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Saturday, March 09, 2024 by Chris Wellekens

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3-3-1(2024-03-24) Seventh International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'24) ; Glasgow, UK

++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++  

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

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

March 24th, 2024 – Glasgow, Scotland 

Website: https://text2story24.inesctec.pt 

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++ Important Dates ++  

    - Submission Deadline: January 10th, 2024  

    - Acceptance Notification: February 23rd, 2024 

    - Camera-ready copies: March 15th, 2024 

    - Workshop: March 24th, 2024 

  

++ Overview ++   

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

  

++ List of Topics ++  

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

Information Extraction Aspects 

  • Temporal Relation Identification 

  • Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events 

  • Causal Relation Extraction and Arrangement 

  • Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction 

Narrative Representation 

  • Annotation protocols 

  • Narrative Representation Models 

  • Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation 

Narrative Analysis and Generation 

  • Argumentation Analysis 

  • Language Models and Transfer Learning in Narrative Analysis  

  • Narrative Analysis in Low-resource Languages 

  • Multilinguality: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis 

  • Comprehension of Generated Narratives 

  • Story Evolution and Shift Detection 

  • Automatic Timeline Generation 

Datasets and Evaluation Protocol 

  • Evaluation Methodologies for Narrative Extraction 

  • Annotated datasets 

  • Narrative Resources 

Ethics and Bias in Narratives 

  • Bias Detection and Removal in Generated Stories 

  • Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation 

  • Misinformation and Fact Checking 

Narrative Applications 

  • Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections 

  • Narrative Summarization 

  • Narrative Q&A 

  • Multi-modal Narrative Summarization 

  • Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives 

  • Social Media Narratives 

  • Narrative Simplification 

  • Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives 

  • Storyline Visualization 


++ Dataset ++  

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

  

++ Submission Guidelines ++   

We solicit the following types of contributions: 

  • Full papers 

 up to 8 pages + references 

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

  • Short papers 

up to 5 pages + references 

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

  • Demos | Resource Papers 

up to 5 pages + references 

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

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

  

++ Workshop Format ++  

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

  

++ Invited Speakers ++ 

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

   Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, Scotland 

 

++ Organizing committee ++  

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

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

   Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 

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

   Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel) 

  

++ Proceedings Chair ++ 

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

    Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC)  

  

++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++  

    Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto)   

    Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology)  

  

++ Program Committee ++  

Álvaro Figueira (INESC TEC & University of Porto)  

Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz)  

Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle)  

António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon)  

Anubhav Jangra (IIT Patna, Japan)  

Arian Pasquali (Faktion AI)  

Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto)  

Begoña Altuna (Universidad del País Vasco)  

Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology)  

Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)  

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

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

David Semedo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) 

Deya Banisakher (Florida International University)  

Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)  

Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC)  

Henrique Lopes Cardoso (LIACC & University of Porto)  

Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University)  

Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering)  

Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University)  

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

Liana Ermakova (HCTI, Université de Bretagne Occidentale)  

Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino)  

Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon)  

Luis Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Minho)  

Marc Finlayson (Florida International University)  

Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie)  

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

Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna)  

Natalia Vanetik (Sami Shamoon College of Engineering)  

Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto)  

Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  

Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora)  

Purificação Silvano (CLUP & University of Porto)  

Ross Purves (University of Zurich)  

Satya Almasian (Heidelberg University)  

Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto)  

Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (University of Washington)  

Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg)  

Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) 

  

++ Contacts ++  

Website: https://text2story24.inesctec.pt  

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


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3-3-2(2024-04-14) Cf Tutorials, ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea

ICASSP 2024 Call for Tutorials

Submit your Proposals by 6 September 2023

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Call for Tutorial Proposals

Guidelines 

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

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

Announcing the ICASSP 2024 Call for Papers! 

Submit your Papers by 6 September 2023.

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

 

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

 

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

Submit a Conference Paper

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

 

SP Society Journal Paper Presentations

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

 

IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJSP) Submission Track

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

 

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

 

Open Preview

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

 

Important Dates

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

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

 
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3-3-4(2024-04-14) CfP Industry Talk and Industry Colloquium Proposals @ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea
Submit your Industry Talk and Industry Colloquium Proposals by February 8.

