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| 3-1-1 | (2020-10-25) Cf Tutorials Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China (UPDATE)
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| 3-1-2 | (2020-10-26) Cf Show and Tell, Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China (UPDATED) 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
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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)
The submission and review process has also been updated as follows:
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| 3-1-6 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czech Republic INTERSPEECH 2021
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| 3-1-7 | (2022) Interspeech 2022, Incheon, South Korea Incheon in South Korea will welcome Interspeech 2022.
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| 3-1-8 | (2023-08-20) Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland , ISCA has reached the decision to hold INTERSPEECH-2023 in Dublin, Ireland (Aug. 20-24, 2023)
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| 3-1-9 | Message from the Student Advisory Committee:Covid 19 and Interspeech 2020 Shanghai Dear ISCA community, ISCA-SAC General Coordinator
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| 3-2-1 | (2020-08-16) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderberg, Denmark (UPDATE) COVID 19 Unfortunately, I have to inform you today that we will have to cancel the TAI conference in Sonderborg, DK for this year (as well as its satellite event, 13th Nordic Prosody). This announcement makes me and the whole organization team very sad, especially because the planning process was already very advanced, including safety preparations such as masks for conference participants, and the first contributions have already been submitted. ***************** '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)
01 March 2020 Online abstract submission opens 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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| 3-2-2 | (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:
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:
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:
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 WorkshopsIn 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 datesPaper 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
Supported by: SigDial and Colips
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| 3-2-3 | (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
Website: https://www.iwsds.tech
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:
Proposal submission deadline: September 13, 2019 Proposal acceptance notification: September 17, 2019 Important notice:
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| 3-2-4 | (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
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 GuidelinesAll papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions:
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:
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 WorkshopsIn 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
ContactAll questions about submissions should be emailed to iwsds2020@gmail.com SponsorsIWSDS2020 is sponsored by Universidd Politécnica de Madrid, SigDial, and Colips. CommitteesOrganizing Committee
Steering Committee
Senior Steering Committee
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| 3-2-5 | The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report. The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All):
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| 3-3-1 | (2020) LREC 2020, Marseille cancelled (COVID 19) Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, LREC 2020 could unfortunately not be held in Marseille in May 2020 as planned.
The LREC 2020 Programme Committee and the ELRA Board have decided that:
1. the 12th edition of LREC, LREC 2020, will not be postponed and is definitely cancelled.
2. the next LREC will be the 13th edition, LREC 2022, which will take place in Marseille (in Pharo) on June 16-24, 2022.
3. ELRA will organize an event around Language Resources and current challenges on Covid-19 in 2021. Details on format, dates and location will follow.
Looking forward to seeing you,
LREC 2020 Programme Committee & ELRA Board
See the 2020 Proceedings:
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| 3-3-2 | (2020-08-13) Nordic prosody conference, Sonderborg,Denmark (UPDATED) COVID 19 Unfortunately, I have to inform you today that we will have to cancel the TAI conference in Sonderborg, DK for this year (as well as its satellite event, 13th Nordic Prosody). This announcement makes me and the whole organization team very sad, especially because the planning process was already very advanced, including safety preparations such as masks for conference participants, and the first contributions have already been submitted. 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 *************** - 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: ************** 01 November 2020 Full-paper submission deadline
Registrations are made through the conference website. Abstracts as well as full papers should be sent by email to np2020@sdu.dk. More detailed information about the formatting requirements will be available on the conference website.
Conference proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume of a Peter Lang book series.
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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Nigel Ward, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
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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
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| 3-3-3 | (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)
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| 3-3-4 | (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):
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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| 3-3-5 | (2020-09-07) CfP Text Mining and Applications (TEMA2020) , Lisboa, Portugal Call for Papers ? Text Mining and Applications (TEMA?20) Track of EPIA?20
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| 3-3-6 | (2020-09-08 )TSD 2020 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS, Brno, Czech Republic ************************************************************
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| 3-3-7 | (2020-09-08) TSD 2020 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS, Brno, Czech Republic (UPDATED) *********************************************************
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| 3-3-8 | (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 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 ? Search based on sound (rhymes), meaning or contextually related words (associations);
The workshop features two tracks:
The regular research track submissions should follow one of the 2 formats:
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
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
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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| 3-3-9 | (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.
