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3-1-1 | (2022-09-18) Call for Mentors for One-to-one Mentoring at Interspeech 2022 Call for Mentors for One-to-one Mentoring at Interspeech 2022
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3-1-2 | (2022-09-18) INTERSPEECH 2022 HUMAN AND HUMANIZING SPEECH TECHNOLOGY, Incheon Songdo Convensia, Korea. INTERSPEECH 2022 INTERSPEECH 2022 will be held in Incheon, Korea on September 18-22, 2022. INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. The theme of INTERSPEECH 2022 is 'Human and Humanizing Speech Technology'. Over the history of mankind, human's ability to formulate thoughts and complex feelings, and communication has been evolved by basically talking to the people around them. However, as machines become ever more present in our daily lives, so grows our need for realizing natural interaction with them. With the rapid progress in AI on speech and language applications over the 5G network services provided worldwide, we are at the onset of building our vision of creating a full ecosystem of natural speech and language technology applications. The conference theme of 'Human and Humanizing Speech Technology' formulates the vision of the scientific and industrial community to commit endeavors to continue the effort in speech science toward humanizing the spoken language technology, so the impact becomes a game changer that goes beyond the current state-of-the-art we serve, and ultimately the society as a whole experie nce the benefits. The paper submission has been opened on January 21, 2022. Submit your papers by March 21, 2022 to be considered! Call for Papers INTERSPEECH 2022 seeks original, novel and innovative papers covering all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. Papers addressing scientific area topics related to the conference theme should be submitted electronically through the START V2 system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English. The paper length should be up to four pages in two columns. An additional page can be used for references only. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines as instructed in the author's kit on the conference webpage. Submissions may also be accompanied by additional files such as multimedia files. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and have not been submitted elsewhere for publication. Contributed papers will be in the rigorous peer-review process. Each paper will be evaluated on the basis of these criteria; novelty and origin ality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strength, and quality of references. Scientific Areas and Topics INTERSPEECH 2022 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication areas, including the following topics, but not limited to:
Technical Program Committee Chairs Kyogu Lee | Seoul National University, Korea (kglee@snu.ac.kr) Important Dates for INTERSPEECH 2022 Papers Website: www.interspeech2022.org / E-mail: info@interspeech2022.org
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3-1-3 | (2023-08-20) Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland , ISCA has reached the decision to hold INTERSPEECH-2023 in Dublin, Ireland (Aug. 20-24, 2023)
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3-1-4 | (2024-09-01) Interspeech 2024, Jerusalem, Israel. ISCA conference committee has decided Interspeech 2024 will be held in Jerusalem, Israel from September 1 till September 5
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3-1-5 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS 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 SEMINARSA 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.
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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3-1-6 | Speech Prosody courses Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
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3-2-1 | ( 2023-01-09) SLT2022, Doha, Qatar Languages of the World, Doha, Qatar 9th to 12th January, 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS IS ALREADY OPENThe2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop(SLT2022) will be held on 9th - 12th January 2023 at Doha, Qatar. SLT 2022 will be the first speech conference to have visited the Middle East and the first speech conference to be held in an Arabic speaking nation. The SLT Workshop is a flagship event of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The workshop is held every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding.
MoreInformation: https://slt2022.org
We invite papers in all areas of spoken language processing, with emphasis placed on the following topics:Automatic speech recognition Conversational/multispeaker ASR Far-field speech processing Speaker and language recognition Spoken language understanding Spoken dialog systems Low resource/multilingual Language processing Spokendocumentretrieval Speech-to-speech translation Text-to-speech systems Speech summarization New applications of automatic speech recognition Audio-visual/Multimodal speech processing Emotion recognition from speech
SLT2022 will also feature Speech Hackathon to provide a hands-on element for students and young professionals.
