Call for Mentors for One-to-one Mentoring at Interspeech 2022
An initiative of the ISCA Mentoring Committee and ISCA-SAC


The ISCA Mentoring Committee and ISCA-SAC are happy to announce that one-to-one mentoring sessions are to return to Interspeech this year. The ISCA Mentoring Committee, in collaboration with ISCA-SAC, are inviting registrations from senior and mid-career speech researchers to act as mentors for students and early career researchers.

One-to-one mentoring was piloted in Brno last year with great success and this year in Incheon, there will be another great opportunity to connect with researchers from various backgrounds and experience levels, and engage in meaningful conversations.

Once registered, we will introduce you to your mentee during Interspeech (online or in-person) and let you arrange the best time/place for your conversation. This is intended to be a one-time session of approximately 40 minutes, although it is up to you and the participant whether you need more or less time for your discussion. Sessions can be conducted online or face-to-face, so delegates attending in-person and virtually can take part.

If you feel that you would be able to give meaningful advice and answer questions from participants, we warmly invite you to register as a mentor via our registration form.

Please also share this call in your networks if you know someone who would make a good mentor.

If you have any questions, do get in touch (sac@isca-speech.org, catarina.t.botelho@tecnico.ulisboa.pt & judith.dineley@kcl.ac.uk).

We look forward to meeting you at Interspeech 2022!

Warm regards,
The ISCA Mentoring Committee & ISCA-SAC

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

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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

Professor Barbosa and I are very pleased to announce that the 12th Speech Prosody Conference will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, July 2-5, 2024, and will be organized by Professors Yiya Chen, Amalia Arvaniti, and Aoju Chen.  (Of the 303 votes cast, 225 were for Leiden, 64 for Shanghai, and 14 indicated no preference.) 

Also I'd like to remind everyone that nominations for SProSIG officers for 2022-2024 are being accepted still this week, using the form at http://sprosig.org/about.html, to Professor Keikichi Hirose.  If you are considering nominating someone, including yourself, feel free to contact me or any current officer to discuss what's involved and what help is most needed.

Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair

Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

CCSB 3.0408,  +1-915-747-6827

nigel@utep.edu    https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/   

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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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9th Students meet Experts at Interspeech 2022

Date:  Wednesday, September 21th, from 16h to 17h KST (Korean time)

Location: Incheon, South Korea and online (tentative)

Panel of Experts: To be confirmed

After successful editions in Lyon (2013), Singapore (2014), San Francisco (2016), Stockholm (2017), Hyderabad (2018), Graz (2019), virtually in both Shanghai (2020) and Brno (2021), we are excited to announce that the Students Meet Experts event is now coming to Interspeech 2022 in Incheon, South Korea. We will have a panel discussion with experts from academia and industry in a hybrid format.

We encourage you to submit questions before the event. A selection of the submitted questions will be answered from the panel of experts. Please keep in mind that the experts and the audience are coming from different fields, so field specific and technical questions are less likely to be presented to the panel. To submit your questions and/or register for this event, we ask you to fill in the form, which will be announced soon. 

Registration and question form:https://forms.gle/yuQh4Zq1wxkAoRHb8 

Contact:

Thomas Rolland: sac@isca-speech.org

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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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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.

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Languages of the World, Doha, Qatar

9^th to 12^th January, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS IS ALREADY OPEN

The2022 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

GeneralChair

Ahmed Ali(QCRI)

Bhuvana Ramabhadran(Google)

Technical chairs

Shinji 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 chair

Jan Trmal(JohnsHopkinsUniversity)

Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave(UdeA,Colombia)

Sponsorship chairs

Murat Akbacak(Apple)

Eman Fituri (QCRI)

Jimmy Kunzmann(Amazon)

SLTC Liaison

Kyu Jeong Han(ASAAP)

Publication chairs

Alberto Abad Gareta(INESC-ID/IST)

Erfan Loweimi(King'sCollegeLondon)

Invited speaker chair

Andrew Rosenberg(Google)

Nancy F.Chen(Institute for Infocomm Research(I2R)

Challenge&demonstrationchairs

Imed Zitouni(Google)

Jon Barker(University of Sheffield)

Seokhwan Kim(Amazon)

Peter Bell(University of Edinburgh)

SpeechHackathonOrganizingCommittee

Thomas 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)

Advisoryboard

Jim Glass (MIT)

Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar)

Helen Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore)

Local Arrangements chairs

Shammur Chowdhury(QCRI)

