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Saturday, December 09, 2023 by Chris Wellekens

3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(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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3-3-2(2023-xx-xx) École Rhénane des Sciences du langage, Université de Strasbourg, France

Ouverture des inscriptions à l’édition 2023-2024 de l'école ErSciLang :

 

« Paroles d’experts » : École Rhénane des Sciences du langage

1ère édition : ErSciLang 2023-2024

 

Formation gratuite en ligne, inscription obligatoire

Université de Strasbourg

 

 

Chaire Sciences du langage

USIAS, Institut d’Études Avancées

Université de Strasbourg

 

 

Présentation

L’Ecole Rhénane des Sciences du langage (ErSciLang) réunit enseignants chercheurs expérimentés et apprenants dans une dynamique de formation et d’échange. Les leçons dispensées par des chercheurs reconnus internationalement pour leur expertise visent à faire le point théorique sur des thématiques et des concepts clefs des différents secteurs des Sciences du Langage. Au carrefour de la transmission, de la formation et de la recherche, ErSciLang se donne comme objectif la co-construction d’un espace de rencontre entre experts et apprenants avec pour vocation d’ouvrir, dans une optique de linguistique cumulative, de nouvelles passerelles d’apprentissage et de recherche dans le domaine des Sciences du Langage.

 

Public : étudiants en master Sciences du langage, doctorants, post-doctorants, enseignants-chercheurs

 

 

Vous trouverez le programme détaillé et le portail des inscriptions en suivant ce lien :

https://erscilang.wordpress.com/

 

 

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3-3-3(2023-xx-xx) CfP 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 or Nov 3, 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. More information on the challenges will be coming soon.

 

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

 

 

 

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3-3-4(2024-01-29) Second Call for Papers for the 30th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling — MMM 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Second Call for Papers for the 30th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling — MMM 2024

January 29 – February 2, 2024 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands


*** MMM is a B-ranked conference, following the CORE ranking updates published in June 2021.


MMM is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners for sharing new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and demonstrations reporting novel and compelling applications. Special sessions, Brave New Ideas session, keynote lectures, the Video Browser Showdown and the MediaEval workshop will also contribute to a high-quality program.


Conference Website: http://mmm2024.org/


MMM 2024 proposes eight special sessions:

  *   MDRE: Multimedia Datasets for Repeatable Experimentation
  *   MOMST: Multi-Object Multi-Sensor Tracking
  *   MARGeM: Multimodal Analytics and Retrieval of Georeferenced Multimedia
  *   ICDAR: Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval
  *   XR-MACCI: eXtended Reality and Multimedia: Advancing Content Creation and Interaction
  *   FMM: Foundation Models for Multimedia
  *   MULTICOM: Towards Multimedia and Multimodality in Conversational Systems
  *   CultMM Cultural AI in Multimedia


MMM 2024 also hosts two community events:

  *   Video Browser Showdown (VBS): https://videobrowsershowdown.org<https://videobrowsershowdown.org/>
  *   MediaEval: https://multimediaeval.github.io/editions/2023/


Submission Deadlines

  *   Regular and special session papers are due September 4, 2023
  *   BNI papers and demonstration submissions are due October 2, 2023
  *   MediaEval and VBS deadlines are separately defined by the respective event organisers


Submission website is now open. Regular and special session paper submissions are limited to 12 content pages, including all figures, tables, and appendices, in the Springer LNCS style. Additional 2 pages containing only cited references are allowed. Please note that this is a change from previous MMM conference editions.


MMM seeks contributions on the following research topics:


Multimedia Content Analysis

  *   Multimedia indexing
  *   Multimedia mining
  *   Multimedia abstraction and summarisation
  *   Multimedia annotation, tagging and recommendation
  *   Multimodal analysis for retrieval applications
  *   Semantic analysis of multimedia and contextual data
  *   Interactive learning
  *   Multimedia knowledge acquisition and construction
  *   Multimedia verification
  *   Multimedia fusion methods
  *   Multimedia content generation

Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications

  *   Media representation and algorithms
  *   Multimedia sensors and interaction modes
  *   Multimedia privacy, security and content protection
  *   Multimedia standards and related issues
  *   Multimedia databases, query processing, and scalability
  *   Multimedia content delivery, transport and streaming
  *   Wireless and mobile multimedia networking
  *   Sensor networks (video surveillance, distributed systems)
  *   Audio, image, video processing, coding and compression
  *   Multi-camera and multi-view systems

Multimedia Applications, Interfaces and Services

  *   Media content retrieval, browsing and recommendation tools
  *   Extended reality (AR/VR/MR) and virtual environments
  *   Real-time and interactive multimedia applications
  *   Multimedia analytics applications
  *   Egocentric, wearable and personal multimedia
  *   Urban and satellite multimedia
  *   Mobile multimedia applications
  *   Question answering, multimodal conversational AI and hybrid intelligence
  *   Multimedia authoring and personalisation
  *   Cultural, educational and social multimedia applications
  *   Multimedia for e-health and medical applications

Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of Multimedia

  *   Fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics in multimedia modeling
  *   Environmental footprint of multimedia modeling
  *   Large multimedia models and LLMs
  *   Multimodal pretraining and representation learning
  *   Reproducibility, interpretability, explainability and robustness
  *   Embodied multimodal applications and tasks
  *   Responsible multimedia modeling and learning
  *   Legal and ethical aspects of multimodal generative AI
  *   Multimedia research valorisation
  *   Digital transformation

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3-3-5(2024-03-04) Cf Special sessions: The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, Japan
 Call for Special Sessions at the International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology

Special sessions are 90-minute sessions that are part of the IWSDS main program. 
Registration to special sessions is included with IWSDS registration.

Authors are requested to submit PDF files (maximum three pages) of their proposal to 
iwsds2024@gmail.com.

The proposal must indicate:
Special Session title.
Name, affiliation, e-mail of the organizers.
A description of the workshop / Special Session title including:
objectives;
topics of interest;
justification;
expected number of submissions;
tentative program.
Tentative program committee members (only for workshop proposals).
Special audio-visual, internet, computer or equipment requirements in case of a 
non-virtual event.
Whether the workshop / special session has been run before:
where and when;
number of participants in the previous event.
Any additional information that might be relevant for the proposal evaluation.

The deadline for the special session proposal is October 13th.
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3-3-6(2024-03-04) CfP The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, Japan
The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024 will invite 
paper submissions. IWSDS 2024 will be held March 4-6, 2024 in Sapporo, Japan.

https://sites.google.com/grp.riken.jp/iwsds2024

IWSDS 2024 will be a primarily in person event with a hybrid component for those who 
cannot travel to Japan. We especially invite paper submissions on the following topics:

- User engagement and emotion in dialogue systems
- Proactive, anticipatory, or incremental interaction
- Use of humor and metaphors in dialogue systems
- Multimodal and situated dialogue systems
- Companions and personal assistant dialogue systems
- Educational and healthcare applications
- Big data and large scale dialogue systems
- Digital resources for interactive dialogue management
- Domain transfer and adaptation techniques for dialogue systems
- Dialogue systems for low-resource languages
- Multilingual dialogue systems
- Dialogue system evaluation
- Machine learning for dialogue systems
- Interaction styles in dialogue systems

However, submissions are not limited to these topics and we encourage you to submit 
papers in all areas of natural language dialogue systems.

