Possibility to re-bid for Interspeech 2022 and deadline extension for bids for Interspeech 2023

ISCA has established a bidding process for Interspeech conferences which has been successful over the past years. In this process, feedback is provided for bidders to optimize bids prior to the deadline, the received bids are discussed first in the ISCA Advisory Council and then in the ISCA Board, and finally the ISCA Board takes a decision in terms of (one or several) votings to identify the optimum bid. For the Interspeech 2022 edition, this process led to Dublin being selected to host Interspeech 2022, as it was announced at the past Interspeech conference in Graz.

Due to several circumstances, the ISCA Board has re-assessed the Dublin bid and had to withdraw this decision very recently. As a consequence, the ISCA Board now re-opens the evaluation for Interspeech 2022 since there is currently no identified location for hosting Interspeech 2022. The ISCA Board decided that priority should be given to the bidders of the first round to update their bids, in case that they are still interested and able to host Interspeech 2022, as these bids have all been quite competitive, and the decision for Dublin was a tight one. Thus, all original bidders for Interspeech 2022 have been invited to submit an updated bid for Interspeech 2022 until November 30, 2019. These updated bids will be re-evaluated in an accelerated process, and then hopefully a new host for Interspeech 2022 will be identified. Only in case that this process leads to no adequate bid, the bid for Interspeech 2022 would be re-opened to all interested parties, possibly together with the bids for 2023.

As a consequence, also the deadline for bids for Interspeech 2023 has been postponed to February 28, 2020. All bidders which had identified themselves to us have already been informed about this deadline extension. We hope that this way we can keep the integrity and transparency of the Interspeech selection process, and identify optimum places to host Interspeech 2022 and 2023.

The ISCA Conferences team

Odette Scharenborg, Margaret Zellers, Sebastian Möller

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ISCA Fellows Nominations for 2020

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Code-of-Ethics for Authors

ISCA is committed to publishing high-quality journals and conference
proceedings.  To this end, all authors are requested to ensure they
adhere to ethical standards, specifically (but not limited to):

(1) the work does NOT include fabrication, falsification or any kind
of data breach.  Authors should keep their code and log data that
produced the results in the paper.

(2) the work does NOT include plagiarism or significant
self-plagiarism.  ISCA (and conference organizers or journal editors)
may use tools to detect plagiarism and reject papers without review.

(3) the work does NOT use figures, photographs or any other kind of
content whose copyright is not owned by or granted to the authors,
except for proper quotations allowed by the copyright law.  ISCA (and
conference organizers or journal editors) may request authors to
provide evidence of permission to use the content for their work.

(4) the work does NOT include inappropriate content in terms of human
rights.  ISCA (and conference organizers or journal editors) may
request authors to provide evidence of approval from the host Ethics
Committee (Institutional Review Board or equivalent) that the work
meets their Institution's ethical requirements, and/or explicit
consent from the human subjects used in the work.

(5) all (co-)authors must be responsible and accountable for the work,
and consent to its submission.

If any concerns relating to this code are raised or reported, ISCA
(and conference organizers or journal editors) will set up a committee
to investigate the matter and decide on appropriate action including
withdrawal of the paper and suspension of future submissions by the
authors.

ISCA also enforces the NO-show policy for conference papers.  Any
paper accepted into the technical program, but not presented on-site,
may be withdrawn from the official proceedings.  Please refer to
https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/conferences point 2) and 8).


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ISCA is committed to publishing high-quality journals and conference
proceedings. Our code-of-ethics for authors can be found at:
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Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees

ISCA is committed to providing a pleasant conference experience
without harassment and discrimination for anyone, regardless of
gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability and physical
appearance.  We do not tolerate any verbal or non-verbal expressions
of harassment or discrimination.  Please note that it matters if a
person feels harassed or discriminated regardless of the original
intent of the expressions. In particular, sexual language and imagery
are not appropriate in any conference venue.  Conference participants
who engage in inappropriate behavior may be expelled from the
conference without a refund at the discretion of the conference
organizer. These persons may be included in a watchlist for future
ISCA-sponsored events.

If you are troubled by the behavior of another attendee at the
conference, or notice someone is in trouble, please speak immediately
to a member of conference staff or send a message to <ethics@isca-speech.org>.

