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Sunday, November 10, 2024 by Chris Wellekens

3 Events
3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2025-08-17) Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

INTERSPEECH 2025
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 17-22 August 2025
Chairs: Odette Scharenborg, Khiet Truong and Catha Oertel
26th INTERSPEECH event

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3-1-2(2026) Interspeech 2026, Sydney, Australia

The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is honoured to have been selected to host INTERSPEECH 2026. Our theme of Diversity & Equity ? Speaking Together strongly reflects Sydney and our broader region. Sydney is Oceania?s largest city and is also its most linguistically diverse: more than 300 different languages are spoken and 40% of Sydneysiders speak a language other than English at home. Consistent with the goals of ISCA ?to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology?, INTERSPEECH Sydney will highlight the diversity of research in our field with a firm focus on equity and inclusivity. Recognizing the importance of multi-dimensional approaches to speech, INTERSPEECH 2026 will foster greater interdisciplinarity to better inform current and future work on speech science and technology. We look forward to welcoming all to Sydney!


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3-1-3(2026) Speech Prosody 2026 in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

 

I'm pleased to announce that Speech Prosody 2026 will be in Philadelphia, organized by Jianjing Kuang and Mark Liberman.  (There were 80 votes for Shanghai, 128 for Philadelphia, and 15 had no preference.)

 

I’m also pleased to announce the resumption of our lecture series with a talk by Simon Roessig:

 

Syntagmatic prominence relations in prosodic focus marking

 

Lecturer: Simon Roessig (University of York, UK)

Host: Plinio A. Barbosa (Unicamp, Brazil)

 

Sept 24th at 1 pm (Brasilia time = UTC - 3)


YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUE9pRbq9w0

 

Abstract: This talk is about the role of prenuclear prominences and their relation to nuclear accents in German and English. The production results (German) that I will present show that the realization of the prenuclear domain depends on whether it is focal or prefocal. The prenuclear noun is characterized by larger F0 excursions, higher F0 maxima, and longer durations when it is in broad focus than when it precedes a narrow focus. Furthermore, the realization of the prenuclear domain depends on the following focus type: The prenuclear noun is produced with smaller F0 excursions, lower F0 maxima and shorter durations before a corrective focus than before a non-corrective narrow focus. The findings suggest that the phonetic manifestation of information structure is distributed over larger prosodic domains with an inverse relationship in the syntagmatic dimension. In addition, the study contributes further evidence that continuous phonetic detail is used to encode information structural categories. An important question that arises from the production data is whether this phonetic detail can be used by listeners in perception. I will present first results from a series of perception experiments (German and English) to investigate this question.

 

Plan: 1. I will begin by outlining what we know about focus prosody in the nuclear and prenuclear domains. 2. I will then present findings from a production study that examines the prosody of the prenuclear domain in different types of focus. 3. These results show that there are interesting strength relations between prenuclear and nuclear prosody in the encoding of focus types. 4. I will present preliminary findings from perception experiments investigating the question whether listeners use prenuclear prominence modulations in identifying focus types. 5. Finally, I will conclude with a discussion of the results and future directions.

 

 

Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair

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

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3-1-4(2027) Interspeech 2027, São Paulo, Brazil

The ISCA Board has decided to award the organisation of Interspeech 2027 to São Paulo, Brazil. We are very excited to introduce researchers from all over the world to the South American continent for the first time.

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3-1-5Invitation to review bids for Speech Prosody 2026

Dear member of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group.

We have received two excellent bids to host Speech Prosody 2026, from Shanghai and from Philadelphia.  Please review the bids at sprosig.org, and then vote your preference via the link below. If you have questions you can reach me at  nigelward@acm.org .

Nigel Ward, for the SProSIG Officers

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3-1-6ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS

 

Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers:  see

 

https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars

ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS

A seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However,  presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.

ISCA has set up a pool of speakers prepared to give on-line talks. In this way we can enhance the experience of students working in our field, often in difficult conditions. To find details of the speakers,

  • visit isca-speech.org
  • Click Distinguished Lecturers in the left panel
  • Online Seminars then appears beneath Distinguished Lecturers: click that.

Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials.

If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org

If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org


PS. The online seminar scheme  is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:

 

Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.



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3-1-7Speech Prosody courses

Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

We would like to draw your attention to three upcoming short courses from the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences:

- Prosody & Rhythm: applications to teaching rhythm,
  Donna Erickson (Haskins), March 16, 19, 23 and 26

- Prosody, variation and contact,
  Barbara Gili Fivela (University of Salento, Italy), April 19, 21, 23, 26 and 28

- Rhythmic analysis of languages: main challenges,
  Marisa Cruz (University of Lisbon), June 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10

For details:
  http://www.letras.ufmg.br/padrao_cms/index.php?web=lbass&lang=2&page=3670&menu=&tipo=1
 
 
 
Plinio Barbosa and Nigel Ward

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3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-2-1(2025-02-24) Language technologies for All (LT4All 2.0), UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France

- LT4All 2.0 - Advancing Humanism through Language Technologies

24-26 February 2025

 

❖ Language Technologies (LT), nurtured in research laboratories for half a century, are now spreading widely across numerous applications. However, the situation varies significantly among the more than 7,500 languages spoken worldwide.

❖ The first LT4All (LT4All 1.0) conference in 2019 highlighted the critical role of multilingualism in cutting-edge technology. This spurred significant initiatives by various research institutions and major technological companies toward developing language technologies for a wider range of languages.

❖ Despite significant progress, many communities are still being left behind.

The critical issue lies not just in creating language technologies for numerous languages but also in collaborating with communities to develop the solutions they need

Organized within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032) and to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of International Mother Language Day 2025, the second edition of LT4All (LT4All 2.0) aims to further the agenda of language technologies with a focus on community empowerment. The goal is to harness technology not only to advance itself but also to support and enhance individuals' capabilities.

The conference is organized by the international Language Resources Association (ELRA) and its Special Interest Group on Under-resourced languages (SIGUL), a joint SIG of ELRA and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), in partnership with UNESCO.

