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Saturday, June 10, 2023 by Chris Wellekens

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3-3-1(2023-06-12) 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Thessaloniki, Greece

ICMR2023 – ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

https://icmr2023.org/

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3-3-2(2023-06-12) ACM ICMR 2023 Doctoral Symposium, Call for papers, Thessaloniki, Greece

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eligibility

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

Maximum Length of a Paper

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

Important Dates

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

Single-Blind Review

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

Submission Instructions

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contact

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

Aisling Kelliher  aislingk@vt.edu

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Note : cette école n'est pas ouverte aux étudiant.e.s de Master; les industriel.le.s
participants doivent être membres du club des partenaires du GdR TAL
(https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/club-des-partenaires/).
 
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3-3-4(2023-06-12) Summer School JSALT2023, Université du Mans, France

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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3-3-5(2023-06-15) JEP 2023, Toulouse, France

JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023

Ouverture des inscriptions / Tarifs réduits jusqu'au 14 avril inclus

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

 

Chères et Chers collègues,

L?Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès (campus Mirail : https://www.univ-tlse2.fr/) a le plaisir de vous accueillir pour les 9èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC2023) du 15 au 17 juin 2023.
 
Vous pouvez maintenant vous inscrire, le plus vite possible pour pouvoir bénéficier des tarifs réduits jusqu?au 14 avril inclus, en suivant ce lien : https://www.irit.fr/jpc2023/inscriptions/
 
Le programme sera diffusé très prochainement.
 
Au plaisir de vous accueillir à Toulouse !
 
 
 
Le comité d?organisation des JPC 2023
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3-3-6(2023-06-15) Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC 2023), Toulouse, France

JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023

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

 

JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023

Ouverture des inscriptions 

 

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

 

Chères et Chers collègues,

L’Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès (campus Mirail: https://www.univ-tlse2.fr/) a le plaisir de vous accueillir pour les 9èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC 2023) du 15 au 17 juin 2023. 
 
Les inscriptions sont ouvertes et accessibles sur le site des JPC:  https://www.irit.fr/jpc2023/inscriptions/. Pensez à vous inscrire rapidement. Veuillez noter que l’inscription d’au moins un auteur par communication est obligatoire pour la publication du résumé.

Nous avons également le plaisir de vous annoncer que l’Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée, soutien officiel des JPC 2023, met à disposition cinq bourses jeunes chercheurs. Ces bourses seront délivrées sur le principe du « premier arrivé, premier servi » du moment que la demande respecte le format attendu et les critères d’attribution (voir page des bourses jeunes chercheurs).
 
 
Au plaisir de vous accueillir prochainement à Toulouse! 
 
Le comité d’organisation des JPC 2023

 Appel à Communication

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dates importantes : 

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

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

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3-3-7(2023-06-18) CfPP SLaTE-2023 workshop, Dublin, Ireland

Call for Papers and Participation [CfP] for the SLaTE-2023 workshop
.
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.
.
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
.
Deadlines:
23 May, 2023 - Initial Paper Submission
30 May, 2023 - Final Paper Submission
.
For more information, see: https://sites.google.com/view/slate2023
If you want to contact us: slate2023@gmail.com
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3-3-8(2023-06-20) 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), Nancy, France

===== 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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3-3-9(2023-06-20) CfP ISA-19, 2023 Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Nancy, France
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
 
 
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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3-3-10(2023-06-20) InqBnB4 workshop: Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary, Nancy, France

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 Dotlačil [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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3-3-11(2023-06-20) SIG Workshop on Speech Prosody and Beyond, Seoul, South Korea

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

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

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

 

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3-3-12(2023-06-28) Journée d'étude sur les corpus glosés (GdR Lift et TAL), Paris, France

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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3-3-13(2023-07-01) 9e CONGRÈS MONDIAL DE LINGUISTIQUE FRANÇAISE (CMLF), Université de Lausanne, Suisse

 

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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3-3-14(2023-07-15) MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, New York,NY, USA

MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
http://www.mldm.de
 
When    Jul 16, 2023 - Jul 21, 2023
Where    New York, USA
Submission Deadline    Jan 15, 2023
Notification Due    Mar 18, 2023
Final Version Due    Apr 5, 2023
Categories:    machine learning   data mining   pattern recognition   classification
 
Call For Papers
MLDM 2023
18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
July 15 - 19, 2023, New York, USA

The Aim of the Conference
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world who deal with machine learning and data mining in order to discuss the recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic research papers as well as application papers are welcome.

Chair
Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI, Germany

Program Committee
Piotr Artiemjew University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Sung-Hyuk Cha Pace Universtity, USA
Ming-Ching Chang University of Albany, USA
Mark J. Embrechts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and CardioMag Imaging, Inc, USA
Robert Haralick City University of New York, USA
Adam Krzyzak Concordia University, Canada
Chengjun Liu New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Krzysztof Pancerz University Rzeszow, Poland
Dan Simovici University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Agnieszka Wosiak Lodz University of Technology, Poland
more to be annouced...


Topics of the conference

Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the following topics:

Association Rules
Audio Mining
Autoamtic Semantic Annotation of Media Content
Bayesian Models and Methods
Capability Indices
Case-Based Reasoning and Associative Memory
case-based reasoning and learning
Classification & Prediction
classification and interpretation of images, text, video
Classification and Model Estimation
Clustering
Cognition and Computer Vision
Conceptional Learning
conceptional learning and clustering
Content-Based Image Retrieval
Control Charts
Decision Trees
Design of Experiment
Desirabilities
Deviation and Novelty Detection
Feature Grouping, Discretization, Selection and Transformation
Feature Learning
Frequent Pattern Mining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a35Wjkygx0&ab_channel=IFOSS

 

The underlying theme of the current edition is

*Digitalisation and Forensic Data Science: From evidence acquisition to interpretation*.

