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| 3-1-1 | (2019-09-15) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria. https://www.tugraz.at/events/interspeech-2019/home/
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| 3-1-2 | (2020-09-14) Interspeech 2020 Shanghai, China
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| 3-3-1 | (2018-03-25) 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, St Petersburg, Russia 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
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| 3-3-2 | (2018-09-17) DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION at MLSP 2018, Aalborg, Denmark CALL FOR PAPERS:
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2018)
Aalborg, Denmark
Special Session:
DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH IN ANTI-SPOOFING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION
Research in anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification has advanced significantly in the last five years. While proposed countermeasures are effective in detecting and deflecting spoofing attacks, current solutions lack a solid grounding in the processes involved in the mounting of spoofing attacks. As a result, and with most current solutions relying on the somewhat blind use of relatively standard features and classifiers, many countermeasures fail
when they encounter different forms of attack and are unlikely to generalise well to attacks encountered in the wild. This special session, organised as part of MLSP 2018, seeks to break the mould in anti-spoofing research. We invite scientific contributions that explore fundamentally disruptive approaches to anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification. While contributions which use existing standard/common databases are welcome, their use is not required. Preference will instead be given to contributions that explore under-researched aspects of spoofing and non-standard, emerging or blue-sky countermeasure technologies, especially those with an emphasis on previously-unexplored signal processing and machine learning approaches which either shed new light on spoofing or expose promising new research directions for future exploration. Both technological and methodological contributions
are welcome.
Example topics include but are by no means limited to the following:
- theoretical bounds of spoofing attack detectability
- cross-domain feature learning for robust spoofing attack detection
- generative adversarial networks and threats to biometric technology
- one-class, semi-supervised, or reinforcement learning approaches to spoofing countermeasures
- new regularisation and optimisation methods to improve cross-dataset generality
- generation and detection of inaudible, imperceptible or other novel spoofing attacks
- novel hardware/sensor and knowledge-based spoofing countermeasures
- alternatives to GMMs, DNNs, CNNs, RNNs
- unexpected application areas beyond biometrics
Schedule is the same as for regular papers:
Paper submission: May 1 (update until May 4)
Review notifications: June 18
Author rebuttals: June 18-24
Reviewer discussion: June 25-30
Decision notification: July 6
Camera-ready paper & registration: July 31
Organizers:
Nicholas Evans, EURECOM, France (evans@eurecom.fr)
Tomi Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland (tkinnu@cs.joensuu.fi)
Sébastien Marcel, IDIAP, Switzerland (sebastien.marcel@idiap.ch)
Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark (zt@es.aau.dk)
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| 3-3-3 | (2018-09-17) IEEE International Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, Aalborg, Denmark MLSP2018
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| 3-3-4 | (2018-09-18) 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), Leipzig, Germany (updated) SPECOM-2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-3-5 | (2018-09-27) LAUGHTER WORKSHOP 2018, Sorbonne, Paris, France LAUGHTER WORKSHOP 2018 Following the previous workshops on laughter held in Saarbruecken (2007), Berlin (2009), Dublin (2012) and Enschede (2015), we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming workshop in Paris, France in September 2018. Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play important roles in displaying social and affective behaviors and in controlling the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, filled pauses, and short utterances such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that have been studied previously from various research fields. However, much is still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations (production/encoding) and their relations to their intentions and perceived meanings (perception/decoding) in interaction. The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse research areas and to provide an exchange forum for interdisciplinary discussions in order to gain a better understanding of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations. The workshop will consist of invited talks and oral presentations of ongoing research and discussion papers. We invite contributions concerning laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations from the fields of phonetics, linguistics, psychology, conversation analysis, social signal processing, and human-machine/robot interaction. In particular, topics related to the following aspects are very much welcomed: * Multimodal interaction: visual aspects of non-verbal vocalisations, e.g., smiles, relation between non-verbal vocalisations and visual behaviors Submission procedure
Registration Important dates
Venue
Website http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html for updated information about the workshop
Organizers Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS ? ISIR, Sorbonne University Jonathan Ginzburg, University Paris Diderot Jürgen Trouvain, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University
Contact information CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne University
