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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