Call for Special Sessions/Challenges

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Call for Special Sessions/Challenges for INTERSPEECH 2023 in Dublin, Ireland in August 2023.

Submissions are encouraged covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference’s theme, Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology, are particularly welcome. Apart from supporting a particular theme, special sessions may also have a different format from a regular session.

Check out https://www.interspeech2023.org/special-sessions-challenges/ for more information, including how to submit your proposal.

Important Dates

Proposals of special sessions/challenges due       9th November 2022

Notification of pre-selection       14th December 2022

Final list of special sessions         17th May 2023

For all updates on INTERSPEECH 2023, refer to our website at https://www.interspeech2023.org/

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INTERSPEECH 2023 First Call for Papers

INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasise interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications.

INTERSPEECH 2023 will take place in Dublin, Ireland, from August 20-24^th 2023 and will feature oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions and challenges, show & tell, exhibits, and satellite events.

The theme of INTERSPEECH 2023 is Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology – Breaking Down Barriers. Whilst it is not a requirement to address this theme, we encourage submissions that: report performance metric distributions in addition to averages; break down results by demographic; employ diverse data; evaluate with diverse target users; report barriers that could prevent other researchers adopting a technique, or users from benefitting. This is not an exhaustive list, and authors are encouraged to discuss the implications of the conference theme for their own work.

Papers are especially welcome from authors who identify as being under-represented in the speech science and technology community, whether that is because of geographical location, economic status, race, age, gender, sexual orientation or any other characteristic.

Paper Submission

INTERSPEECH 2023 seeks original and innovative papers covering all aspects of speech science and technology. The working language of the conference is English, so papers must be written in English. The paper length is up to four pages in two columns with an additional page for references only. Submitted papers must conform to the format defined in the author’s kit provided on the conference website (https://www.interspeech2023.org/), and may optionally be accompanied by multimedia files. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically and will be evaluated through rigorous peer review on the basis of novelty and originality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strengths, and quality of references. The Technical Programme Committee will decide which papers to include in the conference programme using peer review as the primary criterion, with secondary criteria of addressing the conference theme, and diversity across the programme as a whole.

Scientific areas and topics

INTERSPEECH 2022 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication, including – but not limited to – the following topics:

• Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

• Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody

• Paralinguistics in Speech and Language

• Analysis of Conversation

• Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders

• Speaker and Language Identification

• Speech and Audio Signal Analysis

• Speech Coding and Enhancement

• Speech Synthesis

• Spoken Language Generation

• Automatic Speech Recognition

• Spoken Dialogue and Conversational AI Systems

• Spoken Language Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization

• Technologies and Systems for New Applications

• Resources and Evaluation

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Simon King - University of Edinburgh, UK

Kate Knill - University of Cambridge, UK

Petra Wagner - University of Bielefeld, Germany

Contact

For all queries relating to this call for papers, please email:

tpc-chairs@interspeech2023.org

Important dates

Paper Submission Deadline March 1st, 2023

Paper Update Deadline March 8th, 2023

Paper Acceptance Notification May 17th, 2023

Final Paper Upload and Paper Presenter Registration Deadline June 1st, 2023

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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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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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ISCA Workshop - Remembering Sadaoki Furui
November 29, 2022, 14h00-16h30 Central European Time
A zoom link for participating in the virtual workshop can be obtained following the information on the ISCA home page from November 15.

Program:

14:00 - Welcome (Chair: Sebastian Möller)

14:10 - Tatsuya Kawahara (Chair: Sebastian Möller)

14:25 - Audio excerpt from IEEE, plus photo collage (Chair: Isabel Trancoso)

14:30 - Shri Narayanan (Chair: Isabel Trancoso)

14:45 - Video excerpt from Saras Institute  (Chair: Julia Hirschberg)

14:50 - Karen Livescu (Chair: Julia Hirschberg)

15:05 - Video excerpt from Maui workshop (Chair: John Hansen)

15:10 - Jean-François Bonastre (Chair: Roger Moore)

15:25  - Panel session open to anyone who registers (Chair: Roger Moore)

16:15 - Closing

Organizing Team: 

Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University

Sebastian Möller, TU Berlin

Roger Moore, University of Sheffield

Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID/IST, Univ. Lisbon

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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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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 30th, 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 PAPERS ++ 

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Sixth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'23) 

Held in conjunction with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23) 

