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3-3-1 | (2022-04-01) GDR TAL: Representation learning for speech and language, Grenoble, France In the framework of the GDR « Traitement automatique des langues » (GDR TAL), we organize a scientific day
on « representation learning for speech and language'. This day will take place in Grenoble on Friday, April 1st, 2022. The goal is to gather researchers from speech and natural language processing communities, around the topic of representation learning with end-to-end deep neural networks. Indeed, these models are now used in most NLP and speech processing tasks to map different modalities of spoken language (e.g. ASR, Text-to-speech), or to extract high-level representations that can be transferred to downstream tasks (e.g. low-resource).
The day will be organized around 4 oral presentations and a poster session. The invited speakers are :
The poster session is open to all but particularly to doctoral students, in order to encourage exchanges with the participants. We welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
To attend the day, please register at https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/inscription-formulaire/. The GDR can cover the mission cost for one person per GDR research team (apply to gdrtal-bureau@services.cnrs.fr before March 11).
To present your work during the poster session, please send a short abstract (max 1 page in English) before March 11, 2022 to thomas.hueber@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr (poster proposals will be validated by the organizing committee).
More formation about the practical organisation will be given at https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/event/journee-apprentissage-des-representations-de-la-parole-et-du-langage/
Looking forward to seeing you there!
The organizing committee
Organizers :
Thomas Hueber (GIPSA-lab, Grenoble)
Frédéric Béchet (LIS Marseille)
Marco Dinarelli (LIG, Grenoble)
Benoit Favre (LIS, Marseille)
Olivier Perrotin (GIPSA-lab, Grenoble)
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3-3-2 | (2022-05-09) 2nd Python4NLP summer school, Nancy, France 2nd Python4NLP summer school on collecting, processing and analyzing textual data with Python.
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3-3-3 | (2022-05-20) 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) 2022 , Sonderborg, DK 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
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 11th 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 --------------------------------
Prof. Dr. Cécile Fougeron Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Birkholz
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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 ----------------------------- https://event.sdu.dk/sefos/downloads
SELECTION OF SCIENTIFIC AREA TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------
- Coarticulation within and across the segment-prosody divide - Effects speaker-specific features (age, gender,…) on patterns of articulation and prosody
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3-3-4 | (2022-05-22) Cf Show and Tell Demo proposals at ICASSP 2022, Singapore
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3-3-5 | (2022-05-22) Challenge at ICASSP 2022 'Synthetic Speech Attribution'
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3-3-6 | (2022-05-22) IEEE ICASSP 2022 Short Education Course: Speech Technology for Health Title: IEEE ICASSP 2022 Short Education Course: Speech Technology for Health
The IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE-SPS) Education Board has an inaugural education activity in the form of short courses at ICASSP 2022.
We will present a short course titled:
Speech Technology for Health: From Technical Foundations to Applications
This short course put together cohesive educational materials on speech for health. It covers overviews on core speech technology (ASR, TTS/VC, Speech Enhancement, Paralinguistic Computing), their related algorithmic approaches for health-related applications, a survey on recent advancements, and a hands-on exercise.
Details of the course can be found @ https://2022.ieeeicassp.org/short_courses.php
We cordially invite you to attend this short course in ICASSP 2022, and please forward to those that may be interested.
Sincerely,
Presenters:
Chi-Chun Lee
Prasanta Kumar Ghosh
Yu Tsao
Yi-Chiao Wu
Hsin-Min Wang
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3-3-7 | (2022-06-09) Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en sciences du langage, didactique des langues et disciplines transversales, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, FranceChères collègues,Nous avons étendu la date-butoir des propositions de communication pour les prochaines Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en sciences du langage, didactique des langues et disciplines transversales au 6 mars 2022. N’hésitez pas à nous envoyer vos propositions.
25èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2022)Étudier le langage à l’ère numérique
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Voici un appel à communications dans le cadre de l'atelier 'SuFEVoC : Subjectivité et Fiction autour de l'Expertise Vocale en Criminalistique' qui se tiendra le lundi 13 juin 2022 sur l'île de Noirmoutier à l'occasion des 34e Journées d'Études sur la Parole :
Malgré toute l'attention accordée au contrôle de nos protocoles de recherche sur la parole, un certain nombre de biais interfère avec notre raisonnement. Ces biais sont également présents en criminalistique quand il est demandé à un spécialiste de donner un avis sur la ressemblance entre deux échantillons de voix. En effet, au-delà de la mesure objective reflétant la proximité entre ces deux échantillons 1) le contexte général lié à l'enquête, 2) les stéréotypes véhiculés par la voix des locuteurs et 3) les mythes sur les sciences de la parole issus des ?uvres de fiction (cinéma, séries policières, littérature) sont autant d'éléments qui peuvent s'immiscer dans le déroulement d'une expertise ou conditionner sa réception dans un tribunal.
Nous vous invitons à soumettre une proposition de communication en lien avec l'un des trois types de biais mentionnés ci-dessus. Cet appel est donc ouvert non seulement aux spécialistes universitaires de l'étude de la parole, mais également aux professionnels de la police/gendarmerie ainsi qu'aux spécialistes de l'étude des ?uvres de fiction dans la mesure où celles-ci peuvent influencer notre réception de la science.
Modalités pratiques :
Soumission d'un résumé de 150 mots avec un titre et le nom des auteurs pour le 14 mars 2022 à l'adresse sufevoc2022@gmail.com
Retour des évaluations 21 mars 2022.
Les propositions retenues donneront lieu à une présentation orale de 15 minutes.
Comité scientifique :
Jean-François Bonastre (Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon ? Université d'Avignon)
Emmanuel Ferragne (CLILLAC-ARP ? Université de Paris)
Cédric Gendrot (Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, UMR ? Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Laurianne Georgeton (Service National de Police Scientifique)
Christine Meunier (Laboratoire Parole et Langage, UMR ? Aix-Marseille Université)
Sophie Vasseur (Institut de Recherche Criminelle de la Gendarmerie Nationale).
Pour toute question, n'hésitez pas à nous contacter : sufevoc2022@gmail.com
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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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**EXTENSION de la date limite de dépôt des propositions de
communication**
* **28/01/2022 minuit** - EXTENSION de la date limite de soumission des
propositions de communication sous forme d'articles complets pour la
conférence fixée au **28/01/2022 minuit** (auteur(s) + titre +
mots-clés + résumé) - au lieu du 20/01;
ATTENTION : À la date du 28/01/2022, vous devez absolument avoir créé
votre proposition de communication en indiquant a minima le / la / les
auteurs / le titre / les mots-clés / le résumé de l'article, ce qui
nous permettra de commencer la répartition aux relecteurs ;
* **04/02/2022** - EXTENSION de la date limite pour le dépôt final de
l'article (format PDF) fixée au **04/02/2022** - au lieu du 28/01;
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**
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
diffusion dédiée :
http://sympa.univ-nantes.fr/sympa/subscribe/infos-jep2022
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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
CALL FOR PAPERS
20 June 2022, Le Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
Deadline for submission: 10 April 2022
Description
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR - Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016) ensures the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. The GDPR outlines a specific set of rules that protect citizens and user data and create transparency in information sharing. GDPR is the strictest data privacy regulation in the world, and considerable work is taking place to develop techniques and deploy systems that help comply with this regulation while rendering data accessible and, thus, usable for further processing. Different techniques are studied to guarantee such compliance, implying different levels of sensitive content protection and with a short- or long-term guarantee depending on whether we may have access to additional related information. In this regard, we can read about work on anonymization, de-identification and pseudonymization. While anonymization implies a zero re-identification risk, which is extremely difficult to secure, de-identification and pseudonymization represent an attainable target under the GDPR, given that this regulation defines pseudonymization as ?the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.? Bearing this context in mind, multilingual approaches and kits for (sensitive) language resources de-identification may provide the means to share language data while also protecting private or sensitive data by spotting then deleting, obfuscating, pseudonymizing or encrypting person identifying information.