Houda Bouamor(Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar)

Student coordinator

Berrak Sisman(Singapore University of  Technology and Design)

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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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  CALL FOR PAPERS

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• 2nd Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication joint with 2nd VoicePrivacy Challenge Workshop (INTERSPEECH 2022 satellite event)

• https://symposium2022.spsc-sig.org/

• May 18 – Long paper submission deadline 
• June 15 – VoicePrivacy Challenge and short paper submission deadline
• September 23-24 – Workshop

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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

• May 18 – Long paper submission deadline 
• June 15 – VoicePrivacy Challenge paper submission deadline 
• June 15 – Short paper submission deadline 
• July 1 – Author notification
• July 31 – VoicePrivacy Challenge results and system description submission deadline
• September 5 – Final paper submission
• September 23-24 – SPSC Symposium at the Incheon National University, Korea

===  Topics of interest

Topics regarding the technical perspective include:

• Privacy-preserving speech communication
• speech recognition and spoken language processing
• speech perception, production and acquisition
• speech synthesis and spoken language generation
• speech coding and enhancement
• speaker and language identification
• phonetics, phonology and prosody
• paralinguistics in speech and language
• Cybersecurity
• privacy engineering and secure computation
• network security and adversarial robustness
• mobile security
• cryptography
• biometrics
• Machine learning
• federated learning
• disentangled representations
• differential privacy
• Natural language processing
• web as corpus, resources and evaluation
• tagging, summarization, syntax and parsing
• question answering, discourse and pragmatics
• machine translation and document analysis
• linguistic theories and psycholinguistics
• inference of semantics and information extraction

Topics regarding the humanities’ view include:

• Human-computer interfaces (speech as medium)
• usable security and privacy
• ubiquitous computing
• pervasive computing and communication
• cognitive science
• Ethics and law
• privacy and data protection
• media and communication
• identity management
• electronic mobile commerce
• data in digital media
• Digital humanities
• acceptance and trust studies
• user experience research on practice
• co-development across disciplines
• data-citizenship
• situated ethics
• STS perspectives

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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VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge
http://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org

• Challenge paper submission deadline: 15 June 2022
• Results and paper description submission deadline: 31 July 2022
• ISCA workshop (Incheon, Korea in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2022): 23-24 September 2022

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 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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Call for Papers

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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

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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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CALL FOR POSTER PAPERS
https://ismar2022.org/call-for-posters/

OVERVIEW
ISMAR 2022, the premier conference for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), will be held on October 17-21, 2022. Note that ISMAR offers three distinct calls for journals, papers, and posters. This call is for submission to the conference poster track. See the ISMAR website for more information.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Poster Paper Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2022
Notification: August 15th, 2022
Camera-ready version: August 22nd, 2022
ISMAR is responding to the increasing commercial and research activities related to AR and MR and Virtual Reality (VR) by continuing the expansion of its scope over the past several years. ISMAR 2022 will cover the full range of technologies encompassed by the MR continuum, from interfaces in the real world to fully immersive experiences.

ISMAR invites research contributions that advance AR/VR/MR technologies, collectively referred to as eXtended Reality (XR) technologies, and are relevant to the community.

The poster session is one of the highlights of ISMAR, where the community engages in a discussion about the benefits and challenges of XR in other research and application domains.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
We welcome paper submissions from 2-6 pages, including the list of references. Poster papers will be reviewed on the basis of an extended abstract, which can contain smaller contributions, late breaking developments or in-progress work.

Please note that ISMAR further distinguishes poster papers of 2 pages to be non-archival and poster papers of 3 or more pages to be archival. This means that authors of 2 page poster papers can resubmit longer versions of their accepted work, with additional details, at later ISMAR conferences.

All submissions will be accepted or rejected as poster papers.
All accepted papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library
At least one of the authors must register and attend the ISMAR 2022 conference to present the poster
The Poster track is co-aligned to the Conference Paper track, which may accept some Conference Paper submissions as posters based on the merit of their contribution. Detailed submission and review guidelines are available on the conference website and the Guidelines section.

Note that All paper submissions must be in English.

ISMAR 2022 Poster Chairs
poster_chairs@ismar2022.org

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Dans le cadre du GdR CNRS Traitement automatique des langues (GdR TAL), l’IRISA organise une journée scientifique sur le thème de « l’accès à l’information » le 19 octobre 2022 à Rennes. La journée sera organisée autour de plusieurs présentations orales invitées et de présentations posters et de démos (cf. appel ci-dessous).

