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Tuesday, February 07, 2023 by Chris Wellekens

3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2023-01-16) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS), Grenoble, France
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*
 
E-mail: alps@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
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3-3-2(2023-04-02) Sixth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'23) , Dublin, Ireland

++ 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 progressdemos 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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3-3-3(2023-05-02) Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
First call for papers

Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
https://bit.ly/rail2023


The 4rd RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous Languages) workshop will be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary
platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a
scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa.

Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also  relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and
properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers working on these languages with such properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each
other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development.

The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.

The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) 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

Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The
final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated.
Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles.
Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system (link will be provided once available).
Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.)
Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings.
 
Important dates:
  • Submission deadline 13 February 2023
  • Date of notification 13 March 2023
  • Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023
  • RAIL workshop 2 or 6 May 2023

Organising Committee
  • Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
  • Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation
  • Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
  • Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
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3-3-4(2023-05-26) HISPhonCog 2023: Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2023, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

Dear colleagues and prospective participants of HISPhonCog 2023

(my apologies for cross listings). 

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

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

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3-3-5(2023-06-04) CfP ICASSP 2023, Rhodes Island, Greece

 

 

 

Announcing the ICASSP 2023 Call for Papers! 

The Call for Papers for ICASSP 2023 is now open! The 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held from 4-9 June 2023 in Rhodes Island, Greece. 
 
The flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society will offer a comprehensive technical program presenting all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing and its applications. Featuring world-class oral and poster sessions, keynotes, plenaries and perspective talks, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, short courses, and satellite workshops, it is expected to attract leading researchers and global industry figures, providing a great networking opportunity. Moreover, exceptional papers and contributors will be selected and recognized by ICASSP.

Technical Scope

 

We invite submissions of original unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:

  • Applied Signal Processing Systems
  • Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
  • Biomedical Imaging & Signal Processing
  • Compressive Sensing, Sparse Modeling
  • Computational Imaging
  • Computer Vision 
  • Deep Learning/Machine Learning for Signal Processing 
  • Image, Video & Multidimensional Signal Processing 
  • Industrial Signal Processing 
  • Information Forensics & Security 
  • Internet of Things
  • Multimedia Signal Processing
  • Quantum Signal Processing
  • Remote Sensing & Signal Processing
  • Sensor Array & Mulltichanel SP
  • Signal Processing for Big Data
  • Signal Processing for Communication
  • Signal Processing for Cyber Security
  • Signal Processing for Education
  • Signal Processing for Robotics
  • Signal Processing Over Graphs
  • Signal Processing Theory & Methods 
  • Speech & Language Processing

SP Society Journal Paper Presentations

Authors of papers published or accepted in IEEE SPS journals may present their work at ICASSP 2023 at appropriate tracks. These papers will neither be reviewed nor included in the proceedings. In addition, the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJSP) will provide a special track for longer submissions with the same processing timeline as ICASSP. Accepted papers will be published in OJSP and presented in the conference but will not be included in the conference proceedings.

 

Open Preview

Conference proceedings will be available in IEEE Xplore, free of charge, to all customers, 30 days prior to the conference start date, through the conference end date.

 

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission Deadline: 19 October 2022
  • Paper Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2023 
  • SPS Journal Papers/Letters Deadline: 8 February 2023
  • Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 6 March 2023 
  • Author Registration Deadline: 20 March 2023 
  • Open Preview Starts: 5 May 2023
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3-3-6(2023-06-04) CfP Student competition at ICASSP 2023, Rhodes, Greece
 
Call for Proposals
Student Competitions at IEEE ICASSP 2023
The IEEE Signal Processing Society is calling those interested in organizing one of the student competitions that will be held at ICASSP 2023! The SP Cup gives SPS Students the opportunity to solve real-life problems using signal processing or video and image processing methods. Rounds of open competition are held before three final teams are selected to present their work and compete for the US$5,000 grand prize at ICASSP 2023! See the full SP Cup Call for Proposals.
 
The 5-MICC is the Society’s new video contest in which teams of students create five-minute videos that highlight and generate excitement about signal processing concepts. The final three teams’ videos will be selected and featured on the ICASSP website, where the ICASSP and signal processing community can vote for their favorites! Those teams will be invited to attend ICASSP for the final phase of the competition and US$5,000 grand prize. See the full 5-MICC Call for Proposals.
 
