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ISCApad #316 |
| Thursday, October 10, 2024 by Chris Wellekens |
4 Academic and Industry Notes
| 4-1 | New Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research covering all areas of language science,Univ. of Paris, France The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a newly-formed Paris-area graduate program covering all areas of language science. It offers a comprehensive Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics consortium. Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required. For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html New funding opportunity: https://u-paris.fr/en/call-for-applications-international-students-miem-scholarship-program/ Application deadline : February 1st 2021 (program starting September 1st 2021) PGSL is funded by Smarts-UP (Student-centered iMproved, Active Research-based Training Strategy at Université de Paris) through the ANR SFRI grant « Grandes universités de recherche » (PIA3) 2020-2029.
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| 4-2 | Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil
Are you interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, or machine learning? Please consider applying to the University of Cambridge?s Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence (MLMI) MPhil programme.
The MLMI MPhil is an elite 11 month programme with a small cohort of about 30 students each year. Due to its small size there is the opportunity to carry out PhD-like research projects on the course (see here for previous students? dissertations), as well having a number of bespoke taught modules with lots of opportunities to interact with the faculty and other members of the course (see here for a list of modules and here for a list of the teaching staff).
Previous members of the MPhil have gone on to study for PhDs in top research groups (e.g. at Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, and MIT), and have gone into top industry positions (e.g. Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, Open AI, and AstraZeneca).
This year our programme is restructuring around four overlapping tracks: speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. You apply to one of these tracks and this choice shapes your module options and the research project that you will take on. We are especially interested in candidates who are interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, and human-computer interaction as we have significant capacity to expand in these areas this year.
Details about the application process can be found on our website. The application deadline is 2nd December 2021.
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| 4-3 | Serveur Discord pour jeunes chercheurs. Nous souhaitons vous faire part aujourd'hui de la création d'un serveur Discord pour les jeunes chercheurs en parole: https://discord.gg/kSgaZp7yg9
Cet espace de discussion a pour but de rassembler la communauté des jeunes chercheurs en parole en France (étudiants en master, doctorants, post-doctorants...).
Vous pourrez notamment y partager vos derniers papiers publiés, vos questions ou appels à l'aide pour l'utilisation d'un logiciel (ou autre), ou simplement rentrer en contact avec des personnes qui travaillent dans votre domaine ou des domaines liés au votre. Rien n'est fixe, le serveur est voué à évoluer au cours de son utilisation! Il peut aussi nous servir à nous retrouver lors d'une conférence ou autre. En tant que jeunes chercheurs avec un petit réseau, on connaît tous ce sentiment peu confortable d'être seul(e) à une conférence, malgré les 1500 personnes autour de nous. Alors plutôt que de stresser chacun dans notre coin, autant nous retrouver et partager tout ça ensemble en nous donnant rendez-vous grâce au serveur de discussion!
La création de ce serveur Discord fait suite à l'appel du comité d'organisation des JEP pour l'organisation d'un événement à destination des jeunes chercheurs en parole lors des Journées d'Etudes en Parole qui auront lieu à Noirmoutier du 13 au 17 juin 2022 (https://jep2022.univ-nantes.fr/). Nous l'avons d'abord créé pour discuter entre jeunes chercheurs sur ce que l'on pourrait imaginer comme événement, puis nous avons pensé qu'il serait intéressant de l'ouvrir à tous pour recueillir vos besoins/envies et voir ce qui pourrait intéresser un maximum de personnes. Il est donc également destiné à essayer de mieux cerner les besoins de formation de chacun. Rassurez-vous, il est partagé en deux: une catégorie pour tous, et une catégorie pour celles et ceux intéressés par l'organisation de journées d'études, ainsi, pas de spam inutile. Si vous souhaitez rejoindre cette deuxième catégorie, il faudra me le notifier dans le canal #général ou me le demander par message privé*.
Rendez-vous sur le serveur pour faire vivre notre communauté de jeunes chercheurs!
Merci aux organisateurs des JEP et à l'AFCP pour leur soutien.
