Incheon in South Korea will welcome Interspeech 2022.

https://interspeech2022.org

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, ISCA has reached the decision to hold INTERSPEECH-2023 in Dublin, Ireland (Aug. 20-24, 2023)

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 ISCA conference committee has decided Interspeech 2024 will be held in Jerusalem, Israel from

September 1 till September 5

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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 SEMINARS

A seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However,  presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.

ISCA has set up a pool of speakers prepared to give on-line talks. In this way we can enhance the experience of students working in our field, often in difficult conditions. To find details of the speakers,

• visit isca-speech.org
• Click Distinguished Lecturers in the left panel
• Online Seminars then appears beneath Distinguished Lecturers: click that.

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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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

We would like to draw your attention to three upcoming short courses from the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences:

- Prosody & Rhythm: applications to teaching rhythm,
  Donna Erickson (Haskins), March 16, 19, 23 and 26

- Prosody, variation and contact,
  Barbara Gili Fivela (University of Salento, Italy), April 19, 21, 23, 26 and 28

- Rhythmic analysis of languages: main challenges,
  Marisa Cruz (University of Lisbon), June 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10

For details:
  http://www.letras.ufmg.br/padrao_cms/index.php?web=lbass&lang=2&page=3670&menu=&tipo=1
 
 
 
Plinio Barbosa and Nigel Ward

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 The Speech Prosody 2022 website is now live, at http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/sp2022/index.html ,?
with the Call for Papers and information on the venue, etc. 
  

Dear Speech Prosody SIG members,

The organizers have chosen the Special Sessions for Speech Prosody 2022, as follows:  

• Digital prosodic typology: Machine learning in prosodic typological analysis
• Measuring, modeling, and training of speaking styles
• Musical power: The effect of musicality on prosodic development
• Prosodic marking of information structure in child language: Prosody and beyond
• Timing and rhythm across languages
• How prosody bootstraps grammar and the lexicon: A cross-linguistic perspective

For details,  http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/sp2022/special_sessions.html  .

Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair

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The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All):  
Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide', which took  
place on December 4-6, 2019 at Unesco Headquarters in Paris in the  
framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019),  
was sponsored by ISCA. 
 
The rationale of the conference was: 'How to improve the present  
situation where only 2% of the languages spoken over the world benefit  
from Language Technologies' ? 
  
 Out of the 7,000+ language spoken around the world, only a few have associated Language
Technologies. The majority of languages can be considered as 'under-resourced' or as 'not
supported'. This situation, very detrimental to many languages speakers, and specifically
indigenous languages speakers, creates a digital divide,  and places many languages in
danger of digital extinction, if not complete extinction.

Organized as part of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, the 1st edition
of LT4All (Language Technologies for All: Enabling Linguistic Diversity and
Multilingualism Worldwide) took place in Paris at the UNESCO Headquarters on December
4-6, 2019 and gathered 400 participants from various backgrounds (including language
science and technology researchers, linguists, industrials, indigenous peoples, language
policy and decision makers) from all over the world.

 It allowed for fruitful exchanges between Language Technology providers  
and Language Policy makers, as it can be seen on Twitter:  
https://twitter.com/hashtag/lt4all 
 
The conference oral sessions were webcasted and can be replayed, in  
English and French: see https://en.unesco.org/LT4All 

The LT4All Programme and Editorial Committees are very happy to announce that the set of
Research Papers and Posters collected at the occasion of LT4All is now available online
at : https://lt4all.elra.info/proceedings/lt4all2019/

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LT4All has  been made possible thanks to the close cooperation between UNESCO, the 
Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra (Russian Federation), the
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and its Special Interest  Group on
Under-resourced  languages  (SIGUL), and in partnership with UNESCO Intergovernmental
Information for All Programme (IFAP) and the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, as
well as with support of other public organizations, including ISCA, and sponsors.

More information including the list of all the sponsors and supporters @
https://en.unesco.org/LT4All

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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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2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) 2022 

Theme: Articulation and Prosody: Between Interface and Integration 

Date: 20-21 May 2022, Sønderborg, Denmark 

https://event.sdu.dk/sefos 

The links between articulation and prosody are a subject of growing interest. The growing interest is, among other things, driven 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 by the rapid rise of speech technology and the associated increasing relevance of 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?  

