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Sunday, March 09, 2025 by Chris Wellekens

7 Journals
7-1Call for papers on Prosody in a New journal: Journal of Connected Speech

Submissions are invited for a new journal in the area of connected speech. To submit articles please go to https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JCS/about/submissions

 

The aim of the Journal of Connected Speech is to provide a platform for the study of connected speech in both its formal and functional aspects (from prosody to discourse analysis). The journal explores issues linked to transcription systems, instrumentation, and data collection methodology, as well as models within broadly functional, cognitive, and psycholinguistic approaches.

 

The journal launches in 2024. See https://journal.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JCS/index

 

If you have any queries, please contact me at m.j.ball@bangor.ac.uk

 

Martin J. Ball, DLitt, PhD, HonFRCSLT, FLSW

Athro er Anrhydedd,

Ysgol Iaith, Diwylliant a'r Celfyddydau,

Prifysgol Bangor, Cymru.

(Hefyd Athro Gwadd, Prifysgol Glynd?r Wrecsam)

 

Honorary Professor,

School of Arts, Culture and Language,

Bangor University, Wales.

(Also Visiting Professor, Wrexham Glynd?r University)

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7-2Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI)

Dear researchers on multimodal interaction,

Hope this email finds you well.

On behalf of the editorial team of the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI),
we are quite happy to inform you that our journal just reached an 2022 Impact Factor of 2.9!

We have the pleasure to invite you to submit articles describing your research work on multimodal interaction to JMUI. The contribution can be in the form of original research articles, review articles, and short communications.

JMUI is a SCIE indexed journal which provides a platform for research and advancement in the field of multimodal interaction and interfaces. We are particularly interested in high-quality articles that explore different interactive modalities (e.g., gestures, speech, gaze, facial expressions, graphics), their modeling and  user-centric design, fusion, software architecture and usability in different interfaces (e.g. multimodal input, multimodal output, socially interactive agents) and application areas (e.g. education and training, health, users with special needs, mobile interaction). Please check the JMUI web site to read articles that we publish (https://www.springer.com/journal/12193).

Submitting your work to the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces offers several advantages, including rigorous peer review by experts in the field, wide readership and visibility among researchers, and the opportunity to contribute to the advancement of this rapidly evolving domain.
Current average duration from submission to first review is approximately between 60 to 90 days.

To submit your manuscripts, please visit our online submission system at Editorial Manager (https://www.editorialmanager.com/jmui/). Should you require any further information, or have any specific questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Please also note that we welcome special issues on topics related to multimodal interactions and interfaces.

We eagerly look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.

Best regards,

Jean-Claude MARTIN
Professor in Computer Science
Université Paris-Saclay, LISN/CNRS
JMUI Editor-in-Chief

JMUI website: https://www.springer.com/journal/12193
JMUI Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/jmmui/ (Follow us for updates!)
 

 
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7-3ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology: Special Issue on Transformers

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Special Issue on Transformers

https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tist/pdf/ACM-TIST-CFP-SI-Transformers-1719857985893.pdf

Editor-in-Chief: Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA

Guest Editors:
• Feng Xia, RMIT University, Australia
• Tyler Derr, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Luu Anh Tuan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Richa Singh, IIT Jodhpur, India
• Aline Villavicencio, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Transformer-based models have emerged as a cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence (AI), reshaping the landscape of machine learning and driving unprecedented progress in a myriad of tasks. Originating from the domain of natural language processing, transformers have transcended their initial applications to become ubiquitous across diverse fields including anomaly detection, computer vision, speech recognition, recommender systems, question answering, robotics, healthcare, education, and more. The impact of transformer models extends far beyond their technical intricacies. For instance, advanced transformers have been successfully applied to multimodal learning tasks, where they can seamlessly integrate information from different modalities such as text, images, audio, and video. This ability opens up new avenues for research in areas like visual question answering, image captioning, and video understanding.

Despite their remarkable success, however, several challenges remain. For example, training large transformer models often requires significant computational resources. Researchers are actively exploring efficient training methods, such as pre-training on massive datasets and knowledge distillation techniques, to address these limitations. Additionally, fostering explainability in transformer models is crucial for understanding their decision-making processes and building trust in real-world applications.

