Dear Colleagues,

 We are pleased to inform you that the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar will be organizing the 5th edition of ISCA Supported Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P-2019) during July 06-10, 2019.  S4P 2019 is the 5th edition of summer school of its kind in India which is focused this time on speaker biometrics and diarization.
 URL:  https://sites.google.com/site/s4p2019/ 

Early Registration: Before May 06, 2019.

The topic of S4P 2019 is ?Speaker Recognition and Diarization,? the latest topic of research involving understanding challenging field of voice biometrics. With the advent of new smartphones and deployment of voice authentication for banking transactions, it is now possible to answer, in a principled way, the insights about speech production-perception and its link to speaker-specific information, and develop new engineering models for this research problem. S4P 2019 would highlight recent developments in the field from world renowned experts. We expect researchers from IISc/IITs/NITs/DA-IICT/IIITs and other institutions in the country, industry researchers working in speech/audio area and research scholars to participate at the summer school.
 S4P 2019 will have four experts from abroad and seven experts from India to present recent developments in their respective research topics that are related to the theme of summer school.  The experts chosen are Jean-Francois Bonastre (Avignon University, France), Nicholas Evans (EURECOM, France), Thomas F. Zheng (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China),  Dong Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Dr. P. K. Saxena (Scientific Consultant, Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA)) to Govt of India, Swaran Lata (Retd. MeitY, New Delhi).  B.Yegnanarayana (Retd. IIT Madras), Swaran Lata (Retd. MeitY, New Delhi), K. Samudravijaya (IIT Guwahati), Hema A. Murthy (IIT Madras), S. R. M. Prasanna (IIT Dharwad), Suryakanth Gangashetty (IIIT Hyderabad)  and K. S. R. Murty (IIT Hyderabad). The program committee of S4P 2016 includes internationally well-known experts from 18 countries across the world.  The S4P 2019 also includes 4th edition 5 minute Ph.D. thesis (5MPT) which provides doctoral students an opportunity to showcase their research work in front of eminent researchers both from academia and industry and possibly win ISCA endorsed cash prizes and DE GRUYTER book prizes. We are also attaching the poster and signed cover letter for call for participation. In addition, this summer school will also have a special session involving renowned experts from speech technology industry, namely. Vikram Vij (Senior Vice President, Voice Intelligence Group, Samsung Research Institute, Bengaluru, India), Sunayana Sitaram from Microsoft Research, Bangalore,  K. Sunilkumar (TCS Innovation Labs, Mumbai) and Pranaw Kumar (C-DAC Mumbai).   
We are writing this letter anticipating that you will participate in this event and we are sure, your participation will make this event enriching. We would also request you to encourage your post doctoral fellows, PhD Scholars and M.Tech. students, Research Associates (RA) and faculty colleagues to submit their application for participation. We are sure, participation at the summer school will help us to get updated on the latest research in the broad areas of speaker recognition and diarization. We will appreciate it very much if you can arrange to place the poster on the notice board of your department /institution / university/ R&D lab.

We look forward to hearing from you.

With best regards,
Prof. Hemant A. Patil,
APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer 2018-2019.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee,  S4P 2019.

 Patron K. S. Dasgupta, Director, DA-IICT GandhinagarOrganizing Committee , S4P 2019 Hemant A. Patil, Chair, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, Suman K. Mitra, Convener, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,
 Yash Vasavada, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,
 Sanjeev Gupta, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,
 Srimanta Mandal, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,
 Soman Nair, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,International Program Committee, S4P 2019 Douglas O'Shaughnessy, McGill University, Canada Sadaoki Furui, Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago, USA Douglas Reylonds, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA Hideki Kawahara, Wakayama University, Japan Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology,The Netherlands Torbjørn Svendsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Jiri Navratil, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA  Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece Tomi H. Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Junichi Yamagishi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan  Eduardo Lleida, University of Zaragoza, Spain  Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, University of Basque Country,  Euskal Herriko
Unibertsitatea  Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France  Saikat Chatterjee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm  Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, New York  Kong Aik Lee, NEC Corporation, Japan   Amy Neustein, Verizon, USA  Tanja Schultz, University of Bremen, Denmark   Dong Ming Hui, Institute for Infocomm Research(I2R), A*STAR, Singapore   Eliathamby Ambikairajah, University of New South Wales, Sydney   Dong Wang, Tsinghua University, China   Tara Sainath, AI Google, USA   Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan    Jianwu Jang, JAIST, Japan   Csapó Tamás Gábor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary  Bernd Moebius, Saarland University, Germany  Pascal Perrier, GIPSA-Lab,Grenoble-INP, France   Daryush Mehta, Center of Laryngeal and Voice Rehabilitation, Boston, USA

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SIGDIAL 2019

11?13 September 2019, Stockholm, Sweden

Call for Special Sessions

http://workshops.sigdial.org/conference20

Special Session Submission Deadline: January 28, 2019 Special Session Notification: February 18, 2019

The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals.

A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session.

Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions.

The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by the special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself, taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what  appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.

We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End?to?end systems.

Submissions:

Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral  session).

These proposals should be sent to conference[at]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co?chairs.

Links:

Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings.