Categories of Submissions:
- Long Research Papers:
These are reserved for reports on mature original research results. The expected length 
of a long paper submission should be in the range of 8-13 pages of content, plus up to 3 
pages for references. Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 2 
additional pages of content (8-15 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be 
taken into account but the number of pages for references will not change (up to 3 pages).

- Short Research Papers:
Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or 
ongoing original research efforts. The expected length of a short paper submission should 
be in the range of 4-7 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for references. Final 
versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional page of content 
(4-8 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account but the 
number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).

- Position Papers:
These deal with novel unexplored research ideas or viewpoints which describe trends or 
fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion. The expected length 
of a position paper submission should be 2 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for 
references. Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional 
page of content (2-3 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into 
account but the number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).

- Demo Submissions – System Papers:
Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a 
description of their system and demo. The expected length of a demo/system paper 
submission should be up to 5 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for references. Final 
versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional page of content 
(up to 6 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account but the 
number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).

As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in post-workshop proceedings.

We welcome demonstrations from the authors of long and short papers which can be shown 
during the demo session. At the submission time, you will have an option to indicate 
whether the paper will be accompanied by a demonstration.

Submission:

Authors of all papers (including papers submitted to the special sessions) are requested 
to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the IWSDS 2024 paper submission system.
Submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IWSDS2024

Submission deadline:
Paper Title, Author, and Abstract Submission: November 10th
Paper Submission: November 17th

We look forward to meeting you at Sapporo.





-- call for sponsors ---------------------------------

We are starting to solicit sponsorship for IWSDS2024. These funds will be used to offset 
some costs for items such as social events, honorariums for invited speakers, etc. In 
exchange for your support, we will provide the opportunity to promote your company during 
the workshop and through the webpage. The sponsorship package for IWSDS2024 is shown 
below. We would greatly appreciate it if you could contribute to IWSDS2024.

Bronze:
Donation amount: $1000
Logo with links on the workshop website
Acknowledgement during opening/closing

Silver:
Donation amount: $3000
Same perks as Bronze
Poster for promoting sponsor's activity during event
10 mins presentation at sponsor session (during lunch)

Gold:
Donation amount: $5000
Same perks as Silver
One of the best papers with the sponsor's name

Contact
Please feel free to post any question or comments to organizer's mailing list: 
iwsds2024@gmail.com.

Sincerely Yours,
IWSDS2024 organizing committee
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3-3-7(2024-03-24) Seventh International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'24) ; Glasgow, UK

++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++  

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Seventh International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'24 

Held in conjunction with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'24)  

March 24th, 2024 – Glasgow, Scotland 

Website: https://text2story24.inesctec.pt 

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++ Important Dates ++  

    - Submission Deadline: January 10th, 2024  

    - Acceptance Notification: February 23rd, 2024 

    - Camera-ready copies: March 15th, 2024 

    - Workshop: March 24th, 2024 

  

++ Overview ++   

Over these past years, significant breakthroughs, led by Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs), have been made in understanding natural language text. However, the ability to capture, represent, and analyze contextual nuances in longer texts is still an elusive goal, let alone the understanding of consistent fine-grained narrative structures in text. In the seventh edition of the Text2Story workshop, we aim to bring to the forefront the challenges involved in understanding the structure of narratives and in incorporating their representation in well-established frameworks, as well as in modern architectures (e.g., transformers) and AI-powered language models (e.g, chatGPT) which are now common and form the backbone of almost every IR and NLP application. It is hoped that the workshop will provide a common forum to consolidate the multi-disciplinary efforts and foster discussions to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task.  

  

++ List of Topics ++  

Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific advance on all aspects of storyline generation and understanding from texts including but not limited to narrative information extraction aspects, narratives representation, knowledge extraction, ethics and bias in narratives, datasets and evaluation protocols and narrative applications such as visualization of narratives, multi-modal aspects, Q&A, etc. To this regard, we encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics:  

Information Extraction Aspects 

  • Temporal Relation Identification 

  • Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events 

  • Causal Relation Extraction and Arrangement 

  • Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction 

Narrative Representation 

  • Annotation protocols 

  • Narrative Representation Models 

  • Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation 

Narrative Analysis and Generation 

  • Argumentation Analysis 

  • Language Models and Transfer Learning in Narrative Analysis  

  • Narrative Analysis in Low-resource Languages 

  • Multilinguality: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis 

  • Comprehension of Generated Narratives 

  • Story Evolution and Shift Detection 

  • Automatic Timeline Generation 

Datasets and Evaluation Protocol 

  • Evaluation Methodologies for Narrative Extraction 

  • Annotated datasets 

  • Narrative Resources 

Ethics and Bias in Narratives 

  • Bias Detection and Removal in Generated Stories 

  • Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation 

  • Misinformation and Fact Checking 

Narrative Applications 

  • Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections 

  • Narrative Summarization 

  • Narrative Q&A 

  • Multi-modal Narrative Summarization 

  • Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives 

  • Social Media Narratives 

  • Narrative Simplification 

  • Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives 

  • Storyline Visualization 


++ Dataset ++  

We challenge the interested researchers to consider submitting a paper that makes use of the tls-covid19 dataset - published at ECIR'21 - under the scope and purposes of the text2story workshop. tls-covid19 consists of a number of curated topics related to the Covid-19 outbreak, with associated news articles from Portuguese and English news outlets and their respective reference timelines as gold-standard. While it was designed to support timeline summarization research tasks it can also be used for other tasks (e.g., Q&A), especially when combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.  A script to reconstruct and expand the dataset is available at https://github.com/LIAAD/tls-covid19. The article itself is available at this link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72113-8_33  

  

++ Submission Guidelines ++   

We solicit the following types of contributions: 

  • Full papers 

 up to 8 pages + references 

    Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed. 

  • Short papers 

up to 5 pages + references 

    Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue. 

  • Demos | Resource Papers 

up to 5 pages + references 

    Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the text2story community; 

       Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights. 

  

++ Workshop Format ++  

   Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral presentations.  