 

 

 

 

 

Call for ICASSP 2024 Industry Program Participation!

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

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

 

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

     

Call for Spotlight Talk Proposals

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

 

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


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

 

Learn more about the submission guidelines here.

Call for Industry Colloquiums

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

 

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

 

Learn more about the submission guidelines and proposal requirements here.

     

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

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3-3-5(2024-04-14) Grand Challenge @ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea

Announcing the Grand Challenges for ICASSP 2024!

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

 

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

     
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3-3-6(2024-04-14) ICASSP 2024 Call for short courses, Seoul, Korea

ICASSP 2024 Call for Short Course Proposals

Submit your Proposals by 18 September 2023

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Learn more about the Short Course proposal requirements here

General Information 

Duration

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

 

Coverage

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

 

Target Audience

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

Learn more about the Short Course submission guidelines and instructions here

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3-3-7(2024-04-14) ICASSP 2024 Satellite Workshops

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

     

ICASSP 2024 Satellite Workshops

  • WS-1: Deep Neural Network Model Compression
  • WS-2: Trustworthy Speech Processing (TSP) - Still accepting papers 
  • WS-3: Self-supervision in Audio, Speech and Beyond (SASB)
  • WS-4: ICASSP 2024 Workshop on Explainable AI for Speech and Audio - Still accepting papers
  • WS-5: Workshop on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures
  • WS-6: Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks
  • WS-7: Second Workshop on Signal Processing for Autonomous Systems (SPAS)
  • WS-8: Revolutionizing Interaction: Embodied Intelligence and the New Era of Human-Robot Collaboration
  • WS-9: SPID-CPS: Signal Processing for Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems
  • WS-10: 1st Workshop on Integration of Sensing, Communication, and Computation (ISCC)
  • WS-11: Signal Processing and Machine Learning Advances in Automotive Radars
  • WS-12: Workshop on Radio Maps and Their Applications (RMA)
  • WS-13: Super-resolution integrated communications, localization, vision and radio mapping (SUPER-CLAM) - Still accepting papers
  • WS-14: Fearless Steps APOLLO: A Naturalistic Team based Speech Communications Community Resource (FS-APOLLO) - Still accepting papers
  • WS-15: Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2024): Efficient and Personalized Speech Processing through Data Science
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3-3-8(2024-04-14) Registration ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea
Register by February 22 to save with the advance rate. 

 

 

 

 

 

Registration for ICASSP 2024 is now Open!

Register by 22 February 2024 to save with the advance rate.

Registration for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) is now open! Join us in Seoul, Korea, on 14-19 April 2024.

 

ICASSP 2024 will be an in-person conference. The in-person experience brings our community together in one location, supporting the vibrant exchange of ideas, networking, and social interaction.

 

The Organizing Committee is thrilled with anticipation to meet everyone at this flagship conference and hopes each attendee will engage in various technical sessions filled with valuable lectures, cutting-edge topic keynotes with world-renowned speakers, workshops, tutorials, industry programs, along with great opportunities to network with industry pioneers and leading researchers.

 

Important Registration Dates: 

  • Author Registration Deadline: 30 January 2024
  • Non-Author Advance Registration Deadline: 22 February 2024
     

Plan your Trip to Seoul! 

The Republic of Korea is a country visited by approximately ten million international travelers every year. With its long history in culture and tradition, the country has a lot to offer to travelers

 

Seoul, the capital city of the Republic of Korea, has been the center of the country for the long period of its own history from the prehistoric era to the present day. Seoul has been preserving its unique, beautiful cultural heritage and it is evolving into a highly advanced city through spectacular economic growth.

 

Some top attractions include the Starfield COEX Mall, Famille Station, the Banpo Hangang Park, and more! 

 

Learn more here and start planning your trip today.

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

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3-3-9(2024-04-26) 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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3-3-10(2024-05-13) 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP2024), Autrans, France

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

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

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

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

!IMPORTANT DATES!

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

February 1, 2024             Notification of acceptance

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

May 13-17, 2024             ISSP2024 in Autrans, France

!KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & TOPICS!