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| 3-3-6 | (2018-10-11) Retirement of Prof. Jean Schoentgen Invitation Madame, Monsieur, La présente afin de vous convier au séminaire organisé en l’honneur du Professeur Jean Schoentgen, qui se déroulera ce 11 octobre. Après quelques mots d’accueil, nous aurons le plaisir d’écouter le Pr J. Schoentgen au sujet d’un thème passionnant dont nous vous réservons la surprise. Le programme de la journée sera ensuite émaillé de plusieurs présentations (langue au choix des orateurs), dont le détail se trouve au verso. Cette journée constituant une belle opportunité de réunir cliniciens et chercheurs en un même lieu, nous espérons sincèrement que vous serez des nôtres. Dans l’affirmative, nous vous saurions gré de nous transmettre votre inscription pour le 4 octobre au plus tard, ceci afin que nous puissions adéquatement prévoir les pauses café et repas (sandwiches). Au plaisir de vous rencontrer prochainement. Dominique Morsomme Programme 8h20 Accueil 8h50 Message de bienvenue 9h00 Jean Schoentgen, physicist – FNRS senior scientific researcher Thème surprise 10h00 Véronique Delvaux, phonéticienne – FNRS researcher Perception de la qualité vocale de locuteurs normophoniques français : effet des variables liées à la tâche, aux auditeurs et aux locuteurs. 10h30 Pause (30’) 11h00 Marc De Bodt, vocologist - PhD - researcher Reliability of perceptual (visual and tactile) assessment of breathing in speaking voice. 11h30 Isabel Schiller, vocologist - PhD student Listening challenge : How noise and dysphonic voice may disrupt children's spoken language processing. 12h00 Remerciements du Département de Logopédie 12h15 Pause repas 13h45 Dominique Morsomme, vocologist – PhD researcher Validation préliminaire de l’adaptation française du Transsexual Voice Questionnaire de Dacakis & Davies. 14h15 Angélique Remacle, vocologist - PhD – FNRS researcher Applications du biofeedback en vocologie. 14h45 Kristiane Van Lierde, vocologist - PhD - researcher Can we create a functional voice lift ? 15h15 Pause (30’) 15h45 Youri Maryn, vocologist - PhD - researcher Shaken, not stirred … toward objective measurement of perceived vocal tremor severity. 16h15 Abdellah Kacha, electrical engineer – PhD - researcher Analyse en composantes principales du spectrogramme de la parole : interprétation et application à la parole dysarthrique. 16h45 Timothy Pommée, vocologist - PhD student L’AVQI 03.01 appliqué à la langue française : validité, précision diagnostique et corrélation avec la plainte du patient adulte. 17h15 La parole est au public 17h45 Verre de l’amitié Le lieu Université de Liège Amphis de l’Europe (B4) Salle R54 Blvd du Rectorat 13 4000 Liège
Parking PA Face aux Amphis Europe Participation : 60€ lunch inclus. Le paiement fait office d’inscription. A verser sur le compte BE73 3401 5581 3360 pour le 4 octobre au plus tard Destinataire : JSCH111018 -‐‑ Communication : Nom prénom -‐‑ Sém JS 1018
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| 3-3-7 | (2018-10-11) The 4th Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP4) conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (updated) Link to Call for Papers and Submission Website:
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| 3-3-8 | (2018-10-15) 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Mons, Belgique 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
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| 3-3-9 | (2018-10-16) 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (MVAR 2018), Munich, Germany *Note: paper submission deadline extended till 18 July*
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| 3-3-10 | (2018-10-16) 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, USA 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction (MA3HMI 2018)
October 16th, 2018 in Boulder, USA. In conjunction with ICMI2018.
http://MA3HMI.cogsy.de
Scope: One of the aims in building multimodal user interfaces and combining them with technical devices is to make the interaction between user and system as natural as possible. The most natural form of interaction may be how we interact with other humans. Although technology is still far from human-like, and systems can reflect a wide range of technical solutions. They are often represented as artificial agents to facilitate smooth inter-actions. While the analysis of human-human communication has resulted in many insights. Transferring these to human-machine interactions remains challenging especially if multiple possible interlocutors are present in a certain area. This situation requires that multimodal inputs from the main speaker (e.g., speech, gaze, facial expressions) as well as possible co-speaker are recorded and interpreted. This interpretation has to occur at both the semantic and affective levels, including aspects such as the personality, mood, or intentions of the user, anticipating the counterpart. These processes have to be performed in real-time in order for the system to respond without delays, in a natural environment. The MA3HMI workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on the analysis of multimodal data as a means to develop technical devices that can interact with humans. In particular, artificial agents can be regarded in their broadest sense, including virtual chat agents, empathic speech interfaces and life-style coaches on a smart-phone. More general, multimodal analyses support any technical system being located in the research area of human-machine interaction. For the 2018 edition, we focus on the environment and situation an interaction is situated in extending the investigations on real-time aspects of human-machine interaction. We address the synergy of situation, context, and interaction history in the development and evaluation of multimodal, real-time systems. We solicit papers that concern the different perspectives of such human-machine interaction. Tools and systems that address real-time conversations with artificial agents and technical systems are also within the scope of the workshop.
Topics (but not limited to): a) Multimodal Environment Analyses - Multimodal understanding of situation and environment of natural interactions - Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions - Novel strategies of human-machine interaction in terms of situation and environment b) Multimodal User Analyses - Multimodal understanding of user behavior and affective state - Dialogue management using multimodal output - Multimodal understanding of multiple users behavior and affective - Annotation paradigms for user analyses in natural interactions - Novel strategies of human-machine interactions c) Applications, Tools, and Systems - Novel application domains and embodied interaction - Prototype development and uptake of technology - User studies with (partial) functional systems - Tools for the recording, annotation and analysis of conversations
Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 30th, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: September 10th, 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: September 15th, 2018 Workshop Date: October 16th, 2018
Submissions: Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages) and short papers (5 pages) in ACM format as specified by ICMI 2018. Accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. All submissions should be anonymous.
