The ASRU Workshop is a flagship event of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The workshop is held every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following,
Automatic speech recognition
ASR in adverse environments
New applications of ASR
Speech-to-speech translation
Spoken document retrieval
Speaker/Language recognition
Multilingual language processing
Spoken language understanding
Spoken dialog systems
Text-to-speech system
The workshop will feature invited talks/keynotes, regular papers and special sessions. All papers will be presented as posters. A full social program will provide ample opportunities for discussion, including welcome reception, banquet, lunches, etc.
Paper submission portal will be available by 8 May 2019. The ASRU 2019 paper submission and review process is being conducted in a manner similar to previous ASRU workshops. Paper submission kit is available on http://asru2019.org
(2019-12-14) Call for papers : 3rd NeurIPS workshop on conversational AI, Vancouver, Canada
Call for papers : 3rd NeurIPS workshop on conversational AI
Note: This year, we will have two submission phases - IE, two paper deadlines. We can guarantee registration places only for accepted papers submitted by the first deadline. We encourage all prospective authors to apply for a registration through the NeurIPS lottery; if you do not get a registration through the NeurIPS lottery, please submit papers in the first phase.
In less than a decade, conversational systems have become commonplace. Every day, millions of people use natural-language interfaces such as Siri, Google Now, Cortana, Alexa and others via in-home devices, phones, or messaging channels such as Messenger, Slack, Skype, among others. At the same time, interest among the research community in conversational systems has blossomed: for supervised and reinforcement learning, conversational systems often serve as both a benchmark task and an inspiration for new ML methods at conferences which don't focus on speech and language per se, such as NeurIPS, ICML, IJCAI, and others. Such movement has not been unnoticed by major publications. This year in collaboration with AAAI community, the AI magazine will have a special issue on conversational AI. Moreover, research community challenge tasks are proliferating, including the seventh Dialog Systems Technology Challenge (DSTC7), the Amazon Alexa prize, and the Conversational Intelligence Challenge live competitions at NeurIPS (2017, 2018).
we are excited to continue promoting cross-pollination of ideas between academic research centers and industry. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in this area, to clarify impactful research problems, understand well-founded methods, share findings from large-scale real-world deployments, and generate new ideas for future lines of research.
This workshop will include invited talks from academia and industry, contributed work, and open discussion. In these talks, senior technical leaders from many of the most popular conversational services will give insights into real usage and challenges at scale. We will end the day with an open discussion, including a panel consisting of academic and industrial researchers.
Invited Speakers
Y-Lan Boureau (Facebook)
Ryuchiro Higashinaka (NTT)
Alan Ritter (Ohio State University)
Gabriel Skantze (KTH)
David Traum (USC)
Zhou Yu (UC Davis)
Call for Papers
We invite you to submit your contributions in the area of conversational AI in NeurIPS style with maximum of 8 pages excluding the references. You can add supplementary material in addition to 8 pages, but reviewers are not required to review the extra material (e.g. your paper should stand on its own without the supplementary material). Selected papers will be presented through invited talks or posters. Maximum allowed size of posters is 36 x 48 inch (91 x 122 cm). Notice that our workshop is not archival. However, accepted submission will be hosted on this website similar to last year?s workshop. Given authors concern around posting their submissions to arXiv the organizing committed decided to lift the anonymity requirement for our workshop. This means the anonymity will be optional and decided by the authors. Hence, you can post your submissions to arXiv. For further questions, feel free to reach out to co-chairs through email (alborz.geramifard@gmail.com; jdw@alumni.princeton.edu).
Two phase submission process
This year, we will have two submission phases due to limitation for allocating tickets to authors. We advise all workshop attendees to enter their names for the NeurIPS lottery.
Phase 1 (Early Submission): Please follow the early submission, only if you did not win a ticket in the NeurIPS lottery. We will notify accepted authors by October 1st and provide tickets to the author presenting the paper.
Submission: 21st September 2019 11:59 PM EST (link)
Notification: 1st October 2019
Phase 2 (Regular Submission): If you already acquired the NeurIPS ticket, please follow the regular submission process below.
(2019-X-X) Dialog System Technology Challenge 7 (DSTC7)
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 ----------------- 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:
Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government).
Important Dates ------------------------ - 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 -------------------------------------------- - 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 ------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------- - 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 --------------------------------------- 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 directly.
(2020-01-08) Winter School in Speech and Audio Processing, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
WiSSAP is a series of winter schools in speech and audio processing held since 2006. The 15th edition of WiSSAP is happening in January 2020 at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. The theme for WiSSAP 2020 is 'Machine Listening: making sense of sound'.