De-identification is typically performed for the purpose of protecting an individual?s private ctivities while maintaining the usefulness of the gathered data for research and development
purposes. This workshop aims at discussing the various approaches to effective and reliable text de-identification, focusing on some sensitive domains such as the medical and legal domains, but not only.
Based on these premises a consensus emerges that shows a clear situation and needs:
Workshop Objectives and Topics of Interest
This workshop is organised by members of the MAPA project, funded by the EU Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) program (https://mapa-project.eu/). This project has developed a toolkit for the de-identification of texts in the medical and legal fields which addresses all EU official languages. It has followed a BERT-based Named Entity Recognition approach for personal information identification. A wide range of topics have been considered and are hot topics open for discussion to all participants of this workshop. Among them, we have the following:
This workshop will also be a good forum to discuss the possibility to design and initiate a new (annual) Challenge (evaluation campaign) on this important topic.
We invite submissions for full papers and system demonstrations that address these questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop.
Workshop Programme and Audience Addressed
This full-day workshop aims at bringing together technology oriented working groups as well as institutions requiring de-identification support that can present their cases. Being de-identification a multi-topic and multi-problem technique, the workshop aims to get researchers, developers and groups needing their services together to discuss approaches, techniques, capabilities and potential collaborations.
Organising Committee
Important dates
Submission of full papers: Sunday 10 April 2022
Notification of acceptance of papers and demonstrations: Tuesday 3 May 2022
Submission of camera-ready version: 23 May 2022
Workshop: Monday 20 June 2022
Submission
Authors should use the START system (https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/MDLR/) and follow the LREC author?s kit (https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2022/authors-kit/) for submitting their papers (the templates are provided on this page) .
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings along with the LREC main conference Proceedings by ELRA.
LRE 2022 Map and 'Share your LRs!? initiative
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits,
etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services,
etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).
? Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
? As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2022 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.Back Top
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
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
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.
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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Legal and Ethical Issues Workshop at LREC 2022 in Marseille (France) on June 24, 2022
Ethics and Legal Issues are topics that have long been addressed at LREC. This year, to better respond to the needs of the international language resources community, a single workshop will aim at tackling Legal and Ethical Issues in Language Resources with a particular focus on trying to build bridges between legality and technology.
We welcome your submissions @ https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/LEGAL/
1500-2000 words extended abstracts (by 8 April 2022) are needed at first for submission. The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the LREC main conference by ELRA.
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Call for participation
FNP-2022 Shared Task: “FINTOC’4 -Table Of Content extraction from Financial Documents”
To be held as part of The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022), To be held at 13th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022).
Lancaster, United Kingdom [online] on 24 June 2022. A free 1 day event.
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Shared Task URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fintoc2022/
Workshop URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2022/
Participation Form: https://tinyurl.com/wb76cjxj
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Awards and Prizes:
The winning team for FinTOC 2022 shared task will receive an achievement certificate and a money prize which will be announced shortly.
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15th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA (BUCC)
WITH SHARED TASK ON MULTILINGUAL TERMINOLOGY EXTRACTION
FROM COMPARABLE CORPORA
Co-located with LREC 2022 (Marseille)
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2022
Workshop website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2022/
Shared task website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2022/bucc2022-task.html
LREC website: https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/
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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 primarily 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
information 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,
dialects, or varieties. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this
spectrum, unrelated corpora on the other.
TOPICS
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
* (Unsupervised) machine translation
* Writing assistance
* Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora
Mining from Comparable Corpora:
* Cross-language distributional semantics and pre-trained multilingual
transformer models
* Creation of bilingual and multilingual embeddings 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,
multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, sentences, and
paraphrases from comparable corpora, etc.
* Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from
comparable corpora
* Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora
Comparable Corpora in the Humanities:
* Comparing linguistic phenomena across languages in contrastive linguistics
* Analyzing properties of translated language in translation studies
* Studying language change over time in diachronic linguistics
* Assigning texts to authors via authors' corpora in forensic linguistics
* Comparing rhetorical features in discourse analysis
* Studying cultural differences in sociolinguistics
* Analyzing language universals in typological research
IMPORTANT DATES
April 10, 2022: Paper submission deadline
May 3, 2022: Notification of acceptance
May 23, 2022: Camera ready final papers
June 25, 2022: Workshop date
For updates see the workshop website at
https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2022/
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Registration for the workshop will be via the main conference website at
https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please follow the style sheet and templates provided for the main
conference at https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2022/authors-kit/
Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference
manager at https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/BUCC2022/
Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4
to 8 pages plus unlimited references.
It is the authors' choice whether or not to reveal their identities in
their manuscripts submitted for review. Accepted papers will be
published in the workshop proceedings.
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 2022 website:
https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2022/
In case of questions, please contact Reinhard Rapp: reinhardrapp (at)
gmx (dot) de
***** BUCC 2022 SHARED TASK: bilingual term alignment in comparable
specialized corpora
The BUCC 2022 shared task is on multilingual terminology alignment in
comparable corpora. Many research groups are working on this problem
using a wide variety of approaches. However, as there is no standard
way to measure the performance of the systems, the published results are
not comparable and the pros and cons of the various approaches are not
clear. The shared task aims at solving these problems by organizing a
fair comparison of systems. This is accomplished by providing corpora
and evaluation datasets for a number of language pairs and domains.
Moreover, the importance of dealing with multi-word expressions in
Natural Language Processing applications has been recognized for a long
time. In particular, multi-word expressions pose serious challenges for
machine translation systems because of their syntactic and semantic
properties. Furthermore, multi-word expressions tend to be more
frequent in domain-specific text, hence the need to handle them in tasks
with specialized-domain corpora.
Through the 2022 BUCC shared task, we seek to evaluate methods that
detect pairs of terms that are translations of each other in two
comparable corpora, with an emphasis on multi-word terms in specialized
domains.
Sample and training data release: 11 February 2022
Test data release: 16 March 2022
For further details see the shared task website at
https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2022/bucc2022-task.html
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT
* Reinhard Rapp (Athena R.C., Greece; Magdeburg-Stendal University of
Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany)
* Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France)
* Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Contact workshop: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de
Contact shared task: pz (at) lisn (dot) fr
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 (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Natalie Kübler (CLILLAC-ARP, Université de Paris, France)
* Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)
* Yve Lepage (Waseda University, Japan)
* Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corporation, USA)
* Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France)
* Dragos Stefan Munteanu (RWS, USA)
* Reinhard Rapp (Athena R.C., Greece; 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)
* Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA)
* Pierre Zweigenbaum (LISN, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France)
INFORMATION FROM THE LREC ORGANIZERS
* Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the
submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other
conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about
?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the
possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC
repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their
description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our
field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone
can deposit and share data.
* As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so
as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also
replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2022
endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the
International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org),
a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource.
The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at
submission time.
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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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Appel à la 24e Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL).
Avec TALN, du 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022
Avignon, France
Site web :https://taln2022.univ-avignon.fr/appels.php#AppelRECITAL
Date limite de soumission : 4 mars 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).
RÉCITAL a pour objectif de soutenir les travaux de jeunes chercheurs en TAL et de faciliter leur intégration dans la communauté en leur apportant de la visibilité. Cet appel leur offre l?opportunité de faire connaître leurs idées et travaux en cours et d?obtenir des avis de la communauté scientifique, autant lors du processus de relecture que, pour les articles acceptés, lors de leur présentation pendant la conférence.
RÉCITAL est réservée aux étudiants (master et doctorat) ainsi qu?aux jeunes chercheurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat depuis moins d?un an. Les encadrants ne doivent pas faire partie des auteurs mais peuvent apparaître dans la partie remerciements ou en note de bas de page. La double soumission à RÉCITAL et TALN n?est pas autorisée. Les traductions en français d?articles précédemment soumis ou acceptés à des conférences ou workshops internationaux ne sont pas recevables pour RÉCITAL et devront plutôt être soumis à TALN.