Important dates
Paper submission: July15,2022 Paper Update: July21,2022 Rebuttal period: August26-31,2022 Paper Notification: Sept30,2022 Early Registration Period:Oct,2022 Speech Hackathon: Jan8-9,2023 Arabic Speech Meeting: Jan13,2023
GeneralChairAhmed Ali(QCRI) Bhuvana Ramabhadran(Google) Technical chairsShinji Watanabe(CarnegieMellonUniversity) Mona Diab(FaceBook) Sanjeev Khudanpur(JohnsHopkinsUniversity) Julia Hirschberg(ColumbiaUniversity) Murat Saraclar(BogaziciUniversity) Marc Delcroix(NTTCommunicationScienceLaboratories)
Regional publicity chairs Sebastian Möller(TUBerlin) Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University) Finance chairJan Trmal(JohnsHopkinsUniversity) Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave(UdeA,Colombia)
Sponsorship chairs Murat Akbacak(Apple) Eman Fituri (QCRI) Jimmy Kunzmann(Amazon) SLTC LiaisonKyu Jeong Han(ASAAP) Publication chairsAlberto Abad Gareta(INESC-ID/IST) Erfan Loweimi(King'sCollegeLondon)
Invited speaker chairAndrew Rosenberg(Google) Nancy F.Chen(Institute for Infocomm Research(I2R)
Challenge&demonstrationchairsImed Zitouni(Google) Jon Barker(University of Sheffield) Seokhwan Kim(Amazon) Peter Bell(University of Edinburgh)
SpeechHackathonOrganizingCommitteeThomas Schaaf(3M|M*Modal) Gianni DiCaro(Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar) Shinji Watanabe - ESPNET (Carnegie Mellon University) Paola Garcia-KALDI/K2(Johns Hopkins University) Mirco Ravanelli - Speech Brain (Université de Montréal) Alessandra Cervone(Amazon) Mus'ab Husaini(QCRI)
AdvisoryboardJim Glass (MIT) Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar) Helen Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore) Local Arrangements chairsShammur Chowdhury(QCRI) Houda Bouamor(Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar) Student coordinatorBerrak Sisman(Singapore University of Technology and Design)
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3-2-2 | (2022-09-07) CfP Special sessions of SIGDIAL, Edinburgh, UK The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of
special session proposals. We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and
dialogue communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Role of Discourse in NLP Applications,
Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, End‐to‐end systems, Vision and Language, and Human-Robot Interaction.
A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and may be organized as a
poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session.
Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions. The papers
submitted to special sessions are handled by the special session organizers, but for the submitted papers
to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers.
The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself,
taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make acceptance
decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program
chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.
Submissions
Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of
the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and
participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session).
These proposals should be sent to conference@sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline.
Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co‐chairs.
Links
Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent
SIGDIAL meetings.
SummDial 2021 https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html
RoboDIAL https://robodial.github.io/
Important Dates
Mar 12, 2022: Special Session Proposal Deadline
Mar 26, 2022: Special Session Notification
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3-2-3 | Proceedings Speech Prosody 2022 Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
As many of you already know, Speech Prosody 2022 was a great technical and social success! Our thanks to Sonia Frota, Marina Vigario, and all the organizers.
The proceedings are already available, at https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/speechprosody_2022/ .
Also, to share a link announced at the closing ceremony, there are now digitized, searchable versions of all past ICPhS proceedings, at https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/BM/phonetics/resources.html#icphs .
Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso nigel@utep.edu https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/
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3-2-4 | The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022), Edinburgh, UK (update) 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.
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of 22 successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.
Topics of Interest
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:
Submissions
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be accepted as long papers for oral presentation or long papers for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.
Multiple Submissions
SIGDIAL 2022 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to sigdial2022pcs@googlegroups.com.
Blind Review
Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2022 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed.
Submission Format
All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format, which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word)
Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Submission Link and Deadline
SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the softconf system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.
Regular submission:
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 11, 2022 (23:59 GMT-11). ***The title, authors, and abstract cannot be changed after this date.*** The final PDF needs to be uploaded by May 19, 2022 (23:59 GMT-11). Details will be posted at the conference website.
