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3-3-1(2011-03-03) TRALOGY'2011 Translation and Technology Conference Paris F


TRALOGY'2011
Translation and Technology Conference

Paris (France), March 3-4, 2011

We no longer translate as we did 50, 20 or even 10 years ago. What form will the translation process take 10, 20 or 50 years from now? What
will be the demand for translation and what kind of tools, what kind of approach, will we need to meet that demand? Who will be the translators
– assuming they will still be called translators – of tomorrow? What skills and disciplines will they need, on what concepts will their work
be based and what form will their training take? What can technology do today and what will it be able to do tomorrow? How far has research in
the field of machine translation and computer-assisted translation come? If there is to be a partnership between human beings and
machines, what approach to human translation will it be based on, and how will it progress?

To try to answer those questions, the TRALOGY international conference is organized in Paris (France), March 3-4, 2011.

This conference is of interest for:
- Translators and Interpretors,
- Researchers in Language Technology, especially Machine Translation,
- Educators in the areas of translation and interpretation.

Deadline for submitting on-line a 500-word abstract is November 30, 2010

All information on the conference is available at:
http://www.tralogy.eu/
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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 -
April 7th-8th, 2011, Toulouse, France
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The doctoral students and young researchers of the language science laboratories in Toulouse, France:
 
- CLLE-ERSS (équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique)
- Laboratoire Octogone-Lordat (Centre Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Langage et de la Cognition)
 
as well as the computer science laboratory :
 
- IRIT (Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse)
 
are organizing the third edition of JéTou, a conference aimed at doctoral students and young researchers (who have defended

their dissertation within the past three years) in the language sciences.
 
The conference will focus on comparative methods and analysis in the language sciences.
 
The need to explore comparative methods is characteristic of the social sciences. Even more so than researchers in the “hard” sciences, researchers in the social sciences are often confronted with certain limitations with respect to their object of study, and therefore must expand their research beyond their own points of reference.
 
When approaching the topic of comparative methods and analysis in linguistics, one might first consider cross-linguistic comparison, which has given rise to several diverse areas of research, such as comparative linguistics, contrastive linguistics, and linguistic typology.  Cross-linguistic comparison has informed certain principles that would not have been brought to light without looking to other languages.  This is the case at all levels of linguistic description (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics).

 
However, comparative or contrastive approaches also come into play in several other fields of study in the language sciences:
 
- While comparative studies between pathological subjects (aphasia, dyslexia, degenerative diseases, etc.) and non-pathological subjects are useful for clinical aims and objectives (diagnosis, description, and treatment of language pathologies), they also provide us with a better understanding of the cognitive aspects related to the development and use of language by healthy subjects.
- Comparing speakers with respect to their first language, their social identity, or even the way that they speak one or several language(s), allows us to determine universals in the acquisition of language, and inversely, to identify determining factors in attrition phenomena.
- Studies in language pedagogy have relied on contrastive analysis (between one’s first language and a second language) since the mid-20th century.  This is due to the fact that learning a first language involves the development of strategies and specific language patterns.  Also, such studies allow us to observe certain language traits, positive or negative, that “cross over” from the first language into the second language.  The question of multilingualism and plurilinguistic learning also falls into this set of issues.
- The notion of norm is ubiquitous in the language sciences, as language is governed by normalisation rules.  However, these rules, whether implicit or not, do not impede the creativity of speakers.  The multitude of different usages that have been brought to light by using comparative approaches is the proof of this individuality.
- In natural language processing, comparative approaches can be used in different areas of research: comparison of annotations to assess the difficulty of a task, comparison of reference annotation during evaluation, etc.  Some applications, such as the detection of plagiarism, are directly based on the notion of comparison.
- Corpus linguistics offers the necessary tools for wide-scale comparison between different corpora (aligned corpora of different languages, reference corpora vs. specialized corpora, etc.)
- Comparison can also be used as an analytical tool at different levels of linguistic description, such as morphology, syntax, semantics, etc.
 
