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Saturday, March 05, 2011 by Chris Wellekens

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3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2011-08-27) CfP INTERSPEECH 2011 Florence Italy
INTERSPEECH2011

Florence, Italy / August 27-31, 2011

http://www.interspeech2011.org

____________________________________________________________________________

First Announcement

Dear Colleague,

INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference
on challenges surrounding the science and technology of Spoken
Language Processing (SLP) both in humans and in machines.

It is our great pleasure to announce that the Italian SLP community
will host INTERSPEECH 2011 under the sponsorship of the International
Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

INTERSPEECH 2011 will be the 12th conference in the annual series of
INTERSPEECH events. It will be held in Florence, Italy, 27-31 August
2011, with the support of ISCA, AISV (ISCA Italian Regional SIG), CNR
(National Research Council), and UniFI (University of Florence).

The theme of INTERSPEECH 2011 will be: “Speech science and
technology for real life” and under this theme the conference will
emphasize an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of
speech science and technology spanning the basic theories to
applications. Besides regular oral and poster sessions, plenary talks
by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, exhibits, and special
sessions are planned. A number of satellite events will take place
immediately before and after the conference. Please follow the
details of these and other news at our website

www.interspeech2011.org.

INTERSPEECH Proceedings are indexed in ISI web of science

The venue of Interspeech 2011 will be the “Firenze Fiera Congress
and Exhibition Center”.

For the complete Call for Papers and other Calls please visit our
website at

http://www.interspeech2011.org/conference/calls.php

We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2011 in Florence!

Sincerely,

Piero Cosi, Renato De Mori

Chairs

____________________________________________________________________________

Papers

We invite you to submit original papers in any related area,
including but

not limited to:

* Speech Perception and Production

* Phonology, Phonetics

* Para-/Non- linguistic Information

* Language Processing

* Analysis, Enhancement and Coding of Speech and Audio Signals

* Speaker and Language Identification

* Speech & Spoken Language Generation, Speech Synthesis

* Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)

* Technologies and Systems for New Applications

* Spoken Dialogue System, Spoken Language Understanding, Speech
Translation,

 and Information Retrieval

* Application, Evaluation, Standardization, Spoken Language Resource

Special Session Topics will be defined after January 21, 2011

Paper Submission Procedure

Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2011 proceedings should be up to four
pages in length and conform to the format given in the paper
preparation guidelines and author kits which will be available on the
INTERSPEECH 2011 website along with the Final Call for Papers.
Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia
files, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM. Authors shall also
declare that their contributions are original and not being submitted
for publication elsewhere (e.g. another conference, workshop, or
journal). Papers must be submitted via the on-line paper submission
system, which will open in early February 2011. The deadline for
submitting a paper is 31 March 2011. This date will not be extended.

Inquiries regarding paper submissions should be directed via email to

submission@interspeech2011.org.

Language

The working language of the conference is English.

Sincerely,

Roberto Pieraccini, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio

Technical Chairs ( technical_chair@interspeech2011.org )

____________________________________________________________________________

Special Sessions

Submissions of Special Session proposals are encouraged for the
upcoming conference, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or
important new emerging areas of interest related to the main
conference topics.

Each special session proposal should contain the following
information:

1. Title of the proposed Session

2. Names/affiliation of organizers (including brief bio and contact
information)

3. An introduction (maximum 1 page) stating the importance of the
topic and the objectives

 of the proposed Session

4. Tentative/confirmed list of papers

5. (titles/affiliations/authors) to be submitted to the proposed
Session (optional)

Proposals should clearly describe the topic and explain why the topic
cannot be covered appropriately in regular sessions.

Papers for approved Special Sessions should be submitted following
the same schedule/procedure as for regular papers, and will undergo
the same reviewing process by anonymous and independent reviewers as
regular papers.

Proposals will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee based on the
relevance/significance of the topic and potential interest to the
conference attendees.

Submission Procedure

Prospective organizers are invited to submit a proposal via email to
specialsessions@interspeech2011.org before January 14, 2011.

Notification of acceptance of proposals is scheduled for January 21,
2011.

Sincerely,

Amanda Stent, Mauro Falcone

Special Sessions Chairs

____________________________________________________________________________

Tutorials

Submissions of tutorial proposals are encouraged, covering
interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of
interest related to the main conference topics.

The following information should be included in each proposal:

* Title of the tutorial;

* Duration (a tutorial can last either three or six hours. in the
latter case, it will be

 structured in two sessions of three hours);

* Names/affiliation of the presenters;

* A brief biography of each presenter, including selected
publications and references to

 web pages of relevant interest for the review;

* E-mail address and other possible contact information;

* An introduction (maximum 1 page), including the importance of the
topic,

the objectives

 and the novelty of the proposed tutorial, and a brief outline of the
main target audience;

* A presentation outline (maximum 2 pages), specifying how the
presentation would be

 organized in the case of multiple presenters;

* A brief description of the material that would be distributed to
the participant;

* A list of any type of special equipment necessary for the
presentation, including

 nformation if such equipment is required to be supplied by the
conference organisers;

* Other possible requirements.

Submission Procedure

Prospective tutorial presenters should submit proposals by email to
tutorials@interspeech2011.org before December 15, 2010. Proposals
will be evaluated by the

Organizing Committee for relevance, quality, value, and novelty -
introducing new tools, ideas, and topics to the Interspeech
community. Notification of acceptance is scheduled for 15 January
2011.

Sincerely,

Maurizio Omologo

Tutorial Chair

____________________________________________________________________________

Show&Tell

We are delighted to host the first Show and Tell event at Interspeech
2011.

Show&Tell will provide researchers, technologists and practitioners
from academia, industry and government the opportunity to demonstrate
their latest research systems and interact with the attendees in an
informal setting. Demonstrations need to be based on innovations and
fundamental research in areas of human speech production, perception,
communication, and speech and language technology and systems.

Demonstrations will be peer-reviewed by members of the Interspeech
Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance,
quality, and clarity of each submission. At least one author of each
accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and
demonstrate the system during the Show&Tell sessions. Each accepted
demonstration paper will be allocated 2 pages in the conference
proceeding.

At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be evaluated and
considered for the Best Show&Tell Award.

Submission guidelines:

* All manuscripts must be in English.

* The paper must be no longer than two (2) pages.

* All submitted proposals must adhere to the format and style
specified in

the Interspeech

 2011 authors' kit.

* All Show&Tell papers submitted to INTERSPEECH 2011 must be original
contributions

 that have not been submitted to any other conference.

* Authors are invited to submit supporting data files, such as
demonstration videos, to be

 included on the Proceedings CD-ROM if their Show&Tell paper is
accepted.

* Show and Tell events will be held tentatively in the afternoons of
August 28th, and 29th.

 Authors will be provided with a poster board and a table. Wireless
access will be

 available.

* Papers should be submitted by email to
showandtell@interspeech2011.org

Important dates:

Full submission deadline: March 31st, 2011

Acceptance notification: May 26th, 2011

Sincerely,

Mazin Gilbert

Show & Tell Chair

____________________________________________________________________________

Satellite Events

The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2011 invites proposals for
satellite events at INTERSPEECH 2011 to be held in Florence, Italy,
on 27-31 August 2011.

The Organizing Committee would be pleased to host various workshops
and conferences to be organized as satellite events of INTERSPEECH
2011 in order to stimulate research fields and disciplines related to
speech and language. If you are interested in organizing a satellite
event, or would like a planned event to be listed as an official
satellite event, please email to workshops@interspeech2011.org.

It is strongly recommended that proposals are submitted as soon as
possible, since any INTERSPEECH satellite event needs to get a prior
official approval by ISCA.

Proposals should include: date and location of the workshop, a draft
of the program, a list of the technical/scientific committee members.

A useful cheklist and a document with guidelines for organizing
workshops can be found at

http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/iscaworkshop/workshops.php

Sincerely,

Cinzia Avesani

Satellite Events Chair

____________________________________________________________________________

Sponsors

Any INTERSPEECH is a major undertaking, and INTERSPEECH 2011 is no
different.

We seek the assistance of all organizations to make INTERSPEECH 2011
a success. Donations from corporate, academic, non-profit,
government, and individual sponsors would be immensely appreciated.

Your support brings you various benefits. For details, kindly view
the Support INTERSPEECH 2011 page or Invitation to Sponsor (
http://www.interspeech2011.org/docs/IS2011-Sponsorship.pdf [PDF,
586KB] ) or contact: sponsors@interspeech2011.org

____________________________________________________________________________

Exhibitors

Are you interested in exhibit your speech technologies and
applications at INTERSPEECH 2011?

We think this is an excellent opportunity for you to reach out to the
1000 attendees we expect in Florence.

For details, kindly view the Invitation to Sponsors & Exhibitors
[PDF, 586KB] document or contact: sponsors@interspeech2011.org

Sincerely,

Andrea Fiorio, Andrea Paoloni

Sponsors & Exhibitors Chairs

____________________________________________________________________________

Important dates

Full paper submission deadline: 31 March 2011

Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 26 May 2011

Camera-ready paper due: 09 June 2011

Early/Authors' registration deadline: 10 June 2011

Tutorials dates: 27 August 2011

Conference: 28-31 August 2011

Please visit our website at http://www.interspeech2011.org/

____________________________________________________________________________

Organizing Secretariat

Dott.ssa Alessandra Colombo

Promo Leader Service Congressi

Head quarter PLS Group

Via della Mattonaia, 17

50121 Firenze (Italy)

Phone +39 055 2462 201

 +39 055 2462 201

Fax +39 055 2462 270

interspeech2011@promoleader.com

 

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3-1-2(2012-09-09) INTERSPEECH 2012, Portland, Oregon USA

INTERSPEECH 2012

Portland, U.S., 09-13 September 2012
Chair: Jan van Santen, Richard Sproat 
13th INTERSPEECH event

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3-1-3(2013-08-23) INTERSPEECH 2013 Lyon France

Interspeech 2013 Lyon, France 23-29 August 2013 General Chair: Frédéric Bimbot

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3-1-4(2014-09-07) INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore

 Interspeech 2014 will be held in Singapore, the Garden City, on 7-11 September 2014.

Conference Chair: Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research.

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3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-2-1(2011-06-17) SIGDIAL 2011 CONFERENCE: 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue,Portland, Oregon

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/

SIGDIAL 2011 CONFERENCE:   12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest
Group on Discourse and Dialogue
June 17-18, 2011, Oregon Health & Science University in Portland Oregon
(Immediately preceding ACL-HLT 2011)

The  SIGDIAL venue provides  a regular forum  for  the presentation of
cutting edge research  in discourse and  dialogue to both academic and
industry  researchers.  Continuing with  a series of successful eleven
previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest area of
discourse and dialogue.  The conference  is  sponsored by  the SIGDIAL
organization, which serves as the Special  Interest Group in discourse
and dialogue  for both ACL  and ISCA. SIGDIAL  2011 will be co-located
with ACL-HLT 2011 as a satellite event.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation  or analytical work on
discourse and  dialogue including but not  restricted to the following
themes and topics:

1. Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems

Discourse semantic  and pragmatic issues  in NLP  applications such as
text summarization,  question   answering, or information   retrieval,
including topics like:
* Discourse structure, temporal structure, information structure
* Discourse markers, cues and particles and their use
* (Co-)Reference and anaphora resolution, metonymy and bridging resolution
* Subjectivity, opinions and semantic orientation

Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web   based dialogue systems   including
topics such as:
* Dialogue management models
* Coordination of speech, gesture, and eye gaze
* Text and graphics integration
* Strategies for preventing, detecting or handling miscommunication
* Utilizing prosodic information for understanding and for disambiguation
* Embodied conversational agents

2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology

Corpus-based  work on discourse  and spoken, text-based or multi-modal
dialogue including its support, in particular:
* Annotation tools and coding schemes
* Data resources for discourse and dialogue studies
* Corpus-based techniques and analysis (including machine learning)
* Evaluation of systems and components: methodology, metrics and case
   studies;

3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond
a single sentence) including the following issues:
* The semantics/pragmatics of dialogue acts (including those which are
   less studied);
* Models of discourse/dialogue structure +/- referential and relational
   structure;
* Prosody in discourse and dialogue;
* Models of presupposition, accommodation, or conversational implicature.
* Grounded semantics in situated dialogue

4. Dimensions of Interaction

Methods to address how interaction is shaped by specific properties of
users, goals, modalities
* Turn taking within or across modalities
* User modeling
* Models of adaptation, such as entrainment
* Comparison of interactions of distinct types (e.g., task-based versus
   tutorial)
* Multiparty interaction

5. Applications

The applications of dialogue and discourse processing technology in:
* Training and education/tutoring systems
* Entertainment and gaming applications
* Online chatting, blog, and social network analysis
* Human robot interaction

SPECIAL THEME

There has been   an increasing amount  of  work in   enabling situated
dialogue in both  the virtual world (e.g.,  human agent dialogue in  a
game  environment)  and the physical  environment  (e.g.,  human robot
dialogue). For  example, the GIVE  Initiative  has provided benchmarks
and  evaluations    for instruction     generation   in  3D    virtual
environments. More recently, the AAAI 2010  Fall Symposium on Dialogue
with Robots brought together   researchers from different  disciplines
who  brainstormed challenges and  future  directions in situated human
robot  dialogue.  To  continue  the  momentum  and   encourage broader
participation  in SIGDIAL, this  year we will  have a special theme on
'situated dialogue'.  We invite submissions that address any aspect of
this special topic.

SUBMISSIONS

The program  committee welcomes the submission  of long  papers, short
papers, and   demo  descriptions. All   accepted submissions  will  be
published in the conference' proceedings.