If you are interested in submitting a proposal for the SP Cup or the 5-Minute Video Clip Contest being held at ICASSP 2023, please submit your proposal for endorsement to the SPS Technical Committee (TC) that best fits your proposal by 6 January 2023 for the SP Cup and 3 January 2023 for the 5-MICC. Your proposal must be endorsed by one of the TCs. You can find the Society’s TCs located on the Technical Committees page on the SPS website. The endorsed proposals will then be submitted by the TC Chairs to SP-SC-STUDENTSERVICES@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG by 13 January 2023 for the SP Cup and 7 January 2023 for the 5-MICC.

If you have questions, you can reach out directly to Angshul Majumdar, SPS Student Services Director, and Jaqueline Rash, SPS Membership Program and Events Administrator, or the SSC alias.
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3-3-7(2023-06-04) CfSatellite Workshops ICASSP 2023, Rhodes Island, Greece

 

 Call for Satellite Workshops at ICASSP 2023

The organizing committee of ICASSP 2023 invites proposals for Satellite Workshops, aiming to inaugurate such tradition with the goals of enriching the conference program, attracting a wider audience, and enhancing inclusivity for students and professionals.
 
The ICASSP Satellite Workshops will be half or full-day events and will take place the day before or after the main conference technical program at the conference venue. The workshops may include a mix of regular papers, invited presentations, keynotes, and panels, encouraging the participation of attendees in active discussions.
 
Submit your proposals by 9 November 2022. 

Workshop Logistics

 

Organizers of ICASSP 2023 Satellite Workshops will be responsible for the workshop scientific planning and promotion, including the setup of their external website (this will be linked from the main ICASSP 2023 site but not hosted there), running of the paper reviewing process, undertaking all communication with the submitted paper authors, creating and announcing the event schedule, abiding by the Important Dates listed below, and seamlessly communicating with the Workshop Chairs.

 

Please note that specifically for workshops that will appear at IEEE Xplore, the paper submission and reviewing process will be conducted through the ICASSP 2023 paper management system (Microsoft CMT).

 

The ICASSP 2023 organizers will handle workshop registration, allocation of facilities, and distribution of the workshop papers in electronic format. Workshop attendance will be free-of-charge for the main conference registrants, while a reduced registration fee will be charged to workshop-only attendees.

Important Dates

  • Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: 9 November 2022

  • Workshop Proposal Acceptance Notification: 23 November 2022

  • Workshop Website Online: 7 December 2022

  • Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: 15 February 2023

  • Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: 14 April 2023

  • Workshop Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 28 April 2023

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3-3-8(2023-06-05) Ateliers @ CORIA-TALN, Paris

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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3-3-9(2023-06-12) 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Thessaloniki, Greece

ICMR2023 – ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

https://icmr2023.org/

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3-3-10(2023-06-12) ACM ICMR 2023 Doctoral Symposium, Call for papers, Thessaloniki, Greece

====ACM ICMR 2023 Doctoral Symposium, Call for papers======== 

ACM ICMR 2023 https://icmr2023.org doctoral symposium plans to bring together Ph.D. students working on topics aligned with the topics of this year conference:

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

We encourage contributions from students working in the full space of these topics, which is defined by dimensions including:

  • Content: image, video, music, spoken audio, sensor data;
  • Tasks: retrieval, recommendation, summarization, multimedia mining;
  • Multiple modalities: multimodal fusion, cross-media retrieval;
  • Algorithms: memory-based, rule-based, model-based, deep learning;
  • Retrieval pipeline: hashing, indexing, representation, similarity metrics, query interpretation, results presentation;
  • Interaction: relevance feedback, conversational and emotional interfaces;
  • Relevance Criteria: topic, style, quality, intent;
  • Challenges: large-scale data, fine-grained retrieval, evaluation, interfaces, crowdsourcing, privacy, new applications.

The doctoral symposium will take place during the main conference in a dedicated oral session. The goal is to provide a forum for Ph.D. students to present ongoing research in a collaborative environment and to share ideas with other renowned and experienced researchers. Participants will discuss their research ideas and results, and they will receive constructive feedback from an audience consisting of peers as well as more senior people. It will be an excellent opportunity for developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the Ph.D. students in their future careers and also of the community.

The Ph.D. students of the accepted doctoral symposium papers coming at the conference to present solely their doctoral symposium paper will be entitled to a student registration fee for the entire conference.

Eligibility

Prospective student attendees should already have a clear direction for research, and possibly have published some results. Preference will be given to students who have advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.

Maximum Length of a Paper

Each doctoral symposium paper should not be longer than 4 pages.

