Dear SProSIG members,

As previously announced, the next speech prosody conference will be

held from May 24 to 28, 2020 at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

http://sp2020.jpn.org

The deadline for proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions

is Sep 15. If you have any interest in organizing such an activity, please

send your proposal to office@sp2020.jpn.org.

We appreciate if you can circulate this also to your domestic speech prosody

mailing lists.

Best wishes,

SP2020 chair

Nobuaki MINEMATSU @ UTokyo

office@sp2020.jpn.org

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SIGDIAL 2019

11?13 September 2019, Stockholm, Sweden

Call for Special Sessions

http://workshops.sigdial.org/conference20

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

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

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

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

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

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

Submissions:

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

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

Links:

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

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

https://robodial.github.io/

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

SIGDIAL 2019 Organizing Committee

General Chair:

Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Program Chairs:

Milica Ga?i?, Cambridge University, UK

Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

Local Chair:

Gabriel Skantze, KTH, Sweden

Sponsorship Chair:

Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

Mentoring Chair:

Alex Papangelis, Uber AI, USA

Publication Chair:

Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany

Publicity Chair:

Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

SIGdial President:

Jason Williams, Apple, USA

SIGdial Vice President:

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

SIGdial Secretary:

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

SIGdial Treasurer:

Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President Emeritus:

Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

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SIGDIAL 2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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SIGDIAL 2019 – 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on

Discourse and Dialogue

September 11-13, 2019 (just before Interspeech 2019)

https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/

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** Registration Site is now open **

** Early Registration Deadline: July 27, 2019 **

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in

discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. After a series of successful

previous meetings, this jubilee edition continues to span the research interest area of discourse

and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the

Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. SIGDIAL 2019 will

be temporally co-located with Interspeech as a satellite event.

INVITED SPEAKERS

 Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research, USA

 Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, UK

 Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

VENUE

SIGDIAL 2019 will be held in beautiful Stockholm at the Student Union building (THS) at the

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). A map of the venue and travel information can be found at

https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/attend.html

REGISTRATION

Registration for SIGDIAL 2019 is being graciously handled by KTH, and can be accessed at

https://axacoair.se/go?IM75WFJn

Registration fees are as follows:

 Early bird, until July 27, Full: 4,000 SEK, Student: 2,800 SEK

 Regular, until September 3, Full: 5,600 SEK, Student: 3,600 SEK

ACCEPTED PAPERS

The list of accepted papers is available at the conference website:

https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/papers.html

ADDITIONAL EVENTS

In addition to regular papers and poster sessions, the program will also feature

 Special Session on Implications of Deep Learning for Dialog Modeling

http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/deep/

 Invited demo from the host institution

 Panel discussion on The Future of Dialogue Research (details TBC)

 Best of Journal of Discourse and Dialogue (details TBC)

IMPORTANT DATES

 Final Paper Deadline (mentored papers) July 23, 2019

 Early Registration Deadline July 27, 2019

 Final Paper Deadline (all other papers) July 28, 2019

 Late Registration Deadline September 3, 2019

 Conference September 11-13, 2019

WEBSITES

 Conference website:

https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/index.html

 SIGdial organization website:

https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/index.html

 Interspeech 2019 website: https://www.interspeech2019.org/

 Young Researchers Roundtable 2019 website:

https://sites.google.com/site/yrrsds2019/home

 Semdial 2019 website: https://semdial2019.github.io

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

For any questions, please contact the members of the organizing committee at

conference@sigdial.org:

 General Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

 Program Chairs:

Milica Gasic, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

 Local Chair: Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

 Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

 Mentoring Chair: Alexandros Papangelis, Uber AI, USA

 Publication Chair: Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany

 Publicity Chair: Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

The members of the executive board are

 SIGdial President: Jason Williams, Apple, USA

 SIGdial Vice President: Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

 SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Research, USA

 SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

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

13-14 September, 2019 in Vienna, Austria

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

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

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

Important Dates:

Full paper submission: May 24, 2019

Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2019

Camera-ready paper submission: July 19, 2019

Workshop: September 13-14, 2019

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

Workshop organisation:

Michael Pucher, Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

Juergen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany

Carina Lozo, Acoustics Research Institute, Vienna, Austria

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

Location: Graz, Austria

Dates: September 20 - 21, 2019

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

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