Conference Website: https://2022.sigdial.org/
For special session long and short papers please select the session for “Submission Type”.
Commitment via ACL Rolling Review (ARR):
Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for SIGDIAL 2022 (deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2022) is June 18, 2022. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2022.
Mentoring
Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication.
Best Paper Awards
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2022 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.
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.
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of 22 successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.
Topics of Interest
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:
Submissions
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be accepted as long papers for oral presentation or long papers for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.
Multiple Submissions
SIGDIAL 2022 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to sigdial2022pcs@googlegroups.com.
Blind Review
Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2022 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed.
Submission Format
All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format, which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word)
Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Submission Link and Deadline
SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the softconf system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.
Regular submission:
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 11, 2022 (23:59 GMT-11). ***The title, authors, and abstract cannot be changed after this date.*** The final PDF needs to be uploaded by May 19, 2022 (23:59 GMT-11). Details will be posted at the conference website.
Conference Website: https://2022.sigdial.org/
For special session long and short papers please select the session for “Submission Type”.
Commitment via ACL Rolling Review (ARR):
Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for SIGDIAL 2022 (deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2022) is June 18, 2022. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2022.
Mentoring
Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication.
Best Paper Awards
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2022 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.
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3-3-1 | (****-**-**) Deep Voice, Paris, France Suite au succès de la première édition des Deep Voice, Paris je suis très heureux de vous dévoiler le programme de la deuxième édition qui se tiendra les 15-16-17 juin 2022 avec pour thème la diversité et l’inclusion dans les technologies vocales ! ![]() Deep Voice, Paris est l’événement parisien dédié à la voix et à l’intelligence artificielle dont l’objectif est de réunir expertises scientifique et technique, innovation et entrepreneuriat. Pour cette deuxième édition, keynote, discussions et tables rondes se succèderont pour traiter des langues rares, des langues peu dotées, de la langue des signes, des dialectes et accents, du genre, des biais et des discriminations dans les technologies vocales. Des ateliers techniques - “hands-on” - seront proposés aux participants pour développer leurs compétences dans les domaines du traitement de la parole et du langage naturel. Des moments de rencontres et de réseautage en fin de journée faciliteront les rencontres et l’échange entre les participants en toute décontraction.
Pour cette deuxième édition :
👉 un line-up exceptionnel avec les meilleurs spécialistes français et internationaux du domaine
👉 plus de discussions, plus de rencontres, plus d’événements
👉 les ateliers de formation technique aux dernières innovations, avec un tarif privilégié pour les étudiants
👉 et des ouvertures culturelle et artistique !
Les présentations sont librement accessibles en présence ou à distance sur inscription. Pour les personnes ne pouvant pas assister à l’évènement (par exemple, les chercheuses et chercheurs en pèlerinage sur l’ile de Noirmoutier), l’intégralité des présentations seront diffusées en ligne, captées, et rendues disponibles en replay.
Deep Voice est un événement co-organisé par l’Ircam, Sorbonne Université, et le SCAI dans le cadre du festival
ManiFeste 2022.
PS : la thématique de l’année prochaine portera sur la musique et le chant, n’hésitez pas à me contacter dès maintenant si vous êtes intéressé à y participer !