Organisers: Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany Francesca Bonin, IBM Research, Ireland Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ronald Poppe, Utrecht University, Netherland
-- Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inf. Ronald Böck FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems Building 03, Room 322 Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg Universitaetsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Phone: +49 391 67 50061 E-mail: ronald.boeck@ieee.org ronald.boeck@ovgu.de Web: http://www.kognitivesysteme.de
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| 3-3-11 | (2018-10-16) Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era, Boulder, CO, USA Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era
Boulder, Colorado, October 16th, 2018 WORKSHOP TOPICS AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS
We invite the submission of papers (max 8 pages), short papers and demos (max 4 pages). According to the ICMI 2018 guidelines, the reviewing will be double blind, so submissions should be anonymous: do not include the authors' names, affiliations or any clearly identifiable information in the paper. It is appropriate to cite past work of the authors if these citations are treated like any other (e.g., 'Smith [5] approached this problem by....') - omit references only if it would be obviously identifying the authors. Submitted papers should conform to the ACM publication format. For templates and examples, please click on this link. Please use the latest ACM_SigConf format for both short and long paper submissions.
The papers should be submitted to PrecisionConference. The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors will need to create a new account to log into the new Precision Conference system for submissions, even if they already have an account though the old Precision Conference system. Paper submission deadline: July 31st, 2018 Notification to authors: August 31st, 2018 Workshop date: October 16th, 2018 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Theodora Chaspari, Texas A&M University (chaspari@tamu.edu) Angeliki Metallinou, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning (ametalli@amazon.com) Leah Stein Duker, University of Southern California (lstein@chan.usc.edu) Amir Behzadan, Texas A&M University (abehzadan@tamu.edu) For additional information visit http://h3-icmi2018.cse.tamu.edu or write to chaspari@tamu.edu.
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| 3-3-12 | (2018-10-16) ICMI-Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions EXTENDED DEADLINE International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018
Call for Doctoral Consortium Contributions EXTENDED June 25th, Decisions July 20th, Camera Ready July 31st. Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfdc **********
The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. The Consortium will be held on October 16, 2018. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).
Who should apply? While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
Submission Guidelines Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
1) Extended Abstract: A four-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SigConf format. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions will not be anonymous. In particular, it should cover: - The key research questions and motivation of your research, - Background and related work that informs your research, - A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem, - Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies, - The research approach and methodology, - Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work, - A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work.
2) Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support. Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.
3) CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
Review Process The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Financial Support We hope to provide most student attendees with partial financial support to cover the costs of attending the Doctoral Consortium and the conference. However, the details on the number of students to be funded and funding coverage is currently unknown, as we are currently working on raising funds. More detail on travel support will be announced on the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website.
Attendance All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
Process - Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2). - Submission system: To be updated. - Selection process: Peer-Reviewed - Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session - Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library - Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Roland Goecke (U Canberra) and Yelin Kim (SUNY Albany)
Dates Submission deadline: EXTENDED to June 25th 2018 Notifications: July 20th 2018 Camera-ready deadline: July 31st 2018 Doctoral Consortium Date: October 16th 2018
Questions? For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfdc) For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs: - Roland Goecke (U Canberra) Roland.Goecke@canberra.edu.au - Yelin Kim (SUNY Albany) yelinkim@albany.edu --
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| 3-3-13 | (2018-10-16) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) , Boulder, CO, USA International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Boulder, Colorado, October 16-20th, 2018 Second Call for Late Breaking Results Due August 1st, 2018, Notifications August 31st, Camera-ready Sept 7th. Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cflbr **********
Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits
EXTENDED DATES: Due August 3rd, 2018, Notifications August 8th, Camera-ready August 12th.
Submission and general info: https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfd
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We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018), located in Boulder, Colorado. October 16-20th, 2018.
Demonstrations and Exhibits
The ICMI 2018 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. They can also serve to introduce commercial products.
Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a two page paper, which will be included in ICMI proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than one page; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers are invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.
The theme of the ICMI 2018 conference is Multi-modal Understanding of Multi-party Interactions. Demonstrations in this area will benefit from more exposure to visitors, and will allow visitors to interact with the material.
Demonstration Submission
A description of the demonstration must be submitted electronically through the main ICMI conference management system:
https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/
Demo description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than two pages in length including references - template available at:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Demo proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration and, if possible, the URL of a website where a live version or video of the proposed demo is available. Please note that the accepted demonstration descriptions will be included in ICMI proceedings.
The selection process is juried by committee, according to criteria such as: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals (paper submission), along with preparing the short papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.
The curated demo program will be selected from the submitted proposals as well as invited demos from among regular conference papers accepted for presentation at the conference which the committee deems suitable for demonstration.
