(2020-10-25) Cf Tutorials Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China (UPDATE)
Call for Tutorials
Important Dates ?Submission deadline: April 3, 2020 ?Acceptance/rejection notification: May 3, 2020
INTERSPEECH conferences are attended by researchers with a long-term track-record in speech sciences and technologies as well as by early-stage researchers or researchers interested in a new domain within the INTERSPEECH areas. An important part of the conference is the tutorials held on the first day of the conference, October 25, 2020. Presented by speakers with extensive expertise in speech technologies, the tutorials will provide their audience with a rich learning experience and an exposure to longstanding research problems, contemporary research topics, and emerging areas. We encourage proposals for addressing introductory or advanced topics in an introductory style as well as for targeting experienced researchers who want to dig deeper into a new topic. A tutorial may introduce an emerging area in speech-related research or present an overview of an established area; but it should not focus on the presenter's individual research. Each tutorial should last for three hours.
Proposals should include (in this order) ?Tutorial Title ?Presenter(s): Name, affiliation, contact information (email and telephone) ?3-4 sentence abstract summarizing the proposed tutorial that could be used for advertisement ?Description of the proposal: 1-2 pages description plus references and any webpages/material useful for reviewing the proposal ?Explanation of relevance of the proposed tutorial (0.5 - 1 page) ?Tutorial logistics, including o Duration (3 hours = 1 session) o Description of presentation format (e.g. one or more presenters etc.) o Special equipment required for the tutorial o Choose one option for the distribution of the accompanying material: (1) with a USB stick or (2) with a password-protected download link. ?Presenter information o Biography of presenter(s) o Key publications of presenter(s) on the tutorial topic o List of previous tutorial experience ?Audience information o Target audience (e.g., new researchers to the field, research students, specialists of adjacent fields, etc.) o Other considerations or comments
Submission procedure Proposals for INTERSPEECH 2020 tutorials may be no more than 4 pages and must conform to the format stated above; please use clear headings to indicate each point. Proposals should be submitted by email to tutorials@interspeech2020.org by April 3, 2020 and notification of accepted proposals will be given by May 3, 2020. By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video-recording of the tutorial for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. Access to recording materials will be given via ISCA Video Archives. Questions? Please contact tutorials@interspeech2020.org
The tutorial chairs ?Zhijian Ou (ozj@tsinghua.edu.cn) ?Man-Wai Mak (man.wai.mak@polyu.edu.hk)
(2020-10-26) Cf Show and Tell, Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China (UPDATED)
Show & Tell
Important Dates ? Submission deadline: Saturday, June 6, 2020 ? Acceptance/rejection notification: TBA ? Final paper and final video due: TBA
INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Show & Tell is a special event organized during the conference. Participants are given the opportunity to demonstrate their most recent progress of developments, and interact with the conference attendees in an informal way, such as a demo, mock-up or any adapted format of their own choice. The contributions must highlight the innovative side of the concept and may relate to a regular paper.
Submission and Preparation Guidelines Each initial Show & Tell submission must contain both a paper of up to 2 pages detailing the demonstration and a video illustrating what is going to be shown. The paper (including references) has to follow the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines as detailed in the “INTERSPEECH 2020 Author’s Kit”. Please note that the focus of the paper shall be on describing what the visitors will see and experience. The video can simply be recorded with a mobile phone or alike. Submissions will be evaluated by the organizing committee for relevance, originality, clarity, and significance of the proposed demonstration. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the Show & Tell sessions. Each accepted Show & Tell paper will be allocated two pages in the conference proceedings. Furthermore, a final video, which is to be submitted by the final paper deadline, will be made publicly available. Show & Tell demonstrations will be presented in their dedicated time slot in the conference program. Each presentation space includes ? one poster board ? one table ? wireless internet connection, and ? a power outlet Please submit your proposal to the Show & Tell Chairs via show-and-tell@interspeech2020.org no later than June 6, 2020. QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT our chair Ji Wu at show-and-tell@interspeech2020.org.
Proposals of special sessions / challenges due: Monday, December 16, 2019
Notification of pre-selection: Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Final list of special sessions: Monday, June 15, 2020
SPECIAL SESSIONS & CHALLENGES
Submission of the proposals are encouraged for INTERSPEECH 2020, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to main conference topics. Submissions related to special focus of the conference, Cognitive Intelligence for Speech Processing, are particularly welcome. Apart from supporting a particular theme, special sessions may also have a format that is different from a regular session.
Each special session proposal must contain the following information:
Title of the proposed special session,
Names and affiliations of the organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer),
Up to five bullet points on what makes the session special,
A summary (up to one page) stating the importance of the session’s topic and objectives. Furthermore, the session format should be clearly defined (panel, oral, posters, etc.). The summary should also explain why the topic cannot be properly covered by regular conference sessions,
A tentative list of researchers who could contribute papers to the session. Note that with a nominal 50% acceptance rate for Interspeech papers, this means that special sessions should have a minimum of 12 anticipated submissions, unless their format allocates time to something other than paper presentations,
Additional or non-standard resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster stands, etc.) required for organizing the special session.
Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee for relevance and significance. Papers for approved Special Sessions have to be submitted following the same schedule and procedure as regular papers; the papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special session organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions.
Special session proposers are invited to submit a proposal via email to the Special Session Chairs Zhiyong Wu (Tsinghua University), Tim Fingscheidt (Technical University of Braunschweig), Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google), Yongguo Kang (Baidu), Pengyuan Zhang (IOA, CAS) at special-sessions@interspeech2020.org no later than Friday, November 29, 2019. Please do not hesitate to ask before submitting your proposal if further clarifications are needed. Notification of pre-selection is scheduled for Tuesday, December 31, 2019. Final acceptance will be announced shortly after paper decisions are completed.
(2020-10-26) First Voice Privacy Challenge at Interspeech 2020 UPDATED
The deadlines for the First VoicePrivacy Challenge at Interspeech-2020have been extended, and the schedule, including the submission deadline, has been adjusted according to the new Interspeech paper submission deadline of 8th May 2020.
Also, version 1.2 of the VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan is available on the challenge website:
The registration for the VoicePrivacy Challenge continues!
Registration should be performed once 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).