 

LIST OF SPEAKERS (almost confirmed)

Fabio Bruno, Interpol, Singapore

Didier Meuwly - University of Twente, NL

Matthew Stamm, Drexel University, USA

Giovanni Tessitore - Polizia Scientifica, IT

Christian Reiss - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, DE

 

..others coming soon.

 

DIRECTORS

Sebastiano Battiato - University of Catania, Italy

Donatella Curtotti -  University of Foggia, Italy

Giovanni Ziccardi, University of Milan, Italy

 

PhD FORUM

A special session is organized for participants who intend to take advantage of the audience for  resenting their current research/tool in the area. Moreover this year, three prizes sponsored by Amazon AWS will be awarded (AWS credits to the top 3 students for a total value of $3500). Students will be selected by the scientific committee on the basis of their CV and the presentations to be given during the demo poster session.

 

APPLICATION

The school will be open to about 75 qualified, motivated and pre-selected

candidates. Ph. D. students, post-docs, young researchers (both academic and

industrial), senior researchers (both academic and industrial) or

academic/industrial professionals are encouraged to apply at: www.ifoss.it

<http://www.ifoss.it/>

 

The expected school fee will be of 550 euros for Master and Phd students granted by academia, € 600 for other academic positions and € 700 for industrial. Reduced Fee will be reserved to LEAs, private lawyers and practitioners 400 Euros. The fee will include all course materials, coffee breaks, bus service from Catania Airport to School Location and return, WiFi Internet Connection, a guided tour, a social dinner and all the events scheduled in the programme.

 

A certain number of scholarships will be available soon depending on sponsorship income.

 

Applications to attend IFOSS 2023 should be received before 07/05/2023.

Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by mid of May.

Late registration can be done with an extra payment of € 100.

 

ACCOMODATIONS

IFOSS participants will be hosted at Hotel Village Baia Samuele (school location) at very special rates. There are no other accommodation options. IFOSS 2023 participants must make reservations for accommodation, using the accommodation reservation form (available soon) to be sent directly to Baia Samuele reception. 
 

More details at https://www.ifoss.it/accommodation/

 

After a certain date there is no guarantee for reservations in Hotel Village Baia Samuele.

More information will be announced as soon as possible on the web site.

Depending on chosens settings (Single, Double or Triple Room) the overall cost enclosing Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner should span in the range (600-1000 euros) in the period 16(in) to 22 (out) July 2023.

 

LOCATION OF IFOSS 2023

IFOSS 2023 will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele in Punta Sampieri - Scicli (Ragusa), Sicily from 16-22 July 2023.

Sicily is one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean. The island is very rich in archeological sites from various Ancient Civilizations. The sea, weather, food and the wine are excellent. In particular Punta Sampieri - Scicli (RG) is located in the south east of Sicily in a late Baroque area called Val di Noto. The Val di Noto area is included in the Unesco World Heritage List and

includes eight nearby towns: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli.

The location of the school rises in the middle of an ample bay delimited on the west from Sampieri and on the east from a cliff, on which is founded an ancient furnace, rare example of industrial archaeology. The Hotel Village Baia Samuele stretches in a gentle slant to the beach: 120 thousand square meters delimited from rows of secular cypresses. An ultramodern village with an original architecture, pleasant design and all comforts you can imagine. The frame of plants and flowers, typical of this angle of Sicily, in front of the island of Malta, completes this gilded dream of the Mediterranean.

 

MORE INFORMATION

www.ifoss.it

info@ifoss.it

 

FOLLOW US ON

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InternationalForensicsSummerSchool/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IFOSS22
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ifoss_official/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ifoss/

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3-3-16(2023-07-XX) Track 4: Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems - Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC11.T4)
Track 4: Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems - Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC11.T4)

Call for Participation

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

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

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

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

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

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

ORGANIZATIONS:
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Tencent AI Lab (China)
New York University (USA)
Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
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3-3-17(2023-08-07) 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Contact: icphs2023@guarant.cz

 

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3-3-18(2023-08-07) IPA bursaries for ICPhS

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

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

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3-3-19(2023-08-18) SIGUL 2023 Workshop@ Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland

 

2nd Call for Papers

SIGUL 2023 Workshop


Co-located with Interspeech 2023

Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 August 2023



The 2nd Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2023) provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2023 carries on the tradition of the SIGUL and the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organized since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this workshop will span the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages.


Special Features


This year, the workshop will be marked with three special events:


(1) Special Session in Celtic Language Technology (August 18)

SIGUL 2023 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language technologies for Celtic languages.


(2) Joint Session with SlaTE 2023 (August 19)

SIGUL 2023 will have a joint session with The 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SlaTE 2023). The goal is to accelerate the development of spoken language technology for under-resourced languages through education.


(3) Social outing and dinner near Dublin (optional on August 20)


Invited Speakers


  • Subhashish Panigrahi, O Foundation and Law for All Initiative: Reclaiming Our Voices - Imagining Community-Led Ai/Ml Practices

  • Delyth Prys, Language Technologies Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr: TBA


Workshop Topics 


Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in natural language processing and spoken language processing for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers and also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages.


Topics include but are not limited to:


  • Processing any under-resourced languages (covering less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages)

  • Cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages

  • Fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts, dictionaries, grammars, and language models

  • Zero-resource speech technologies and self-supervised learning

  • Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling

  • Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects

  • Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems

  • Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages


  • Special topic: 

    • Celtic language technology

    • Spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages via education


We also welcome various typologies of papers:


  • research papers;

  • position papers for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches);

  • research posters for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development or description of new resources;

  • demo papers, and early-career/student papers, to be submitted as extended abstracts and presented as posters.


Instructions for Submission


Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions according to the following guidelines.

  • Research and position papers: a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page reserved exclusively for references.

