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ISCApad #309

Saturday, March 09, 2024 by Chris Wellekens

4 Academic and Industry Notes
4-1New Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research covering all areas of language science,Univ. of Paris, France

The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a newly-formed Paris-area graduate program covering all areas of language science.

It offers a comprehensive Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics consortium. 

Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required.

For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html

New funding opportunity: https://u-paris.fr/en/call-for-applications-international-students-miem-scholarship-program/

 Application deadline : February 1st 2021 (program starting September 1st 2021)

PGSL is funded by Smarts-UP (Student-centered iMproved, Active Research-based Training Strategy at Université de Paris) through the ANR SFRI grant « Grandes universités de recherche » (PIA3) 2020-2029.

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4-2Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil

Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil

 

Are you interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, or machine learning? Please consider applying to the University of Cambridge?s Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence (MLMI) MPhil programme

 

The MLMI MPhil is an elite 11 month programme with a small cohort of about 30 students each year. Due to its small size there is the opportunity to carry out PhD-like research projects on the course (see here for previous students? dissertations), as well having a number of bespoke taught modules with lots of opportunities to interact with the faculty and other members of the course (see here for a list of modules and here for a list of the teaching staff).

 

Previous members of the MPhil have gone on to study for PhDs in top research groups (e.g. at Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, and MIT), and have gone into top industry positions (e.g. Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, Open AI, and AstraZeneca).

 

This year our programme is restructuring around four overlapping tracks: speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. You apply to one of these tracks and this choice shapes your module options and the research project that you will take on. We are especially interested in candidates who are interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, and human-computer interaction as we have significant capacity to expand in these areas this year.

 

Details about the application process can be found on our website. The application deadline is 2nd December 2021.

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4-3Serveur Discord pour jeunes chercheurs.
Nous souhaitons vous faire part aujourd'hui de la création d'un serveur Discord pour les jeunes chercheurs en parole: https://discord.gg/kSgaZp7yg9

Cet espace de discussion a pour but de rassembler la communauté des jeunes chercheurs en parole en France (étudiants en master, doctorants, post-doctorants...).
Vous pourrez notamment y partager vos derniers papiers publiés, vos questions ou appels à l'aide pour l'utilisation d'un logiciel (ou autre), ou simplement rentrer en contact avec des personnes qui travaillent dans votre domaine ou des domaines liés au votre. Rien n'est fixe, le serveur est voué à évoluer au cours de son utilisation! Il peut aussi nous servir à nous retrouver lors d'une conférence ou autre. En tant que jeunes chercheurs avec un petit réseau, on connaît tous ce sentiment peu confortable d'être seul(e) à une conférence, malgré les 1500 personnes autour de nous. Alors plutôt que de stresser chacun dans notre coin, autant nous retrouver et partager tout ça ensemble en nous donnant rendez-vous grâce au serveur de discussion!

La création de ce serveur Discord fait suite à l'appel du comité d'organisation des JEP pour l'organisation d'un événement à destination des jeunes chercheurs en parole lors des Journées d'Etudes en Parole qui auront lieu à Noirmoutier du 13 au 17 juin 2022 (https://jep2022.univ-nantes.fr/). Nous l'avons d'abord créé pour discuter entre jeunes chercheurs sur ce que l'on pourrait imaginer comme événement, puis nous avons pensé qu'il serait intéressant de l'ouvrir à tous pour recueillir vos besoins/envies et voir ce qui pourrait intéresser un maximum de personnes. Il est donc également destiné à essayer de mieux cerner les besoins de formation de chacun. Rassurez-vous, il est partagé en deux: une catégorie pour tous, et une catégorie pour celles et ceux intéressés par l'organisation de journées d'études, ainsi, pas de spam inutile. Si vous souhaitez rejoindre cette deuxième catégorie, il faudra me le notifier dans le canal #général ou me le demander par message privé*.

Rendez-vous sur le serveur pour faire vivre notre communauté de jeunes chercheurs!
 