==================== 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
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| 3-3-10 | (2020-09-15) ADReSS challenge, Shanghai, China (UPDATED) Due to the COVID19, INTERSPEECH 2020 has new dates: 26-29 October 2020 Call for Participation: -----------------------
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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| 3-3-11 | (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 PapersMachine 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:
Special Session Call for ProposalsMLSP 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. Paper SubmissionProspective authors are invited to submit a double column paper of up to six pages using the electronic submission procedure which will be peer-reviewed. Paper PublicationAccepted 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
Organizing CommitteeGeneral 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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| 3-3-12 | (2020-09-22) ImageCLEF 2020 ImageCLEF 2020 Thessaloniki, Greece ImageCLEF 2020
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| 3-3-13 | (2020-10-06) SPECOM 2020, St Petersburg, Russia (UPDATED)
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SPECOM-2020 – FINAL 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
IMPORTANT INFO (!)
Due to COVID-19 pandemic in the world, SPECOM-2020 conference with satellite events may be partially or completely organized as a teleconference via Zoom service within announced dates. In the case of a teleconference, essentially reduced registration fees are provided for authors, as well as a free registration for participants. The proceedings will be prepared in time and published by Springer in LNCS series, the on-line proceedings will be available before the conference.
EXTENDED DEADLINES (!)
June 15, 2020 .................. Submission of full papers (final date)
July 15, 2020 ................... Notification of acceptance/rejection
July 27, 2020 ................... Camera-ready papers and early registration
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
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.
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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| 3-3-14 | (2020-10-12) 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20), Seattle, USA Call for Papers ------------------- 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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| 3-3-15 | (2020-10-12) ACM Multimedia 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI ACM Multimedia 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI - Submission: 30 July - Notification: 26 August - Camera-ready copy: to be defined with ACM Multimedia organization - Workshop: 12 or 16 October ### Organizers - Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute - Joao Magalhaes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Ricardo G. Sousa, Farfetch, Portugal - Joao Paulo Costeira, ISR/IST, Portugal
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| 3-3-16 | (2020-10-12) Third International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20) Call for Papers ------------------- 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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| 3-3-17 | (2020-10-14) 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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| 3-3-18 | (2020-10-25) ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium - 3rd Call for Contributions, Utrecht, The Netherlands ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium - Submission extended to 10th Aug
************************************************************** http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfdc 25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands ************************************************************** ICMI2020 will be held as a virtual conference or partially virtual conference. ************************************************************** The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).
= Who should apply? =
While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply. = Why should you attend? =
The DC provides an opportunity to build a social network that includes the cohort of DC students, senior students, recent graduates, and senior mentors. Not only is this an opportunity to get feedback on research directions, it is also an opportunity to learn more about the process and to understand what comes next. We aim to connect you with a mentor who will give specific feedback on your research and whom you can talk to during the lunch. We specifically aim to create an informal setting where students feel supported in their professional development. = Agenda =
= Submission Guidelines =
Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
= Review Process =
The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. = Financial Support =
The conference is pleased to offer partial financial support for doctoral students participating in the Doctoral Consortium and attending the conference. Only students who apply and are accepted for participation in the Doctoral Consortium can be considered for financial support. The number and size of the offers of financial support are contingent upon the number of invited student participants. = Attendance =
All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline. = Process =
? Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2) ? Submission system: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi/ ? Selection process: Peer-Reviewed ? Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session ? Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library ? Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Juliet Haarman (University of Twente) Emily Mower Provost (University of Michigan) and Catharine Oertel (TU Delft). = Important Dates =
Submission deadline (extended): Aug 10, 2020 (23:59PM, PST) Notifications: August 17, 2020 Camera-ready: September 2nd, 2020 Doctoral Consortium date: October 25, 2020 = Questions? =
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2020 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfdc) For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
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| 3-3-19 | (2020-10-25) 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA (BigDat 2020 Autumn), Beersheba, Israel 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
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| 3-3-20 | (2020-10-25) ICMI 2020: Second Call for Late-Breaking Results, Utrecht, The Netherlands (COVID) ICMI 2020: Third Call for Late-Breaking Results (Deadline Extended)
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| 3-3-21 | (2020-10-25) ICMI 2020: Third Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits, Utrecht, The Netherlands (COVID19) ICMI 2020: Third Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits *******************************************************
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Dear all,
We are investigating ways to hold ICMI2020 as a virtual conference or as a partially virtual conference. In any case, the ICMI2020 proceedings will be published as scheduled. Best,the organizing team of ICMI2020. ===============================
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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| 3-3-22 | (2020-10-25?) The 2nd Insights on Group & Team Dynamics workshop at ICMI *Call for Papers* The 2nd Insights on Group & Team Dynamics workshop will be held in conjunction with ICMI 2020. It is the 2nd time this workshop will be held at ICMI, after a successful run in 2018, and the 5th in a series of meetings on group interaction. This workshop aims to brings together group scholars and researchers in multimodal interaction. We would like this workshop to serve as a platform to develop a common language, to provide a place to meet, foster and maintain relationships and to grow as a community. One of the biggest challenges is the culture of publication in conferences for computer science which differs from how social scientists work. The workshop will provide a sympathetic approach to this to enable participation from both disciplines and also to provide feedback to each other about how to carry out research on this topic. Finally, Lehmann-Willenbrock, Hung, Salah, and Kozwloski are editing a book volume on this topic to help researchers in both fields to understand each other better. This workshop will facilitate discussions to identify possible contributors of such a book. Important Dates: submission date: August 15 Notification of acceptance: September 1st Submission: All submissions are are done through easy chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igtd20
Review Procedure: double blind,2-3 reviewers per paper (at least one from each discipline). Format: virtual
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| 3-3-23 | (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 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
Jean-François Bonastre - University of Avignon - LIA, France
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| 3-3-24 | (2020-11-02) TIM 2020 : Séminaire Traitement de l'Information Multimodale, Paris, France ** SECOND APPEL À COMMUNICATION ***
TIM 2020 : Séminaire Traitement de l'Information Multimodale du 02 au 04 novembre 2020 @ Paris, France
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date limite de soumission : 06 juillet 2020 avec possibilité de modification des soumissions jusqu'au lundi 20 juillet inclus URL de soumission : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tim2020 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contact : dga-mi.seminairetim.fct@intradef.gouv.fr
** Appel à Communication **
Le séminaire Traitement de l?Information Multimodale est organisé par la DGA et se tiendra dans ses locaux parisiens du 02 au 04 novembre 2020. Il rassemble les acteurs civils et Défense du traitement d?images et du traitement automatique du langage naturel, afin de promouvoir les collaborations au sein de la communauté. Ce séminaire scientifique s?adresse à l?ensemble des acteurs techniques de l?écosystème : laboratoires académiques, équipes R&D industrielles, etc. Il a notamment pour objectif de favoriser les échanges autour d?approches et de solutions innovantes pour répondre aux enjeux du traitement de l?information multimodale, en particulier dans une perspective de développement de systèmes étatiques ; un intérêt particulier est donc porté aux traitements et domaines d?application non couverts par les applications grand public.
Les contributions scientifiques, théoriques comme appliquées, sont les bienvenues concernant plusieurs domaines liés à l?intelligence artificielle : traitement automatique du langage naturel (parole et écrit), traitement d?images, traitement de données multimodales et aspects méthodologiques de la mise au point de tels traitements. Dans le cas d'une contribution appliquée, les illustrations sur cas représentatif seront particulièrement appréciées.
Deux types de contributions sont sollicités : * communications : deux formats possibles (poster ou présentation orale) sur proposition du contributeur et suivant l?avis du comité de programme ; * démonstrations.
