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3-1-1 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021 Agenda (updated) June 10, 2021 (midnight CET) Travel grant application deadline
Due to the changes we need to implement, the registration system is temporarily disabled and will reopen on June 8th.
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3-1-2 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021 Brno goes hybrid! Dear Interspeech participants, dear speech community, We are announcing that Interspeech 2021 will take place in HYBRID FORM - the conference will happen both physically in Brno and virtually, giving the opportunity to connect to all of you that won?t be able to make it to Brno. May we ask
Let us remind you however that the COVID-19 crisis is not over, and that:
Details and instructions for both physical and remote paper presentations will follow soon. We are looking forward to seeing you in Brno or virtually in August/September! Hynek He?manský - General Chair
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3-1-3 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia ISCA and General chairs message for web and ISCAPad - end January 2021
Dear Interspeech participants, dear speech community,
While we recognize the challenges for our Shanghai colleagues that had to turn Interspeech 2020 to virtual mode, we were hoping that 2021 would bring improvement on the COVID front and that we would see the speech community physically in Brno, our beloved city. Unfortunately, the situation at the beginning of 2021 is not that positive, with high numbers of new cases, strict Government regulations, lock-downs and actually stopped cross-border travel. We hope the situation will improve as we approach summer, but with the current (slow) progress with vaccination, and travel bans some big companies and Universities have issued, we would be naive to think that our Interspeech will be a “normal” one.
We have therefore decided to opt for a hybrid Brno Interspeech with a back-up option of fully virtual one.
How will it look like ?
We are sorry for any inconvenience and uncertainty, please stay with us while we’re trying hard to make Insterspeech 2021 (in any format) a success. We hope to see you in Brno in August/September !
Hynek Heřmanský - General Chair Honza Černocký - General Chair John H.L. Hansen - ISCA President Sebastian Möller - ISCA Conferences Margaret Zellers - ISCA Conferences
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3-1-4 | (2022-09-18) Interspeech 2022, Incheon, South Korea Incheon in South Korea will welcome Interspeech 2022.
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3-1-5 | (2023-08-20) Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland , ISCA has reached the decision to hold INTERSPEECH-2023 in Dublin, Ireland (Aug. 20-24, 2023)
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3-1-6 | (2024-09-01) Interspeech 2024, Jerusalem, Israel. ISCA conference committee has decided Interspeech 2024 will be held in Jerusalem, Israel from September 1 till September 5
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3-1-7 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers: see https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARSA 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 is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.
Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials. If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org PS. The online seminar scheme is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:
Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.
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3-1-8 | Speech Prosody courses Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
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3-2-1 | (2022-05-23) Speech Prosody 2022 - Call for Special Sessions Speech Prosody 2022 - Call for Special Sessions
Speech Prosody 2022, the eleventh international conference on speech prosody, will be held in Lisbon on 23-26 May, 2022. We invite proposals for special sessions to be held during the conference. We encourage proposals on interdisciplinary topics, under-researched topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest. Proposals (sent as a pdf file) should include: ? Title of the proposed session ? Names and affiliations of organizers (including brief bio and contact information) ? Justification of interest, fit, and impact for the scope of Speech Prosody conferences (maximum 1 page) ? Tentative list of papers (titles/affiliations /authors), if available ? Additional or non-standard resources (e.g. data, equipment, etc) required for organizing the special session
Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the Technical Program committee in conjunction with the Organizing committee. Each special session is expected to consist of three or four accepted papers. Papers intended for special sessions should be submitted through the regular conference submission system, and the same review procedure and criteria will apply. E-mail address for submission of proposals: speechprosody2022@letras.ulisboa.pt Submission deadline: September, 12
For more details on Speech Prosody 2022, please visit http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/sp2022/
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3-2-2 | (2022-05-23) Speech Prosody 2022 - Call for Workshops and Tutorials Speech Prosody 2022 - Call for Workshops and Tutorials
Speech Prosody 2022, the eleventh international conference on speech prosody, will be held in Lisbon on 23-26 May, 2022. Workshops and tutorials co-located with the conference will take place on 27-28 May, 2022. The Speech Prosody organizing committee invites proposals for prosody-related workshops and tutorials. Workshops on under-researched topics are encouraged, as well as tutorials on new methodological approaches and techniques. Proposals (sent as a pdf file) should include: ? Workshop/Tutorial name and acronym ? Organizers? (and tutors?) name, brief bio, and contact information ? Proposed duration of the Workshop/Tutorial, and possible and desired dates ? Estimated number of participants ? For Workshops: Invited speakers (if any) ? For Tutorials: Profile of the expected audience (e.g., young researchers, experienced researchers, expected background and skills) ? Technical requirements ? A short description of the workshop/tutorial to be published on the conference web page
E-mail address for submission of proposals for workshop/tutorials: speechprosody2022@letras.ulisboa.pt Submission deadline: September, 12
For more details on Speech Prosody 2022, please visit http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/sp2022/
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3-2-3 | (2022-05-23) Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal The Speech Prosody 2022 website is now live, at http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/sp2022/index.html ,? Dear SProSIG Members,
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3-2-4 | The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report. The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): The LT4All Programme and Editorial Committees are very happy to announce that the set of
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3-3-1 | (2021-07-12) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2021, Taipei,Taiwan ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2021 Taipei, Taiwan, July 12--15, 2021 http://icmr2021.org/index.html
ACM ICMR 2021 is calling for high quality original papers addressing innovative research in multimedia retrieval and its related broad fields. The main scope of the conference is not only search and retrieval of multimedia data but also analysis and understanding of multimedia contents including community-contributed social data, lifelogging data and automatically generated sensor data, integration of diverse multimodal data, deep learning-based methodology and practical multimedia applications.
We are seeking original high quality submissions addressing innovative research in the field. Contributions addressing the challenges of large-scale search and user behavior analysis are especially welcome.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ?- Multimedia content-based search and retrieval; ?- Multimedia-content-based (or hybrid) recommender systems; ?- Large-scale and web-scale multimedia retrieval; ?- Multimedia content extraction, analysis, and indexing; ?- Multimedia analytics and knowledge discovery; ?- Multimedia machine learning, deep learning, and neural nets; ?- Relevance feedback, active learning, and transfer learning; ?- Zero-shot learning and fine-grained retrieval for multimedia; ?- Event-based indexing and multimedia understanding; ?- Semantic descriptors and novel high- or mid-level features; ?- Crowdsourcing, community contributions, and social multimedia; ?- Multimedia retrieval leveraging quality, production cues, style, framing, affect; ?- Narrative generation and narrative analysis; ?- User intent and human perception in multimedia retrieval; ?- Query processing and relevance feedback; ?- Multimedia browsing, summarization, and visualization; ?- Multimedia beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data; ?- Mobile multimedia browsing and search; ?- Multimedia analysis/search acceleration, e.g., GPU, FPGA; ?- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for multimedia analysis/search; ?- Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, sports, commerce, lifelogs, travel, security, environment.
Important Dates Deadline for Full/Short/Special Session/Brave New Idea Paper Submission: February 21, 2021 Deadline for Demo/Doctoral Symposium Paper Submission: March 21, 2021 Acceptance Notification of Full/Short/Special Session/Demo/Doctoral Symposium Papers: April 11, 2021 Deadline for Workshop Paper Submission: April 20, 2021 Acceptance Notification of Workshop Papers: May 20, 2021
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3-3-2 | (2021-07-26) 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
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3-3-3 | (2021-07-29) SIGDIAL 2021 Conference, Singapore SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS SIGDIAL 2021 CONFERENCE July 29-31, 2021
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference22/
The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2021) will be held on July 29-31, 2021 in Singapore.
SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL-IJCNLP 2021, which will be held on August 1-6 in Bangkok, Thailand (https://2021.aclweb.org/ ).
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of twenty successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.
IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM THE FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
- Special Sessions
SIGDIAL 2021 will have two special sessions:
- Safety for E2E Conversational AI - SummDial: Summarization of Multi-Party Dialogues and Meetings
Papers submitted for these special sessions as SIGDIAL regular papers will be reviewed in the same way as other SIGDIAL submissions. The submission deadline and the paper format are the same. Please see their websites for details (including different types of paper submissions and deadlines).
- Hybrid Conference
SIGDIAL 2021 is preparing for a hybrid in-person and virtual conference where people can participate online if they want. TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:
- Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing, and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in the narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering, and information retrieval.
- Dialogue Systems: Open-domain, task-oriented dialogue, and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment, and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Spoken, multimodal, embedded, situated, and text/web-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation, and applications.
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology, and corpora.
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence).
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology IMPORTANT DATES
Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Submission: April 2, 2021 (11:59pm GMT-11) Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Notification: May 24, 2021 Final Paper Submission: June 8, 2021 Conference: July 29-31, 2021
SUBMISSIONS
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be accepted as long papers for oral presentation or long papers for a poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.
- Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures, and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers? comments.
- Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, figures, and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers? comments.
- Demo descriptions should be no longer than four pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables, and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos, and sound files.
Multiple Submissions
SIGDIAL 2021 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that has been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to conference[at]sigdial.org.
Blind Review
SIGDIAL 2021 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors? names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed.
Submission Format
All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL conference. https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/papers/#paper-submission-and-templates Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before the April 2, 2021 deadline (23:59 GMT-11). Please see the conference website for details.
For special session long and short papers please select the session under ?Submission Type?. ADOPTION OF ACL AUTHOR GUIDELINES
As noted above, SIGDIAL 2021 is adopting the ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines will be rejected without review. Preserving Double Blind Review
The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of the double-blind reviewing process and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected, or withdrawn.
- You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper, we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes). - If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask that you do not advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. - Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we, therefore, encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible. Citations and Comparison: If you are aware of previous research that appears sound and is relevant to your work, you should cite it even if it has not been peer-reviewed, and certainly if it influenced your own work. However, refereed publications take priority over unpublished work reported in preprints. Specifically: You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted or is not widely cited).
In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version. Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than three months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation or in-depth analysis. MENTORING
Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. BEST PAPER AWARDS
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2021 will include the best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. General Chair: Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Program Chairs: Gina-Anne Levow, University of Washington, USA Zhou Yu, Columbia University, USA
Publication Chair: Jessy Li, University of Texas at Austin, USA Sponsorship Chair: David Vandyke, Apple, UK
Mentoring Chair: Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull, UK
Finance Chair: Yan Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
SIGdial President: Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
SIGdial Vice President: Mikio Nakano, C4A Research Institute, Japan
SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA
SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, LivePerson, USA
SIGdial President Emeritus: Jason Williams, Apple, USA
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3-3-4 | (2021-08-02) Workshop Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions AREA-II - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ========================================== Call for Papers AREA- II will be an online event at the 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2021. AREA-II is organized in the second ESSLLI week with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA-II is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop. Date: 2 - 3 August 2021 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS ============================================= AREA II is the follow up on the first AREA meeting at LREC 2018 (http://www.areaworkshop.org/). There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of the AREA II workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas where actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, HRI, human-computer communication, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic. While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ?EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation?), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication. We invite submissions on foundational, conceptual, and practical issues involving modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: - dynamic models of actions - formal semantic models of actions - affordance modeling - manipulation action modeling - linking multimodal descriptions and presentations of actions (image, text, icon, video) - automatic action recognition from text, images, and videos - communicating and performing actions with robots or avatars for joint tasks - action language grounding - evaluation of action models IMPORTANT DATES ================ First CfP: 8 April Final CfP: 30 April 2021 Extended Deadline for paper submission: May 23, 2021 Review deadline: 16 June 2021 Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2021 Deadline for camera-ready version: 11 July 2021 Workshop Date: 2-3 August 2021 SUBMISSION ========== Three types of submissions are invited: - Research papers, describing original research; these can be either long (6-8 pages, not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including references); - Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (2-4 pages including references); - Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software, tools, or systems (2-4 pages including references). We will decide whether to have an oral or poster presentation, depending on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop schedule. Papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use style templates, which are available as an Overleaf template and can also be downloaded directly (Latex and Word). The templates themselves contain only specific notes (e.g., LaTeX notes in the .tex file). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to *ACL conferences available here. Similar to ACL 2021, initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Papers should be submitted via Easy chair the AREA-II website (http://www.areaworkshop.org/) will provide a link for submitting papers. MORE INFORMATION ================= For more information visit the workshop webpage at: http://www.areaworkshop.org/ Or contact us at: jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu, i.f.van.der.sluis@rug.nl PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ====================== Eren AksoyHalmstad University Yiannis AloimonosUniversity of Maryland Johan BosUniversity of Groningen Harry BuntTilburg University Simon DobnikUniversity of Gothenburg Kristiina JokinenUniversity of Helsinki Johan KwisthoutRadboud University Nijmegen Alex LascaridesUniversity of Edinburgh Andy Lucking Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Paul Piwek Open University Gisela RedekerUniversity of Groningen David TraumUSC Institute for Creative Technologies Janina WildfeuerUniversity of Groningen Florentin WörgötteGeorg-August University Göttingen ORGANIZERS =========== James Pustejovsky Brandeis University Ielka van de SluisUniversity of Groningen
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3-3-5 | (2021-08-14) 7th SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series (MiLeTS) 2021 Virtual conference 08-14) 7th SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series (MiLeTS) 2021 ------------------------------- Organizing Committee ------------------------------- Sanjay Purushotham University of Maryland, Baltimore County Yaguang Li Zhengping Che Didi Chuxing -------------------------- Steering Committee -------------------------- Eamonn Keogh University of California Riverside Yan Liu University of Southern California Abdullah Mueen University of New Mexico ------------- Contact: -------------- Any questions may be directed to the workshop e-mail address: kdd.milets@gmail.com.