As transformers continue to evolve and permeate various sectors of AI, it becomes increasingly imperative to explore their advancements and applications comprehensively. This special issue seeks to provide a platform for researchers to showcase the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in the field of transformers across diverse domains, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and innovation.

Topics
This special issue invites contributions covering a wide range of topics related to advances in transformers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Novel architectures and variations of transformer models
• Theoretical insights into transformers
• Efficient training and deployment of large-scale transformer models
• Fine-tuning strategies for pre-trained transformer models
• Interpretability and explainability of transformers
• Trustworthy, safe, and responsible transformers
• Transformers for diverse machine learning tasks
• Transformers for science
• Transformer-based approaches for multimodal learning
• Transformer foundation models and transformer-based generative AI
• Applications of transformers in various domains such as healthcare, education, robotics, etc.
• Ethical considerations and societal impacts of transformer technology

Important Dates
• Submissions deadline: December 1, 2024
• Tentative publication: September 2025

Submission Information
Submissions must be prepared according to the TIST submission guidelines (https://dl.acm.org/journal/tist/author-guidelines) and must be submitted via Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tist).
Early submissions are encouraged/preferred. We will start the review process as soon as we receive a submission.

For questions and further information, please contact Prof. Feng Xia (feng.xia@rmit.edu.auf.xia@ieee.org).

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7-4Publications CORIA TALN 2025
Dans le cadre des conférences conjointes CORIA-TALN 2025
(https://coria-taln-2025.lis-lab.fr/) organisées à Marseille, nous
sollicitons des propositions d'articles présentant des recherches
scientifiques sur le traitement du langage naturel.
TALN rassemble les chercheuses et chercheurs travaillant sur les
aspects théoriques, empiriques et applicatifs du traitement automatique
du langage naturel. L’objectif de cette conférence est de rassembler la
communauté scientifique internationale francophone sur les sujets liés
à la manipulation par les machines du langage, qu’il soit écrit ou dans
une diversité de modalités, délivré dans une ou plusieurs langues. Ces
travaux portent à la fois sur la compréhension et la génération du
langage, dans des documents, enregistrements ou interactions. Ils
s’intéressent aux modèles formels, statistiques ou fondés sur
l’apprentissage automatique et leur application dans des domaines
variés tels que l’industrie, les sciences humaines ou la santé. Les
sujets comme la méthodologie d'évaluation et les aspects éthiques y ont
une importance toute particulière.
La conférence TALN est ouverte à l’ensemble de la communauté
scientifique internationale concernée par le traitement du langage
naturel. Le public visé par TALN est celui des académiques, incluant
les personnes étudiant en master et doctorat, des industriels, et des
autres spécialistes du domaine. Toutes les publications TALN sont
diffusées en accès ouvert sur HAL et au travers de l’ACL Anthology.

La conférence propose trois types de soumissions :

* Travaux de recherche originaux. Sont acceptées les doubles
soumissions lorsque le statut d’acceptation dans l’autre conférence est
inconnu au moment de la soumission à TALN. Dans le cas où la réponse
est déjà connue, il faut soumettre un article de 3e type (travaux déjà
publiés).
* Prise de position présentant un point de vue sur l’état des
recherches en TAL ;
* Travaux déjà publiés récemment dans les conférences majeures
internationales. Il s’agit d’une traduction du titre et du résumé de
l’article original, accompagnée du lien vers l’article publié.

Dates importantes

* Soumission des articles : 14 mars 2025
* Notification aux auteurs : 5 mai 2025
* Date de la conférence  : 30 juin au 4 juillet 2025 à Marseille

Instructions de soumission :

Les soumissions doivent être rédigées selon la feuille de style ci-
dessous et être soumises sous forme de fichiers PDF via le système
EasyChair.