Liste non limitative de thématiques :
* Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel - Fouille de données, recherche d'information et extraction d'information - Enrichissement automatique de bases de connaissances et d'ontologies - Traitements spécifiques pour les données Web et réseaux sociaux : détection de fake news, gestion du langage non-canonique, etc. - Author profiling - Génération de langage naturel - Traitement de la parole : identification de la langue / du locuteur / de la voix, synthèse et reconnaissance automatique de la parole, détection de mots-clés, détection d'événements acoustiques, diarization, etc. - Prise en compte du code-switching - Traduction neuronale : texte, parole - Travaux sur des langues spécifiques : dialectes arabes, langues d'Afrique sub-saharienne, etc. - Conception de modèles multilingues - Conception de modèles end-to-end
* Traitement Images (optiques, SAR et Hyperspectrales) ou vidéos - Amélioration d?images, interpolation, super-résolution - Mosaïquage, recalage, spatio/aéro-triangulation - Analyse et compréhension de scènes - Pistage et suivi d'objets dans des vidéos - Recherche et indexation d'images et de vidéos par le contenu - Biométrie : forte (visage, iris, etc.) et faible (taille, cheveux, etc.) - Calcul de MNS / MNT, Reconstruction 3D - Détection, reconnaissance et identification d'anomalies, d'objets, de personnes ou de logos - Détection de changement et d?activité - Anticipation d?événements à base de détections élémentaires dans des séries d'images
* Multimodalité - Tâches multimodales, visual grounding - Analyse de documents : reconnaissance de caractères, reconnaissance de l?écriture manuscrite, compréhension de documents, etc. - Détection et génération de Deepfake : voice conversion, voice cloning, face swapping, incrustation, etc. - Interaction naturelle Homme-machine : assistants vocaux, détection d'émotions, etc. - Synthèse et fusion d'information - Recherche et indexation multimodales : recherche textuelle d'images, génération de légendes, alignement texte-vidéo, etc. - Géolocalisation à partir du contenu
* Méthodologie et thématiques communes - Interprétabilité des systèmes de TIM - Apports et limites des méthodes d'apprentissage profond pour le TIM - Adaptation de systèmes : adaptation de domaine, de tâche, méthodes de transfert, etc. - Apprentissage de représentations, en particulier embeddings - Apprentissage en cours de vie : apprentissage continu, interactions utilisateurs, etc. - Traitement des données bruitées - Techniques pour le 'small data' : langues peu dotées, petits corpus, zero-shot learning, augmentation de données, etc. - Génération automatique de données synthétiques - Compression (audio, image, vidéo) - Environnements, frameworks, outils d'évaluation - Corpus : annotation, apprentissage actif, capitalisation de données, etc. - Retour d'expériences de campagnes d'évaluation et de défis
** Modalités de soumission et sélection des contributions **
Les contributeurs sont invités à proposer un résumé entre 2000 et 4000 caractères, en français sauf exception (auteur ou équipe non francophone), en identifiant les auteurs et leurs affiliations et en précisant s'il s'agit d'une communication (indiquer une préférence entre présentation orale ou poster) ou d'une démonstration.
Les travaux présentés doivent être originaux et constituer une avancée par rapport à l?état de l?art, toutefois la présentation de travaux déjà soumis ou publiés à une conférence internationale durant l?année en cours est également la bienvenue (à mentionner clairement dans le résumé soumis). Les contributions se feront en français, sauf exception (auteur ou équipe non francophone).
Les soumissions reçues feront l?objet d?un examen par plusieurs relecteurs du domaine. Elles seront notamment évaluées eu égard à leur pertinence vis-à-vis du positionnement et des thématiques du séminaire, leur justesse technique, la clarté du résumé. En cas de sélection, une phase d?échanges entre le comité de programme et les auteurs est prévue en amont de la présentation, afin d?en valider les modalités et la forme. L'envoi des supports de communication sera donc demandé plusieurs semaines en avance.
Les soumissions se font exclusivement via Easychair à l'url suivante : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tim2020. La page de soumission est d'ores et déjà ouverte !
** Dates importantes **
* Soumission des résumés : date limite le 06 juillet 2020 ===> possibilité de modification des soumissions jusqu'au lundi 20/07 inclus <=== * Notification aux auteurs : au plus tard le 02 septembre 2020 * Date du séminaire : du 02 au 04 novembre 2020
** Situation sanitaire due au Covid-19 **
En fonction de l?évolution de la situation sanitaire en France due à la pandémie de Covid-19, en cas d'impossibilité de tenue du séminaire TIM aux dates initialement prévues une adaptation sera proposée (présentiel à effectif réduit, report, passage en virtuel...).
-- Le comité de programme du séminaire TIM 2020
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| 3-3-25 | (2020-11-18) Two challenges at IberSPEECH2020, Valldolid, Spain IberSPEECH'2020 will hold two evaluation challenges, the traditional ALBAYZÍN evaluation organized by the Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technologies and the ALLIES evaluation organized by the ALLIES European project: LNE (Laboratoire national de métrologie et d?essais, France), LIUM (Le Mans Université, France), IDIAP (Switzerland) and UPC (Spain).
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| 3-3-26 | (2020-11-26) 56th LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM (on line and free) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS
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56th LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM
November 26 to 28, 2020
International conference comprising all fields of linguistics
For the first time taking place as a free online event
Special theme: Translation, Multilinguality and Cognition
Submission of abstracts: September 30, 2020
Submission of full papers: February 28, 2021
Website: www.lingcoll.de (English and German)
Keynote speaker: Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University, USA
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Since its inception in 1966, the Linguistics Colloquium has been held annually without interruption in a total of 18 European countries. Its long term continuity is ensured by a large international committee consisting of its previous organizers. The Colloquium is devoted to research in all areas of linguistics. It is open to different theoretical approaches and aims to create friendly and inspiring conditions for the fruitful exchange of ideas and results. It is also appreciated for its welcoming atmosphere and cooperative discussion culture open to scientists of all ages and nationalities.