Thèmes

La numérisation de la société a censément facilité l’accès aux informations, que ce soit pour le grand public (savoir encyclopédique, actualités…) ou dans des domaines de spécialité (p. ex. littérature scientifique).

Cependant, face à l’avalanche de documents, de sites web, de sources, etc., de nombreuses questions pratiques émergent, qui sont autant de défis scientifiques pour les domaines de la recherche d’information, du traitement de la langue et de la parole :

• Comment trouver les documents ou passages permettant de répondre à un besoin spécifique d’informations ?

• Comment extraire des informations spécifiques d’un ensemble de documents, des termes, des entités nommées ?

• Comment faciliter l’interaction entre un utilisateur et une collection de documents, naviguer en son sein, développer des interfaces de visualisation ?

• Comment résumer l'information ?

• Comment exploiter efficacement la multimodalité, traiter des documents multilingues ou multimédias ?

• Comment interfacer bases de connaissances et systèmes de TAL ?

• Comment s’assurer de la fiabilité des sources et des informations extraites, comment caractériser leurs biais ?

• ...

Appel à poster et démos

Dans le cadre de cette journée, nous invitons les chercheuses et chercheurs, travaillant sur ces thèmes dans un cadre académique ou industriel à présenter (démo ou poster) leurs travaux, même déjà publiés, pour échanger avec des collègues du domaine. Pour cela, il suffit de soumettre un résumé d’une page maximum, et/ou le poster s’il est déjà existant, et/ou l’article décrivant les travaux si déjà publié, en français ou en anglais, https://gdr-tal-rennes.sciencesconf.org .

Soumission des résumés/posters/articles : au fil de l’eau et au plus tard 30 septembre 2022

Notification aux auteurs : 1 semaine après réception de la proposition

Orateurs invités

Il y aura 4 présentations invitées, bientôt annoncées…

Inscription et venue

La journée se tiendra dans le centre de conférence à l’IRISA - Centre Inria de l'université de Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes.

Inscription (gratuite mais obligatoire), programme et informations : https://gdr-tal-rennes.sciencesconf.org

Rappel : Le GDR TAL finance une mission pour un chercheur ou enseignant chercheur  par équipe du GDR. La demande est à effectuer par le responsable de l’équipe au bureau du GDR. La liste des équipes éligibles est sur le site du GDR TAL ; cf. https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/reseau-des-doctorants/ 

De plus, pour les jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs venant présenter leurs travaux, des aides pour venir à cette journée peuvent également être sollicitées auprès des organisateurs. Contactez vincent.claveau@irisa.fr 

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International Workshop on “Voice Assistant Systems in Team Interactions ‒ Implications, Best Practice, Applications, and Future Perspectives”
VASTI 2022

co-located with the ICMI 2022

https://vasti2022.mobileds.de/

Scope
The workshop is encouraging an interdisciplinary exchange of researchers focussing on multimodal interactions in the wide range of group research aspects, linguistic and acoustic perspectives, as well as dialogue management in relation to speech based systems, e.g. voice  assistants. Regarding the mentioned research communities, the interdisciplinary collaboration between these research communities is currently rather loose. Therefore, the workshop aims on bridging the three research communities based on shared interests and provides a platform for detailed discussions.

Generally, human beings are usually interactive and socially engaged, often communicating in either dyads or groups. During such interactions, each communication partner (human or technical) is providing a variety of information, including general information/content, as well as personal and relational information. These communication aspects are in the focus of group interactions or multi-party interactions. In social sciences, areas such as investigating interpersonal relationships of the group members and the dynamics of group interaction, cohesion, and performance, are observed. These aspects are nowadays also considered in computer sciences and linguistics using automatic analyses. Unfortunately, these communities have started to collaborate only recently. In this sense, the workshop aims to strengthen these collaborations.

However, especially the advent of voice assistants and the increased distributions provide an optimal testbed to combine the three communities and encourage interdisciplinary discussions highlighting contributions from each research perspective. Especially, since at a certain level of development, current voice assistance systems seem to set the expectation of human-like linguistic flexibility and complexity, which is disproportionate to the actual skills of the artificial agent. To enable future technical systems to act as a conversational partner and act naturally in group or dyadic multimodal interactions, it is necessary to combine knowledge and research approaches on the fundamental mechanisms of human speech perception and speech production from a cognitive, psycholinguistic point of view as well as insights from interactional linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics with phonetics, phonology and prosody in the context of spoken interaction with machines. This should be further combined with aspects of dialogue management and social signal processing to allow a holistic consideration of the users and using groups.


