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.
 
However, the Danish government has decided that no major events may take place in Denmark until at least August 31, 2020, and as a public institution, we must abide by this rule. Additionally, although more and more countries seem to be managing the crisis well, making reliable travel bookings for August will most likely still remain a problem for many months. Moreover, we know from the United States and other countries that many of our colleagues won't be allowed to travel to international conferences before the end of August. Of course, we don't want to exclude anyone from the conference and/or expose anyone to unnecessary health risks.
 
A multilateral, personal exchange of ideas and feedback is essential for a conference and for fostering research in general. It is for this reason that we prefer not to carry out the TAI conference online. Instead, we -- as well as many colleagues with whom we have discussed informally -- would prefer to postpone TAI to next year.

The new preliminary date for TAI is 15-18 June (Wed-Fri), 2021, i.e. right before PaPE 2021 in Barcelona, Spain. The host of TAI remains the University of Southern Denmark, in Sonderborg, DK. We will work hard to confirm the new date for TAI as soon as possible. Please check our website for updates.
 
Regarding the submission procedure, we have closed the Easychair submission page for now. When the new date for the TAI has been fixed, we will open the submission page again in good time before the conference dates. We expect the new submission deadline to be at the beginning of 2021. In this way, everyone will still have enough time to carry out his/her studies  planned for TAI (even if they are currently interrupted due to Corona) without time pressure. Of course, all authors who have already submitted abstracts for TAI are welcome to submit their contributions elsewhere.
 
We will keep you up to date and hope for your understanding and your active participation in the TAI in 2021.We, the organizing team and I wish you all a productive and successful post-Easter period. Stay healthy and positive!

Warm and sunny regards from Southern Denmark,
Oliver Niebuhr, Jan Michalsky, Meg Zellers, Jana Neitsch, Stephanie Berger and Jonas Sikorskis.

Call for Papers

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

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

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

Keynote Speakers

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

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

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

Important dates:

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

01 November 2020 Full-paper submission deadline

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

http://www.prosody.dk

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

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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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announcements of interest to the speech prosody research community.

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

CCSB 3.0408,  +1-915-747-6827

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

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

The NP13 organizing committee,

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

Oliver Niebuhr

Associate Professor of Communication & Innovation

SDU Electrical Engineering

CIE - Centre for Industrial Electronics

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UPDATE COVID 19

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

The 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020)

August 24-28, 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

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

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

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


CALL FOR PAPERS:

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


TECHNICAL SCOPE:

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

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

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


VENUE:

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


IMPORTANT DATES:

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

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1^st 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 31^st to September 4^th. This Special Session is a joint initiative of Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (AILC) and Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce (AISV), i.e. the two Italian scientific societies on Computational Linguistics and Speech Sciences.

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

SUBMISSION

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

· Speech and gesture interfaces for robotic interaction

· Spoken language understanding and domain semantic representation

· Specific vs general domain dialogue systems

· Dialogue state tracking

· Datasets for training dialogue systems

· User intent classification

· Vision, spatial representation, deixis, reference disambiguation

· Persuasive dialogue systems ed empathic strategies

· Dialogic corpora collection

· Dialogue Systems evaluation

· Modelling miscommunication and repair strategies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: MARCH 15, 2020

Notification of Acceptance: MAY 27, 2020

Camera-ready deadline: JUNE 15, 2020

With kind regards,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee:

Francesco Cutugno – University of Naples ‘Federico II’

Barbara Gili Fivela – University of Salento

Bernardo Magnini – Fondazione Bruno Kessler

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

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

This announcement contains the following information:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


TSD SERIES

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


CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

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


TOPICS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

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

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


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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


IMPORTANT DATES

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

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


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ADDRESS

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

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


LOCATION

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

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

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                     TSD 2020 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
         *********************************************************

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

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

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to:

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

NO CHANGES DUE TO COVID-19

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


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

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

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


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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


TSD SERIES

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


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

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


TOPICS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

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

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


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

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

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

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

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

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

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


ADDRESS

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

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


LOCATION

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

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

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

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

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Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon

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

1 Background

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

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

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

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

2   Scope and Topics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3  Workshop Submissions

The workshop features two tracks: 

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

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

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

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

4 Important Dates

       Workshop papers

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

      
    Shared task

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

5 Invited Speaker

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

              Alephsys Lab, Computer Science & Mathematics,

              Universidad Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain

6 Workshop Organizers

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

7 Program Committee

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

8 Contacts

For general questions, please get in touch with Michael Zock

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

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

Concerning the shared task, please contact

Enrico Santus                 (esantus@gmail.com), or

Emmanuele Chersoni     (emmanuelechersoni@gmail.com)