The purpose of JéTou 2011 is to bring together young researchers working in different disciplines within the language sciences around the common theme of comparative approaches.  This topic, inherently cross-disciplinary, invites reflection on the question of method, which, while central to all research, is often neglected in scientific proceedings.
 
Possible contributions could focus on issues related to the following fields:
 
- descriptive linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- psycholinguistics
- neurolinguistics
- terminology
- language acquisition and pedagogy
- translation
- corpus linguistics
- natural language processing
 
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Types of presentations
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Two types of submissions will be accepted: long articles (8 to 10 pages) and short articles (4 to 5 pages).  Long articles will be presented as oral presentations or as posters, while short articles will be presented as posters.  
 
The proceedings of the conference will be published in book form and will also be available on the conference website.
 
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Criteria for selection
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Each submission will be evaluated by at least two specialists in the chosen field of study.  Submissions will be considered based on the following criteria:
 
1. The importance and originality of the contribution
2. The accuracy of the scientific and technical content
3. The critical discussion of results, particularly with respect to other work in the field
4. The organisation and clarity of the writing
5. Conformity to the theme of the conference
 
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Submission Guidelines
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Articles must be written in French or in English.
Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for a long article or 5 pages for a short article (including figures and examples, but not references).  The text must be written in Times 12, single spaced, in A4 format.  LaTeX and Word style sheets are available on the conference website.
The deadline for submissions is October 15th, 2010.  Submissions must be made using the Easychair conference management system.  Further information regarding the submission process can be found on the JéTou 2011 website: http://jetou2011.free.fr

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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
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* 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. 


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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

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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







********************************************************************* Appel à Communication RJCP 2011 9èmes Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole Grenoble, 25 – 27 mai 2011 Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/colloques/RJCP 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 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, UK
HSCMA 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
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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 SPAIN
1st 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/

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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


        9th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing

                      13-15 June 2011, Madrid, Spain
                      
                     
http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/
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Following the eight successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009 and Grenoble 2010), the Video Processing and Understanding Lab (VPULab) and the Information Retrieval Group (IRG) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will organize the next CBMI event.

CBMI 2011 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation. The scientific program of CBMI 2011 will include invited keynote talks and regular and special sessions with contributed research papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
- Matching and similarity search
- Construction of high level indices
- Multimedia index extraction
- Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes
- Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
- Content-based search
- Multimedia data mining
- Metadata generation, coding and transformation
- Large scale multimedia database management
- Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
- Presentation and visualization tools    
- User interaction and relevance feedback
- Personalization and content adaptation
- Evaluation and metrics

Important Dates
---------------
        Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 14, 2011
        Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011
        Submission of camera-ready papers: March 11, 2011

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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

                      13-15 June 2011, Madrid, Spain
                   
                     
http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/
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Following the eight successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009 and Grenoble 2010), the Video Processing and Understanding Lab (VPULab) and the Information Retrieval Group (IRG) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will organize the next CBMI event.

CBMI 2011 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation. The scientific program of CBMI 2011 will include invited keynote talks and regular and special sessions with contributed research papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
- Matching and similarity search
- Construction of high level indices
- Multimedia index extraction
- Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes
- Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
- Content-based search
- Multimedia data mining
- Metadata generation, coding and transformation
- Large scale multimedia database management
- Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
- Presentation and visualization tools   
- User interaction and relevance feedback
- Personalization and content adaptation
- Evaluation and metrics

Important Dates
---------------
        Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 14, 2011
        Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011
        Submission of camera-ready papers: March 11, 2011

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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
in Speech Production, Montreal, June 20-23, 2011
<http://www.risc.cnrs.fr/detail_lesechos.php?ID=13623>
De : issp2011 [ à ] uqam.ca

Dear speech researcher,

We are pleased to announce that the the ninth International Seminar on
Speech Production (ISSP'11) will be held in Montreal, Canada from June
20th to 23rd,
2011. ISSP’11 is the continuation of a series of seminars dating back to
Grenoble (1988), Leeds (1990), Old Saybrook (1993), Autrans (1996),
Kloster Seeon (2000), Sydney (2003), Ubatuba (2006), and Strasbourg (2008).
Several aspects of speech production will be covered, such as phonology,
phonetics, linguistics, mechanics, acoustics, physiology, motor control,
neurosciences and
computer science.