Further details can be found at https: https://www.lt4all2025.eu/ Contact: lt4all2025-contact@ml.naist.ac.jp

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3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2024-11-11) IberSPEECH'2024 ALBAYZÍN, Aveiro, Portugal

We are glad to announce that the registration to the IberSPEECH'2024 ALBAYZÍN evaluations is open. This year, the ALBAYZÍN evaluations focus on evaluating five different speech technologies:

  1. Speech to Text Challenge (S2TC), organized by RTVE and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of automatically transcribe different types of TV shows. This year will be an optional subset with bilingual content of Spanish and any of the co-official languages (Catalan, Valencian, Galician and Basque).
  2. Speaker Diarization and Identity Assignment (SDIAC), organized by RTVE and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of segmenting broadcast audio documents according to different speakers, linking those segments which originate from the same speaker and, optionally, identify a closed set of speakers. 
  3. Search on Speech Challenge (SoSC), organized by Universidad San Pablo-CEU and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, consists of finding a list of terms/queries in Spanish audio archives and is divided into two different tasks: Spoken Term Detection (STD) and Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection (QbE-STD). Data will cover conference/workshop domain, TV shows and a novel domain that consists of a corpus of interviews with people from rural areas covering different dialectal varieties in Spain.
  4. Bilingual Basque-Spanish Speech to Text Challenge (BBS-S2TC), organized by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the proposed task consists of automatically transcribing short segments of speech (ranging from 3 to 10 seconds) extracted from Basque Parliament sessions. Segments may be monolingual (Basque or Spanish) or bilingual (Basque and Spanish, including a code switching event).
  5. Wake-Up Word Detection Challenge (WUWDC), organized by Telefónica Innovación Digital, this challenge aims to assess the performance of State-of-The-Art Keyword Spotting systems in addressing various industrial needs such as accuracy, inference delay, computational load, and energy efficiency.

There are two ways to participate in the Albayzín evaluations according with the submission type:

  • The first way relies on editing the system description paper following the IberSpeech 2024 paper submission template so that the submitted paper (describing the system/s and the results) will appear in the IberSpeech 2024 proceedings. Moreover, participants will also have the chance to submit an extended version of this paper to a journal. This submission way implies sending one or more representatives to the evaluation workshop, to be held in Aveiro, Portugal, as part of IberSpeech 2024 (November 2024).
  • The second way demands a free-format document in which participants describe the submitted system/s along with the results, but this will not appear in the IberSpeech 2024 proceedings. In this case, participants are allowed to present on-line their system/s without physically attending the conference, or send a video to the evaluation organizers explaining their submitted system/s, which will be shown during the evaluation workshop.

More information about the different challenges, databases and online registration can be found at
https://iberspeech.tech/albayzin-evaluation-challenge

More information about IberSpeech 2024 at
https://iberspeech.tech/

The calendar for the Albayzín evaluations is:

    May 20th, 2024: Opening of registration for the evaluations
    June 3rd, 2024: Release of training and development data
    July 31st, 2024: Registration deadline for the evaluation
    September 2nd, 2024: Release of evaluation data
    October 18th, 2024: Deadline for the submission of system outputs
    October 31th, 2024: System results distributed to participants
    November 12th, 2024: Official results presented publicly and published
    November 12th, 2024: Iberspeech 2024 Albayzín Evaluations special session in Aveiro


For any additional information, please contact the organizers of the calls.

Thanks in advance for your time an interest in IBERSPEECH'2024 Conference and ALBAYZIN evaluations.

Best regards,
The ALBAYZIN 2024 Evaluations Organizing Committee

Eduardo Lleida Solano, lleida@unizar.es
ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Alfonso Ortega Giménez, ortega@unizar.es
ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Javier Tejedor Noguerales, javier.tejedornoguerales@ceu.es
BIOLAB, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain
Luis Javier Rodríguez Fuentes, luisjavier.rodriguez@ehu.es
GTTS, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Doroteo Torre Toledano, doroteo.torre@uam.es
AUDIAS, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

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IberSPEECH 2024. Aveiro, 11-13 November 2024
XIII Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the IX Iberian SLTech Workshop.
https://iberspeech.tech/

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3-3-2(2024-11-21) CfP 2nd Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop ( AAPS’24) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

2nd  Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop ( AAPS’24)

Nov 21-22, 2024

MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

We cordially invite you to contribute to AAPS’24, a Research Workshop on Automatic
Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech that will be held at the main campus of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Despite of the amount of research in the field, there is still room for developing new
knowledge, not only about the characteristics of the speech of people affected with
Parkinson’s disease, but also about its correlation with the extent of the disease. Automatic
systems to evaluate and assess the disease will take advantage of the new knowledge
generated in the field to make more accurate and robust systems. 
The aim of this workshop is to put together speech professionals with different backgrounds
to discuss and advance in the field of the automatic assessment of parkinsonian speech. The
long-term goal is to gain new knowledge about the influence of Parkinson’s disease on
speech, which could be used for diagnosis, assessment, and prognosis, especially in the early
stages.
Attenders will be asked to prepare a presentation about their current research to open
discussions about different aspects and to define the new trends in the field. The workshop is
expected to establish new synergies among the attenders, being an opportunity for future
collaborations.
Being conscious of this, the Speech Communication Group of the Massachussetts Institute
of Technology in collaboration with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid has the honor
and pleasure to invite the whole scientific community to the event to be held in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA, on November 21 st -22 nd , 2024 and hosted by the Massachussetts
Institute of Technology.