  

++ Invited Speakers ++ 

   Jochen L. Leidner, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany 

   Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, Scotland 

 

++ Organizing committee ++  

   Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) 

   Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal) 

   Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 

   Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe) 

   Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel) 

  

++ Proceedings Chair ++ 

    João Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC & Universidade da Beira do Interior) 

    Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC)  

  

++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++  

    Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto)   

    Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology)  

  

++ Program Committee ++  

Álvaro Figueira (INESC TEC & University of Porto)  

Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz)  

Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle)  

António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon)  

Anubhav Jangra (IIT Patna, Japan)  

Arian Pasquali (Faktion AI)  

Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto)  

Begoña Altuna (Universidad del País Vasco)  

Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology)  

Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)  

Bruno Martins (IST & INESC-ID, University of Lisbon)  

Brucce dos Santos (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP)  

David Semedo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) 

Deya Banisakher (Florida International University)  

Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)  

Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC)  

Henrique Lopes Cardoso (LIACC & University of Porto)  

Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University)  

Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering)  

Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University)  

João Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC & University of Beira Interior)  

Liana Ermakova (HCTI, Université de Bretagne Occidentale)  

Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino)  

Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon)  

Luis Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Minho)  

Marc Finlayson (Florida International University)  

Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie)  

Mariana Caravanti (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP)  

Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna)  

Natalia Vanetik (Sami Shamoon College of Engineering)  

Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto)  

Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  

Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora)  

Purificação Silvano (CLUP & University of Porto)  

Ross Purves (University of Zurich)  

Satya Almasian (Heidelberg University)  

Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto)  

Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (University of Washington)  

Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg)  

Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) 

  

++ Contacts ++  

Website: https://text2story24.inesctec.pt  

For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2024@easychair.org


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3-3-8(2024-04-14) Cf Tutorials, ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea

ICASSP 2024 Call for Tutorials

Submit your Proposals by 6 September 2023

The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) invites proposals for Tutorials. The 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Seoul, Korea, from April 14 to April 19, 2024, at COEX.

 

Tutorial proposals in all areas of signal processing and its applications, as listed in the conference topics, are warmly invited, and encouraged, especially those related to the theme of the conference and to new and emerging topics.

 

ICASSP 2024 will be an in-person conference; so, for each accepted tutorial, its proposer(s) will have to present it in person in Seoul.

 

Please submit your proposals by 6 September 2023. Learn more about the ICASSP 2024 conference topics and the Tutorials submission guidelines here

Call for Tutorial Proposals

Guidelines 

Tutorials will have a duration of 3 hours, including a 20-minute break, and will take place before the main technical program. For each accepted tutorial, its proposer(s) will have to present it in-person in Seoul.

 

Tutorial proposals should include the following essential information:
  • Title of the tutorial.
  • Presenter name(s), contact information, short biography (maximum of 1000 characters), and five recent related publications.
  •  A summary of presenter’s previous tutorial delivery experience.
  • The rationale for the tutorial including: importance, timeliness, novelty, how it can introduce new ideas/topics/tools to the SP community. 
  • A detailed description of the tutorial outlining the topics and subtopics covered.
  • A statement of any previous or related versions of this tutorial.

Please read carefully the guidelines outlined next before submitting your tutorial proposal via this submission link.

 

 Important Dates
  • Proposal Submission Deadline: 6 September 2023 
  • Acceptance Notification: 18 October 2023
     

ICASSP 2024 is a flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a global network of signal processing and data science professionals. A membership to IEEE SPS connects you with more than 18,000 researchers, academics, industry practitioners, and students advancing and disseminating the latest breakthroughs and technology. By joining, you’ll receive significant savings on registration to future events, including ICASSP 2024, as well as access to highly-ranked journals, continuing education materials, and a robust technical community. Learn more about how you can save and grow with us! 

 
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3-3-9(2024-04-14) CfP ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea

Announcing the ICASSP 2024 Call for Papers! 

Submit your Papers by 6 September 2023.

The Call for Papers for ICASSP 2024 is now open! The 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Seoul, Korea, from April 14 to April 19, 2024, at COEX.

 

ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. It offers a comprehensive technical program presenting all the latest development in research and technology in the industry that attracts thousands of professionals annually. We hope you will engage in various sessions filled with valuable lectures, cutting-edge topic keynotes with world-renowned speakers, along with great opportunities to network with industry pioneers and leading researchers.

 

Please submit your papers by 6 September 2023. Learn more about the ICASSP 2024 Call for Papers and submission guidelines here

Submit a Conference Paper

Authors are invited to submit papers that are up to four pages for technical content including figures and references, and one optional fifth page containing only references. The submission website will be available soon. 

 

SP Society Journal Paper Presentations

Authors of papers published or accepted in IEEE SPS journals may present their work at ICASSP 2024 at appropriate tracks. These papers will neither be reviewed nor included in the proceedings. In addition, the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJSP) will provide a special track for longer submissions with the same processing timeline as ICASSP. Accepted papers will be published in OJSP and presented in the conference but will not be included in the conference proceedings.

 

IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJSP) Submission Track

Following the same timeline as the conference papers, authors have the option to submit their paper for publication with the Open Journal of Signal Processing instead of in the conference proceedings.

 

IEEE OJSP has introduced a Short Papers submission category and review track, with a limit of eight pages plus an additional page for references (8+1). This is intended as an alternative publication venue for authors who would like to present at ICASSP 2024, but who prefer Open Access or the longer paper format than the traditional ICASSP 4+1 format.

 

Open Preview

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

 

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission Deadline: 6 September 2023 
  • Reviews Available to Authors: 9 November 2023
  • Author Response Period: 9-15 November 2023 
  • Paper Acceptance Notification: 13 December 2023 
  • Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 11 January 2024 
     

ICASSP 2024 is a flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a global network of signal processing and data science professionals. A membership to IEEE SPS connects you with more than 18,000 researchers, academics, industry practitioners, and students advancing and disseminating the latest breakthroughs and technology. By joining, you’ll receive significant savings on registration to future events, including ICASSP 2024, as well as access to highly-ranked journals, continuing education materials, and a robust technical community. Learn more about how you can save and grow with us! 

 
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3-3-10(2024-04-14) CfP Industry Talk and Industry Colloquium Proposals @ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea
Submit your Industry Talk and Industry Colloquium Proposals by February 8.

 

 

 

 

 

Call for ICASSP 2024 Industry Program Participation!

Proposals for Spotlight Talks and Industry Colloquiums are due February 8.

The Organizing Committee of ICASSP 2024 invites proposals for the Industry Spotlight Talks and Industry Colloquiums to be held in conjunction with the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, taking place in Seoul, Korea, 14-19 April 2024. 

 

Submissions are due by 8 February 2024. Acceptance notifications will be sent out on 15 February 2024. 

     

Call for Spotlight Talk Proposals

The primary objective of this proposal is to present academic theories on various fields
within signal processing and illustrate how they are interconnected with industry. The aim is to demonstrate how these theories manifest in industry through presentations and demos, providing the audience with insights into the integration of academic theories with industrial applications.

 

This presentation will specifically focus on understanding the flow of industrialization. The content of the presentation will delve into standardization within industries, prototypes, industrial patent analysis, and technological entrepreneurship.


The Spotlight Talks will be a platform for industry professionals, researchers, and experts to share their thoughts on various aspects of the industry program. Even though the selection of presentation topics and styles is up to the speakers, there are strict restrictions on promoting company, products and services during the presentations. 

 

Learn more about the submission guidelines here.

