| 3-1-1 | (2017-08-20) Call for Paper INTERSPEECH 2017 Special session on Digital Revolution for Under-resourced Languages (DigRev-URL)
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Call for Paper INTERSPEECH 2017 Special session on
?Digital Revolution for Under-resourced Languages (DigRev-URL) ?
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The digital revolution is having an increasingly large impact on many aspects of our daily lives,
and creating a new way of communication and socialization. There is no doubt that speech and
language technology (i.e., speech recognition, speech translation, etc) is one of the key enabling
technologies in the digital revolution. However, despite all the hype about how digital revolution
could connect the world, currently, it only covers about five percent of the world's languages.
This is because most of those activities have been conducted only in several languages where
large resources are available. There are however more than 6000 languages and most of them
have not been covered yet. And even languages with millions of speakers can lack the resources
needed to construct spoken and language technologies.
This Interspeech 2017 special session on 'Digital Revolution for Under-resourced Languages
(DigRev-URL)' provides a forum for linguistic and speech technology researchers, as well as
academic and industrial counterparts to share achievements and challenges in all areas related to
natural language processing and spoken language processing of under-resourced languages (mainly
used in South, Southeast and West Asia; Africa and Northern and Eastern Europe). Particularly, as
Interspeech 2017 will be held in Sweden, we highly encourage any submissions on under-resourced
languages from Nordic, Uralic, and Slavic regions.
The theme of this special session will focus on digital revolution for under-resourced languages,
including but not limited to:
- Linguistic and cognitive studies
- Resource acquisition of text and speech corpora
- Zero resource speech technologies
- Cross-lingual/multi-lingual acoustic and lexical modeling
- Code-switched lexical modeling
- Speech-to-text and speech-to-speech translation
- Speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and dialog systems
- Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages
At the end of the session, the plan would be to have a panel discussion as a continuation from the
panel discussion at SLTU 2016, in which various institutions that have been working on under-resourced
languages will come and sit together to discuss the ?Digital Revolution for Under-Resourced Languages?.
The main objective of this panel discussion is to provide an opportunity to initiate collaboration that
could provide a better future for under-resourced languages.
We invite you to submit original papers on any of the research themes listed above. When submitting
papers, please make sure that you select scientific area topic: [12.24] Special Session on 'Digital Revolution
for Under-resourced Languages' in the INTERSPEECH 2017 submission system.
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| 3-1-2 | (2017-08-20) CfP INTERSPEECH 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
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INTERSPEECH 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS
The 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2017) will be held August 20–24, 2017 on the campus of Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of speech science and technology, spanning basic theories to clinical and technological applications.
INTERSPEECH 2017 will be organized around the theme SITUATED INTERACTION. Face-to-face interaction is the primary use of speech, and arguably also the richest, most effective and most prevalent kind of speech communication. The situation, context and human behaviors are intrinsic parts that continuously shape and form the interaction. In attempting to understand this situated interaction, we face a fruitful and real challenge for the speech communication community: To investigate what kinds of situational awareness, social sensibilities and conversational abilities we should endow machines with for them to engage in conversations with humans on human terms. Contributions to all other aspects of speech science and technology are also welcome.
In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, the conference will also feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. A number of satellite events will take place immediately before and after the conference. INTERSPEECH papers get digital object identifiers (DOI) and they are indexed in ISI, Engineering Index, Scopus, and Google Scholar.
