7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
 
SLSP 2019
 
Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
October 14-16, 2019
 
Co-organized by:
 
Jo?ef Stefan Institute
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London
 
http://slsp2019.irdta.eu/
 
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AIMS:
 
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between the two domains will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2019, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.
 
VENUE:
 
SLSP 2019 will take place in Ljubljana, a charming city full of art and one of the smallest capital cities in Europe. The venue will be:
 
Jo?ef Stefan Institute
Jamova cesta 39
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
 
SCOPE:
 
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
 
anaphora and coreference resolution
authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
computer-aided translation
corpora and language resources
data mining and semantic web
information extraction
information retrieval
knowledge representation and ontologies
lexicons and dictionaries
machine translation
multimodal technologies
natural language understanding
neural representation of speech and language
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
parsing
part-of-speech tagging
question-answering systems
semantic role labelling
speaker identification and verification
speech and language generation
speech recognition
speech synthesis
speech transcription
spelling correction
spoken dialogue systems
term extraction
text categorisation
text summarisation
user modeling
 
STRUCTURE:
 
SLSP 2019 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
posters
 
INVITED SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: (to be completed)
 
Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, IN)
Fethi Bougares (University of Le Mans, FR)
Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, DE)
Nikos Fakotakis (University of Patras, GR)
Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK)
Julio Gonzalo (National Distance Education University, ES)
Reinhold Häb-Umbach (Paderborn University, DE)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, US)
Jing Huang (JD AI Research, CN)
Mei-Yuh Hwang (Mobvoi AI Lab, US)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, US)
Martin Karafiát (Brno University of Technology, CZ)
Vangelis Karkaletsis (National Center for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', GR)
Tomi Kinnunen (University of Eastern Finland, FI)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
David Milne (University of Technology Sydney, AU)
Marie-Francine Moens (KU Leuven, BE)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, QA)
Elmar Nöth (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE)
Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford, UK)
Matthew Purver (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Mats Rooth (Cornell University, US)
Tony Russell-Rose (UX Labs, UK)
Horacio Saggion (Pompeu Fabra University, ES)
Tanja Schultz (University of Bremen, DE)
Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean, GR)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Netherlands eScience Center, NL)
Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)
Josef van Genabith (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DE)
K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, US)
Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, FI)
Hsin-Min Wang (Academia Sinica, TW)
Hua Xu (University of Texas, Houston, US)
Edmund S. Yu (Syracuse University, US)
François Yvon (CNRS - Limsi, FR)
Wlodek Zadrozny (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Tina An?i? (Ljubljana)
Jan Kralj (Ljubljana)
Matej Martinc (Ljubljana)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
Senja Pollak (Ljubljana, co-chair)
Matthew Purver (London)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Anita Valmarska (Ljubljana)
 
SUBMISSIONS:
 
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
 
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2019
 
PUBLICATIONS:
 
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.
 
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
 
REGISTRATION:
 
The registration form can be found at:
 
http://slsp2019.irdta.eu/Registration.php
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: June 1, 2019
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 8, 2019
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 15, 2019
Early registration: July 15, 2019
Late registration: September 30, 2019
Submission to the journal special issue: January 16, 2020
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Institut 'Jo?ef Stefan'
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London

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The 7th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2019) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. SLSP 2019 will be held in Ljubljana on October 14-16, 2019. See 

http://slsp2019.irdta.eu/

Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.

TOPICS

Presentations displaying novel work in progress on statistical models (including machine learning) for language and speech processing are encouraged. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome.

KEY DATES

Poster submission deadline: September 7, 2019

Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: September 14, 2019

SUBMISSION

Please submit a .pdf abstract through:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2019

It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words.

PRESENTATION

Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion.

PUBLICATION

Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings volume of SLSP 2019. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue.

REGISTRATION

At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by September 30, 2019. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches, coffee breaks). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.

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We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 21st ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019), located in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, October 14-18th, 2019.

The ICMI 2019 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. It can also serve to introduce commercial products.

Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations and exhibits. The main difference is that demonstration proposals consist of a short paper (2 pages), which will be included in ICMI proceedings, while the exhibit proposals only need to include a brief outline (no more than 1 page) and will not be included in the ICMI proceedings. We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers may be invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.

Demonstration Submission:

Please submit a 1-2 page description of the demonstration through the main ICMI conference management system https://new.precisionconference.com/icmi19a

Demonstration description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than 2 pages in length including references (for MS Word and Latex templates and examples, please see https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow).

Demonstration proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration and, where possible, a video of the proposed demo should accompany the submission (no larger than 200MB). The demo and exhibit paper submissions are not anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).

The demonstration submissions will be peer reviewed, according to the following criteria: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals (paper submission), along with preparing the short papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.

The demo program will include the accepted proposals and may additionally include invited demos from among full-length papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Please note that the accepted descriptions will be included in the ICMI proceedings.

Exhibit Submission:

Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demonstration proposals. Exhibit proposals must be shorter in length (up to one page) and more suitable for mature systems. Exhibits will not have a paper published in the ICMI 2019 proceedings.

Attendance:

At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s).

Important dates for demonstrations and exhibits:

Submission of demo and exhibit proposals: July 30, 2019
Demo and exhibit notification of acceptance: August 23, 2019
Submission of demo final papers: August 30, 2019

Questions?

For further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs: Florian Metze (fmetze@cs.cmu.edu) and Dan Bohus (dbohus@microsoft.com)

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The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019) 
Suzhou, Jiangsu, China October 14-18, 2019
ICMI 2019 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Contributions
The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. We expect to provide some economic support to attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, etc.).
Who should apply?
While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
Submission Guidelines
Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
1. Extended Abstract: A four-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SigConf format. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions will not be anonymous. In particular, it should cover: o The key research questions and motivation of your research o Background and related work that informs your research o A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem o Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies o The research approach and methodology o Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work o A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work 2. Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support. Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research. 3. CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
Review Process
The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the
consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Financial Support
The conference is pleased to offer partial financial support for doctoral students participating in the Doctoral Consortium and attending the conference. Only students who apply and are accepted for participation in the Doctoral Consortium can be considered for financial support. The number and size of the offers of financial support are contingent upon the number of invited student participants.
Attendance
All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
Process
 Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2)  Submission system: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/  Selection process: Peer-Reviewed  Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session  Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library  Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Daniel McDuff (Microsoft Research) and Kristiina Jokinen (AIST)
Important Dates
Submission deadline June 28th, 2019 (23:59PM, PST) Notifications July 26th, 2019 Camera-ready August 9th, 2019 Doctoral Consortium date October 14th, 2019
Questions?
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2019 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website https://icmi.acm.org/2019/index.php?id=cfdc For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
 Daniel McDuff (Microsoft Research) damcduff@microsoft.com   Kristiina Jokinen (AI Research Center, AIST Tokyo Waterfront) kristiina.jokinen@aist.go.jp

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Call for Workshops

The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019) will be held in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, during October 14-18, 2019. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. The theme of the ICMI 2019 conference is Multimodal representation of human behavior in context. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:

• Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction

• Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology

• Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data

• Human-Habitat for Health

• Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction

• Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents

• Child Computer Interaction

• Multimodal Interaction for Education

We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.).

The format, style, and content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM.

Submission

Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Hongwei Ding (hwding@sjtu.edu.cn), Carlos Busso (busso@utdallas.edu) and Tadas Baltrusaitis (tadyla@gmail.com). The proposal should include the following:

• Workshop title

• List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies

• Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact

• Tentative list of keynote speakers

• Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program

• Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation

• Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)

• Paper submission and acceptance deadlines

• Special space and equipment requests, if any

Important Dates

• Workshop proposal submission: Saturday, February 16, 2019

• Notification of acceptance: Saturday, March 2, 2019

• Workshop Date: Monday, October 14, 2019

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The 21th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019) will be held in Suzhou, China, October 14 to 18, 2019 (http://icmi.acm.org/2019/index.php?id=home), which is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development.

You are cordially invited to submit high-quality papers of research in the areas of multimodal interaction from behavioral and social sciences, which may help us better understand how technology can be used to increase our scientific knowledge for intelligent interaction. Many thanks.

