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

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

September 1 till September 5.

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Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers:  see

https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars

ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS

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

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

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

Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials.

If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org

If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org

PS. The online seminar scheme  is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:

Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.

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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dear Speech Prosody SIG members,

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

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

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

Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair

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2nd Python4NLP summer school on collecting, processing and analyzing textual data with Python.

The summer school will take place in Nancy, France, from May 9th to May 13th, 2022.
More information on https://synalp.loria.fr/python4nlp-2022/.

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

Theme: Articulation and Prosody: Between Interface and Integration 

Date: 20-21 May 2022, Sønderborg, Denmark 

https://event.sdu.dk/sefos 

The links between articulation and prosody are a subject of growing interest. The growing interest is, among other things, driven by increasingly powerful measurement, analysis and recording techniques, by the discovery of syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures in prosody and the simultaneous undermining of strictly linear-segmental models in articulation, as well as by the rapid rise of speech technology and the associated increasing relevance of emotions, speaking styles, attitudes, social hierarchies, social-role marking, etc. But, how far have we really come in understanding the links between articulation and prosody?  

As a satellite meeting to the 11^th Speech Prosody, the 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) will be a forum to discuss these questions. Continuing the successful concept of the first SEFOS, SEFOS II shall again be a strongly interdisciplinary event. We therefore cordially invite not only all members of the speech-science (and speech-prosody) communities to take part in SEFOS II, but also interested members from related fields such as general linguistics, medicine, audiology, psychology, rhetoric, pedagogy, language/speech technology, and engineering sciences. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

PAPER TEMPLATES 

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https://event.sdu.dk/sefos/downloads 

SELECTION OF SCIENTIFIC AREA TOPICS 

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

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

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Chères 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.

Bien cordialement,

Cameron Morin pour le comité d’organisation RJC 2022

25èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2022)

Étudier le langage à l’ère numérique
Sciences du langage, didactique des langues et disciplines transversales

9 et 10 juin 2022

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Maison de la Recherche) 4, rue des Irlandais

75005 PARIS

Créées en 1998, les Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs de l'ED 622 « Sciences du langage » (Université de Paris et Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) offrent la possibilité aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses inscrit·es en Doctorat ou en Master Recherche de présenter leurs travaux sous forme de communication orale ou de poster. Chaque année, une sélection de contributions font l’objet d’une publication référencée dans les Actes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs.

Le thème de cette année s'articule autour du numérique. En tant que ressource et espace nouveaux, le numérique a profondément bouleversé non seulement les objets, mais aussi les pratiques des chercheur·es dans différents domaines des sciences du langage et des disciplines voisines.

Le développement du numérique permet la diffusion de la recherche et des pratiques collaboratives, mais soulève de nouveaux questionnements d’ordre méthodologique et éthique. Ces nouveaux enjeux sont encore plus prégnants dans des contextes politiques et sanitaires inédits.

Trois axes de réflexions sont envisagés pour aborder cette vaste problématique qu’est le numérique dans les sciences du langage à l’époque contemporaine :

1)      Comment les ressources numériques renouvellent-elles les méthodes, les pratiques, et les paradigmes théoriques des chercheur·ses ?

Les outils numériques et leur évolution semblent profondément changer la pratique même d’étudier le langage. On peut penser aux méthodes générées ou améliorées par le numérique, par exemple l’accès à des logiciels puissants de traitement de données et à des échantillons de plus en plus importants. De ce point de vue, le numérique se présente comme un espace de recherche inédit où le·la chercheur·se peut désormais utiliser et analyser des données nouvelles, recruter des participants impliqués à distance, ou effectuer son terrain d’une manière qui repousse les limites traditionnelles de sa discipline. Enfin, ce changement des pratiques a des conséquences majeures sur les théories du langage et sur leur conceptualisation : on pense notamment à un « tournant quantitatif » évoqué par Kortmann (2021), selon qui nous avons ouvert une nouvelle époque de théorisation linguistique grâce à une approche empiriste et centrée sur l’usage qui n’était pas au cœur du paradigme génératif des cinquante dernières années. Les chercheur·es sont ainsi invité·es à discuter de la façon dont les ressources numériques renouvellent les aspects théoriques et pratiques de leur discipline.

2)      Dans quelle mesure les limites du numérique impactent-elles les pratiques des chercheur·ses ?

