09:40 - 10:30 Eric Allender. The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization - Invited lecture
10:30 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 12:05
Dmitry Berdinsky and Prohrak Kruengthomya. Nonstandard Cayley Automatic Representations for Fundamental Groups of Torus Bundles over the Circle
Alexis Bes and Christian Choffrut. Deciding (R,+,
Ziyuan Gao, Sanjay Jain, Ji Qi, Philipp Schlicht, Frank Stephan and Jacob Tarr. Ordered Semiautomatic Rings with Applications to Geometry
12:05 - 13:35 Lunch
13:35 - 14:25 Laure Daviaud. Containment and Equivalence of Weighted Automata: Probabilistic and Max-Plus Cases - Invited lecture
14:25 - 14:45 Break
14:45 - 16:00
Siddharth Bhaskar, Jane Chandlee, Adam Jardine and Christopher Oakden. Boolean Monadic Recursive Schemes as a Logical Characterization of the Subsequential Functions
Susanna Donatelli and Serge Haddad. Expressiveness and Conciseness of Timed Automata for the Verification of Stochastic Models
Mehmet Utkan Gezer. Windable Heads & Recognizing NL with Constant Randomness
16:00 - 16:20 Break
16:20 - 17:35
Chris Keeler and Kai Salomaa. Alternating Finite Automata with Limited Universal Branching
Nadia Labai, Tomer Kotek, Magdalena Ortiz and Helmut Veith. Pebble-intervals Automata and FO2 with Two Orders
Ahmet Bilal Uçan. Limited Two-way Deterministic Finite Automata with Advice
17:35 - 19:35 Touristic visit
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Thursday, March 5
09:00 - 09:50 Christoph Haase. Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata - Invited lecture
09:50 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:25
Kazuyuki Amano. On the Size of Depth-two Threshold Circuits for the Inner Product mod 2 Function
Riccardo Dondi, Giancarlo Mauri and Italo Zoppis. Complexity Issues of String to Graph Approximate Matching
Hans Zantema. Complexity of Automatic Sequences
11:25 - 11:45 Break and Group photo
11:45 - 12:35
Aaron Lye. Context-sensitive Fusion Grammars Are Universal
Alexander Okhotin and Alexey Sorokin. Cyclic Shift on Multi-component Grammars
12:35 - 14:05 Lunch
14:05 - 14:55 Artur Jez. Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data - Invited lecture
14:55 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:30
Olivier Finkel. The Automatic Baire Property and an Effective Property of omega-Rational Functions
Nathan Grosshans. The Power of Programs over Monoids in J
Ondrej Klíma and Peter Kostolányi. Geometrically Closed Positive Varieties of Star-free Languages
16:30 - 16:50 Break
16:50 - 18:05
Tomoyuki Yamakami. Intersection and Union Hierarchies of Deterministic Context-free Languages and Pumping Lemmas
Vikraman Arvind, Frank Fuhlbrück, Johannes Koebler and Oleg Verbitsky. On the Weisfeiler-Leman Dimension of Fractional Packing
Jing Ji and Jeffrey Heinz. Input Strictly Local Tree Transducers
18:05 - 19:15 Reception
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Friday, March 6
09:00 - 09:50 Jean-Éric Pin. How to Prove that a Language is Regular or Star-free? - Invited lecture
09:50 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:25
Paola Bonizzoni, Clelia De Felice, Rocco Zaccagnino and Rosalba Zizza. Lyndon Words versus Inverse Lyndon Words: Queries on Suffixes and Bordered Words
Jeffery Dick, Laura Hutchinson, Robert Mercas and Daniel Reidenbach. Reducing the Ambiguity of Parikh Matrices
Pamela Fleischmann, Dirk Nowotka, Mitja Kulczynski and Danny Bøgsted Poulsen. On Collapsing Prefix Normal Words
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
(2020-03-22) CfP The AICSE Intern. Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, Shanghai, China
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Give Speech in AICSE2020 in Shanghai
Opening for your participation and submission, the AICSE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer and Software Engineering expects your attendance with speech in the Shanghai, China. We heartily welcome you to join us and share your latest work of research as support for technology development! We believe your participation will make AICSE2020 more successful and fruitful!
Attend ---||--- Submit ---||--- Publish
1. Welcome speakers and authors to take part in with speech in Shanghai [China] from March 22-23 in 2020.
2. Papers and abstracts with focus on related topics please submit via email: aicse2020@sina.com
3. Published papers with online Ei (SCOPUS) index, CPCI/ISSHP and CNKI index etc. More at website!
(2020-03-27)Conference by Brian Moore, Prof.Emeritus, Univ. Cambrigde, at ENS, Paris
Dear fellow researchers,
On March 27, 2020, Brian CJ Moore, widely regarded as a pioneer researcher in the fields of psychoacoustics, psycholinguistics and audiology, will give an overview on his work and his career in auditory science. This conference - organized by the Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs and the Département d?études cognitives - will take place at the École normale supérieure, amphitheatre Jaurès from 10 am to 12 am. Admission is free, and the conference (in English) is intended for all audiences (student, researcher, teacher, practitioner). More info here: https://lsp.dec.ens.fr/en/agenda/career-auditory-science-14138
Looking forward to see you there,
Léo Varnet
Brian Moore started his Ph.D. in hearing sciences in October, 1968. He is now Emeritus Professor of Auditory Perception in the University of Cambridge. His research interests are the perception of sound; development of new diagnostic tests of hearing; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; methods for fitting hearing aids to the individual.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Acoustical Society of America, The Audio Engineering Society, The British Society of Audiology, and the Association for Psychological Science, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He is President of the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK).