Feature Tracks and Topics
The workshop provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of current scientific
research on speech of parkinsonian patients. Topics or interest include, but are not limited
to: automatic detection of Parkinson's Disease from the voice and speech; automatic
stratification of Parkinson's Disease from the speech; automatic assessment & rating of
voice and speech quality for parkinsonian patients; prognosis for Parkinson's Disease from
the speech; new strategies for parameterization and modeling parkinsonian speech; corpora
of parkinsonian speech; speech enhancement for parkinsonian voices; multi-modal analysis
of parkinsonian speech; diagnosis and evaluation protocols; automatic evaluation of clinical
treatments from the speech 


Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers written in English. Papers will be submitted
via the AAPS2024 web site at https://www.byo.upm.es/AAPS24. The document style,
templates, and submission form can be downloaded from the web site. The tentative
contributions will be reviewed about their suitability. At least one author of each paper is
required to register. The workshop proceedings will be published in a book a book in
the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series with Springer. 


Schedule
Proposal due September 20 th , 2024
Notification of acceptance October 1 st , 2024
Final papers due October 25 th , 2024
Preliminary program October 30 th , 2024
Workshop November 21 st – 22 nd , 2024
Registration and Information
Registration will be handled via the AAPS2024 web site
(https://www.byo.upm.es/AAPS24). Please contact the organizers (gi.byo@upm.es)

Program Committee


Program Chairs
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel,
Massachussets Institute of
Technology (MIT)
Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente,
Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid (UPM)
Scientific Secretariat
Jeung-Yoon Choi, (MIT)
Julián D. Arias Londoño, (UPM)
Local Organizing Committee
Alejandro Guerrero-López, (UPM)
Carlos Hoyos-Barceló, (UPM)
Mateo Cámara Lago, (UPM)
Juan Camilo Puerta Acevedo, (UPM)
Scientific Committee
Alberto Abad
Ascensión Gallardo Antolín
Daryush Metha
Germán Castellanos-Domínguez
Jeung-Yoon Choi
Jiri Mekyska
Jorge A. Gómez-García
Jose L. Blanco Murillo
Juan I. Godino-Llorente
Julián David Arias Londoño
Laureano Moro-Velazquez
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Matías Zañartu
Nicholas Cummins
Philipp Aichinger
Saturnino Luz
Stefan Goetze
Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

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3-3-3(2024-11-25) Last call for Papers, 26th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2024), Belgrade, Serbia

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SPECOM-2024 – LAST 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 15, 2024 (23:59 AoE) ... Submission of full papers (EXTENDED!)

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, Scopus Q2) 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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3-3-4(2024-11-26) The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024), Dubai, UAE

The 2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2024)

 

Hybrid Event

https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php

26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE

Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section

FLLM 2024 CFP:

With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure.

The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to:

  •     Architectures and Systems
    • Transformers and Attention
    • Bidirectional Encoding
    • Autoregressive Models
    • Massive GPU Systems
    • Prompt Engineering
    • Multimodal LLMs
    • Fine-tuning
  •     Challenges
    • Hallucination
    • Cost of Creation and Training
    • Energy and Sustainability Issues
    • Integration
    • Safety and Trustworthiness
    • Interpretability
    • Fairness
    • Social Impact
  •     Future Directions
    • Generative AI
    • Explainability and EXplainable AI
    • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
    • Federated Learning for FLLM
    • Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs
    • Data Augmentation
  •     Natural Language Processing Applications
    • Generation
    • Summarization
    • Rewrite
    • Search
    • Question Answering
    • Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning
    • Clustering and Classification
  •     Applications
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Communication Systems
    • Security and Privacy
    • Image Processing and Computer Vision
    • Life Sciences
    • Financial Systems

Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings

Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5' x 11' two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FLLM Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and email address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers.

Important Dates:

  • Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2024
  • Camera-ready Submission: October 10, 2024

 

Contact:

Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: info@fllm-conference.org

 

 

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3-3-5(2024-12-05) Journée Accès interactif à l’information (JAII2024), Paris, France

JAII2024 - PARIS - 5 Décembre - Journée Accès interactif à l’information
https://jaii2024.sciencesconf.org

L’AFIA (Association française pour l'intelligence artificielle), au travers de son collège Technologies du Langage Humain (TLH), l'ARIA (Association de Recherche d’Information et Applications) et le GDR TAL (Groupement de Recherche - Traitement automatique des langues), avec le soutien du projet ANR-GUIDANCE, organisent la deuxième journée commune sur le thème de l’'Accès interactif à l’information' le 5 décembre 2024 à Paris (Jussieu).
L'objectif de cette journée est de réunir chercheurs-euses en Intelligence Artificielle, en Traitement Automatique des Langues et en Recherche d’Information travaillant sur les aspects interactifs de l’accès à l’information. Cette journée sera alors l’occasion de confronter les expériences de la recherche interactive dans différents domaines d’applications, tant du côté avancé de la recherche que du côté des applications industrielles.
La journée sera composée de deux présentations invitées, de sessions avec présentations courtes suivie de posters et démonstrations pour susciter les discussions, et se terminera par une table ronde.
Nous sollicitons des communications pouvant porter sur tous les thèmes de l'accès interactif à l'information, en particulier sur les thématiques autour des grands modèles de langage, incluant, de façon non limitative :
- Agents conversationnels (ex : chatbots, incarnation/avatars, génération de dialogues, génération augmenté par la recherche d‘information) ;
- Annotation et construction de corpus de grand taille ;
- Apprentissage actif ;
- Apprentissage par renforcement ;
- Construction de ressources (en particulier Francophones ou multilingues) ;
- Evaluation de systèmes interactifs et de grands modèles de langage ;
- Explicabilité (ex: du choix des informations proposées par un chatbot, transparence des systèmes) ;
- Influence de la qualité des ressources, biais, équité/impartialité ;
- Interaction multimodale et/ou géolocalisé ;
- Interface et interaction humain-machine-robot ;
- Modélisation de l’utilisateur ;
- Personnalisation (persona et côté utilisateurs) ;
- Recherche d’information immersive ;
- Résumé automatique abstractif et/ou interactif ;
- Retour de pertinence (relevance feedback) ;
- Système questions / réponses extractives et génératives ;
- Vérification/véracité du contenu ;
- Recherche d’information générative ;