The demo and exhibit paper submissions should not be anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).
Exhibit Submission
Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demo proposals. The main difference is that exhibits proposals should be shorter in length (up to one page) and more suitable for very mature systems (commercial or almost commercial). Exhibits won't have a paper published in the ICMI 2018 proceedings.
Important Dates - EXTENDED FINAL DEADLINE
Submission of demo and exhibit proposals: August 3rd, 2018 (23:59PM, PST)
Demo and exhibit notification of acceptance: August 8th, 2018
Submission of demo final papers: August 12th, 2018 (23:59PM, PST)
Attendance
At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s).
Questions?
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Demonstrations and Exhibits, visit the main conference website https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfd. For further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs (wolfgang.minker@uni-ulm.de and abhinav@iitrpr.ac.in)
- Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University)
- Abhinav Dhall (IIT Ropar) New this year! The ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is soliciting submissions for a new venue this year: Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of the LBR venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues. HIGHLIGHTS: - Submission deadline: August 1st, 2018 - Notifications: August 31st, 2018 - Camera-ready deadline: September 7th, 2018 - Conference Dates: October 16-20th, 2018 - Submission format: Anonymized, four pages not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates) - Selection process: Peer-Reviewed - Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session - Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library - LBR Co-chairs: Cosmin Munteanu (University of Toronto Mississauga) and Lisa Anthony (University of Florida) WHAT IS LATE-BREAKING WORK? Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track. WHY SUBMIT TO THE LATE-BREAKING WORK TRACK AT ICMI? Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field. Late-Breaking Work papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are ?significant? revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Extended Abstract: An anonymized, four-page paper, not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates). The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the 'Late-Breaking Work' track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted. Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person. REVIEW PROCESS LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it ?fits? the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. ATTENDANCE At least one author of all accepted LBR submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference poster session. QUESTIONS? For more information and updates on the ICMI 2018 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/ For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (cosmin@taglab.ca and lanthony@cise.ufl.edu) - Cosmin Munteanu, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada - Lisa Anthony, University of Florida, USA
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| 3-3-14 | (2018-10-22) 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Seoul, Korea First International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia, October 22-26, 2018, Seoul, Korea
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seoul, Korea together with ACM Multimedia 2018. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:
– annotation and indexing – athlete and object tracking – activity recognition, classification and evaluation – event detection and indexing – performance assessment – injury analysis and prevention – data driven analysis in sports – graphical augmentation and visualization in sports – automated training assistance – camera pose and motion tracking – brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions
Please refer to the workshop website for further information: http://www.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports/
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Due: July 8, 2018 Acceptance Notification: August 5, 2018 Camera Ready Submission: August 12, 2018 Workshop Date: TBA; either Oct 22 or Oct 26, 2018
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| 3-3-15 | (2018-10-22) 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Seoul, KoreaCall for Papers (Submission deadline EXTENDED to July 15) ---------------------------------------------------------
First International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia, October 22-26, 2018, Seoul, Korea
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seoul, Korea together with ACM Multimedia 2018. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:
– annotation and indexing
– athlete and object tracking
– activity recognition, classification and evaluation
– event detection and indexing
– performance assessment
– injury analysis and prevention
– data driven analysis in sports
– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports
– automated training assistance
– camera pose and motion tracking
– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions
Please refer to the workshop website for further information:
http://www.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports/ IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Due: EXTENDED TO: July 15, 2018 Acceptance Notification: August 5, 2018
Camera Ready Submission: August 12, 2018
Workshop Date: TBA; either Oct 22 or Oct 26, 2018
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| 3-3-16 | (2018-10-22) 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop -AVEC 2018, Seoul Korea 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop ? AVEC 2018
Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2018 conference, 22-26 October, Seoul, Korea
We are calling for participation in the 8th Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2018), an ACM MM Challenge Workshop themed around two topics: for the first time in a challenge bipolar disorder and emotion recognition. Bipolar disorder (BD) is a serious mental health disorder, with patients experiencing either manic or depressive episodes. Those with BD tend to live with this long-term. The purpose of the Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC) series is to bring together multiple communities from different disciplines, in particular the audio-visual multimedia communities and those in the psychological and social sciences who study expressive behaviour and emotion. The AVEC 2018 challenge theme is on Bipolar disorder and Cross-cultural emotion, and it is the eighth competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual, and audiovisual health and emotion analysis, with all participants competing under strictly the same conditions. It introduces major novelties this year with three separated sub-challenges:
In order to participate in the Challenge, please register your team by following the challenge guidelines.