(2020-10-26) Interspeech 2020 Shanghai, China (UPDATED)
Interspeech 2020 Shanghai, China, October 26-29, 2020 Chair : Helen Meng 21th INTERSPEECH event
The submission and review process has also been updated as follows:
May 8, 2020 Paper submission deadline June 6, 2020 Show and tell submission due July 24, 2020 Paper acceptance/rejection notification Aug 10, 2020 Notification about ISCA Travel Grants Aug 24, 2020 Early-bird registration deadline Sep 23, 2020 Standard registration deadline
The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report.
The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide', which took place on December 4-6, 2019 at Unesco Headquarters in Paris in the framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019), was sponsored by ISCA. The rationale of the conference was: 'How to improve the present situation where only 2% of the languages spoken over the world benefit from Language Technologies' ? It allowed for fruitful exchanges between Language Technology providers and Language Policy makers, as it can be seen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/lt4all The conference oral sessions were webcasted and can be replayed, in English and French: see https://en.unesco.org/LT4All
(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) ACM Multimedia 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI
ACM Multimedia 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI ===================== 12 - 16 October 2020
### Deadline: 30 July
The ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of multimodal conversational AI. Recently, conversational systems have seen a significant rise in demand due to modern commercial applications using systems such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Assistant. The research on multimodal chatbots is a widely underexplored area, where users and the conversational agent communicate by natural language and visual data. Conversational agents are now becoming a commodity as a number of companies push for this technology. The wide use of these conversational agents exposes the many challenges in achieving more natural, human-like, and engaging conversational agents. The research community is actively addressing several of these challenges: how are visual and text data related in user utterances? How to interpret the user intent? How to encode multimodal dialog status? What are the ethical and legal aspects of conversational AI? The Multimodal Conversational AI workshop will be a forum where researchers and practitioners share their experiences and brainstorm about success and failures in the topic. It will also promote collaboration to strengthen the conversational AI community at ACM Multimedia.
### Topics of Interest - Design and evaluation of conversational agents - User-Agent experience design - Preference elicitation in conversational agents - Recommendations in conversational systems - User-agent legal and ethical issues in conversational systems - Multimodal user intent understanding - Visual conversations/dialogs - Opinion recommendation in conversational agents - Deep learning for multimodal conversational agents - Conversation state tracking models and online learning - Supply/demand in conversational agents for e-commerce - Reinforcement learning in conversational agents - Resources and datasets - Conversational systems applications, including, but not limited to, e-commerce, social-good, music, Web search, healthcare.
### Paper Submission Guidelines All submissions must be written in English and be formatted according to the ACM templates and guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system. Papers are up to 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references. Full papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference.
### Timeline
- Submission: 30 July - Notification: 26 August - Camera-ready copy: to be defined with ACM Multimedia organization - Workshop: 12 or 16 October
### Organizers - Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute - Joao Magalhaes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Ricardo G. Sousa, Farfetch, Portugal - Joao Paulo Costeira, ISR/IST, Portugal
(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
The 8th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2020) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. SLSP 2020 will be held in Cardiff on October 14-16, 2020. See
https://irdta.eu/slsp2020/
Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.
TOPICS
Presentations displaying novel work in progress on statistical models (including machine learning) for language and speech processing are encouraged. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome.
KEY DATES
Poster submission deadline: September 7, 2020
Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: September 14, 2020
SUBMISSION
Please upload a .pdf submission to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2020
It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words.
PRESENTATION
Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion.
PUBLICATION
Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings volume of SLSP 2020. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in Language Resources and Evaluation (Springer, JCR 2018 impact factor: 1.029).
REGISTRATION
At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by September 21, 2020. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euros. It gives the same rights all other conference participants will have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks, lunches). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.
The ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of multimodal conversational AI. We invite you to participate in the workshop and to enjoy the exciting program that we prepared for you.
##### Keynote: Augmenting Machine Intelligence with Multimodal Information, Prof. Zhou Yu, (University of California at Davies, USA)
### Keynote: Response Generation and Retrieval in Multimodal Conversational AI, Prof. Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
### Panel: Vision and Challenges in Multimodal Conversational AI Panel Members: - Alex Rudinicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University, UK - Zhou Yu, University of California at Davies, USA - Xavier Alameda-Pineda, INRIA, France
Panel Moderator: Alex Hauptmann
### Workshop Organizers - Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute - Joao Magalhaes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Ricardo G. Sousa, Farfetch, Portugal - Joao Paulo Costeira, ISR/IST, Portugal
(2020-10-25) ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium - 3rd Call for Contributions, Utrecht, The Netherlands
ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium - Submission extended to 10th Aug ************************************************************** 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 (extended): Aug 10, 2020 (23:59PM, PST) Notifications: August 17, 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 (BigDat 2020 Autumn), 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/ ********************************************** --- Early registration deadline: July 20, 2020 --- ********************************************** 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, Timi?oara, 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 19 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, 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: 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 Rafael Irizarry (Harvard University), [introductory] Data Science for Statisticians (tidyverse, ggplot, wrangling) 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 Alexandre Vaniachine (VirtualHealth), [intermediate] Open-source Columnar Databases 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: Second Call for Late-Breaking Results, Utrecht, The Netherlands (COVID)
ICMI 2020: Third Call for Late-Breaking Results (Deadline Extended) ************************************ http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cflbr 25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands ************************************ Dear all, ICMI2020 is going virtual. With the help of our Virtual Conference chairs, we are currently preparing an online and interactive program. Stay tuned! Best, the organizing team of ICMI2020. ************************************
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 19th, 2020 (extended) - 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
ICMI2020 is going virtual. With the help of our Virtual Conference chairs, we are currently preparing an online and interactive program. Stay tuned!
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
(2020-10-25) ICMI2020: The 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ON LINE
ICMI2020: Call for Participation ********************** ICMI2020: The 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction http://icmi.acm.org/2020/ 25-29 Oct 2020, Location: online ********************** For full registration details and pricing see http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=registration
Early registration deadline (extended): 20 September 2020 Full conference - ACM/SIG Members: ?100, Non-members: ?125, Students: ?60 Workshop-only - ACM/SIG Members: ?50, Non-members: ?65, Students: ?35
Late registration deadline: 21 October 2020 Full conference - ACM/SIG Members: ?125, Non-members: ?150, Students: ?75 Workshops-only - ACM/SIG Members: ?75, Non-members: ?90, Students: ?50 **********************
Dear all,
We kindly invite you to the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development.