Si le numérique est devenu un allié certain de la recherche, il engendre de nouvelles contraintes auxquelles les chercheur·ses doivent faire face. En effet, l’appropriation et l’usage du numérique nécessitent aujourd’hui de prendre en considération des questions juridiques et éthiques (en particulier lors de la collecte, du traitement et de la conservation des données), et de répondre à des réglementations précises (Dolbeau-Blandin et al., 2016 ; Nevejans, 2021). Ces réglementations ont encouragé la mise en place de nouveaux standards et de nouvelles normes (DOI, FAIR, PGD, etc.) auxquels les chercheur·es doivent désormais se conformer pour assurer une diffusion et une réutilisation adéquate des données (Ginouvès et Gras, 2018). Au-delà des contraintes légales et éthiques, le développement des outils numériques soulève la question de leur égalité d’accès (technique, financière, etc.) et de leur facilité de prise en main par les chercheur·ses (Cocco et al., 2018). Or, les conditions de collecte ou d’analyse de données ne permettent pas toujours un accès équitable à ces ressources en tout temps et en tout lieu (connexion internet instable ou inexistante, nombre de licences limité, peu de ressources pour se former, frais d’abonnement, etc.). En ce sens, nous invitons les chercheur·ses à partager leurs expériences, en discutant de la manière dont ces limites ont pu impacter leurs choix méthodologiques.

3) Dans quelle mesure les espaces numériques remettent-ils en jeu les notions d’oralité, de scripturalité et de multimodalité ?

L’apparition des supports numériques semble contribuer à la disparition des frontières traditionnelles entre le langage oral et le langage écrit. De nouvelles opportunités de recherche se matérialisent alors pour aborder ces nouvelles formes d’expressivité langagière émergeant à travers l’analyse de nouveaux éléments discursifs (cf. emoji, ponctuation, GIF, etc.) (McCulloch, 2020), et l’apparition de nouveaux enjeux de communication multimodale (cf. traduction/sous-titrage automatique, messages audio/vidéo, réseaux sociaux, outils de collaboration professionnelle, etc.), en lien avec les pratiques numériques contemporaines (Sierra, 2021). De plus, les manifestations langagières — qu’elles soient individuelles ou collectives — des usagers du numérique constituent un corpus qui permet de mobiliser les notions d'instantanéité et de pérennité du discours (Koch & Oesterreicher, 2001). Les chercheur·ses sont ainsi invité·es à discuter de faits langagiers émanant — de près ou de loin — de l’espace numérique et à situer leur analyse au prisme des concepts de scripturalité, d’oralité et de multimodalité.

Les axes proposés ne sont pas exhaustifs, nous encourageons toutes autres interventions portant sur l’étude du langage à l’ère numérique.

Références citées 

Cocco, C., Dessart, G., & Serbaeva, O. (2018). Potentialités et difficultés d’un projet en humanités numériques (DH) : confrontation aux outils et réorientations de recherche. Digital Humanities Quarterly 12.1 : 1‑16.

Dolbeau-Bandin, C., Proulx, S. & Rivron, V. (2016). De la nécessité d’adopter une posture scientifique et critique au temps du numérique. Terminal. Technologie de l’information, culture & société, 119. https://doi.org/10.4000/terminal.1512

Ginouvès, V & Isabelle, G. (2018). La diffusion numérique des données en SHS. Guide des bonnes pratiques éthiques et juridiques. Presses Universitaires de Provence. https://presses-universitaires.univ-amu.fr/diffusion-numerique-donnees-shs

Koch, P. & Oesterreicher, W. (2001). Langage oral et langage écrit. In : Holtus, G., Metzeltin, M., & Schmitt, C. (éds), Lexikon der romanistischen Linguistik. Band I, 2 : Methodologie. Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, 584-627.

Kortmann, B. (2021). Reflecting on the quantitative turn in linguistics. Linguistics 59, 5 : 1207‑1226.

McCulloch, G. (2020). Because internet: Understanding the new rules of language. Riverhead Books.

Nevejans, N. (2021). Données et technologies numériques : approches juridique, scientifique et éthique. Droit & science politique. Le Kremlin-Bicêtre : Les Éditions Mare et Martin.

Sierra, S. (2021). Millennials talking media: shifting epistemic frames, creating intertextual identities in everyday talk. New York: Oxford University Press.

Soumission & informations pratiques

Toute personne souhaitant réaliser une communication est invitée à soumettre un résumé anonyme d’un maximum de 3000 caractères espaces compris (hors figure(s) et bibliographie) en français jusqu’au 06 mars 2022 à 19h (heure de Paris) dans l’espace Easy Chair disponible à l’adresse suivante : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rjc2022

La langue du colloque est le français. Les communications orales durent chacune 20 minutes suivies de 10 minutes de discussion.