What is machine listening? -------------------------
Humans have an amazing ability to make sense of their surroundings using sound. For example, we routinely deal with situations like the ringing of the telephone in the office, the honking of a horn while driving and the sound made by the contents of a shaken box. Machine listening deals with creating algorithms which can perform similar tasks, and more. With varied applications like self- driving cars, intelligent assistive devices and enhanced human-computer interaction, machine listening brings together various domains like audio signal processing and modelling, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and acoustics.
Indian Institute of Technology Mandi ------------------------------------
IIT Mandi was established in the year 2009. Located along the Himalayan foothills in the Sivalik range, the IIT Mandi campus is situated amongst lush natural beauty. The campus is self-contained, with excellent facilities including seminar halls, an auditorium and a 100-room guest house. The unique location of the campus also offers opportunities for various outdoor pursuits, including hiking, camping and trips to the popular hill stations of Kullu and Manali.
WiSSAP website and Registration -------------------------------
(2020-01-13) 6th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA, Ancona, Italy
6th 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 https://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/ ******************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: December 16, 2019 --- ******************************************************** 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 22 four-hour and a half courses and 1 round table, 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 PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Sanchita Bhattacharya (University of California, San Francisco), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Immunology: Sharing, Dissemination, and Repurposing Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory] Virtual Knowledge Graphs for Data Integration Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary), [introductory] Data Visualization Nitesh V. Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [intermediate/advanced] Learning in the Presence of Class Imbalance and Changing Distributions Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] An Introduction to Blockchain Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego), [intermediate] A Rapid Introduction to Modern Deep Learning Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete), [intermediate/advanced] Private Data Analytics at Scale Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate/advanced] From Unstructured Text to TextCube: Automated Construction and Multidimensional Exploration Xiaohua Tony Hu (Drexel University), [introductory/advanced] Machine Learning Methods for Big Microbiome Data Analysis Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California), [intermediate/advanced] Building Knowledge Graphs Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University), [intermediate] Context-aware Recommender Systems Jayanti Prasad (Embold Technologies), [introductory/intermediate] Big Code Lior Rokach and Bracha Shapira (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), [introductory/intermediate] Recommender Systems Peter Rousseeuw (KU Leuven), [introductory] Anomaly Detection by Robust Methods Asim Roy (Arizona State University), [intermediate] Hardware-based (GPU, FPGA based) Machine Learning That Exploits Massively Parallel Computing ? An Overview of Concepts, Architectures and Neural Network Algorithm Implementation Hanan Samet (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Sorting in Space: Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Applications in Spatial and Spatio-textual Databases, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Location-based Services Rory Smith (Monash University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning from Data, the Bayesian Way Jaideep Srivastava (University of Minnesota), [introductory/intermediate] Social Computing Mayte Suárez-Fariñas (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), [intermediate/advanced] Meta-analysis Methods for High-dimensional Data Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University), [introductory] Big-data Algorithms That Aren't Machine Learning (remote) 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 https://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 are available at https://bigdat2020.irdta.eu/accommodation/ 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 CONFINDUSTRIA Marche Nord CINI AIIS National Lab CINI Big Data Laboratory
(2020-03-02) 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2020), Milan, Italy.
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 ************************************************************************* 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
A cette occasion, nous célébrerons 40 ans de recherches scientifiques sur la physiologie de la voix humaine !
Vous trouverez ci-après les grandes thématiques qui seront abordées lors de la conférence:
Physiologie et neurophysiologie du larynx et de la voix
Contrôle neuromusculaire de la phonation saine et pathologique
Acoustique, aérodynamique et cinématique de la production vocale
Voix Chantée
Bioacoustique : vocalisation animale
Interactions fluide-structure-acoustique en phonation saine et pathologique
Biomécanique des voies respiratoires supérieures : tissus mous, muscles, cartilages et os.
Approches multi-échelles, micro et nanomécaniques
Biologie moléculaire et cellulaire du pli vocal
Mécanobiologie, cicatrisation, croissance et remodelage des tissus
Médecine régénérative et ingénierie tissulaire
Modélisation et simulation de la production vocale
Analyse et synthèse de la voix
Intelligence artificielle pour applications vocales
Optique biomédicale, techniques d'imagerie pour l'évaluation de la voix
Technologie portable
Deux jours de pré-cours (en anglais) se tiendront du 16 au 17 Mars (https://icvpb2020.sciencesconf.org/program). Pour l'inscription à ces pré-cours, un tarif préférentiel est proposé aux adhérents de l'AFCP et d'autres sociétés savantes françaises associées à cet événement scientifique : SFA, SFB, SFPL, AFPC-EVTA France.
Bien cordialement,
Lucie Bailly et Nathalie Henrich Bernardoni, pour le Comité d'Organisation ICVPB2020
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!
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!
ICASSP 2020 welcomes papers from a broad range of signal processing topics, all of which can be found in the call for papers on the conference website. Published papers will benefit from increased exposure through IEEE Xplore® Open Preview, granting the greater research community early, free access to the conference proceedings for one month before the conference! Deadline to submit your paper is Monday, 21 October 2019.