April 2nd, 2023 - Dublin, Ireland 

Website: https://text2story23.inesctec.pt

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++ Important Dates ++ 

    - Submission deadline: January 23rd, 2023 

    - Acceptance Notification Date: March 3rd, 2023 

    - Camera-ready copies: March 17th, 2023 

    - Workshop: April 2nd, 2023 

++ Overview ++ 

Recent years have shown a stream of continuously evolving information making it unmanageable and time-consuming for an interested reader to track and process and to keep up with all the essential information and the various aspects of a story. Automated narrative extraction from text offers a compelling approach to this problem. It involves identifying the sub-set of interconnected raw documents, extracting the critical narrative story elements, and representing them in an adequate final form (e.g., timelines) that conveys the key points of the story in an easy-to-understand format. Although, information extraction and natural language processing have made significant progress towards an automatic interpretation of texts, the problem of automated identification and analysis of the different elements of a narrative present in a document (set) still presents significant unsolved challenges

++ List of Topics ++ 

In the sixth edition of the Text2Story workshop, we aim to bring to the forefront the challenges involved in understanding the structure of narratives and in incorporating their representation in well-established models, as well as in modern architectures (e.g., transformers) which are now common and form the backbone of almost every IR and NLP application. It is hoped that the workshop will provide a common forum to consolidate the multi-disciplinary efforts and foster discussions to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task. To this regard, we encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics: 

•     Narrative Representation Models
•     Story Evolution and Shift Detection
•     Temporal Relation Identification
•     Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events
•     Causal Relation Extraction and Arrangement
•     Narrative Summarization
•     Multi-modal Summarization
•     Automatic Timeline Generation
•     Storyline Visualization
•     Comprehension of Generated Narratives and Timelines
•     Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction
•     Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives
•     User Profiling and User Behavior Modeling
•     Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Texts
•     Argumentation Analysis
•     Bias Detection and Removal in Generated Stories
•     Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation
•     Misinformation and Fact Checking
•     Bots Influence
•     Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections
•     Event and Entity importance Estimation in Narratives
•     Multilinguality: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis
•     Evaluation Methodologies for Narrative Extraction
•     Resources and Dataset Showcase
•     Dataset Annotation for Narrative Generation/Analysis
•     Applications in Social Media (e.g. narrative generation during a natural disaster)
•     Language Models and Transfer Learning in Narrative Analysis
•     Narrative Analysis in Low-resource Languages

++ Dataset ++

    We challenge the interested researchers to consider submitting a paper that makes use of the tls-covid19 dataset (published at ECIR'21) under the scope and purposes of the text2story workshop. tls-covid19 consists of a number of curated topics related to the Covid-19 outbreak, with associated news articles from Portuguese and English news outlets and their respective reference timelines as gold-standard. While it was designed to support timeline summarization research tasks it can also be used for other tasks including the study of news coverage about the COVID-19 pandemic. A script to reconstruct and expand the dataset is available at https://github.com/LIAAD/tls-covid19. The article itself is available at this link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72113-8_33 

++ Submission Guidelines ++ 

    We invite two kinds of submissions: 

• Full papers (up to 7 pages + references): Original and high-quality unpublished contributions on the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full-papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed.
• Work in progress, demos and dissemination papers (up to 4 pages + references): unpublished short papers describing work in progress; demo and resource papers presenting research/industrial prototypes, datasets or software packages; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue.

    Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights.

++ Workshop Format ++ 

    Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral presentations.

++ Organizing committee ++ 

    Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; Ci2 - Smart Cities Research Center, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Tomar, Portugal)

    Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal)

    Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

    Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe)

    Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel)

++ Proceedings Chair ++

    João Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC & Universidade da Beira do Interior)

    Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC) 

++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++

    Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto) 

    Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology)

++ Program Committee ++

    Álvaro Figueira (INESC TEC & University of Porto)

    Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz)

    Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle)

    António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon)

    Arian Pasquali (CitizenLab)

    Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto)

    Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)

    Bruno Martins (IST & INESC-ID, University of Lisbon)

    Daniel Loureiro (Cardiff University)

    Dennis Aumiller (Heidelberg University)

    Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

    Dyaa Albakour (Signal UK)

    Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC)

    Henrique Cardoso (INESC TEC & University of Porto)

    Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University)

    João Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC & University of Beira Interior)

    Kiran Bandeli (Walmart Inc.)

    Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino)

    Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon)

    Marc Finlayson (Florida International University)

    Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie)

    Moreno La Quatra (Politecnico di Torino)

    Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto)

    Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela)

    Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

    Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora)

    Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)

    Ross Purves (University of Zurich)

    Satya Almasian (Heidelberg University)

    Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto)

    Simra Shahid (Adobe's Media and Data Science Research Lab)

    Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg) 

++ Contacts ++ 

    Website: https://text2story23.inesctec.pt 

    For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2023@easychair.org

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Dear colleagues and prospective participants of HISPhonCog 2023

We are very pleased to inform you that we will resume our annual HISPhonCog conference in 2023 after such a long pause due to Covid 19.
We sincerely hope that we will be able to meet many of you in person in Seoul in May 2023.
Best wishes,
Taehong Cho
Chair

HISPhonCog 2023: Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2023

Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, May 26-27, 2023

https://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/about-hisphoncog/2023

HIPCS (Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language) at Hanyang University, together with Department of English Language and Literature, holds its 3rd annual international symposium on current issues on phonetics and cognitive sciences of language (HISPhonCog) 2023 on 26-27 May, 2023.

Theme for HISPhonCog 2023

Linguistic and cognitive functions of fine phonetic detail underlying sound systems and/or sound change

We have witnessed over past decades that the severance between phonetics and phonology has been steadily eroding along with the awareness of the importance of scalar and gradient aspects of speech in understanding the linguistic sound system and sound change. In particular, non-contrastive phonetic events (either at the subphonemic level or at the suprasegmental level of micro-prosody), which had traditionally been understood to be beyond the speaker’s control (as low-level automatic physiological phenomena), have been reinterpreted as part of the grammar. They have turned out to be either systematically linked with phonological contrasts in the segmental or intonational phonology and higher-order linguistic structures (e.g., prosodic structure, morphosyntactic structure, information structure) or governed by language-specific phonetic rules that make the seemingly cross-linguistically similar phonetic processes distinctive, both of which may in turn serve as driving forces for sound change. Furthermore, we have enjoyed seeing that the investigation of linguistic roles of fine phonetic detail provides insights into phonetic underpinnings of other speech variation phenomena such as sociolinguistically-driven speech variation and effects of native-language experience on production and perception of unfamiliar languages or L2. Most remarkably, such phonetic underpinnings are not purely segmental in nature, but they are suprasegmental or systematically related to prosodic structure and the intonational grammar of the language.  

We invite submissions which provide some empirical (experimental) evidence for exploring any issues related to the theme of the symposium. We also wish to have a special session on Articulatory Phonology and speech dynamics bearing on the issue of how gradient and categorical aspects of human speech may be combined to serve as a cognitive linguistic unit. We will also consider submissions that deal with other general issues in speech production and perception in L1 and L2. We particularly welcome submissions from the neuro-cognitive perspectives or from the phonetics-prosody interplay.  

Invited speakers

• Adam Albright (MIT)
• Lisa Davidson (New York University)
• John Kingston (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• Marianne Pouplier (University Munich)
• Donca Steriade (MIT)
• Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona)
• Douglas Whalen (CUNY and Haskins Laboratories)
• Alan Yu (University of Chicago)

A possible Special Issue to be published in a journal

• Oral presentations (including invited talks) and a limited number of selected posters (related to the themes of the conference under the rubric of linguistic/cognitive functions of fine phonetic detail) will be invited to submit a full manuscript to be considered further for a possible inclusion in a Special Issue in a peer-reviewed international journal.
• The actual journal has not been selected but we are considering one of the followings journals subject to final approval from a targeted journal: Journal of Phonetics, Phonetica, Journal of International Phonetic Association, Laboratory Phonology, Language and Speech, Linguistic Vanguard, The Linguistic Review, etc. 
• Once we know the journal, we will announce it on the HISPhonCog 2023 webpage.
• (tentative) Guest editors: T. Cho, S. Kim & H. MItterer
• If you wish to have your paper considered for the special issue, regardless of whether your paper is selected for oral presentation or not, please indicate your intention when you submit an abstract through Easy Chair. 
• We will also consider papers on the theme, even if they are not to be presented at the conference. In such a case, please send a two-page abstract (including figures and references within the two page limit) to Taehong Cho at tcho@hanyang.ac.kr by February 10. 
• Deadline of submission of invited/selected papers (for a special issue): July 30, 2023. (This deadline will be strictly enforced.)
• Note that each selected paper will undergo standard editorial/review processes which may eventually lead to its exclusion (rejection). 

