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| Monday, May 08, 2023 by Chris Wellekens |
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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 Dublin, Registration open Registration Now Open We are delighted to announce that the INTERSPEECH 2023 conference registration is now open with Early Bird reduced rates available until 9th June 2023. Along with the conference registration you can book your accommodation, social events, tutorials, and satellite events. We strongly recommend that delegates visit the conference website https://www.interspeech2023.org/ to review each of the items above, before starting the registration process.
Registration procedures and fees depend on whether you are a member of ISCA at the time of the conference. To participate in the conference, your ISCA membership must be valid during the entire conference (August 20-24, 2023). Those who have a valid membership until August 24th 2023, should select the members rate, all other delegates should select the non-member rate which also includes one year’s ISCA membership. The ISCA Member Listing service allows you to search in the ISCA membership database for one’s name, membership number and status for verification purpose. Click here for more details.
*Light registrations do not include Party at the Storehouse tickets
Party at the Storehouse
Exhibition and Sponsorship Various sponsorship and exhibition packages, plus other support and partnership opportunities are available to book.
Contact us to learn more or discuss a package to suit your requirements.
Many thanks to our sponsors and supporters:
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
We look forward to welcoming you to Dublin to the 24th INTERSPEECH conference from August 20th to 24th 2023! Contact Us
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| 3-1-4 | (2023-08-20) Show and Tell @Interspeech 2023
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.
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| 3-1-5 | (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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| 3-1-6 | (2024-09-01) Interspeech 2024, Jerusalem, Israel.
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| 3-1-7 | (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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| 3-1-8 | 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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| 3-1-9 | 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 | (2023-05-26) Celebration Professor Didier Demolin, LPP
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| 3-3-2 | (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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Le Mans University (France), in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University (USA) and AlloMédia (France) will host a two-week summer school on Human Language Technologies.
The program of this summer school aims at training experts in speech processing and natural language processing.
The 30th JSALT Summer School will take place from Monday 12 June to Friday 23 June 2023.
JSALT Summer School consists in a 2-week long series of lectures by world-class NLP and Speech processing researchers.
The school will take place in Le Mans (France).
What JSALT Summer School represents:
Advanced lectures by first class researchers. See the list of speakers here
(https://jsalt2023.univ-lemans.fr/en/summer-school/programme.html)
An atmosphere that fosters connections and interaction.
The Summer School school is limited to about 100 attendees, and targets primarily students at master level (research oriented) or PhD level.
A number of places are reserved for academics and researchers from the industry.
Registration options:
- Full Summer School (limited to 50 attendees)
including 30 hours of lectures
and 27 hours of hands on sessions
1500€ including private appartement for 2 weeks, breakfast and lunches
- Lectures only: 30 hours of lectures (50 attendees)
750€ including breakfast and lectures
- Online only : 30 hours of lectures
500€
Registration at https://jsalt2023-sumschool.sciencesconf.org/
Best,
JSALT 2023 Organizers
Contact: jsalt2023@univ-lemans.fr
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JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023
Ouverture des inscriptions / Tarifs réduits jusqu'au 14 avril inclus
Chères et Chers collègues,
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JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023
JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023
Ouverture des inscriptions
Chères et Chers collègues,
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 and Participation [CfP] for the SLaTE-2023 workshop
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The workshop on 'Speech and Language Technology in Education' (SLaTE 2023) will be held in Dublin, Ireland, on 18-20 August 2023; just before Interspeech 2023.
The 2nd day (August 19) of the workshop will be jointly organized with the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL).
The 3rd day (August 20) will be the social event, and thus is optional.
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Papers are invited on the SLaTE core topics (esp. for the 1st day),
for the 2nd day (with SIGUL) focusing on the following two themes:
1. Educational Technologies and minority/endangered languages
2. Educational Technologies, Disability and Inclusion in the minority language context
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Deadlines:
23 May, 2023 - Initial Paper Submission
30 May, 2023 - Final Paper Submission
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For more information, see: https://sites.google.com/view/slate2023
If you want to contact us: slate2023@gmail.com
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===== CFP deadline extension IWCS 2023 =====
Paper submissions:
15 March --> 22 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 --> 22 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 Todor Koev (Universität Konstanz).