As a satellite meeting to the 11^th Speech Prosody, the 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) will be a forum to discuss these questions. 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 (and speech-prosody) communities 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. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

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Prof. Dr. Cécile Fougeron
Directrice de Recherche
Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Birkholz
Chair of Speech Technology and Cognitive Systems
Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication
TU Dresden
Dresden, Germany 

IMPORTANT DATES

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• 14 Feb 2022: Deadline for the submission of 2-page abstracts outlining the research to be presented at SEFOS II (full papers can be submitted until after SEFOS II, see below) 
• 28 Feb 2022: Notification of acceptance for SEFOS II 
• 04 Apr 2022: Early bird registration deadline 
• 20-21 May 2022: SEFOS II conference 
• 03 July 2022: Deadline for the submission of full papers (see below) 

Note that SEFOS II has teamed up with the proceedings branch of deGruyter, 'Sciendo', to be able to publish your contributions as widely visible (open access) proceedings papers in journal-article length (max. 15 pages including figures and references; shorter papers are accepted too, of course). The SEFOS II proceedings will be submitted to major indexing services, such as DOAJ, Publons, Web of Science (CPCI), Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, etc. 

PAPER TEMPLATES 

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https://event.sdu.dk/sefos/downloads 

SELECTION OF SCIENTIFIC AREA TOPICS 

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- Coarticulation within and across the segment-prosody divide
- Inter-individual differences in the production and perception of articulation and prosody 

- Effects speaker-specific features (age, gender,…) on patterns of articulation and prosody
- Cross-linguistic comparisons of patterns of articulation and prosody
- Patterns of articulation of prosody in first and foreign language acquisition
- How environmental/adverse conditions shape articulation and prosody
- (Dis)Entrainment and other conversational effects on articulation and prosody
- Interplay of articulation and prosody in conveying communicative meanings and functions
- Interplay and representation of articulation and prosody in speech technology
- Interplay of articulation and prosody in speech perception
- Articulation and prosody in multimodal communication
- Effects of speaking styles on the production and perception of articulation and prosody
- Articulation and prosody in human-machine interaction
- Corpora, tools, and devices related to (an integrative) articulation and prosody research
- Annotation or analysis methods related to (an integrative) articulation and prosody research 

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JEP2022 - 34e Journées d'Études sur la Parole (13-17 Juin 2022)
1er Appel à Ateliers
**13 Juin 2022**, Noirmoutier, France.
[http://jep2022.univ-nantes.fr]


Pour recevoir toutes les informations, inscrivez-vous à la liste de
diffusion dédiée :
http://sympa.univ-nantes.fr/sympa/subscribe/infos-jep2022

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Dans le cadre de la 34eme édition des Journées d’études sur la Parole,
qui sera organisée en mode résidentiel (conférence, activités sociales,
hébergement et repas sur un même lieu) sur l’île de Noirmoutier du 13
au 17 juin 2022, nous sollicitons des **propositions d’ateliers**.

Ceux-ci doivent porter sur des thématiques propres aux JEP (Acoustique
de la parole — Acquisition de la parole et du langage — Analyse, codage
et compression de la parole — Applications à composantes orales
(dialogue, indexation, etc) — Apprentissage d’une langue seconde —
Communication multimodale — Dialectologie — Évaluation, corpus et
ressources — Langues en danger — Modèles de langage — Parole
audio-visuelle — Pathologies de la parole — Phonétique et phonologie —
Phonétique clinique — Production / Perception de la parole — Prosodie —
Psycholinguistique — Reconnaissance et compréhension de la parole —
Reconnaissance de la langue — Reconnaissance du locuteur — Signaux
sociaux, sociophonétique — Synthèse de la parole, etc. )

Chaque atelier a sa propre présidence et son propre comité de
programme. Le(s) responsable(s) de l’atelier est/sont chargé(s) de la
communication sur celui-ci, et, le cas échéant, de l’appel à
soumissions, de sa diffusion, et du choix du programme. Pour les
aspects organisationnels, le(s) responsable(s) d’atelier sera/seront en
liaison avec les organisateurs des JEPs, et ces derniers auront en
charge la partie logistique (gestion des salles, pauses café, diffusion
des résumés et documents en lien avec l’atelier).

**Dates importantes**

Les ateliers auront lieu en parallèle le lundi 13 juin 2022 à partir de
9H30 sur le lieu de la conférence. Ils pourront durer une demi-journée
(3h environ) ou une journée (2 x 3h environ).

