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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 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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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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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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*** 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 13^th 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 Laganaro, Cécile 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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1^st Call for Papers

The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024)

A Satellite Workshop of LREC-COLING 2024

Monday and Tuesday, May 20th-21st, 2024

Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024)

Workshop website: https://sigul-2024.ilc.cnr.it (under construction)

• Deadline for submissions: February 26th, 2024
• Paper submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/sigul2024/
• Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 5th, 2024

The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL2024) will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in language processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL workshop will 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

We invite contributions (regular long papers of 8 pages or short papers of 4 pages) targeting any of the following - non-exhaustive - list of topics:

• 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 and few-shot methodologies and self-supervised learning in language and speech technologies
• Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling
• Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects
• Machine translation and speech-to-speech translation
• Spoken dialogue systems
• Applications of language technologies for under-resourced languages
• Large language models and under-resourced languages

Special Topic

• Text and speech resources and technologies for the languages of Italy

Special Session on languages of Italy and language technologies

Italy is known for its linguistic diversity that reflects its long and varied history. To celebrate it, SIGUL2024 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language resources and technologies for the many languages of Italy (regional, minority, or heritage languages, including those of the neighboring countries).

Submissions

Authors can choose among three paper categories:

• Regular long papers – up to eight (8) pages maximum*, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work.
• Short papers – up to four (4) pages*, describing work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development, new resources, negative results, system demonstrations, and early-career/student work.
• Position papers – up to eight (8) pages*, for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, and institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches).

The above page limits exclude any number of additional pages that may be needed for references.

The form of the presentation may be oral or poster, whereas in the proceedings there is no difference between the accepted papers. Submission is NOT anonymous, and the official LREC-COLING 2024 format must be adopted. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers.

Invited speakers

TBA

Important Dates

• 26 February 2024: submission due
• 18 March 2024: reviews due
• 22 March 2024: notifications to authors
• 5 April 2024: camera-ready (PDF) due

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

Workshop Organizers

Maite Melero, Sakriani Sakti, Claudia Soria

Program Committee

• Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan)
• Manex Agirrezabal (University of Copenhagen – Center for Sprogteknologi | Center for Language Technology, Denmark)
• Shyam S. Agrawal (KIIT, Gurugram, India)
• Begoña Altuna (HiTZ Center - Ixa, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | University of the Basque Country, Spain)
• Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Martin Benjamin (Kamusi Project International)
• Delphine Bernhard (Université de Strasbourg, LiLPa, France)
• Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia)
• Claudia Borg (University of Malta)
• Matt Coler (University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands)
• Dan Cristea (Romanian Academy, Romania)
• Pradip Kumar Das (IIT Guwahati, India)
• Seza Doğruöz (Universiteit Gent, België | Ghent University, Belgium)
• Stefano Ghazzali (Language Technologies Unit Bangor University
• Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd)
• Itziar Gonzalez-Dios (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technologies -  Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
• Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
• Mélanie Jouitteau (IKER, CNRS, France)
• Richard Littauer (unaffiliated)
• Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates)
• Nina Markl (University of Essex, UK)
• Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Espanya | Spain)
• Peter Mihajlik (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
• Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar)
• Sandy Ritchie (Google Research)
• Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)
• Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italia | Italy)
• Daan Van Esch (Google Research)
• Menno van Zaanen (South African Centre for Digital Language   Resources, South Africa)
• Jenifer Vega Rodriguez (GIPSA-lab, Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
• Marcely Zanon Boito (NAVER Labs Europe, France)

Contact

mailto:mclaudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it

Please, write “SIGUL2024” in the subject of your e-mail.