Un mode hybride sera mis en place et il sera donc possible de communiquer en présence ou à distance. Le nom de la plateforme et le lien seront communiqués ultérieurement. Le colloque est ouvert à tous : masterant·es, doctorant·es, jeunes chercheur·ses. Une attestation de présence sera remise aux participant·es.

Comité scientifique

José Ignacio AGUILAR RIO, Angélique AMELOT, Nicolas AUDIBERT, Jacqueline AUTHIER-REVUZ, Michelle AUZANNEAU, Claire BADIOU-MONFERRAN, Delphine BATTISTELLI, Eric BEAUMATIN, Irmtraud BEHR, Céline BENNINGER, Myriam BERGERON MAGUIRE, Tiphanie BERTIN, Violaine BIGOT, Philippe BOULA de MAREUIL, Sonia BRANCA-ROSOFF, Cédric BRUDERMANN, Maria CANDEA, Danièla CAPIN, Christelle CAVALLA, Agnès CELLE, Jean-Louis CHISS, Ioana CHITORAN, Lise CREVIER BUCHMAN, Jacques DAVID, Matteo DE CHIARA, Martine DERIVRY, Claire DOQUET, Faya EL QASEM, Aurélia ELALOUF, Benjamin FAGARD, Camille FAUTH, Michel FAVRIAUD, Sebastian FEDDEN, Serge FLEURY, Cécile FOUGERON, Jean-Marie FOURNIER, Ioana GALLERON, Cédric GENDROT, Daniel GILE, Yana GRINSHPUN, Pierre HALLE, Rouba HASSAN, Agnès HENRI, Takeki KAMIYAMA, Dominique KLINGLER, Natalie KUBLER, René LACROIX, Marie LAMMERT, Leonardo LANCIA, Laure LANSARI, Benoit LECLERCQ, Dominique LEGALLOIS, Cécile LEGUY, Caroline MASSON, Muriel MOLINIE, Aliyah MORGENSTERN, Catherine MULLER, Samia NAÏM, Franck NEVEU, Mojca PECMAN,Claire PILLOT-LOISEAU, Coraline PRADEAU, Sophie PREVOST, Nicolas QUINT, Brigitte RASOLONIAINA, François RASTIER, Sandrine REBOUL-TOURE, Rachid RIDOUANE, Anne SALAZAR ORVIG, Dan SAVATOVSKI, Laurence SCHMOLL, Gilles SIOUFFI, Valérie SPAËTH, Agnès STEUCKARDT, Sofia STRATILAKI, Iris TARAVELLA, Pierre-Yves TESTENOIRE, Andrea VALENTINI, Cécile VAN DEN AVENNE, Dan VAN RAEMDONCK, Hélène VASSILIADOU, George-Daniel VERONIQUE, Maria Belén VILLAR DIAZ, Patricia VON MUNCHOW, Corinne WEBER, Chantal WIONET, Naomi YAMAGUCHI, Hiyon YOO, Geneviève ZARATE.

Comité d’organisation 

Alessandro Basile, Maud Bénard, Marie Bouchet, Coline Caillol, Clémence Guieu-Grandsire, Andres Lara, Hermelind Le Doeuff, Cameron Morin, Sara Salmi, Aleksandra Savenkova, Moisés Velásquez, Chenyang Zhao.

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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
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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
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LREC 2022 - 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Palais du Pharo - Marseille (France)
June 20-25, 2022

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

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

Twitter: @LREC2022

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

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

CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect to both scientific/technological issues as well as policy and organisational ones.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.


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

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

LREC2022 HOT TOPICS

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

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

PROGRAMME

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

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

SUBMISSIONS AND DATES

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

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

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

• Workshops and tutorials proposals submission:

The submission deadline for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals is

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

Both links to the Workshop and Tutorial submission pages remain:

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


PROCEEDINGS

The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format.
There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication to the content of the paper will be considered.