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
RÉCITAL propose deux types de soumissions (détaillés ici) :
Travaux de recherche originaux non publiés dans d?autres conférences.
Prises de position présentant un point de vue sur l?état des recherches en TAL.
La soumission de travaux préliminaires, de projets de thèse, et de travaux résultant des premiers mois de recherche (état de l?art et positionnement, objectifs et premières pistes, etc.) est encouragée. Les articles doivent être rédigés en français. Les soumissions en anglais seront acceptées dès lors qu?un co-auteur n?est pas francophone.
Les articles seront évalués par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine en double-aveugle. Seront considérés en particulier :
la correction du contenu scientifique et technique ;
le positionnement des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale ;
l?organisation et la clarté de la présentation ;
l?adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence.
Suivant l?avis du comité de programme, les présentations se feront soit sous forme orale soit sous forme de poster. Tous les articles acceptés seront publiés dans les actes de la conférence. Notez par ailleurs que les actes de la conférence seront indexés dans l?ACL Anthology.
Prix RÉCITAL
Le comité de programme sélectionnera, parmi les communications acceptées, un article pour le Prix RÉCITAL. Ce prix du meilleur article RÉCITAL sera décerné lors de la conférence.
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2ème 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
Site web : https://taln2022.univ-avignon.fr/ateliers.php
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/ateliers.php
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/contact.php2ème 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
Site web : https://taln2022.univ-avignon.fr/ateliers.php
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.
Contacts: https://taln2022.univ-avignon.fr/contact.php
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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Newark, NJ, USA, June 27-30, 2022
Call for Technical Demonstrations: Submission deadline extended to March 20, 2022.
https://www.icmr2022.org/calls/demonstration/
ACM ICMR 2022 offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners, and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. This conference is set up to illuminate the state of the art in multimedia (text, image, video, audio, etc.) retrieval.
ACM ICMR 2022 is accepting proposals for technical demonstrators that will be showcased during the conference. The demo session will include demonstrations of latest innovations by research and engineering groups in industry, academia, and government. ACM ICMR 2022 is seeking original high-quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multimedia retrieval, as advertised in the ACM ICMR 2022 general call for papers.
We solicit high quality contributions of demonstrators with innovative interfaces and visualizations showcasing new opportunities, functionalities, or the use of multimedia retrieval in new application domains.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Submissions should be done with the ACM ICMR submission system and will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the ICMR proceedings and need to be showcased during the demo session at the conference.
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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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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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The Fifth (2022) IEEE International Conference on
Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'22)
http://www.ieee-mipr.org
Taking Place Virtually
August 2 - August 4, 2022
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MIPR 2022 highlights
Keynote Speakers
* Philip S. Yu, Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
* Jian Pei, Professor, Simon Fraser University
* Shih-Fu Chang, Professor, Columbia University
Innovation Forums
* The Future Trending of Metaverse
Moderator: Shuxue Quan, Oppo
* Hardware and Software Acceleration for AI Applications
Moderator: Xin Chen, Intel
* The Future of Media Compression: Deep Learning Approaches
Moderator: Dong Liu, University of Science and Technology of China
* Computer Vision
Moderator: Zhou Ren, Wormpex AI Research
New forms of multimedia data (such as text, numbers, tags, networking,
signals, geo-tagged information, graphs/relationships, 3D/VR/AR and
sensor data, etc.) has emerged in many applications in addition to
traditional multimedia data (image, video, audio). Multimedia has
become the biggest of big data as the foundation of today's
data-driven discoveries. Almost all disciplines of science and
engineering, as well as social sciences, involve multimedia data in
some forms, such as recording experiments, driverless cars, unmanned
aerial vehicles, smart communities, biomedical instruments, security
surveillance. Some recent events demonstrate the power of real-time
broadcast of unfolding events on social networks. Multimedia data is
not just big in volume, but also multi-modal and mostly
unstructured. Storing, indexing, searching, integrating, and
recognizing from the vast amounts of data create unprecedented
challenges. Even though significant progress has been made processing
multimedia data, today's solutions are inadequate in handling data
from millions of sources simultaneously.