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The 8th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-VIII)

co-located with LREC-COLING 2024
https://lrec-coling-2024.org/about-lrec-coling/

location: Torino, Italy

date of the workshop: May 20, 2024

website : https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-viii-2024

submission:  https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/cogalex2024/

1. Goal

The way we look at the lexicon has changed dramatically over the last few decades. While in the past being considered as an appendix to grammar, the lexicon has now moved to the center stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP that can be conducted without it. Also, many new proposals have emerged during the last few years. Living in a fast-moving world, it is hard for anyone to stay on top of the wave. Hence the reason for organizing an event like this.

The goal of this workshop is to provide builders and users of lexical resources (researchers in NLP, psychologists, computational lexicographers) a forum to share their knowledge and needs concerning the construction, organization, and use of a lexicon by people (lexical access) and machines (NLP, IR, data mining).

Like in the past, we invite researchers to address unsolved problems concerning the lexicon, by considering this time, however, also Large Language Models (LLMs). More precisely, we would like to explore their potential for building and using lexical resources as well as their ability to deal with the cognitive aspects of the lexicon.

We solicit contributions including, but not limited to, the topics listed below, topics, which can be considered from any of the following points of view: 

• traditional-, computational- or corpus linguistics,
• neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue problem, word associations), 
• mathematics (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world problems), etc.

2. Possible Topics

• The potential of Large Language Models for the creation and use of lexical resources;
• Organization, i.e., structure of the lexicon;
• The meaning of words and how to reveal it;
• Analysis of the conceptual input given by a dictionary user;
• Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes;
• Creation of new types of dictionaries;
• Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues

For more details see: https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-viii-2024

3. Important dates:

• Submission deadline:          February 23, 2024
• Date of notification:         March 20, 2024
• Camera-ready deadline:        March 29, 2024
• COGALEX workshop:             May 20, 2024

1.4. Submissions 

Two types of submissions are invited: 

• Full papers:  should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research.
• Short papers:  may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc.

Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication.

Submissions must be anonymous, electronic, and in PDF format. They must be made via SOFTCONF:
https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/cogalex2024/.

To create your document, please follow the guidelines defined by COLING using their style sheets
(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/).

5. Invited Speaker

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (Ghent University, Belgium,https://tshwanedje.com/members/gmds/cv.html

Tentative title: ‘Fine-tuning LLMs for lexicography’

6. Workshop Organizers

• Michael Zock (https://pageperso.lis-lab.fr/~michael.zock/)
  CNRS, LIS-lab, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France 
• Emmanuele Chersoni (https://research.polyu.edu.hk/en/persons/emmanuele-chersoni)
  Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
• Yu-Yin Hsu  (https://research.polyu.edu.hk/en/persons/yu-yin-hsu)
  Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies,  Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
• Simon de Deyne (https://simondedeyne.me)
  University of Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences (University of Adelaide)

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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). Are the straights ok? Analyse multimodale de la resignification discursive de l'hétérosexualité sur Twitter et Instagram: défis et limites de la construction et préparation d'un corpus de données numériques. Revista Heterotópica, 4, 70-94. Drager, K. (2010). Sociophonetic variation in speech perception, Language and Linguistics Compass 4(7), 473-480. Grinevald, C., & Costa, J. (2010). Langues en danger: le phénomène et la réponse des linguistes. Faits de langues, 35(1), 23-37. Hall, K., & Nilep, C. (2015). Code‐Switching, Identity, and Globalization. The handbook of discourse analysis, 597-619. Lecolle, M. (2007). Polysignifiance du toponyme, historicité du sens et interprétation en corpus. Le cas de Outreau. Corpus, (6), 101-125. Léglise, I., & Alby, S. (2013). Les corpus plurilingues, entre linguistique de corpus et linguistique de contact: réflexions et méthodes issues du projet CLAPOTY. Faits de langues, 41(1), 97-124. Levelt, W. J. M. (2001). 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). Reading in a second language: Cognitive and psycholinguistic issues. New York: Routledge. Coetzee, A. W., Beddor, P. S., Styler, W.,Tobin, S., Bekker, I. & Wissing, D. (2022). Producing and perceiving socially indexed coarticulation in Afrikaans. Laboratory Phonology 13(1). 215-219. Costa, J. (2017). Revitalising language in Provence: A critical approach. John Wiley & Sons. Doury, M., & Micheli, R. (2016). Enjeux argumentatifs de la définition: l’exemple des débats sur l’ouverture du mariage aux couples de même sexe. Langages, (204), 121-138. Eckert, P. (2002). Constructing meaning in sociolinguistic variation. (Un)Imaginable Futures: Anthropology Faces the Next 100 Years. The Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20-24. Hatzidaki, A. (2013). A cognitive approach to translation: The psycholinguistic perspective. In A. Rojo & I. 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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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 modeling, machine learning, tissue engineering, laryngeal 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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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.
    