Topics

• Voice Assistant Technology

• Multimodal Interactions in Teams

• Automatic Team Analyses
• Multi-Party Interaction
• Linguistics in Voice Assistance
• Linguistics in Teams
• Communication in Teams
• Human Speech Perception
• Multimodal Perception

Important dates:
Submission deadline: July 28, 2022
Notification of Acceptance: August 12, 2022
Camera ready: August 19, 2022
Workshop date: November 7, 2022

Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages, 7+1
reference) and short papers (5 pages, 4+1 reference) following the ICMI
2022 Latex or Word templates, as specified by ICMI 2021. All submissions
should be anonymous. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.

Venue
in conjunction with ICMI 2022 (intended to be onsite)

Organizers
Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany
Daniel Duran, Leibniz Zentrum für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, Germany
Ingo Siegert, University Magdeburg, Germany

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SPECOM-2022 – CALL FOR PAPERS

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 The conference is relocated in India. 

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SPECOM-2022 – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

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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 both 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, and 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 presentations 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 (extended!)

August 16, 2022 .................. Submission of full papers

September 13, 2022 ........... Notification of acceptance

September 20, 2022 ........... Camera-ready papers

September 27, 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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Final call for papers

Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
https://bit.ly/rail2022


The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is
organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African
Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers
who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting
the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of
the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African
indigenous language resources, including both data and tools.
Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers
interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions
on improving the quality and availability of the resources.  Many
African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited
resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally
quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the
development and use of specialized techniques.  By bringing together
researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics,
sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of
language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost
research in this field.

The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers
working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically
targeted towards African indigenous languages.  It aims to create the
conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that
focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied
to indigenous languages found in Africa.

Suggested topics include the following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources


The 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern
African Microlinguistics Workshop (
https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be
an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration
will be free.

RAIL 2022 submission requirements:
* RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages
for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of
the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide (
https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30
).
* Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the
Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (
https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/).
* Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted
through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022).

Important dates
Submission deadline: 28 August 2022
Date of notification: 30 September 2022
Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022
RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom
SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom


Organising Committee
Jessica Mabaso
Rooweither Mabuya
Muzi Matfunjwa
Mmasibidi Setaka
Menno van Zaanen

South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South
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CALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23
Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents
From expressive and context-aware multimodal generation of digital humans to understanding the social cognition of real humans

Submission (to be openened July, 22 2022):  https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023
SIVA'23 workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/
FG 2023 conference: January 4-8 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/

OVERVIEW

Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality together with spectacular advances in artificial intelligence, the ultra-realistic generation and animation of digital humans with human-like behaviors is becoming a massive topic of interest. This complex endeavor requires modeling several elements of human behavior including the natural coordination of multimodal behaviors including text, speech, face, and body, plus the contextualization of behavior in response to interlocutors of different cultures and motivations. Thus, challenges in this topic are two folds—the generation and animation of coherent multimodal behaviors, and modeling the expressivity and contextualization of the virtual agent with respect to human behavior, plus understanding and modeling virtual agent behavior adaptation to increase human’s engagement. The aim of this workshop is to connect traditionally distinct communities (e.g., speech, vision, cognitive neurosciences, social psychology) to elaborate and discuss the future of human interaction with human-like virtual agents. We expect contributions from the fields of signal processing, speech and vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, perceptual studies, and cognitive and neuroscience. Topics will range from multimodal generative modeling of virtual agent behaviors, and speech-to-face and posture 2D and 3D animation, to original research topics including style, expressivity, and context-aware animation of virtual agents. Moreover, the availability of controllable real-time virtual agent models can be used as state-of-the-art experimental stimuli and confederates to design novel, groundbreaking experiments to advance understanding of social cognition in humans. Finally, these virtual humans can be used to create virtual environments for medical purposes including rehabilitation and training.

