 2015, Bucharest 2016, Firenze 2017, La Rochelle 2018, and Dublin 2019.
Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers in the broad field of content-based multimedia indexing and applications. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, large-scale search, learning in retrieval, social media indexing and retrieval. Additional special sessions are planned in areas such as deep learning for retrieval, social media retrieval, cultural heritage, surveillance and security.
Authors can submit full length (6 pages - to be presented as oral presentation) or short papers (4 pages - to be presented as posters). Papers can be submitted to the regular paper sessions, demo session, or to one of the special sessions. Additionally demonstration papers (up to 4 pages) may also be submitted that highlight interesting and novel demos of CBMI-related technologies. The submissions are peer reviewed in a single blind process. The language of the conference is English. The CBMI 2021 conference adheres to the IEEE paper formatting guidelines. When preparing your submission, please follow the IEEE guidelines given by IEEE at the Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.
The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and ACM DL. In addition, authors of certain best papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special issue of a leading journal in the field (e.g. MTAP - Springer), and other best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions in a book (ISTE/WILEY publisher).
Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following: . Audio and visual and multimedia indexing . Multimodal and cross-modal indexing . Deep learning for multimedia indexing . Visual content extraction . Audio (speech, music, etc) content extraction . Identification and tracking of semantic regions and events . Social media analysis . Metadata generation, coding and transformation . Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text) . Mobile media retrieval . Event-based media processing and retrieval . Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval . Multimedia data mining and analytics . Multimedia recommendation . Large scale multimedia database management . Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content . Personalization and content adaptation . User interaction and relevance feedback . Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools . Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems . Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery, video surveillance . Cultural heritage applications
Important Information:
Conference date : 28-30 June 2021, at Lille, France. Contact: cbmi2021-organisation@univ-lille.fr Deadline for special session proposals: 15 October 2020 Deadline for regular paper and demo submissions : 15 January 2021 Notification of acceptance : 15 March 2021 Camera-ready papers due : 30 March 2021
The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.
For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and selected the following four parallel tracks by peer-reviews:- Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access (Amazon Alexa AI): This track aims to allow users to have requests that are out of the scope of APIs/DB but potentially available in external knowledge sources. Track participants will develop task-oriented dialogue systems to understand relevant domain knowledge, and generate system responses with the relevant selected knowledge. In addition, the track includes evaluation on generalization over unseen domains and modalities (i.e. moving from written to spoken conversations).- Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University): This track follows its success in DSTC-8 continuing with the effort of building dialog systems under a multi-domain setting. This time extending the task by incorporating new datasets, creating new sub-tasks, and providing a new development platform. The new task specifically focuses on two aspects of dialog systems: language portability and end-to-end system complexity. - Interactive Evaluation of Dialog (CMU & USC): This track targets the creation of systems that can be effectively used in interactive settings by real users. The task is intended to move research beyond datasets, and evaluate models in interactive environments with real users allowing several valuable properties of dialog to be measured: consistency, adaptiveness and user-centric development. DialPort, a platform for interactive assessment with real users will be used for evaluation. - SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI): This track aims to tackle grounding dialog in an evolving multi-modal contextual input. Unlike previous multimodal track challenges, where the context from the non-textual modalities (video and audio) remains unchanged as the dialog progresses, this track encompasses a rich, situated multi-modal user context in the form of a shared image or VR environment that evolves fluidly based on the dialog flow.Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government).Important Dates
- Jun 15, 2020: Training data is released
- Sep 21, 2020: Test data is released
- Oct 5, 2020: Entry submission deadline- Nov 2020: Paper submission deadline- Spring 2021: DSTC9 workshop (venue: TBD)DSTC9 Organizing Committee
- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research AI, USA
- Abhinav Rastogi - Google Research, USA- Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen - National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Luis Fernando D'Haro - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain- Seokhwan Kim - Amazon Alexa AI, USADSTC9 Track OrganizersBeyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access - Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-tur (Amazon Alexa AI)Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II - Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao, Jinchao Li, Lars Liden, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, Shahin Shayandeh, Swadheen Shukla, Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University)Interactive Evaluation of Dialog - Shikib Mehri, Carla Gordon, David Traum, Maxine Eskenazi (CMU & USC)SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI - Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon (EJ) Cho, Paul A. Crook, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Shivani Poddar, Rajen Subba (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI)DSTC Steering Committee
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Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan - Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA - Rafael E. Banchs - Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore - Michel Galley - Microsoft Research AI, USAContact InformationJoin the DSTC mailing list to get the latest updates about DSTC9:- To join the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/join- To post a message: send your message to list@dstc.community- To leave the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/unsubscribeFor specific enquiries about DSTC9: Please feel free to contact dstc9-organizing-committee@dstc.community