The ICMI 2019 conference program is now available! You can find it on our Progressive Web App and QOALA.

The web version is here: https://programs.sigchi.org/ICMI/2019

To access the service on your mobile device, you'll need to install an app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store:

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 The 7th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2019) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. SLSP 2019 will be held in Ljubljana on October 14-16, 2019. See 

http://slsp2019.irdta.eu/

Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.

TOPICS

Presentations displaying novel work in progress on statistical models (including machine learning) for language and speech processing are encouraged. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome.

KEY DATES

Poster submission deadline: September 7, 2019

Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: September 14, 2019

SUBMISSION

Please submit a .pdf abstract through:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2019

It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words.

PRESENTATION

Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion.

PUBLICATION

Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings volume of SLSP 2019. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in Computer Speech and Language (JCR 2018 impact factor: 1.776).

REGISTRATION

At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by September 30, 2019. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, lunches, coffee breaks). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.

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Call for Papers

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Second International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports @ ACM Multimedia, October 21-25, 2019, Nice, France

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Nice, France together with ACM Multimedia 2019. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:

– annotation and indexing

– athlete and object tracking

– activity recognition, classification and evaluation

– event detection and indexing

– performance assessment

– injury analysis and prevention

– data driven analysis in sports

– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

– automated training assistance

– camera pose and motion tracking

– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions

Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of the paper.

Please refer to the workshop website for further information:

http://multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2019/

IMPORTANT DATES

Extended Submission Deadline:         July 8, 2019

Acceptance Notification:             August 5, 2019

Camera Ready Submission:        August 19, 2019

Workshop Date:                           TBA; either Oct 21 or Oct 25, 2019

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Prof. Dr. Rainer Lienhart

Multimedia Computing & Computer Vision

Institut für Informatik, Universität Augsburg

Informatik Building N, Room # 1013

Universitätsstr. 6 a, 86159 Augsburg, Germany

email: Rainer.Lienhart@informatik.uni-augsburg.de

phone: +49 (821) 598-5703 cell: +49 (163) 960 5367

Skype: skype@videoanalysis.org. Threema oder FaceTime

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Journée du préGDR TALN ? Grenoble ? Jeudi 24 octobre 2019

https://pregdr-tal.ls2n.fr/event/journee-pregdr-tal-a-grenoble/

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La journée du pré-GDR sur le Traitement automatique des langues aura lieu le jeudi 24 
octobre  2019 à l'auditorium bâtiment IMAG LIG
https://www.liglab.fr/fr/util/acces-au-lig/batiment-imag

Cette journée est consacrée aux trois thématiques : i) multilinguisme et multiplicité des
langues ii) intermodalité, multimodalité et productions langagières, iii) accès à
l'information et la recherche d'information.

Le préGDR TAL créé en 2018 est une unité du CNRS fédérant les équipes de recherche de la
communauté scientifique autour du Traitement automatique des langues. Cette journée
présentera les travaux des axes de réflexion  sur i) le multilinguisme, ii)
l'intermodalité, la multimodalité et les productions langagières,  iii) l'accès à
l'information et la recherche d'information. Trois sessions sont prévues où seront
d'abord présentés un état des lieux, puis des perspectives introduites aux travers
d'exposés scientifiques d'invités. À la suite de ces sessions, un temps sera réservé à
l'organisation de la réflexion au sein de ces groupes de travail et aux actions
envisagées avec les participants.

La journée est gratuite et ouverte à tous. Pour des raisons de logistique (pauses-café,
déjeuner), l'inscription est obligatoire.
Il faut vous inscrire ici : https://pregdr-tal.ls2n.fr/inscription-formulaire/

Des bourses ont été prévues pour prendre en charge les frais de transport et la nuitée
des doctorants des laboratoires du CNRS qui en feront la demande, à concurrence d'une
bourse par équipe du préGDR TAL (aller-retour en train 2nde classe). La demande est à
faire par courrier électronique auprès de Marion Boucard
(assistantsls2n-fst@univ-nantes.fr) copie à Béatrice Daille
(beatrice.daille@univ-nantes.fr) avant fin septembre 2019.

Comité d'organisation
Laurent Besacier et Jean-Pierre Chevallet LIG Grenoble

Programme provisoire
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9h café et accueil

9h15-10h30 Axe intermodalité, multimodalité et productions langagières
Présentation du travail de l?axe (30mn, responsables : Damien Lolive (IRISA), Benoît
Favre (LIS), Pascale Sébillot (IRISA))
Conférence invitée et temps d'échanges (45mn) :  Thierry Chaminade (INT,
http://www.int.univ-amu.fr/_CHAMINADE-Thierry_?lang=fr)
Titre à venir

10h30-10h45 Pause
10h45-12h00 Axe fouille & RI
Présentation du travail de l?axe (30mn, responsables : Jean-Pierre Chevallet (LIG) et
Thierry Charnois (LIPN))
Conférence invitée et temps d'échange (45mn) : Benjamin Piwowarski (LIP6)
Training Deep Neural Network Models for Unsupervised Information Extraction

12h00-13h30 Repas

13h30-14h45 Axe multilinguisme
Présentation du travail de l?axe (30mn, responsables : François Yvon (LIMSI )et Laurent
Besacier (LIG))
Conférence invitée  (45mn ) :  Matthias Gallé, responsable du groupe NLP chez Naver Labs
Europe (https://europe.naverlabs.com/research/natural-language-processing/)
Making User-Generated Reviews Useful

14h45-16h00  Travail en 3 sous-groupes (par axes)

16h-16h30  Restitution pour chaque axe (10mn chacun)

16h30 Fin de la journée

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Second Call for Papers

Conference on
*Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)*

24-26 October, 2019
Saarbruecken, Germany

The language sciences increasingly have in common their adoption of rational
probabilistic approaches, such as Bayesian, Information Theoretic, and Game Theoretic
frameworks. The goal of this conference is to bring together speech and language
researchers whose scientific contributions reflect  the full diversity of disciplines and
methodologies ? from speech to discourse, on-line processing to corpus-based
investigation, through to language change and evolution ? that have benefited from, and
share, such rational explanations.

*Keynote speakers:*

*Gerhard Jaeger*, University of Tuebingen
/  Bayesian typology/

*Gina Kuperberg*, Tufts University and Massachusetts General Hospital
/  What a probabilistic computational approach can tell us about us about the
neurobiology of language comprehension/

*Hannah Rohde*, University of Edinburgh
/Why are you telling me this:  Comprehension as a process of reverse engineering/
//
*Rory Turnbull**,* University of Hawai?i at M?noa
/  Phonetic reduction, natural selection, and bounded rationality/


We seek submissions from across the language sciences ? including speech science,
theoretical linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience,
computational linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution ? which
apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel
experimental findings to bear on such accounts.

Submissions in the form of a *400 word abstract* (excluding references), in *text
format*, are to be submitted electronically at: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/rails2019

Submissions open: 1 May
Submissions due: 1 June
Notification of acceptance: 1 July
Conference: October 24-26

Submission will be considered for either oral or poster presentation. Details on the
submission format and procedure are also available at the conference web-page:
http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de <http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/>

Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the *Collaborative
Research Center SFB1102 ?Information Density and Linguistic Encoding?*:
sfb1102.uni-saarland.de <http://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de>


Conference organizers:
Matthew Crocker (chair)
Bistra Andreeva
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb
Vera Demberg
Robin Lemke
Noortje Venhuizen First Call for Papers

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 ‘R-atics6

[paʁi] 7th - 8th November 2019

‘R-atics6

The Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology of the Université Sorbonne nouvelle organizes the ’R-atics 6 colloquium in Paris the 7th and 8th November 2019. ‘R-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning r sounds and has been previously organized in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Bruxelles (Belgium), Bozen (Italy), Grenoble (France) and Leeuwarden (Nethrelands). This is an international mid-size specific conference that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological and sociolinguistic aspects of rhotics. The 2019 edition will propose to emphasize, in addition to the usual themes, r's in indigenous languages and the automatic treatment of rhotic consonants variation.