Support for international participants (possible free accommodation)

• As before, we will do our best to provide free local hotel accommodation (one room for up to 3 nights per presentation) for international presenters affiliated with a foreign institute/university, travelling from abroad.
• Please note, however, that the local hotel we had a contract with before was closed due to Covid 19. So we may not be able to make an arrangement for free accommodation. If we don't find a solution, we will have to provide a small amount of partial accommodation subsidy with priority to be given to student presenters. The details will be sent to qualified individuals along with an acceptance letter, depending on the final budget approval.  

Free registration fees

• We are very pleased to inform you that we will be able to make registration free as before.
• Free registion will include free banquet, free munches for breakfast, free refreshments and a free conference handbook
• Attendees will have to pay (optionally) for lunches (10 USD or equivalent in KRW for each lunch) at the time of arrival. (The detail will be provided along with registration.) 
• Pre-registration should be made by no later than April 10, 2023 to be guaranteed for possible (partial) accommodation support (for international presenters) and free registration (for all foreign and domestic participants and audience).
• A pre-registration form that arrives a few days after April 10 may still be considered for free registration, depending on the budget and availability. Please contact us at hanyang.hipcs@gmail.com if you miss the deadline by a few days but still would like to register in advance.
• On-site registration will be possible for small fees, but with no guarantee for lunches and banquet admission.
• For further information about how to register, please check the website later.

Abstract submission instruction

• A PDF file of a two-page abstract (single-spaced with 12 pt font size *without* a list of authors’ names and their affiliations) should be submitted through EasyChair by February 10, 2023.
• URL for EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hisphoncog2023 (If the link does not work, please check http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog for an update.)

Call for Satellite Workshop 

• We set aside May 25 (Thursday), 2023 (the day before the main conference) for one or two possible satellite workshops. 
• We will provide rooms and light refreshments free of charge with support of our onsite personnel. 
• If you are interested, please contact Taehong Cho directly at tcho@hanyang.ac.kr. The proposal will be welcome until the two slots are filled. 

Timeline

• Deadline of submission of a two-page long abstract: February 10, 2023
• Notification of Acceptance: No later than March 10, 2023
• Free Registration with free accommodation: No later than April 10, 2023
• Satellite Workshop (if organized): May 25, 2023
• Symposium dates: May 26-27, 2023 
• (Submission of invited papers to a special issue: July 30, 2023)

Local Organizing Institute and Committee

Organizing Bodies of HISPhonCog:

• HIPCS (the Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language)
• CRC for Articulatory DB and Cognitive Sciences
• Department of English Language and Literature, Hanyang University

Organizing Committee:

• Taehong Cho (Chair, HIPCS, Hanyang University)
• Sahyang Kim (Hongik University & HIPCS)
• Say Young Kim (HIPCS, Hanyang University, Seoul)
• Suyeon Im (HIPCS, Hanyang University, Seoul)

  Contact

• Contact person: Dr. Suyeon Lim at hanyang.hipcs@gmail.com
• https://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/about-hisphoncog/2023

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ICMR2023 – ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

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JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023

https://www.irit.fr/jpc2023/

2e Appel à Communication

Rencontre scientifique internationale, les Journées de Phonétique Clinique sont principalement destinées à rassembler et à favoriser les échanges entre chercheurs, cliniciens, informaticiens, ingénieurs, phonéticiens et tout autre professionnel s’intéressant au fonctionnement de la parole, de la voix et du langage. Les JPC accueillent autant les experts que les jeunes chercheurs et les étudiants des domaines cliniques (médecine, orthophonie/logopédie), psychologique, informatique et des sciences du langage.

La production et la perception de la parole, de la voix et du langage de l’enfant et de l’adulte, sain ou atteint d’une pathologie, sont les domaines de prédilection des JPC. Ils y sont ainsi abordés selon des points de vue variés, permettant le partage des savoirs et l’ouverture de nouvelles pistes de réflexion, de recherche et de collaboration.