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

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

13 September, Barcelona, Spain.

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

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

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

Second Call for Participation

FinTOC?2 shared task


Held at COLING 2020 as part of the FNP-FNS 2020 workshop.
13 September, Barcelona, Spain.
====================


Shared Task URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fintoc2020/
Workshop URL: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2020/
Participation Form: https://forms.gle/LFsVaw6DqYikhKHx9

_____________________________________________

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

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

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

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

_____________________________________________

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

Important dates:

December 1st, 2020: Registration opens.
February 17th, 2020: Release of training set & scoring scripts.
March 23rd, 2020: Release of test set.
April 6th, 2020: Registration deadline.
April 13th, Submission deadline.
May 1st, 2020: Release of results.
Sep 13th, 2020: Workshop day.
_________________________________________

Contact:
For any questions on the shared task please contact us on:
fin.toc.task@gmail.com
______________________________________


Shared task organizers:

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

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

Call for Participation:

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MLSP 2020

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

Call for Papers

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

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

Special Session Call for Proposals

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

More details

Paper Submission

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

More details

Paper Publication

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

Schedule 2020

• Special session call deadline: March 19
• Paper submission deadline: April 19
• Decision notification: June 30
• Camera-ready paper deadline: July 25
• Advance registration deadline: August 22

Organizing Committee

General Chair: Simo Särkkä (Aalto University), Program Chairs: Lassi Roininen (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Andreas Hauptmann (University of Oulu), Manon Kok (TU Delft), Michael Riis Andersen (Technical University of Denmark), Finance Chair: Seppo Sierla (Aalto University), Publicity Chair: Arno Solin (Aalto University), Tutorial Chair: Alexander Ilin (Aalto University), Publications Chair: Roland Hostettler (Uppsala University), Advisory Committee: Zheng-Hua Tan (Aalborg University), Murat Akcakaya (University of Pittsburgh), Bhaskar Rao (University of California San Diego), Raviv Raich (Oregon State University)

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ImageCLEF 2020
Multimedia Retrieval in CLEF
http://www.imageclef.org/2020/
https://www.facebook.com/ImageClef/
https://twitter.com/imageclef/


*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

ImageCLEF 2020 is an evaluation campaign that is being organized as
part of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) labs.
The campaign offers several research tasks that welcome participation
from teams around the world.

The results of the campaign appear in the working notes proceedings,
published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and are presented
in the CLEF conference. Selected contributions among the participants
will be invited for submission to a special section 'Best of CLEF'20
Labs' in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) of
CLEF'21, together with the annual lab overviews.

Target communities involve (but are not limited to):
- information retrieval (text, vision, audio, multimedia, social
media, sensor data, etc.)
- machine learning, deep learning
- data mining
- natural language processing
- image and video processing
- computer vision
with special attention to the challenges of multi-modality,
multi-linguality, and interactive search.


*** 2020 TASKS ***

*ImageCLEFlifelog* (4th edition)
https://www.imageclef.org/2020/lifelog
An increasingly wide range of personal devices that allow capturing
pictures, videos, and audio clips for every moment of our lives, are
becoming available. In this context, the task addresses the problems
of lifelogging data retrieval and summarization.

Organizers: Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen (University of Bergen), Van-Tu Ninh,
Tu-Khiem Le, Liting Zhou & Cathal Gurrin (Dubin City University), Luca
Piras (Pluribus One & University of Cagliari), Michael Riegler & Pål
Halvorsen (SimulaMet), Minh-Triet Tran (University of Science),
Mathias Lux (Klagenfurt University).


*ImageCLEFcoral* (2nd edition)
https://www.imageclef.org/2020/coral
The increasing use of structure-from-motion photogrammetry for
modelling large-scale environments from action cameras has driven the
next generation of visualization techniques. The task addresses the
problem of automatically segmenting and labeling a collection of
images that can be used in combination to create 3D models for the
monitoring of coral reefs.

Organizers: Jon Chamberlain, Adrian Clark & Alba García Seco de
Herrera (University of Essex), Antonio Campello (Wellcome Trust).


*ImageCLEFmedical* (2nd edition)
https://www.imageclef.org/2020/medical
Medical images can be used in a variety of scenarios and this task
will combine the most popular medical tasks of ImageCLEF and continue
the last year idea of combining various applications, namely:
automatic image captioning and scene understanding, medical visual
question answering and decision support on tuberculosis. This allows
to explore synergies between the tasks.