* Long papers  will be presented  in full plenary  presentations. They
   must   be  no  longer  than  8  pages,   including  title, examples,
   references, etc. In   addition to this,   two additional  pages  are
   allowed as an appendix which may include extended example discourses
   or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc.

* Short papers will  be featured in  a short paper spotlight  session,
   followed   by posters. They   should be 4   pages or less (including
   title, examples, references, etc.).

* This year's demonstrations  will be presented  in a special session,
   separated from  short paper presentations  and poster sessions. Demo
   descriptions will appear  in a dedicated  section of the proceedings
   and   should  be 3   pages   or  less   (including title,  examples,
   references,  etc.).   To   encourage  late  breaking    demos,  demo
   submissions have a  much later deadline compared  to long and  short
   papers.

Papers that  have  been or  will  be submitted  to other  meetings  or
publications  must    provide    this information    (see   submission
format).  SIGDIAL 2011 cannot accept  for  publication or presentation
work that will  be  (or has   been)  published elsewhere,  except  for
demonstrations. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the
technical program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org.

Authors are  encouraged to submit  additional supportive material such
as video clips or sound clips and examples  of available resources for
the review purposes.

Submission  is  electronic    using  paper  submission  software   at:
https://www.softconf.com/b/sigdial2011/


FORMAT

All long,  short,  and demo  submissions should  follow the two-column
ACL-HLT 2011format. We strongly  recommend the use  of ACL LaTeX style
files  or Microsoft   Word style  files   tailored  for  ACL-HLT  2011
conference. Submissions  must  conform to  the  official  ACL-HLT 2011
style  guidelines, which are  contained in the  style  files, and they
must be electronic  in PDF.  As  in  most previous years,  submissions
will not be anonymous.

ACL-HLT 2011 Style Files

Latex:
latex.zip -
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/ACLstyles/latex.zip
acl-hlt2011.tex -
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/ACLstyles/latex/acl-hlt2011.tex
acl-hlt2011.sty -
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/ACLstyles/latex/acl-hlt2011.sty
acl-hlt2011.pdf -
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/ACLstyles/latex/acl-hlt2011.pdf
acl.bst -
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/ACLstyles/latex/acl.bst

MS Word:
word.zip - http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/ACLstyles/word.zip
acl-hlt2011.doc -
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/ACLstyles/word/acl-hlt2011.doc
acl-hlt2011.dot -
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/ACLstyles/word/acl-hlt2011.dot
acl-hlt2011.pdf -
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference12/ACLstyles/word/acl-hlt2011.pdf

IMPORTANT DATES

Long/Short Paper Submission Deadline:  February 25, 23:59, GMT-11, 2011
Long/Short Paper Notification:  April 15, 2011
Demo Submission Deadline:  April 19, 2011
Demo Notification:  April 26, 2011
Final Paper Submission (all types):  May 15, 2011
Conference:  June 17-18, 2011

MENTORING SERVICE

The mentoring service offered  last year has  been very beneficial. We
will follow the same practice this  year.  Submissions with innovative
core    ideas that  may  need   language  (English)  or organizational
assistance will be flagged for  'mentoring' and conditionally accepted
with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An experienced mentor who
has previously published   in the SIGDIAL   venue will then  help  the
authors  of   these  flagged papers    prepare their  submissions  for
publication. Any    questions about  the   mentoring  service  can  be
addressed  to   the   mentoring service    chair:   Dr. Ronnie   Smith
(mentoring[at]sigdial.org).

BEST PAPER AWARDS

In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse
science and technology, SIGDIAL will recognize a  BEST PAPER AWARD and
a BEST  STUDENT  PAPER AWARD.   A  selection committee   consisting of
prominent  researchers in   the  fields of   interest will  select the
recipients of the awards.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

For any  questions, please  contact the   appropriate  members of  the
organizing committee:

General  Co-Chairs (conference[at]sigdial.org):
   Johanna Moore, The University of Edinburgh, UK;
   David Traum,  University  of Southern California, USA
Technical Program Co-Chairs (program-chairs[at]sigdial.org,
conference[at]sigdial.org):
   Joyce Chai, Michigan  State  University, USA;
   Rebecca J. Passonneau, Columbia University, USA
Program Committee: TBA
Mentoring Chair (mentoring[at]sigdial.org):
   Ronnie Smith, East Carolina University, USA
Local Chair: Peter Heeman Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Sponsorships Chair (conference[at]sigdial.org):
   Jason Williams,  AT&T Labs - Research, USA
SIGDIAL President: Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA
SIGDIAL Vice President: Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
SIGDIAL Secretary/Treasurer: Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki,
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3-2-2(2011-06-27) CfP Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing, Bellevue, Washington

                                                   

 

Call for Participation

 Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing

June 27, 2011

Bellevue, Washington, USA

http://www.ttic.edu/sigml/symposium2011/

 

The symposium will be held in Bellevue, Washington on June 27th, 2011. It will bring together members of the Association for Computational Linguistics ( http://www.aclweb.org/ ), the International Speech Communication Association (http://www.isca-speech.org/), and The International Machine Learning Society (http://www.machinelearning.org/) .  Its goal is to foster communication and collaboration between researchers in these synergistic areas, taking advantage of the nearby locations of ACL-HLT 2011 and ICML 2011.

 

Topics

The workshop will feature a series of invited talks and general submissions. Submissions focusing on novel research are solicited and we especially encourage position and review papers addressing topics that are relevant both to Speech, Machine Learning and NLP. These areas include but are not limited to the use of: SVMs, log-linear models, neural networks, kernel methods, discriminative transforms, large margin training, discriminative training, active, semi-supervised & unsupervised training, structured prediction, Bayesian modeling, deep learning , and sparse representations. Application areas include natural language processing, speech recognition, language modeling, and speaker verification.

 

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers written in English via the symposium website. Style guidelines and further submission information will be available from the website. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, and each accepted paper must have at least one registered author.

 

Important Dates

  • April 15 - Papers due
  • May 6 - Notification of acceptance
  • May 27 – Deadline for early registration
  • June 27 - Workshop

 

Venue, Accommodation and Registration

Venue: SIG-ML will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, Washington, the site of ICML.

Accommodation:  A wide variety of lodging is available in the Bellevue area.

Registration: Please see the website for details.

 

Organizing Committee

Hal Daume III, University of Maryland; Joseph Keshet, TTI-Chicago;

 Dan Roth, UIUC; Geoffrey Zweig, Microsoft 

 

Scientific Program Committee

Jeff Bilmes, University of Washington; Brian Kingsbury, IBM; Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago

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3-2-3(2011-08-24) CfP SLaTE-2011 workshop Venice, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the SLaTE-2011 workshop
August 24-26, 2011 (before Interspeech-2011 in Florence, Italy)
Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy
http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/SLaTE2011/

ISCA-SIG SLaTE
The ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) promotes the use of speech and language technology for educational purposes, and provides a forum for exchanging information (http://www.sigslate.org).

WORKSHOP THEMES
The workshop will address all topics related to SLaTE, such as:
- Speech technology for education
- Natural language processing for education
- Spoken dialogue systems for education
- Applications using speech and/or natural language processing for education
- Intelligent tutoring systems using speech and natural language
- Development of language resources for SLaTE applications
- Assessment of SLaTE methods and applications

We especially welcome contributions on the future of Speech and Language Technology in Education, e.g. mobile learning, serious gaming, virtual reality, social media (networks), etc.
In addition, we would like to invite demonstrations of systems.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Full 4-page papers should be submitted before April 8, 2011.
Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers will be given by June 10, 2011.
For further information see http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/SLaTE2011/
If you have questions, you can send an e-mail to SLaTE2011-org (at) let.ru.nl

ORGANIZATION
SLaTE-2011 will be organized by Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, technical program), Rodolfo Delmonte and Rocco Tripodi (Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, local organizers), within the framework of the ISCA-SIG SLaTE (see http://www.sigslate.org).

Best regards,
Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini, Rodolfo Delmonte, and Rocco Tripodi
The SLaTE-2011 Organizing Committee

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3-2-4(2011-08-31) AVSP 2011 The 11th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing

AVSP 2011 The 11th International Conference
on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing

August 31 - September 3, 2011

Volterra, Italy

http://www.avsp2011.org


The 11th international conference on Auditory-Visual Speech
Processing (AVSP) will be held from August 31 to September 3,
2011, directly following the INTERSPEECH2011 conference.

AVSP is a uniquely interdiciplinary conference, being focused on
synergy effects of auditory and visual speech information on
human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine
interaction. AVSP conferences have attracted a lot of researchers
in various fields, such as psychologists, computer engineers,
neuroscientists, linguists, phoneticians, and robot engineers.

The AVSP2011 conference will consist of oral and poster
presentations, a demo session and lectures by invited speakers
(announced later).

Submission of papers or demo proposals are invited in any areas
of auditory-visual speech processing including but not limited
to:
* Audio-visual speech synthesis
* Audio-visual speech recognition by humans and machines
* Models of multimodal integration
* Multimodal processing of spoken events
* Cross-linguistic studies of audio-visual speech processing
* Developmental studies of audio-visual speech processing
* Role of gestures accompanying speech
* Audio-visual prosody
* Modeling, animation and recognition of gestures and expressions
* Neurophysiology and neuropsychology of audition and vision
* Scene analysis using audio and visual information
* Novel techniques for animation of talking faces
* Data collection and corpora for audio-visual speech processing


Important Dates


Paper Submission Deadline      5 May 2011 (Final)
Notification of Acceptance     16 June 2011
Camera-ready Paper             1 July 2011
Early Registration Deadline    27 June 2011
Late Registration Deadline     22 August 2011
Conference                     31 August - 3 September 2011


Submission


Prospective participants can submit a contribution in one of two
formats:
1. Full 4 or 6 page papers
2. 1 page demo proposals. Accepted proposals will be presented
  during a demo session at the conference

Submission instructions can be found on the conference website
http://www.avsp2011.org. Submissions in both formats will be
reviewed by members of the scientific committee.


Organizing Committee


Jonas Beskow
Olov Engwall
Giampiero Salvi
Samer Al Moubayed

(Department of Speech, Music, and Hearing. KTH, Sweden.)


Scientific Committee


Gerard Bailly (GIPSA)
Piero Cosi (U.PADOVA)
Darren Cosker (U. BATH)
Sacha Fagel (ZOOBE)
Gabriele Fanelli (ETZH)
Björn Granström (KTH)
Valerie Hazan (UCL)
David House (KTH)
Carlos Ishi (ATR)
Alexandra Jesse (UMASS AMHERST)
Christian Kroos (MARCS)
Francisco Lacerda (STOCKHOLM U.)
Dominic W. Massaro (UCSC)
Slim Ouni (LORIA)
Catherine Pelachaud (PARIS TECH)
Gerasimos Potamianos (FORTH)
Laurel Riek (CAMBRIDGE)
Kaoru Sekiyama (U. KUMAMOTO)
Barry-John Theobald (UEA)


Registration Fees


Registration for the conference includes accommodation (3 nights),
meals and printed proceedings. Preliminary rates for early
registrants are 500 EUR for single room and 400 EUR for shared
double. Student attendees are encouraged to seek grants for
participation through ISCA.


Conference Website and Contact Info


http://www.avsp2011.org
info@avsp2011.org

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3-2-5(2011-09) SIGDIAL: satellite event of Interspeech 2011

http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/iwsds2011

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3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2011-03-17) Journée d'études sur le Résumé automatique multimédia Paris (French)
*Appel à participation*


Journée d'étude commune GDR-ISIS, AFCP ATALA

*Résumé automatique multimédia*


Organisation : Eurecom, LIA, Syllabs, Sinequa


La prolifération des documents électroniques sous toutes leurs formes suscite des besoins
croissants d'outils d'accès et de structuration des contenus numériques. L'un de ces
besoins concerne la construction automatique de résumés, qui permettraient de proposer
aux utilisateurs une vue synthétique du contenu d'une collection de documents sur un
sujet donné.


Ce thème a suscité de nombreux travaux ces dernières années, l'essentiel des propositions
se focalisant sur une des modalités texte, parole ou vidéo. Le but de cette journée est
de réunir autour de ce thème commun les trois communautés, texte, audio et vidéo, afin de
faire le point des travaux en cours, de comparer les approches proposées et de débattre
des questions centrales de l'évaluation, des applications, des perspectives scientifiques
et d'initier des pistes de collaboration entre les équipes travaillant sur différents
médias.


Cette journée d'étude commune GDR-ISIS, ATALA, AFCP aura lieu à Paris, le 17 Mars 2011 de
9H à 17H, dans les locaux de Telecom ParisTech (Amphi E200, le plan d'accès est
accessible _ici_
<http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/telecom-paristech/adresses-acces-contacts/>).


La participation à la journée est gratuite, mais le nombre de place étant limité, une
inscription sur le site _http://jrm.univ-avignon.fr_ <http://JRM.univ-avignon.fr/> ou sur
le site du GDR-ISIS (_http://gdr-isis.org/rilk/gdr/ReunionListe-538_) est obligatoire.



Vous pouvez soumettre une proposition de communication jusqu'au 1er Février 2011 sur le
site http://jrm.univ-avignon.fr. La proposition doit comprendre le titre de
l?intervention, un résumé d?environ 200 mots, le nom de l'auteur et son affiliation. Les
présentations dureront 20 minutes, suivies de 10 minutes de questions.


Comité scientifique : F. Cailliau (Sinequa), J. Couto (Syllabs), G. Linarès (CERI/LIA,
Université d'Avignon), B. Mérialdo (Eurecom), B. Peralta (Wikio), J.M.
Torres-Moreno(CERI/LIA, Université d'Avignon).