We moved from an event initially to be held in a church in Utrecht, the Netherlands to an online event. The conference is fully packed with quality papers and we are very happy to be able to offer you the following events and speakers. Highlights include:
Keynotes: - 'From hands to brains: How does human body talk, think and interact in face-to-face language use?' by Prof.dr. Asli Ozyurek (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University) - 'Deep Learning for Joint Vision and Language Understanding' by Prof.dr. Kate Saenko (Boston University, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) - 'Sonic Interaction: From gesture to immersion' by Prof.dr. Atau Tanaka (Goldsmiths University of London) - 'Human-centered Multimodal Machine Intelligence' by Prof.dr. Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan (University of Southern California)
Paper sessions: - More than 80 Long/short papers, more than 20 Late Breaking Reports, more than 10 Doctoral Consortium papers, 5 Demo papers
Workshops: - Action Modelling for Interaction and Analysis in Smart Sports and Physical Education - Bridging social sciences and AI for understanding child behaviour - International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding - Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics - Insights on Group & Team Dynamics - Modeling Socio-Emotional and Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data in the Wild - Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction - Oral History and Technology - Multimodal Affect and Aesthetic Experience - Multimodal Interaction in Psychopathology - Multimodal e-Coaches - Social affective multimodal interaction for health - Multi-Timescale Sensitive Movement Technologies
Grand Challenge: - Eighth Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge
(2020-10-25?) The 2nd Insights on Group & Team Dynamics workshop at ICMI
*Call for Papers*
The 2nd Insights on Group & Team Dynamics workshop will be held in conjunction with ICMI 2020. It is the 2nd time this workshop will be held at ICMI, after a successful run in 2018, and the 5th in a series of meetings on group interaction. This workshop aims to brings together group scholars and researchers in multimodal interaction. We would like this workshop to serve as a platform to develop a common language, to provide a place to meet, foster and maintain relationships and to grow as a community. One of the biggest challenges is the culture of publication in conferences for computer science which differs from how social scientists work. The workshop will provide a sympathetic approach to this to enable participation from both disciplines and also to provide feedback to each other about how to carry out research on this topic. Finally, Lehmann-Willenbrock, Hung, Salah, and Kozwloski are editing a book volume on this topic to help researchers in both fields to understand each other better. This workshop will facilitate discussions to identify possible contributors of such a book.
(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).
Since its inception in 1966, the Linguistics Colloquium has been held annually without interruption in a total of 18 European countries. Its long term continuity is ensured by a large international committee consisting of its previous organizers. The Colloquium is devoted to research in all areas of linguistics. It is open to different theoretical approaches and aims to create friendly and inspiring conditions for the fruitful exchange of ideas and results. It is also appreciated for its welcoming atmosphere and cooperative discussion culture open to scientists of all ages and nationalities.
Traditionally, authors submit an abstract which, upon acceptance, is presented and discussed at the conference. Afterwards, a full paper has to be submitted, taking into account the outcome of the scientific discussion. As usually, also this year we plan to publish the proceedings as a hardcover book in the series 'Linguistik International' of the Peter Lang publishing house. Like many other conferences, this year, for the first time in its history, the Linguistics Colloquium will be organized as an online event. As, despite regular attendance from overseas, the Colloquium has been a mostly European event so far, we hope that colleagues from other continents will see this as an opportunity to get to know the friendly and co-operative spirit of the colloquium. To further encourage this and because an online event requires less funding, as a novelty this year we decided to completely waive registration fees.
TOPIC AREAS
The special theme of this year's conference is 'Translation, Multilinguality and Cognition'. But contributions from all areas of linguistics are welcome, including but not limited to:
* Theory of linguistics * Historical linguistics * Diachronic linguistics * Corpus linguistics, text mining * Computational linguistics, natural language processing * Neural languague processing and machine learning * Comparative & contrastive linguistics, typology * Applied linguistics, language learning * Neuro- and psycholinguistics * Sociolinguistics * Lexicology, lexicography * Phonology, phonetics * Morphology * Syntax * Semantics * Pragmatics * Text, discourse * Semiotics
IMPORTANT DATES
Sept. 30, 2020: Submission of abstracts Oct. 15, 2020: Notification of acceptance Oct. 30, 2020: Registration for presenters (free of charge) Nov. 14, 2020: Zoom trial session (test session to identify technical problems) Nov. 22, 2020: Registration for participants without presentation (free of charge) Nov. 26 to 28, 2020: Conference dates Feb. 28, 2021: Submission of full papers
SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION
See the long version of the call for papers at www.lingcoll.de
Conference languages are English and German. Although the Linguistics Colloquium supports linguistic diversity, for organizational reasons we are not able to provide for more languages. To avoid problems for delegates not speaking both languages, attention will be placed on parallelizing programme sessions in such a way that, as far as possible, there is always a choice of language.
CONTACT
Please send all correspondence relating to the 56th Linguistics Colloquium 2020 by e-mail to lingcoll(at)gmx.de
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Reinhard Rapp (Coordinator), Athena R.C., Greece; Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany George Tambouratzis, Athena R.C., Greece Gisela Zunker-Rapp, University of Tübingen, Germany Haruko Miyakoda, Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan Christiane Zehrer, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
See the long version of the call for papers at www.lingcoll.de
The 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
The AACL, Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the AFNLP, Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, invite you to participate in the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL) and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP).
Any participant who experiences harassment or hostile behavior may contact any current member of the ACL Executive Committee or contact Priscilla Rasmussen, who is usually available at the registration desk of the conference.
Please be assured that if you approach us, your concerns will be kept in strict confidence, and we will consult with you on any actions taken.
(2020-12-06) CfP 12th IEEE Intl Workshop on Information Forensics and Security @online
Call for Papers | IEEE WIFS 2020
12th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security
6-11 December 2020 @online
The International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) is a major forum bringing together researchers and practitioners from various fields of digital forensics and information security. The workshop covers a broad range of topics, and seeks papers addressing (list not exhaustive):
Data Privacy and Anonymity
Blockchain security and privacy
Biometrics
Digital Forensics and Analysis
Watermarking and Content Protection
Surveillance
Usability and Human Factors
Human Aspects of Information Integrity
Network Security
Physical Layer Security
Security of Cyber-physical Systems
Steganography & Covert Communications
Applied Cryptography
Hardware Security
Information Theoretic Security
Economics of Information Integrity
Regular Papers: Regular submission can be up to 6 double-column pages including references. Accepted and presented papers will be available in the IEEE Xplore digital library. WIFS accepts only original research papers having no overlap with manuscripts that are already published or submitted elsewhere (including journals, conferences and workshops). Double submissions will be rejected immediately.
