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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 by Chris Wellekens

3 Events
3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2020-10-25) Cf Tutorials Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China (UPDATE)
Call for Tutorials

Important Dates
? Submission deadline: April 3, 2020
? Acceptance/rejection notification: May 3, 2020

INTERSPEECH conferences are attended by researchers with a long-term track-record in speech sciences and technologies as well as by early-stage researchers or researchers interested in a new domain within the INTERSPEECH areas. An important part of the conference is the tutorials held on the first day of the conference, October 25, 2020. Presented by speakers with extensive expertise in speech technologies, the tutorials will provide their audience with a rich learning experience and an exposure to longstanding research problems, contemporary research topics, and emerging areas.
We encourage proposals for addressing introductory or advanced topics in an introductory style as well as for targeting experienced researchers who want to dig deeper into a new topic.
A tutorial may introduce an emerging area in speech-related research or present an overview of an established area; but it should not focus on the presenter's individual research. Each tutorial should last for three hours.

Proposals should include (in this order)
? Tutorial Title
? Presenter(s): Name, affiliation, contact information (email and telephone)
? 3-4 sentence abstract summarizing the proposed tutorial that could be used for advertisement
? Description of the proposal: 1-2 pages description plus references and any webpages/material useful for reviewing the proposal
? Explanation of relevance of the proposed tutorial (0.5 - 1 page)
? Tutorial logistics, including
     o Duration (3 hours = 1 session)
     o Description of presentation format (e.g. one or more presenters etc.)
     o Special equipment required for the tutorial
     o Choose one option for the distribution of the accompanying material: (1) with a USB stick or (2) with a password-protected download link.
? Presenter information
     o Biography of presenter(s)
     o Key publications of presenter(s) on the tutorial topic
     o List of previous tutorial experience
? Audience information
     o Target audience (e.g., new researchers to the field, research students, specialists of adjacent fields, etc.)
     o Other considerations or comments

Submission procedure
Proposals for INTERSPEECH 2020 tutorials may be no more than 4 pages and must conform to the format stated above; please use clear headings to indicate each point.
Proposals should be submitted by email to tutorials@interspeech2020.org by April 3, 2020 and notification of accepted proposals will be given by May 3, 2020.
By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video-recording of the tutorial for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. Access to recording materials will be given via ISCA Video Archives.
Questions? Please contact 
tutorials@interspeech2020.org

The tutorial chairs
? Zhijian Ou (ozj@tsinghua.edu.cn)
? Man-Wai Mak (man.wai.mak@polyu.edu.hk)

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3-1-2(2020-10-26) Cf Show and Tell, Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China (UPDATED)
Show & Tell
       
 
Important Dates
? Submission deadline: Saturday, June 6, 2020
? Acceptance/rejection notification: TBA
? Final paper and final video due: TBA

INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing.
Show & Tell is a special event organized during the conference. Participants are given the opportunity to demonstrate their most recent progress of developments, and interact with the conference attendees in an informal way, such as a demo, mock-up or any adapted format of their own choice. The contributions must highlight the innovative side of the concept and may relate to a regular paper.


Submission and Preparation Guidelines
Each initial Show & Tell submission must contain both a paper of up to 2 pages detailing the demonstration and a video illustrating what is going to be shown. The paper (including references) has to follow the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines as detailed in the “INTERSPEECH 2020 Author’s Kit”. Please note that the focus of the paper shall be on describing what the visitors will see and experience. The video can simply be recorded with a mobile phone or alike. Submissions will be evaluated by the organizing committee for relevance, originality, clarity, and significance of the proposed demonstration. 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 Show & Tell paper will be allocated two pages in the conference proceedings. Furthermore, a final video, which is to be submitted by the final paper deadline, will be made publicly available. Show & Tell demonstrations will be presented in their dedicated time slot in the conference program. Each presentation space includes
?  one poster board
?  one table
?  wireless internet connection, and
?  a power outlet
Please submit your proposal to the Show & Tell Chairs via show-and-tell@interspeech2020.org no later than June 6, 2020.
QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT our chair Ji Wu at show-and-tell@interspeech2020.org.
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3-1-3(2020-10-26) CfSS and challenges Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China

Call for proposals of
Special  Sessions & Challenges
deadline is approaching!

For more information, please visit the Special Sessions & Challenges webpage.

 
 

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Proposals of special sessions / challenges due: Monday, December 16, 2019
  • Notification of pre-selection: Wednesday, January 15, 2020
  • Final list of special sessions: Monday, June 15, 2020

SPECIAL SESSIONS & CHALLENGES

Submission of the proposals are encouraged for INTERSPEECH 2020, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to main conference topics. Submissions related to special focus of the conference, Cognitive Intelligence for Speech Processing, are particularly welcome. Apart from supporting a particular theme, special sessions may also have a format that is different from a regular session.

Each special session proposal must contain the following information:

  • Title of the proposed special session,
  • Names and affiliations of the organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer),
  • Up to five bullet points on what makes the session special,
  • A summary (up to one page) stating the importance of the session’s topic and objectives. Furthermore, the session format should be clearly defined (panel, oral, posters, etc.). The summary should also explain why the topic cannot be properly covered by regular conference sessions,
  • A tentative list of researchers who could contribute papers to the session. Note that with a nominal 50% acceptance rate for Interspeech papers, this means that special sessions should have a minimum of 12 anticipated submissions, unless their format allocates time to something other than paper presentations,
  • Additional or non-standard resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster stands, etc.) required for organizing the special session.

Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee for relevance and significance. Papers for approved Special Sessions have to be submitted following the same schedule and procedure as regular papers; the papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special session organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions.

Special session proposers are invited to submit a proposal via email to the Special Session Chairs Zhiyong Wu (Tsinghua University), Tim Fingscheidt (Technical University of Braunschweig), Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google), Yongguo Kang (Baidu), Pengyuan Zhang (IOA, CAS) at special-sessions@interspeech2020.org no later than Friday, November 29, 2019. Please do not hesitate to ask before submitting your proposal if further clarifications are needed. Notification of pre-selection is scheduled for Tuesday, December 31, 2019. Final acceptance will be announced shortly after paper decisions are completed.

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3-1-4(2020-10-26) First Voice Privacy Challenge at Interspeech 2020 UPDATED

The deadlines for the First VoicePrivacy Challenge at Interspeech-2020 have been extended, and the schedule, including the submission deadline, has been adjusted according to the new Interspeech paper submission deadline of 8th May 2020.

Also, version 1.2 of the VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan is available on the challenge website:

https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/docs/VoicePrivacy_2020_Eval_Plan_v1_2.pdf

Changes include the same schedule update, the release of a second, simpler baseline system and results for both baselines.

Both baselines are available online: https://github.com/Voice-Privacy-Challenge/Voice-Privacy-Challenge-2020

Please check the latest updates: https://github.com/Voice-Privacy-Challenge/Voice-Privacy-Challenge-2020/wiki/News-and-Updates

The registration for the VoicePrivacy Challenge continues!

Registration should be performed once for each participating entity and by sending an email to: organisers@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org with ?VoicePrivacy 2020 registration? as the subject line. The mail body should include: (i) the name of the team; (ii) the name of the contact person; (iii) their country; (iv) their status (academic/nonacademic).

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3-1-5(2020-10-26) Interspeech 2020 Shanghai, China (UPDATED)
 

 

Interspeech 2020
Shanghai, China, October 26-29, 2020
Chair : Helen Meng
21th INTERSPEECH event

The submission and review process has also been updated as follows:

May 8, 2020 Paper submission deadline
June 6, 2020 Show and tell submission due
July 24, 2020 Paper acceptance/rejection notification
Aug 10, 2020 Notification about ISCA Travel Grants
Aug 24, 2020 Early-bird registration deadline
Sep 23, 2020 Standard registration deadline

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3-1-6(2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czech Republic

INTERSPEECH 2021
Brno, Czech Republic, August 30 - September 3, 2021
Chairs : Hynek Hermansky and Honza Cernocky 
22nd INTERSPEECH event

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3-1-7Interspeech 2022, Incheon, South Korea

Incheon in South Korea will welcome Interspeech 2022.

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

Call for Papers

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

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

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

1st Call for Papers

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

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

France.

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

confirmed)

Invited speakers

Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Teresa Lynn, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland

Tutorials

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

near the LREC venue).

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

toolkit)

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

less-resourced languages) title to be confirmed

More details will be announced on the workshop web page.

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

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

tutorial).

Workshop description and objectives

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

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

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

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

working on speech processing and NLP for less resourced languages.

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

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

humanities and documentary linguistics, provided that they address lessresourced

languages.

Example topics are the following:

-Language resource development, acquisition and representation

-Linguistic theories, corpus development and resources

-Linguistic and cognitive studies

-Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units

-Code switched lexical modeling

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

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

-Machine translation and dialogue systems

-NLP and speech technologies for under-resourced languages

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

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

different disciplines and varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of

intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of

sustaining less-resourced languages.

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

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

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

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

presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings.

Submission and Publication

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

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

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

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

material previously published elsewhere.

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

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

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

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

be provided in due time).

Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members.

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

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

Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or posters

and will be published in the workshop proceedings.

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

Important dates (Modified)

14 February 2020: Paper submission deadline

13 March 2020: Paper notification of acceptance 

2 April 2020: Camera-ready papers due 

11-12 May 2020: Workshop dates


February 14, 2020 Paper submission deadline

March 13, 2020 Paper notification of acceptance

April 2, 2020 Camera-ready papers due

May 11-12, 2020 Workshop

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit

and share data.

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

allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate

the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the

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

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

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

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

Workshop chairs

Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway

Laurent Besacier, LIG-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France

Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan

Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy

Programme Committee

Adrian Doyle (Galway University, Ireland) TBC

Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russian Federation)

Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas, USA)

Amita Dev (BPIBS, India) TBC

Amir Aharoni (Wikimedia Foundation)

Andras Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC, Italy)

Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC

Anupam Shukla (IIITM, India)

Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia) TBC

Bruce Birch (The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications Project,

Australia) TBC

Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University, Canada) TBC

Charl Van Heerden (SPbSU, Russian Federation) TBC

Chiu Yu Tseng (ILAS, Taiwan) TBC

Chris Cieri (LDC, USA) TBC

Clara Rivera (Google) TBC

Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK)

Dewi Bryn Jones (Bangor University, UK)

Dirk Van Compernolle (KU Leuven, Belgium) TBC

Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway)

Emily Prud'hommeaux (Boston College, USA) TBC

Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS-ENS, France) TBC

Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC, Italy)

Francis Tyers (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia)

Gerard Bailly (GIPSA Lab, CNRS) TBC

Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France) TBC

Hemant Patil (DA-IICT, India)

Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA)

John Judge (ADAPT DCU, Ireland)

Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC

Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) TBC

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

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

Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA)

Klara Ceberio (Elhuyar, Spain)

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

Laurent Besacier (LIG-IMAG, France)

Lori Lamel (LIMSI, France) TBC

Luong Chi-Mai (IOIT, Vietnam) TBC

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

Mans Hulden (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) TBC

Maxim Romanov TBC

Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain)

Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia) TBC

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

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

Dynamics of Language, Australia)

Omar Farooq (AMU, India)

Pedro Moreno (Google, USA) TBC

Pradip K Das (IIT, India)

Richard Sproat (Google, USA) TBC

Clara Rivera (Google) TBC

Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan)

Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan)

Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany)

Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT, India)

Sin Horng Chen (NCTU, Taiwan)

Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) TBC

Tan Tien Ping (USM, Malaysia) TBC

Tanja Schultz (Uni-Bremen, Germany)

Thang Vu (Uni-Stuttgart, Germany) TBC

Teresa Lynn (ADAPT Centre, Ireland)

Trond Trosterud (Tromsø University, Norway)

Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria)

Uwe Springmann (Würzburg University, Germany) TBC

Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language

Documentation, Portugal)

Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar)

Xavier Anguera (Telefonica, Spain) TBC

Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University, Japan) TBC

! Zuraida Mohd Don (UPSI, Indonesia) TBC

Contact

Laurent.Besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it

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

 Two updates:

- The list of accepted papers for Speech Prosody 2020 is now available at
https://sp2020.jpn.org/program/

- The deadline for submission of abstracts to TAI 2020 has been extended to May 3.
https://my.eventbuizz.com/event/1st-international-conference-on-tone-and-intonation--tai-/detail/general_information/view/603



As some of you are already aware, a new registration page is open.

https://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sp2020_registration/vp/

Two options are available, full and limited.
A full and unique registration is needed for each paper.
A limited registration is possible only with authors and students.

For detail, please visit the above URL.

Safe life at home,
Nobuaki Minematsu, chair of SP2020

 

Dear SProSIG members,

 

… update on the conference from https://sp2020.jpn.org/registration/ , in case you haven’t seen it already …

 

After careful consideration on the current and world-wide situations of COVID-19 and on uncertainty of the future situations, the organizing committee has made a decision to hold Speech Prosody 2020 as a virtual (online) conference, not to postpone the conference. A new registration page will open soon at the beginning of April.

 

All the authors are requested to submit a 15-min presentation video. The videos will be uploaded on YouTube and YouKu. More detailed information was already sent to authors of accepted papers.

 

Apr. 26 (AoE) Strict deadline to submit a presentation video

Apr. 30 (AoE) Strict deadline for full registration to publish an accepted paper in the proceedings

May 22 (AoE) Strict deadline for general registration

 

 

Nigel Ward, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

CCSB 3.0408,  +1-915-747-6827

nigel@utep.edu    http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/   

 

 

 

 

 

Dear SProSIG members,

 

As previously announced, the next speech prosody conference will be

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

 

http://sp2020.jpn.org

 

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

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

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

 

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

mailing lists.

 

Best wishes,

 

SP2020 chair

Nobuaki MINEMATSU @ UTokyo

office@sp2020.jpn.org

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3-2-3(2020-05-24) The 10th Speech Prosody Conference, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (UPDATE)

 

Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

 

 

 

First, a brief note about SP 2020 in Tokyo: it will likely be a few more days before the  registration page is open and the schedule posted, as the organizers are working out how best to deal with the travel disruptions the virus is causing.  As information becomes available we’ll send it to this list.

 

 

 

In any case, looking ahead to 2022, members of SProSIG with a history of attendance at Speech Prosody conferences are encouraged to submit bids to host Speech Prosody 11.  Bids submitted by April 21 will garner a presentation spot during Speech Prosody in Tokyo.  The final deadline is June 30, 2020, and written bids received by that date will be posted at http://sprosig.org.   The SProSIG membership will then be invited to consider the bids and to vote their preferences.  Bids may include any information that you believe is likely to sway the members, but should contain at least:

 

 

 

- City and Country

 

- General Chair

 

- Organizing Committee Members

 

- Proposed conference dates

 

- Expected registration fee

 

- Sponsoring Organization (university, company, or agency; may be tentative)

 

- Venue (may be tentative)

 

- Access from the closest major airport

 

- Accommodation options

 

 

 

Further information and the bid template are available at http://sprosig.org/about.html.  Please submit bids to Hongwei Ding (hwding@sjtu.edu.cn ) with a cc to Nigel Ward (nigelward@acm.org ).

 

 

 

Martine Grice, Plinio Barbosa, Aoju Chen, Hongwei Ding, Nigel Ward

 

Speech Prosody SIG Officers



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The 10th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from May
24 to 28, 2020 at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

http://sp2020.jpn.org

The conference theme is 'Communicative and Interactive Prosody', but we invite papers
addressing any aspect of the science and technology of speech prosody.

Speech Prosody, the biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG)
of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), is the only recurring
international conference covering all aspects of prosody in spoken language: social,
psychological, linguistic, and technological and so on. Past conferences have been
attended by 300-400 international experts representing a range of disciplines including
linguistics, acoustics, speech synthesis and recognition, cognitive psychology, neuroscience,
speech therapy, language teaching, computer science, electrical engineering, speech and
hearing science and psychology.

 



IMPORTANT DATES:
Sep. 15 Deadline for proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions
Oct. 01 Opening of online paper submission
Oct. 15 Notification of acceptance/rejection for proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions
Dec. 20 Full paper submission deadline
Feb. 21 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
Mar. 06 Deadline to upload camera-ready papers
Mar. 20 Early bird registration deadline
Apr. 30 Standard registration deadline

TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
Phonology and phonetics of prosody
Rhythm and timing
Tone and intonation
Cognitive processing and modeling of prosody
Interaction between segmental and suprasegmental features
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Prosody in language and music
Acquisition of first, second and third language prosody
Prosody in Computer Language Learning systems
Speaking style and personality
Speaking style and communication settings
Prosody in speech recognition and understanding
Prosody in speaker characterization and recognition
Identification & description of prosody for multilingual dialogue systems
Measurements of prosodic parameters
Prosody in audiology and phoniatrics
Forensic voice and language investigation
Prosody of sign language

FOR MORE DETAILS:
Please visit SP10 conference website: http://sp2020.jpn.org
We are seeking proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions.

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3-2-4(2020-07-01) CfP SIGDIAL 2020 CONFERENCE, Boise, Idaho,USA (UPDATED)
*Important information regarding COVID-19:

Dear SIGdial Community,
We wanted to let everyone know our plans with regard to COVID-19. First, we want to reassure everyone that SIGDIAL 2020 will take place in some form, and papers accepted to SIGDIAL will be published. Since SIGDIAL 2020 is co-located with ACL in Seattle, we are coordinating our efforts with them. We are considering the possibility of either a virtual or a postponed conference. We will keep you posted on any updates regarding this decision. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at conference@sigdial.org. Please take care of yourself and each other.

Warmly,
Gabriel Skantze, SIGdial President, in behalf of the SIGDIAL 2020 Organizing Committee   
          
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGDIAL 2020 CONFERENCE
July 1-3, 2020


The 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and  Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2020) will be held on July 1-3, 2020 at the Jack?s Urban Meeting Place (JUMP)  in Boise, Idaho, USA. SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL 2020, which will be held on July 5-10 in Seattle, Washington, USA (https://acl2020.org/). 

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of  cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and  industry researchers. Continuing a series of nineteen successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of  discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.

 

IMPORTANT DATES
  • Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Submission: March 6, 2020
  • Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Notification:  April 26, 2020 
  • Final Paper Submission: May 11, 2020
  • Conference: 1-3 July, 2020


IMPORTANT CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS CONFERENCES

Multiple Submission Policy: SIGDIAL no longer accepts papers that have been submitted to other meetings or journals whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

- Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse  parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event  representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and  style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay  grading, question answering and information retrieval.

- Dialogue Systems: Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems.  Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state tracking and policy  learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual  reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Spoken,  multimodal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications.

- Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on  discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation  tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.

- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics or semantics of  discourse and dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence).

- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology


SUBMISSIONS

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be  accepted as long papers for oral presentation or long papers for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.

- Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text,  figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers? comments.

- Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made  in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative results; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers? comments.

- Demo descriptions should be no longer than four pages including title,  text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page  document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo.

Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials,  such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.

Multiple Submissions
SIGDIAL 2020 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. These restrictions apply only to refereed journals and meetings, not to unrefereed forums or workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Any questions regarding  submissions can be sent to program-chairs[at]sigdial.org.

Blind Review
Building on previous year?s move to anonymous long and short paper  submissions, SIGDIAL 2020 will follow the ACL policies for preserving  the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo  descriptions should include the authors? names and affiliations, and 
self-references are allowed.

Submission Format
All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the  two-column ACL format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL conference (http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip [ acl2020. org/downloads/acl2020-templates. zip ] ). Submissions must  conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in  these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. 

Submission Link and Deadline

Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload a pdf of their paper before the March 6, 2020 deadline. 

https://www.softconf.com/l/sigdial2020/


ADOPTION OF ACL AUTHOR GUIDELINES 

As noted above, SIGDIAL 2020 is adopting the ACL guidelines for  submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers  that do not conform to the following guidelines will be rejected without review. 

Preserving Double Blind Review
The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity  of the double-blind reviewing process and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which  runs from 1 month before the submission deadline up to the date when  your paper is either accepted, rejected or withdrawn.

- You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available  online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand  another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it  summarizes).

- If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online  before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized  version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a  non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask that you do not advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further  compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.

- Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this  does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible.

Citations and Comparison: If you are aware of previous research that  appears sound and is relevant to your work, you should cite it even if  it has not been peer-reviewed, and certainly if it influenced your own work. However, refereed publications take priority over unpublished work reported in preprints. Specifically:

  • You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your  submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted or is not widely  cited).
  • In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed  publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version.

Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than three months before  the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed  comparisons that require additional experimentation or in-depth analysis.

MENTORING
Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational  assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced  mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for  publication.


BEST PAPER AWARDS
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse  science and technology, SIGDIAL 2020 will include best paper awards. All  papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of  interest will select the recipients of the awards.


SIGDIAL 2020 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair:
Olivier Pietquin, Google AI

 

Program Chairs:
Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University

 

Local Chair:
Casey Kennington, Boise State University

 

Sponsorship Chair:
David Vandyke, University of Cambridge

 

Mentoring Chair:
Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull

Publication Chair:
Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany

SIGdial President:
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

 

SIGdial Vice President:
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

 

SIGdial Secretary:
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA

 

SIGdial Treasurer:
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President Emeritus:
Jason Williams, Apple, USA
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3-2-5(2020-07-01) CfSS SIGDIAL 2020, Boise, Idaho, USA

SIGDIAL 2020

1‐3 July,  USA

2nd Call for Special Sessions

 

The 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and  Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2020) will be held on July 1-3, 2020 at the Jack’s Urban Meeting Place (JUMP)  in Boise, Idaho, USA (http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference21/). Note the revised conference dates from previous announcement to avoid overlap with ICML 2020 and IJCAI 2020.  SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL 2020, which will  be held on July 5-10 in Seattle, Washington, USA (https://acl2020.org/). 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

           Special Session Submission Deadline: January 15, 2020

            Special Session Notification: January 31, 2020

To accommodate the conference date change, we moved the submission deadline slightly by 2 days. So please note the deadline of January 15, 2020

 

The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Role of Discourse in  NLP Applications, Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End‐to‐end systems. 

A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session.

Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions.

The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by the special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself, taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.

Submissions

Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session).

These proposals should be sent to conference@sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co‐chairs.

 

Links

Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings.

http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/deep/

https://robodial.github.io/

https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm

http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/



SIGDIAL 2020 Organizing Committee

 

General chair: Olivier Pietquin (Google Brain, France)

Co-program chairs: Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA)

                                Yun-Nung Vivian Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Local chair: Casey Kennington (Boise State University, USA)

Sponsorship chair: David Vandyke (Apple, UK)

Mentoring chair: Nina Dethlefs (University of Hull, UK)

Publication chair: Stefan Ultes (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development, Germany)

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3-2-6(2020-08-16) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderbedrg, Denmark (UPDATE)

COVID 19: Till now the conference is maintained at the same place and date but we depend on Danish Government decisions.

                      

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

'Tone and Intonation in a globalized, digital world'

Sonderborg, Denmark

16-20 August 2020

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

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

VENUE

Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark (https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/centre+for+industrial+elektronics). The SDU is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

- Mariapaola D'Imperio (Rutgers University, USA)

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

- Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne, Germany)

- Hans Basböll (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)


IMPORTANT DATES:

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

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

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

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

Oliver Niebuhr

Associate Professor of Communication & Innovation

SDU Electrical Engineering

CIE - Centre for Industrial Electronics

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3-2-7(2020-09-21) 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020), Madrid, Spain (UPDATED)

The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IPTC-UPM) in collaboration with Universidad de Granada are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020) to be held in Madrid, Spain from September 21-23, 2020. We are now inviting paper submissions especially on the following topics:

  • Engagement and emotion in human-robot interactions
  • Digital resources for interactive applications
  • Multi-modal and machine learning methods
  • Companions, personal assistants and dialogue systems
  • Proactive and anticipatory interactions
  • Educational and healthcare robot applications
  • Dialogue systems and reasoning
  • Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems
  • Multi-lingual dialogue systems
  • Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages
  • Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken dialog systems

However, submissions are not limited to these topics, therefore we are encouraging to submit papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions:

Categories of submissions:

  • Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-14 pages, including references.
  • Short Research Papers should be in the range of 4-8 pages, including references. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts.
  • Position Papers deal with novel research ideas or view-points which describe trends or fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion and are not much researched. They should be 2 pages long, excluding references.
  • Demo Submissions ? System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.

