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| 3-1-1 | (2011-08-27) CfP INTERSPEECH 2011 Florence ItalyINTERSPEECH2011 Florence, Italy / August 27-31, 2011 http://www.interspeech2011.org ____________________________________________________________________________ First Announcement Dear Colleague, INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on challenges surrounding the science and technology of Spoken Language Processing (SLP) both in humans and in machines. It is our great pleasure to announce that the Italian SLP community will host INTERSPEECH 2011 under the sponsorship of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). INTERSPEECH 2011 will be the 12th conference in the annual series of INTERSPEECH events. It will be held in Florence, Italy, 27-31 August 2011, with the support of ISCA, AISV (ISCA Italian Regional SIG), CNR (National Research Council), and UniFI (University of Florence). The theme of INTERSPEECH 2011 will be: “Speech science and technology for real life” and under this theme the conference will emphasize an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of speech science and technology spanning the basic theories to applications. Besides regular oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, exhibits, and special sessions are planned. A number of satellite events will take place immediately before and after the conference. Please follow the details of these and other news at our website www.interspeech2011.org. INTERSPEECH Proceedings are indexed in ISI web of science The venue of Interspeech 2011 will be the “Firenze Fiera Congress and Exhibition Center”. For the complete Call for Papers and other Calls please visit our website at http://www.interspeech2011.org/conference/calls.php We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2011 in Florence! Sincerely, Piero Cosi, Renato De Mori Chairs ____________________________________________________________________________ Papers We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including but not limited to: * Speech Perception and Production * Phonology, Phonetics * Para-/Non- linguistic Information * Language Processing * Analysis, Enhancement and Coding of Speech and Audio Signals * Speaker and Language Identification * Speech & Spoken Language Generation, Speech Synthesis * Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) * Technologies and Systems for New Applications * Spoken Dialogue System, Spoken Language Understanding, Speech Translation, and Information Retrieval * Application, Evaluation, Standardization, Spoken Language Resource Special Session Topics will be defined after January 21, 2011 Paper Submission Procedure Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2011 proceedings should be up to four pages in length and conform to the format given in the paper preparation guidelines and author kits which will be available on the INTERSPEECH 2011 website along with the Final Call for Papers. Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia files, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM. Authors shall also declare that their contributions are original and not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g. another conference, workshop, or journal). Papers must be submitted via the on-line paper submission system, which will open in early February 2011. The deadline for submitting a paper is 31 March 2011. This date will not be extended. Inquiries regarding paper submissions should be directed via email to submission@interspeech2011.org. Language The working language of the conference is English. Sincerely, Roberto Pieraccini, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio Technical Chairs ( technical_chair@interspeech2011.org ) ____________________________________________________________________________ Special Sessions Submissions of Special Session proposals are encouraged for the upcoming conference, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Each special session proposal should contain the following information: 1. Title of the proposed Session 2. Names/affiliation of organizers (including brief bio and contact information) 3. An introduction (maximum 1 page) stating the importance of the topic and the objectives of the proposed Session 4. Tentative/confirmed list of papers 5. (titles/affiliations/authors) to be submitted to the proposed Session (optional) Proposals should clearly describe the topic and explain why the topic cannot be covered appropriately in regular sessions. Papers for approved Special Sessions should be submitted following the same schedule/procedure as for regular papers, and will undergo the same reviewing process by anonymous and independent reviewers as regular papers. Proposals will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee based on the relevance/significance of the topic and potential interest to the conference attendees. Submission Procedure Prospective organizers are invited to submit a proposal via email to specialsessions@interspeech2011.org before January 14, 2011. Notification of acceptance of proposals is scheduled for January 21, 2011. Sincerely, Amanda Stent, Mauro Falcone Special Sessions Chairs ____________________________________________________________________________ Tutorials Submissions of tutorial proposals are encouraged, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. The following information should be included in each proposal: * Title of the tutorial; * Duration (a tutorial can last either three or six hours. in the latter case, it will be structured in two sessions of three hours); * Names/affiliation of the presenters; * A brief biography of each presenter, including selected publications and references to web pages of relevant interest for the review; * E-mail address and other possible contact information; * An introduction (maximum 1 page), including the importance of the topic, the objectives and the novelty of the proposed tutorial, and a brief outline of the main target audience; * A presentation outline (maximum 2 pages), specifying how the presentation would be organized in the case of multiple presenters; * A brief description of the material that would be distributed to the participant; * A list of any type of special equipment necessary for the presentation, including nformation if such equipment is required to be supplied by the conference organisers; * Other possible requirements. Submission Procedure Prospective tutorial presenters should submit proposals by email to tutorials@interspeech2011.org before December 15, 2010. Proposals will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee for relevance, quality, value, and novelty - introducing new tools, ideas, and topics to the Interspeech community. Notification of acceptance is scheduled for 15 January 2011. Sincerely, Maurizio Omologo Tutorial Chair ____________________________________________________________________________ Show&Tell We are delighted to host the first Show and Tell event at Interspeech 2011. Show&Tell will provide researchers, technologists and practitioners from academia, industry and government the opportunity to demonstrate their latest research systems and interact with the attendees in an informal setting. Demonstrations need to be based on innovations and fundamental research in areas of human speech production, perception, communication, and speech and language technology and systems. Demonstrations will be peer-reviewed by members of the Interspeech Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the Show&Tell sessions. Each accepted demonstration paper will be allocated 2 pages in the conference proceeding. At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be evaluated and considered for the Best Show&Tell Award. Submission guidelines: * All manuscripts must be in English. * The paper must be no