Demos and Work-in-Progress: We seek submissions for a special session devoted to work-in-progress and systems presentations. Authors of papers recently accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security or IEEE Signal Processing Letters will be given the opportunity to present their work subject to approval by the program chairs. Please see the website for more details.
Conference Theme and Special Sessions: The main theme of WIFS?20 is ?Living in Synthetic Reality?. We aim to explore the impact of synthetic content generation on information integrity and encourage discussion and awareness of its impact on the society. We will host special sessions, keynote speakers and hands-on tutorials.
Important Dates
Paper submission (revised) - July 31, 2020
Author notification (revised) - September 21, 2020
Camera ready paper submission (revised): - October 5, 2020
(2020-12-14) The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Providence, RI, USA
Important note: conference as a virtual meeting
The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2020) will take place during its revised dates (Dec 14-18, 2020) as an online virtual meeting (https://issp2020.yale.edu).
Note that previously accepted abstracts do not need to be resubmitted; however, authors are encouraged to upload revised versions of their abstracts based on reviewer feedback using the EasyChair portal. The deadline for new submissions and revisions to accepted abstracts is August 1st, 2020.
The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP),
organized through Haskins Laboratories, will take place June 1-4 2020 in Providence, RI, USA, at the Omni Convention Center Hotel.
Inaugurated in Grenoble in 1988, the ISSP is an international forum for researchers to share their work on all aspects of human speech production, including phonology, phonetics, prosody, biomechanics, signal processing, motor control, neuroscience, modeling, disordered speech and speech accommodation. The diversity of topics is a particular strength of the conference, providing opportunities for young researchers especially to be exposed to complementary ideas and methods apart from their immediate focus. Previous meetings have occurred in Sydney, Ubatuba (Brazil), Strasbourg, Montreal, Cologne, and Tianjin, and we anticipate that turnout for the Providence conference will be large and enthusiastic.
The overall theme of the conference is intended to foster discussion of how speech production develops, consolidates, and degenerates over the typical lifespan. The meeting is structured around eight invited speakers, each highlighting a subtopic of interest within their session:
Developmental
• Lisa Goffman (UT Dallas); language acquisition and its disorders
Elder speech
• Cécile Fougeron (U. Sorbonne); effects of aging on coarticulation
Disordered Speech
• Suzanne Boyce (U. Cincinnati); articulatory characteristics of motor deficits
Modeling
• Gabriel Mindlin (U. Buenos Aires); syllabic structure of birdsong
Methods
• Brad Sutton (U. Illinois); rtMRI as a tool for viewing articulation across the entire vocal tract
Neuroscience
• Kristofer Bouchard (UCSF); eCOG as an emerging method for investigating speech motor planning and execution
Speech Interaction
• Jennifer Pardo (Montclair State); aspects of phonetic convergence and turn-taking in conversational dyads
Speech Technology
• Carol Espy-Wilson (U. Maryland); estimating articulatory gestures from acoustics
For additional details please visit the conference website: https://issp2020.yale.edu
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:
We are excited to announce that the 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) will be held online from 7-8 January 2021 and will be available afterwards on-demand.
This exciting event is a valuable opportunity for you to share your work, listen to talks live or at your leisure and to connect with other attendees, speakers and poster presenters all in one place.
We are currently compiling the programme and registration will be open soon. Please sign up for conference news to make sure you are kept up to date.
We are pleased to extend the invitation for late-breaking oral and poster submissions to 11 September 2020.
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 (DeepLearn 2021 Winter), 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: October 8, 2020 --- *********************************************** In conjunction with ICPR 2020 https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/ ICPR 2020 participants are eligible for a registration discount. 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: Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), Data, Intelligence and Shortcuts Petia Radeva (University of Barcelona), Uncertainty Modeling and Deep Learning in Food Analysis Indr? ?liobait? (University of Helsinki), Any Hope for Deep Learning in Deep Time? PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (University of the Basque Country), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University), [introductory] Machine Learning Methods for Robust Artificial Intelligence Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Online, Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, 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] Classifier Ensembles in the Era of Deep 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] Machine Learning and Statistics: Better together Debora Marks (Harvard Medical School), [intermediate] Protein Design Using Deep Learning 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 are available at https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/accommodation/ 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
FINAL CALL FOR APPLICATION for the Advanced Language Processing (Winter) Schoool (see more details below)
If you would like to participate, the final application deadline is Sept 6th. This is happening either virtually or physically, tbc in October together with acceptance notification
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
(2021-01-19) CfP 2021 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Shenzhen, China
01-19)
Call for Papers | IEEE SLT 2021
2021 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology
19-22 January 2021 | Shenzhen, China
The SLT Workshop is a biennial flagship event of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The 8th IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) will be held on January 19-22, 2021 in Shenzhen, China. The theme for this year will be ?Spoken language technologies: deep learning and beyond?. The workshop will feature the most recent and exciting advances in speech and language processing through invited talks/keynotes, as well as special and regular single-track sessions.
Topics
The special theme for this year will be 'Spoken language technologies: deep learning and beyond'. All papers related to spoken language technology are welcome. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:
Speech recognition and synthesis
Spoken language understanding
Spoken document retrieval
Question answering from speech
Assistive technologies
Natural language processing
Human Computer Interaction
Spoken dialog systems
Speech data mining
Emotion recognition from speech
Spoken document summarization
Spoken language corpora
Speaker/language recognition
Evaluation methodologies
Venue
Shenzhen is a tourist attractive modern city centered in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The emblematic city of prosperous provides for best living quality, world-class transport infrastructure and comfortable climate. You can browse all conference information on the website: 2021.ieeeslt.org.
Important Dates
Challenge session submission: Challenge session notification: Special session proposal due: Special session notification: Paper submission due: Paper notification: Demo submission due: Author and early registration due: Demo selection notification: Workshop Date:
May 22, 2020 May 29, 2020 June 12, 2020 July 13, 2020 August 14, 2020 November 2, 2020 November 20, 2020 November 23, 2020 December 13, 2020 January 19-22, 2021
Submission Details
Authors are invited to prepare a full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures, plus 1-2 additional pages for references only, to the SLT 2021 website: 2021.ieeeslt.org.