As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).

 

Submission:

Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the paper submission system (EasyChair).

IWSDS 2020 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:

  • The paper is substantially original and will not be submitted to any other conference or journal during the IWSDS 2020 review period.
  • The paper does not contain any plagiarism.
  • The paper will be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule published. Any paper accepted in the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official conference proceedings.

NOTE: All submitted papers are subject to a single-blind review. The change in page limits is to accommodate responses to reviewer comments only.

 

Special Sessions and Workshops

In addition, IWSDS will host three special sessions and one workshop. Authors can submit specific papers to any of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. For additional information about these special sessions and workshop please check the Special Session link:

 

Templates for formatting are available below:

 

Important dates

Paper submission deadline:  January 10, 2020 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT -8)

Paper notification deadline: February 7, 2020

Camera ready papers due: February 21, 2020

Early bird registration ends: July 17, 2020

Twitter: @iwsds2020 
Supported by: SigDial and Colips
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3-2-8(2020-09-21) CALL for Workshops and Special Sessions for IWSDS 2020, Madrid, Spain (UPDATED)

CALL for Workshops and Special Sessions for IWSDS 2020

Place: Madrid, Spain
Dates: September 21-23, 2020

 

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020 invites proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions in any topic related to the main conference theme: Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade.

Authors are requested to submit PDF files (maximum three pages) of their proposal to iwsds2020@gmail.com

The proposal must indicate:

  1. Whether the proposal is for a workshop or for a special session:Workshop / Special Session title
    • Workshops are half day events collocated either before or after the IWSDS 2020 main program. Registration to workshops is not included with IWSDS registration. Participants only interested in attending the workshops do not need to register for IWSDS.
    • Special sessions are 90-minute sessions that are part of the IWSDS main program. Registration to special sessions is included with IWSDS registration.
  2. Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the organizers
  3. A description of the workshop / Special Session title including:Tentative program committee members (only for workshop proposals)
    • objectives
    • topics of interest
    • justification
    • expected number of submissions
    • tentative program
  4. Special audio-visual, internet, computer or equipment requirements
  5. Whether the workshop / special session have been run before:Any additional information that might be relevant for the proposal evaluation
    • where and when
    • number of participants

Proposal submission deadline: September 13, 2019

Proposal acceptance notification: September 17, 2019

 

Important notice:
  1. Based on the volume of submissions and other logistic constraints accepted workshops can be converted into special sessions or vice versa
  2. IWSDS 2020 organization cannot provide any kind of financial support to workshop and special session organizers. IWSDS 2020 organization will only cover expenses related to venue, audio-visual equipment and coffee breaks for workshops and special sessions.
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3-2-9(2020-09-21) CfW and SS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020, Madrid Spain (UPDATED)

The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IPTC-UPM) in collaboration with Universidad de Granada are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020) to be held in Madrid, Spain from September21-23, 2020. We are now inviting paper submissions especially on the following topics:

List of Topics

  • Engagement and emotion in human-robot interactions
  • Digital resources for interactive applications
  • Multi-modal and machine learning methods
  • Companions, personal assistants and dialogue systems
  • Proactive and anticipatory interactions
  • Educational and healthcare robot applications
  • Dialogue systems and reasoning
  • Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems
  • Multi-lingual dialogue systems
  • Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages
  • Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken dialog systems

However, submissions are not limited to these topics, therefore we are encouraging to submit papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. 

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions:

  • Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-14 pages, including references.
  • Short Research Papers should be in the range of 4-8 pages, including references. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts.
  • Position Papers deal with novel research ideas or view-points which describe trends or fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion and are not much researched. They should be 2 pages long, excluding references.
  • Demo Submissions ? System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.

Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the paper submission system (EasyChair).

IWSDS 2020 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:

  • The paper is substantially original and will not be submitted to any other conference or journal during the IWSDS 2020 review period.
  • The paper does not contain any plagiarism.
  • The paper will be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule published. Any paper accepted in the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official conference proceedings.

NOTE: All submitted papers are subject to a single-blind review. The change in page limits is to accommodate responses to reviewer comments only.

As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).

Special Sessions and Workshops

In addition, IWSDS will host three special sessions and one workshop. Authors can submit specific papers to any of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. For additional information about these special sessions and workshop please check the Special Session link:

Templates for formatting are available below:

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline:  January 10, 2020 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT -8)
  • Paper notification deadline: February 7, 2020
  • Camera ready papers due: February 21, 2020
  • Early bird registration ends: July 17, 2020
  • Website: https://www.iwsds.tech 
  • Twitter: @iwsds2020 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to iwsds2020@gmail.com

Sponsors

IWSDS2020 is sponsored by Universidd Politécnica de Madrid, SigDial, and Colips.

Committees

Organizing Committee

  • General Chair: Luis Fernando D'Haro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  • General Chair: Zoraida Callejas, Universidad de Granada, Spain
  • Local Organiser: David Griol, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  • Publicity: Marta Ruiz Costa-Jussà, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Sponsorship Chair: José Quesada, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
  • Special Sessions Chair: María Inés Torres (UPV/EHU), Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
  • Student Organizer: Manuel Gil Martín, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
  • Social Activities: Ricardo Kleinlein, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
  • Webmaster: Kheng Hui Yeoh, Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore)

Steering Committee

  • Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  • Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sorbonne 4, France
  • Rafael E. Banchs, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
  • Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Kore University of Enna, Italy

Senior Steering Committee

  • Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
  • Kristiina Jokinen, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan
  • Haizhou Li, national University of Singapore, Singapore
  • David Traum, University of Southern California, USA
  • Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
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3-2-10The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report.

The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All):  
Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide', which took  
place on December 4-6, 2019 at Unesco Headquarters in Paris in the  
framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019),  
was sponsored by ISCA. 
 
The rationale of the conference was: 'How to improve the present  
situation where only 2% of the languages spoken over the world benefit  
from Language Technologies' ? 
 
It allowed for fruitful exchanges between Language Technology providers  
and Language Policy makers, as it can be seen on Twitter:  
https://twitter.com/hashtag/lt4all 
 
The conference oral sessions were webcasted and can be replayed, in  
English and French: see https://en.unesco.org/LT4All 
  

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3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2020-04-22) ESANN 2020: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges,Belgium (UPDATED)

The ESANN 2020 conference is postponed to 2-3-4 October 2020.  Speakers and already registered participants will be contacted



ESANN 2020: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,

Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning

Bruges, Belgium, 22-23-24 April 2020

https://www.esann.org/.

 

The preliminary program of the ESANN 2020 conference is now available: https://www.esann.org/.

 

For 28 years the ESANN conference has become a major event in the field of neural computation and machine learning. ESANN is a selective conference focusing on fundamental aspects of artificial neural networks, machine learning, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered.

 

ESANN 2020 will include the following sessions:

- Adversarial learning, robustness and fairness

- Image and signal processing, matrix computations and topological data

- Deep learning and graph neural networks

- Machine Learning Applied to Computer Networks

- Quantum Machine Learning

- Recurrent networks and reinforcement learning

- Unsupervised learning

- Feature selection and dimensionality reduction

- Statistical learning and optimization

- Tensor Decompositions in Deep Learning

- Image and text analysis

- Learning from partially labeled data

- Machine learning in the pharmaceutical industry

- Frontiers in Reservoir Computing

- Language processing in the era of deep learning

- Supervised learning

 

 

The program of the conference can be found at https://www.esann.org/, together with practical information about the conference venue, registration, etc.

 

The conference will be held in Bruges (also called 'Venice of the North'), one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Bruges can be reached by train from Brussels in less than one hour (frequent trains). Designated as the 'Venice of the North', the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its centre, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum.

 

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ESANN - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,

Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning

https://www.esann.org/

 

* For submissions of papers, reviews, registrations:

Michel Verleysen

Univ. cath. de Louvain - Machine Learning Group

3, pl. du Levant (L5.03.02) - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium

tel: +32 10 47 25 51 - fax: + 32 10 47 25 98

mailto:esann@uclouvain.be

 

* Conference secretariat

d-side conference services

24 av. L. Mommaerts - B-1140 Evere - Belgium

tel: + 32 2 730 06 11 - fax: + 32 2 730 06 00

mailto:esann@uclouvain.be

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3-3-2(2020-05-04) 6th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, Barcelona, Spain (UPDATED)

 In response to the COVID-19 situation, the CHiME-2020 physical workshop in Barcelona has been cancelled and will be replaced with a virtual workshop online event. (See the full announcement on https://chimechallenge.github.io/chime2020-workshop). Details of the virtual event are currently being worked out and will announced on this site and via the CHiME forum. ----------------------------------------------
                       Announcement
    6th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
                  Launch Date: December 2019
               Workshop: Barcelona, May 4, 2020

       htttp://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge
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Dear colleague,

It gives us great pleasure to announce the 6th CHiME Speech Separation
and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-6).

The new challenge will revisit the CHiME-5 24-microphone dinner party
conversational speech recognition scenario by:
- providing an accurate array synchronization script,
- introducing a new multichannel diarization track in the line of the
DIHARD-II challenge
- offering upgraded, state-of-the-art diarization, enhancement, and
recognition baselines.

FORUM

If you are considering participating, please join the CHiME Google
group for discussions and further announcements.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chime5/join

DATASET LICENCE

Participants will need to acquire a licence for the CHiME-5 dataset.
Licence applications are typically processed within 48 hours. Apply
now at:
https://licensing.sheffield.ac.uk/i/data/chime5.html
Non-commercial license requests are processed within 2-3 days once
they have been approved by an authorized representative of your
institution. Commercial licenses are also available for companies and
are required for challenge participation. Note that licenses acquired
before Dec 31, 2018, are no longer valid.

IMPORTANT DATES

Dec, 2019 ? Release of data and baseline systems
10th April, 2020 ? System submission
4th May, 2020 ? CHiME-6 Workshop (satellite of ICASSP 2020) and
release of results

ORGANISERS

Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Michael Mandel, CUNY, USA
Jon Barker, University of Sheffield, UK
Emmanuel Vincent, Inria, France

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3-3-3(2020-05-04) ICASSP 2020, Barcelona, Spain (UPDATED)

Announcing ICASSP 2020 as a Fully Virtual Conference

The safety and well-being of our participants is of paramount importance to IEEE Signal Processing Society. On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic. After careful consideration and in light of the global health emergency and pervasive travel restrictions, IEEE Signal Processing Society has made the difficult decision to convert ICASSP 2020 to a fully virtual conference.We were looking forward to seeing everyone at ICASSP in Barcelona, but we are excited for the opportunity to innovate by creating an engaging virtual conference that will be rewarding for both presenters and attendees.Immediate guidance for authors, and questions about registration and participation are given below. We are actively discussing several options, with full details to be announced soon.Information for Authors of Accepted PapersBoth oral and poster papers will be presented by the author creating a 15-minute pre-recorded video within the virtual conference. This video will be required for each paper to be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. Authors will also be required to be available for a Q&A session on their paper. Authors that do not meet both these requirements will be considered 'no-shows.'We will provide more detailed instructions soon, particularly on how to record your presentations. In the interim, please do begin preparing your talk and associated visuals. Each should be timed carefully to not exceed the time allocation.Virtual Conference DatesThe conference will still take place between May 4-8, as these are the dates people have allocated to attend the conference. We expect most participants will still commit their time during this window to participate in the conference, and have discussions with fellow researchers around the world.Travel CancellationPlease review any previously confirmed travel, and proceed with contacting those providers for cancellation policies. You may want to consider the following advice:Flights:Many airlines are waiving the change fee on Non-Refundable Fare tickets provided you bought a ticket within a certain time window. Many airlines are also offering refunds if travel is cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please check whether your preferred airline has enacted such policies. Please read carefully the fine print in any travel insurance you may have purchased as most plans will not cover cancellation of travel as a precautionary measure.

Now Accepting Papers for ICASSP 2020

 

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing heads to Barcelona, Spain in May, and the conference paper submission site is now live!

Submit your paper to ICASSP 2020
ICASSP 2020 welcomes papers from a broad range of signal processing topics, all of which can be found in the call for papers on the conference website. Published papers will benefit from increased exposure through IEEE Xplore® Open Preview, granting the greater research community early, free access to the conference proceedings for one month before the conference! Deadline to submit your paper is Monday, 21 October 2019.
 

Call for Special Sessions

 
Want to highlight a new or emerging topic to your signal processing community? Consider organizing a special session! The ICASSP 2020 technical program will highlight a series of Special Sessions to complement the regular program. Head to the conference website for more information, but act fast – deadline to propose is on Monday, 12 August!
 

First Plenary Speaker Announced


We’re proud to announce the first of our esteemed plenary speakers, Yoshua Bengio, presenting “Deep Representation Learning.” More speakers to be announced soon!

“Deep Representation Learning”
A crucial ingredient of deep learning is that of learning representations, more specifically with the objective to discover higher-level representations which capture and disentangle explanatory factors. This is a very ambitious goal and current state-of-the-art techniques still fall short, often capturing mostly superficial features of the data, which leaves them vulnerable to adversarial attacks and insufficient out-of-distribution robustness. This talk will review these original objectives, supervised and unsupervised approaches, and outline research ideas towards better representation learning.

 
We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona!
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3-3-4(2020-05-11) Industry Track @ LREC 2020, Marseilles France

Call for Paper:  Industry Track @ LREC 2020

LREC Industry Track will take place within LREC 2020 in Marseille, France, May 11-16, 2020
 
The European Language Resource Association (ELRA, www.elra.info) is glad to announce the 12th edition of LREC, organized with the support of international associations and a number of industrial partners and supporters.

Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT) with over 1200 attendees from all over the world. LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.

For the second time and as a hot LREC 2020 topic, an industry track will take place during the main conference (May 13-15, 2020).

 
Track Description

Human language technologies have become increasingly important parts of our lives. These technologies have emerged from decades of collaborations between academic and industrial research organizations often with financial and research support from the public sector; collaborations are made possible by the unique strengths of both communities and a set of shared practices (algorithms, evaluation methods, datasets, and the like). But despite this, there are substantial differences between research in academic and industrial settings.
In contrast to academic research: industrial speech and language technologies may pose unique challenges of scale; language resources from industry may demand different algorithms or evaluation methodologies than in academic settings; and the practices of academic and industrial settings may converge on distinct methods for the same problem; industrial systems and practices may pose ethical challenges not necessarily present in academic settings.

 
Topics of Interest

Topics include but not limited to:

1. Industrial systems
For this topic, we welcome submissions which discuss industrial systems. They may describe technical innovations which are enabled by the industrial setting, or they may describe the implementation of a deployed industrial system. We also welcome submissions which discuss failures to replicate 'state-of-the-art' performance when provided with the affordances of an industrial setting. Finally, we also welcome opinion papers which discuss similarities and differences between academic and industrial practices for system development and evaluation, or which consider ethical issues specific to systems deployed at industry scale.

2. Tools and platforms for data collection
Data collected in an industry setting may pose specific technical, legal, and ethical challenges not normally encountered in academic settings. The infrastructure within which developers in industry operate can provide tremendous advantages, but also unique challenges. There can be significant differences in the context of a tool's operator or a data platform's customer in industry vs. academic applications. Platforms may be globally distributed, and the scale itself of the data and of the deployment of industry technologies can add significant complexity, which may demand innovative approaches. Industry developers may also face special problems in defining users, their orientation to their tasks, and what constitutes a successful interaction from the standpoint of the user and of data acquisition efforts. We welcome submissions which discuss industrial tools and platforms used to collect data.

3. Human computation in industry
Industrial language technologies depend on machine learning methods, which in turn require large, diverse collections of labeled data collected from humans for rapid iterative development and refinement. We welcome submissions which discuss issues in experimental design for human computation, the challenges of quality, diversity, and representation in crowdsourcing, and ethical issues posed by data collection via crowdsourcing and outsourcing.

4. Less-resourced languages
One goal for this year's LREC is to strengthen connections with the Mediterranean speech and language communities, in particular for the less resourced languages. These cover a large number of languages, with associated varieties (European languages, varieties of Semitic languages, indigenous languages, spoken-only languages, etc.). Therefore we welcome submissions which discuss industrial resources and technologies specific to the challenges posed by such languages.

5. Spoken languages and dialects
We are particularly interested in work which describes industrial resources and technologies for spoken languages, non-standard dialects, and therefore we welcome submissions which focus on these topics, especially those submissions which contrast spoken and written language?or standard and non-standard
language?resources and technologies.
 
Submission

We encourage submissions of papers for oral or poster presentation. Papers should follow the LREC stylesheet. The working language of the track is English. Submitted papers must be written and delivered in English and be up to 4 pages in length.

Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/IndustryTrack/.


Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!

Describing your language resources (LRs) in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). This LREC feature is available to submissions within this track and highly recommended. To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org ), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each LR. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.

 
Important Dates/Deadlines

? Paper submission: 28 February 2020
? Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020
? Camera-ready paper: 03 April 2020
? Track Date: to be defined (13-15 May 2020)


Organizing Committee
? tbd

Contact: Khalid Choukri at choukri@elda.org

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3-3-5(2020-05-11) 13th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA (BUCC), Marseille, France
***** Upcoming deadlines *****
 
 
New submission deadline for regular papers: March 4, 2020
Participation in closed track of shared task: March 5, 2020
Participation in open track of shared task: March 15, 2020
Shared task system description papers: March 15, 2020
 
 
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13th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA (BUCC)
 
Co-located with LREC 2020, Pharo Palace, Marseille, France
 
Monday, May 11, 2020
 
SHARED TASK: Bilingual dictionary induction from comparable corpora
 
Website workshop: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2020/
 
Website shared task: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2020/bucc2020-task.html
 
Invited speaker: Holger Schwenk, Facebook AI Research
 
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MOTIVATION
 
In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or several languages that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.
 
 
TOPICS
 
We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable corpora, including but not limited to the following:
 
Building Comparable Corpora:
 
* Human translations
* Automatic and semi-automatic methods
* Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web
* Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
* Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
* Rare and minority languages, across language families
* Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora
 
Applications of comparable corpora:
 
* Human translations
* Language learning
* Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
* Bilingual projections
* Machine translation
* Writing assistance
* Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora
 
Mining from Comparable Corpora:
 
* Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora
* Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
* Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, and named entities from comparable corpora
* Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora
* Cross-language distributional semantics
 
 
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
 
Please follow the style sheet and templates provided for the main conference at http://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/
Further details on the submission procedure are provided on the workshop website.
 
Papers should be submitted as a PDF file. Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages excluding references.
Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors? identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop organizers.
 
For further information see the BUCC 2018 website: http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2020/
 
In case of questions, please contact Reinhard Rapp: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES
 
4 March 2020: New paper submission deadline
12 March 2020: Notification of acceptance
March 12, 2020: Early bird registration (reduced rates)
2 April, 2020: Camera ready final papers
May 11, 2020: Workshop date
 
 
SHARED TASK: BILINGUAL DICTIONARY INDUCTION FROM COMPARABLE CORPORA
 
In the framework of machine translation, the extraction of bilingual dictionaries from parallel corpora has been conducted very successfully. On the other hand, human second language acquisition appears not to be based on parallel data. This means that there must be a way of acquiring and relating lexical knowledge in two or more languages without the use of parallel data.
 
It has been suggested that it might also be possible to extract multilingual lexical knowledge from comparable rather than from parallel corpora. From a theoretical perspective, this suggestion might lead to advances in understanding human second language acquisition. From a practical perspective, as comparable corpora are available in much larger quantities than parallel corpora, this approach might help in relieving the data acqisition bottleneck which tends to be especially severe when dealing with language pairs involving low resource languages.
 
A well established practical task to approach this topic is bilingual lexicon induction from comparable corpora, which is  in the focus of the current shared task. Typically, its aim is to extract word translations such as the following from comparable corpora:
 
English / French
 
baby bébé
baby poupon
bath bain
bed lit
bed plumard
convenience commodité
doctor médecin
doctor docteur
eagle aigle
mountain montagne
nervous nerveux
work travail
 
Quite a few research groups have been working on this problem using a wide variety of approaches. However, as there is no standard way to measure the performance of the systems, the published results are not comparable and the pros and cons of the various approaches are not clear.
 
The shared task aims at solving these problems by organizing a fair competition between systems. This is accomplished by providing corpora and evaluation datasets for a number of language pairs involving Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish and by comparing the results using a common evaluation framework. Other language pairs might be added on request.
 
Any submission to the shared task is expected to be accompanied by a system description paper (4 to 6 pages plus references). This will be accepted for publication in the workshop proceedings after a basic quality check.
 
Note that participation in the workshop, although we strongly encourage it, is not mandatory for participating in the shared task.
 
The shared task is divided in two tracks: One where the corpora provided by the organizers have to be used and another where participants can use their own data.
 
Further information on the shared task as well as the data sets is provided on the shared task website at https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2020/bucc2020-task.html
 
 
SHARED TASK SCHEDULE (see website for updates)
 
Any time: Expression of interest (not compulsory)
January 15, 2020: Release of shared task training sets
16 February 2020: Release of shared task test sets
5 March 2020: Submission deadline for shared task results (closed track)
15 March 2020: Submission of shared task system description papers
May 11, 2020: Workshop taking place at LREC 2020
 
For further information concerning the shared task see https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2020/ or contact reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de
 
 
WORKSHOP AND SHARED TASK ORGANIZERS
 
Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany), Chair and contact person: reinhardrapp (at] gmx (dot) de
Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay,CNRS, Orsay, France)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
 
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
 
Ahmet Aker (University of Sheffield, UK)
Ebrahim Ansari (Institue for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran)
Hervé Déjean (Naver Labs Europe, Grenoble, France)
Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain)
Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
Kyo Kageura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan)
Sheervin Malmasi (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., USA)
Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France)
Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., USA)
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA)
Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, USA)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France)
 
 
INFORMATION FROM THE LREC ORGANIZERS
 
Please make sure that your papers take into account the following information about the LRE Map, the 'Share your LRs!' initiative and the ISLRN number:
 
Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
 
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
 
 
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3-3-6(2020-05-11) LREC 2020, 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -Marseille, France, (UPDATE)

 

All registered participants who paid full fees before LREC Registration was suspended can now apply for refund by filling out the Refund Form by April 30, 2020.

 

In compliance with the new Refund policy , refund options are as follows:

 

 

 

1. I hold my registration: If the new dates for LREC (to be announced) do not suit me, I can decide to donate or to claim refund within one month after the announcement. In this case, the refund option will open again for one month even after the April 30, 2020 deadline.

 

 

 

2. I donate: Donations to ELRA are most welcome by the association to cope with the current situation and I decide just not to claim refund of my registration fees.

 

 

 

3. I claim refund of main conference fees: my main conference fees are partially refunded, only the organization costs incurred so far are retained : these costs are the same amount of the reduced fees for authors. My paper(s) accepted to the Main conference will be published in the LREC 2020 Proceedings.