Georges Linarès
CERI - University of Avignon/Université d'Avignon Head of the LIA/Directeur du LIA
Tel: +33 4 90 84 35 20
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3-3-2(2011-04-07) Comparative Methods and Analysis in the Language Sciences Toulouse France

JéTou 2011  - Comparative Methods and Analysis in the Language Sciences -
April 7th-8th, 2011, Toulouse, France
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The doctoral students and young researchers of the language science laboratories in Toulouse, France:
 
- CLLE-ERSS (équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique)
- Laboratoire Octogone-Lordat (Centre Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Langage et de la Cognition)
 
as well as the computer science laboratory :
 
- IRIT (Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse)
 
are organizing the third edition of JéTou, a conference aimed at doctoral students and young researchers (who have defended

their dissertation within the past three years) in the language sciences.
 
The conference will focus on comparative methods and analysis in the language sciences.
 
The need to explore comparative methods is characteristic of the social sciences. Even more so than researchers in the “hard” sciences, researchers in the social sciences are often confronted with certain limitations with respect to their object of study, and therefore must expand their research beyond their own points of reference.
 
When approaching the topic of comparative methods and analysis in linguistics, one might first consider cross-linguistic comparison, which has given rise to several diverse areas of research, such as comparative linguistics, contrastive linguistics, and linguistic typology.  Cross-linguistic comparison has informed certain principles that would not have been brought to light without looking to other languages.  This is the case at all levels of linguistic description (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics).

 
However, comparative or contrastive approaches also come into play in several other fields of study in the language sciences:
 
- While comparative studies between pathological subjects (aphasia, dyslexia, degenerative diseases, etc.) and non-pathological subjects are useful for clinical aims and objectives (diagnosis, description, and treatment of language pathologies), they also provide us with a better understanding of the cognitive aspects related to the development and use of language by healthy subjects.
- Comparing speakers with respect to their first language, their social identity, or even the way that they speak one or several language(s), allows us to determine universals in the acquisition of language, and inversely, to identify determining factors in attrition phenomena.
- Studies in language pedagogy have relied on contrastive analysis (between one’s first language and a second language) since the mid-20th century.  This is due to the fact that learning a first language involves the development of strategies and specific language patterns.  Also, such studies allow us to observe certain language traits, positive or negative, that “cross over” from the first language into the second language.  The question of multilingualism and plurilinguistic learning also falls into this set of issues.
- The notion of norm is ubiquitous in the language sciences, as language is governed by normalisation rules.  However, these rules, whether implicit or not, do not impede the creativity of speakers.  The multitude of different usages that have been brought to light by using comparative approaches is the proof of this individuality.
- In natural language processing, comparative approaches can be used in different areas of research: comparison of annotations to assess the difficulty of a task, comparison of reference annotation during evaluation, etc.  Some applications, such as the detection of plagiarism, are directly based on the notion of comparison.
- Corpus linguistics offers the necessary tools for wide-scale comparison between different corpora (aligned corpora of different languages, reference corpora vs. specialized corpora, etc.)
- Comparison can also be used as an analytical tool at different levels of linguistic description, such as morphology, syntax, semantics, etc.
 
The purpose of JéTou 2011 is to bring together young researchers working in different disciplines within the language sciences around the common theme of comparative approaches.  This topic, inherently cross-disciplinary, invites reflection on the question of method, which, while central to all research, is often neglected in scientific proceedings.
 
Possible contributions could focus on issues related to the following fields:
 
- descriptive linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- psycholinguistics
- neurolinguistics
- terminology
- language acquisition and pedagogy
- translation
- corpus linguistics
- natural language processing
 
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Types of presentations
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Two types of submissions will be accepted: long articles (8 to 10 pages) and short articles (4 to 5 pages).  Long articles will be presented as oral presentations or as posters, while short articles will be presented as posters.  
 
The proceedings of the conference will be published in book form and will also be available on the conference website.
 
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Criteria for selection
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Each submission will be evaluated by at least two specialists in the chosen field of study.  Submissions will be considered based on the following criteria:
 
1. The importance and originality of the contribution
2. The accuracy of the scientific and technical content
3. The critical discussion of results, particularly with respect to other work in the field
4. The organisation and clarity of the writing
5. Conformity to the theme of the conference
 
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Submission Guidelines
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Articles must be written in French or in English.
Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for a long article or 5 pages for a short article (including figures and examples, but not references).  The text must be written in Times 12, single spaced, in A4 format.  LaTeX and Word style sheets are available on the conference website.
The deadline for submissions is October 15th, 2010.  Submissions must be made using the Easychair conference management system.  Further information regarding the submission process can be found on the JéTou 2011 website: http://jetou2011.free.fr

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3-3-3(2011-04-17) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) Trento Italy

 

ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR)
http://www.icmr2011.org
17-20 April, Trento, Italy

The First ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR. It is the ideal forum to present and encounter the most recent developments and applications in the area of multimedia content retrieval. Originally set up to illuminate the state-of-the-art in image and video retrieval, ICMR aims at becoming the world reference event in this exciting field of research, where researchers and practitioners can exchange knowledge and ideas.


Important dates:
   October 15, 2010 : Special Session and Tutorials Proposal
   November 5, 2010 : Special Session and Tutorials Selection
   December 3, 2010 : Paper Submission
   February 11, 2011 : Notification of acceptance
   March 4, 2011 : Submission of camera-ready papers


ICMR 2011 is seeking original high quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multimedia retrieval. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, and community-based management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   * Content- and context-based indexing, search and retrieval of images and video
   * Multimedia content search and browsing on the Web
   * Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio, image, video and 3D data
   * Multimedia content analysis and understanding
   * Semantic retrieval of visual contents
   * Learning and relevance feedback in media retrieval
   * Query models, paradigms, and languages for multimedia retrieval
   * Multimodal media search
   * Human perception based multimedia retrieval
   * Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image/video users
   * Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for image/video retrieval
   * HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
   * Evaluation of multimedia retrieval systems
   * High performance multimedia indexing algorithms
   * Database architectures for multimedia retrieval
   * Novel multimedia data management systems and applications
   * Community-based multimedia content management
   * Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs
   * Interaction with medical image databases
   * Satellite imagery analysis/retrieval
   * Image/video summarization and visualization


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Honorary Chair: Ramesh Jain (UC Irvine)

General Co-Chairs:
Francesco G.B. De Natale (Univ. Trento)
Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ. Florence)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
B.S Manjunath (UC Santa Barbara)
Alan Hanjalic (TU Delft)
Shin'ichi Satoh (National Inst. of Informatics, Tokyo)

Local Chair:
Nicola Conci (Univ. Trento)
Giulia Boato (Univ. Trento)

Special Session Chair:
Riccardo Leonardi (Univ. of Brescia)

Panel Chair:
Wolfgang Nejdl (Univ. Hannover)

Practitioner Co-Chairs:
Andrea de Polo (Alinari)
Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo!)

Videolympics Chairs:
Cees Snoek (Univ. Amsterdam)
Alan Smeaton (Dublin City Univ.)

Publication Chair:
Marco Carli (Univ. of Roma Tre)

Publicity Chair:
Ioannis Patras (Queen Mary Univ. London)

Web Chair:
Andrea Rosani (Univ. Trento)
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3-3-4(2011-04-18) CfP 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval/ Dublin, Ireland
***** Final Call for Posters/Demos - ECIR 2011 ****** 
33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval
Dublin, Ireland
18 - 21 April 2011
In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, Dublin City University, University of Sheffield
http://ecir2011.dcu.ie
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* Posters/Demos deadline approaching - 29 October (midnight GMT)
* This deadline is final and will not be extended


The 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011) will take place in Dublin, Ireland from 18-21 April 2011. ECIR provides an opportunity for both new and established researchers to present research papers reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within Information Retrieval. ECIR has traditionally had a strong student focus and papers whose sole or main author is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher are especially welcome. As an added incentive at ECIR2011, accepted full-papers whose first author is a student will be given the opportunity to be paired with a senior mentor who will interact with them during the course of the conference. Each mentor will be an expert in the relevant area of the student's work, and will provide questions and subsequent feedback after their presentation.

We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original posters and demos, which will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of Information Retrieval. Papers that demonstrate a high level of research adventure or which break out of the traditional IR paradigms are particularly welcome. 

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

-	Enterprise Search, Intranet Search, Desktop Search, Adversarial IR
-	Web IR and Web log analysis
-	Multimedia IR
-	Digital libraries
-	IR Theory and Formal Models
-	Distributed IR, Peer-to-peer IR, 
-	Mobile IR, Fusion/Combination
-	Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
-	Topic detection and tracking, Routing
-	Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
-	Question answering, NLP for IR
-	Summarization, Lexical acquisition
-	Text Data Mining
-	Text Categorization, Clustering
-	Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
-	Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, 
-	Structure-based representation, XML Retrieval
-	Metadata, Social networking/tagging
-	Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collections
-	Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR
-	User interfaces and visualization
-	Opinion mining, Sentiment Analysis
-	Blog and online-community search
-	Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures)

The ECIR 2011 conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors for both long and short papers are invited to submit their paper on or before 15 October 2010. All paper submissions must be written in English following the LNCS author guidelines [http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0]. Posters and demos must not be longer than 4 pages. All papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review so authors should take reasonable care not identify themselves in their submissions. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference. 


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Important dates 

18 Oct 2010: Paper/Short Paper submission deadline (passed)
29 Oct 2010: Poster/Demo submission deadline
10 Dec 2010: Notification of acceptance
18 Apr 2011: Workshops Day / Tutorial Day
19-21 Apr 2011: ECIR 2011 main conference


Organising Committee

General Chair: Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)
Programme Co-chair: Gareth Jones (Dublin City University) and Paul Clough (University of Sheffield)
Student Mentor Chair: Nicola Stokes (University College Dublin)
Workshops Chair: Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow)
Tutorials Chair: Evangelos Kanoulas (University of Sheffield)
Posters Chair: Wessel Kraaij (TNO, Radboud University)
Demos Chair: Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research)
Local organization Chair: Colum Foley (Dublin City University) and Peter Wilkins (Dublin City University)
Advertising Chair: Hyowon Lee (Dublin City University)


Any questions please email: ecir2011@computing.dcu.ie

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Dr Hyowon Lee
CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 9
Ireland
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~hlee/
hlee@computing.dcu.ie
Tel: +353 -1 700 5829
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3-3-5(2011-05-19) Quatrièmes journees de phonetique clinique, Strasbourg (France)

jpc4

quatrièmes journees de phonetique clinique

19-21 mai 2011, strasbourg, France 

colloque international 

universite de strasbourg (uds)

instutut de phonetique de strasbourg (ips)

U.R. 1339 linguistique, langue et parole  (lilpa) – E.R. parole et cognition

programme de la maison interuniversitaire des sciences de l’homme alsace

  USR 3227 (misha)

 

Les modalités de Soumission vont suivre bientôt….

 

 

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3-3-6(2011-05-20) Intensive School in Machine Translation, Chelyabinsk, Russia

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


Intensive School in Machine Translation
16-20 May 2011, Chelyabinsk, Russia

http://www.mtschool-susu.info/

 

European Association for Machine Translation and South Ural State University are pleased to announce an exciting co-sponsored event “Intensive School in Machine Translation” (ISMT) which will be held in Chelyabinsk, Russia from May 16 through May 20th, 2011. The venue of the school is South Ural State University.

The overall goal of ISMT is to provide participants with a reference frame for major areas of study within the field of MT technology while defining critical problems of MT and the most useful methods for their solutions.

The ISMT courses on the state-of-the-art MT aspects will be delivered by internationally renowned researchers from different countries, - Andrew Way (Ireland), Harold Somers (UK), Robert Frederking (USA) and Svetlana Sheremetyeva (Russia). ISMT will also feature a discussion panel, which will enable participants to discuss specific issues in MT with experts in the field. The working languages are English and Russian. A course certificate will be issued upon completion of the course, based on 90% participation.

 

Please visit the ISMT site http://www.mtschool-susu.info/  for the program and other details of the event.

 

The school invites everyone professionally interested in machine translation. The primary target audience is university students, PhD students and young researchers for whom attendance is free of charge. Participants from industry/commerce will be charged a registration fee.

Since there are a limited number of participant slots we do recommend interested parties to register at the school site as early as possible.  Assistance with accommodation is offered once you have registered.

Important Dates

15 January 2011   Registration opens

15 April      2011   Registration deadline

16-20 May 2011   Intensive School in Machine Translation

Contact:  org@mtschool-susu.info
Svetlana Sheremetyeva, ISMT co-director            

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3-3-7(2011-05-22) ICASSP 2011, Prague

ICASSP 2011

 

Prague hosts IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and

Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011. Prague Congress Centre, May 22-27, 2011.

 

ICASSP is one of the world's major conferences for signal processing,

bringing together over 2000 participants and experts from industry and

universities.

 

The conference features world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits,

demos, and over 120 lecture and poster sessions on the following topics:

Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Machine Learning for Signal

Processing, Sensor Array and Multichannel Systems, Audio and Acoustic

Signal Processing, Speech and Language Processing, Signal Processing for

Communications and Networking, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal

Processing, Biomedical  Imaging, Information Forensics and Security, and

Signal Processing Education.

 

Important deadlines

Special Session & Tutorial Proposals

Due

September 1, 2010

Notification of Special Session &

Tutorial Acceptance

October 6, 2010

Submission of Camera Ready Papers

October 20, 2010

Notification of Paper Acceptance

January 17, 2011

Revised Paper Upload Deadline

February 20, 2011

Registration Deadline for Authors

March 13, 2011

 

More information can be found at http://www.icassp2011.com/

 

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3-3-8(2011-05-25) 9ème édition des Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP) Grenoble France
Organisée par les jeunes chercheurs des laboratoires GIPSA et LPNC de

Grenoble et parrainée par l’Association Francophone de la Communication

Parlée (AFCP), la 9ème édition des Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en

Parole (RJCP) se tiendra, du 25 au 27 mai 2011, sur le campus universitaire

de Grenoble.