Your concern will be heard in confidence and taken seriously to solve
the problem.

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harassment and discrimination. Our code-of-conduct can be found at:
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The article 'Rediscovering 25 Years of Discoveries in Spoken Language Processing: A Preliminary ISCA Archive Analysis', published at Interspeech 2013 on the occasion of the ESCA/ISCA Silver Jubilee, has been extended to the production and analysis of the NLP4NLP corpus containing close to 65,000 articles published in major conferences and journals in speech and language processing over 50 years (1965-2015) on various aspects (publication, collaboration, citation, innovation, plagiarism,...). The results of those analyses have recently been assembled in a series of two papers published in a special issue on 'Mining Scientific Papers: NLP-enhanced Bibliometrics' of the 'Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics' journal :

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00036/full

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00037/full

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 ISCA is committed to supporting diversity in speech communication, and celebrating speech
communication as an exciting and diverse field of research and discovery. Moreover, ISCA
is committed to gender equality.

We are therefore delighted to announce that the database with names, affiliations,
positions, and research topics of women in speech science and speech technology,
originally started by Maxine Eskenazi, is now a wonderful, searchable website, created by
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson.

The website can be found at http://isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/diversity?id=264

The website can be used for, amongst others:
- Workshop and conference organisers to search for keynote and invited speakers,
panelists, and co-organisers
- Nominations for distinguished lecturers
- Norminations for awards, medals, fellowships, and prizes
- Prospective new faculty by faculty search committees

If you identify yourself as female and want to be added to this list, please follow the
instructions on the WomenNspeech website.

We hope this website will be useful to many!

Julia Hirschberg
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Odette Scharenborg

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www.afcp-parole.org

Appel à candidatures

Prix de thèse AFCP 2019

Depuis 2004, l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP) décerne un prix scientifique

récompensant la grande qualité d'un travail de thèse francophone du domaine (ou

anglophone issue d’un laboratoire francophone), afin de promouvoir les recherches en

communication parlée, fondamentales ou appliquées, dans le domaine des technologies de la

communication, des sciences humaines et de la vie. Ce prix permet de soutenir et diffuser les travaux de

jeunes chercheurs du domaine.

Le prix est décerné par un jury composé des chercheurs élus du conseil d'administration de l’AFCP. Il

sera officiellement remis lors des prochaines Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole.

Le ou la lauréat(e) se verra remettre la somme de 500 euros et sera invité(e) à présenter ses travaux

à la communauté de la communication parlée lors des prochaines JEP (inscription offerte à la

conférence). Il/elle se verra également offrir l’opportunité de publier sa thèse sous la forme d’un livre

dans la collection « Recherches en PArole » (éditions CIPA).

CALENDRIER

Date limite de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2020

Décision du jury AFCP : avril-mai 2020

Remise officielle du prix : JEP 2020

CONDITIONS DE CANDIDATURE À CET APPEL

Peut candidater au présent appel : tout docteur dont la thèse, préparée dans un laboratoire francophone, et

rédigée en français ou en anglais, a été soutenue entre le 1er janvier et le 31 décembre 2019. Toute

candidature est limitée à une seule édition du prix. Seuls les dossiers complets de candidature seront examinés.

CANDIDATURE

Pour candidater, il suffit de :

(1) Envoyer un e-mail déclarant votre intention de candidater, avec vos nom, prénom, titre de la thèse,

directeur de thèse, et date de la soutenance à : camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. Vous recevrez un accusé de

réception.

(2) Déposer votre manuscrit de thèse en PDF sur le serveur du site web de l’AFCP :

http://www.afcp-parole.org/spip.php?page=depot_these

(3) Envoyer votre dossier complet via un courrier électronique à l’adresse camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. La

pièce jointe sera constituée d’un fichier unique (nommé VOTRENOM.pdf), contenant dans l’ordre : (i) le résumé de

la thèse (2 pages) ; (ii) la liste des publications ; (iii) les rapports scannés du jury et des rapporteurs de soutenance de

thèse ; (iv) une lettre de recommandation scannée du directeur de thèse ; (v) un CV (avec coordonnées complètes dont

e-mail).

___________Date de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2020____________

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