7. 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.
    

8. 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.
    

9. 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.
    

10. 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.
     

11. 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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Call for Special Sessions at the 21st International Conference on Content- Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2024)

CBMI 2024 is calling for high quality Special Sessions addressing innovative research in content-based multimedia indexing and its related broad fields. Special session papers will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of the conference. The proceedings will be published by ACM. The state-of-the-art research outcomes in challenging multimedia topics are highly welcome, with a particular focus in highly impactful applications:

• Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)

• Remote sensing image or video retrieval

• Mobile and social media retrieval 

• Event-based media retrieval

• Multimedia data mining and analytics

• Multimodal analytics, simulations, and Digital Twins

• Multimedia recommendation

• 3D object/item retrieval

• Multimedia verification (e.g., multi-modal fact-checking, deep fake analysis)

• Generative models for media content

• Multimodal fusion and content enrichment in application areas: disaster management, tourism, smart manufacturing, security, water sector, public administration, journalism.

• Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems

Special Session Submission Process

Normally, each special session will include four to five papers. In addition to invited papers, if any, the conference will also welcome open submissions to special sessions. In order to ensure the high quality of accepted papers, all papers submitted to special sessions, including invited papers, will be peer-reviewed through a strict review process. If a special session has many high-quality submissions, some of the submissions might be moved to regular sessions. 

Special session papers must follow the same guidelines as regular research papers with respect to restrictions on formatting, length, and double-blind reviews. The review process will be coordinated with the main technical program review process of the CBMI, as coordinated by the PC chairs.  The organizers of each special session must provide 2 reviews per submitted/invited paper, while the regular program committee will provide 1-2 reviews. 

Special sessions organizers may submit work to their own session, with the restrictions that (a) each organizer may submit at most one paper, and (b) no paper can be co-authored by all organizers, to ensure there is always at least one chair able to organize the review of the submission.

Special Session Proposal Guidelines

Please include the following information in your proposal:

• Title of the proposed special session.

• Name, affiliation, brief biography and contact information for each of the organizers.

• A session abstract including significance justification and a brief overview of the state-of-the-art of the proposed special session topic.
  Note: The session abstract should be in a format that can be copied directly to the conference web-page to advertise the session.

• List of invited papers, if applicable, including for each paper: tentative title, author list, and preferably a short abstract.

• Proposal for arrangement of the reviews from session organizers (e.g. list of reviewers for the special session).

• Description of the session format (e.g. panel, technical talks, poster session).

• Plans for advertising the special session (e.g. targeted distribution lists, projects, communities)

• If applicable, plans for exploitation of the results of the workshop (e.g. summary papers)

Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic and relevance to CBMI, qualification(s) of the organizer(s), anticipated community interest and quality of papers in the proposed session, and other information from the list above provided by the organizers.

Submission Instructions

Please submit proposals containing the information from above by email to the Special Session chairs (ss-chairs@cbmi2024.org) using subject “CBMI2024 Special Session Proposal”. Receipt of a proposal will be confirmed by one of the chairs. 