Merci aux organisateurs des JEP et à l'AFCP pour leur soutien.
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4-4Le projet European Language Equality

Le projet European Language Equality vise à établir un agenda stratégique concernant la
recherche et l’innovation pour atteindre l’égalité des langues à l’ère numérique en
Europe en 2030. Dans le cadre de ce projet, les partenaires ont produit des rapports
documentant l'état des technologies et ressources pour chaque langue officielle, ainsi
que pour certaines langues non-officielles (D1.4-D1.36). Des états de l'art couvrant
quatre grands domaines ont également été produits (D2.12-D2.16):
- la traduction automatique:
- les technologies vocales
- les technologies pour l'analyse et la compréhension des langues
- les ressources et les bases de connaissance.

Tous ces rapports sont accessibles depuis le site du projet:
https://european-language-equality.eu/deliverables/

Le rapport consacré à l'état des technologies pour la langue française et pour la langue
des signes française a fait l'objet d'une traduction en français. Il est disponible ici:
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03637784

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4-5About JSALT
About JSALT
 

Each summer, CLSP organizes and hosts a few international teams for an intensive 6-week research workshop on speech and language engineering. These very successful workshops have had a widespread impact on the Human Language Technology community. Recently, we are beginning to experiment with broadening their reach to adjacent research communities.

Each workshop team spends 6 weeks together at CLSP (after some advance preparation), working in close proximity on some challenging problem or a promising solution technique that has not yet been well studied. Many teams have had a lasting influence on subsequent research and practice through the publications, software, and data that they produce. For many workshop participants, the biggest benefit is the interaction with other researchers, seeding new and lasting collaborations.

The workshops also contribute to the pool of trained specialists in the fields of speech and natural language processing by providing immersive training to undergraduate and graduate students, allowing researchers from different backgrounds to learn from one another, and educating all workshop participants through guest lectures, participant seminars, and team research updates.

This year, the ESPERANTO team contributes to the development of speech-to-speech translation systems with a special focus on enabling 
the adaptation of such models for under-resourced languages.
 
Find more about the ESPERANTO project:

Anthony Larcher
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4-6Speech Enhancement for Augmented Reality ( SPEAR) Challenge

SPeech Enhancement for Augmented Reality
(SPEAR) Challenge

Augmented reality devices of the future will likely fuse sensor data from several modalities, allowing multichannel speech enhancement algorithms to exploit, for example, head orientation and accurately estimated source directions. Augmented hearing therefore offers the potential for easier communication in noisy environments, such as restaurants and bars.
 
The SPEAR challenge offers the opportunity for researchers to benchmark existing speech enhancement algorithms and try out new ideas in the context of head-worn microphone arrays where positional information is available to the algorithm. Using recorded and simulated data, participants will obtain their best estimate of a binaural target signal from a given microphone array where real time information of the wearer head rotation and of the target direction of arrival is available. Enhanced signals will be evaluated through metric calculation and crowdsourced listening tests. To help get started a baseline algorithm is provided.
 
The challenge is being run by the Speech and Audio Processing lab at Imperial College London in partnership with Reality Labs Research (Meta).

More information can be found on the website along with all the freely available data and tools.

We encourage people to register for the latest information and to follow the SPEAR challenge on Twitter.

 
Register for the latest information

Important Dates

  • September 2022:
    • Start of the challenge.
    • Release of Train and Dev datasets.
    • Release of baseline and tools.
  • 4 January 2023:
    • Evaluation data released.
  • 25 January 2023:
    • Submission of Evaluation data.
  • February 2023:
    •  Analysis of submitted enhanced audio using metrics calculation and crowdsourced listening tests.
  • March 2023:
    • Workshop presenting results and findings.

For more information, contact spear.challenge@gmail.com.
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4-7CfProposals for SLT 2024
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: IEEE SLT 2024
Deadline: 15 June 2023
Following on the success of the bi-annual SLT workshop over the past decade, the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee invites proposals to host the 2024 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2024). Past SLT workshops have fostered a collegiate atmosphere through a thoughtful selection of venues, thus offering a unique opportunity for researchers to interact and learn.