Les propositions de communications orales sont attendues avant le *** 1 novembre 2024 *** sous la forme d'un résumé d’une à deux pages comprenant un titre, une liste d'auteur.e.s, une liste de mots-clés et un résumé du contenu de la présentation proposée en respectant la feuille de style (latex) ci-dessous :
https://www.overleaf.com/read/kfkfhffywfyj#b7b890
Les soumissions seront effectuées via scienceconf : https://jaii2024.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit
Dates importantes
Soumission des résumés : 01/11/2024
Notification aux auteurs : 22/11/2024
Journée : 05/12/2024

Programme prévisionnel de la journée :
08h30-09h00 - Accueil des participants
09h00-09h30 - Ouverture de la journée
09h30-10h30 - Présentation Invitée 1
10h30-11h00 - Pause café
11h00-13h00 - Session Orale
13h00-14h30 - Buffet et session Poster
14h30-15h30 - Présentation Invitée 2
15h30-16h00 - Pause café
16h00-17h30 - Table ronde : 'Accès interactif à l’information'
17h30 - Fin de la journée

Accès
Lieu : Salle de conférence 106 / Barre 44-45  du Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris
Accès : Métro jussieu, après l'entrée, à gauche de la tour centrale (entrée par la tour 44).


Cette journée est co-organisée par Benjamin Piwowarski, Florian Boudin et José G. Moreno.

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3-3-6(2025-03-25) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2025, Aussois (French Alps), France

FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 

Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2025

March 30th - April 4th 2025

Aussois (French Alps)

 

We are pleased to announce the 5th edition of ALPS - the Advanced NLP School to be held in the French Alps from March 30th to April 4th 2025. 

This school targets advanced research students in Natural Language Processing and related fields and brings together world leading experts and motivated students. The programme comprises lectures, poster presentations, practical lab sessions and nature activities - the venue is located near a National Park.

 

Important Dates

  • Oct 15th 2024: Application deadline

  • Nov 15th 2024: acceptance notification

  • Jan 15th 2025: registration deadline

  • March 30th 2025: Start of School

 

Confirmed speakers so far:

  • Kyunghyun Cho (New York University & Prescient Design)

  • Titouan Parcollet (Cambridge University & Samsung AI Center)

  • Barbara Plank (LMU Munich)

  • François Yvon (ISIR CNRS)

 

Website and online application: https://alps.imag.fr/

Questions: alps@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

 

The registration fees for the event encompass accommodation and full board at the conference venue, the Centre Paul Langevin. We will announce the fee amounts later, and they will vary depending on the participant's background: students, academia, and industry. Student fees will be set at or below €600, including twin room accommodation. We will have a limited amount of scholarships for the registration: if you are interested please mark this in the application form. The rates for academia and industry will be higher, as is customary, and will include accommodation in a single room.


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3-3-7(2025-04-06) Call for ICASSP 2025 Grand Challenge, Hyberabad, India
 

Call for ICASSP 2025 SP Grand Challenges! 

Submit your Proposal by 8 July 2024.

The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) invites proposals for the Signal Processing Grand Challenge Program (SPGC)! The 50th ICASSP will be held in Hyderabad, India, from 6-11 April 2025 

 

ICASSP 2025 will feature high technical quality, many novel scientific activities, excellent networking opportunities, enjoyable social events, and unforgettable touristic possibilities. This year's conference theme will be “Celebrating Signal Processing.”

 

Submit your SP Grand Challenge proposals by 8 July 2024 to be considered. Learn more about the submission requirements and guidelines below.

 

Signal Processing Grand Challenge Guidelines 

Proposal

Prospective SPGC organizers should include the following items in their proposal (please limit it to 4 pages):

  • One-page call for participation
  • Signal Processing Grand Challenge description
  • Description of the dataset provided for training and evaluation, evaluation criteria and methodology, guidelines for participants, and the full challenge schedule including the submission deadline
  • List of potential participants (indicate confirmed participants if applicable)

All SPGC proposals should be submitted online here.

 

Important Dates 

  • Proposal Submission Deadline: 8 July 2024
  • Proposal Acceptance Notification: 19 July 2024
  • 2-Page Papers Due (Invitation Only): 9 December 2024
  • 2-Page Paper Acceptance Notification: 30 December 2024
  • Camera Ready Papers Due: 13 January 2025
  • OJ-SP Papers Due (Invitation Only): 11 June 2025
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3-3-8(2025-04-06) CfP ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India

Announcing the ICASSP 2025 Call for Papers!

Paper Submission Deadline: 9 September 2024

The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Call for Papers is now open! The 50th ICASSP will be held in Hyderabad, India, from 6-11 April 2025 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre.

 

The flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society will offer a comprehensive technical program presenting the latest developments in signal processing research and applications. Exceptional papers and contributors will be selected and recognized at ICASSP 2025.

 

Submit your papers by 9 September 2024 to be considered. Learn more about the technical scope, submission requirements and guidelines below.
 
 

Important Dates 

  • Submission Deadline: 9 September 2024
  • Author Response Period: 15-26 November 2024
  • SPS Jornal Papers/Letters Deadline: 11 December 2024
  • Acceptance Notification: 18 December 2024
  • Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 13 January 2025
  • Author Registration: 13 January 2025
  • Open Preview: 7 March 2025

SPS Society Journal Paper Presentations 

Authors of papers published or accepted in IEEE SPS journals may present their work at ICASSP 2025. These papers will not be re-reviewed or 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 at the conference but will not be included in the conference proceedings.

 

Open Preview

Conference proceedings will be available in IEEE Xplore, free of charge, to everyone, 30 days before the conference start date, through the end date.
 

ICASSP 2025 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 30,000 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 2025, 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(2025-04-06) CfShort courses/ ICASSP2025, Hyderabad, India

ICASSP 2025 Call for Short Course Proposals

Submit your Proposals by 24 September 2024
 
 
 

General Information

Duration

 

Each course should have a total duration of 9 hours, distributed over 2 days, at 3 hours for one day and 6 hours for the other day. However, a shorter course with a length of 6 hours is also acceptable and in this case the delivery will be three hours for each day. Short courses will be delivered on Sunday and Monday of the week of ICASSP 2025.