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 – 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
* Maria Aloni [11], Universiteit van Amsterdam
* Lucas Champollion [4], New York University (NYU)
* Jonathan Ginzburg [5], Université Paris Cité
* Philippe de Groote [2], INRIA Nancy – Grand Est
* Todor Koev [12], Universität Konstanz
* 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/
[11] https://www.marialoni.org/
[12] https://todorkoev.weebly.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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Les GdR LIFT et TAL organisent le 28 juin 2023 à Paris une journée d'étude sur les corpus
glosés.
Les gloses interlinéaires sont le format utilisé pour annoter les données sur les langues
nouvellement décrites, notamment dans les cadres de la linguistique descriptive et de la
typologie linguistique. Elles font l'objet d'un intérêt croissant depuis plusieurs années
de la part des chercheurs en linguistique informatique, du fait de la diversité empirique
auxquelles elles donnent accès et des défis posés par la normalisation et la
structuration de ce format.
Cette journée d'étude se penchera en particulier sur les questions de la conversion des
données existantes, sur la normalisation et la sémanticisation des gloses, et sur les
méthodes d'apprentissage pour assister la génération ou la validation de gloses et
l'inférence de représentations linguistiques.
Cette journée a pour but de réunir des membres de communautés scientifiques différentes
s'intéressant aux gloses interlinéaires et de favoriser les échanges entre points de vue.
Le séminaire sera entièrement gratuit et aura lieu en présence et en ligne via la
plateforme Zoom.
La journée s'organisera entre des conférences invitées, des présentations courtes de
travaux en cours et une session de posters. Nous sollicitons donc des propositions de
communication (2 page maximum) sur les thèmes suivants:
- retour d'expérience sur des projets d'aggrégation, de conversion ou d'homogénéisation
de corpus de gloses interlinéaires ;
- exploration sur la diversité des formats et des conventions utilisés dans les
différents corpus de gloses interlinéaires
- retour d'expérience sur des projets d'infrastructure pour la réalisation, l'archivage
ou la diffusion de corpus glosés
- normalisation et standardisation, sémanticisation : élaboration de référentiels,
conversion des étiquettes des corpus glosés vers des référentiels;
- projets portant sur le développement de nouveaux outils d'annotation et d'exploration
de corpus glosés;
- travaux en traitement automatique des langues réalisés sur des corpus glosés, à des
fins de constructions de représentations linguistiques, de transfert de connaissances,
d'automatisation ou de validation des gloses
Calendrier:
- 15 mai 2023 : soumission des propositions de communication sur le site
https://glose2023.sciencesconf.org
- 01 juin 2023: notification aux auteur-e-s
- 28 juin 2023: journée d'étude
Cet atelier est organisé sous l'égide du GDR LIFT (https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/) et du GDR
TAL (https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/) avec le soutien des projets ANR CLD 2025 et Autogramm
(https://autogramm.github.io/).
Organisation:
- Sylvain Loiseau (LACITO)
- Sylvain Kahane (MODYCO)
- François Yvon (CNRS)
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9e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF) du 1er au 5 juillet 2024, à l’Université de Lausanne
Les Universités de Bâle, Berne, Fribourg, Genève, Lausanne, Neuchâtel et Zurich accueilleront le 9e Congrès mondial de linguistique française, qui se tiendra du 1er au 5 juillet 2024 sur le campus de l’Université de Lausanne
Comité d’organisation Franck Neveu, Sophie Prévost, Agnès Steuckardt, Gabriel Bergounioux, Gilles Philippe, Gilles Merminod 2
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Organisation Dates : 1er au 5 juillet 2024
Lieu : Université de Lausanne
Site web : cmlf2024.sciencesconf.org
Programme prévisionnel . Le Congrès est organisé sur la base d’un appel à communications. Les réponses à l’appel sont attendues jusqu’au 17 décembre 2023. Le nombre total de communications est estimé à 200 environ. 4 conférences plénières seront organisées.