Lors de cette neuvième édition, la thématique des mesures de la parole sera mise en avant. Elle s’inscrit dans un cadre conceptuel dont les facettes sont multiples : analyses perceptives, traitement automatique du signal, caractérisations de l’intelligibilité, du trouble de la parole, des di/ysfluences atteignant le débit de la parole, la prosodie… Sa pertinence clinique est essentielle : l’évaluation du trouble, de ses conséquences fonctionnelles et de l’impact sur la qualité de vie est primordiale pour le suivi des patients atteints de pathologies neurologiques, cancérologiques…

Trois conférences plénières seront prévues autour du thème des journées. Une table ronde ainsi que des ateliers feront également partie du programme de cette nouvelle édition. 

Les propositions de communication (résumé de 400 mots, hors titre, auteurs et références) porteront sur les problématiques suivantes (liste non exhaustive) :

• Parole et perturbations des systèmes perceptifs, auditifs et visuels
• Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologiques
• Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé
• Évaluation fonctionnelle de la parole, du langage et de la voix.
• Diagnostic et traitement des troubles de la parole et de la voix parlée et chantée
• Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique
• Troubles cognitifs et moteurs de la parole et du langage
• …

Une attention particulière sera portée aux propositions ciblant la thématique autour des mesures de la parole.                                       

Dates importantes : 

- 20 janvier 2023 → Date limite de soumission des résumés via SciencesConf : https://jpc2023.sciencesconf.org/
- 30 mars 2023 → Notification aux auteurs
- du 30 mars au 15 mai 2023 → Inscriptions au tarif réduit
- 15 mai 2023 → Version finale des résumés
- Du 15 au 17 juin 2023 → Journées 

Téléchargez le flyer des JPC'2023 pour diffusion dans vos labos, sociétés savantes, ... 

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=== Call for workshop proposals IWCS 2023 ===

        Workshop submissions: 23 January 2023
        https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/IWCS-worshop/

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15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)

Université de Lorraine, France

20-23th June 2023
        http://iwcs2023.loria.fr/


IWCS is the biennial meeting of SIGSEM [1], the ACL special interest
group on semantics [2]; this year's edition is organized in person by the
Loria [3] and IDMC [4] of the Université de Lorraine.

        [1] http://sigsem.org/
        [2] http://aclweb.org/
        [3] https://www.loria.fr/fr/
        [4] http://idmc.univ-lorraine.fr/

The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers
interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction,
representation and neuralisation of meaning in natural language,
whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective.
IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to
computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference
and workshops will take place 20-23 June 2023.


=== WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ===

We invite proposals for '''workshops''' to be held in conjunction with
IWCS 2023. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational
semantics, in other words all computational aspects of meaning of
natural language within written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal
communication.


Workshops are invited on these closely related areas, including the
following:

* design of meaning representations
* syntax-semantics interface
* representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
* shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
* hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics
* distributional semantics
* alternative approaches to compositional semantics
* inference methods for computational semantics
* recognising textual entailment
* learning by reading
* methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
* machine learning of semantic structures
* probabilistic computational semantics
* neural semantic parsing
* computational aspects of lexical semantics
* semantics and ontologies
* semantic web and natural language processing
* semantic aspects of language generation
* generating from meaning representations
* semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
* semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
* multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
* semantics-pragmatics interface
* applications of computational semantics


=== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ===

Proposals for workshops should contain:
* A title and brief (max two pages) description of the workshop topic
and content;
* The names, affiliation and email addresses of the organisers;
* An estimate of the expected audience size;
* If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where
previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop
received, how many papers were accepted and how many attendees
the workshop attracted.

Proposals should be submitted on softconf:
        https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/IWCS-worshop/

as soon as possible, but no later than:
        23 January 2022.

Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will be by
        30 January 2022.


=== FINANCES ===

Workshops must be financially self-supporting.
The conference organisers will establish registration rates to cover
the costs.


=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

23 January 2023 Workshop proposal submissions due

30 January 2023 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance

20 June 2023 Workshop date (on 1 or 2 of these dates)

=== CONTACT ===

For questions, contact: iwcs2023-contact@univ-lorraine.fr

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Hae-Sung Jeon and colleagues are organizing a workshop titled Speech Prosody and Beyond,

June 20-23 in Seoul, with abstracts due February 5. 

Details are at https://ukskprosodynetwork.github.io/ .