 

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 focus only on research results from a specific individual or group. Both established and emerging topics in signal processing  are welcome. 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: 24 September 2024
  • Acceptance Notification: 25 November 2024
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3-3-10(2025-04-06) CfW ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India

Call for ICASSP 2025 Workshop Proposals!

Submission Deadline: 8 July 2024

The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) organizing committee invites proposals for Satellite Workshops aiming to enrich the conference program, attract a wider audience, and enhance inclusivity for students and professionals.

 

The 50th ICASSP will be held in Hyderabad, India, from 6-11 April 2025 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre. The ICASSP Satellite Workshops will be half or full-day events and will take place before or after the main technical program at the conference venue.

 

Submit your proposals by 8 July 2024 to be considered. Learn more about the submission requirements and guidelines below.
 
 

Guidelines

The ICASSP Satellite Workshops main emphasis will lie on clearly focused and emerging topics that are not specifically covered in the main conference and/or enable thematic synergies between the IEEE Signal Processing and other related societies, including (but not limited to) IEEE Communication Society, IEEE Information Theory Society, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, among others.

 

We also encourage proposals that focus on the use of novel technology for modern signal processing education. In keeping with the theme of “Celebrating Signal Processing”, we welcome workshop proposals focused on seminal contributions from the past five decades with sustained impact. 

 

The workshops may include a mix of regular papers, invited presentations, keynotes, and panels, encouraging the participation of attendees in active discussions. Learn more about the Workshop logistics here.

 

Important Dates 

  • Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: 8 July 2024
  • Acceptance Notification: 25 July 2024
  • Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: 9 September 2024
  • Paper Acceptance Notification: 18 December 2024
  • Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 13 January 2025
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3-3-11(2025-04-06) Deadlines for ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India
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Deadlines Approaching! Call for Papers, Short Course Proposals, and Tutorials.

There is still time to submit your work to the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)! The 50th ICASSP will be held in Hyderabad, India, from 6-11 April 2025 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre.

 

The flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society will offer a comprehensive technical program presenting the latest developments in signal processing research and applications. Exceptional papers and contributors will be selected and recognized at ICASSP 2025.

 

Important Dates:

  • Paper Submission Deadline: 9 September 2024
  • Short Course Proposal Deadline: 23 September 2024 
  • Tutorial Proposal Deadline: 23 September 2024
 

Call for Papers 

Submit a Conference Paper

To maximize visibility and impact, all accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore digital library and will be freely accessible and downloadable by all, in final format, beginning one month prior to the conference and through the conference end date (Open Preview). 

 

Exceptional papers and contributors will be selected and recognized at ICASSP 2025. Learn more about the Call for Papers submission guidelines and requirements here.

 

Submit an Open Access Journal Paper in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJ-SP)

Following the same timeline as the conference papers, authors have the option to submit an 8+1 page Short Paper for publication in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJ-SP), the completely open access journal of the SPS, instead of in the conference proceedings.

 

Papers submitted to OJ-SP prior to the conference submission deadline that are designated as being intended for presentation at the conference will receive expedited review to ensure that a decision is available in time for inclusion in the conference program. Learn more here.

 

Present an Accepted SPS Journal Paper
Authors who have published a paper in a Signal Processing Society Journal within the last year may submit an SPS Journal Paper Presentation Request to present the paper at the conference. Learn more here.
 

Call for Short Course Proposals

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. 

 

Both established and emerging topics in signal processing are welcome. We also encourage experiential, hands-on components that introduce methods and tools

 

Learn more about the Short Course proposal requirements here. 
 

Call for Tutorials

The selection of tutorials for presentation at the conference will be based on the relevance of the topic and its potential interest to signal processing professionals and students, the expertise of the presenters, peer-review feedback, the diversity of the topics selected for the tutorial program, and other criteria. An honorarium of $1000 will be given per tutorial. 

 

Proposals related to new and emerging topics in signal processing are particularly encouraged. Learn more about the guidelines and submission requirements here.
 

ICASSP 2025 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 30,000 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 2025, 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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3-3-12(2025-04-06)Cf Tutorials, IEEE ISCASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India

Announcing the Call for Tutorials!

Submit your proposal by 23 September 2024.

The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). is now accepting Tutorial proposals in all areas of signal processing and its applications. Proposals related to new and emerging topics in signal processing are particularly encouraged.

 

The 50th ICASSP will be held in Hyderabad, India, from 6-11 April 2025 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre. ICASSP 2025 will feature high technical quality, many novel scientific activities, excellent networking opportunities, enjoyable social events, and unforgettable touristic possibilities. This year's conference theme will be “Celebrating Signal Processing.”
 

Call for Tutorials

Tutorials will have a duration of 3 hours, excluding a 20-minute break, and will take place prior to the main technical program. As ICASSP 2025 is an in-person conference, for each accepted tutorial, its proposer(s) will have to present it in person at the conference venue in Hyderabad, India.

 

The selection of tutorials for presentation at the conference will be based on the relevance of the topic and its potential interest to signal processing professionals and students, the expertise of the presenters, peer-review feedback, the diversity of the topics selected for the tutorial program, and other criteria. An honorarium of $1000 will be given per tutorial. 

 
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3-3-13(2025-04-22) Call for Science: 2025 Voice AI Symposium, Tampa, FL, USA

Call for Science: 2025 Voice AI Symposium

hosted by the Bridge2AI-Voice Consortium

 

Submit your innovative research and technology to shape the future of AI and voice biomarkers!

