|
 |
ISCApad #290 |
| Saturday, August 06, 2022 by Chris Wellekens |
3-2 ISCA Supported Events
| 3-2-1 | (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
---
| |||||
| 3-2-2 | (2022-09-07) 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.
| |||||
| 3-2-3 | (2023-01-07) SLT-CODE Hackathon Announcement , Doha, Qatar SLT-CODE Hackathon Announcement
Have you ever asked yourself how your smartphone recognizes what you say and who you are?
Have you ever thought about how machines recognize different languages?
If that is your case, join us for a two-day speech and language technology hackathon. We will answer these questions and build fantastic systems with the guidance of top language and speech scientists in a collaborative environment.
The two-day speech and language technology hackathon will take place during the IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop in Doha, Qatar, on January 7th and 8th, 2023. This year's Hackathon will be inspiring, momentous, and fun. The goal is to build a diverse community of people who want to explore and envision how machines understand the world's spoken languages.
During the Hackathon, you will be exposed (but not limited) to speech and language toolkits like ESPNet, SpeechBrain, K2/Kaldi, Huggingface, TorchAudio, or commercial APIs like Amazon Lex, etc., and you will be hands-on using this technology.
At the end of the Hackathon, every team will share their findings with the rest of the participants. Selected projects will have the opportunity to be presented at the SLT workshop.
The Hackathon will be at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) in Doha, Qatar (GMT+3). In-person participation is preferred; however, remote participation is possible by joining a team with at least one person being local.
More information on how to apply and important dates are available at our website https://slt2022.org/hackathon.php.
Interested? Apply here: https://forms.gle/a2droYbD4qset8ii9 The deadline for registration is September 30th, 2022.
If you have immediate questions, don't hesitate to contact our hackathon chairs directly at hackathon.slt2022@gmail.com.
| |||||
| 3-2-4 | (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)
|