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference19/sessions.htm

https://robodial.github.io/

http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/

SIGDIAL 2019 Organizing Committee

General Chair:

Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Program Chairs:

Milica Ga?i?, Cambridge University, UK

Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

Local Chair:

Gabriel Skantze, KTH, Sweden

Sponsorship Chair:

Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

Mentoring Chair:

Alex Papangelis, Uber AI, USA

Publication Chair:

Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany

Publicity Chair:

Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

SIGdial President:

Jason Williams, Apple, USA

SIGdial Vice President:

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

SIGdial Secretary:

Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA

SIGdial Treasurer:

Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President Emeritus:

Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

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CALL FOR PAPERS SIGDIAL 2019 CONFERENCE September 11-13, 2019 http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference20/
 
The 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2019) will be held on September 11-13, 2019 at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with Interspeech 2019, which will be held September 15-19 in Graz, Austria (https://www.interspeech2019.org).  The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of nineteen successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. Keynote Speakers:  Dan Bohus, Mirella Lapata, Helen Meng
 
TOPICS OF INTEREST  We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:  Discourse Processing Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering, and information retrieval.  Dialogue Systems Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications.  Corpora, Tools and Methodology Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting
topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.  Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling Pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence).  Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology
 
SPECIAL SESSIONS SIGDIAL 2019 will include one special session (http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference20/attend.html#specialsessions):  Implications of Deep Learning for Dialog Modeling (http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/deep/)
Please see the special session page for additional information and submission details. In order for papers submitted to the special session to appear in the SIGDIAL 2019 conference proceedings, they must undergo the regular SIGDIAL review process.
 
SUBMISSIONS  The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be accepted as long papers for oral presentation or long papers for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.  Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages are allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for example discourses or dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.  Short papers should be no longer than four pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages are allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for example discourses or dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.  Demo descriptions should be no longer than four pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos, sound files, etc. Multiple Submissions Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission link). SIGDIAL 2019 cannot accept work for publication or
presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. Blind Review Building on previous year’s move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2019 will follow the new ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format. Authors are expected to use the ACL LaTeX style template or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Link and Deadlines Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload a pdf of their paper before the May 19 deadline. Updates of a final pdf file will be permitted until May 19, 23:59 GMT. https://www.softconf.com/i/sigdial2019/   IMPORTANT NOTE: ADOPTION OF ACL AUTHOR GUIDELINES  As noted above, SIGDIAL 2019 is adopting the ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines will be rejected without review.  Preserving Double Blind Review The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected, or withdrawn.  You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes).  If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the nonanonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.
 Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible. Citation and Comparison If you are aware of previous research that appears sound and is relevant to your work, you should cite it even if it has not been peer-reviewed, and certainly if it influenced your own work. However, refereed publications take priority over unpublished work reported in preprints. Specifically:  You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about all unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted and/or is not widely cited).  In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version. Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than 3 months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation and/or in-depth analysis.   MENTORING Submissions with innovative core ideas that may be in need of language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and accepted with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication.   BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2019 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.   IMPORTANT DATES  Long, Short & Demonstration PDF Submission: 19 May 2019 (23:59, GMT)  Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Notification: 28 June 2019  Final Paper Submission: 21 July 2019 (23:59, GMT)  Conference: 11-13 September, 2019
  SIGDIAL 2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Technology, Japan   Program Chairs: Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia Milica Gasic, Saarland University, Germany   Local Chair: Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden   Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan   Mentoring Chair: Alexandros Papangelis, Uber AI, USA
 
Publication Chair Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany
 
Publicity Chair: Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
 
SIGdial President: Jason Williams, Apple, USA   SIGdial Vice President: Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA   SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA   SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
 
SIGdial President Emeritus: Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

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HSCR19 - The 3rd International Workshop on the HISTORY OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION RESEARCH

13-14 September, 2019 in Vienna, Austria

<https://hscr19.kfs.oeaw.ac.at>

CALL FOR PAPERS

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are interested in historical aspects of all areas of speech communication research (SCR) with a focus on the interdisciplinary nature of the different fields of research.

A special interest of the 2019 workshop is on the relation between science and technology that can be exemplified through the history of SCR ? including methods from the 20th century that are no longer the state-of-the-art but of historical relevance. Interesting questions in this respect are: How can knowledge transfers between science and technology be exemplified by the history of SCR? What is the relation between SCR and artistic practices? How was speech communication research influenced by the medical sciences?

Like the past HSCR workshops that were held in 2015 in Dresden and 2017 in Helsinki this workshop is a satellite event of the INTERSPEECH conference which will be held in Graz, Austria <https://www.interspeech2019.org/>, a meeting that advertises with the Austro-Hungarian speech communication pioneer Wolfgang von Kempelen.

Invited speaker is Peter Donhauser from the Institute for Media Archeology in Vienna.

Important Dates:

Full paper submission: May 24, 2019

Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2019

Camera-ready paper submission: July 19, 2019

Workshop: September 13-14, 2019

The proceedings will be published in the book series 'Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation' at TUDpress (Technical University Dresden).

Workshop organisation:

Michael Pucher, Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

Juergen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

Carina Lozo, Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

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Event: The 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2019)

Location: Graz, Austria

Dates: September 20 - 21, 2019

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/slate2019

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