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Thursday, February 10, 2022 by Chris Wellekens |
4-1 | New Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research covering all areas of language science,Univ. of Paris, France The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a newly-formed Paris-area graduate program covering all areas of language science. It offers a comprehensive Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics consortium. Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required. For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html New funding opportunity: https://u-paris.fr/en/call-for-applications-international-students-miem-scholarship-program/ Application deadline : February 1st 2021 (program starting September 1st 2021) PGSL is funded by Smarts-UP (Student-centered iMproved, Active Research-based Training Strategy at Université de Paris) through the ANR SFRI grant « Grandes universités de recherche » (PIA3) 2020-2029.
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4-2 | Projet europĂ©en ELE (European Language Equality), Dans le cadre du projet européen ELE (European Language Equality), qui vise à créer une
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4-3 | 'The Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2021 enhanced at NeurIPS 2021' -------
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4-4 | Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval - Community Evaluation Effort for MultiLingual Information Access (MLIA) on Covid-19 Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval - Community Evaluation Effort for MultiLingual Information Access (MLIA) on Covid-19
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An integral part of the Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval approach is the sharing of information and ideas among the participants. This happens via the rolling technical report where participants describe their solutions as the evaluation rounds progress and the virtual meetings at the end of each round where participants briefly present the main highlights of what worked and what did not work and interactively discuss together in order to share ideas and improve for the next round. We offer tasks in the following languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Swedish. Miltos Deligiannis, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
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4-5 | Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark (MediaEval) Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark (MediaEval) MediaEval 2021 Registration Now Open https://multimediaeval.github.io ******************************************************* The Multimedia Evaluation Benchmark (MediaEval) offers challenges in the form of shared tasks. The goal of MediaEval is to develop and evaluate new algorithms and technologies for multimedia retrieval, analysis and exploration. MediaEval tasks are innovative, involving multiple modalities, (e.g., images, video, music, user interaction data, sensor data, lifelogging data) and focusing on the human and social aspects of multimedia. Our larger aim is to promote reproducible research that makes multimedia a positive force for society. MediaEval 2021 Tasks: Driving Road Safety Forward: Video Data Privacy Emerging News: Detecting emerging stories from social media and news feeds Emotional Mario: A Games Analytics Challenge Emotions and Themes in Music FakeNews: Corona Virus and Conspiracies Multimedia Analysis Task Insight for Wellbeing: Cross-Data Analytics for (transboundary) Haze Prediction Medico: Transparency in Medical Image Segmentation NewsImages: The relation between images and text in news articles Predicting Media Memorability Sports Video: Fine Grained Action Detection and Classification of Table Tennis Strokes from videos Visual Sentiment Analysis: A Natural Disaster Use-case WaterMM: Water Quality in Social Multimedia For details of the tasks and information on how to register visit: https://multimediaeval.github.io/editions/2021/ Tasks will start to release data at the end of July and continue through August. Submissions will be due in early November. The MediaEval 2021 Workshop is a hybrid workshop that will take place in Bergen, Norway 6-8 December 2021 and also provide an opportunity for online participation. For more information see https://multimediaeval.github.io or contact Martha Larson m.larson at cs.ru.nl or Steven Hicks steven@simula.no
On behalf on the MediaEval organization team, Gabi Constantin Researcher at: Personal page: http://gconstantin.aimultimedialab.ro/ AI Multimedia Lab: https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/ CAMPUS Research Center: http://www.campus.pub.ro/ University Politehnica of Bucharest https://upb.ro/en/
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4-6 | ACM ICMI 2021: Announcing Blue Sky Paper Awards ACM ICMI 2021: Announcing Blue Sky Paper Awards
https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=award
18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada
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Announcing New ACM ICMI 2021 Blue Sky Paper Awards
The Blue Sky Paper Awards have been announced. Congratulations to awardees!
The papers will be presented at ICMI 2021, in the Blue Sky Papers session
moderated by Prof. Sharon Oviatt. The tentative conference program is available at https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=program
First Place: Sandy Pentland
Optimized Human-A.I. Group Decision Making: A Personal View
Second Place: Georgios Rizos
Towards Sonification in Multimodal and User-Friendly Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Third Place: Philippe Palanque
Dependability and Safety: Two Clouds in the Blue Sky of Multimodal Interaction
The Blue Sky paper track at ACM ICMI 2021 emphasizes innovative, visionary, and highimpact contributions.
This track solicited papers relevant to ICMI content that go beyond the usual research paper to present
new visions that stimulate the community to pursue innovative new research directions.
The papers were encouraged to present high-risk controversial
ideas that may challenge existing assumptions and methodologies,
or propose new applications or theories.
Submitted papers were expected to represent deep reflection,
to argue rigorously, and to present ideas from a high-level
synthetic viewpoint (e.g., multidisciplinary, based on multiple methodologies).
The 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
(ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada October 18-22, 2021.
ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary
research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction,
interfaces, and system development. The main conference themes in 2021 will
be behavioral health and virtual connectivity, but other major topics of
central interest include human communication and multimodal language/dialogue processing,
human-robot/agent interaction, affective computing and social interaction,
cognitive modeling, multimodal representations and fusion-based architectures,
machine learning for multimodal interaction and system applications, speech,
gesture, haptics, olfaction, gaze and vision, multimodal datasets and platforms,
mobile and ubiquitous interfaces, interfaces for virtual/augmented reality,
smart environments, and assistive technologies.