- Date limite de soumission de proposition d’atelier : Mercredi 15
décembre 2021
- Notification aux candidats de la réponse aux propositions d’atelier :
lundi 17 janvier 2022


**Modalités de soumission des propositions d’Ateliers**

Les propositions doivent comprendre :

- le nom et l’acronyme éventuel de l’atelier,
- une description synthétique (au plus 1 page A4 en format PDF) du
  thème de l’atelier, • le comité de programme/ d’organisation (2
  à 3 personnes maximum) • la durée souhaitée pour la réalisation
  de l’atelier (1/2 ou 1 journée).

Elles devront être envoyées à l’adresse email jep2022@univ-nantes.fr
**avant le 15 décembre 2021**.

**Modalités de sélection**

Les propositions d’atelier seront examinées par les membres des comités
de programme des JEP. Les critères suivants seront considéré

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JEP2022 - 34e Journées d'Études sur la Parole
2e Appel à Communication
**13-17 Juin 2022**, Île de Noirmoutier, France.
[http://jep2022.univ-nantes.fr]

Une version de cet appel est consultable en ligne :
[https://jep2022.univ-nantes.fr/appels/appel-a-communications/]

Télécharger le kit auteur :
[https://jep2022.univ-nantes.fr/consignes-aux-auteurs/]

Toutes nos excuses pour les réceptions multiples. N'hésitez pas à
diffuser cet appel à vos contacts.
Date d'envoi : 02/12/2021

Pour recevoir toutes les informations, inscrivez-vous à la liste de
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Les 34e Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP2022) seront organisées
**sur l'île de Noirmoutier (France) du 13 au 17 Juin 2022**, en
présentiel (nous y croyons) et sous un format résidentiel (conférence,
activités sociales, hébergement et repas sur un même lieu).

Les Journées d’Études sur la Parole (JEP) réunissent depuis près de
cinquante ans une centaine de chercheurs de la communauté francophone
en sciences et technologies de la parole venant de différents horizons
scientifiques : linguistique et phonétique, informatique, ingénierie,
technologie, médecine, psychologie, didactique, physique,
neurosciences... Ces Journées visent à diffuser des travaux de
recherche originaux et à activer des échanges entre chercheurs
confirmés et jeunes chercheurs dans ce domaine. Elles ont une vocation
internationale, voulant réunir la communauté francophone au-delà du
territoire français. Pour cette édition, un coloriage thématique sera
proposé sans évidemment exclure les thèmes récurrents accueillis aux
JEP :

    'Parole, Geste, Musique : des unités à leur organisation'.

Nous aurons le plaisir d'accueillir les conférenciers invités suivants :

- Christophe d'Alessandro (CNRS, UMR 7190 - Institut Jean le Rond
  d'Alembert)
- Corine Astesano ((Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, Laboratoire de
  NeuroPsychoLinguistique, EA 4156 – LNPL)
- Marion Blondel (CNRS, UMR 7023 - Structures Formelles du Langage)
- Barbara Tillman (CNRS, UMR 5292 - Centre de Recherches en
  Neurosciences de Lyon)

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).


**Thématiques**

Les communications porteront sur la communication parlée et le
LREC 2022 - 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Palais du Pharo - Marseille (France)
June 20-25, 2022

Main Conference: June 21-22-23,  2022
Workshops and Tutorials: June 20-24-25, 2022

Conference web site: https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/

Twitter: @LREC2022

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 13th edition of LREC, organised with the support of national and international organisations. We hope to be able to organise a face-to-face conference, otherwise an online or hybrid alternative will be set up.

CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT). 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.


TRACKS FOR SUBMISSION
LREC 2022 invites the submission of papers on original and unpublished research covering all aspects of LRs & Evaluation of LTs, within natural language processing and computational linguistics. The following (in alphabetical order) are the relevant tracks for the conference:

- Applications involving LRs and Evaluation (including applications in specific domains)
- Corpora and Annotation (including Tools, Systems, Treebanks)
- Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction
- Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
- Discourse and Pragmatics
- Evaluation and Validation Methodologies
- Information Extraction and Information Retrieval (including NER, QA, Text Mining,  Document Classification, Text Categorisation)
- Knowledge Discovery/Representation (including Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, Terminology, Ontologies)
- Language Resources and Evaluation for Psycho-linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Theories
- Language Resource Infrastructures, Standards for LRs, Metadata, Policy issues, Ethics, Legal Issues
- Less-Resourced/Endangered Languages
- Lexicons (also WordNet, FrameNet, Multimodal and Sign Language lexicons, etc.)
- Multilinguality and Machine Translation (including Speech-to-Speech translation)
- Multimodality and Cross-modality  (including Sign Languages, Vision and other modalities) and Multimedia
- Natural Language Generation (including Summarization)
- Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, Emotion Recognition/Generation
- Parsing, Tagging, Grammar, Syntax, Morphology
- Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language
- Semantics (including Distributional Semantics, Word Sense Disambiguation, Coreference, etc.)
- Social Media Processing
- Speech Resources and Processing (including  Phonetic Databases, Phonology, Prosody)
- Statistical Methods and Machine Learning for Language Technologies (including Language Models)

LREC2022 HOT TOPICS

• Multilingualism and Language Technology for All
• Language Resources for Emergency Needs
• Machine Learning and Multimodality

DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRs!
In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map - now a normal step in the submission procedure of many conferences - LREC recognises the importance of sharing resources and making them available to the community.
When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special LREC repository set up by ELRA. After LREC, such Language Resources will be made available to the community within the share-LRs repository set-up by ELRA, in compliance with the licenses indicated by right-holders. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

PROGRAMME

The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral,  poster and demo presentations in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize.

An Industrial Track to report on state of the art within industry and commercial achievements, for which there will be a separate Call, will also be organized

SUBMISSIONS AND DATES

• Main Conference Submission of oral and poster (or poster+demo) 
• papers: 17 January 2022 (23:59 GMT+1)

Submission Site: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/main

LREC2020 asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed), which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet which will be available on the conference website.

• Workshops and tutorials proposals submission:

The submission deadline for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals is

extended to November 5, 2021 (23:59 GMT+1).

Both links to the Workshop and Tutorial submission pages remain:

    https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2022/submit-workshop/
    https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2022/submit-your-tutorial-proposal/


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 to the content of the paper will be considered.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Frédéric Béchet ?- LIS-CNRS, Aix Marseille University - France
Philippe Blache - LPL-CNRS & Aix-Marseille University - France
Khalid Choukri  - ELRA, Paris - France
Christopher Cieri - Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - USA
Thierry Declerck - DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Hitoshi Isahara - Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi - Japan
Bente Maegaard  - Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen - Denmark
Joseph Mariani  - LISN, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, Orsay - France
Jan Odijk  - UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands
Stelios Piperidis - Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece

CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Sara Goggi, CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Antonio Zampolli, Pisa, Italy
Hélène Mazo, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France

Contact: lrec@lrec-conf.org

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1er Appel TALN 2022 / RECITAL 2022 à Avignon du 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022


Le LIA et le LIS organisent du 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022 sur le campus
Hannah Arendt d'Avignon Université la 29ème édition de la conférence sur le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN) et la 24ème Rencontre des
Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des
Langues (RÉCITAL).

Après une période sanitaire qui a fortement limité les échanges, cette édition
aura pour objectif majeur de réunir la communauté du TALN en présentiel.

Tout en conservant un niveau d'exigence scientifique conséquent, cette édition
continuera la politique de ces dernières années qui consiste, en plus de la
sélection de publications scientifiques francophones originales, à offrir la
possibilité de soumettre des versions traduites d'articles scientifiques
publiés très récemment dans des conférences majeures anglophones ou en cours
de soumissions dans une conférence anglophones.

Plus de détails seront bientôt donnés dans le prochain appel.

En attendant, prenez date !

Les dates importantes :

- Soumission des articles longs et courts : 18 février 2022

- Notification aux auteurs : 8 avril 2022

- Date de la conférence  : 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022 à Avignon

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Call for Regular Papers
ACM ICMR 2022 (https://www.icmr2022.org/) 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.
Long research papers are up to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references. These types of papers will have oral and poster presentations at the conference. Authors of the best papers will be asked to extend their work for a Special Issue in Springer's International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval.
Short research papers and demonstrations are up to 4 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references. These types of papers will have only poster presentations at the conference. Papers submitted to a special session or brave new ideas track are limited to six pages per paper, plus references. Doctoral symposium papers are limited to four pages in length. Topics of Interest ICMR 2021 is a premier conference to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the field of multimedia retrieval. 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
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.


Maximum Length of a Paper
Long research paper (Full Paper): Each long research paper should not be longer than 8 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references.
Short research paper: Each short research paper should not be longer than 4 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references.