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

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

Contact: lrec@lrec-conf.org

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Multilingual De-Identification of (Sensitive) Language Resources

To be held in conjunction with the 13th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022)
20 June 2022, Le Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France

https://sites.google.com/vicomtech.org/multilingual-de-identification

EXTENDED Deadline for submission: 17 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 activities 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:
1.    Tools for the multilingual de-identification of (sensitive) language resources are becoming essential to ensure that such resources can be shared.
2.    De-identification is crucial to ensure that all legal & ethical considerations are taken into account during the production/repurposing phases but also that the quality/nature of the de-identified data sets remains appropriate to conduct research activities.
3.    European Public Administrations need personal data processing tools to handle the extremely large amounts of data they manage.
4.    Europe’s multilingual context will benefit from approaches and tools that can support the European Digital Market in their multilingual data exchanges.

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:
1.    Sensitive personal information, domains and services that require de-identification
2.    Corpora annotation and/or creation
3.    Annotation guidelines and platforms
4.    De-identification tools, data and/or applications
5.    De-identification and minority languages
6.    Multi-domain and/or multilingual processing
7.    NLP techniques and tools used for de-identification
8.    Multimodal de-identification
9.    Validation and benchmarking of de-identified resources
10.    Evaluation of de-identification tools and applications
11.    Evaluation protocols: how to evaluate, metrics, approaches, data, experiences
12.    Best practices
13.    Approaches, activities and systems addressing “anonymization” are also welcome to
share their experience.
14.    Any other topic related to de-identification
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
- Victoria Arranz (ELDA/ELRA, France)
- Montse Cuadros (Vicomtech, Spain)
- Aitor Garcia Pablos (Vicomtech, Spain)
- Cyril Grouin (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
- Manuel Herranz (Pangeanic, Spain)

Programme Committee
- Khalid Choukri (ELDA/ELRA, France)
- Hercules Dalianis (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Amando Estela (Pangeanic, Spain)
- Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain)
- Albert Gatt (Malta University, Malta)
- Lucie Gianola (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
- Ona de Gibert (BSC, Spain)
- Marwa Hadj Salah (ELDA/ELRA, France)
- Udo Hahn (University of Jena, Germany)
- Thomas Kleinbauer (COMPRISE project)
- Maite Melero (BSC, Spain)
- Mickaël Rigault (ELDA/ELRA, France)
- Patrick Paroubek (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
- Naiara Perez (Vicomtech, Spain)
- Stelios Piperidis (Athena Research & Innovation Center, Greece)
- Prokopis Prokopidis (Athena Research & Innovation Center, Greece)
- Mike Rosner (Malta University, Malta)
- Roberts Rozis (TILDE, Latvia)
- Özlem Uzuner (George Mason University, USA)
- Emmanuel Vincent (Inria Nancy - Grand Est, France)
- Rinalds Vīksna (TILDE, Latvia)
- Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)

Important dates
Submission of full papers: EXTENDED to Sunday 17 April 2022
Notification of acceptance of papers and demonstrations: Tuesday 10 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 (https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/) Proceedings by ELRA.

For further queries, please contact Victoria Arranz at arranz@elda.org.

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1st Call for Papers

SIGUL 2022 Workshop

a post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2022

Marseille (FR), 24-25 June 2022

The 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022) will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2022 will carry on the tradition of the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages ? Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organised since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this Workshop spans the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority and minoritized languages. Since this year LREC includes a track dedicated specifically to endangered and less-resourced languages, the workshop aims to be a venue for networking and discussion as much as for scientific debate.

Over the last years,research in NLP for less-resourced languages has taken momentum. The multiplication of research interest makes it even more necessary for the community that revolves around less-resourced languages to find opportunities for aggregation and discussion. Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in NLP, MT and Speech Technologies for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers, and also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honouring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• General research on under-resourced languages.

• Transfer-learning techniquesfor under-resourced languages (use of multilingual, pretrained models, unsupervised, semi-supervised, zero-shot, few-shot training,...) in NLP, MT and Speech technologies.

• We also invite position papers on methodological, ethical, or institutional issues

Instructions for submission can be found here

Important Dates

- Paper submission deadline: 11 April 2022

- Notification of acceptance: 3 May 2022 

- Camera-ready paper: 23 May 2022 

- Workshop date: 24-25 June 2022

Organizing Committee

• Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain

• Sakriani Sakti - NAIST, Japan

• Claudia Soria - CNR-ILC, Italy

To contact the organisers, please mail sigul2022@ilc.cnr.it (Subject: [SIGUL2022]).

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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.