The proposal should include the information outlined below.
  • Workshop location and practicalities
    • Geographical location
    • Workshop venue (facilities, meeting rooms, network access during the workshop, audio/visual equipment)
    • Accommodation -- hotel availability and pricing
    • Meals
    • Transportation options -- major airports, logistics, visas
    • Climate
    • Information on how the organizers would respond in facing the COVID-19 situation.
  • Approximate workshop dates
    • Previous workshops have been held in the month of December
  • Approximate total cost for participants to attend, including accommodation, meals, and registration fees.
  • Estimated budget for 300-400+ participants and expected sponsorships, including venue costs, administration, banquet, coffee breaks, publication costs, etc.
  • Committee Personnel
    • General chair(s)
    • Technical chairs
    • Local arrangements chair(s)
    • Other committee members and roles
  • Tentative program
    • Dates for paper submission, notification of acceptance, proposals for demonstrations, early registration
    • Reception, talks, posters, demo session, banquet, etc.
    • Substantial program additions/changes vs. past instances of SLT
 

The deadline for proposals is 15 June 2023

Please send proposals and questions to the workshop sub-committee:

In July, the IEEE SLTC will review proposals, and selection results are expected by August 15, 2023.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, we encourage you to contact the workshops sub-committee in advance of submitting a proposal. They can provide an example of a past successful proposal and example budget. Further, proposers who make contact before May 31, 2023 may be invited to briefly present in-person or virtually at the annual IEEE SLTC meeting at ICASSP 2023 (https://2023.ieeeicassp.org/) to obtain feedback from the SLTC. Presentations should be reasonably specific but need not be complete. Note that the SLTC does not have funding available for travel to ICASSP.

The organizers of the SLT workshop do not have to be SLTC members, and we encourage submissions from all potential organizers. IEEE SLTC members are welcome to participate in proposals, and the organizing committees of past SLT events have included many SLTC members. To maintain fairness of selection, SLTC members who are affiliated with any SLT 2024 proposals will not participate in the proposal selection vote. Further, the members of the workshops sub-committee may not be affiliated with any SLT 2024 proposals. Please feel free to distribute this call for proposals far and wide, and invite members of the speech and language community at large to submit a proposal to organize the next SLT workshop.

For more information on the most recent workshops, please see: And feel free to contact the workshops sub-committee with questions.
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4-8Call for bids for ICMI 2025

The Steering Board of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal
Interaction (ICMI) invites proposals to host 27th Annual Conference,
to be held between the end of September and mid-November 2025.
Priority will be given for proposals hosted in Asia and Australia
continents.

Strong proposals from other regions are also welcome. ICMI 2020 was
held as a virtual conference (originally planned to be in Utrecht, the
Netherlands), ICMI 2021 was in Montreal, Canada, and ICMI 2022 was
recently held in Bengaluru, India. ICMI 2023 is planned to be held in
France, and ICMI 2024 in Costa Rica. The bidding process is done in
two stages. During the first stage, the initial proposals will be
reviewed by the steering committee to identify promising bids and
request additional information if necessary. During the second stage,
the revised proposals will be reviewed and the final selection is
done.

Evaluation
Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria (unordered):

·       Experience and reputation of General Chairs and Program Chairs
·       Local multimodal interaction community support
·       (Local) government and industry support
·       Support and opportunities for students
·       Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site
·       Suitability of proposed dates (with list of specific conflicts to avoid)
·       Adequacy of conference facilities for the anticipated number
of attendees
·       Adequacy of accommodations and food services in a range of
price categories and close to the conference facilities
·       Overall balance of budget projections
·       Geographical balance with regard to previous ICMI meetings

All communications, including request for information and bid
submission, should be sent to the ICMI Steering Board Chair (Albert
Ali Salah, a.a.salah@uu.nl).

Important Dates
For ICMI 2025 bids:
·       March 10, 2023  - Notify intention to submit proposal via email
·       April 10, 2023  - Draft proposals due
·       May 3, 2023 - Feedback to bidders
·       June 2, 2023 - Final bids due
·       June 20, 2023 - Bid selected

Bid Content
After the notification of intent, the steering board chair will share
with you more details, including successful bids from previous years.
The following questions have to be answered for the official bid (both
draft and final proposals). Text in square brackets [] contains
considerations to be taken into account.