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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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The president of the IPA, Michael Ashby, would like to call attention to the IPA's generous scheme of student awards and travel bursaries for ICPhS. He hopes that many of us will encourage our students to apply.

https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/news/202210/ipa-student-awardstravel-bursaries-and-g%C3%B6sta-bruce-scholarships-icphs-2023 <https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/news/202210/ipa-student-awardstravel-bursaries-and-g%C3%B6sta-bruce-scholarships-icphs-2023>

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We would like to bring to your notice the launch of the special session at Interspeech 2023 on DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments [DISPLACE] Challenge.  

The DISPLACE challenge entails a first of kind task to perform speaker and language diarization on the same data, as the data contains multi-speaker social conversations in multilingual code-mixed speech. In multilingual communities, social conversations frequently involve code-mixed and code-switched speech. In such cases, various speech processing systems need to perform the speaker and language segmentation before any downstream task. The current speaker diarization systems are not equipped to handle multi-lingual conversations, while the language recognition systems may not be able to handle the same talker speaking in multiple languages within the same recording. 

With this motivation, the DISPLACE challenge attempts to benchmark and improve Speaker Diarization (SD) in multilingual settings and Language Diarization (LD) in multi-speaker settings, using the same underlying dataset. For this challenge, a natural multi-lingual, multi-speaker conversational dataset will be distributed for development and evaluation purposes. There will be no training data given and the participants will be free to use any resource for training the models. The challenge reflects the theme of Interspeech 2023 - 'Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology – Breaking Down Barriers' in its true sense.  

Registrations are open for this challenge which will contain two tracks - a) Speaker diarization track and b) Language diarization track. 

A baseline system and an open leaderboard will also be made available to the participants. For more details, dates and to register, kindly visit the DISPLACE challenge website: https://displace2023.github.io/

We look forward to your team challenging to 'displace' the state-of-the-art in speaker, language diarization. 

Thank you and Namaste,

The DISPLACE team 

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CALL FOR PAPERS  --  ACM IVA 2023

The annual ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the development, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents with the specific focus on the ability to socially interact. Such agents can be embodied graphically (e.g. virtual characters, embodied conversational agents) or physically (e.g. robots). They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action allowing them to participate in dynamic social environments. This includes human-like interaction qualities such as multimodal communication using facial expressions, speech, and gesture, conversational interaction, socially assistive and affective interaction, interactive task-oriented cooperation, or social behaviour simulation. IVAs are highly relevant and widely applied in many important domains including health, tutoring, training, games, or assisted living.

We invite submissions of research on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: theoretical foundations of intelligent virtual agents, agent and interactive behaviour modelling, evaluation, agents in simulations, games, and other applications. Please see the detailed list of topics below.

VENUE

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IVA 2023 will take place in Würzburg, Germany. Würzburg is a vibrant town located by the river Main in northern Bavaria, between Frankfurt and Nuremberg. The mix of stunning historical architecture and the young population is what makes the atmosphere so unique, including 35,000 students from three different universities. The mild and sunny climate is ideal to enjoy the many activities Würzburg has to offer: visiting a beer garden next to the river, attending a sporting or cultural event or taking a stroll through one of the parks.

IVA is targeted to be an in-person conference. In case of extraordinary circumstances, such as visa problems or health issues, video presentation will be possible. However, there is no digital or hybrid conference system planned, thus it is not possible to attend this year’s IVA conference remotely.

IMPORTANT DATES

===================

Abstract submission: April 14, 2023

Paper submission: April 18, 2023

Review notification / start of rebuttal: May 31, 2023

Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2023

Camera ready deadline: July 18, 2023

Conference: September 19-22, 2023

All deadlines are anywhere on earth (UTC−12).

SPECIAL TOPIC

===================

This year’s conference will highlight a special topic on “IVAs in future mixed realities”, e.g., in social VR and potential incarnations of a Metaverse. Immersive and potentially distributed artificial virtual worlds provide new forms of full-size embodied human-human interaction via avatars of arbitrary looks, enabling interesting intra- and interpersonal effects. They also enable hybrid avatar-agent interactions between humans and A.I.s, unlocking the full potential of non-verbal behavior in digital face-to-face encounters, significantly enhancing the design space for IVAs to assist, guide, help but also to persuade and affect interacting users. We specifically welcome all kinds of novel research on technological, psychological, and sociological determinants of such immersive digital avatar-agent encounters.

TYPES OF SUBMISSION

===================

- Full Papers (7 pages + 1 additional page for references):

Full papers should present significant, novel, and substantial work of high quality.