SCOPE

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

+ Analysis of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Analyzing and understanding of human multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Creating datasets for the study and modeling of human multimodal behavior
- Coordination and synchronization of human multimodal behavior
- Analysis of style and expressivity in human multimodal behavior
- Cultural variability of social multimodal behavior

+ Modeling and Generation of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Multimodal generation of human-like behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Face and gesture generation driven by text and speech
- Context-aware generation of multimodal human-like behavior
- Modeling of style and expressivity for the generation of multimodal behavior
- Modeling paralinguistic cues for multimodal behavior generation
- Few-shots or zero-shot transfer of style and expressivity
- Slightly-supervised adaptation of multimodal behavior to context

+ Psychology and Cognition of of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Cognition of deep fakes and ultra-realistic digital manipulation of human-like behavior
- Social agents/robots as tools for capturing, measuring and understanding multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Neuroscience and social cognition of real humans using virtual agents and physical robots

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline September, 12 2022 
Notification of Acceptance: October, 15 2022 
Camera-ready deadline: October, 31 2022
Workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023

VENUE

The SIVA workshop is organized as a satellite workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. The workshop will be collocated with the FG 2023 and WACV 2023 conferences at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submissions must be original and not published or submitted elsewhere.  Short papers of 3 pages excluding references encourage submissions of early research in original emerging fields. Long paper of 6 to 8 pages excluding references promote the presentation of strongly original contributions, positional or survey papers. The manuscript should be formatted according to the Word or Latex template provided on the workshop website.  All submissions will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. The reviewing process will be single-blinded. Authors will be asked to disclose possible conflict of interests, such as cooperation in the previous two years. Moreover, care will be taken to avoid reviewers from the same institution as the authors.  Authors should submit their articles in a single pdf file in the submission website - no later than September, 12 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October, 15 2022, and the camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers comments should be submitted by October, 31 2022. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the FG'2023 conference. More information can be found on the SIVA website.

DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION

The format of this workshop will be hybrid online and onsite. This format proposes format of scientific exchanges in order to satisfy travel restrictions and COVID sanitary precautions, to promote inclusion in the research community (travel costs are high, online presentations will encourage research contributions from geographical regions which would normally be excluded), and to consider ecological issues (e.g., CO2 footprint). The organizing committee is committed to paying attention to equality, diversity, and inclusivity in consideration of invited speakers. This effort starts from the organizing committee and the invited speakers to the program committee.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
🌸 Nicolas Obin, STMS Lab (Ircam, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, ministère de la Culture)
🌸 Ryo Ishii, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories
🌸 Rachael E. Jack, University of Glasgow
🌸 Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University
🌸 Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne UniversitéCALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23
Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents
From expressive and context-aware multimodal generation of digital humans to understanding the social cognition of real humans

Submission (to be openened July, 22 2022):  https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023
SIVA'23 workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/
FG 2023 conference: January 4-8 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/

OVERVIEW

Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality together with spectacular advances in artificial intelligence, the ultra-realistic generation and animation of digital humans with human-like behaviors is becoming a massive topic of interest. This complex endeavor requires modeling several elements of human behavior including the natural coordination of multimodal behaviors including text, speech, face, and body, plus the contextualization of behavior in response to interlocutors of different cultures and motivations. Thus, challenges in this topic are two folds—the generation and animation of coherent multimodal behaviors, and modeling the expressivity and contextualization of the virtual agent with respect to human behavior, plus understanding and modeling virtual agent behavior adaptation to increase human’s engagement. The aim of this workshop is to connect traditionally distinct communities (e.g., speech, vision, cognitive neurosciences, social psychology) to elaborate and discuss the future of human interaction with human-like virtual agents. We expect contributions from the fields of signal processing, speech and vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, perceptual studies, and cognitive and neuroscience. Topics will range from multimodal generative modeling of virtual agent behaviors, and speech-to-face and posture 2D and 3D animation, to original research topics including style, expressivity, and context-aware animation of virtual agents. Moreover, the availability of controllable real-time virtual agent models can be used as state-of-the-art experimental stimuli and confederates to design novel, groundbreaking experiments to advance understanding of social cognition in humans. Finally, these virtual humans can be used to create virtual environments for medical purposes including rehabilitation and training.