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

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

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

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

 

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3-3-11(2024-05-13) Workshop “Speech production models and empirical evidence from typical and pathological speech” , Grenoble, France

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

Morning talks:

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

              Marina LaganaroCécile Fougeron & ChaSpeePro Team

 

Round tables moderator/discussants:

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

 

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

 

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

 

Looking forward to fruitful discussions with many enthusiastic participants! 

 

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

 

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3-3-12(2024-05-20) CfP Workshop Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies (LEGAL 2024),Turin, Italy
2nd CfP LEGAL 2024
Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies
Workshop at LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy

https://legal2024.mobileds.de/

May 20, 2024


About the Workshop

2023 is likely to be remembered as a year dominated by discussions about Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM). These technologies require data to be
collected and utilized in unprecedented amounts. Large sets of Language data are owned by
stakeholders that are not necessarily involved in the development of such technologies.
To use these sets for AI and LLM, it is essential to repackage and repurpose them for
such endeavor. Language data, despite their intangible nature, are often subject to legal
constraints which need to be addressed in order to guarantee lawful access to and re-use
of these data. In recent years, considerable efforts have been made to adapt legal
frameworks to the advancements in technology while taking into account the interests of
various stakeholders. From the technological perspective, the strict consideration of
legal aspects imposes further questions besides pure recording technology and participant
consent. This arises in several key elements:

- What is the Intellectual Proprietary status of Large Language sets, the corresponding
Large Language Models, and their potential outputs?
- How can identifying information used in deep learning be removed or anonymized (and is
this mandatory), how reliable are predictions/ models based on anonymized data?
- Which impact does this have on the usability, computational costs?


The purpose of this full-day workshop is to build bridges between technology and legal
framework, and discuss current legal and ethical issues in the human language technology
sector.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 4, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2024
Camera ready: April 5, 2024
Workshop Day: May 20, 2024

Topics

- Impact of statutory exceptions on text and speech data mining practices in the field of
Human Language Technologies.
- Impact of the regulatory environment at the international level (e.g. EU Data Act,
Digital Governance Act, Digital Services Act, AI Act; the Chinese “2023 draft rules on
generative AI”, the USA Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and other international or
national regulations) on the circulation and use of language data.
- Legal issues related to the production and use of Large Language Models (Intellectual
Property, Data Governance and Data Protection aspects).
- Concrete applications as to how language technologies can help resolve legal issues
related to data collection, data sharing and data reuse.
- Ethical considerations related to personal data collection and re-use
- Trust and transparency in language and speech technologies
- Efficient anonymization techniques, and the related responsibility, and their impact on
usability and performance
- Re-identification issues/De-anonymization approaches and techniques
- Harmonizing differing perspectives of data scientists and legal experts, worldwide


Submission

1500-2000 words extended abstracts are needed at first for submission. The full papers
will be published as workshop proceedings along with the LREC-COLING main conference. For
these, the instructions of the main conference need to be followed @
https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/

START Submission Page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/legal2024/

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).

Organizers

Ingo Siegert, OvG University Magdeburg (Germany)
Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France)
Pawel Kamocki, IDS Mannheim (Germany)
Kossay Talmoudi, ELDA (France)
 
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3-3-13(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:

  • 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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3-3-14(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
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

 



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3-3-15(2024-05-20)CfP LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Torino, Italy

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

20-25 May, 2024

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

 

Twitter: @LrecColing2024

First Call for papers 

Two international key players in the area of computational linguistics, the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), are joining forces to organize the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) to be held in Torino, Italy on 20-25 May, 2024.

IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

 SUBMISSION TOPICS

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

(i) Theories, algorithms, and models

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

(ii) NLP applications

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

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

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

(iv) NLP evaluation methodologies

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

(v) Topics of general interest

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES

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

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

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

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

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

ETHICS STATEMENT

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

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENT

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

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

 

 

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3-3-16(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).

As a joint conference, LREC and COLING wish to continue to provide a unique forum for researchers, industrials, and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.