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3-3-6 | (2021-08-23) The European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Dublin, Ireland The European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) is the flagship conference of European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), and it is a great pleasure of the organizing committee to invite you to the 29th EUSIPCO organised in 2021 by Dublin Ireland. Technical scopeWe invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers from all areas of signal processing including but not limited to:
Key dates
Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore© & published Open Access by EURASIP. See https://eusipco2021.org/call-for-papers/ & https://eusipco2021.org/papers/ for formatting instructions. Follow Twitter @eusipco 2021 and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/eusipco
-- Announcements mailing list https://lists.eurasip.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements
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3-3-7 | (2021-08-25) Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop (on line)
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3-3-8 | (2021-08-27) 4th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR) in Prague We invite researchers across disciplines to participate in the 4th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR) in Prague. Web: https://hscr2021.ff.cuni.cz/
** CALL FOR PAPERS ** The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in historical aspects of all areas of speech communication research. Contributions on any such topic will be welcome. What is worth examining, among other things, is the approach of researchers to their material. The special focus will be on the link in linguistic signs between the form (sound) and the meaning (sense) in speech communication research. The phonetic endeavour was often claimed to concern only the form, while meaning was delegated to semanticians (affective psychology, pragmatics or semantics in broader sense). Studying the sound structure of human speech without a regard to communicative meanings is not only one-sided and incomplete, but also difficult to integrate into the wider scientific knowledge. The way researchers managed/refused to ignore meanings (functions) could be quite inspiring today. Invited speakers are Angelika Braun from Trier University (Germany) with a talk entitled ?Leaving the ivory tower: How real-life events have impacted phonetics throughout history? and Tomá? Hoskovec, President of the Prague Linguistic Circle (Czech Rep.) with a talk on ?The relationship of meaning, sense and form throughout the history of European research?. The proceedings will be published in the book series Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation at TUDpress (Technical University Dresden). See: https://hscr2021.ff.cuni.cz/
** IMPORTANT DATES **
** ORGANIZERS ** Jan Volín (Jan.Volin@ff.cuni.cz), Institute of Phonetics, Charles University Pavel ?turm (Pavel.Sturm@ff.cuni.cz), Institute of Phonetics, Charles University
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3-3-9 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021 Special Session on the Multilingual and code-switching ASR challenges for low resource Indian languages, Brno, Czechia. Announcing the Multilingual and code-switching ASR challenges for low resource Indian languages - Interspeech 2021 Special Session
Recently, there have been increasing interests in multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) where a speech recognition system is built to cater to multiple low resource languages by taking advantage of low amount of labeled corpora in multiple languages. On the other hand, with multilingualism becoming common in today?s world, there has been increasing interest in code-switching ASR as well. In code-switching, multiple languages are freely interchanged within a single sentence or between sentences. The success of low-resource multilingual and code-switching ASR often depends on the variety of languages in terms of their acoustics, linguistic characteristics as well as amount of data available and how these are carefully considered in building the ASR system. In this challenge, we would like to focus on building multilingual and code-switching ASR systems through two different sub-tasks related to a total of seven Indian languages with constraints on the data available for acoustic modeling and language modeling.
Sub-task1
This sub-task involves building a multilingual ASR system in six languages, namely, Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Telugu, Tamil, and Gujarati. The blind test set will comprise recordings from a subset (or all) of these six languages
Sub-task2
This sub-task involves building a code-switching ASR system separately for Hindi-English and Bengali-English code-switched pairs. The blind test set will comprise recordings from these two code-switched language pairs.
Submissions to this special session should show results on one or both of the above mentioned tasks. Submissions on any topic related to building multilingual code-switching ASR are welcome. This includes (but is not limited to):
Organizers:
Kalika Bali (Mircosoft Research)
Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (IISc Bangalore)
Raoul Nanavati (Navana Tech.)
Jai Nanavati (Navana Tech.)
Sirnivasa Raghavan (Navana Tech.)
Vivek Seshadri (Microsoft Research)
Preethi Jyothi (IIT Bombay)
Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay)
Samarth Bharadwaj (IBM Research)
Ashish Mittal (IIT Bombay & IBM Research)
Shreya Khare (IBM Research)
For more details and participation, please visit
https://navana-tech.github.io/IS21SS-indicASRchallenge/
Timeline
February 2, 2021 - Registration for the challenge opens
February 10, 2021 - Release training & test data
February 15, 2021 - Release baseline recipe
February 28, 2021 - Release blind test audio to participants
March 2, 2021 - Test trial upload begins
March 26, 2021 - Abstract submission deadline
March 26, 2021 - Final test trial upload deadline
April 2, 2021 - Interspeech final paper upload deadline
June 15, 2021 - Camera ready paper deadline
For any questions, write to
is21ss.indicasrchallenge@gmail.com
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3-3-10 | (2021-08-30) The Fearless Steps Challenge(FSC) @ Interspeech 2021 ISCApad INTERSPEECH February 2021 February 10, 2021 The Fearless Steps Challenge(FSC) TIMELINE: Challenge Start Date (Data Release): February 11th 2021 INTERSPEECH-2020 Papers dealing with FEARLESS STEPS deadline: April 2, 2021 Website Link: https://fearless-steps.github.io/ChallengePhase3/ Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3tAWDCK
CHALLENGE OVERVIEW The Fearless Steps Initiative by UTDallas-CRSS led to the digitization, recovery, and diarization of 19,000 hours of original analog audio data, as well as the development of algorithms to extract meaningful information from this naturalistic data resource. As an initial step to motivate a stream-lined and collaborative effort from the speech and language community, UTDallas-CRSS is hosting a series of progressively complex tasks to promote advanced research on naturalistic “Big Data” corpora. This began with ISCA INTERSPEECH-2019: 'The FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 1 (FSC-P1)'. This first edition of this challenge encouraged the development of core unsupervised/semi-supervised speech and language systems for single-channel data with low resource availability, serving as the “First Step” towards extracting high-level information from such massive unlabeled corpora. This was followed with ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 which held the Special Session for FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 2 (FSC-P2), which focused on developing supervised learning strategies for the 100 hour Challenge Corpus.
Challenge Tasks in Fearless Steps Phase 3 (FSC-P3): 1. Speech Activity Detection (SAD) 2. Speaker Identification (SID) 3. Speaker Diarization: 3a. Track 1: Diarization using reference SAD 3b. Track 2: Diarization using system SAD 4. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): 4a. Track 1: ASR using reference Diarization 4b. Track 2: Continuous stream ASR 5. Conversational Analysis (CONV): 5a. Track 1: Hotspot Detection 5b. Track 2: Extractive Summarization
Organizers John H.L. Hansen (john.hansen@utdallas.edu) Christopher Cieri (ccieri@ldc.upenn.edu) Omid Sadjadi (omid.sadjadi@nist.gov) Aditya Joglekar (aditya.joglekar@utdallas.edu) Meena Chandra Shekar (meena.chandrashekar@utdallas.edu)
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3-3-11 | (2021-08-31) DiCOVA Interspeech challenge 2021 Announcing the DiCOVA Interspeech challenge 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 100 million infections, and more than 2 million casualties. The global crisis spans across 200 countries. Large scale testing, social distancing, and face masks have been critical measures to help contain the spread of the infection. Even with the onset of the vaccination programs, the WHO highlights large scale testing and precautionary measures must be followed for the next couple of years. While the list of symptoms is regularly updated, it is established that in symptomatic cases COVID-19 seriously impairs normal functioning of the respiratory system. Does this alter the acoustic characteristics of breath, cough, and speech sounds produced through the respiratory system? This is an open question that we would like scientifically answer. A COVID-19 diagnosis methodology based on acoustic signal analysis, if successful, can provide a remote, scalable, and economical means for testing of individuals. This can supplement the existing nucleotides based COVID-19 testing methods, such as RT-PCR and RAT.