Traditionally, authors submit an abstract which, upon acceptance, is presented and discussed at the conference. Afterwards, a full paper has to be submitted, taking into account the outcome of the scientific discussion. As usually, also this year we plan to publish the proceedings as a hardcover book in the series 'Linguistik International' of the Peter Lang publishing house.
Like many other conferences, this year, for the first time in its history, the Linguistics Colloquium will be organized as an online event. As, despite regular attendance from overseas, the Colloquium has been a mostly European event so far, we hope that colleagues from other continents will see this as an opportunity to get to know the friendly and co-operative spirit of the colloquium. To further encourage this and because an online event requires less funding, as a novelty this year we decided to completely waive registration fees. TOPIC AREAS The special theme of this year's conference is 'Translation, Multilinguality and Cognition'. But contributions from all areas of linguistics are welcome, including but not limited to:
* Theory of linguistics
* Historical linguistics * Diachronic linguistics * Corpus linguistics, text mining * Computational linguistics, natural language processing * Neural languague processing and machine learning * Comparative & contrastive linguistics, typology * Applied linguistics, language learning * Neuro- and psycholinguistics * Sociolinguistics * Lexicology, lexicography * Phonology, phonetics * Morphology * Syntax * Semantics * Pragmatics * Text, discourse * Semiotics IMPORTANT DATES Sept. 30, 2020: Submission of abstracts
Oct. 15, 2020: Notification of acceptance Oct. 30, 2020: Registration for presenters (free of charge) Nov. 14, 2020: Zoom trial session (test session to identify technical problems) Nov. 22, 2020: Registration for participants without presentation (free of charge) Nov. 26 to 28, 2020: Conference dates Feb. 28, 2021: Submission of full papers SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION See the long version of the call for papers at www.lingcoll.de
PROCEEDINGS As in previous years, we plan to publish post-conference proceedings as a hardcover book in the series Linguistik International (https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/LIN) of the Peter Lang publisher (https://www.peterlang.com/).
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES Conference languages are English and German. Although the Linguistics Colloquium supports linguistic diversity, for organizational reasons we are not able to provide for more languages. To avoid problems for delegates not speaking both languages, attention will be placed on parallelizing programme sessions in such a way that, as far as possible, there is always a choice of language.
CONTACT Please send all correspondence relating to the 56th Linguistics Colloquium 2020 by e-mail to lingcoll(at)gmx.de
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Reinhard Rapp (Coordinator), Athena R.C., Greece; Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany
George Tambouratzis, Athena R.C., Greece Gisela Zunker-Rapp, University of Tübingen, Germany Haruko Miyakoda, Tsuda University, Tokyo, Japan Christiane Zehrer, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM See the long version of the call for papers at www.lingcoll.de
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| 3-3-27 | (2020-12-06) CfP 12th IEEE Intl Workshop on Information Forensics and Security @online
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| 3-3-28 | (2020-12-14) The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Providence, RI, USAImportant note: conference as a virtual meeting
The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2020) will take place during its revised dates (Dec 14-18, 2020) as an online virtual meeting (https://issp2020.yale.edu).
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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| 3-3-29 | (2020-12-15) Eighth International Conference on Big Data Analytics, Ashoka University, Sonepat (Delhi, NCR), India ************************************************************************* Paper Submission Deadline: 6 July 2020 PST *************************************************************************
Consider submitting your papers to the Eight International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA) 2020.
Kindly share the CFP with others who may wish to submit papers to BDA 2020, which will be held at Ashoka University, Sonepat (Delhi, NCR), India.
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CALL FOR PAPERS Eighth International Conference on Big Data Analytics December 15-18, 2020 Ashoka University Sonepat (Delhi, NCR), India The 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2020) will be held during December 15-18, 2020 at Ashoka University, India. The conference will be organized by Ashoka University. BDA 2020 provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results, practical experiences and thoughts on big data from different perspectives including storage models, data access, computing paradigms, analytics, information sharing and privacy, redesigning mining algorithms, open issues and future research trends.