• Full Call for Papers: https://bit.ly/36ADDNG
• Workshop website: https://legal2022.mobileds.de/

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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):

• Multimedia content-based search and retrieval
• Multimedia content-based (or hybrid) recommender systems
• Large-scale and web-scale multimedia retrieval
• Multimedia content extraction, analysis, and indexing
• Multimedia analytics and knowledge discovery
• Multimedia machine learning, deep learning, and neural nets
• Relevance feedback, active learning, and transfer learning
• Zero-shot learning and fine-grained retrieval for multimedia
• Event-based indexing and multimedia understanding
• Semantic descriptors and novel high- or mid-level features
• Crowdsourcing, community contributions, and social multimedia
• Multimedia retrieval leveraging quality, production cues, style, framing, affect
• Narrative generation and narrative analysis
• User intent and human perception in multimedia retrieval
• Query processing and relevance feedback
• Multimedia browsing, summarization, and visualization
• Multimedia beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data
• Mobile multimedia browsing and search
• Multimedia analysis/search acceleration, e.g., GPU, FPGA
• Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for multimedia analysis/search
• Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, sports, commerce, lifelogs, travel, security, environment.

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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CALL FOR PAPERS
19th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications

**Submission Deadline: March 22, 2022**

https://sigmap.scitevents.org
July 14 - 16, 2022
Lisbon, Portugal

Important Note:
The conference will be held in Lisbon but we are open to accept online presentations in case the participants can't attend the conference.

The purpose of SIGMAP 2022, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications, including theory and practice in various heterogeneous and interrelated fields including image, video and audio data processing, new sources of multimodal data (text, social, health, etc.) and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information. Multimedia is a research field that includes computing methods in which different modalities are integrated and combined, with the aim to take advantage from each data source.
SIGMAP is organized in 6 major tracks:
1 - Multimedia Networking and Communication
2 - Multimedia Signal Processing
3 - Multimedia Systems and Applications
4 - Multimedia and Deep Learning
5 - Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval
6 - Social Multimedia

Conference Chair(s)
Andrew Sung, University of Southern Mississippi, United States

Program Chair(s)
Simone Santini, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

In the last years, the proceedings have been fully indexed by SCOPUS. Beside this index all the proceedings have also been submitted to Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Engineering Index (EI) and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a CCIS Series book.
Also, a short list of best papers will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science journal.
All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.

Kind regards,
Mónica Saramago
SIGMAP Secretariat
Web: https://sigmap.scitevents.org
e-mail: mailto:sigmap.secretariat@insticc.org

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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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AREA 2 - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions  

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

Date: 8 - 12 August 2022

http://www.areaworkshop.org/

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS

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AREA - 2 is the follow up on the first AREA meeting at LREC 2018  (http://www.areaworkshop.org/). There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of the AREA - 2 workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas where actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, HRI, human-computer communication, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.  

While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on “EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation”), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication.

We invite submissions on foundational, conceptual, and practical issues involving modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

- dynamic models of actions

- formal semantic models of actions

- affordance modeling

- manipulation action modeling

- linking multimodal descriptions and presentations of actions (image, text, icon, video)

- automatic action recognition from text, images, and videos

- communicating and performing actions with robots or avatars for joint tasks

- action language grounding

- evaluation of action models

IMPORTANT DATES 

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First CfP: 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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13th Nordic Prosody Conference

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Sonderborg, Denmark

17-19 August 2022

Topic: Applied and Multimodal Prosody Research

The 13th edition of the Nordic Prosody (NP) conference series is proudly hosted by Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) and the CIE Acoustics Lab at the University of Southern Denmark on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark. The conference will be held 17-19 August 2022.

Website: https://event.sdu.dk/13rdnordicprosody/main

The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia.

Nordic Prosody conferences take place every 4 years. The first one was in Lund in 1978, organized by Eva Gårding, Gösta Bruce and Robert Bannert. The 12th Nordic Prosody was in 2016 in Trondheim, Norway. The conference series focuses on the forms and functions of prosodic patterns in Nordic languages and in languages spoken all around the Baltic Sea coastline. Contributions on all the various aspects of phonetics, phonology, and speech typology are welcome. Papers presenting new corpora, methods, or devices can be submitted as well. We also encourage researchers from neighboring disciplines like (second-language) pedagogy, acoustics, human-machine interaction, and voice pathology to submit contributions to the conference.