The Calls for INTERSPEECH 2017 papers, special sessions & challenges, tutorials, and satellite workshops, are now open. Please follow the details of these and other news at the conference website www.interspeech2017.org.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Thursday, 1 December 2016 |
Satellite Workshops proposals deadline |
| Thursday, 8 December 2016 |
Special Sessions and Challenges proposals deadline |
| Friday, 16 December 2016 |
Notification of pre-selection of Special Sessions |
| Wednesday, 1 February 2017 |
Tutorial proposals submission deadline |
| Wednesday, 1 March 2017 |
Tutorial notification of acceptance |
| Tuesday, 14 March 2017 |
Paper submission deadline |
| Tuesday, 21 March 2017 |
Final paper submission PDF upload |
| Monday, 22 May 2017 |
Paper notification of acceptance |
| Monday, 5 June 2017 |
Camera-ready paper due |
| Wednesday, 21 June 2017 |
Early registration deadline |
| 20-24 August 2017 |
Conference in Stockholm, Sweden |
CALL FOR PAPERS
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length original papers in any related area, including but not limited to:
1 Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition
2 Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody
3 Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
4 Speaker and Language Identification
5 Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals
6 Speech Coding and Enhancement
7 Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation
8 Speech Recognition: Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, Adaptation
9 Speech Recognition -Architecture, Search, and Linguistic Components
10 Speech Recognition -Technologies and Systems for New Applications
11 Spoken dialog systems and conversational analysis
12 Spoken Language Processing: Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Resources and Evaluation
Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2017 proceedings should be up to 4 pages of text, plus one page (maximum) for references only. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the INTERSPEECH 2017 Author’s Kit (available now). Paper submission will open in late January 2017, and the Paper submission deadline is Tuesday, 14 March 2017. See http://interspeech2017.org/papers for further details.
CALL FOR TUTORIALS
We encourage proposals for tutorials addressing introductory topics or advanced topics in an introductory style, and tutorials targeting experienced researchers who want to dig deeper into a given new topic. Tutorials may introduce an emerging area of speech-related research, or present an overview of an established area of research. Tutorials will be held on Sunday, 20 August 2017. Brief proposals should be submitted by Wednesday, 1 February 2017. See http://interspeech2017.org/tutorials for further details.
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS & CHALLENGES
We encourage proposals for special sessions & challenges, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference, Situated Interaction, are particularly welcome. Apart from supporting a particular theme, special sessions may also have a format that is different from a regular session. Brief proposals should be submitted by Thursday, 8 December 2016. See http://interspeech2017.org/special-sessions for further details.
CALL FOR SATELLITE WORKSHOPS
We encourage proposals for Satellite Workshops, to be held in proximity to the main conference. The Organizing Committee will work to facilitate the organization of such satellite workshops, to stimulate discussion in research areas related to speech and language, at locations in Europe, and around the same time as INTERSPEECH 2017. We are particularly looking forward to proposals from neighboring countries. The (extended) deadline for Satellite Workshops proposals is Thursday, 1 December 2016. See http://interspeech2017.org/satellites for further details.
We look forward to welcoming you in Stockholm next summer!
The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2017
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For more information please visit the conference website: interspeech2017.org
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Academic Conferences - universities in cooperation | Karolinska Institutet, SLU and Uppsala University
registration@interspeech2017.org | Tel: 018-67 10 03 | www.akademikonferens.se
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| 3-1-3 | (2017-08-20) Interspeech 2017 update
The preparations for Interspeech 2017 are in full swing!
As you may have noticed, we had a serious virus attack to Interspeech 2017 website and it too us a while to restore it. The website is now up and running again, although with still some issues concerning links that are not yet completely operational, at this time.
We have received a good number of proposals for Satellite Workshops as well as for Special Sessions and Challenges and we are working on the schedules and logistic details. We can announce that co-registration will be possible. Participants will be able to select participation in Satellite Workshops and pay the registration fee in connection with the registration for Interspeech 2017. The organizers of satellite events will be in touch with our PCO to get information on the registered participants and the universities involved in the satellite events will request from our PCO transfers of the events’ registration amounts. Except for the credit card fee (about 2 %), we do not expect any other costs for the organizers of the satellite events.
Sponsorships and exhibition requests are dropping in, which is a very good sign. We have started a Facebook page and taken over a Twitter account for Interspeech 2017. There is still some work to be done to activate properly those social media but we are working on it.
The three main Interspeech 2017 partners, Stockholm University, KTH and Karolinska Institute are coordinating efforts to make the conference a success and are deeply involved in the planning. To the good news, we can add that Stockholm University will not be charging Interspeech 2017 for the lecture halls or use of other spaces at the university and KTH/TMH will be hosting the Technical Committee meeting in May. Meanwhile, we are having regular planning meetings involving Stockholm University’s representatives of various infrastructures, like wifi, media services, restaurants and cafeterias, security, etc. and working hard to make sure that Interspeech 2017 will flow as smoothly and effectively as possible.