He has written or edited 20 books including his famous ?Introduction to the Psychology of hearing? and ?Cochlear hearing loss?, and over 730 scientific papers and book chapters. He has been awarded the Littler Prize and the Littler Lecture of the British Society of Audiology, the Silver and Gold medals of the Acoustical Society of America, the first International Award in Hearing from the American Academy of Audiology, the Award of Merit from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, the Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement, and an honorary doctorate from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
In about fifty years of career, Brian CJ Moore has shaped the interdisciplinary field of hearing sciences. The impact of his work in the field of psychoacoustics is tremendous, both from the point of view of research and teaching. His work on the perception of loudness, the pitch of sounds, auditory temporal processing, auditory scenes analysis and speech recognition. The impact of this translational work in the field of experimental and clinical audiology is also fundamental. His work has greatly enhanced our understanding of the perceptual consequences of cochlear damage, leading to new screening tests and compression systems for modern hearing aids.
Over these years, Brian CJ Moore has trained a wide number of students and postdoctoral researchers who are now either working in the academia or the cochlear-implant or hearing-aid industry around the world. He has been collaborating with a huge number of research teams around the globe and with the major industrial partners in the field of audiology.
CHALLENGE TASKs ______________________________________________________________________________________ The ALLIES evaluation focuses on freeing speaker diarization systems from the need of machine learning expert interventions upon two tasks:
* Diarization Across time: automatic systems use the stream of incoming data to update their knowledge and adapt to new data in order to sustain performance across time
* Lifelong learning speaker diarization systems are evaluated while processing a sequence of incoming audio documents with or without human-assisted learning including active learning (system initiative) or interactive learning (user initiative) Details are provided in the evaluation plan.
The ALLIES corpus consists of a new corpus of audio-visual documents (news, debates, talk show.) including more than 200 hours of TV shows from the French channel LCP.
BACKGROUND ______________________________________________________________________________________ Speech segmentation with speaker clustering, referred to as speaker diarization, is a key pre-processing step for several speech technologies including enriched automatic speech recognition (ASR) or spoken document retrieval (SDR) in very large multimedia repositories. The base accuracy of such systems is of essential to allow applications to perform adequately in real-world environments. Performance of such systems usually degrades across time as the distribution of incoming data moves away from the initial training data (changes in accents, in recording conditions, etc). Thus sustaining system performance across time requires frequent interventions of machine learning experts which makes the maintenance of such system very costly.
SCHEDULE ______________________________________________________________________________________ From now until 31st of March: Registration for participants is open 1st of March: Release of Development data 1st of March: Beat platform is open for development 1st of June: Evaluation data is released 30th of June: Final submission End of July: Paper submission deadline November: Iberspeech conference in Valladolid
REGISTRATION ______________________________________________________________________________________ Send an email to :
and specify * the task(s) you're willing to participate * the name of your team, that can be the name of your organization or any anonymous identity
More details on the evaluation plan.
EVALUATION PLAN ______________________________________________________________________________________ The evaluation plan and license agreement of the dataset can be downloaded here:
ORGANIZERS Anthony Larcher, Le Mans Université, France Olivier Galibert, LNE, France Andre Anjos, IDIAP, Switzerland Marta Ruiz Costa, UPC, Spain Loïc Barrault, Sheffield University, UK
The preliminary program of the ESANN 2020 conference is now available: https://www.esann.org/.
For 28 years the ESANN conference has become a major event in the field of neural computation and machine learning. ESANN is a selective conference focusing on fundamental aspects of artificial neural networks, machine learning, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered.
ESANN 2020 will include the following sessions:
- Adversarial learning, robustness and fairness
- Image and signal processing, matrix computations and topological data
- Deep learning and graph neural networks
- Machine Learning Applied to Computer Networks
- Quantum Machine Learning
- Recurrent networks and reinforcement learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Feature selection and dimensionality reduction
- Statistical learning and optimization
- Tensor Decompositions in Deep Learning
- Image and text analysis
- Learning from partially labeled data
- Machine learning in the pharmaceutical industry
- Frontiers in Reservoir Computing
- Language processing in the era of deep learning
- Supervised learning
The program of the conference can be found at https://www.esann.org/, together with practical information about the conference venue, registration, etc.
The conference will be held in Bruges (also called 'Venice of the North'), one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Bruges can be reached by train from Brussels in less than one hour (frequent trains). 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.
It gives us great pleasure to announce the 6th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-6).
The new challenge will revisit the CHiME-5 24-microphone dinner party conversational speech recognition scenario by: - providing an accurate array synchronization script, - introducing a new multichannel diarization track in the line of the DIHARD-II challenge - offering upgraded, state-of-the-art diarization, enhancement, and recognition baselines.
Participants will need to acquire a licence for the CHiME-5 dataset. Licence applications are typically processed within 48 hours. Apply now at: https://licensing.sheffield.ac.uk/i/data/chime5.html Non-commercial license requests are processed within 2-3 days once they have been approved by an authorized representative of your institution. Commercial licenses are also available for companies and are required for challenge participation. Note that licenses acquired before Dec 31, 2018, are no longer valid.
IMPORTANT DATES
Dec, 2019 ? Release of data and baseline systems 10th April, 2020 ? System submission 4th May, 2020 ? CHiME-6 Workshop (satellite of ICASSP 2020) and release of results
ORGANISERS
Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University, USA Michael Mandel, CUNY, USA Jon Barker, University of Sheffield, UK Emmanuel Vincent, Inria, France
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.
In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or several languages that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.