- Extended Abstracts (2 pages + 1 additional page for references)

Extended abstracts may contain early results and work in progress.

- Demos (2 pages + 1 additional page for references +1 one page with demo requirements)

Demos submissions focus on implemented systems and should contain a link to a video of the system with a maximum length of 5 minutes.

All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by a group of external expert reviewers. All accepted submissions will be published in the ACM proceedings.

Accepted full papers will be presented either in oral sessions or as posters during the conference (depending on the nature of the contribution), extended abstracts will be presented as posters, and demos will be showcased in dedicated sessions during the conference. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors must register for the conference.

IVA 2023 will also feature workshops and a doctoral consortium. Please visit the website (https://iva.acm.org/2023) for more details and updates.

TRACKS

===================

For full paper submissions, IVA will have different paper tracks with different review criteria. Authors need to indicate which one of the following tracks they want to submit their paper to:

1. Empirical Studies

• criteria: methodology, theoretical foundation, originality of result etc.

2. Computational Models and Methods

• criteria: technical soundness, novelty of the model or approach, proof of concept, etc.

3. Operational Systems and Applications

• criteria: innovation of the application, societal relevance, evaluation of effects, etc.

SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS

========================

IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

AGENT DESIGN AND MODELING:

- Cognition (e.g. task, social, other)

- Emotion, personality and cultural differences

- Socially communicative behaviour (e.g., of emotions, personality, relationship)

- Conversational and dialog behavior

- Social perception and understanding of other’s states or traits

- Machine learning approaches to agent modeling

- Adaptive behavior and interaction dynamics

- Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology

MULTIMODAL INTERACTION:

- Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination (synthesis)

- Multimodal/social behavior processing

- Face-to-face communication skills

- Interaction qualities  engagement, rapport, etc.)

- Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation

- Multi-party interaction

- Data-driven modeling

SOCIALLY INTERACTIVE AGENT ARCHITECTURES:

- Design criteria and design methodologies

- Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction

- Standards / measures to support interoperability

- Portability and reuse

- Specialized tools, toolkits, and toolchains

EVALUATION METHODS AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES:

- Evaluation methodologies and user studies

- Metrics and measures

- Ethical considerations and societal impact

- Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents)

- Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior

APPLICATIONS:

- Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc.

- Virtual agents in games and simulations

- Social agents as tools in psychology, neuroscience, social simulation, etc

- Migration between platforms

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

=========================

Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the “ACM Standard” format, more specifically the “SigConf” format. Please consult https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for the Latex template, word interim template, or connection to the overleaf platform.

All papers need to be submitted in PDF-format.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.  ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors.  The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022.  We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

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.

This event is sponsored by SIGAI.

Please visit the conference website for detailed information on how to submit your paper.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

===================

https://iva.acm.org/2023/

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Call for SS  Proposals at CBMI’2023==================

CBMI’2023  http://cbmi2023.org/ is calling for high quality Special Sessions  addressing innovative research in content – based multimedia indexing  and its related broad fields. The main scope of the conference is in  analysis and understanding of multimedia contents including

• Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
• Mobile media retrieval
• Event-based media retrieval
• Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval
• Multimedia data mining and analytics
• Multimedia retrieval for multimodal analytics and visualization
• Multimedia recommendation
• Multimedia verification (e.g., multimodal fact-checking, deep fake analysis)
• Large-scale multimedia database management
• Summarization, browsing, and organization of multimedia content
• Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems
• Explanations of decisions of AI-in Multimedia
• Application domains : health, sustainable cities, ecology, culture… 

and all this in the era of Artificial Intelligence for analysis and indexing of multimedia and multimodal information.

A special oral session will contain oral presentations of long research papers, short papers will be presented as posters during poster sessions with special mention of an SS.

-        Long research papers should present complete work with evaluations on topics related to the Conference.

-        Short research papers should present preliminary results or more focused contributions.

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An SS proposal has to contain

-        Name, title, affiliation and a short bio of SS chairs;

-        The rational ;

-         A  list of at least 5 potential contributions with a provisional title, authors and affiliation.