The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing
and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR) aims to provide a forum for original
research contributions and practical system design, implementation,
and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval
for single modality or multiple modalities. The target audiences will
be university researchers, scientists, industry practitioners,
software engineers, and graduate students who need to become
acquainted with technologies for big data analytics, machine
intelligence, information fusion in multimedia information processing
and retrieval. A collection of keynotes, tutorials, and workshops
will be held, together with paper/poster sessions. In addition, MIPR
2022 Innovation Forum invites leaders in multimedia society to discuss
the topics covering video compression, AI acceleration, metaverse, and
Computer Vision.
The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages), short papers (4
pages), and demo papers (4 pages). Authors are encouraged to compare
their approaches, qualitatively or quantitatively, with existing work
and explain the strength and weakness of the new approaches. Selected
submissions will be invited to submit to journal special issues.
The conference includes (but not limited) the following topics of
multimedia data processing and retrieval.
Multimedia Retrieval
Multimedia Search and Recommendation
Web-Scale Retrieval
Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning
3D and sensor data retrieval
Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship)
Retrieval
High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features
Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining
Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and / or Multimodal Fusion
Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection
High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures)
Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
Novel Dataset for Learning and Multimedia
Content Understanding and Analytics
Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis
Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration
Affective and Perceptual Multimedia
Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans
Multimedia and Vision
Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
Visual Concept Detection
Object Detection and Tracking
3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications
Networks for Multimedia Systems
Internet Scale System Design
Information Coding for Content Delivery
Systems and Infrastructures
Multimedia Systems and Middleware
Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics
Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing
Data Management
Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage
Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy
Standards and Policies for Data Management
Novel Applications
Multimedia applications for health and sports
Multimedia applications for culture and education
Multimedia applications for fashion and living
Multimedia applications for security and safety
Internet of Multimedia Things
Real-Time Data Processing
Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones
Mobile and Wearable Multimedia
* IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC) will sponsor
5-6 student registration scholarships. Preference will be given to
student authors
Important Dates:
Regular and Short Paper Submission: March 28, 2022 [Extended]
Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2022
Camera ready due: July 1, 2022
Conference Date: August 2 - 4, 2022
General Co-Chairs:
C.-C. Jay Kuo (University of Southern California, USA)
Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Yong Rui (Lenovo Group, China)
Guan-Ming Su (Dolby Labs, USA)
Program Co-Chairs:
Ming-Ching Chang (State University of New York at Albany, USA)
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Yan Tong (University of South Carolina, USA)
Bihan Wen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
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=========================================Call for Papers
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
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: 23 December 2021
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 Aksoy Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie
Jan Alexanderson DFKI
Johan Bos University of Groningen
Simon Dobnik University of Gothenburg
Albert Gatt University of Utrecht
Tim Fernando Trinity College Dublin
Kristiina Jokinen AIRC AIST Tokyo Waterfront
Nikhil Krishnawamy Brandeis University
Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh
Andy Lücking Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Gisela Redeker University of Groningen
Janina Wildfeuer University of Groningen
ORGANIZERS
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James Pustejovsky Brandeis University
Ielka van de Sluis University of Groningen
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We are pleased to announce the 11th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2022) that will be held in hybrid mode on 24–26 August 2022 at Queen Mary University of London in London, UK.
For questions please contact us at haid2022@qmul.ac.uk
To keep in touch and up to date on news related to the HAID community, please join our Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community) and follow us on twitter (https://twitter.com/HAID_conference).
===== Call for papers & demos =====
We invite submissions reporting on completed research and live demos at the intersection of haptics, audio, and human-computer interaction. We also welcome papers focusing on one of these fields with applications to the others.