Organizing Committee
General Chairs Zhijian Ou, Tsinghua University Lei Xie, NW Polytech University
Technical Program Chairs Jinyu Li, Microsoft Xiaodong Cui, IBM Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Chiori Hori, MERL Masami Akamine, Tohoku University Kong-Aik Lee, NEC
Finance Chairs Xunying Liu, CUHK Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University
Sponsorship Chair Jen-Tzung Chien, NCTU
Publication Chair Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica
Panel and Invited Speaker Chair Brian Mak, HKUST Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft
Special Session and Demo Chairs Yang Liu, Amazon Thomas Fang Zheng, Tsinghua University
Regional Publicity Chairs Ozlem Kalinli, Apple Jianhua Tao, China Academy of Sciences Zhehuai Chen, Google
Local Arrangements Chairs Zhiyong Wu, Tsinghua-Shenzhen Yuexian Zou, PKU-Shenzhen
Advisory Board Helen Meng, CUHK Haizhou Li, NUS Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UIUC Sadaoki Furui, TTIC
The IJCAI-PRICAI-2020 conference will take place either in Kyoto (January 4-10) or in Yokohama (January 18-23) and the organizers have set new deadlines for the workshop program. Accordingly, the new submission deadline for ROBOTDIAL 2020 is
August 28, 2020 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
The ROBOTDIAL-2020 workshop will be held in conjunction with the main conference, and it will take place both in-person and also virtually for those who can't come.
Please consider submitting a paper to the 1st RobotDial Workshop on Dialogue Models for Human-Robot Interaction. The submission detail and more information about the workshop can be found on the workshop website: http://sap.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ijcai2020/robotdial/
More information about the IJCAI-PRICAI conference will be on the conference website: https://ijcai20.org/
We are looking forward to seeing your at ROBOTDIAL2020 in-person or virtually in January.
Best wishes, Kristiina, Martin, Divesh, and Pierre
ROBOTDIAL-2020 workshop organisers
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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)
(2021-03-01) 14th-15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Milan, Italy
14th-15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
LATA 2020 & 2021 Milan, Italy March 1-5, 2021 Co-organized by: Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milano-Bicocca and Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice Brussels/London https://irdta.eu/lata2020-2021/ ******************************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 & 2021 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas. LATA 2020 & 2021 will merge the scheduled program for LATA 2020, which could not take place because of the Covid-19 crisis, with a new series of papers submitted on this occasion. VENUE: LATA 2020 & 2021 will be held in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe. The venue will be: University of Milano-Bicocca Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 22 Building U6 Aula Mario Martini (Aula U6-04) Milan SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automatic structures codes combinatorics on words computational complexity concurrency and Petri nets data and image compression descriptional complexity foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference, inductive inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2020 & 2021 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Eric Allender (Rutgers University), The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization Laure Daviaud (City, University of London), About Decision Problems for Weighted Automata Christoph Haase (University College London), Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata Artur Je? (University of Wroc?aw), Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data Jean-Éric Pin (CNRS), How to Prove that a Language Is Regular or Star-free? Thomas Place (University of Bordeaux), Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: A Language Theoretic Point of View PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, PT) Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, DE) Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT) Marie-Pierre Béal (University of Paris-Est, FR) Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST, DZ) Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL) Flavio Corradini (University of Camerino, IT) Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR) Laurent Doyen (ENS Paris-Saclay, FR) Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, DE) Rudolf Freund (Technical University of Vienna, AT) Pawe? Gawrychowski (University of Wroc?aw, PL) Amélie Gheerbrant (Paris Diderot University, FR) Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI) Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, US) Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, US) Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE) Parthasarathy Madhusudan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US) Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE) Nicolas Markey (IRISA, Rennes, FR) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT) Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, RO) Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, US) Gennaro Parlato (University of Molise, IT) Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR) Nir Piterman (Chalmers University of Technology, SE) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, US) Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo, IT) Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL) Kai Salomaa (Queen?s University, CA) Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE) William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA) Ji?í Srba (Aalborg University, DK) Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles, US) Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York, US) Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG) Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, NL) Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US) Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Alberto Leporati (Milan, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada) Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (Milan) Dana Shapira (Ariel) David Silva (London, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) Claudio Zandron (Milan, 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). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix. Upload submissions to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata20202021 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of Information and Computation (Elsevier, 2019 JCR impact factor: 0.872) 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: https://irdta.eu/lata2020-2021/registration/ DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET): Paper submission: October 19, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 23, 2020 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 30, 2020 Early registration: November 30, 2020 Late registration: February 15, 2021 Submission to the journal special issue: June 5, 2021 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david (at) irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca IRDTA ? Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London
(2021-03-22) IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021), Tokyo, Japan
*IEEE MIPR 2021: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS* ------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021) March 22-24, 2021. Tokyo, Japan. https://mipr2021.org/ Sponsored by IEEE TCMC. Supported by IEICE, IPSJ, ITE. ============================================================
Huge amounts of multimedia data are increasingly available and the knowledge of spatial and/or temporal phenomena becomes critical for many applications, which requires techniques for the processing, analysis, search, mining, and management of multimedia data. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2021) will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to become acquainted with new theories and technologies in multimedia information processing and retrieval. MIPR 2021 is now inviting submissions of regular research papers, demo papers, workshop proposals, special session proposals, and tutorial proposals. Please refer to the detail of each category in the following.
============================================================ *HISTORY & ACCEPTANCE RATE* ============================================================ - IEEE 3rd MIPR 2020 @ Shenzhen: 19.5% (Acceptance Rate) - IEEE 2nd MIPR 2019 @ San Jose: 19.5% (Acceptance Rate) - IEEE 1st MIPR 2018 @ Miami : 19.5% (Acceptance Rate) - 12 years of MIPR (workshop) in conjunction with IEEE ISM.
- 04 Sep, 2020: Proposal deadline for special sessions and workshops. - 11 Sep, 2020: Notification of proposal for special sessions and workshops. - 02 Oct, 2020: Submission deadline for regular papers. - 06 Nov, 2020: Submission deadline of papers for special sessions, workshops, and demos. - 06 Nov, 2020: Proposal deadline for tutorials. - 13 Nov, 2020: Notification of proposal for tutorials. - 18 Dec, 2020: Notification of regular papers. - 25 Dec, 2020: Notification of papers for special sessions, workshops, and demos. - 08 Jan, 2021: Deadline for camera-ready submission (final version) and author registration. - 22-24 Mar, 2021: Conference dates.