For this edition, a special session will be organized in honor of Dr.
Joseph Perkell, for his contribution to the field.

THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS NOVEMBER 15th, 2010.
Technical details will be posted soon on the conference website
(
www.issp2011.uqam.ca).

Looking forward to your venue in Montreal in 2011!

The organizing committee/ Le comité organisateur,
Lucie Ménard (UQAM)
Shari R. Baum (McGill)
Vincent Gracco (McGill)
David Ostry (McGill)

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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
-----------------
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
--------------------
Xavier Anguera (Telefonica Research)
Gerald Friedland (ICSI)
Florian Metze (CMU)
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3-3-15(2011-07-11) JHU Summer Workshops
JHU 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
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, and the Academia Sinica,
Taipei, under the auspices of the Permanent Council for the
Organization of the International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences and
the International Phonetic Association. We have the pleasure to invite
you to take part in this world event in Hong Kong 2011. For further
information about ICPhS XVII, please visit the congress website
http://www.icphs2011.hk or contact us at icphs2011@cityu.edu.hk.




The Organizers of ICPhS XVII 2011



Congress website: http://www.icphs2011.hk

Email: icphs2011@cityu.edu.hk

Tel.: (852) 3442-7594

Fax: (852) 3442-0356

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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
Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2011)

           in conjunction with Interspeech 2011
           September 1st, 2011, Florence, Italy

     http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/workshop
      ----------------------------------------------


Important Dates:
* Deadline for submission of papers: April 14th, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: June 2nd, 2011
* Final version: June 14th, 2011
* Workshop: September 1st, 2011


Overview:
CHiME 2011 is an ISCA-approved satellite workshop of Interspeech 2011 that will consider
the challenge of developing machine listening applications for operation in multisource
environments, i.e. real-world conditions with acoustic clutter, where the number and
nature of the sound sources is unknown and changing over time. CHiME will bring together
researchers from a broad range of disciplines (computational hearing, blind source
separation, speech recognition, machine learning) to discuss novel and established
approaches to this problem. The cross-fertilisation of ideas will foster fresh approaches
that efficiently combine the complementary strengths of each research field.

The workshop will also be hosting the PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition
Challenge. This is a binaural, multisource speech separation and recognition competition
supported by the EU PASCAL network and the UK EPSRC. If you wish to participate, please
visit the Challenge website (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html).


Call for Papers:
We invite original submissions for oral or poster presentation during the workshop.
Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to),

* automatic speech recognition in multisource environments,
* acoustic event detection in multisource environments,
* sound source detection and tracking in multisource environments,
* music information retrieval in multisource environments,
* sound source separation or enhancement in multisource environments,
* robust feature extraction and classification in multisource environments,
* scene analysis and understanding for multisource environments.

Abstracts or full-papers are to be submitted by 14th April. After the workshop
participants will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a
peer-reviewed special issue of the journal 'Computer Speech and Language' on the theme of
Multisource Environments.


Organising Committee:
Dr Jon Barker,  University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA Rennes, France
Prof. Dan Ellis, Columbia University, USA
Prof. Phil Green, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. John Hershey, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
Prof. Walter Kellermann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Prof. Hiroshi Okuno, Kyoto University, Japan

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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:

 

  • What are the different prosodic subsystems; how do they interact; and how do they contribute to the interpretation of discourse?
  • How should we describe and analyze prosodic facts?
  • What are the relevant units for the analysis of discourse; and what are their prosodic properties?
  • How is discourse processed; and how does prosody affect discourse processing?
  • How do context and prosody interact in the interpretation of discourse?
  • What is ‘tone of voice’ and how does it affect interpretation?
  • How do L1 and L2 speakers acquire an understanding of the relationship between prosody and context?
  • What are the best methodological tools for the description and transcription of the prosodic properties of discourse?