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission Due: February 17, 2023
  • Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2023
  • Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 20, 2023

Single-Blind Review

ACM ICMR will use a single-blind review process for doctoral symposium paper selection. Authors should provide author names and affiliations in their manuscript. Selections will be based on the submitted 4 pages paper, singly authored by the student wishing to attend. Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium Committee (appointed by the Doctoral Symposium Chairs). Accepted proposals will be published in the conference proceedings. Doctoral students who submit to the Doctoral Symposium are encouraged to submit a paper on their research to the main conference. However, acceptance for participation in the Doctoral Symposium will be based solely on the paper written ad-hoc for the event. All papers will be reviewed with respect to overall quality of presentation, potential for future impact of the research on the field, and expected benefit to the other doctoral students attending the conference.

Submission Instructions

Applications to the Doctoral Symposium should include a 4 pages paper summarizing the applicant’s dissertation research. The paper should include:

  • Abstract and the keywords;
  • Motivation, problem description;
  • Background and related work (including key references);
  • Novelty and significance relative to the state of the art;
  • Approach, data, methods and proposed experiments;
  • Results obtained and work in progress;
  • Specific research issues for discussion at the Doctoral Symposium.

In addition to the paper, the applicants are expected to provide a 1 page appendix that should describe the benefits that would be obtained by attending the Doctoral Symposium, including:

  • A statement by the student saying why they want to attend the Symposium;
  • A statement by their advisor saying how the student would benefit by attending the Symposium.

Advisors should also specifically state whether the student has written, or is close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent), and when they expect the student would defend their dissertation if they progress at a typical rate.

The appendix should be uploaded as a separated file. See the Paper Submission section.

Contact

For any questions regarding demo submissions, please email the Doctoral Symposium Chairs:

Aisling Kelliher  aislingk@vt.edu

Jenny Benois-Pineau jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr

 

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3-3-11(2023-06-12) ETAL 2023 Ecole d'été en Traitement automatique des langues, Marseille, France
ETAL 2023 : École d’été en Traitement Automatique des Langues
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L’école d'été en traitement automatique des langues (ETAL) se déroulera du 12 au 16 juin
2023 au Centre International de Rencontres en Mathématiques (CIRM) à Marseille. Cette
école, soutenue par le CNRS et le GdR TAL, s'adresse aux doctorant.e.s, chercheur.se.s et
industriel.le.s qui souhaitent améliorer leur compréhension et leur maîtrise du
traitement automatique des langues et de ses applications. Elle regroupe des cours et des
mises en pratique, donnés par des membres de la communauté, sur l'historique du domaine,
les modèles actuels ainsi que les enjeux éthiques et sociétaux du TAL.

 - Dates : du 12 au 16 juin 2023
 - Lieu : CIRM, campus de Luminy, Marseille
 - Tarif : 550 euros hébergement et repas inclus
 - Pré-inscription obligatoire (nombre de places limité) :
https://framaforms.org/pre-inscription-a-etal-2023-1671138981
 - Plus d'informations : https://etal2023.lis-lab.fr (site bientôt disponible)

## Programme
4,5 jours de cours magistraux et de travaux pratiques (50% cours, 50% TP) divisés en
modules fondamentaux et applicatifs présentant les notions essentielles et les dernières
avancées en TAL :
- Concepts et méthodologie.
- Apprentissage statistique et approches neuronales.
- Éthique, reproductibilité, bonnes pratiques du domaine.
- Développement du langage et TAL : le point de vue des sciences cognitives.
- TAL multimodal et interactions.
- Une conférence invitée sera proposée pour mettre en lumière la vision du domaine d’un.e
chercheur.se prominent.e dans le domaine
- Hackathon optionnel

## Prérequis
Formation de niveau Master avec une composante informatique et mathématiques
(algorithmique, programmation en langage Python, bases de l'algèbre linéaire,
probabilités et statistiques, etc).

## Intervenant.e.s
- Alexandre Allauzen, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
- Yannick Estève, Université d’Avignon
- Benoit Favre, Aix-Marseille Université
- Karën Fort, Sorbonne Université
- Abdellah Fourtassi, Aix-Marseille Université
- Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen
- Magalie Ochs, Aix-Marseille Université
- Laure Soulier, Sorbonne Université
- Xavier Tannier, Sorbonne Université

 ## Cadre
L'école aura lieu au Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM), dans le
campus universitaire de Luminy à Marseille. Ce centre offre, en plus d'héberger l'école,
le logement en pension complète des participant.e.s (inclus dans le tarif d'inscription).
Il est localisé dans le Parc Naturel des Calanques de Marseille et offre un cadre unique
et attractif, propice à l'étude et à la réflexion.