 

 

 

4. I claim refund of my workshop/tutorial fees: my workshop and/or tutorial fees are fully refunded.

 

 

 

Please note that:

 

 

 

  • All papers accepted to the main conference with one author registered with at least reduced fees (after having claimed partial refund or not) will be included in the LREC 2020 proceedings.
  • All papers accepted to the workshops will be included in the corresponding workshop proceedings.
  • Membership fees are not refundable.
  • All refunds will be processed after April 30, 2020.

 

 

 

All refunds will be applied to the original method of payment (credit card, bank transfer). For payment by purchase order, we will be in contact with the institutions.

 

 

 

Requests submitted via email will NOT be processed. Please use the form.

 

 

 

All questions should be sent to registration@elda.org

DEADLINE EXTENSION

March 13, 2020 (23:59 GMT+1) is the new deadline for submitting your final paper(s) to the Main conference.


Submit your LREC paper(s) by March 13, 2020:  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/main/

Register online: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/lrec2020-registration/

March 19, 2020 (17:00 GMT+1) is the new deadline for registering to LREC 2020 at early-bird rate

Book a hotel room for the conference & tours: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/conference-venue/accommodation-lrec2020/

Contact us: lrec@lrec-conf.org (general matters) 

- registration@lrec-conf.org (registration)
 www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2020
Follow us on Twitter: @LREC2020


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LREC 2020, 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -
Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
11-16 May 2020

Main Conference: 13-14-15 May 2020
Workshops and Tutorials: 11-12 & 16 May 2020

Conference web site: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/
Twitter: @LREC2020


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 12th edition of LREC, organised with the support of national and international organisations among which AFCP, AILC, ATALA, CLARIN, ILCB, LDC, ...

CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy issues as well as to scientific/technological and organisational ones.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LT) and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data

  •     Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
  •     Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
  •     Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
  •     Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
  •     LRs and Semantic Web (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.)
  •     LRs and Crowdsourcing
  •     Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up


Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications

  •     Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
  •     LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
  •     Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
  •     Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
  •     Industrial LRs requirements
  •     User needs, LT for accessibility


LRs in the age of deep neural networks

  •     Semi-supervised, weakly-supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches
  •     Representation Learning for language
  •     Techniques for (semi-)automatically generating training data
  •     Cross-language NLP & Cross-domain NLP with reduction of human effort


Issues in LT evaluation

  •     LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
  •     Validation and quality assurance of LRs
  •     Benchmarking of systems and products
  •     Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
  •     User satisfaction evaluation


General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation

  •     International and national activities, projects and initiatives
  •     Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
  •     Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
  •     Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
  •     Replicability and reproducibility issues
  •     Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues


LREC 2020 HOT TOPICS

Less Resourced and Endangered Languages
Special attention will be devoted to less resourced and endangered languages: it is expected that LREC2020 makes room to activities carried out to support indigenous languages, building on the United Nations/UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages being celebrated in 2019.

Language and the Brain
Studying the neural basis of language helps in understanding both language processing and the brain mechanisms. LREC2020 will encourage all submissions addressing language and the brain. Among possible subtopics, submissions could focus on new datasets and resources (neuroimaging, controlled corpora, lexicons, etc.), methods aiming at new multimodal experimentations (e.g. EEG in virtual reality), language processing applications (e.g. brain decoding, brain-computer interfaces), etc.

Machine/Deep Learning
The availability of LRs is a key element of the development of high quality Human Language Technologies based on AI/Machine Learning approaches, and LREC is the best place to get access to this data, in many languages and for many domains. In addition to submissions addressing ML issues based on large quantities of data, those applied to languages for which only small, noisy or sparse data exist are also most welcomed.

DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRs!
In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map ? now a normal step in the submission procedure of many conferences ? LREC recognises the importance of sharing resources and making them available to the community.
When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special LREC repository set up by ELRA. Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before the conference, to be re-used, compared, analysed. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize.
We will also organise an Industrial Track and a Reproducibility Track: for these there will be separate Calls.

SUBMISSIONS AND DATES

Submission of oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 25 November 2019

    LREC2020 asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed) , which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet which will be available on the conference website. Papers must be submitted through the LREC2020 submission platform (it uses START from Softconf) and will be peer-reviewed.

Submission of proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels: 24 October 2019

    Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC website and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.

PROCEEDINGS

The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format.

There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered.

LREC 2010, LREC 2012 and LREC 2014 Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. The other editions are being processed.

LREC Proceedings are indexed in Scopus (Elsevier).

Substantially extended versions of papers selected by reviewers as the most appropriate will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal published by Springer (a SCI-indexed journal).

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Frédéric Béchet ? LIS-CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille- France
Philippe Blache ? CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, Marseille- France
Christopher Cieri ? Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA
Khalid Choukri ? ELRA, Paris - France
Thierry Declerck ? DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Hitoshi Isahara ? Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi - Japan
Bente Maegaard ? Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Denmark
Joseph Mariani ? LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay - France
Asuncion Moreno ? Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain
Jan Odijk ? UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands
Stelios Piperidis ? Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece

CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Sara Goggi ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy
Hélène Mazo ? ELDA/ELRA, Paris - France


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3-3-7(2020-05-13) REPROLANG (part of LREC Conference), Marseille , France

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


REPROLANG 2020
Shared Task on the Reproduction of Research Results in Science and Technology of Language
(part of LREC 2020 conference)
Marseille, France
May 13-15, 2020
http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/lrec-reproduction


We are very pleased to announce REPROLANG 2020, the Shared Task on the Reproduction of
Research Results in Science and Technology of Language, organized by ELRA - European
Language Resources Association with the technical support of CLARIN - European Research
Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology, as part of the LREC 2020 conference.

BACKGROUND

Scientific knowledge is grounded on falsifiable predictions and thus its credibility and
raison d?être relies on the possibility of repeating experiments and getting similar
results as originally
obtained and reported. In many young scientific areas, including ours, acknowledgement
and promotion of the reproduction of research results need very much to be increased.

For this reason, a special track on reproducibility is included into the LREC 2020
conference regular program (side by side with other sessions on other topics) for papers
on reproduction of research results, and the present specific community-wide shared task
is launched to elicit and motivate the spread of scientific work on reproduction. This
initiative builds on the previous pioneer LREC workshops on reproducibility 4REAL 2016
and 4REAL 2018.


SHARED TASK

The shared task is of a new type: it is partly similar to the usual competitive shared
tasks --- in the sense that all participants share a common goal; but it is partly
different to previous shared tasks --- in the sense that its primary focus is on seeking
support and confirmation of previous results, rather than on overcoming those previous
results with superior ones. Thus instead of a competitive shared task, with each
participant struggling for an individual top system that scores as far as possible from a
rough baseline, this will be a cooperative shared task, with participants struggling for
systems that reproduce as close as possible an original complex research experiment and
thus eventually reinforcing the level of reliability on its results by means of their
eventually convergent outcomes. Concomitantly, like with competitive shared tasks, in the
process of participating in the collaborative shared task, new ideas for improvement and
new advances beyond the reproduced results find here an excellent ground to be ignited.

We invite researchers to reproduce the results of a selected set of articles, which have
been offered by the respective authors with their consent to be used for this shared
task. Papers submitted for this task are expected to report on reproduction findings, to
document how the results of the original paper were reproduced, to discuss
reproducibility challenges, to inform on time, space or data requirements found
concerning training and testing, to ponder on lessons learned, to elaborate on
recommendations for best practices, etc.
Submissions that in addition to the reproduction exercise, report also on results of the
replication of the selected tasks with other languages, domains, data sets, models,
methods, algorithms, downstream tasks, etc. are also encouraged. These should permit to
gain insight also into the robustness of the replicated approaches, their learning curves
and potential of incremental performance, their capacity of generalization, their
transferability across experimental circumstances and into eventual real-life usage
scenarios, their suitability to support further progress, etc.


PUBLICATION

LREC conferences have one of the top h5-index scores of research impact among the world
class venues for research on Human Language Technology.

Accepted papers for the shared task will be published in the Proceedings of the LREC 2020
main conference. LREC Proceedings are freely available from ELRA and ACL Anthology. They
are indexed in Scopus (Elsevier) and in DBLP. LREC 2010, LREC 2012 and LREC 2014
Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index
(the other editions are being processed).

Substantially extended versions of papers selected by reviewers as the most appropriate
will be considered for publication in special issues of the Language Resources and
Evaluation Journal published by Springer (a SCI-indexed journal).


IMPORTANT DATES

November 25, 2019: deadline for paper submission (aligned with LREC 2020)
November 27: deadline for projects in gitlab.com to go public
February 14, 2020: notification of acceptance
May 11-16: LREC conference takes place


SELECTED TASKS

The Selection Committee has selected a broad range of papers and tasks.

Chapter A: Lexical processing

Task A.1: Cross-lingual word embeddings

Artetxe, Mikel, Gorka Labaka, and Eneko Agirre. 2018. ?A robust self-learning method for
fully unsupervised cross-lingual mappings of word embeddings?. In Proceedings of the 56th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 789?798.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1073
Major reproduction comparables: Accuracy scores (tables 1 to 4).

Task A.2: Named entity embeddings

Newman-Griffis, Denis, Albert M Lai, and Eric Fosler-Lussier. 2018. ?Jointly Embedding
Entities and Text with Distant Supervision?. In Proceedings of The Third Workshop on
Representation Learning for NLP, pp. 195?206.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-3026
Major reproduction comparables: Spearman?s ? scores for semantic similarity predictions
(tables 3 and 4), and accuracy scores (table 6).

Chapter B: Sentence processing

Task B.1: POS tagging

Bohnet, Bernd, Ryan McDonald, Gonçalo Simões, Daniel Andor, Emily Pitler, and Joshua
Maynez. 2018. ?Morphosyntactic Tagging with a Meta-BiLSTM Model over Context Sensitive
Token Encodings?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 2642?2652.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1246
Major reproduction comparables: f-score values (tables 2 to 8).

Task B.2: Sentence semantic relatedness

Gupta, Amulya, and Zhu Zhang. 2018. ?To Attend or not to Attend: A Case Study on
Syntactic Structures for Semantic Relatedness?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 2116?2125.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1197
Major reproduction comparables: Pearson?s r and Spearman?s ? scores for the semantic
relatedness
(table 1), and f-score values for paraphrase detection (table 2).

Chapter C: Text processing

Task C.1: Relation extraction and classification

Rotsztejn, Jonathan, Nora Hollenstein, and Ce Zhang. 2018. ?ETH-DS3Lab at SemEval-2018
Task 7: Effectively Combining Recurrent and Convolutional Neural Networks for Relation
Classification and Extraction?. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on
Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2018), pp. 689?696.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/S18-1112
Major reproduction comparables: precision, recall and f-score values (tables 3 and 4).

Task C.2: Privacy preserving representation

Li, Yitong, Timothy Baldwin, and Trevor Cohn. 2018. ?Towards Robust and
Privacy-preserving Text Representations?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 25-30.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-2005
Major reproduction comparables: POS accuracy scores (tables 1 and 2), and sentiment
analysis
f-score scores (table 3).

Task C.3: Language modelling

Howard, Jeremy, and Sebastian Ruder. 2018. ?Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text
Classification?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 328?339.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-1031
Major reproduction comparables: Error rate (%) scores in sentiment analysis and question
classification tasks (tables 2 and 3).

Chapter D: Applications

Task D.1: Text simplification

Nisioi, Sergiu, Sanja Stajner, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, and Liviu P. Dinu. 2017.
?Exploring Neural Text Simplification Models?. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017), pp. 85-91.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P17/P17-2014.pdf
Major reproduction comparables: Averaged human evaluation scores, by 3 evaluators,
in 1 to 5 and -2 to +2 scales (table 2).

Task D.2: Language proficiency scoring

Vajjala, Sowmya, and Taraka Rama. 2018. ?Experiments with Universal CEFR classifications?.
In Proceedings of Thirteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications, pp. 147?153.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-0515
Major reproduction comparables: f-score values (tables 2, 3 and 4).

Task D.3: Neural machine translation

Vanmassenhove, Eva, and Andy Way. 2018. ?SuperNMT: Neural Machine Translation with
Semantic Supersenses and Syntactic Supertags?. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018), pp. 67?73.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P18-3010
Major reproduction comparables: BLEU scores (tables 1 and 2; plots in figures 2, 3 and 4).

Chapter E: Language resources

Task E.1: Parallel corpus construction

Brunato, Dominique, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta, and Giulia Venturi. 2016.
?PaCCSS-IT: A Parallel Corpus of Complex-Simple Sentences for Automatic Text
Simplification?. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural
Language Processing (EMNLP 2016), pp. 351-361.
https://aclweb.org/anthology/D16-1034
Major reproduction comparables: data set.

Participants are expected to obtain the data and tools for the reproduction from the
information provided in the paper. Using the description of the experiment is part of the
reproduction exercise.
SUBMISSION
The START platform of LREC 2020 will be used for the submission of the following required
elements: A paper describing the reproduction effort, and a link to the software and data
used to obtain the results reported in the paper (more details below). The submitted
materials and results will be checked by a CLARIN panel. Papers will be peer-reviewed.


PAPER PREPARATION
REPROLANG 2020 invites the submission of full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more
pages for references if needed). These submissions must strictly follow the LREC 2020
conference stylesheet which will be available on the conference website.


MATERIALS PREPARATION
To be checked by a CLARIN panel and the submission to be complete, the software used to
obtain the results reported in the paper must be made available as a docker container
through a project in gitlab. Detailed instructions are available at
https://gitlab.com/CLARIN-ERIC/reprolang/ For technical support, the CLARIN team can be
contacted at reprolang-tc@clarin.eu or an issue can be created under
https://gitlab.com/CLARIN-ERIC/reprolang/issues.

Submissions are done via the START conference management system used by LREC 2020 and
include the following elements:
- url address of your gitlab.com project
- url of the tar.gz with the datasets - the md5 checksum of the above tar.gz
- .pdf with the paper, which must include the above url of your gitlab.com project, and
the above commit hash and tag

The project in gitlab.com should be made public within 2 days after the submission
deadline.

PRESENTATION Papers accepted for publication will be presented in a specific session of
the LREC main conference. There is no difference in quality between oral and poster
presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less
interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered. The format of the
presentations will be decided by the Program Committee. The proceedings will include both
oral and poster papers in the same format.

REGISTRATION
For a selected paper to be included in the programme and to be published in the
proceedings, at least one of its authors must register for the LREC 2020 conference by
the early bird registration deadline. A single registration only covers one paper,
following the general LREC policy on registration. Registration service is to be found at
the LREC 2020 website.


CONTACTS
About the shared task:
Piek Vossen
p.t.j.m.vossen@vu.nl

About the preparation and submission of materials:
reprolang-tc@clarin.eu
REPROLANG 2020 website: http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/lrec-reproduction


ORGANIZATION

Steering Committee

António Branco, University of Lisbon (chair of Steering Committee)
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC, Pisa (co-chair of Steering Committee)
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen (chair of Task Selection Committee)
Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam (chair of Program Committee)


Task Selection Committee

Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen (chair)
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
António Branco, University of Lisbon
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC, Pisa
Ça?r? Çöltekin, University of Tuebingen
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, New York
Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen
Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo
Barbara Plank, University of Copenhagen
Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam
Dan Zeman, Prague University

Program Committee

several invitations awaiting an answer marked with [!]

Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam (chair)
  [!]Gilles Adda, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris
  [!]Eneko Agirre Basque University
Francis Bond, NanyangTechnical University, Singapore
António Branco, University of Lisbon

Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC, Pisa
Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado Boulder
 [!]Thierry Declerck declerck@dfki.de, DFKI Saarbruecken
  [!]John McCrae, Galway University
Nancy Ide , Vassar College, New York
  [!]Antske Fokkens VU University Amsterdam
Karën Fort, University of Paris-Sorbonne
  [!] Cyril Grouin, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
  [!] Margo Mieskis
  [!] Aurélie Névéol, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen
Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo
  [!]Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota
Senja Pollak, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
  [!]Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
Martijn Wieling, University of Groningen



Technical Committee
reprolang-tc@clarin.eu
Dieter Van Uytvanck, CLARIN (chair)
André Moreira, CLARIN
Twan Goosen, CLARIN
João Ricardo Silva, CLARIN and University of Lisbon
Luís Gomes, CLARIN and University of Lisbon
Willem Elbers, CLARIN

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3-3-8(2020-05-16) CfP LREC Workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech, Marseille, France

LREC Workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization of Text and Speech

May 16, 2020

Palais du Pharo, Marseilles, France



Call for Papers (http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/clssts)

 

In today?s global world, people may need  Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) enables end users to issue queries in their own language, but provides results from multiple languages around the world, often using translation so that the end user can quickly understand whether the retrieved results are relevant. Cross-language summarization can make it easier for an end user to determine if a document is relevant by providing a summary in the user?s language of the foreign language document, highlighting the evidence for relevance.  When the foreign language is a low-resource language, cross-language search and summarization are more difficult; translation capabilities may be poor and the lack of resources makes it difficult to train CLIR and summarization systems.  To complicate matters even more, when the collection contains speech as well as text, producing accurate search results and generating comprehensible summaries is even more difficult.

 

This workshop aims to stimulate the collection and provision of resources that can improve systems that perform cross-language search and summarization.  To facilitate dissemination of information about existing resources, the workshop will feature keynote speeches and panels by people who have worked in this area, have cross-language resources to share, or can describe ongoing research programs and shared tasks. Papers are also solicited that describe recent and current research in these areas, that describe relevant resources, or that stake out positions on the directions in which the authors think the field should move.

 

To set the stage, the organizers will provide two small spoken language test collections that include waveforms, transcriptions and possibly queries with relevance judgments. These are conversational genres, one in Somali (a very-low resource language) and the other in Bulgarian (a moderate-resource language) both of which include approximately 80 hours of speech. We will welcome papers that provide results on these test collections as well as results on any datasets that are available from by ELDA, LDC, or other repositories. Participants are also encouraged to describe other datasets that they have access to and to report results on these.

 

We solicit papers on research that broadly relates to supporting information access to lower-resource languages addressing topics such as the following:

 

Test collections for evaluating CLIR

Development of new cross-lingual resources

Datasets for cross-lingual summarization

Methods for CLIR

CLIR over speech

Evidence generation for CLIR

Methods for cross-lingual summarization

Methods for cross-lingual query-focused summarization

Snippet generation

Speech summarization

Multilingual language generation

Zero-shot learning and domain adaptation

Explainable methods for cross-lingual NLP

 

 

Paper length: Both long papers (8 pages plus references) and short papers (4 pages plus references) are welcome. Papers must  follow the LREC stylesheet available here. Papers must be submitted through START at this link: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/CLSSTS2020/

 

 

Important dates:



 Submissions due: February 15th, 11:59pm AOE

Acceptance notifications: March 12th

Camera ready copy due: April 1st

Workshop date: May 16th



Contact person: Kathy McKeown, Kathy@cs.columbia.edu

 

Organizing Committee:

James Allan, UMass Amherst (USA)

Lu Wang, Northeastern University (USA)

Kathy McKeown, Columbia University (USA)

Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland (USA)

Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh (UK)

Richard Schwartz, BBN (USA)

 

Identify, describe and share your Lexical Resource (LR):

Authors will have the opportunity, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository.  This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers  will be offered at submission time.



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The University of Edinburgh

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3-3-9(2020-05-16) ONION: peOple in laNguage, visIOn and the miNd, Marseilles, France

Third Call for Papers

ONION: peOple in laNguage, visIOn and the miNd

Workshop to be held at the 12th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Palais du Pharo, Marseilles, France, on Saturday, May 16 2020.

https://onion2020.github.io/

+++ New submission deadline: February 21, 2020 +++

We invite paper submissions for the first workshop on People in Language, Vision, and the Mind, which discusses how people, their bodies and faces as well as mental states are described in text. We are interested in contributions from diverse areas including language generation, language analysis, cognitive computing, affective computing.

Detailed Workshop goals

The workshop will provide a forum to present and discuss current research focusing on multimodal resources as well as computational and cognitive models aiming to describe people in terms of their bodies and faces, including their affective state as it is reflected physically. Such models might either generate textual descriptions of people, generate images corresponding to people?s descriptions, or in general exploit multimodal representations for different purposes and applications.  Knowledge of the way human bodies and faces are perceived, understood and described by humans is key to the creation of such resources and models, therefore the workshop also invites contributions where the human body and face are studied from a cognitive, neurocognitive or multimodal communication perspective. 

Human body postures and faces are being studied by researchers from different research communities, including those working with vision and language modeling, natural language generation, cognitive science, cognitive psychology, multimodal communication and embodied conversational agents. The workshop aims to reach out to all these communities to explore the many different aspects of research on the human body and face, including the resources that such research needs,  and to foster cross-disciplinary synergy.

The ability to adequately model and describe people in terms of their body and face is interesting for a variety of language technology applications, e.g., conversational agents and interactive multimodal narrative generation, as well as forensic applications in which people need to be identified or their images generated from textual or spoken descriptions. 

Such systems need resources and models where images associated with human bodies and faces are coupled with linguistic descriptions, therefore the research needed to develop them is placed at the interface between vision and language research. 

At the same time, this line of research raises important ethical questions, both from the perspective of data collection methodology and from the perspective of bias detection and avoidance in models trained to process and interpret human attributes.

By focussing on the modelling and processing of physical characteristics of people, and the ethical implications of this research, the workshop will explore and further develop a particular area within visual and language research. Furthermore, it will foster novel cross-disciplinary knowledge by soliciting contributions from different fields of research. By attempting to bring results from the cognitive and neurocognitive fields to the attention of the HLT community, it is also in line with the ?Language and the Brain? hot topic of LREC 2020.

Relevant topics

We are inviting short and long papers reporting original research, surveys, position papers, and demos. Authors are strongly encouraged to identify and discuss ethical issues arising from their work, insofar as it involves the use of image data or descriptions of people.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following ones:
  • Datasets of facial images, as well as body postures, gestures and their descriptions
  • Methods for the creation and annotation of multimodal resources dedicated to the description of people
  • Methods for the validation of  multimodal resources for descriptions of people
  • Experimental studies of facial expression understanding by humans
  • Models or algorithms for automatic facial description generation
  • Emotion recognition by humans
  • Multimodal automatic emotion recognition from images and text
  • Subjectivity in face perception
  • Communicative, relational and intentional aspects of head pose and eye-gaze
  • Collection and annotation methods for facial descriptions
  • Coding schemes for the annotation of body posture and facial expression
  • Understanding and description of the human face and body in different contexts, including commercial applications, art, forensics, etc. 
  • Modelling of the human body, face and facial expressions for embodied conversational agents
  • Generation of full-body images and/or facial images from textual descriptions
  • Ethical and data protection issues related to the collection and/or automatic description of images of real people
  • Any form of bias in models which seek to make sense of human physical attributes in language and vision.

Important dates

Paper submission deadline:February 14, 2020  +++ New: February 21, 2020 +++
Notification of acceptance:March 13, 2020 
Camera ready Papers:April 2, 2020

Workshop:May 16, 2020 (afternoon)  

Submission guidelines

Short paper submissions may consist of up to 4 pages of content, while long papers may have up to 8 pages of content. References do not count towards these page limits.

All submissions must follow the LREC 2020 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from the following address:https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/

Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online submission system here:

https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/ONION2020/

The authors of accepted papers will be required to submit a camera-ready version to be included in the final proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be notified after the notification of acceptance with further details.

