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SPECOM-2020 – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

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22nd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2020)

Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia, October 06-10, 2020

Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2020

IMPORTANT INFO (!)

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:

Affective computing

Audio-visual speech processing

Corpus linguistics

Computational paralinguistics

Deep learning for audio processing

Feature extraction

Forensic speech investigations

Human-machine interaction

Language identification

Multichannel signal processing

Multimedia processing

Multimodal analysis and synthesis

Sign language processing

Speaker recognition

Speech and language resources

Speech analytics and audio mining

Speech and voice disorders

Speech-based applications

Speech driving systems in robotics

Speech enhancement

Speech perception

Speech recognition and understanding

Speech synthesis

Speech translation systems

Spoken dialogue systems

Spoken language processing

Text mining and sentiment analysis

Virtual and augmented reality

Voice assistants

SATELLITE EVENT

5th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2020: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2020

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

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:

SPECOM-2020 Secretariat:

E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su

SPECOM-2020 web-site: www.specom.nw.ru/2020