This year's theme is 'Translating AI Research into Reality: Implementing Voice Biomarkers for Transformative Healthcare'

 

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT SCIENCE

 

Important Dates 

Submission Deadline for Abstracts: December 15th, 2024

Selection Notifications begin January 15th, 2025

Symposium + Hackathon Dates: April 22-24, 2025

 

We are welcoming submissions for the following categories

Podium or Poster Presentations

Panel Discussions

Voice AI Technology Fair

 

 

About: The Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium is more than a conference; it is an interactive and collaborative effort between three integral aspects which impact our understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML): people, ethics, and data. Submit your groundbreaking work for consideration to be a part of the 2024 Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium. Come join a global network of pioneers and collaborate with patients, scientists, clinicians, and industry. You play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI and ML. We will see you in sunny Tampa Florida April 22-24.

  

CATEGORY 1: PODIUM AND POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS 

 

Abstracts will be accepted for the presentation of research. We will be accepting presentations in the format of (1) oral presentation (30 minute oral presentation), (2) poster, or (3) either format. Reviewers will evaluate the submission and determine the best fit for presentation.  

 

The goals of the podium and poster sessions are to:  

 

  1. Promote collaborative efforts in the emerging field of AI in voice research. 
  2. Provide a unique networking and discussion opportunity among academic and industry peers participating in the Voice AI Symposium.  
  3. Encourage presenters to think outside the box and brainstorm innovative approaches to address major challenges in AI research. While prior experimentation is welcome, it is not mandatory.  

 

Topic Areas for Submission:  We invite proposals for topics including but not limited to: 

 

Topic Area 1: 

The reliability of Voice AI in clinical diagnostics and prediction.  

Subjects can include specific disorders, public health, health policy and organization, and accessibility. Proposals can target clinician workflow, home health, virtual screening etc. Focus on tangible solutions rather than broad ideas. Current projects or new projects/ideas can be included. 

 

Topic Area 2: 

Validation of Voice AI processes and demonstrations of robustness.  

Subjects can include optimizing machine learning for voice data or identification of explicit and implicit biases in current clinical practice that could be exacerbated by voice AI. Topics should address mitigation strategies or systematic approaches to overcome these challenges. 

 

Topic Area 3: 

How can we build trust and transparency in voice AI, ensuring that it is used in responsible and effective ways to improve health outcomes and transform healthcare? 

Practical solutions presented can cover: highlighting methods to promote data privacy and security while fostering data sharing for research innovation, respecting patients’ rights, addressing biases and unintended consequences, and establishing a clear and consistent legal framework for voice AI in healthcare.  

 

Abstract Guidelines 

 

Specifications and submission details:  

There is no submission fee.   

Abstracts will be reviewed by committee who will determine best presentation for research (either poster or podium)

Podiums will be 30-minute oral presentations that offer valuable insights into the field of voice AI. Submissions should focus on either research or clinical applications of AI in voice.

Research Presentations: Share recent findings or ongoing research that advances our understanding of voice AI]. 

Clinical Presentations: Highlight innovative approaches to diagnosis, treatment, or service delivery for voice AI. Discuss the practical implications and benefits of your methods. 

Abstracts should include: an introduction stating its relevance to improving human health, approach, preliminary findings (if available), conclusion, and future direction of your work.  

Maximum character count per abstract submission is 1,900 characters NOT including spaces. If you choose to add an image or table to your abstract submission, it will count as 600 characters towards the total 1,900 characters that are allowed. 

 

CATEGORY 2: PANEL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT

 

We invite abstracts for panel presentations that address the effective development and use of AI in healthcare. Each panel will consist of a moderator and 3-4 presenters who will address moderator questions or present brief papers related to a specific topic. The panel session length will be approximately 60 minutes, and should include interaction with the audience through live polling questions, which we will facilitate through the use of 'Aha Slides' at the day of the event. The topic should be addressed within the context of our 3 key pillars – people, data, and ethics. The organizer of the symposium is expected to be the chair. Diversity of background and expertise within the panel is encouraged.Presenters should represent different laboratories and an international mix of contributors is encouraged. 

 

Specifications and submission details: 

There is no submission fee.   

Panel presentation abstracts should include bullets that include: a title, name and affiliation of the moderator, a list of the panelists, and an abstract describing the intent of the panel presentation.  

The abstract should include a brief overview of the panel presentation, a description of the structure of the presentation, the purpose and the intended outcome(s). 

The abstract should include 5 questions relevant to your panel that will be used in interactive 'Aha slides' on the day of the event (e.g. 'How do you think voice biomarkers are most likely to be implemented in the next year?' plus four answers for the audience to choose from)

Maximum character count per panel submission is 1,900 characters NOT including spaces. If you choose to add an image or table to your abstract submission, it will count as 600 characters towards the total 1,900 characters that are allowed. 

 

CATEGORY 3: CALL FOR TECHNOLOGY - VOICE AI TECH FAIR

 

A technology fair will be hosted during the 2025 Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium. Eligible participants include startup companies, independent tech researchers and voice AI companies with relevant technology for demonstration. Technology should be relevant to applications of Voice AI or voice biomarkers in healthcare. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with clinicians, scientists, and patients to discuss and provide hands on interactions with their tech.  

 

Specifications and submission details:  

  • Cost per submission is $300  (payment not required until application is accepted by symposium committee)
  • Submit a one paragraph description of your company, startup and/or technology, describe how you would demonstrate it to attendees, and describe how it is relevant to voice AI in healthcare or voice biomarker research

 

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3-3-14(2025-05-16) CfP 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation - TAI 2025, Herrsching, Germany

Call for Papers

3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation - TAI 2025

Date: 16-May-2025 to 18-May-2025
Location: Herrsching (near Munich), Germany
Meeting Email: tai2025@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
Web Site: https://tai2025.org/

Call Deadline: 09-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

The TAI conference is the result of the merging the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) and the Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE). The TAI 2025 conference aims to bring together distinguished researchers, experts, and practitioners from around the world to exchange ideas, insights, and the latest advancements in the field of tone and intonation. The TAI proceedings are archived by ISCA, the International Speech Communication Association.

Call for Papers:

 

We are delighted to announce that the Third International Conference on Tone and TAI 2025 will be held in Herrsching near Munich, Germany, from 16–18 May 2025. Jointly sponsored by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the International Phonetic Association (IPA), TAI 2025 will be hosted by the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing of the LMU Munich.