Call for Industry Colloquiums

The ICASSP industrial colloquiums can be organized by an IEEE volunteer from both a non-sponsoring and sponsoring organization. 

 

Colloquium participants will have the opportunity to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and researchers to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on topics of current interest. The format of colloquiums will be determined by their organizer. There are strict restrictions on promoting company products and services during the presentations.

 

Learn more about the submission guidelines and proposal requirements here.

     

ICASSP 2024 is a flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a global network of signal processing and data science professionals. A membership to IEEE SPS connects you with more than 18,000 researchers, academics, industry practitioners, and students advancing and disseminating the latest breakthroughs and technology. By joining, you’ll receive significant savings on registration to future events, including ICASSP 2024, as well as access to highly-ranked journals, continuing education materials, and a robust technical community. Learn more about how you can save and grow with us! 

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3-3-11(2024-04-14) Grand Challenge @ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea

Announcing the Grand Challenges for ICASSP 2024!

Participate in a Grand Challenge at ICASSP 2024! The 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Seoul, Korea, from April 14 to April 19, 2024, at COEX.

 

View all 11 official ICASSP Grand Challenges below. To learn more about how to participate and important dates, please visit the challenges individual websites listed on the ICASSP website

     
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3-3-12(2024-04-14) ICASSP 2024 Call for short courses, Seoul, Korea

ICASSP 2024 Call for Short Course Proposals

Submit your Proposals by 18 September 2023

ICASSP 2024, in collaboration with the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) Education Board, is planning offerings of education short courses for in-person attendance at the conference. 

 

The 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Seoul, Korea, from April 14 to April 19, 2024, at COEX.

 

The education-oriented short courses will offer Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) certificates to those who complete each course.

 

Given that students, academics, and industry researchers and practitioners worldwide have a broad diversity of interests and areas of expertise, the IEEE SPS goal is to develop meaningful methods of offering beneficial and relevant courses in support of our members’ educational needs.

 

Learn more about the Short Course proposal requirements here

General Information 

Duration

Each course should have a total duration of 10 hours, distributed over 4 days, at 2.5 hours per day, or over 2 days at 5 hours per day during the conference.

 

Coverage

Short Courses should be different than tutorials and aim for a broader view covering a wide spectrum of ideas and results in their area, and not focusing only on research results from a specific individual or group. Both established and emerging domains are welcome, and we also encourage experiential, hands-on components that introduce methods and tools.

 

Target Audience

  • Students
  • Researchers from universities or research labs/centers and industry
  • Signal processing engineers and practitioners from industry
  • Hybrid combinations of the above
 Important Dates
  • Proposal Submission Deadline: 18 September 2023 
  • Acceptance Notification: 20 November 2023

Learn more about the Short Course submission guidelines and instructions here

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3-3-13(2024-04-14) Satellite Workshops @ ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea.

Announcing the Satellite Workshops at ICASSP 2024!

The ICASSP 2024 Workshop Committee is pleased to announce 15 Satellite Workshops that will be hosted at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, taking place in Seoul, Korea, 14-19 April 2024. 

 

The deadline to submit a Satellite Workshop paper has been extended to 15 December 2024. Deadlines may vary by workshop. 

 

View all 15 official ICASSP Satellite Workshops below. Learn more about the individual workshops and participation guidelines here.

     

ICASSP 2024 Satellite Workshops

  • Deep Neural Network Model Compression
  • Trustworthy Speech Processing (TSP)
  • Self-supervision in Audio, Speech and Beyond (SASB)
  • ICASSP 2024 Workshop on Explainable AI for Speech and Audio
  • Workshop on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures
  • Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks
  • Second Workshop on Signal Processing for Autonomous Systems (SPAS)
  • Revolutionizing Interaction: Embodied Intelligence and the New Era of Human-Robot Collaboration
  • SPID-CPS: Signal Processing for Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems
  • 1st Workshop on Integration of Sensing, Communication, and Computation (ISCC)
  • Signal Processing and Machine Learning Advances in Automotive Radars
  • Workshop on Radio Maps and Their Applications (RMA)
  • Super-resolution integrated communications, localization, vision and radio mapping (SUPER-CLAM)
  • Fearless Steps APOLLO: A Naturalistic Team based Speech Communications Community Resource (FS-APOLLO)
  • Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2024): Efficient and Personalized Speech Processing through Data Science

ICASSP 2024 is a flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a global network of signal processing and data science professionals. A membership to IEEE SPS connects you with more than 18,000 researchers, academics, industry practitioners, and students advancing and disseminating the latest breakthroughs and technology. By joining, you’ll receive significant savings on registration to future events, including ICASSP 2024, as well as access to highly-ranked journals, continuing education materials, and a robust technical community. Learn more about how you can save and grow with us! 

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3-3-14(2024-05-13) 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP2024), Autrans, France

As previously announced, the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP2024) will be organized from May 13 to May 17 2024, in Autrans, France, supported by several laboratories in France working on speech production research. 

!CONFERENCE ORGANISATION: PRIORITY TO FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS!

In the spirit of most editions, we have chosen to have a unity of place for the scientific exchanges and accommodation, and this will be in a conference center in the mountains near Grenoble. Virtual participation will be possible but with strong limitations: (a) remote participants can only submit for a poster presentation (without live interactions), (b) only on-site oral presentations will be live broadcasted giving possibilities for interactions with remote participants, (c) on-site poster presentations won't be broadcasted. 

All accepted abstracts will have the possibility to be extended as a 4-page paper (to be published in the proceedings of the conference). This optional 4-page paper will not be reviewed but will be considered for a subsequent selection of works to be gathered in a special issue of a journal (to be specified).

!IMPORTANT DATES!

December 15, 2023         2-page abstract submission deadline (template will be provided on https://issp24.sciencesconf.org/)

February 1, 2024             Notification of acceptance

April 15, 2024                  Optional full 4-page paper submission deadline

May 13-17, 2024             ISSP2024 in Autrans, France

!KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & TOPICS!

Topics of interest for this conference cover different aspects of speech production, including articulation, acoustics, neural substrates, motor control, disorders, and their links to perception, communication, development and language.

Six keynotes will be presented that illustrate the diversity of research topics in - and out of - the field of speech production: María Florencia Assaneo (UNAM, Mexico), Adrien Meguerditchian (Aix-Marseille U., France), Doris Mücke (U. of Cologne, Germany), Caroline Niziolek (U. Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Sophie Scott (UCL, UK), Jason Shaw (Yale U., USA).

 For updated information, please visit regularly our conference website: https://issp24.sciencesconf.org/ and follow us on Twitter/X @issp2024!

