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3-1-1 | (2023-08-20) Call for Special Sessions/Challenges Interspeech 2023 Dublin, Ireland Call for Special Sessions/Challenges We are delighted to announce the launch of the Call for Special Sessions/Challenges for INTERSPEECH 2023 in Dublin, Ireland in August 2023.
Submissions are encouraged covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference’s theme, Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology, are particularly welcome. Apart from supporting a particular theme, special sessions may also have a different format from a regular session.
Check out https://www.interspeech2023.org/special-sessions-challenges/ for more information, including how to submit your proposal.
Important Dates Proposals of special sessions/challenges due 9th November 2022 Notification of pre-selection 14th December 2022 Final list of special sessions 17th May 2023 For all updates on INTERSPEECH 2023, refer to our website at https://www.interspeech2023.org/
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3-1-2 | (2023-08-20) Interspeech 2023 Call for Tutorials - Extended Submission Deadline 10th February 2023 Call for Tutorials - Extended Submission Deadline Extended Dates for Tutorial Submissions
Various sponsorship packages with exhibition and other support and partnership opportunities available to book. Exhibition Early Bird rates are available until 31 January 2023. Book today to secure your stand. Contact us to learn more or discuss a package to suit your needs.
Sign up to our Newsletter To ensure you are kept up to-to-date with news about INTERSPEECH 2023, please sign up to our newsletter through the conference website. Click here or visit www.interspeech2023.org
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3-1-3 | (2023-08-20) INTERSPEECH 2023 First Call for Papers INTERSPEECH 2023 First Call for Papers
INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasise interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications.
INTERSPEECH 2023 will take place in Dublin, Ireland, from August 20-24th 2023 and will feature oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions and challenges, show & tell, exhibits, and satellite events.
The theme of INTERSPEECH 2023 is Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology – Breaking Down Barriers. Whilst it is not a requirement to address this theme, we encourage submissions that: report performance metric distributions in addition to averages; break down results by demographic; employ diverse data; evaluate with diverse target users; report barriers that could prevent other researchers adopting a technique, or users from benefitting. This is not an exhaustive list, and authors are encouraged to discuss the implications of the conference theme for their own work.
Papers are especially welcome from authors who identify as being under-represented in the speech science and technology community, whether that is because of geographical location, economic status, race, age, gender, sexual orientation or any other characteristic. Paper SubmissionINTERSPEECH 2023 seeks original and innovative papers covering all aspects of speech science and technology. The working language of the conference is English, so papers must be written in English. The paper length is up to four pages in two columns with an additional page for references only. Submitted papers must conform to the format defined in the author’s kit provided on the conference website (https://www.interspeech2023.org/), and may optionally be accompanied by multimedia files. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically and will be evaluated through rigorous peer review on the basis of novelty and originality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strengths, and quality of references. The Technical Programme Committee will decide which papers to include in the conference programme using peer review as the primary criterion, with secondary criteria of addressing the conference theme, and diversity across the programme as a whole. Scientific areas and topics
INTERSPEECH 2022 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication, including – but not limited to – the following topics:
Technical Program Committee ChairsSimon King - University of Edinburgh, UK Kate Knill - University of Cambridge, UK Petra Wagner - University of Bielefeld, Germany ContactFor all queries relating to this call for papers, please email: tpc-chairs@interspeech2023.org Important datesPaper Submission Deadline March 1st, 2023 Paper Update Deadline March 8th, 2023 Paper Acceptance Notification May 17th, 2023 Final Paper Upload and Paper Presenter Registration Deadline June 1st, 2023
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3-1-4 | (2023-08-20) Registration Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland Show and Tell Submissions INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. An important addition to the regular and special sessions are the Show and Tell demonstrations, where participants are given the opportunity to present engaging and interactive demonstrations to conference attendees. Contributions must highlight scientific or technological innovations of a concept relevant to INTERSPEECH and may relate to a regular paper. Demonstrations should be based on innovations and fundamental research in the areas of speech communication, speech production, perception, acquisition, or speech and language technologies.
Important Dates
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Book today to secure your stand. Contact us to learn more or discuss a package to suit your requirements.
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3-1-5 | (2023-08-20) The XXIVth Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland
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3-1-6 | (2024-07-02) 12th Speech Prosody Conference @Leiden, The Netherlands Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
Professor Barbosa and I are very pleased to announce that the 12th Speech Prosody Conference will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, July 2-5, 2024, and will be organized by Professors Yiya Chen, Amalia Arvaniti, and Aoju Chen. (Of the 303 votes cast, 225 were for Leiden, 64 for Shanghai, and 14 indicated no preference.)