Conférences plénières Les conférences plénières permettent à des chercheurs invités de réputation internationale d’offrir un état de la recherche en linguistique française : Sascha Diwersy, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3 Peter Lauwers, Université de Gand Anne-Catherine Simon, Université Catholique de Louvain Mireille Tremblay, Université de Montréal
Calendrier avril 2023, diffusion de l’appel
4 septembre 2023, ouverture de la plateforme
17 décembre 2023, date limite de réception des propositions de communication
10 mars 2024, notification de l’acceptation ou du refus des propositions de communication, et directives pour la version définitive
15 avril 2024, mise à disposition des textes pour l’éditeur
du lundi 1er juillet au vendredi 5 juillet 2024, congrès à Lausanne
Organisation générale Franck Neveu, Sorbonne Université Sophie Prévost, CNRS/ENS-PSL/Sorbonne Nouvelle, Lattice Agnès Steuckardt, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3 Gabriel Bergounioux, Université d’Orléans Gilles Philippe, Université de Lausanne Gilles Merminod, Université de Lausanne Comité local d’organisation Lorenza Mondada (Bâle), Anne-Gaëlle Toutain, Sandrine Zufferey (Berne), Gilles Corminbœuf, Richard Huyghe (Fribourg), Isabelle Charnavel, Christopher Laenzlinger (Genève), Marie-Hélène Côté, Rudolf Mahrer (Lausanne), Laure Anne Johnsen, Corinne Rossari (Neuchâtel), Marguerite Dallas, Tabea Ihsane et Elisabeth Stark (Zurich).
Laboratoire coordonnateur Lattice– Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (UMR 8094 CNRS – ENS-PSL – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Laboratoires porteurs du congrès
Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF / UMR 7118 CNRS – Université de Lorraine)
Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL / UMR 7320 CNRS – Université Côte d’Azur)
Centre de Recherches Inter-langues sur la Signification en Contexte (CRISCO / EA 4255 Université Caen Normandie)
CLESTHIA : Langages, systèmes, discours (EA 7345 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE/ UMR 5263 CNRS – Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)
DIPRALANG (EA 739 Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3)
Histoire des Théories Linguistiques (HTL / UMR 7597 CNRS – Université de Paris – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM / UMR 8132 CNRS – ENS-PSL)
Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations (ICAR / UMR 5191 CNRS – Université Lumière Lyon 2 – ENS de Lyon – INRP)
Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique (LLL / UMR 7270 CNRS – Université d’Orléans – Université de Tours –BnF)
Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL / UMR 7309 CNRS – Aix-Marseille Université)
Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (Lattice / UMR 8094 CNRS – ENS-PSL – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Lexiques, Textes, Discours, Dictionnaires : Centre Jean Pruvost (LT2D / EA 7518 Université de Cergy-Pontoise) Linguistique et Didactique des Langues Étrangères et Maternelle (LIDILEM / EA 609 Université Grenoble Alpes)
Linguistique, Langues, Parole (LiLPa / EA 1339 Université de Strasbourg) Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus (MoDyCo / UMR 7114 CNRS – Université Paris Nanterre)
PRAXILING (UMR 5267 CNRS – Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3)
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL / UMR 8163 CNRS – Université de Lille)
Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire (STIH / Sorbonne Université)
Remarques sur l’évaluation des propositions Le Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est la manifestation internationale de référence sur et pour la linguistique française qui se caractérise par une procédure exigeante en matière d’évaluation des communications présentées au congrès :
les propositions de communication ne sont pas des résumés mais de véritables articles (10 pages minimum, 15 pages maximum) comprenant une bibliographie ;
la gestion des propositions, de leur répartition entre comités thématiques et au sein des comités thématiques s’effectue via une plateforme de gestion de congrès scientifique ;
la publication des actes est assurée par EDP - http://www.edpsciences.org (publication des actes sur www.linguistiquefrancaise.org) ;
l’évaluation des propositions est faite par des experts au moyen d’une grille unifiée et après une anonymisation des soumissions ;
les communications acceptées font l’objet d'une publication en version intégrale dans les actes ;
les actes et le lien vers les résumés seront accessibles à l’ouverture du congrès.