Call for Special Sessions
Want to highlight a new or emerging topic to your signal processing community? Consider organizing a special session! The ICASSP 2020 technical program will highlight a series of Special Sessions to complement the regular program. Head to the conference website for more information, but act fast – deadline to propose is on Monday, 12 August!
First Plenary Speaker Announced
We’re proud to announce the first of our esteemed plenary speakers, Yoshua Bengio, presenting “Deep Representation Learning.” More speakers to be announced soon!
“Deep Representation Learning” A crucial ingredient of deep learning is that of learning representations, more specifically with the objective to discover higher-level representations which capture and disentangle explanatory factors. This is a very ambitious goal and current state-of-the-art techniques still fall short, often capturing mostly superficial features of the data, which leaves them vulnerable to adversarial attacks and insufficient out-of-distribution robustness. This talk will review these original objectives, supervised and unsupervised approaches, and outline research ideas towards better representation learning.
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
(2020-05-13) REPROLANG (part of LREC Conference), Marseille , France
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.
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
(2020-05-18) 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020), Madrid, Spain
The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IPTC-UPM) in collaboration with Universidad de Granada are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020) to be held in Madrid, Spain from May 18-20, 2020. We are now inviting paper submissions especially on the following topics:
Engagement and emotion in human-robot interactions
Digital resources for interactive applications
Multi-modal and machine learning methods
Companions, personal assistants and dialogue systems
Proactive and anticipatory interactions
Educational and healthcare robot applications
Dialogue systems and reasoning
Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems
Multi-lingual dialogue systems
Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages
Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken dialog systems
However, submissions are not limited to these topics, therefore we are encouraging to submit papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions:
Categories of submissions:
Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-14 pages, including references.
Short Research Papers should be in the range of 4-8 pages, including references. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts.
Position Papers deal with novel research ideas or view-points which describe trends or fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion and are not much researched. They should be 2 pages long, excluding references.
Demo Submissions ? System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.
As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).
IWSDS 2020 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:
The paper is substantially original and will not be submitted to any other conference or journal during the IWSDS 2020 review period.
The paper does not contain any plagiarism.
The paper will be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule published. Any paper accepted in the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official conference proceedings.
NOTE: All submitted papers are subject to a single-blind review. The change in page limits is to accommodate responses to reviewer comments only.
Special Sessions and Workshops
In addition, IWSDS will host three special sessions and one workshop. Authors can submit specific papers to any of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. For additional information about these special sessions and workshop please check the Special Session link:
(2020-05-18) CfW and SS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020, Madrid Spain
The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IPTC-UPM) in collaboration with Universidad de Granada are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020) to be held in Madrid, Spain from May 18-20, 2020. We are now inviting paper submissions especially on the following topics:
List of Topics
Engagement and emotion in human-robot interactions
Digital resources for interactive applications
Multi-modal and machine learning methods
Companions, personal assistants and dialogue systems
Proactive and anticipatory interactions
Educational and healthcare robot applications
Dialogue systems and reasoning
Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems
Multi-lingual dialogue systems
Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages
Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken dialog systems
However, submissions are not limited to these topics, therefore we are encouraging to submit papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions:
Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-14 pages, including references.
Short Research Papers should be in the range of 4-8 pages, including references. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts.
Position Papers deal with novel research ideas or view-points which describe trends or fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion and are not much researched. They should be 2 pages long, excluding references.
Demo Submissions ? System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.
IWSDS 2020 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:
The paper is substantially original and will not be submitted to any other conference or journal during the IWSDS 2020 review period.
The paper does not contain any plagiarism.
The paper will be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule published. Any paper accepted in the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official conference proceedings.
NOTE: All submitted papers are subject to a single-blind review. The change in page limits is to accommodate responses to reviewer comments only.
As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).
Special Sessions and Workshops
In addition, IWSDS will host three special sessions and one workshop. Authors can submit specific papers to any of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. For additional information about these special sessions and workshop please check the Special Session link:
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.
(2020-06-08) *Appel Démos JEP-TALN'20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*, Nancy France
*Appel Démos JEP-TALN'20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)* Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RÉCITAL 2020 8 au 12 juin 2020 Nancy, France https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/
La sixième édition conjointe de la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL sera organisée à Nancy du 8 au 12 juin 2020 (https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/) .
La conférence inclut des démonstrations dans la cadre du TAL et du traitement automatique de la parole, ou de son étude. Ce présent message est un appel à démonstration, et ne doit pas être confondu avec les appels à communications indépendants pour les trois conférences JEP, TALN et RECITAL.