Système de soumission :
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=coriataln2025 
Modèle Overleaf:
https://fr.overleaf.com/latex/templates/modele-de-document-pour-coria-taln-2025/fbxpxfpqhmkm
Le nombre de pages des soumissions pour TALN est libre, mais compris
entre 6 et 10 pages (hors références/annexes). Le principe est que la
taille de la soumission doit être cohérente avec son contenu. Les
relecteurs jugeront un article sur sa qualité et cette adéquation.
Tous les articles acceptés seront publiés dans les actes de la
conférence. Notez par ailleurs que les actes de la conférence sont
indexés dans l’ACL Anthology et téléversés automatiquement dans HAL.
Les relectures se font en double aveugle et les annexes sont acceptées
dans la version finale du papier. Les relecteurs n’ont pas l’obligation
de relire les annexes.
Si tous les auteurs sont francophones, les articles doivent être écrits
en français. Si l'un des auteurs n'est pas francophone, les articles
peuvent être rédigés en anglais.

Thématiques (liste non exhaustive) :

Phonétique, phonologie, morphologie, étiquetage morphosyntaxique
Syntaxe, grammaires, analyse syntaxique, chunking
Sémantique, pragmatique, discours
Sémantique lexicale et distributionnelle
Aspects linguistiques et psycholinguistiques du TAL
Ressources pour le TAL
Méthodes d’évaluation pour le TAL
Applications du TAL (recherche et extraction d’information, question-
réponse, traduction, génération, résumé, dialogue, analyse d’opinions,
simplification, etc.)
TAL et multimodalité (parole, vision, etc.)
TAL et multilinguisme
TAL pour le Web et les réseaux sociaux
TAL et langues peu dotées
TAL et langue des signes
Implications sociales et éthiques du TAL
TAL et linguistique de corpus
TAL et Humanités numériques
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7-5Appel à contributions TAL
Appel à contributions

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TAL : Varia - volume 67 Numéro 1
	https://tal-67-1.sciencesconf.org/

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Direction : Maxime Amblard, Marie Candito, Benoit Favre et Aurélie Névéol

Depuis 2023
Les numéros non thématiques de la revue Traitement automatique des langues deviennent au « fil de l’eau » . Ainsi, chaque article du numéro 67-1 sera évalué au fur et à mesure de sa soumission et sera publié, sous réserve de son acceptation, sous un délai indicatif de six mois après sa soumission. L’appel pour le volume 67-1 est ainsi ouvert jusqu’au 31 décembre 2025. 

THÈMES

La revue Traitement automatique des langues lance un appel à contributions ouvert. Les propositions de soumissions peuvent être d’ordre théorique ou expérimental et concerner tous les aspects du traitement automatique des langues écrites, parlées et signées et de la linguistique computationnelle, par exemple :

   •    Modèles computationnels de la langue
   •    Apprentissage et modélisation statistiques
   •    Intermodalité et multimodalité
   •    Multiplicité et diversité des langues
   •    Sémantique et compréhension
   •    Accès à l’information et fouille de textes
   •    Productions langagières et traitement/Génération/synthèse
   •    Evaluation
   •    Ressources linguistiques
   •    Explicabilité et reproductibilité
   •    TAL en interaction avec d’autres disciplines, humanités numériques

La liste ci-dessus n'est pas exhaustive. Il est primordial, quel que soit le thème, que les aspects liés au traitement automatique des langues soient mis en valeur.

Les articles de type « prise de position » et « présentation de l’état de l’art » sont également les bienvenus.

Les articles peuvent être rédigés en français ou en anglais.

DATES IMPORTANTES
   • Date limite de soumission : au fil de l’eau jusqu’au 31 décembre 2025
   • Notification aux auteurs, première relecture : deux mois après la soumission
   • Notification aux auteurs, seconde relecture : deux mois après première relecture
   • Publication : deux mois après seconde relecture

LA REVUE
La revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) est une revue internationale éditée depuis 1960 par l’ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) avec le concours du CNRS. Elle est publiée en format électronique, avec accès gratuit immédiat aux articles publiés.


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[English version]

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Call for papers

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TAL : Varia Volume 67 number 1
	https://tal-67-1.sciencesconf.org/

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Editors: Maxime Amblard, Marie Candito, Benoit Favre et Aurélie Névéol

Since 2023
Non-thematic issues of the Automatic Language Processing journal become 'on the fly'. Thus, each article in issue 67-1 will be evaluated as soon as it is submitted and will be published, subject to its acceptance, within an indicative period of six months after its submission. The call for volume 67-1 is thus open until December 31, 2025.