## Bourses
Vous pourrez demander une aide financière auprès des organisateur.ice.s (le processus
sera précisé prochainement sur le site).

Note : cette école n'est pas ouverte aux étudiant.e.s de Master; les industriel.le.s
participants doivent être membres du club des partenaires du GdR TAL
(https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/club-des-partenaires/).
 
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3-3-12(2023-06-15) Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC 2023), Toulouse, France

JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023

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


3e Appel à Communication

Depuis leur création en 2005, les Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC) ont été régulièrement organisées sur une base bisannuelle. Après une dernière édition organisée en Belgique par nos collègues du Laboratoire de phonétique de l’Université de Mons en 2019 (sous l’égide de l’Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage), les JPC reviennent en France en 2023 (après annulation en 2021) pour leur 9e édition. Co-organisée par l’Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), le laboratoire de Neuro-Psycho-Linguistique (LNPL) et le Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Toulouse ainsi que par le Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon (LIA), la manifestation se tiendra à l’Université de Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023.

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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3-3-13(2023-06-20) 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2023)

=== Call for papers IWCS 2023 ===

      Paper submissions: 15 March 2023
      https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers

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15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)

Université de Lorraine, Nancy, 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.


=== TOPICS OF INTEREST ===

We invite paper submissions 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.

Presentations will be oral and posters.

Submissions 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 ===


Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Both
types should be submitted not later than 3 March (anywhere on earth).

Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages
(not counting acknowledgements and references).
Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research)
must not exceed 4 pages (not counting acknowledgements and references).

Both types will be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL
Anthology. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version.

Style-files:

IWCS papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure
as used by ACL. Please use our specific style-files or the Overleaf template, taken
from ACL 2021. Similar to ACL 2021, initial submissions should be fully anonymous
to ensure double-blind reviewing.

Submitting:

Papers should be submitted in PDF format via Softconf:

https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers

Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper.
Contact the organisers if you have problems using Softconf.

No anonymity period

IWCS 2023 does not have an anonymity period. However, we ask you to be
reasonable and not publicly advertise your preprint during (or right before) review.


=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

15 March 2023 (anywhere on earth) Paper submissions

17 April 2023 Decisions sent to authors

15 May 2023 Camera-ready papers due

20-23 June 2023 IWCS conference


=== CONTACT ===

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


Maxime Amblard, Ellen Breithloltz (the IWCS 2023 organizers)

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3-3-14(2023-06-20) CfW 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Univ. de Lorraine, Nancy, France

=== 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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3-3-15(2023-06-20) SIG Workshop on Speech Prosody and Beyond, Seoul, South Korea

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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3-3-16(2023-07-15) MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, New York,NY, USA

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
DSTC11.T4)

Call for Participation

TRACK GOALS AND DETAILS: Two main goals and tasks:
•    Task 1: Propose and develop effective Automatic Metrics for evaluation of open-domain multilingual dialogs.
•    Task 2: Propose and develop Robust Metrics for dialogue systems trained with back translated and paraphrased dialogs in English.


EXPECTED PROPERTIES OF THE PROPOSED METRICS:
•    High correlation with human annotated assessments.
•    Explainable metrics in terms of the quality of the model-generated responses.
•    Participants can propose their own metric or optionally improve the baseline evaluation metric deep AM-FM (Zhang et al, 2020).

DATASETS:
For training: Up to 18 Human-Human curated multilingual datasets (+3M turns), with turn/dialogue level automatic annotations as toxicity or sentiment analysis, among others.
Dev/Test: Up to 10 Human-Chatbot curated multilingual datasets (+150k turns), with turn/dialogue level human annotations including QE metrics or cosine similarity.
Data translated and back-translated into several languages (English, Spanish and Chinese). Also, there are several paraphrases with annotations for each dataset.

BASELINE MODEL:
The default choice is Deep AM-FM (Zhang et al, 2020). This model has been adapted to be able to evaluate multilingual datasets, as well as to work with paraphrased and back translated sentences.

REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
ChatEval: https://chateval.org/dstc11
GitHub: https://github.com/Mario-RC/dstc11_track4_robust_multilingual_metrics

PROPOSED SCHEDULE:
Training/Validation data release: From November to December in 2022
Test data release: Middle of March in 2023
Entry submission deadline: Middle of March in 2023
Submission of final results: End of March in 2023
Final result announcement: Early of April in 2023
Paper submission: From March to May in 2023
Workshop: July-September/2023 in a venue to be announced with DSTC11

ORGANIZATIONS:
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Tencent AI Lab (China)
New York University (USA)
Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
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3-3-18(2023-08-07) 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Contact: icphs2023@guarant.cz

 

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3-3-19(2023-08-07) IPA bursaries for ICPhS

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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3-3-20(2023-08-20) Special session at Interspeech 2023 on DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments [DISPLACE] Challenge.