*Thématiques des démonstrations*
Nous sollicitons des communications pouvant porter sur tous les thèmes habituels du TAL et du traitement automatique de la parole, ou de son étude. Plus précisément, nous reprenons les intitulés des thèmes listés dans les appels à soumissions, en TAL : - Phonétique, phonologie, morphologie, étiquetage morphosyntaxique, - Syntaxe, grammaires, analyse syntaxique, chunking, - Sémantique, pragmatique, discours, - Sémantique lexicale et distributionnelle, - Aspects linguistiques et psycholinguistiques du TAL, - Ressources pour le TAL ou la parole, - Méthodes d?évaluation pour le TAL, - Applications du TAL (recherche et extraction d?information, question-réponse, traduction,génération, résumé, dialogue, analyse d?opinions, etc.), - TAL et multi-modalité (parole, vision, etc.), - TAL et multilinguisme, - TAL pour le Web et les réseaux sociaux, - TAL et langues peu dotées, - TAL et langue des signes, - implications sociales et éthiques du TAL, - TAL et linguistique de corpus, - TAL et Humanités numériques. et en parole : - traitement automatique de la parole, - reconnaissance, synthèse, traduction, dialogue, - compréhension, codage, - acquisition et apprentissage, - production, perception et cognition, - santé, troubles et handicap, - phonétique, phonologie, prosodie, - géolinguistique et sociolinguistique, - ressources et évaluation.
*Types de communication - Démonstrations*
Les organisateurs de ces conférences ont le plaisir d'inviter les participants, industriels et académiques, à présenter des démonstrations de logiciels et/ou de prototypes qui s'appuient sur des méthodes de Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel pour le texte, la parole ou la langue des signes.
Dans ce cadre, les professionnels de l'industrie peuvent faire acte de candidature pour présenter leur logiciel au cours d?une session dédiée. L'objet de cette dernière est d'offrir un cadre d'interaction entre les milieux industriel et académique.
La session Démonstration académique et industrielle, accueillera des présentations sous les formes suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilités) : - stand d'exposant ; - poster de présentation ; - démonstration de produits logiciels.
Pour participer, les candidats devront soumettre un résumé (2 pages) au format de la conférence, en suivant les modalités indiquées ci-après. Le titre de l?article devra commencer par : [JEP-TALN DEMO].
*Critères de sélection*
Les participants seront choisis par le comité d'organisation, indépendamment du processus de sélection scientifique habituel. Les critères de sélection s'appuient sur la pertinence des outils au regard des thématiques affichées par les conférences TALN et JEP.
*Modalités de soumission*
Les soumissions, au format PDF, doivent être conformes aux instructions de mise en page qui seront disponibles dans les fichiers de style:http://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/
Les soumissions en anglais sont acceptées dès lors qu'un co-auteur n?est pas francophone.
Le processus de relecture étant en double aveugle, les contributions ne doivent inclure ni les noms ni les affiliations des auteurs, académiques ou industrielles. Les auto-références et les noms de projets qui révèlent l'identité des auteurs, comme par exemple, « Nous avons déjà démontré (Martin, 1991) » sont à proscrire. Les auteurs doivent ainsi privilégier les citations telles que « Martin a précédemment démontré (Martin, 1991) ». Les remerciements seront omis dans la première soumission, et pourront être ajoutés dans la version définitive de l'article en cas d'acceptation.
*Dates importantes*
Date limite de soumission : 13 mars 2020 Notification aux auteurs : 27 mars 2020 Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 24 avril 2020
*Comité de Programme*
Le comité de programme est présidé par Chloé Braud et David Langlois.
(2020-06-08) *Appel Tutoriels JEP-TALN'20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*, Nancy France
*Appel Tutoriels JEP-TALN'20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)* Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RÉCITAL 2020 8 au 12 juin 2020 Nancy, France https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/
Dans le cadre des conférences conjointes JEP-TALN-RECITAL organisées à Nancy (https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/), nous sollicitons des propositions de tutoriels. Les tutoriels doivent porter sur une thématique particulière du TAL et du traitement automatique ou l'étude de la parole. Les tutoriels sont l'occasion de former les participants à des modèles, méthodes, techniques ou outils, nouveaux ou non, mais présentant un intérêt pour la communauté. Les organisateurs de JEP-TALN-RECITAL s?occuperont de la logistique (e.g. gestion des salles, vidéo-projecteur, pauses café). Le responsable d'un tutoriel se chargera de la communication sur celui-ci en partenariat avec les organisateurs des conférences.
*Dates importantes*
Les tutoriels auront lieu en parallèle le lundi 8 et mardi 9 juin 2020 sur le lieu de conférence à Nancy. Ils pourront durer une demi-journée ou une journée. - Date limite de soumission de proposition de tutoriels : vendredi 10 janvier 2020 - Notification aux candidats de la réponse aux propositions de tutoriels : vendredi 17 janvier 2020 - Remise du programme des tutoriels (pour la publication dans le livret) : vendredi 24 avril 2020 - Date des tutoriels : lundi 8 et mardi 9 juin 2020
*Modalités de proposition*
Les propositions comprendront : - le nom du tutoriel, - une description synthétique (max. 1 page A4 en format PDF) du thème du tutoriel (y compris une justification de son affluence espérée), de son contenu, et du fonctionnement attendu (présentations, TP, etc.) - une brève présentation du ou des intervenants, - la durée souhaitée du tutoriel (1 journée ou 1/2 journée).