The dead line for SS proposals is coming:  23rd of January

Please submit your proposals to the SS chairs

jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr

mourad.oussalah@oulu.fi

adel.hafiane@insa-cvl.fr

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CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES

Teams are encouraged to submit proposals for one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges. The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the world's leading venue for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes is necessary for developing systems that can reliably interpret human-human communication or respond to human input. The availability of datasets and common goals has led to significant development in domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics, and physiological signal processing, for example. We invite the ICMI community to propose, define, and address the scientific Grand Challenges in our field during the next five years. The goal of the ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges is to elicit fresh ideas from the ICMI community and to generate momentum for future collaborative efforts. Challenge tasks involving analysis, synthesis, and interaction are all feasible.

We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events at ICMI 2023. We are looking for exciting and stimulating challenges including but not limited to the following categories:

• Dataset-driven challenge. This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities of current and future multimodal problems, and one or more multimodal tasks whose performance can be objectively measured and compared in rigorous conditions. Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses.
• System-driven challenge. This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based) and the associated resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration of specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also establish systematic evaluation procedures.

Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:

1.    Title

2.    Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge

3.    Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals

4.    Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction

5.    Length (full day or half day)

6.    Plan for soliciting participation and list of potential participants

7.    Description of how submissions to the challenge will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers

8.    Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions.

9.    Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)

10. Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization

11. Draft call for papers: affiliations and email address of the organizers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee members and their affiliations, important dates

Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case. Continuation of or variants on previous ICMI grand challenges are welcome, though we ask for submissions of this form to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous year and describe what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year.

The ICMI conference organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment to run the challenge workshop, coffee breaks synchronized with the main track, etc.

Important Dates and Contact Details

Proposals due: February 3, 2023

Proposal notification: February 10, 2023

Paper camera-ready: August 13, 2023

Grand challenge date: October 9 or 14, 2023

Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2023 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Sean Andrist and Fabien Ringeval:  icmi2023-grand-challenge-chairs@acm.org

Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions.

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The 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023) will be held on December 16 – 20, 2023, at Taipei, Taiwan. 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. The conference will be an 'in-person' event (with a virtual component for those that can not attend physically). The event will be held in the Beitou Area, the town of hot springs of Taipei. We encourage all to join us for this wonderful event in Taiwan; looking forward to seeing you all in Taiwan. The paper submission deadline is July 3rd, 2023.
http://www.asru2023.org/

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Dans le cadre des conférences conjointes CORIA-TALN 2023 organisées à Paris, nous sollicitons des propositions d'ateliers. Les ateliers doivent porter sur une thématique particulière de traitement automatique des langues ou de recherche d’information afin de rassembler quelques exposés plus ciblés que lors des conférences plénières.

Chaque atelier a son propre président et son propre comité de programme. Le responsable de l'atelier est chargé de la communication sur celui-ci, de l'appel à soumissions et de la coordination de son comité de programme.

Les organisateurs de CORIA-TALN 2023 s'occuperont de la logistique (e.g. gestion des salles, pauses café et diffusion des articles).

Les ateliers auront lieu en parallèle durant une journée ou une demi-journée (2 à 4 sessions de 1h30) le lundi 5 juin 2023.

Dates importantes
- Date limite de soumission des propositions d'atelier : 6 février 2023
- Réponse du comité de programme : 13 février 2023

Modalités de proposition
Les propositions d'ateliers (1 à 2 pages A4 en format PDF) comprendront :
- le nom et l'acronyme de l’atelier
- une description synthétique du thème de l'atelier
- le comité d'organisation
- le comité scientifique provisoire ou pressenti
- l'adresse du site web
- la durée souhaitée pour la réalisation de l'atelier (1 journée ou 1/2 journée) et l'audience potentielle

Les propositions d'ateliers devront être envoyées sous forme électronique à adrian.chifu@univ-amu.fr et à cyril.grouin@limsi.fr avec pour entête de courriel : [Atelier CORIA-TALN 2023].

Modalités de sélection
Les propositions d'atelier seront examinées par des membres des comités de programme de CORIA, TALN, par l'ARIA et le CPERM de l'ATALA. Les critères suivants seront considérés pour acceptation :
- l'adéquation aux thèmes de l'une ou l'autre des conférences
- l'originalité de la proposition

Format
Les conférences auront lieu en français (ou en anglais pour les non-francophones). Les articles soumis devront suivre le format de CORIA-TALN 2023 (nombre de pages à la discrétion du comité de programme de l'atelier). La soumission des versions finales devra suivre le calendrier de la conférence principale.

Contact : adrian.chifu@univ-amu.fr et cyril.grouin@limsi.fr

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