1.     Describe briefly the conference, including side events
2.     Describe briefly the conference site.
3.     What date do you consider?
4.     What is the nearest (international) airport?
5.     Please give price quotes for the cheapest roundtrip to the
conference location from Frankfurt, London, New York, San Francisco,
Beijing and Tokyo (assume one week of travel with a Saturday overnight
stay)
6.     What transportation should participants use from the airport to
the conference site?
7.     Are there any visa-related issues we should know about (in
particular, are there any countries for which the visa requirements
are different, and conference attendance will be more difficult for
some reason? )
8.     Does the conference site both have a large room for a maximum
of 300 people and about 5 smaller rooms for a maximum of 30-70 people?
Is there wireless connection available for attendees? What about
audio-visual facilities?
9.     What is the approximate room rate (single and double
occupancy)? Is breakfast included? [Often all the attendees of ICMI
stay at the same hotel. If this is your case, the conference chair
should find a hotel that allows accommodation for the expected number
of people. Booking rooms and meals in the same hotel as the conference
rooms often helps reducing the overall costs.]
10.  Catering, including breaks, receptions, banquet and
entertainment. We encourage organizers to provide coffee breaks and
lunches in order to promote community building and discussion.
11.  Which support can your department give for the organization of
the conference (e.g., free secretarial assistance, facilities for
on-line payment?
12.  Which support can your department give during the conference
(e.g., free secretarial assistance, PCs / Macs at the conference
site)?
13.  What are your plans for sponsorship? To which associations /
companies / institutions do you plan to apply for financial
assistance? What do you realistically expect to receive from them?
What are your plans concerning student travel stipend program [A
minimum of $5,000 should be reserved from each year's conference
budget to support student travel from each of the three major
geographic regions (Americas, Europe-Africa, Asia-Pacific), or $15,000
total. For example, if a grant for $15,000 is obtained from NSF to
support U.S. student travel but there is no external funding for
students from other continents, then an additional $10,000 of you
budget should be set aside for students from the other two continents]
14.  What actions will you take to make the conference cheaper for
students? (e.g., seek financial support from other organizations,
provide cheaper rooms)? What reduction do you realistically expect?
15.  Provide the names of people who are foreseen or confirmed for the
major Conference Committees: General Chairs, Program Chairs,
Sponsorship Chair; volunteer labor, registration handling. One of the
General Chairs and one of the Program Chairs should be identified as
the lead, who will be the main point of contact for the ICMI steering
committee. Describe any experience the team has had in organizing
previous conferences and the number of participants at those
conferences.
16.  Local Multimodal Interaction community
17.  How do you propose to run the paper reviewing process? Do you see
any possible improvements?
18.  How will you organize the content of the conference to ensure a
high-quality and energetic exchange of information that includes
timely topics and stimulating external speakers? Please be specific in
your suggestions for how you would organize the main program and
workshops/tutorials
19.  Any other aspects that you may find relevant for the evaluation
of your proposal

Preparing a budget proposal
Based on estimates from previous attendance, one might expect 250
participants to ICMI. Please, provide three budgets, one for 150
participants, a second for 200 participants and the last one for 250,
considering reasonable physical/virtual attendance division. Costs
that will have to be covered include:
·       Rental of conference space and meeting rooms
·       AV equipment
·       Coffee breaks and possibly lunch
·       Registration desk/technical helpers (e.g., student volunteers)
·       Tutorials
·       Producing and printing the proceedings (in 2022, this was
around 9K-10K euros for main + adjunct proceedings)
·       10% ACM fee
·       15% contingency fund
·       Conference poster and advertising
·       Social banquet
·       Welcome reception
·       Lunch for ICMI steering board meeting

See https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/conference-planning/section-1-establishing-an-acm-event
for more information about preparing a budget for ACM conferences.

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4-9CNRS Cristal Medal

We are please to advertise that our colleague from LPL, Thierry Legou, was awarded of a CNRS Cristal Medal :

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/talents/cnrs?medal=42
https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/thierry-legou

The crystal medal is handed out to engineers, technicians, and administrative staff whose creativity, expertise, and sense of innovation have contributed, alongside researchers, to the advancement of knowledge and the excellence of French research.

Best regards,

Nathalie Henrich Bernardoni

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4-10Cf Participation on a Survey on role of phonetics in different disciplines

Dear colleagues

 

We are conducting a research study on the role of phonetics in different disciplines and would greatly appreciate your participation in a short survey.

 

Your unique perspective is crucial in understanding how phonetics is perceived and utilized across different fields of study. By taking just a few minutes to complete the survey, you will contribute to a broader understanding of the importance and applications of phonetics in scientific research.