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* Objectif

Cette manifestation donne tous les deux ans aux (futurs) doctorants ou

jeunes docteurs l’occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux

et d’échanger sur les divers domaines de la Parole grâce à un travail

collaboratif. Au-delà de ce cadre purement scientifique, cette rencontre

sur 3 jours sera l’occasion pour les participants de faire leurs premiers

pas dans la communauté de la Parole. Cette édition 2011 est ouverte à

tous : communicants qui présentent leurs travaux ou auditeurs qui désirent

assister aux présentations.



* Langue

La langue officielle de la conférence est le français.



* Domaine

Les travaux présentés porteront sur la communication parlée et le

traitement de la parole dans leurs différents aspects.



* Les thèmes de ces journées incluent :


- Phonétique et Phonologie


- Sociolinguistique de la parole

Variation (dialectologie, etc.)

Style

Perception


- Production/Perception de la parole

En conditions « normales »

En conditions adverses (voix chuchotée, bruit, etc.)

Avec changement de paramètres (chant, récitation, théâtre, etc.)


- Acoustique de la parole

Modèles phonatoires : modélisation acoustique du conduit vocal

Etudes des écoulements

Dispositifs de mesures (outils, maquettes de production, etc.)


- Acquisition et enseignement de la parole

Langue maternelle

Langue seconde

Bilinguisme et multilinguisme


- Corrélats neuro-anatomiques et fonctionnels de la parole

Spécialisation hémisphérique

Neurophonétique

Neurolinguistique


- Synthèse

Synthèse de différentes qualités de voix, Conversion de voix

Synthèse des émotions, Prosodie

Synthèse de visages, Animation

Applications (grand public, handicap)


- Reconnaissance, Indexation

Reconnaissance de la parole spontanée

Modèles de langage

Modèles acoustiques

Systèmes multilingues

Indexation de documents audiovisuels

Vérification et Identification du Locuteur

Applications (grand public, handicap)


- Traduction automatique


- Pathologie de la parole (autisme, surdité, dyslexie, etc.)


- Multi-modalité/Gestualité associée à la parole/Expressivité

Multi-modalité

Développement

Gestualité

Expressivité

Audiovisuel



* Format des communications

Toutes les communications devront être en français


- Présentations orales : chacune aura une durée de 15 minutes et sera suivie de

10 minutes de discussion. Il est suggéré aux communicants de renforcer leur

communication orale avec un diaporama ou un autre type d’illustrations.


- Présentations des affiches : la taille est fixée au format A0 portrait. Une session

d’une heure par jour sera réservée à la présentation des affiches. Pendant cette session,

les communicants resteront près de leur affiche de manière à répondre aux questions de

leurs collègues ou à recevoir et discuter d’éventuelles suggestions.


Dans le cas où des ateliers seraient prévus, ils dureront entre une demi-heure et

une heure. Le communicant animera son atelier de façon vivante et fera participer

son public. Ce type de communication doit faciliter l’échange oral, voire la mise

en situation, entre le communicant et les participants sur la durée de l’atelier.


Notez bien que ces formats pourront être légèrement modifiés selon la quantité et

le type de soumissions acceptées. Ces informations sont données à titre indicatif

pour les jeunes chercheurs qui n’ont jamais participé à un colloque.



* Modalités de soumission des articles

Tous les articles devront être soumis en français, excepté le résumé qui sera en

anglais.


- Format des articles soumis :

Les articles ne devront pas dépasser 4 pages, bibliographie comprise

Les documents devront être déposés sur la plateforme électronique

exclusivement au format PDF


Les modèles d'article (Word et LaTeX) sont disponibles sur le site



* Dates

Date limite pour les soumissions : jeudi 23 décembre 2010 à minuit (24h) GMT+1

La notification et le début des inscriptions : mardi 8 mars 2011

La date limite pour les inscriptions : mardi 22 mars 2011

Dépôt de la version corrigée : mardi 22 mars 2011

La conférence aura lieu du mercredi 25 au vendredi 27 mai 2011



* Informations Complémentaires

Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/colloques/RJCP

Mail : RJCP2011@gmail.com <mailto:RJCP2011@gmail.com>

Tél. : +33 (0)4 04 76 82 41 97



En espérant vous voir nombreux à cet événement.

Le comité d’organisation des RJCP 2011

Atef Ben Youssef

Ibrahima Cissé

Sandra Cornaz

Mathilde Fort

Amélie Lelong

Benjamin Roustan

Rosario Signorello

Thi Thuy Hien Tran







********************************************************************* Appel à Communication RJCP 2011 9èmes Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole Grenoble, 25 – 27 mai 2011 Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/colloques/RJCP Organisée par les jeunes chercheurs des laboratoires GIPSA et LPNC de Grenoble et parrainée par l’Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), la 9ème édition des Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP) se tiendra, du 25 au 27 mai 2011, sur le campus universitaire de Grenoble. ********************************************************************* * Objectif Cette manifestation donne tous les deux ans aux (futurs) doctorants ou jeunes docteurs l’occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux et d’échanger sur les divers domaines de la Parole grâce à un travail collaboratif. Au-delà de ce cadre purement scientifique, cette rencontre sur 3 jours sera l’occasion pour les participants de faire leurs premiers pas dans la communauté de la Parole. Cette édition 2011 est ouverte à tous : communicants qui présentent leurs travaux ou auditeurs qui désirent assister aux présentations. * Langue La langue officielle de la conférence est le français. * Domaine Les travaux présentés porteront sur la communication parlée et le traitement de la parole dans leurs différents aspects. * Les thèmes de ces journées incluent : - Phonétique et Phonologie - Sociolinguistique de la parole Variation (dialectologie, etc.) Style Perception - Production/Perception de la parole En conditions « normales » En conditions adverses (voix chuchotée, bruit, etc.) Avec changement de paramètres (chant, récitation, théâtre, etc.) - Acoustique de la parole Modèles phonatoires : modélisation acoustique du conduit vocal Etudes des écoulements Dispositifs de mesures (outils, maquettes de production, etc.) - Acquisition et enseignement de la parole Langue maternelle Langue seconde Bilinguisme et multilinguisme - Corrélats neuro-anatomiques et fonctionnels de la parole Spécialisation hémisphérique Neurophonétique Neurolinguistique - Synthèse Synthèse de différentes qualités de voix, Conversion de voix Synthèse des émotions, Prosodie Synthèse de visages, Animation Applications (grand public, handicap) - Reconnaissance, Indexation Reconnaissance de la parole spontanée Modèles de langage Modèles acoustiques Systèmes multilingues Indexation de documents audiovisuels Vérification et Identification du Locuteur Applications (grand public, handicap) - Traduction automatique - Pathologie de la parole (autisme, surdité, dyslexie, etc.) - Multi-modalité/Gestualité associée à la parole/Expressivité Multi-modalité Développement Gestualité Expressivité Audiovisuel * Format des communications Toutes les communications devront être en français - Présentations orales : chacune aura une durée de 15 minutes et sera suivie de 10 minutes de discussion. Il est suggéré aux communicants de renforcer leur communication orale avec un diaporama ou un autre type d’illustrations. - Présentations des affiches : la taille est fixée au format A0 portrait. Une session d’une heure par jour sera réservée à la présentation des affiches. Pendant cette session, les communicants resteront près de leur affiche de manière à répondre aux questions de leurs collègues ou à recevoir et discuter d’éventuelles suggestions. Dans le cas où des ateliers seraient prévus, ils dureront entre une demi-heure et une heure. Le communicant animera son atelier de façon vivante et fera participer son public. Ce type de communication doit faciliter l’échange oral, voire la mise en situation, entre le communicant et les participants sur la durée de l’atelier. Notez bien que ces formats pourront être légèrement modifiés selon la quantité et le type de soumissions acceptées. Ces informations sont données à titre indicatif pour les jeunes chercheurs qui n’ont jamais participé à un colloque. * Modalités de soumission des articles Tous les articles devront être soumis en français, excepté le résumé qui sera en anglais. - Format des articles soumis : Les articles ne devront pas dépasser 4 pages, bibliographie comprise Les documents devront être déposés sur la plateforme électronique exclusivement au format PDF Les modèles d'article (Word et LaTeX) sont disponibles sur le site * Dates Date limite pour les soumissions : jeudi 23 décembre 2010 à minuit (24h) GMT+1 La notification et le début des inscriptions : mardi 8 mars 2011 La date limite pour les inscriptions : mardi 22 mars 2011 Dépôt de la version corrigée : mardi 22 mars 2011 La conférence aura lieu du mercredi 25 au vendredi 27 mai 2011 * Informations Complémentaires Web : http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/colloques/RJCP Mail : RJCP2011@gmail.com Tél. : +33 (0)4 04 76 82 41 97 En espérant vous voir nombreux à cet événement. Le comité d’organisation des RJCP 2011 Atef Ben Youssef Ibrahima Cissé Sandra Cornaz Mathilde Fort Amélie Lelong Benjamin Roustan Rosario Signorello Thi Thuy Hien Tran
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3-3-9(2011-05-30) CfP HSCMA 2011: 3rd Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Edinborough, UK
HSCMA 2011: The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays
30 May - 1 June 2011, Edinburgh, UK
http://www.hscma2011.org/

The Third Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays will be held from 30 May to 1 June 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland.


The workshop will bring together researchers in microphone arrays and speech/speaker recognition and focusing on recent advances in speech and signal processing techniques based upon multi-microphone systems, and on distant-talking speech communication and human/machine interaction. Demonstrations of experimental systems, applications, and prototypes are especially welcome.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
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The technical scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to:
* Multichannel acoustic signal processing; 
* Speech and speaker recognition technology; 
* Microphone array technology and architectures; 
* Applications based on microphone arrays and distant-talking or hands-free speech systems.
There is an emphasis on work that crosses these technical areas.

PAPER / DEMO SUBMISSION
-----------------------
The workshop programme will consist of talks, posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (up to 6 pages; 2 pages for demo papers).


Authors are encouraged to include a public URL to a video of the demo in their paper submission.


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Paper/demo submission: 13 February 2011 
Notification of paper/demo acceptance: 21 March 2011 
Workshop: 30 May - 1 June 2011

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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General-chairs: Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, UK); Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) 

Technical committee: Gary Elko (MH Acoustics LLC, USA); Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK); Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT, Japan); Maurizio Omologo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler-irst, Italy); Boaz Rafaely (Ben-Gurion University, Israel); Michael Seltzer (Microsoft Research, USA) 

Demonstrations: Mike Lincoln (University of Edinburgh, UK) 

Publications: James Hopgood (University of Edinburgh, UK) 

Website: Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh, UK) 

Publicity: Arnab Ghoshal (Saarland University, Germany)
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3-3-10(2011-05-30) CfP 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2011) TARRAGONE SPAIN
1st Call for Papers

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2011)

Tarragona, Spain, May 30 – June 3, 2011

http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2011/

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Extended  submission deadline January 9 2011
AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. Inheriting the tradition of the International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications that was developed at Rovira i Virgili University in the period 2002-2006, LATA 2011 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.).

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

- algebraic language theory
- algorithms for semi-structured data mining
- algorithms on automata and words
- automata and logic
- automata for system analysis and programme verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- cellular automata
- combinatorics on words
- computability
- computational complexity
- computational linguistics
- data and image compression
- decidability questions on words and languages
- descriptional complexity
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- document engineering
- foundations of finite state technology
- fuzzy and rough languages
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.)
- grammars and automata architectures
- grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
- graphs and graph transformation
- language varieties and semigroups
- language-based cryptography
- language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life
- neural networks
- parallel and regulated rewriting
- parsing
- pattern recognition
- patterns and codes
- power series
- quantum, chemical and optical computing
- semantics
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics
- string processing algorithms
- symbolic dynamics
- term rewriting
- transducers
- trees, tree languages and tree machines
- weighted machines

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2011 will consist of:

- 3 invited talks
- 2 invited tutorials
- refereed contributions
- open sessions for discussion in specific subfields, on open problems, or on professional issues (if requested by the participants)

INVITED SPEAKERS:

To be announced

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Andrew Adamatzky (Bristol)
Cyril Allauzen (Mountain View)
Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan)
Franz Baader (Dresden)
Marie-Pierre Béal (Marne-la-Vallée)
Philip Bille (Lyngby)
Miklós Bóna (Gainesville)
Symeon Bozapalidis (Thessaloniki)
Vasco Brattka (Cape Town)
Maxime Crochemore (London)
James Currie (Winnipeg)
Jürgen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Cunsheng Ding (Hong Kong)
Rodney Downey (Wellington)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig)
Enrico Formenti (Nice)
Amy Glen (Perth)
Serge Haddad (Cachan)
Shunsuke Inenaga (Fukuoka, co-chair)
Jesper Jansson (Tokyo)
Jarkko Kari (Turku)
Marek Karpinski (Bonn)
Maciej Koutny (Newcastle)
Gregory Kucherov (Lille)
Markus Lohrey (Leipzig)
Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam)
Salvador Lucas (Valencia)
Sebastian Maneth (Sydney)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Brussels, co-chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (Milano)
Alexander Meduna (Brno)
Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima)
Sven Naumann (Trier)
Gonzalo Navarro (Santiago, CL)
Mark-Jan Nederhof (St Andrews)
Joachim Niehren (Lille)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala)
Kemal Oflazer (Doha)
Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Witold Pedrycz (Edmonton)
Dominique Perrin (Marne-la-Vallée)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Milano)
Alberto Policriti (Udine)
Lech Polkowski (Warsaw)
Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch)
Mathieu Raffinot (Paris)
Philippe Schnoebelen (Cachan)
Ayumi Shinohara (Sendai)
Jamie Simpson (Perth)
Magnus Steinby (Turku)
James Storer (Boston)
Jens Stoye (Bielefeld)
Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw)
Richard Thomas (Leicester)
György Vaszil (Budapest)
Heiko Vogler (Dresden)
Pascal Weil (Bordeaux)
Damien Woods (Pasadena)
Thomas Zeugmann (Sapporo)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Shunsuke Inenaga (Fukuoka, co-chair) 
Carlos Martín-Vide (Brussels, co-chair) 
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). Submissions have to be uploaded at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2011

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing refereed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration will be open since October 13, 2010 until May 30, 2011. The registration form can be found at the website of the conference: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2011/

Early registration fees: 500 Euro
Early registration fees (PhD students): 400 Euro
Late registration fees: 540 Euro
Late registration fees (PhD students): 440 Euro
On-site registration fees: 580 Euro
On-site registration fees (PhD students): 480 Euro

At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have a registered author who paid the fees by February 28, 2011 will be excluded from the proceedings.

Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks and lunches.

PhD students will need to prove their status on site.

PAYMENT:

Early (resp. late) registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before February 28, 2011 (resp. May 16, 2011) to the conference series account at Uno-e Bank (Julián Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain):

IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 - Swift code: UNOEESM1 (account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide – LATA 2011).

Please write the participant’s name in the subject of the bank form. Transfers should not involve any expense for the conference. Please notice that the date that counts is the day when the transfer reached the conference’s account.

On-site registration fees can be paid only in cash. A receipt for payments will be provided on site.

Besides paying the registration fees, it is required to fill in the registration form at the website of the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: January 3, 2011
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 14, 2011
Early registration: February 28, 2011
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: February 28, 2011
Late registration: May 16, 2011
Starting of the conference: May 30, 2011
Submission to the post-conference special issue: August 30, 2011

FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

LATA 2011
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386
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3-3-11(2011-06-13) CBMI 2011 9th International Workshop on Comtent-Based Multimedia Indexing

9th International Workshop on Comtent-Based Multimedia Indexing

                      13-15 June 2011, Madrid, Spain
                   
                     
http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/
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Following the eight successful previous events of CBMI (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009 and Grenoble 2010), the Video Processing and Understanding Lab (VPULab) and the Information Retrieval Group (IRG) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will organize the next CBMI event.

CBMI 2011 aims at bringing together the various communities involved in the different aspects of content-based multimedia indexing, retrieval, browsing and presentation. The scientific program of CBMI 2011 will include invited keynote talks and regular and special sessions with contributed research papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
- Matching and similarity search
- Construction of high level indices
- Multimedia index extraction
- Identification and tracking of semantic regions in scenes
- Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
- Content-based search
- Multimedia data mining
- Metadata generation, coding and transformation
- Large scale multimedia database management
- Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
- Presentation and visualization tools   
- User interaction and relevance feedback
- Personalization and content adaptation
- Evaluation and metrics

Important Dates
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        Submission of full paper (to be received by): January 14, 2011
        Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011
        Submission of camera-ready papers: March 11, 2011

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3-3-12(2011-06-20) CfP 9th International Seminar in Speech Production, Montreal

CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL À PROPOSITIONS: 9th International Seminar
in Speech Production, Montreal, June 20-23, 2011
<http://www.risc.cnrs.fr/detail_lesechos.php?ID=13623>
De : issp2011 [ à ] uqam.ca

Dear speech researcher,

We are pleased to announce that the the ninth International Seminar on
Speech Production (ISSP'11) will be held in Montreal, Canada from June
20th to 23rd,
2011. ISSP’11 is the continuation of a series of seminars dating back to
Grenoble (1988), Leeds (1990), Old Saybrook (1993), Autrans (1996),
Kloster Seeon (2000), Sydney (2003), Ubatuba (2006), and Strasbourg (2008).
Several aspects of speech production will be covered, such as phonology,
phonetics, linguistics, mechanics, acoustics, physiology, motor control,
neurosciences and
computer science.

For this edition, a special session will be organized in honor of Dr.
Joseph Perkell, for his contribution to the field.

THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS NOVEMBER 15th, 2010.
Technical details will be posted soon on the conference website
(
www.issp2011.uqam.ca).

Looking forward to your venue in Montreal in 2011!

The organizing committee/ Le comité organisateur,
Lucie Ménard (UQAM)
Shari R. Baum (McGill)
Vincent Gracco (McGill)
David Ostry (McGill)

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3-3-13(2011-07-11) Workshop on Multimodal Audio-based Multimedia Content Analysis (MAMCA-2011)

Workshop on Multimodal Audio-based Multimedia 

                                       Content Analysis (MAMCA-2011)
                                      website: http://www.mamca2011.com
 
                               In Conjunction with the IEEE International Conference 
                                        on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 
                                      Barcelona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011
                                             Call for Papers
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By definition, multimedia content is composed of multiple forms, including 
audio, video, text/ subtitles, and others. Traditionally, applications and 
algorithms that work with such content have considered only a single modality, 
allowing for example searching of textual tags, thereby ignoring any information 
available from others modalities. The limitations of this approach are obvious, 
and there is a recent trend towards multimodal processing, in which different 
content modalities complement each other, or are used for bootstrapping analysis 
of new modalities.
Audio is a prominent part of multimedia content, which is backed up by extensive 
research by the speech and music communities, although usually performed on 
audio-only systems. Utility of audio-only systems is often limited by the quality 
of the acoustic environment or the information contained therein, so they can 
benefit from a multimodal analysis of multimedia data, to enhance the resulting 
performance, robustness, and efficiency.
The main goal of the workshop is to explore ways in which audio processing can 
be enhanced, bootstrapped, or facilitated by other available information modalities. 
We are interested not only in applications that show successful combinations of 
audio and other sources of information, but also on algorithms that effectively 
integrate them and leverage complementary information from each modality to obtain 
an enhanced result, in terms of degree of detail, coverage of the corpus, or other 
enabling factors.
The workshop will provide a forum for publication of high-quality, novel research 
on multimedia applications and multimodal processing, with a special focus on the 
audio modality. 
Paper submission
-----------------
MAMCA 2011 solicits regular technical papers of up to 6 pages following the ICME 
author guidelines. The proceedings of the workshop will be published as part of 
the IEEE ICME 2011 main conference proceedings and will be indexed by IEEE Xplore. 
Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference 
or journal. Papers can be submitted through the ICME submission website.
Papers submitted to the workshop will be peer-reviewed by members of the community 
with extensive experience both in audio processing as well as other relevant 
modalities considered. The review will be semi-blind and assignment will be 
performed manually in order to generally produce three best practice reviews of 
each of the submitted papers.
Papers can be submitted through the ICME submissions website at http://www.icme2011.org/submission.php
Topics of interest 
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including, but not limited to:
- Effective fusion of audio with other modalities
- Multimodal input applications, where one input is audio
- Multimodal databases
- Bootstrapping of multimodal systems
- Co-training for labeling new data
- User-in-the loop calculations to detect preferences
- Games with a purpose to label new data
- Improving robustness through multimodality
- Prediction of modality preference
- Applications that utilize multimodality
Important dates
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- Paper submission deadline: February 20th 2011
- Paper acceptance notification: April 10th 2011
- Camera-ready paper: April 20th 2011
- Workshop day: tentative date July 11th or 15th 2011
Organizing committee
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Xavier Anguera (Telefonica Research)
Gerald Friedland (ICSI)
Florian Metze (CMU)
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3-3-14(2011-07-11) JHU Summer Workshops
JHU Summer Workshops
CALL FOR TEAM RESEARCH PROPOSALS (revised)
Deadline: Tuesday, November 9, 2010.

http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/ws11/CFP

The Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins
University invites one-page research proposals for a
Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, to be held
in Baltimore, MD, USA, July 11 to August 19, 2011.

An interactive peer-review meeting will refine and select proposals
to be funded for a six-week residential team exploration. Proposals
should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various
fields of Human Language Technology (HLT).  This year, proposals in
related areas of Machine Intelligence that share techniques with
HLT, such as Computer Vision (CV), are also strongly solicited.

Proposals are welcome on any topic of interest to HLT, CV and
technically related areas.  For example, proposals may address
novel topics or long-standing problems in one of the following
areas.

* SPEECH TECHNOLOGY:  Proposals are welcomed that address any
  aspect of information extraction from speech signal (message,
  speaker identity, language,...). Of particular interest are
  proposals for techniques whose performance would be minimally
  degraded by input signal variations, or which require minimal
  amounts of training data.

* NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Proposals for knowledge discovery
  from text are encouraged, as are proposals in traditional
  fields such as parsing, machine translation, information
  extraction, sentiment analysis, summarization, and question
  answering.  Proposals may aim to improve the accuracy or enrich
  the output of such systems, or extend their reach by improving
  their speed, scalability, and coverage of languages and genres.

* VISUAL SCENE INTERPRETATION: New strategies are needed to
  parse visual scenes or generic (novel) objects, analyzing an
  image as a set of spatially related components.  Such strategies
  may integrate global top-down knowledge of scene structure (e.g.,
  generative models) with the kind of rich bottom-up, learned
  image features that have recently become popular for object
  detection.  They will support both learning and efficient search
  for the best analysis.

* UNSUPERVISED AND SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING: Novel techniques
  that do not require extensive quantities of human annotated data
  to address any of the challenges above could potentially make
  large strides in machine performance as well as lead to greater
  robustness to changes in input conditions.  Semi-supervised and
  unsupervised learning techniques with applications to HLT and CV
  are therefore of considerable interest.

Research topics selected for investigation by teams in
past workshops may serve as good examples for your proposal
(http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops).

An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals
for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated
no later than November 12, 2010. Authors passing this initial
screening will be invited to Baltimore to present their ideas
to a peer-review panel on December 3-5, 2010.  It is expected
that the proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any
outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two or three research topics and
the teams to tackle them will be selected for the 2011 workshop.

We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop
to collaboratively pursue the selected topics for six weeks.
Authors of successful proposals typically become the team leaders.
Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and
students.  The senior participants come from academia, industry
and government.  Graduate student participants familiar with
the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated
performance. Undergraduate participants, selected through a
national search, are rising seniors: new to the field and showing
outstanding academic promise.

If you are interested in participating in the 2011 Summer
Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for
consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed.  If your
proposal passes the initial screening, we will invite you to join
us for the December 3-5 meeting in Baltimore (as our guest) for
further discussions aimed at consensus.  If a topic in your area
of interest is chosen as one of the two or three to be pursued
next summer, we expect you to be available for participation
in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad
commitment at this juncture, just a good faith understanding
that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will
actively pursue it.  We in turn will make a good faith effort to
accommodate any personal/logistical needs to make your six-week
participation possible.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to clsp@jhu.edu by
4PM EST on Tue, November 9, 2010.
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3-3-15(2011-08-17) 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII)

17th International Congress ofPhonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII) 

 in Hong Kong, August 17-21, 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. I

CPhS  XVII is jointly organized by the City University of Hong Kong, the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, and the Academia Sinica,
Taipei, under the auspices of the Permanent Council for the
Organization of the International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences and
the International Phonetic Association. We have the pleasure to invite
you to take part in this world event in Hong Kong 2011. For further
information about ICPhS XVII, please visit the congress website
http://www.icphs2011.hk or contact us at icphs2011@cityu.edu.hk.




The Organizers of ICPhS XVII 2011



Congress website: http://www.icphs2011.hk

Email: icphs2011@cityu.edu.hk

Tel.: (852) 3442-7594

Fax: (852) 3442-0356

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3-3-16(2011-08-20) 8th Int. Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - NLPCS 2011 Special Theme: Human-Machine Interaction in Translation

 

8th International Workshop on

Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - NLPCS 2011

Special Theme: Human-Machine Interaction in Translation?

http://www.cbs.dk/nlpcs2011

20-21 August, 2011 - Copenhagen, Denmark

 

 

Scope and Topics of NLPCS workshop

The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) working within the paradigm of Cognitive Science (CS). Research into NLP involves concepts and methods from many fields including artificial intelligence, linguistics, computational linguistics, statistics, computer science, and most importantly cognitive science.

The overall emphasis of the workshop is on the contribution of cognitive science to language processing, including conceptualisation, representation, discourse processing, meaning construction, ontology building, and text mining.

The special theme of this year's NLPCS workshop is 'Human-Machine Interaction in Translation'. Therefore, we particularly welcome papers addressing aspects of human and machine translation and human-computer interaction in translation.

Additional topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP
  • Computational Models of NLP
  • Evolutionary NLP
  • Situated (embodied) NLP
  • Multimodality in speech / text processing
  • Text Summarisation and Information Extraction
  • Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems
  • Multi-Lingual Processing
  • Pragmatics and NLP
  • Speech Processing
  • Tools and Resources in NLP
  • Human and Machine Translation
  • Ontologies
  • Text Mining
  • Electronic Dictionaries
  • Evaluation of NLP Systems

These topics can be addressed from any of the following perspectives: full automation by machines for machine (traditional NLP or HLT), semi-automated processing, i.e. machine-mediated processing (programs assisting people in their tasks), simulation of human cognitive processes.

With this year?s special theme we also welcome submissions on translators? experiences with CAT tools, human-machine interface design, methods for and evaluation of interactive machine translation, feasibility studies, user simulation, etc.

 

Keynote Speaker at NLPCS

RMK Sinha, IIT Kanpur, India, will talk about:

Man-Machine Integration in the Translation Process: An Indian Scenario?
The talk will cover the current MT research and translation industry status in the Indian subcontinent.