Les propositions devront être envoyées sous forme électronique à l?adresse :jep-taln-tutoriels-2020@loria.fr avec pour entête de courriel :[Tutoriel JEP-TALN 2020 : <titre du tutoriel>].
*Modalités de sélection*
Les propositions seront examinées par des membres des comités de programme de JEP, TALN, le bureau de l?AFCP et le CPERM de l'ATALA.
Les critères suivants seront considérés pour acceptation : - l?adéquation aux thèmes de l'une ou l'autre des conférences, - l?originalité de la proposition, - l'affluence pouvant être espérée.
*Format* Les tutoriels auront lieu en français (ou en anglais pour les non-francophones). Nous invitons les intervenants à mettre le matériel utilisé lors du tutoriel (présentations, codes, données, etc.) à disposition sur un site web.
(2020-06-08) Appel à ateliers Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RECITAL 2020, Nancy, France
*Appel à ateliers (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)* Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RECITAL 2020 8?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 33es 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).
Dans le cadre de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020 qui sera organisée à Nancy du 8 au 12 juin 2020 (https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/), nous sollicitons des*propositions d'ateliers*. Les ateliers doivent porter sur des thématiques propres aux JEP, à TALN, ou communes à JEP-TALN.
Chaque atelier a sa propre présidence et son propre comité de programme. Le responsable de l?atelier est chargé de la communication sur celui-ci, de l?appel à soumissions et de sa diffusion, et de la coordination de son comité de programme. Pour les aspects organisationnels, le responsable d'atelier sera en liaison avec les organisateurs de JEP-TALN-RECITAL, et ces derniers auront en charge la partie logistique (gestion des salles, pauses café et diffusion des articles).
*Dates importantes*
Les ateliers auront lieu en parallèle le lundi 8 et le mardi 9 juin 2020 sur le lieu de conférence à Nancy. Ils pourront durer une demi-journée ou une journée.
* Date limite de soumission de proposition d'atelier : vendredi 10 janvier 2020 * Notification aux candidats de la réponse aux propositions d'atelier : vendredi 17 janvier 2020 * Remise des versions finales des articles acceptés dans les ateliers (pour la publication dans les actes) : vendredi 15 mai 2020 * Date des ateliers : lundi 8 et mardi 9 juin 2020
Elles comprendront : - le nom et l?acronyme de l?atelier, - une description synthétique (au plus 1 page A4 en format PDF) du thème de l'atelier, - le comité de programme (2 à 3 personnes chargées de la sélection finale des articles) - la durée souhaitée pour la réalisation de l?atelier (1/2 ou 1 journée).
*Modalités de sélection*
Les propositions d'atelier seront examinées par les membres des comités de programme de JEP et TALN. Les critères suivants seront considérés pour l'acceptation :
- l?adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence, - l?originalité de la proposition.
On veillera à ce que les membres du comité de programme (lors de la soumission) puis du comité de lecture soient équilibrés en terme de genre et d'affiliations.
*Format*
Les conférences auront lieu en français ou en anglais pour les non francophones.
Les articles soumis dans les ateliers devront suivre le format de TALN 2020 (nombre de pages à la discrétion du comité de programme de l'atelier) :http://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/
*Contacts*
Le comité de programme est présidé par Chloé Braud, David Langlois, Slim Ouni et Sylvain Pogodalla.
(2020-06-08) CfP JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020, Nancy France
*JEP'20 call for papers (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)* JEP 2020 Conference | TALN 2020 | RECITAL 2020 June 8-12, 2020 Nancy, France https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/
LORIA, ATILF and INIST are french laboratories and institutes located in Nancy and working in the fields of speech and automatic processing of written, spoken and signed languages. With the scientific support of the AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) and ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues), they are organizing the sixth joint edition of the JEP-TALN-RECITAL conference. It will take place:
from 8 to 12 June 2020
on the Lettres et Sciences Humaines campus of the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France
This edition will therefore include:
- the 33rd Study Days on Speech (Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole - JEP), - the 27th Conference on Natural Language Processing (Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - TALN), - the 22nd Meeting of Student Researchers in Computer Science for Automatic Language Processing (Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues - RÉCITAL).
The JEP'2020 will include oral and poster presentations and invited lectures.
The official language of the conference is French.