longer than two (2) pages. * All submitted proposals must adhere to the format and style specified in the Interspeech 2011 authors' kit. * All Show&Tell papers submitted to INTERSPEECH 2011 must be original contributions that have not been submitted to any other conference. * Authors are invited to submit supporting data files, such as demonstration videos, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM if their Show&Tell paper is accepted. * Show and Tell events will be held tentatively in the afternoons of August 28th, and 29th. Authors will be provided with a poster board and a table. Wireless access will be available. * Papers should be submitted by email to showandtell@interspeech2011.org Important dates: Full submission deadline: March 31st, 2011 Acceptance notification: May 26th, 2011 Sincerely, Mazin Gilbert Show & Tell Chair ____________________________________________________________________________ Satellite Events The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2011 invites proposals for satellite events at INTERSPEECH 2011 to be held in Florence, Italy, on 27-31 August 2011. The Organizing Committee would be pleased to host various workshops and conferences to be organized as satellite events of INTERSPEECH 2011 in order to stimulate research fields and disciplines related to speech and language. If you are interested in organizing a satellite event, or would like a planned event to be listed as an official satellite event, please email to workshops@interspeech2011.org. It is strongly recommended that proposals are submitted as soon as possible, since any INTERSPEECH satellite event needs to get a prior official approval by ISCA. Proposals should include: date and location of the workshop, a draft of the program, a list of the technical/scientific committee members. A useful cheklist and a document with guidelines for organizing workshops can be found at http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/iscaworkshop/workshops.php Sincerely, Cinzia Avesani Satellite Events Chair ____________________________________________________________________________ Sponsors Any INTERSPEECH is a major undertaking, and INTERSPEECH 2011 is no different. We seek the assistance of all organizations to make INTERSPEECH 2011 a success. Donations from corporate, academic, non-profit, government, and individual sponsors would be immensely appreciated. Your support brings you various benefits. For details, kindly view the Support INTERSPEECH 2011 page or Invitation to Sponsor ( http://www.interspeech2011.org/docs/IS2011-Sponsorship.pdf [PDF, 586KB] ) or contact: sponsors@interspeech2011.org ____________________________________________________________________________ Exhibitors Are you interested in exhibit your speech technologies and applications at INTERSPEECH 2011? We think this is an excellent opportunity for you to reach out to the 1000 attendees we expect in Florence. For details, kindly view the Invitation to Sponsors & Exhibitors [PDF, 586KB] document or contact: sponsors@interspeech2011.org Sincerely, Andrea Fiorio, Andrea Paoloni Sponsors & Exhibitors Chairs ____________________________________________________________________________ Important dates Full paper submission deadline: 31 March 2011 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 26 May 2011 Camera-ready paper due: 09 June 2011 Early/Authors' registration deadline: 10 June 2011 Tutorials dates: 27 August 2011 Conference: 28-31 August 2011 Please visit our website at http://www.interspeech2011.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Organizing Secretariat Dott.ssa Alessandra Colombo Promo Leader Service Congressi Head quarter PLS Group Via della Mattonaia, 17 50121 Firenze (Italy) Phone +39 055 2462 201 +39 055 2462 201 Fax +39 055 2462 270 interspeech2011@promoleader.com
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| 3-1-2 | (2011-08-28) Show and tell (at Interspeech 2011) Interspeech 2011, Florence Italy
Show&Tell
We are delighted to host the first Show and Tell event at Interspeech 2011. Show&Tell will provide researchers, technologists and practitioners from academia, industry and government the opportunity to demonstrate their latest research systems and interact with the attendees in an informal setting. Demonstrations need to be based on innovations and fundamental research in areas of human speech production, perception, communication, and speech and language technology and systems.
Demonstrations will be peer-reviewed by members of the Interspeech Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the Show&Tell sessions. Each accepted demonstration paper will be allocated 2 pages in the conference proceeding.
At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be evaluated and considered for the Best Show&Tell Award.
Submission guidelines:
Chair: Important dates: Acceptance notification: May 27th, 2011
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| 3-1-3 | (2012-09-09) INTERSPEECH 2012, Portland, Oregon USA INTERSPEECH 2012 Portland, U.S., 09-13 September 2012
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| 3-1-4 | (2013-08-23) INTERSPEECH 2013 Lyon France Interspeech 2013 Lyon, France 23-29 August 2013 General Chair: Frédéric Bimbot
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| 3-1-5 | (2014-09-07) INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore Interspeech 2014 will be held in Singapore, the Garden City, on 7-11 September 2014. Conference Chair: Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research.
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| 3-2-1 | (2011-06-17) SIGDIAL 2011 CONFERENCE: 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue,Portland, Oregon CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-2-2 | (2011-06-27) CfP Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing, Bellevue, Washington
Call for Participation Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing June 27, 2011 Bellevue, Washington, USA http://www.ttic.edu/sigml/symposium2011/
The symposium will be held in Bellevue, Washington on June 27th, 2011. It will bring together members of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( http://www.aclweb.org/ ), the International Speech Communication Association (http://www.isca-speech.org/), and The International Machine Learning Society (http://www.machinelearning.org/) . Its goal is to foster communication and collaboration between researchers in these synergistic areas, taking advantage of the nearby locations of ACL-HLT 2011 and ICML 2011.
Topics The workshop will feature a series of invited talks and general submissions. Submissions focusing on novel research are solicited and we especially encourage position and review papers addressing topics that are relevant both to Speech, Machine Learning and NLP. These areas include but are not limited to the use of: SVMs, log-linear models, neural networks, kernel methods, discriminative transforms, large margin training, discriminative training, active, semi-supervised & unsupervised training, structured prediction, Bayesian modeling, deep learning , and sparse representations. Application areas include natural language processing, speech recognition, language modeling, and speaker verification.
Paper Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit papers written in English via the symposium website. Style guidelines and further submission information will be available from the website. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, and each accepted paper must have at least one registered author.
Important Dates
Venue, Accommodation and Registration Venue: SIG-ML will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, Washington, the site of ICML. Accommodation: A wide variety of lodging is available in the Bellevue area. Registration: Please see the website for details.