The DiCOVA Challenge is designed to find answers to the question by enabling participants to analyze an acoustic crowdsourced mobile based dataset gathered from COVID-19 positive and non-COVID-19 individuals. The findings will be presented in a special session at Interspeech 2021, the flagship conference of the global speech science and technology community, to be held in Brno from Aug 31-Sept 3, 2021. The timeliness, and the global societal importance of the challenge warrants focused effort from researchers across the globe, including from the fields of medical and respiratory sciences, mathematical sciences, and machine learning engineers. We look forward to your participation! For more details and participation, please visit
Timeline
Registration Opens: 5th Feb 2021 Data Release (Train and Dev): 15th Feb 2021 Baseline System Release: 22nd Feb 2021 Evaluation data and Leaderboard active: 1st Mar 2021 Final evaluation and Report submission: 21st Mar 2021 Interspeech Abstract submission: 26th Mar 2021 Interspeech Paper submission: 2nd Apr 2021 Any questions can be directed to
dicova2021@gmail.com
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3-3-12 | (2021-09-04) First Shared Task on Automatic Minuting***AutoMin @ Interspeech 2021******First Shared Task on Automatic Minuting***
***AutoMin @ Interspeech 2021***When most of our interactions went virtual, the need for automatic support for the smooth running of the online events such as project meetings became more intense. Summarizing meeting contents is one of them. We propose AutoMin, the First Shared Task on Automatic Minuting of meeting proceedings. With this shared task, we would invite the speech and natural language processing community to investigate the challenges of automatic minuting with real meeting data in two different settings: technical project meetings (both in English and Czech) and parliamentary proceedings (English). AutoMin is an ISCA-sponsored Interspeech 2021 satellite event. AutoMin 2021 will be a full-virtual event. ***Website***https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/ ***Tasks***We propose one main task and two subsidiary tasks. The subsidiary tasks are optional.
***Registration***All participants should register using the following link:https://forms.office.com/r/Vz0qUDEpy1***Data Usage Form***https://github.com/ELITR/automin-2021 Please send the signed data usage form to Tirthankar Ghosal at <ghosal@ufal.mff.cuni.cz> along with your Github id/email id to get access to the training data(mandatory) ***Important Dates***
***Publication*** All teams are required to submit a brief technical report describing their method. Please submit using the Interspeech 2021 paper template (https://www.interspeech2021.org/author-resources). All reports must be a minimum of 2 pages and a maximum of 4 pages excluding references. Reports must be written in English. The proceedings will be hosted at the ISCA archive. Selected authors would be additionally invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of the Information Journal by MDPI (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information).
***Organizers*** Tirthankar Ghosal, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic Muskaan Singh, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic Anja Nedoluzhko, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic Ond?ej Bojar, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic
***Contact*** Tirthankar Ghosal at <ghosal@ufal.mff.cuni.cz>
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3-3-13 | (2021-09-06) 14th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA (online) (updated) 14th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA (online) * Tomas Mikolov, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics
* Sujith Ravi, Amazon Alexa AI
https://www.sravi.org/ ************************************************************** MOTIVATION In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, unrelated corpora on the other. Comparable corpora have been used in a range of applications, including Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Cross-lingual text classification, etc. The linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP, for example to extract parallel corpora from comparable corpora for neural MT. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. TOPICS This year our special topic is 'Neural Networks in Comparable Corpora Research'. But we solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel) corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora: * Automatic and semi-automatic methods * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora * Rare and minority languages, across language families * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Applications of comparable corpora: * Human translation * Language learning * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization * Bilingual and multilingual projections * Machine translation * Writing assistance * Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora: * Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and pre-trained multilingual transformer models * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora * Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide for low-resource languages in neural machine translation) * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, and named entities from comparable corpora * Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora - Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora IMPORTANT DATES July 17, 2021: Paper submission deadline July 31, 2021: Notification of acceptance August 31, 2021: Camera ready final papers September 6, 2021: Workshop date For updates see the workshop website at https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2021/ PRACTICAL INFORMATION The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. The link for participation in the online workshop will be communicated to registered participants in due time. Workshop fees are 45 Euros for presenters (30 Euros for student presenters) and 15 Euros for non-presenters. For further details see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2021/fees.php SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please follow the style sheet and templates provided for the main conference at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2021/submissions.php Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference manager at https://www.softconf.com/ranlp2021/BUCC2021/ Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages plus unlimited references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be included in the ACL Anthology. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop organizers by e-mail. For further information and updates see the BUCC 2021 website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2021/ In case of questions, please contact Reinhard Rapp: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Reinhard Rapp (Athena R.C.; Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences; University of Mainz, Germany), chair and contact person: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) * Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Ahmet Aker (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) * Ebrahim Ansari (Institue for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) * Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain) * Hitoshi Isahara (Otemon Gakuin University, Japan) * Kyo Kageura (The University of Tokyo, Japan) * Natalie Kübler (CLILLAC-ARP, Université de Paris, France) * Philippe Langlais (Univerité de Montréal, Canada) * Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan) * Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France) * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (RWS, USA) * Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany) * Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France) * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, USA) * Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Belgium) * Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France)
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3-3-14 | (2021-09-06) 24th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2021), Olomouc, Czech Republic TSD 2021 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-15 | (2021-09-06) TSD 2021 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND DEMONSTRATIONS, Olomouc, Czech Republic **************************************************************************
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3-3-16 | (2021-09-07) CfP Text Mining and Applications (TeMA?21) Track of EPIA?21, Lisbon, Portugal Call for Papers Text Mining and Applications (TeMA?21) Track of EPIA?21
TeMA 2021 will be held at the 20th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2021) taking place at Lisbon, Portugal, from 7th to 9th September 2021. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2021 URL: : http://appia.pt/epia2021/ This announcement contains the following information: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Program Committee and [8] Contacts. [1] Track Description The 9th Track of Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2021) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following recent advances in general IA sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using text mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind by the members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer?s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2021.
[2] Topics of Interest TM, NLP, and Social Media Content Analysis
Applications:
[3] Important dates Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2021 Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2021 Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2021 EPIA Conference: September 7-9, 2021(Lisbon, Portugal) [4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNAI series. Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity. References to own work may be included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management website at: http://appia.pt/epia2021/ Authors should consult Springer?s authors? guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
[5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2021 conference.
[6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva, DI ? FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal (Contact person). Pablo Gamallo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain. Paulo Quaresma, DI ? Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal. Irene Rodrigues., DI ? Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal
[7] Program Committee: Adam Jatowt ? Universit of Kioto, Japan Alberto Diaz ? Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Spain Alberto Simões ? Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal Alexandre Rademaker ? IBM / FGV, Brazil Altigran Silva ? Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil Antoine Doucet ? University of Caen, France António Branco ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Béatrice Daille ? University of Nantes, France Bruno Martins ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Eric de La Clergerie ? INRIA, France Fernando Batista ? Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Francisco Couto ? Faculdade de Ciências ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Gabriel Pereira Lopes ? Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ? Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Gaël Dias ? University of Caen Basse-Normandie Hugo Oliveira ? Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Iñaki Vicente - Language Technology, Elhuyar Foundation Irene Rodrigues ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal Jesús Vilares ? University of A Coruña, Spain Joaquim Ferreira da Silva ? Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ? Universidade Nova de Lisboa Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska ? ESIGETEL, France Luisa Coheur ? Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal Manuel Vilares Ferro ? University of Vigo, Spain Marcos Garcia - Universidade da Coruña, Spain Mário Silva ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Miguel Alonso ? Universidade da Coruña, Spain Pablo Gamallo ? Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain Patricia Martín-Rodilla ? Universidade da Coruña, Spain Paulo Quaresma ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal Pavel Brazdil ? University of Porto, Portugal Renata Vieira ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal Sérgio Nunes ? Faculdade de Engenharia ? Universidade do Porto, Portugal
[8] Contacts Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829?516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ? Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ? E?mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt
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3-3-17 | (2021-09-08) IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021), Tokyo, Japan (Rescheduled) IEEE MIPR 2021 Rescheduled September 8-10
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3-3-18 | (2021-09-08) The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Fake Multimedia (FakeMM'21), Tokyo, Japan The 3rd IEEE Workshop onFake Multimedia (FakeMM'21) September 8-10, 2021 Tokyo, Japan
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3-3-19 | (2021-09-27) 23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2021), St Petersburg, Russia ******************************************************* SPECOM-2021 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS *******************************************************
23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2021) September 27-30, 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2021
IMPORTANT INFO (!) Due to the COVID pandemic in the world, SPECOM-2021 conference with satellite events may be partially or fully organized as a teleconference via Zoom service within the announced dates. In the case of a teleconference, essentially reduced registration fees are provided for authors, as well as a free registration for participants. The proceedings will be prepared in time and published by Springer in LNCS/LNAI book series, the on-line proceedings will be available before the conference start.