*Types of contributions*
Authors are invited to submit two types of contributions:
- articles presenting original research work - position papers presenting a point of view about spoken communication
Articles must present original works, with a substantial contribution compared to other works that may already have been published. In the case of works already partially or totally published in another language, the article should refer to the original publication in a footnote.
Articles will be presented in the form of an oral presentation or a poster.
*JEP topics*
Contributions may cover all topics related to spoken communication and speech processing in their various aspects, as well as their applications.
The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:
- automatic speech processing - transcription, synthesis, translation, dialogue, - understanding, coding - acquisition and learning - production, perception and cognition - health, disorders and disability - phonetics, phonology, prosody - geolinguistics and sociolinguistics - resources and evaluation
*Selection criteria*
Submissions will be reviewed by at least two specialists of the field. For research work, particular consideration will be given to:
- relevance to the conference topics - importance and originality of the contribution - correction of scientific and technical content - critical analysis of the results, particularly in relation to other works in the field - status of the work in the context of international research - organization and clarity of the presentation
For position papers, preference will be given to:
- taking into account the state of the art and positioning in relation to it - providing an original point of view - demonstrating the potential impact of the position
The selected articles will be published in the conference proceedings.
*Submission instructions*
The articles will be written in French.
The size of the articles should not exceed 8 pages, plus one page dedicated to bibliographic references. A LaTeX style sheet, a Word template and a LibreOffice template are available on the conference website: http://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/
- Submissions due: 31 January 2020 (23:59 Paris time), - Notification to authors: 03 April 2020 - Camera-ready due: 08 May 2020
*Scholarships*
The AFCP offers a number of scholarships for doctoral students and young researchers wishing to attend the conference, see the AFCP website (http://www.afcp-parole.org/).
The ISCA also provides financial support to young researchers participating in scientific events on speech and language, see the ISCA website (https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/).
*Contacts*
The JEP Program Committee is chaired by David Langlois and Slim Ouni.
Could you include in the next ISCApad the call for papers for next JEP-TALN-RECITAL joint conference which will be held in Nancy, France, 8-12 june 2020? I give the text below.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards.
David Langlois, from steering committee of JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020.
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*JEP'20 call for papers (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)* JEP 2020 Conference | TALN 2020 | RECITAL 2020 June 8-12, 2020 Nancy, France https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/
LORIA, ATILF and INIST are french laboratories and institutes located in Nancy and working in the fields of speech and automatic processing of written, spoken and signed languages. With the scientific support of the AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) and ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues), they are organizing the sixth joint edition of the JEP-TALN-RECITAL conference. It will take place:
from 8 to 12 June 2020
on the Lettres et Sciences Humaines campus of the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France
This edition will therefore include:
- the 33rd Days on Speech Studies (Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole - JEP), - the 27th Conference on Natural Language Processing (Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - TALN), - the 22nd Meeting of Student Researchers in Computer Science for Automatic Language Processing (Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues - RÉCITAL).
The JEP'2020 will include oral and poster presentations and invited lectures.
The official language of the conference is French.
*Types of contributions*
Authors are invited to submit two types of contributions:
- articles presenting original research work - position papers presenting a point of view about spoken communication
Articles must present original works, with a substantial contribution compared to other works that may already have been published. In the case of works already partially or totally published in another language, the article should refer to the original publication in a footnote.
Articles will be presented in the form of an oral presentation or a poster.
*JEP topics*
Contributions may cover all topics related to spoken communication and speech processing in their various aspects, as well as their applications.
The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:
- automatic speech processing - transcription, synthesis, translation, dialogue, - understanding, coding - acquisition and learning - production, perception and cognition - health, disorders and disability - phonetics, phonology, prosody - geolinguistics and sociolinguistics - resources and evaluation
*Selection criteria*
Submissions will be reviewed by at least two specialists of the field. For research work, particular consideration will be given to:
- relevance to the conference topics - importance and originality of the contribution - correction of scientific and technical content - critical analysis of the results, particularly in relation to other works in the field - status of the work in the context of international research - organization and clarity of the presentation
For position papers, preference will be given to:
- taking into account the state of the art and positioning in relation to it - providing an original point of view - demonstrating the potential impact of the position
The selected articles will be published in the conference proceedings.
*Submission instructions*
The articles will be written in French.
The size of the articles should not exceed 8 pages, plus one page dedicated to bibliographic references. A LaTeX style sheet, a Word template and a LibreOffice template are available on the conference website: http://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/
- Submissions due: 31 January 2020 (23:59 Paris time), - Notification to authors: 03 April 2020 - Camera-ready due: 08 May 2020
*Scholarships*
The AFCP offers a number of scholarships for doctoral students and young researchers wishing to attend the conference, see the AFCP website (http://www.afcp-parole.org/).
The ISCA also provides financial support to young researchers participating in scientific events on speech and language, see the ISCA website (https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/).
*Contacts*
The JEP Program Committee is chaired by David Langlois and Slim Ouni.