Organizing Committee Hal Daume III, University of Maryland; Joseph Keshet, TTI-Chicago; Dan Roth, UIUC; Geoffrey Zweig, Microsoft
Scientific Program Committee Jeff Bilmes, University of Washington; Brian Kingsbury, IBM; Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago
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| 3-2-3 | (2011-08-24) CfP SLaTE-2011 workshop Venice, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-3-1 | (2011-03-03) TRALOGY'2011 Translation and Technology Conference Paris F
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| 3-3-2 | (2011-03-17) Journée d'études sur le Résumé automatique multimédia Paris (French) *Appel à participation* Journée d'étude commune GDR-ISIS, AFCP ATALA *Résumé automatique multimédia* Organisation : Eurecom, LIA, Syllabs, Sinequa La prolifération des documents électroniques sous toutes leurs formes suscite des besoins croissants d'outils d'accès et de structuration des contenus numériques. L'un de ces besoins concerne la construction automatique de résumés, qui permettraient de proposer aux utilisateurs une vue synthétique du contenu d'une collection de documents sur un sujet donné. Ce thème a suscité de nombreux travaux ces dernières années, l'essentiel des propositions se focalisant sur une des modalités texte, parole ou vidéo. Le but de cette journée est de réunir autour de ce thème commun les trois communautés, texte, audio et vidéo, afin de faire le point des travaux en cours, de comparer les approches proposées et de débattre des questions centrales de l'évaluation, des applications, des perspectives scientifiques et d'initier des pistes de collaboration entre les équipes travaillant sur différents médias. Cette journée d'étude commune GDR-ISIS, ATALA, AFCP aura lieu à Paris, le 17 Mars 2011 de 9H à 17H, dans les locaux de Telecom ParisTech (Amphi E200, le plan d'accès est accessible _ici_ <http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/telecom-paristech/adresses-acces-contacts/>). La participation à la journée est gratuite, mais le nombre de place étant limité, une inscription sur le site _http://jrm.univ-avignon.fr_ <http://JRM.univ-avignon.fr/> ou sur le site du GDR-ISIS (_http://gdr-isis.org/rilk/gdr/ReunionListe-538_) est obligatoire. Vous pouvez soumettre une proposition de communication jusqu'au 1er Février 2011 sur le site http://jrm.univ-avignon.fr. La proposition doit comprendre le titre de l?intervention, un résumé d?environ 200 mots, le nom de l'auteur et son affiliation. Les présentations dureront 20 minutes, suivies de 10 minutes de questions. Comité scientifique : F. Cailliau (Sinequa), J. Couto (Syllabs), G. Linarès (CERI/LIA, Université d'Avignon), B. Mérialdo (Eurecom), B. Peralta (Wikio), J.M. Torres-Moreno(CERI/LIA, Université d'Avignon). Georges Linarès CERI - University of Avignon/Université d'Avignon Head of the LIA/Directeur du LIA Tel: +33 4 90 84 35 20
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| 3-3-3 | (2011-04-07) Comparative Methods and Analysis in the Language Sciences Toulouse France JéTou 2011 - Comparative Methods and Analysis in the Language Sciences - their dissertation within the past three years) in the language sciences.
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| 3-3-4 | (2011-04-17) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) Trento Italy
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) http://www.icmr2011.org 17-20 April, Trento, Italy The First ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR. It is the ideal forum to present and encounter the most recent developments and applications in the area of multimedia content retrieval. Originally set up to illuminate the state-of-the-art in image and video retrieval, ICMR aims at becoming the world reference event in this exciting field of research, where researchers and practitioners can exchange knowledge and ideas. Important dates: October 15, 2010 : Special Session and Tutorials Proposal November 5, 2010 : Special Session and Tutorials Selection December 3, 2010 : Paper Submission February 11, 2011 : Notification of acceptance March 4, 2011 : Submission of camera-ready papers ICMR 2011 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multimedia retrieval. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, and community-based management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Content- and context-based indexing, search and retrieval of images and video * Multimedia content search and browsing on the Web * Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio, image, video and 3D data * Multimedia content analysis and understanding * Semantic retrieval of visual contents * Learning and relevance feedback in media retrieval * Query models, paradigms, and languages for multimedia retrieval * Multimodal media search * Human perception based multimedia retrieval * Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image/video users * Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for image/video retrieval * HCI issues in multimedia retrieval * Evaluation of multimedia retrieval systems * High performance multimedia indexing algorithms * Database architectures for multimedia retrieval * Novel multimedia data management systems and applications * Community-based multimedia content management * Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs * Interaction with medical image databases * Satellite imagery analysis/retrieval * Image/video summarization and visualization ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Honorary Chair: Ramesh Jain (UC Irvine) General Co-Chairs: Francesco G.B. De Natale (Univ. Trento) Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ. Florence) Technical Program Co-Chairs: B.S Manjunath (UC Santa Barbara) Alan Hanjalic (TU Delft) Shin'ichi Satoh (National Inst. of Informatics, Tokyo) Local Chair: Nicola Conci (Univ. Trento) Giulia Boato (Univ. Trento) Special Session Chair: Riccardo Leonardi (Univ. of Brescia) Panel Chair: Wolfgang Nejdl (Univ. Hannover) Practitioner Co-Chairs: Andrea de Polo (Alinari) Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo!) Videolympics Chairs: Cees Snoek (Univ. Amsterdam) Alan Smeaton (Dublin City Univ.) Publication Chair: Marco Carli (Univ. of Roma Tre) Publicity Chair: Ioannis Patras (Queen Mary Univ. London) Web Chair: Andrea Rosani (Univ. Trento) ____________________________________
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| 3-3-5 | (2011-04-18) CfP 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval/ Dublin, Ireland***** Final Call for Posters/Demos - ECIR 2011 ****** 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Dublin, Ireland 18 - 21 April 2011 In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, Dublin City University, University of Sheffield http://ecir2011.dcu.ie *************************************************** * Posters/Demos deadline approaching - 29 October (midnight GMT) * This deadline is final and will not be extended The 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011) will take place in Dublin, Ireland from 18-21 April 2011. ECIR provides an opportunity for both new and established researchers to present research papers reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within Information Retrieval. ECIR has traditionally had a strong student focus and papers whose sole or main author is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher are especially welcome. As an added incentive at ECIR2011, accepted full-papers whose first author is a student will be given the opportunity to be paired with a senior mentor who will interact with them during the course of the conference. Each mentor will be an expert in the relevant area of the student's work, and will provide questions and subsequent feedback after their presentation. We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original posters and demos, which will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of Information Retrieval. Papers that demonstrate a high level of research adventure or which break out of the traditional IR paradigms are particularly welcome. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Enterprise Search, Intranet Search, Desktop Search, Adversarial IR - Web IR and Web log analysis - Multimedia IR - Digital libraries - IR Theory and Formal Models - Distributed IR, Peer-to-peer IR, - Mobile IR, Fusion/Combination - Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR - Topic detection and tracking, Routing - Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering - Question answering, NLP for IR - Summarization, Lexical acquisition - Text Data Mining - Text Categorization, Clustering - Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms - Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, - Structure-based representation, XML Retrieval - Metadata, Social networking/tagging - Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collections - Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR - User interfaces and visualization - Opinion mining, Sentiment Analysis - Blog and online-community search - Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures) The ECIR 2011 conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors for both long and short papers are invited to submit their paper on or before 15 October 2010. All paper submissions must be written in English following the LNCS author guidelines [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0]. Posters and demos must not be longer than 4 pages. All papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review so authors should take reasonable care not identify themselves in their submissions. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference. ********************************************* Important dates 18 Oct 2010: Paper/Short Paper submission deadline (passed) 29 Oct 2010: Poster/Demo submission deadline 10 Dec 2010: Notification of acceptance 18 Apr 2011: Workshops Day / Tutorial Day 19-21 Apr 2011: ECIR 2011 main conference Organising Committee General Chair: Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University) Programme Co-chair: Gareth Jones (Dublin City University) and Paul Clough (University of Sheffield) Student Mentor Chair: Nicola Stokes (University College Dublin) Workshops Chair: Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow) Tutorials Chair: Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Sheffield) Posters Chair: Wessel Kraaij (TNO, Radboud University) Demos Chair: Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research) Local organization Chair: Colum Foley (Dublin City University) and Peter Wilkins (Dublin City University) Advertising Chair: Hyowon Lee (Dublin City University) Any questions please email: ecir2011@computing.dcu.ie ********************************************* ------------------------------------------------ Dr Hyowon Lee CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies Dublin City University Glasnevin, Dublin 9 Ireland http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~hlee/ hlee@computing.dcu.ie Tel: +353 -1 700 5829 ------------------------------------------------
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| 3-3-6 | (2011-05-19) Quatrièmes journees de phonetique clinique, Strasbourg (France) jpc4 quatrièmes journees de phonetique clinique 19-21 mai 2011, strasbourg, France colloque international universite de strasbourg (uds) instutut de phonetique de strasbourg (ips) U.R. 1339 linguistique, langue et parole (lilpa) – E.R. parole et cognition programme de la maison interuniversitaire des sciences de l’homme alsace USR 3227 (misha)
Les modalités de Soumission vont suivre bientôt….
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| 3-3-7 | (2011-05-22) ICASSP 2011, Prague ICASSP 2011
Prague hosts IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011. Prague Congress Centre, May 22-27, 2011.
ICASSP is one of the world's major conferences for signal processing, bringing together over 2000 participants and experts from industry and universities.
The conference features world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, demos, and over 120 lecture and poster sessions on the following topics: Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Sensor Array and Multichannel Systems, Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, Speech and Language Processing, Signal Processing for Communications and Networking, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing, Biomedical Imaging, Information Forensics and Security, and Signal Processing Education.
Important deadlines Special Session & Tutorial Proposals Due September 1, 2010 Notification of Special Session & Tutorial Acceptance October 6, 2010 Submission of Camera Ready Papers October 20, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance January 17, 2011 Revised Paper Upload Deadline February 20, 2011 Registration Deadline for Authors March 13, 2011
More information can be found at http://www.icassp2011.com/
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| 3-3-8 | (2011-05-25) 9ème édition des Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP) Grenoble France Organisée par les jeunes chercheurs des laboratoires GIPSA et LPNC de
Grenoble et parrainée par l’Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), la 9ème édition des Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP) se tiendra, du 25 au 27 mai 2011, sur le campus universitaire de Grenoble. ********************************************************************* * Objectif Cette manifestation donne tous les deux ans aux (futurs) doctorants ou jeunes docteurs l’occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux et d’échanger sur les divers domaines de la Parole grâce à un travail collaboratif. Au-delà de ce cadre purement scientifique, cette rencontre sur 3 jours sera l’occasion pour les participants de faire leurs premiers pas dans la communauté de la Parole. Cette édition 2011 est ouverte à tous : communicants qui présentent leurs travaux ou auditeurs qui désirent assister aux présentations. * Langue La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. * Domaine Les travaux présentés porteront sur la communication parlée et le traitement de la parole dans leurs différents aspects. * Les thèmes de ces journées incluent : - Phonétique et Phonologie - Sociolinguistique de la parole Variation (dialectologie, etc.) Style Perception - Production/Perception de la parole En conditions « normales » En conditions adverses (voix chuchotée, bruit, etc.) Avec changement de paramètres (chant, récitation, théâtre, etc.) - Acoustique de la parole Modèles phonatoires : modélisation acoustique du conduit vocal Etudes des écoulements Dispositifs de mesures (outils, maquettes de production, etc.) - Acquisition et enseignement de la parole Langue maternelle Langue seconde Bilinguisme et multilinguisme - Corrélats neuro-anatomiques et fonctionnels de la parole Spécialisation hémisphérique Neurophonétique Neurolinguistique - Synthèse Synthèse de différentes qualités de voix, Conversion de voix Synthèse des émotions, Prosodie Synthèse de visages, Animation Applications (grand public, handicap) - Reconnaissance, Indexation