LREC-COLING 2024 invites proposals for the Industry Day to be held in conjunction with the Main Conference.

The objective of the Industrial Day is to devote time to industrial achievements and perspectives with presentations by the industrials of their applications and innovation in the field of AI, NLP, and Speech processing. This dedicated Day/Track is also designed to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world industry practices, including evaluation methodologies, and understand better the challenges, including ethics and data protection, and opportunities in the current industrial landscape. Finally, this Day is also meant as a networking platform for conference participants, experts, and professionals to foster collaborations.

Topics of interest

  •  (Large) Language Modelling
  • Integrated Systems and Applications
  • Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction
  • Machine Learning Models and Techniques for Language Technologies
  • Applications of Language technologies less-resourced languages or in crisis and emergency time
  • Importance of language resources and building blocks
  • Policy issues, Ethics, Legal Issues, Bias Analysis
  • Evaluation and Validation Methodologies


Proposal Format

Please submit the following information:

·Presentation of the company/Short biography
·Title and Brief abstract of talk (150-200 words)
·Motivation: ex) Start-up company, Standardization, General Technology, Specific Technology associated with Products.
·Any specific requirements or considerations

Submission link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wJnERzsTqucjKVAqCXKNm-u_piaed24gSj4H_NfWwhs/
 
Submission Deadline: February 29, 2024
Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2024

Contact: choukri@elda.org <mailto:choukri@elda.org>
LREC-COLING 2024: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/

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3-3-17(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
Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies
Workshop at LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy

https://legal2024.mobileds.de/

May 25, 2024


About the Workshop

2023 is likely to be remembered as a year dominated by discussions about
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM). These
technologies require data to be collected and utilized in unprecedented
amounts. Large sets of Language data are owned by stakeholders that are
not necessarily involved in the development of such technologies. To use
these sets for AI and LLM, it is essential to repackage and repurpose
them for such endeavor. Language data, despite their intangible nature,
are often subject to legal constraints which need to be addressed in
order to guarantee lawful access to and re-use of these data. In recent
years, considerable efforts have been made to adapt legal frameworks to
the advancements in technology while taking into account the interests
of various stakeholders. From the technological perspective, the strict
consideration of legal aspects imposes further questions besides pure
recording technology and participant consent. This arises in several key
elements:

- What is the Intellectual Proprietary status of Large Language sets,
the corresponding Large Language Models, and their potential outputs?
- How can identifying information used in deep learning be removed or
anonymized (and is this mandatory), how reliable are predictions/ models
based on anonymized data?
- Which impact does this have on the usability, computational costs?


The purpose of this full-day workshop is to build bridges between
technology and legal framework, and discuss current legal and ethical
issues in the human language technology sector.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 4, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2024
Camera ready: April 5, 2024
Workshop Day: May 25, 2024

Topics

- Impact of statutory exceptions on text and speech data mining
practices in the field of Human Language Technologies.
- Impact of the regulatory environment at the international level (e.g.
EU Data Act, Digital Governance Act, Digital Services Act, AI Act; the
Chinese “2023 draft rules on generative AI”, the USA Blueprint for an AI
Bill of Rights and other international or national regulations) on the
circulation and use of language data.
- Legal issues related to the production and use of Large Language
Models (Intellectual Property, Data Governance and Data Protection aspects).
- Concrete applications as to how language technologies can help resolve
legal issues related to data collection, data sharing and data reuse.
- Ethical considerations related to personal data collection and re-use
- Trust and transparency in language and speech technologies
- Efficient anonymization techniques, and the related responsibility,
and their impact on usability and performance
- Re-identification issues/De-anonymization approaches and techniques
- Harmonizing differing perspectives of data scientists and legal
experts, worldwide


Submission

1500-2000 words extended abstracts are needed at first for submission.
The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the
LREC-COLING main conference. For these, the instructions of the main
conference need to be followed @ https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/

START Submission Page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/legal2024/

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).