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility,  when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers  will be offered at submission time.
Organisers

Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen and University of Malta, paggio@hum.ku.dk
Albert Gatt, University of Malta, albert.gatt@um.edu.mt
Roman Klinger, University of Stuttgart, roman.klinger@ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Programme committee 

Adrian Muscat, University of Malta
Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg
Andrew Hendrickson, University of Tilburg
Catherine Pelachaud, Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics, UPMC and CNRS 
Costanza Navarretta, CST, University of Copenhagen
David Hogg, University of Leeds
Diego Frassinelli, University of Stuttgart
Isabella Poggi, Roma Tre University
Jonas Beskow, KTH Speech, Music and Hearing
Jordi Gonzalez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Kristiina.Jokinen, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Mihael Arcan,  National University of Ireland, Galway
Raffaella Bernardi, CiMEC Trento
Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart



Patrizia Paggio

Professor
University of Malta
Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology
patrizia.paggio@um.edu.mt
 
Senior Researcher
University of Copenhagen
Centre for Language Technology
paggio@hum.ku.dk
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3-3-10(2020-06-01) The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Providence, RI, USA (UPDATED)

 

Important note: revised dates for conference

Because of disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic the ISSP has been rescheduled for December 14th - 17th, 2020. Abstract submission has consequently been reopened; please see Instructions for Authors. Note that previously accepted abstracts do not need to be resubmitted; however, authors are encouraged to upload revised versions of their abstracts based on reviewer feedback using the EasyChair portal. The deadline for new submissions and revisions to accepted abstracts is August 1st, 2020.  




The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP),

organized through Haskins Laboratories, will take place June 1-4 2020 in Providence, RI, USA, at the Omni Convention Center Hotel.

Inaugurated in Grenoble in 1988, the ISSP is an international forum for researchers to share their work on all aspects of human speech production, including phonology, phonetics, prosody, biomechanics, signal processing, motor control, neuroscience, modeling, disordered speech and speech accommodation. The diversity of topics is a particular strength of the conference, providing opportunities for young researchers especially to be exposed to complementary ideas and methods apart from their immediate focus. Previous meetings have occurred in Sydney, Ubatuba (Brazil), Strasbourg, Montreal, Cologne, and Tianjin, and we anticipate that turnout for the Providence conference will be large and enthusiastic.

The overall theme of the conference is intended to foster discussion of how speech production develops, consolidates, and degenerates over the typical lifespan. The meeting is structured around eight invited speakers, each highlighting a subtopic of interest within their session:

Developmental

Lisa Goffman (UT Dallas); language acquisition and its disorders

Elder speech

Cécile Fougeron (U. Sorbonne); effects of aging on coarticulation

Disordered Speech

Suzanne Boyce (U. Cincinnati); articulatory characteristics of motor deficits

Modeling

Gabriel Mindlin (U. Buenos Aires); syllabic structure of birdsong

Methods

Brad Sutton (U. Illinois); rtMRI as a tool for viewing articulation across the entire vocal tract

Neuroscience

Kristofer Bouchard (UCSF); eCOG as an emerging method for investigating speech motor planning and execution

Speech Interaction

Jennifer Pardo (Montclair State); aspects of phonetic convergence and turn-taking in conversational dyads

Speech Technology

Carol Espy-Wilson (U. Maryland); estimating articulatory gestures from acoustics

 

For additional details please visit the conference website: https://issp2020.yale.edu

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3-3-11(2020-06-08) *Appel Démos JEP-TALN'20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*, Nancy France

*2ième Appel Démos JEP-TALN'20  (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*
Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RÉCITAL 2020
8 au 12 juin 2020
Nancy, France
https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/

La sixième édition conjointe de la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL sera organisée à Nancy du
8 au 12 juin 2020 (https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/) .

La conférence inclut des démonstrations dans la cadre du TAL et du traitement automatique
de la parole, ou de son étude. Ce présent message est un appel à démonstration, et ne
doit pas être confondu avec les appels à communications indépendants pour les trois
conférences JEP, TALN et RECITAL.


*Thématiques des démonstrations*

Nous sollicitons des communications pouvant porter sur tous les thèmes habituels du TAL
et du traitement automatique de la parole, ou de son étude. Plus précisément, nous
reprenons les intitulés des thèmes listés dans les appels à soumissions,
en TAL :
- Phonétique, phonologie, morphologie, étiquetage morphosyntaxique,
- Syntaxe, grammaires, analyse syntaxique, chunking,
- Sémantique, pragmatique, discours,
- Sémantique lexicale et distributionnelle,
- Aspects linguistiques et psycholinguistiques du TAL,
- Ressources pour le TAL ou la parole,
- Méthodes d?évaluation pour le TAL,
- Applications du TAL (recherche et extraction d?information, question-réponse,
traduction,génération, résumé, dialogue, analyse d?opinions, etc.),
- TAL et multi-modalité (parole, vision, etc.),
- TAL et multilinguisme,
- TAL pour le Web et les réseaux sociaux,
- TAL et langues peu dotées,
- TAL et langue des signes,
- implications sociales et éthiques du TAL,
- TAL et linguistique de corpus,
- TAL et Humanités numériques.
et en parole :
- traitement automatique de la parole,
- reconnaissance, synthèse, traduction, dialogue,
- compréhension, codage,
- acquisition et apprentissage,
- production, perception et cognition,
- santé, troubles et handicap,
- phonétique, phonologie, prosodie,
- géolinguistique et sociolinguistique,
- ressources et évaluation.


*Types de communication - Démonstrations*

Les organisateurs de ces conférences ont le plaisir d'inviter les participants,
industriels et académiques, à présenter des démonstrations de logiciels et/ou de
prototypes qui s'appuient sur des méthodes de Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel
pour le texte, la parole ou la langue des signes.

Dans ce cadre, les professionnels de l'industrie peuvent faire acte de candidature pour
présenter leur logiciel au cours d?une session dédiée. L'objet de cette dernière est
d'offrir un cadre d'interaction entre les milieux industriel et académique.

La session Démonstration académique et industrielle, accueillera des présentations sous
les formes suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilités) :
- stand d'exposant ;
- poster de présentation ;
- démonstration de produits logiciels.

Pour participer, les candidats devront soumettre un résumé (2 pages) au format de la
conférence, en suivant les modalités indiquées ci-après. Le titre de l?article devra
commencer par : [JEP-TALN DEMO].


*Critères de sélection*

Les participants seront choisis par le comité d'organisation, indépendamment du processus
de sélection scientifique habituel. Les critères de sélection s'appuient sur la
pertinence des outils au regard des thématiques affichées par les conférences TALN et JEP.


*Modalités de soumission*

Les soumissions, au format PDF, doivent être conformes aux instructions de mise en page
qui seront disponibles dans les fichiers de style:
http://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/

Site web de soumission des articles :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jeptalnrecital2020

Les soumissions en anglais sont acceptées dès lors qu'un co-auteur n?est pas francophone.

Le processus de relecture étant en double aveugle, les contributions ne doivent inclure
ni les noms ni les affiliations des auteurs, académiques ou industrielles. Les
auto-références et les noms de projets qui révèlent l'identité des auteurs, comme par
exemple, « Nous avons déjà démontré (Martin, 1991) » sont à proscrire. Les auteurs
doivent ainsi privilégier les citations telles que « Martin a précédemment démontré
(Martin, 1991) ». Les remerciements seront omis dans la première soumission, et pourront
être ajoutés dans la version définitive de l'article en cas d'acceptation.


*Dates importantes*

Date limite de soumission : 13 mars 2020
Notification aux auteurs : 27 mars 2020
Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 24 avril 2020


*Comité de Programme*

Le comité de programme est présidé par Chloé Braud et David Langlois.

Contact : jep-taln-recital-2020@loria.fr

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3-3-12(2020-06-08) *Appel JEP-TALN?20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)* Session Doctorants, Nancy France

*Appel JEP-TALN?20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*

Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RÉCITAL 2020

8 au 12 juin 2020

Nancy, France

https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/

 

La sixième édition conjointe de la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL sera organisée à Nancy du 8 au 12 juin 2020 (https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/).

 

Cette année se tiendra, au sein de la conférence JEP-TALN, une session spéciale dédiée aux étudiant-e-s pré-doctorat ainsi qu?aux doctorant-e-s en 1re année. L?objectif principal est de permettre au maximum d?étudiant-e-s de participer à un premier événement scientifique d?ampleur afin d?éveiller des vocations pour la recherche, de favoriser les rencontres entre étudiant-e-s mais aussi entre étudiant-e-s et encadrant-e-s potentiel-le-s, ainsi qu?entre responsables de formations. Dans ce cadre, nous présentons un double appel.

Appel à communication - Projet étudiant

 

Les étudiant-e-s de Licence ou Master ont rarement l?occasion de participer à des conférences scientifiques ce qui pourrait pourtant encourager des vocations et mettre en contact étudiant-e-s et encadrant-e-s. Nous invitons les étudiant-e-s à venir présenter un projet réalisé au cours de l?année. La présentation sera faite sous forme de poster durant la conférence lors d?une session dédiée. Nous demandons aux étudiant-e-s intéressé-e-s de nous envoyer un descriptif d?une page maximum de leur projet. Le descriptif devra également préciser les noms du ou des étudiant-e-s, l?intitulé de la formation et les noms et affiliations du ou des encadrant-e-s. Ce projet doit s?inscrire dans l?un des domaines du traitement automatique des langues ou de l'étude de la parole. Le projet peut être porté par un ou plusieurs étudiant-e-s. 

Date limite de soumission : 10 avril 2020

Appel à communication - Ma thèse en 5 minutes

 

Les thèses reflètent les recherches actuelles menées par la communauté. Par ailleurs, il est important pour les étudiant-e-s de fréquenter des conférences le plus tôt possible, et de rencontrer les autres membres de la communauté. Nous invitons donc les étudiant-e-s en première année de thèse à venir présenter leur projet de thèse, à l?oral, dans un cadre bienveillant. Éventuellement, cette présentation pourra s?accompagner d?un poster présenté lors d?une session dédiée. Nous invitons les étudiant-e-s intéressé-e-s à nous envoyer un descriptif d?une page maximum décrivant la problématique générale de la thèse, le cadre général dans lequel elle s?inscrit et les principaux défis actuels auxquels ces travaux entendent répondre. Le descriptif devra également préciser les noms et affiliations du ou des encadrant-e-s. Le projet de thèse doit s?inscrire dans l?un des domaines du traitement automatique des langues ou de l'étude de la parole.  

Date limite de soumission : 10 avril 2020

 

Modalités de soumission

 

Les soumissions, au format PDF, doivent être conformes aux instructions de mise en page qui seront disponibles dans les fichiers de style: http://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/

 

Site web de soumission des articles : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jeptalnrecital2020, en utilisant la track dédiée ?Apprenti-e-s Chercheur-euse-s?.  

 

Les soumissions en anglais sont acceptées dès lors qu'un co-auteur n?est pas francophone.

 

Aides pour les étudiants

 

Afin d?encourager la venue des étudiant-e-s, nous proposons les aides suivantes :

  • hébergement en résidence CROUS (tarifs à venir)

  • inscriptions à tarifs réduits ?étudiants?, pensez à l?adhésion ATALA / AFCP !

  • bourses pour les trajets : contactez les organisateurs 

Si vous souhaitez bénéficier de ces aides, merci de nous contacter au plus tôt, afin de nous permettre d?anticiper les besoins.

 

Contact : jep-taln-recital-2020@loria.fr

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3-3-13(2020-06-08) *Appel Tutoriels JEP-TALN'20 (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*, Nancy France

*Appel Tutoriels JEP-TALN'20  (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*
Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RÉCITAL 2020
8 au 12 juin 2020
Nancy, France
https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/

Dans le cadre des conférences conjointes JEP-TALN-RECITAL organisées à Nancy
(https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/), nous sollicitons des propositions de tutoriels. Les
tutoriels doivent porter sur une thématique particulière du TAL et du traitement
automatique ou l'étude de la parole. Les tutoriels sont l'occasion de former les
participants à des modèles, méthodes, techniques ou outils, nouveaux ou non, mais
présentant un intérêt pour la communauté.
Les organisateurs de JEP-TALN-RECITAL s?occuperont de la logistique (e.g. gestion des
salles, vidéo-projecteur, pauses café). Le responsable d'un tutoriel se chargera de la
communication sur celui-ci en partenariat avec les organisateurs des conférences.


*Dates importantes*

Les tutoriels auront lieu en parallèle le lundi 8 et mardi 9 juin 2020 sur le lieu de
conférence à Nancy. Ils pourront durer une demi-journée ou une journée.
  - Date limite de soumission de proposition de tutoriels : vendredi 10 janvier 2020
  - Notification aux candidats de la réponse aux propositions de tutoriels : vendredi 17
janvier 2020
  - Remise du programme des tutoriels (pour la publication dans le livret) : vendredi 24
avril 2020
  - Date des tutoriels : lundi 8 et mardi 9  juin 2020


*Modalités de proposition*

Les propositions comprendront :
- le nom du tutoriel,
- une description synthétique (max. 1 page A4 en format PDF) du thème du tutoriel (y
compris une justification de son affluence espérée), de son contenu, et du fonctionnement
attendu (présentations, TP, etc.)
- une brève présentation du ou des intervenants,
- la durée souhaitée du tutoriel (1 journée ou 1/2 journée).

Les propositions devront être envoyées sous forme électronique à l?adresse
:jep-taln-tutoriels-2020@loria.fr  avec pour entête de courriel :[Tutoriel JEP-TALN 2020
: <titre du tutoriel>].


*Modalités de sélection*

Les propositions seront examinées par des membres des comités de programme de JEP, TALN,
le bureau de l?AFCP et le CPERM de l'ATALA.

Les critères suivants seront considérés pour acceptation :
- l?adéquation aux thèmes de l'une ou l'autre des conférences,
- l?originalité de la proposition,
- l'affluence pouvant être espérée.


*Format*
Les tutoriels auront lieu en français (ou en anglais pour les non-francophones). Nous
invitons les intervenants à mettre le matériel utilisé lors du tutoriel (présentations,
codes, données, etc.) à disposition sur un site web.

Contacts :jep-taln-tutoriels-2020@loria.fr

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3-3-14(2020-06-08) Appel à ateliers Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RECITAL 2020, Nancy, France

*Appel à ateliers (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*
Conférence JEP 2020 | TALN 2020 | RECITAL 2020
8?12 juin 2020
Nancy, France
https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/

Le LORIA, l'ATILF et l'INIST, travaillant dans les domaines de la parole
et du traitement automatique des langues écrites, parlées et signées,
organisent

  du 8 au 12 juin 2020,

  sur le campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l?université de
  Lorraine,

la sixième édition conjointe de la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL. Elle
regroupera :

- les 33es Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole (JEP),
- la 27e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues
  Naturelles (TALN),
- la 22e Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
  Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL).

Dans le cadre de la conférence jointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020 qui sera
organisée à Nancy du 8 au 12 juin 2020 (https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/),
nous sollicitons des*propositions d'ateliers*. Les ateliers doivent
porter sur des thématiques propres aux JEP, à TALN, ou communes à
JEP-TALN.

Chaque atelier a sa propre présidence et son propre comité de
programme. Le responsable de l?atelier est chargé de la communication
sur celui-ci, de l?appel à soumissions et de sa diffusion, et de la
coordination de son comité de programme. Pour les aspects
organisationnels, le responsable d'atelier sera en liaison avec les
organisateurs de JEP-TALN-RECITAL, et ces derniers auront en charge la
partie logistique (gestion des salles, pauses café et diffusion des
articles).

*Dates importantes*

Les ateliers auront lieu en parallèle le lundi 8 et le mardi 9 juin 2020
sur le lieu de conférence à Nancy. Ils pourront durer une demi-journée
ou une journée.

  * Date limite de soumission de proposition d'atelier : vendredi 10 janvier 2020
  * Notification aux candidats de la réponse aux propositions
    d'atelier : vendredi 17 janvier 2020
  * Remise des versions finales des articles acceptés dans les
    ateliers (pour la publication dans les actes) : vendredi 15 mai 2020
  * Date des ateliers : lundi 8 et mardi 9 juin 2020

*Modalités de soumission des propositions*

Les propositions d?ateliers devront être déposées sur le site web de
soumission (track ateliers) :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jeptalnrecital2020

Elles comprendront :
- le nom et l?acronyme de l?atelier,
- une description synthétique (au plus 1 page A4 en format PDF) du
  thème de l'atelier,
- le comité de programme (2 à 3 personnes chargées de la sélection
  finale des articles)
- la durée souhaitée pour la réalisation de l?atelier (1/2 ou 1
  journée).


*Modalités de sélection*

Les propositions d'atelier seront examinées par les membres des comités
de programme de JEP et TALN. Les critères suivants seront considérés
pour l'acceptation :

- l?adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence,
- l?originalité de la proposition.

On veillera à ce que les membres du comité de programme (lors de la
soumission) puis du comité de lecture soient équilibrés en terme de
genre et d'affiliations.

*Format*

Les conférences auront lieu en français ou en anglais pour les non
francophones.

Les articles soumis dans les ateliers devront suivre le format de TALN
2020 (nombre de pages à la discrétion du comité de programme de
l'atelier) :http://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/

*Contacts*

Le comité de programme est présidé par Chloé Braud, David Langlois, Slim
Ouni et Sylvain Pogodalla.

Contact :jep-taln-ateliers-2020@loria.fr

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3-3-15(2020-06-08) Appel à contributions JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020, Nancy France (UPDATED)

 

Chers auteurs, chers relecteurs, chers collègues, chers membres de nos communautés,

 

Face à la situation inédite due à la crise du covid-19, qui annule pour nous toute visibilité sur les mois à venir, il est désormais certain que nous ne pourrons pas maintenir la conférence JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020 telle que nous l'avions prévue.

 

En conséquence, nous nous donnons au plus un mois pour décider si la conférence peut avoir lieu sous une autre forme, qui pourrait être une virtualisation totale, un micro-événement avec participation des laboratoires locaux et des autres personnes voulant nous rejoindre et éventuellement des solutions de télé-présence (si les conditions sanitaires l'autorisent sans aucun risque). Nous sommes à l'écoute des suggestions de la communauté et suivons les solutions choisies par les organisateurs d'autres conférences de par le monde (comme ICLR, ICCAPS, ACL, etc.).

 

En revanche, il est bien évident que cela ne remet pas en cause la publication des actes. *Les actes seront donc publiés*, et nous remercions chaleureusement les auteurs pour leur travail, ainsi que les relecteurs et les membres des comités de programme dont le travail est encore en cours. Nous remercions également les auteurs d'articles RECITAL et de démonstrations qui continuent à soumettre leur recherche. Surtout continuez à nous envoyer vos propositions !

 

Nous reviendrons donc vers vous dans un mois au plus tard pour préciser l'organisation de l'édition conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020.

 

Vous devinez sans doute notre déception du fait des efforts déjà fournis et de la joie que nous avions à vous accueillir à Nancy en juin. Cette déception concerne aussi tout le personnel support, très présent à nos côtés. Nous en profitons aussi pour remercier nos soutiens institutionnels, académiques et industriels vers lesquels nous reviendrons rapidement. Au-delà, ce qui nous semble important est que nous passions tous ensemble cette crise et qu'elle soit derrière nous le plus rapidement possible.

 

Si jamais, pour la suite des événements, vous avez des conseils et remarques, nous les attendons volontiers.

 

Prenez soin de vous, et encore merci pour tous les efforts fournis.

 

Bien cordialement,

 

Les organisateurs de JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020









*JEP'20 call for papers (JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2020)*
JEP 2020 Conference | TALN 2020 | RECITAL 2020
June 8-12, 2020
Nancy, France
https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/

LORIA, ATILF and INIST are french laboratories and institutes located in Nancy and
working in the fields of speech and automatic processing of written, spoken and signed
languages. With the scientific support of the AFCP (Association Francophone pour la
Communication Parlée) and ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues),
they are organizing the sixth joint edition of the JEP-TALN-RECITAL conference. It will
take place:

from 8 to 12 June 2020

on the Lettres et Sciences Humaines campus of the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France

This edition will therefore include:

- the 33rd Study Days on Speech (Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole - JEP),
- the 27th Conference on Natural Language Processing (Traitement Automatique des Langues
Naturelles - TALN),
- the 22nd Meeting of Student Researchers in Computer Science for Automatic Language
Processing (Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement
Automatique des Langues - RÉCITAL).

The JEP'2020 will include oral and poster presentations and invited lectures.

The official language of the conference is French.

*Types of contributions*

Authors are invited to submit two types of contributions:

- articles presenting original research work
- position papers presenting a point of view about spoken communication

Articles must present original works, with a substantial contribution compared to other
works that may already have been published. In the case of works already partially or
totally published in another language, the article should refer to the original
publication in a footnote.

Articles will be presented in the form of an oral presentation or a poster.

*JEP topics*

Contributions may cover all topics related to spoken communication and speech processing
in their various aspects, as well as their applications.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

- automatic speech processing
- transcription, synthesis, translation, dialogue,
- understanding, coding
- acquisition and learning
- production, perception and cognition
- health, disorders and disability
- phonetics, phonology, prosody
- geolinguistics and sociolinguistics
- resources and evaluation

*Selection criteria*

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two specialists of the field. For research work,
particular consideration will be given to:

- relevance to the conference topics
- importance and originality of the contribution
- correction of scientific and technical content
- critical analysis of the results, particularly in relation to other works in the field
- status of the work in the context of international research
- organization and clarity of the presentation

For position papers, preference will be given to:

- taking into account the state of the art and positioning in relation to it
- providing an original point of view
- demonstrating the potential impact of the position

The selected articles will be published in the conference proceedings.

*Submission instructions*

The articles will be written in French.

The size of the articles should not exceed 8 pages, plus one page dedicated to
bibliographic references.
A LaTeX style sheet, a Word template and a LibreOffice template are available on the
conference website: http://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/

Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jeptalnrecital2020

*Dates*

- Submissions due: 31 January 2020 (23:59 Paris time),
- Notification to authors: 03 April 2020
- Camera-ready due: 08 May 2020


*Scholarships*

The AFCP offers a number of scholarships for doctoral students and young researchers
wishing to attend the conference, see the AFCP website (http://www.afcp-parole.org/).

The ISCA also provides financial support to young researchers participating in scientific
events on speech and language, see the ISCA website
(https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/).


*Contacts*

The JEP Program Committee is chaired by David Langlois and Slim Ouni.

Contact: jep-taln-ateliers-2020@loria.fr

 

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3-3-16(2020-06-15) CfP Workshop on Laughter and Non-Verbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld, Germany (UPDATED)

Important dates

Submission opens: 14 January 2020

Submission deadline: 14 February 2020 29 February 2020

Acceptance notification: 31 March 2020

Final paper submission: 30 April 2020

Workshop registration deadline: 01 June 2020 TBA

Workshop: 15-16 June 2020 To be announced

   





Call for Papers,

Workshop on Laughter and Non-Verbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld,

15-16 June

the previous meetings held in Dublin (2012), Enschede
(2015), and Paris (2018), we have the pleasure to announce a
forthcoming workshop in Bielefeld.
Non-verbal vocalisations such as laughs, sighs, filled pauses, and
short utterances can communicate emotions and behavioural intentions.
Often, they also play an important role in regulating interactions.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse
research areas and to provide an exchange forum for interdisciplinary
discussions in order to gain a better understanding of laughter and
other non-verbal vocalisations in multimodal human-human and
human-machine interactions. The workshop will consist of invited
talks, oral, and poster presentations of ongoing research.
We invite contributions from all relevant fields, including phonetics,
linguistics, psychology, conversation analysis, social signal
processing, and human-machine/robot interaction.

Submission procedure
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Researchers are invited to submit short papers or abstracts (max. 4
pages, including references) describing their work, including work in
progress. The submissions will be made available online.