TOPICS
We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora:
? Human translations ? Automatic and semi-automatic methods ? Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web ? Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora ? Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora ? Rare and minority languages, across language families ? Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora
Applications of comparable corpora:
? Human translations ? Language learning ? Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization ? Bilingual projections ? Machine translation ? Writing assistance ? Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora
Mining from Comparable Corpora:
? Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora ? Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora ? Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, and named entities from comparable corpora ? Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora ? Cross-language distributional semantics
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Please follow the style sheet and templates provided for the main conference at http://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/ Further details on the submission procedure are provided on the workshop website. Papers should be submitted as a PDF file. Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages excluding references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors? identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop organizers.
In case of questions, please contact Reinhard Rapp: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de
IMPORTANT DATES
25 February 2020: Paper submission deadline 12 March 2020: Notification of acceptance mid March 2020 (tentative): Early bird registration (reduced rates) 2 April, 2020: Camera ready final papers May 11, 2020: Workshop date
SHARED TASK: Bilingual dictionary induction from comparable corpora
In the framework of machine translation, the extraction of bilingual dictionaries from parallel corpora has been conducted very successfully. On the other hand, human second language acquisition appears not to be based on parallel data. This means that there must be a way of acquiring and relating lexical knowledge in two or more languages without the use of parallel data.
It has been suggested that it might also be possible to extract multilingual lexical knowledge from comparable rather than from parallel corpora. From a theoretical perspective, this suggestion might lead to advances in understanding human second language acquisition. From a practical perspective, as comparable corpora are available in much larger quantities than parallel corpora, this approach might help in relieving the data acqisition bottleneck which tends to be especially severe when dealing with language pairs involving low resource languages.
A well established practical task to approach this topic is bilingual lexicon induction from comparable corpora, which is in the focus of the current shared task. Typically, its aim is to extract word translations such as the following from comparable corpora:
English / French
baby <-> bébé baby <-> poupon bath <-> bain bed <-> lit bed <-> plumard convenience <-> commodité doctor <-> médecin doctor <-> docteur eagle <-> aigle mountain <-> montagne nervous <-> nerveux work <-> travail
Quite a few research groups have been working on this problem using a wide variety of approaches. However, as there is no standard way to measure the performance of the systems, the published results are not comparable and the pros and cons of the various approaches are not clear.
The shared task aims at solving these problems by organizing a fair competition between systems. This is accomplished by providing corpora and evaluation datasets for a number of language pairs involving Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish and by comparing the results using a common evaluation framework. Other language pairs might be added on request.
Any submission to the shared task is expected to be accompanied by a system description paper (4 to 6 pages plus references). This will be accepted for publication in the workshop proceedings after a basic quality check.
Note that participation in the workshop, although we strongly encourage it, is not mandatory for participating in the shared task.
Any time: Expression of interest (not compulsory) January 15, 2020: Release of shared task training sets 16 February 2020: Release of shared task test sets 5 March 2020: Submission deadline for shared task results 15 March 2020: Submission of shared task system description papers May 11, 2020: Workshop taking place at LREC 2020
Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany), Chair and contact person: reinhardrapp (at] gmx (dot) de Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay,CNRS, Orsay, France) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ahmet Aker (University of Sheffield, UK) Ebrahim Ansari (Institue for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) Hervé Déjean (Naver Labs Europe, Grenoble, France) Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain) Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) Kyo Kageura (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan) Sheervin Malmasi (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., USA) Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France) Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., USA) Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA) Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada) Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, USA) Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France)
INFORMATION FROM THE LREC ORGANIZERS
Please make sure that your papers take into account the following information about the LRE Map, the 'Share your LRs!' initiative and the ISLRN number:
Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
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
In today?s global world, people may need Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) enables end users to issue queries in their own language, but provides results from multiple languages around the world, often using translation so that the end user can quickly understand whether the retrieved results are relevant. Cross-language summarization can make it easier for an end user to determine if a document is relevant by providing a summary in the user?s language of the foreign language document, highlighting the evidence for relevance. When the foreign language is a low-resource language, cross-language search and summarization are more difficult; translation capabilities may be poor and the lack of resources makes it difficult to train CLIR and summarization systems. To complicate matters even more, when the collection contains speech as well as text, producing accurate search results and generating comprehensible summaries is even more difficult.
This workshop aims to stimulate the collection and provision of resources that can improve systems that perform cross-language search and summarization. To facilitate dissemination of information about existing resources, the workshop will feature keynote speeches and panels by people who have worked in this area, have cross-language resources to share, or can describe ongoing research programs and shared tasks. Papers are also solicited that describe recent and current research in these areas, that describe relevant resources, or that stake out positions on the directions in which the authors think the field should move.
To set the stage, the organizers will provide two small spoken language test collections that include waveforms, transcriptions and possibly queries with relevance judgments. These are conversational genres, one in Somali (a very-low resource language) and the other in Bulgarian (a moderate-resource language) both of which include approximately 80 hours of speech. We will welcome papers that provide results on these test collections as well as results on any datasets that are available from by ELDA, LDC, or other repositories. Participants are also encouraged to describe other datasets that they have access to and to report results on these.
We solicit papers on research that broadly relates to supporting information access to lower-resource languages addressing topics such as the following:
Test collections for evaluating CLIR
Development of new cross-lingual resources
Datasets for cross-lingual summarization
Methods for CLIR
CLIR over speech
Evidence generation for CLIR
Methods for cross-lingual summarization
Methods for cross-lingual query-focused summarization
Snippet generation
Speech summarization
Multilingual language generation
Zero-shot learning and domain adaptation
Explainable methods for cross-lingual NLP
Paper length: Both long papers (8 pages plus references) and short papers (4 pages plus references) are welcome. Papers must follow the LREC stylesheet available here. Papers must be submitted through START at this link: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/CLSSTS2020/
Identify, describe and share your Lexical Resource (LR):
Authors will have the opportunity, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
(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:
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.
