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3-3-1 | (2024-03-04) Cf Special sessions: The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, JapanCall 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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3-3-2 | (2024-03-04) CfP The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, JapanThe 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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3-3-3 | (2024-03-24) Seventh International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'24) ; Glasgow, UK ++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++ **************************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************************** ++ 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
Narrative Representation
Narrative Analysis and Generation
Datasets and Evaluation Protocol
Ethics and Bias in Narratives
Narrative Applications
++ 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:
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.
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.
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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3-3-4 | (2024-04-14) Cf Tutorials, ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea
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3-3-5 | (2024-04-14) CfP ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea
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3-3-6 | (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.
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3-3-7 | (2024-04-14) Grand Challenge @ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea
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3-3-8 | (2024-04-14) ICASSP 2024 Call for short courses, Seoul, Korea
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3-3-9 | (2024-04-14) ICASSP 2024 Satellite Workshops
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3-3-10 | (2024-04-14) Registration ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea Register by February 22 to save with the advance rate.
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3-3-11 | (2024-04-26) Journée d'étude sur la didactique de la phonétique en FLE , Université d'Aix Marseille, France Le Laboratoire Parole et Langage, le département de FLE et le Service universitaire des langues d’Aix-Marseille Université organisent une Journée d'étude sur la didactique de la phonétique en FLE le vendredi 26 avril 2024. Le focus sera sur le FLE mais nous traiterons également de l'enseignement de la phonétique en didactique des langues en général.
Le programme sera bientôt disponible, le contenu sera accessible y compris pour les non spécialistes.
L'entrée est libre mais nous demandons aux participants de s'inscrire à l'avance: https://bit.ly/49cV2qF
La journée sera en présentiel uniquement.
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3-3-12 | (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.
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3-3-13 | (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:
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 Marina Laganaro, Cécile Fougeron & ChaSpeePro Team
Round tables moderator/discussants: Louis Goldstein, University of Southern California
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,
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3-3-14 | (2024-05-20) The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024), Torino, Italy 1st 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)
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:
Special Topic
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:
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
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
Contact mailto:mclaudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it Please, write “SIGUL2024” in the subject of your e-mail.
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3-3-15 | (2024-05-20) The 8th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-VIII), Torino, Italy The 8th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-VIII)
co-located with LREC-COLING 2024
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. GoalThe 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:
2. Possible Topics
For more details see: https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-viii-2024
3. Important dates:
1.4. SubmissionsTwo types of submissions are invited:
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:
To create your document, please follow the guidelines defined by COLING using their style sheets
5. Invited Speaker
Tentative title: ‘Fine-tuning LLMs for lexicography’
6. Workshop Organizers
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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
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3-3-17 | (2024-05-22) The Industry Day@LREC-COLING 2024 conference week, Turin, Italy. The Industry Day will take place on May 22, 2024, during the LREC-COLING 2024 conference week in Turin (Italy).
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3-3-18 | (2024-05-25)1st CfP LEGAL 2024 Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies Workshop at LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy 1st CfP LEGAL 2024
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3-3-19 | (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 : 14 février 2024 étendue 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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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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3-3-20 | (2024-06-10) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket, Phuket Island, Thailand,
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3-3-21 | (2024-06-20) Colloque international Nouvelles perspectives d'analyse musicale de la voix,Université Lumière Lyon2 France, Colloque international « Nouvelles Perspectives d’analyse musicale de la voix » Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, 20-21 juin 2024 APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
Thématiques suggérées (liste non-limitative) : • Analyse structurelle de la voix chantée ou du parlé musicalisé. • Techniques d'analyse harmonique et mélodique appliquées à la voix. • Méthodes et techniques d’analyse de la voix. • Nouvelles perspectives technologiques et computationnelles d'analyse de la voix. • Approches stylistiques ou rhétoriques dans l'analyse de la voix. • Exploration acoustique, physiologique et interdisciplinaire de techniques vocales spécifiques, d’effets interprétatifs ou de modalités variées d’utilisation de la voix. • Étude du rythme, du timbre vocal, du phrasé, etc.