Important dates
?????
* Submission portal opens: 15 December 2020
* Abstract submission deadline:  14 February 2020
* Notification acceptance/rejection:  31 March 2020
* Registration deadline by email: 01 June 2020
* Workshop dates: 15-16 June 2020

Venue
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CITEC, Bielefeld University
https://cit-ec.de/en

Website
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Please check the website
http://bit.ly/laughterWorkshop
for updated information about the workshop


Programme Committee
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Nick Campbell - School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication
Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Kevin El Haddad - University of Mons
Jonathan Ginzburg - University Paris Diderot
Dirk Heylen - Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
Bogdan Ludusan - Bielefeld University
Gary McKeown - Queen's University Belfast
Catherine Pelachaud - CNRS ? ISIR, Sorbonne University
Magdalena Rychlowska - Queen's University Belfast
Jürgen Trouvain - Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University
Khiet Truong - Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
Petra Wagner - Bielefeld University


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3-3-17(2020-06-22) Second ETeRNAL (Ethics and Natural Language Processing) workshop, Nancy, France (UPDATED)

 

 

Covid 19:   Same status as JEP-TALN

 


 Call for paper
========

Second ETeRNAL (Ethics and Natural Language Processing) workshop

Co-located with TALN 2020, on June 8th , 2020, Nancy, France

https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/eternal/

We are pleased to announce that the first ETeRNAL workshop will be held
on june 22nd, 2015 co-located with the TALN 2015 conference, in Caen
(Normandy), France.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a discipline at the heart of the
main ethical issues of this 21st century: access to personal data,
privacy protection, processing of big data, outsourcing and
crowdsourcing are all issues directly linked to the applications we
develop.

The issues we would like to be adressed concern both the contributions
of NLP and our ethical responsibilities as tool producers. We cannot
pretend not to know that NLP tools make abuses, crimes, violations of
individual rights possible. Today, what NLP tools are capable of? How
far is our moral responsibility involved? Should we be whistleblowers?
What could we do to limit the potentially negative effects of our
research?

Topics covered----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    - Sensitive data
    - Philosophical issues of Ethics and Data
    - Crowdsourcing and ethical issues
    - Ethical issues surrounding the use of tools or the result of processing
    - Quality and bias of the evaluation
    - Legal and economic issues
    - NLP for Ethics

Important
dates----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Submission deadline:       March 13th 2020
    Notification:                       April 17th 2020
    Camera ready paper due: May 15th 2020
    Workshop:                         June 8th or 9th 2020

Submission----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Articles shall be written in French for French speakers, in English for
those who do not speak French. They shall conform to JEP-TALN-RÉCITAL 2020
format and include between 4 to 8 pages.

Submissions, in PDF format, must conform to the template available here:
https://jep-taln2020.loria.fr/soumissions/

Article submission website :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jeptalnrecital2020
(Don't forget to link your submission to the ETeRNAL track.

Organizing commitee--------------------------------------------------------------------

    Gilles Adda, IMMI / LIMSI-CNRS
    Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine / LORIA
    Karën Fort, Université Paris 4 / STIH

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3-3-18(2020-06-25)Journée de travail du GT2 Intermodalité, multimodalité du GDR TAL - Marseille, France
Journée de travail du GT2 Intermodalité, multimodalité du GDR TAL - jeudi 25 juin 2020, Marseille
 
Le langage naturel est multimodal par essence, alors que la communauté TAL s?est, jusqu?à présent, principalement concentrée sur le message verbal véhiculé, écrit ou oral. Le Groupe de Travail GT2 Intermodalité, multimodalité du GDR TAL (https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/)  s'intéresse à l'exploration des questions liées à la multimodalité dans le langage : qu'est-ce que le langage multimodal ? Quel est le lien entre multimodalité et communication ? Comment prendre en compte la multimodalité dans les systèmes ? Des applications sont attendues dans les domaines et thématiques de l'accessibilité, de la robotique, des agents de dialogue, et dans bien d'autres champs applicatifs.

Dans ce cadre, le GT2 organise.une journée scientifique qui se déroulera le jeudi 25 juin 2020 à Marseille.
 
Programme de la journée
  • 10h00-10h30 : accueil - café
  • 10h30 - 10h45 : introduction à la journée
  • 10h45 - 11h45 : exposé invité Comparative Communicative Systems & the brain in primates: On the multimodal origin of language, Adrien Meguerditchian, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, CNRS/AMU, Marseille
  • 11h45 - 13h45 : session posters de doctorants (voir ci-dessous) et repas
  • 13h45 - 14h45 : exposé invité Toucher le Web pour mieux l'entendre... et l'écouter pour mieux le toucher, Fabrice Maurel, Université de Caen-Normandie, Greyc, Caen
  • 14h45 - 15h45 : panel de discussion Quelle modalité pour faire passer un message ?
  • 15h45 - 16h00 : Conclusions
L?objectif de la session posters est de permettre aux doctorants en TAL mono- ou multimodal intéressés par les problématiques du GT2 de présenter leurs travaux, mêmes préliminaires, afin de se connaître d?une part et de se faire connaître de la communauté TAL multimodal en cours de constitution d?autre part. Tout doctorant désirant participer à cette session transmettra aux organisateurs un titre et un résumé de 15 lignes maximum avant le 15 mai 2020. Le GT2 pourra proposer quelques bourses d'un montant de 200 euros maximum pour aider au financement du déplacement de certains doctorants présentant un poster. La sélection se fondera entre autres sur le nombre de doctorants d?un même laboratoire assistant à la journée, l?année de thèse du doctorant, la distance du voyage... Tout doctorant présentant un poster et intéressé par ce mécanisme adressera, après s?être inscrit via le framaforms (cf. ci-dessous), en plus du titre et du résumé de 15 lignes maximum du poster, un CV court et une lettre de motivation aux organisateurs.

La participation à la journée est gratuite mais pour des questions de logistique, nous nous remercions de vous inscrire dès à présent sur https://framaforms.org/pre-inscription-journee-gdr-tal-gt2-1583242801, et en tous cas avant le 30 avril 2020.

Les organisateurs,
Benoît Favre (benoit.favre@lis-lab.fr),
Damien Lolive (damien.lolive@irisa.fr),
Pascale Sébillot (pascale.sebillot@irisa.fr)
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3-3-19(2020-06-29) ACM Multimedia 2020 Call for Multimedia Grand Challenge Proposals
ACM Multimedia 2020  Call for Multimedia Grand Challenge Proposals
 
ACM Multimedia is the premier international conference in the area of multimedia within the field of computer science. Multimedia research focuses on integration of the multiple perspectives offered by different digital modalities including images, text, video, music, sensor data, spoken audio.
 
ACM Multimedia is calling for proposals for Grand Challenges in 2020. Proposers with an innovative idea of a Multimedia Grand Challenge, should gather an organizational team with the capacity to carry out the organization of a challenge, and submit a proposal according to the instructions below. In 2020, we are emphasizing the continuity of Grand Challenges, which is important in order to support sustained and substantial progress in the state of the art. We ask that organizer teams who would like to propose Grand Challenges to express a commitment to organize their Grand Challenge multiple years in a row.
 
The Multimedia Grand Challenge was first presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009 and has established itself as a prestigious competition in the multimedia community. The purpose of the Multimedia Grand Challenge is to engage the multimedia research community by establishing well-defined and objectively judged challenge problems intended to exercise the state-of-the-art methods and inspire future research directions. The key criteria for Grand Challenges are that they should be useful, interesting, and their solution should involve a series of research tasks over a long period of time, with pointers towards longer-term research.
 
A Multimedia Grand Challenge proposal should include:
  • A brief description to explain why the challenge problem is important and relevant to the multimedia research community, industry, and society over the next 3-5 years or a longer horizon.
  • A description of a specific set of research tasks or sub-tasks to be carried out towards tackling the challenge problem in the long run.
  • An outline of current state-of-the-art techniques and why this Grand Challenge would help accelerate research in this important area.
  • Link to sites containing relevant datasets to be used for objective training and evaluation of the grand challenge tasks. Full appropriate documentation on the datasets should be provided or made accessible.
  • A description of rigorously defined objective criteria and/or procedures on how the submissions will be evaluated or judged.
  • A commitment to publish and maintain a website related to their specific Grand Challenge containing the information, datasets, tasks for the Grand Challenge at least the next 3 years.
  • Work with ACM Multimedia Conference organizers to publicize the Grand Challenge tasks to researchers for participation.
  • Contact information of at least two organizers who will be responsible for organizing, publicizing, reviewing and judging the Grand Challenge submissions as described in the proposal.
  • Note that although we ask organizers to express a multi-year commitment to their Grand Challenge, the Challenge will still undergo a new review each year. Priority will be given to Grand Challenges which have been successful in the past and are clearly contributing to continuity.
 
Important Dates
  • Submission of Grand Challenge Proposals: 10 February 2020
  • Notification of Acceptance: 24 February 2020
  • Web Site and Call for Participation Ready: 10 March 2020
  • Submission of solutions Grand Challenge: 29 June 2020 (required deadline)
 
Contacts
For questions regarding the Grand Challenges you can email the Multimedia Grand Challenge Chairs at leizhang@microsoft.com
  • Lei Zhang (Microsoft, USA)
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3-3-20(2020-06-29) L?école d?été en Traitement automatique des langues (ETAL), Lannion, France (UPDATED)

Cancelled sdue to COVID 19. Will probably be postponed to a later date.


ETAL 2020

École thématique du CNRS


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L?école d?été en Traitement automatique des langues (ETAL) est l?un des outils de
formation associé au GDR Traitement Automatique des Langues (GdR TAL). Pour sa première
édition, ETAL a décidé d?aborder, en collaboration avec le GdR MaDICS, un thème novateur
: les nouvelles interactions pour l?accès à l?information. Cette école répond au constat
de la forte convergence, depuis ces dernières années, des outils scientifiques dans les
communautés  du traitement automatique de langue écrite, de la langue parlée et de la
recherche d'informations, portées notamment par les approches en apprentissage
statistique et neuronal, et des types de données manipulées. Cela se traduit notamment
par :
? des nouvelles avancées dans le traitement conjoint de l?oral et de l?écrit s?appuyant
sur de grands corpus de parole et de textes écrits ;
? de nouvelles approches et méthodes statistiques ou mixtes de la parole, de la langue et
de la recherche d?informations, pour produire de nouvelles interfaces ;
? des spécificités des dialogues oraux mais aussi des conversations écrites de type
courrier électronique, micro-blog (tweets), forum et chat.

ETAL aura lieu du 29 juin au 3 juillet 2020 à l'ENSSAT Lannion

https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/etal-2020/


Intervenants

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Alexandre Allauzen, LIMSI

Yannick Estève, LIA, Université d'Avignon
Karën Fort, EA STIH
Lina Maria Rojas Barahona, Orange Labs
Sophie Rosset,  LIMSI
Laure Soulier, LIP6
Xavier Tannier, LIMICS

Public

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Le programme d?ETAL cherche à répondre aussi bien aux besoins de formation des jeunes
chercheurs et chercheurs du monde académique qu'aux besoins émis par les industriels
désireux de mieux appréhender les spécificités des données langagières écrites ou orales.

Le public visé est celui des informaticiens, de niveau master informatique ou équivalent.


Inscription

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Le nombre de places est limité, la préinscription est nécessaire sur le site du GDR TAL :
https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/etal-2020/

Comité Scientifique

 * Guillaume Gravier, CNRS-IRISA (Président)
 * Damien Lolive, IRISA
 * Vincent Claveau, CNRS-IRISA et ex-dir. adjoint GdR MaDICS
 * Géraldine Damnati, Orange Labs
 * Jean-Pierre Chevallet, LIG
 * Catherine Berrut, LIG
 * Philippe Muller, IRIT
 * Béatrice Daille, LS2N et directrice du GdR TAL
 * Emmanuel Morin, LS2N
 * Max Chevalier, IRIT
 * Haïfa Zargayouna, LIPN
 * Philippe Boula de Mareüil, CNRS-LIMSI


Comité d'organisation

 * Damien Lolive, IRISA (Président)
 * Vincent Claveau, CNRS-IRISA et GdR MaDICS
 * Nelly Barbot, IRISA
 * Jonathan Chevelu, IRISA
 * Arnaud Delhay-Lorrain, IRISA
 * Gwénolé Lecorvé, IRISA

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3-3-21(2020-07-06) 3rd conference on Second Language Acquisition (RéAL2), Toulouse, France

The French Research Network on Second Language Acquisition (RéAL2) helds its 3rd conference is held in Toulouse July 6/8 2020. We invite oral and poster presentations addressing all aspects of crosslinguistic influence in SLA and bilingualism. Please see attached document or consult our website: https://blogs.univ-tlse2.fr/real2-2020.

We are looking forward to your submission

Cecilia Gunnarsson
for the organisation committee of RéAL2 2020
Laboratoire Octogone-Lordat
Université de Toulouse ? Jean Jaurès

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3-3-22(2020-07-09) ACL 2020 Second Grand-Challenge and Workshop on Multimodal Language (Challenge-HML) , Seattle, WA, USA (UPDATED)

Covid19

 

1) As ACL 2020 will be online, the Challenge-HML will also happen online via zoom. Link to the zoom will be announced soon after final discussions with the ACL workshop chairs.
2) All the deadlines on the website are pushed by 20 days to allow those interested in submitting extra time to prepare their papers. 





ACL 2020 Second Grand-Challenge and Workshop on Multimodal Language (Challenge-HML) 

Website: http://multicomp.cs.cmu.edu/acl2020multimodalworkshop/

Keynotes:

  • Rada Mihalcea ? University of Michigan (USA)

  • Ruslan Salakhutdinov ? Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

  • M. Ehsan Hoque ? University of Rochester (USA)

  • Yejin Choi - University of Washington (USA)

Important Dates 

  • Paper Deadline: April 25th (Workshop) and May 1st (Grand-Challenge)

  • Grand challenge test data release: Feb 15th

  • Notification of Acceptance: May 9th

  • Camera-ready: May 21st

  • Workshop location: ACL 2020, Seattle, USA

**All deadlines @11:59 pm anywhere on Earth- year 2020)**

Supported by:

  • National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Intel

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The ACL 2020 Second Grand-Challenge and Workshop on Multimodal Language (ACL 2020) offers a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary researchers to study and model interactions between modalities of language, vision, and acoustic. Modeling multimodal language is a growing research area in NLP. This research area pushes the boundaries of multimodal learning and requires advanced neural modeling of all three constituent modalities. Advances in this research area allow the field of NLP to take the leap towards better generalization to real-world communication (as opposed to limitation to textual applications), and better downstream performance in Conversational AI, Virtual Reality, Robotics, HCI, Healthcare, and Education.

There are two tracks for submission: Grand-challenge and Workshop (workshop allows archival and non-archival submissions). Grand-Challenge is focused on multimodal sentiment and emotion recognition on CMU-MOSEI (grand-prize of >$1k in value for the winner) and MELD dataset. The workshop accepts publications in the below listed research areas. Archival track will be published in ACL workshop proceedings and non-archival track will be only presented during the workshop (but not published in proceedings). We invite researchers from NLP, Computer Vision, Speech Processing, Robotics, HCI, and Affective Computing to submit their papers.

  • Neural Modeling of Multimodal Language

  • Multimodal Dialogue Modeling and Generation

  • Multimodal Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition

  • Language, Vision, and Speech

  • Multimodal Artificial Social Intelligence Modeling

  • Multimodal Commonsense Reasoning

  • Multimodal RL and Control 

  • Multimodal Healthcare

  • Multimodal Educational Systems

  • Multimodal Affective Computing

  • Multimodal Robot/Computer Interaction

  • Multimodal and Multimedia Resources

  • Creative Applications of Multimodal Learning in E-commerce, Art, and other Impactful Areas.

We accept the following types of submissions:

  • Grand challenge papers are 6-8 pages, including infinite references.

  • Full and short workshop papers 6-8 and 4 pages respectively with infinite references. 

Submission must be formatted according to ACL 2020 style files: https://acl2020.org/calls/papers/#paper-submission-and-templates

Workshop Organizers

  • Amir Zadeh (Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Louis-Philippe Morency (Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Paul Pu Liang (Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Soujanya Poria (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

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3-3-23(2020-07-11) CfP FinSBD-2, the 2nd shared task on Sentence Boundary Detection in PDF Noisy Text in the Financial Domain, Yokohama, Japan

We would like to invite you to submit to FinSBD-2, the 2nd shared task
on Sentence Boundary Detection in PDF Noisy Text in the Financial Domain, in
conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, July 11-13th, 2020, Yokohama, Japan!

Call for Participation: FinSBD-2 

 

Collocated with FIN-NLP 2020 workshop: http://finnlp.nlpfin.com [1]

Submission deadline: May 8, 2020

Workshop date: IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 @ July 11-13th, 2020, Yokohama, Japan

Motivation
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Sentences

Sentences are basic units of the written language. Detecting the beginning and
end of sentences, or sentence boundary detection (SBD), is the foundational
first step in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as POS
tagging; syntactic, semantic, and discourse parsing; information extraction; or
machine translation.

Despite its important role in NLP, Sentence Boundary Detection has so far not
received enough attention. Especially for noisy texts extracted from
machine-readable files (generally PDF file format) such as financial documents.
They also contain many visual demarcations indicating a hierarchy
of sections including bullets and numbering. There are many sentence fragments
and titles, and not just complete sentences. The prospectuses more often than
not contain punctuation errors. And in order to structure the dense information
in a more easily read format, lists are often used.

Lists

This year, we have included the task of extracting lists due to their unique
structure and common occurrence in financial documents.

A list can be similar to a sentence that enumerates several items of the same
category. For example, the ?Simple List? from Figure 1 [6] can be easily read as one
normal sentence. However, looking at Figure 2 [6], the list cannot be read as one
sentence; although it is one unit, because there are multiple sentences included and
there is a visible hierarchy of information. It is therefore important to make
the distinction between sentences and lists and, for these lists, to create a
hierarchy that organizes the items. Mastering this distinction and item hierarchy 
can pave the way for more accurate information extraction.

Task Description
=============

Last year we organized the first edition of FinSBD focusing on extracting
well-segmented sentences from Financial prospectuses in PDF format by detecting
their beginning and ending boundaries in two languages: English and French. In
addition to an improved version of the previously proposed task, this year we
are extending this task to include the detection of lists and list items, as
well as their hierarchy.

FinSBD'2 is split into two sub-tasks:
 - Extracting sentence boundaries, including list and list item boundaries.
 - Organizing the lists items hierarchically.

For each given PDF, a JSON will be provided containing:
 - text extracted (key 'text')
 - sentence boundaries (key 'sentence')
 - list boundaries (key 'list')
 - list item boundaries (key 'item')
 - list item boundaries of level 1 (key 'item1')
 - list item boundaries of level 2 (key 'item2')
 - list item boundaries of level 3 (key 'item3')
 - list item boundaries of level 4 (key 'item4')

Item boundaries overlap with item boundaries of different levels. Each item
level represents its depth within the list.

Boundaries are represented by indexes of starting and ending characters that the
system has to predict.

We also included the PDF coordinates of each boundaries as metadata (which can
be used for visualization on PDF if needed).

Example
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    {
        'text': 'Ce document fournit des informations aux investisseurs ...',
        'sentence': [{'start': 17, 'end': 53, 'coordinates':...}, ...],
        'list': [{'start': 1080, 'end': 1267, 'coordinates':...}, ...],
        'item': [...],
        'item1': [...],
        'item2': [...],
        'item3': [...],
        'item4': [...]
    }

Sub-task 1 consists in predicting boundaries of sentences, lists and list items.

Sub-task 2 consists in predicting boundaries of item1, item2, item3 and item4.
We can also see sub-task 2 as refining item boundaries into 4 classes of
boundaries (item = item1 + item2 + item3 + item4).

Last year, participants were only given indexes of tokens. This year, we are
providing indexes of characters as well as coordinates of boundaries to allow
different kind of character or word tokenization and/or possible usage of
spatial and visual cues. Therefore, we hope to encourage novel approaches based
on multimodality, especially since lists are often spatially structured to
convey information visually.

Improved annotation guidelines will also be provided to explain how the new and
richer dataset was created. Participants can choose to work on both languages,
or submit systems for one language only. They can participate in one or both
sub-tasks.

This task is open to everyone. The only exception are the co-chairs of the
organizing team, who cannot submit a system, and who will serve as an authority
to resolve any disputes concerning ethical issues or completeness of system
descriptions.

Evaluation
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For each sub-task, the evaluation metrics will be computed based on boundaries
which are pairs of character indexes ('start' and 'end'). The F-score will be
the official metric and an evaluation script will be provided to all the teams.

Prize
====
A USD$1000 prize will be rewarded to the best-performing teams.

Important dates
============
First announcement of the shared task and beginning of registration: 13 March
Release of training data and scoring script: before 30 March
Test set made available: 1 May
Registration deadline: 8 May
Systems' outputs collected: 8 May
Shared task system paper submissions due: 15 May
Notification of acceptance: 31 May
Camera-ready version of shared task system papers due: 15 June
FinNLP 2020 Workshop: 11-13 July

Contact
======
For any questions on the shared task please contact us on fin.sbd.task@gmail.com [5]

Shared Task Organizing committee
===========================
Abderrahim AIT-AZZI, Fortia Financial Solutions
Willy AU, Fortia Financial Solutions
Bianca CHONG, Fortia Financial Solutions
Dialekti VALSAMOU-STANISLAWSKI, Fortia Financial Solutions

Sincerely,

The FinSBD Organizers

IJCAI-20

Read more: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp2020/shared-task-finsbd-2
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3-3-24(2020-07-11) ROBOTDIAL Workshop 2020, Yokohama, Japan (UPDATED)

ROBOTDIAL Workshop 2020
Robot Dialogues - Dialogue Models for Human-Robot Interaction

CALL FOR PAPERS:

http://sap.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ijcai2020/robotdial/

In conjunction with IJCAI 2020, Yokohama, Japan

COVID 19 update: IJCAI-PRICAI-2020 will take place in some form, and papers accepted to IJCAI-PRICAI will be published in the proceedings.

==== Important Dates ====
Title and abstract deadline: April 20
Final submission deadline: April 27
Author notification: May 22
Camera ready due: June 3
Worskhop day: July 11-13 (actual date to be determined later)

Authors should submit their paper title and abstracts by April 20 and can
revise their paper up until the final submission deadline on April 27.
Paper submission is through EasyChair and use the paper format for
IJCAI. Short papers are a maximum of 4 pages and long papers are a maximum
of 8 pages, excluding references. At the workshop, we will discuss the possibility
of editing a special issue of a journal based on the presented papers.


==== Overview ====

Large communities in AI, robotics and interaction technology already work
on spoken language-based human-robot interaction. Their different starting
points and assumptions call for discussions, exchange of ideas and more
integrated approaches to implementations and modelling of spoken dialogues
on robot platforms.

This one-day workshop offers a platform for researchers to discuss and
elaborate their views at the intersection of AI, robotics and spoken
dialogue modelling. Sophisticated interaction models and implementations
are critical in this endeavour but are not often explicitly addressed.
Dialogue modelling and dialogue system implementations, on their part, are
often developed without sufficiently considering how the models could be
used in an embodied robotic system which also interacts with the
environment. The workshop offers a platform for discussions concerning
appropriate architectures and representations, in order to build a joint
understanding of the aspects and features that address the pertinent
questions in the multidisciplinary field of robot dialogues.

We invite submissions for this workshop based on (but not limited to) the
following topics:

- models of human-robot interactions and dialogue
- multimodal human-robot dialogue
- non-verbal communication in human-robot dialogue
- language modeling for robot interactions
- robots and unstructured conversation
- user studies with human-robot dialogue
- paralinguistics for robot interaction
- cognitive architectures for spoken dialogues
- representations for interaction and dialogue modelling

For further information, please check the workshop website or contact the authors at:
robotdial2020@easychair.org

Looking forward to seeing you in Yokohama!

Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan)
Martin Heckmann (Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany)
Divesh Lala (University of Kyoto, Japan)
Pierre Lison (Norsk Regnesentral, Norway)

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3-3-25(2020-07-15)CfP SIG:Prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles, Aix en Provence, France (UPDATED)

 

IMP0RTANT UPDATE

 

 

 

Due to Coronavirus, we have sadly had to postpone the conference until 2021.  We will be updating this page as more information becomes available

 

In the meantime, keep safe and we hope to see you in Aix in 2021!

 

 





Special Interest Group : Prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles

at the PALA conference 2020 (Poetics and Linguistics Association), 15-18 July 2020, Aix-en-Provence, France

Coordinator of the SIG: Sophie Herment, Aix Marseille Univ, Laboratoire Parole et Langage

 

Call for Papers 

The PALA 2020 conference (https://pala.sciencesconf.org/) invites special interest groups (SIGs) this year, among which a session on prosodic and phonetic features of speaking styles (SIG 8). This special interest group will gather specialists in the oral language. The different styles of the written language clearly have several lexical and syntactic particularities. The styles of the spoken language are yet to be defined. We would like to investigate phonetic and prosodic phenomena from a stylistic point of view. Segmental aspects can be relevant in the characterisation of style. Phonetic variation will therefore be considered. Rhythm is also a crucial element: tempo, the degree of assimilation, elision and reduction. Intonation is another significant feature: are certain intonation patterns associated with certain speaking styles?

The special session will allow us to question the definition that can be given to phonostyle(s).

Papers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives addressing the above issues will be welcome. We invite studies based on ecological corpora as well as experimental studies.



Submission guidelines 

Please upload your abstracts (no more than 300 words, references included, no more than 5 references) on the web site of the conference before February 15 2020. Here is how to proceed: 

·       Go to  https://pala.sciencesconf.org/

·       Go to login, in the drop-down menu, select 'create an account? and create a login and password.

·       You?ll receive an activation email that will direct you to an authentication page. Enter your newly created username and password

·       On the website, click on MY SPACE and then on MY SUBMISSION (in the menu)

·       Fill in the title and abstract, select ?ABSTRACT?, and add keywords.

·       Make sure you indicate clearly that you wish your paper to be considered for a Special Interest Group (SIGs).

 

All abstracts for SIGs need to be sent via the website and copied to the SIG organizer (please send a doc file or a doc and pdf file if you have special fonts): sophie.herment@univ-amu.fr

 

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3-3-26(2020-07-20) International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India (UPDATED)

Covid19: Decision will be taken by early May 2020


International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM)

July 20-23, 2020; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

https://ece.iisc.ac.in/~spcom/2020/

 

Call for Papers

 

SPCOM provides a leading forum for researchers from academia, research laboratories, and industries to come together to share and learn about the current developments and emerging trends in the broad areas of signal processing and communications. SPCOM 2020 will be the thirteenth in the series of conferences and will feature several high-profile plenary talks, tutorials, talks by distinguished researchers from academia and the industry on topics of current interest.

Prospective authors are invited to submit original, high-quality research contributions (up to five pages long). The style files for preparing the manuscript are available on the conference website: https://ece.iisc.ac.in/~spcom/2020/index.html

Submitted manuscripts will go through double-blind peer-review. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which will also be indexed on IEEE Xplore. Each accepted paper must be accompanied by a full registration and presented by one of the contributing authors. Each full registration can cover up to three accepted papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

 

Wireless Communications

Cooperative and D2D Communications

MIMO and Space-Time Signal Processing

Cognitive Radio

Network Coding

Information Theory

Coding for Data Communications and Storage

Sensor Networks

Optical Communications and Networks

Next-Generation Networking and QoS

Cyber-Physical Systems

Multihop and Heterogeneous Networks

Vehicular Networks

THz and RF Systems for Communications

Green Communications

Energy and Smart Grid

Physical Layer Security

Detection and Estimation

Adaptive and Array Signal Processing

Compressive Sensing and Sparse Signal Processing

Signal Processing for Communications

Machine Learning for Signal Processing and Communications

Audio and Speech Signal Processing

Spoken Language Processing

Image and Video Signal Processing

Computational Imaging/Photography and Inverse Problems

Source Coding and Data Compression

Forensics and Security

Signal Processing Algorithms and Architectures

Underwater Communications and Signal Processing

VLSI for Communication and Signal Processing

Systems, Standards, and Implementations

Biological signal Processing

Biological Network and Data Analysis/Modeling

Deep Learning

Computer Vision

Natural Language Processing

Big Data

Autonomous Navigation and Robotics

Neuromorphic Systems 

 

Important dates:

Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2020

Acceptance notification: April 12, 2020

Camera-ready submission: May 10, 2020

 

Proposals for tutorials and special sessions will be by invitation only.

 

Team SPCOM 2020

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3-3-27(2020-07-27) 4th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico (UPDATED)

Due to Covid-19, DeepLearn 2020 is rescheduled to be held on January 11-15, 2021 in Bilbao, Spain


4th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
 

DeepLearn 2020
 
León, Guanajuato, Mexico
 
July 27-31, 2020
 
Co-organized by:
 
Center for Research in Mathematics, A.C. (CIMAT-CONACyT)
Guanajuato
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA)
Brussels/London
 
https://deeplearn2020.irdta.eu/
 
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--- Early registration deadline: February 25, 2020 ---
 
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SCOPE:
 
DeepLearn 2020 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova and Warsaw.
 
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 2 keynote lectures and 24 four-hour and a half courses, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2020 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
VENUE:
 
DeepLearn 2020 will take place in León, the most populous city in the state of Guanajuato, in central Mexico, and a major economic pole in the country with specialization in leather industry. The venue will be:
 
Poliforum León
Blvd. Adolfo López Mateos esq. Blvd. Francisco Villa
Col. Oriental, León, Gto., Mexico, C.P. 37510
 
STRUCTURE:
 
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
 
Maja Pantic (Imperial College London), Artificial Emotional Intelligence, Faces, Deep Fakes and Other Topics
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
Rick S. Blum (Lehigh University), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning and Cybersecurity
 
Ben Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), [introductory/advanced] Explainable AI (XAI) Techniques for Science and Engineering -- Toward Statistical Inference for the 21st Century
 
Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, Expressivity, and Adaptivity
 
Ça?lar Gülçehre (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning
 
Vincent Lepetit (ENPC ParisTech), [intermediate] Deep Learning and 3D Geometry
 
Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing: Introduction and Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning
 
Andy Liaw (Merck Research Labs), [introductory] Deep Learning and Statistics: Better Together
 
Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/advanced] Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition
 
Jan Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt), [intermediate] Robot Learning
 
Massimiliano Pontil (Italian Institute of Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Statistical Learning Theory
 
Jose Principe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video
 
Fedor Ratnikov (National Research University Higher School of Economics), [introductory] Specifics of Applying Machine Learning to Problems in Natural Science
 
Salim Roukos (IBM Research AI), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning Methods for Natural Language Processing
 
Björn Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Signal Processing
 
Alex Smola (Amazon), [introductory/advanced] Dive into Deep Learning
 
Sargur N. Srihari (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Generative Models in Deep Learning
 
Kunal Talwar (Google Brain), [intermediate] Differentially Private Machine Learning
 
René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning
 
Haixun Wang (WeWork), [introductory/intermediate] Conceptual Understanding and Machine Learning
 
Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects
 
OPEN SESSION:
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 19, 2020.
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 19, 2020.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for, to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 19, 2020.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Teresa Efigenia Alarcón Martínez (Guadalajara)
Oscar Dalmau Cedeño (Guanajuato, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
https://deeplearn2020.irdta.eu/registration/
 
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
FEES:
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C. (CIMAT-CONACyT) ? Guanajuato
 
Centro Universitario de los Valles, Universidad de Guadalajara
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London

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3-3-28(2020-08-09) AILA 2020 CONGRESS: EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS, Groningen, The Netherlands

 EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS
EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF AUDIO-VISUAL TEXTS

 


At the AILA 2020 CONGRESS
09-14 August 2020 ? Groningen ? The Netherlands

 

 

 

See below  for details. 
 

 

 

 

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL
Your submission will need to include the following:
? Author(s) and affiliation(s)
? Title: max. 20 words
? Abstract: max. 300 words
? Summary for program: max. 50 words
? Submit your paper proposal via the 'submit your paper'-link on
https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers .

 

 

 

Symposium Organisers:

Ielka van der Sluis
Gisela Redeker
Janina Wildfeuer



AILA 2020 CONGRESS

09-14 August 2020 • Groningen • The Netherlands

S051

EVALUATING MULTIMODAL DOCUMENTS

EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF AUDIO-VISUAL TEXTS

Symposium | Call for Papers

Organisers

Ielka van der Sluis

Gisela Redeker

Janina Wildfeuer

multimodality • evaluation • reception • cognition

he symposium addresses how

multimodal analyses can be used for

and applied to the evaluation of

multimodal communication. It aims at

reviewing evaluation methods and

providing practical implications for the

design of accessible audio-visual texts.

While the use of multimodal resources

such as pictures, texts, sound and

moving images has become normal in

our communication, it is not self-evident

how these resources should effectively

be combined to guarantee the

envisioned understanding. Insights in

human processing principles and

empirical reception studies are needed

to evaluate multimodal design and to

inform the variety of theories and

methods in our broad multimodal

context.

The symposium concentrates on the

principles that underlie successful

communication by explicitly asking for

results from empirical reception studies

conducted with readers/users of

multimodal texts. We seek contributions

reporting empirical and corpus-based

studies of multimodal artefacts that

provide insights into how people

navigate an understand them.

Featured talks by Jana Holsanova, Lund

University, and James Pustejovsky,

Brandeis University, will provide

excellent starting points for our

discussions.

The symposium aims at gaining empirical and

theoretical insights into how readers and usersystematic empirical and corpus-based analyses and

that can provide practical implications for the design of

accessible audio-visual texts.

AILA 2020 CONGRESS

09-14 August 2020 • Groningen • The Netherlands

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS

Standard presentations

12-20-minute presentations with a ppt.

The exact amount of time for each of these

presentations is up to the symposium

organizers and depends on the number of

abstracts accepted.

Focused presentations

In pitches of 2-5 minutes, speakers advertise

the presentations that take place in the

dedicated focused presentation space where

the symposia attendants meet during lunch

or drinks.

All the focused multimodal presentations

include a poster. Additionally, these

presenters will have the opportunity to

upload a full 12-minute version of their paper

(video/audio, ppt) to the AILA website for

exposure for a full year after presenting at

AILA 2020.

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

Your submission will need to include the following:

Author(s) and affiliation(s)

Title: max. 20 words

Abstract: max. 300 words

Summary for program: max. 50 words

Submit your paper proposal via the 'submit your paper'-link on

https://www.aila2020.nl/call-for-papers .

DATES

Submission deadline 16 September 2019

Notification by 18 November 2019

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3-3-29(2020-08-13) Nordic prosody conference, Sonderborg,Denmark (UPDATED)

Call for Papers

 

The 13th edition of the Nordic Prosody (NP) conference series is proudly hosted by Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark (https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/centre+for+industrial+elektronics). The conference will be held as a satellite event to the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), 16-20 August 2020. Note that there will be a discount for NP participants who sign up for both conferences!

The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia.

 

Nordic Prosody conferences take place every 4 years. The first one was in Lund in 1978, organized by Eva Gårding, Gösta Bruce and Robert Bannert. The 12th Nordic Prosody was in 2016 in Trondheim, Norway. The conference series focuses on the forms and functions of prosodic patterns in Nordic languages and in languages spoken around the Baltic Sea. Contributions on all the various aspects of phonetics, phonology, and speech typology are welcome. Papers presenting new corpora, methods, or devices can be submitted as well. We also encourage researchers from neighboring disciplines like (second-language) pedagogy, acoustics, human-machine interaction, and voice pathology to submit contributions to the conference.

 

Keynote Speakers

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- David House (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) & Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University, Sweden): The multimodal nature of prominence

- Wim van Dommelen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway): Interactions of segmental and prosodic parameters

- Nicolai Pharao (Copenhagen University, Denmark): Processing prosody – recognizing speakers and recognizing words

 

Important dates:

**************
31 May 2020 Abstract submission deadline
21 June 2020 Early bird registration deadline
13-15 August 2020 13th Nordic Prosody Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark

01 November 2020 Full-paper submission deadline

 

Registrations are made through the conference website. Abstracts as well as full papers should be sent by email to np2020@sdu.dk. More detailed information about the formatting requirements will be available on the conference website.

 

http://www.prosody.dk

Conference proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume of  a Peter Lang book series.

 

                                         NEW

two special sessions at Tone and Intonation 2020 (August 16-20, SDU Sonderborg), as described below.  Please visit www.tai2020.org for more information, now including the conference keynote speakers, registration information, etc.


 

“Perceptual impact of foreign accents and non-standard varieties”

 

Marta Ortega-Llebaria (University of Pittsburgh, USA) & Jan Volín (Charles University, Czech Republic)

 

Suprasegmental features of speech have received well-deserved attention in the past decades. In particular, research in the f0 domain has proven especially promising since the melodic and tonal attributes of speech are perceptually salient and robust. They also convey a variety of meanings – lexical, grammatical, affective, pragmatic, conative, social – and they facilitate cerebral speech processing and comprehension. Unprecedented mobility of human populations leads to multilingual contexts that create new situations of language contact and language learning involving typologically different language varieties, many of which are still under-researched. Exactly these new linguistic situations could provide new insights into functioning of melodic and tonal phenomena and their role in, for instance, the linguistic structure, language learning and social stereotyping.

 

Submissions that investigate tone and intonation in relation to the following subtopics are especially welcome:

 

• perception and interpretation of melodic and tonal features in non-native languages and non-standard varieties

 

• implicit (unconscious) judgements about the users of non-native languages and non-standard varieties

 

• explicit (conscious) evaluations of intonation of non-native languages and non-standard varieties in different contexts, e.g., court, L2 proficiency exams, job interviews, business presentations

 

• emotional response to non-standard varieties and foreign-accented speech

 

• social consequences of speaking outside standard

 

• effects of unfamiliar accents into f0 processing and cognitive load

 

• entrainment/conversational accommodation in f0 domain

 

• the role of intonation in perceived fluency, accentedness, intelligibility and comprehensibility

 

• didactic approach to tones and tunes in foreign language teaching

 

 

 

After the opening overview of the field, the special session is planned to host 6 oral presentations of 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for on-spot clarifications and a number of poster presentations. The presentations will be followed by a chaired panel discussion.

 

 

 

“Prosody-oriented studies of social communicative speech in a digitized world”

 

Barbara Schuppler (TU Graz, Austria) & Wentao Gu (Nanjing Normal University, China)

 

In the last decade, human-human and human-machine social communicative dialogues have received more and more attention among linguists and speech scientists. For one thing, linguists study social communicative speech in order to go beyond controlled experiments and get additional insights into how spoken languages are processed in dynamic interaction. For another thing, accurate and phenomenologically rich automatic speech/speaker/emotion recognition and expressive text-to-speech synthesis systems are essential for conversational dialogue systems, as these become increasingly more interactional and social rather than solely transactional. Prosody, as the major vehicle of social functions, plays key roles in both types of studies. The investigation of prosodic variation in dialogue does not only require applying existing methods to interactional data. It also requires developing new categories of forms and functions, new modeling techniques and new sources of data/knowledge. This special session aims at bringing together phoneticians, linguists and speech technologists interested in the prosody of conversational speech. Submissions on the following topics and on different languages, including minority languages, are especially welcome:

 

• tools and data resources for the annotation and analysis of prosody in conversational speech

 

• the relationship between prosodic forms and communicative functions

 

• cross-linguistic and individual prosody variation in social speech communication

 

• co-variation of the segmental and suprasegmental characteristics in speech communication

 

• models of prosody in conversational speech

 

• prosody-oriented studies in automatic speech/speaker/emotion recognition and expressive text-to-speech synthesis

 

• prosody-oriented studies in human-robot interaction

 

The special session is able to include a maximum of 10 submissions, e.g., subdivided into 7 oral presentations of 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion and 3 oral presentations that showcase new methods, tools, and corpora.

 

 

 

Submissions to the special sessions use the same abstract and paper templates as regular contributions to TAI, and submissions are made through the same Easychair link as for regular contributions to TAI. The deadline for all submissions is 19 April 2020.  Please see www.tai2020.org for more information.

 

 

 

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This mail was sent through the SProSIG mailing list, which is for

 

announcements of interest to the speech prosody research community.

 

To subscribe/unsubscribe, send mail to list@sprosig.org.

 

 

 

Nigel Ward, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

 

CCSB 3.0408,  +1-915-747-6827

 

nigel@utep.edu    http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/   







We wish all of you a good start into the new lecture term.

The NP13 organizing committee,

 

Oliver Niebuhr, Jana Neitsch, Jan Michalsky, Meg Zellers, Stephanie Berger, Kerstin Fischer

 

Oliver Niebuhr

Associate Professor of Communication & Innovation

SDU Electrical Engineering

CIE - Centre for Industrial Electronics

 

This mail was sent through the SProSIG mailing list, which is for announcements of interest to the speech prosody research community. To subscribe/unsubscribe, mail list@sprosig.org.

 

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3-3-30(2020-08-24) The 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020), Amsterdam , The Netherlands, UPDATED

UPDATE COVID 19

The conference is postponed to January 18-22 2021. See http://2020.eusipco.org

The 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020)

August 24-28, 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Website: http://2020.eusipco.org
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Rebecca Willett, Departments of  Statistics and Computer Science,
University of Chicago, USA.

Michael Unser, Biomedical Imaging Group, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Robert Heath, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin, USA.


CALL FOR PAPERS:

On behalf of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), it is a great
pleasure of the organizing committee to invite you to the 28th European Signal Processing
Conference, EUSIPCO 2020, to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. EUSIPCO is the
flagship conference of EURASIP and offers a comprehensive technical program addressing
all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing. EUSIPCO
2020 will feature worldclass speakers, oral and poster sessions, plenaries, exhibitions,
demonstrations, tutorials, and satellite workshops, and is expected to attract many
leading academic researchers and people from industry from all over the world.


TECHNICAL SCOPE:

We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including
but not limited to:

- Audio and acoustic signal processing
- Speech and language processing
- Image and video processing
   Multimedia signal processing
- Signal processing theory and methods
- Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
- Signal processing for communications
- Radar and sonar signal processing
- Signal processing over graphs and networks
- Nonlinear signal processing
- Statistical signal processing
- Compressed sensing and sparse modelling
- Optimization methods
- Machine learning
- Bio-medical image and signal processing
- Signal processing for computer vision and robotics
- Computational imaging / spectral imaging
- Information forensics and security
- Signal processing for power systems
- Signal processing for education
- Bioinformatics and genomics
- Signal processing for big data
- Signal processing for the internet of things
- Design/implementation of signal processing systems

Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore©. EURASIP enforces a ?no-show? policy.
Procedures to submit papers, proposals for special sessions, tutorials and satellite
workshops can be found on the website.


VENUE:

Beurs van berlage (https://beursvanberlage.com). The Beurs van Berlage breathes history
and character. It was already a bustling trading place in 1903. Today it?s a one in a
million conference location in the warm heart of Amsterdam, with high quality and
service, an impressive atmosphere and excellent facilities. A fantastic location
that you?ll never forget! The building is located in the characteristic historic center
of Amsterdam, opposite the Central Station and around the corner from Dam Square. Amidst
impressive cultural highlights and no fewer than eight thousand hotel rooms. The design
by master architect Berlage breathes history and vigor. It certainly leaves
an unforgettable impression! In less than fifteen minutes from Schiphol Airport you?re
already in the Beurs van Berlage. Moreover, there are ample parking opportunities within
walking distance.


IMPORTANT DATES:

- Special Session Proposals? December 6, 2019
- Tutorial Proposals ? January 17, 2020
- Satellite Workshop Proposals ? January 24, 2020
- Full Paper Submission ? March 2, 2020
- Notification of Acceptance ? May 29, 2020
- Final Manuscript Submission ? June 12, 2020

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3-3-31(2020-08=31) 1st Call for paper – RO-MAN 2020 Special Session in Dialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction , Naples, Italy

1st Call for paper – RO-MAN 2020 Special Session in Dialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction

The Special Session Dialogue Management Systems for Human-Robot Interaction will be held in Naples during the RO-MAN 2020 Conference (http://ro-man2020.unina.it/) which will take place from August 31st to September 4th. This Special Session is a joint initiative of Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (AILC) and Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce (AISV), i.e. the two Italian scientific societies on Computational Linguistics and Speech Sciences.

The Special Session will focus on Spoken Dialogue Systems, currently a leading topic in Social and Interactional Robotics. In this area some ongoing, often unresolved, issues, including accuracy in automatic speech recognition, naturalness of speech synthesis and complexity of semantic domain representation, are fast going toward a revolutionary turning point allowing researchers to concentrate on multimodal integration, spoken language understanding, and automatic evaluation of the speaker’s intents.

 

SUBMISSION

We invite participants to submit a 6 pages paper. Example submission topics include, but are not limited to:

· Speech and gesture interfaces for robotic interaction

· Spoken language understanding and domain semantic representation

· Specific vs general domain dialogue systems

· Dialogue state tracking

· Datasets for training dialogue systems

· User intent classification

· Vision, spatial representation, deixis, reference disambiguation

· Persuasive dialogue systems ed empathic strategies

· Dialogic corpora collection

· Dialogue Systems evaluation

· Modelling miscommunication and repair strategies

 

AUTHORS SHOULD ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING STEPS FOR SUBMITTING THE PAPER (FOR INITIAL SUBMISSION):

  1. Create an account: go to https://ras.papercept.net/, then PIN and fill out the form. Ask all your co-authors to do the same if they do not have an account on the system yet, write down the authors' PINs (this information is needed for manuscript processing purposes).

  2. Go to Support Menu and depending on how you are preparing your paper, download a template: LaTeX or MS-Word, Use these templates/style files to create the paper and save in PDF format.

  3. Upload the paper: go to https://ras.papercept.net/ and click on 'Submit a contribution to RO-MAN 2020'.

  4. Submit (regular paper, special session paper).

  5. Fill in the form presented on the next page (make sure to enter all author PINs created in Step 1).

Please note, that our conference policy requires that at least one of the authors of the contributing submission must pay the conference registration fee to upload the final camera ready. This is to ensure that at least one of the presenting authors will be registered to attend the conference and deliver the presentation. The link to the registration system will be available on the conference website soon.

*The proposal must be submitted via the Papercept submission site.*

If you have any questions about the special sessions proposal submission, please contact programchair@ro-man2020.org

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: MARCH 15, 2020

Notification of Acceptance: MAY 27, 2020

Camera-ready deadline: JUNE 15, 2020

 

With kind regards,

 

On behalf of the Organizing Committee:

 

Francesco Cutugno – University of Naples ‘Federico II’

Barbara Gili Fivela – University of Salento

Bernardo Magnini – Fondazione Bruno Kessler

 

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3-3-32(2020-09-07) CfP Text Mining and Applications (TEMA2020) , Lisboa, Portugal

Call for Papers ? Text Mining and Applications (TEMA?20) Track of EPIA?20

TeMA 2020 will be held at the 20th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (EPIA 2020) taking place at Lisboa, Portugal, from 7th to
9th September 2020. This track is organized under the auspices of the
Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2020
URL: : https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt/

This announcement contains the following information:

[1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates;
[4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7]
Program Committee and [8] Contacts.

[1] Track Description
The 10th Track of Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2020) is a forum
for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural
Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural
Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval
(IR), and related areas.
        The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual
documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information
is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in
natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities
for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies.
        Following recent advances in general IA sub-fields such as NLP,
Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even
more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories
and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the
power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable
important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both
hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using text mining
methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with
high commercial value.
Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues
identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind
by the members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be
published by Springer in a volume of Springer?s Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the
20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2020.