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4-7 | Vitrine de projets AFCP Chère/cher collègue, L?AFCP propose un nouveau service de 'Vitrine de Projets' permettant d'augmenter la visibilité de vos projets de recherche.
Vos travaux et résultats seront ainsi davantage connus et situés dans le paysage francophone des recherches sur la parole dont l?AFCP est l?association scientifique historique. Ce service correspond à :
? La mise en place et à la gestion d?un espace dédié aux projets de la communauté sur le site web de l?AFCP. ******************************************************************* Afin de faire apparaître votre projet dans la vitrine 'Projets à la Une', il suffit de remplir le formulaire en ligne: En cas de problème ou pour plus d'informations, vous pouvez nous contacter par courriel (vitrine@afcp- parole.org).
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4-8 | Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil
Are you interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, or machine learning? Please consider applying to the University of Cambridge?s Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence (MLMI) MPhil programme.
The MLMI MPhil is an elite 11 month programme with a small cohort of about 30 students each year. Due to its small size there is the opportunity to carry out PhD-like research projects on the course (see here for previous students? dissertations), as well having a number of bespoke taught modules with lots of opportunities to interact with the faculty and other members of the course (see here for a list of modules and here for a list of the teaching staff).
Previous members of the MPhil have gone on to study for PhDs in top research groups (e.g. at Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, and MIT), and have gone into top industry positions (e.g. Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, Open AI, and AstraZeneca).
This year our programme is restructuring around four overlapping tracks: speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. You apply to one of these tracks and this choice shapes your module options and the research project that you will take on. We are especially interested in candidates who are interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, and human-computer interaction as we have significant capacity to expand in these areas this year.
Details about the application process can be found on our website. The application deadline is 2nd December 2021.
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4-9 | ELDA: the OpenSLR European mirror ELDA: the OpenSLR European mirror speech and language resources, such as training corpora for speech recognition, and software related to speech recognition. including low-resourced languages. carefully prior to use. The legal team at ELDA is available to assist users through the Helpdesk.
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4-10 | APOLLO Fearless Steps: A Community Resource for Massive Naturalistic Communications APOLLO Fearless Steps: A Community Resource for Massive Naturalistic Communications
TIMELINE:Challenge Start Date (Train/Dev Data Release): February 1st, 2022 Evaluation Data Release: March 7th, 2022 Evaluation Portal Open (Data Release): March 10th, 2022 INTERSPEECH-2022 Paper submission deadline: March 28th, 2022 Open Challenge Duration: from February 1st, 2022, to September 15th, 2022
Challenge Tasks in Phase-4 (FS#4): 1. Speech Activity Detection (SAD) 2. Speaker Recognition: 2a. Track 1: Speaker Identification (SID) 2b. Track 2: Speaker Verification (SV) 3. Speaker Diarization (SD): 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. Topic Identification: 5a. Track 1: Topic Detection 5b. Track 2: Topic Segmentation
For Challenge Registration, please contact: FearlessSteps@utdallas.edu
Website Link: https://fearless-steps.github.io/ChallengePhase4/
Background We are pleased to announce the APOLLO Fearless Steps Special Sessionto be held at INTERSPEECH-2022. The focus of this Special Session is to provide a forum for researchers working on the massive naturalistic audio collection stemming from the NASA Apollo Missions. UTDallas-CRSS under NSF support has led the Fearless Steps Initiative, a continued effort spanning eight years has resulted in the digitization, and recovery of over 50,000 hours of original analog audio data, as well as the development of algorithms to extract meaningful information from this naturalistic data resource, including an initial release of pipeline diarization meta-data for all 30 channels of APOLLO-11 and APOLLO-13 Missions. More than 500 sites worldwide have accessed the initial data. A current NSF Community Resource project is continuing this effort to recover the remaining Apollo missions (A7-A17; estimated to be 150,000hrs of data) in addition to motivating collaborative speech and language technology research through the Fearless Steps Challenge series. We invite all researchers to submit papers to this special session which use Fearless Steps speech data as a data set for their research. In addition, this special session is also connected with the next phase of the Fearless Steps Challenge (FS-4) to be held from Feb. 1 to Sept. 15, 2022. Any team worldwide can participate and submit their output scoring summaries with a leaderboard being updated regularly (see Fearless Steps FS-4 Challenge logistics below). If your organization, university, team wishes to submit a specific solution on FS-4 for Interspeech-2022, we welcome you to do this as well and submit your paper to this Special Session. A major goal of this Special Session is to allow for researchers to discuss and provide feedback on how they have used this public data resource, and how ongoing efforts can make this data more useful for the speech technology/psychology-team research/history-STEM education communities.
Organizers John H.L. Hansen (john.hansen@utdallas.edu) Christopher Ceiri (ccieri@ldc.upenn.edu) Jim Horan (jim.horan@nist.gov) Aditya Joglekar (aditya.joglekar@utdallas.edu) Midia Yousefi (midia.yousefi@utdallas.edu) Meena Chandra Shekar (meena.chandrashekar@utdallas.edu)
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