Dr. Sinha is a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur where he has been serving for more than three decades. Dr. Sinha's major research concentration has been in the areas of language technology and applied artificial intelligence. In the early 70s, he worked on Devanagari OCR and was the first person to work on the topic. In the late 70s and early 80s, he worked on Indian script enabling and their computer processing. He is the originator of the well-known multilingual GIST technology / IDC, ISCII coding, INSCRIPT keyboarding and several other Indian language technologies. Starting in the late 80s, he has been working on computer processing of Indian languages. He is the originator of AnglaBharati and AnuBharati technology for translation from English to Indian languages and vice-versa. He is a member of TDIL working group, National Translation Mission Advisory, Technical Advisory Committee of CDAC, Standardization committee, Associate UNESCO chair in ORBICOM. He is founding president of the Society for Machine Aids for Translation and Communication (SMATAC), Fellow IETE, and Senior Member of IEEE. He has been a visiting professor at Michigan State University, Wayne State University, INRS Quebec and Asian Institute of Technology.

Paper Submission for NLPCS

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above. Papers should be in English, and instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available  at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html.

Since reviewing will be blind, papers should not include names of authors and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author?s identity should be avoided. Once prepared, papers should be submitted electronically for review in pdf format via the submission system .

Selected papers from previous NLPCS workshops were published as special issues of the International Journal  of Speech  Technology. Best papers from this workshop and future ones will also be published in an international journal.

Important Dates for NLPCS 2011

  • Paper Submission: 2nd May 2011 ?
  • Authors? Notification: 6th June 2011?
  • Final Paper Submission: 15th July 2011 ?
  • Registration and Payment: 15th July 2011
  • Workshop : 20-21 August  2011

 

Information will be updated at the workshop website : www.cbs.dk/nlpcs2011

Enquiries can be made to: NLPCS2011@gmail.com

NLPCS Co-chairs

  • Sharp B. Staffordshire University, UK
  • Zock, M. LIF- CNRS, France
  • Carl, M. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • Jakobsen, A. L. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

NLPCS Workshop Program Committee

Aretoulaki, M. (Dialog Connection, UK); Ball, J.T. (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA); Barnden, J. (Birmingham University, UK); Blanchon, H (IMAG, Grenoble, France); Carl, M. (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark); Casacuberta F (UPV, Spain); Delmonte, R. (University of Texas, Dallas, USA); Endres-Niggemeyer (Fachhochschule Hannover, Germany); Ferret, O. (CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France); Fischer, I. ( University of Konstanz,  Germany); Higgins, C.A. (Nottingham Trent University, UK); Higgins S.J.B (Nottingham Trent University, UK); P. Koehn (University of Edinburgh, UK); Kutz, Oliver (University of Bremen, Germany); Langlais P. (University of Montreal, Canada); Lapalme,G.  (University of Montreal, Canada); Lepage Y (Waseda University, Japan); Macklovitch, E  (Bureau de la traduction, Canada); Mladenic D.  (J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia); Murray, W. E. (Boeing Research and Technology); Neustein, A. (Journal of Speech Technology, USA); Netter, K (Consulting GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany); Rapp, B.  (GRLC, Tarragona, Spain); Roche, C. (Université de Savoie, France); Sedes, F. (Université de Toulouse, France); Schwab D (LIG-GETALP, Grenoble, France); Thompson G. (Liverpool University, UK); Tiedmann J  (Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden); Tufis Dan (University 'A.I.Cuza' of Iasi, Romania); Rayson P. (Lancaster University, UK); Sharp B  (Staffordshire University, UK); Wandmacher, T. (CEA, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France); Zock,  M. (LIF- CNRS, France)

Local Arrangement

  • Borch M. Copenhagen Business School
  • Carl M. Copenhagen Business School
  • Jakobsen A.L. Copenhagen Business School

This year?s NLPCS workshop will be immediately preceded by a Ph.D summer school course in Translation Processes Research ? TPR, 15-19 August, 2011 - Copenhagen, Denmark

Course in Translation Processes Research (TPR)

The Centre for Research in Translation and Translation Technology (CRITT) at the Copenhagen Business School is offering an international, English-language course on translation process research which will precede the NLPCS workshop. This 1st International TPR course will focus on theoretical aspects of process research, on experimental research design and methodology, on data representation and visualization, on quantitative and qualitative translation data analysis, and on user interaction with language technological tools. Participants in the TPR course are encouraged to participate also at the NLPCS workshop and may register at a special rate.

Updated information about the summer school PhD course will be available at www.cbs.dk/tpr2011 (the information can also be accessed via www.cbs.dk/nlpcs2011)

Enquiries can be made to: Arnt Lykke Jakobsen, alj.isv@cbs.dk

Important Dates for TPR 2011

  • Registration TPR: 15th June 2011
  • PhD course on TPR: 15-19 August 2011
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3-3-17(2011-08-28) Show and tell (at Interspeech 2011)

Interspeech 2011, Florence Italy

 

Show&Tell

 

 

We are delighted to host the first Show and Tell event at Interspeech 2011. Show&Tell will provide researchers, technologists and practitioners from academia, industry and government the opportunity to demonstrate their latest research systems and interact with the attendees in an informal setting. Demonstrations need to be based on innovations and fundamental research in areas of human speech production, perception, communication, and speech and language technology and systems.

 

Demonstrations will be peer-reviewed by members of the Interspeech Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the Show&Tell sessions. Each accepted demonstration paper will be allocated 2 pages in the conference proceeding.

 

At the conference, all accepted demonstrations will be evaluated and considered for the Best Show&Tell Award.

 

 

Submission guidelines:

  • All manuscripts must be in English.
  • The paper must be no longer than two (2) pages.
  • All submitted proposals must adhere to the format and style specified in the Interspeech 2011 authors' kit.
  • All Show&Tell papers submitted to INTERSPEECH 2011 must be original contributions that have not been submitted to any other conference.
  • Authors are invited to submit supporting data files, such as demonstration videos, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM if their Show&Tell paper is accepted.
  • Show and Tell events will be held tentatively in the afternoons of August 28th, and 29th. Authors will be provided with a poster board and a table. Wireless access will be available.
  • Papers should be submitted to showandtell@interspeech2011.org

 

Chair:
Mazin Gilbert (AT&T Labs Research, USA)

Important dates:
Full submission deadline: March 31st, 2011

Acceptance notification: May 27th, 2011

 

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3-3-18(2011-08-29) CfP 6th DGfS-CL Computational Linguistics Fall School 2011

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

6th DGfS-CL Computational Linguistics Fall School 2011


The Computational Linguistics Fall School is a biennial event for students who wish to
broaden their knowledge of techniques and methods used in natural language processing, in
particular of innovative and emerging fields in computational linguistics not
traditionally taught in standard degree programmes.

Date: August 29th - September 9th, 2011

Venue: University of Zurich, Switzerland

Scientific organizer: German Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft)

Local organizer: Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland



Programme:

Track 1: Computational Linguistics and Cultural Heritage
Lecturer: Dr. Michael Piotrowski (University of Zurich)

Track 2: Summarization and Generation: From 'Extracting' to 'Abstracting'
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede (University of Potsdam)

Track 3: Connectionist Modelling of Language and Cognitive Processes
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Gert Westermann (Oxford Brookes University)

Track 4: Introduction to Tree Adjoining Grammar
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer and Timm Lichte (Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf)

Tracks are non-concurrent (i.e. any number of tracks can be booked). One lecture (90
minutes) in each track each weekday. Weekend 3/4 Sept.: Social programme (field trip).

Language: The language of instruction will be English.

ECTS: Each course is worth 4 ECTS credits (upon successful completion).

Credit certificates as well certificates of attendance will be issued by the Institute of
Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich.

You do not have to be a member of DGfS to attend the Fall School.


Dates and Fees:

    * Early Registration by May 15, 2011 (CHF 200.00)
    * Final Registration by June 30, 2011 (CHF 250.00)
    * On Site Registration possible (CHF 300.00)

Registration online through:

www.cl.uzh.ch/events/fallschool2011/registration.html


Grants: Ten grants (EUR 150 each, intended to cover part of the registration fee) are
available from DGfS for enrolled students. Please apply to the local organizers, with
proof of eligibility, by e-mail to fallschool2011@cl.uzh.ch (first come first served).

Additional grants (to cover part of the cost for accommodation) may become available
later.

Accommodation: Cheap(ish) accommodation is available (see URL below). Please note
deadline!

Additional information: www.cl.uzh.ch/fallschool2011

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3-3-19(2011-08-31) 9TH Pan European Voice Conference PEVOC 09, Marseille France
> * PEVOC on Facebook / PEVOC sur Facebook 
> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143581129022212
> ********************************************************************
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> We are very pleased to invite you to the ninth Pan European 
> Voice Conference (PEVOC9). It will be held on August 31th - 
> September 3rd, 2011 in Marseille, France. The Pan-European 
> Voice conference has always been a great scientific, medical 
> and artistic event. It focuses both on basic and applied 
> scientific research, and on clinical assessment and 
> treatment. It offers the opportunity for international voice 
> researchers, voice therapists, voice teachers and singers to 
> come together and share their knowledge, ideas and 
> experience. PEVOC conferences are known to provide a forum 
> for the presentation and discussion of current scientific and 
> clinical research on the larynx and voice. After previous 
> meetings of the PEVOCs in London, Regensburg, Utrecht, 
> Stockholm, Groningen, Graz and Dresden, we are proud to host 
> PEVOC for the first time in France. It will be held in 
> Marseille, a major French city on the Riviera Coast. PEVOC9 
> will host three additional meetings :
> 
> - August 31st 2011 : the first meeting of the new European 
> Academy of Voice, a european organization for education in 
> the voice sciences. http://www.european-academy-of-voice.org/
> 
> - September 3rd 2011 : workshop of the *European 
> Laryngological Society on the topic of micro-phono-surgery. 
> http://www.elsoc.org/
> 
> - August 30-31st 2011 : workshop of the European Voice 
> Teachers Association on the topic of Digital Resources in the 
> Voice Teaching Studio. http://www.evta-online.org/
> 
> Please find more details in the PEVOC website: 
> http://www.pevoc9.fr/ We hope very much to see you in end of 
> August 2011 in Marseille !
> 
> Antoine GIOVANNI and Nathalie HENRICH, chairpersons
> 
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3-3-20(2011-09) Speech processing tools at Interspeech 2011

Dear Colleague,

at Interspeech 2011 in Florence there will be a special event on 'Speech Processing Tools' with the focus on interoperability:

http://www.interspeech2011.org/specialevents/se-1.php

If you're interested, please submit a regular four-page paper via the Interspeech submission system and select as the ONLY (!) option the special event on 'Speech Processing Tools'. The deadline is 31st March 2011!

Best regards - and I hope to see you in Florence!

Christoph Draxler


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Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Schellingstr. 3 Vordergebäude Zi. 220
D 80799 München

Büro: +49-(0)89-2180 2807
mobil: +49-(0)152 2258 4157
Fax: +49-(0)89-2180-5790

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3-3-21(2011-09) Speech Technolgy for Under-Resourced Languages at Interspeech 2011

A special session on  'Speech
Technology for Under-Resourced Languages'
will be hold at Interspeech
2011
http://www.interspeech2011.org/specialsessions/ss-7.php

laurent besacier
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3-3-22(2011-09-01) )IWSDS2011 Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems

IWSDS2011 Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Satellite of Interspeech 2011

to be held at Saray hotel in Granada, Spain from September 1 to September 3, 2011.

Following on the success of IWSDS2009 (in Irsee, Germany) and IWSDS2010 (in Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan) this 3rd International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS2011) will bring together researchers from all over the world working in the field of spoken dialogue systems. It will provide an international forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists.

This year's workshop designates 'Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems' as a special theme of discussion.  We would also like to encourage discussions of common issues of spoken dialogue systems.

The workshop will be held just after INTERSPEECH 2011; Florence, Italy, August 28-31, 2011 and is endorsed by SIGDIAL, a SIG of ISCA, and ACL. It is also supported by the Korean Society of Speech Scientists. The support of ELRA and IEEE is pending. The workshop proceedings will be published as LNAI.

We welcome you to the workshop.

Ramón López-Cózar - University of Granada (Spain)
Tetsunori Kobayashi - Waseda University (Japan)
Chairs of IWSDS2011

For questions, please contact:
iwsds2011(at)ugr.es

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3-3-23(2011-09-01) First International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2011) Firenze Italy

 First International Workshop on
Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2011)

           in conjunction with Interspeech 2011
           September 1st, 2011, Florence, Italy

     http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/workshop
      ----------------------------------------------


Important Dates:
* Deadline for submission of papers: April 14th, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: June 2nd, 2011
* Final version: June 14th, 2011
* Workshop: September 1st, 2011


Overview:
CHiME 2011 is an ISCA-approved satellite workshop of Interspeech 2011 that will consider
the challenge of developing machine listening applications for operation in multisource
environments, i.e. real-world conditions with acoustic clutter, where the number and
nature of the sound sources is unknown and changing over time. CHiME will bring together
researchers from a broad range of disciplines (computational hearing, blind source
separation, speech recognition, machine learning) to discuss novel and established
approaches to this problem. The cross-fertilisation of ideas will foster fresh approaches
that efficiently combine the complementary strengths of each research field.

The workshop will also be hosting the PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition
Challenge. This is a binaural, multisource speech separation and recognition competition
supported by the EU PASCAL network and the UK EPSRC. If you wish to participate, please
visit the Challenge website (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/challenge.html).