The organizing committee,
Cécile Fougeron & Pascal Perrier (chairs)
together with Jalal Al-Tamimi, Pierre Baraduc, Véronique Boulenger, Mélanie Canault, Maëva Garnier, Fanny Guitard-Ivent, Anne Hermes, Fabrice Hirsch, Leonardo Lancia, Yves Laprie, Yohann Meynadier, Slim Ouni, Rudolph Sock, Béatrice Vaxelaire

 

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3-3-15(2024-05-13) Workshop “Speech production models and empirical evidence from typical and pathological speech” , Grenoble, France

*** Workshop “Speech production models and empirical evidence from typical and pathological speech” ***

We are pleased to announce the workshop “Speech production models and empirical evidence from typical and pathological speech” which will take place on Monday the 13th of May 2024 in Grenoble from 10 AM to 4 PM. 

The workshop is organized in the context of the ChaSpeePro Sinergia FNS project and is aimed at debating, in a convivial and constructive atmosphere, theoretical positions and empirical evidence from both typical and pathological speech on three major questions: 

  1. Planning/programming/execution or phonological/phonetic/motor encoding (or other encoding/computing distinctions): How to define the different processes in (motor) speech production?
  2. Encoding units/representations in speech production models: Which ones, how many different units, and how are they selected and combined in larger units?
  3. How are different speech modulations (whispered, loud, fast, clear, …) encoded/parametrized for production?

 

The day will be organized with four talks in the morning and round tables in the afternoon to debate these questions. We are happy to announce the following invited participants:

 

Morning talks:

              Frank Guenther, Boston University
              Ben Parrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
              Antje Mefferd, Vanderbilt University

              Marina LaganaroCécile Fougeron & ChaSpeePro Team

 

Round tables moderator/discussants:

Louis Goldstein, University of Southern California
Monica Lancheros Pompeyo, Université de Génève
Hélène Lœvenbruck, Université Grenobles-Alpes
Doris Mücke, University of Cologne
Caroline Niziolek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pascal Perrier, Université Grenobles-Alpes
Wolfram Ziegler, LMU Munich

 

The registration will be free but limited and will open in February. For updates and registration check back the workshop’s website

 

Note that transportation from Grenoble to Autrans will be organized after the workshop for the people attending ISSP2024 which starts in the evening of the 13th in Autrans.

 

Looking forward to fruitful discussions with many enthusiastic participants! 

 

The organizing committee,
Marina Laganaro, Cécile Fougeron, Maëva Garnier, Anne Hermes & Pascal Perrier
and the ChaSpeePro Team

 

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3-3-16(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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3-3-17(2024-06-03) 27èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2024), Paris, France

27èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2024)

Passage(s)

3 et 4 juin 2024

4, rue des Irlandais 75005 Paris

 

Chers et chères collègues,

 

Nous avons le plaisir de vous faire parvenir en pièce jointe l’appel à communications pour les 27èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs qui auront lieu les 3 et 4 juin 2024 à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Maison de la Recherche) au 4, rue des Irlandais - 75005 PARIS.

 

Le thème sélectionné cette année est le suivant : « Passage(s)»

 

Les communications se feront en français.

Le format des communications orales sera de 20 minutes, puis 10 minutes de discussion.

 

Soumission des propositions :

Toute personne souhaitant réaliser une communication est invitée à soumettre un abstract d’un maximum de 3000 caractères espaces comprises (hors figure(s) et bibliographie) en français jusqu’au 6 février 2024 à 19h (heure de Paris). Les propositions de communication devront être déposées sur : https://rjc27.sciencesconf.org/ . En choisissant l’option “Nouveau dépôt” vous pourrez saisir vos données personnelles (nom, prénom, affiliation). La proposition de communication est anonyme, merci de ne pas mettre vos nom, prénom et affiliation universitaires dans le fichier PDF que vous allez joindre à votre proposition.

 

Calendrier

Date limite de soumission : 06 février 2024

Notification aux participants : Avril 2024

Dates du colloque : 3 et 4 juin 2024

 

 

