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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
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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 ++
**************************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************************** ++ 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:
++ 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:
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:
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:
Organising Committee
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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 KoreaDear 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.
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Dans le cadre des conférences conjointes CORIA-TALN 2023 organisées à Paris, nous sollicitons des propositions d'ateliers. Les ateliers doivent porter sur une thématique particulière de traitement automatique des langues ou de recherche d’information afin de rassembler quelques exposés plus ciblés que lors des conférences plénières.
Chaque atelier a son propre président et son propre comité de programme. Le responsable de l'atelier est chargé de la communication sur celui-ci, de l'appel à soumissions et de la coordination de son comité de programme.
Les organisateurs de CORIA-TALN 2023 s'occuperont de la logistique (e.g. gestion des salles, pauses café et diffusion des articles).
Les ateliers auront lieu en parallèle durant une journée ou une demi-journée (2 à 4 sessions de 1h30) le lundi 5 juin 2023.
Dates importantes
- Date limite de soumission des propositions d'atelier : 6 février 2023
- Réponse du comité de programme : 13 février 2023
Modalités de proposition
Les propositions d'ateliers (1 à 2 pages A4 en format PDF) comprendront :
- le nom et l'acronyme de l’atelier
- une description synthétique du thème de l'atelier
- le comité d'organisation
- le comité scientifique provisoire ou pressenti
- l'adresse du site web
- la durée souhaitée pour la réalisation de l'atelier (1 journée ou 1/2 journée) et l'audience potentielle
Les propositions d'ateliers devront être envoyées sous forme électronique à adrian.chifu@univ-amu.fr et à cyril.grouin@limsi.fr avec pour entête de courriel : [Atelier CORIA-TALN 2023].
Modalités de sélection
Les propositions d'atelier seront examinées par des membres des comités de programme de CORIA, TALN, par l'ARIA et le CPERM de l'ATALA. Les critères suivants seront considérés pour acceptation :
- l'adéquation aux thèmes de l'une ou l'autre des conférences
- l'originalité de la proposition
Format
Les conférences auront lieu en français (ou en anglais pour les non-francophones). Les articles soumis devront suivre le format de CORIA-TALN 2023 (nombre de pages à la discrétion du comité de programme de l'atelier). La soumission des versions finales devra suivre le calendrier de la conférence principale.
Contact : adrian.chifu@univ-amu.fr et cyril.grouin@limsi.fr
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ICMR2023 – ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
https://icmr2023.org/
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====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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ETAL 2023 : École d’été en Traitement Automatique des Langues
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023
3e Appel à Communication
Rencontre scientifique internationale, les Journées de Phonétique Clinique sont principalement destinées à rassembler et à favoriser les échanges entre chercheurs, cliniciens, informaticiens, ingénieurs, phonéticiens et tout autre professionnel s’intéressant au fonctionnement de la parole, de la voix et du langage. Les JPC accueillent autant les experts que les jeunes chercheurs et les étudiants des domaines cliniques (médecine, orthophonie/logopédie), psychologique, informatique et des sciences du langage.
La production et la perception de la parole, de la voix et du langage de l’enfant et de l’adulte, sain ou atteint d’une pathologie, sont les domaines de prédilection des JPC. Ils y sont ainsi abordés selon des points de vue variés, permettant le partage des savoirs et l’ouverture de nouvelles pistes de réflexion, de recherche et de collaboration.
Lors de cette neuvième édition, la thématique des mesures de la parole sera mise en avant. Elle s’inscrit dans un cadre conceptuel dont les facettes sont multiples : analyses perceptives, traitement automatique du signal, caractérisations de l’intelligibilité, du trouble de la parole, des di/ysfluences atteignant le débit de la parole, la prosodie… Sa pertinence clinique est essentielle : l’évaluation du trouble, de ses conséquences fonctionnelles et de l’impact sur la qualité de vie est primordiale pour le suivi des patients atteints de pathologies neurologiques, cancérologiques…
Trois conférences plénières seront prévues autour du thème des journées. Une table ronde ainsi que des ateliers feront également partie du programme de cette nouvelle édition.
Les propositions de communication (résumé de 400 mots, hors titre, auteurs et références) porteront sur les problématiques suivantes (liste non exhaustive) :
- Parole et perturbations des systèmes perceptifs, auditifs et visuels
- Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologiques
- Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé
- Évaluation fonctionnelle de la parole, du langage et de la voix.
- Diagnostic et traitement des troubles de la parole et de la voix parlée et chantée
- Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique
- Troubles cognitifs et moteurs de la parole et du langage
- …
Une attention particulière sera portée aux propositions ciblant la thématique autour des mesures de la parole.