Modalités de soumission : Nous vous invitons à soume8re votre proposi=on de communica=on avant le 1ER FÉVRIER 2024. Les propositions, qui devront comporter un résumé (2500 signes maximum, en français ou en anglais) et une courte notice bio-bibliographique, seront à faire parvenir conjointement à Antoine Petit (antoine.petit@univ-lyon2.fr) et Céline Chabot-Canet (celine.chabot-canet@univ-lyon2.fr). Les réponses seront communiquées au plus tard le 8 février 2023. Ce colloque donnera lieu à une publication des actes. Comité scientifique : Céline Chabot-Canet, Muriel Joubert, Antoine Petit, Axel Roebel, Catherine Rudent. Comité d’organisation : Antoine Petit (doctorant), Céline Chabot-Canet (MCF), Passages Arts & Li8ératures (XX-XXI), Université Lumière Lyon 2. Dans le cadre du projet ANR « Analyse et tRansformation du Style de chant » (ANR-19-CE38-0001-03).
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3-3-22 | (2024-07-01) CfAbstracts Workshop 'Prosodic features of language learners' fluency', Leiden, The Netherlands Call for Abstracts for the workshop 'Prosodic features of language learners' fluency' https://l2fluency.lst.uni-saarland.de/
This workshop is a satellite event of 'Speech Prosody' to be held in Leiden (The Netherlands) on 1st of July, 2024. Its aim is to bring together colleagues from two research communities to focus on speech fluency: spoken second/foreign language (L2) on the one hand and speech prosody on the other.
In the past, fluency was often ignored in speech prosody research (as reflected in the Handbook of Language Prosody (2022) and also in the Speech Prosody conferences). Moreover, fluency and timing are only rarely treated together with intonation-related aspects in L2 research. However, a broader ranging view on L2 sentence prosody would be beneficial to the construction of theories concerning the acquisition of L2 prosody and applications such as assessments in teaching, exercises for individual learning, assessments and automatic testing of spoken performances. Likewise, research of language learning does not seem to be very much integrated into speech prosody research. This concerns both theoretical and methodological aspects but also acquisition and annotation of learner data, e.g. in learner corpora.
Thus, the scope of the workshop includes topics like measuring fluency, assessment of fluency (human experts, non-experts, and machines), learner corpora and annotation of disfluencies, elements and combinations of disfluencies (e.g. filler particles, disfluent pauses, lengthenings, repetitions, repairs), varying degrees of fluency in different speech styles and tasks, fluency and L2 proficiency levels, intonational aspects of fluency, visual aspects of fluency (e.g. hand-arm gestures, eye-gazing, torso movement), teaching methods for fluency improvement in L2 speech production and perception.
Keynote speakers are Lieke van Maastricht (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Malte Belz (Humboldt University Berlin).
Interested colleagues are invited to submit a two-page abstract (first page for text, second page for illustrations, tables, and references) to be reviewed by an expert committee. Only oral presentations are planned. In addition to this workshop, we are discussing the possibility of editing a special (open) issue in a recognised journal (e.g. 'Journal of Second Language Pronunciation' or 'Studies in Second Language Acquisition') to which we would encourage presenters of workshop papers to contribute.
Important dates: abstract submission deadline: 8 April, notification of acceptance: 1 May, workshop day: 1 July 2024.
Organisers: Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius (both Saarland University) and Nivja de Jong (Leiden University)
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3-3-23 | (2024-07-08) 35ème Journées d’Études sur la Parole, Toulouse, France Conférence JEP-TALN-2024 Du 8 au 12 juillet 2024 Toulouse, France ======================
Les équipes de recherche SAMoVA, MELODI et IRIS de l’Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT, UMR 5505), l’équipe PLC du laboratoire Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE, UMR 5263) et l’axe neurocognition langagière, linguistique et phonétique cliniques du laboratoire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique (LNPL, URI EA 4156) organisent conjointement à Toulouse les 35ème Journées d’Études sur la Parole (JEP), la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN) et la 26ème Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues, dénommée (RECITAL).
https://jep-taln2024.sciencesconf.org/
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Dates importantes (JEP-TALN-RECITAL) : - Soumission des articles : *** 15 février 2024 (nouvelle date) *** - Notification aux auteurs : 25 avril 2024 - Date de la conférence : 8 au 12 juillet 2024
Les thématiques de la conférence s’inscrivent dans les catégories suivantes, sans y être limitées pour autant.