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 Barriersin 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 is available to the participants. The DISPLACE challenge is split into two phases, where the first phase is linked to the Interspeech paper submission deadline, while the second phase aligns with the camera ready submission deadline. 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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3-3-21(2023-08-29) Blizzard Challenge 2023
We are delighted to announce the call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2023. This is an open evaluation of corpus-based speech synthesis systems using common datasets and a large listening test.

This year, the challenge will provide a French dataset from two native speakers. The two tasks involve building voices from this data. Please read the full announcement and the rules at:

Please register by following the instructions on the web page.
Important: please send all communications about Blizzard to the official address blizzard-challenge-organisers@googlegroups.com and not to our personal addresses.


Please feel free to distribute this announcement to other relevant mailing lists.

Olivier Perrotin & Simon King
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3-3-22(2023-09-04) CfP 26th Intern.Conf. on text, speech and dialogue (TSD 2023), Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic
                     TSD 2023 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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The twenty-sixth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2023)
            Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, September 4-7, 2023
                       http://www.tsdconference.org/

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

Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic


SUBMISSION DEADLINE

23 April 2023 ............ Deadline for submission of contributions


DATES AND FEES

Deadline for submission of contributions: 23 April 2023
Notification of acceptance or rejection:  22 May 2023
Deadline for submission of accepted camera-ready papers: 4 June 2023
TSD 2023: 4 -- 7 September 2023


TSD SERIES

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

The history of the TSD conference dates back to 1998 when the event was
held for the first time, that time as an international workshop, in Brno,
Czech Republic. The essential idea behind the project was to establish
a scientific meeting platform that would act as a bridge between the East
and the West.


TOPICS

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

Speech Recognition
- multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker,
  out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction,
  new models for acoustic and language modelling
Corpora and Language Resources
- monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora,
  disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries
Speech and Spoken Language Generation
- multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
- multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis,
  automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech
- information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
  knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
- machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering
  strategies, assistive technologies
Automatic Dialogue Systems
- self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies,
  prosody in dialogues
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling
- video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling,
  emotion and personality modelling


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Elmar Noth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany (General Chairman)
Rodrigo Agerri, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Vladimir Benko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Archna Bhatia, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Jan Cernocky, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Simon Dobrisek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kamil Ekstein, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Karina Evgrafova, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Yevhen Fedorov, Cherkasy State Technological University, Ukraine
Volker Fischer, EML Speech Technology GmbH, Germany
Darja Fiser, Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia
Lucie Flek, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany
Bjorn Gamback, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Radovan Garabik, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Tino Haderlein, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Jan Hajic, Charles University, Czechia
Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Czechia
Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique, France
Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Charles University, Czechia
Ales Horak, Masaryk University, Czechia
Eduard  Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Denis Jouvet, Inria, France
Maria Khokhlova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Aidar Khusainov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Russia
Daniil Kocharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Miloslav Konopik, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Ivan Kopecek, Masaryk University, Czechia
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Evgeny Kotelnikov, Vyatka State University, Russia
Pavel Kral, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Siegfried Kunzmann, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning, United States
Nikola Ljubesic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Croatia
Natalija Loukachevitch, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Bernardo Magnini , Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Oleksandr Marchenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Vaclav Matousek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Roman Moucek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Agnieszka  Mykowiecka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
Juan Rafael  Orozco-Arroyave, University of Antioquia, Colombia
Karel Pala, Masaryk University, Czechia
Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Josef Psutka, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
James  Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, United States
German Rigau, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States
Milan Rusko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Pavel Rychly, Masaryk University, Czechia
Mykola Sazhok, International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems, Ukraine
Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Pavel Skrelin, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Czechia
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Marko Robnik Sikonja, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marko Tadic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jan Trmal, Johns Hopkins University, Czechia
Tamas Varadi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Aleksander Wawer, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Pascal Wiggers, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Marcin Wolinski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Alina Wroblewska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Victor Zakharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Jerneja Zganec Gros, Alpineon, Slovenia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentations of invited papers, oral
presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented
in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

The official language of the TSD 2023 conference is English. Thus, the
submitted papers must be written in English. However, papers dealing with
text and speech processing in linguistic environments other than English
are strongly encouraged (as long as they are written in English).