EXTENDED DEADLINES (!) June 14, 2021 .......... Submission of full papers (final date) July 14, 2021 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection July 25, 2021 ........... Camera-ready papers July 30, 2021 ........... Early registration
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. Junichi YAMAGISHI, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan – Automatic detection of generated voices and faces – ASVspoof and deepfake detection. + TBA
ORGANIZERS The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with the Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).
CONFERENCE TOPICS SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction: Affective computing Audio-visual speech processing Corpus linguistics Computational paralinguistics Deep learning for audio processing Feature extraction Forensic speech investigations Human-machine interaction Language identification Multichannel signal processing Multimedia processing Multimodal analysis and synthesis Sign language processing Speaker recognition Speech and language resources Speech analytics and audio mining Speech and voice disorders Speech-based applications Speech driving systems in robotics Speech enhancement Speech perception Speech recognition and understanding Speech synthesis Speech translation systems Spoken dialogue systems Spoken language processing Text mining and sentiment analysis Virtual and augmented reality Voice assistants
SATELLITE EVENTS 6th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2021: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2021
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-12 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2021
PROCEEDINGS SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases.
GENERAL CHAIRS Alexey KARPOV - SPIIRAS, SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia Rodmonga POTAPOVA - MSLU, Moscow, Russia
CONTACTS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2021 Secretariat E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2021
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3-3-20 | (2021-09-30) Call for proposals 2023 IEEE Int.Wkshp on Machine Learning and Signal Processing (MLSP)Call for Proposals2023 IEEE International Workshop on
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ESANN 2021 - 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,
Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning
Bruges, Belgium, 6-7-8 October 2021
2nd Call for papers
The call for papers is available at https://www.esann.org. Deadline for submissions: May 10, 2021.
The ESANN conferences cover machine learning, artificial neural networks, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered. In addition to regular sessions, 7 special sessions will be organized on the following topics:
- Anomaly and change point detection in geometric and non vector data
- Complex Data: Learning Trustworthily, Automatically, and with Guarantees
- Federated Learning – Methods, Applications and Beyond
- Deep learning for graphs
- Interpretable Models in Machine Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning for Measuring and Analyzing Online Social Communications
- Machine learning and data mining for urban mobility intelligence
ESANN 2021 builds upon a successful series of conferences organized each year since 1993. ESANN has become a major scientific event in the machine learning, computational intelligence and artificial neural networks fields over the years.
The conference will be organized in Bruges, one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Designated as the 'Venice of the North', the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its centre, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum. We hope that October 2021 will be the right time to organize a physical conference again, after the Covid-19 pandemic; current forecasts are optimistic for events organized after the summer 2021. Of course health and safety of the participants are our top priority; in the unfortunate event that the situation is not safe yet, the conference will be organized online on the same dates.
We hope to receive your submission to ESANN 2021 and to see you in Bruges!
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ICMI 2021: Call for Workshops
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The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021)
will be held in in Montreal, Canada, October 18-22nd, 2021. ICMI is
the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on
multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis,
interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a
tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference
to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science
models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:
- Media Analytics for Societal Trends
- Neuromanagement and Intelligent Computing
- Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction
- Multimodal e-Coaches
- Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology
- Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data
- Human-Habitat for Health
- Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction
- Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents
- Child Computer Interaction
- Insights on Group & Team Dynamics
- Multimodal Interaction for Education
We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related
to the main conference topics, and those that focus on
multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage
workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors
to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of
experience, geography, etc.).
The content of accepted workshops are under the control of the
workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in
duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop
content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion
and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing
process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will
be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a
short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main
conference proceedings.
Submission
Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF
format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs:
Akane Sano and Emily Mower Provost (icmi2021-workshop-chairs@acm.org)
The proposal should include the following:
- Workshop title
- List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies
- Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact
- Tentative list of keynote speakers
- Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.),
anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or
full-day) including tentative program
- Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation
- Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external,
solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)
- Paper submission and acceptance deadlines
- Special space and equipment requests, if any
Important Dates:
Workshop proposal submission: Monday, February 8, 2021
Notification of acceptance: Monday, February 22, 2021
Workshop papers due: End of July, 2021 (suggested)
Workshop Date: October 18-22, 2021
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2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI
@ACM Multimedia 2021, October 20-24, 2021, Chengdu, China
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### https://sites.google.com/view/multimodal-conversational-ai/
### Deadline: July 30
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
- Visual conversations/dialogs
- Deep learning for multimodal conversational agents
- Preference elicitation in conversational agents
- Conversation state tracking models and online learning
- Recommendations in conversational systems
- Multimodal user intent understanding
- Opinion recommendation in conversational agents
- Supply/demand in conversational agents for e-commerce
- Reinforcement learning in conversational agents
- Resources and datasets
- Design and evaluation of conversational agents
- User-agent legal and ethical issues in conversational systems
- User-Agent experience design
- Conversational systems applications, including, but not limited to,
e-commerce, social-good, music, Web search, healthcare.
### Paper Submission Guidelines
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WMT 2021 Shared Task:
Machine Translation using Terminologies
November 10-11 , 2021
Punta Cana, Dominican RepublicLanguage domains that require very careful use of terminology are abundant. The need to adequately translate within such domains is undeniable, as shown by e.g. the different WMT shared tasks on biomedical translation.
More interestingly, as the abundance of research on domain adaptation shows, such language domains are (a) not adequately covered by existing data and models, while (b) new (or ?surge?) domains arise and models need to be adapted, often with significant downstream implications: consider the new COVID-19 domain and the large efforts for translation of critical information regarding pandemic handling and infection prevention strategies.
In the case of newly developed domains, while parallel data are hard to come by, it is fairly straightforward to create word- or phrase-level terminologies, which can be used to guide professional translators and ensure both accuracy and consistency.
This shared task will replicate such a scenario, and invites participants to explore methods to incorporate terminologies into either the training or the inference process, in order to improve both the accuracy and consistency of MT systems on a new domain.
IMPORTANT DATES
Release of training data and terminologies April 2021 Surprise languages announced: June 28, 2021 Test set available July 19, 2021 Submission of translations July 23, 2021 System descriptions due August 5, 2021 Camera-ready for system descriptions September 15, 2021 Conference in Punta Cana November 10-11, 2021 SETTINGS
In this shared task, we will distinguish submissions that use the terminology only at inference time (e.g., for constrained decoding or something similar) and submissions that use the terminology at training time (e.g., for data selection, data augmentation, explicit training, etc). Note that basic linguistic tools such as taggers, parsers, or morphological analyzers are allowed in the constrained condition.The submission report should highlight in which ways participants? methods and data differ from the standard MT approach. They should make clear which tools were used, and which training sets were used.
