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ISCApad #271 |
Monday, January 11, 2021 by Chris Wellekens |
2-1 | Message from our president Professor John Hansen
Dear ISCA Members Worldwide,
As 2020 comes to a close, on behalf of the ISCA board, I wish to extend a sincere thanks for your membership and participation in ISCA this year. The world continues to address the COVID19 pandemic, and at least now there are number of vaccines which are beginning to be made available, so I hope we all can turn this corner and be able to come back to a sense of human communication/engagement which helps all. There are a few announcements below which I would like to share (and will also appear in the ISCApad for Jan.’21). I extend best wishes to all of you for a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2021! Stay safe and healthy – and look forward to your involvement with ISCA in 2021!
John Hansen, ISCA President
INTERSPEECH-2020: [http://www.interspeech2020.org/] (Oct. 25-29, 2020)
ISCA Fellows 2021 Nomination DEADLINE : Wednesday, February 10, 2021 (link)
ISCA International Virtual Seminars: In addition to our ISCA Distinguished Lecturers, ISCA Board has also taken steps to increase educational support for academic programs in the speech and language communication domains. It is expected that such seminars will help provide support for research labs, especially students. ISCA has set up a pool of speakers prepared to give on-line talks. Further details on speakers and topics will be available on: www.isca-speech.org.
Hope all enjoy the holidays and I wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR for 2021!
Stay safe and healthy!
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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 | ISCA fellowship nominations (deadline Feb 10th) 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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2-11 | 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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2-12 | 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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2-13 | Nominations for ISCA distinguished lecturers. We are now open for nominations for ISCA Distinguished Lecturers for the period
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2-14 | Election of members for the Board of ISCA (4-year term: 2021-2025): Call for Nomimations Election of members for the Board of ISCA (4-year term: 2021-2025)
The ISCA Board currently has 14 members from 9 countries (see full list below). Members are elected to the Board for a period of four years and no member may serve on the Board for more than two consecutive terms. The following Board members will have served for two terms of 4 years in August so will be retiring: Gérard BAILLY, Mark HASAGEWA-JOHNSON, Kate KNILL. Phil GREEN, Tatsuya KAWAHARA, Hema MURTHY, Bhuvana RAMABHADRAN, Odette SCHARENBORG will be ending their first term. Thus we have openings for 8 members for the 2021-2025 term. In accordance with the ISCA by-laws, elections to the Board will take place in April-May 2021. We invite nominations from the ISCA membership. Each nomination requires the support of three members of the Association and agreement from the candidate (e.g., by email). The ISCA statutes specify a maximum of three Board members from any one country. Each ISCA member will be asked to cast a anonymous ballot in the election, via a survey website. Members elected to the Board will be expected to have one of the areas of responsibility listed below, to commit time to furthering the work of ISCA in their area, to attend the two-day Board meetings that take place at each annual INTERSPEECH conference and to participate in additional virtual meetings during the year (teleconferences). All candidates should be aware of these obligations and commit themselves to fulfilling them before agreeing to be nominated. The Board will accept nominations either from proposers or self-nominations, as long as indication of support is provided. Please send your nomination(s) to the ISCA Secretariat secretariat@isca-speech.org BEFORE March 1st, 2021 (Monday) with the following information: Full Name and Title: Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require further information about the nomination process or about duties of ISCA Board members. Areas: Current Board: John HANSEN (ISCA President)
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2-15 | Prix de thèse de l'AFCP (appel à candidatures) www.afcp-parole.org Appel à 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, en 2022. 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 « Recherches en 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 À 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.afcpparole. 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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