We encourage both - contributions aiming at highest performance w.r.t. the baselines provided by the organisers, and contributions aiming at finding new and interesting insights w.r.t. these challenges. Besides participation in the challenge, we are also encouraging submissions of original contributions on the following topics (not limited to):
Important Dates
Organisers
Fabien Ringeval, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, France
Björn Schuller, Imperial College London/University of Augsburg, UK/Germany
Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham, UK
Roddy Cowie, Queen?s University Belfast, UK
Maja Pantic, Imperial College London/University of Twente, UK/The Netherlands
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| 3-3-17 | (2018-10-28) CfP XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies, Mahé, Seychelles CALL FOR PAPERS
XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies
'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages and Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'
28 October 2018 - 3 November 2018, Mahé, Seychelles
The International Committee for Creole Studies (Comité International des Etudes Créoles (CIEC)) has organized International Conferences on Creole Studies for the past fifty years, at regular intervals. In 2018, the XVIth International Conference of Creole Studies will be held in Seychelles; the organization has been entrusted to the University of Seychelles in liaison with the CIEC.
The international community (UNESCO, UNDP etc.) and the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) support the educational linguistic policy and the possible institutionalization of Creole languages in the dozen of Creole-speaking countries (France and its Departments, Haiti, Dominica, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, San Tome and Principe) that are members of OIF. Creole studies are called upon to contribute decisively to these programs and endeavours. The importance of Creole studies stems primarily from its contributions to the linguistic, cultural and social development of Creole -speaking societies. Beyond, the study of the genesis and development of Creole social, linguistic and cultural systems constitutes a remarkable field of study for human and social sciences, because 'Creole' societies have been formed recently (three to four centuries of existence as a rule) and because of how they are composed and evolve.
The XVIth International Symposium on Creole Studies will focus on: 'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages, Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'. This theme invites philosophers, historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, linguists and other researchers in human and social sciences to present their work on contemporary Creole societies in their historical, linguistic, social, political, economic and cultural evolution.
The focus of the colloquium will be on the following four major themes: A. Creole languages and education B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
Presentation of the themes of the Conference
A. Creole languages and education
Faced with the challenges of education for all, in basic and middle schools, sovereign countries that use a French Creole language have introduced some measure of Creole language teaching in their schools. Some states, such as Seychelles or Haiti, have acquired a vast experience in the domain that should be examined. Mauritius has recently also embarked on this venture which calls for evaluation. The Creole-speaking Outremer Departments, whose creoles are recognized regional languages of France and which benefit from the texts regulating the teaching of regional languages in France, have also many educational practices to share. B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development
Anthropology and the history of Creole worlds are called upon to account for how the creole-speaking social formations, resulting from European colonial expansion, are facing the challenges of development and globalization. The role of Creole languages in the development of economy (tourism, reception of migrants, etc.) has to be assessed. Literary production in the Creole speaking islands of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean has developed greatly in recent years in French and English as well as in Creole languages. The study of this renewal of literature and cultural practices also forms part of theme B. The migratory movements of creole speakers (see also topic C) will also be discussed. What are the paths of the institutionalization of the Creole languages in their respective areas of influence (see the question of Creole language academies)? Creole militant practices may also be mentioned.
C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages.
Recent globalization have caused many displacements of Creole-speaking populations towards more developed economic zones. New Creole-speaking communities have thus been created outside the territories of birth, such as Haitian communities in North America, populations from the Creole speaking Departments in metropolitan France, Mauritians in Australia and Seychellois in the United Kingdom. Creole speaking newcomers are found in prosperous creole-speaking areas, for instance, Haitians in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean.Immigration to Creole-speaking areas also leads to the emergence of neo-learners of Creole languages. Globalization has led to an unprecedented diffusion of Creole languages, including via language and culture industries. These new sociolinguistic situations of diffusion have hardly been described to date. Similarly, little is known about the impact of these migratory movements on the dynamics of Creole languages. To these themes may be added the study of the genesis and evolution of Creole languages.
D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
The description of Creole language systems (phonology, grammar) remains necessary. The analysis of the variation of Creole languages and of their linguistic systems is still unsatisfactory. This theme should bring together contributions that attempt to analyze and explain phonological, morphological and grammatical systems in a typological perspective. This theme may also include work on grammar for teaching. Indeed, in Haiti, the Seychelles and Mauritius, as in the French DROMs, questions arise concerning 'grammar models' and the use of linguistic analyses for teacher training and for teaching of Creole languages as first languages.
Questions
Topics that could be addressed, either in the form of individual papers or as workshops (please contact the organizers), include the following:
- 'Creole' diasporas and their linguistic practices - Creole varieties developed outside the territories of birth - The linguistic varieties of neo-learners of Creole languages - The co - presence of Creole and French - The development of literacy programs in Creole - Bilingual education programs integrating the Creole language - Literatures of Creole-speaking countries - The state of research on Creole language corpora - Creole development at school - Morphology, Syntax etc. of creole languages - The diachronic studies of Creole languages - Relations between Creole languages and languages of the slave population (African languages, Malagasy, etc.) - Creole history, landscape and society - Creolization and the development of Creole societies - Philosophy and history of ideas in Creole societies.