Organizers

Ingo Siegert, OvG University Magdeburg (Germany)
Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France)
Pawel Kamocki, IDS Mannheim (Germany)
Kossay Talmoudi, ELDA (France)

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3-3-18(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). 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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3-3-19(2024-06-10) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket, Phuket Island, Thailand,
Effectively and efficiently retrieving information based on user needs
is one of the most exciting areas in multimedia research. The Annual
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers a
great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval
ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of
multimedia retrieval systems. ACM ICMR 2024 will take place in Phuket,
Thailand from the 10-13th June 2024. The conference venue is the Dusit
Thani Laguna Phuket, in Phuket Island.

ACM ICMR 2024 is calling for high-quality original papers addressing
innovative research in multimedia retrieval and its related broad
fields. The main scope of the conference is not only the search and
retrieval of multimedia data but also analysis and understanding of
multimedia contents, including community-contributed social data,
lifelogging data and automatically generated sensor data, integration
of diverse multimodal data, deep learning-based methodology and
practical multimedia applications.


Topics of Interest

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


Important Dates

Regular Paper submission: 01.02.2024
Demo Paper submission: 17.02.2024
Notification of Acceptance: 31.03.2024
Camera-Ready Due: 25.04.2024
Conference: 10 - 13.06.2024

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3-3-20(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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3-3-21(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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3-3-22(2024-07-06) Speech Prosody Workshop -CROSSIN: Intonation at the Crossroads, Leiden, The Netherlands

Speech Prosody Workshop Announcement

 

CROSSIN: Intonation at the Crossroads

Speech Prosody Satellite Workshop, Leiden, Saturday 6 July 2024

 

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Intonation is studied by different disciplines in which the research focus varies. One element these approaches have in common is that they must all address intonation meaning. This applies whether researchers are mostly interested in the phonological representation of intonation, its interaction with syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, or its role in communication and speech processing. These perspectives complement each other, yet it is often the case that research focusing on one does not give full consideration to the others: for instance, syntactic approaches to the role of intonation in expressing focus may overlook differences in phonological form in focus expression, while pragmatic approaches may assume that each meaning nuance is directly expressed by a different tune; conversely, studies on intonation phonetics and phonology do not always fully consider meaning. 

 

The aim of this workshop is to reach a more comprehensive view, by bringing together researchers working on intonation from different perspectives so they can enter into dialogue with and learn from each another. The main questions of the workshop are:

 

  1. What is the relationship between syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and intonation? Can we expect a one-to-one correspondence between intonation categories or tunes, on the one hand, and focus or other semantic or pragmatic functions, on the other?
  2. How can we best understand and model intonation meaning and intonation’s role in conversation and processing?

 

We invite abstracts addressing the questions above. The selected abstracts will be presented in a poster session. If there is sufficient interest, poster presentations will be published as a special issue or collection.

 

Keynote speakers: The workshop also includes invited talks by Stavros Skopeteas (Göttingen), Anja Arnhold (Alberta), and commentaries by James German (Aix-Marseille) and Claire Beyssade (Paris 8). The workshop will end with a general round-table discussion. For more information on the workshop, visit https://www.sprintproject.io/crossinworkshop  or http://tinyurl.com/y7zj8h5f .

 

Important dates: abstract submission deadline: 31 March; notification of acceptance: 30 April; workshop day: 6 July 2024

 

Abstract Guidelines

Abstracts should be written in English and should present original research not already submitted to Speech Prosody. The  text should not exceed one A4 page , though an additional page for references, examples, and figures may also be added. The following formatting conventions apply: Times New Roman font, size 12, 2.54 cm (1 inch) margins, single spacing. Submissions should be sent as anonymized pdf files to sprintonation@gmail.com by 31 March 2024 at 24:00 AoE. Please provide author details in your email.