Call for Papers:
We invite original submissions for oral or poster presentation during the workshop.
Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to),

* automatic speech recognition in multisource environments,
* acoustic event detection in multisource environments,
* sound source detection and tracking in multisource environments,
* music information retrieval in multisource environments,
* sound source separation or enhancement in multisource environments,
* robust feature extraction and classification in multisource environments,
* scene analysis and understanding for multisource environments.

Abstracts or full-papers are to be submitted by 14th April. After the workshop
participants will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a
peer-reviewed special issue of the journal 'Computer Speech and Language' on the theme of
Multisource Environments.


Organising Committee:
Dr Jon Barker,  University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA Rennes, France
Prof. Dan Ellis, Columbia University, USA
Prof. Phil Green, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. John Hershey, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
Prof. Walter Kellermann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Prof. Hiroshi Okuno, Kyoto University, Japan

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3-3-24(2011-09-05) GESPIN2011 Gesture and Speech in Interaction Bielefeld GE
GESPIN2011
Gesture and Speech in Interaction
 5 - 7 September, 2011
 Universität Bielefeld
 http://gespin.uni-bielefeld.de/

First call for papers

After the ?rst successful conference on Gesture and Speech in
Interaction 2009 in Poznan, we have the pleasure to
announce that the next GESPIN will take place in Bielefeld, 5-7 Sep
2011. The conference is jointly organised by
several institutions at Bielefeld University, Germany and Adam
Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.

With this conference we would like to promote interdisciplinary
perspectives that facilitate an efficient understanding
of the complexity of multimodal communication. We would like to invite
linguists, phoneticians, speech technologists,
computer and cognitive scientists as well as researchers from all
other ?elds who share an interest in speech and
gesture interfaces to participate in the GESPIN conference.

Papers on all topics related to speech and gesture are welcome.
However this year, we especially invite papers
that address prosody and gesture, i.e. timing relations between
gesture and prosody, gestural prosody, integration
of prosody and gesture, prosody and gesture acquisition using the
following methodological foci:

 1. theory building and empirical investigations
 2. modeling of gesture and speech
 3. tools for an integrative analysis of speech and gesture corpora
 4. systems for gesture and speech annotation
 5. neurophysiological and neurobehavioural speech and gesture research
 6. as well as: automatic speech and gesture recognition and synthesis
system demos.

We also plan to accept tutorial and special session proposals.

Conference proceedings will include a selection of accepted papers and
be published on a CD. The possibility of
publishing extended versions of conference papers in an edited
collection or a special issue of a journal is being
considered.

Planned dates:
   Call for special sessions and tutorials: January 2011
   Deadline for special sessions and tutorials: April 2011
   Deadline for full papers: May 31st, 2011
   Acceptance/rejection: July 15th, 2011
   Early registration July 30th, 2011
   Conference: September 5th - 7th, 2011

Con?rmed invited speakers:
   Marianne Gullberg (Lund University, Sweden)
   Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University)
   Jan de Ruiter (Bielefeld University)
   Marc Swerts (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

Organising Committees:
Program Committee
   Stefan Kopp (CITEC; SFB 673; Bielefeld University)
   Katharina J. Rohl?ng (CITEC; Bielefeld University)
   Jan de Ruiter (CITEC; SFB 673; Bielefeld University)
   Petra Wagner (CITEC; SFB 673; Bielefeld University)
   Maciej Karpinski (CSLP AMU; Institute of Linguistics, AMU, Poznan)

Local Organising Committee
   Petra Wagner
   Zo?a Malisz (conference secretary)
   Alexandra Kenter (conference secretary)
   Carolin Kirchhof (conference secretary)
   Konrad Juszczyk (webmaster, CSLP AMU)
   Hendrik Hasenbein (webmaster, Bielefeld University)

Participating Institutions:

Bielefeld, Germany
   Universität Bielefeld
   http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/
   Center for Interdisciplinary Science (ZiF), Bielefeld University
   http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/
   Cognitive Interaction Technology - Center of Excellence (CITEC),
   Bielefeld University
   http://www.cit-ec.de/
   CRC 673 Alignment in Communication (SFB 673), Bielefeld University
   http://www.sfb673.org/

Poznan, Poland
   Centre for Speech and Language Processing (CSLP), Adam Mickiewicz University
   http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/cslp/

Venue:
ZiF, http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/
Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, www.bielefeld.de
General enquiries: gespin@lists.uni-bielefeld.de


Prof. Dr. Petra Wagner
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Bielefeld
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Germany
Tel.: +49 521 106-3510
Fax: +49 521 106-2996 



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3-3-25(2011-09-12)CfP Prosody-Discourse Interface IDP 2011 U.Salford, Great Manchester UK

Conference  IDP 2011

 

Second Call for Papers

 

The Prosody-Discourse Interface (including research training workshop on prosody and special workshop on expressive and affective prosody)

 

University of Salford, Greater Manchester

12 September 2011 –  14 September (incl)

(just after the LAGB  7 – 10 September 2011, at the University of Manchester)

 

Invited speakers:

Nicole Dehe, University of Konstanz

John Local, University of York

Chris Potts, University of Stanford

Marc Schroeder, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

 

This conference is the fourth in a series which provides a forum for those working on the relationship between prosody and discourse.  As the previous conferences have shown, there is a range of phenomena which illustrate how research in prosody feeds into research in discourse and vice versa – for example, the communication of attitudes and emotions, constraints on implicit meaning, focus and information structure, the communication of irony, interaction and interactive meaning, humour in discourse, parentheticals, the interpretation of anaphora, the identification of processing units, and the identification of genre. The relationship between prosody and discourse has been viewed from the perspective of phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, language acquisition, language processing, language pathology, stylistics, language evolution, and speech synthesis. Moreover, research has been carried out in a wide range of theoretical paradigms. We now aim to build on this research, and in this way develop a greater understanding of phenomena at the prosody-discourse interface.

 

The conference will consist of four parts:

 

  1. 12 September: Research Training Workshop (for research students and academics who wish to develop an understanding of the issues involved in transcribing prosodic structure).
  2. 13 – 14 September: Oral presentations on any area of the prosody-discourse interface
  3. 13th September am & 14 September Poster sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface
  4. 13 September pm: Special workshop on expressive and affective prosody (speakers: Diane Blakemore, Chris Potts, Marc Schroeder)

 

 

We now invite researchers in prosody and discourse to submit abstract for inclusion in themed sessions on any area of the prosody-discourse interface (including the topic of the special workshop). We expect abstracts to address the following questions from a range of theoretical paradigms:

 

  • What are the different prosodic subsystems; how do they interact; and how do they contribute to the interpretation of discourse?
  • How should we describe and analyze prosodic facts?
  • What are the relevant units for the analysis of discourse; and what are their prosodic properties?
  • How is discourse processed; and how does prosody affect discourse processing?
  • How do context and prosody interact in the interpretation of discourse?
  • What is ‘tone of voice’ and how does it affect interpretation?
  • How do L1 and L2 speakers acquire an understanding of the relationship between prosody and context?
  • What are the best methodological tools for the description and transcription of the prosodic properties of discourse?

 

 

Please note

  • the conference will be held in English and French. 
  • abstracts must be no more than 1 A4 page and written in Times 12 Font (plus an extra page for references and figures)
  • two copies of the abstract must be submitted – one anonymous and the other marked with the name of the author(s), affiliation(s) and email address of the main author
  • abstracts must be sent to the following address: IDPConf@Salford.ac.uk
  • abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by the scientific committee for the conference.
  • abstracts should indicate if they are for an oral presentation, a poster, or both. Please note that we will not be able to accommodate everybody in the oral sessions.

 

 

Deadlines

Submission of abstracts: 15 April 2011

Notification of acceptance: 6 June 2011

Conference: 12 – 14 September 2011

 

Conference website: http://www.famss.salford.ac.uk/page/pdi_conference  

 

Enquiries:

Diane Blakemore  (local organizer) d.blakemore@salford.ac.uk

Debbie Hughes (conference support) d.hughes1@salford.ac.uk

Gerry Howley (conference assistant) G.M.Howley@edu.salford.ac.uk

 

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3-3-26(2011-09-14) 53rd International Symposium ELMAR-2011 Zadar, Croatia

  53rd International Symposium ELMAR-2011
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                   September 14-16, 2011
                      Zadar, Croatia

         Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2011

                http://www.elmar-zadar.org/


                      CALL FOR PAPERS


  TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS

  IEEE Region 8
  IEEE Croatia Section
  IEEE Croatia Section Chapter of the Signal Processing Society
  IEEE Croatia Section Joint Chapter of the AP/MTT Societies
  EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing


  CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY

  IEEE Xplore, INSPEC, SCOPUS and CPCI
  (Conference Proceedings Citation Index)


  TOPICS

  --> Image and Video Processing
  --> Multimedia Communications
  --> Speech and Audio Processing
  --> Wireless Commununications
  --> Telecommunications
  --> Antennas and Propagation
  --> Navigation Systems
  --> Ship Electronic Systems
  --> Power Electronics and Automation
  --> Naval Architecture
  --> Sea Ecology


  KEYNOTE TALKS

  * Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETHZ, Switzerland:
    Nonparametric Identification of Linear Time-Varying Systems

  * Dr. Julia A. Schnabel, University of Oxford, UK:
    Challenges and Recent Advances in Cancer Image Analysis

  * Dr. Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, UK:
    Colour for Image Retrieval and Image Browsing

  * Prof. Juraj Bartolic, University of Zagreb, Croatia:
    Title - TBD


  SUBMISSION

  Papers accepted by two reviewers will be published in
  conference proceedings available at the conference and
  abstracted/indexed in the IEEE Xplore, INSPEC, SCOPUS
  and CPCI databases. More info is available here:
  http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2011/paper_submission/



  SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES

  Deadline for submission of full papers: March 15, 2011
  Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 20, 2011
  Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: May 31, 2011
  Preliminary program available online by: June 14, 2011
  Registration forms and payment deadline: June 21, 2011


  GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

  Ive Mustac, Tankerska plovidba, Zadar, Croatia
  Branka Zovko-Cihlar, University of Zagreb, Croatia


  PROGRAM CHAIR

  Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia


  INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  Juraj Bartolic, Croatia
  David Broughton, United Kingdom
  Paul Dan Cristea, Romania
  Kresimir Delac, Croatia
  Zarko Cucej, Slovenia
  Marek Domanski, Poland
  Kalman Fazekas, Hungary
  Janusz Filipiak, Poland
  Borko Furht, USA
  Mohammed Ghanbari, United Kingdom
  Mislav Grgic, Croatia
  Sonja Grgic, Croatia
  Yo-Sung Ho, Korea
  Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Austria
  Bojan Ivancevic, Croatia
  Ebroul Izquierdo, United Kingdom
  Kristian Jambrosic, Croatia
  Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, USA
  Ismail Khalil, Austria
  Tomislav Kos, Croatia
  Murat Kunt, Switzerland
  Igor Kuzle, Croatia
  Panos Liatsis, United Kingdom
  Rastislav Lukac, Canada
  Lidija Mandic, Croatia
  Gabor Matay, Hungary
  Branka Medved Rogina, Croatia
  Borivoj Modlic, Croatia
  Marta Mrak, United Kingdom
  Fernando Pereira, Portugal
  Pavol Podhradsky, Slovak Republic
  Ramjee Prasad, Denmark
  Kamisetty R. Rao, USA
  Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak Republic
  Gerald Schaefer, United Kingdom
  Mubarak Shah, USA
  Shiguang Shan, China
  Thomas Sikora, Germany
  Karolj Skala, Croatia
  Ryszard Stasinski, Poland
  Luis Torres, Spain
  Frantisek Vejrazka, Czech Republic
  Stamatis Voliotis, Greece
  Nick Ward, United Kingdom
  Krzysztof Wajda, Poland
  Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Croatia


  CONTACT INFORMATION

  Prof. Mislav Grgic
  FER, Unska 3,
  HR-10000 Zagreb,
  CROATIA

  Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851
  Fax: + 385 1 6129 717
  E-mail: elmar2011 (_at_) fer.hr

  For further information please visit:
  http://www.elmar-zadar.org/

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3-3-27(2011-10-16) 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics

2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics
                   Mohonk Mountain House
                    New Paltz, New York
                    October 16-19, 2011

                   http://www.waspaa.com

The 2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio
and Acoustics (WASPAA'11) will be held at the Mohonk Mountain House in
New Paltz, New York, and is sponsored by the Audio and Acoustic Signal
Processing committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The
objective of this workshop is to provide an informal environment for
the discussion of problems in audio and acoustics and signal
processing techniques leading to novel solutions. Technical sessions
will be scheduled throughout the day. Afternoons will be left free for
informal meetings among workshop participants.