Enoch Aboh, Christian Barat, Arnaud Carpooran, Penda Choppy, Guillaume Fon Sing, Renaud Govain, Marie-reine Hoareau, Thom Klingler, Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig, Carpanin Marimoutou, Salikoko Mufwene, Joelle Perreau, Laurence Pourchez, Lambert-Félix Prudent, Gillette Staudacher-Valliamee, Albert Valdman, Justin Valentin, Daniel Véronique
The papers and proposals for workshops may be included in one of the themes of the Conference and / or in a cross-cutting theme. Proposals for papers or workshops (groupings of 3/4 papers) written in French, English or any French Creole language, with the address and institutional affiliation of the communicant (s) must reach the following e-mail address: Ciec.Sez2018@gmail.combefore 15 January 2018. The abstracts will describe the theme of the paper, the database, the results expected and will not exceed 3,000 characters or 500 words (including bibliography). Submit 2 copies of the proposal, one anonymous (which will be used for the review), the other with the author's name, address and institutional affiliation.
After evaluation, acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be notified as from the 9 April 2018.
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| 3-3-18 | (2018-11-05)11 th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Tilburg, The Netherlands 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 5-8 November, 2018
Website: https://inlg2018.uvt.nl Contact: inlg2018@uvt.nl
The 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2018) will be held in Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 5-8, 2018. The conference takes place immediately after EMNLP 2018, organised in nearby Brussels, Belgium.
INLG 2018 is organised by the Tilburg University Language Production (TULP) research group, part of the Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) The event is organised under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters.
Important dates
- Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2018 - Notification: September 7, 2018 - Camera ready: October 1, 2018 - INLG 2018: November 5-8, 2018
All deadlines are at 11.59 PM, UTC-8.
Topics
INLG 2018 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. The conference will include two special tracks:
(1) Generating Text with Affect, Style and Personality (sponsored by The Netherlands Organization for Scienfitic Research, NWO), and (2) Conversational Interfaces, Chatbots and NLG (organised in collaboration with flow.ai).
General topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Affect/emotion generation - Applications for people with disabilities - Cognitive modelling of language production - Content and text planning - Corpora for NLG - Deep learning models for NLG - Evaluation of NLG systems - Grounded language generation - Lexicalisation - Multimedia and multimodality in generation - Storytelling and narrative generation - NLG and accessibility - NLG in dialogue - NLG for embodied agents and robots - NLG for real-world applications - Paraphrasing and Summarisation - Personalisation and variation in text - Referring expression generation - Resources for NLG - Surface realisation - Systems architecture
A separate call for workshops and generation challenges will be released soon.
Submissions & Format
Submissions should follow the new ACL Author Guidelines and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. ACL 2018 offers both LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates Papers should be submitted electronically through the START conference management system (to be opened in due course).
Three kinds of papers can be submitted:
- Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, with up to two additional pages for references.
- Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, with up to one extra page for references.
- Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems which are of relevance to the NLG community. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2018.
All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2018 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2018 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the 'Acknowledgements' section of the paper when submitted. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice.
Program chairs
- Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Martijn Goudbeek, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Albert Gatt, Malta University, Malta
Workshop & Challenges chairs
- Sina Zarrieß, Bielefeld University, Germany - Mariët Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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| 3-3-19 | (2018-11-08) CfP Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, Aix-en-Provence,France Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018
Call for Papers
We invite submissions for the Workshop Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, to be held at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU), Aix-en-Provence, France, 8 November 2018.
The Workshop is co-located with the 22nd SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 8-10 November 2018.
Aim Signaling the information structure of utterances has been shown to be one of the main dimensions of prosodic meaning in many languages, and remains a driving force behind the research on the typological variety of prosodic systems. Other aspects of prosodic meaning that have been investigated are the role of prosody in the generation of implicatures, in speech-act dynamics, in dialogue management, or in the marking of various kinds of questions, owing much to collaborations between phonologists and semanticists/pragmaticists. Other recent advances in the field are supported by the development of corpus resources and of new experimental methods for the investigation of the empirical validity of specific theoretical claims. This workshop aims at bringing together theoretical and psycholinguists working on the prosody/meaning interface in different languages as well as computational linguists developing tools for prosody-meaning corpus annotation, exploration and processing.
Invited Speakers Michael Wagner, McGill University Pilar Prieto, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Topics Topics include, but are not limited to: - prosodic reflexes of information structure in different languages and their relationship with other grammatical reflexes of information structure (morphological or syntactical), - the relationship between information structure, ellipsis or clause fragments and prosody, - the interplay between information structure and other aspects of prosodic meaning such as speech acts, attitude signaling, or turn-taking management, - more generally, the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse and dialogue.
Submissions We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts should be anonymous, in English, and should not exceed one page (2.5 cm margins, 12pt font size), with an extra page for examples, figures and references.
Important dates Abstract deadline: 27 May 2018 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2018 Workshop: 8 November 2018
Organisers Cristel Portes, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU), Arndt Riester and Uwe Reyle, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart.