(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
*2ième 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.
(2020-06-15) 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
We are pleased to announce that the first ETeRNAL workshop will be held on june 22nd, 2015 co-located with the TALN 2015 conference, in Caen (Normandy), France.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a discipline at the heart of the main ethical issues of this 21st century: access to personal data, privacy protection, processing of big data, outsourcing and crowdsourcing are all issues directly linked to the applications we develop.
The issues we would like to be adressed concern both the contributions of NLP and our ethical responsibilities as tool producers. We cannot pretend not to know that NLP tools make abuses, crimes, violations of individual rights possible. Today, what NLP tools are capable of? How far is our moral responsibility involved? Should we be whistleblowers? What could we do to limit the potentially negative effects of our research?
Topics covered---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Sensitive data - Philosophical issues of Ethics and Data - Crowdsourcing and ethical issues - Ethical issues surrounding the use of tools or the result of processing - Quality and bias of the evaluation - Legal and economic issues - NLP for Ethics
Important dates---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: March 13th 2020 Notification: April 17th 2020 Camera ready paper due: May 15th 2020 Workshop: June 8th or 9th 2020
Submission---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Articles shall be written in French for French speakers, in English for those who do not speak French. They shall conform to JEP-TALN-RÉCITAL 2020 format and include between 4 to 8 pages.
(2020-06-29) ACM Multimedia 2020 ? Call for Multimedia Grand Challenge Proposals
ACM Multimedia 2020 ? Call for Multimedia Grand Challenge Proposals
ACM Multimedia is the premier international conference in the area of multimedia within the field of computer science. Multimedia research focuses on integration of the multiple perspectives offered by different digital modalities including images, text, video, music, sensor data, spoken audio.
ACM Multimedia is calling for proposals for Grand Challenges in 2020. Proposers with an innovative idea of a Multimedia Grand Challenge, should gather an organizational team with the capacity to carry out the organization of a challenge, and submit a proposal according to the instructions below. In 2020, we are emphasizing the continuity of Grand Challenges, which is important in order to support sustained and substantial progress in the state of the art. We ask that organizer teams who would like to propose Grand Challenges to express a commitment to organize their Grand Challenge multiple years in a row.
The Multimedia Grand Challenge was first presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009 and has established itself as a prestigious competition in the multimedia community. The purpose of the Multimedia Grand Challenge is to engage the multimedia research community by establishing well-defined and objectively judged challenge problems intended to exercise the state-of-the-art methods and inspire future research directions. The key criteria for Grand Challenges are that they should be useful, interesting, and their solution should involve a series of research tasks over a long period of time, with pointers towards longer-term research.
A Multimedia Grand Challenge proposal should include:
A brief description to explain why the challenge problem is important and relevant to the multimedia research community, industry, and society over the next 3-5 years or a longer horizon.
A description of a specific set of research tasks or sub-tasks to be carried out towards tackling the challenge problem in the long run.
An outline of current state-of-the-art techniques and why this Grand Challenge would help accelerate research in this important area.
Link to sites containing relevant datasets to be used for objective training and evaluation of the grand challenge tasks. Full appropriate documentation on the datasets should be provided or made accessible.
A description of rigorously defined objective criteria and/or procedures on how the submissions will be evaluated or judged.
A commitment to publish and maintain a website related to their specific Grand Challenge containing the information, datasets, tasks for the Grand Challenge at least the next 3 years.
Work with ACM Multimedia Conference organizers to publicize the Grand Challenge tasks to researchers for participation.
Contact information of at least two organizers who will be responsible for organizing, publicizing, reviewing and judging the Grand Challenge submissions as described in the proposal.
Note that although we ask organizers to express a multi-year commitment to their Grand Challenge, the Challenge will still undergo a new review each year. Priority will be given to Grand Challenges which have been successful in the past and are clearly contributing to continuity.
Important Dates
Submission of Grand Challenge Proposals: 10 February 2020
Notification of Acceptance: 24 February 2020
Web Site and Call for Participation Ready: 10 March 2020
Submission of solutions Grand Challenge: 29 June 2020 (required deadline)
Contacts
For questions regarding the Grand Challenges you can email the Multimedia Grand Challenge Chairs at leizhang@microsoft.com
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.
(2020-07-06) 3rd conference on Second Language Acquisition (RéAL2), Toulouse, France
The French Research Network on Second Language Acquisition (RéAL2) helds its 3rd conference is held in Toulouse July 6/8 2020. We invite oral and poster presentations addressing all aspects of crosslinguistic influence in SLA and bilingualism. Please see attached document or consult our website: https://blogs.univ-tlse2.fr/real2-2020.
We are looking forward to your submission
Cecilia Gunnarsson for the organisation committee of RéAL2 2020 Laboratoire Octogone-Lordat Université de Toulouse ? Jean Jaurès
The ACL 2020 Second Grand-Challenge and Workshop on Multimodal Language (ACL 2020) offers a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary researchers to study and model interactions between modalities of language, vision, and acoustic. Modeling multimodal language is a growing research area in NLP. This research area pushes the boundaries of multimodal learning and requires advanced neural modeling of all three constituent modalities. Advances in this research area allow the field of NLP to take the leap towards better generalization to real-world communication (as opposed to limitation to textual applications), and better downstream performance in Conversational AI, Virtual Reality, Robotics, HCI, Healthcare, and Education.