Organizers: Asma Ben Abacha & Dina Demner-Fushman (National Library of
Medicine), Sadid A. Hasan (CVS Health), Vivek Datla & Joey Liu
(Philips Research Cambridge), Obioma Pelka & Christoph M. Friedrich
(University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund), Alba García Seco
de Herrera (University of Essex), Yashin Dicente Cid (University of
Warwick), Serge Kozlovski, Vitali Liauchuk & Vassili Kovalev (United
Institute of Informatics Problems), Henning Müller (HES-SO).


*ImageCLEFdrawnUI2020* (new)
https://www.imageclef.org/2020/drawnui
Enabling people to create websites by drawing them on a piece of paper
can make the webpage building process more accessible. The task
addresses the problem of automatically recognizing hand drawn objects
representing website UIs, that will be further translated into
automatic website code.

Organizers: Paul Brie & Fichou Dimitri (teleportHQ), Mihai Dogariu,
Liviu Daniel Stefan, Mihai Gabriel Constantin & Bogdan Ionescu
(University Politehnica of Bucharest).


*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
(may vary depending on the task)
- Task registration opens: December 20, 2019
- CLEF long and short paper submission: April 27, 2020
- Run submission: May 11, 2020
- Working notes submission: May 25, 2020
- CLEF 2020 conference: September 22-25, Thessaloniki, Greece


*** OVERALL COORDINATION ***
Bogdan Ionescu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Henning Müller, HES-SO, Sierre, Switzerland
Renaud Péteri, University of La Rochelle, France

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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

Virtual and augmented reality

Voice assistants

SATELLITE EVENT

5th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2020: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2020

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of 6-10 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM 2020 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2020

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for October 2020.

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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ACM Multimedia 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI
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12 - 16 October 2020


### Deadline: 30 July

The ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of multimodal conversational AI.
Recently, conversational systems have seen a significant rise in demand due to modern commercial applications using systems such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Assistant. The research on multimodal chatbots is a widely underexplored area, where users and the conversational agent communicate by natural language and visual data.
Conversational agents are now becoming a commodity as a number of companies push for this technology. The wide use of these conversational agents exposes the many challenges in achieving more natural, human-like, and engaging conversational agents. The research community is actively addressing several of these challenges: how are visual and text data related in user utterances? How to interpret the user intent? How to encode multimodal dialog status? What are the ethical and legal aspects of conversational AI?
The Multimodal Conversational AI workshop will be a forum where researchers and practitioners share their experiences and brainstorm about success and failures in the topic. It will also promote collaboration to strengthen the conversational AI community at ACM Multimedia.

https://sites.google.com/view/multimodal-conversational-ai/


### Topics of Interest
- Design and evaluation of conversational agents
- User-Agent experience design
- Preference elicitation in conversational agents
- Recommendations in conversational systems
- User-agent legal and ethical issues in conversational systems
- Multimodal user intent understanding
- Visual conversations/dialogs
- Opinion recommendation in conversational agents
- Deep learning for multimodal conversational agents
- Conversation state tracking models and online learning
- Supply/demand in conversational agents for e-commerce
- Reinforcement learning in conversational agents
- Resources and datasets
- Conversational systems applications, including, but not limited to, e-commerce, social-good, music, Web search, healthcare.


### Paper Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be written in English and be formatted according to the ACM templates and guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system.
Papers are up to 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references. Full papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference.


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Third International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'20) @ ACM Multimedia, October 12-16, 2020, Seattle, USA

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Seattle, USA together with ACM Multimedia 2020. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:

? annotation and indexing

? athlete and object tracking

? activity recognition, classification and evaluation 

? event detection and indexing 

? performance assessment 

? injury analysis and prevention 

? data driven analysis in sports 

? graphical augmentation and visualization in sports 

? automated training assistance 

? camera pose and motion tracking 

? brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions

Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of the paper.

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 

http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                   June 29, 2020 

Acceptance Notification:     July 31, 2020 

Camera Ready Submission:     August 7, 2020 

Workshop Date:                TBA; either Oct 12 or Oct 16, 2020

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The 8th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2020) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. SLSP 2020 will be held in Cardiff on October 14-16, 2020. See 

https://irdta.eu/slsp2020/

Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion.

TOPICS

Presentations displaying novel work in progress on statistical models (including machine learning) for language and speech processing are encouraged. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome.

KEY DATES

Poster submission deadline: September 7, 2020

Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: September 14, 2020

SUBMISSION

Please upload a .pdf submission to:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2020

It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words.

PRESENTATION

Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion.