Also I'd like to remind everyone that nominations for SProSIG officers for 2022-2024 are being accepted still this week, using the form at http://sprosig.org/about.html, to Professor Keikichi Hirose. If you are considering nominating someone, including yourself, feel free to contact me or any current officer to discuss what's involved and what help is most needed.
Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso CCSB 3.0408, +1-915-747-6827 nigel@utep.edu https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/
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3-1-7 | (2024-09-01) Interspeech 2024, Jerusalem, Israel.
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3-1-8 | (2026) Interspeech 2026 The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is honoured to have been selected to host INTERSPEECH 2026. Our theme of Diversity & Equity ? Speaking Together strongly reflects Sydney and our broader region. Sydney is Oceania?s largest city and is also its most linguistically diverse: more than 300 different languages are spoken and 40% of Sydneysiders speak a language other than English at home. Consistent with the goals of ISCA ?to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology?, INTERSPEECH Sydney will highlight the diversity of research in our field with a firm focus on equity and inclusivity. Recognizing the importance of multi-dimensional approaches to speech, INTERSPEECH 2026 will foster greater interdisciplinarity to better inform current and future work on speech science and technology. We look forward to welcoming all to Sydney!
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3-1-9 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers: see https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARSA seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However, presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.
Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials. If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org PS. The online seminar scheme is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:
Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.
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3-1-10 | Speech Prosody courses Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
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3-2-1 | (2023-06-26) 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL53), Paris, France
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3-2-2 | (2023-08-28) DiSS Workshop 2023 (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech), Bielefeld, GE We are happy to announce that the DiSS Workshop 2023 (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech)
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3-3-1 | (2023-03-15) Journée d'étude Groupe Acoustique de la Parole (GAP) de la Société Française d'Acoustique, @IRCAM, Paris Le Groupe Acoustique de la Parole (GAP) de la Société Française d'Acoustique organiseune journée d’étude 'Acoustique de la voix et de la parole : modèles, mesures, maquettes', ouverte à tous sur inscription et gratuite / The Speech Acoustics Group (GAP) of French Acoustical Society organizes a scientific day 'Acoustics of voice and speech: models, measurements, testbeds', open to all with free registration.
ou sur ce lien / or on this link : https://sfa.asso.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-03-15-Journee-Voix-SFA-1.pdf Pour s'inscrire, merci de remplir le formulaire ci-dessous / To register, please fill in the form below :
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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 | (2023-04-24) Special track SATASK: Task-based evaluation of speech/audio interfaces@ACHI23 in Venice, Italy Call for Contributions
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3-3-4 | (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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3-3-5 | (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:
We encourage contributions from students working in the full space of these topics, which is defined by dimensions including:
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
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:
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:
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) :
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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=== Second call for papers IWCS 2023 ===
Paper submissions: 15 March 2023 https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers ======================================== 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 PAPERS
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ISA-19, 2023 Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation
Workshop at the 2023 International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2023, https://iwcs2023.loria.fr), Nancy, France, June 20-23
Submission date: April 12, 2023
Website: https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa19/
ISA-19 will be the 2023 edition of a series of joint workshops of the ACL Special Interest Group in Semantics (SIGSEM) and the International Organisation for Standardisation ISO. The latest editions were held as part of the IWCS conference 2021 (ISA-17), and of the LREC 2022 conference in Marseille (ISA-18).
ISA workshops bring together researchers who produce and consume annotations and representations of semantic information as expressed in text, speech, gestures, graphics, video, images, and combinations of multiple modalities are combined. Examples of semantic annotation include the markup of events, time, space, dialogue acts, discourse relations, semantic roles, coreference, space and motion, quantification, visualisation and motion, and people and 3D objects participating in activities and events. The ISO organisation pursues the establishment and exploitation of standardised annotation methods and representation schemes in these and related areas, in support of the creation of interoperable semantic resources. The ISA workshops provide a forum for researchers to identify and discuss challenges in effective interoperable semantic annotation and to critically examine and compare existing approaches and frameworks.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to:
* methodological aspects of semantic annotation
* design and evaluation of semantic annotation schemas
* innovative methods for automated and manual annotation
* context-aware annotation learning
* integration of semantic annotation and other linguistic annotations
* considerations for merging annotations of different phenomena
* multi-layered annotations and representations
* semantic annotation, representation, and their interrelatedness
* levels of granularity in annotation schemes
* use of context in semantic annotation processes
* uncertainty and ambiguity in annotations
* semantic annotation and ontologies
* comparison of semantic annotation schemes
* annotator agreement and other metrics for evaluating semantic annotations
* qualitative evaluation of semantic annotations
* experiments in semantic annotation
* applications of semantic annotation
* best practices for semantic annotation procedures
* semantic annotation, interpretation, and inference
* application and evaluation of standards for semantic annotation
* language- or application-specific aspects of semantic annotation
* capturing semantic information in images and video
* issues in the annotation of specific domains of semantic information, such as:
- events, states, processes, circumstances, facts
- space, time, motion events, and 3D objects as participants
- relations in discourse and dialogue
- modality, polarity and factuality
- quantification and modification
- coreference relations
- semantic roles and predicate-argument structures
- reference and named entities
- attribution, sentiment, attitudes and emotions
Two types of submission are invited:
1. Research papers, describing original research; these can be either:
a. long (6-8 pages, with additional pages for references if needed) or
b. short (3-5 pages plus references);
2. Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (3-5 pages including references).