Dates importantes :
- 20 janvier 2023 → Date limite de soumission des résumés via SciencesConf : https://jpc2023.sciencesconf.org/
- 30 mars 2023 → Notification aux auteurs
- du 30 mars au 15 mai 2023 → Inscriptions au tarif réduit
- 15 mai 2023 → Version finale des résumés
- Du 15 au 17 juin 2023 → Journées
Téléchargez le flyer des JPC'2023 pour diffusion dans vos labos, sociétés savantes, ...
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=== Call for 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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=== Call for workshop proposals IWCS 2023 ===
Workshop submissions: 23 January 2023
https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/IWCS-worshop/
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15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)
Université de Lorraine, France
20-23th June 2023
http://iwcs2023.loria.fr/
IWCS is the biennial meeting of SIGSEM [1], the ACL special interest
group on semantics [2]; this year's edition is organized in person by the
Loria [3] and IDMC [4] of the Université de Lorraine.
[1] http://sigsem.org/
[2] http://aclweb.org/
[3] https://www.loria.fr/fr/
[4] http://idmc.univ-lorraine.fr/
The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers
interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction,
representation and neuralisation of meaning in natural language,
whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective.
IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to
computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference
and workshops will take place 20-23 June 2023.
=== WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ===
We invite proposals for '''workshops''' to be held in conjunction with
IWCS 2023. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational
semantics, in other words all computational aspects of meaning of
natural language within written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal
communication.
Workshops are invited on these closely related areas, including the
following:
* design of meaning representations
* syntax-semantics interface
* representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
* shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
* hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics
* distributional semantics
* alternative approaches to compositional semantics
* inference methods for computational semantics
* recognising textual entailment
* learning by reading
* methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
* machine learning of semantic structures
* probabilistic computational semantics
* neural semantic parsing
* computational aspects of lexical semantics
* semantics and ontologies
* semantic web and natural language processing
* semantic aspects of language generation
* generating from meaning representations
* semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
* semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
* multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
* semantics-pragmatics interface
* applications of computational semantics
=== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ===
Proposals for workshops should contain:
* A title and brief (max two pages) description of the workshop topic
and content;
* The names, affiliation and email addresses of the organisers;
* An estimate of the expected audience size;
* If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where
previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop
received, how many papers were accepted and how many attendees
the workshop attracted.
Proposals should be submitted on softconf:
https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/IWCS-worshop/
as soon as possible, but no later than:
23 January 2022.
Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will be by
30 January 2022.
=== FINANCES ===
Workshops must be financially self-supporting.
The conference organisers will establish registration rates to cover
the costs.
=== IMPORTANT DATES ===
23 January 2023 Workshop proposal submissions due
30 January 2023 Workshop proposal notification of acceptance
20 June 2023 Workshop date (on 1 or 2 of these dates)
=== CONTACT ===
For questions, contact: iwcs2023-contact@univ-lorraine.fr
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Hae-Sung Jeon and colleagues are organizing a workshop titled Speech Prosody and Beyond,
June 20-23 in Seoul, with abstracts due February 5.
Details are at https://ukskprosodynetwork.github.io/ .
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MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
http://www.mldm.de
When Jul 16, 2023 - Jul 21, 2023
Where New York, USA
Submission Deadline Jan 15, 2023
Notification Due Mar 18, 2023
Final Version Due Apr 5, 2023
Categories: machine learning data mining pattern recognition classification
Call For Papers
MLDM 2023
18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
July 15 - 19, 2023, New York, USA
The Aim of the Conference
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world who deal with machine learning and data mining in order to discuss the recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic research papers as well as application papers are welcome.
Chair
Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI, Germany
Program Committee
Piotr Artiemjew University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Sung-Hyuk Cha Pace Universtity, USA
Ming-Ching Chang University of Albany, USA
Mark J. Embrechts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and CardioMag Imaging, Inc, USA
Robert Haralick City University of New York, USA
Adam Krzyzak Concordia University, Canada
Chengjun Liu New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Krzysztof Pancerz University Rzeszow, Poland
Dan Simovici University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Agnieszka Wosiak Lodz University of Technology, Poland
more to be annouced...
Topics of the conference
Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the following topics:
Association Rules
Audio Mining
Autoamtic Semantic Annotation of Media Content
Bayesian Models and Methods
Capability Indices
Case-Based Reasoning and Associative Memory
case-based reasoning and learning
Classification & Prediction
classification and interpretation of images, text, video
Classification and Model Estimation
Clustering
Cognition and Computer Vision
Conceptional Learning
conceptional learning and clustering
Content-Based Image Retrieval
Control Charts
Decision Trees
Design of Experiment
Desirabilities
Deviation and Novelty Detection
Feature Grouping, Discretization, Selection and Transformation
Feature Learning
Frequent Pattern Mining
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:
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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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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The president of the IPA, Michael Ashby, would like to call attention to the IPA's generous scheme of student awards and travel bursaries for ICPhS. He hopes that many of us will encourage our students to apply.
https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/news/202210/ipa-student-awardstravel-bursaries-and-g%C3%B6sta-bruce-scholarships-icphs-2023 <https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/news/202210/ipa-student-awardstravel-bursaries-and-g%C3%B6sta-bruce-scholarships-icphs-2023>
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We would like to bring to your notice the launch of the special session at Interspeech 2023 on DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments [DISPLACE] Challenge.
