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Tuesday, December 10, 2019 by Chris Wellekens

3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-2-1(2020-05-10)Joint SLTU and CCURL workshops, Marseille,France

LREC 2020 Satellite Event

1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Underresourced

languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and

Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop.

(*subject to acceptance by LREC Workshop committee)

Marseille, France – May 10th-12th 2020

Workshop

This year SLTU and CCURL workshops will have a shared event as a satellite of LREC 2020

in Marseille (France). Organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the European

Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication

Association (ISCA), this joint workshop will gather researchers working on speech processing

and NLP for low resourced languages.

Important Dates

Paper submission: January 31st 2020

Notification of Acceptance: February 28th 2020

Workshop: 10-12 May 2020

Chairs

Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway)

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Nara, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy)

SIGUL

The workshop is organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the European

Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication

Association (ISCA).

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3-2-2(2020-05-11) 1st Joint SLTU and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop, Marseille, France

Call for Papers

1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and

CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop

http://www.ilc.cnr.it/sltu-ccurl_2020/

1st Call for Papers

Date: 11-12 May, 2020. To be held as part of the 12th edition of the Language

Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), at the Palais du Pharo, Marseille,

France.

Endorsed by SIGUL (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/) , ELRA and ISCA (to be

confirmed)

Invited speakers

Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Teresa Lynn, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland

Tutorials

On May 10th, SLTU-CCURL is pleased to offer two tutorials (held at Université Aixmarseille,

near the LREC venue).

T1: Jan Trmal, John Hopkins University (building ASR systems using the Kaldi

toolkit)

T2: Achim Rabus, University of Freiburg (Using Transkribus in training models for

less-resourced languages) title to be confirmed

More details will be announced on the workshop web page.

Attendance to tutorials will be free of charge but registration will be required for

organisational purposes (and number of attendees will be limited to 25 per

tutorial).

Workshop description and objectives

The first joint SLTU-CCURL workshop will be held on May 11-12 2020 in Marseille,

France, during LREC2020. Organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech

Communication Association (ISCA), this joint workshop will gather researchers

working on speech processing and NLP for less resourced languages.

We solicit papers and posters related to all areas of NLP , speech and

computational linguistics, as well as those at the intersection with digital

humanities and documentary linguistics, provided that they address lessresourced

languages.

Example topics are the following:

-Language resource development, acquisition and representation

-Linguistic theories, corpus development and resources

-Linguistic and cognitive studies

-Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units

-Code switched lexical modeling

-Multi-lingual and cross-lingual (spoken, text) language processing

-Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing

-Machine translation and dialogue systems

-NLP and speech technologies for under-resourced languages

The intention of this joint SLTU-CCURL workshop is not only to provide a forum for

the presentation of research, but also to offer a venue where researchers in

different disciplines and varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of

intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of

sustaining less-resourced languages.

We will have both oral presentation sessions and poster sessions. The decision on

whether a presentation will be an oral or poster one will be taken by the

Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into

account the subject matter and how that might be best conveyed. Oral and poster

presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings.

Submission and Publication

Papers need to address less-resourced languages. They can contain an

analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of

resources; an overview of the literature or of the current initiatives, or a

combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains

material previously published elsewhere.

Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers of 8 pages

(references excluded), strictly complying with the LREC stylesheet (https://

lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/). Papers should be

submitted in PDF unprotected format to the workshop START page (URL will

be provided in due time).

Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members.

In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Authors must

declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere.

Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or posters

and will be published in the workshop proceedings.

The formatting template must be strictly adhered to and deadlines met.

Important dates

February 14, 2020 Paper submission deadline

March 13, 2020 Paper notification of acceptance

April 2, 2020 Camera-ready papers due

May 11-12, 2020 Workshop

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!

Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the

submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other

conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing

LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility,

when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This

effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may

become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus

contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit

and share data.

As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to

allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate

the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the

need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard

Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique

Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of

ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.

Workshop chairs

Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway

Laurent Besacier, LIG-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France

Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan

Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy

Programme Committee

Adrian Doyle (Galway University, Ireland) TBC

Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russian Federation)

Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas, USA)

Amita Dev (BPIBS, India) TBC

Amir Aharoni (Wikimedia Foundation)

Andras Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC, Italy)

Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC

Anupam Shukla (IIITM, India)

Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia) TBC

Bruce Birch (The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications Project,

Australia) TBC

Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University, Canada) TBC

Charl Van Heerden (SPbSU, Russian Federation) TBC

Chiu Yu Tseng (ILAS, Taiwan) TBC

Chris Cieri (LDC, USA) TBC

Clara Rivera (Google) TBC

Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK)

Dewi Bryn Jones (Bangor University, UK)