Nicolas Obin
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3-3-2 | (2022-07-04) Le Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF), Orleans, France 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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3-3-3 | (2022-07-11) CfTutos SIGIR 2022, Hybrid mode, Madrid , Spain SIGIR 2022 - Call for Tutorial: https://sigir.org/sigir2022/call-for-tutorials/
The annual SIGIR conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results, and the demonstration of new systems and techniques, in the broad field of Information Retrieval (IR). The 45th ACM SIGIR conference will be held on July 11 to 15, 2022, in a hybrid mode (speakers and attendees will have the option to participate
onsite or online) in Madrid, Spain. SIGIR 2022 solicits proposals for both half and full-day tutorials covering topics relevant to the field of information retrieval and its applications. Each tutorial should cover a single topic in depth. For example, tutorials may cover an established information retrieval sub-topic, introduce an emerging application of information retrieval technologies, or update the information retrieval community on recent advances in related fields. We are especially interested in the third category of submission. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) Tutorial proposal due: March 24, 2022 Tutorials notification: April 14, 2022 Camera ready due: April 24, 2022 Tutorial day: Mon, Jul 11, 2022 *** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *** Submissions should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should include the following elements: * Title and length (either half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) of the tutorial. * Tutorial format, i.e., on-site or online. The presenters should indicate whether or not all / some presenters commit to attend in person. Commitment to on-site tutorials will be a positive point when deciding which tutorials are accepted. If tutorial presenters commit to attend in person but fail to do so, the tutorial might be canceled. * Intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills required. * Detailed contact information of all presenters (and indication of the main contact person). * Brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter, highlighting relevant experience in presenting tutorials, teaching grad classes, organizing summer schools, etc. The extended abstract (no longer than 4 pages) should include the following sections: * Motivation. * Objectives. * Relevance to the information retrieval community and reference to tutorials in the same area at SIGIR or related conferences (including WSDM, WWW, KDD, ACL, RecSys, ICML, etc.). * Format and detailed schedule. * Type of support materials to be supplied to attendees. Tutorial proposals should be prepared in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the ?sigconf? proceedings template). The submissions will be reviewed by a program committee selected for this purpose, and final decisions will be made at the SIGIR Program Committee meeting. Proposals should be submitted in PDF through the EasyChair system (tutorial track): https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=sigir22 The organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a camera-ready summary of the tutorial, to be included in the SIGIR 2022 conference proceedings. *** TUTORIAL CHAIRS *** * Michael Bendersky, Google Research; * Maria Maistro, University of Copenhagen. *** CONTACT *** For further information, please contact the SIGIR 2022 Tutorial Co-chairs by email: sigir22-tutorials@easychair.org.
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3-3-4 | (2022-07-14) CfP 19th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Lisbon, Portugal CALL FOR PAPERS
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3-3-5 | (2022-07-17) International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS), Sicily, Italy International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS)
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3-3-6 | (2022-08-02) The Fifth (2022) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'22), Virtual conference The Fifth (2022) IEEE International Conference on
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3-3-7 | (2022-08-08) AREA 2 - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions at ESSLI 2022, Galway, Ireland AREA 2 - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ========================================== Call for Papers AREA - 2 will be held at the 33nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2022 at Galway, Ireland. AREA- 2 is organized in the first ESSLLI week with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA - 2 is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop. Date: 8 - 12 August 2022 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS ============================================= 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 ================ First CfP: 23 December 2021 Final CfP: 6 April 2022 Deadline for paper submission: 8 May 2022 Review deadline: 30 May 2022 Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 Deadline for camera-ready version: 29 June 2022 Early registration deadline: TBA Workshop Date: 8-19 August 2022 SUBMISSION ========== 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 ================= 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 ====================== 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 =========== James Pustejovsky Brandeis University Ielka van de Sluis University of Groningen --
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3-3-8 | (2022-08-17) 13th Nordic Prosody Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark 13th Nordic Prosody Conference ------------------------------- 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)
Conference proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume by Sciendo/de Gruyter.
01 July 2022 Notification of acceptance 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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3-3-9 | (2022-08-24) 11th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2022) , hybrid mode, Queen Mary University, London, UK We are pleased to announce the 11th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2022) that will be held in hybrid mode on 24–26 August 2022 at Queen Mary University of London in London, UK.
For questions please contact us at haid2022@qmul.ac.uk
To keep in touch and up to date on news related to the HAID community, please join our Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community) and follow us on twitter (https://twitter.com/HAID_conference).
===== Call for papers & demos =====
We invite submissions reporting on completed research and live demos at the intersection of haptics, audio, and human-computer interaction. We also welcome papers focusing on one of these fields with applications to the others.