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| 4-4 | Le projet European Language Equality Le projet European Language Equality vise à établir un agenda stratégique concernant la
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| 4-5 | Distribution Agreement between ELDA and Lexicala for Multilingual Lexical Data Dissemination Press Release – immediate
Distribution Agreement between ELDA and Lexicala for Multilingual Lexical Data Dissemination ELDA and Lexicala by K Dictionaries are delighted to announce their new cooperation on distributing Language Resources for 50 languages. ELDA is now making available Lexicala’s high-quality lexical data designed to enhance language learning, and support Machine Translation and diverse Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence applications.
For more information, please write to contact@elda.org. About Lexicala Lexicala by K Dictionaries offers multi-layer lexical data for and across 50 languages, relying on 30-year experience in pedagogical and multilingual lexicography worldwide. Lexicala converges manual content creation and curation with automated data processes and helps to enhance machine translation and other natural language processing applications, as well as language learning and model training. To find out more about Lexicala, please visit: https://lexicala.com/
About ELDA The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) identifies, collects, markets, and distributes language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in the field of Human Language Technologies (HLT). ELDA has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications. ELDA is part of major French, European and international projects in the field of HLT. To find out more about ELDA, please visit: http://www.elda.org/
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| 4-6 | Call 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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| 4-7 | The Speech Prosody Conference program 2024
The speech synthesis phoneticians need is both realistic and controllable: A survey and a roadmap towards modern synthesis tools for phonetics. ABSTRACT Outline: 1. I discuss briefly the history of advancements in speech synthesis starting in the formant synthesis era and explain where the improvements came from. 2. I show experiments that I have done that prove modern synthesis is processed not differently than natural speech by humans in a lexical decision task as evidence that the realism (“naturalness”) goal has been largely achieved. 3. I explain how realism came at the expense of controllability. I show how controllability is an indispensable feature for speech synthesis to be adopted in phonetic experimentation. I survey the current state of research on controllability in speech engineering - concentrating on prosodic and formant control. 4. I propose how we can fix this by explaining the work I have done with colleagues on several systems that feature both realism and control. 5. I sketch a roadmap to improve synthesis tools for phonetics - by placing focus on benchmarking systems according to scientific criteria.
Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso nigel@utep.edu https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/
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| 4-8 | CfProposals for the organization of the 2029 ICASSP To submit proposals:
https://signalprocessingsociety.org/sites/default/files/uploads/conferences_events/docs/ICASSP_Proposal_Guidelines.pdf?utm_campaign=ICA
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| 4-9 | Cf Task proposals at CHiME-9 Challenge Call for task proposals!
Come and share your ideas about distant microphone speech processing with us!
Task proposals deadline October 25. CHiME is a challenge series whose purpose is to produce scientific advances in the field of distant microphone speech processing. Since CHiME-7, each edition of the CHiME Challenge features independent tasks organised by teams who work within a schedule defined by the CHiME Steering Group. Teams are responsible for managing the tasks, i.e., providing data and instructions, scoring submissions and results, etc. Once the proposal is conditionally accepted, the CHiME Steering Group works to support teams in the development of their task by helping with the design, schedule, webpage/platform and organise a CHiME workshop where the tasks will be presented via regular consultations.
For more information:
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| 4-10 | CfProposals of Conferences and Workshops sponsored by Signal Processing Society (SPS)
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| 4-11 | Bids for Interspeech 2028 Bids for Interspeech 2028 ISCA now invites bids for hosting Interspeech 2028. Interspeech conferences include papers on all the scientific and technological aspects of Speech. More than 1,500 participants from all over the world attend the conference annually to present their work in oral and poster sessions. Several satellite workshops and a Scientific and Industrial Exhibition highly enrich the conference content. Bids must be submitted by members of the scientific community; bids coming directly from PCOs will not be considered. However, we strongly recommend that organizers collaborate with a PCO (including during the preparation of the bid, if you so desire). Interspeech conferences may be held in any country, although they generally should not occur on the same continent in two consecutive years. After this year’s Interspeech conference in Kos, the next conferences will be held in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) in 2025, Sydney (Australia) in 2026, and São Paolo (Brazil) in 2027. In order to prepare the bid, please contact the ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org well in advance of the deadline in order to prepare a high-quality bid. Each bid needs to include: - the bidding and budget template - a detailed description of the bid - other material which might be necessary for evaluating the bid Guidelines on how to prepare an Interspeech conference can be found here. Deadline for bid submission: November 1, 2024
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