THEMES
The journal Automatic Language Processing has an open call for papers. Submissions may concern theoretical and experimental contributions on all aspects of written, spoken, and signed language processing and computational linguistics, both theoretical and experimental, for example:

   •  Computational models of language
   •  Linguistic resources
   •  Statistical learning and modeling
   •  Intermodality and multimodality
   •  Language multiplicity and diversity
   •  Semantics and comprehension
   •  Information access and text mining
   •  Language production and processing/generation/synthesis
   •  Evaluation
   •  Explicability and reproducibility
   •  NLP in interaction with other disciplines, digital humanities

This list is indicative. On all topics, it is essential that the aspects related to natural language processing are emphasized.

We also welcome position papers and survey papers.

Articles can be written in French or English.

Important Dates
   • Submission deadline:  on the fly until December 31, 2024
   • Notification to the authors after first review: two months after submission
   • Notification to the authors after second review: two months after the first review
   • Publication : two months after the second review


THE JOURNAL

TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is an international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing, http://www.atala.org) since 1959 with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). TAL has an electronic mode of publication.
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7-6CfP Special Issue of the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (JSLP)

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Special Issue of the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (JSLP)

 

PROSODIC FEATURES OF LANGUAGE LEARNERS' FLUENCY

 

In the past, fluency was often ignored in speech prosody research (as reflected in the Handbook of

Language Prosody (2022) and in the 'Speech Prosody' conferences). Moreover, fluency and timing are only

rarely treated together with intonation-related aspects in L2 research. However, a broader ranging view

on L2 sentence prosody would be beneficial to the construction of theories concerning the acquisition of

L2 prosody and applications such as assessments in teaching, exercises for individual learning,

assessments and automatic testing of spoken performances. Likewise, research of language learning does

not seem to be very much integrated into speech prosody research. This concerns both theoretical and

methodological aspects but also acquisition and annotation of learner data, e.g., in learner corpora.

Thus, the scope of this special issue includes topics like measuring fluency, assessment of fluency (human

experts, non-experts, and machines), learner corpora and annotation of disfluencies, elements and

combinations of disfluencies (e.g. filler particles, disfluent pauses, lengthenings, repetitions, repairs),

varying degrees of fluency in different speech styles and tasks, fluency and L2 proficiency levels,

intonational aspects of fluency, visual aspects of fluency (e.g. hand-arm gestures, eye-gazing, torso

movement), teaching methods for fluency improvement in L2 speech production and perception.

 

This special issue is a sequel of the workshop with the same name held in Leiden (The Netherlands) in July

2024 (https://l2fluency.lst.uni-saarland.de ). It was organised by Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius (both

Saarland University, Germany) and Nivja de Jong (Leiden University) who also act as guest editors of this

special issue.

 

The Journal of Second Language Pronunciation invites proposals for papers related to cutting-edge

research on prosodic features in L2 speech fluency to be published in a special issue of the Journal of

Second Language Pronunciation.

 

Invited papers should fit the general guidelines of the journal, see https://benjamins.com/catalog/jslp.

 

Submission Procedures

Abstracts considered for the special issue should be submitted to <JournalSLP@gmail.com> by March 21,

2025 by 11:59 pm Central Standard Time in the United States. All abstracts should be pdf files and should

contain three pages, with the title, the authors’ names, contact information and affiliations on page 1, the

content with up to 500 words on page 2, and illustrations, tables, and references on page 3.

 

Timeline for the Special Issue

Abstract due for consideration (updated): March 21, 2025 (submit to JournalSLP@gmail.com .)

Notification of invitation (updated): April 25, 2025

Full paper due: July 30, 2025 (submit to the JSLP online portal)

Reviews expected: October 15, 2025

Revised paper due: November 15, 2025

Feedback on revisions (as needed): December 19, 2025

Final paper due: January 30, 2025

Paper published in JSLP: in second half of 2026

 

Questions about submission requirements should be directed to the editor at JournalSLP@gmail.com .

 

Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius and Nivja de Jong

 

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