SCOPE

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

+ Analysis of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Analyzing and understanding of human multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Creating datasets for the study and modeling of human multimodal behavior
- Coordination and synchronization of human multimodal behavior
- Analysis of style and expressivity in human multimodal behavior
- Cultural variability of social multimodal behavior

+ Modeling and Generation of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Multimodal generation of human-like behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Face and gesture generation driven by text and speech
- Context-aware generation of multimodal human-like behavior
- Modeling of style and expressivity for the generation of multimodal behavior
- Modeling paralinguistic cues for multimodal behavior generation
- Few-shots or zero-shot transfer of style and expressivity
- Slightly-supervised adaptation of multimodal behavior to context

+ Psychology and Cognition of of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Cognition of deep fakes and ultra-realistic digital manipulation of human-like behavior
- Social agents/robots as tools for capturing, measuring and understanding multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Neuroscience and social cognition of real humans using virtual agents and physical robots

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline September, 12 2022 
Notification of Acceptance: October, 15 2022 
Camera-ready deadline: October, 31 2022
Workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023

VENUE

The SIVA workshop is organized as a satellite workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. The workshop will be collocated with the FG 2023 and WACV 2023 conferences at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submissions must be original and not published or submitted elsewhere.  Short papers of 3 pages excluding references encourage submissions of early research in original emerging fields. Long paper of 6 to 8 pages excluding references promote the presentation of strongly original contributions, positional or survey papers. The manuscript should be formatted according to the Word or Latex template provided on the workshop website.  All submissions will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. The reviewing process will be single-blinded. Authors will be asked to disclose possible conflict of interests, such as cooperation in the previous two years. Moreover, care will be taken to avoid reviewers from the same institution as the authors.  Authors should submit their articles in a single pdf file in the submission website - no later than September, 12 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October, 15 2022, and the camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers comments should be submitted by October, 31 2022. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the FG'2023 conference. More information can be found on the SIVA website.

DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION

The format of this workshop will be hybrid online and onsite. This format proposes format of scientific exchanges in order to satisfy travel restrictions and COVID sanitary precautions, to promote inclusion in the research community (travel costs are high, online presentations will encourage research contributions from geographical regions which would normally be excluded), and to consider ecological issues (e.g., CO2 footprint). The organizing committee is committed to paying attention to equality, diversity, and inclusivity in consideration of invited speakers. This effort starts from the organizing committee and the invited speakers to the program committee.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
🌸 Nicolas Obin, STMS Lab (Ircam, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, ministère de la Culture)52023-01)04)
🌸 Ryo Ishii, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories
🌸 Rachael E. Jack, University of Glasgow
🌸 Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University
🌸 Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Université

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FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

We are opening the registration for the third Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS), co-organized by University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe.

*Target Audience*

This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved for academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry.

*Characteristics*

Advanced lectures by first class researchers. A (virtual) atmosphere that fosters connections and interaction. A poster session for attendees to present their work, gather feedback and brainstorm future work ideas.

*Speakers*

The current list of speakers is: Kyunghyun Cho (New York University, USA); Yejin Choi (University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI, USA); Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University, Italia); Colin Raffel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hugging Face, USA); Lucia Specia (Imperial College, UK), François Yvon (LISN/CNRS, France).  

*Application*

To apply to this winter school, please follow the instructions at http://alps.imag.fr/index.php/application/ . The deadline for applying is Sept 16th, and we will notify acceptance on October 3rd.

*Contact*

Website: http://alps.imag.fr/

E-mail: alps@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

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SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS)

January, 16-20 2023

Virtual Event

 

We are opening the registration for the third Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS), co-organized by University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe.

 

*Target Audience*

 

This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved for academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry.

 

*Characteristics*

 

Advanced lectures by first class researchers. A (virtual) atmosphere that fosters connections and interaction. A poster session for attendees to present their work, gather feedback and brainstorm future work ideas.

 

*Speakers*

 

The current list of speakers is: Michael Auli (Meta, USA), Kyunghyun Cho (New York University, USA); Yejin Choi (University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI, USA); Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University, Italia); Colin Raffel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hugging Face, USA); Lucia Specia (Imperial College, UK), François Yvon (LISN/CNRS, France).  

 

*Application*

 

To apply to this winter school, please follow the instructions at http://alps.imag.fr/index.php/application/ . The deadline for applying is Sept 16th, and we will notify acceptance on October 3rd.

 

*Contact*

 

Website: http://alps.imag.fr/

E-mail: alps@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

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++ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ++ 

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45th European Conference on Information Retrieval 

April 2^nd – 6^th April 2023 – Dublin, Ireland 

Website: https://ecir2023.org/

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++ Important Dates ++ 

    - Submission deadline: September 19th, 2022 

    - Acceptance Notification Date: October 9th, 2022 

    - Workshops day: April 2nd, 2023 

++ Overview ++ 

ECIR 2023 workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in emerging areas in IR in a more focused and interactive way than the conference itself. Workshops can be either a half-day (3.30 hours plus breaks) or a full day (7 hours plus breaks) and are to be onsite. At least one organizer is expected to attend the workshop. 