The DISPLACE challenge entails a first of kind task to perform speaker and language diarization on the same data, as the data contains multi-speaker social conversations in multilingual code-mixed speech. In multilingual communities, social conversations frequently involve code-mixed and code-switched speech. In such cases, various speech processing systems need to perform the speaker and language segmentation before any downstream task. The current speaker diarization systems are not equipped to handle multi-lingual conversations, while the language recognition systems may not be able to handle the same talker speaking in multiple languages within the same recording.
With this motivation, the DISPLACE challenge attempts to benchmark and improve Speaker Diarization (SD) in multilingual settings and Language Diarization (LD) in multi-speaker settings, using the same underlying dataset. For this challenge, a natural multi-lingual, multi-speaker conversational dataset will be distributed for development and evaluation purposes. There will be no training data given and the participants will be free to use any resource for training the models. The challenge reflects the theme of Interspeech 2023 - 'Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology – Breaking Down Barriers' in its true sense.
Registrations are open for this challenge which will contain two tracks - a) Speaker diarization track and b) Language diarization track.
A baseline system and an open leaderboard 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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Olivier Perrotin & Simon King
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TSD 2023 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
************************************************************************** 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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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
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Multimodal Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States
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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
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Studies of affective behavior perception using computational tools
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Studies of affective behavior production using computational tools
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Studies of affect in medical/clinical settings using computational tools
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Studies of affect in context using computational tools
Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Designing Computational Systems
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Computational Models of Affective Processes
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Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems
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Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction
Affective Interfaces
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Interfaces for Monitoring and Improving Mental and Physical Well-Being
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Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems
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Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces
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Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments
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Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
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Distributed/Collaborative Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
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Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces
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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
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Analyzing and modeling groups taking into account emergent states and/or emotions
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Integration of artificial agents (robots, virtual characters) in the group life by leveraging its affective loop: interaction paradigms, strategies, modalities, adaptation
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Collaborative affective interfaces (e.g., for inclusion, for education, for games and entertainment)
Open Resources for Affective Computing
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Shared Datasets for Affective Computing
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Benchmarks for Affective Computing
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Open-source Software/Tools for Affective Computing
Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Transparency and Ethics in Affective Computing
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Bias, imbalance and inequalities in data and modeling approaches in the context of Affective Computing
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Bias mitigation in the context of Affective Computing
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Explainability and Transparency in the context of Affective Computing
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Privacy-preserving affect sensing and modeling
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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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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/
- Title.
- Organizers and affiliations, and Workshop contact person
- Extended abstract making the scientific case for the workshop (why, why now, why at ACII, expected outcomes, impact)
- Advertisement (e.g. lists, conferences etc., and website hosting (where)).
- List of tentative and confirmed PC members (mention this status per PC member)
- Expected number of submissions, planned acceptance rate, and paper length, review process.
- Tentative/confirmed keynote speaker(s).
- Length of the workshop (day or half-day).
- List of related and previous workshops/conferences
- Your publication plan (e.g., Special Issue, whether contact was made with the publisher already
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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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
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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
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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
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- 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
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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
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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
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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.
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Call for SS Proposals at CBMI’2023==================
CBMI’2023 http://cbmi2023.org/ is calling for high quality Special Sessions addressing innovative research in content – based multimedia indexing and its related broad fields. The main scope of the conference is in analysis and understanding of multimedia contents including
- Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
- Mobile media retrieval
- Event-based media retrieval
- Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval
- Multimedia data mining and analytics
- Multimedia retrieval for multimodal analytics and visualization
- Multimedia recommendation
- Multimedia verification (e.g., multimodal fact-checking, deep fake analysis)
- Large-scale multimedia database management
- Summarization, browsing, and organization of multimedia content
- Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems
- Explanations of decisions of AI-in Multimedia
- Application domains : health, sustainable cities, ecology, culture…
and all this in the era of Artificial Intelligence for analysis and indexing of multimedia and multimodal information.
A special oral session will contain oral presentations of long research papers, short papers will be presented as posters during poster sessions with special mention of an SS.
- Long research papers should present complete work with evaluations on topics related to the Conference.
- Short research papers should present preliminary results or more focused contributions.
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An SS proposal has to contain
- Name, title, affiliation and a short bio of SS chairs;
- The rational ;
- A list of at least 5 potential contributions with a provisional title, authors and affiliation.
The dead line for SS proposals is coming: 23rd of January
Please submit your proposals to the SS chairs
jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr
mourad.oussalah@oulu.fi
adel.hafiane@insa-cvl.fr
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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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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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. Maître de Conférences HDR en Phonétique
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