Le Comité d’organisation des RJC 2024

PASSAGE(S) Les 3 et 4 juin 2024 à Paris Créées en 1998, les Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs et Chercheuses en Sciences du Langage de l’ED 622 (Université Paris Cité et Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) offrent la possibilité aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses inscrit·es en Doctorat ou en Master Recherche de présenter leurs travaux sous forme de communications orales. Le thème retenu pour l'appel à communications de cette 27e édition est 'Passage(s)'. Par cette formulation, nous souhaitons attirer l’attention sur les changements continus ou discrets pouvant affecter les langues, la parole, les pratiques langagières. Au pluriel, les passages considèrent ces transferts comme une source d’emprunts et de défis réciproques, au plan interdisciplinaire, mais aussi des échanges entre monde scientifique et domaine public. Le thème des RJC 2024 ne s’inscrit dans aucun cadre critique ou théorique en particulier. Il a pour volonté de laisser libre cours aux différentes interprétations des participant·es à travers plusieurs pistes décrites à titre d’exemples. 1. Passage(s) du temps En diachronie, les passages peuvent renvoyer aux stades successifs de l’évolution d’une langue ; mais aussi aux moments charnières de transition, de bascule, de transformation. On pourra donc réfléchir aux genèses langagières, aux états de langue, aux styles d’époque, aux politiques linguistiques et à leur impact sur la revitalisation des langues en danger (Grinevald & Costa, 2010 ; Bennett, 2020). On pourra également inviter dans le débat le concept d’émergence (Adam, 2012), s’intéresser aux faits de rémanence. À l’échelle des locuteur·ices, le passage du temps affecte tous les aspects du langage et de la parole, de leur acquisition à leur déclin. On invite ici à réfléchir aux transitions que peuvent vivre les locuteur·ices : premières acquisitions d’une ou plusieurs langues, évolution de leurs répertoires langagiers (CECRL, 2000), pathologies (Busto-Crespo et. al., 2016) et vieillissement sain (Stathopoulos, 2011; Tremblay, 2019). 2. Passage(s) sociodiscursifs Au niveau sociolinguistique, on invite à réfléchir au code-switching (Hall & Nilep 2015) et au code-mixing (Auer 1999), aux phénomènes de contact de langue (Léglise & Alby 2013), ainsi qu’aux processus de traduction. Au niveau discursif, on peut s'intéresser aux effets de dialogisme (Bakhtine 1929) ou de représentation du discours autre (Authier-Revuz 2020). Enfin, on s’intéressera aussi aux passages du sens d’un mot à un autre dans le temps et dans le discours (Lecolle 2007), au conflit de définition ou à la resignification. 3. Passage(s) didactiques On pourra considérer l’acte d’enseignement-apprentissage comme passage ou transmission des savoirs. En nous focalisant sur les sujets, il est également possible de considérer le passage, pour l’apprenant·e, d’un niveau de maîtrise à un autre (progression) ou d’un statut d’apprenant·e à un statut de locuteur·ice et pour l’enseignant·e, du passage du statut de locuteur·ice au statut d’enseignant·e. On pourra également considérer la vulgarisation scientifique comme un passage transformatif (Véron 2021). 4. Passage(s) entre production et perception Nous appelons ici à la réflexion sur les passages entre les différents niveaux linguistiques et phonétiques entrant en jeu dans la production de la parole et sa perception : des phénomènes cognitifs et neurologiques en jeu dans la production d'un message et son énonciation à la perception de celui-ci (Levelt, 2001; Drager, 2010). On pourra également étudier la notion de changement d’état des articulateurs et les altérations vocales et de la parole, avec le conduit vocal en tant que passage physique du flux d'air. 5. Enjeux méthodologiques du(des) Passage(s) Cette perspective envisage le passage en tant qu’élément-clef de la démarche scientifique : de la théorie au terrain (Candea, 2017), de la donnée à l’abstraction, de l’expérimentation à la modélisation théorique, de l’hypothèse au résultat… On considérera alors que toute modélisation théorique est en elle-même traduction, c’est-à-dire passage d’un état à un autre. On pourra s’intéresser aux enjeux du passage d’un support de discours à un autre. On peut citer le passage de l’oral à l’écrit (transcription et grammatisation), ainsi que du brouillon au texte final en linguistique de l’écrit, du hors-ligne au numérique (Paveau, 2017). Le passage d’un objet d’étude marqué à un objet d’étude non marqué (Cameron 2014; Bucholtz 1999; Cesbron 2022) amène à construire les identités linguistiques non marquées socialement en objets d’analyse. Le TAL a contribué à de nombreux passages, comme du manuel à l'automatique avec la traduction ou bien l'annotation automatique de corpus (Balakrishnan & Lloyd-Yemoh, 2014). La numérisation des corpus manuscrits (OCRisation, HTRisation), les données synthétisées (parole, texte) et la reconnaissance de la langue ou du locuteur sont également concernés par ces passages (de l'analogique au numérique, du signal/texte au vecteur...). Bibliographie: Adam, J. (2012), Le modèle émergentiste en linguistique textuelle, L’information grammaticale 134, Paris, Peeters, p. 30-37. Auer, P. (1999). From codeswitching via language mixing to fused lects: Toward a dynamic typology of bilingual speech. International journal of bilingualism, 3(4), 309-332. Authier-Revuz, J. (2020). La Représentation du Discours Autre. Berlin, Boston : De Gruyter. Bakhtine, M., Problèmes de la poétique de Dostoïevski, Paris, Seuil, [1929] 1970. Balakrishnan, V., & Lloyd-Yemoh, E. (2014). Stemming and lemmatization: A comparison of retrieval performances. Lecture Notes on Software Engineering, 2(3), 262-267 Bennett, J. (2020). Mothering through language: gender, class, and education in language revitalization among Kaqchikel Maya women in Guatemala. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 30(2), 196-212. Bucholtz, M. (1999). You da man: Narrating the racial other in the production of white masculinity. Journal of sociolinguistics, 3(4), 443-460. Busto-Crespo, O., Uzcanga-Lacabe, M., Abad-Marco, A., Berasategui, I., García, L., Maraví, E., Aguilera-Albesa, S., Fernández-Montero, A., & Fernández-González, S. (2016). Longitudinal Voice Outcomes After Voice Therapy in Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis. Journal of Voice, 30(6), 767.e9-767.e15. Cameron, D. (2014). Straight talking: the sociolinguistics of heterosexuality. Langage et societe, 148(2), 75-93. Candea, M. (2017). La notion d’«accent de banlieue» à l’épreuve du terrain. GlottopoL, (29), 13-26. Cesbron, A. (2022). 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Relations between Speech Production and Speech Perception: Some Behavioral and Neurological Observations. Language, Brain, and Cognitive Development. Emmanuel Dupoux, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Paveau, M. A. (2017). L'analyse du discours numérique. Dictionnaire des formes et des pratiques. Hermann. Stathopoulos, E. T., Huber, J. E., Sussman, J. E. (2011). Changes in Acoustic Characteristics of the Voice Across the Life Span: Measures from Individuals 4-93 Years of Age. Journal of Speech, Language, and hearing Research, vol.54, 1011-1021. Tremblay, P., Poulin, J., Martel-Sauvageau, V., Denis, C. (2019). Age-related deficits in speech production: from phonological planning to motor implementation. Experimental Gerontology, 126110695 Véron, L. (2021). « Twitta », « influenceuse », « intellectuelle », « communicante » ? Être enseignante-chercheuse sur Twitter. Tracés. Revue de Sciences humaines, (21), 29-50. Références complémentaires: Aguilar, J., Brudermann, C., Leclère, M. (2014). Langues, cultures et pratiques en contexte : interrogations didactiques. Paris : Riveneuve. Alegria, R., Vaz Freitas, S., & Manso, M. C. (2021). Efficacy of speech language therapy intervention in unilateral vocal fold paralysis – a systematic review and a meta-analysis of visual-perceptual outcome measures. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 46(2), 86‑98. Angouri, J. & Baxter, J. (eds.). (2021). The Routledge handbook of language, gender and sexuality. Routledge. Arnold, A. (2015). Voix et transidentité : changer de voix pour changer de genre ? Langage et société 151(1). 87-105. Baese-Berk, M. M. (2019). Interactions between speech perception and production during learning of novel phonemic categories Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 81, 981-1005. Burke, D. M. & Mackay, D. G. (1997). Memory, language and ageing. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 352, 1845-1856. Chen, X., Dronjic, V., Helms-Park, R. (2016). 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Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Ed.), Cognitive Linguistics and Translation: Advances in Some Theoretical Models and Applications (pp. 395-414). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Leroy, S. (2004). De l'identification à la catégorisation: l'antonomase du nom propre en français (Vol. 57). Peeters Publishers. Li, C., Su, Y., & Liu, W. (2018, July). Text-to-text generative adversarial networks. In 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.Ramscar, M. (2022) Psycholinguistics and Aging. Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Linguistics. Molinié, M. (2023). Autobiographie, réflexivité et construction des savoirs en didactique des langues. Paris : L'Harmattan. Paveau, M. A. (2019). La blessure et la salamandre. Théorie de la resignification discursive. Samy, A. H., Rickford, J. R. & Ball, A. F. (eds.). (2016). Raciolinguistics: How language shapes our ideas about race. Oxford University Press. Teston, B. (2001). L’évaluation objective des dysfonctionnements de la voix et de la parole; 2e partie : Les dysphonies. Travaux interdisciplinaires du Laboratoire Parole et Langage, 20, 169‑232 Véronique, G. D. (2013). Émergence des langues créoles et rapports de domination dans les situations créolophones. In Situ. Revue des patrimoines, (20). Weiss, R. J., Skerry-Ryan, R. J., Battenberg, E., Mariooryad, S., & Kingma, D. P. (2021, June). Wave-tacotron: Spectrogram-free end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis. In ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 5679-5683). IEEE. Xue, S. A., & Hao, G. J. (2003). Changes in the human vocal tract due to aging and the acoustic correlates of speech production: a pilot study. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing research, 46(3), 689-701. Comité d’organisation: Léa Robin, Louise Wohmann-Bruzzo, Jean-Claude Mapendano Byamungu, Noémie Trovato, Carole Millot, Hélène Massis, Justin Jacobs, Jules Bouton, Manon Boutin-Charles, Anaïs Ligner Comité scientifique : M. Adda-Decker, J. Aguilar-Rio, A. Amelot, N. Audibert, M. Auzanneau, W. Ayres-Bennett, C. Badiou-Monferran, E. Beaumatin, I. Behr, T. Bertin, P. Boula de Mareuil, C. Brudermann, M. Candea, D. Capin, M. Causa, J-L. Chiss, I. Chitoran, J. Costa, L. Crevier-Buchman, J. David, M. DeChiara, C. Doquet, F. El Qasem, A. Elalouf, P. Faure, C., Fauth, M. Favriaud, S. Fedden, C. Fougeron, J-M. Fournier, I. Galleron, C. Gendrot, D. Gile, L. Greco, P. Halle, F. Isel, A. Lahaussois, M. Lammert, L Lansari, B. Leclercq, F. Lefeuvre, C. Leguy, R. Mahrer, N. Marignier, C. Masson, M. Molinié, A. Morgenstern, C. Muller, F. Neveu, G. Parussa, M-A. Paveau, C. Pillot-Loiseau, C. Pradeau, S. Prevost, N. Quint, S. Reboul-Touré, R. Ridouane, A. Salazar-Orvig, D. Savatovsky, L. Schmoll, G. Siouffi, V. Spaëth, S. Stratilaki, I. Taravella, P-Y. Testenoire, A. Valentini, C. Van Den Avenne, D. Van Raemdonck, H. Vassiliadou, M. B. Villar Diaz, P. Von Münchow, N. Yamaguchi, H-Y Yoo