 

Susanne Fuchs

 

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4-11Submit a proposal for this four-day 2025 MLSP Workshop
 

 

 

The IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP TC) is soliciting proposals from researchers interested in organizing the 2025 MLSP Workshop! The MLSP Workshop is a four-day workshop and will include tutorials on the first day.

 

Proposing teams are asked to create a proposal that follows the following outline:

  1. Location and Venue: Give an idea of the venue size and facilities.
  2. Conference Dates: Ensure no conflicts with major holidays or other SPS conferences and workshops - the workshop is typically held during the period of mid-September to mid-October.
  3. Organizing Committee Members: Consider the following when building your organizing committee:
    1. active SPS members
    2. diversity in geographical, industry & academia, age, & gender
    3. conference and/or workshop experience
    4. event management experience. See examples here.
  4. Technical Program: Consider the overall structure and conference model - innovative initiatives; student and young professional initiatives; and industry-participation/support initiatives.
  5. Budget including registration fees.
  6. Hotels in the area that cater to different attendee budget levels.
  7. Travel and transportation between the nearest airport and the conference venue.
  8. Any other relevant information about the venue or the organization.

The intention letter deadline is 1 August 2023, and the deadline to submit proposals is 15 August 2023.

Please submit your proposal to the MLSP TC Chair, Wenwu Wang (W.Wang@surrey.ac.uk) and the MLSP Workshop Subcommittee Chair, Murat Akcakaya (akcakaya@pitt.edu) via email - if you have any questions or need additional details, please let them know!

 

Proposals will be reviewed by the MLSP TC, and the selection results will be announced in October.

 

IEEE Signal Processing Society

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4-12SIG Prosody program.

Some conference and workshop news:

 

 

 

 

 

Nigel Ward,  ISCA Speech Prosody Special Interest Group Chair

Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

nigel@utep.edu    https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/   

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4-13Cf Proposals of ICASSP 2028
 

 

 

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is accepting proposals for the 2028 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) and invites SPS members to submit a proposal.

 

ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on data science, signal processing and its applications. The series is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and has been held annually since 1976. The conference features world -class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, lecture and poster sessions, and over 3,000 attendees. ICASSP is a cooperative effort of all of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees and Special Interest Groups. 

To submit a proposal, please complete and submit the following material by 31 October 2023:

  1. SPS Conference Proposal Pre-Screening Form
  2. SPS Conference Proposal Pre-Screening Budget Summary
  3. Organizing Committee List


Proposal Pre-screening Forms will be assessed by the SPS Conferences Board Executive Subcommittee to determine the final proposing teams.

Finalists will be invited to prepare full proposals, and asked to present them at the SPS Conferences Board meeting held at ICASSP 2024 from 14-19 April in Seoul, South Korea.

 

For additional inquiries regarding ICASSP 2028 proposal submission, please email the Signal Processing Society at sps-conf-proposals@ieee.org.

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4-14Distribution Agreement between ELDA and Lexicala for Multilingual Lexical Data Dissemination

Press Release – immediate
Paris, France and Tel Aviv, Israel, October 12, 2023

 

Distribution Agreement between ELDA and Lexicala for Multilingual Lexical Data Dissemination

ELDA and Lexicala by K Dictionaries are delighted to announce their new cooperation on distributing Language Resources for 50 languages.

ELDA is now making available Lexicala’s high-quality lexical data designed to enhance language learning, and support Machine Translation and diverse Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence applications.

The Lexicala resources consist of different groups of datasets. Full descriptions can be found in the ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources under the following links:

  1. GLOBAL Multilingual Lexical Data: a network of lexicographic cores for major world languages, comprising monolingual cores, bilingual pairs, and multilingual combinations for 25 languages.
  2. MULTIGLOSS Multilingual Glossaries: a series of innovative word-to-sense glossaries for over 30 languages into 45 more languages.
  3. Morphological lexicons: extensive morphological lists linking inflected forms to main lemmas for 15 languages.
  4. Parallel Corpora & Domains: parallel corpora for nearly 400 language pairs and numerous multilingual combinations, featuring general language and vertical domain vocabularies.
  5. Biographical & Geographical Names:
  • English BIO Biographical Names: 4,200 dictionary entries regarding prominent persons worldwide.
  • English GEO Geographical Names: 7,200 dictionary entries regarding major locations worldwide.
  • GEOLINGUAL Tables: multilingual tables of over 200 countries and geographical names – including their adjectives, persons, and main languages – in 16 languages.
  • Audio Pronunciation & Phonetic Transcription: human voice recordings of single-word lemmas and multiword expressions, as well as IPA and alternative scripts for 21 languages.