LANGUAGE PAIRS
The shared task will focus on four language pairs, with systems evaluated:We will provide training/development data and terminologies for the above language pairs. Test sets will be released at the beginning of the evaluation period. The goal of this setting (with both development and surprise language pairs) is to avoid approaches that overfit on language selection, and instead evaluate the more realistic scenario of needing to tackle the new domain in a new language in a limited amount of time. The surprise language pairs will be announced 3 weeks before the start of the evaluation campaigns. At the same time we will provide training data and terminologies for the surprise language pairs.
- English to French
- English to Chinese
- Two surprise language pairs English-X (announced 3 weeks before the evaluation deadline)
You may participate in any or all of the language pairs.
ORGANIZERS
Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason University
Md Mahfuz ibn Alam, George Mason University
Laurent Besacier, NAVER
James Cross, Facebook
Georgiana Dinu, AWS
Marcello Federico, AWS
Matthias Gallé, NAVER
Philipp Koehn, Facebook / Johns Hopkins University
Vassilina Nikoulina, NAVER
Kweon Woo Jung, NAVER
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PerceptiO
Perception and the living
La perception et le vivant
University of Strasbourg, France
UR 1339 LiLPa – Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit
Chair of the USIAS Language Sciences – University of Strasbourg, Institute for
Advanced Study
University of Haute-Alsace, France
UR 4363 ILLE – Research Institute for European Languages and Literatures
IdEx Symposium 2021
17-20 November
The University of Strasbourg (France), through its Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit 1339 LiLPa, as well as the USIAS Chair of Language Sciences (University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study), and the University of Haute-Alsace (France), through its Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures Re- search Unit 4363 ILLE, will host in Alsace the symposium 'PerceptiO: Perception and the living' from the 17th to the 20th of November, 2021.
Chaired by the Alsatian University duo, the international organising committee of the event will also include in its ranks (in alphabetical order of the partner countries): the Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technologies – IRSTL of the University of Mons (Belgium), First People’s Hospital in Chengdu, First People’s Hospital in Zigong and Binzhou Medical University (China), the Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department at the University of Kentucky (United States of America), Chair of French Language of the University of Opole (Poland), Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor (Senegal) and the Department of Romance Studies of Matej Bel University of Banská Bystrica, LICoLab – Language, Information and Communication Laboratory and Department of British and American Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (Slovakia).
The symposium, which will bring together specialists from all horizons (both in terms of continents and fields of specialisation), will be devoted to perception and the living, a theme that will have to be tackled under its various disci-plinary seams, whether they fall within the commonly accepted classification established since the 20th Century in the Sciences (formal, physical, life, social) or that of the Arts (architecture, sculpture, visual arts, music, literature, perform-ing arts, cinema).
The general objective of the congress will thus entail addressing the question of how (the world of) the living caters for perceptions, both in terms of apprehension, feeling, understanding, analysis, construction, of profiling, of transmis-sion as of reception, to try to uncover the still quite vague outlines of the very notion of perception and related phenom-ena, in order to further the study of known properties and/or specificities or, moreover, to shed light on novel ones. More specifically, the major tack will notably involve, from the observation of how these properties or specificities fit into the living (world), means of highlighting the duality of the ontologies of perception (sensory vs intellectual).
In practice, we shall question, starting from the living (world), in particular the matrices, the molds, the frames, the actants, the circumstances, the ins and outs of perception through, preferably, inter, trans, multi, pluri or intradisciplinary approaches – even if the mono or uni-disciplinary approach will not be excluded. Note that all types of languages, be they natural or artificial, can serve as empirical bases and that, regardless of the approach considered, experimental and/or clinical approaches will be highly appreciated, as well as contrastive ones.
To this end, whether theoretical or applied, systematic or experimental, contextual or independent, synchronic or diachronic, prescriptive, descriptive or programmatic, intra or interdisciplinary, proposals thus requested will fit into at least one pair of disciplines from the Sciences and/or the Arts, such as: mathematics-linguistics, painting-music, biol-ogy-anthropology, medicine-linguistics, anthropology-music, physics-painting, sociology-linguistics, philosophy-mathematics, psychology-anthropology, computer science-linguistics, etc.
Regarding the official classification of the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) disciplinary fields, the symposium includes all disciplines: Mathematics, Physics, Earth and Universe Sci-ences, Chemistry, Engineering Sciences, Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Biology, Health, Agronomy, Ecology, Environment, Markets and Organisations, Standards, social institutions and behaviours, Space, environment and societies, Human spirit, language, education, Languages, Texts, Arts and cultures, Ancient and contemporary Worlds.
- Professor Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Chair of Physiology of Perception and Action)
- Professor Luc Fraisse (Institut Universitaire de France & University of Strasbourg)
- Research Director Anne Giersche (University of Strasbourg & Inserm – Cognitive neuropsychology, pathophysiol-ogy of schizophrenia)
- Professor Bernard Harmegnies (Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technology, University of Mons)
- Professor Karine Lacombe (Sorbonne University, Inserm, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, St An-toine’s Hospital, Paris)
- Professor David Poeppel (Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute Frankfurt & New York University)
- Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg, Chair of Chemical Topology and Molecular Machines)
- Research Director Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA-Lab, Speech-Cognition Department, Grenoble Alpes University)
Proposals for papers, based on the PropCom framework below (Annex 1), will be sent simultaneously to Fabrice Marsac (f.marsac@unistra.fr) and Rudolph Sock (sock@unistra.fr) before March 31st, 2021 (indicate 'Symposium Per-ceptiO 2021' as the subject).
Notifications of acceptance or rejection of proposals will be sent to the authors by 30 April 2021 at the latest, and a first provisional programme of the event will follow around 15th of May.
The D-Day, oral communications, organised around the plenary lectures, will not exceed 15 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions). Poster sessions, which are scientifically equivalent in importance to the oral communications, will also be organised. The language of presentation will be either French or English.
After the symposium, the written contributions selected by the scientific committee will be published in 2023 as volume(s)/thematic volume(s) or varia in international journal(s).
Registration fees (150 € for permanent staff and 50 € for doctoral students) include the gala dinner on the second day (Thursday 18), the traditional paracolloquial activities (including a guided tour of the magnificent Strasbourg and its main cultural and tourist attractions, as well as the European Institutions) and the publication of contributions. Ac-commodation and other catering costs are the sole responsibility of participants.
The meeting will take place at the University of Strasbourg (Accueil – Université de Strasbourg (unistra.fr)) and at the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme, Alsace – MISHA (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA)).
Depending on the sanitary context in November 2021, the symposium will be held in praesentia or will be par-tially/completely dematerialised.
Currently being set up, the scientific committee of PerceptiO 2021 will be responsible for both the scientific review of proposals, carried out, as usual, by peers on a double-blind basis, and for reviewing subsequent submitted articles, also conducted on a double-blind basis by peers, in view of their publication in the course of 2023.
- Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit UR 1339 LiLPa (University of Strasbourg, France)
- USIAS Chair of Language Sciences (University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study)
- Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures Research Unit 4363 ILLE (University of Haute-Alsace, France)
- Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technologies – IRSTL (University of Mons, Belgium)
- First People’s Hospital in Chengdu (China)
- First People’s Hospital in Zigong (China)
- Binzhou Medical University (China)
- Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department (University of Kentucky, United States of Amer-ica)
- Chair of French language (University of Opole, Poland)
- Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor (Senegal)
- Department of Romance Studies (Matej Bel University of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia)
- LICoLab – Language, Information and Communication Laboratory & Department of British and American Studies of the Faculty of Arts (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia)
- Submission of proposals: 31st March 2021 (deadline)
- Notification of paper acceptance or refusal: 30th April 2021 (deadline)
- Publication of the programme: around 15th of May 2021 (first provisional programme)
- Symposium: 17-20 November 2021
- Publication of accepted articles: in 2023
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1. Title of the proposal
2. Object(s) of study, research issues
3. Objective(s), theoretical framework(s) and research hypothesis(es)
4. Methodology
5. Results
6. Five key words
7. References
8. Last name, first name and academic affiliation(s) of the author(s)
9. E-mail address(es) for correspondence
10. Specify if it is a doctoral research (if applicable, indicate the name of the thesis supervisor(s))
The scientific committee of PerceptiO 2021 will be composed, among other members, of (teacher-)researchers from the various disciplinary fields established by the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES).
For the International Organising Committee,
Fabrice MARSAC et Rudolph SOCK
University of Strasbourg, France
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CFP: ACM MULTIMEDIA ASIA 2021
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ACM MULTIMEDIA ASIA 2021
1 - 3 Dec, 2021, Gold Coast, Australia
https://mmasia2021.uqcloud.net/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Workshop/Grand Challenge Proposals Submission: 28 Jun, 2021
- Workshop/Grand Challenge Proposals Notification: 18 July, 2021
- Regular Paper Submission (Full/Applied Track): 19 July, 2021
- Short/Demo/Brave New Idea Paper Submission: 2 Aug, 2021
- Tutorial Proposals Submission: 30 Aug, 2021
- Tutorial Proposals Notification: 15 Sep, 2021
- Regular Paper Notification (Full/Applied Track): 27 Sep, 2021
- Short/Demo/Brave New Idea Paper Notification: 12 Oct, 2021
The submission deadline is at 11:59 p.m. of the stated deadline date Anywhere on Earth.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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ACM Multimedia Asia 2021 invites the submission of research papers presenting novel theoretical and algorithmic solutions addressing problems across the domain of multimedia and related applications. The conference also encourages visionary papers on new and emerging topics; papers presenting novel ideas with promising (preliminary) results in realizing these ideas; application-oriented papers that make innovative technical contributions to social good, healthcare, etc. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Multimedia and Vision
- Multimodal Analysis and Description
- Deep Learning for Multimedia
- Emotional and Social Signals in Multimedia
- Multimedia Search and Recommendation
- Social Multimedia
- Multimedia HCI and Quality of Experience
- Multimedia Art, Entertainment and Culture
- Music and Audio Processing in Multimedia
- Mobile Multimedia
- Multimedia Systems
- Multimedia Transport and Delivery
- Multimedia for Collaboration in Education
- Multimedia Virtual/Augmented Reality
- Multimedia for Social Goods
- Multimedia for HealthCare
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HIGHLIGHTS OF ACMMM ASIA 2021
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- Multimedia for Social Good: ACMMM ASIA2021 recognises high-quality research that showcases the benefit to the general public. The conference brings to the audience practices that are beneficial for the environment, health, aged care, and overall society.
- Inspirations from Collaborations: ACMMM ASIA2021 encourages novel ideas from industry and government partners to identify emerging topics in real-world applications.
- Empowering Women in Technology: ACMMM ASIA2021 focuses on providing networking and learning environment for female researchers in multimedia community at different stages of their careers.
- Twin-City (Gold Coast / Shen Zhen) PhD School: The joint PhD School targets at providing PhD students and ECRs a platform to talk with senior researchers and establish their social networks.
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Conference venue: GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
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Located within walking distance of Southport’s cutting-edge Health and Knowledge Precinct---including the Gold Coast University Hospital---our world-class Gold Coast campus is home to 21,000 students. As our largest campus, teaching and research span almost all study areas, with a strong focus on medicine, dentistry and health. Centrally based and just minutes from world-famous beaches, you’ll be able to enjoy a vibrant, enviable student lifestyle, with more than 80 student clubs to explore as well as a variety of sporting and fitness amenities, on-campus services, retail outlets, and cafes.
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GENERAL, PROGRAM, AND LOCAL CHAIRS
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- General Chairs
Chang Wen Chen, SUNY at Buffalo
Helen Huang, The University of Queensland Jun Zhou, Griffith University
- Program Chairs
Tatsuya Harada, The University of Tokyo
Jianfei Cai, Monash University
Wu Liu, JD AI Research
Dong Xu, The University of Sydney
- Local Chairs
Sen Wang, The University of Queensland
Tony Chen, The University of Queensland
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2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) 2021
Theme: Articulation and Prosody: Between Interface and Integration
Date: 2-4 December 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark
The links between articulation and prosody are a subject of growing interest. It is driven, among other things, by increasingly powerful measurement, analysis and recording techniques, by the discovery of syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures in prosody and the simultaneous undermining of strictly linear-segmental models in articulation, as well as the by rapid rise of speech technology and the associated increasing relevance of the emotions, speaking styles, attitudes, social hierarchies, social-role marking, etc. But, how far have we really come in understanding the links between articulation and prosody?
The 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) will be a forum to discuss these questions. Reflecting the development of the articulation-prosody research and continuing the successful concept of the first SEFOS, SEFOS II shall again be a strongly interdisciplinary event. We therefore cordially invite not only all members of the speech-science community to take part in SEFOS II, but also interested members from related fields such as general linguistics, medicine, audiology, psychology, rhetoric, pedagogy, language/speech technology and engineering sciences.
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the organizing committee decided to conduct the conference in the form of a HYBRID CONFERENCE combining a live in person event with a virtual component.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Dr. Cécile Fougeron
Directrice de Recherche
Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie
CNRS-Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle
Paris, France
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Birkholz
Chair of Speech Technology and Cognitive Systems
Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication
TU Dresden
Dresden, Germany
IMPORTANT DATES:
01 Aug 2021: Full paper submission deadline (will NOT be extended!)
05 Sep 2021: Notification of acceptance (revised papers can be submitted until after the conference)
03 Oct 2021: Early bird registration deadline
02-04 Dec 2021: SEFOS II conference
27 Feb 2022: Deadline for the resubmission of revised full papers
NOTE THAT SEFOS II has teamed up with the proceedings branch of deGruyter, 'Sciendo', to publish widely visible (open access) article-length proceedings papers OF UP TO 15 PAGES (ABOUT 10,000 WORDS)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE SEE: https://my.eventbuizz.com/event/2--international-seminar-on-the-foundation-of-speech-8992/detail
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1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021
Date: 6-9 December 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark
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A S R U 2021 C a r t a g e n a
December 13rd - 17th
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
The IEEE ASRU Workshop is a biennial flagship event of the IEEE Speech
and Language Processing Technical Committee.
The workshop will be held on December 13-17, 2021. Since the global
situation is still uncertain and given the slow vaccination progress
worldwide, it is likely that the workshop will be virtual. We are making
several efforts to make it in-person, but we depend on external
unpredictable factors. In any case appropriate and timely information
will be published in the website and widely distributed using all
possible ways. Even if the workshop is virtual, we hope that sometime
soon we will be able to welcome you all in Cartagena.