++ List of Topics ++ 

ECIR 2023 encourages the submission of workshops on the theory, experimentation, and practice of retrieval, representation, management, and usage of textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information, but proposals aligned with other topics of IR (namely those identified in the general call for papers) are highly welcome as well.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• User aspects, including information interaction, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and behaviours.
• System and foundational aspects, including retrieval models and architectures, content analysis and classification, recommendation algorithms, query processing and ranking, efficiency and scalability.
• Machine learning, deep learning, neural IR, natural language processing, as applied to textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information.
• Applications such as web search, recommender systems, web and social media apps, domain-specific search, enterprise search, novel interfaces to search tools, intelligent search, academic search, and conversational agents.
• Evaluation research, including new measures and novel methods for measuring and evaluating systems, datasets, users, and/or applications. 
• Cross-disciplinary workshops, including IR and other domains such as NLP, data science, etc., are also particularly welcome.

++ Submission Guidelines ++ 

Workshop proposals should contain the following information:

• Title and abstract of the workshop;
• Motivation and relevance to ECIR;
• Workshop goals/objectives and overall vision, coupled with desired outcomes;
• Format and Structure, in particular duration of the workshop (full-day or half-day workshop); mention to the type of papers (e.g., full papers, demo papers, negative papers, etc); type of presentation (e.g., oral; poster, etc); and proceedings (e.g., CEUR; Special Issue, etc); planned activities, the tentative schedule of events etc.; resources needed to deliver the workshop (e.g., poster boards, etc);
• Intended audience, including number of expected participants and how they will be selected/invited;
• List of organisers with a brief bio of each with respect to the content of the workshop;
• Names of potential programme committee members, invited speakers; etc
• Indicate if the workshop is related to or follows on from another workshop; if so, please, identify which conference it was previously held at, the past attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed;
• Any other relevant information to support your proposal.

Workshop proposals should be prepared using Springer proceedings templates to be found on Springer webpage (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), with a maximum length of 8 pages. All proposals should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir23) and must be in English. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ECIR 2023 workshop committee based on the quality of their proposal, covered topics, relationship to ECIR and likelihood to attract participants. Final decisions will be made by the ECIR workshop co-chairs. 

++ Workshop Chairs ++ 

Ricardo Campos, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and INESC TEC, Portugal

Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy

++ Contacts ++ 

For further information, please contact the ECIR 2023 Workshop chairs by email to ecir2023-workshop@easychair.org

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ICMR2023 – ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

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MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
http://www.mldm.de
 
When    Jul 16, 2023 - Jul 21, 2023
Where    New York, USA
Submission Deadline    Jan 15, 2023
Notification Due    Mar 18, 2023
Final Version Due    Apr 5, 2023
Categories:    machine learning   data mining   pattern recognition   classification
 
Call For Papers
MLDM 2023
18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
July 15 - 19, 2023, New York, USA

The Aim of the Conference
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world who deal with machine learning and data mining in order to discuss the recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic research papers as well as application papers are welcome.

Chair
Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI, Germany

Program Committee
Piotr Artiemjew University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Sung-Hyuk Cha Pace Universtity, USA
Ming-Ching Chang University of Albany, USA
Mark J. Embrechts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and CardioMag Imaging, Inc, USA
Robert Haralick City University of New York, USA
Adam Krzyzak Concordia University, Canada
Chengjun Liu New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Krzysztof Pancerz University Rzeszow, Poland
Dan Simovici University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Agnieszka Wosiak Lodz University of Technology, Poland
more to be annouced...


Topics of the conference

Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the following topics:

Association Rules
Audio Mining
Autoamtic Semantic Annotation of Media Content
Bayesian Models and Methods
Capability Indices
Case-Based Reasoning and Associative Memory
case-based reasoning and learning
Classification & Prediction
classification and interpretation of images, text, video
Classification and Model Estimation
Clustering
Cognition and Computer Vision
Conceptional Learning
conceptional learning and clustering
Content-Based Image Retrieval
Control Charts
Decision Trees
Design of Experiment
Desirabilities
Deviation and Novelty Detection
Feature Grouping, Discretization, Selection and Transformation
Feature Learning
Frequent Pattern Mining
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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