 

 For more information, please write to contact@elda.org.

 About Lexicala

Lexicala by K Dictionaries offers multi-layer lexical data for and across 50 languages, relying on 30-year experience in pedagogical and multilingual lexicography worldwide. Lexicala converges manual content creation and curation with automated data processes and helps to enhance machine translation and other natural language processing applications, as well as language learning and model training.

To find out more about Lexicala, please visit: https://lexicala.com/

 

About ELDA

The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) identifies, collects, markets, and distributes language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in the field of Human Language Technologies (HLT). ELDA has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications. ELDA is part of major French, European and international projects in the field of HLT.

To find out more about ELDA, please visit: http://www.elda.org/

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4-15Cf bids for the 2025 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025)

Following the success of the bi-annual ASRU workshop over the past decade, the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) invites proposals to host the 2025 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2025). Past ASRU workshops have fostered a collegiate atmosphere through a thoughtful selection of venues, thus offering a unique opportunity for researchers to interact and learn. 

 

The proposal should include the information outlined below. 

  • Workshop location and practicalities
    • Geographical location
    • Workshop venue (facilities, meeting rooms, network access during the workshop, audio/visual equipment)
    • Accommodation -- hotel availability and pricing
    • Meals
    • Transportation options -- major airports, logistics, visas 
      Climate
    • Information on the policy regarding online presentation and participation
  • Approximate workshop dates
    • Previous workshops have been held in the month of December
  • Approximate total cost for participants to attend, including accommodation, meals, and registration fees.
  • Estimated budget for 300-400+ participants and expected sponsorships, including venue costs, administration, banquet, coffee breaks, publication costs, etc.
  • Committee Personnel
    • General chair(s)
    • Technical chair(s)
    • Local arrangements chair(s)
    • Other committee members and roles
  • Tentative program
    • Dates for paper submission, notification of acceptance, proposals for
      demonstrations, early registration
    • Reception, talks, posters, demo session, banquet, etc.
    • Substantial program additions/changes vs. past instances of ASRU


The deadline for proposals is June 14, 2024.


Please send proposals and questions to the Workshop Sub-Committee:

Zhijian Ou 

Abdelrahman Mohamed 

Seokhwan Kim 

Hagai Aronowitz 

Sibel Oyman 

Haitao Mi 

 

In July 2024, the IEEE SLTC will review proposals, and selection results are expected by August 15, 2024. 

 

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, we encourage you to contact the IEEE SLTC Workshops Sub-Committee in advance of submitting a proposal. They can provide an example of a past successful proposal and example budget. Further, proposers who make contact before April 1, 2024 may be invited to briefly present in-person or virtually at the annual IEEE SLTC meeting at ICASSP 2024 (https://2024.ieeeicassp.org/) to obtain feedback from the SLTC. Presentations should be reasonably specific but need not be complete. Note that the SLTC does not have funding available for travel to ICASSP. 

 

The organizers of the ASRU workshop do not have to be SLTC members, and we encourage submissions from all potential organizers. IEEE SLTC members are welcome to participate in proposals, and the organizing committees of past ASRU events have included many SLTC members. To maintain fairness of selection, SLTC members who are affiliated with any ASRU 2025 proposals will not participate in the proposal selection vote. Further, the members of the Workshops Sub-Committee may not be affiliated with any ASRU 2025 proposals. Please feel free to distribute this call for proposals far and wide, and invite members of the speech and language community at large to submit a proposal to organize the next ASRU workshop.

 

For more information on the most recent workshops, please see:

http://www.asru2023.org/ for information about ASRU 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan

And feel free to contact the Workshops Sub-committee with questions.