 

Organizers: Amalia Arvaniti, Stella Gryllia, Jiseung Kim, Riccardo Orrico, Alanna Tibbs (Radboud 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

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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 : *** février 2024 (date définitive) ***

-   Notification aux auteurs : 25 avril 2024

-   Date de la conférence : 8 au 12 juillet 2024

- Proposition d atelier : ***22 février 2024 (date définitive) ***

 

 

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, France

Appel à ateliers de JEPTALN 2024

Conférence 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 - Belfast, UK

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 themesinclude, but are not restricted to, these aspects of
> laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations:
>
>  *
>
>    Articulation, acoustics, and perception
>
>  *
>
>    Interaction and pragmatics
>
>  *
>
>    Affective and evaluative meanings
>
>  *
>
>    Social perception and organisation
>
>  *
>
>    Disfluency
>
>  *
>
>    Technology applications
>
> 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 twokeynote 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 modelingmachine learningtissue engineeringlaryngeal pathologies and many more. Abstract submission and registration will be open from November 1st, 2023.

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

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3-3-27(2024-09-09) Cf Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France

Call for Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024

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

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

Background

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

  1. independent evaluation of information access systems;

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

  3. creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking; 

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

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

Scope of CLEF Labs

We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs:

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

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

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

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

Proposal Submission

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

  1. Title of the proposed lab.
     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lab proposals must be submitted at the following address:

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

choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Proposals” track.

Reviewing Process

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

 

Advertising Labs at CLEF 2023 and ECIR 2024

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

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

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

Mentorship Program for Lab Proposals from newcomers

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

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

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

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

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

choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship” track.

Important Dates

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

  • 29 May 2023 - 16 June 2023: Mentorship period

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

  • 28 July 2023: Notification of lab acceptance

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

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

  • 13 November 2023: Lab registration opens

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

CLEF 2024 Lab Chairs

  • Petra Galuscakova, University of Stavanger, Norway

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

CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship Chair

  • Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France

  • Florina Piroi, TU Wien, Austria

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3-3-28(2024-09-09) The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track, Grenoble, France
** Call for Participation **
 
As part of the ImageCLEF2024 Lab - https://www.imageclef.org/ (The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track), which is a part of the 15th edition of CLEF 2024 (https://clef2024.imag.fr/), scheduled to take place from September 9 to 12, 2024, in Grenoble, we are pleased to introduce the first edition of the ToPicto task.
 
The goal of ToPicto is to bring together the scientific community (linguists, computer scientists, translators, etc.) to develop new translation methods to translate either speech or text into a corresponding sequence of pictograms.
 
We propose two distinct tasks:
- Text-to-Picto focuses on the automatic generation of a sequence of terms (each associated with an ARASAAC pictogram - https://arasaac.org/) from a French text. This challenge can be seen as a translation problem, where the source language is French, and the target language corresponds to the terms associated with each French pictogram.
- Speech-to-Picto aims to translate an audio segment into a sequence of terms, each associated with an ARASAAC pictogram. The challenge here lies in the absence of using textual data as input.
 
More information is available here: https://www.imageclef.org/2023/topicto
The training data has just been made public; it's your turn to engage!
 
To participate, follow the instructions provided here: https://www.imageclef.org/2024#registration.
 
Registrations for the tasks are now open:
- Text-to-Picto: https://ai4media-bench.aimultimedialab.ro/competitions/18/
- Speech-to-Picto: https://ai4media-bench.aimultimedialab.ro/competitions/19/
 
Important dates:
- 22.04.2024 registration closes for all ImageCLEF tasks
- 01.04.2024 Test data release starts
- 01.05.2024 Deadline for submitting the participants runs
- 13.05.2024 Release of the processed results by the task organizers
- 31.05.2024 Deadline for submission of working notes papers by the participants
- 21.06.2024 Notification of acceptance of the working notes papers
- 08.07.2024 Camera ready working notes papers
- 09-12.09.2024 CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France
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3-3-29(2024-09-18) CfP Special Session on 'Multimedia Indexing for eXtended Reality' at CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland

Call for Papers: Special Session on 'Multimedia Indexing for eXtended Reality' at CBMI 2024

https://cbmi2024.org/?page_id=100#MmIXR

21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2024).
18-20 September 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland - https://cbmi2024.org/