Invited speakers

 Martine Adda-Dekker: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle & Limsi CNRS

 Koen Sebreghts: University of Utrecht

 Moges Yigezu: University of Addis Ababa

Organizing committee

 Didier Demolin: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle

 Alexis Dehais Underdown: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle

 Cédric Gendrot: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle

 Naomi Yamaguchi: LPP, CNRS-UMR 7018, Sorbonne nouvelle

Key dates

 Abstract deadline: 1st July 2019. (Deadline pour la soumission de résumé (500 mots en anglais) de la conférence R-atics 6 (Phonétique, Phonologie et Sociolinguistique des R) est le Lundi 1er Juillet. Les résumés sont à déposer au lien suivant https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ratics6

 Authors notification: 15th July 2019

 Registration: 30th September 2019

 Colloquium: 7th-8th November 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite contributions specifically to any theme concerning the r and the two themes chosen for this edition: 'r's in indigenous languages and the automatic treatment of the variation of rhotics'.

 the diversity of r realizations

 the socio-phonetic aspects of r realizations

 the production the perception of rhotics in a language or in a language family

 the description of rhotics in the world’s languages

 the phonological status of r sounds

 issues in the acquisition of rhotics in L1 and L2

 aspects of corrective phonetics in the pronunciation of r sounds

 r sounds in clinical phonetics

Abstracts of 500 words (plus bibliographic references) should be sent in PDF format to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ratics6 by 1 July 2019. Authors will take care to anonymize their communication (do not indicate names and affiliations of authors, do not refer directly to one’s own publications) and specify the type of presentation (oral, poster, indifferent).

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Natural Language, Dialog and Speech (NDS) Symposium

WHEN: November 22, 2019, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM EDT, NYC
WHERE: The New York Academy of Sciences in NYC

DESCRIPTION: Natural language, dialog and speech (NDS) researchers develop models for analyzing the structure and content of human conversation and create artificial agents who can engage in human-like interaction with people and other agents. This symposium will address areas including dialog systems, spoken and natural language understanding, natural language generation and speech synthesis.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Yejin Choi, PhD, University of Washington; Lillian Lee, PhD, Cornell University; Sungjin Lee, PhD, Microsoft Research; Karen Livescu, PhD, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: September 16, 2019.

REGISTER: nyas.org/NDS2019  Early Bird Registration Deadline is October 18, 2019.

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE “COMPUTATIONAL, FORMAL & FIELD LINGUISTICS” RESEARCH GROUP
28-29 November 2019, Orléans

Guest speakers

• Emily Bender, University of Washington
• Sabrina Bendjaballah, Université de Nantes
• Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University & Nawarddeken Academy & University of California Berkeley
• Michel Jacobson, Très Grande Infrastructure de Recherche Huma-Num

Dates

• Deadline for Abstracts Submission: 9 September 2019
• Notification of acceptance: 23 September 2019
• Scientific meetings: 26 and 27 November 2019

Description

To this day, advances in computer linguistics have mainly led to the development of applications: automatic translation, speech recognition and synthesis, opinion detection, and so on. However, these technical advances (in symbolic methods and automatic learning models) can also be used to facilitate linguistic analysis: they allow for searching for generalizations and creating falsifiable models, and they can also help with data collection and management. For example, speech recognition technology can be leveraged to facilitate the work of field linguists; machine translation and alignment techniques can facilitate the creation of bilingual lexicons to document a language; and analysis and generation algorithms can be used to validate syntactic and lexical assumptions. Computer linguistics provides linguists with a wide range of techniques and resources that open up new perspectives.

The objective of the scientific meeting is to promote interactions between the three broad fields of (i) computational linguistics, (ii) formal linguistics and (iii) field linguistics (“diversity linguistics”), in order to encourage the development of linguistic research that makes the most of new technologies.

The format of the Days will consist of

• four plenary sessions: presentations by invited speakers
• poster sessions

The Call for Abstracts is open to all. Participation in the Scientific Days is likewise open to all (presenters and non-presenters alike). Registration is free but compulsory. Here is an open-ended list of topics:

• Feedback on the use and/or development of computer tools for linguistic analysis
• Computer linguistics and open science: perspectives opened by sharing data, tools and publications
• Formal computer and linguistic modelling (formal language theory, unification grammars, proof theory…)
• Dialogue between linguistic models and automatic learning models (of all types: generative and discriminating approaches, neural statistical approaches, encoder-decoder approaches, etc.)
• Unsupervised or poorly supervised methods for the analysis of poorly endowed, poorly written or undocumented languages
• Reflections on the automation of analysis and validation processes

Abstracts (2 to 4 pages) will be submitted via the SciencesConf platform, at the following address: https://lift2019.sciencesconf.org/ (opening date: June 17th). The templates (OpenOffice or LaTeX) are available here (OpenOffice ou LaTeX).

The languages of the Scientific Days will be English and French. Abstracts may be submitted in either language. For posters, if your poster is in French, please provide an English summary and/or an English version to be distributed on an A3 or A4 sheet.

Venue

Amphi IRD, 5 Rue du Carbone, 45000 Orléans

Organizing Committee

• Emmanuel Schang, Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique -CNRS & Université d’Orléans
• Alexis Michaud, Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale – CNRS
• Katja Ploog, Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique -CNRS & Université d’Orléans
• Flora Badin, Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique -CNRS & Université d’Orléans
• Anne-Lyse Minard, Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique -CNRS & Université d’Orléans
• Hélène Flamein, Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique -CNRS & Université d’Orléans
• Lotfi Abouda, Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique -CNRS & Université d’Orléans

Scientific Committee

• Angélique Amelot, CNRS/Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie
• Laurent Besacier, Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble – Université Grenoble Alpes
• Philippe Blache, CNRS/Laboratoire Parole et Langage
• Berthold Crysmann, CNRS/Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle
• Karën Fort, Université Paris-Sorbonne/ Sens Texte Informatique Histoire
• Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy
• Anaïs Lefeuvre-Halftermeyer, Université d’Orléans/Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale d’Orléans
• Tatiana Nikitina, CNRS/Langage, Langues et Civilisations d’Afrique Noire
• Denis Paperno, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy
• Thierry Poibeau, CNRS/Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques et Cognition
• Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille Université/Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes
• Valentin Vydrine, INALCO/Langage, Langues et Civilisations d’Afrique Noire
• Guillaume Wisniewski, Université Paris-Sud/Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur

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1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS): Breathing, Pausing, and the Voice.

Website and Contact

www.sefos.dk, sefos@sdu.dk

Theme

SEFOS is dedicated to the physiological patterns, acoustic signals, and communicative functions of breathing, pausing and the voice - in human-human as well as in human-machine interaction. SEFOS aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines, such as phonetics, phonology, psychology, medicine, acoustics, speech technology, and computer linguistics.

Location and Venue

SEFOS will be held from 1st - 3rd December at the University of Southern Denmark, Campus Sønderborg.

Keynote speakers

Plinio Barbosa, Department of Linguistics, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil.

'Stylistic and cross-linguistic differences in the prosodic organization of breathing, stressing, and pausing'

Jens Edlund, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

'Breathing in interaction between humans and between humans, machines and robots'

Donna Erickson, Kanazawa Medical University, Kanazawa, Japan / Haskins Laboratories, USA

'Our voice: A multifaceted finely-tuned instrument for any occasion and culture'

Call for papers

We invite contributions on all the various aspects of breathing, pausing, and the voice. Reflecting the cross-disciplinary nature of these fields of research, we are particularly pleased about submissions from the entire speech sciences and beyond, i.e., for example, medicine, rhetoric, technology, music, and zoology. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• acoustic and physiological analyses of speech breathing

• breathing, pausing, and phonation patterns under different mental, emotional, physical conditions

• pathological/clinical aspects of breathing, pausing, and the voice, including pain.