*Appel JEP?20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)* 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, avec le soutien scientifique de l'AFCP (Association Francophone pour la Communication Parlée) et l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) la sixième édition conjointe de la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL qui aura lieu : du 8 au 12 juin 2020 sur le campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l?université de Lorraine. Cette édition regroupera donc : - 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). Les JEP'2020 comprendront des communications orales et affichées et des conférences invitées. La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. *Types de communications* Les auteurs sont invités à présenter deux types de communications : - des articles présentant des travaux de recherche originaux - des prises de position présentant un point de vue concernant la communication parlée Les articles doivent présenter des travaux originaux, comportant un apport substantiel par rapport à d'autres travaux éventuellement déjà publiés. Dans le cas de travaux déjà partiellement ou totalement publiés dans une autre langue, l'article devra faire référence à la publication originale en note de bas de page. Les articles seront présentés sous forme d?une communication orale ou d?un poster. *Thématiques des JEP* Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes liés à la communication parlée et au traitement de la parole dans leurs différents aspects, ainsi qu'à leurs applications. Les thèmes de la conférence incluent, de façon non limitative : - traitement automatique de la parole - reconnaissance, synthèse, traduction, dialogue, - compréhension, codage - acquisition et apprentissage - production, perception et cognition - santé, troubles et handicap - phonétique, phonologie, prosodie - géolinguistique et sociolinguistique - ressources et évaluation *Critères de sélection* Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine. Pour les travaux de recherche, seront considérées en particulier : - l?adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence - l?importance et l?originalité de la contribution - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale - l?organisation et la clarté de la présentation Pour les prises de position, seront privilégiées : - la prise en compte de l'état de l'art et le positionnement par rapport à celui-ci - l'originalité du point de vue présenté - l'impact potentiel de la position présentée Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la conférence. *Modalités de soumission* Les articles seront rédigés en français. La taille des articles ne devra pas dépasser 8 pages, plus une page dédiée aux références bibliographiques. Une feuille de style LaTeX, un modèle Word et un modèle LibreOffice sont disponibles sur le site web de la conférence : http://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/ Site Web de soumission : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jeptalnrecital2020 *Dates* - Date limite de soumission : 31 janvier 2020 (23:59 heure Paris), - Notification aux auteurs : 03 avril 2020 - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 08 mai 2020 *Bourses* L?AFCP offre un certain nombre de bourses pour les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs désireux de prendre part à la conférence, voir le site de l?AFCP. L?ISCA apporte également un soutien financier aux jeunes chercheurs participant à des manifestations scientifiques sur la parole et le langage, voir le site de l?ISCA. *Contacts* Le comité de programme JEP est présidé par David Langlois et Slim Ouni. Contact : jep-taln-ateliers-2020@loria.fr
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2020) will be held on July 1-3, 2020 at the Jack’s Urban Meeting Place (JUMP) in Boise, Idaho, USA.
SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL 2020, which will be held on July 5-10 in Seattle, Washington, USA (https://acl2020.org/).
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of nineteen successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.
IMPORTANT CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS CONFERENCES
Multiple Submission Policy: SIGDIAL no longer accepts papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:
- Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering and information retrieval.
- Dialogue Systems: Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications.
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence).
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology
IMPORTANT DATES
Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Submission: March 6, 2020
Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Notification: April 26, 2020
Final Paper Submission: May 11, 2020
Conference: 1-3 July, 2020
SUBMISSIONS
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be accepted as long papers for oral presentation or long papers for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.
- Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.
- Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative results; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.
- Demo descriptions should be no longer than four pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.
Multiple Submissions
SIGDIAL 2020 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs[at]sigdial.org.
Blind Review
Building on previous year’s move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2020 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and
self-references are allowed.
Submission Format
All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
ADOPTION OF ACL AUTHOR GUIDELINES
As noted above, SIGDIAL 2020 is adopting the ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines will be rejected without review.
Preserving Double Blind Review
The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of the double-blind reviewing process and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected or withdrawn.
- You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes).
- If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask that you do not advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.
- Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible.
Citations and Comparison: If you are aware of previous research that appears sound and is relevant to your work, you should cite it even if it has not been peer-reviewed, and certainly if it influenced your own work. However, refereed publications take priority over unpublished work reported in preprints. Specifically:
You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted or is not widely cited).
In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version.
Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than three months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation or in-depth analysis.
MENTORING
Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2020 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.
SIGDIAL 2020 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair:
Olivier Pietquin, Google AI
Program Chairs:
Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2020) will be held on July 1-3, 2020 at the Jack’s Urban Meeting Place (JUMP) in Boise, Idaho, USA (http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference21/). Note the revised conference dates from previous announcement to avoid overlap with ICML 2020 and IJCAI 2020. SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL 2020, which will be held on July 5-10 in Seattle, Washington, USA (https://acl2020.org/).