  • Demo papers, and early-career/student papers: a maximum of three pages with the 3rd page reserved for references. 


Both types of submissions must conform to the Interspeech format defined in the paper preparation guidelines as instructed in the author’s kit on the Interspeech webpage. Papers do not need to be anonymous. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication.


Important Dates


- Paper submission deadline: 28 May 2023

- Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2023 

- Camera-ready paper: 21 July 2023 

- Workshop date: 18-20 August 2023



Outline of the Program


SIGUL 2023 will continue the tradition of the previous SIGUL event that features a number of distinguished keynote speakers, technical oral and poster sessions, and panel discussions to discuss a better future for under-resourced languages and under-resourced communities. 


Full list of organizers SIGUL Board

Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy)

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)


SIGUL 2023 Organizers

Kolawole Adebayo (ADAPT, Ireland)

Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Brian Davis (ADAPT, Ireland)

John Judge (ADAPT, Ireland)

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy)


SIGUL 2023 Program Committee

Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI-CNRS, France)

Manex Agirrezabal (University of Copenhagen – Center for Sprogteknologi | Center for Language Technology, Denmark)

Shyam S. Agrawal (KIIT, India)

Begona Altuna (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia)

Matt Coler (University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands)

Pradip K. Das (IIT, India)

Iria De Dios Flores ( Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes, Spain)

A. Seza Doğruöz (Universiteit Gent, België | Ghent University, Belgium)

Stefano Ghazzali (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd) 

Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA)

Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC [Artificial Intelligence Research Center], AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan)

Laurent Kevers (Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France)

Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates)

Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France)

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Espanya | Spain)

Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar)

Delyth Prys (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd) 

Carlos Ramisch (Université Marseille, France)

Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italia | Italy)

Trond Trosterud (Norges Arktiske Universitet | The Arctic University of Norway)

 

Acknowledgments

SIGUL is a joint Special Interest Group of the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The SIGUL 2023 workshop has been organized with the help of the local organizers of Interspeech 2023 and Slate 2023. This edition has been sponsored by Google and endorsed by Linguapax International. 

 

 

Contact


To contact the organizers, please mail sigul2023@ml.jaist.ac.jp (Subject: [SIGUL2023]).

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

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

 

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


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

 

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

 

A baseline system and an open leaderboard is available to the participants. The DISPLACE challenge is split into two phases, where the first phase is linked to the Interspeech paper submission deadline, while the second phase aligns with the camera ready submission deadline. For more details, dates and to register, kindly visit the DISPLACE challenge website: https://displace2023.github.io/

 

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

 

Thank you and Namaste,

The DISPLACE team 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3-3-21(2023-08-26) CfP 12th Speech Synthesis Workshop - Grenoble-France
CfP 12th Speech Synthesis Workshop - Grenoble-France - https://ssw2023.org - August 26-28, 2023:
 The Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) is the main meeting place for research and innovation in speech synthesis, i.e. predicting speech signals from text input. SSW welcomes contributions not only in the core TTS technology but also papers from contributing sciences: from phoneticians, phonologists, linguists, neuroscientists to experts of multimodal human-machine interaction.
 For more information, please consult: https://ssw2023.org/
 Deadlines:
  • 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)
 Note also that the data for Blizzard challenge 2023 on French have been releasedhttps://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2023
 Deadlines:
  • 5 March 2023 Team registration closes
 
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3-3-22(2023-08-29) Blizzard Challenge 2023
We are delighted to announce the call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2023. This is an open evaluation of corpus-based speech synthesis systems using common datasets and a large listening test.

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

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


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

Olivier Perrotin & Simon King
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3-3-23(2023-08-30) CfP Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2023), Singapore

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*** Submission Deadline: 19 April 2023 PST ***
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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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3-3-24(2023-09-04) CfP 26th Intern.Conf. on text, speech and dialogue (TSD 2023), Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic

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                     TSD 2023 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
***************************************************************************

                 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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3-3-25(2023-09-07) Journée scientifique « Modèles de langue pour les domaines de spécialité », Nantes, France

Dans le cadre du GdR CNRS Traitement automatique des langues (GdR TAL), le LS2N organise
une journée scientifique sur le thème des « modèles de langue pour les domaines de
spécialité », le 7 septembre 2023 à Nantes. La journée sera organisée autour de
présentations orales invitées, de présentations sous la forme de posters et de démos (cf.
appel ci-dessous) ainsi que d’une table ronde.


## Thèmes

Les modèles de langue de grande taille (LLM) constituent aujourd’hui le composant central
de toute solution du Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL). Néanmoins leur
exploitation pour le traitement de domaines de spécialité requiert de faire face à de
nombreux défis en raison de la spécificité thématique, du genre et des caractéristiques
linguistiques et stylistiques de ces domaines.

L’objectif de cette journée est de rassembler des chercheur.ses et des industriel.les des
communautés francophones du TAL, de la RI et de la parole pour échanger et faire le point
sur les dernières avancées et problématiques autour des questions d’exploitation des LLM
pour le traitement des domaines de spécialité.

Nous invitons des communications sur les thèmes suivants (liste non exhaustive) :

* Interdisciplinarité des LLM, avantages et limites de modèles « encore plus grands » par
rapport à des modèles spécialisés ;
* Adaptation des LLM à un domaine de spécialité (pré-entraînement, ajustement, adaptation
des architectures) ;
* Ingénierie de l’instruction et du prompt (few-shot learning, zero-shot learning,
contrastive learning) ;
* Injection de connaissances externes et explicabilité des modèles ;
* Transfert interlingue (cross-lingual transfer) et approches multimodales ;
* Prise en compte des spécificités linguistiques du domaine (style, discours…) ;
* Prise en compte de la quantité et de la nature des ressources disponibles (corpus,
bases de connaissances) pour ce domaine ou des domaines voisins ;
* Récentes avancées dans le domaine médical, scientifique, juridique, financier… ;
* Sous-domaines, biais, diversité et inclusion dans les LLM ;
* Aspects légaux et éthiques au travers des modèles.