Reconnaissance de la parole spontanée Modèles de langage Modèles acoustiques Systèmes multilingues Indexation de documents audiovisuels Vérification et Identification du Locuteur Applications (grand public, handicap) - Traduction automatique - Pathologie de la parole (autisme, surdité, dyslexie, etc.) - Multi-modalité/Gestualité associée à la parole/Expressivité Multi-modalité Développement Gestualité Expressivité Audiovisuel * Format des communications Toutes les communications devront être en français - Présentations orales : chacune aura une durée de 15 minutes et sera suivie de 10 minutes de discussion. Il est suggéré aux communicants de renforcer leur communication orale avec un diaporama ou un autre type d’illustrations. - Présentations des affiches : la taille est fixée au format A0 portrait. Une session d’une heure par jour sera réservée à la présentation des affiches. Pendant cette session, les communicants resteront près de leur affiche de manière à répondre aux questions de leurs collègues ou à recevoir et discuter d’éventuelles suggestions. Dans le cas où des ateliers seraient prévus, ils dureront entre une demi-heure et une heure. Le communicant animera son atelier de façon vivante et fera participer son public. Ce type de communication doit faciliter l’échange oral, voire la mise en situation, entre le communicant et les participants sur la durée de l’atelier. Notez bien que ces formats pourront être légèrement modifiés selon la quantité et le type de soumissions acceptées. Ces informations sont données à titre indicatif pour les jeunes chercheurs qui n’ont jamais participé à un colloque. * Modalités de soumission des articles Tous les articles devront être soumis en français, excepté le résumé qui sera en anglais. - Format des articles soumis : Les articles ne devront pas dépasser 4 pages, bibliographie comprise Les documents devront être déposés sur la plateforme électronique exclusivement au format PDF Les modèles d'article (Word et LaTeX) sont disponibles sur le site * Dates Date limite pour les soumissions : jeudi 23 décembre 2010 à minuit (24h) GMT+1 La notification et le début des inscriptions : mardi 8 mars 2011 La date limite pour les inscriptions : mardi 22 mars 2011 Dépôt de la version corrigée : mardi 22 mars 2011 La conférence aura lieu du mercredi 25 au vendredi 27 mai 2011 * Informations Complémentaires Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/colloques/RJCP Mail : RJCP2011@gmail.com <mailto:RJCP2011@gmail.com> Tél. : +33 (0)4 04 76 82 41 97 En espérant vous voir nombreux à cet événement. Le comité d’organisation des RJCP 2011 Atef Ben Youssef Ibrahima Cissé Sandra Cornaz Mathilde Fort Amélie Lelong Benjamin Roustan Rosario Signorello Thi Thuy Hien Tran
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| 3-3-9 | (2011-05-30) CfP HSCMA 2011: 3rd Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Edinborough, UKHSCMA 2011: The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays 30 May - 1 June 2011, Edinburgh, UK http://www.hscma2011.org/ The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays will be held from 30 May to 1 June 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The workshop will bring together researchers in microphone arrays and speech/speaker recognition and focusing on recent advances in speech and signal processing techniques based upon multi-microphone systems, and on distant-talking speech communication and human/machine interaction. Demonstrations of experimental systems, applications, and prototypes are especially welcome. WORKSHOP TOPICS --------------- The technical scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to: * Multichannel acoustic signal processing; * Speech and speaker recognition technology; * Microphone array technology and architectures; * Applications based on microphone arrays and distant-talking or hands-free speech systems. There is an emphasis on work that crosses these technical areas. PAPER / DEMO SUBMISSION ----------------------- The workshop programme will consist of talks, posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (up to 6 pages; 2 pages for demo papers). Authors are encouraged to include a public URL to a video of the demo in their paper submission. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper/demo submission: 13 February 2011 Notification of paper/demo acceptance: 21 March 2011 Workshop: 30 May - 1 June 2011 ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- General-chairs: Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, UK); Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Technical committee: Gary Elko (MH Acoustics LLC, USA); Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK); Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT, Japan); Maurizio Omologo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler-irst, Italy); Boaz Rafaely (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Michael Seltzer (Microsoft Research, USA) Demonstrations: Mike Lincoln (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publications: James Hopgood (University of Edinburgh, UK) Website: Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publicity: Arnab Ghoshal (Saarland University, Germany)
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| 3-3-10 | (2011-05-30) CfP 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2011) TARRAGONE SPAIN1st Call for Papers 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2011) Tarragona, Spain, May 30 – June 3, 2011 http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2011/ ********************************************************************* Extended submission deadline January 9 2011 AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. Inheriting the tradition of the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that was developed at Rovira i Virgili University in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2011 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: - algebraic language theory - algorithms for semi-structured data mining - algorithms on automata and words - automata and logic - automata for system analysis and programme verification - automata, concurrency and Petri nets - cellular automata - combinatorics on words - computability - computational complexity - computational linguistics - data and image compression - decidability questions on words and languages - descriptional complexity - DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing - document engineering - foundations of finite state technology - fuzzy and rough languages - grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.) - grammars and automata architectures - grammatical inference and algorithmic learning - graphs and graph transformation - language varieties and semigroups - language-based cryptography - language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life - neural networks - parallel and regulated rewriting - parsing - pattern recognition - patterns and codes - power series - quantum, chemical and optical computing - semantics - string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics - string processing algorithms - symbolic dynamics - term rewriting - transducers - trees, tree languages and tree machines - weighted machines STRUCTURE: LATA 2011 will consist of: - 3 invited talks - 2 invited tutorials - refereed contributions - open sessions for discussion in specific subfields, on open problems, or on professional issues (if requested by the participants) INVITED SPEAKERS: To be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Andrew Adamatzky (Bristol) Cyril