PUBLICATION

Posters will not appear in the LNCS/LNAI proceedings volume of SLSP 2020. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in Language Resources and Evaluation (Springer, JCR 2018 impact factor: 1.029).

REGISTRATION

At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by September 21, 2020. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euros. It gives the same rights all other conference participants will have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks, lunches). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.

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7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
 
BigDat 2020 Autumn
 
Beersheba, Israel
 
October 25-29, 2020
 
Co-organized by:
 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering
Data Science Research Center
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA)
Brussels/London
 
https://irdta.eu/bigdat2020a/
 
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--- Early registration deadline: July 20, 2020 ---
 
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SCOPE:
 
BigDat 2020 Autumn will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Bilbao, Bari, Timi?oara, Cambridge and Ancona.
 
Big data is a broad field covering a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 19 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2020 Autumn is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
VENUE:
 
BigDat 2020 Autumn will take place in Beersheba, the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel and an important technology center. The venue will be:
 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Marcus Family Campus
 
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/interactive.aspx
 
STRUCTURE:
 
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
tba
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
 
Paolo Addesso (University of Salerno), [introductory/intermediate] Data Fusion for Remotely Sensed Data
 
Thomas Bäck & Hao Wang (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Driven Modeling and Optimization for Industrial Applications
 
Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models
 
Altan Cakir (Istanbul Technical University), [intermediate] Big Data Analytics with Apache Spark
 
Edward Chang (Stanford University), [intermediate] Artificial Intelligence for Disease Diagnosis and Precision Surgery
 
Michael X. Cohen (Radboud University Nijmegen), [introductory] Dimension Explosion and Dimension Reduction in Brain Electrical Activity
 
Ian Fisk (Flatiron Institute), [introductory] The Infrastructure to Support Data Science
 
Michael Freeman (University of Washington), [intermediate] Interactive Data Visualization Using D3 + Observable
 
David Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Derive Meaning from Data with R Visualizations
 
Yifan Hu (Yahoo Research), [introductory/advanced] Data Visualization and Machine Learning
 
Rafael Irizarry (Harvard University), [introductory] Data Science for Statisticians (tidyverse, ggplot, wrangling)
 
Wagner A. Kamakura (Rice University), [intermediate] Advanced Business Analytics using Excel Addins
 
Ravi Kumar (Google), [intermediate/advanced] Clustering for Big Data
 
Victor O.K. Li (University of Hong Kong), [intermediate] Deep Learning and Applications
 
Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Optimization and Data Sciences Techniques for Large Networks
 
Valeriu Predoi (University of Reading), [introductory] A Beginner's Guide to Big Data Analysis: How to Connect Scientific Software Development with Real World Problems
 
Alexandre Vaniachine (VirtualHealth), [intermediate] Open-source Columnar Databases
 
Sebastián Ventura (University of Córdoba), [intermediate/advanced] Supervised Descriptive Pattern Mining
 
Xiaowei Xu (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), [introductory/advanced] Deep Learning for Text Mining
 
OPEN SESSION:
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by October 17, 2020.
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by October 17, 2020.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by October 17, 2020.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Stavi Baram (Beersheba)
Mark Last (Beersheba)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
Lior Rokach (Beersheba, co-chair)
Bracha Shapira (Beersheba, co-chair)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
https://irdta.eu/bigdat2020a/registration/
 
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
FEES:
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
 
Refunding of registration fees will not be possible. However, an exception will be made in case the event must be postponed due to the continuation of the coronavirus crisis in Autumn (which is a scenario the organizers do not expect).
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London

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ICMI 2020: Third Call for Late-Breaking Results (Deadline Extended)
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http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cflbr
25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Dear all,
ICMI2020 is going virtual. With the help of our Virtual Conference chairs, we are currently preparing an online and interactive program. Stay tuned!
Best,
the organizing team of ICMI2020.
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Based on the success of the LBR in ICMI 2018 and 2019, the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2020 continues soliciting submissions for the special venue titled Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of the LBR venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues.

Online Submission

For online paper submissions, please click on the following link: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi

Highlights

- Submission deadline: August 19th, 2020 (extended)
- Notifications: September 8th, 2020
- Camera-ready deadline: September 30th, 2020
- Conference Dates: October 24-25, 2020
- Submission format: Anonymized, short paper (four pages not including references), following the submission guidelines (http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=authors)
- Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
- Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session
- Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library
- LBR Co-chairs: Elizabeth Shriberg (Berkeley University) and Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS-Sorbonne University)

What are Late-Breaking Results?

Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track.

Why submit to the Late-Breaking Results track at ICMI?

Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field.
Late-Breaking Results papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are 'significant' revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies.

Submission Guidelines

Extended Abstract: An anonymized, four-page paper, not including references, in the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (https://sigchi.org/templates). The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the 'Late-Breaking Results' track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted.

Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person.

Review Process

LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it 'fits' the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). 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.

Attendance

ICMI2020 is going virtual. With the help of our Virtual Conference chairs, we are currently preparing an online and interactive program. Stay tuned!

Questions?

For more information and updates on the ICMI 2020 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cflbr.

For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (Elizabeth Shriberg elizabeth.shriberg@gmail.com, Catherine Pelachaud catherine.pelachaud@upmc.fr)        

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ICMI 2020: Third Call for Demonstrations and Exhibits
http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfd
25-29 Oct 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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*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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The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Evaluation Plan is available on the website: 

https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/docs/VoicePrivacy_2020_Eval_Plan_v1_1.pdfThe VoicePrivacy initiative Challenge is spearheading the effort to develop privacy preservation solutions for speech technology. It aims to gather a new community to define the task and metrics and to benchmark initial solutions using common datasets, protocols and metrics. VoicePrivacy takes the form of a competitive challenge. The challenge is to develop anonymization solutions which suppress personally identifiable information contained within speech signals. At the same time, solutions should preserve linguistic content and speech quality/naturalness. The challenge will conclude with a session/event held in conjunction with Interspeech 2020 at which challenge results will be made publicly available.

Please find more information about on the challenge website:    http://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org

Registration:

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

Subscription:

Participants are encouraged to subscribe to the VoicePrivacy 2020 mailing list by sending an email to: sympa@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org with ?subscribe 2020? as the subject line. Successful registrations are confirmed by return email.

To post messages to the mailing list itself, emails should be addressed to: 2020@lists.voiceprivacychallenge.org

Best regards,

The VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge Organizers,

Jean-François Bonastre - University of Avignon - LIA, France
Nicholas Evans - EURECOM, France
Fuming Fang - NII, Japan
Andreas Nautsch - EURECOM, France
Paul-Gauthier Noé - University of Avignon - LIA, France
Jose Patino - EURECOM, France
Md Sahidullah - Inria, France
Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava - Inria, France
Natalia Tomashenko - University of Avignon - LIA, France
Massimiliano Todisco - EURECOM, France
Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France
Xin Wang - NII, Japan
Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan and University of Edinburgh, UK

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** SECOND APPEL À COMMUNICATION ***

TIM 2020 : Séminaire Traitement de l'Information Multimodale

du 02 au 04 novembre 2020 @ Paris, France

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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

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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...).

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Le comité de programme du séminaire TIM 2020

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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).

ALLIES evaluation focuses on speaker segmentation on a new corpus of audio-visual documents (news, debates, talk-shows...) from the French channel LCP.
More information about ALLIES evaluation can be found in  https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/allies-evaluation/

ALBAYZÍN evaluation challenges focus on evaluating different audio-visual technologies over TV and radio broadcast, and Basque Parliament content.

Five evaluations are proposed:

• Speech to Text Challenge (S2TC), organized by RTVE (Spanish public radio and television) and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of automatically transcribe different types of TV shows.
• Speaker Diarization and Identity Asignement (SDIAC), organized by RTVE(Spanish public radio and television) and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of segmenting broadcast audio documents according to different speakers, linking those segments which originate from the same speaker and identify a closed set of speakers. 
• Multimodal Diarization and Scene Description Challenge (MDSDC), organized by RTVE (Spanish public radio and television) and Universidad de Zaragoza, consists of segmenting broadcast audio-visual documents according to a closed set of speakers, faces and scene descriptors and linking those segments which originate from the same speaker, face and scene descriptor. 
• Search on Speech Challenge (SoSC), organized by Universidad San Pablo-CEU and AuDIaS from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, consists of searching in audio content a list of terms/queries. 
• Text-to-Speech Alignment Evaluation (S2TAC), organized by University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), consists of aligning text and audio extracted from a plenary session of the Basque Parliament (bilingual audio).