There are two tracks for submission: Grand-challenge and Workshop (workshop allows archival and non-archival submissions). Grand-Challenge is focused on multimodal sentiment and emotion recognition on CMU-MOSEI (grand-prize of >$1k in value for the winner) and MELD dataset. The workshop accepts publications in the below listed research areas. Archival track will be published in ACL workshop proceedings and non-archival track will be only presented during the workshop (but not published in proceedings). We invite researchers from NLP, Computer Vision, Speech Processing, Robotics, HCI, and Affective Computing to submit their papers.
Neural Modeling of Multimodal Language
Multimodal Dialogue Modeling and Generation
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition
Language, Vision, and Speech
Multimodal Artificial Social Intelligence Modeling
Multimodal Commonsense Reasoning
Multimodal RL and Control
Multimodal Healthcare
Multimodal Educational Systems
Multimodal Affective Computing
Multimodal Robot/Computer Interaction
Multimodal and Multimedia Resources
Creative Applications of Multimodal Learning in E-commerce, Art, and other Impactful Areas.
We accept the following types of submissions:
Grand challenge papers are 6-8 pages, including infinite references.
Full and short workshop papers 6-8 and 4 pages respectively with infinite references.
(2020-07-15)CfP SIG:Prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles, Aix en Provence, France
Special Interest Group : Prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles
at the PALA conference 2020 (Poetics and Linguistics Association), 15-18 July 2020, Aix-en-Provence, France
Coordinator of the SIG: Sophie Herment, Aix Marseille Univ, Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Call for Papers
The PALA 2020 conference (https://pala.sciencesconf.org/) invites special interest groups (SIGs) this year, among which a session on prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles (SIG 8). This special interest group will gather specialists in the oral language. The different styles of the written language clearly have several lexical and syntactic particularities. The styles of the spoken language are yet to be defined. We would like to investigate phonetic and prosodic phenomena from a stylistic point of view. Segmental aspects can be relevant in the characterisation of style. Phonetic variation will therefore be considered. Rhythm is also a crucial element: tempo, the degree of assimilation, elision and reduction. Intonation is another significant feature: are certain intonation patterns associated with certain speaking styles?
The special session will allow us to question the definition that can be given to phonostyle(s).
Papers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives addressing the above issues will be welcome. We invite studies based on ecological corpora as well as experimental studies.
Submission guidelines
Please upload your abstracts (no more than 300 words, references included, no more than 5 references) on the web site of the conference before February 15 2020. Here is how to proceed:
· Go to login, in the drop-down menu, select 'create an account? and create a login and password.
· You?ll receive an activation email that will direct you to an authentication page. Enter your newly created username and password
· On the website, click on MY SPACE and then on MY SUBMISSION (in the menu)
· Fill in the title and abstract, select ?ABSTRACT?, and add keywords.
· Make sure you indicate clearly that you wish your paper to be considered for a Special Interest Group (SIGs).
All abstracts for SIGs need to be sent via the website and copied to the SIG organizer (please send a doc file or a doc and pdf file if you have special fonts): sophie.herment@univ-amu.fr
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.
(2020-07-27) 4th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
4th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
DeepLearn 2020 León, Guanajuato, Mexico July 27-31, 2020 Co-organized by: Center for Research in Mathematics, A.C. (CIMAT-CONACyT) Guanajuato Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) Brussels/London https://deeplearn2020.irdta.eu/ *************************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: December 27, 2019 --- *************************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 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 deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova and Warsaw. Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 2 keynote lectures and 24 four-hour and a half courses, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles. ADDRESSED TO: Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 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: DeepLearn 2020 will take place in León, the most populous city in the state of Guanajuato, in central Mexico, and a major economic pole in the country with specialization in leather industry. The venue will be: Poliforum León Blvd. Adolfo López Mateos esq. Blvd. Francisco Villa Col. Oriental, León, Gto., Mexico, C.P. 37510 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Maja Pantic (Imperial College London), Artificial Emotional Intelligence, Faces, Deep Fakes and Other Topics PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, Expressivity, and Adaptivity Jose Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Fedor Ratnikov (National Research University Higher School of Economics), [introductory] Specifics of Applying Machine Learning to Problems in Natural Science Björn Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Signal Processing Alex Smola (Amazon), [introductory/advanced] Dive into Deep Learning Kunal Talwar (Google Brain), tba René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects 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 the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 19, 2020. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning 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 July 19, 2020. EMPLOYER SESSION: Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning 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 July 19, 2020. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Teresa Efigenia Alarcón Martínez (Guadalajara) Oscar Dalmau Cedeño (Guanajuato, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) David Silva (London, co-chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at https://deeplearn2020.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 tool disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david@irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C. (CIMAT-CONACyT) ? Guanajuato Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London
(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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Rebecca Willett, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Chicago, USA.
Michael Unser, Biomedical Imaging Group, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
Robert Heath, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
On behalf of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), it is a great pleasure of the organizing committee to invite you to the 28th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2020, to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. EUSIPCO is the flagship conference of EURASIP and offers a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing. EUSIPCO 2020 will feature worldclass speakers, oral and poster sessions, plenaries, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, and satellite workshops, and is expected to attract many leading academic researchers and people from industry from all over the world.