The conference is planned to be held fully on-site, a hybrid scheme (some
participants on site, some online) may come on the agenda if necessary.

Social events including an excursion to the Pilsner Urquell brewery and
a trip in the vicinity of Plzen will allow for additional informal
interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

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

Papers submitted to TSD 2023 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

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


IMPORTANT DATES

23 April 2023 ............ Submission of full papers for review
22 May 2023 .............. Notification of acceptance
4 June 2023 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
4-7 September 2023 ....... Conference dates

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


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in a 4-star
hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will
be available at the conference website. There will be also a low-budget option
available in the students' halls of residence.


ADDRESS

All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

    TSD 2023 -- Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
    Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia
    Univerzitni 2732/8, 301 00 Plzen, Czech Republic

The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is
writing an e-mail to:

    Ms Marluce Quaresma -- TSD 2023 Conference Secretary
    E-mail: tsd2023@tsdconference.org
    Phone: +420 730 851 103

The official TSD 2023 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

The city of Plzen (or Pilsen in Germanic languages) is situated in the
heart of West Bohemia at the confluence of four rivers: Uhlava, Uslava,
Radbuza, and Mze. With its approx. 171,000 inhabitants it is the fourth
largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial, commercial,
and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the Pilsen Region. In
addition, it has been elected the European Capital of Culture for 2015 by
the Council of the European Union.

The city of Plzen has a convenient location in the centre of West Bohemia,
close to the German border, on the confluence of four rivers. The place
lied on the crossroads of important medieval trade routes and nowadays it
naturally forms an important highway and railroad junction; thus, it is
easily accessible using both individual and public means of transport.

Plzen lies 85 km (53 mi) south-westwards from the Czech capital Prague, 222
km (138 mi) from the Bavarian capital Munich, 148 km (92 mi) from the Saxon
capital Dresden, and 174 km (108 mi) from the Upper Austrian capital Linz.

The closest international airport is the Vaclav Havel Airport Prague, which
is 75 km (47 mi) away and one can get from there to Plzen very easily
within about two hours by Prague public transport and a train/bus.
 
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3-3-23(2023-09-10) Cfp Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) Conference 2023, Cambridge, MA, USA


 

The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,on September 10th – 13th, 2023. 

The Conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier international venue for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and, more generally, affective phenomena. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore (conditional on the approval by IEEE Computer Society) and indexed by EI. A selection of the best articles at ACII 2023 will be invited to submit extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

The theme of ACII 2023 is “Affective Computing: Context and Multimodality”. Fully understanding, predicting, and generating affective processes undoubtedly requires the careful integration of multiple contextual factors (e.g., gender, personality, relationships, goals, environment, situation, and culture), information modalities (e.g., audio, images, text, touch, and smells) and evaluation in ecological environments. Thus, ACII 2023 especially welcomes submitted research that assesses and advances Affective Computing’s ability to do this integration.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect from ALL Modalities

  • Multimodal Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States

  • Contextualized Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States

  • Facial and Body Gesture Recognition, Modeling and Animation
  • Affective Speech Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis
  • Recognition and Synthesis of Auditory Affect Bursts (Laughter, Cries, etc.)
  • Motion Capture for Affect Recognition
  • Affect Recognition from Alternative Modalities (Physiology, Brain Waves, etc.)
  • Affective Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis
  • Multimodal Data Fusion for Affect Recognition
  • Synthesis of Multimodal Affective Behavior
  • Summarisation of Affective Behavior


Affective Science using Affective Computing Tools

  • Studies of affective behavior perception using computational tools

  • Studies of affective behavior production using computational tools

  • Studies of affect in medical/clinical settings using computational tools

  • Studies of affect in context using computational tools


Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Designing Computational Systems

  • Computational Models of Affective Processes

  • Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems

  • Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction 

 

Affective Interfaces

  • Interfaces for Monitoring and Improving Mental and Physical Well-Being

  • Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems

  • Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces

  • Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments

  • Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces

  • Distributed/Collaborative Multimodal Proactive Interfaces

  • Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces

  • Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces

 Affective, Social and Inclusive Robotics and Virtual Agents

  • Artificial Agents for Supporting Mental and Physical Well-Being
  • Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action
  • Embodied Emotion
  • Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics
  • Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics
  • Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents


Affect and Group Emotions

  • Analyzing and modeling groups taking into account emergent states and/or emotions

  • Integration of artificial agents (robots, virtual characters) in the group life by leveraging its affective loop: interaction paradigms, strategies, modalities, adaptation