Keynote Speakers

- David House (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) & Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University, Sweden): The multimodal nature of prominence

- Wim van Dommelen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway): Interactions of segmental and prosodic parameters

- Nicolai Pharao (Copenhagen University, Denmark): Processing prosody – recognizing speakers and recognizing words

Scientific Areas (not exhaustive)

• Phonology and phonetics of prosody

• Production and perception of prosody

• Acquisition, learning and teaching of prosody

• Assessment of prosody and measures to evaluate prosodic skills

• Non-native aspects in the production and perception of prosody

• Socio-phonetic aspects of prosody

• Prosodic variation in continuous speech

• Speech processing of and for prosodic patterns

• Prosody in and for talking machines and robots

• Psychological and neural mechanisms of prosody

• Pathologies and therapies related to prosody

• Resources related to prosody: Speech corpora, annotation systems, tools & methods

• Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of prosody

• Mutimodal signals related to prosody

• Applied prosody

Conference proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume by Sciendo/de Gruyter.

Important dates:
05 June 2022 Abstract submission deadline (through EasyChair)

01 July 2022 Notification of acceptance
31 July 2022 Early bird registration deadline
17-19 August 2022 13th Nordic Prosody Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark

01 November 2022 Full-paper submission deadline

Registrations are made through the conference website under “Sign up”. Abstracts should be submitted under the following EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=np13 . Please find the formatting guidelines or template for both the abstract and the full paper below or on the “Download” subpage. Please note that the full-paper after the conference submission is not made through EasyChair. To submit your full paper, please use this link to Sciendo here: https://sciendo.com/book/9788366675728

We wish all of you a good start into the new lecture term.

The NP13 organizing committee

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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.

https://haid2022.qmul.ac.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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                     TSD 2022 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Twenty-fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2022)
              Brno, Czech Republic, 5-9 September 2022
                    http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

    April 10 2022 ............ Submission of abstracts
    April 17 2022 ............ Submission of full papers

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary. It is still possible to submit both by the full paper deadline.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Eneko Agirre, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
    Anna Rogers, University of Copenhagen, Denmark


TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index/Web of Science.  Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major
citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2022/conf_workshop_proposals.html

The TSD 2022 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops
or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing
committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the
conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by
a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD
review process will appear in the Springer proceedings.  Each workshop is
a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form
or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2022@tsdconference.org ahead of the
respective deadline.


TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
    text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
    specialized lexicons, dictionaries)

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
    speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
    alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
    acoustic and language modelling)

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
    disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
    credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
    authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
    fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
    extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
    knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
    disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection)

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
    (machine translation, natural language understanding,
    question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)

    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
    and personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
    Rodrigo Agerri, Spain
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
    Archna Bhatia, USA
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine
    Volker Fischer, Germany
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Lucie Flek, Germany
    Eleni Galiotou, Greece
    Bjorn Gamback, Norway
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, USA
    Tino Haderlein, Germany
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Hynek Hermansky, USA
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Denis Jouvet, France
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Aidar Khusainov, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia
    Pavel Kral, Czech Republic
    Siegfried Kunzmann, USA
    Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Bernardo Magnini, Italy
    Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
    Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Joakim Nivre, Sweden
    Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Paolo Rosso, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Pavel Rychly, Czechia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    Odette Scharenborg, The Netherlands
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Jan Trmal, Czechia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Aleksander Wawer, Poland
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Alina Wroblewska, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia
    Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be
presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Hopefully, after
two COVID years, the conference can be planned to be held on-site again.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted
will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2022 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...',
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...'.  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The paper format for review has to be a PDF file with all required fonts
included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further
information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for
detailed instructions on the final paper format see
https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2022/paper_instr.html).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference.  The presenters of demonstrations should provide an
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

April 10 2022 ............ Submission of abstracts
April 17 2022 ............ Submission of full papers
June 5 2022 .............. Notification of acceptance
June 15 2022 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2022 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2022 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 5-9 2022 ...... Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer
proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time
of the conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
   
    Ales Horak, TSD 2022
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2022@tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2022 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, and by
trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may
also be of interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called
Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St.  James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat
designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important
buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with
Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of
three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz
- Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),
Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice
Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish
cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO
heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach. 

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The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022) will be held as a hybrid conference at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and online between September 7-9, 2022.

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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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VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge

http://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org

• Paper submission deadline: 15 June 2022

• Submission deadline: 31 July 2022

• Workshop (Incheon, Korea in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2022): 23-24 September 2022

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Dear colleagues,

registration for the VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge is now open!

The task is to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data which conceals the speaker’s voice identity while protecting linguistic content, paralinguistic attributes, intelligibility and naturalness.