Topics
All papers related to automatic speech recognition and understanding
are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Automatic speech recognition
ASR in adverse enviroments
New applications of ASR
Speech-to-speech translation
Spoken document retrieval
Speaker/Language recognition
Speech emotion recognition
Methods and models leveraging
multi-lingual resources
Spoken language understanding
Spoken dialog systems
Text-to-speech systems
Important dates
Paper submission opens: May. 7, 2021
Regular & Challenge paper submission (abstract): Jun 25, 2021
Regular & Challenge paper submission (final paper): Jul 2, 2021
Paper reviews returned: Aug. 18, 2021
Author response due: Aug. 25, 2021
Paper acceptance notification: Sep. 10, 2021
Author registration due: Oct. 8, 2021
Early registration due: Oct. 15, 2021
Demo submission due: Oct. 15, 2021
Demo selection notification: Oct. 29, 2021
ASRU Workshop: Dec. 13-17, 2021
Submission details
Authors are invited to prepare papers of 4-6 pages of content and
figures, plus up to 2 pages containing only references, to the ASRU
2021 website: www.asru2021.org
This is the link to download the paper submission kit:
https://asru2021.org/calls-for-papers/
Organizing Committee
General Chair:
Elmar Nöth
General Co-Chair:
Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave
Technical Program Chairs:
Carlos Busso, Ville Hautamäki, Kate Knill, Helen
Meng, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran,
Dayana Ribas, Korbinian Riedhammer, Isabel
Trancoso
Panel and Invited Speaker Chairs:
Sebastian Möller, Odette Scharenborg
Challenge, Special Session & Demonstration Chairs:
Heidi Christensen, Jesús Francisco Vargas-Bonilla,
Juan Camilo Vásquez Correa
Finance Chairs:
Sofía Aristizabal, Mauricio Correa
Publication Chair:
Tobias Bocklet
Satellite Workshop Chairs:
Carlos Ariel Ferrer, Heidi Christensen, María
Claudia González Rátiva
Publicity Chairs:
Julie Mauclair, Daniela Castaño
SLTC Liaison:
Antonio Texeira
International Liaison:
Sadaoki Furui, Hynek Hermansky, Aline
Villavicencio
Sponsorship Chairs:
Jimmy Kunzmann, Mathew Magimai Doss, Richard
Stern
Local Arrangement Chairs:
Daniela Castaño, Mauricio Correa, Andrea
Peñaloza
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Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9)
Website: https://sites.google.com/dstc.community/dstc9/home
Background
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, USA
DSTC9 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, USA
Contact 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/unsubscribe
For specific enquiries about DSTC9: Please feel free to contact dstc9-organizing-committee@dstc.community
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We are pleased to announce the 'II Brazilian Prosody Conference', supported by the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences, to be held in March, 2022, totally online. The event aims to create a space for training and research on Experimental Prosody and its interfaces for students and professionals whose work involves speech, voice, singing, speech communication technologies, speech pathologies, sound production and perception, oral communication, vocal aesthetic, acoustics, language teaching and other related areas.
To better organize the conference and allow the participation of as many people as possible, we created a form that can be accessed through the links below in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
The form is simple and straightforward, so it might take less than 5 minutes to complete.
https://forms.office.com/r/BHB6qrzW7c
We would really appreciate it if you could get back to us till May 25th, 2021.
Thank you very much in advance for your kind collaboration.
Organizing committee
Cristiane Conceição Silva (UFSC) - President
Leila Rechenberg (UFRGS) - Vice-president
Maryualê Malvessi Mittmann (Univali) - Secretary
André Nogueira Xavier (UFPR) - Treasurer
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JEP2022 - 34e Journées d'Études sur la Parole
13-17 Juin 2022, Noirmoutier, France.
SAVE THE DATE! GARDEZ LA DATE!
Les 34e Journées d'Étude sur la Parole (JEP2022) seront organisées du
13 au 17 Juin 2022 sur l'île de Noirmoutier (France), en présentiel
(nous y croyons) et sous un format résidentiel (conférence, activités
sociales, hébergement et repas sur un même lieu). L'île de Noirmoutier
et le centre de conférences sont facilement et régulièrement desservis
par les transports publics depuis la gare SNCF de Nantes et l'aéroport
de Nantes Atlantique.
Dates importantes :
* Un premier appel à communication sera diffusé début septembre ;
* Un appel à propositions d'ateliers sur la journée du 13/06 (d'une
durée d'1/2 journée ou 1 journée complète) sera également diffusé à
la même date;
* La date limite de soumission des propositions de communication sous
forme d'articles complets pour la conférence est fixée au 20/01/2022
;
* La date limite de soumission des propositions d'atelier est fixée au
30/11/2021;
* La conférence se tiendra du Lundi 13 au Vendredi 17 Juin 2022
(ateliers la journée du Lundi 13 Juin), avec possibilité
d'accueil le Dimanche 12 Juin en fin de journée ;
Placée sous les auspices de l'AFCP (Association Francophone de la
Communication Parlée, http://www.afcp-parole.org), l'organisation de la
34e édition des JEP est portée par le Laboratoire de Linguistique de
Nantes (LLING - Université de Nantes / CNRS, UMR
6310) avec le support de l'équipe EXPRESSION de l'IRISA (UMR 6074) et
de l'équipe LST (_Language and Speech Technology_) du Laboratoire
d'Informatique de l'Université du Mans (LIUM, EA 4023).
Les Journées d?Études sur la Parole (JEP) sont consacrées à l?étude de
la communication parlée (parole) et à son traitement automatique. La
34e édition sera placée sous la thématique :
'Parole, Geste, Musique : des unités à leur organisation'.
Tous les travaux sur la parole seront bien sûr les bienvenus. La
thématique proposée aura avant tout pour objectif de contribuer à
accroître les contacts de la communauté parole avec des membres issus
de ces deux domaines de recherche connexes (gestes et langage oral
mais aussi gestes dans les langues des signes, parallèles et
différences entre perception de la musique et de la parole, geste
musical, perception auditive et de la parole...)
Pour le Comité d'Organisation
Olivier Crouzet
AFCP : http://www.afcp-parole.org/
L'histoire des JEP :
http://www.afcp-parole.org/category/animations-scientifiques/les-jep/
LLING : http://lling.univ-nantes.fr
EXPRESSION-IRISA : https://www-expression.irisa.fr
LST-LIUM : https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/lium/lst/
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The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 14th edition of LREC.
LREC 2022 will take place in Marseille at the Palais du Pharo (France) on June 20-25, 2022.
We hope to be able to organise a face-to-face conference, but in the unfortunate event that physical gatherings will not be yet allowed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an online alternative will be set up.
IMPORTANT DATES
? Main Conference: 21-22-23 June 2022
? Workshops and Tutorials: 20-24-25 June 2022
CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources and Evaluation for Language Technologies. LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect to both scientific/technological issues as well as policy and organisational ones.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.
PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize.
We will also organise an Industrial Track for which there will be a separate Call.
PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format.
There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Contact: lrec@lrec-conf.org
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The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to
host and organize the 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval,
ICMR2023 (sponsored by the ACM SIGMM). ACM ICMR is the premier
scientific conference for multimedia retrieval. Its mission is
to provide a forum to discuss, promote and advance the
state-of-the-arts in multimedia retrieval by bringing together
researchers and practitioners in its related field. It is thus essential
to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality
research papers and for sharing practitioner experience. The list of
previous ICMRs is at http://www.acmicmr.org/.
We expect ICMR2023 to be held in Europe.
Parties interested in hosting ICMR2023 are invited to submit their
proposals (20 pages or less) by Friday, 26 February 2021 by email with
the subject line: ICMR2023 to the steering committee chair.
The details of CFP is at http://acmicmr.org/icmr2023.cfo.final.pdf.
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