Scientific committee Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne),
More information are available on the Workshop webpage: https://semdial.hypotheses.org/prosody Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: cristel.portes@lpl-aix.fr
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| 3-3-20 | (2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan (2018-11-26) The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018), Taipei, Taiwan
International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP) is a biennial conference for scientists, researchers, and practitioners to report and discuss the latest progress in all theoretical and technological aspects of spoken language processing. Since 1998, it has been successfully held in Singapore (1998), Beijing (2000), Taipei (2002), Hong Kong, (2004), Singapore (2006), Kuming (2008), Tainan (2010), Hong Kong (2012), Singapore (2014), and Tianjin (2016). ISCSLP is the flagship conference of SIG-CSLP, ISCA. The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2018) will be held on November 26-29, 2018 in Taipei. While ISCSLP is focused primarily on Chinese languages, works on other languages that may be applied to Chinese speech and language are also encouraged. The working language of ISCSLP is English. Important dates Feb 22, 2018 Submission of special session proposals Apr 30, 2018 Submission of tutorial proposals Jun 11, 2018 Submission of regular and special session papers Aug 01, 2018 Submission of demo proposals
ISCSLP2018 conference website: http://iscslp2018.org/
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| 3-3-21 | (2018-11-29) CfP Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang),Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (updated) Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang)
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| 3-3-22 | (2018-12-07) Conversational AI: ?Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential? , Montreal, Canada Call for papers
Workshop Title:Conversational AI: ?Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential?
Workshop Website:http://alborz-geramifard.com/workshops/nips18-Conversational-AI
Workshop Date:December 7th
Workshop Location:Montreal, Canada
Deadline:October 25th, 11:59 PM EST
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Description:
In the span of only a few years, conversational systems have become commonplace. Every day, millions of people use natural-language interfaces such as Siri, Google Now, Cortana, Alexa and others via in-home devices, phones, or messaging channels such as Messenger, Slack, Skype, among others. At the same time, interest among the research community in conversational systems has blossomed: for supervised and reinforcement learning, conversational systems often serve as both a benchmark task and an inspiration for new ML methods at conferences which don't focus on speech and language per se, such as NIPS, ICML, IJCAI, and others. Research community challenge tasks are proliferating, including the seventh Dialog Systems Technology Challenge (DSTC7), the Amazon Alexa prize, and the Conversational Intelligence Challenge live competitions at NIPS (2017, 2018).
Following the overwhelming participation in our NIPS workshop last year (9 invited talks, 26 submissions, 3 orals papers, 13 accepted papers, 37 PC members, and couple of hundreds of participants), we are excited to continue promoting cross-pollination of ideas between academic research centers and industry. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in this area, to clarify impactful research problems, share findings from large-scale real-world deployments, and generate new ideas for future lines of research. This workshop will include invited talks, contributed work, and open discussion. In these talks, senior technical leaders from both academia and industry will give insights into real usage and challenges at scale. We will prioritize forward-looking papers that propose interesting and impactful contributions. We will end the day with an open discussion, including a panel consisting of academic and industrial researchers.
Invited Speakers:
? Maxine Eskenazi (Carnegie Mellon University)
? Milica Gasic (University of Cambridge)
? Mari Ostendorf (University of Washington)
? Lazaros C Polymenakos (IBM)
? Alexander Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)
? Ruhi Sarikaya (Amazon)
Co-chairs:
? Alborz Geramifard (Amazon)
? Jason Williams (Apple)
Organizers:
? Y-Lan Boureau (Facebook)
? Maxine Eskenazi (CMU)
? Milica Ga?i? (University of Cambridge)
? Jim Glass (MIT)
? Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Amazon)
? Larry Heck (Samsung)
? Lazaros C Polymenakos (IBM)
? Steve Young (Apple)
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| 3-3-23 | (2018-12-18) Spoken Language Technologies Workshop, Athens, Greece
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| 3-3-24 | (2018-??-??) FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 22, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: November 17, 2017
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), and the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACL 2018, COLING 2018, EMNLP 2018, or NAACL HLT 2018. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:
ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be held in Melbourne, Australia, July 15 - July 20, 2018, with workshops to take place on July 19-20: http://acl2018.org/
COLING 2018 (the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20 - August 25, 2018, with workshops to be held on August 20-21, 2018: http://coling2018.org/
NAACL HLT 2018 (the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1 - June 6, 2018 with workshops to be held on June 5-6, 2018: http://naacl2018.org/
EMNLP 2018 (the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018) will be held later in 2018 (after the other three conferences). Exact details on dates and venue for EMNLP workshops will be announced later.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines below).
The proposals should contain:
- A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.
- The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.
- A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to: (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.
- A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers.
- An estimate of the number of attendees.
- A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants.
- A description of special requirements and technical needs.
- The preferred venue(s) (ACL/COLING/NAACL/EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g. if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise)
- If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g. shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.
Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.
In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you submit via the START System (not in the PDF proposal):
- A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).
- A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.
- A list of organizers’ names which will be shown in the web-based survey.