  • Collaborative affective interfaces (e.g., for inclusion, for education, for games and entertainment)

Open Resources for Affective Computing

  • Shared Datasets for Affective Computing

  • Benchmarks for Affective Computing

  • Open-source Software/Tools for Affective Computing

 

Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Transparency and Ethics in Affective Computing   

  • Bias, imbalance and inequalities in data and modeling approaches in the context of Affective Computing

  • Bias mitigation in the context of Affective Computing

  • Explainability and Transparency in the context of Affective Computing

  • Privacy-preserving affect sensing and modeling

  • Ethical aspects in the context of Affective Computing


Applications

  • Health and well-being
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Consumer Products
  • User Experience

Important dates

Main track submissions: 14 April 2023

Decision notification to authors: 2 June 2023

Camera ready submission for main track: 16 June 2023

 

The remaining important dates can be found at the ACII website.

 

We hope to see you at ACII 2023!

ACII2023 Organizers

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING & INTELLIGENT INTERACTION

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3-3-24(2023-09-11) Call for Workshops - Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2023, MIT MediaLab, Cambridge, MA, USA

 

The organizing committee of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2023 is now inviting proposals for workshops and challenges. The biennial conference is the flagship conference for research in Affective Computing, covering topics related to the study of intelligent systems that read, express, or otherwise use emotion.

Workshops at ACII allow a group of scientists an opportunity to get together to network and discuss a specific topic in detail. Examples of past workshops include: Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Applied Multimodal Affect Recognition, Functions of Emotions for Socially Interactive Agents, Emotions in Games, Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces, Affective Touch, Group Emotions, and Affective Computing for Affective Disorders. We want to encourage workshop proposals that draw together interdisciplinary perspectives on topics in affective computing. We also welcome Challenge-type workshops, where workshop participants would work on a shared task. This year, given our location in Boston and proximity to leading medical institutions, we particularly invite workshops that touch on health and wellness, spanning theoretical topics on affect in mental health to fielded medical applications of affective computing.  

Workshops should focus on a central question or topic. Workshop organizers will be responsible for soliciting and reviewing papers, and putting together an exciting schedule, including time for networking and discussion. Workshop organizers are also expected to present a short summary of the workshop during the main conference.

Example workshops from ACII2022 are available at: https://acii-conf.net/2022/workshops/ 
The workshop proposals website: https://acii-conf.net/2023/calls/workshops/ 
ACII 2023 website: https://acii-conf.net/2023/  

What’s next?
Send your workshop proposal to both workshop chairs.  Please include the following (max three pages):  
  1. Title.
  2. Organizers and affiliations, and Workshop contact person
  3. Extended abstract making the scientific case for the workshop (why, why now, why at ACII, expected outcomes, impact)
  4. Advertisement (e.g. lists, conferences etc., and website hosting (where)).
  5. List of tentative and confirmed PC members (mention this status per PC member)
  6. Expected number of submissions, planned acceptance rate, and paper length, review process.
  7. Tentative/confirmed keynote speaker(s).
  8. Length of the workshop (day or half-day).
  9. List of related and previous workshops/conferences
  10. Your publication plan (e.g., Special Issue, whether contact was made with the publisher already
Process
Proposals will be reviewed in a confidential manner and acceptance will be decided by the ACII 2023 Workshop Chairs and ACII 2023 Senior Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance are final.

Important dates
February 17, 2023: Workshop proposal submission deadline.
Refer to https://acii-conf.net/2023/important-dates/ for other dates.

Workshop Chairs
Timothy Bickmore, Northeastern University, t.bickmore@northeastern.edu
Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Northeastern University, n.yongsatianchot@northeastern.edu
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3-3-25(2023-09-19) CfP ACM IVA 2023 @ Würzburg, Germany.

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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3-3-26(2023-09-20) CBMI 2023, Orléans, France

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.

-         

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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3-3-27(2023-10-09) 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023), Paris, France

25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023)

9-13 October 2023, Paris, France

 

The 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) will be held in Paris, France. ICMI is the premier international forum that brings together multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction research. Multimodal AI encompasses technical challenges in machine learning and computational modeling such as representations, fusion, data and systems. The study of social interactions englobes both human-human interactions and human-computer interactions. A unique aspect of ICMI is its multidisciplinary nature which values both scientific discoveries and technical modeling achievements, with an eye towards impactful applications for the good of people and society.

 

ICMI 2023 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits, doctoral consortium, and late-breaking papers. The conference will also feature tutorials, workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of all ICMI 2023 papers, including Long and Short Papers, will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library, and the adjunct proceedings will feature the workshop papers.

