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 :  

• Pr. James Glass (MIT, USA) - https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/jim-glass
• Dr. Diane Larlus (Naver Labs Europe) - https://dlarlus.github.io
• Dr. Lucas Ondel (LISN, Paris) - https://lucasondel.github.io
• Dr. Guillaume Wisniewski (LLF, Paris) - https://gw17.github.io 

 

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:

• self-supervised learning of speech representations (wav2vec, CPC, Hubert, etc)
• multimodal representation learning (e.g. text/vision, audiovisual speech) and transfer learning between modalities (e.g. use of language models in speech recognition or speech synthesis systems)
• disentanglement techniques applied to speech and language
• interpretability of latent representations and their relations with the different linguistic levels 
• control of learned representations in performative systems
• relationships with human representation learning (speech unit discovery, sensory-motor learning). 

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). 

 

 

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)