 Please note

  • the conference will be held in English and French. 
  • abstracts must be no more than 1 A4 page and written in Times 12 Font (plus an extra page for references and figures)
  • two copies of the abstract must be submitted – one anonymous and the other marked with the name of the author(s), affiliation(s) and email address of the main author
  • abstracts must be sent to the following address: d.blakemore@salford.ac.uk
  • abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by the scientific committee for the conference.
  • abstracts should indicate if they are for an oral presentation, a poster, or both. Please note that we will not be able to accommodate everybody in the oral sessions.

 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:

 

  1. 12 September: Research Training Workshop (for research students and academics who wish to develop an understanding of the issues involved in transcribing prosodic structure).
  2. 13 – 14 September: Oral presentations on any area of the prosody-discourse interface
  3. 13th September am & 14 September Poster sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface
  4. 13 September pm: 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:

 

  • What are the different prosodic subsystems; how do they interact; and how do they contribute to the interpretation of discourse?
  • How should we describe and analyze prosodic facts?
  • What are the relevant units for the analysis of discourse; and what are their prosodic properties?
  • How is discourse processed; and how does prosody affect discourse processing?
  • How do context and prosody interact in the interpretation of discourse?
  • What is ‘tone of voice’ and how does it affect interpretation?
  • How do L1 and L2 speakers acquire an understanding of the relationship between prosody and context?
  • What are the best methodological tools for the description and transcription of the prosodic properties of discourse?

 

 

Please note

  • the conference will be held in English and French. 
  • abstracts must be no more than 1 A4 page and written in Times 12 Font (plus an extra page for references and figures)
  • two copies of the abstract must be submitted – one anonymous and the other marked with the name of the author(s), affiliation(s) and email address of the main author
  • abstracts must be sent to the following address: IDPConf@Salford.ac.uk
  • abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by the scientific committee for the conference.
  • abstracts should indicate if they are for an oral presentation, a poster, or both. Please note that we will not be able to accommodate everybody in the oral sessions.

 

 

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

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) 
1.1 Audio, speech, and language processing 
1.2 Image, video, and multimedia 
1.3 Information forensics and security 
1.4 Signal processing for communications 
1.5 Signal processing theory and methods 
1.6 Biomedical/Biological signal processing

2. Communication Systems (Com) 
2.1 Communication and information theory 
2.2 Information and network security 
2.3 Wireless communications and networking 
2.4 Standards and emerging technology 
2.5 RF and antennas 

3. Information Processing (IP) 
3.1 Database and data mining
3.2 Ubiquitous and mobile computing 
3.3 Computer vision and pattern recognition 
3.4 Computer science fundamentals 

4. Multimedia & Computer Graphics (MM&CG) 
4.1 Media processing 
4.2 Interaction and interface 
4.3 Virtual reality and augmented virtuality 
4.4 Computer graphics and visualization fundamentals

5. Circuits and Systems/VLSI (Circuits) 
5.1 Biomedical circuits and systems 
5.2 Nanoelectronics and gigascale systems 
5.3 Neural systems and applications 
5.4 VLSI systems and applications 
5.5 Embedded systems

Submission of Papers 
Prospective authors are invited to submit either full papers,up to 10 pages in length, or short papers up to 4 pages in length, where full papers will be for the single-track oral presentation and short papers will be mostly for poster presentation. The conference proceedings will be published, available and maintained at the APSIPA website. The proceedings will be indexed by EI Compendex.