We particularly welcome contributions, both theoretical and empirical, in the following areas: - Design of audio and haptic feedback for health & wellbeing - Musical haptics & augmented instruments
Contributions in the following areas are also welcome: - Novel haptic and auditory interfaces - Perception & evaluation of multimodal and cross-sensory interactions - Design principles for haptic and auditory interfaces - Design of audio and haptic feedback for entertainment and creative applications - Affective and semiotic roles of haptics and audio in interaction - Leveraging auditory-tactile correspondences in interaction design
Important dates Papers - submission: 29 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE) Papers - acceptance: 30 May 2022 (11:59 PM AoE) Papers - camera ready: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE) Demos - submission: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE) Demos - acceptance: 30 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
More information is available here: https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/papers-and-demos/
===== Call for work in progress =====
HAID 2022 seeks work in progress submissions, which describe recently completed work or highly relevant results of work in progress in all areas related to haptics, audio, and interaction design.
We particularly encourage work in progress submissions from “newcomers”—master students or early-stage PhD Students without a supervisor who is part of the HAID community, especially from underrepresented groups.
Important dates: Submission deadline: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE) Acceptance notification: 30 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
More information is available here: https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/work-in-progress/
===== Call for workshops =====
We also invite proposals for workshops to be held during the 1st day of the conference. These proposals may take the form of theoretical or hands-on tutorials on specific HAID topics or forums for discussion and development.
Important dates: Proposal submission: 8 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE) Acceptance notification: 15 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
More information is available here: https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/workshops/
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3-3-10 | (2022-09-05) CfP Twenty-fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2022), Brno, Czech Republic
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3-3-11 | (2022-09-06) CfP Voices in and out of Place: Misplaced, Replaced and Inrerlaced Voices (on line conference)
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3-3-12 | (2022-09-07) The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022), Edinburgh, UK 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. The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of 22 successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.
Topics of Interest
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:
Submissions
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be accepted as long papers for oral presentation or long papers for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.
Multiple Submissions
SIGDIAL 2022 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to sigdial2022pcs@googlegroups.com.
Blind Review
Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2022 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed.
Submission Format
All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format, which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word)
Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Submission Link and Deadline
SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the softconf system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.
Regular submission:
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 11, 2022 (23:59 GMT-11). Details will be posted at the conference website.
Conference Website: https://2022.sigdial.org/
For special session long and short papers please select the session for “Submission Type”.
Commitment via ACL Rolling Review (ARR):
Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for SIGDIAL 2022 (deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2022) is June 18, 2022. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2022.
Mentoring
Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication.
Best Paper Awards
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2022 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.
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3-3-13 | (2022-09-18) Call for tutorials Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea
September 18 - 22, 2022
Incheon, South Korea ______________ Automatic speech recognition systems have dramatically improved over the past decade thanks to the advances brought by deep learning and the effort on large-scale data collection. For some groups of people, however, speech technology works less well, maybe because their speech patterns differ significantly from the standard dialect (e.g., because of regional accent), because of intra-group heterogeneity (e.g., speakers of regional African American dialects; second-language learners; and other demographic aspects such as age, gender, or race), or because the speech pattern of each individual in the group exhibits a large variability (e.g., people with severe disabilities). The goal of this special session is (1) to discuss these biases and propose methods for making speech technologies more useful to heterogeneous populations and (2) to increase academic and industry collaborations to reach these goals. Such methods include:
______________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: March 21, 2022, 23:59, AoE. Paper update deadline: March 28, 2022, 23:59, AoE. Interspeech conference dates: September 18 to 22, 2022. ______________ Author Guidelines: Papers have to be submitted following the same schedule and procedure as the main conference, and will undergo the same review process. Submit your papers here: www.softconf.com/m/interspeech2022 and select the 'Submission Topic' 14.5 to include your work in this session. ______________ Organizers: Laurent Besacier, Naver Labs Europe, France Keith Burghardt, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Alice Coucke, Sonos Inc., France Mark Allan Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois, USA Peng Liu, Amazon Alexa, USA Anirudh Mani, Amazon Alexa, USA Mahadeva Prasanna, IIT Dharwad, India Priyankoo Sarmah, IIT Guwahati, India Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Tao Zhang, Amazon Alexa, USA --
Alice Coucke
Head of Machine Learning Research | Sonos Voice Experience
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3-3-15 | (2022-09-18) CfP Special session on Trustworthy Speech Processing at Interspeech 22
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
====================================================================== 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
====================================================================== 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.