Partenaires sollicités pour le financement de la manifestation
Fonds National Suisse pour la recherche
Ville de Lausanne
Ministère français de la Culture – Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France
Présentation scientifique Intérêt scientifique Le neuvième Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est organisé par une équipe ayant eu en charge l’organisation des précédents CMLF, par des membres de l’Université de Lausanne, et par un comité local réunissant des représentants de sept universités suisses. Un laboratoire du CNRS coordonne en France une partie de la gestion administrative et matérielle du congrès. Au total, ce sont dix-neuf laboratoires français et sept universités suisses qui portent le CMLF 2024, en participant à son fonctionnement scientifique et budgétaire. Une telle organisation est exceptionnelle par son ampleur et par la volonté de partenariat scientifique qu’elle révèle. Le Congrès Mondial, qui a été organisé par l’ILF (Institut de Linguistique française – FR 2393 – CNRS) jusqu’en 2018, s’est tenu à Paris en 2008 à La Nouvelle-Orléans en 2010 à Lyon en 2012 à Berlin en 2014 à Tours en 2016 à Mons en 2018 à Montpellier en 2020 à Orléans en 2022 Chacun de ces congrès a attiré près de 300 participants et les résultats ont fait l’objet d’une publication immédiate en ligne (https://www.linguistiquefrancaise.org/component/issues/). Ce congrès est organisé sans aucun privilège d’école ou d’orientation et sans exclusive théorique ou conceptuelle. Chaque domaine ou sous-domaine, chaque type d'objet, chaque type de questionnement et chaque problématique portant sur le français peut y trouver sa place. Le CMLF est organisé en sessions thématiques qui permettent de couvrir la plus grande partie du champ scientifique
1 Discours, pragmatique et interaction
2 Francophonie
3 Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique
4 Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité
5 Lexique
6 Linguistique de l’écrit, linguistique du texte, sémiotique, stylistique
7 Linguistique et didactique (français langue première, français langue seconde)
8 Morphologie
9 Phonétique, phonologie et interfaces
10 Psycholinguistique et acquisition
11 Ressources et outils pour l’analyse linguistique
12 Sémantique
13 Sociolinguistique, dialectologie et écologie des langues
14 Syntaxe
Chaque thématique est pilotée par un Président ou une Présidente d’une université suisse et coordonnée par un Vice-président ou une Vice-Présidente d’une université ou d’un organisme de recherche français. Les comités scientifiques sont constitués par des spécialistes. Un soin particulier a été accordé à la sélection de ces comités afin de s’assurer qu’ils présenteront les plus grandes garanties scientifiques pour le succès du congrès. On trouve donc dans chaque comité des linguistes connu(e)s mondialement pour leur contribution au domaine. Le rôle de ces comités est de sélectionner les propositions de communications.
MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ET DE PUBLICATION DES COMMUNICATIONS Les soumissions se font sous la forme d’articles de 10 à 15 pages. Toutes les communications (y compris les conférences plénières) seront publiées sous la forme d'un article d’environ 15 pages dans les actes du congrès disponibles en ligne. Les résumés des communications seront imprimés dans un recueil distribué dès le début du congrès et resteront accessibles sous forme électronique sur le site du CMLF. Les actes des huit précédents congrès peuvent être consultés sur www.linguistiquefrancaise.org
Comité scientifique Le Comité scientifique est composé des présidents et des présidentes, des vice-présidents et des vice-présidentes, et des membres des 14 comités correspondant aux thématiques du Congrès.
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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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- 26 April, 2023 Initial paper submission (at least, title, authors and abstract)
- 3 May, 2023 Final paper submission (only updates to the PDF are allowed)
- 5 March 2023 Team registration closes
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Olivier Perrotin & Simon King
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2023)
30 August - 1 September 2023, Singapore
http://ieee-mipr.org/
The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing
and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR 2023) will take place both physically and virtually,
August 30 ? September 1, 2023, in Singapore. The conference will provide a
forum for original research contributions and practical system design,
implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and
retrieval.
Topics (Please see http://ieee-mipr.org/call_papers.html).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Multimedia Retrieval
2. Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining
3. Content Understanding and Analytics
4. Multimedia and Vision
5. Networks for Multimedia Systems
6. Systems and Infrastructures
7. Data Management
8. Novel Applications
9. Internet of Multimedia Things
and others.
Paper Submission:
The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages), short papers (4 pages),
and demo papers (4 pages). Authors are encouraged to compare their approaches,
qualitatively or quantitatively, with existing work and explain the strength
and weakness of the new approaches. We are planning to invite selected
submissions to journal special issues.
