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ISCApad #259 |
| Friday, January 10, 2020 by Chris Wellekens |
2 ISCA News
| 2-1 | IMPORTANT Re-bid for Interspeech 2022 and deadline extension for bids Interspeech 2023 IMPORTANT Possibility to re-bid for Interspeech 2022 and deadline extension for bids for Interspeech 2023
ISCA has established a bidding process for Interspeech conferences which has been successful over the past years. In this process, feedback is provided for bidders to optimize bids prior to the deadline, the received bids are discussed first in the ISCA Advisory Council and then in the ISCA Board, and finally the ISCA Board takes a decision in terms of (one or several) votings to identify the optimum bid. For the Interspeech 2022 edition, this process led to Dublin being selected to host Interspeech 2022, as it was announced at the past Interspeech conference in Graz.
Due to several circumstances, the ISCA Board has re-assessed the Dublin bid and had to withdraw this decision very recently. As a consequence, the ISCA Board now re-opens the evaluation for Interspeech 2022 since there is currently no identified location for hosting Interspeech 2022. The ISCA Board decided that priority should be given to the bidders of the first round to update their bids, in case that they are still interested and able to host Interspeech 2022, as these bids have all been quite competitive, and the decision for Dublin was a tight one. Thus, all original bidders for Interspeech 2022 have been invited to submit an updated bid for Interspeech 2022 until November 30, 2019. These updated bids will be re-evaluated in an accelerated process, and then hopefully a new host for Interspeech 2022 will be identified. Only in case that this process leads to no adequate bid, the bid for Interspeech 2022 would be re-opened to all interested parties, possibly together with the bids for 2023.
As a consequence, also the deadline for bids for Interspeech 2023 has been postponed to February 28, 2020. All bidders which had identified themselves to us have already been informed about this deadline extension. We hope that this way we can keep the integrity and transparency of the Interspeech selection process, and identify optimum places to host Interspeech 2022 and 2023.
The ISCA Conferences team Odette Scharenborg, Margaret Zellers, Sebastian Möller
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| 2-2 | Nominations for the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2020 Nominations are open for the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2020. We have brought the closing date forward to help the InterSpeech organisers in balancing keynote speakers.
The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement recognizes and honors an individual each year who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. Any ISCA member can make a nomination. All nominations should be submitted to ISCA Secretariat at secretariat@isca-speech.org by 15 December 2019. The ISCA Board will select the winner by 1 February. The Medalist nomination form can be downloaded from https://bit.ly/2NTD2K1. Unsuccessful candidates of previous year(s) must be re-nominated to qualify for candidacy. More information can be found on the ISCA Honors webpage. Best regards,
Kate
Kate Knill, ISCA Secretary
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| 2-3 | ISCA Fellows Nominations for 2020 ISCA Fellows Nominations for 2020 The ISCA Fellows Program recognizes and honors outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. To qualify for this distinction, a candidate must have been an ISCA member for five years or more with a minimum of ten years experience in the field. Nominations may be made by any ISCA member. A nomination should be supported by 4 references from ISCA Fellows or ISCA Board members. Current ISCA Board members are not eligible for nomination. The Fellows nomination form can be downloaded from http://bit.ly/2lwjfFr and the reference form from http://bit.ly/2iMJUNo. Nominations should be sent to fellows_nomination@isca-speech.org by February 10 2020. Those who plan to make a nomination are strongly advised to send a brief email to fellows_nomination@isca-speech.org giving their candidate's name and affiliation.
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| 2-4 | Code-of-Ethics for Authors Code-of-Ethics for Authors
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| 2-5 | Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees Code-of-Conduct for Conference and Workshop Attendees
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| 2-6 | ISCA Archive Analysis: a never ending story! The article 'Rediscovering 25 Years of Discoveries in Spoken Language Processing: A Preliminary ISCA Archive Analysis', published at Interspeech 2013 on the occasion of the ESCA/ISCA Silver Jubilee, has been extended to the production and analysis of the NLP4NLP corpus containing close to 65,000 articles published in major conferences and journals in speech and language processing over 50 years (1965-2015) on various aspects (publication, collaboration, citation, innovation, plagiarism,...). The results of those analyses have recently been assembled in a series of two papers published in a special issue on 'Mining Scientific Papers: NLP-enhanced Bibliometrics' of the 'Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics' journal :
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| 2-7 | Women in Speech Research
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| 2-8 | Prix de thèse AFCP 2019 www.afcp-parole.org Appel à candidatures Prix de thèse AFCP 2019 Depuis 2004, l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP) décerne un prix scientifique récompensant la grande qualité d'un travail de thèse francophone du domaine (ou anglophone issue d’un laboratoire francophone), afin de promouvoir les recherches en communication parlée, fondamentales ou appliquées, dans le domaine des technologies de la communication, des sciences humaines et de la vie. Ce prix permet de soutenir et diffuser les travaux de jeunes chercheurs du domaine. Le prix est décerné par un jury composé des chercheurs élus du conseil d'administration de l’AFCP. Il sera officiellement remis lors des prochaines Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole. Le ou la lauréat(e) se verra remettre la somme de 500 euros et sera invité(e) à présenter ses travaux à la communauté de la communication parlée lors des prochaines JEP (inscription offerte à la conférence). Il/elle se verra également offrir l’opportunité de publier sa thèse sous la forme d’un livre dans la collection « Recherches en PArole » (éditions CIPA). CALENDRIER Date limite de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2020 Décision du jury AFCP : avril-mai 2020 Remise officielle du prix : JEP 2020 CONDITIONS DE CANDIDATURE À CET APPEL Peut candidater au présent appel : tout docteur dont la thèse, préparée dans un laboratoire francophone, et rédigée en français ou en anglais, a été soutenue entre le 1er janvier et le 31 décembre 2019. Toute candidature est limitée à une seule édition du prix. Seuls les dossiers complets de candidature seront examinés. CANDIDATURE Pour candidater, il suffit de : (1) Envoyer un e-mail déclarant votre intention de candidater, avec vos nom, prénom, titre de la thèse, directeur de thèse, et date de la soutenance à : camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. Vous recevrez un accusé de réception. (2) Déposer votre manuscrit de thèse en PDF sur le serveur du site web de l’AFCP : http://www.afcp-parole.org/spip.php?page=depot_these (3) Envoyer votre dossier complet via un courrier électronique à l’adresse camille.guinaudeau@limsi.fr. La pièce jointe sera constituée d’un fichier unique (nommé VOTRENOM.pdf), contenant dans l’ordre : (i) le résumé de la thèse (2 pages) ; (ii) la liste des publications ; (iii) les rapports scannés du jury et des rapporteurs de soutenance de thèse ; (iv) une lettre de recommandation scannée du directeur de thèse ; (v) un CV (avec coordonnées complètes dont e-mail). ___________Date de dépôt du dossier : 31 janvier 2020____________
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