 

Zhijian Ou, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Seokhwan Kim, Hagai Aronowitz, Sibel Oyman, Haitao Mi

IEEE SLTC Workshops Sub-committee

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4-16Cf Bids for ICMR 2026
Dear Multimedia Community Members,

The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to organize the 16th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR2026 (sponsored by the ACM SIGMM). ACM ICMR is the premier scientific conference for multimedia retrieval.  Its mission is to provide a forum to discuss,  promote and advance the state-of-the-arts in multimedia retrieval by bringing together researchers and practitioners in its related field. It is thus essential to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality research papers and for sharing practitioner experience.  The list of previous ICMRs is at http://www.acmicmr.org/. We expect ICMR2026 to be held in Europe.

Parties interested in hosting ICMR2026 are invited to submit  their proposals (20 pages or less) by Sunday, 31 March 2024 by email with the subject line: ICMR2026 to the steering committee chair.  The details of CFP are at:
 
Thank you.

Best,

Nicu Sebe
ACM ICMR Steering Committee Chair
niculae.sebe@unitn.it
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4-17Invitation to the DISPLACE challenge: DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments
Inviting participants to register and advance the field of diarization  in the special session at Interspeech 2024 on DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments [DISPLACE] Challenge.  

 

The Second DISPLACE challenge entails a first of kind task to perform speaker and language diarization as well as speech recognition on a demanding dataset, where the data contains multi-speaker social conversations in multilingual code-mixed speech. In such cases, we find that current speech processing systems  are not equipped to perform meaningfully. The first DISPLACE challenge in 2023 illustrated this abundantly -   https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.12564.pdf


With this motivation, the Second DISPLACE challenge attempts to advance this further by benchmarking and improving Speaker Diarization (SD) in multilingual settings and Language Diarization (LD) in multi-speaker settings, using the same underlying dataset. Further, the track on speech recognition attempts to improve speech transcription in code-mixed multi-speaker speech.  Registrations are open for this challenge which will contain two tracks - a) Speaker diarization track , b) Language diarization track and c) ASR task. 

 

A baseline system and an open leaderboard is available to the participants. The DISPLACE challenge is split into two phases, where the first phase is linked to the Interspeech paper submission deadline, while the second phase aligns with the camera ready submission deadline. For more details, dates and to register, kindly visit the DISPLACE challenge website: https://displace2024.github.io

 

We look forward to your team challenging to 'displace' the state-of-the-art in speaker, language diarization systems and/or ASR systems. 

 

Thank you and Namaste,

The DISPLACE team 

 

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4-18Applications to the Adam Kilgarriff Prize.

We invite applications for the Adam Kilgarriff Prize

Full information for potential applicants can be found here : https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/category/news/

The deadline for applications is 30th September 2024. A winner will be announced on or before 31st December 2024, and the Prize will be awarded at the eLex Conference of 2025

This is the fifth iteration of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize, which has so far had four excellent winners.

We look forward to receiving your applications! 

Michael Rundell, Chair of Trustees, Adam Kilgarriff Prize

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4-19Call for membership: ManyLanguages
We are excited to launch ManyLanguages, a globally distributed network of laboratories that helps coordinate Big Team Science studies on human language. 

Our mission is to facilitate the connection between language science researchers to diversify the languages, participants, researchers, and projects represented in the language sciences. We will facilitate the collection of evidence across the language sciences by supporting a distributed laboratory network that is ongoing, diverse, and inclusive. We embrace open science principles by sharing collected data, materials, translations, and other research outputs from the network. We strive to engage research across a broad spectrum of language sciences creating an inclusive and diverse environment for ideas, investigation, and participation.

Join us as a member and learn more about our plans to help advance the language sciences. Currently, we are accepting proposals for big team science projects that replicate experimental linguistic phenomena across many languages. Selected projects will be supported by our team and external experts throughout the entire project.

Find more information here: https://many-languages.com 
Join us as a member here: https://many-languages.com/join.html 

Get in touch with us: many-languages@googlegroups.com 

And follow us on social media for updates: 

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4-20Symposium in honor of Lise Crevier-Buchman, @ Foch Hospital, Suresnes, France

Dear colleagues, 

 

The Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP) at Sorbonne Nouvelle University and the ENT Department at Hôpital Foch are delighted to announce a symposium in honor of Lise Crevier-Buchman, entitled 'Le larynx dans tous ses états : de la clinique à la phonétique' (https://bit.ly/lpplarynx).


