ISCA and General chairs message for web and ISCAPad - end January 2021

Dear Interspeech participants, dear speech community, 

While we recognize the challenges for our Shanghai colleagues that had to turn Interspeech 2020 to virtual mode, we were hoping that 2021 would bring improvement on the COVID front and that we would see the speech community physically in Brno, our beloved city. Unfortunately, the situation at the beginning of 2021 is not that positive, with high numbers of new cases, strict Government regulations, lock-downs and actually stopped cross-border travel. We hope the situation will improve as we approach summer, but with the current (slow) progress with vaccination, and travel bans some big companies and Universities have issued, we would be naive to think that our Interspeech will be a “normal” one. 

We have therefore decided to opt for a hybrid Brno Interspeech with a back-up option of fully virtual one. 

How will it look like ? 

1. The paper submission and review will proceed as usual, with the deadline of March 26. Despite the restriction, we encourage our community to submit quality papers !

2. At registration, we will ask participants to select physical or virtual presence at the conference. Both physical and virtual participants will have the same access to the talks and posters at the conference. Of course, we can’t provide the excellent Czech beer to virtual participants... The registration fees for virtual participants will be half of the physical ones, with no penalty for switching from virtual to physical (with surcharge to full physical fee) and very little extra when switching from physical to virtual. More details about conditions will be available on the registration website.

3. We have cancelled the large BVV conference center and booked a conference Hotel Internationalright in the historical center of Brno. The tutorials will take place (also in hybrid mode) at the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT. Out of the usual 12 parallel sessions. Part will run in hybrid (virtually and physically) and part in only virtual mode. We will do our best that they have the same level of interaction. The selection of papers into hybrid sessions will be based on who comes physically to Brno, we will try to respect the usual topicality of sessions, but might have a bit more overlap than usually. 

4. As we move forward with Interspeech-2021 logistics, we will continue to stay connected with those organizing ISCA satellite workshops and special events. We look forward to a technically inspiring Interspeech program with complementary workshops. 

5. The author registration deadline June 15 will be important - in the unfortunate case of having too few participants able/willing to come to Brno, we will have to “pull the emergency brake” and switch Interspeech 2021 to fully virtual. Therefore, we kindly ask everyone to wait with purchase of air-tickets until the decision is done (around June 20). At the same time, we are closely watching  related international events as well as similarly sized events in Czechia to be able to do the most informed decision. 

We are sorry for any inconvenience and uncertainty, please stay with us while we’re trying hard to make Insterspeech 2021 (in any format) a success.  We hope to see you in Brno in August/September !

Hynek Heřmanský - General Chair  

Honza Černocký - General Chair

John H.L. Hansen - ISCA President 

Sebastian Möller - ISCA Conferences 

Margaret Zellers - ISCA Conferences

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Incheon in South Korea will welcome Interspeech 2022.

https://interspeech2022.org

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, ISCA has reached the decision to hold INTERSPEECH-2023 in Dublin, Ireland (Aug. 20-24, 2023)

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eISCA conference committee has decided Interspeech 2024 will be held in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers:  see

https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars

ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS

A seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However,  presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.

ISCA has set up a pool of speakers prepared to give on-line talks. In this way we can enhance the experience of students working in our field, often in difficult conditions. To find details of the speakers,

• visit isca-speech.org
• Click Distinguished Lecturers in the left panel
• Online Seminars then appears beneath Distinguished Lecturers: click that.

Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials.

If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org

If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org

PS. The online seminar scheme  is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:

Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.

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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

We would like to draw your attention to three upcoming short courses from the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences:

- Prosody & Rhythm: applications to teaching rhythm,
  Donna Erickson (Haskins), March 16, 19, 23 and 26

- Prosody, variation and contact,
  Barbara Gili Fivela (University of Salento, Italy), April 19, 21, 23, 26 and 28

- Rhythmic analysis of languages: main challenges,
  Marisa Cruz (University of Lisbon), June 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10

For details:
  http://www.letras.ufmg.br/padrao_cms/index.php?web=lbass&lang=2&page=3670&menu=&tipo=1
 
 
 
Plinio Barbosa and Nigel Ward

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Dear SProSIG Members,

I am pleased to announce that Speech Prosody 2022 will be held in Lisbon,  May 23-26, 2022.

Thanks to all who voted: 315 members from 46 countries.  Although the vote for Lisbon was decisive (41%), it was good to see strong support also for the bids for Aix (33%) and Nijmegen (26%).
 
Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair
Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

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The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All):  
Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide', which took  
place on December 4-6, 2019 at Unesco Headquarters in Paris in the  
framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019),  
was sponsored by ISCA. 
 
The rationale of the conference was: 'How to improve the present  
situation where only 2% of the languages spoken over the world benefit  
from Language Technologies' ? 
  
 Out of the 7,000+ language spoken around the world, only a few have associated Language
Technologies. The majority of languages can be considered as 'under-resourced' or as 'not
supported'. This situation, very detrimental to many languages speakers, and specifically
indigenous languages speakers, creates a digital divide,  and places many languages in
danger of digital extinction, if not complete extinction.

Organized as part of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, the 1st edition
of LT4All (Language Technologies for All: Enabling Linguistic Diversity and
Multilingualism Worldwide) took place in Paris at the UNESCO Headquarters on December
4-6, 2019 and gathered 400 participants from various backgrounds (including language
science and technology researchers, linguists, industrials, indigenous peoples, language
policy and decision makers) from all over the world.

 It allowed for fruitful exchanges between Language Technology providers  
and Language Policy makers, as it can be seen on Twitter:  
https://twitter.com/hashtag/lt4all 
 
The conference oral sessions were webcasted and can be replayed, in  
English and French: see https://en.unesco.org/LT4All 

The LT4All Programme and Editorial Committees are very happy to announce that the set of
Research Papers and Posters collected at the occasion of LT4All is now available online
at : https://lt4all.elra.info/proceedings/lt4all2019/

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LT4All has  been made possible thanks to the close cooperation between UNESCO, the 
Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra (Russian Federation), the
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and its Special Interest  Group on
Under-resourced  languages  (SIGUL), and in partnership with UNESCO Intergovernmental
Information for All Programme (IFAP) and the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, as
well as with support of other public organizations, including ISCA, and sponsors.

More information including the list of all the sponsors and supporters @
https://en.unesco.org/LT4All

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At the online annual meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) there are a couple of prosody-related talks (in English).

Registation:
https://www.linguistik.uni-freiburg.de/43rd-annual-conference-of-the-german-linguistic-society-dgfs/registration-1?set_language=en
(15 EUR before 1. February, 20 EUR after 1. February)

PROGRAM:
https://www.linguistik.uni-freiburg.de/43rd-annual-conference-of-the-german-linguistic-society-dgfs/program

Prosody-related PLENARY TALKS, for instance:
Autosegmental-metrical phonology ? Not only pitch accents and edge tones, Martine Grice, Universität zu Köln, Freitag, 26.02.2020, 10:00 - 11:00
Adding the prosodic dimension to subordination and its emergence, Marianne Mithun, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), Donnerstag, 25.02.2021, 19:30 - 20:30

Prosody-related WORKING GROUPS ('Arbeitsgruppen', AG) with several talks, for instance
AG 2: Weak elements in prosodic acquisition and processing (organized by Ulrike Domahs, Angela Grimm, Mathias Scharinger)
AG 10a: Prosodic boundary phenomena (organized by Fabian Schubö, Sabine Zerbian, Sandra Hanne, Isabell Wartenburger)      

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14^th-15^th 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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*IEEE MIPR 2021: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS*
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IEEE 4th International Conference on
Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021)
  March 22-24, 2021. Tokyo, Japan. https://mipr2021.org/
  Sponsored by IEEE TCMC. Supported by IEICE, IPSJ, ITE.
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Huge amounts of multimedia data are increasingly available and the knowledge of spatial and/or temporal phenomena becomes critical for many applications, which requires techniques for the processing, analysis, search, mining, and management of multimedia data. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2021) will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to become acquainted with new theories and technologies in multimedia information processing and retrieval. MIPR 2021 is now inviting submissions of regular research papers, demo papers, workshop proposals, special session proposals, and tutorial proposals. Please refer to the detail of each category in the following.

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*HISTORY & ACCEPTANCE RATE*
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- IEEE 3rd MIPR 2020 @ Shenzhen: 19.5% (Acceptance Rate)
- IEEE 2nd MIPR 2019 @ San Jose: 19.5% (Acceptance Rate)
- IEEE 1st MIPR 2018 @ Miami   : 19.5% (Acceptance Rate)
- 12 years of MIPR (workshop) in conjunction with IEEE ISM.

