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ISCApad #270 |
Friday, December 11, 2020 by Chris Wellekens |
2-1 | Message from our president Professor John Hansen Dec. 10, 2020
Dear ISCA members:
Welcome to the next installment of the ISCApad for December 2020, and my monthly message to all ISCA members. I think basically all of us will be happy to see the year 2020 close. With COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact the world, it is at least encouraging that several vaccines are now starting to be available for healthcare workers and at-risk individuals, so we hope that 2021 will see at least a modest return to some form of human interaction, even if CDC/WHO guidelines for masks and social distancing are still in place. In this issue, you will find updates for meetings, job postings, and announcements.
INTERSPEECH-2020: [http://www.interspeech2020.org/] (Oct. 25-29, 2020) Again, we finished Interspeech-2020 in October, our first online/virtual conference. By all measures, the conference was an extremely well attended event with 1021 papers presented, and ~2000 registered attendees, plus more than 6000 visitors to the general public streamed material. Again, I extend a sincere thanks to the General Chairs, Helen Meng, Bo Xu, Thomas Zheng, and the Technical Program Chairs Jianhua Tao and Kai, Yu, as well as the entire Interspeech-2020 Organizing Committee for their work and extensive commitment to a truly memorable conference experience (I am so amazed how well the conference logistics could be moved towards online with an experience for technical presentations and content being as effective as it was).
The INTERSPEECH 2020 Proceedings (link) are now available in the ISCA Online Archive (link).
ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 Survey: The ISCA Diversity Committee drafted a survey to collect feedback on ISCA members experiences from INTERSPEECH-2020 conference. In addition to this core IS-20 conference survey, a second follow-on survey, which stated up front that all responses were completely optional, concentrated on all forms of diversity for our membership. Such optional voluntary data is being used to help ISCA provide improved experiences and support for our membership.
DIVERSITY MEETING: The ISCA Diversity Committee held an online meeting originally scheduled during INTERSPEECH-2020 conf. on Nov. 23, 2020. ISCA is committed to supporting all forms of diversity including gender, ethnicity, religion, regional, science/technology, etc. Any feedback, suggestions, etc. are always welcomed by emailing: diversity@isca-speech.org. We thank all who have participated, provide input or are involved in supporting diversity for our Speech Communication community.
ISCA DEADLINES in 2021: Some upcoming deadlines for ISCA members are shown below (nomination links are included).
Please consider nominating your colleagues who have made scientific, technical, and/or service impact to our field of speech communications. In closing, we hope you all enjoyed INTERSPEECH-2020. The deadline for INTERSPEECH-2021 paper submissions is March 26, 2021 (hope all are working on research and looking to submit!). Again, we hope in this upcoming conference, we have the ability to engage with colleagues and catch up with friends and collaborators. We expect there will be some form of remote/virtual interaction in ISCA conferences going forward, but we do hope there will be a chance to be together in Sept.’21 in Brno, Czech Republic.
Hope all enjoy the holidays and have a HAPPY NEW YEAR. Until next month, stay safe and stay connected to our community!
John H.L. Hansen (ISCA President)
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2-2 | Nominations for ISCA Advisory Council The ISCA Advisory Council provides advice to the Board on a range of subjects. We are seeking nominations for membership of the Advisory Council for 10 posts 01/01/2021-12/31/2022 and 10 posts 01/01/2021-12/31/2024. Nominations for the Advisory Council should be made to secretariat@isca-speech.org. to be received by 1st November.
Kate Knill, ISCA Secretary
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2-3 | ISCA social networks We encourage all members tokeep contact with ISCA via our social nets. Also you will bde kept informed about all events on our website. This is particularly important in this time where due to the coronavirus, many modifications may be brought to the conference.
ISCA Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/iscaspeech/ ISCA Twitter : https://twitter.com/ISCAFOX ISCA SAC Student Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/groups/98794207409/ website : www.isca-speech.org
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2-4 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees
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2-5 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors Code-of-Ethics for Authors
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2-6 | ISCA Archive Analysis: a never ending story! The article 'Rediscovering 25 Years of Discoveries in Spoken Language Processing: A Preliminary ISCA Archive Analysis', published at Interspeech 2013 on the occasion of the ESCA/ISCA Silver Jubilee, has been extended to the production and analysis of the NLP4NLP corpus containing close to 65,000 articles published in major conferences and journals in speech and language processing over 50 years (1965-2015) on various aspects (publication, collaboration, citation, innovation, plagiarism,...). The results of those analyses have recently been assembled in a series of two papers published in a special issue on 'Mining Scientific Papers: NLP-enhanced Bibliometrics' of the 'Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics' journal :
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2-7 | Publications and Videos of Speech Prosody 2020 The papers are already publicly available, at https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/SpeechProsody_2020/ . To also see the videos, you can register for the conference, for only 4000 Yen, at https://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sp2020_registration/vp/ .