• personality traits (including attractiveness), speaking styles, and their links to breathing, pausing, and the voice

• breathing, pausing, and/or voice patterns in human-machine-interaction and speech technology in general

• interrelations between breathing, pausing, and the voice

• interrelations with other features of prosody, such as F0 and intensity

• silent, fluent, and disfluent pauses, hesitation phenomena

• breathing, pausing and interaction, turn-taking, discourse control

• forms and functions of voice quality in communication

• singing and its relation to phonation and breathing

• new technological or methodological development on the analysis of breathing, pausing, and the voice

• recourses and corpora

Submissions to SEFOS should be made in the form of extended abstracts, consisting of 2 pages of text plus a third page for (additional) figures and references. The abstract template is provided on the SEFOS website: www.sefos.dk.

Please submit your extended abstract to sefos@sdu.dk and indicate in your email whether you would prefer an oral or a poster presentation (A0 portrait).

Submission and deadlines

Deadline for submissions is the 30th of September. This deadline will NOT be extended!

Submissions will be subject to anonymous peer review by two reviewers. Information about acceptance/rejection will be provided on the 15th of October.

Note that the peer-review is only to check whether the submissions meet basic scientific standards concerning method and analysis. No papers that meet these standards will be excluded unless the maximum number of submissions (100) is exceeded. Therefore, we strongly encourage authors to register for SEFOS when submitting the paper or even earlier. All authors who register for SEFOS until 30 June only pay the reduced student fee of € 90,- !

Accepted contributions will have the opportunity to hand in revised abstracted until one week before the seminar. Accepted papers will be included on a SEFOS Proceedings USB drive (with ISBN number).

Note that authors of selected papers will have the opportunity to publish a full paper in a special issue of the International Journal of Linguistics (Acta Linguistica Hafniensia): https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=salh20

Registration fees

Regular participant: 150 €

Student participant (incl. PhD students): 90 €

The registration fee includes the SEFOS Proceedings, a conference bag, and free lunch breaks (food and soft drinks), a welcome reception, and a social event.

Organizing committee and contact

Oliver Niebuhr: Mads Clausen Institute, SDU Electrical Engineering, Centre for Industrial Electronics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Jana Neitsch: Mads Clausen Institute, SDU Electrical Engineering, Centre for Industrial Electronics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Kerstin Fischer: Dept. of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Jan Michalsky: Chair of Technology Management, Friedrich-Alexander-University Nuremberg, Germany

Stephanie Berger: Dept. of General Linguistics, Institute of Scandinavian Languages, Frisian, and General Linguistics, Kiel University, Germany.

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8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING
 
TPNC 2019
 
Kingston, Canada
 
December 9-11, 2019
 
Co-organized by:
 
Royal Military College of Canada
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice
Brussels / London
 
http://tpnc2019.irdta.eu/
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AIMS:
 
TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2019 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. The conference aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature.
 
VENUE:
 
TPNC 2019 will take place in Kingston, a city midway between Toronto and Montréal with an important military history. The venue will be:
 
Royal Military College of Canada
Kingston, Ontario
Canada K7K 7B4
 
https://www.rmc-cmr.ca/en
 
SCOPE:
 
Topics include, but are not limited to:
 
- Theoretical contributions to:
 
ant colony optimization
artificial immune systems
artificial life
cellular automata
cognitive computing
collective behaviour
collective intelligence
computational intelligence
computing with words
developmental systems
DNA computing
DNA nanotechnology
evolutionary algorithms
evolutionary computing
fuzzy logic
fuzzy sets
fuzzy systems
genetic algorithms
genetic programming
granular computing
heuristics
intelligent agents
intelligent systems
machine intelligence
metaheuristics
molecular programming
multiobjective optimization
neural networks
quantum communication
quantum computing
quantum information
rough sets
self-organization
soft computing
swarm intelligence
unconventional computing
 
- Applications of natural computing to:
 
algorithmics
bioinformatics
control
cryptography
design
economics
graphics
hardware
human-computer interaction
knowledge discovery
learning
logistics
medicine
natural language processing
optimization
pattern recognition
planning and scheduling
programming
robotics
telecommunications
web intelligence
 
A flexible 'theory to/from practice' approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions.
 
STRUCTURE:
 
TPNC 2019 will consist of:
 
- invited talks
- peer-reviewed contributions
- posters
 
INVITED SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Mohammad Amin (D-Wave Systems, CA)
Plamen P. Angelov (Lancaster University, UK)
Thomas Bäck (Leiden University, NL)
Peter Bentley (University College London, UK)
Mauro Birattari (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
Christian Blum (Higher Scientific Research Council, ES)
Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TW)
Carlos A. Coello Coello (CINVESTAV ? National Polytechnic Institute, MX)
Claude Crépeau (McGill University, CA)
Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
Matthias Ehrgott (Lancaster University, UK)
Andries Engelbrecht (Stellenbosch University, ZA)
Juan José García-Ripoll (Higher Scientific Research Council, ES)
Deborah M. Gordon (Stanford University, US)
Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, FR)
Wei-Chiang Samuelson Hong (Jiangsu Normal University, CN)
Thomas R. Ioerger (Texas A&M University, US)
Etienne E. Kerre (Ghent University, BE)
Chung-Sheng Li (Accenture, IE)
Gui Lu Long (Tsinghua University, CN)
Chao-Yang Lu (University of Science and Technology of China, CN)
Pabitra Kumar Maji (Bidhan Chandra College, IN)
Vittorio Maniezzo (University of Bologna, IT)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Luis Martínez López (University of Jaén, ES)
Serge Massar (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, SI)
Hossein Nezamabadi-Pour (Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, IR)
Norman Packard (Daptics, US)
Sidhartha Panda (Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, IN)
Elpiniki Papageorgiou (University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, GR)
Geoffrey Pond (Royal Military College of Canada, CA)
Kai (Alex) Qin (Swinburne University of Technology, AU)
Celso C. Ribeiro (Fluminense Federal University, BR)
José Santos-Victor (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)
Shahab Shamshirband (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO)
Narasimhan Sundararajan (Nanyang Technological University, SG)
José Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, ES)
Fernando J. Von Zuben (University of Campinas, BR)
Xin-She Yang (Middlesex University, UK)
Bo Yuan (Rochester Institute of Technology, US)
Yi Zhang (Sichuan University, CN)
Xudong Zhao (Bohai University, CN)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
Geoffrey Pond (Kingston, co-chair)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres)
 
SUBMISSIONS:
 
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
 
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2019
 
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 peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
 
REGISTRATION:
 
The registration form can be found at:
 
http://tpnc2019.irdta.eu/Registration.php
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: July 27, 2019
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 31, 2019
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 7, 2019
Early registration: September 7, 2019
Late registration: November 25, 2019
Submission to the journal special issue: March 11, 2020
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Royal Military College of Canada / Collège militaire royal du Canada
 
IRDTA ? Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London

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The 6th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2019) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. TPNC 2019 will be held in Kingston, Ontario on December 9-11, 2019. See 

https://tpnc2019.irdta.eu/

Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.

TOPICS

Presentations displaying novel work in progress on computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature are invited. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome.

KEY DATES

Poster submission deadline: November 2, 2019

Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: November 9, 2019

SUBMISSION

Please submit a .pdf abstract through:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2019

It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words.

PRESENTATION

Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion.

PUBLICATION

Posters will not appear in the LNCS proceedings volume of TPNC 2019. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in Natural Computing (Springer, 2018 JCR impact factor: 0.860).

REGISTRATION

At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by November 25, 2019. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euros. It gives the same rights all other conference participants will have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks, lunches). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.
  

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Call for papers : 3rd NeurIPS workshop on conversational AI

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Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (DSTC7)
Call for Participation: Data distribution has been started
Website: http://workshop.colips.org/dstc7/index.html

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Background
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The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog
research community since 2013.

From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System
Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.

For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and
selected the following three parallel tracks by peer-reviews:

- Sentence Selection Track
- Sentence Generation Track
- Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track

Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate,
non-profit, government).