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*IMPORTANT DATES*
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- 04 Sep, 2020: Proposal deadline for special sessions and workshops.
- 11 Sep, 2020: Notification of proposal for special sessions and workshops.
- 02 Oct, 2020: Submission deadline for regular papers.
- 06 Nov, 2020: Submission deadline of papers for special sessions, workshops, and demos.
- 06 Nov, 2020: Proposal deadline for tutorials.
- 13 Nov, 2020: Notification of proposal for tutorials.
- 18 Dec, 2020: Notification of regular papers.
- 25 Dec, 2020: Notification of papers for special sessions, workshops, and demos.
- 08 Jan, 2021: Deadline for camera-ready submission (final version) and author registration.
- 22-24 Mar, 2021: Conference dates.

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*Call for Regular Papers*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval.

**Topics**
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Multimedia Retrieval
- Multimedia Search and Recommendation
- Web-Scale Retrieval
- Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning
- 3D and sensor data retrieval
- Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval
- High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features

* Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining
- Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and / or Multimodal Fusion
- Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection
- High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures)
- Spatio-Temporal Data Mining

* Content Understanding and Analytics
- Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis
- Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration
- Affective and Perceptual Multimedia
- Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans

* Multimedia and Vision
- Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
- Visual Concept Detection
- Object Detection and Tracking
- 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications

* Networks for Multimedia Systems
- Internet Scale System Design
- Information Coding for Content Delivery

* Systems and Infrastructures
- Multimedia Systems and Middleware
- Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics
- Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing

* Data Management
- Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage
- Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy
- Standards and Policies for Data Management

* Novel Applications
- Multimedia applications for health and sports
- Multimedia applications for culture and education
- Multimedia applications for fashion and living
- Multimedia applications for security and safety

*Internet of Multimedia Things
- Real-Time Data Processing
- Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones
- Mobile and Wearable Multimedia

and others.

**Paper Submission**
The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages plus reference pages). Authors are encouraged to compare their approaches, qualitatively or quantitatively, with existing work and explain the strength and weakness of the new approaches. We are planning to invite selected submissions to journal special issues.

**Important Dates**
- Paper submission deadline: October 2, 2020
- Notification of acceptance: December 18, 2020
- Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Call for Demo Papers*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 organizing committee invites proposals for technical demonstrations to be presented in conjunction with the conference. Technical Demonstrations will show leading edge work in any area of multimedia information retrieval. Demonstrations offer the opportunity to present and receive feedback on live working systems in an informal setting. Submissions are particularly encouraged in the following areas with emphasis on multimedia information retrieval, but not limited to:

### Multimedia information Retrieval
* Multimedia Search and Recommendation
* Web-Scale Retrieval
* Relevance Feedback
* Active/Transfer Learning
* 3D and Sensor Data Retrieval
* Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval
* High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features
* Summarization
* Personalized Retrieval
* Browsing History
* Fuzzy Retrieval
* Accuracy Measures for Retrieval

### Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining in Multimedia
* Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and/or Multimodal Fusion
* Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection
* High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures)
* Spatio-Temporal Data Mining

### Content Understanding and Analytics in Multimedia
* Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis
* Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration
* Affective and Perceptual Multimedia
* Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans
* Bias and Fairness in Multimedia Analysis

### Multimedia and Vision
* Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
* Visual Concept Detection
* Object Detection and Tracking
* 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications

### Fake Multimedia
* Image/Video Forensics
* Forgery Detection
* Multimedia Content Protection

### Multimedia Information Systems and Infrastructures
* User Interface
* Query-By-Retrieval Methods
* Retrieval Paradigms
* Novel Interfaces for Retrieval
* Multimedia Systems and Middleware
* Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
* Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics
* Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing
* GPU-based Retrieval

### Multimedia Data Management
* Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage
* Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy
* Standards and Policies for Data Management
* Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Retrieval

### Novel Applications in Multimedia
* Multimedia Forensics and Security
* Urban planning and emergency responses
* Environmental monitoring
* Education (using Multimedia for Education or Education about Multimedia)
* Social Networks (multimedia content)
* Multimedia Information Retrieval from Scientific Databases
* Multimedia for Healthcare and Medicine

### Internet of Multimedia Things
* Real-Time Data Processing
* Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones
* Mobile and Wearable Multimedia

The written and spoken language of IEEE MIPR 2021 is English. For technical demonstrations, authors should submit:

* a 4-page manuscript in double-column IEEE format including the authors’ names and affiliations, following the submission guidelines available on the IEEE MIPR 2021 web page
* a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the IEEE MIPR 2021 web page
* a presentation/video, which can be a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, a Flash presentation, an MPEG/WMV video clip, or a link on for the corresponding presentation on Social Media (e.g., vimeo, YouTube) not more than five minutes long.