============================================================ *Call for Regular Papers* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval.
**Topics** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Multimedia Retrieval - Multimedia Search and Recommendation - Web-Scale Retrieval - Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning - 3D and sensor data retrieval - Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval - High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features
* Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining - Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and / or Multimodal Fusion - Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection - High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures) - Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
* Content Understanding and Analytics - Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis - Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration - Affective and Perceptual Multimedia - Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans
* Multimedia and Vision - Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality - Visual Concept Detection - Object Detection and Tracking - 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications
* Networks for Multimedia Systems - Internet Scale System Design - Information Coding for Content Delivery
* Systems and Infrastructures - Multimedia Systems and Middleware - Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics - Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing
* Data Management - Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage - Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy - Standards and Policies for Data Management
* Novel Applications - Multimedia applications for health and sports - Multimedia applications for culture and education - Multimedia applications for fashion and living - Multimedia applications for security and safety
*Internet of Multimedia Things - Real-Time Data Processing - Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones - Mobile and Wearable Multimedia
and others.
**Paper Submission** The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages plus reference pages). Authors are encouraged to compare their approaches, qualitatively or quantitatively, with existing work and explain the strength and weakness of the new approaches. We are planning to invite selected submissions to journal special issues.
**Important Dates** - Paper submission deadline: October 2, 2020 - Notification of acceptance: December 18, 2020 - Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021
============================================================ *Call for Demo Papers* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 organizing committee invites proposals for technical demonstrations to be presented in conjunction with the conference. Technical Demonstrations will show leading edge work in any area of multimedia information retrieval. Demonstrations offer the opportunity to present and receive feedback on live working systems in an informal setting. Submissions are particularly encouraged in the following areas with emphasis on multimedia information retrieval, but not limited to:
### Multimedia information Retrieval * Multimedia Search and Recommendation * Web-Scale Retrieval * Relevance Feedback * Active/Transfer Learning * 3D and Sensor Data Retrieval * Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval * High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features * Summarization * Personalized Retrieval * Browsing History * Fuzzy Retrieval * Accuracy Measures for Retrieval
### Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining in Multimedia * Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and/or Multimodal Fusion * Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection * High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures) * Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
### Content Understanding and Analytics in Multimedia * Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis * Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration * Affective and Perceptual Multimedia * Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans * Bias and Fairness in Multimedia Analysis
### Multimedia and Vision * Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality * Visual Concept Detection * Object Detection and Tracking * 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications
### Multimedia Information Systems and Infrastructures * User Interface * Query-By-Retrieval Methods * Retrieval Paradigms * Novel Interfaces for Retrieval * Multimedia Systems and Middleware * Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality * Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics * Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing * GPU-based Retrieval
### Multimedia Data Management * Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage * Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy * Standards and Policies for Data Management * Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Retrieval
### Novel Applications in Multimedia * Multimedia Forensics and Security * Urban planning and emergency responses * Environmental monitoring * Education (using Multimedia for Education or Education about Multimedia) * Social Networks (multimedia content) * Multimedia Information Retrieval from Scientific Databases * Multimedia for Healthcare and Medicine
### Internet of Multimedia Things * Real-Time Data Processing * Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones * Mobile and Wearable Multimedia
The written and spoken language of IEEE MIPR 2021 is English. For technical demonstrations, authors should submit:
* a 4-page manuscript in double-column IEEE format including the authors’ names and affiliations, following the submission guidelines available on the IEEE MIPR 2021 web page * a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the IEEE MIPR 2021 web page * a presentation/video, which can be a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, a Flash presentation, an MPEG/WMV video clip, or a link on for the corresponding presentation on Social Media (e.g., vimeo, YouTube) not more than five minutes long.
Please create a single zip archive of all files, and upload it to the paper submission system. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. All technical demonstration papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online access via IEEEXplore.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Demonstrators will be provided with space and access to a local network, however, demos should not rely on Internet access. The participants will be required to provide their own computing equipment and any additional network, display, or other specific hardware needed for the demonstration.
**Important Dates**
* Paper submission deadline: November 6, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: December 25, 2020 * Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021
============================================================ *Call for Tutorials* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 invites proposals for tutorials to be held on March 22 or March 24, 2021 (tentative date). We welcome 1.5 hours or 3 hours tutorial. Each tutorial is expected to focus on a significant research topic and/or application of multimedia information processing and retrieval.
Proposals should be submitted in single PDF file by email to Tutorial Chairs via [tutorial@mipr2021.org], and must include the following information:
* Title of the Tutorial * Names, titles, affiliations, and primary contact email of the Tutorial Organizers/Speakers * Preference for 1.5 hour or 3h event * 300-word Abstract (for publicity purposes) * Full description of the Tutorial including topics covered by the Tutorial and a brief description and detail of each topic * CV’s for Organizers/Speakers including relevant publications and list of tutorials given in past conferences or workshops (if any) * Planned materials to be distributed to attendees (if any)
Each proposal will be evaluated by Tutorial Chairs based on their estimated benefit to the community. Specific factors to be considered include relevance, timeliness, importance, experience, and the Organizers’/Speakers’ qualifications.
IEEE MIPR 2021 local arrangements will provide for rooms and necessary equipment needed for the tutorial session (microphones, video projector, and screen). Each tutorial speaker will need to cover her/his registration.
**Important Dates**
* Proposal deadline: November 6, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: November 13, 2020 * Camera-ready (1-page abstract of the Tutorial) deadline: January 8, 2021
============================================================ *Call for Workshop Proposals* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 invites proposals for half- or full-day workshops to be held during the conference. Workshops are expected to focus on new research directions and novel applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval.
Workshop proposals should be submitted in plain text or PDF, by e-mail to Workshop Chairs via [workshop@mipr2021.org], and must include the following elements:
* Title and its acronym * Duration (full-day or half-day) * Description of the workshop topic * A draft CFP (not exceeding 500 words) * Short description of how the organizers plan to attract quality submissions * Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any) * Information on past editions (if any) * Short biographies of the organizers * Contact information of the organizers (including names, affiliations, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses)
After a workshop proposal is accepted, the organizers should create a Web page for the workshop and notify the workshop chairs of its URL. The main conference web site will provide a link to each workshop.