Allauzen (Mountain View) Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan) Franz Baader (Dresden) Marie-Pierre Béal (Marne-la-Vallée) Philip Bille (Lyngby) Miklós Bóna (Gainesville) Symeon Bozapalidis (Thessaloniki) Vasco Brattka (Cape Town) Maxime Crochemore (London) James Currie (Winnipeg) Jürgen Dassow (Magdeburg) Cunsheng Ding (Hong Kong) Rodney Downey (Wellington) Manfred Droste (Leipzig) Enrico Formenti (Nice) Amy Glen (Perth) Serge Haddad (Cachan) Shunsuke Inenaga (Fukuoka, co-chair) Jesper Jansson (Tokyo) Jarkko Kari (Turku) Marek Karpinski (Bonn) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle) Gregory Kucherov (Lille) Markus Lohrey (Leipzig) Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam) Salvador Lucas (Valencia) Sebastian Maneth (Sydney) Carlos Martín-Vide (Brussels, co-chair) Giancarlo Mauri (Milano) Alexander Meduna (Brno) Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima) Sven Naumann (Trier) Gonzalo Navarro (Santiago, CL) Mark-Jan Nederhof (St Andrews) Joachim Niehren (Lille) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala) Kemal Oflazer (Doha) Alexander Okhotin (Turku) Witold Pedrycz (Edmonton) Dominique Perrin (Marne-la-Vallée) Giovanni Pighizzini (Milano) Alberto Policriti (Udine) Lech Polkowski (Warsaw) Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch) Mathieu Raffinot (Paris) Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan) Ayumi Shinohara (Sendai) Jamie Simpson (Perth) Magnus Steinby (Turku) James Storer (Boston) Jens Stoye (Bielefeld) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw) Richard Thomas (Leicester) György Vaszil (Budapest) Heiko Vogler (Dresden) Pascal Weil (Bordeaux) Damien Woods (Pasadena) Thomas Zeugmann (Sapporo) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Shunsuke Inenaga (Fukuoka, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Brussels, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). Submissions have to be uploaded at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2011 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing refereed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration will be open since October 13, 2010 until May 30, 2011. The registration form can be found at the website of the conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2011/ Early registration fees: 500 Euro Early registration fees (PhD students): 400 Euro Late registration fees: 540 Euro Late registration fees (PhD students): 440 Euro On-site registration fees: 580 Euro On-site registration fees (PhD students): 480 Euro At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have a registered author who paid the fees by February 28, 2011 will be excluded from the proceedings. Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks and lunches. PhD students will need to prove their status on site. PAYMENT: Early (resp. late) registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before February 28, 2011 (resp. May 16, 2011) to the conference series account at Uno-e Bank (Julián Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain): IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide – LATA 2011). Please write the participant’s name in the subject of the bank form. Transfers should not involve any expense for the conference. Please notice that the date that counts is the day when the transfer reached the conference’s account. On-site registration fees can be paid only in cash. A receipt for payments will be provided on site. Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the registration form at the website of the conference. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: January 3, 2011 Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 14, 2011 Early registration: February 28, 2011 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: February 28, 2011 Late registration: May 16, 2011 Starting of the conference: May 30, 2011 Submission to the post-conference special issue: August 30, 2011 FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2011 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386
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| 3-3-11 | (2011-06-12) CfP 9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-3-12 | (2011-06-13) CBMI 2011 9th International Workshop on Comtent-Based Multimedia Indexing 9th International Workshop on Comtent-Based Multimedia Indexing
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| 3-3-13 | (2011-06-20) CfP 9th International Seminar in Speech Production, Montreal CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À PROPOSITIONS: 9th International Seminar
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| 3-3-14 | (2011-07-11) Workshop on Multimodal Audio-based Multimedia Content Analysis (MAMCA-2011) Workshop on Multimodal Audio-based Multimedia Content Analysis (MAMCA-2011)
website: http://www.mamca2011.com
In Conjunction with the IEEE International Conference
on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
Barcelona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011
Call for Papers
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By definition, multimedia content is composed of multiple forms, including
audio, video, text/ subtitles, and others. Traditionally, applications and
algorithms that work with such content have considered only a single modality,
allowing for example searching of textual tags, thereby ignoring any information
available from others modalities. The limitations of this approach are obvious,
and there is a recent trend towards multimodal processing, in which different
content modalities complement each other, or are used for bootstrapping analysis
of new modalities.
Audio is a prominent part of multimedia content, which is backed up by extensive
research by the speech and music communities, although usually performed on
audio-only systems. Utility of audio-only systems is often limited by the quality
of the acoustic environment or the information contained therein, so they can
benefit from a multimodal analysis of multimedia data, to enhance the resulting
performance, robustness, and efficiency.
The main goal of the workshop is to explore ways in which audio processing can
be enhanced, bootstrapped, or facilitated by other available information modalities.
We are interested not only in applications that show successful combinations of
audio and other sources of information, but also on algorithms that effectively
integrate them and leverage complementary information from each modality to obtain
an enhanced result, in terms of degree of detail, coverage of the corpus, or other
enabling factors.
The workshop will provide a forum for publication of high-quality, novel research
on multimedia applications and multimodal processing, with a special focus on the
audio modality.
Paper submission
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MAMCA 2011 solicits regular technical papers of up to 6 pages following the ICME
author guidelines. The proceedings of the workshop will be published as part of
the IEEE ICME 2011 main conference proceedings and will be indexed by IEEE Xplore.
Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference
or journal. Papers can be submitted through the ICME submission website.
Papers submitted to the workshop will be peer-reviewed by members of the community
with extensive experience both in audio processing as well as other relevant
modalities considered. The review will be semi-blind and assignment will be
performed manually in order to generally produce three best practice reviews of
each of the submitted papers.