Instructions and a link to the submission website are available here:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MIPR2023
Important Dates (http://ieee-mipr.org/dates.html):
- Regular Paper (6 pages) and Short Paper (4 pages) Submission Due: April 19, 2023
- Notification of Decision: May 25, 2023
- Camera-ready deadline: July 10, 2023
- Conference Date: August 30-Sep 1, 2023
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TSD 2023 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Twenty-sixth International Conference on
TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2023)
Pilsen, Czech Republic, 4-7 September 2023
http://www.tsdconference.org/
*** The paper submission deadline was postponed! ***
*** NEW *** The best papers' authors will be asked to provide extended
versions of their papers to be published in a topical issue of the Springer
Nature Journal of Computer Science (https://www.springer.com/journal/42979)
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Plzen (Pilsen) in co-operation with the Faculty of
Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and is supported by the
International Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic,
Primavera **** Hotel & Congress Centre
THE IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission of contributions: Postponed to April 30, 2023
Notification of acceptance or rejection: May 22, 2023
Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: June 4, 2023
TSD 2023: September 4-7, 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.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and
spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized
lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech,
handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of
feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological
and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual
processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text
labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity
speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction,
information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge
representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation,
plagiarism detection, fake news 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, emotions and
personality modelling)
Papers dealing with text and speech processing in linguistic environments
other than English are strongly encouraged (as long as they are written in
English).
PROGRAM 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
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 programme will include invited keynote speeches given by
respected influential researchers/academics, presentations of accepted
papers in both oral and poster/demonstration form, and interesting social
events. The papers will be presented in plenary and topic-oriented
sessions.
Social events including an excursion to the world-famous Pilsner Urquell
Brewery and a trip in the vicinity of Plzen will allow additional informal
interactions of the conference participants.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (known so far)
* Philippe Blache -- Director of Research at the Laboratoire
Parole et Langage (LPL), Institute of Language, Communication and the
Brain CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, France
* Ivan Habernal -- Head of the Trustworthy Human Language
Technologies (TrustHLT) Group Department of Computer Science,
Technische universitat Darmstadt, Germany
* Daniela Braga (negotiations in progress) -- Founder and CEO
at Defined.ai, Bellevue, Washington, United States
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages (in
total, i.e. with all figures, bibliography, etc. included) formatted in
the LNAI/LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as
posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the
recommendation of the reviewers. Each paper is examined by at least
3 reviewers and the process is double blind.
The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission
interface accessible from the TSD 2023 web application at
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2023/index.php?form=mypapers
The papers submitted to the TSD 2023 must not be under review at any other
conference or other type of publication during the TSD 2023 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.
*** NEW *** The best papers' authors will be asked to provide extended
versions of their papers to be published in a topical issue of the
Springer Nature Journal of Computer Science
(https://www.springer.com/journal/42979)
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee arranged discounted accommodation of appropriate
standards at the conference venue. Details about the conference
accomodation will be available on the TSD 2023 web page at
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2023/index.php?page=accommodation
The prices of the accommodation (and limited-budget options) will be
available on the conference website, too.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to
TSD 2023 - KIV
Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia
Univerzitni 8, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 730 851 103
Fax: +420 377 632 402 (mark the material with letters 'TSD')
E-mail: tsd2023@tsdconference.org
The e-mail and the conference phone is looked after by the TSD 2023
conference secretary Ms Marluce Quaresma (speaks English, Portuguese, and
Czech).
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.
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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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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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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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)
BigScience Workshop: LLMs 2021
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
- 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 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
- 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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ACM ICMI 2023 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
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9-13 October 2023, Paris - France
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION IS EXTENDED TO MAY 8, 2023
ABSTRACTS STILL NEED TO BE SUBMITTED ON OR BEFORE MAY 1, 2023
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.
This year, the conference is pleased to welcome 3 keynote speakers:
* Maja Mataric (Interaction Lab, University of Southern California)
* Sophie Scott (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)
* Simone Natale (University of Turin)
We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community. 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 spotlight papers, and late-breaking papers. The conference will also feature 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 reviewed with this sub-criterion should include novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or modeling 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/2023/guidelines-for-authors/ for detailed submission instructions.
This year’s 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 and 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
Submissions:
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Please note that the instructions were updated as of March 17th, 2023. All submissions are expected for reviewing in PDF. The submission format is the double column ACM conference format (see https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/) The length depends on the different submission categories:
* Long paper: The maximum length is 8 pages using latex or Word (excluding references).