Dirk Van Compernolle (KU Leuven, Belgium) TBC

Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway)

Emily Prud'hommeaux (Boston College, USA) TBC

Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS-ENS, France) TBC

Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC, Italy)

Francis Tyers (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia)

Gerard Bailly (GIPSA Lab, CNRS) TBC

Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France) TBC

Hemant Patil (DA-IICT, India)

Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA)

John Judge (ADAPT DCU, Ireland)

Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC

Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) TBC

Karunesh Arora (C-DAC, NOIDA, India) TBC

Kepa Sarasola (University of the Basque Country, Spain) TBC

Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA)

Klara Ceberio (Elhuyar, Spain)

Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Laurent Besacier (LIG-IMAG, France)

Lori Lamel (LIMSI, France) TBC

Luong Chi-Mai (IOIT, Vietnam) TBC

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

Mans Hulden (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) TBC

Maxim Romanov TBC

Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain)

Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia) TBC

Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan)

Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the

Dynamics of Language, Australia)

Omar Farooq (AMU, India)

Pedro Moreno (Google, USA) TBC

Pradip K Das (IIT, India)

Richard Sproat (Google, USA) TBC

Clara Rivera (Google) TBC

Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan)

Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan)

Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany)

Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT, India)

Sin Horng Chen (NCTU, Taiwan)

Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) TBC

Tan Tien Ping (USM, Malaysia) TBC

Tanja Schultz (Uni-Bremen, Germany)

Thang Vu (Uni-Stuttgart, Germany) TBC

Teresa Lynn (ADAPT Centre, Ireland)

Trond Trosterud (Tromsø University, Norway)

Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria)

Uwe Springmann (Würzburg University, Germany) TBC

Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language

Documentation, Portugal)

Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar)

Xavier Anguera (Telefonica, Spain) TBC

Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University, Japan) TBC

! Zuraida Mohd Don (UPSI, Indonesia) TBC

Contact

Laurent.Besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it

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3-2-3(2020-05-24) SProSIG conference, Tokyo, Japan

Dear SProSIG members,

 

As previously announced, the next speech prosody conference will be

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

 

http://sp2020.jpn.org

 

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

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

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

 

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

mailing lists.

 

Best wishes,

 

SP2020 chair

Nobuaki MINEMATSU @ UTokyo

office@sp2020.jpn.org

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3-2-4(2020-08-16) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderborg, Denmark

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI)

'Tone and Intonation in a globalized, digital world'

Sonderborg, Denmark

16-20 August 2020

The 1st edition of the Tone-and-Intonation (TAI) conference series is proudly hosted by the Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark. Being a merger of the two former conference series TAL (Tonal Aspects of Languages) and TIE (Tone and Intonation in Europe), TAI 2020 welcomes contributions on phonetic and phonological analyses of prosody including (but not limited to) topics related to the production and perception of prosody and rhythm, the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, the acquisition and teaching of prosody in L1 and L2, and cross-linguistic comparisons of prosody.  In addition, in TAI 2020 a number of sessions will be dedicated to the conference theme of globalization and digitization. In this context, we also encourage researchers of neighboring disciplines to submit papers related to tone and intonation to the conference.

Globalization poses increasing challenges to both societies and individuals in terms of language contact and language acquisition. Digitization opens up new ways of human-human and human-machine interaction. In both contexts, tone and intonation are special linguistic, technical and didactic hurdles. Their better understanding not only has the potential for deeper insights into the nature of speech communication but can also decisively shape the communication of tomorrow.

VENUE

Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark (https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/centre+for+industrial+elektronics). The 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.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

- Mariapaola D'Imperio (Rutgers University, USA)

- Peggy Mok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

- Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne, Germany)

- Hans Basböll (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)


IMPORTANT DATES:

01 March 2020 Online abstract submission opens
19 April 2020 Abstract submission deadline
31 May 2020 Notification of acceptance
21 June 2020 Early bird registration deadline
16-20 August 2020 1st Tone-and-Intonation Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark

01 November 2020 Deadline for the submission of a revised abstract and an optional 5-page full paper (4 pages of text plus 1 page for references only)

Registrations are made through the conference website. Abstract and paper submission will be handled via the EasyChair platform. More detailed information about the submission procedure and about the abstract/paper formatting requirements will be available on the conference website soon.

TAI 2020 is co-sponsored by ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and the IPA (International Phonetic Association). We are pleased to offer 5 IPA Student Awards that will cover the early bird student registration fee. Further ISCA-sponsored grants (max. 3) might be added soon. Please check the website tai2020.org for further information on how to apply.

Oliver Niebuhr

Associate Professor of Communication & Innovation

SDU Electrical Engineering

CIE - Centre for Industrial Electronics

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