TALN-RECITAL - Phonétique, phonologie, morphologie, étiquetage morphosyntaxique - Syntaxe, grammaires, analyse syntaxique, chunking - Sémantique, pragmatique, discours - Sémantique lexicale et distributionnelle - Aspects linguistiques et psycholinguistiques du TAL - Ressources pour le TAL - Méthodes d’évaluation pour le TAL - Applications du TAL (recherche et extraction d’information, question-réponse, traduction, génération, résumé, dialogue, analyse d’opinions, simplification, etc.) - TAL et multimodalité (parole, vision, etc.) - TAL et multilinguisme - TAL pour le Web et les réseaux sociaux - TAL et langues peu dotées - TAL et langue des signes - Implications sociales et éthiques du TAL - TAL et linguistique de corpus - TAL et Humanités numériques
JEP - Acoustique de la parole - Acquisition de la parole et du langage - Analyse, codage et compression de la parole - Applications à composantes orales (dialogue, indexation, etc) - Apprentissage d’une langue seconde - Communication multimodale - Dialectologie - Évaluation, corpus et ressources - Langues en danger - Modèles de langage - Parole audio-visuelle - Pathologies de la parole - Phonétique et phonologie - Phonétique clinique - Production / Perception de la parole - Prosodie - Psycholinguistique - Reconnaissance et compréhension de la parole - Reconnaissance de la langue - Reconnaissance du locuteur - Signaux sociaux, sociophonétique - Synthèse de la parole
Le nombre de pages des soumissions pour JEP/TALN/RECITAL est libre, mais compris entre 6 et 10 pages (selon le détail de l’appel et hors références/annexes). Le principe est que la taille de la soumission doit être cohérente avec son contenu. Les relecteurs jugeront un article sur sa qualité et cette adéquation. Les feuilles de style et le détail des appels sont disponibles sur le site web de la conférence : https://jep-taln2024.sciencesconf.org/
Lien de soumission https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jeptaln2024
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3-3-24 | (2024-07-08) Appel à ateliers JEPTALN 2024, Toulouse, FranceAppel à ateliers de JEPTALN 2024Conférence JEPTALN 2024 8 - 12 juillet 2024 Dans le cadre des conférences conjointes JEPTALN2024, nous sollicitons des propositions d'ateliers. Les ateliers doivent porter sur une thématique particulière de traitement automatique des langues ou de la parole afin de rassembler quelques exposés plus ciblés que lors des conférences plénières.
Chaque atelier a son propre président et son propre comité de programme. Le responsable de l'atelier est chargé de la communication sur celui-ci, de l'appel à soumissions et de la coordination de son comité de programme.
Les organisateurs de JEPTALN2024 s'occuperont de la logistique (e.g. gestion des salles, pauses café et diffusion des articles).
Les ateliers auront lieu en parallèle durant une journée ou une demi-journée (2 à 4 sessions de 1h30) le lundi 8 juillet 2024 sur le campus de l’Université Jean Jaurès de Toulouse.
Dates importantes - Date limite de soumission des propositions d'atelier : 15 février 2024 - Réponse du comité de programme : 29 février 2024
Modalités de proposition Les propositions d'ateliers (1 à 2 pages A4 en format PDF) comprendront : - le nom et l'acronyme de l’atelier - une description synthétique du thème de l'atelier - le comité d'organisation - le comité scientifique provisoire ou pressenti - l'adresse du site web - la durée souhaitée pour la réalisation de l'atelier (1 journée ou 1/2 journée) et l'audience potentielle
Les propositions d'ateliers devront être envoyées sous forme électronique à jose.moreno@irit.fr et julie.mauclair@irit.fr avec pour entête de courriel : [Atelier JEP TALN 2024].
Modalités de sélection Les propositions d'atelier seront examinées par des membres des comités de programme de JEP, TALN, par l’AFCP et le CPERM de l'ATALA. Les critères suivants seront considérés pour acceptation : - l'adéquation aux thèmes de l'une ou l'autre des conférences - l'originalité de la proposition
Format Les conférences auront lieu en français (ou en anglais pour les non-francophones). Les articles soumis devront suivre le format de JEPTALN 2024 (nombre de pages à la discrétion du comité de programme de l'atelier). La soumission des versions finales devra suivre le calendrier de la conférence principale.