With the theme of 'Variation and change in tone and intonation systems across space and time', our aim at TAI 2025 is to foster a more diverse and comprehensive understanding of tone and intonation by exploring variation in geographical as well as physical space, along with the dynamic evolution of tone and intonation across various timescales. We invite submissions that explore phonetic and phonological aspects of tone and intonation, with a particular focus on the following topics:

1. Variation and Change in Space:
- Cross-linguistics comparison of tone and intonation in well- and under-studied languages.
- Documentation of tonal and intonational patterns in endangered languages.
- Analysis of geographic variation in tone and intonation.
- Tone and intonation in language contact.

2. Variation and Change in Time:
- Diachronic change of tone and intonation.
- Generational differences of tone and intonation.
- Sociolinguistic factors influencing tonal and intonational change.

3. Variation Beyond Space and Time:
- Psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural correlates of tone and intonation.
- Physiological underpinnings of tone and intonation.
- Acquisition of tone and intonation in L1 and L2.
- Tone and intonation in neurodevelopmental disorders and impairments.
- Role of tone and intonation in multimodal communication.
- Computational modeling and applications of tone and intonation.

We welcome submissions on any aspect of tone and intonation in language, not limited to the aforementioned topics. We encourage contributions from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, including experimental, descriptive, and computational approaches. Contributions by junior researchers and/or with interdisciplinary research methods are strongly encouraged.

Submission information:

Abstracts should be written in English and no more than 2 A4-sized pages (1 page of text and 1 page for tables, figures, and references), including up to 5 keywords that best describe the paper. All submissions should be in PDF format. Abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review; please ensure that all identifying information is removed from the abstract.

Abstract submission opens: 15 October 2024
Abstract submission deadline: 9 December 2024
Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2025

Abstract submission will be via CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/TAI2025/

 

Sireemas Maspong

 

 

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3-3-15(2025-06-09?) Cf research proposals: 2025 Jelinek Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies (JSALT), Brno, Czech Republic
 
 
 
 
2025 Jelinek Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies

We are pleased to invite one page research proposals for an
 
Eight Week Residential Summer Research Workshop

at Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic,
 
from June 9 to August 1, 2025 (Tentative)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
 
We invite one-page research proposals for the annual Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies (JSALT). Proposals should advance human language technologies (HLT) or related areas of artificial intelligence (AI) including computer vision and robotics,  or enable their applications, e.g. in healthcare or education.  Proposals may address emerging or long-standing challenges.  Areas of interest in 2025 include but are not limited to

TEXT UNDERSTANDING: Challenges of large language models (LLMs), including auditability of training data, high cost of pretraining & fine-tuning, interpretability, explainability, prompt-brittleness, hallucinations & misaligned behavior; Machine translation for informal, dialectal and low-resource languages.

SPEECH UNDERSTANDING: Robust models for understanding challenging audio, including dialectal, code-mixed and far-field speech; Speaker identity, voice anonymization, deep-fake generation and detection; Synthesizing spoken conversations for model training in new languages, domains and acoustic conditions.

MULTIMODAL UNDERSTANDING: Multimodal foundation models (including LLMs) for audio, text, images, handwriting and machine-print; Application of multimodal models in education, scientific discovery, health monitoring and healthcare delivery; Embodied AI.

RESPONSIBLE AI: Privacy-preserving model training and inference for HLT/AI; Designing HLT/AI systems to be equitable/fair to all demographics; Preventing/Mitigating harmful behavior of HLT/AI models; Securing HLT/AI models against adversarial actors and operating conditions.
Research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops should serve as good examples for prospective proposers: https://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops.
 
All received proposals will be screened for basic feasibility, and results of this screening will be communicated by October 18, 2024.  Authors of feasible proposals will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in Baltimore on November 15-17, 2024.  At this meeting, proposals will be peer-reviewed in depth, revised iteratively and interactively to address any concerns and to incorporate new ideas from the floor, and 3-4 topics will eventually be selected for pursuit in Summer 2025.
 
These workshops aim to bring together “dream teams” to collaboratively pursue research on the selected topics: teams that are interdisciplinary and diverse in many ways including institutionally, demographically, and seniority of researchers. Authors of successful proposals typically lead these teams, and another 3-5 senior researchers from academia, industry and government join each team.  3-5 PhD students familiar with the topic are then selected, based on their demonstrated research performance, in consultation with the senior researchers. Finally, a few outstanding undergraduates, typically rising-seniors from a variety of majors, are selected via a nationwide search.
 
If you are interested in leading a dream team in JSALT 2025, please submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed. If your proposal (or a modified version of it) is chosen for pursuit next summer, we expect you to be resident at the workshop for 6+ weeks. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith assertion that if a topic advocated by you is chosen, you will actively pursue it with us. We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to enable your travel to, residence at and participation in the workshop, including airfare, housing, meals and incidentals.
 
The peer-review meeting and summer workshop will be in-person events.
 
Please submit proposals to jsalt2025@jh.edu by Tuesday, October 15, 2024.

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3-3-16(2025-06-18) PAC 2025 - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, Aix-en-Provence,France

Deuxième appel à communications pour la conférence internationale PAC 2025 (phonologie de l’anglais contemporain) - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, qui se tiendra à Aix-en-Provence du 18 au 20 juin 2025.


La conférence sera suivie le 20 juin après-midi d’un atelier sur le dépôt et le partage des données. 

 

Dates à retenir :

Conférence : 18-20 juin 2025, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence. 

Date de soumission des résumés: 20 novembre 2024

 Bien cordialement,

Le comité d’organisation PAC 2025. 

 

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3-3-17(2025-07-20) CfP 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark
Call for Papers for the 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)
20-23 July 2025 at the University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark.
 
ProComm is the flagship conference of the IEEE Professional Communication Society.
 