 

Novelty will be assessed along two dimensions: scientific novelty and technical novelty. Accepted papers at ICMI 2023 will need to be novel along one of the two dimensions:

  • Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring new scientific knowledge about human social interactions, including human-computer interactions. For example, discovering new behavioral markers that are predictive of mental health or how new behavioral patterns relate to children’s interactions during learning. It is the responsibility of the authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly discuss the novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.
  • Technical Novelty: Papers should propose novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or modeling multimodal data. Examples include: novelty in the learning and prediction algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation. Novelty can also be associated with new usages of an existing approach.

 

Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors https://icmi.acm.org/ for detailed submission instructions. Commitment to ethical conduct is required and submissions must adhere to ethical standards in particular when human-derived data are employed. Authors are encouraged to read the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (https://ethics.acm.org/).

 

ICMI 2023 conference theme: The theme for this year’s conference is “Science of Multimodal Interactions”. As the community grows, it is important to understand the main scientific pillars involved in deep understanding of multimodal social interactions. As a first step, we want to acknowledge key discoveries and contributions that the ICMI community enabled over the past 20+ years. As a second step, we reflect on the core principles, foundational methodologies and scientific knowledge involved in studying and modeling multimodal interactions. This will help establish a distinctive research identity for the ICMI community while at the same time embracing its multidisciplinary collaborative nature. This research identity and long-term agenda will enable the community to develop future technologies and applications while maintaining commitment to world-class scientific research.

Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Affective computing and interaction
  • Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction
  • Gesture, touch and haptics
  • Healthcare, assistive technologies
  • Human communication dynamics
  • Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction
  • Human-centered A.I. and ethics
  • Interaction with smart environment
  • Machine learning for multimodal interaction
  • Mobile multimodal systems
  • Multimodal behaviour generation
  • Multimodal datasets and validation
  • Multimodal dialogue modeling
  • Multimodal fusion and representation
  • Multimodal interactive applications
  • Novel multimodal datasets
  • Speech behaviours in social interaction
  • System components and multimodal platforms
  • Visual behaviours in social interaction
  • Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction

 

Important Dates

Paper Submission: May 1, 2023 

Rebuttal period: June 26-29, 2023

Paper notification: July 21, 2023

Camera-ready paper: August 14, 2023

Presenting at main conference: October 9-13, 2023

 

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3-3-28(2023-10-09?) ICMI'23 CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES, Paris, France
ICMI'23 CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES
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9-13 October 2023, Paris - France
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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
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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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3-3-29(2023-12-16) The 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023), Taipeh, Taiwan

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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3-3-30(2024-05-13) 13th International Seminar on Speech Production, Autrans, France
13th International Seminar on Speech Production, 13-17 May 2024, in Autrans, France
 
It is time for the next International Seminar on Speech Production.
 
After the launch in 1988 in Grenoble, followed by in Leeds (1990), Old Saybrook (1993), Autrans (1996), Kloster Seeon (2000), Sydney (2003), Ubatatuba (2006), Strasbourg (2008), Montreal (2011), Cologne (2014), Tianjin (2017) and virtually in in 2020, the 13th ISSP will come back (close) to Grenoble.
 
After a very successful virtual ISSP in 2020 (Haskins Labs), we are ready again for an in-person meeting in a very beautiful location in the mountains of Autrans (of course we will provide an option to attend virtually).
Take your calendars and mark the 13-17 May 2024 for the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production co-organized by several laboratories in France
 
More information including the website and important dates will be provided soon.
 
We are looking forward to meeting you in Autrans in 2024!
 
The organizing committee, Cécile Fougeron & Pascal Perrier together with Jalal Al-Tamimi, Pierre Baraduc, Véronique Boulanger, Mélanie Canault, Maëva Garnier, Anne Hermes, Fabrice Hirsch, Leonardo Lancia, Yves Laprie, Yohann Meynadier, Slim Ouni, Rudolph Sock, Béatrice Vaxelaire
 
Follow us on twitter @issp2024!
 

Claire PILLOT-LOISEAU

. Maître de Conférences HDR en Phonétique
. Responsable du DU de Phonétique Appliquée à la Langue Française (DUPALF)

Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie UMR 7018 (LPP)
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, département Institut de Linguistique et de Phonétique Générales et Appliquées (ILPGA)

. 4, rue des Irlandais, 75005 PARIS (Laboratoire)  
. 8, Avenue de Saint Mandé, 75012, PARIS (Université)
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