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3-3-18(2024-07-22) 13th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, Erlangen, Germany

13th International Conference

on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics

Erlangen, Germany 22nd-26th of July 2024

 

 

we cordially invite you to participate in the 13th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, July 22nd – 26th of 2024!

After the successful hosting in 2012, we are pleased to welcome you back in Erlangen, Germany! There will be two days of workshops prior to the three days of conference and several social events in the beautiful Nuremberg Metropolitan Region.

The workshops (July 22nd-23rd) and the conference (July 24th-26th) will focus on voice physiology and biomechanics including computational, numerical and experimental modelingmachine learningtissue engineeringlaryngeal pathologies and many more. Abstract submission and registration will be open from November 1st, 2023.

We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you in Erlangen, July 2024!

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3-3-19(2024-09-09) Cf Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France

Call for Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024

At its 25th edition, the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is a continuation of the very successful series of evaluation campaigns of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) which ran between 2000 and 2009, and established a framework of systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. As a leading annual international conference, CLEF uniquely combines evaluation laboratories and workshops with research presentations, panels, posters and demo sessions. In 2024, CLEF takes place in September,  9-12 at the University of Grenoble Alpes, France.

Researchers and practitioners from all areas of information access and related communities are invited to submit proposals for running evaluation labs as part of CLEF 2024. Proposals will be reviewed by a lab selection committee, composed of researchers with extensive experience in evaluating information retrieval and extraction systems. Organisers of selected proposals will be invited to include their lab in the CLEF 2024 labs programme, possibly subject to suggested modifications to their proposal to better suit the CLEF lab workflow or timeline.

Background

The CLEF Initiative (http://www.clef-initiative.eu/) is a self-organised body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual information in different modalities - including text and multimedia - with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research and development by providing an infrastructure for:

  1. independent evaluation of information access systems;

  2. investigation of the use of unstructured, semi-structured, highly-structured, and semantically enriched data in information access; 

  3. creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking; 

  4. exploration of new evaluation methodologies and innovative ways of using experimental data; 

  5. discussion of results, comparison of approaches, exchange of ideas, and transfer of knowledge.

Scope of CLEF Labs

We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs:

  1. “Campaign-style” Evaluation Labs for specific information access problems (during the twelve months period preceding the conference), similar in nature to the traditional CLEF campaign “tracks”. Topics covered by campaign-style labs can be inspired by any information access-related domain or task.

  2. Labs that follow a more classical “workshop” pattern, exploring evaluation methodology, metrics, processes, etc. in information access and closely related fields, such as natural language processing, machine translation, and human-computer interaction.

We highly recommend organisers new to the CLEF format of shared task evaluation campaigns to first consider organising a lab workshop to discuss the format of their proposed task, the problem space and practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2024 programme will reserve about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions. During the conference, the lab organisers will present their overall results in overview presentations during the plenary scientific paper sessions to give non-participants insights into where the research frontiers are moving. During the conference, lab organisers are expected to organise separate sessions for their lab with ample time for general discussion and engagement with all participants - not just those presenting campaign results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions, etc. as appropriate. CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative lab proposals. 

Potential task proposers unsure of the suitability of their task proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact the CLEF 2024 Lab Organizing Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability or design at an early stage.

Proposal Submission

Lab proposals must provide sufficient information to judge the relevance, timeliness, scientific quality, benefits for the research community, and the competence of the proposers to coordinate the lab. Each lab proposal should identify one or more organisers as responsible for ensuring the timely execution of the lab. Proposals should be 3 to 4 pages long and should provide the following information:

  1. Title of the proposed lab.
     

  2. A brief description of the lab topic and goals, its relevance to CLEF and the significance for the field.
     

  3. A brief and clear statement on usage scenarios and domain to which the activity is intended to contribute, including the evaluation setup and metrics.
     

  4. Details on the lab organiser(s), including identifying the task chair(s) responsible for ensuring the running of the task. This should include details of any previous involvement in organising or participating in evaluation tasks at CLEF or similar campaigns.
     

  5. The planned format of the lab, i.e., campaign-style (“track”) or workshop.
     

  6. Is the lab a continuation of an activity from previous year(s) or a new activity?  

  1. For activities continued from previous year(s): Statistics from previous years (number of participants/runs for each task), a clear statement on why another edition is needed, an explicit listing of the changes proposed, and a discussion of lessons to be learned or insights to be made.

  2. For new activities: A statement on why a new evaluation campaign is needed and how the community would benefit from the activity.
     

  1. Details of the expected target audience, i.e., who do you expect to participate in the task(s), and how do you propose to reach them.
     

  2. Brief details of tasks to be carried out in the lab. The proposal should clearly motivate the need for each of the proposed tasks and provide evidence of its capability of attracting enough participation. The dataset which will be adopted by the Lab needs to be described and motivated in the perspective of the goals of the Labs; also indications on how the dataset will be shared are useful. It is fine for a lab to have a single task, but labs often contain multiple closely related tasks, needing a strong motivation for more than 3 tasks, to avoid useless fragmentation.
     

  3. Expected length of the lab session at the conference: half-day, one day, two days. This should include high-level details of planned structure of the session, e.g. participant presentations, invited speaker(s), panels, etc., to justify the requested session length.
     