TECHNICAL SCOPE:
We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:
- Audio and acoustic signal processing - Speech and language processing - Image and video processing Multimedia signal processing - Signal processing theory and methods - Sensor array and multichannel signal processing - Signal processing for communications - Radar and sonar signal processing - Signal processing over graphs and networks - Nonlinear signal processing - Statistical signal processing - Compressed sensing and sparse modelling - Optimization methods - Machine learning - Bio-medical image and signal processing - Signal processing for computer vision and robotics - Computational imaging / spectral imaging - Information forensics and security - Signal processing for power systems - Signal processing for education - Bioinformatics and genomics - Signal processing for big data - Signal processing for the internet of things - Design/implementation of signal processing systems
Beurs van berlage (https://beursvanberlage.com). The Beurs van Berlage breathes history and character. It was already a bustling trading place in 1903. Today it?s a one in a million conference location in the warm heart of Amsterdam, with high quality and service, an impressive atmosphere and excellent facilities. A fantastic location that you?ll never forget! The building is located in the characteristic historic center of Amsterdam, opposite the Central Station and around the corner from Dam Square. Amidst impressive cultural highlights and no fewer than eight thousand hotel rooms. The design by master architect Berlage breathes history and vigor. It certainly leaves an unforgettable impression! In less than fifteen minutes from Schiphol Airport you?re already in the Beurs van Berlage. Moreover, there are ample parking opportunities within walking distance.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Special Session Proposals? December 6, 2019 - Tutorial Proposals ? January 17, 2020 - Satellite Workshop Proposals ? January 24, 2020 - Full Paper Submission ? February 21, 2020 - Notification of Acceptance ? May 29, 2020 - Final Manuscript Submission ? June 12, 2020
(2020-08=31) 1st Call for paper – RO-MAN 2020 Special Session in Dialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction , Naples, Italy
1st Call for paper – RO-MAN 2020 Special SessioninDialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction
The Special Session Dialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction will be held in Naples during the RO-MAN 2020 Conference (http://ro-man2020.unina.it/) which will take place from August 31st to September 4th. This Special Session is a joint initiative of Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (AILC) and Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce (AISV), i.e. the two Italian scientific societies on Computational Linguistics and Speech Sciences.
The Special Session will focus on SpokenDialogueSystems, currently a leading topic in Social and Interactional Robotics. In this area some ongoing, often unresolved, issues, including accuracy in automatic speech recognition, naturalness of speech synthesis and complexity of semantic domain representation, are fast going toward a revolutionary turning point allowing researchers to concentrate on multimodal integration, spoken language understanding, and automatic evaluation of the speaker’s intents.
SUBMISSION
We invite participants to submit a 6 pages paper. Example submission topics include, but are not limited to:
· Speech and gesture interfaces for robotic interaction
· Spoken language understanding and domain semantic representation
· Persuasive dialogue systems ed empathic strategies
· Dialogic corpora collection
· Dialogue Systems evaluation
· Modelling miscommunication and repair strategies
AUTHORS SHOULD ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING STEPS FOR SUBMITTING THE PAPER (FOR INITIAL SUBMISSION):
Create an account: go to https://ras.papercept.net/, then PIN and fill out the form. Ask all your co-authors to do the same if they do not have an account on the system yet, write down the authors' PINs (this information is needed for manuscript processing purposes).
Go to Support Menu and depending on how you are preparing your paper, download a template: LaTeX or MS-Word, Use these templates/style files to create the paper and save in PDF format.
Fill in the form presented on the next page (make sure to enter all author PINs created in Step 1).
Please note, that our conference policy requires that at least one of the authors of the contributing submission must pay the conference registration fee to upload the final camera ready. This is to ensure that at least one of the presenting authors will be registered to attend the conference and deliver the presentation. The link to the registration system will be available on the conference website soon.
*The proposal must be submitted via the Papercept submission site.*
If you have any questions about the special sessions proposal submission, please contact programchair@ro-man2020.org
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: MARCH 15, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: MAY 27, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: JUNE 15, 2020
With kind regards,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee:
Francesco Cutugno – University of Naples ‘Federico II’
(2020-09-08 )TSD 2020 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS, Brno, Czech Republic
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Twenty-third International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2020) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2020 http://www.tsdconference.org/
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.
CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The TSD 2020 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail tsd2020@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, United States Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Carlos Ferra, Cuba Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Eleni Galiotou, Greece Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Denis Jouvet, France Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic France Mihelic, Slovenia Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Odette Scharenborg, The Netherlands Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Vitomir Struc, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wroblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The conference program will include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 10 2020 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2020 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2020 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2020 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2020 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2020 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-11 2020 ...... Conference date
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2020 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2020@tsdconference.org
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Berlin and Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).
Supporting us in many tasks (thinking, searching, memorizing and communicating) words are important. Hence, one may wonder how to build tools supporting their learning and usage (access/navigation). Alas the answer is not quite as straightforward as it may seem. It depends on various factors: the questioner's background (lexicography, psychology, computer science), the task (production/reception), and the material support (hardware). Words in books, computers and the human brain are not the same. Obviously, being aware of this, different communities have focused on different issues ?(dictionary building; creation of navigational tools; representation and organization of words; time course for accessing a word, etc.)? yet, their views and respective goals have changed considerably over time.
Rather than considering the lexicon as a static entity, where discrete units (words) are organized alphabetically (database view), dictionaries are now viewed dynamically, i.e., as lexical graphs, whose entities are linked in various ways (topical relations; associations) and whose weight links may vary over time. While lexicographers view words as products (holistic entities), psychologists and neuroscientists view them as processes (decomposition), involving various steps or layers (representations) between an input and an output.
Computational linguists have their own ways to look at words, and their proposals have also changed quite a bit during the last decade. Discrete count-based vector representations have successively been replaced by continuous vectors (i.e., word embeddings) and then by language-model-based contextualized representations. These latter are more powerful than any of the other forms, as they are able to account for context ambiguity, outperforming the static models (including word-embeddings) in a broad range of tasks.