* Short paper: The maximum length is 4 pages using latex or Word (excluding references).
The submissions can be submitted online on: https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/icmi23a
ACM Publication Policies
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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 ACM's new 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.
Important Dates
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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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Call for participation: GENEA Challenge 2023 on speech-driven gesture generation
Starting date: May 1
Location: Official Grand Challenge of ICMI 2023, Paris, France
Website: https://genea-workshop.github.io/2023/challenge/
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Overview
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The state of the art in co-speech gesture generation is difficult to assess, since every research group tends to use their own data, embodiment, and evaluation methodology. To better understand and compare methods for gesture generation and evaluation, we are continuing the GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Challenge, wherein different gesture-generation approaches are evaluated side by side in a large user study. This 2023 challenge is a Grand Challenge for ICMI 2023 and is a follow-up to the first and second editions of the GENEA Challenge, arranged in 2020 and 2022.
This year the challenge will focus on gesture synthesis in a dyadic setting, i.e., gestures that depend not only on speech, but also on the behaviour of an interlocutor in a conversation. We invite researchers in academia and industry working on any form of corpus-based non-verbal behaviour generation and gesticulation to submit entries to the challenge, whether their method is driven by rule or machine learning. Participants are provided a large, common dataset of speech (audio+aligned text transcriptions) and 3D motion to develop their systems, and then use these systems to generate motion on given test inputs. The generated motion clips are rendered onto a common virtual agent and evaluated for aspects such as motion quality and appropriateness in a large-scale crowdsourced user study.
Data
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The 2023 challenge is based on the Talking With Hands 16.2M dataset (https://github.com/facebookresearch/TalkingWithHands32M). The official challenge dataset also includes additional annotations, and is only available to registered participants.
Timeline
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April 1 – Participant registration opens
May 1 – Challenge training dataset released to participants
June 7 – Test input released to participants
June 14 – Deadline for participants to submit generated motion
July 3 – Release of crowdsourced evaluation results to participants
July 14 – Paper submission deadline
August 4 – Author notification
August 11 – Camera-ready papers due
October 9 or 13 – Challenge presentations at ICMI
If you would like to receive a notification when challenge registration opens, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/MFEXv84xGL3NrY3d9/.
Challenge paper
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Challenge participants are required to submit a paper that describes their system and findings, and will present their work at the Grand Challenge session at ICMI. All accepted papers will be part of the ACM ICMI 2023 main proceedings. Papers that are not accepted will have a chance to be considered for the GENEA Workshop 2023, whose papers are published in the ACM ICMI 2023 companion proceedings.
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Call for Participation: ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE) - Emotion Share and Requests http://www.compare.openaudio.eu/2023-2/
The ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE) is an open Grand Challenge dealing with states and traits of speakers as manifested in their speech signal’s properties and beyond. In this 14th edition, we introduce two new Sub-Challenges: • Emotion Share Sub-Challenge, • Requests Sub-Challenge Sub-Challenges allow contributors to find their own features with their own machine learning algorithm. Participants have five trials on the test set per Sub-Challenge. Participation has to be accompanied by a paper presenting the results that undergoes the ACM peer-review. Contributions using the provided or equivalent data are sought for (but not limited to): • Participation in a Sub-Challenge • Contributions around the Challenge topics Results of the Challenge and Prizes will be presented at ACM Multimedia 2023 in Ottawa between 29 October and 3 November 2023.
Organizers
General Chairs:
- Björn Schuller (University of Augsburg, Germany / Imperial College London, UK / audEERING)
- Anton Batliner (University of Augsburg, Germany)
- Shahin Amiriparian (University of Augsburg, Germany)
- Alexander Barnhill (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg Erlangen, Germany)
- Alan S. Cowen (Hume.AI, USA)
- Claude Montacié (Sorbonne University, France)
Data Chairs:
- Alice Baird (Hume.AI, USA)
- Nikola Lackovic (Malakoff Humanis, France)
[IMPORTANT] Please note, in case of participation: for the Requests sub-challenge, you have to sign the EULA the same way as in previous years: it is mandatory that it is signed by a *permanent* member of the staff, not for instance by a student!
