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ISCApad #308 |
Saturday, February 10, 2024 by Chris Wellekens |
4-1 | New Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research covering all areas of language science,Univ. of Paris, France The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a newly-formed Paris-area graduate program covering all areas of language science. It offers a comprehensive Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics consortium. Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required. For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html New funding opportunity: https://u-paris.fr/en/call-for-applications-international-students-miem-scholarship-program/ Application deadline : February 1st 2021 (program starting September 1st 2021) PGSL is funded by Smarts-UP (Student-centered iMproved, Active Research-based Training Strategy at Université de Paris) through the ANR SFRI grant « Grandes universités de recherche » (PIA3) 2020-2029.
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4-2 | Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil
Are you interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, or machine learning? Please consider applying to the University of Cambridge?s Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence (MLMI) MPhil programme.
The MLMI MPhil is an elite 11 month programme with a small cohort of about 30 students each year. Due to its small size there is the opportunity to carry out PhD-like research projects on the course (see here for previous students? dissertations), as well having a number of bespoke taught modules with lots of opportunities to interact with the faculty and other members of the course (see here for a list of modules and here for a list of the teaching staff).
Previous members of the MPhil have gone on to study for PhDs in top research groups (e.g. at Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, and MIT), and have gone into top industry positions (e.g. Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, Open AI, and AstraZeneca).
This year our programme is restructuring around four overlapping tracks: speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. You apply to one of these tracks and this choice shapes your module options and the research project that you will take on. We are especially interested in candidates who are interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, and human-computer interaction as we have significant capacity to expand in these areas this year.
Details about the application process can be found on our website. The application deadline is 2nd December 2021.
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4-3 | Serveur Discord pour jeunes chercheurs. Nous souhaitons vous faire part aujourd'hui de la création d'un serveur Discord pour les jeunes chercheurs en parole: https://discord.gg/kSgaZp7yg9
Cet espace de discussion a pour but de rassembler la communauté des jeunes chercheurs en parole en France (étudiants en master, doctorants, post-doctorants...).
Vous pourrez notamment y partager vos derniers papiers publiés, vos questions ou appels à l'aide pour l'utilisation d'un logiciel (ou autre), ou simplement rentrer en contact avec des personnes qui travaillent dans votre domaine ou des domaines liés au votre. Rien n'est fixe, le serveur est voué à évoluer au cours de son utilisation! Il peut aussi nous servir à nous retrouver lors d'une conférence ou autre. En tant que jeunes chercheurs avec un petit réseau, on connaît tous ce sentiment peu confortable d'être seul(e) à une conférence, malgré les 1500 personnes autour de nous. Alors plutôt que de stresser chacun dans notre coin, autant nous retrouver et partager tout ça ensemble en nous donnant rendez-vous grâce au serveur de discussion!
La création de ce serveur Discord fait suite à l'appel du comité d'organisation des JEP pour l'organisation d'un événement à destination des jeunes chercheurs en parole lors des Journées d'Etudes en Parole qui auront lieu à Noirmoutier du 13 au 17 juin 2022 (https://jep2022.univ-nantes.fr/). Nous l'avons d'abord créé pour discuter entre jeunes chercheurs sur ce que l'on pourrait imaginer comme événement, puis nous avons pensé qu'il serait intéressant de l'ouvrir à tous pour recueillir vos besoins/envies et voir ce qui pourrait intéresser un maximum de personnes. Il est donc également destiné à essayer de mieux cerner les besoins de formation de chacun. Rassurez-vous, il est partagé en deux: une catégorie pour tous, et une catégorie pour celles et ceux intéressés par l'organisation de journées d'études, ainsi, pas de spam inutile. Si vous souhaitez rejoindre cette deuxième catégorie, il faudra me le notifier dans le canal #général ou me le demander par message privé*.
Rendez-vous sur le serveur pour faire vivre notre communauté de jeunes chercheurs!