Submission of papers is in PDF form through the ISA-19 submission site.
All submissions should be formatted using the IWCS 2023 instructions for submitting papers.
IMPORTANT DATES:
April 12: Submission deadline
April 25: Notification of acceptance
May 15: Camera-ready submission
June 20: Workshop
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Harry Bunt
Nancy Ide
Kiyong Lee
Volha Petukhova
James Pustejovsky
Laurent Romary
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (t.b.c.):
Jan Alexandersson
Ron Artstein
Johan Bos
Harry Bunt (chair)
Stergios Chatzykriakidis
Jae-Woong Choe
Robin Cooper
Ludivine Crible
Rodolfo Delmonte
David DeVault
Simon Dobnik
Jens Edlund
Alex Fang
Robert Gaizauskas
Kallirroi Georgila
Koiti Hasida
Nancy Ide
Elisabetta Jezek
Nikhil Krishnaswamy
Kiyong Lee
Paul Mc Kevitt
Philippe Muller
Rainer Osswald
Catherine Pelachaud
Guy Perrier
Volha Petukhova
Massimo Poesio
Andrei Popescu-Belis
Laurent Prevot
Stephen Pulman
Matthew Purver
James Pustejovsky
Laurent Romary
Purificação Silvano
Matthew Stone
Thorsten Trippel
Carl Vogel
Menno van Zaanen
Annie Zaenen
Heike Zinsmeister
MORE INFORMATION
For the latest information see the workshop page at https://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa19/; for any questions contact the workshop chair Harry Bunt (harry.bunt@tilburguniversity.edu).
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InqBnB4 workshop: Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary
Nancy (France), 20 June 2023, hosted by IWCS 2023 https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/inqbnb4-inquisitiveness-below-and-beyond-the-sentence-boundary/ InqBnB is a workshop series bringing together researchers interested in the semantics and pragmatics of interrogatives (questions or embedded interrogative clauses). This series was originally organized by the Inquisitive Semantics Group of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) from the University of Amsterdam. As such, the focus point mainly revolves around analyses using or related to inquisitive semantics. After three successful editions in the Netherlands, we hope to open the inquisitive community to a wider audience. The 4th edition is planned on 20 June 2023, just before IWCS 2023 (Internation Conference on Computational Semantics). As invited speakers we are welcoming Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh) and one other to be announced. InqBnB4 invites submissions on original and unpublished research focussed on the properties of inquisitive content. We are mainly interested in theoretical questions, formal models and empirical work. But we are also welcoming papers based on statistical or neural models, provided their main goal is to bring new insights regarding inquisitiveness. Here are some examples of questions of interest: * Which operators (connectives, quantifiers, modals, conditionals) generate inquisitiveness? * How do these operators project the inquisitive content of their arguments? * e.g. what triggers maximality, exhaustivity or uniqueness of readings? * How does inquisitive content interact with informative content in compositional semantics? * e.g. how do interrogative words interact with negative polarity items, free choice items, indefinites or plurality? * How do conventions of use interact with inquisitive content? * e.g. how can non-answering responses (e.g. clarification questions) be handled? * In which ways is pragmatics sensitive to inquisitive content? * e.g. how does answer bias and ignorance inferences arise? * What kind of discourse anaphora are licensed by inquisitive expressions? * e.g. does dynamic inquisitive semantics manage to correctly derive donkey anaphora? *Submission:* Submission link on SoftConf: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/inqbnb4/ Sumitted papers must not exceed eight (8) pages (not counting acknowledgement, references and appendices). Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version. Submitted papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use the specific style-files or the Overleaf template for IWCS 2023, taken from ACL 2021. Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. *Important dates:* * Submission deadline: 14 April * Author notification: 12 May * Camera ready: 9 June * Workshop day: 20 June *Organizers:* * Valentin D. Richard [1], Loria, Université de Lorraine * Philippe de Groote [2], Loria, INRIA Nancy â Grand Est * Floris Roelofsen [3], ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam *Programme committee:* * Local chair: Valentin D. Richard, Université de Lorraine * Chair: Floris Roelofsen, Universiteit van Amsterdam * Lucas Champollion [4], New York University (NYU) * Jonathan Ginzburg [5], Université Paris Cité * Philippe de Groote [2], INRIA Nancy â Grand Est * Jakub DotlaÄil [6], Universiteit Utrecht * Reinhard Muskens [7], Universiteit van Amsterdam * Maribel Romero [8], Universität Konstanz * Wataru Uegaki [9], University of Edinburgh * Yimei Xiang [10], Rutgers Linguistics [1] https://valentin-d-richard.fr/ [2] https://members.loria.fr/PdeGroote/ [3] https://www.florisroelofsen.com/ [4] https://champollion.com/ [5] http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Gens/Ginzburg [6] http://www.jakubdotlacil.com/ [7] http://freevariable.nl/ [8] https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/romero/ [9] https://www.wataruuegaki.com/ [10] https://yimeixiang.wordpress.com/ |
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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.