[2] Topics of Interest
TM, NLP, and Social Media Content Analysis
?       Entity Recognition and Disambiguation
?       Relation Extraction
?       Analysis of Opinions, Emotions and Sentiments
?       Text Clustering and Classification
?       Machine Translation
?       Summarization
?       Word Sense Disambiguation
?       Co-Reference Resolution
?       Language Modeling
?       Syntax and Parsing
?       Distributional Models and Semantics
?       Multi-Word Units
?       Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
?       Spatio-Temporal Text Mining
?       Entailment and Paraphrases
?       Natural Language Generation
?       Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage
?       Cross-Lingual Approaches
?       Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining
Applications:
?       Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
?       Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems
?       Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting
?       Web Content Annotation
?       Computational Social Science
?       Computational Journalism
?       Health and Well-being
?       Big Data Analysis

 [3] Important dates
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2020
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2020
        EPIA Conference: September 7-9, 2020(Lisboa, Portugal)

[4] Paper submission
Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original,
and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length
of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting
instructions of Springer LNAI series. Authors should omit their names
from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid
indirectly disclosing their identity. References to own work may be
included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. All
papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference
management website at: https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt/
Authors should consult Springer?s authors? guidelines and use their
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the
preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include
their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of
each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must
complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author
signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author
marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer,
changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

[5] Track Fees:
 Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2020 conference.

[6] Organizing Committee:
Joaquim Silva, DI ? FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica,
Portugal (Contact person).
Pablo Gamallo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do
Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain.
Paulo Quaresma, DI ? Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2,
7000-645 Évora, Portugal.
Irene Rodrigues., DI ? Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2,
7000-645 Évora, Portugal

[7] Program Committee:
Adam Jatowt ? Universit of Kioto, Japan
Alberto Diaz ? Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Alberto Simões ? Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal
Alexandre Rademaker ? IBM / FGV, Brazil
Altigran Silva ? Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil
Antoine Doucet ? University of Caen, France
António Branco ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Béatrice Daille ? University of Nantes, France
Bruno Martins ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Eric de La Clergerie ? INRIA, France
Fernando Batista ? Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Francisco Couto ? Faculdade de Ciências ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Gabriel Pereira Lopes ? Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ?
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Gaël Dias ? University of Caen Basse-Normandie
Hugo Oliveira ? Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Iñaki Vicente - Language Technology, Elhuyar Foundation
Irene Rodrigues ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Jesús Vilares ? University of A Coruña, Spain
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva ? Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ?
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska ? ESIGETEL, France
Luisa Coheur ? Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Manuel Vilares Ferro ? University of Vigo, Spain
Marcos Garcia - Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Mário Silva ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Miguel Alonso ? Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Pablo Gamallo ? Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain
Patricia Martín-Rodilla ? Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Paulo Quaresma ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Pavel Brazdil ? University of Porto, Portugal
Renata Vieira ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Sérgio Nunes ? Faculdade de Engenharia ? Universidade do Porto, Portugal

[8] Contacts
Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre,
2829?516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ?
Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ? E?mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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3-3-33(2020-09-08 )TSD 2020 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS, Brno, Czech Republic

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        TSD 2020 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS
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Twenty-third International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2020)
              Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2020
                    http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.


CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The TSD 2020 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops
or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing
committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the
conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by
a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD
review process will appear in the Springer proceedings.  Each workshop is
a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail
tsd2020@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.


TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
    text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
    specialized lexicons, dictionaries)

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
    speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
    alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
    acoustic and language modelling)

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
    disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
    credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
    authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
    fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
    extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
    knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
    disambiguation, plagiarism detection)

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
    (machine translation, natural language understanding,
    question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)

    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
    and personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
    Rodrigo Agerri, Spain
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
    Archna Bhatia, United States
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine
    Carlos Ferra, Cuba
    Volker Fischer, Germany
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Eleni Galiotou, Greece
    Bjorn Gamback, Norway
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, USA
    Tino Haderlein, Germany
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Hynek Hermansky, USA
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Denis Jouvet, France
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Aidar Khusainov, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia
    Pavel Kral, Czech Republic
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Bernardo Magnini, Italy
    Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    France Mihelic, Slovenia
    Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
    Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Pavel Rychly, Czechia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    Odette Scharenborg, The Netherlands
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia
    Vitomir Struc, Slovenia
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Jan Trmal, Czechia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Aleksander Wawer, Poland
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Alina Wroblewska, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia
    Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The conference program will include oral presentations and
poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of
the issues raised.


IMPORTANT DATES

April 10 2020 ............ Submission of abstracts
April 17 2020 ............ Submission of full papers
June 5 2020 .............. Notification of acceptance
June 15 2020 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2020 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2020 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-11 2020 ...... Conference date

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
   
    Ales Horak, TSD 2020
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2020@tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2020 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2020


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Berlin and
Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).

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3-3-34(2020-09-08) TSD 2020 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS, Brno, Czech Republic (UPDATED)

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                     TSD 2020 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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Twenty-third International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2020)
              Brno, Czech Republic, 8-11 September 2020
                    http://www.tsdconference.org/

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to:

    April 27 2020 ............ Submission of full papers


NO CHANGES DUE TO COVID-19

In the current Czech Republic situation, the COVID-19 spread is far from
epidemic, almost all the cases are very mild. Moreover, the Czech
government is taking strong precautions to stop the COVID-19 spread before
it would actually happen.  This is why the organizers believe that the
actual organization of the TSD 2020 conference in September is not at risk
and we plan to continue the preparation process without changes.


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

    April 10 2020 ............ Submission of abstracts
    April 17 2020 ............ Submission of full papers

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary. It is still possible to submit both by the full paper deadline.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
    Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
    Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden


TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index/Web of Science.  Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major
citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2020/conf_workshop_proposals.html

The TSD 2020 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops
or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing
committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the
conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by
a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD
review process will appear in the Springer proceedings.  Each workshop is
a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form
or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2020@tsdconference.org ahead of the
respective deadline.


TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
    text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
    specialized lexicons, dictionaries)

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
    speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
    alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
    acoustic and language modelling)

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
    disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
    credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
    authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
    fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
    extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
    knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
    disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection)

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
    (machine translation, natural language understanding,
    question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)

    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
    and personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
    Rodrigo Agerri, Spain
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
    Archna Bhatia, USA
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine
    Carlos Ferrer, Cuba
    Volker Fischer, Germany
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Eleni Galiotou, Greece
    Bjorn Gamback, Norway
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, USA
    Tino Haderlein, Germany
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Hynek Hermansky, USA
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Denis Jouvet, France
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Aidar Khusainov, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia
    Pavel Kral, Czech Republic
    Siegfried Kunzmann, USA
    Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Bernardo Magnini, Italy
    Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    France Mihelic, Slovenia
    Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
    Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Pavel Rychly, Czechia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    Odette Scharenborg, The Netherlands
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia
    Vitomir Struc, Slovenia
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Jan Trmal, Czechia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Aleksander Wawer, Poland
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Alina Wroblewska, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia
    Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted
will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2020 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...',
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...'.  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of
the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.
Authors using a WORD compatible software for the final version must
use the LNCS template for WORD and within the submit process ask the
Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this
service a service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied
automatically.

The paper format for review has to be a PDF file with all required fonts
included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further
information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for
detailed instructions on the final paper format see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample File
typeinst.zip).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed
software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the
conference.  The presenters of demonstrations should provide an
abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

April 10 2020 ............ Submission of abstracts
April 17 2020 ............ Submission of full papers
June 5 2020 .............. Notification of acceptance
June 15 2020 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2020 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2020 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-11 2020 ...... Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer
proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time
of the conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in
the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
   
    Ales Horak, TSD 2020
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2020@tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2020 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Milan, and by
trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may
also be of interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called
Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St.  James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat
designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important
buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with
Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of
three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz
- Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz),
Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice
Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish
cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO
heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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3-3-35(2020-09-13) CfP Workshop Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex), Barcelona, Spain
Call for Papers

CogALex

Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon

 

Workshop co-located with COLING
(28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics),
Barcelona, Spain, September 13, 2020

Paper submission deadline: May 14, 2020
deadline for shared-task papers : May 20, 2020

For latest information always look here
https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-2020



1 Background

Supporting us in many tasks (thinking, searching, memorizing and communicating) words are important. Hence, one may wonder how to build tools supporting their learning and usage (access/navigation). Alas the answer is not quite as straightforward as it may seem. It depends on various factors: the questioner's background (lexicography, psychology, computer science), the task (production/reception), and the material support (hardware). Words in books, computers and the human brain are not the same. Obviously, being aware of this, different communities have focused on different issues ?(dictionary building; creation of navigational tools; representation and organization of words; time course for accessing a word, etc.)? yet,  their views and  respective goals have changed considerably over time.  

Rather than considering the lexicon as a static entity, where discrete units (words) are organized alphabetically (database view), dictionaries are now viewed dynamically, i.e., as lexical graphs, whose entities are linked in various ways (topical relations; associations) and whose weight links may vary over time. While lexicographers view words as products (holistic entities), psychologists and neuroscientists view them as processes (decomposition), involving various steps or layers (representations) between an input and an output.

Computational linguists have their own ways to look at words, and their proposals have also changed quite a bit during the last decade. Discrete count-based vector representations have successively been replaced by continuous vectors (i.e., word embeddings) and then by language-model-based contextualized representations. These latter are more powerful than any of the other forms, as they are able to account for context ambiguity, outperforming the static models (including word-embeddings) in a broad range of tasks.

As one can see, different communities look at words from different angles, which can be an asset, as complementary views may help us to broaden and deepen our understanding of this fundamental cognitive resource. Yet, this diversity of perspectives can also a problem, in particular if the field is rapidly moving on, as in our case. Hence it becomes harder and harder for everyone, including experts, to remain fully informed about the latest changes (state of the art). This is one of the reasons why we organize this workshop. More precisely, our goal is not only to keep people informed without getting them crushed by the information glut, but also to help them to perceive clearly what is new, relevant, hence important. Last, but not least, we would like to connect people from different communities in the hope that this may help them to gain new insights or inspirations.

 

2   Scope and Topics

This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources (representation, organization of the data, etc.). To allow for this we invite researchers to submit their contributions. The idea is to discuss the limitations of existing resources and to explore possible enhancements that take into account the users? and the engineers' needs (computational aspects).

Also, just like in the past we propose again a 'shared task'. This time the goal is to provide a common benchmark for testing lexical representations for the automatic identification of lexical semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, hypernymy, part-whole meronymy) in various languages (English, Chinese, and so on).

For this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the following topics, each of which can be considered from various points of view: linguistics (lexicography, computational- or corpus linguistics), neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip-of-the-tongue problem, word associations), network-related sciences (vector-based approaches, graph theory, small-world problem), and so on.

1    Organization, i.e. structure of the lexicon
?     Micro- and macrostructure of the lexicon;
?     Indexical categories (taxonomies, thesaurus-like topical structures, etc.);
?     Map of the lexicon (topology) and relations between words (word associations).

2    The meaning of words and how to reveal it
?    Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed);
?    Meaning representation (concept based, primitives);
?    Distributional semantics (count models, neural embeddings, etc. )

3    Analysis of the conceptual input given by a dictionary user
?    What information do language producers typically provide when looking for a word (terms, relations)?
?    What kind of relational information do they give: typed or untyped relations?
?    Which relations are typically used?

4    Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes
?    Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and indexes (crowdsourcing, serious games, etc.);
?    Extraction of associations from corpora to build semantic networks supporting navigation;
?    (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g., synonym, hypernym, meronym, ...).

5    Creation of new types of dictionaries
?    Concept dictionary;
?    Dictionary of larger segments than words (clauses, phrasal elements);
?    Dictionary of patterns or concept-patterns;
?    Dictionary of syllables.

6    Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues

?    Search based on sound (rhymes), meaning or contextually related words (associations);
?    Determination of appropriate search space based on the user?s cognitive state (information available at the onset: query) and meta-knowledge (knowledge concerning the relationship between the input and the target word), ...
?    Identification of typical word access strategies (navigational patterns) used by people;
?    Interface problems, data visualization.


3  Workshop Submissions

The workshop features two tracks: 

  • A regular research track, where the submissions must be substantially original.
  • A shared task track, with submissions consisting of system description papers.

 

The regular research track submissions should follow one of the 2 formats:

  • Long papers (9 content pages + references) should report on solid and finished research including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques.
  • Short papers (4 content pages + references) should report on small experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion.

Submissions must be anonymized, conform to the style sheet of COLING (https://coling2020.org/pages/call_for_papers), and be submitted via their website (https://www.softconf.com/coling2020/CogALex/). While some papers may be accepted only as posters, in the proceedings no distinction will be made between them and full papers.

 

4 Important Dates

       Workshop papers

  • Paper submission deadline: May 14, 2020
  • Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2020
  •  Camera-ready papers due: July 11, 2020
  • Workshop date: September 13, 2020

      
   
Shared task

 

  • Release of development data : March 1, 2020
  • Release of test data April: 20-24, 2020 
  • Announcement of winners May 1, 2020
  • Shared task papers due: May 20, 2020

 

5 Invited Speaker

       Alex Arenas (http://deim.urv.cat/~alexandre.arenas/)

              Alephsys Lab, Computer Science & Mathematics,

              Universidad Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain

6 Workshop Organizers

  • Michael Zock (LIS, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France)
  • Alessandro Lenci (Comput. Linguistics Laboratory, University of Pisa, Italy)
  • Enrico Santus (MIT Computer Science& AI Lab, Boston, USA)
  • Emmanuele Chersoni (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)


7 Program Committee

see : https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-2020/home/programme-committee

8 Contacts

For general questions, please get in touch with Michael Zock

e-mail:          michael.zock@lis-lab.fr

Homepage:   http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/

Concerning the shared task, please contact

Enrico Santus                 (esantus@gmail.com), or

Emmanuele Chersoni     (emmanuelechersoni@gmail.com)

 

 

 
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3-3-36(2020-09-13) FinTOC?2 shared task at COLING2020, Barcelona, Spain UPDATED

 


 

News: The training data has been released. If you wish to access it, you need to register to the shared task here: https://forms.gle/LFsVaw6DqYikhKHx9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Held at COLING 2020 as part of the FNP-FNS 2020 workshop.

 

13 September, Barcelona, Spain.

 

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Shared Task URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fintoc2020/

 

Workshop URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2020/

 

Participation Form: https://forms.gle/LFsVaw6DqYikhKHx9




Second Call for Participation

FinTOC?2 shared task


Held at COLING 2020 as part of the FNP-FNS 2020 workshop.
13 September, Barcelona, Spain.
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Shared Task URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fintoc2020/
Workshop URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2020/
Participation Form: https://forms.gle/LFsVaw6DqYikhKHx9

_____________________________________________

The FinTOC?2 shared task aims to bring together the community of researchers interested in Financial Document Processing and Document Layout Analysis to advance the state of the art in the automatic processing of financial documents. This task focuses on the automatic generation of reports' Table Of Contents (henceforth TOC), as it is a key building block in the semantic analysis of financial documents. Generating the TOC requires detecting the span of all document sections and subsections, identifying their titles, and organising them into a hierarchy. It is a well-known fact that extracting document structure is a key step in information processing. For example sections can be used to determine areas where algorithms can be applied, such as Information Extraction, thus reducing false positives rate and irrelevant noise.

This is the second edition of the FinTOC shared task which will be held at COLING 2020 in Barcelona (Spain) as part of the FNP-FNS 2020 workshop. Last year?s edition received significant interest, particularly on the Title Detection track. Our aim this year is to increase interest by:
- lowering the barriers to the entry to the TOC extraction track, and
- opening up the task to a new language: French. We are particularly interested in systems which can be applied to both English and French languages.

This second edition proposes two tracks: one track per language, and it will score systems on both Title detection and TOC generation performance. We have revised the task and greatly simplified data formats to make it as smooth as possible for every interested researcher to participate and submit their systems? outputs at FinTOC?2.

Each of the participating teams will be asked to submit a short paper describing their methods and solutions to be presented at the workshop.

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To register your interest in participating in FinTOC?2 shared task please use the following google form by no later than April 6th, 2020: https://forms.gle/LFsVaw6DqYikhKHx9
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Important dates:

December 1st, 2020: Registration opens.
February 17th, 2020: Release of training set & scoring scripts.
March 23rd, 2020: Release of test set.
April 6th, 2020: Registration deadline.
April 13th, Submission deadline.
May 1st, 2020: Release of results.
Sep 13th, 2020: Workshop day.
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Contact:
For any questions on the shared task please contact us on:
fin.toc.task@gmail.com
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Shared task organizers:

- Najah-Imane Bentabet, Fortia Financial Solutions
- Ismail El Maarouf, Fortia Financial Solutions
- Mahmoud El-Haj, Lancaster University
- Remi Juge, Fortia Financial Solutions
- Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski, Fortia Financial Solutions

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3-3-37(2020-09-15) ADReSS challenge, Shanghai, China (UPDATED)

Due to the COVID19, INTERSPEECH 2020 has new dates: 26-29 October 2020 


Call for Participation:

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Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech:
The ADReSS Challenge at INTERSPEECH 2020 (Sep 15-18, Shanghai, China)

Dementia is a category of neurodegenerative diseases that entails a
long-term and usually gradual decrease of cognitive functioning.  While
a number of studies have investigated speech and language features for
the detection of Alzheimer's Disease and mild cognitive impairment, and
proposed various signal processing and machine learning methods for this
prediction task, the field still lacks balanced and standardised data
sets on which these different approaches can be systematically compared.

The ADReSS Challenge has made available a benchmark dataset of
spontaneous speech, which is acoustically pre-processed and balanced in
terms of age and gender, defining a shared task through which different
approaches to AD recognition in spontaneous speech can be compared.

We invite researchers working on speech and language analysis methods
for detection of AD and/or assessment of cognitive status to develop or
test their approaches to these tasks on the ADReSS Challenge dataset,
and to submit a paper for presentation at INTERSPEECH'2020, in the
Challenge's special session.

The relevant dates are:

*  January 24, 2020: ADReSS training data available
*  March 15, 2020: ADReSS test data made available
*  March 17, 2020: Period for submission of results opens
*  March 30, 2020: *INTERSPEECH'2020 paper submission deadline*
*  June 19, 2020: Paper acceptance/rejection notification
*  September 15-18, 2020: INTERSPEECH'2020, in Shanghai, China.

For further details please see https://edin.ac/375QRNI

Organizers
 - Saturnino Luz, Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh
 - Fasih Haider, The University of Edinburgh
 - Sofia de la Fuente, The University of Edinburgh
 - Davida Fromm, Carnegie Mellon University
 - Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
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3-3-38(2020-09-21)CfP MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING (MLSP 2020), Espoo ,Finland

MLSP 2020

https://ieeemlsp.cchttps://ieeemlsp.cc https://ieeemlsp.cc

Call for Papers

Machine learning, as the driving force of this wave of AI, provides powerful solutions to many real-world technical and scientific challenges. The 30th MLSP workshop, an annual event organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society MLSP Technical Committee, will present the most recent and exciting advances in machine learning for signal processing through keynote talks, tutorials, as well as special and regular single-track sessions. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on relevant algorithms and applications including, but not limited to:

  • Learning theory and modeling
  • Neural networks and deep learning
  • Bayesian Learning and modeling
  • Sequential learning, sequential decision methods
  • Information-theoretic learning
  • Graphical and kernel models
  • Bounds on performance
  • Source separation and independent component analysis
  • Signal detection, pattern recognition and classification
  • Tensor and structured matrix methods
  • Machine learning for big data
  • Large scale learning
  • Dictionary learning, subspace and manifold learning
  • Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Active and reinforcement learning
  • Learning from multimodal data
  • Resource efficient machine learning
  • Cognitive information processing
  • Bioinformatics applications
  • Biomedical applications and neural engineering
  • Speech and audio processing applications
  • Image and video processing applications
  • Intelligent multimedia and web processing
  • Communications applications
  • Other applications including social networks, games, smart grid, security and privacy

Special Session Call for Proposals

MLSP is seeking original, high quality proposals for Special Sessions, to be included in the technical program along with the regular track. Special Sessions are expected to address research in focused, emerging, or interdisciplinary areas of particular interest, not covered already by traditional MLSP sessions.

More details

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to six pages using the electronic submission procedure which will be peer-reviewed.

More details

Paper Publication

Accepted papers will be published on on a password-protected website that will be available during the workshop. The presented papers will be published in and indexed by IEEE Xplore.

Schedule 2020

  • Special session call deadline: March 19
  • Paper submission deadline: April 19
  • Decision notification: June 30
  • Camera-ready paper deadline: July 25
  • Advance registration deadline: August 22

 

Organizing Committee

General Chair: Simo Särkkä (Aalto University), Program Chairs: Lassi Roininen (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Andreas Hauptmann (University of Oulu), Manon Kok (TU Delft), Michael Riis Andersen (Technical University of Denmark), Finance Chair: Seppo Sierla (Aalto University), Publicity Chair: Arno Solin (Aalto University), Tutorial Chair: Alexander Ilin (Aalto University), Publications Chair: Roland Hostettler (Uppsala University), Advisory Committee: Zheng-Hua Tan (Aalborg University), Murat Akcakaya (University of Pittsburgh), Bhaskar Rao (University of California San Diego), Raviv Raich (Oregon State University)

 

 

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3-3-39(2020-09-22) ImageCLEF 2020 ImageCLEF 2020 Thessaloniki, Greece

ImageCLEF 2020
Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF
http://www.imageclef.org/2020/
https://www.facebook.com/ImageClef/
https://twitter.com/imageclef/


*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

ImageCLEF 2020 is an evaluation campaign that is being organized as
part of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) labs.
The campaign offers several research tasks that welcome participation
from teams around the world.

The results of the campaign appear in the working notes proceedings,
published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and are presented
in the CLEF conference. Selected contributions among the participants
will be invited for submission to a special section 'Best of CLEF'20
Labs' in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) of
CLEF'21, together with the annual lab overviews.

Target communities involve (but are not limited to):
- information retrieval (text, vision, audio, multimedia, social
media, sensor data, etc.)
- machine learning, deep learning
- data mining
- natural language processing
- image and video processing
- computer vision
with special attention to the challenges of multi-modality,
multi-linguality, and interactive search.


*** 2020 TASKS ***

*ImageCLEFlifelog* (4th edition)
https://www.imageclef.org/2020/lifelog
An increasingly wide range of personal devices that allow capturing
pictures, videos, and audio clips for every moment of our lives, are
becoming available. In this context, the task addresses the problems
of lifelogging data retrieval and summarization.

Organizers: Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen (University of Bergen), Van-Tu Ninh,
Tu-Khiem Le, Liting Zhou & Cathal Gurrin (Dubin City University), Luca
Piras (Pluribus One & University of Cagliari), Michael Riegler & Pål
Halvorsen (SimulaMet), Minh-Triet Tran (University of Science),
Mathias Lux (Klagenfurt University).


*ImageCLEFcoral* (2nd edition)
https://www.imageclef.org/2020/coral
The increasing use of structure-from-motion photogrammetry for
modelling large-scale environments from action cameras has driven the
next generation of visualization techniques. The task addresses the
problem of automatically segmenting and labeling a collection of
images that can be used in combination to create 3D models for the
monitoring of coral reefs.

Organizers: Jon Chamberlain, Adrian Clark & Alba García Seco de
Herrera (University of Essex), Antonio Campello (Wellcome Trust).