Merci aux organisateurs des JEP et à l'AFCP pour leur soutien.
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4-4 | Le projet European Language Equality Le projet European Language Equality vise à établir un agenda stratégique concernant la
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4-5 | About JSALT About JSALT
Each summer, CLSP organizes and hosts a few international teams for an intensive 6-week research workshop on speech and language engineering. These very successful workshops have had a widespread impact on the Human Language Technology community. Recently, we are beginning to experiment with broadening their reach to adjacent research communities. Each workshop team spends 6 weeks together at CLSP (after some advance preparation), working in close proximity on some challenging problem or a promising solution technique that has not yet been well studied. Many teams have had a lasting influence on subsequent research and practice through the publications, software, and data that they produce. For many workshop participants, the biggest benefit is the interaction with other researchers, seeding new and lasting collaborations. The workshops also contribute to the pool of trained specialists in the fields of speech and natural language processing by providing immersive training to undergraduate and graduate students, allowing researchers from different backgrounds to learn from one another, and educating all workshop participants through guest lectures, participant seminars, and team research updates. This year, the ESPERANTO team contributes to the development of speech-to-speech translation systems with a special focus on enabling
the adaptation of such models for under-resourced languages.
Find more about the ESPERANTO project:
Anthony Larcher
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4-6 | Speech Enhancement for Augmented Reality ( SPEAR) Challenge
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4-7 | CfProposals for SLT 2024
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4-8 | Call for bids for ICMI 2025 The Steering Board of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal
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4-9 | CNRS Cristal Medal We are please to advertise that our colleague from LPL, Thierry Legou, was awarded of a CNRS Cristal Medal : https://www.cnrs.fr/en/talents/cnrs?medal=42 The crystal medal is handed out to engineers, technicians, and administrative staff whose creativity, expertise, and sense of innovation have contributed, alongside researchers, to the advancement of knowledge and the excellence of French research. Best regards, Nathalie Henrich Bernardoni
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4-10 | Cf Participation on a Survey on role of phonetics in different disciplines Dear colleagues
We are conducting a research study on the role of phonetics in different disciplines and would greatly appreciate your participation in a short survey.
Your unique perspective is crucial in understanding how phonetics is perceived and utilized across different fields of study. By taking just a few minutes to complete the survey, you will contribute to a broader understanding of the importance and applications of phonetics in scientific research.
Susanne Fuchs
Survey Link: https://www.soscisurvey.de/yourphonetics/
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4-11 | Submit a proposal for this four-day 2025 MLSP Workshop
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4-12 | SIG Prosody program. Some conference and workshop news:
Nigel Ward, ISCA Speech Prosody Special Interest Group Chair Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso nigel@utep.edu https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/
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4-13 | Cf Proposals of ICASSP 2028
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4-14 | Distribution Agreement between ELDA and Lexicala for Multilingual Lexical Data Dissemination Press Release – immediate
Distribution Agreement between ELDA and Lexicala for Multilingual Lexical Data Dissemination ELDA and Lexicala by K Dictionaries are delighted to announce their new cooperation on distributing Language Resources for 50 languages. ELDA is now making available Lexicala’s high-quality lexical data designed to enhance language learning, and support Machine Translation and diverse Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence applications.
For more information, please write to contact@elda.org. About Lexicala Lexicala by K Dictionaries offers multi-layer lexical data for and across 50 languages, relying on 30-year experience in pedagogical and multilingual lexicography worldwide. Lexicala converges manual content creation and curation with automated data processes and helps to enhance machine translation and other natural language processing applications, as well as language learning and model training. To find out more about Lexicala, please visit: https://lexicala.com/
About ELDA The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) identifies, collects, markets, and distributes language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in the field of Human Language Technologies (HLT). ELDA has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications. ELDA is part of major French, European and international projects in the field of HLT. To find out more about ELDA, please visit: http://www.elda.org/
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4-15 | Cf bids for the 2025 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025) Following the success of the bi-annual ASRU workshop over the past decade, the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) invites proposals to host the 2025 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025). Past ASRU workshops have fostered a collegiate atmosphere through a thoughtful selection of venues, thus offering a unique opportunity for researchers to interact and learn.