## Orateur.trice.s. invité.e.s

Les orateur.trice.s invité.e.s seront précisé.e.s ultérieurement.


## Appel à communications (poster, démo)

Dans le cadre de cette journée, nous invitons les chercheuses et chercheurs, travaillant
sur ces thèmes, dans un cadre académique ou industriel, à présenter leurs travaux (démo
ou poster), même déjà publiés, pour échanger avec des collègues du domaine. Pour cela, il
suffit de soumettre un résumé d’une page maximum, et/ou le poster s’il est déjà existant,
et/ou l’article décrivant les travaux si déjà publié, en français ou en anglais.

* Soumission des résumés/posters/articles : au fil de l’eau et au plus tard le 7 juillet
2023
* Notification aux auteurs : au maximum 1 semaine après réception de la proposition

Site de soumission : https://gdr-tal-nantes.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit


## Inscription

Gratuite mais obligatoire via la page
https://gdr-tal-nantes.sciencesconf.org/registration, avant le 7 juillet 2023.



## Contact

Pour toute question, contactez Solen Quiniou et Nicolas Hernandez
(prénom.nom@univ-nantes.fr).

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3-3-26(2023-09-10) Cfp Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) Conference 2023, Cambridge, MA, USA


 

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

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

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

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect from ALL Modalities

  • Multimodal Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States

  • Contextualized Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States

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


Affective Science using Affective Computing Tools

  • Studies of affective behavior perception using computational tools

  • Studies of affective behavior production using computational tools

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

  • Studies of affect in context using computational tools


Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Designing Computational Systems

  • Computational Models of Affective Processes

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

  • Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction 

 

Affective Interfaces

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

  • Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems

  • Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces

  • Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments

  • Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces

  • Distributed/Collaborative Multimodal Proactive Interfaces

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

  • Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces

 Affective, Social and Inclusive Robotics and Virtual Agents

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


Affect and Group Emotions

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

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

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

Open Resources for Affective Computing

  • Shared Datasets for Affective Computing

  • Benchmarks for Affective Computing

  • Open-source Software/Tools for Affective Computing

 

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

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

  • Bias mitigation in the context of Affective Computing

  • Explainability and Transparency in the context of Affective Computing

  • Privacy-preserving affect sensing and modeling

  • Ethical aspects in the context of Affective Computing


Applications

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

Important dates

Main track submissions: 14 April 2023

Decision notification to authors: 2 June 2023

Camera ready submission for main track: 16 June 2023

 

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

 

We hope to see you at ACII 2023!

ACII2023 Organizers

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING & INTELLIGENT INTERACTION

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3-3-27(2023-09-11) 24th Annual Meeting of SIGDIAL/INLG, Prague, Czech Republic

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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3-3-28(2023-09-11) Call for Workshops - Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2023, MIT MediaLab, Cambridge, MA, USA

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Workshop Chairs
Timothy Bickmore, Northeastern University, t.bickmore@northeastern.edu
Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Northeastern University, n.yongsatianchot@northeastern.edu
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3-3-29(2023-09-11) Cf Workshops and Tutorials/24th Annual Meeting of SIGDIAL/INLG, Prague, Czech Republic

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) 

NLG4health 2022

SummDial 2021

SafeConvAI 2021 

RoboDIAL 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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3-3-30(2023-09-19) CfP ACM IVA 2023 @ Würzburg, Germany.

CALL FOR PAPERS  --  ACM IVA 2023

 

The annual ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the development, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents with 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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https://iva.acm.org/2023/

 

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3-3-31(2023-09-20) CBMI 2023, Orléans, France

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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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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3-3-32(2023-10-09) Cf Tutorials ICMI 2023, Paris, France
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* Deadline extended to 22 May 2023 *
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ICMI 2023 2nd Call for tutorial proposals
https://icmi.acm.org/2023/call-for-tutorials/
25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
9-13 October 2023, Paris, France
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ACM ICMI 2023 seeks half-day (3-4 hours) tutorial proposals addressing current and emerging topics within the scope of 'Science of Multimodal Interactions'.  Tutorials are intended to provide a high-quality learning experience to participants with a varied range of backgrounds. It is expected that tutorials are self-contained.
 
Prospective organizers should submit a 4-page (maximum) proposal containing the following information:
 
1. Title
2. Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Tutorial
3. A short list of the distinctive topics to be addressed
4. Learning objectives (specific and measurable objectives)
5. The targeted audience (student / early stage / advanced researchers, pré-requisite knowledge, field of study)
6. Detailed description of the Tutorial and its relevance to multimodal interaction
7. Outline of the tutorial content with a tentative schedule and its duration
8. Description of the presentation format (number of presenters, interactive sessions, practicals)
9. Accompanying material (repository, references) and equipment, emphasizing any required material from the organization committee (subject to approval)
10. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions) together with their contact information and a list of 1-2 key publications related to the tutorial topic
11. Previous editions: If the tutorial was given before, describe when and where it was given, and if it will be modified for ACM ICMI 2023.
 
Proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria:
 
- Importance of the topic and the relevance to ACM ICMI 2023 and its main theme: 'Science of Multimodal Interactions'
- Presenters' experience
- Adequateness of the presentation format to the topic
- Targeted audience interest and impact
- Accessibility and quality of accompanying materials (open access)
 
Proposals that focus exclusively on the presenters' own work or commercial presentations are not acceptable.
 
Unless explicitly mentioned and agreed by the Tutorial chairs, the tutorial organizers will take care of any specific requirements which are related to the tutorial such as specific handouts, mass storages, rights of distribution (material, handouts, etc.), copyrights, etc.
 