As one can see, different communities look at words from different angles, which can be an asset, as complementary views may help us to broaden and deepen our understanding of this fundamental cognitive resource. Yet, this diversity of perspectives can also a problem, in particular if the field is rapidly moving on, as in our case. Hence it becomes harder and harder for everyone, including experts, to remain fully informed about the latest changes (state of the art). This is one of the reasons why we organize this workshop. More precisely, our goal is not only to keep people informed without getting them crushed by the information glut, but also to help them to perceive clearly what is new, relevant, hence important. Last, but not least, we would like to connect people from different communities in the hope that this may help them to gain new insights or inspirations.
2 Scope and Topics
This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources (representation, organization of the data, etc.). To allow for this we invite researchers to submit their contributions. The idea is to discuss the limitations of existing resources and to explore possible enhancements that take into account the users? and the engineers' needs (computational aspects).
Also, just like in the past we propose again a 'shared task'. This time the goal is to provide a common benchmark for testing lexical representations for the automatic identification of lexical semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, hypernymy, part-whole meronymy) in various languages (English, Chinese, and so on).
For this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the following topics, each of which can be considered from various points of view: linguistics (lexicography, computational- or corpus linguistics), neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip-of-the-tongue problem, word associations), network-related sciences (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world problem), and so on.
1 Organization, i.e. structure of the lexicon ? Micro- and macrostructure of the lexicon; ? Indexical categories (taxonomies, thesaurus-like topical structures, etc.); ? Map of the lexicon (topology) and relations between words (word associations).
2 The meaning of words and how to reveal it ? Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed); ? Meaning representation (concept based, primitives); ? Distributional semantics (count models, neural embeddings, etc. )
3 Analysis of the conceptual input given by a dictionary user ? What information do language producers typically provide when looking for a word (terms, relations)? ? What kind of relational information do they give: typed or untyped relations? ? Which relations are typically used?
4 Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes ? Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and indexes (crowdsourcing, serious games, etc.); ? Extraction of associations from corpora to build semantic networks supporting navigation; ? (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g., synonym, hypernym, meronym, ...).
5 Creation of new types of dictionaries ? Concept dictionary; ? Dictionary of larger segments than words (clauses, phrasal elements); ? Dictionary of patterns or concept-patterns; ? Dictionary of syllables.
6 Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues
? Search based on sound (rhymes), meaning or contextually related words (associations); ? Determination of appropriate search space based on the user?s cognitive state (information available at the onset: query) and meta-knowledge (knowledge concerning the relationship between the input and the target word), ... ? Identification of typical word access strategies (navigational patterns) used by people; ? Interface problems, data visualization.
3 Workshop Submissions
The workshop features two tracks:
A regular research track, where the submissions must be substantially original.
A shared task track, with submissions consisting of system description papers.
The regular research track submissions should follow one of the 2 formats:
Long papers (9 content pages + references) should report on solid and finished research including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques.
Short papers (4 content pages + references) should report on small experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.
The FinTOC?2 shared task aims to bring together the community of researchers interested in Financial Document Processing and Document Layout Analysis to advance the state of the art in the automatic processing of financial documents. This task focuses on the automatic generation of reports' Table Of Contents (henceforth TOC), as it is a key building block in the semantic analysis of financial documents. Generating the TOC requires detecting the span of all document sections and subsections, identifying their titles, and organising them into a hierarchy. It is a well-known fact that extracting document structure is a key step in information processing. For example sections can be used to determine areas where algorithms can be applied, such as Information Extraction, thus reducing false positives rate and irrelevant noise.
This is the second edition of the FinTOC shared task which will be held at COLING 2020 in Barcelona (Spain) as part of the FNP-FNS 2020 workshop. Last year?s edition received significant interest, particularly on the Title Detection track. Our aim this year is to increase interest by: - lowering the barriers to the entry to the TOC extraction track, and - opening up the task to a new language: French. We are particularly interested in systems which can be applied to both English and French languages.
This second edition proposes two tracks: one track per language, and it will score systems on both Title detection and TOC generation performance. We have revised the task and greatly simplified data formats to make it as smooth as possible for every interested researcher to participate and submit their systems? outputs at FinTOC?2.
Each of the participating teams will be asked to submit a short paper describing their methods and solutions to be presented at the workshop.
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To register your interest in participating in FinTOC?2 shared task please use the following google form by no later than April 6th, 2020: https://forms.gle/LFsVaw6DqYikhKHx9 __________________________________________
Important dates:
December 1st, 2020: Registration opens. February 17th, 2020: Release of training set & scoring scripts. March 23rd, 2020: Release of test set. April 6th, 2020: Registration deadline. April 13th, Submission deadline. May 1st, 2020: Release of results. Sep 13th, 2020: Workshop day. _________________________________________
Contact: For any questions on the shared task please contact us on: fin.toc.task@gmail.com ______________________________________
Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech:
The ADReSS Challenge at INTERSPEECH 2020 (Sep 15-18, Shanghai, China)
Dementia is a category of neurodegenerative diseases that entails a long-term and usually gradual decrease of cognitive functioning. While a number of studies have investigated speech and language features for the detection of Alzheimer's Disease and mild cognitive impairment, and proposed various signal processing and machine learning methods for this prediction task, the field still lacks balanced and standardised data sets on which these different approaches can be systematically compared.
The ADReSS Challenge has made available a benchmark dataset of spontaneous speech, which is acoustically pre-processed and balanced in terms of age and gender, defining a shared task through which different approaches to AD recognition in spontaneous speech can be compared.
We invite researchers working on speech and language analysis methods for detection of AD and/or assessment of cognitive status to develop or test their approaches to these tasks on the ADReSS Challenge dataset, and to submit a paper for presentation at INTERSPEECH'2020, in the Challenge's special session.