Important Dates
-Paper Submission Due: Jan. 20, 2022
-Notification of Acceptance: Mar. 30, 2022
-Camera-Ready Papers Due: TBD

Double-Blind Review
ACM ICMR follows a double-blind review process for full paper selection. Authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers should not know the name(s) of the author(s). Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors:
-Do not put your names under the title,
-Avoid using phrases such as ?our previous work? when referring to earlier publications by the authors,
-Remove information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs),
-Check supplemental material for information that may identify the authors? identity,
-Avoid providing links to Websites that identify the authors.

Abstract and Keywords
The abstract and the keywords form the primary source for assigning papers to reviewers. So make sure that they form a concise and complete summary of your paper with sufficient information to let someone who has not read the full paper know what it is about.

Submission Instructions
See the Paper Submission section: https://www.icmr2022.org/authors/submissions/

Contact
For any question regarding full and short paper submissions, please visit the conference website (icmr2022.org) or email the Technical Program Chairs:
-Wen-Huang Cheng, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (whcheng@nycu.edu.tw)
-Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan (ide@i.nagoya-u ac.jp)
-Vivek Singh, Rutgers University, USA (v.singh@rutgers.edu)

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Appel à ateliers de TALN 2022

Conférence TALN 2022 | RÉCITAL 2022
27 juin ? 1er juillet 2022
Avignon, France

Date limite de soumission de propositions d?ateliers : 4 février 2022

Les laboratoires organisateurs d?Avignon et Marseille (LIA & LIS) travaillant, entre autres, dans les domaines du traitement automatique des langues écrites et signées, organisent du 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022 sur le campus d'Avignon Université
la 29e édition de la conférence TALN-RECITAL.

Dans le cadre de la conférence jointe TALN-RECITAL 2022, nous sollicitons des propositions d?ateliers. Les ateliers doivent porter sur des thématiques propres à TALN-RECITAL. Une ou deux journées seront dédiées à ces ateliers scientifiques.

Chaque atelier disposera de sa propre présidence et son propre comité de programme. Le responsable de l?atelier est chargé de la communication sur celui-ci, de l?appel à soumissions et de sa diffusion, et de la coordination de son comité de programme. Pour les aspects organisationnels, le responsable d?atelier sera en liaison avec les organisateurs de TALN-RECITAL, et ces derniers auront en charge la partie logistique (gestion des salles, pauses café et diffusion des articles).

Dates importantes
Les ateliers auront lieu en session parallèle, les 27 et 28 juin 2022, sur le lieu de conférence à Avignon. Ils pourront durer une demi-journée ou une journée.
   ? Date limite de soumission de proposition d?atelier : 4 février 2022
   ? Notification aux candidats de la réponse aux propositions d?atelier : 11 février 2022
   ? Remise des versions finales des articles acceptés dans les ateliers (pour la publication dans les actes) : 13 mai 2022
   ? Date des ateliers : 27 et 28 juin 2022


Modalités de soumission des propositions
Les propositions d?ateliers devront être soumises sous forme électronique sur le site https://taln2022.univ-avignon.fr/

Elles comprendront :
   ? le nom et l?acronyme de l?atelier, 
   ? une description synthétique (1 page A4 en format PDF) du thème de l?atelier, 
   ? le comité de programme (2 à 3 personnes chargées de la sélection finale des articles) 
   ? la durée souhaitée pour la réalisation de l?atelier (1/2 ou 1 journée). 


Modalités de sélection
Les propositions d?atelier seront examinées par des membres des comités de programme de TALN et le CPERM de l?ATALA. Les critères suivants seront considérés pour l?acceptation :
   ? l?adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence, 
   ? l?originalité de la proposition. 
On veillera à ce que les membres du comité de programme (lors de la soumission) puis du comité de lecture soient équilibrés en termes de genre et d?affiliation.


Format
Les conférences auront lieu en français ou en anglais pour intervenants non francophones.
Les articles soumis devront suivre le format de TALN 2022 (nombre de pages à la discrétion du comité de programme de l?atelier)
La soumission d?articles sera effectuée sur le site web de soumission de la conférence, dans la catégorie dédiée.


Contacts
https://taln2022.univ-avignon.fr/

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ACM ICMR 2022 (https://www.icmr2022.org/) is calling for high quality Workshops 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 

The Workshops will contain both:
-Long research papers which should present complete work with evaluations on topics related to the Conference. They will have both oral and poster presentations at the conference.
-Short research papers should present preliminary results or more focused contributions. They will be presented as posters at the conference.