Contact Details
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Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2023 Tutorial Chairs, Prof. Hatice Gunes and Dr. Guillaume Chanel:  icmi2023-tutorial-chairs@acm.org
 
Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions.
 
Important Dates
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Tutorial Proposal Deadline   May 22, 2023 (extended)
Tutorial Acceptance Notification   June 5, 2023
Camera-ready version of the tutorial abstract July 3, 2023
Tutorial Dates Either 9 or 13 October 2023
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3-3-33(2023-10-09) 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023), Paris, France

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

9-13 October 2023, Paris, France

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:

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

 

Important Dates

Paper Submission: May 1, 2023 

Rebuttal period: June 26-29, 2023

Paper notification: July 21, 2023

Camera-ready paper: August 14, 2023

Presenting at main conference: October 9-13, 2023

 

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3-3-34(2023-10-09) ACM ICMI 2023 2ND CALL FOR BLUE SKY PAPERS, Paris France

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ACM ICMI 2023 2ND CALL FOR BLUE SKY PAPERS   
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9-13 October 2023, Paris - France
https://icmi.acm.org/2023/
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ICMI 2023 is pleased to partner with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to continue the Blue Sky Paper track, initialized in 2021 and continued in 2022, that emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. This track solicits papers relevant to ICMI content that go beyond the usual research paper to present new visions that stimulate the ICMI community to pursue innovative directions. They may challenge existing assumptions and methodologies or propose new applications or theories. The papers are encouraged to present high-risk controversial ideas. Submitted papers are expected to represent deep reflection, argue rigorously, and present ideas from a high-level synthetic viewpoint (e.g., multidisciplinary, based on multiple methodologies).

The review of the submissions will be handled by the Blue Sky Paper Chairs: Carlos Busso (University of Texas At Dallas), Philippe Palanque (University Toulouse III, France), and Björn Schuller (University of Augsburg, Germany). Three winners will be selected for presentation in the Blue Sky Paper track and publication in the conference proceedings. The CCC will sponsor awards to honor the first ($1,000), second ($750), and third ($500) place winners in the form of travel grants. In addition, they will further distribute and publicize the three Blue Sky award papers.

Important Dates
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Paper Submission                June 17th, 2023
Paper notification                July 14th, 2023
Camera-ready paper                August 14th, 2023
Presenting at main conference        October 9-13, 2023

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3-3-35(2023-10-09) CfParticipation GENEA Challenge 2023 on speech-driven gesture generation, Paris, France

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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3-3-36(2023-10-09) ICMI'23 CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES, Paris, France
ICMI'23 CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES
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9-13 October 2023, Paris - France
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Teams are encouraged to submit proposals for one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges. The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the world's leading venue for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes is necessary for developing systems that can reliably interpret human-human communication or respond to human input. The availability of datasets and common goals has led to significant development in domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics, and physiological signal processing, for example. We invite the ICMI community to propose, define, and address the scientific Grand Challenges in our field during the next five years. The goal of the ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges is to elicit fresh ideas from the ICMI community and to generate momentum for future collaborative efforts. Challenge tasks involving analysis, synthesis, and interaction are all feasible.
 
We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events at ICMI 2023. We are looking for exciting and stimulating challenges including but not limited to the following categories:
 
* Dataset-driven challenge. 
This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities of current and future multimodal problems, and one or more multimodal tasks whose performance can be objectively measured and compared in rigorous conditions. Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses.
 
* System-driven challenge.
This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based) and the associated resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration of specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also establish systematic evaluation procedures.
 
Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:
1.    Title
2.    Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge
3.    Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
4.    Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction
5.    Length (full day or half day)
6.    Plan for soliciting participation and list of potential participants
7.    Description of how submissions to the challenge will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
8.    Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions.
9.    Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
10. Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization
11. Draft call for papers: affiliations and email address of the organizers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee members and their affiliations, important dates
 
Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case. Continuation of or variants on previous ICMI grand challenges are welcome, though we ask for submissions of this form to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous year and describe what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year.
 
The ICMI conference organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment to run the challenge workshop, coffee breaks synchronized with the main track, etc.
 
Important Dates and Contact Details
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Proposals due: February 3, 2023
Proposal notification: February 10, 2023
Paper camera-ready: August 13, 2023
Grand challenge date: October 9 or 14, 2023
 
Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2023 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Sean Andrist and Fabien Ringeval:  icmi2023-grand-challenge-chairs@acm.org
 
Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions.
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3-3-37(2023-10-09)ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CONTRIBUTIONS, Paris, France
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ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CONTRIBUTIONS
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9-13 October 2023, Paris - France
https://icmi.acm.org/2023/doctoral-consortium/
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The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces.
 
Who should apply?
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While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
 
Why should you attend?
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The DC provides an opportunity to build a social network that includes the cohort of DC students, senior students, recent graduates, and senior mentors. Not only is this an opportunity to get feedback on research directions, it is also an opportunity to learn more about the process and to understand what comes next. We aim to connect you with a mentor who will give specific feedback on your research. We specifically aim to create an informal setting where students feel supported in their professional development.
 
Important Dates
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Submission deadline    June 18, 2023
Notifications        July 24, 2023
Camera-ready        August 6, 2023
 
Submission Guidelines
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Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to ICMI are eligible to apply for the Doctoral Consortium (DC) and should submit the following materials:
 
1. Extended Abstract: A description of the PhD research plan and progress. Extended abstracts can be a maximum of four pages, although references can extend to a fifth page if needed. They should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI Short Papers (https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/). However, unlike short papers, DC submissions will not be anonymous. Be sure to include:
* The key research questions and motivation of the student’s research
* Background and related work that informs the student’s research
* A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem
* The research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies
* The research approach and methodology
* Research results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work
* A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of the PhD work
 
2. Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student’s PhD advisor, which should focus on the student’s PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student’s PhD training and research.
 