BDA 2020 invites original, technically sound, high-quality research papers proposing novel solutions addressing the problems related to big data analytics as well as case studies and practical experiences with big data. Major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
Analytics as a Service Architectural Design for Big Data Big Data Analytics for Governance Conceptual/cognitive/programming Models for Big data analytics Clustering of Big Data Data Fusion and Multi Modal Analytics Data Models for Big Data Analytics Domain-specific Analytics Index Structures for Big Data Analytics Interaction Design for Exploratory Analytics Machine Learning techniques for Big Data Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis
Model Discovery from Big Data NoSQL and non-standard Data Models Physical Data Organization for Big Data Predictive Modelling Rule Mining from Big Data Scalability and Performance issues Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data Semantics of Big Data Streaming Data Analytics Summarization and Materialized views Topic Modelling Unstructured and Semi-structured Data Mining
Research Track Submissions Each paper should contain an abstract of approximately 300 words having a page limit of 20 pages in the LNCS style. The submissions including the title page, references and appendix. For preparing the manuscript, please see instructions for authors by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS)
Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bda2020
Important Dates: (All times in PST) Abstract submission: July 6, 2020, 23:59 PST Full paper submissions: July 13, 2020, 23:59 PST Research paper notifications: September 14, 2020, 23:59 PST Camera-ready submission: October 1, 2020, 23:59 PST
Call for Workshops and Tutorials -------------------------------- The BDA 2020 organizing committee invites proposals for half ? day and full - day workshops and tutorials on established and emerging topics in the areas of Big Data Analytics and other related areas. Information for submission of each type of proposal is provided on the conference website.
Note: Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the conference is proposed to be held online. We are closely monitoring the situation and shall provide updates as necessary
Sincerely, -- PC Co-Chairs of BDA 2020: Ladjel Bellatreche (bellatreche@ensma.fr), ENSMA, France Hamido Fujita (hfujita-799@acm.org), Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Vikram Goyal (vikram@iiitd.ac.in), IIIT Delhi, India
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| 3-3-30 | (2021-01-04) Bioacoustics Winter School, University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne, France Bioacoustics Winter School- January 4-15, 2021, University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne, France
The Bioacoustics Winter School (BWS) is an intensive course on animal and human acoustic communication (2 weeks; > 80 hours class + group projects). BWS is organized every January at the University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne by the Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team (ENES team, ENES/CRNL CNRS INSERM).
The teaching staff of BWS is made up of researchers from the ENES team as well as researchers from other institutions, from France and abroad.
BWS is open to PhD and master students, researchers, engineers, veterinarians, wildlife managers, members of wildlife conservation organizations, etc.
Learning objectives
Training in bioacoustic scientific investigations and tools.
At the end of the course and the group project, the following skills will have been acquired:
- knowledge in how to use the basic material necessary for any study in bioacoustics (digital recorder, microphones, speakers);
- basic knowledge in sound and signal processing (use of softwares such as PRAAT and Seewave);
- skills in how to set up a bioacoustic study (scientific question, experimental design, realization of experiments, results' analysis);
- general knowledge on the bioacoustics world and its interests, bot in basic and applied research.
The two week training is concluded by an oral & written exam. BWS students receive a degree in bioacoustics, certified by the University of Lyon / Saint-Etienne.
Registrations for the 2021 session (January 4-15) are now open.
To get the provisional program and to apply, please go to:
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: September 30, 2020.
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| 3-3-31 | (2021-01-06) 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC), Oxford, UK (UPDATED) New dates announced: So that you can submit your abstract and register with confidence we are relaxing our cancellation terms due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 situation. Rest assured that we will refund your registration fee, with no penalty, should you wish to cancel during the uncertainty of the outbreak. Dear Colleague, As the spread of COVID-19 continues and the situation is still uncertain, Elsevier and the Conference Chairs have taken the decision to postpone the 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) to 6-9 January 2021 in the same venue, St Catherine?s College Oxford. Due to the re-scheduling of the conference we are able to extend the submission deadline for oral and poster abstracts to 21 August 2020. Submit your abstracts now on the following topics.