====================================================================== 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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3-3-16 | (2022-09-18) CfP Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification Challenge, Incheon, Korea We are thrilled to announce the Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification Challenge. While spoofing countermeasures, promoted within the sphere of the ASVspoof challenge series, can help to protect reliability in the face of spoofing, they have been developed as independent subsystems for a fixed ASV subsystem. Better performance can be expected when countermeasures and ASV subsystems are both optimised to operate in tandem.
The first Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification (SASV) 2022 challenge aims to encourage the development of original solutions involving, but not limited to:
- back-end fusion of pre-trained automatic speaker verification and pre-trained audio spoofing countermeasure subsystems;
- integrated spoofing-aware automatic speaker verification systems that have the capacity to reject both non-target and spoofed trials.
We warmly invite the submission of general contributions in this direction. The Interspeech 2022 Spoofing-Aware Automatic Speaker Verification special session also incorporates a challenge ? SASV 2022. Participants are encouraged to evaluate their solutions using the SASV benchmarking framework which comprises a common database, protocol, and evaluation metric. Further details and resources can be found on the SASV challenge website.
Schedule:
-January 19, 2022: Release of the evaluation plan
- March 10, 2022: Results submission - September 18-22, 2022: SASV challenge special session at INTERSPEECH
To participate, please register your interest at https://forms.gle/htoVnog34kvs3as56
For further information, please contact us at sasv.challenge@gmail.com.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
The SASV Challenge 2022 Organisers
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3-3-17 | (2022-09-23) 2nd Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication joint with 2nd Challenge Workshop (INTERSPEECH 2022 satellite event) CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================
========================================= The second edition of the Symposium on Security & Privacy in Speech Communication (SPSC), this year combined with the 2nd VoicePrivacy Challenge workshop, focuses on speech and voice through which we express ourselves. As speech communication can be used to command virtual assistants to transport emotion or to identify oneself, the symposium tries to give answers to the question on how we can strengthen security and privacy for speech representation types in user-centric human/machine interaction? The symposium therefore sees that interdisciplinary exchange is in high demand and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines including signal processing, cryptography, security, human-computer interaction, law, and anthropology. The SPSC Symposium addresses interdisciplinary topics. For more details, see https://symposium2022.spsc-sig.org/home/_cfp/CFP_SPSC-Symposium-2022.pdf === Important dates
=== Topics of interest Topics regarding the technical perspective include:
Topics regarding the humanities’ view include:
We welcome contributions on related topics, as well as progress reports, project disseminations, theoretical discussions, and “work in progress”. There is also a dedicated PhD track. In addition, participants from academia, industry, and public institutions, as well as interested students are welcome to attend the conference without having to make their own contribution. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings published in ISCA Archive. The workshop will take place mainly in person at the Incheon National University (Korea) with additional support of participants willing to join virtually. === Submission Papers intended for the SPSC Symposium should be up to eight pages of text. The length should be chosen appropriately to present the topic to an interdisciplinary community. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the author’s kit. Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English. === Reviews At least three single-blind reviews will be provided, and we aim to obtain feedback from interdisciplinary experts for each submission. The review criteria applied to regular papers will be adapted for VoicePrivacy Challenge papers to be more in keeping with systems descriptions and results.
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3-3-18 | (2022-09-23) Voice Privacy Challenge, Incheon, South Korea VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, registration for the VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge continues! 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. 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: Participate | VoicePrivacy 2022 Subscription: Participate | VoicePrivacy 2022
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3-3-19 | (2022-10-10) 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'22) @ ACM Multimedia, Lisbon, Portugal Call for Papers ------------------- 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'22) @ 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 -------------- 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: 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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3-3-20 | (2022-10-12)French Cross-Domain Dialect Identification (FDI) task @VarDial2022, Gyeongju, South Korea We are organizing the French Cross-Domain Dialect Identification (FDI) task @VarDial2022.