Please find more information in The VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge Evaluation Plan: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/vp2020/docs/VoicePrivacy_2022_Eval_Plan_v1.0.pdf

VoicePrivacy 2022 is the second edition, which will culminate in a joint workshop held in Incheon, Korea in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2022 and in cooperation with the ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication.

Registration:

Participants are requested to register for the evaluation. Registration should be performed once only for each participating entity and by sending an email to:

organisers@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org

with “VoicePrivacy 2022 registration” as the subject line.

The email body should include:

(i) the name of the team; (ii) the name of the contact person; (iii) their affiliation; (iv) their country; (v) their status (academic/nonacademic).

Subscription:

Participants are encouraged to subscribe to the VoicePrivacy 2022 mailing list by sending an email to sympa@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org with “subscribe 2022” as the subject line. Successful registrations are confirmed by return email.

To post messages to the mailing list itself, emails should be addressed to 2022@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org.

Best regards,

The VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge Organizers,

Jean-François Bonastre - University of Avignon - LIA, France Pierre Champion - Inria, France Nicholas Evans - EURECOM, France Xiaoxiao Miao - NII, Japan Hubert Nourtel - Inria, France Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM, France Natalia Tomashenko - University of Avignon - LIA, France Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France Xin Wang - NII, Japan Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan and University of Edinburgh, UK

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Call for Papers

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@ ACM Multimedia, October 10-14, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Lisbon, Portugal together with ACM Multimedia 2022. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:

- annotation and indexing in sports 

- tracking people/ athlete and objects in sports

- activity recognition, classification, and evaluation in sports

- event detection and indexing in sports

- performance assessment in sports

- injury analysis and prevention in sports

- data driven analysis in sports

- graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

- automated training assistance in sports

- camera pose and motion tracking in sports

- brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions in sports

- personal virtual (home) trainers/coaches in sports

- datasets in sports 

Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of their paper. All papers will undergo the same review process and review period.

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 

http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2022/index.html

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                            July 4, 2022 

Acceptance Notification:             July 29, 2022

Camera Ready Submission:         August 21, 2022 

Workshop Date:                            TBA; either Oct 10 or Oct 14, 2022

Challenges

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This year, MMSports proposes a competition where participants will compete over State-of-the-art problems applied to real-world sport specific data. The competition is made of 4 individual challenges, each of which is sponsored by SportRadar with a US$1,000.00 prize. Each challenge comes with a toolkit describing the task, the dataset and metrics on which participants will be evaluated:

• Ball 3D localization
• Camera calibration
• Instance segmentation
• Player re-identification

The challenges are hosted on EvalAI where participants will submit the prediction of their model on an evaluation set for which labels are kept secret. Leaderboards will display the ranking for each challenge.

More information can be found at http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2022/challenge.html

ACM MMSports?22 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito

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ICMI 2022

24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction https://icmi.acm.org/2022/

7-11 Nov 2022, Bengaluru, India

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CALL FOR LONG, SHORT AND BLUE SKY PAPERS

The 24th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022) will be held in Bengaluru, India. ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development.

We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community. ICMI 2022 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits, doctoral spotlight papers, Blue Sky papers, and late-breaking papers. The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of all ICMI 2022 papers, including Long and Short Papers, will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library, and the adjunct proceedings will feature the workshop papers.

We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioural and social sciences. These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to increase our scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting technical or algorithmic novelty. For this reason, the 'novelty' criteria used during ICMI 2022 review will be based on two sub-criteria (i.e., scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below). Accepted papers at ICMI 2022 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria. In other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper that is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery.

• Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the scientific community. For example, discovering new behavioural markers that are predictive of mental health or how new behavioural patterns relate to children’s interactions during learning. It is the responsibility of the authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly discuss the novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.

• Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or modelling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning and prediction algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation. Novelty can also be associated with new usages of an existing approach.

Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors  icmi.acm.org/2022/authors for detailed submission instructions.

This year's conference theme: Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) enable natural Human Computer Interaction, inspired by human-human communication. With rapid advances in multimodal analysis, dialog and synthesis technologies, intelligent ECAs are set to enter real world applications. The expected intelligence includes cognitive, social and emotional facets that humans routinely display in conversations. The theme for ICMI 2022 will revolve around making the ECAs more robust, responsible and multilingual. As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for ”Intelligent and responsible Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) in the multilingual real world”.

Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Affective computing and interaction

• Cognitive modelling and multimodal interaction

• Gesture, touch and haptics

• Healthcare, assistive technologies

• Human communication dynamics

• Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction

• Human-centred A.I. and ethics

• Interaction with smart environment

• Machine learning for multimodal interaction

• Mobile multimodal systems

• Multimodal behaviour generation

• Multimodal datasets and validation

• Multimodal dialogue modelling

• Multimodal fusion and representation

• Multimodal interactive applications

• Novel multimodal datasets

• Speech behaviours in social interaction

• System components and multimodal platforms

• Visual behaviours in social interaction

• Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction

SUBMISSIONS

Long paper: The maximum length is 8 pages in ACM conference format, and authors are welcome to submit papers initially in either LaTeX or Word (excluding references).

Short paper: The maximum length is 4 pages in ACM conference format using latex or Word (excluding references).

Blue Sky paper: ICMI 2022 partners once more with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to continue the Blue Sky paper track initiated in 2021 that emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. This track solicits papers relevant to ICMI content that go beyond the usual research paper to present new visions that stimulate the ICMI community to pursue innovative new directions. They may challenge existing assumptions and methodologies,or propose new applications or theories. The papers are encouraged to present high-risk controversial ideas. Submitted papers are 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 CCC will further distribute and publicise any papers published in this track, and they will sponsor awards to honour the first ($1,000), second ($750), and third ($500) place papers, in the form of travel grants. The submission deadline is the same with main conference papers.

The maximum length is 4 pages in ACM conference format using either LaTeX or Word (excluding references).

IMPORTANT DATES

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ICMI 2022
24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

GENEA Challenge
The GENEA Challenge 2022: Full-body speech-driven gesture generation

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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

The conference will be relocated. The location will be defined later.

ORGANIZERS

The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with the Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).

CONFERENCE TOPICS

SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:

Affective computing

Audio-visual speech processing

Corpus linguistics

Computational paralinguistics

Deep learning for audio processing

Feature extraction

Forensic speech investigations

Human-machine interaction

Language identification

Multichannel signal processing

Multimedia processing

Multimodal analysis and synthesis

Sign language processing

Speaker recognition

Speech and language resources

Speech analytics and audio mining

Speech and voice disorders

Speech-based applications

Speech driving systems in robotics

Speech enhancement

Speech perception

Speech recognition and understanding

Speech synthesis

Speech translation systems

Spoken dialogue systems

Spoken language processing

Text mining and sentiment analysis

Virtual and augmented reality

Voice assistants

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral/poster presentations, and demonstrations.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-14 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2022

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases.

IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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

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

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

GENERAL CHAIRS

Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Moscow, Russia

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM Secretariat

E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su

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

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The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to
host and organize the 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval,
ICMR2023 (sponsored by the ACM SIGMM). ACM ICMR is the premier
scientific conference for multimedia retrieval.  Its mission is
to provide a forum to discuss,  promote and advance the
state-of-the-arts in multimedia retrieval by bringing together
researchers and practitioners in its related field. It is thus essential
to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality
research papers and for sharing practitioner experience.  The list of
previous ICMRs is at http://www.acmicmr.org/.
We expect ICMR2023 to be held in Europe.

Parties interested in hosting ICMR2023 are invited to submit  their
proposals (20 pages or less) by Friday, 26 February 2021 by email with
the subject line: ICMR2023 to the steering committee chair.
The details of CFP is at http://acmicmr.org/icmr2023.cfo.final.pdf.

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We would like to welcome you to Prague for the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), which takes place on August 7–11, 2023, in Prague, Czech Republic.

ICPhS takes place every four years, is held under the auspices of the International Phonetic Association and provides an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of basic and applied research in the phonetic sciences. The main areas covered by the Congress are speech production, speech acoustics, speech perception, speech prosody, sound change, phonology, sociophonetics, language typology, first and second language acquisition, forensic phonetics, speaking styles, voice quality, clinical phonetics and speech technology.

We invite papers on original, unpublished research in the phonetic sciences. The theme of the Congress is “Intermingling Communities and Changing Cultures”. Papers related to this theme are especially encouraged, but we welcome papers related to any of the Congress’ scientific areas. The deadline for abstract submission is December 1, 2002, and for full-paper submission December 8, 2022.

We also invite proposals for special sessions covering emerging topics, challenges, interdisciplinary research, or subjects that could foster useful debate in the phonetic sciences. The submission deadline is May 20, 2022.

All information is available at https://www.icphs2023.org/, where it is also possible to register for email notifications concerning the congress.

Contact: icphs2023@guarant.cz

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