Important Dates
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- Jun 1, 2018: Training data is released
- Sep 10, 2018: Test data is released
- Sep 24, 2018: Entry submission deadline
- Oct or Nov 2018: Paper submission deadline
- Spring 2019: DSTC7 special session or workshop (venue: TBD)

DSTC7 Organizing Committee
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- Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Julien Perez - Naver Labs Europe, France
- Luis Fernando D'Haro - Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore

DSTC7 Track Organizers
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Sentence Selection Track:
- Lazaros Polymenakos - IBM Research, USA
- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research, USA
- Walter S. Lasecki - University of Michigan, USA
- Jonathan Kummerfeld - University of Michigan, USA

Sentence Generation Track:
- Michel Galley - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Chris Brockett - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Jianfeng Gao - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA
- Bill Dolan - Microsoft Research AI&R, USA

Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track:
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Tim K. Marks - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
- Devi Parikh - Georgia Tech, USA
- Dhruv Batra - Georgia Tech, USA

DSTC Steering Committee
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- Jason Williams - Microsoft Research (MSR), USA
- Rafael E. Banchs - Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
- Seokhwan Kim - Adobe Research, USA
- Matthew Henderson - PolyAI, Singapore
- Verena Rieser - Heriot-Watt University, UK

Contact Information
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Join the DSTC mailing list to get the latest updates about DSTC7:

- To join the mailing list: send an email to
listserv@lists.research.microsoft.com and put 'subscribe DSTC' in the
body of the message (without the quotes).
- To post a message: send your message to dstc@lists.research.microsoft.com.

For specific enquiries about DSTC7:
- Please feel free to contact any of the Organizing Committee members
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6^th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
 
BigDat 2020
 
Ancona, Italy
 
January 13-17, 2020
 
Co-organized by:
 
Department of Information Engineering, Marche Polytechnic University
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA)
Brussels / London
 
http://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/
 
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SCOPE:
 
BigDat 2020 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 2 keynote lectures and 24 four-hour and a half courses, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2020 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
STRUCTURE:
 
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
 
VENUE:
 
BigDat 2020 will take place in Ancona, a city founded by Greek settlers and today one of the main ports on the Adriatic Sea. The venue will be:
 
Department of Information Engineering
Marche Polytechnic University
Via Brecce Bianche 12
60131 Ancona
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed)
 
Jie Tang (Tsinghua University), Graph Embedding and Reasoning
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [advanced] From Unstructured Text to TextCube: Automated Construction and Multidimensional Exploration
 
Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences
 
Peter Rousseeuw (KU Leuven), [introductory] Anomaly Detection by Robust Methods
 
Asim Roy (Arizona State University), [intermediate] Hardware-based (GPU, FPGA based) Machine Learning ? An Overview of Algorithms and Implementation Ideas and Methods
 
Hanan Samet (University of Maryland), [intermediate] Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Sorting in Space and Similarity Searching
 
Rory Smith (Monash University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning from Data, the Bayesian Way
 
Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big-data Algorithms That Aren't Machine Learning
 
Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen University), [introductory/intermediate] Process Mining: A Very Different Kind of Machine Learning That Can Be Applied in Any Organization
 
OPEN SESSION
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for, to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 5, 2020.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Flavio Tonetto (Ancona, industrial chair)
Domenico Ursino (Ancona, co-chair)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
http://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/registration/
 
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
FEES:
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London

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14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
 
LATA 2020
 
Milan, Italy
 
March 2-6, 2020
 
Co-organized by:
           
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milano-Bicocca
 
and
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice
Brussels/London
 
lata2020.irdta.eu
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AIMS:
 
LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.
 
VENUE:
 
LATA 2020 will take place in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe.
 
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 networks
automatic structures
codes
combinatorics on words
computational complexity
concurrency and Petri nets
data and image compression
descriptional complexity
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata
 
STRUCTURE:
 
LATA 2020 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
 
INVITED SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, PT)
Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, DE)
Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST, DZ)
Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL)
Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR)
Laurent Doyen (ENS Paris-Saclay, FR)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, DE)
Rudolf Freund (Technical University of Vienna, AT)
Pawe? Gawrychowski (University of Wroc?aw, PL)
Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI)
Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University, US)
Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, US)
Marcin Jurdzi?ski (University of Warwick, UK)
Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, FI)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI)
Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, US)
François Le Gall (Kyoto University, JP)
Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE)
Parthasarathy Madhusudan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE)
Nicolas Markey (IRISA, Rennes, FR)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, RO)
Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, US)
Gennaro Parlato (University of Molise, IT)
Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Nir Piterman (Chalmers University of Technology, SE)
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, US)
Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL)
Kai Salomaa (Queen?s University, CA)
Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE)
William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA)
Ji?í Srba (Aalborg University, DK)
Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York, US)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG)
Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, NL)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US)
Tomá? Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, CZ)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU)
James Worrell (University of Oxford, UK)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Alberto Leporati (Milan, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
Dana Shapira (Ariel)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Bianca Truthe (Giessen)
Claudio Zandron (Milan, co-chair)
 
SUBMISSIONS:
 
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.
 
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2020
 
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 peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
 
REGISTRATION:
 
The registration form can be found at:
 
lata2020.irdta.eu/registration
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: October 18, 2019
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2019
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2019
Early registration: December 2, 2019
Late registration: February 17, 2020
Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2020
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david (at) irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
 
IRDTA ? Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London

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ESANN 2020: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,

Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning

Bruges, Belgium, 22-23-24 April 2020

https://www.esann.org/

Call for papers

The call for papers is available at https://www.esann.org.  Deadline for submissions: November 18, 2019.

The ESANN conferences cover machine learning, artificial neural networks, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered.  In addition to regular sessions, 7 special sessions will be organized on the following topics:

- Learning from partially labeled data

- Machine Learning applied to Computer Networks

- Tensor Decompositions in Deep Learning

- Language processing in the era of deep learning

- Machine learning in the pharmaceutical industry

- Quantum Machine Learning

- Frontiers in Reservoir Computing

ESANN 2020 builds upon a successful series of conferences organized each year since 1993. ESANN has become a major scientific event in the machine learning, computational intelligence and artificial neural networks fields over the years.

The conference will be organized in Bruges, one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Designated as the 'Venice of the North', the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its centre, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum.

We hope to receive your submission to ESANN 2020 and to see you in Bruges next year!

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LREC 2020, 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -
Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
11-16 May 2020

Main Conference: 13-14-15 May 2020
Workshops and Tutorials: 11-12 & 16 May 2020

Conference web site: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/
Twitter: @LREC2020


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 12th edition of LREC, organised with the support of national and international organisations among which AFCP, AILC, ATALA, CLARIN, ILCB, LDC, ...

CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy issues as well as to scientific/technological and organisational ones.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LT) and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data

•     Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
•     Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
•     Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
•     Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
•     LRs and Semantic Web (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.)
•     LRs and Crowdsourcing
•     Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up

Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications

•     Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
•     LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
•     Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
•     Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
•     Industrial LRs requirements
•     User needs, LT for accessibility

LRs in the age of deep neural networks

•     Semi-supervised, weakly-supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches
•     Representation Learning for language
•     Techniques for (semi-)automatically generating training data
•     Cross-language NLP & Cross-domain NLP with reduction of human effort

Issues in LT evaluation

•     LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
•     Validation and quality assurance of LRs
•     Benchmarking of systems and products
•     Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
•     User satisfaction evaluation

General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation

•     International and national activities, projects and initiatives
•     Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
•     Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
•     Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
•     Replicability and reproducibility issues
•     Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues

LREC 2020 HOT TOPICS

Less Resourced and Endangered Languages
Special attention will be devoted to less resourced and endangered languages: it is expected that LREC2020 makes room to activities carried out to support indigenous languages, building on the United Nations/UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages being celebrated in 2019.

Language and the Brain
Studying the neural basis of language helps in understanding both language processing and the brain mechanisms. LREC2020 will encourage all submissions addressing language and the brain. Among possible subtopics, submissions could focus on new datasets and resources (neuroimaging, controlled corpora, lexicons, etc.), methods aiming at new multimodal experimentations (e.g. EEG in virtual reality), language processing applications (e.g. brain decoding, brain-computer interfaces), etc.

Machine/Deep Learning
The availability of LRs is a key element of the development of high quality Human Language Technologies based on AI/Machine Learning approaches, and LREC is the best place to get access to this data, in many languages and for many domains. In addition to submissions addressing ML issues based on large quantities of data, those applied to languages for which only small, noisy or sparse data exist are also most welcomed.

DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRs!
In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map ? now a normal step in the submission procedure of many conferences ? LREC recognises the importance of sharing resources and making them available to the community.
When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special LREC repository set up by ELRA. Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before the conference, to be re-used, compared, analysed. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize.
We will also organise an Industrial Track and a Reproducibility Track: for these there will be separate Calls.

SUBMISSIONS AND DATES

Submission of oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 25 November 2019

    LREC2020 asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed) , which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet which will be available on the conference website. Papers must be submitted through the LREC2020 submission platform (it uses START from Softconf) and will be peer-reviewed.

Submission of proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels: 24 October 2019

    Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC website and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.

PROCEEDINGS

The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format.

There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered.

LREC 2010, LREC 2012 and LREC 2014 Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. The other editions are being processed.

LREC Proceedings are indexed in Scopus (Elsevier).

Substantially extended versions of papers selected by reviewers as the most appropriate will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal published by Springer (a SCI-indexed journal).

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Frédéric Béchet ? LIS-CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille- France
Philippe Blache ? CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, Marseille- France
Christopher Cieri ? Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA
Khalid Choukri ? ELRA, Paris - France
Thierry Declerck ? DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Hitoshi Isahara ? Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi - Japan
Bente Maegaard ? Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Denmark
Joseph Mariani ? LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay - France
Asuncion Moreno ? Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain
Jan Odijk ? UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands
Stelios Piperidis ? Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece

CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Sara Goggi ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy
Hélène Mazo ? ELDA/ELRA, Paris - France

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


REPROLANG 2020
Shared Task on the Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language
(part of LREC 2020 conference)
Marseille, France
May 13-15, 2020
http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/lrec-reproduction


We are very pleased to announce REPROLANG 2020, the Shared Task on the Reproduction of
Research Results in Science and Technology of Language, organized by ELRA - European
Language Resources Association with the technical support of CLARIN - European Research
Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology, as part of the LREC 2020 conference.

BACKGROUND

Scientific knowledge is grounded on falsifiable predictions and thus its credibility and
raison d?être relies on the possibility of repeating experiments and getting similar
results as originally
obtained and reported. In many young scientific areas, including ours, acknowledgement
and promotion of the reproduction of research results need very much to be increased.

For this reason, a special track on reproducibility is included into the LREC 2020
conference regular program (side by side with other sessions on other topics) for papers
on reproduction of research results, and the present specific community-wide shared task
is launched to elicit and motivate the spread of scientific work on reproduction. This
initiative builds on the previous pioneer LREC workshops on reproducibility 4REAL 2016
and 4REAL 2018.


SHARED TASK

The shared task is of a new type: it is partly similar to the usual competitive shared
tasks --- in the sense that all participants share a common goal; but it is partly
different to previous shared tasks --- in the sense that its primary focus is on seeking
support and confirmation of previous results, rather than on overcoming those previous
results with superior ones. Thus instead of a competitive shared task, with each
participant struggling for an individual top system that scores as far as possible from a
rough baseline, this will be a cooperative shared task, with participants struggling for
systems that reproduce as close as possible an original complex research experiment and
thus eventually reinforcing the level of reliability on its results by means of their
eventually convergent outcomes. Concomitantly, like with competitive shared tasks, in the
process of participating in the collaborative shared task, new ideas for improvement and
new advances beyond the reproduced results find here an excellent ground to be ignited.

We invite researchers to reproduce the results of a selected set of articles, which have
been offered by the respective authors with their consent to be used for this shared
task. Papers submitted for this task are expected to report on reproduction findings, to
document how the results of the original paper were reproduced, to discuss
reproducibility challenges, to inform on time, space or data requirements found
concerning training and testing, to ponder on lessons learned, to elaborate on
recommendations for best practices, etc.
Submissions that in addition to the reproduction exercise, report also on results of the
replication of the selected tasks with other languages, domains, data sets, models,
methods, algorithms, downstream tasks, etc. are also encouraged. These should permit to
gain insight also into the robustness of the replicated approaches, their learning curves
and potential of incremental performance, their capacity of generalization, their
transferability across experimental circumstances and into eventual real-life usage
scenarios, their suitability to support further progress, etc.


PUBLICATION

LREC conferences have one of the top h5-index scores of research impact among the world
class venues for research on Human Language Technology.

Accepted papers for the shared task will be published in the Proceedings of the LREC 2020
main conference. LREC Proceedings are freely available from ELRA and ACL Anthology. They
are indexed in Scopus (Elsevier) and in DBLP. LREC 2010, LREC 2012 and LREC 2014
Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index
(the other editions are being processed).

Substantially extended versions of papers selected by reviewers as the most appropriate
will be considered for publication in special issues of the Language Resources and
Evaluation Journal published by Springer (a SCI-indexed journal).


IMPORTANT DATES

November 25, 2019: deadline for paper submission (aligned with LREC 2020)
November 27: deadline for projects in gitlab.com to go public
February 14, 2020: notification of acceptance
May 11-16: LREC conference takes place


SELECTED TASKS

The Selection Committee has selected a broad range of papers and tasks.

Chapter A: Lexical processing

Task A.1: Cross-lingual word embeddings

Artetxe, Mikel, Gorka Labaka, and Eneko Agirre. 2018. ?A robust self-learning method for
fully unsupervised cross-lingual mappings of word embeddings?. In Proceedings of the 56th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 789?798.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1073
Major reproduction comparables: Accuracy scores (tables 1 to 4).

Task A.2: Named entity embeddings

Newman-Griffis, Denis, Albert M Lai, and Eric Fosler-Lussier. 2018. ?Jointly Embedding
Entities and Text with Distant Supervision?. In Proceedings of The Third Workshop on
Representation Learning for NLP, pp. 195?206.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-3026
Major reproduction comparables: Spearman?s ? scores for semantic similarity predictions
(tables 3 and 4), and accuracy scores (table 6).

Chapter B: Sentence processing

Task B.1: POS tagging

Bohnet, Bernd, Ryan McDonald, Gonçalo Simões, Daniel Andor, Emily Pitler, and Joshua
Maynez. 2018. ?Morphosyntactic Tagging with a Meta-BiLSTM Model over Context Sensitive
Token Encodings?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 2642?2652.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1246
Major reproduction comparables: f-score values (tables 2 to 8).

Task B.2: Sentence semantic relatedness

Gupta, Amulya, and Zhu Zhang. 2018. ?To Attend or not to Attend: A Case Study on
Syntactic Structures for Semantic Relatedness?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 2116?2125.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1197
Major reproduction comparables: Pearson?s r and Spearman?s ? scores for the semantic
relatedness
(table 1), and f-score values for paraphrase detection (table 2).

Chapter C: Text processing

Task C.1: Relation extraction and classification

Rotsztejn, Jonathan, Nora Hollenstein, and Ce Zhang. 2018. ?ETH-DS3Lab at SemEval-2018
Task 7: Effectively Combining Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks for Relation
Classification and Extraction?. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on
Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2018), pp. 689?696.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/S18-1112
Major reproduction comparables: precision, recall and f-score values (tables 3 and 4).

Task C.2: Privacy preserving representation

Li, Yitong, Timothy Baldwin, and Trevor Cohn. 2018. ?Towards Robust and
Privacy-preserving Text Representations?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 25-30.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-2005
Major reproduction comparables: POS accuracy scores (tables 1 and 2), and sentiment
analysis
f-score scores (table 3).

Task C.3: Language modelling

Howard, Jeremy, and Sebastian Ruder. 2018. ?Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text
Classification?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 328?339.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1031
Major reproduction comparables: Error rate (%) scores in sentiment analysis and question
classification tasks (tables 2 and 3).

Chapter D: Applications

Task D.1: Text simplification

Nisioi, Sergiu, Sanja Stajner, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, and Liviu P. Dinu. 2017.
?Exploring Neural Text Simplification Models?. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017), pp. 85-91.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P17/P17-2014.pdf
Major reproduction comparables: Averaged human evaluation scores, by 3 evaluators,
in 1 to 5 and -2 to +2 scales (table 2).