3. Curriculum Vitae: A two-page CV describing the student’s background and work.
 
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
 
Process
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* Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/)
* Submission system: Precision Conference System 
(https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/icmi23a)
* Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
* Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session
* Proceedings: Extended abstracts published in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library
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3-3-38(2023-10-29) ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE) - Emotion Share and Requests
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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3-3-39(2023-10-29) Cf participation : the 2nd Conversational Head Generation Challenge @ ACM Multimedia 2023

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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3-3-40(2023-10-29?) 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'23) @ ACM Multimedia, Ottawa, Canada

Call for Papers

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6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'23) @ ACM Multimedia, Oct 29 – Nov 3, 2023, Ottawa, Canada

 

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Ottawa, Canada together with ACM Multimedia 2023. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from many different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:

- annotation and indexing in sports

- tracking people/ athlete and objects in sports

- activity recognition, classification, and evaluation in sports

- 3D scene and motion reconstruction in sports

- event detection and indexing in sports

- performance assessment in sports

- injury analysis and prevention in sports

- data driven analysis in sports

- graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

- automated training assistance in sports

- camera pose and motion tracking in sports

- brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions in sports

- personal virtual (home) trainers/coaches in sports

- datasets in sports

- graphical effects in sports

- alternative sensing in sports (beyond the visible spectrum)

- multimodal perception in sports

- exploiting physical knowledge in learning systems for sports

- sports knowledge discovery

- narrative generation and narrative analysis in sports

- mobile sports application

- multimedia in sports beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data

 

Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of their paper. All papers will undergo the same review process and review period.

 

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 

http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2023/index.html

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                           14 July 2023 

Acceptance Notification:             30 July 2023

Camera Ready Submission:         12 August 2023 

Workshop Date:                            TBA; either Oct 29, 30 or Nov 2, 2023

 

 

Challenges

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This year again, MMSports carries out a competition where participants can compete on state-of-the-art problems applied to real-world sport specific data. The competition is made of individual challenges, each of which is sponsored by SportRadar with a US$1,000.00 prize. Each challenge comes with a toolkit describing the task, the dataset and metrics on which participants will be evaluated. This year, the second edition has 3 challenges: 2 on basketball and 1 on cricket! More information on the challenges can be found at http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2023/challenge.html.

 

ACM MMSports’23 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito

 

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3-3-41(2023-11-18 ) CfP The 2nd International Conference on Tone-and-Intonation (TAI 2023), Singapore
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(2023-11-18) TAI 2023, Singapore, Call for Papers
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The 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023), Singapore, November 18-21, 2023

Theme:  East Meets West: Languages and Approaches

Website:  http://www.tai2023.org


We are delighted to announce the upcoming 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023), to be held in the vibrant city of Singapore during 18-21 November 2023. Jointly sponsored by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the International Phonetic Association (IPA), this event is organized by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) and the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA), with valuable support from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

The theme of this year’s conference is “East Meets West: Languages and Approaches”. Building on this theme, we aim to foster a dialogue between Eastern and Western perspectives in the study of tone and intonation. We cordially invite you to participate and contribute to this unique academic discourse. We especially encourage submissions that explore and compare Eastern and Western languages and methodologies, thus contributing to a more comprehensive and global understanding of tone and intonation.

Submissions related to phonetic and phonological analyses of tone and intonation are eagerly anticipated at TAI 2023. We welcome contributions on various topics, including, but not limited to, the production and perception of tone and intonation, the semantics and pragmatics of tone and intonation, the acquisition and teaching of tone and intonation in L1 and L2, and cross-linguistic comparisons of tone and intonation. In line with our theme, we particularly encourage submissions that explore the intersection of Eastern and Western approaches to these topics. In the spirit of interdisciplinarity, we also invite researchers from adjacent fields to submit papers on tone and intonation, further broadening the scope and enriching the discussions at the conference.

Prospective authors are invited to submit a 2-page abstract (1-page text and 1-page tables/ figures/ references) through our paper submission system. After the conference, authors can submit an optional 5-page full paper for inclusion in the ISCA Proceedings.

Conference Timeline:

· 01 May 2023         Online abstract submission open
· 30 Jun 2023           Abstract submission deadline
· 15 Aug 2023          Notification of abstract acceptance
· 20 Sep 2023          Early bird registration deadline
· 18-21 Nov 2023    Conference in Singapore
· 31 Jan 2024           Submission of the revised abstract and an optional full paper
 
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3-3-42(2023-11-29) SPECOM 2023, Hubli-Dharwad, India



Announcing the SPECOM 2023 Call for Papers! 

 

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

  • Students Special Session

  • Special Session on Speech Processing for Under-Resource Languages

  • Special Session on Industrial Speech and Language Technology

  • Satellite Workshop on “Speaker and Language Identification, Verification and Diarization” @ Goa

Technical Scope:


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


  • Affective computing

  • Audio-visual speech processing

  • Corpus linguistics

  • Computational paralinguistics

  • Deep learning for audio processingVoice

  • Forensic speech investigations

  • Human-machine interaction

  • Language identification

  • Multichannel signal processing

  • Multimedia processing

  • Multimodal analysis and synthesis

  • Sign language processing

  • Speaker recognition

  • Speech and language resources

  • Speech analytics and audio mining

  • Speech and voice disorders

  • Speech-based applications

  • Speech driving systems in robotics

  • Speech enhancement

  • Speech perception

  • Speech recognition and understanding

  • Speech synthesis

  • Speech translation systems

  • Spoken dialogue systems

  • Spoken language processing

  • Text mining and sentiment analysis

  • Virtual and augmented reality

  • Voice assistants



Organizers:


  • General chairs:

    • Prof. Yegnanarayana Bayya (IIIT Hyderabad)