We particularly welcome contributions, both theoretical and empirical, in the following areas:
- Design of audio and haptic feedback for health & wellbeing
- Musical haptics & augmented instruments
Contributions in the following areas are also welcome:
- Novel haptic and auditory interfaces
- Perception & evaluation of multimodal and cross-sensory interactions
- Design principles for haptic and auditory interfaces
- Design of audio and haptic feedback for entertainment and creative applications
- Affective and semiotic roles of haptics and audio in interaction
- Leveraging auditory-tactile correspondences in interaction design
Important dates
Papers - submission: 29 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Papers - acceptance: 30 May 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Papers - camera ready: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Demos - submission: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Demos - acceptance: 30 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
More information is available here:
https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/papers-and-demos/
===== Call for work in progress =====
HAID 2022 seeks work in progress submissions, which describe recently completed work or highly relevant results of work in progress in all areas related to haptics, audio, and interaction design.
We particularly encourage work in progress submissions from “newcomers”—master students or early-stage PhD Students without a supervisor who is part of the HAID community, especially from underrepresented groups.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Acceptance notification: 30 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
More information is available here:
https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/work-in-progress/
===== Call for workshops =====
We also invite proposals for workshops to be held during the 1st day of the conference. These proposals may take the form of theoretical or hands-on tutorials on specific HAID topics or forums for discussion and development.
Important dates:
Proposal submission: 8 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Acceptance notification: 15 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
More information is available here:
https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/workshops/
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Call for papers:
Inclusive and Fair Speech Technologies
Special Session at Interspeech 2022
https://sites.google.com/view/fair-speech-interspeech22/
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We're organizing a special session on Trustworthy Speech Processing at Interspeech 22, inviting papers exploring topics from trustworthy machine learning (such as privacy, fairness, bias mitigation, etc.) within the realm of speech processing. Can you please include this CFP in your next newsletter, and forward to any relevant lists if possible?
Best,
Organizing team:
Anil Ramakrishna, Amazon Inc.
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California
Rahul Gupta, Amazon Inc.
Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon
Rita Singh, Carnegie Mellon University
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Call for papers:
Trustworthy Speech Processing (TSP)
Special Session at Interspeech 22
trustworthyspeechprocessing.github.io
September 18 - 22, 2022
Incheon, South Korea
Given the ubiquity of Machine Learning (ML) systems and their relevance in daily lives, it is important to ensure private and safe handling of data alongside equity in human experience. These considerations have gained considerable interest in recent times under the realm of Trustworthy ML. Speech processing in particular presents a unique set of challenges, given the rich information carried in linguistic and paralinguistic content including speaker trait, interaction and state characteristics. This special session on Trustworthy Speech Processing (TSP) was created to bring together new and experienced researchers working on trustworthy ML and speech processing.
We invite novel and relevant submissions from both academic and industrial research groups showcasing theoretical and empirical advancements in TSP. Topics of interest cover a variety of papers centered on speech processing, including (but not limited to):
* Differential privacy
* Federated learning
* Ethics in speech processing
* Model interpretability
* Quantifying & mitigating bias in speech processing
* New datasets, frameworks and benchmarks for TSP
* Discovery and defense against emerging privacy attacks
* Trustworthy ML in applications of speech processing like ASR
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Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: March 21, 2022, 23:59, Anywhere on Earth.
Paper update deadline: March 28, 2022, 23:59, Anywhere on Earth.
Author notification: June 13, 2022.
Interspeech conference dates: September 18 to 22, 2022.
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Author Guidelines:
Submissions for TSP will follow the same schedule and procedure as the main conference. Submit your papers here: www.softconf.com/m/interspeech2022 (select option #14.13 as the submission topic).
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- March 10, 2022: Results submission
- March 14, 2022: Release of participant ranks
- March 21, 2022: INTERSPEECH Paper submission deadline
- March 28, 2022: INTERSPEECH Paper update deadline
- June 13, 2022: INTERSPEECH Author notification
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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
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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