Papers can be submitted through the ICME submissions website at http://www.icme2011.org/submission.php
Topics of interest
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including, but not limited to:
- Effective fusion of audio with other modalities
- Multimodal input applications, where one input is audio
- Multimodal databases
- Bootstrapping of multimodal systems
- Co-training for labeling new data
- User-in-the loop calculations to detect preferences
- Games with a purpose to label new data
- Improving robustness through multimodality
- Prediction of modality preference
- Applications that utilize multimodality
Important dates
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- Paper submission deadline: February 20th 2011
- Paper acceptance notification: April 10th 2011
- Camera-ready paper: April 20th 2011
- Workshop day: tentative date July 11th or 15th 2011
Organizing committee
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Xavier Anguera (Telefonica Research)
Gerald Friedland (ICSI)
Florian Metze (CMU)
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| 3-3-15 | (2011-07-11) JHU Summer WorkshopsJHU Summer Workshops CALL FOR TEAM RESEARCH PROPOSALS (revised) Deadline: Tuesday, November 9, 2010. http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws11/CFP The Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University invites one-page research proposals for a Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, to be held in Baltimore, MD, USA, July 11 to August 19, 2011. An interactive peer-review meeting will refine and select proposals to be funded for a six-week residential team exploration. Proposals should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various fields of Human Language Technology (HLT). This year, proposals in related areas of Machine Intelligence that share techniques with HLT, such as Computer Vision (CV), are also strongly solicited. Proposals are welcome on any topic of interest to HLT, CV and technically related areas. For example, proposals may address novel topics or long-standing problems in one of the following areas. * SPEECH TECHNOLOGY: Proposals are welcomed that address any aspect of information extraction from speech signal (message, speaker identity, language,...). Of particular interest are proposals for techniques whose performance would be minimally degraded by input signal variations, or which require minimal amounts of training data. * NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Proposals for knowledge discovery from text are encouraged, as are proposals in traditional fields such as parsing, machine translation, information extraction, sentiment analysis, summarization, and question answering. Proposals may aim to improve the accuracy or enrich the output of such systems, or extend their reach by improving their speed, scalability, and coverage of languages and genres. * VISUAL SCENE INTERPRETATION: New strategies are needed to parse visual scenes or generic (novel) objects, analyzing an image as a set of spatially related components. Such strategies may integrate global top-down knowledge of scene structure (e.g., generative models) with the kind of rich bottom-up, learned image features that have recently become popular for object detection. They will support both learning and efficient search for the best analysis. * UNSUPERVISED AND SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING: Novel techniques that do not require extensive quantities of human annotated data to address any of the challenges above could potentially make large strides in machine performance as well as lead to greater robustness to changes in input conditions. Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning techniques with applications to HLT and CV are therefore of considerable interest. Research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops may serve as good examples for your proposal (http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops). An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated no later than November 12, 2010. Authors passing this initial screening will be invited to Baltimore to present their ideas to a peer-review panel on December 3-5, 2010. It is expected that the proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two or three research topics and the teams to tackle them will be selected for the 2011 workshop. We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop to collaboratively pursue the selected topics for six weeks. Authors of successful proposals typically become the team leaders. Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and students. The senior participants come from academia, industry and government. Graduate student participants familiar with the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance. Undergraduate participants, selected through a national search, are rising seniors: new to the field and showing outstanding academic promise. If you are interested in participating in the 2011 Summer Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed. If your proposal passes the initial screening, we will invite you to join us for the December 3-5 meeting in Baltimore (as our guest) for further discussions aimed at consensus. If a topic in your area of interest is chosen as one of the two or three to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available for participation in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith understanding that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will actively pursue it. We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to make your six-week participation possible. Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to clsp@jhu.edu by 4PM EST on Tue, November 9, 2010.
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| 3-3-16 | (2011-08-17) 17th International Congress ofPhonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII) 17th International Congress ofPhonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII) in Hong Kong, August 17-21, 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. I CPhS XVII is jointly organized by the City University of Hong Kong, the
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| 3-3-17 | (2011-08-31) 9TH Pan European Voice Conference PEVOC 09, Marseille France> * PEVOC on Facebook / PEVOC sur Facebook > http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143581129022212 > ******************************************************************** > > Dear colleagues, > > We are very pleased to invite you to the ninth Pan European > Voice Conference (PEVOC9). It will be held on August 31th - > September 3rd, 2011 in Marseille, France. The Pan-European > Voice conference has always been a great scientific, medical > and artistic event. It focuses both on basic and applied > scientific research, and on clinical assessment and > treatment. It offers the opportunity for international voice > researchers, voice therapists, voice teachers and singers to > come together and share their knowledge, ideas and > experience. PEVOC conferences are known to provide a forum > for the presentation and discussion of current scientific and > clinical research on the larynx and voice. After previous > meetings of the PEVOCs in London, Regensburg, Utrecht, > Stockholm, Groningen, Graz and Dresden, we are proud to host > PEVOC for the first time in France. It will be held in > Marseille, a major French city on the Riviera Coast. PEVOC9 > will host three additional meetings : > > - August 31st 2011 : the first meeting of the new European > Academy of Voice, a european organization for education in > the voice sciences. http://www.european-academy-of-voice.org/ > > - September 3rd 2011 : workshop of the *European > Laryngological Society on the topic of micro-phono-surgery. > http://www.elsoc.org/ > > - August 30-31st 2011 : workshop of the European Voice > Teachers Association on the topic of Digital Resources in the > Voice Teaching Studio. http://www.evta-online.org/ > > Please find more details in the PEVOC website: > http://www.pevoc9.fr/ We hope very much to see you in end of > August 2011 in Marseille ! > > Antoine GIOVANNI and Nathalie HENRICH, chairpersons >
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| 3-3-18 | (2011-09-01) First International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2011) Firenze Italy First International Workshop on
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| 3-3-19 | (2011-09-12) Prosody- Discourse Interface Conference Conference IDP 2011 The Prosody-Discourse Interface (including research training workshop on prosody and special workshop on expressives and affective prosody) University of Salford, Greater Manchester 12 September 2011 – 14 September (incl) (just after the LAGB 7 – 10 September 2011, at the University of Manchester) http://www.lagb.org.uk/?page_id=128
Invited speakers: Nicole Dehe, University of Konstanz John Local, University of York Chris Potts, University of Stanford Marc Schroeder, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
This conference is the fourth in a series which provides a forum for those working on the relationship between prosody and discourse. As the previous conferences have shown, there is a range of phenomena which illustrate how research in prosody feeds into research in discourse and vice versa – for example, the communication of attitudes and emotions, constraints on implicit meaning, focus and information structure, the communication of irony, interaction and interactive meaning, humour in discourse, parentheticals, the interpretation of anaphora, the identification of processing units, and the identification of genre. The relationship between prosody and discourse has been viewed from the perspective of phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, language acquisition, language processing, language pathology, stylistics, language evolution, and speech synthesis. Moreover, research has been carried out in a wide range of theoretical paradigms. We now aim to build on this research, and in this way develop a greater understanding of phenomena at the prosody-discourse interface.