Contact: raducu.ionescu@gmail.com
In the 2022 French Dialect Identification (FDI) shared task, participants have to train a model on news samples collected from a set of publication sources and evaluate it on news samples collected from a different set of publication sources. Not only the sources are different, but also the topics. Therefore, participants have to build a model for a cross-domain 4-way classification by dialect task, in which a classification model is required to discriminate between the French (FH), Swiss (CH), Belgian (BE) and Canadian (CA) dialects across different news samples. The corpus is divided into training, validation and test, such that the publication sources and topics are distinct across splits. The training set contains 358,787 samples. The development set is composed of 18,002 samples. Another set of 36,733 samples are kept for the final evaluation. Important Dates: - Training set release: May 20, 2022 - Test set release: June 30, 2022 - Submissions due: July 6, 2022 Link: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2022/shared-tasks#h.mj5vivaubw8r We invite you to participate!
Have a nice day.
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3-3-21 | (2022-10-17) Cf Posters papers, ISMAR 2022, Singapore CALL FOR POSTER PAPERS
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3-3-22 | (2022-11-07) 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), Bengaluru, India (updated) ********************************************************************* https://icmi.acm.org/2022/ We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), located in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, November 7-11th, 2022. This year’s conference theme is “Intelligent and responsible Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) in the multi-lingual real world”.
The ICMI 2022 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. It can also serve as a platform to introduce commercial products. Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a 2-3 page paper in one column, which will be included in the ICMI main proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than two pages in one column; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers may be invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well. Demonstration SubmissionPlease submit a 2-3 page description of the demonstration in a single column format through the main ICMI conference management system (https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi). Demonstration description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than 3 pages in a single column format including references. For instructions and links to the templates, please see the Guidelines for Authors.
Demonstration proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration. Demonstration submissions should be accompanied by a video of the proposed demo (no larger than 200MB), which can include a set of slides (no more than 10 slides) in PowerPoint format.
The demo and exhibit paper submissions are not anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).
The demonstration submissions will be peer reviewed, according to the following criteria: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals, along with preparing the papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.
The demo program will include the accepted proposals and may additionally include invited demos from among regular papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Please note that the accepted demos will be included in the ICMI main proceedings. Exhibit SubmissionExhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demonstration proposals. Exhibit proposals must be shorter in length (up to two pages), and are more suitable for showcasing mature systems. Like demos, submissions for exhibits should be accompanied by a video (no larger than 200MB), which can include a set of slides (no more than 10 slides) in PowerPoint format. Exhibits will not have a paper published in the ICMI 2022 proceedings. FacilitiesOnce accepted, demonstrators and video presenters will be provided with a table, poster board, power outlet and wireless (shared) Internet. Demo and video presenters are expected to bring with them everything else needed for their demo and video presentations, such as hardware, laptops, sensors, PCs, etc. However, if you have special requests such as a larger space, special lighting conditions and so on, we will do our best to arrange them.
Important note for the authors: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. AttendanceAt least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s). Important Dates
For the latest information re: author guidelines, important dates, facilities, attendance requirements, etc., please see https://icmi.acm.org/2022/call-for-demonstrations-and-exhibits/.
For any further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs: Dan Bohus and Ramanathan Subramanian (icmi2022-demo-chairs@acm.org).