For the Emotion Share Sub-Challenge, EULAs and data will be handled by Hume.AI. For more information visit
http://www.compare.openaudio.eu/2023-2/
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Call for Participation: the 2nd Conversational Head Generation Challenge @ ACM Multimedia 2023
We are pleased to invite multimedia researchers to participate the 2nd 'Conversational Head Generation Challenge,' co-located with ACM Multimedia 2023.
About the Challenge:
Conversational head generation highlights both the talking and listening roles generation in an interactive face-to-face conversation. Generating vivid talking head video and proper responsive listening behavior are both essential for digital humans during face-to-face human-computer interaction. More details can be found via: https://vico.solutions/challenge/2023
This distinctive challenge is based on the newly extended ViCo dataset (https://vico.solutions/vico), composed with conversation videos between real humans. Our aim is to bring face-to-face interactive head video generation into a visual competition through this challenge. This year, two tracks will be hosted:
- Talking head video generation (audio-driven speaker video generation) conditioned on the identity and audio signals of the speaker.
- Responsive Listening Head Video Generation (video-driven listener video generation) conditioned on the identity of the listener and with real-time responses to the speaker's behaviors.
As a starting point for the participates, we also provide an open-source baseline method (https://github.com/dc3ea9f/vico_challenge_baseline) that includes audio/video-driven head generation, rendering, and scripts for 13 evaluation metrics.
Important Dates:
- Dataset available for download (training set): March 27th.
- Challenge launch date: April 3rd.
- Paper submissions deadline: July 14th.
- Top submissions will have the opportunity to present their work at the workshop during ACM Multimedia 2023. We encourage all participating teams to submit a paper (up to 4 pages + up to 2 extra pages for references only) briefly describing their solution.
Find out more about the challenge:
- Challenge mainpage (including challenge registration, online evaluation results): https://vico.solutions/challenge/2023
- Challenge page at ACM MM 2023: https://www.acmmm2023.org/grand-challenges-2/
We believe this challenge would greatly benefit from your knowledge and expertise. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or require further information.
Contact: Yalong Bai, Mohan Zhou, Wei Zhang
vico-challenge@outlook.com
The organizing team
March 2023
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Announcing the SPECOM 2023 Call for Papers! |
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The Call for Papers for SPECOM 2023 is now open! The 25th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM) will be held from 29th November- 1st December 2023 in Hubli-Dharwad, India. This flagship conference will offer a comprehensive technical program presenting all the latest developments in research and technology for speech processing and its applications. Featuring world-class oral and poster sessions, plenaries and perspective exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, and satellite workshops, it is expected to attract leading researchers and global industry figures, providing a great networking opportunity. Moreover, exceptional papers and contributors will be selected and recognized by SPECOM. Website Link: https://iitdh.ac.in/specom-2023/ Call for papers PDF is available here. |
Special attractions for commemorating Silver Jubilee of SPECOM
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Students Special Session
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Special Session on Speech Processing for Under-Resource Languages
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Special Session on Industrial Speech and Language Technology
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Satellite Workshop on “Speaker and Language Identification, Verification and Diarization” @ Goa
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Technical Scope: We invite submissions of original unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:
Organizers:
Important dates:
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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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LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation
Lingotto Conference Centre - Turin (Italy)
20-25 May, 2024
Conference website: https://lrec-coling-2024.lrec-conf.org/
Twitter: @LrecColing2024
Two major international key players in the area of computational linguistics, the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), are joining forces to organize the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) to be held in Turin (Italy) on 20-25 May, 2024.
The hybrid conference will bring together researchers and practitioners in computational linguistics, speech, multimodality, and natural language processing, with special attention to evaluation and the development of resources that support work in these areas. Following in the tradition of the well-established parent conferences COLING and LREC, the joint conference will feature grand challenges and provide ample opportunity for attendees to exchange information and ideas through both oral presentations and extensive poster sessions, complemented by a friendly social program.
The three-day main conference will be accompanied by a total of three days of workshops and tutorials held in the days immediately before and after.
General Chairs
- Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR-ILC, Pisa
- Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore
Advisors to General Chairs
- Chu-Ren Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Joseph Mariani, LISN-CNRS, Paris-Saclay University
Programme Chairs
- Veronique Hoste, Ghent University
- Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa
- Sakriani Sakti, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University
Management Chair
- Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, Paris
Local Chairs
- Valerio Basile, University of Turin
- Cristina Bosco, University of Turin
- Viviana Patti, University of Turin
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