Task D.2: Language proficiency scoring

Vajjala, Sowmya, and Taraka Rama. 2018. ?Experiments with Universal CEFR classifications?.
In Proceedings of Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications, pp. 147?153.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-0515
Major reproduction comparables: f-score values (tables 2, 3 and 4).

Task D.3: Neural machine translation

Vanmassenhove, Eva, and Andy Way. 2018. ?SuperNMT: Neural Machine Translation with
Semantic Supersenses and Syntactic Supertags?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 67?73.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-3010
Major reproduction comparables: BLEU scores (tables 1 and 2; plots in figures 2, 3 and 4).

Chapter E: Language resources

Task E.1: Parallel corpus construction

Brunato, Dominique, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta, and Giulia Venturi. 2016.
?PaCCSS-IT: A Parallel Corpus of Complex-Simple Sentences for Automatic Text
Simplification?. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP 2016), pp. 351-361.
https://aclweb.org/anthology/D16-1034
Major reproduction comparables: data set.

Participants are expected to obtain the data and tools for the reproduction from the
information provided in the paper. Using the description of the experiment is part of the
reproduction exercise.
SUBMISSION
The START platform of LREC 2020 will be used for the submission of the following required
elements: A paper describing the reproduction effort, and a link to the software and data
used to obtain the results reported in the paper (more details below). The submitted
materials and results will be checked by a CLARIN panel. Papers will be peer-reviewed.


PAPER PREPARATION
REPROLANG 2020 invites the submission of full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more
pages for references if needed). These submissions must strictly follow the LREC 2020
conference stylesheet which will be available on the conference website.


MATERIALS PREPARATION
To be checked by a CLARIN panel and the submission to be complete, the software used to
obtain the results reported in the paper must be made available as a docker container
through a project in gitlab. Detailed instructions are available at
https://gitlab.com/CLARIN-ERIC/reprolang/ For technical support, the CLARIN team can be
contacted at reprolang-tc@clarin.eu or an issue can be created under
https://gitlab.com/CLARIN-ERIC/reprolang/issues.

Submissions are done via the START conference management system used by LREC 2020 and
include the following elements:
- url address of your gitlab.com project
- url of the tar.gz with the datasets - the md5 checksum of the above tar.gz
- .pdf with the paper, which must include the above url of your gitlab.com project, and
the above commit hash and tag

The project in gitlab.com should be made public within 2 days after the submission
deadline.

PRESENTATION Papers accepted for publication will be presented in a specific session of
the LREC main conference. There is no difference in quality between oral and poster
presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less
interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered. The format of the
presentations will be decided by the Program Committee. The proceedings will include both
oral and poster papers in the same format.

REGISTRATION
For a selected paper to be included in the programme and to be published in the
proceedings, at least one of its authors must register for the LREC 2020 conference by
the early bird registration deadline. A single registration only covers one paper,
following the general LREC policy on registration. Registration service is to be found at
the LREC 2020 website.


CONTACTS
About the shared task:
Piek Vossen
p.t.j.m.vossen@vu.nl

About the preparation and submission of materials:
reprolang-tc@clarin.eu
REPROLANG 2020 website: http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/lrec-reproduction


ORGANIZATION

Steering Committee

António Branco, University of Lisbon (chair of Steering Committee)
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC, Pisa (co-chair of Steering Committee)
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen (chair of Task Selection Committee)
Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam (chair of Program Committee)


Task Selection Committee

Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen (chair)
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
António Branco, University of Lisbon
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC, Pisa
Ça?r? Çöltekin, University of Tuebingen
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York
Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen
Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo
Barbara Plank, University of Copenhagen
Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam
Dan Zeman, Prague University

Program Committee

several invitations awaiting an answer marked with [!]

Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam (chair)
  [!]Gilles Adda, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris
  [!]Eneko Agirre Basque University
Francis Bond, NanyangTechnical University, Singapore
António Branco, University of Lisbon

Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC, Pisa
Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado Boulder
 [!]Thierry Declerck declerck@dfki.de, DFKI Saarbruecken
  [!]John McCrae, Galway University
Nancy Ide , Vassar College, New York
  [!]Antske Fokkens VU University Amsterdam
Karën Fort, University of Paris-Sorbonne
  [!] Cyril Grouin, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
  [!] Margo Mieskis
  [!] Aurélie Névéol, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen
Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo
  [!]Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota
Senja Pollak, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
  [!]Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
Martijn Wieling, University of Groningen



Technical Committee
reprolang-tc@clarin.eu
Dieter Van Uytvanck, CLARIN (chair)
André Moreira, CLARIN
Twan Goosen, CLARIN
João Ricardo Silva, CLARIN and University of Lisbon
Luís Gomes, CLARIN and University of Lisbon
Willem Elbers, CLARIN

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CALL for Workshops and Special Sessions for IWSDS 2020

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020 invites proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions in any topic related to the main conference theme: Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade.

Authors are requested to submit PDF files (maximum three pages) of their proposal to iwsds2020@gmail.com

The proposal must indicate:

1. Whether the proposal is for a workshop or for a special session:Workshop / Special Session title
   • Workshops are half day events collocated either before or after the IWSDS 2020 main program. Registration to workshops is not included with IWSDS registration. Participants only interested in attending the workshops do not need to register for IWSDS.
   • Special sessions are 90-minute sessions that are part of the IWSDS main program. Registration to special sessions is included with IWSDS registration.
3. Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the organizers
4. A description of the workshop / Special Session title including:Tentative program committee members (only for workshop proposals)
   • objectives
   • topics of interest
   • justification
   • expected number of submissions
   • tentative program
6. Special audio-visual, internet, computer or equipment requirements
7. Whether the workshop / special session have been run before:Any additional information that might be relevant for the proposal evaluation
   • where and when
   • number of participants

Proposal submission deadline: September 13, 2019

Proposal acceptance notification: September 17, 2019

1. Based on the volume of submissions and other logistic constraints accepted workshops can be converted into special sessions or vice versa
2. IWSDS 2020 organization cannot provide any kind of financial support to workshop and special session organizers. IWSDS 2020 organization will only cover expenses related to venue, audio-visual equipment and coffee breaks for workshops and special sessions.

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The 10th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from May
24 to 28, 2020 at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

http://sp2020.jpn.org

The conference theme is 'Communicative and Interactive Prosody', but we invite papers
addressing any aspect of the science and technology of speech prosody.

Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG)
of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), is the only recurring
international conference covering all aspects of prosody in spoken language: social,
psychological, linguistic, and technological and so on. Past conferences have been
attended by 300-400 international experts representing a range of disciplines including
linguistics, acoustics, speech synthesis and recognition, cognitive psychology, neuroscience,
speech therapy, language teaching, computer science, electrical engineering, speech and
hearing science and psychology.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Sep. 15 Deadline for proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions
Oct. 01 Opening of online paper submission
Oct. 15 Notification of acceptance/rejection for proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions
Dec. 20 Full paper submission deadline
Feb. 21 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
Mar. 06 Deadline to upload camera-ready papers
Mar. 20 Early bird registration deadline
Apr. 30 Standard registration deadline

TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
Phonology and phonetics of prosody
Rhythm and timing
Tone and intonation
Cognitive processing and modeling of prosody
Interaction between segmental and suprasegmental features
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Prosody in language and music
Acquisition of first, second and third language prosody
Prosody in Computer Language Learning systems
Speaking style and personality
Speaking style and communication settings
Prosody in speech recognition and understanding
Prosody in speaker characterization and recognition
Identification & description of prosody for multilingual dialogue systems
Measurements of prosodic parameters
Prosody in audiology and phoniatrics
Forensic voice and language investigation
Prosody of sign language

FOR MORE DETAILS:
Please visit SP10 conference website: http://sp2020.jpn.org
We are seeking proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions.

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Now Accepting Papers for ICASSP 2020

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing heads to Barcelona, Spain in May, and the conference paper submission site is now live!

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Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RÉCITAL 2020

8 au 12 juin 2020

Nancy, France

https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/

Le LORIA, l'ATILF et l'INIST, travaillant dans les domaines de la parole et du traitement automatique des langues écrites, parlées et signées, organisent

du 8 au 12 juin 2020,

sur le campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l?université de Lorraine,

la sixième édition conjointe de la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL. Elle regroupera :

- les 33e Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole (JEP),

- la 27e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN),

- la 22e Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL).