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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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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
Multimodal Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States
Contextualized Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States
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
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
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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The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG) will be held jointly in Prague on September 11-15, 2023.
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers, continuing a series of 23 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for ACL and ISCA.
Topics of Interest
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:
* Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering and information retrieval. Discourse issues in text generated by large language models.
* Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications. Knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue. State representation, tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue.
* Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.
* Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of conversations(i.e., beyond a single sentence), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions.
* Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology.
Submissions
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Submitted long papers may be accepted for oral or for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.
* Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.
* Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.
* Demo descriptions should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.
Multiple Submissions
SIGDIAL 2023 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Overlap with the SIGDIAL workshop submissions is permitted for non-archived workshop proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs [at] sigdial.org.
Blind Review
Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2023 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed.
Submission Format
All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format, which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word)
Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Submission Deadline
SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.
Regular submission
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the Softconf/START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 15, 2023 (23:59 GMT-11). Details and the submission link will be posted on the conference website.
Submission via ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2023 is June 19, 2023. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2023.
Mentoring
Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication.
Best Paper Awards
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2023 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.
SIGDIAL 2023 Program Committee
Svetlana Stoyanchev and Shafiq Rayhan Joty
Conference Website: https://2023.sigdial.org/
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SIGDial/INLG Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2023) will be held jointly in Prague on September 11-15, 2023. We now welcome the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals, which will take place on September 11 and 12 before the main conference. We encourage submissions of proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse, dialogue, and natural language generation communities. This program is intended to offer new perspectives and bring together researchers working on related topics. We especially encourage the sessions that would bring together researchers from SIGDial and INLG communities. Topics of interest include all aspects related to Dialogue, Discourse and Generation including (but not limited to) annotation and resources, evaluation, large language models, adversarial and RL methods, explainable/ethical AI, summarization, interactive/multimodal/situated/incremental systems, data/knowledge/vision-to-text, and applications of dialogue and NLG. The proposed workshops/tutorials may include a poster session, a panel session, an oral presentation session, a hackathon, a generation/dialogue challenge, or a combination of the above. Workshop organizers will be responsible for soliciting, reviewing, and selecting papers or abstracts. The workshop papers will be published in a separate proceedings. Workshops may, at the discretion of the SIGDial/INLG organizers, be held as parallel sessions. Submissions Workshop and Tutorial proposals should be 2-4 pages containing: title, type (workshop or tutorial), a summary of the topic, motivating theoretical interest and/or application context; a list of organizers and sponsors; duration (half-day or full-day), and a requested session format(s): poster/panel/oral/hackathon session. Please include the number of expected attendees. The workshop proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co-chairs. Links Those wishing to propose a workshop or tutorial may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDial meetings: Natural Language in Human Robot Interaction (NLiHRI 2022) https://2022.sigdial.org/call-for-papers-nlihri/ NLG4health 2022 https://nlg4health.uvt.nl/ SummDial 2021 https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html SafeConvAI 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/safety4convai/home RoboDIAL 2022 https://robodial.github.io/ BigScience Workshop: LLMs 2021 https://bigscience.huggingface.co/ Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence 2019 https://www.inlg2019.com/workshop https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/workshops/ Important Dates Mar 24, 2023: Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline April 14, 2023: Workshops/Tutorials Notifications The proposals should be sent to conference@sigdial.org
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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 a focus on the ability for social interaction, communication or cooperation. Such artificial agents can be embodied graphically (e.g. virtual characters, embodied conversational agents) or physically (e.g. social or collaborative 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
2. Computational Models and Methods
3. Operational Systems and Applications
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 consulthttps://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
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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
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:
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:
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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