IMPORTANT DATES
Special Session Submission Deadline: January 15, 2020
Special Session Notification: January 31, 2020
To accommodate the conference date change, we moved the submission deadline slightly by 2 days. So please note the deadline of January 15, 2020.
The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Role of Discourse in NLP Applications, Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End‐to‐end systems.
A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session.
Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions.
The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by the special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself, taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.
Submissions
Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session).
These proposals should be sent to conference@sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co‐chairs.
Links
Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings.
SPCOM provides a leading forum for researchers from academia, research laboratories, and industries to come together to share and learn about the current developments and emerging trends in the broad areas of signal processing and communications. SPCOM 2020 will be the thirteenth in the series of conferences and will feature several high-profile plenary talks, tutorials, talks by distinguished researchers from academia and the industry on topics of current interest.
Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high-quality research contributions (up to five pages long). The style files for preparing the manuscript are available on the conference website: https://ece.iisc.ac.in/~spcom/2020/index.html
Submitted manuscripts will go through double-blind peer-review. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which will also be indexed on IEEE Xplore. Each accepted paper must be accompanied by a full registration and presented by one of the contributing authors. Each full registration can cover up to three accepted papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Wireless Communications
Cooperative and D2D Communications
MIMO and Space-Time Signal Processing
Cognitive Radio
Network Coding
Information Theory
Coding for Data Communications and Storage
Sensor Networks
Optical Communications and Networks
Next-Generation Networking and QoS
Cyber-Physical Systems
Multihop and Heterogeneous Networks
Vehicular Networks
THz and RF Systems for Communications
Green Communications
Energy and Smart Grid
Physical Layer Security
Detection and Estimation
Adaptive and Array Signal Processing
Compressive Sensing and Sparse Signal Processing
Signal Processing for Communications
Machine Learning for Signal Processing and Communications
Audio and Speech Signal Processing
Spoken Language Processing
Image and Video Signal Processing
Computational Imaging/Photography and Inverse Problems
Source Coding and Data Compression
Forensics and Security
Signal Processing Algorithms and Architectures
Underwater Communications and Signal Processing
VLSI for Communication and Signal Processing
Systems, Standards, and Implementations
Biological signal Processing
Biological Network and Data Analysis/Modeling
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing
Big Data
Autonomous Navigation and Robotics
Neuromorphic Systems
Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2020
Acceptance notification: April 12, 2020
Camera-ready submission: May 10, 2020
Proposals for tutorials and special sessions will be by invitation only.
(2020-08-09) AILA 2020 CONGRESS: EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS, Groningen, The Netherlands
EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF AUDIO-VISUAL TEXTS
At the AILA 2020 CONGRESS
09-14 August 2020 ? Groningen ? The Netherlands
See below for details.
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.
Symposium Organisers:
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
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:
************** 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.
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
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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:
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:
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:
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.
Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the organizers
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
Special audio-visual, internet, computer or equipment requirements
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
Important notice:
Based on the volume of submissions and other logistic constraints accepted workshops can be converted into special sessions or vice versa
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.
52020-06-15) CfP Workshop on Laughter and Non-Verbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld, Germany
Call for Papers,
Workshop on Laughter and Non-Verbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld,
15-16 June
the previous meetings held in Dublin (2012), Enschede (2015), and Paris (2018), we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming workshop in Bielefeld. Non-verbal vocalisations such as laughs, sighs, filled pauses, and short utterances can communicate emotions and behavioural intentions. Often, they also play an important role in regulating interactions. The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse research areas and to provide an exchange forum for interdisciplinary discussions in order to gain a better understanding of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations in multimodal human-human and human-machine interactions. The workshop will consist of invited talks, oral, and poster presentations of ongoing research. We invite contributions from all relevant fields, including phonetics, linguistics, psychology, conversation analysis, social signal processing, and human-machine/robot interaction.
Submission procedure ??????? Researchers are invited to submit short papers or abstracts (max. 4 pages, including references) describing their work, including work in progress. The submissions will be made available online.
Important dates ????? * Submission portal opens: 15 December 2020 * Abstract submission deadline: 14 February 2020 * Notification acceptance/rejection: 31 March 2020 * Registration deadline by email: 01 June 2020 * Workshop dates: 15-16 June 2020
Nick Campbell - School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Kevin El Haddad - University of Mons Jonathan Ginzburg - University Paris Diderot Dirk Heylen - Human Media Interaction, University of Twente Bogdan Ludusan - Bielefeld University Gary McKeown - Queen's University Belfast Catherine Pelachaud - CNRS ? ISIR, Sorbonne University Magdalena Rychlowska - Queen's University Belfast Jürgen Trouvain - Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University Khiet Truong - Human Media Interaction, University of Twente Petra Wagner - Bielefeld University