The Oxford Dysfluency Conference has a reputation as one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency. The conference brings together researchers and clinicians, providing a showcase and forum for discussion and collegial debate about the most current and innovative research and clinical practices. Throughout the history of the Oxford Dysfluency Conference, the primary aim has been to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice. We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford in January. Regards, Conference Chairs Sharon Millard, The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering, UK
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| 3-3-32 | (2021-01-11) 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Milan, Italy 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
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| 3-3-33 | (2021-01-17) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) ,Autrans ( Grenoble Area), France SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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| 3-3-34 | (2021-01-18) EUSIPCO2020 Announcement , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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| 3-3-35 | (2021-01-19) CfP 2021 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Shenzhen, China
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| 3-3-36 | (2021-01-?) ROBOTDIAL-2020 @Kyoto or Yokohama, Japan
ROBOTDIAL Workshop 2020
The IJCAI-PRICAI-2020 conference will take place either in Kyoto (January 4-10) or in Yokohama (January 18-23) and the organizers have set new deadlines for the workshop program. Accordingly, the new submission deadline for ROBOTDIAL 2020 is We are looking forward to seeing your at ROBOTDIAL2020 in-person or virtually in January.
ROBOTDIAL-2020 workshop organisers
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| 3-3-37 | (2021-05-01) 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2020 &2021), Milan, Italy 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
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| 3-3-38 | (2021-06-28) CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France The spread of COVID-19 in many countries worldwide, including France, has led to increased safety measures in these countries. As the organization committee of CBMI, it is essential for us to ensure that everyone can attend the conference safely as well as submit their work in the best conditions. As a consequence, it was decided to postpone the 18th edition of CBMI. The conference will be held in Lille on June 28-30, 2021. The new important dates for the submission process are listed below. A new website for the conference will be set up soon. The conference should operate as usual. During the conference, we will abide by the recommendations of the local and international health authorities at that time to offer a safe conference to everyone. Meanwhile, please keep yourself and others safe if you live in an affected region, and see you in great shape at CBMI 2021! ================================================== CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING University of Lille, Cité scientifique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France 28-30 June 2021 cbmi2021.univ-lille.fr ================================================== CBMI (eighteenth edition) aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following: audio and visual and multimedia indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for multimedia indexing, visual content extraction, audio (speech, music, etc.) content extraction, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis. The eighteenth edition of CBMI will be organized by the CRIStAL laboratory at University of Lille, Lille, France, following the successful previous editions of Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009, Grenoble 2010, Madrid 2011, Annecy 2012, Veszprem 2013, Klagenfurt 2014, Prague 2015, Bucharest 2016, Firenze 2017, La Rochelle 2018, and Dublin 2019. Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers in the broad field of content-based multimedia indexing and applications. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, large-scale search, learning in retrieval, social media indexing and retrieval. Additional special sessions are planned in areas such as deep learning for retrieval, social media retrieval, cultural heritage, surveillance and security. Authors can submit full length (6 pages - to be presented as oral presentation) or short papers (4 pages - to be presented as posters). Papers can be submitted to the regular paper sessions, demo session, or to one of the special sessions. Additionally demonstration papers (up to 4 pages) may also be submitted that highlight interesting and novel demos of CBMI-related technologies. The submissions are peer reviewed in a single blind process. The language of the conference is English. The CBMI 2021 conference adheres to the IEEE paper formatting guidelines. When preparing your submission, please follow the IEEE guidelines given by IEEE at the Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and ACM DL. In addition, authors of certain best papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special issue of a leading journal in the field (e.g. MTAP - Springer), and other best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions in a book (ISTE/WILEY publisher). Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following: . Audio and visual and multimedia indexing . Multimodal and cross-modal indexing . Deep learning for multimedia indexing . Visual content extraction . Audio (speech, music, etc) content extraction . Identification and tracking of semantic regions and events . Social media analysis . Metadata generation, coding and transformation . Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text) . Mobile media retrieval . Event-based media processing and retrieval . Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval . Multimedia data mining and analytics . Multimedia recommendation . Large scale multimedia database management . Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content . Personalization and content adaptation . User interaction and relevance feedback . Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools . Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems . Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery, video surveillance . Cultural heritage applications Important Information: Conference date : 28-30 June 2021, at Lille, France. Contact: cbmi2021-organisation@univ-lille.fr Deadline for special session proposals: 15 October 2020 Deadline for regular paper and demo submissions : 15 January 2021 Notification of acceptance : 15 March 2021 Camera-ready papers due : 30 March 2021
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| 3-3-39 | (2021-?-?) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) 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.
- Jun 15, 2020: Training data is released - Sep 21, 2020: Test data is released
- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research AI, USA
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| 3-3-40 | CfP ICASSP 2021Announcing the Call for Papers
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