DESCRIPTION:
Extended Reality (XR) applications rely not only on computer vision for navigation and object placement but also require a range of multimodal methods to understand the scene or assign semantics to objects being captured and reconstructed. Multimedia indexing for XR thus encompasses methods for processes during XR authoring, such as indexing content to be used for scene and object reconstruction, as well as during the immersive experience, such as object detection and scene segmentation.
The intrinsic multimodality of XR applications involves new challenges like the analysis of egocentric data (video, depth, gaze, head/hand motion) and their interplay. XR is also applied in diverse domains, e.g., manufacturing, medicine, education, and entertainment, each with distinct requirements and data. Thus, multimedia indexing methods must be capable of adapting to the relevant semantics of the particular application domain.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

  • Multimedia analysis for media mining, adaptation (to scene requirements), and description for use in XR experiences (including but not limited to AI-based approaches)

  • Processing of egocentric multimedia datasets and streams for XR (e.g., egocentric video and gaze analysis, active object detection, video diarization/summarization/captioning)

  • Cross- and multi-modal integration of XR modalities (video, depth, audio, gaze, hand/head movements, etc.)

  • Approaches for adapting multimedia analysis and indexing methods to new application domains (e.g., open-world/open-vocabulary recognition/detection/segmentation, few-shot learning)

  • Large-scale analysis and retrieval of 3D asset collections (e.g., objects, scenes, avatars, motion capture recordings)

  • Multimodal datasets for scene understanding for XR

  • Generative AI and foundation models for multimedia indexing and/or synthetic data generation

  • Combining synthetic and real data for improving scene understanding

  • Optimized multimedia content processing for real-time and low-latency XR applications

  • Privacy and security aspects and mitigations for XR multimedia content

     

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers: 22 March 2024
Notification of acceptance: 3 June 2024
CBMI conference: 18-20 September 2024

SUBMISSION:
The session will be organized as an oral presentation session. The contributions to this session will be long papers describing novel methods or their adaptation to specific applications or short papers describing emerging work or open challenges.

SPECIAL SESSION ORGANISERS:
Fabio Carrara, Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia and Humanities Laboratory, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

Werner Bailer, Intelligent Vision Applications Group, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Graz, Austria

Lyndon J. B. Nixon, MODUL Technology GmbH and Applied Data Science School at MODUL University, Vienna, Austria

Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece

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3-3-30(2024-09-18) CfP Special Session on 'Multimodal Insights for Disaster Risk Management and Applications, (MIDRA)' at CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland

Call for Papers: Special Session on 'Multimodal Insights for Disaster Risk Management and Applications (MIDRA)' at CBMI 2024

https://cbmi2024.org/?page_id=100#MIDRA

21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2024).
18-20 September 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland - 
https://cbmi2024.org/

Disaster management in all its phases from preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery is in abundance of multimedia data, including valuable assets like satellite images, videos from UAVs or static cameras, and social media streams. The value of such multimedia data for operational purposes in disaster management is not only useful for civil protection agencies but also for the private sector that quantifies risk. Indexing data from crisis events presents Big Data challenges due to its variety, velocity, volume and veracity for effective analysis and retrieval.

The advent of deep learning and multimodal data fusion offers an unprecedented opportunity to overcome these challenges and fully unlock the potential of disaster event multimedia data. Through the strategic utilization of different data modalities, researchers can significantly enhance the value of these datasets, uncovering insights that were previously beyond reach, giving actionable information and supporting real-life decision-making procedures.

This special session actively seeks research papers in the domain of multimodal analytics and their applications in the context of crisis event monitoring through knowledge extraction and multimedia understanding. Emphasis is placed on recognizing the intrinsic value of spatial information when integrated with other data modalities.

The special session serves as a collaborative platform for communities focused on specific crisis events, such as forest fires, volcano unrest or eruption, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and extreme weather events, which have increased significantly due to the climate crisis in our era. It fosters the exchange of ideas, methodologies, and software tailored to address challenges in these domains, aiming to encourage fruitful collaborations and the mutual enrichment of insights and expertise among diverse communities.