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3-3-25 | (2024-07-16) CfP 7th Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop - July 16-17 2024 Call for Papers: 7th Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop - July 16-17 2024
We are excited to announce the 7th Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop (bit.ly/LaughterWorkshop2024) on July 16-17 at Queen’s University Belfast. The workshop will be a pre-conference event, part of the 2024 Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (www.isre2024.org). Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play important roles in displaying social and affective behaviours and in managing the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, clicks, filled pauses, and short utterances such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that are being increasingly studied from various research fields. However, much is still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations (production/encoding), their relations to the social actions they are part of, their perceived meanings (perception/decoding), and their ordering in interaction. Furthermore, with the increased interest for more naturalness in human-machine interaction, current times also invite exploring how these phenomena can be integrated in speech applications. Research themes include, but are not restricted to, these aspects of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations:
Researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts (2 pages long, including figures and references) describing their work, including work in progress. The deadline for submission is March 15th, 2024. More information about the submission process can be found on our website (bit.ly/LaughterWorkshop2024). There will be two keynote presentations on the topics treated by the workshop, delivered by Prof. Carolyn McGettigan (University College London, UK) and Prof. Margaret Zellers (Kiel University, Germany). Looking forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you at the workshop in July!
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3-3-26 | (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 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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3-3-27 | (2024-09-09) Cf Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024, Grenoble, FranceCall for Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024At 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:
Scope of CLEF Labs We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs:
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:
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
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3-3-28 | (2024-09-18)CfSS @ the 21st Int. Conf. on Content- Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2024), Reykjavik, Iceland 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:
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:
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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3-3-29 | (2024-09-20) 6th Int. Wshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, Budapest, Hungary 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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3-3-30 | (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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3-3-31 | (2024-11-04)) Cf Wkshps, Special sessions and Grand Challenge @ICMI, Costa Rica We are delighted to inform you that ICMI 2024 will be hosted in Latin America, specifically Costa Rica. The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier global platform for multidisciplinary research about multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. We extend an invitation to teams for the submission of proposals for the following components:
- Workshops, deadline February 5th. 2024.
- Special Sessions, deadline February 2nd. 2024.
- Grand Challenge, deadline February 5th. 2024.
Workshops
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ICMI has established a tradition of hosting workshops concurrently with the main conference to facilitate discourse on new research, technologies, social science models, and applications. Recent workshops include themes like Media Analytics for Societal Trends, International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP), Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics, Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents, Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior, and more.
Interested parties are invited to submit a 3-page workshop proposal for evaluation. Workshops may span half or a full day, with accepted papers indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceeding and a brief workshop summary published in the main conference proceedings. The Workshop submission deadline is February 5th, 2024. Proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs Naveen Kumar and Hendrik Buschmeier to icmi2024-workshop-chairs@acm.org. For additional details, please visit the conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2024/call-for-workshops/
Special Sessions
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Special Sessions are vital in exploring emerging topics within multimodal interaction, contributing significantly to this year's conference program. We invite proposals to enrich the conference's diversity and provide valuable insights into the overarching theme, 'Equitability and Environmental Sustainability in Multimodal Interaction Technologies.' Interested teams are requested to submit the following:
- Title of the special session: the title is designed to appeal to the ICMI community and be self-explanatory.
- Aims and scope, elucidating why the ICMI community should engage with this session.
- Tentative Speakers, comprising a list of potential contributing authors with provisional presentation titles. Special sessions typically include 4 to 6 peer-reviewed papers.
- Organizers and Bios are emphasizing the relevance and experience of the speakers.
The deadline for Special Sessions submissions is February 2nd, 2024. Prospective organizers are encouraged to submit proposals via icmi2024-specialsession-chairs@acm.org. Further details can be found on the conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2024/special-sessions/
Grand Challenge
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The ICMI community is keen on identifying optimal algorithms and their failure modes, which are crucial for developing systems capable of reliably interpreting human-human communication or responding to human input. We invite the ICMI community to define and address scientific Grand Challenges in our field, offering perspectives over the next five years as a collective. The ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire innovative ideas and foster future collaborative endeavors in tasks such as analysis, synthesis, and interaction.
To participate, submit a 5-page proposal for expert evaluation, considering originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plans. Accepted proposals will be published in the conference's main proceedings. The Grand Challenge submission deadline is February 5th, 2024. Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2024 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Dr. Ronald Böck (Genie Enterprise) and Dr. Dinesh Babu JAYAGOPI (IIIT Bangalore), using icmi2024-challenge-chairs@acm.org Additional information is on the conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2024/call-for-grand-challenge/
We look forward to your valuable contributions and participation in ICMI 2024.
On behalf of the Organizers of ICMI 2024!
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3-3-32 | (2024-11-25) 26th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2024), Belgrade, Serbia ******************************************************* SPECOM-2024 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *******************************************************
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:
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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3-3-33 | (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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