The conference will consist of four parts: 1. Research Training Workshop (for research students and academics who wish to develop an understanding of the issues involved in transcribing prosodic structure). 2. Oral presentations on any area of the prosody-discourse interface 3. P5oster sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface 4. Special workshop on expressive and affective prosody (speakers: Diane Blakemore, Chris Potts, Marc Schroeder)
We now invite researchers in prosody and discourse to submit abstract for inclusion in themed sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface (including the topic of the special workshop). We expect abstracts to address the following questions from a range of theoretical paradigms:
Please note
Deadlines Submission of abstracts: 15 April 2011 Notification of acceptance: 6 June 2011 Conference: 12 – 14 September 2011 Enquiries: Diane Blakemore (local organizer) d.blakemore@salford.ac.uk Debbie Hughes (conference support) d.hughes1@salford.ac.uk
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| 3-3-20 | (2011-09-12)CfP Prosody-Discourse Interface IDP 2011 U.Salford, Great Manchester UK Conference IDP 2011
Second Call for Papers
The Prosody-Discourse Interface (including research training workshop on prosody and special workshop on expressive and affective prosody)
University of Salford, Greater Manchester 12 September 2011 – 14 September (incl) (just after the LAGB 7 – 10 September 2011, at the University of Manchester)
Invited speakers: Nicole Dehe, University of Konstanz John Local, University of York Chris Potts, University of Stanford Marc Schroeder, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
This conference is the fourth in a series which provides a forum for those working on the relationship between prosody and discourse. As the previous conferences have shown, there is a range of phenomena which illustrate how research in prosody feeds into research in discourse and vice versa – for example, the communication of attitudes and emotions, constraints on implicit meaning, focus and information structure, the communication of irony, interaction and interactive meaning, humour in discourse, parentheticals, the interpretation of anaphora, the identification of processing units, and the identification of genre. The relationship between prosody and discourse has been viewed from the perspective of phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, language acquisition, language processing, language pathology, stylistics, language evolution, and speech synthesis. Moreover, research has been carried out in a wide range of theoretical paradigms. We now aim to build on this research, and in this way develop a greater understanding of phenomena at the prosody-discourse interface.
The conference will consist of four parts:
We now invite researchers in prosody and discourse to submit abstract for inclusion in themed sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface (including the topic of the special workshop). We expect abstracts to address the following questions from a range of theoretical paradigms:
Please note
Deadlines Submission of abstracts: 15 April 2011 Notification of acceptance: 6 June 2011 Conference: 12 – 14 September 2011
Conference website: http://www.famss.salford.ac.uk/page/pdi_conference
Enquiries: Diane Blakemore (local organizer) d.blakemore@salford.ac.uk Debbie Hughes (conference support) d.hughes1@salford.ac.uk Gerry Howley (conference assistant) G.M.Howley@edu.salford.ac.uk
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| 3-3-21 | (2011-10-19) APSIPA ASC 2011, Xi'an, China APSIPA ASC 2011
website: http://www.apsipa2011.org
Call for papers
With great honor, the City of Xi'an hosts the APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2011 (APSIPA ASC 2011). Xi'an, the eternal city, records the great changes of the Chinese nation just like a living history book. Called Chang'an in ancient times, Xi'an is one of the birthplaces of the ancient civilization in the Yellow River Basin area of the country. During 3,100 year development of Xi'an, 13 dynasties such as Western Zhou (11th century BC-771 BC), Qin (221 BC-206 BC), Western Han (206 BC-24 AD) and Tang (618-907) placed their capitals here. So far, Xi'an enjoys equal fame with Athens, Cairo, and Rome as one of the four major ancient civilization capitals in the world. Xi'an enjoys the laudatory title of 'China Natural History Museum'. The Museum of Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses is praised as 'the eighth major miracle of the world', the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang is listed on the World Heritage List, and the Famen Temple holds the precious finger bones of Sakyamuni the founder of Buddhism? APSIPA ASC 2011 is the third great event of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). Founded in 2009, APSIPA aims to promote research and education on signal processing, information technology and communications. The annual conference was previously held in Japan in 2009 and in Singapore in 2010. The field of interest of APSIPA concerns all aspects of signals and information including processing, recognition, classification, communications, networking, computing, system design, security, implementation, and technology with applications to scientific, engineering, and social areas. Accepted papers in regular sessions and accepted papers in special sessions will be published in APSIPA ASC 2011 proceedings which will be indexed by EI Compendex. The topics for regular sessions include, but are not limited to: 1. Signal Processing (SP) 2. Communication Systems (Com) 3. Information Processing (IP) 4. Multimedia & Computer Graphics (MM&CG) 5. Circuits and Systems/VLSI (Circuits) Submission of Papers Important Dates
Organizing CommitteeHonorary Co-Chairs General Co-Chairs Technical Program Co-Chairs Forum Co-Chairs Panel Session Co-Chairs Special Session Co-Chairs Tutorial Session Co-Chairs Publicity Co-Chairs Publication Co-Chairs Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Sponsorship Co-Chairs Industrial & Government Advisors Financial Co-Chairs Registration Co-Chairs Organizers Tsinghua University Northwestern Polytechnical University
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| 3-3-22 | (2011-12-15) Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop ASRU 2011 ASRU 2011
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| 3-3-23 | 2011-09-27) XIVth Intern. Conference Speech and Computer- Russia
Preliminary information More precise information about the date of paper submittal, the requirements for paper formalization and the financial matter of the participation in the conference will be declared some time later.
XIV International Conference “Speech and Computer”
Organizers of the conference: Moscow State Linguistic University, Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University The Conference is organized in cooperation with Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. Approximate dates The location of Discussion Issues: • Informatization and public information security • Automatic processing of multilingual, multimodal and multimedia information • Speech signal coding and decoding; speech information security • Linguistic, para- and extralinguistic communicative tactics and strategies • The legibility of speech transmitted through different communication channels; speech by interference and noise • Speech production and perception modeling • Fundamental and applied problems of modern speechology • Development and testing of automatic voice and speech systems for speaker verification; speaker emotional state and native language identification • Automatic speech recognition and understanding systems • Language and speech information processing systems in robotechnics • Automated translation systems • New information technologies in lingvodidactics; 3-D technologies • Text-to-speech conversion systems • Spoken and written natural language corpora linguistics • Multifunctional expert and information retrieval systems • Future of multi-purpose and anti-terrorist speech technologies The aim of the conference the development of automated human-machine interface systems based on natural language processing and new information technologies Well-known specialists both from Russia and from such countries as Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, China, Czekh Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, Viet Nam etc. regularly participate in the conference. The International Speech Communication Association, International Association on Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, International Society of Phonetic Sciences, Russian Acoustic Society and other organizations actively participate in this event. The atmosphere of the conference promotes lively discussion and opinion interchange, as well as decisionmaking in different fields of fundamental and applied sciences connected with natural language information processing and high technologies. Alongside with the intense scientific program, a wide spectrum of cultural and excursion activities will be provided.
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