See you in Stockholm in August!
Francisco Lacerda
General Chair for Interspeech 2017
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| 3-1-4 | (2017-08-20) Satellite Workshops and Events at Interspeech 2017
HSCR 2017: Second International Workshop on the HISTORY OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
Dates: 18–19 August 2017
Location: University Main Building in the City Center Campus, Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://hscr2017.org/
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Martti Vainio, Chair, Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Reijo Aulanko, Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Jurai Šimco, Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Mona Lehtinen, Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland
Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, DiSS 2017
Dates: 18–19 August 2017
Location: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Website: http://diss2017.org/
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden
- Robin Lickley, Queen Margaret University, Edinburg, UK
MMC 2017: The 12th Workshop on Multimodal Corpora
Dates: 19 August 2017
Location: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Website: http://www.multimodalcorpora2017.org
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Jens Edlund, Chair, Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
- Dirk Heylen, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Patricia Paggio, Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
1st International Workshop on Challenges in Hearing Assistive Technology (CHAT-2017)
Dates: 19 August 2017
Location: Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Website: http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chat2017
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Jon Barker, University of Sheffeld, UK
- John Culling, University of Cardiff, UK
- John Hansen, University of Texas, Dallas, US
- Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
- Peter Nordqvist (local contact), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
The 3rd International Workshop on Affective Social Multimedia Computing ASMMC 2017
Dates: 25 August 2017
Location: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Website: http://www.nwpu-aslp.org/asmmc2017
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Dong-Yan Huang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Björn Schuller, University of Passau, Germany
- Jianhua Tao, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
- Jie Yang, National Science Foundation, Arlington, USA
- Sven Bölte (local contact), Karolinska Institutet, KIND, Stockholm, Sweden
- Dongmei Jiang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
- Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore.
Grounding Language Understanding GLU2017
Dates: 25 August 2017
Location: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Website: http://www.speech.kth.se/glu2017
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Giampiero Salvi, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
- Jean Rouat, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
And supported by the CHIST-ERA IGLU consortium
AVSP 2017: International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
Dates: 25–26 August 2017
Location: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Website: http://avsp2017.loria.fr/
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Christopher Davis, University of Western Sydney, Australia
- Jonas Beskow, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
- Slim Ouni , University of Lorraine, France
- Alexandra Jesse, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
SLaTE 2017: The seventh ISCA workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education
Dates: 25–26 August 2017
Location: Stockholm archipelago, Sweden
Website: http://www.slate2017.org
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Olov Engwall, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Iolanda Leite, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (from January 2017, presently Disney Research)
- Helmer Strik, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR-2017)
Dates: 25–26 August 2017
Location: University of Skövde, Sweden
Website: http://vihar-2017.vihar.org
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden
- Angela Dassow, Carthage College, Kenosha, USA
- Ricard Marxer, University of Sheffield, UK
- Roger K. Moore, University of Sheffield, UK
- Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
- Rita Singh, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
- Serge Thill (local contact), University of Skövde, Sweden
- Benjamin Weiss, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
GESPIN 2017: 5th Gesture and Speech in Interaction conference
Dates: 25–27 August 2017
Location: Collegium Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Website: http://www.gespin.amu.edu.pl
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Maciej Karpiński, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- Małgorzata Fabiszak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- Anna Jelec, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- Konrad Juszczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- Katarzyna Klessa, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
LTLT 2017: Language Teaching, Learning and Technology
Dates: 26–30 August 2017
Location: Alto University Campus, Helsinki, Finland
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/l1teachingandtechnology/home
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Kay Berkling, Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Fabian Zener, German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ., USA
- Mikko Kurimo, Alto University, Helsinki, Finland
20th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue / TSD 2017
Dates: 27–31 August 2017
Location: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Website: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2017/
Names and affiliation of organizers:
- Václav Matoušek, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Kamil Ekštein, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Miloslav Konopík, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Roman Mouček, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Tomáš Hercig, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Eva Hajičová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Markéta Lopatková, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Anna Kotěšovcová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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