The conference takes place under the theme: “Digital Solutions and Multimodal Challenges”
Modern communication calls for more than traditional methods today. Digital solutions play a crucial role as they expand the efficiency and reach of communication. Multimodal communication, an evolution of this trend, is about the challenge of seamlessly integrating various media forms, from messaging apps to video calls – and it is also about the challenge of understanding how the different type and layers of communication, text and images, speech and body language, interact and interfere in the creation of attractive and effective messages. In an increasingly interconnected world, the integration of digital solutions and multimodal communication is crucial for effective exchange and collaboration. While, of course, inviting papers from all areas of professional communication, the conference will put a focus on building such inter-disciplinary bridges, using our Acoustics Lab’s international network to invite (foreign) language teachers, public-speaking coaches, researchers from the speech sciences, and speech-communication engineers to the event.
 
The 2025 issue of the conference is hosted by the CIE Acoustics Lab at the University of Southern Denmark in Sonderborg, Denmark.
 
 
All papers are subject to two rounds of double-bling peer review, and accepted papers will be published as proceedings in IEEE Xplore®, see here for further information and indexing: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/overview-of-ieee-xplore/about-content
 
Please note that the website for the 2025 conference is constantly updated. Information about keynotes, important dates etc. follow in autumn 2024.
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3-3-18(2025-09-06) Labs @CLEF2025, Madrid, Spain

 

 
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CLEF 2025
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
Madrid, Spain, September 9-12, 2025
http://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu
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Call for Lab Proposals
 
At its 26th 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 2025, CLEF takes place in September, 9-12 in Madrid, Spain.
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 2025. Proposals will be reviewed by a lab selection committee, composed of researchers with extensive experience in evaluating information access, retrieval, and extraction systems. Organisers of selected proposals will be invited to include their lab in the CLEF 2025 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” style, exploring evaluation methodologies, metrics, processes, etc. in information access and closely related fields, such as natural language processing, machine learning, 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 2025 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 2025 Lab Organising 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?  
a)    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.
 
b)    For new activities: A statement on why a new evaluation campaign is needed and how the community would benefit from the activity.
 
7.    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.
 
8.    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.
 
9.    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.
 
10.   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.
 
11.   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 via EasyChair at the following address:
 
 
choosing the “CLEF 2025 Lab Proposals” track.
 
 
 
Reviewing Process
 
Each proposal submitted by 7 July 2024 will be reviewed by the CLEF 2025 Lab Organising Committee. The acceptance decision will be sent by email to the responsible organiser by 5 Aug 2024. 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 2024 and ECIR 2025
 
Organisers of accepted labs are expected to advertise their labs at both CLEF 2024 (September 9-12, 2024, Grenoble, France) and ECIR 2025 (April 6-10, Lucca, Italy). So, at least one lab representative should attend these events.
 
Advertising at CLEF 2024 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 2025 will consist of submitting a lab description (due on early October 2024) to be included in ECIR 2025 proceedings and advertising the lab in a booster session during ECIR 2025.
 
 
 
Lab Proposals from Newcomers
 
If you have not organised a lab before, do not panic! The CLEF 2025 Lab Organising Committee Lab is willing to mentor you by offering help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft lab proposal.
If you are a newcomer interested in receiving guidance, please send an e-mail with the following tag in the subject “[Mentorship CLEF 2025 Lab Proposals]” to:  clef2025-lab-proposals@easychair.org.
 
We also 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.
 
 
 
Important Dates
 
- 7 July 2024: Lab proposals submission
- 5 August 2024: Notification of lab acceptance
- 9-12 Sep 2024: Advertising Accepted Labs at CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France
- October 2024 (TBA by ECIR): Submission of short lab description for ECIR 2025 (https://ecir2025.eu/key-dates/)
- 6-10 April 2025: Advertising labs at ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy
- April-May: Lab evaluation cycle
- May-June: Review process of participant papers
- June 2025: Review of the condensed labs overviews
- July 2025: CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors and Lab Organisers
- 6-12 Sep 2025: Labs at CLEF 2025, Madrid, Spain
 
 
 
CLEF 2025 Lab Chairs
 
- Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain
- Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
 
Questions? E-mail us at clef2025-lab-proposals@easychair.org.
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3-3-19(2025-11-06) The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge, ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India

The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge 

 

  • https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/

  • Task: develop attacker systems against voice anonymization

  • Deadline for participants to submit a list of training data and models: 13th October 2024

  • Publication of the full final list of training data and models: 15th October 2024

  • Deadline for participants to submit scores, evaluation results and system descriptions: 5th December 2024

  • Deadline for participants to submit 2-page papers to ICASSP-2015 (by invitation only): 9th December 2024

  • Paper acceptance notification: 30th December 2024

  • Camera-ready 2-page papers due: 13th January  2025

  • Special session at ICASSP 2025 (Hyderabad, India): 6-11 April 2025

 

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Dear colleagues,

 

Registration for The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is now open!

 

The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is supported by ICASSP 2025 as the SP Grand Challenge (https://2025.ieeeicassp.org/sp-grand-challenges/#gc7). It focuses on developing attacker systems against voice anonymization, which will be evaluated against a set of anonymization systems submitted to the VoicePrivacy 2024 Challenge. Training, development, and evaluation datasets are provided along with a baseline attacker system. Participants shall develop their attacker systems in the form of automatic speaker verification systems and submit their scores on the development and evaluation data to the organizers. To do so, they can use any additional training data and models, provided that they are openly available and declared before the specified deadline. The metric for evaluation is equal error rate (EER). Results will be presented at the ICASSP 2025 special session to which 5 selected top-ranked participants will be invited to submit and present their challenge systems.

 

Please find more information in The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Evaluation Plan: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/docs/Attacker_Challenge_Eval_Plan.pdf

 

Registration: https://t.co/pPEXxHEtP6

 

Contact: attacker.challenge@inria.fr

 

The VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Organizers:

Xiaoxiao Miao - Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore

Natalia Tomashenko - Inria, France

Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France

Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan

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