Important Dates 

Submission of Proposals for Special Sessions, Forum, Panel & Tutorial Sessions
 
April 15, 2011
Notification of Proposal Acceptance 
May 15, 2011
Submission of Full, Short Papers and Student Symposium Papers 
May 15, 2011
Submission of Papers in Special Sessions
June 15, 2011
Notification of Papers Acceptance
July 14, 2011
Author Registration Deadline
August 14, 2011
Submission of Final Manuscript
August 14, 2011
Tutorial Session Date
October 18, 2011
Summit and Conference Dates
October 19-21, 2011

Organizing Committee

Honorary Co-Chairs 
Guangnan Ni, Chinese Information Processing Society of China 
Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang, Georigia Institute of Technology, USA
Xiaozhu Chen, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

General Co-Chairs 
Thomas Fang Zheng, Tsinghua University, Beijing
C. C. Jay Kuo, University of South California, USA 
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Hokkaido University, Japan 

Technical Program Co-Chairs 
Soo-Chang Pei, National Taiwan University, Taipei (SP) 
Jianguo Huang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an (SP) 
Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, University of Minnesota, USA (Com) 
Jing Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing (Com) 
Yo-Sung Ho, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Korea (IP) 
Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (IP) 
Akihiko (Ken) Sugiyama, NEC Corporation, Japan (MM&CG) 
Yanning Zhang, Northwestern Polytech. University, Xi'an(MM&CG)
Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei (Circuits) 
Zhihua Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing (Circuits)

Forum Co-Chairs 
Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan
Hitoshi Kiya, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan 
Tianling Ren, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Panel Session Co-Chairs 
Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taipei 
Li Deng, Microsoft, USA
Jianwu Dang, JAIST, Japan/Tianjin University, Tianjin 
Mingyi He, Northwestern Polytech. University, Xi'an 
Kenneth Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong

Special Session Co-Chairs 
Alex Kot, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Masato Akagi, JAIST, Japan
Weibin Zhu, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing

Tutorial Session Co-Chairs 
Waleed Abdulla, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jiwu Huang, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
Koh Soo Ngee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publicity Co-Chairs 
Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu
Namsoo Kim, Seoul National University, Korea 
Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India 
Qing Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

Publication Co-Chairs 
Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California, USA 
Eng Siong Chng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Ying Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 
Xiaojun Wu, Tsinghua University, Beijing 
Jiangbin Zheng, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

Sponsorship Co-Chairs 
Guoqing Wang, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Shanghai 
Xi Xiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing 
Dongmei Jiang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

Industrial & Government Advisors 
Yong Qin, IBM Research- China, Beijing
Claus Bauer, Dolby Laboratories Intl. Services (Beijing), Beijing

Financial Co-Chairs 
Qiang Zhou, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Runping Xi, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an
Jinqiu Sun, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 

Registration Co-Chairs    
Xinbo Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an
Zhonghua Fu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an
Tao Yang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

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
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
                  Big Island, Hawaii
                 December 11-15, 2011
               http://www.asru2011.org

                  CALL FOR PAPERS

The twelfth IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) will
be held on December 11-15, 2011. The ASRU workshop meets every two years and has a
tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and
collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition
and understanding.

** Workshop Topics **
Submission of papers in all areas of human language technology is encouraged, with
emphasis placed on:
- Automatic speech recognition and understanding
- Human speech recognition and understanding
- Speech-to-text systems
- Spoken dialog systems
- Multilingual language processing
- Robustness in ASR
- Spoken document retrieval
- Speech-to-speech translation
- Text-to-speech systems
- Spontaneous speech processing
- Speech summarization
- New applications of ASR

** Schedule **
Paper submission deadline:   1 July 2011
Paper acceptance/rejection:  20 August 2011
Early registration deadline: 15 October 2011
Workshop:                    11-15 December 2011

** Technical Program **
The workshop program will consist of oral and poster presentations, including invited
overview lectures covering major areas of the field. In addition, there will be four
keynote addresses by well-known experts on such related topics as machine learning and
pattern classification.

** Submission Procedure **
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures
and references, to the ASRU 2011 website (http://www.asru2011.org). All papers will be
handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with further details.
Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.

** Registration and information **
Please note that the number of attendees will be limited and priority will be given to
paper presenters. Registration will be handled via the ASRU 2011 website,
http://www.asru2011.org, where more information on the workshop will be available.

 
 
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3-3-232011-09-27) 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

of the conference: September 27–30, 2011.

The location of

the conference: Russian Federation, the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan.

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

is the discussion of top priority issues and recent achievements in the field of.

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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