Papers describing original research and new concepts are solicited for
technical sessions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

Acoustic scenes
 * Source separation and localization
 * Signal enhancement: Echo cancellation, dereverberation,
    noise reduction, restoration
 * Microphone arrays
 * Multichannel audio acquisition and reproduction
 * Room acoustics

Music and environmental audio
 * Musical signal analysis: Segmentation, classification, transcription
 * Creation of musical sounds: Waveforms, instrument models, singing
 * Audio matching and retrieval

Audio coding
 * Waveform coding and parameter coding
 * Spatial audio coding
 * Sparse representations
 * Mobile devices
 * Digital rights

Hearing and perception
 * Auditory perception
 * Spatial hearing
 * Quality assessment
 * Hearing aids


Important Dates:

Submission of four page paper:     May 13, 2011
Notification of acceptance:        July 15, 2011
Early registration open until:     August 31, 2011


Organizing Committee:

General Chair             Dan Ellis, Columbia University
Technical Program Chair   Paris Smaragdis, UIUC & Adobe Systems Inc
Finance Chair             Michael Brandstein, MIT Lincoln Labs
Publications Chair        John McDonough, Disney Research
Publicity Chair           Michael Mandel, Audience, Inc
Local Arrangements Chair  Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University
Far East Liaison          Shigeki Sagayama, University of Tokyo

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3-3-28(2011-10-19) APSIPA ASC 2011, Xi'an, China
APSIPA ASC 2011

Call for papers

With great honor, the City of Xi'an hosts the APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2011 (APSIPA ASC 2011). Xi'an, the eternal city, records the great changes of the Chinese nation just like a living history book. Called Chang'an in ancient times, Xi'an is one of the birthplaces of the ancient civilization in the Yellow River Basin area of the country. During 3,100 year development of Xi'an, 13 dynasties such as Western Zhou (11th century BC-771 BC), Qin (221 BC-206 BC), Western Han (206 BC-24 AD) and Tang (618-907) placed their capitals here. So far, Xi'an enjoys equal fame with Athens, Cairo, and Rome as one of the four major ancient civilization capitals in the world. Xi'an enjoys the laudatory title of 'China Natural History Museum'. The Museum of Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses is praised as 'the eighth major miracle of the world', the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang is listed on the World Heritage List, and the Famen Temple holds the precious finger bones of Sakyamuni the founder of Buddhism?

APSIPA ASC 2011 is the third great event of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). Founded in 2009, APSIPA aims to promote research and education on signal processing, information technology and communications. The annual conference was previously held in Japan in 2009 and in Singapore in 2010. The field of interest of APSIPA concerns all aspects of signals and information including processing, recognition, classification, communications, networking, computing, system design, security, implementation, and technology with applications to scientific, engineering, and social areas. Accepted papers in regular sessions and accepted papers in special sessions will be published in APSIPA ASC 2011 proceedings which will be indexed by EI Compendex.

The topics for regular sessions include, but are not limited to: 

1. Signal Processing (SP) 
1.1 Audio, speech, and language processing 
1.2 Image, video, and multimedia 
1.3 Information forensics and security 
1.4 Signal processing for communications 
1.5 Signal processing theory and methods 
1.6 Biomedical/Biological signal processing

2. Communication Systems (Com) 
2.1 Communication and information theory 
2.2 Information and network security 
2.3 Wireless communications and networking 
2.4 Standards and emerging technology 
2.5 RF and antennas 

3. Information Processing (IP) 
3.1 Database and data mining
3.2 Ubiquitous and mobile computing 
3.3 Computer vision and pattern recognition 
3.4 Computer science fundamentals 

4. Multimedia & Computer Graphics (MM&CG) 
4.1 Media processing 
4.2 Interaction and interface 
4.3 Virtual reality and augmented virtuality 
4.4 Computer graphics and visualization fundamentals

5. Circuits and Systems/VLSI (Circuits) 
5.1 Biomedical circuits and systems 
5.2 Nanoelectronics and gigascale systems 
5.3 Neural systems and applications 
5.4 VLSI systems and applications 
5.5 Embedded systems

Submission of Papers 
Prospective authors are invited to submit either full papers,up to 10 pages in length, or short papers up to 4 pages in length, where full papers will be for the single-track oral presentation and short papers will be mostly for poster presentation. The conference proceedings will be published, available and maintained at the APSIPA website. The proceedings will be indexed by EI Compendex.

Important Dates 

Submission of Proposals for Special Sessions, Forum, Panel & Tutorial Sessions
 
April 15, 2011
Notification of Proposal Acceptance 
May 15, 2011
Submission of Full, Short Papers and Student Symposium Papers 
May 15, 2011
Submission of Papers in Special Sessions
June 15, 2011
Notification of Papers Acceptance
July 14, 2011
Author Registration Deadline
August 14, 2011
Submission of Final Manuscript
August 14, 2011
Tutorial Session Date
October 18, 2011
Summit and Conference Dates
October 19-21, 2011

Organizing Committee

Honorary Co-Chairs 
Guangnan Ni, Chinese Information Processing Society of China 
Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang, Georigia Institute of Technology, USA
Xiaozhu Chen, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

General Co-Chairs 
Thomas Fang Zheng, Tsinghua University, Beijing
C. C. Jay Kuo, University of South California, USA 
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Hokkaido University, Japan 

Technical Program Co-Chairs 
Soo-Chang Pei, National Taiwan University, Taipei (SP) 
Jianguo Huang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an (SP) 
Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo, University of Minnesota, USA (Com) 
Jing Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing (Com) 
Yo-Sung Ho, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Korea (IP) 
Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (IP) 
Akihiko (Ken) Sugiyama, NEC Corporation, Japan (MM&CG) 
Yanning Zhang, Northwestern Polytech. University, Xi'an(MM&CG)
Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei (Circuits) 
Zhihua Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing (Circuits)

Forum Co-Chairs 
Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan
Hitoshi Kiya, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan 
Tianling Ren, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Panel Session Co-Chairs 
Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taipei 
Li Deng, Microsoft, USA
Jianwu Dang, JAIST, Japan/Tianjin University, Tianjin 
Mingyi He, Northwestern Polytech. University, Xi'an 
Kenneth Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong

Special Session Co-Chairs 
Alex Kot, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Masato Akagi, JAIST, Japan
Weibin Zhu, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing

Tutorial Session Co-Chairs 
Waleed Abdulla, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jiwu Huang, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
Koh Soo Ngee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Publicity Co-Chairs 
Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu
Namsoo Kim, Seoul National University, Korea 
Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India 
Qing Wang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

Publication Co-Chairs 
Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California, USA 
Eng Siong Chng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Ying Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 
Xiaojun Wu, Tsinghua University, Beijing 
Jiangbin Zheng, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

Sponsorship Co-Chairs 
Guoqing Wang, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Shanghai 
Xi Xiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing 
Dongmei Jiang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

Industrial & Government Advisors 
Yong Qin, IBM Research- China, Beijing
Claus Bauer, Dolby Laboratories Intl. Services (Beijing), Beijing

Financial Co-Chairs 
Qiang Zhou, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Runping Xi, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an
Jinqiu Sun, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 

Registration Co-Chairs    
Xinbo Zhao, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an
Zhonghua Fu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an
Tao Yang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an

Organizers

Tsinghua University

Northwestern Polytechnical University

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3-3-29(2011-10-26) CfP Oriental COCOSDA Taiwan

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Oriental COCOSDA 2011
 
October 26-28, 2011, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
http://ococosda2011.cm.nctu.edu.tw

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        The oriental chapter of COCOSDA (The International Committee for the
Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment
Techniques) is pleased to announce that the 14th Oriental COCOSDA Conference
will be held on Oct. 26-28, in Hsinchu, Taiwan hosted by the National Chiao
Tung University, Taiwan. Oriental COCOSDA is an international conference
held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA. The first preparatory
meeting was held in Hong Kong in 1997 and then the past thirteen workshops
were held in Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, China and Nepal.
 
        Oriental COCOSDA conference in Taiwan will help in boosting the
research and development in the field of Speech Technology and will help in
enthusing the interest towards Speech Technology in East and Southeast Asia.
 
        Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research
on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech I/O, including,
but not limited to:

Topics

• Speech databases and text corpora
• Assessment of speech input and output technologies
• Phonetic/phonological systems for Oriental languages
• Romanization of Non-Roman Characters
• Segmentation and labeling
• Speech Prosody and Labeling
• Speech processing models and systems
• Multilingual speech corpora
• Special topics on speech databases and assessments
• Standardization
• Any other relevant topics
 
Important Dates

•Full Paper Submission                     July, 1,  2011
•Notification of acceptance of paper          Aug. 5, 2011
•Final Manuscript                         Aug. 26, 2011

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3-3-30(2011-10-4) SiPS 2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems

SiPS 2011
IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems
October 4-7, 2011, Beirut, Lebanon
Preliminary Call for Papers
http://www.sips11.org/

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of new developments, recent progress, and innovations in the design and implementation of digital signal processing systems. It addresses all aspects of architecture and design methods of these systems. Emphasis is on current and future challenges in research and development in both academia and industry. Hard-bound proceedings of the workshop will be published. Original and unpublished papers are solicited in the following areas, but not limited to:

VLSI Based Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
-Low-power signal processing circuits and applications
-High performance VLSI systems
-FPGA and reconfigurable architecture based systems
-System-on-chip and network-on-chip
-VLSI Systems for Wireless Sensor Network and RF Identification Systems
 
Software Based Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
-Programmable digital signal processor architecture and systems
-Application specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) architecture and systems
-SIMD, VLIW and multi-core CPU architecture
-Graphic processing unit (GPU) based massively parallel implementation

Design Methods of Signal Processing Algorithms and Architectures 
-Optimization of signal processing algorithms
-Compilers and tools for signal processing system design
-Algorithm transformation and algorithm-to-architecture mapping

Signal Processing Application Systems
-Audio, speech and language processing
-Biomedical signal processing and bioinformatics
-Image, video and multimedia signal processing
-Information forensics, security and cryptography
-Machine learning for signal processing
-Sensing and sensor signal processing
-Wireless communications and networking
-Coding and Compression
-Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) and Communication Systems
-Software Defined Radio

Emerging Technologies
-Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET)
-Cognitive radio networks
-Bio-inspired networks
-Context-aware mobile networking
-Wireless body area networks (WBANs)
-Tele-medicine/e-health networks

Important Dates
Paper submission          April 9
Acceptance notification   June 27
Final version due         July 25

Best Student Paper Contest: The finalist papers will be presented in a poster session during an evening reception on Tuesday October 4th. The papers will be judged based on both manuscript and presentation. The finalist papers will have free student registration and certificate. The top three winning papers will be announced during lunch on Thursday October 6th.

Special Issue: Selected papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of VLSI on Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology, Springer Publisher.

Details on author schedules, submission, program and venue are available on the workshop website: http://www.sips11.org/

General Chairs:
Magdy Bayoumi
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Ibrahim Hajj
American University of Beiru

Technical Program Chairs:
Mohammad Mansour
American University of Beirut

Brian L. Evans
University of Texas at Austin

Industry Liaison Chair:
Khaled El-Maleh
Qualcomm

Administration Committee:
Ahmed Abdelgawad
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Sponsored by:
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

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3-3-31(2011-12-15) Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop ASRU 2011

 ASRU 2011
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
                  Big Island, Hawaii
                 December 11-15, 2011
               http://www.asru2011.org

                  CALL FOR PAPERS

The twelfth IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) will
be held on December 11-15, 2011. The ASRU workshop meets every two years and has a
tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and
collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition
and understanding.

** Workshop Topics **
Submission of papers in all areas of human language technology is encouraged, with
emphasis placed on:
- Automatic speech recognition and understanding
- Human speech recognition and understanding
- Speech-to-text systems
- Spoken dialog systems
- Multilingual language processing
- Robustness in ASR
- Spoken document retrieval
- Speech-to-speech translation
- Text-to-speech systems
- Spontaneous speech processing
- Speech summarization
- New applications of ASR

** Schedule **
Paper submission deadline:   1 July 2011
Paper acceptance/rejection:  20 August 2011
Early registration deadline: 15 October 2011
Workshop:                    11-15 December 2011

** Technical Program **
The workshop program will consist of oral and poster presentations, including invited
overview lectures covering major areas of the field. In addition, there will be four
keynote addresses by well-known experts on such related topics as machine learning and
pattern classification.

** Submission Procedure **
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures
and references, to the ASRU 2011 website (http://www.asru2011.org). All papers will be
handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with further details.
Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.

** Registration and information **
Please note that the number of attendees will be limited and priority will be given to
paper presenters. Registration will be handled via the ASRU 2011 website,
http://www.asru2011.org, where more information on the workshop will be available.

 
 
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3-3-322011-09-27) XIVth Intern. Conference Speech and Computer- Russia

 

Preliminary information

More precise information about the date of paper submittal, the requirements for

paper formalization and the financial matter of the participation in the conference will

be declared some time later.

XIV International Conference “Speech and Computer”

Organizers of the conference: Moscow State Linguistic University,

Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University

The Conference is organized in cooperation with Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and

Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation.

Approximate dates

of the conference: September 27–30, 2011.

The location of

the conference: Russian Federation, the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan.

Discussion Issues:

• Informatization and public information security

• Automatic processing of multilingual, multimodal and multimedia information

• Speech signal coding and decoding; speech information security

• Linguistic, para- and extralinguistic communicative tactics and strategies

• The legibility of speech transmitted through different communication channels; speech by interference

and noise

• Speech production and perception modeling

• Fundamental and applied problems of modern speechology

• Development and testing of automatic voice and speech systems for speaker verification; speaker

emotional state and native language identification

• Automatic speech recognition and understanding systems

• Language and speech information processing systems in robotechnics

• Automated translation systems

• New information technologies in lingvodidactics; 3-D technologies

• Text-to-speech conversion systems

• Spoken and written natural language corpora linguistics

• Multifunctional expert and information retrieval systems

• Future of multi-purpose and anti-terrorist speech technologies

The aim of the conference

the development of automated human-machine interface systems based on natural language processing and new

information technologies

is the discussion of top priority issues and recent achievements in the field of.

Well-known specialists both from Russia and from such countries as Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Great Britain,

Canada, China, Czekh Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy,

Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Thailand,

Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, Viet Nam etc. regularly participate in the conference.

The International Speech Communication Association, International Association on Forensic Phonetics and

Acoustics, International Society of Phonetic Sciences, Russian Acoustic Society and other organizations actively

participate in this event.

The atmosphere of the conference promotes lively discussion and opinion interchange, as well as decisionmaking

in different fields of fundamental and applied sciences connected with natural language information

processing and high technologies.

Alongside with the intense scientific program, a wide spectrum of cultural and excursion activities will be

provided.

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