**Important Dates**
* Workshop proposal deadline: September 4, 2020 * Workshop proposal notification: September 11, 2020 * Paper submission deadline: November 6, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: December 25, 2020 * Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021
============================================================ *Call for Special Session Proposals* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021 [https://mipr2021.org]. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. At this time, we invite you to propose special sessions for MIPR 2021. Special sessions supplement the regular program for MIPR 2021. They provide new and emerging topics in the fields of multimedia information processing and retrieval. Each special session should provide an overview of the state-of-the-art and highlight important research directions in a field of special interest to MIPR participants. Each Special Session should be a focused effort rather than defined broadly.
Each special session should consist of about 5 oral papers with authors from at least three independent institutions. The session organizers will be responsible for the selection of these papers. Special session papers can be invited or submitted. They will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of MIPR 2021.
* Title of the special session * Session abstract (approximately 100 words), with stating the importance of the topic and the rationale for the session * Names and affiliations of the organizers (including brief bios and contact information) * List of potential authors committed to submit paper (including a tentative title and a 300-word abstract for each paper)
Once the proposal has been approved, it is the duty of the organizers to publicize their special session among researchers and practitioners in each session field. The organizers will organize the review process as below.
1. Establish an independent program committee for your Special Session (SS-PC). 2. Assign 3 reviewers through SS-PC to each submitted paper. 3. Arrange a draft of peer-reviewed result for each paper, and suggest it to the program co-chairs and special session co-chairs (the final judgment is achieved by program co-chairs).
If a proposal is not accepted, potential papers in that proposal can still be submitted to regular track. If a significant number of the papers are rejected after peer-review for an approved Special Session, this Special Session may be cancelled or merged to other sessions.
Those who are interested in organizing a special session should submit a proposal with the above requirements by email to the Special Session co-chairs [special-session-chairs@mipr2021.org], and all the papers in the special sessions should follow the same style as the regular MIPR 2021 papers.
**Important Dates**
* Proposal deadline: September 4, 2020 * Proposal notification: September 11, 2020 * Paper deadline: November 6, 2020 * Notification: December 25, 2020 * Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021
Honorary Co-Chairs: Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
General Co-Chairs: Benoit Huet, Median Technologies, France Jianquan Liu, NEC Corporation, Japan Keiji Yanai, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Program Co-Chairs: Naoko Nitta, Osaka University, Japan Shuqiang Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Special Session Co-Chairs: Kyoung-Sook Kim, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China Tomoko Kajiyama, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Workshop Co-Chairs: Jiaying Liu, Peking University, China Masakazu Iwamura, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Pradeep K. Atrey, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
Tutorial Co-Chairs: Chengcui Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Go Irie, NTT, Japan Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zheng Wang, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Demo Co-Chairs: Hideki Nakayama, The University of Tokyo, Japan Qiang Ma, Kyoto University, Japan Ramazan Savas Aygun, Kennesaw State University, USA
Poster Co-Chairs: Terumi Umematsu, NEC Corporation, Japan Yoko Yamakata, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Award Committee Co-Chairs: Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sponsorship & Industry Co-Chairs: Atsushi Keyaki, Denso IT Labs, Japan Guan-Ming Su, Dolby Labs, USA Min Luo, EY Advanced Technology Tax Lab, Japan Yoji Kiyota, LIFULL Co., Ltd., Japan Yongqing Sun, NTT, Japan Yusuke Uchida, Mobility Technologies Co., Ltd., Japan
Publicity Co-Chairs: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Irland Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan Kien A. Hua, University of Central Florida, USA Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada Makoto Onizuka, Osaka University, Japan Min Chen, University of Washington Bothell, USA Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Wen-Huang Cheng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Xueting Wang, The University of Tokyo, Japan Yusuke Matsui, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Publication Co-Chairs: Atsushi Hashimoto, OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Japan Masato Shirai, Shimane University, Japan
Finance Co-Chairs: Shigeyuki Sakazawa, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Wei-Bang Chen, Virginia State University, USA
Registration Co-Chairs: Nakamasa Inoue, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Yuyang Dong, NEC Corporation, Japan
Web & SNS Co-Chairs: Takahiro Komamizu (Web), Nagoya University, Japan Yuanyuan Wang (SNS), Yamaguchi University, Japan
(2021-04-18) 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2021 Spring, Beersheba, Israel
7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
BigDat 2021 Spring Beersheba, Israel April 18-22, 2021 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/bigdat2021s/ ********************************************** --- Early registration deadline: October 15, 2020 --- *********************************************** SCOPE: BigDat 2021 Spring 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, Timi?oara, 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 and 2 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, BigDat 2021 Spring 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 2021 Spring 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: Maria Girone (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Big Data Challenges at the CERN HL-LHC Lisa Schurer Lambert (Oklahoma State University), Research Methods as a Lens: How We Know What We Know PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) 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 Michael X. Cohen (Radboud University Nijmegen), [introductory] Dimension Explosion and Dimension Reduction in Brain Electrical Activity Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate] Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Data 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 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 B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] Digital Media Forensics Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences José M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory] Graph Signal Processing 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 Problem Karsten Reuter (Max Planck Society), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning for Materials and Energy Applications Ramesh Sharda (Oklahoma State University), [introductory/intermediate] Network-based Health Analytics Steven Skiena (Stony Brook University), [introductory/intermediate] Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning Alexandre Vaniachine (VirtualHealth), [intermediate] Open-source Columnar Databases 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 April 10, 2021. 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 April 10, 2021. 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 April 10, 2021. 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/bigdat2021s/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: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London
The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) invites submissions to its bi-annual conference on human language and speech technologies. NoDaLiDa 2021 will be held between Monday, May 31 and Wednesday, June 2, 2021, on the campus of Reykjavik University, Iceland. We are monitoring the ongoing global pandemic and will update the conference plans (e.g. moving to a virtual or hybrid format) as needed closer to the conference dates.
SUBMISSIONS
NoDaLiDa addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis and computational linguistics, including work in closely-related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies.
We invite paper submissions of three types:
regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and
demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations.
We particularly encourage the submission of papers on completed or on-going work, where the first author is a Master or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time.
Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa 2021 proceedings, which are published as part of the NEALT Proceedings Series by Linköping University Electronic Press and in the ACL Anthology.