    • Prof. Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT Gurugram)

  • Technical Program Committee Chairs:

    • Prof. Rajesh M. Hegde (IIT Dharwad)

    • Prof. Alexey Karpov (SPC RAS St. Petersburg)

    • Prof. K. Samudravijaya (KL University)

    • Dr. Deepak K. T. (IIIT Dharwad)

  • Organizing Commiittee:

    • Prof. S R M Prasanna (IIT Dharwad)

    • Prof. Suryakanth V gangashetty (KL University)

Important dates:

  • Paper Submission Starts: 15 May 2023

  • Paper Submission Deadline: 31 July 2023

  • Paper Acceptance Notification: 8 September 2023 

  • Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 24 September 2023

  • Early Bird Registration Deadline: 24 September 2023 

  • Author Registration Deadline: 20 March 2023 

  • Conference date: 29 November - 1 December 2023

  • Satellite workshop: 2 December 2023

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3-3-43(2023-12-11) Journée commune AFIA-THL / AFCP --- 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée' , LIA, Avignon, France
Journée commune AFIA-THL / AFCP --- 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée' - 
le lundi 11 décembre 2023 au Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon.
 
Appel à communications orales - 
 
L'Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA), au travers de son collège Technologies du Langage Humain (TLH), organise avec l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), une première journée commune sur le thème 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée' le lundi 11 décembre 2023 sur Avignon.
 
L'objectif de cette journée est de réunir chercheur.euse.s dont l'objet d'étude est la communication parlée, que ce soit du point de vue des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (SHS) ou du Traitement Automatique des Langues et de l'Intelligence Artificielle. Il s'agira au cours de cette journée d'aborder la question de l'extraction de connaissances interprétables dans le signal de parole par le biais d'approches automatiques, en particulier basées sur des apprentissages profonds, pour l'étude de la communication parlée au sens large. Ces études pourront porter sur des thématiques comme l'analyse de la parole dans le domaine de la phonétique ou de la linguistique, la caractérisation du locuteur pour des tâches de reconnaissance, de segmentation et regroupement en locuteurs, de comparaison de voix (criminalistique), l'analyse de la voix/parole pathologique, l'analyse des informations para-linguistiques (autre que le locuteur) comme la parole expressive, les émotions, les accents régionaux, etc., l'étude de comportements cognitifs autour de l'acquisition de la parole, ... Côté Traitement Automatique des Langues et de l'Intelligence Artificielle, les thèmes autour des modèles auto-supervisés de représentation de la parole, de l'explicabilité des modèles, de l'évaluation de l'interprétabilité et de la pertinence des explications, des boucles interactives avec l'utilisateur, pourront également être abordés.
 
Cette journée sera ainsi l'occasion de montrer des approches automatiques déjà existantes d'extractions de connaissances interprétables, pour répondre aux besoins des chercheur.euse.s en SHS mais également d'exprimer de la part de ces derniers, de nouveaux besoins. 
Elle s’adresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheur.euse.s qu’aux chercheur.euse.s plus avancé.e.s du domaine. Elle est ouverte à la présentation de travaux à différents stades d’avancement voire à la présentation de projets de recherche en voie d'être lancés.
 
Outre l'intervention d'un conférencier invité et la tenue d'une discussion animée en fin de session, la journée sera rythmée par des communications orales de durée variable (de 10 à 20mn) en fonction des soumissions reçues.
 
Soumissions
Les propositions de communications orales sont attendues sous la forme d'un résumé d’une page environ au format texte comprenant un titre, une liste d'auteur.e.s, une liste de mots-clés et un résumé du contenu de la présentation proposée. 
 
Elles devront être envoyées au format pdf par mail à Marie Tahon (marie.tahon@univ-lemans.fr) et Corinne Fredouille (corinne.fredouille@univ-lemans.fr)
 
Dates importantes
 
  • SAVE THE DATE et appel à soumission : 25/05/2023 
  • Date limite des soumissions :  15/09/2023
  • Notification aux auteur.e.s : 29/09/2023
  • Organisation de la journée : 11/12/2023
 
 
Co-organisation et Comité scientifique
La journée est co-organisée par Marie Tahon et Corinne Fredouille du collège TLH de l'AFIA et Maëva Garnier et Olivier Perrotin de l'AFCP et soutenue par un comité scientifique constitué de membres des deux institutions.
 
 
Programme et inscriptions
Le programme et le formulaire d'inscription seront disponibles prochainement.
L'inscription à la journée sera gratuite mais obligatoire.
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3-3-44(2023-12-16) The 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023), Taipeh, Taiwan

The 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023) will be held on December 16 – 20, 2023, at Taipei, Taiwan. The workshop is held every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding. The conference will be an 'in-person' event (with a virtual component for those that can not attend physically). The event will be held in the Beitou Area, the town of hot springs of Taipei. We encourage all to join us for this wonderful event in Taiwan; looking forward to seeing you all in Taiwan. The paper submission deadline is July 3rd, 2023.
http://www.asru2023.org/

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3-3-45(2024-05-13) 13th International Seminar on Speech Production, Autrans, France
13th International Seminar on Speech Production, 13-17 May 2024, in Autrans, France
 
It is time for the next International Seminar on Speech Production.
 
After the launch in 1988 in Grenoble, followed by in Leeds (1990), Old Saybrook (1993), Autrans (1996), Kloster Seeon (2000), Sydney (2003), Ubatatuba (2006), Strasbourg (2008), Montreal (2011), Cologne (2014), Tianjin (2017) and virtually in in 2020, the 13th ISSP will come back (close) to Grenoble.
 
After a very successful virtual ISSP in 2020 (Haskins Labs), we are ready again for an in-person meeting in a very beautiful location in the mountains of Autrans (of course we will provide an option to attend virtually).
Take your calendars and mark the 13-17 May 2024 for the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production co-organized by several laboratories in France
 
More information including the website and important dates will be provided soon.
 