More information about the different challenges, databases and online registration can be found in
http://catedrartve.unizar.es/albayzin2020.html

More information about IberSpeech 2020 in
https://iberspeech2020.eca-simm.uva.es/

The calendar for the Albayzín S2TC, SDIAC, MDSDC and SoSC evaluations is:

• March 23th, 2020: Registration opens
• March 23th, 2020: Release of the training and development data
• June 1st, 2020: Registration deadline. Release of the evaluation data
• June 30th, 2020: Submission deadline
• July 15th, 2020: Results distribution to the participants
• September 13th, 2020: Paper submission deadline
• November 18-20, 2020: Iberspeech 2020 conference in Valladolid (Spain)
  

The calendar for the Albayzín S2TAC evaluation is:

• May 4th, 2020 Evaluation plan released. Registration open.
• May 18th, 2020 Development data released. Scoring website enabled for dev data.
• July 13th, 2020 Test data released. Registration closed.
• July 24th, 2020 Deadline for submitting results.
• July 27th, 2020 Scoring website enabled for test data.
• September 13th, 2020: Paper submission deadline
• November 18-20, 2020: Iberspeech 2020 conference in Valladolid (Spain)
  

For any additional information, please contact the organizers of the calls.

Thanks in advance for your time an interest in IBERSPEECH 2020 Conference and ALBAYZÍN evaluations.

Best regards,
The ALBAYZÍN 2020 Evaluations Organizing Committee

Alfonso Ortega Giménez, ortega@unizar.es
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Eduardo Lleida Solano, lleida@unizar.es
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Luis Javier Rodríguez Fuentes, luisjavier.rodriguez@ehu.es
Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

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Important note:  conference as a virtual meeting

 Instructions for Authors.

Note that previously accepted abstracts do not need to be resubmitted; however, authors are encouraged to upload revised versions of their abstracts based on reviewer feedback using the EasyChair portal. The deadline for new submissions and revisions to accepted abstracts is August 1st, 2020.  

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

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

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

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

Developmental

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

Elder speech

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

Disordered Speech

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

Modeling

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

Methods

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

Neuroscience

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

Speech Interaction

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

Speech Technology

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

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

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Paper Submission Deadline: 6 July 2020 PST 

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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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Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the CFP.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Eighth International Conference on Big Data Analytics

December 15-18, 2020

Ashoka University

Sonepat (Delhi, NCR), India

http://www.bda2020.org/

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 

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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, 

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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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New dates announced:
6-9 January 2021

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. 

• Conceptualizing stuttering
• Genetics, brain, and neurophysiology
• More than speech
• Cluttering, acquired stuttering, and atypical disfluencies,
• Working with people who stutter

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. 
The conference seeks to promote research that informs management, with interventions that are supported by sound theory and which inform future research.

We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford in January.

Regards,

Conference Chairs

Sharon Millard, The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering, UK
Shelley B. Brundage, George Washington University, USA

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4^th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
 
DeepLearn 2021 Winter
 
Milan, Italy
 
January 11-15, 2021
 
Co-organized by:
 
Department of Information Engineering
Marche Polytechnic University
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA
Brussels/London
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/
 
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--- Early registration deadline: July 28, 2020 ---
 
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In conjunction with ICPR 2020
 
https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/
 
SCOPE:
 
DeepLearn 2021 Winter will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova and Warsaw.
 
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2021 Winter is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
VENUE:
 
DeepLearn 2021 Winter will take place in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe. The venue will be:
 
MiCo Milano Convention Centre
Piazzale Carlo Magno 1
Milan
 
https://www.micomilano.it/it/
 
The venue will be shared with the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition ? ICPR 2020
 
https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/
 
STRUCTURE:
 
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed)
 
Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), Data, Intelligence and Shortcuts
 
Petia Radeva (University of Barcelona), Uncertainty Modeling and Deep Learning in Food Analysis
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (University of the Basque Country), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis
 
Mikhail Belkin (Ohio State University), [intermediate/advanced] Understanding Deep Learning through the Lens of Over-parameterization
 
Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University), [introductory/intermediate] Safe and Robust Artificial Intelligence: Robustness, Calibration, Rejection, and Anomaly
 
Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, Expressivity, and Adaptivity
 
Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning Fundamentals and Their Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal and Feature Extraction, End-to-end Deep Learning, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware
 
Ça?lar Gülçehre (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning
 
Balázs Kégl (Huawei Technologies), [introductory] Deep Model-based Reinforcement Learning
 
Ludmila Kuncheva (Bangor University), [intermediate] Classification of Non-i.i.d. Data
 
Vincent Lepetit (ENPC ParisTech), [intermediate] Deep Learning and 3D Geometry
 
Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing: Introduction and Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning
 
Andy Liaw (Merck Research Labs), [introductory] Deep Learning and Statistics: Better Together
 
Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/advanced] Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition
 
Sayan Mukherjee (Duke University), [introductory/intermediate] Integrating Deep Learning with Statistical Modeling
 
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
 
Lyle John Palmer (University of Adelaide), [introductory/advanced] Epidemiology for Machine Learning Investigators
 