  4. Arrangements for the organisation of the lab campaign: who will be responsible for activities within the task; how will data be acquired or created, what tools or methods will be used, e.g., how will necessary queries be created or relevance assessment carried out; any other information which is relevant to the conduct of your lab.
     

  5. If the lab proposes to set up a steering committee to oversee and advise its activities, include names, addresses, and homepage links of people you propose to be involved.

Lab proposals must be submitted at the following address:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2024

choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Proposals” track.

Reviewing Process

Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by the CLEF 2024 Lab Organizing Committee. The acceptance decision will be sent by email to the responsible organiser by 28 July 2023. The final length of the lab session at the conference will be determined based on the overall organisation of the conference and the number of participant submissions received by a lab.

 

Advertising Labs at CLEF 2023 and ECIR 2024

Organisers of accepted labs are expected to advertise their labs at both CLEF 2023 (18-21 September 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece) and ECIR 2024 (24-28 March 2024, Glasgow, Scotland). So, at least one lab representative should attend these events.

Advertising at CLEF 2023 will consist of displaying a poster describing the new lab, running a break-out session to discuss the lab with prospective participants, and advertising/announcing it during the closing session.

Advertising at ECIR 2024 will consist of submitting a lab description to be included in ECIR 2024 proceedings (11 October 2023) and advertising the lab in a booster session during ECIR 2024.

Mentorship Program for Lab Proposals from newcomers

CLEF 2019 introduced a mentorship program to support the preparation of lab proposals for newcomers to CLEF. The program will be continued at CLEF 2024 and we encourage newcomers to refer to Friedberg et al. (2015) for initial guidance on preparing their proposal:

Friedberg I, Wass MN, Mooney SD, Radivojac P. Ten simple rules for a community computational challenge. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr 23;11(4):e1004150.

The CLEF newcomers mentoring program offers help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft lab proposal by assigning a mentor to you, who help you in preparing and maturing the lab proposal for submission. If your lab proposal falls into the scope of an already existing CLEF lab, the mentor will help you to get in touch with those lab organisers and team up forces.

Lab proposals for mentorship must be submitted at the following address:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2024

choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship” track.

Important Dates

  • 29 May 2023: Requests for mentorship submission (only newcomers)

  • 29 May 2023 - 16 June 2023: Mentorship period

  • 7 July 2023: Lab proposals submission (newcomers and veterans)

  • 28 July 2023: Notification of lab acceptance

  • 18-21 Sep 2023: Advertising Accepted Labs at CLEF 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece

  • 11 October 2023: Submission of short lab description for ECIR 2024

  • 13 November 2023: Lab registration opens

  • 24-28 March 2024: Advertising labs at ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK

CLEF 2024 Lab Chairs

  • Petra Galuscakova, University of Stavanger, Norway

  • Alba García Seco de Herrera, University of Essex, UK

CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship Chair

  • Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France

  • Florina Piroi, TU Wien, Austria

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3-3-20(2024-09-25) Second international multimodal communication symposium (MMSYM 2024), Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany,

 

we are pleased to announce that the second international multimodal communication symposium (MMSYM 2024) will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, on September 25 - 27, 2024!
Check the MMSYM website for more information and to stay up-to-date: http://mmsym.org
 
We are attaching the Call for Papers for MMSYM 2024 to this Email and invite you to submit abstracts of your multimodal work to the conference! MMSYM 2024 wants to emphasize the following three main research themes: (1) The gesture-speech integration, in particular the prosody-gesture link, (2) formal, automatic and machine-learning approaches to multimodality, and (3) psycholinguistic approaches in multimodal settings.
 
Abstracts can be submitted until March 8, 2024 via OpenReview. Please find more information about abstract submission, templates and guidelines on the MMSYM website.
 
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3-3-21(2024-xx-xx) Fearless Steps APOLLO Workshop.

We are pleased to extend an invitation to you to participate in the upcoming Fearless Steps APOLLO Workshop. Our workshop delves into exploring speech communication, technology, and the extensive audio of the historic NASA Apollo program.

 

The Fearless Steps APOLLO Community Resource, supported by NSF, is a unique and massive naturalistic communications resource. This resource, derived from the Apollo missions, offers a rare glimpse into team-based problem-solving in high-stakes environments, with a rich variety of speech and language data providing invaluable data for researchers, scientists, historians, and technologists.

 

The Fearless Steps APOLLO corpus contains 30 time-synchronized channels, which capture all NASA Apollo team communications. The PAO (Public Affairs Officer) channel reflects all live public broadcast TV/radio contexts streamed by NASA during the missions. This channel is similar to all Broadcast news corpora.

 

Our workshop aims to showcase featured speakers, panel discussions, and present the latest findings in speech and language processing. We will explore facets of the Fearless Steps APOLLO corpus, the largest publicly available naturalistic team-based historical audio and meta-data resource.

 

 

Topics Covered:

 

We will be exploring several key areas, including:

 

1. Big Data Recovery and Deployment in the Fearless Steps APOLLO initiative.

2. Applications in Education, History, and Archival efforts.

3. Insights into Communication Science and Psychology, particularly in Group Dynamics and Team Cohesion.

4. Speech and Language Technology (SLT) development, including ASR, SAD, speaker recognition, and conversational topic detection. 

 

Workshop Structure:

 

1. Discuss advancements in digitizing Apollo audio and machine learning solutions for audio diarization.

2. Explore team communication dynamics through speech processing.

3. Explore the utility of Fearless Steps APOLLO resource for: SpchTech (Speech & Language Technology), CommSciPsychTeam (Communication Sciences & Team-based Psychology), & EducArchHist (Education, History, & Archival) communities.

4. The FEARLESS STEPS Challenge, a community engagement and data generation initiative.

The workshop will feature oral talks, including an overview of Fearless Steps APOLLO resource, including Team presentations on systems evaluated for the Fearless Steps Challenge dataset.

 

 

Instructions for Authors:

 

We invite authors to submit a short 1-page research overview that involves the Fearless Steps APOLLO resource. Please submit your Abstracts through our dedicated portal.

The workshop format will include oral presentations for accepted abstracts, which will be announced after the paper submission. Submissions in the form of 1-page abstracts ( and an optional additional page for references, figures, or preliminary results) are encouraged. Detailed formatting instructions and sample PDFs are available on our website. The Complete Fearless Steps Challenge (Phase-1 to Phase-4) Corpora & Naturalistic (Apollo-11 & Apollo-13) corpora can be accessed by filling out a short survey form here: FS-APOLLO Corpora Download Access

 

 

The deadline for workshop Abstract submission is set for March 1, 2024. We will announce the acceptance of the Abstracts on March 15, 2024. Both in-person and remote participation options will be available, with a focus on fostering a collaborative environment. Papers accepted to ICASSP 2024 are welcome as Abstract submissions, as well as original research following our format guidelines.

 

We believe this workshop will be a pivotal step in advancing speech technology and research. We look forward to your participation in enriching the potential of the Apollo Resource and inspiring new approaches in collaborative problem-solving.

 

For more details, please visit our workshop website.

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