We are looking forward to meeting you in Autrans in 2024!
 
The organizing committee, Cécile Fougeron & Pascal Perrier together with Jalal Al-Tamimi, Pierre Baraduc, Véronique Boulanger, Mélanie Canault, Maëva Garnier, Anne Hermes, Fabrice Hirsch, Leonardo Lancia, Yves Laprie, Yohann Meynadier, Slim Ouni, Rudolph Sock, Béatrice Vaxelaire
 
Follow us on twitter @issp2024!
 

Claire PILLOT-LOISEAU

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

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

. 4, rue des Irlandais, 75005 PARIS (Laboratoire)  
. 8, Avenue de Saint Mandé, 75012, PARIS (Université)
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3-3-46(2024-05-20)CfP LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Torino, Italy

LREC-COLING 2024
The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation
Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italy)

20-25 May, 2024

https://lrec-coling-2024.lrec-conf.org

 

Twitter: @LrecColing2024

First Call for papers 

Two 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 Torino, Italy on 20-25 May, 2024.

IMPORTANT DATES

(All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)

  • 22 September 2023: Paper anonymity period starts
  • 13 October 2023: Final submissions due (long, short and position papers)
  • 13 October 2023: Workshop/Tutorial proposal submissions due
  • 22–29 January 2024: Author rebuttal period
  • 5 February 2024: Final reviewing
  • 19 February 2024: Notification of acceptance
  • 25 March 2024: Camera-ready due
  • 20-25 May 2024: LREC-COLING2024 conference

 SUBMISSION TOPICS

LREC-COLING 2024 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of natural language and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken and sign language and multimodal interaction. Submissions are invited in five broad categories: (i) theories, algorithms, and models, (ii) NLP applications, (iii) language resources, (iv) NLP evaluation and (v) topics of general interest. Submissions that span multiple categories are particularly welcome.

(i) Theories, algorithms, and models

  • Discourse and Pragmatics
  • Explainability and Interpretability of Large Language Models
  • Language Modeling
  • CL/NLP and Linguistic Theories
  • CL/NLP for Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
  • Machine Learning for CL/NLP
  • Morphology and Word Segmentation
  • Semantics
  • Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing
  • Textual Inference

(ii) NLP applications

  • Applications (including BioNLP and eHealth, NLP for legal purposes, NLP for Social Media and Journalism, etc.)
  • Dialogue and Interactive Systems
  • Document Classification, Topic Modeling, Information Retrieval and Cross-Lingual Retrieval
  • Information Extraction, Text Mining, and Knowledge Graph Derivation from Texts
  • Machine Translation for Spoken/Written/Sign Languages, and Translation Aids
  • Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining
  • Speech Recognition/Synthesis and Spoken Language Understanding
  • Natural Language Generation, Summarization and Simplification
  • Question Answering
  • Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis
  • Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition

(iii) Language resource design, creation, and use: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data

  • Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs, interoperability
  • Methodologies and tools for LRs construction, annotation, and acquisition
  • Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
  • LRs and Semantic Web (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.)
  • LRs and Crowdsourcing
  • Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up
  • LRs in systems and applications such as information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer-Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, chatbots, voice-activated services, etc.
  • Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
  • LRs in the age of deep neural networks
  • Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
  • Bias in language resources
  • User needs, LT for accessibility

(iv) NLP evaluation methodologies

  • NLP evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
  • Benchmarking of systems and products
  • Evaluation metrics in Machine Learning
  • Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
  • User satisfaction evaluation

(v) Topics of general interest

  • Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
  • Replicability and reproducibility issues
  • Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues
  • Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies
  • International and national activities, projects and initiatives

 

LREC-COLING 2024 invites high-quality submissions written in English. Submissions of three forms of papers will be considered:

A. Regular long papers - up to eight (8) pages maximum*, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work.

B. Short papers - up to four (4) pages*, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc.

C. Position papers - up to eight (8) pages*, discussing key hot topics, challenges and open issues, as well as cross-fertilization between computational linguistics and other disciplines.

* Excluding any number of additional pages for references, ethical consideration, conflict-of-interest, as well as data and code availability statements.

Appendices or supplementary material will be allowed ONLY in the final, camera-ready version, but not during submission, as papers should be reviewed without the need to refer to any supplementary materials.

Linguistic examples, if any, should be presented in the original language but also glossed into English to allow accessibility for a broader audience. 

Note that paper types are decisions made orthogonal to the eventual, final form of presentation (i.e., oral versus poster).

AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Papers must be of original, previously-unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

If the paper is available as a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the paper itself. In addition, LREC-COLING 2024 will follow the same policy as ACL conferences establishing an anonymity period during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not allowed.

More specifically, direct submissions to LREC-COLING 2024 may not be made available online (e.g. via a preprint server) in a non-anonymized form after September 22, 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (for arXiv, note that this refers to submission time).

Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite published versions of papers instead of preprint versions when possible.

Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted for publication at LREC-COLING 2024, it must be immediately withdrawn from other venues. If a paper under review at LREC-COLING 2024 is accepted elsewhere and authors intend to proceed there, the LREC-COLING 2024 committee must be notified immediately.

ETHICS STATEMENT

We encourage all authors submitting to LREC-COLING 2024 to include an explicit ethics statement on the broader impact of their work, or other ethical considerations after the conclusion but before the references. The ethics statement will not count toward the page limit (8 pages for long, 4 pages for short papers).

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENT

All papers accepted to the main conference track must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings, and at least one author must register for LREC-COLING2024.

All papers accepted to the main conference will be required to submit a presentation video. The conference will be hybrid, with an emphasis on encouraging interaction between the online and in-person modalities, and thus presentations can be either on-site or virtual.

 

 

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