The relevant dates are:
* January 24, 2020: ADReSS training data available * March 15, 2020: ADReSS test data made available * March 17, 2020: Period for submission of results opens * March 30, 2020: *INTERSPEECH'2020 paper submission deadline* * June 19, 2020: Paper acceptance/rejection notification * September 15-18, 2020: INTERSPEECH'2020, in Shanghai, China.
Organizers -SaturninoLuz, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh - Fasih Haider, The University of Edinburgh - Sofia de la Fuente, The University of Edinburgh - Davida Fromm, Carnegie Mellon University - Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
Machine learning, as the driving force of this wave of AI, provides powerful solutions to many real-world technical and scientific challenges. The 30th MLSP workshop, an annual event organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society MLSP Technical Committee, will present the most recent and exciting advances in machine learning for signal processing through keynote talks, tutorials, as well as special and regular single-track sessions. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on relevant algorithms and applications including, but not limited to:
Learning theory and modeling
Neural networks and deep learning
Bayesian Learning and modeling
Sequential learning, sequential decision methods
Information-theoretic learning
Graphical and kernel models
Bounds on performance
Source separation and independent component analysis
Signal detection, pattern recognition and classification
Tensor and structured matrix methods
Machine learning for big data
Large scale learning
Dictionary learning, subspace and manifold learning
Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning
Active and reinforcement learning
Learning from multimodal data
Resource efficient machine learning
Cognitive information processing
Bioinformatics applications
Biomedical applications and neural engineering
Speech and audio processing applications
Image and video processing applications
Intelligent multimedia and web processing
Communications applications
Other applications including social networks, games, smart grid, security and privacy
Special Session Call for Proposals
MLSP is seeking original, high quality proposals for Special Sessions, to be included in the technical program along with the regular track. Special Sessions are expected to address research in focused, emerging, or interdisciplinary areas of particular interest, not covered already by traditional MLSP sessions.
Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to six pages using the electronic submission procedure which will be peer-reviewed.
Accepted papers will be published on on a password-protected website that will be available during the workshop. The presented papers will be published in and indexed by IEEE Xplore.
Schedule 2020
Special session call deadline: March 19
Paper submission deadline: April 19
Decision notification: June 30
Camera-ready paper deadline: July 25
Advance registration deadline: August 22
Organizing Committee
General Chair: Simo Särkkä (Aalto University), Program Chairs: Lassi Roininen (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Andreas Hauptmann (University of Oulu), Manon Kok (TU Delft), Michael Riis Andersen (Technical University of Denmark), Finance Chair: Seppo Sierla (Aalto University), Publicity Chair: Arno Solin (Aalto University), Tutorial Chair: Alexander Ilin (Aalto University), Publications Chair: Roland Hostettler (Uppsala University), Advisory Committee: Zheng-Hua Tan (Aalborg University), Murat Akcakaya (University of Pittsburgh), Bhaskar Rao (University of California San Diego), Raviv Raich (Oregon State University)
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:
We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges.
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes. In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics and physiological signal processing, for example, the availability of datasets and common tasks have led to great progress. We invite the ICMI community to collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our domain for the next 5 years. ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work. Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible.
Challenge papers will be indexed in the main proceedings of ICMI.
The grand challenge sessions are still to be confirmed. We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events. We are looking for exciting and stimulating challenges including but not limited to the following categories:
- Dataset-driven challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities of current and future multimodal problems, and one or more multimodal tasks whose performance can be objectively measured and compared in rigorous conditions. Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses.
- Use-case challenge: This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based) and the associated resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration of specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also establish systematic evaluation procedures.
- Health challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of a health related task, whose analysis, diagnosis, treatment or prevention can be aided by Multimodal Interactions. The challenge should focus on exploring the benefits of multimodal (audio, visual, physiological, etc) solutions for the stated task.
- Policy challenge: Legal, ethical, and privacy issues of Multimodal Interaction systems in the age of AI. The challenge could revolve around opinion papers, panels, discussions, etc.
Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:
1.Title
2.Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge
3.Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
4.Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction
5.Length (full day or half day)
6.Plan for soliciting participation
7.Description of how submissions (challenge?s submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
8.Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions
9.Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
10.Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization
11.Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee members and their affiliations, important dates
Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case. Continuation of or variants on the 2019 challenges are welcome, though we ask for submissions of this form to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous year and describe what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year.
The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment to run the Workshop, coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference.
Important Dates and Contact Details
Proposals due: January 13, 2020
Proposal notification: February 3, 2020
Paper camera-ready: August 17, 2020
Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2020 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Dr. Hayley Hung and Dr. Laura Cabrera-Quiros via grandchallenge.ICMI20@gmail.com. Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Proposals are due by January 13, 2020. Notifications will be sent on February 3, 2020.
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020) will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 25-29, 2020. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. The theme of the ICMI 2020 conference is Art, Culture, and Society. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:
- Media Analytics for Societal Trends
- Neuromanagement and Intelligent Computing
- Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction
- Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology
- Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data
- Human-Habitat for Health
- Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction
- Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents
- Child Computer Interaction
- Multimodal Interaction for Education
We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.).
The content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.
Submission
Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Yukiko Nakano (y.nakano@st.seikei.ac.jp) and Albert Ali Salah (a.a.salah@uu.nl) The proposal should include the following:
- Workshop title
- List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies
- Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact
- Tentative list of keynote speakers
- Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program
- Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation
- Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)
- Paper submission and acceptance deadlines
- Special space and equipment requests, if any
Important Dates:
Workshop proposal submission: Monday, February 10, 2020
Notification of acceptance: Monday, February 24, 2020
Workshop papers due: End of July, 2020 (suggested)