Un appel à communications suivra courant octobre.

** Organisation **

Président JEP : David LANGLOIS, LORIA et Université de Lorraine

Co-Président JEP : Slim OUNI, LORIA et Université de Lorraine

Présidente TALN : Chloé BRAUD, LORIA et CNRS

Co-Président TALN : Sylvain POGODALLA, LORIA et INRIA

Président RÉCITAL : Christophe BENZITOUN, ATILF et Université de Lorraine

Co-Présidente RÉCITAL : Laurine HUBER, LORIA / ATILF et Université de Lorraine

Organisateur : Stéphane SCHNEIDER, INIST et CNRS

** Contact **

jep-taln-recital-2020@loria.fr

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[ Apologies for cross postings ]

Conference JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RÉCITAL 2020

8 to 12 June 2020

Nancy, France

https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/

LORIA, ATILF and INIST, working on speech and on written, spoken and signed language processing, organize

from 8 to 12 June, 2020,

at campus SHS, Lorraine University,

the sixth joint edition of the JEP-TALN-RECITAL conference. It will gather:

- the 33rd Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole (JEP),

- the 27th French Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN),

- the 22nd Meeting of Student Researchers in Computer Science for Natural Language Processing (RECITAL).

A call for papers will be sent in October.

** Organization **

Chair JEP: David LANGLOIS, LORIA et Université de Lorraine

Co-Chair JEP: Slim OUNI, LORIA et Université de Lorraine

Chair TALN: Chloé BRAUD, LORIA et CNRS

Co-Chair TALN: Sylvain POGODALLA, LORIA et INRIA

Chair RÉCITAL: Christophe BENZITOUN, ATILF et Université de Lorraine

Co-Chair RÉCITAL: Laurine HUBER, LORIA / ATILF et Université de Lorraine

Organizer: Stéphane SCHNEIDER, INIST et CNRS

** Contact **

jep-taln-recital-2020@loria.fr

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 EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS
EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF AUDIO-VISUAL TEXTS

Ielka van der Sluis
Gisela Redeker
Janina Wildfeuer

AILA 2020 CONGRESS

09-14 August 2020 • Groningen • The Netherlands

S051

EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS

EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF AUDIO-VISUAL TEXTS

Symposium | Call for Papers

Organisers

Ielka van der Sluis

Gisela Redeker

Janina Wildfeuer

multimodality • evaluation • reception • cognition

he symposium addresses how

multimodal analyses can be used for

and applied to the evaluation of

multimodal communication. It aims at

reviewing evaluation methods and

providing practical implications for the

design of accessible audio-visual texts.

While the use of multimodal resources

such as pictures, texts, sound and

moving images has become normal in

our communication, it is not self-evident

how these resources should effectively

be combined to guarantee the

envisioned understanding. Insights in

human processing principles and

empirical reception studies are needed

to evaluate multimodal design and to

inform the variety of theories and

methods in our broad multimodal

context.

The symposium concentrates on the

principles that underlie successful

communication by explicitly asking for

results from empirical reception studies

conducted with readers/users of

multimodal texts. We seek contributions

reporting empirical and corpus-based

studies of multimodal artefacts that

provide insights into how people

navigate an understand them.

Featured talks by Jana Holsanova, Lund

University, and James Pustejovsky,

Brandeis University, will provide

excellent starting points for our

discussions.

The symposium aims at gaining empirical and

theoretical insights into how readers and usersystematic empirical and corpus-based analyses and

that can provide practical implications for the design of

accessible audio-visual texts.

AILA 2020 CONGRESS

09-14 August 2020 • Groningen • The Netherlands

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS

• Standard presentations

12-20-minute presentations with a ppt.

The exact amount of time for each of these

presentations is up to the symposium

organizers and depends on the number of

abstracts accepted.

• Focused presentations

In pitches of 2-5 minutes, speakers advertise

the presentations that take place in the

dedicated focused presentation space where

the symposia attendants meet during lunch

or drinks.

All the focused multimodal presentations

include a poster. Additionally, these

presenters will have the opportunity to

upload a full 12-minute version of their paper

(video/audio, ppt) to the AILA website for

exposure for a full year after presenting at

AILA 2020.

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

Your submission will need to include the following:

• Author(s) and affiliation(s)

• Title: max. 20 words

• Abstract: max. 300 words

• Summary for program: max. 50 words

• Submit your paper proposal via the 'submit your paper'-link on

https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers .

DATES

Submission deadline 16 September 2019

Notification by 18 November 2019

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Call for Papers

The 13th edition of the Nordic Prosody (NP) conference series is proudly hosted by Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark (https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/centre+for+industrial+elektronics). The conference will be held as a satellite event to the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), 16-20 August 2020. Note that there will be a discount for NP participants who sign up for both conferences!

The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia.

Nordic Prosody conferences take place every 4 years. The first one was in Lund in 1978, organized by Eva Gårding, Gösta Bruce and Robert Bannert. The 12th Nordic Prosody was in 2016 in Trondheim, Norway. The conference series focuses on the forms and functions of prosodic patterns in Nordic languages and in languages spoken around the Baltic Sea. Contributions on all the various aspects of phonetics, phonology, and speech typology are welcome. Papers presenting new corpora, methods, or devices can be submitted as well. We also encourage researchers from neighboring disciplines like (second-language) pedagogy, acoustics, human-machine interaction, and voice pathology to submit contributions to the conference.

Keynote Speakers

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- David House (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) & Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University, Sweden): The multimodal nature of prominence

- Wim van Dommelen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway): Interactions of segmental and prosodic parameters

- Nicolai Pharao (Copenhagen University, Denmark): Processing prosody – recognizing speakers and recognizing words

Important dates:

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31 May 2020 Abstract submission deadline
21 June 2020 Early bird registration deadline
13-15 August 2020 13th Nordic Prosody Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark

01 November 2020 Full-paper submission deadline

Registrations are made through the conference website. Abstracts as well as full papers should be sent by email to np2020@sdu.dk. More detailed information about the formatting requirements will be available on the conference website.

http://www.prosody.dk

Conference proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume of  a Peter Lang book series.

We wish all of you a good start into the new lecture term.

The NP13 organizing committee,

Oliver Niebuhr, Jana Neitsch, Jan Michalsky, Meg Zellers, Stephanie Berger, Kerstin Fischer

Oliver Niebuhr

Associate Professor of Communication & Innovation

SDU Electrical Engineering

CIE - Centre for Industrial Electronics

This mail was sent through the SProSIG mailing list, which is for announcements of interest to the speech prosody research community. To subscribe/unsubscribe, mail list@sprosig.org.

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SPECOM-2020 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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22nd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2020)

Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia, October 06-10, 2020

Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2020

ORGANIZERS

The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).

GENERAL CHAIRS

Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, Russia

Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Russia

CONFERENCE TOPICS

SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:

Affective computing

Audio-visual speech processing

Corpus linguistics

Computational paralinguistics

Deep learning for audio processing

Feature extraction

Forensic speech investigations

Human-machine interaction

Language identification

Multichannel signal processing

Multimedia processing

Multimodal analysis and synthesis

Sign language processing

Speaker recognition

Speech and language resources

Speech analytics and audio mining

Speech and voice disorders

Speech-based applications

Speech driving systems in robotics

Speech enhancement

Speech perception

Speech recognition and understanding

Speech synthesis

Speech translation systems

Spoken dialogue systems

Spoken language processing

Text mining and sentiment analysis

Virtual and augmented reality

Voice assistants

SATELLITE EVENT

5th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2020: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2020

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of 6-10 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM 2020 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2020

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for October 2020.

IMPORTANT DATES

May 26, 2020 ............ Submission of full papers

July 03, 2020 ............ Notification of acceptance

July 17, 2020 ............ Camera-ready papers and early registration

October 06-10, 2020 ......... Conference dates

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

SPECOM-2020 Secretariat:

E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su

SPECOM-2020 web-site: www.specom.nw.ru/2020

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