Important Dates
Proposal Submission Due: 30/12/2021 AOE
Proposal Notification of Acceptance: 06/01/2022

Please submit your proposals to the Workshop Chairs:
hebrecht@sun.ac.za
jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr

Contact
For any question regarding workshop submissions, please visit the conference website (icmr2022.org) or email the Workshop Chairs:
-Herman Engelbrecht, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (hebrecht@sun.ac.za)
-Jenny Benois-Pineau University of Bordeaux, France (jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr)

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Special Session Proposals
ACM ICMR 2022 (https://www.icmr2022.org/) will include one or more Special Sessions on innovative and frontier topics in the field of multimedia retrieval. Special sessions differentiate from the regular sessions in the sense that they address very specific problems or very focused communities. They should attract the presentation of innovative contributions in the targeted narrow domain. The special session papers will appear in the ACM ICMR 2022 proceedings and will be presented at the conference in a dedicated oral session.

Important Dates
?- Proposal Submission Due: 20/12/2021
?- Proposal Notification of Acceptance: 30/12/2021
?- SS Paper Submission Due: the same as the main conference

Submission Instructions
Proposals should be submitted by email to the Special Session Chairs, in PDF format. Please include the following information:
?- Title of the proposed special session,
?- Description of the importance of the topic and the rationale for the proposal,
?- Identification of the target audience and how is related to ACM ICMR,
?- A brief bio and contact information for the organizers,
?- A tentative/confirmed list of invited papers (title / authors / affiliations),
?- Information about any supporting projects (if the case).

Evaluation of the Proposals
Proposals will be evaluated based on topic appropriateness for ACM ICMR, its relevance and potential impact in the targeted field, the experience of the organizers, the potential in attracting high quality submissions, and the overall quality of the written proposal.

Contact
For any questions regarding special session submissions, please visit the conference website (icmr2022.org) or email the Special Session Chairs:
-Pradeep K Atrey, University at Albany, SUNY, USA (patrey@albany.edu)
-Xirong Li, Renmin University of China, China (xirong@ruc.edu.cn)
-Yoko Yamakata, The University of Tokyo, Japan (yamakata@mi.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

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2ème Appel TALN 2022

Conférence TALN 2022 | RÉCITAL 2022
Du 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022
Avignon, France

Site web : https://taln2022.univ-avignon.fr

Date limite de soumission des articles longs et courts : 18 février 2022

Le LIA et le LIS organisent du 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022 sur le campus Hannah Arendt d'Avignon Université la 29ème édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN) et la 24ème Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL).

Après une période sanitaire qui a fortement limité les échanges, cette édition aura pour objectif majeur de réunir la communauté du TALN en présentiel.

Tout en conservant un niveau d'exigence scientifique conséquent, cette édition continuera la politique de ces dernières années qui consiste, en plus de la sélection de publications scientifiques francophones originales, à offrir la possibilité de soumettre des versions traduites d'articles scientifiques publiés très récemment dans des conférences majeures anglophones ou en cours de soumissions dans une conférence anglophone.

La thématique spéciale choisie pour donner un fil rouge à cette édition est l'inclusion : vers un TAL inclusif ! 
Bien entendu nous attendons des soumissions en dehors de cette thématique spéciale.



Dates importantes

- Soumission des articles longs et courts : 18 février 2022
- Notification aux auteurs : 8 avril 2022
- Date de la conférence  : 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022 à Avignon



Thématiques
Les thématiques de la conférence s?inscrivent dans les catégories suivantes, sans y être limitées pour autant :

- Phonétique, phonologie, morphologie, étiquetage morphosyntaxique
- Syntaxe, grammaires, analyse syntaxique, chunking
- Sémantique, pragmatique, discours
- Sémantique lexicale et distributionnelle
- Aspects linguistiques et psycholinguistiques du TAL
- Ressources pour le TAL
- Méthodes d?évaluation pour le TAL
- Applications du TAL (recherche et extraction d?information, question-réponse, traduction, génération, résumé, dialogue, analyse d?opinions, simplification, etc.)
- TAL et multimodalité (parole, vision, etc.)
- TAL et multilinguisme
- TAL pour le Web et les réseaux sociaux
- TAL et langues peu dotées
- TAL et langue des signes
- Implications sociales et éthiques du TAL
- TAL et linguistique de corpus
- TAL et Humanités numériques

La thématique spéciale de la conférence est l'inclusion : vers un TAL inclusif !