The proposal should include the information outlined below.
In July 2024, the IEEE SLTC will review proposals, and selection results are expected by August 15, 2024.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, we encourage you to contact the IEEE SLTC Workshops Sub-Committee in advance of submitting a proposal. They can provide an example of a past successful proposal and example budget. Further, proposers who make contact before April 1, 2024 may be invited to briefly present in-person or virtually at the annual IEEE SLTC meeting at ICASSP 2024 (https://2024.ieeeicassp.org/) to obtain feedback from the SLTC. Presentations should be reasonably specific but need not be complete. Note that the SLTC does not have funding available for travel to ICASSP.
The organizers of the ASRU workshop do not have to be SLTC members, and we encourage submissions from all potential organizers. IEEE SLTC members are welcome to participate in proposals, and the organizing committees of past ASRU events have included many SLTC members. To maintain fairness of selection, SLTC members who are affiliated with any ASRU 2025 proposals will not participate in the proposal selection vote. Further, the members of the Workshops Sub-Committee may not be affiliated with any ASRU 2025 proposals. Please feel free to distribute this call for proposals far and wide, and invite members of the speech and language community at large to submit a proposal to organize the next ASRU workshop.
For more information on the most recent workshops, please see: http://www.asru2023.org/ for information about ASRU 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan And feel free to contact the Workshops Sub-committee with questions.
Zhijian Ou, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Seokhwan Kim, Hagai Aronowitz, Sibel Oyman, Haitao Mi IEEE SLTC Workshops Sub-committee
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4-16 | Cf Bids for ICMR 2026 Dear Multimedia Community Members,
The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to organize the 16th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR2026 (sponsored by the ACM SIGMM). ACM ICMR is the premier scientific conference for multimedia retrieval. Its mission is to provide a forum to discuss, promote and advance the state-of-the-arts in multimedia retrieval by bringing together researchers and practitioners in its related field. It is thus essential to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality research papers and for sharing practitioner experience. The list of previous ICMRs is at http://www.acmicmr.org/. We expect ICMR2026 to be held in Europe. Parties interested in hosting ICMR2026 are invited to submit their proposals (20 pages or less) by Sunday, 31 March 2024 by email with the subject line: ICMR2026 to the steering committee chair. The details of CFP are at:
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4-17 | Invitation to the DISPLACE challenge: DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments Inviting participants to register and advance the field of diarization in the special session at Interspeech 2024 on DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments [DISPLACE] Challenge.
The Second DISPLACE challenge entails a first of kind task to perform speaker and language diarization as well as speech recognition on a demanding dataset, where the data contains multi-speaker social conversations in multilingual code-mixed speech. In such cases, we find that current speech processing systems are not equipped to perform meaningfully. The first DISPLACE challenge in 2023 illustrated this abundantly - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.12564.pdf With this motivation, the Second DISPLACE challenge attempts to advance this further by benchmarking and improving Speaker Diarization (SD) in multilingual settings and Language Diarization (LD) in multi-speaker settings, using the same underlying dataset. Further, the track on speech recognition attempts to improve speech transcription in code-mixed multi-speaker speech. Registrations are open for this challenge which will contain two tracks - a) Speaker diarization track , b) Language diarization track and c) ASR task.
A baseline system and an open leaderboard is available to the participants. The DISPLACE challenge is split into two phases, where the first phase is linked to the Interspeech paper submission deadline, while the second phase aligns with the camera ready submission deadline. For more details, dates and to register, kindly visit the DISPLACE challenge website: https://displace2024.github.io
We look forward to your team challenging to
Thank you and Namaste, The DISPLACE team
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