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2-8 | Women in Speech Research
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2-9 | Proposals for Speech Prosody events Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
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2-10 | Nominations for ISCA Medals (closing January 5) and Fellowship (closing February 10). The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement recognizes and honors an individual each year who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. Any ISCA member can make a nomination. All nominations for ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement should be submitted to the ISCA Secretary at secretariat@isca-speech.org by 5 January 2021 using the nomination form. The ISCA Board will select the winner by 1 February and announce the winner in the March 2020 ISCApad. Unsuccessful candidates of the previous year(s) must be re-nominated to qualify for candidacy. The ISCA Service Medal recognizes an ISCA member who has provided extraordinary service to ISCA and/or the Speech Communication community. Any ISCA Board or Advisory Council member can make a nomination. All nominations for ISCA Service Medal should be submitted to the ISCA Secretary at secretariat@isca-speech.org by 5 January 2021 using the nomination form. Unsuccessful candidates of the previous year(s) must be re-nominated to qualify for candidacy. The ISCA Fellows Program recognizes and honors outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or more with a minimum of ten years experience in the field. Nominations may be made by any ISCA member. Fellows may be recognized by their outstanding scientific and/or technical contributions and/or continued significant service to ISCA. The supporting case for the candidate's nomination should include up to 3 major contributions which have had impact on the speech community and/or society in general. A nomination should be supported by 3 references from senior scientists/technologists in the Speech Communication community, for instance ISCA Fellows and ISCA Board members. Current ISCA Board members are not eligible for nomination. All nominations for ISCA Fellow should be sent to fellows_nomination@isca-speech.org by 10 February using the nomination form. Those who plan to nominate are strongly advised to send brief information on candidates (candidate's name and affiliation) to the above email address before January 10 with your name and contact email address. More information can be found on the ISCA Honors webpage. Kate Knill and Phil Green ISCA Secretary and ISCA Board Member for Fellows
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2-11 | ISCA fellowship Now open, deadline Feb 10th: The ISCA Fellows Program recognises and honours outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or more with a minimum of ten years experience in the field. Nominations may be made by any ISCA member. Fellows may be recognized by their outstanding scientific and/or technical contributions and/or continued significant service to ISCA. The supporting case for the candidate's nomination should include up to 3 major contributions which have had impact on the speech community and/or society in general. A nomination should be supported by 3 references from senior scientists/technologists in the Speech Communication community, for instance ISCA Fellows and ISCA Board members. Current ISCA Board members are not eligible for nomination. All nominations for ISCA Fellow should be sent to fellows_nomination AT isca-speech.org by 10 February using the nomination form. Those who plan to nominate are strongly advised to send brief information on candidates (candidate's name and affiliation) to me with your name and contact email address. -- ************************ Professor Phil Green SpandH Computer Science University of Sheffield
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2-12 | International virtual seminars: call for speakers For ISCA Fellows, ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS A seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However, presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it may thus be possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford. We already have the distinguished lecturer programme as a starting point, and the DLs have been asked to consider lecturing remotely, with interaction. If you are interested in joining this scheme as a speaker, please reply to this mail, with the brief details above. -- ************************ Professor Phil Green SpandH Computer Science University of Sheffield ************************
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2-13 | Prix de thèse AFCP APPEL A CANDIDATURES
Prix de thèse AFCP 2020
Depuis 2004, l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP) décerne un prix scientifique récompensant la grande qualité d'un travail de thèse francophone du domaine (ou anglophone issue d'un laboratoire francophone), afin de promouvoir les recherches en communication parlée, fondamentales ou appliquées, dans le domaine des technologies de la communication, des sciences humaines et de la vie. Ce prix permet de soutenir et diffuser les travaux de jeunes chercheurs du domaine.
Le prix est décerné par un jury composé des chercheurs élus du conseil d'administration de l'AFCP. Il sera officiellement remis lors des prochaines Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole.
Le ou la lauréat(e) se verra remettre la somme de 500 euros et sera invité(e) à présenter ses travaux à la communauté de la communication parlée lors des prochaines JEP (inscription offerte à la conférence). Il/elle se verra également offrir l'opportunité de publier sa thèse sous la forme d'un livre dans la collection « Parole » (éditions CIPA).
CALENDRIER
Date limite de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2021
Décision du jury AFCP : avril-mai 2021
Remise officielle du prix : JEP 2022
CONDITIONS DE CANDIDATURE A CET APPEL
Peut candidater au présent appel : tout docteur dont la thèse, préparée dans un laboratoire francophone, et rédigée en français ou en anglais, a été soutenue entre le 1er janvier et le 31 décembre 2020. Toute candidature est limitée à une seule édition du prix. Seuls les dossiers complets de candidature seront examinés.
CANDIDATURE
Pour candidater, il suffit de :
(1) Envoyer un e-mail déclarant votre intention de candidater, avec vos nom, prénom, titre de la thèse, directeur de thèse, et date de la soutenance à: camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. Vous recevrez un accusé de réception.
(2) Déposer votre manuscrit de thèse en PDF sur le serveur du site web de l'AFCP : http://www.afcp-parole.org/soumettre-une-these/
(3) Envoyer votre dossier complet via un courrier électronique à l'adresse camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. La pièce jointe sera constituée d'un fichier unique (nommé VOTRENOM.pdf), contenant dans l'ordre : (i) le résumé de la thèse (2 pages) ; (ii) la liste des publications ; (iii) les rapports scannés du jury et des rapporteurs de soutenance de thèse ; (iv) une lettre de recommandation scannée du directeur de thèse ; (v) un CV (avec coordonnées complètes dont e-mail).
_____________Date de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2021____________
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2-14 | Nominations for ISCA distinguished lecturers. We are now open for nominations for ISCA Distinguished Lecturers for the period
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