Razvan Pascanu (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Understanding Learning Dynamics in Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning
 
Jan Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt), [intermediate] Robot Learning
 
José C. Príncipe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video
 
Björn W. Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Signal Processing
 
Sargur N. Srihari (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Generative Models in Deep Learning
 
Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), [intermediate] Representation Learning in Limited Data Settings
 
René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning
 
Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects
 
OPEN SESSION:
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by January 3, 2021.
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 3, 2021.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 3, 2021.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Sara Moccia (Ancona)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Marina Paolanti (Ancona)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
Luca Romeo (Ancona)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/registration/
 
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
FEES:
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA, Brussels/London

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SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS)
January, 17-22 2021
Autrans (Grenoble area) - France

We are opening the registration for the first Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) in Grenoble, co-organized by University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe.


*Target Audience*
This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved for academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry.

*Characteristics*
This winter school aims to provide talks of renowned NLP researchers, as well as creating an ideal environment to foster collaborations

The speakers are:
 - Isabelle Augenstein: _Interpretability and Explainability for NLP_
 - Tim Baldwin: _Natural Language Processing for User Generated Content_
 - Kyunghyun Cho: _Neural Sequence Modeling: Learning and Inference_
 - Yejin Choi: _Neural Commonsense Knowledge and Reasoning_
 - Grzegorz Chrupa?a: _Visually Grounded Models of Spoken Language and their Analysis_
 - Claire Gardent: _Neural approaches to Natural Language Generation_
 - Sanjeev Khudanpur: _Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition (TBC)_

In addition to the talks, an important aspect of this school is the interaction between participants. The registration fee covers full board in a residence close to a ski resort, and some of the afternoons there will be organised social activities.
In view of the current public health situation, we are preparing to hold the event virtually in case it will not be possible to do so physically in January. Registration fees will be adapted in that case.

*Application*
To apply to this winter school, please follow the instructions at http://alps.imag.fr/index.php/application/ . The deadline for applying is July 31st, and we will notify acceptance in September

*Contact*
Website: http://alps.imag.fr/
Contact: alps2021@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

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

CALL FOR PAPERS:

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

In conjunction with IJCAI 2020, Yokohama, Japan

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

August 28, 2020 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

The ROBOTDIAL-2020 workshop will be held in conjunction with the main conference, and it will take place both in-person and also virtually for those who can't come.

Please consider submitting a paper to the 1st RobotDial Workshop on Dialogue Models for Human-Robot Interaction. The submission detail and more information about the workshop can be found on the workshop website:
http://sap.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ijcai2020/robotdial/

More information about the IJCAI-PRICAI conference will be on the conference website:
https://ijcai20.org/

We are looking forward to seeing your at ROBOTDIAL2020 in-person or virtually in January.

Best wishes,
Kristiina, Martin, Divesh, and Pierre

ROBOTDIAL-2020 workshop organisers

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

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

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

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

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

Looking forward to seeing you in Yokohama!

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

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14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
 
LATA 2020 & 2021
 
Milan, Italy
 
March 1-5, 2021
 
Co-organized by:
           
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milano-Bicocca
 
and
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice
Brussels/London
 
https://irdta.eu/lata2020-2021/
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AIMS:
 
LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 & 2021 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.
 
LATA 2020 & 2021 will merge the scheduled program for LATA 2020, which could not take place because of the Covid-19 crisis, with a new series of papers submitted on this occasion.
 
VENUE:
 
LATA 2020 & 2021 will be held in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe. The venue will be:
 
University of Milano-Bicocca
Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 22
Building U6
Aula Mario Martini (Aula U6-04)
Milan
 
SCOPE:
 
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
 
algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining
algorithms on automata and words
automata and logic
automata for system analysis and programme verification
automata networks
automatic structures
codes
combinatorics on words
computational complexity
concurrency and Petri nets
data and image compression
descriptional complexity
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference, inductive inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata
 
STRUCTURE:
 
LATA 2020 & 2021 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
Eric Allender (Rutgers University), The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization
 
Laure Daviaud (City, University of London), About Decision Problems for Weighted Automata
 
Christoph Haase (University College London), Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata
 
Artur Je? (University of Wroc?aw), Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data
 
Jean-Éric Pin (CNRS), How to Prove that a Language Is Regular or Star-free?
 
