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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 by Chris Wellekens

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.

                      

*****************
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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