Important Dates

Special Session Proposal Submission Deadline 22 January 2024

Notification of Acceptance of Special Session Proposal 29 January 2024

Regular and special session paper submissions 22 March 2024

Notification of Acceptance of papers 03 June 2024

Camera ready version of accepted papers July 2024

Special Session Chairs

Liting Zhou, Dublin City University, Ireland

Ilias Gialampoukidis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - Information Technologies Institute, Greece

Jenny Benois-Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France

E-mail: ss-chairs@cbmi2024.org

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Sixth International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research

September 20–21, 2024, Budapest

After highly popular sessions at ICPhS in Prague this year and an exceptional workshop „Lacerda 120” in Porto last year, we are happy to announce that the next HSCR workshop will take place in Budapest next year on Sept 20 and 21, organised by Judit Bóna and Mária Gósy of the Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics of ELTE University. The manuscript submission deadline is May 15, 2024. All details can be found at the workshop website: https://hscr2024.elte.hu/

The aim of this workshop is to bring scholars together who study the history of speech science to learn more on the methods, findings and results of our predecessors and to better understand the speech research community’s present achievements.

Speech has been investigated from different perspectives, which necessitates a range of approaches and scientific methods. Previous contributions analyzed the contextual background of individual researchers, investigated how specific research practices developed over time, examined the various kinds of approach of researchers to their material and the link between the form and the meaning in speech communication research.

The special focus of the 6th HSCR workshop will be on the development of the specific fields of speech communication, such as emerging phonology, progression in analysis of both speech sounds and prosody, speech technology, growing body of psycholinguistics, sociophonetics and clinical phonetics, etc. Researchers are encouraged to mine deep into history to find the early steps and advancement of these specific fields of speech communication. The knowledge of our predecessors is frequently unknown, forgotten or ignored for several reasons, and thus the past attainments are not appropriately integrated in our common consciousness regarding speech science.

As always, contributions on other topics from the history of speech communication research will also be welcome. The unfolded facts of the phonetic endeavor in the history of speech science may heavily inspire the present research.

Manuscripts should be sent to the email address of the workshop: hscr2024@gmail.com. Please, use the templates for your paper.

The proceedings will be published in the book series Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation at TUDpress (Technical University Dresden). The HSCR proceedings will be published in print and also stored electronically in the ISCA archive.

For any inquiries, please use the workshop email address: hscr2024@gmail.com

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SPECOM-2024 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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26th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2024)

November 25-28, 2024

Crowne Plaza hotel, Belgrade, Serbia

Web: https://specom2024.ftn.uns.ac.rs/

ORGANIZERS

The conference SPECOM-2024 is organized by the Faculty of Technical Sciences University of Novi Sad and the School of Electrical Engineering University of Belgrade in cooperation with the Telecommunications Society of Serbia

FOUNDERS

SPECOM series was founded by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS)

CONFERENCE TOPICS

SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:

• Affective computing

• Audio-visual speech processing

• Corpus linguistics

• Computational paralinguistics

• Deep learning for audio processing

• Feature extraction

• Forensic speech investigations

• Human-machine interaction

• Language identification

• Large language models

• Multichannel signal processing

• Multilingual speech technology

• Multimedia processing

• Multimodal analysis and synthesis

• Natural language generation

• Natural language understanding

• Sign language processing

• Speaker diarization

• Speaker identification and verification

• 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

SATELLITE EVENTS

26th International Conference SPECOM will be organized together with the 32nd Telecommunications Forum TELFOR-2024: https://www.telfor.rs/en/

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of 10-15 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are invited to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2024

DEADLINES

July 01, 2024 ....................... Submission of full papers

September 03, 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection

September 15, 2024 ........... Camera-ready papers

October 01, 2024 ................ Early registration

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases.

GENERAL CHAIRS

Vlado DELIĆ – Faculty of Technical Sciences University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

Alexey KARPOV – SPIIRAS, SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2024 Secretariat

E-mail: specom2024@uns.ac.rs

Web: https://specom2024.ftn.uns.ac.rs

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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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