Thomas Place (University of Bordeaux), Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: A Language Theoretic Point of View
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, PT)
Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, DE)
Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
Marie-Pierre Béal (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST, DZ)
Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL)
Flavio Corradini (University of Camerino, IT)
Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR)
Laurent Doyen (ENS Paris-Saclay, FR)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, DE)
Rudolf Freund (Technical University of Vienna, AT)
Pawe? Gawrychowski (University of Wroc?aw, PL)
Amélie Gheerbrant (Paris Diderot University, FR)
Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI)
Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, US)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI)
Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, US)
Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE)
Parthasarathy Madhusudan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE)
Nicolas Markey (IRISA, Rennes, FR)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, RO)
Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, US)
Gennaro Parlato (University of Molise, IT)
Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Nir Piterman (Chalmers University of Technology, SE)
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, US)
Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo, IT)
Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL)
Kai Salomaa (Queen?s University, CA)
Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE)
William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA)
Ji?í Srba (Aalborg University, DK)
Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York, US)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG)
Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, NL)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Alberto Leporati (Milan, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (Milan)
Dana Shapira (Ariel)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Bianca Truthe (Giessen)
Claudio Zandron (Milan, co-chair)
 
SUBMISSIONS:
 
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.
 
Upload submissions to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata20202021
 
PUBLICATIONS:
 
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
 
A special issue of Information and Computation (Elsevier, 2019 JCR impact factor: 0.872) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
 
REGISTRATION:
 
The registration form can be found at:
 
https://irdta.eu/lata2020-2021/registration/
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: October 19, 2020
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 23, 2020
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 30, 2020
Early registration: November 30, 2020
Late registration: February 15, 2021
Submission to the journal special issue: June 5, 2021
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david (at) irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
 
IRDTA ? Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London

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Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9)

Website: https://sites.google.com/dstc.community/dstc9/home
 Background
 

The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.

 For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and selected the following four parallel tracks by peer-reviews:
 - Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access (Amazon Alexa AI): This track aims to allow users to have requests that are out of the scope of APIs/DB but potentially available in external knowledge sources. Track participants will develop task-oriented dialogue systems to understand relevant domain knowledge, and generate system responses with the relevant selected knowledge. In addition, the track includes evaluation on generalization over unseen domains and modalities (i.e. moving from written to spoken conversations).
 - Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University): This track follows its success in DSTC-8 continuing with the effort of building dialog systems under a multi-domain setting. This time extending the task by incorporating new datasets, creating new sub-tasks, and providing a new development platform. The new task specifically focuses on two aspects of dialog systems: language portability and end-to-end system complexity. 
 
- Interactive Evaluation of Dialog (CMU & USC): This track targets the creation of systems that can be effectively used in interactive settings by real users. The task is intended to move research beyond datasets, and evaluate models in interactive environments with real users allowing several valuable properties of dialog to be measured: consistency, adaptiveness and user-centric development. DialPort, a platform for interactive assessment with real users will be used for evaluation. 
 
- SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI): This track aims to tackle grounding dialog in an evolving multi-modal contextual input. Unlike previous multimodal track challenges, where the context from the non-textual modalities (video and audio) remains unchanged as the dialog progresses, this track encompasses a rich, situated multi-modal user context in the form of a shared image or VR environment that evolves fluidly based on the dialog flow.
 Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government).
 Important Dates
 

- Jun 15, 2020: Training data is released

- Sep 21, 2020: Test data is released

- Oct 5, 2020: Entry submission deadline
- Nov 2020: Paper submission deadline
- Spring 2021: DSTC9 workshop (venue: TBD)
 DSTC9 Organizing Committee
 

- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research AI, USA

- Abhinav Rastogi - Google Research, USA
- Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen - National Taiwan University, Taiwan 
- Luis Fernando D'Haro - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Seokhwan Kim - Amazon Alexa AI, USA
 DSTC9 Track Organizers
Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access 
- Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-tur (Amazon Alexa AI)
 Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II 
- Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao, Jinchao Li, Lars Liden, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, Shahin Shayandeh, Swadheen Shukla, Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University)
 Interactive Evaluation of Dialog 
- Shikib Mehri, Carla Gordon, David Traum, Maxine Eskenazi (CMU & USC)
SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI 
- Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon (EJ) Cho, Paul A. Crook, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Shivani Poddar, Rajen Subba (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI)
 DSTC Steering Committee

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 Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan 
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA 
- Rafael E. Banchs - Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 
- Michel Galley - Microsoft Research AI, USA
 Contact Information
 Join the DSTC mailing list to get the latest updates about DSTC9:
- To join the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/join
- To post a message: send your message to list@dstc.community
- To leave the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/unsubscribe
 For specific enquiries about DSTC9: Please feel free to contact dstc9-organizing-committee@dstc.community

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Announcing the Call for Papers
for ICASSP 2021

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