This full-day event is scheduled to occur on May 24, 2024, in the vicinity of Paris at the Foch Hospital (40, rue Worth, 72073 Suresnes, Suresnes-Mont Valérien station). The symposium will be conducted in person; however, a link will be provided for those interested in participating online.


These occasions will be devoted to commemorating Lise Crevier-Buchman's trajectory, impact and numerous achievements within the Parole community and clinical environments in which she works. The agenda will encompass multiple presentations delivered by national and international researchers and clinicians focusing on her primary areas of research themes, alongisde social events. Further information regarding thepresentations will be disclosed at a later date.


Registration for this event is free but mandatory prior to March 31, 2024 via this form. (alternative link: https://framaforms.org/inscription-au-colloque-en-lhonneur-de-lise-crevier-buchman-1707742980 )

We look forward to welcoming you to this day of exchange and celebration. 

 

Sincerely yours, on behalf of the organizing committee (Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie and Hôpital Foch),


Didier Demolin, Angélique Amelot, Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Aude Julien-Lafferrière, Stéphane Hans, Nicolas Audibert, Alexis Dehais Underdown, Amelia Pettirossi, Amélie Elmerich, Andrés Lara, Angelina bourbon, Clara Ponchard

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4-21Call for nominations for awards @ICMI 2024, Costa Rica.

The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the
premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on
multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and
system development. We are requesting nominations for two awards which
will be presented during ICMI 2024 (4-8 Nov 2024, Costa Rica).

- Sustained Accomplishment Award: This award will be given to a senior
scientist who has made innovative, long-lasting, and influential
contributions to the field of multimodal interaction, interfaces, and
systems. The nominee will have demonstrated vision in shaping the
field, had a sustained record of high-impact research, pioneered one
or more research directions, and substantially influenced the work of
others.
- Community Service Award: This award will be given to a scientist who
has made invaluable social-organizational contributions that have
collectively had a major impact on improving the ICMI community and
its annual events. Emphasis will be placed on selecting an individual
who has made major contributions over a sustained period of five years
or longer, including ones that have diversified and built the
community, expanded opportunities for student training and
participation, and similarly influential contributions.

Nomination Process: The deadline for Nominations in both categories is
*March 30, 2024*. The main requirement is a nomination statement, with a
maximum length of one page (pdf), describing the main achievements and
impact of the nominee. A pointer to the personal webpage and CV of the
nominees can also be submitted additionally, as well as a list of
further endorsers of the nomination. Nominations may be received from
any
member of the multimodal interaction research community. Nominations
should be emailed to the ICMI Steering Board Chair (Albert Ali Salah,
a.a.salah@uu.nl). Please expect a confirmation of receipt.

Selection Process: The 2024 Awards Committee will review nominations
for each award category, determine whether it is appropriate to give
an award for each of the categories, and make a final decision. The
Committee might also determine to give more than one award in a given
category. Conflict of interest procedures prohibit that any members of
the Awards Committee be considered for an award while serving on the
committee, or that they participate in evaluating any candidate with
whom they have had significant professional collaborations or from
whom they have received financial remuneration.
The Sustained Accomplishment Awardee is invited to ICMI'24 to give a
keynote talk.

Please also see 'Policies and Procedures for Honors Conferred by ACM'
(https://awards.acm.org/policies-and-procedures)

Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions.

Best,
Albert

Past Awardees:
Sustained Accomplishment Award: Louis-Philippe Morency (2023), Daniel
Gatica-Perez (2022), Elizabeth André (2021), Shrikanth Narayanan
(2020), Alex Waibel (2019), James Crowley (2018), Phil Cohen (2017),
Wolfgang Wahlster (2016), Eric Horvitz (2015), Sharon Oviatt (2014)

Community Service Award: Carlos Busso (2023), Yukiko Nakano (2022),
Louis-Philippe Morency (2021), Fabio Pianesi (2020), Dan Bohus (2019),
Daniel Gatica-Perez (2017), Kenji Mase (2015), Matthew Turk (2014)

--
Albert Ali Salah
Prof. Social and Affective Computing,
Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University,
www.cs.uu.nl
Personal: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~salah006/

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