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3-3-23 | (2022-11-07) Doctoral Consortium at ICMI- Call for Contributions Doctoral Consortium - Call for Contributions The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. Who should apply? While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply. Why should you attend? The DC provides an opportunity to build a social network that includes the cohort of DC students, senior students, recent graduates, and senior mentors. Not only is this an opportunity to get feedback on research directions, it is also an opportunity to learn more about the process and to understand what comes next. We aim to connect you with a mentor who will give specific feedback on your research. We specifically aim to create an informal setting where students feel supported in their professional development. Submission Guidelines Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
All materials should be prepared in a single PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system. Important Dates
Review Process The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Attendance All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their work as a short talk or as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines will be available after the camera-ready deadline. Process
Questions? For more information and updates on the ICMI 2022 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (https://icmi.acm.org/2022/doctoral-consortium/) For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
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3-3-24 | (2022-11-07) International Workshop on “Voice Assistant Systems in Team Interactions ‒ Implications, Best Practice, Applications, and Future Perspectives” VASTI 2022 @ICMI 2022 International Workshop on “Voice Assistant Systems in Team Interactions ‒ Implications, Best Practice, Applications, and Future Perspectives”
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3-3-25 | (2022-11-14) IberSPEECH 2022, Grenada, Spain
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3-3-26 | (2022-11-14)) CfP SPECOM 2022, Gurugram, India (updated) ******************************************************************** SPECOM-2022 – CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************** The conference is relocated in India.
******************************************************************** SPECOM-2022 CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************** 24th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2022) November 14-16, 2022, KIIT Campus, Gurugram, India Web: www.specom.co.in ORGANIZER The conference is organized by KIIT College of Engineering as a hybrid event in Gurugram/New Delhi, India and online. 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 presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. 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 July 31, 2022 ...................... Submission of full papers September 05, 2022 .......... Notification of acceptance September 15, 2022 .......... Camera-ready papers September 20, 2022 .......... Early registration November 14-16, 2022 .......Conference dates GENERAL CHAIR/CO-CHAIR Shyam S Agrawal - KIIT, Gurugram Amita Dev - IGDTUW, Delhi TECHNICAL CHAIR/CO-CHAIRS S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna - IIT Dharwad Alexey Karpov - SPC RAS Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU K. Samudravijaya - KL University CONTACTS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM 2022 Secretariat E-mail: specomkiit@kiitworld.in Web: www.specom.co.in
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3-3-27 | (2022-12-13) CfP 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2022), Canberra, Australia SST2022: CALL FOR PAPERS The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is pleased to call for papers for the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2022). SST is an international interdisciplinary conference designed to foster collaboration among speech scientists, engineers, psycholinguists, audiologists, linguists, speech/language pathologists and industrial partners. ? Location: Canberra, Australia (remote participation options will also be available) ? Dates: 13-16 December 2022 ? Host Institution: Australian National University ? Deadline for tutorial and special session proposals: 8 April 2022 ? Deadline for submissions: 17 June 2022 ? Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2022 ? Deadline for upload of revised submissions: 16 September 2022 ? Website: www.sst2022.com Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, including: ? Acoustic phonetics ? Analysis of paralinguistics in speech and language ? Applications of speech science and technology ? Audiology ? Computer assisted language learning ? Corpus management and speech tools ? First language acquisition ? Forensic phonetics ? Hearing and hearing impairment ? Languages of Australia and Asia-Pacific (phonetics/phonology) ? Low-resource languages ? Pedagogical technologies for speech ? Second language acquisition ? Sociophonetics ? Speech signal processing, analysis, modelling and enhancement ? Speech pathology ? Speech perception ? Speech production ? Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice quality ? Speech synthesis and speech recognition ? Spoken language processing, translation, information retrieval and summarization ? Speaker and language recognition ? Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation ? Voice mechanisms, source-filter interactions We are inviting two categories of submission: 4-page papers (for oral or poster presentation, and publication in the proceedings), and 1-page detailed abstracts (for poster presentation only). Please follow the author instructions in preparing your submission. We also invite proposals for tutorials, as 3-hour intensive instructional sessions to be held on the first day of the conference. In addition, we welcome proposals for special sessions, as thematic groupings of papers exploring specific topics or challenges. Interdisciplinary special sessions are particularly encouraged. For any queries, please contact sst2022conf@gmail.com.
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