SCHEDULE
Monday, February 1, 2021: Submission of Papers
Monday, March 15, 2021: Notification of Acceptance
Monday, April 12, 2021: Camera-Ready Manuscripts
Monday, May 31, 2021: Pre-Conference Workshops
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 1-2, 2021: Main Conference
SUBMISSION FORMATS
All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2021 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from the following address:
Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review.
The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers, and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references.
DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time in the Easychair submission system, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa 2021. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation the papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.
(2021-06-05) IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop (DSLW2021), Toronto, Canada
The IEEE Signal Processing Society is pleased to announce an exciting new event, the IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop!
DSLW 2021 is now accepting paper submissions for its inaugural event, held in Toronto, ON, Canada along with ICASSP 2021, in June 2021! This workshop will connect researchers in academia and industry to explore timely and compelling advances in data science, learning theory, and applications across a range of disciplines including signal processing, statistics, machine learning, data mining, and computer vision.
The paper submission site will be opening soon, and the submission deadline is Thursday, 15 October 2020. Prospective authors are invited to submit regular papers (5 pages of technical information + 1 page reference, with optional supplemental material limited to 2 pages). DSLW 2021 uses double-blind review. The targeted paper acceptance rate is around 25%. Please be assured that the DSLW 2021 organizing committee is closely monitoring worldwide health and travel guidelines and will, if necessary, consider novel hybrid and, if circumstances demand, fully virtual conference models.
The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP), is the IEEE Signal Processing Society?s flagship conference on signal processing and its applications. The 46th edition of ICASSP will be held in the dynamic city of Toronto, Canada; one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. The programme will include keynotes by pre-eminent international speakers, cutting-edge tutorial topics, and forward-looking special sessions. ICASSP also provides a great networking opportunity with a wide range of like-minded professionals from academia, industry and government organizations.
Call for Tutorials: Tutorials at ICASSP form an important part of the program, giving attendees the opportunity to learn about current research areas that are of growing interest to the signal processing community. Therefore, the tutorials should be prepared and presented to a wide audience. Prospective presenters may discuss their proposals with the tutorials chair before the submission.
Call for Special Sessions: The program for ICASSP 2021 will include Special Sessions that complement the main program, in line with the technical scope of the conference. Please refer to the conference webpage for information about Special Session proposals and submissions.
Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors:ICASSP offers exhibitors and companies an opportunity to showcase their products and innovative solutions, as well as recruitment and networking opportunities. Please check the conference webpage for information about signing up to become an exhibitor or sponsor at ICASSP 2021. SP Society Journal Paper Presentations:Authors of papers in the journals of the IEEE Signal Processing Society will have the opportunity to present their work at ICASSP 2021, subject to space availability and approval by the Technical Program Chairs. Only papers published between October 20, 2019 and October 19, 2020 are eligible for presentation at ICASSP 2021. The papers presented at ICASSP will neither be reviewed nor included in the proceedings for IEEEXplore.
Open Preview: Open Preview allows conference proceedings to be available in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, free of charge, to all customers, 30 days prior to the conference start date, through the conference end date.
(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
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 2020 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
DATES: Conference date : 28-30 June 2021, at Lille, France. Contact: cbmi2021-organisation@univ-lille.fr Deadline for regular paper and demo submissions : 15 January 2021 Notification of acceptance : 15 March 2021 Camera-ready papers due : 30 March 2021
STUDENT PARTICIPATION: We strongly encourage students to participate in CBMI-21 event and submit their research. We strongly believe in their power and they are the future of the research in content-based multimedia indexing. For these reasons and for the first time in the history of the conference, the 2021 edition of CBMI with support of ACM SIGMM (www.sigmm.org), will sponsor several students, authors of papers submitted and accepted by CBMI-21, and being corresponding author of a paper. The student status will be recognized only to PhDs and master students. Certain students will be totally sponsored, including registration fees, accommodations and travel expenses. Other students will be partly sponsored, including substantial reduction in the registration fees, no cut-backs to the students? conference experience, and budget accommodation options and arrangement for room sharing.
Furthermore, in this edition, prizes will be awarded to the best student poster presentations of CBMI2021. All the participants registered to CBMI2021 as student will be automatically admitted to the selection for the awards. All the papers accepted as poster presentation by the Technical Program Committee (TPC), from students will be considered for the awards, given that a full-paper manuscript has been submitted.
The student poster awards committee will evaluate the nominated contributions during the poster sessions of CBMI2021. The evaluation criteria will be independently established by the Committee before the conference and will take into account the scientific content as well as the technical quality of the posters.
The Student Poster Awards will be announced during the Gala Dinner, on June 29th.
(2021-08-25) CfP The 10th Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop , Paris, France
Call for Papers
*The 10th edition of the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop will be held in Paris Saint-Denis, on August 25-26, 2021*. It will be followed by *a special day on (dis)fluency in speech and language pathology on August 27, 2021*.
Important dates: - Mid-September 2020: First call for papers - March 15, 2021: Submission deadline - May 10, 2021: Notification of acceptation - August 25-27, 2021: DiSS workshop
Submissions are encouraged within the following fields: disfluency in spontaneous speech, psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, conversation analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, gesture analysis, dialog systems, pathological speech disfluency, and evolutionary aspects on speech production and perception.
You will find the call for papers and all the details at this URL: http://diss2021.fr/.
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
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.
IARPA and NIST are pleased to announce a new speech recognition challenge: OpenASR. Registration is still open. The goal of the OpenASR (Open Automatic Speech Recognition) evaluation is to develop methods to quickly develop speech recognition systems in a variety of genres from low-resource languages, with minimal amounts of training data. Training data for ten languages will be released to aspirants, with two evaluations conditions: constrained and unconstrained. The OpenASR challenge was developed out of IARPA's MATERIAL program < https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material>, but only evaluates WER for ASR.
For the registration page, please visit: https://sat.nist.gov/openasr20 Participation is open to Everyone. Feel free to spread the word to interested participants.
The International Christian University is hosting a Saturday series of prosody talks over the next two months, either 5-7pm or 10am-noon, Japan time.
Talks will Zoomed, and attendance is free, but you do need to pre-register.
October 10: Sara Myrberg, Lena Borise October 24: Frank Kgler, Nancy Kula November 7: Shin Ishihara, Cedric Patin November 21: Nichole Dehe, Adam Chong December 5: Emily Elfner, Natalie Weber December 19: Fatima Hamlaoui, Lauren Clemens