*ImageCLEFmedical* (2nd edition)
https://www.imageclef.org/2020/medical
Medical images can be used in a variety of scenarios and this task
will combine the most popular medical tasks of ImageCLEF and continue
the last year idea of combining various applications, namely:
automatic image captioning and scene understanding, medical visual
question answering and decision support on tuberculosis. This allows
to explore synergies between the tasks.

Organizers: Asma Ben Abacha & Dina Demner-Fushman (National Library of
Medicine), Sadid A. Hasan (CVS Health), Vivek Datla & Joey Liu
(Philips Research Cambridge), Obioma Pelka & Christoph M. Friedrich
(University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund), Alba García Seco
de Herrera (University of Essex), Yashin Dicente Cid (University of
Warwick), Serge Kozlovski, Vitali Liauchuk & Vassili Kovalev (United
Institute of Informatics Problems), Henning Müller (HES-SO).


*ImageCLEFdrawnUI2020* (new)
https://www.imageclef.org/2020/drawnui
Enabling people to create websites by drawing them on a piece of paper
can make the webpage building process more accessible. The task
addresses the problem of automatically recognizing hand drawn objects
representing website UIs, that will be further translated into
automatic website code.

Organizers: Paul Brie & Fichou Dimitri (teleportHQ), Mihai Dogariu,
Liviu Daniel Stefan, Mihai Gabriel Constantin & Bogdan Ionescu
(University Politehnica of Bucharest).


*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
(may vary depending on the task)
- Task registration opens: December 20, 2019
- CLEF long and short paper submission: April 27, 2020
- Run submission: May 11, 2020
- Working notes submission: May 25, 2020
- CLEF 2020 conference: September 22-25, Thessaloniki, Greece


*** OVERALL COORDINATION ***
Bogdan Ionescu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Henning Müller, HES-SO, Sierre, Switzerland
Renaud Péteri, University of La Rochelle, France

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3-3-40(2020-10-06) SPECOM 2020, St Petersburg, Russia

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SPECOM-2020 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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22nd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2020)

Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia, October 06-10, 2020

Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2020

 

ORGANIZERS

The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia).

 

GENERAL CHAIRS

Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, Russia

Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Russia

 

CONFERENCE TOPICS

SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:

Affective computing

Audio-visual speech processing

Corpus linguistics

Computational paralinguistics

Deep learning for audio processing

Feature extraction

Forensic speech investigations

Human-machine interaction

Language identification

Multichannel signal processing

Multimedia processing

Multimodal analysis and synthesis

Sign language processing

Speaker recognition

Speech and language resources

Speech analytics and audio mining

Speech and voice disorders

Speech-based applications

Speech driving systems in robotics

Speech enhancement

Speech perception

Speech recognition and understanding

Speech synthesis

Speech translation systems

Spoken dialogue systems

Spoken language processing

Text mining and sentiment analysis

Virtual and augmented reality

Voice assistants

 

SATELLITE EVENT

5th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2020: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2020

 

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

 

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of 6-10 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM 2020 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2020

 

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for October 2020.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

May 26, 2020 ............ Submission of full papers

July 03, 2020 ............ Notification of acceptance

July 17, 2020 ............ Camera-ready papers and early registration

October 06-10, 2020 ......... Conference dates

 

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

SPECOM-2020 Secretariat:

E-mails: specom@iias.spb.su

SPECOM-2020 web-site: www.specom.nw.ru/2020

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3-3-41(2020-10-12) 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20), Seattle, USA

Call for Papers

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Third International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20) @ ACM Multimedia, October 12-16, 2020, Seattle, USA

 

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seattle, USA together with ACM Multimedia 2020. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:

 

– annotation and indexing

– athlete and object tracking

– activity recognition, classification and evaluation

– event detection and indexing

– performance assessment

– injury analysis and prevention

– data driven analysis in sports

– graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

– automated training assistance

– camera pose and motion tracking

– brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions

 

Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of the paper.

 

Please refer to the workshop website for further information:

http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                   June 29, 2020

Acceptance Notification:     July 31, 2020

Camera Ready Submission:     August 7, 2020

Workshop Date:                TBA; either Oct 12 or Oct 16, 2020

 

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3-3-42(2020-10-12) ACM Multimedia, Seattle, WA, USA

===== ACM Multimedia 2020 =====

Oct. 12-16, Seattle
More details please visit: https://2020.acmmm.org

1. Call for Papers

ACM Multimedia is the premier international conference in multimedia. It
covers multiple emerging fields focusing on advancing the research and
applications of many media, including but not limited to images, text, audio,
speech, music, sensor and social data.  It strongly encourages a complete and
integrated approach to exchange, process and utilize information across
modalities, as well as all cutting-edge research on each medium with potential
of great positive impacts on everyday lives and technological breakthroughs.
While the community has a tradition of developing and innovating AI and system
approaches to handle big data and improve users? experiences on engaging and
interacting with multimedia, it is also uniquely angled towards novel
applications and urgent industrial challenges. As such the conference openly
embraces new intellectual perspectives from both industry and academia, and
welcomes submissions from related fields, such as artificial intelligence,
vision and languages, data sciences, HCI and multimedia signal processing, as
well as healthcare, education and beyond.  We invite the submissions in four
major themes of multimedia.

Engaging Users with Multimedia
        Emotional and social signals
        Multimedia search and recommendations
        Summarization, analysis and storytelling

Experience
        Interactions and quality of experiences
        Art and culture
        Multimedia applications

Multimedia Content Understanding
        Multimodal integration and alignment
        Vision and language
        Resource-efficient multimedia computing on edges

Multimedia Systems
        Systems and middleware
        Transport and delivery
        Data systems management and indexing

2. Highlights of ACM Multimedia 2020

Scientific Diversity: It is among our top priorities to ensure a top-quality
conference that covers a full diversity of all fields of multimedia research
including a variety of media modalities by addressing both technological and
practical challenges.

Value: We strive to select the most innovative and the highest-quality
research aiming at the most impactful novelty on individual media and/or from
a systematic perspective of innovating and integrating multiple components
across modalities.

Sharing: We value the sharing of not only knowledge (in the form of papers,
presentations and demos) but also the code and open-source software. While we
will continue the implementation of the ACM Artifact Review and Badging, best
efforts will be made on sharing and preserving the open-source code and
systems resulting from the published papers.

3. Location

The conference will be held in Bellevue, Washington, United States, located in
the Greater Seattle area famous as an ever-green city and home to many hi-tech
companies. Our venue, Hyatt Regency Bellevue, is centrally located in
Bellevue.

4. Important Dates

Reproducibility Companion Paper - 2 Feb 2020
Workshop Proposals Submission - 10 Feb 2020
Grand Challenge Proposal Submission - 10 Feb 2020
Grand Challenge Proposal Notification - 24 Feb 2020
Regular Papers Submission - 28 Mar 2020 (Abstract: 21 Mar 2020)
Open Source Competition Submission - 11 May 2020
Brave New Ideas Submission - 11 May 2020
Interactive Artworks Submission - 11 May 2020
Doctorial Symposium Submission - 11 May 2020
Panel Proposals Submission - 11 May 2020
Tutorial Proposals Submission - 11 May 2020
Technical Demo and Video Program Submission - 25 May 2020
Regular Papers Notification - 22 Jun 2020
Grand Challenge Solutions Submission -        29 Jun 2020
Workshop Papers Submission - 29 Jun 2020

5. Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair:

Ramesh Jain, University of California Irvine

General Chairs:

ChangWen Chen, CUHK Shenzhen
Rita Cucchiara, UNIMORE
Xian-Sheng Hua, Alibaba Group

Technical Program Coordinator:

Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam

Technical Program Chairs:

Guo-Jun Qi, Futurewei Technologies
Elisa Ricci, UNITN & FBK
Zhengyou Zhang, Tencent
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore

Panel Chairs:

Jiebo Luo, University of Rochester
Yong Rui, Lenovo

Tutorial Chairs:

Jialie Shen, Queen's University Belfast
Laura Toni, University College London

Workshop Chairs:

Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University
Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa

Brave New Ideas Chairs:

Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam
Hengtao Shen, UEST of China
Junsong Yuan, University at Buffalo

Multimedia Grand Challenge Chairs:

Ani Kembhavi, The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Lei Zhang, Microsoft

Open Source Chairs:

Jianchao Yang, Bytedance AI Lab US
Lucile Sassatelli, Université Cote d'Azur

Demo and Video Program Chairs:

Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University
Klaus Schoeffmann, Klagenfurt University
Yonghong Tian, Peking University

Interactive Arts Chairs:

Peter Knees, TU Wien
Zhe Gan, Microsoft

Web & Social Media Chairs:

Yiru Zhao, Alibaba Group
Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University

Sponsor Chairs:

Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University
Tianzhu Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China

Publicity Chairs:

Benoit Huet, EURECOM
Kien A. Hua, University of Central Florida
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore
Yuxin Peng, Peking University

Finance Chair:

Shuonan Zhang, Alibaba Group

Local Chairs:

Dinghuang Ji, Alibaba Group
Yu Cheng, Microsoft
Yu Wang, Alibaba Group

Publication Chairs:

Pradeep K. Atrey, University at Albany
Zhu Li, University of Missouri

Preservation Chair:

Balakrishnan Prabakaran, University of Texas at Dallas

Reproducibility Chairs:

Björn Þór Jónsson, IT University of Copenhagen
Naoko Nitta, Osaka University

Doctoral Symposium Chair:

Yao Liu, Binghamton University

Student Travel Grant Chairs

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa
Anthony Vetro, MERL

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3-3-43(2020-10-14) 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Cardiff, United Kingdom


  

SLSP 20208th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
 
Cardiff, United Kingdom
 
October 14-16, 2020
 
Co-organized by:
 
School of Computer Science and Informatics
Cardiff University
 
Data Innovation Research Institute
Cardiff University
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA), Brussels/London
 
http://slsp2020.irdta.eu
 
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AIMS:
 
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between the two domains will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2020, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.
 
Previous events took place in Tarragona, Grenoble, Budapest, Pilsen, Le Mans, Mons, and Ljubljana.
 
VENUE:
 
SLSP 2020 will take place in Cardiff, the capital of Wales and its political, commercial and cultural centre. The venue will be:
 
Cardiff University
Cardiff
Wales
CF10 3AT
UK
 
SCOPE:
 
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
 
anaphora and coreference resolution
authorship identification, plagiarism, and spam filtering
corpora and resources for speech and language
data mining, term extraction, and semantic web
dialogue systems and spoken language understanding
information retrieval and information extraction
knowledge representation and ontologies
lexicons and dictionaries
machine translation and computer-aided translation
multimodal technologies
natural language understanding and generation
neural representation of speech and language
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and semantic role labelling
question-answering systems for speech and text
speaker identification and verification
speech recognition, transcription, and synthesis
spelling correction
text categorization and summarization
user modeling
 
STRUCTURE:
 
SLSP 2020 will consist of:
 
invited lectures
peer-reviewed contributions
posters
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: (to be completed)
 
Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, US)
Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, FR)
Fethi Bougares (University of Le Mans, FR)
Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, IT)
Bill Campbell (Amazon, US)
Kenneth W. Church (Baidu Research, US)
Philipp Cimiano (Bielefeld University, DE)
Nikos Fakotakis (University of Patras, GR)
Marcello Federico (Amazon AI, US)
Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK)
Ond?ej Glembek (Brno University of Technology, CZ)
Ralph Grishman (New York University, US)
Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, IE)
Martin Karafiát (Brno University of Technology, CZ)
Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University, US)
Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, SG)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Seiichi Nakagawa (Chubu University, JP)
Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, ES)
Irena Spasi? (Cardiff University, UK)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Netherlands eScience Center, NL)
Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University, JP)
Isabel Trancoso (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)
K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, US)
Andy Way (Dublin City University, IE)
Caiming Xiong (Salesforce, US)
Steve Young (University of Cambridge, UK)
Wlodek Zadrozny (University of North Carolina Charlotte, US)
Guodong Zhou (Soochow University, CN)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Luis Espinosa-Anke (Cardiff)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Irena Spasi? (Cardiff, co-chair)
 
SUBMISSIONS:
 
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
 
Upload submissions to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2020
 
PUBLICATIONS:
 
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.
 
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
 
REGISTRATION:
 
The registration form can be found at:
 
http://slsp2020.irdta.eu/registration/
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: June 1, 2020
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 6, 2020
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: July 15, 2020
Early registration: July 15, 2020
Late registration: September 30, 2020
Submission to the journal special issue: January 16, 2021
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david (at) irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
 
Data Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
 
IRDTA ? Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London

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3-3-44(2020-10-25) CfW International Conference on Multimodal Interaction ( ICMI 2020), Utrecht, The Netherlands (UPDATED)

COVID-19 announcement

Dear all,

 

We hope you are healthy in these worrying times. We are closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation in the Netherlands and around the world. There are many uncertainties, but we will try to give you more information about the format of the conference as soon as possible. What we do know for certain, is that we will publish ICMI2020 proceedings this year.

 

Also note that we have extended the submission deadline for Long and Short papers to 29 May 2020.


ICMI 2020: Call for Workshops

https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=CfW

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The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020) will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 25-29, 2020. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. The theme of the ICMI 2020 conference is Art, Culture, and Society. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:

 

- Media Analytics for Societal Trends

- Neuromanagement and Intelligent Computing

- Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction

- Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology

- Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data

- Human-Habitat for Health

- Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction

- Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents

- Child Computer Interaction

- Multimodal Interaction for Education

 

We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.).

 

The content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.

 

Submission

 

Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Yukiko Nakano (y.nakano@st.seikei.ac.jp) and Albert Ali Salah (a.a.salah@uu.nl) The proposal should include the following:

 

- Workshop title

- List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies

- Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact

- Tentative list of keynote speakers

- Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program

- Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation

- Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)

- Paper submission and acceptance deadlines

- Special space and equipment requests, if any

 

Important Dates:

Workshop proposal submission: Monday, February 10, 2020

Notification of acceptance: Monday, February 24, 2020

Workshop papers due: End of July, 2020 (suggested)

Workshop dates: October 25 or 29, 2020

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3-3-45(2020-10-25) ICMI 2020: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges

Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges

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ICMI 2020: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges

https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=CfC

25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges.

 

The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes. In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics and physiological signal processing, for example, the availability of datasets and common tasks have led to great progress. We invite the ICMI community to collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our domain for the next 5 years. ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work. Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible. 

 

Challenge papers will be indexed in the main proceedings of ICMI.

 

The grand challenge sessions are still to be confirmed. We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events. We are looking for exciting and stimulating challenges including but not limited to the following categories:

 

- Dataset-driven challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities of current and future multimodal problems, and one or more multimodal tasks whose performance can be objectively measured and compared in rigorous conditions. Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses.

- Use-case challenge: This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based) and the associated resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration of specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also establish systematic evaluation procedures.

- Health challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of a health related task, whose analysis, diagnosis, treatment or prevention can be aided by Multimodal Interactions. The challenge should focus on exploring the benefits of multimodal (audio, visual, physiological, etc) solutions for the stated task.

- Policy challenge: Legal, ethical, and privacy issues of Multimodal Interaction systems in the age of AI. The challenge could revolve around opinion papers, panels, discussions, etc.

 

Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:

 

1.Title

2.Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge

3.Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals

4.Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction

5.Length (full day or half day)

6.Plan for soliciting participation

7.Description of how submissions (challenge?s submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers

8.Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions

9.Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)

10.Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization

11.Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee members and their affiliations, important dates

 

Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case. Continuation of or variants on the 2019 challenges are welcome, though we ask for submissions of this form to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous year and describe what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year.

 

The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment to run the Workshop, coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference.

 

Important Dates and Contact Details

 

Proposals due: January 13, 2020

Proposal notification: February 3, 2020

Paper camera-ready: August 17, 2020

 

Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2020 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Dr. Hayley Hung and Dr. Laura Cabrera-Quiros via grandchallenge.ICMI20@gmail.com. Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Proposals are due by January 13, 2020. Notifications will be sent on February 3, 2020.

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3-3-46(2020-10-25) ICMI 2020: First Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits, Utrecht, The Netherlands

ICMI 2020: First Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits
http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfd
25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020), located in Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 25-29th, 2020.

This year?s conference theme: In this information age, technological innovation is at the core of our lives and rapidly transforming and impacting the state of the world in art, culture, and society, and science as well - the borders between classical disciplines such as humanities and computer science are fading. In particular, we wonder how multimodal processing of human behavioural data can create meaningful impact in art, culture, and society practices. And vice versa, how does art, culture, and society influence our approaches and techniques in multimodal processing? As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Multimodal processing and representation of Human Behaviour in Art, Culture, and Society.

Demonstrations and Exhibits
The ICMI 2020 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. It can also serve to introduce commercial products.

Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a 1-2 page paper, which will be included in the ICMI main proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than one page; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers may be invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.

Demonstration Submission
Please submit a 1-2 page description of the demonstration through the main ICMI conference management system (https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi). Demonstration description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than 2 pages in length including references (submission format: http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors). Demonstration proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration and, where possible, a video of the proposed demo should accompany the submission (no larger than 200MB). The demo and exhibit paper submissions are not anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).

The demonstration submissions will be peer reviewed, according to the following criteria: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals (paper submission), along with preparing the short papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.

The demo program will include the accepted proposals and may additionally include invited demos from among full-length papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Please note that the accepted descriptions will be included in the ICMI main proceedings.

Exhibit Submission
Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demonstration proposals. Exhibit proposals must be shorter in length (up to one page) and more suitable for mature systems. Exhibits will not have a paper published in the ICMI 2020 proceedings.

Attendance
At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s).

Important Dates
Submission of demo and exhibit proposals July 17, 2020
Demo and exhibit notification of acceptance July 31, 2020
Submission of demo final papers August 17, 2020

Questions?
For further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs: Zakia Hammal (Zakia_Hammal@yahoo.fr) and Dominique Vaufreydaz (Dominique@research.vaufreydaz.org)
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3-3-47(2020-10-?) The VoicePrivacy2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan

The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan is available on the website: 

https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/docs/VoicePrivacy_2020_Eval_Plan_v1_1.pdfThe VoicePrivacy initiative Challenge is spearheading the effort to develop privacy preservation solutions for speech technology. It aims to gather a new community to define the task and metrics and to benchmark initial solutions using common datasets, protocols and metrics. VoicePrivacy takes the form of a competitive challenge. The challenge is to develop anonymization solutions which suppress personally identifiable information contained within speech signals. At the same time, solutions should preserve linguistic content and speech quality/naturalness. The challenge will conclude with a session/event held in conjunction with Interspeech 2020 at which challenge results will be made publicly available.

Please find more information about on the challenge website:    http://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org

 

Registration:

Participants/teams are requested to register for the evaluation. Registration should be performed once only for each participating entity and by sending an email to: organisers@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org
with ?VoicePrivacy 2020 registration? as the subject line. The mail body should include: (i) the name of the team; (ii) the name of the contact person; (iii) their country; (iv) their status (academic/nonacademic).

Subscription:

Participants are encouraged to subscribe to the VoicePrivacy 2020 mailing list by sending an email to: sympa@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org with ?subscribe 2020? as the subject line. Successful registrations are confirmed by return email.

To post messages to the mailing list itself, emails should be addressed to: 2020@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org


Best regards,

The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Organizers,

Jean-François Bonastre - University of Avignon - LIA, France
Nicholas Evans - EURECOM, France
Fuming Fang - NII, Japan
Andreas Nautsch - EURECOM, France
Paul-Gauthier Noé - University of Avignon - LIA, France
Jose Patino - EURECOM, France
Md Sahidullah - Inria, France
Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava - Inria, France
Natalia Tomashenko - University of Avignon - LIA, France
Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM, France
Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France
Xin Wang - NII, Japan
Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan and University of Edinburgh, UK

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3-3-48(2021-01-17) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) , Grenoble, France
FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 
Jan, 17-22 2021
Grenoble - France
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University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe are announcing the first Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) in Grenoble.
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Important Dates
Application Deadline - July, 15th 2020

Notification - Sept 15th 2020
Registration Deadline - Oct, 15th 2020
Winter School - Jan, 17-22 2021
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Target Audience
This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved to academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry.
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Characteristics
This winter school aims to provide talks of renowned NLP researchers, as well as creating an ideal environment to work together.

 
Confirmed speakers so far:
 - Isabelle Augenstein (Copenhagen, DEN)

 - Tim Baldwin (Melbourne, AUS)
 - Kyunghyun Cho (NYU and FAIR, USA)
 - Yejin Choi (University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI, USA)
 - Grzegorz Chrupa?a (Tilburg University, NED)
 - Claire Gardent (LORIA, FR)
 - Sanjeev Khudanpur (JHU, USA)
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In addition of the talks, an important aspect of this school is the interaction between participants. The registration fee will cover full board in a residence close to a ski resort, and some of the afternoons there will be organised social activities.
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Websitehttp://alps.imag.fr/
Questionsalps2021@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
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3-3-49(2021-?-?) CfP The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9)

Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9)

 

Website: https://sites.google.com/dstc.community/dstc9/home

Background

The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.

For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and selected the following four parallel tracks by peer-reviews:

- Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access (Amazon Alexa AI): This track aims to allow users to have requests that are out of the scope of APIs/DB but potentially available in external knowledge sources. Track participants will develop task-oriented dialogue systems to understand relevant domain knowledge, and generate system responses with the relevant selected knowledge. In addition, the track includes evaluation on generalization over unseen domains and modalities (i.e. moving from written to spoken conversations).

- Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University): This track follows its success in DSTC-8 continuing with the effort of building dialog systems under a multi-domain setting. This time extending the task by incorporating new datasets, creating new sub-tasks, and providing a new development platform. The new task specifically focuses on two aspects of dialog systems: language portability and end-to-end system complexity.

- Interactive Evaluation of Dialog (CMU & USC): This track targets the creation of systems that can be effectively used in interactive settings by real users. The task is intended to move research beyond datasets, and evaluate models in interactive environments with real users allowing several valuable properties of dialog to be measured: consistency, adaptiveness and user-centric development. DialPort, a platform for interactive assessment with real users will be used for evaluation.

- SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI): This track aims to tackle grounding dialog in an evolving multi-modal contextual input. Unlike previous multimodal track challenges, where the context from the non-textual modalities (video and audio) remains unchanged as the dialog progresses, this track encompasses a rich, situated multi-modal user context in the form of a shared image or VR environment that evolves fluidly based on the dialog flow.

Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government).

Important Dates

- Jun 15, 2020: Training data is released

- Sep 21, 2020: Test data is released

- Oct 5, 2020: Entry submission deadline

- Nov 2020: Paper submission deadline

- Spring 2021: DSTC9 workshop (venue: TBD)

DSTC9 Organizing Committee

- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research AI, USA

- Abhinav Rastogi - Google Research, USA

- Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen - National Taiwan University, Taiwan

- Luis Fernando D'Haro - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

- Seokhwan Kim - Amazon Alexa AI, USA

DSTC9 Track Organizers

Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access

- Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-tur (Amazon Alexa AI)

Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II

- Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao, Jinchao Li, Lars Liden, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, Shahin Shayandeh, Swadheen Shukla, Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University)

Interactive Evaluation of Dialog

- Shikib Mehri, Carla Gordon, David Traum, Maxine Eskenazi (CMU & USC)

SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI

- Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon (EJ) Cho, Paul A. Crook, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Shivani Poddar, Rajen Subba (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI)

DSTC Steering Committee

- Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan

- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA

- Rafael E. Banchs - Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

- Michel Galley - Microsoft Research AI, USA

Contact Information

Join the DSTC mailing list to get the latest updates about DSTC9:

- To join the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/join

- To post a message: send your message to list@dstc.community

- To leave the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/unsubscribe

For specific enquiries about DSTC9: Please feel free to contact dstc9-organizing-committee@dstc.community.

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