This special session includes presentation of novel research within the following domains:

  • Lifelog computing
  • Urban computing
  • Satellite computing and earth observation
  • Multimodal data fusion
  • Social media

Within these domains, the topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

  • Multimodal analytics and retrieval techniques for crisis event multimedia data.
  • Deep learning and neural networks for interpretability, understanding, and explainability in artificial intelligence applied to natural disasters.
  • Satellite image analysis and fusion with in-situ data for crisis management.
  • Integration of multimodal data for comprehensive risk assessment.
  • Application of deep learning techniques to derive insights for risk mitigation.
  • Development of interpretative models for better understanding of risk factors.
  • Utilization of diverse data modalities (text, images, sensors) for risk management.
  • Implementation of multimodal analytics in predicting and managing natural disasters.
  • Application of multimodal insights in insurance risk assessment.
  • Enhanced decision-making through the fusion of geospatial and multimedia data.

Important Dates:
Submission of papers: 22 March 2024
Notification of acceptance: 3 June 2024
CBMI conference: 18-20 September 2024

Organisers:

  • Maria Pegia, Information Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece.
  • Ilias Gialampoukidis, Information Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece.
  • Ioannis Papoutsis, National Observatory of Athens & National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
  • Krishna Chandramouli, Venaka Treleaf GbR, Germany.
  • Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece.

Please direct correspondence to midra@cbmi2024.org

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3-3-31(2024-09-18) Special Session on 'Explainability in Multimedia Analysis' (ExMA)@ CBMI 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland

The 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2024) will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland next September 18-20: https://cbmi2024.org/

The conference will bring together leading experts from academia and industry interested in the broad field of content-based multimedia indexing and applications.

The Special Session on 'Explainability in Multimedia Analysis' (ExMA), addresses the analysis of multimedia applications, such as person detection/tracking, face recognition or lifelog analysis, which may affect sensitive personal information. This raises both legal issues, e.g. concerning data protection and regulations in the ongoing European AI regulation, as well as ethical issues, related to potential bias in the system or misuse of these technologies. This special session focuses on AI-based explainability technologies in multimedia analysis.

The conference CBMI’2024 is supported by ACM SIGMM and the proceedings will be available at ACM Digital Library.

We would like to invite you to consider contributing a paper to this special session.

CBMI's important dates: https://cbmi2024.org/?page_id=211

Looking forward to see you at CBMI 2024.
With best regards,
Chiara Galdi

Special session organisers: Chiara Galdi, Martin Winter, Romain Giot, Romain Bourqui

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3-3-32(2024-09-18) Special Session on' Content based Indexing for audio and music: from analysis to synthesis' @ CBMI 2024 , Reykjavik, Iceland.

The 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2024) takes place September 18-20 in Reykjavik, Iceland.


We are delighted to have, as part of the conference, a Special Session on Audio entitled: Content based Indexing for audio and music: from analysis to synthesis 


Abstract: Audio has long been a key component of multimedia research. As far as indexing is concerned, the research and industrial context has changed drastically in the last 20 years or so. Today, applications of audio indexing range from karaoke applications to singing voice synthesis and creative audio design. This special session aims at bringing together researchers that aim at proposing new tools or paradigms to investigate audio and music processing in the context of indexation and corpus-based generation.


You are kindly encouraged to submit a paper related to the topic of the special session according to the CBMI guidelines : 

  • Regular full papers: 6 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references

  • Regular short papers: 4 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references


Important dates

  • March 22: Regular and special session paper submissions

  • June 3: Notification of acceptance 

  • Early July: Camera ready version of accepted papers



As of now, we already have 3 invited talks addressing the following topics : 

  • Cynthia C. S. Liem, Doğa Taşcılar, and Andrew M. Demetriou A quest through interconnected datasets: lessons from highly-cited ICASSP papers

  • Rémi Mignot, Geoffroy Peeters Learning invariance to sound modifications for music indexing and alignment

  • Cyrus Vahidi Large-scale music indexing for multimodal similarity search


Please join us in Reykjavik !!


Kindly yours,

François Pachet and Mathieu Lagrange

contact us: mathieu lagrange ls2n fr


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3-3-33(2024-09-18)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:

  • 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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3-3-34(2024-09-20) 6th Int. Wkshop 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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3-3-35(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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3-3-36(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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3-3-37(2024-11-25) 26th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2024), Belgrade, Serbia

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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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3-3-38(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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