The proposals should be submitted no later than October 22, 2018, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at
https://www.softconf.com/i/acl-workshops2018
The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. In addition, to estimate the attendance of the different workshops, a new voting mechanism will be implemented, where attendees of ACL-affiliated events from the past 3-5 years will be able to vote on which workshops they would like to attend in 2018. (A representative prototype of the survey is shown here, but is subject to change: https://goo.gl/3cuZON.) The overall diversity of the workshops will also be taken into account to ensure the conference program is varied and balanced. The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the four conferences, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers.
Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs.
The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at:
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook
TIMELINE FOR 2018 WORKSHOPS
Timeline:
October 22, 2018: Proposal Submission Deadline
November 17, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
Individual dates:
* ACL:
Dec 11, 2018: First Call for Workshop Papers
Mar 5, 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
April 8, 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
May 7, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
May 28, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
July 19-20, 2018: Workshop Dates
* COLING:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
Aug 20-21, 2018: Workshop Dates
* NAACL:
27 November 2017: First Call for Workshop Papers
8 January 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
2 March 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
2 April 2018: Notification of Acceptance
16 April 2018: Camera-ready papers due
5-6 June 2018: Workshop Dates
* EMNLP:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
TBA: Workshop Dates
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
* ACL:
Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge
* COLING:
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University
* NAACL:
Marie Meteer, Brandeis University
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research
* EMNLP:
TBA
For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers at:
acl-coling-emnlp-naacl-workshops@googlegroups.com
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| 3-3-25 | (2019-03-28) The Second (2019) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'19); San José, CA, USA The Second (2019) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'19)
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| 3-3-26 | (2019-05-12) 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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| 3-3-27 | (2019-05-12) Call for Special Sessions at ICASSP 2019
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| 3-3-28 | (2019-05-14) 8èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, Mons, Belgique Les 8èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique auront lieu à l¹Université de
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| 3-3-29 | (2019-08-04) International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia Don't miss your opportunity to be a part of ICPhS 2019!
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Presentation
http://lig-getalp.imag.fr/icphs-2019-special-session/
The special session Computational Approaches for Documenting and Analyzing Oral Languages welcomes submissions presenting innovative speech data collection methods and/or assistance for linguists and communities of speakers: methods and tools that facilitate collection, transcription and translation of primary language data. Oral languages is understood here as referring to spoken vernacular languages which depend on oral transmission, including endangered languages and (typically low-prestige) regional varieties of major languages.
The special session intends to provide up-to-date information to an audience of phoneticians about developments in machine learning that make it increasingly feasible to automate segmentation, alignment or labelling of audio recordings, even in less-documented languages. A methodological goal is to help establish the field of Computational Language Documentation and contribute to its close association with the phonetic sciences. Computational Language Documentation needs to build on the insights gained through phonetic research; conversely, research in phonetics stands to gain much from the availability of abundant and reliable data on a wider range of languages.
Laurent Besacier ? LIG UGA (France)
Alexis Michaud ? LACITO CNRS (France)
Martine Adda-Decker ? LPP CNRS (France)
Gilles Adda ? LIMSI CNRS (France)
Steven Bird ? CDU (Australia)
Graham Neubig ? CMU (USA)
François Pellegrino ? DDL CNRS (France)
Sakriani Sakti ? NAIST (Japan)
Mark Van de Velde ? LLACAN CNRS (France)
Endorsement
This special session is endorsed by SIGUL (Joint ELRA and ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages)
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Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (DSTC7)
Call for Participation: Data distribution has been started
Website: http://workshop.colips.org/dstc7/index.html
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Background
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The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog
research community since 2013.
From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System
Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.
For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and
selected the following three parallel tracks by peer-reviews:
- Sentence Selection Track
- Sentence Generation Track
- Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track
Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate,
non-profit, government).
Important Dates
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- Jun 1, 2018: Training data is released
- Sep 10, 2018: Test data is released
- Sep 24, 2018: Entry submission deadline
- Oct or Nov 2018: Paper submission deadline
- Spring 2019: DSTC7 special session or workshop (venue: TBD)
DSTC7 Organizing Committee
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- Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Julien Perez - Naver Labs Europe, France
- Luis Fernando D'Haro - Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
DSTC7 Track Organizers
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Sentence Selection Track:
- Lazaros Polymenakos - IBM Research, USA
- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research, USA
- Walter S. Lasecki - University of Michigan, USA
- Jonathan Kummerfeld - University of Michigan, USA
Sentence Generation Track:
- Michel Galley - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Chris Brockett - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Jianfeng Gao - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Bill Dolan - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track:
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Tim K. Marks - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Devi Parikh - Georgia Tech, USA
- Dhruv Batra - Georgia Tech, USA
DSTC Steering Committee
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- Jason Williams - Microsoft Research (MSR), USA
- Rafael E. Banchs - Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
- Seokhwan Kim - Adobe Research, USA
- Matthew Henderson - PolyAI, Singapore
- Verena Rieser - Heriot-Watt University, UK
Contact Information
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