Types de soumissions et de communications
La conférence propose plusieurs types de soumissions (détaillés ici : https://taln2022.univ-avignon.fr/soumission.php) :

1. Travaux de recherche originaux non publiés dans d?autres conférences. Ce type de soumission peut donner lieu à des articles longs ou courts dans la version finale ;
2. Prises de position présentant un point de vue sur l?état des recherches en TAL. Ce type de soumission peut donner lieu à des articles longs ou courts dans la version finale ;
3. Travaux en cours de soumission à des conférences internationales. Il s?agit de traductions de ces soumissions en français. Ce type de soumission peut donner lieu à des articles courts uniquement ;
4. Travaux déjà publiés dans les conférences internationales récentes, dont la liste est indiquée plus bas. Ce type de soumission peut donner lieu à des résumés dans les actes uniquement.
Le format de soumission est le même, quel que soit le type de soumission visé (un article de 6 pages + un nombre illimité de pages de références), sauf pour les travaux déjà publiés (un résumé en français et anglais).

Si tous les auteurs sont francophones, les articles doivent être écrits en français. Si l?un des auteurs n?est pas francophone, les articles peuvent être rédigés en anglais.

Tous les articles acceptés seront publiés dans les actes de la conférence. Notez par ailleurs que les actes de la conférence sont indexés dans l?ACL Anthology.

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 Colloque en phonétique FLE organisé à l’ICT en juin 2022 : https://www.ict-toulouse.fr/2021/10/25/appel-a-communication-pour-le-colloque-phonetique-du-fle-a-visee-didactique-quels-enseignements-quelles-perspectives/

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Le Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF) est la plus grande manifestation biennale consacrée à l’étude scientifique de la langue française. Les propositions de communication se font sous forme d’articles (10 pages minimum, 15 pages maximum) incluant une bibliographie. La gestion des propositions, leur répartition entre comités thématiques et au sein des comités thématiques s'effectue via la plateforme https://www.sciencesconf.org/ L'évaluation est assurée par des experts au moyen d'une grille unifiée et après anonymisation des soumissions. Les communications retenues, sous réserve de leur présentation effective en conférence, sont publiées en version intégrale dans les actes dès l’ouverture du colloque par edp sciences http://www.edpsciences.org à l’adresse www.linguistiquefrancaise.org

Toutes les informations se trouvent dans l'appel à communication que nous vous invitons à consulter.

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AREA 2 - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions    ==========================================

AREA - 2 will be held at the 33nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2022 at Galway, Ireland. AREA- 2 is organized in the first ESSLLI week with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA - 2 is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop. 

Date: 8 - 12 August 2022

http://www.areaworkshop.org/

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS

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AREA - 2 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 - 2 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 

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First CfP: 2 February 2022

Final CfP: 6 April 2022

Deadline for paper submission: 28 April 2022

Review deadline: 25 May 2022

Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2022

Deadline for camera-ready version: 29 June 2022

Early registration deadline: TBA 

Workshop Date: 8-19 August 2022

SUBMISSION

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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 2022, initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. 

Papers should be submitted via Easy chair  the AREA - 2 website (http://www.areaworkshop.org/) will provide a link for submitting papers. 

MORE INFORMATION

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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

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Eren AksoyKarlsruhe Institut fur Technologie

Jan Alexanderson DFKI

Johan BosUniversity of Groningen

Albert GattUniversity of Utrecht

Kristiina JokinenUniversity of Helsinki

Alex LascaridesUniversity of Edinburgh

Andy Lucking Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Gisela RedekerUniversity of Groningen

Janina WildfeuerUniversity of Groningen

ORGANIZERS

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James Pustejovsky Brandeis University

Ielka van de SluisUniversity of Groningen

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SPECOM-2022 – CALL FOR PAPERS

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24th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2022)

October 3-6, 2022, St. Petersburg, Russia

Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2022

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

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/poster presentations, and demonstrations.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-14 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=specom2022

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.

IMPORTANT DATES

June 28, 2022 ............ Submission of full papers

Aug 01, 2022 ........... Notification of acceptance

Aug 10, 2022 ........... Camera-ready papers

Aug 15, 2022 ........... Early registration

Oct 3-6, 2022 ........ Conference dates

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 Secretariat

E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su

Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2022

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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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