Please create a single zip archive of all files, and upload it to the paper submission system. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. All technical demonstration papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online access via IEEEXplore.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Demonstrators will be provided with space and access to a local network, however, demos should not rely on Internet access. The participants will be required to provide their own computing equipment and any additional network, display, or other specific hardware needed for the demonstration.

**Important Dates**

* Paper submission deadline: November 6, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: December 25, 2020
* Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Call for Tutorials*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 invites proposals for tutorials to be held on March 22 or March 24, 2021 (tentative date). We welcome 1.5 hours or 3 hours tutorial. Each tutorial is expected to focus on a significant research topic and/or application of multimedia information processing and retrieval.

Proposals should be submitted in single PDF file by email to Tutorial Chairs via [tutorial@mipr2021.org], and must include the following information:

* Title of the Tutorial
* Names, titles, affiliations, and primary contact email of the Tutorial Organizers/Speakers
* Preference for 1.5 hour or 3h event
* 300-word Abstract (for publicity purposes)
* Full description of the Tutorial including topics covered by the Tutorial and a brief description and detail of each topic
* CV’s for Organizers/Speakers including relevant publications and list of tutorials given in past conferences or workshops (if any)
* Planned materials to be distributed to attendees (if any)

Each proposal will be evaluated by Tutorial Chairs based on their estimated benefit to the community. Specific factors to be considered include relevance, timeliness, importance, experience, and the Organizers’/Speakers’ qualifications.

IEEE MIPR 2021 local arrangements will provide for rooms and necessary equipment needed for the tutorial session (microphones, video projector, and screen). Each tutorial speaker will need to cover her/his registration.

**Important Dates**

* Proposal deadline: November 6, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: November 13, 2020
* Camera-ready (1-page abstract of the Tutorial) deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Call for Workshop Proposals*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 invites proposals for half- or full-day workshops to be held during the conference. Workshops are expected to focus on new research directions and novel applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval.

Workshop proposals should be submitted in plain text or PDF, by e-mail to Workshop Chairs via [workshop@mipr2021.org], and must include the following elements:

* Title and its acronym
* Duration (full-day or half-day)
* Description of the workshop topic
* A draft CFP (not exceeding 500 words)
* Short description of how the organizers plan to attract quality submissions
* Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any)
* Information on past editions (if any)
* Short biographies of the organizers
* Contact information of the organizers (including names, affiliations, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses)

After a workshop proposal is accepted, the organizers should create a Web page for the workshop and notify the workshop chairs of its URL. The main conference web site will provide a link to each workshop.

**Important Dates**

* Workshop proposal deadline: September 4, 2020
* Workshop proposal notification: September 11, 2020
* Paper submission deadline: November 6, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: December 25, 2020
* Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Call for Special Session Proposals*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021 [https://mipr2021.org]. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. At this time, we invite you to propose special sessions for MIPR 2021. Special sessions supplement the regular program for MIPR 2021. They provide new and emerging topics in the fields of multimedia information processing and retrieval. Each special session should provide an overview of the state-of-the-art and highlight important research directions in a field of special interest to MIPR participants. Each Special Session should be a focused effort rather than defined broadly.

Each special session should consist of about 5 oral papers with authors from at least three independent institutions. The session organizers will be responsible for the selection of these papers. Special session papers can be invited or submitted. They will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of MIPR 2021.

* Title of the special session
* Session abstract (approximately 100 words), with stating the importance of the topic and the rationale for the session
* Names and affiliations of the organizers (including brief bios and contact information)
* List of potential authors committed to submit paper (including a tentative title and a 300-word abstract for each paper)

Once the proposal has been approved, it is the duty of the organizers to publicize their special session among researchers and practitioners in each session field. The organizers will organize the review process as below.

1. Establish an independent program committee for your Special Session (SS-PC).
2. Assign 3 reviewers through SS-PC to each submitted paper.
3. Arrange a draft of peer-reviewed result for each paper, and suggest it to the program co-chairs and special session co-chairs (the final judgment is achieved by program co-chairs).

If a proposal is not accepted, potential papers in that proposal can still be submitted to regular track. If a significant number of the papers are rejected after peer-review for an approved Special Session, this Special Session may be cancelled or merged to other sessions.

Those who are interested in organizing a special session should submit a proposal with the above requirements by email to the Special Session co-chairs [special-session-chairs@mipr2021.org], and all the papers in the special sessions should follow the same style as the regular MIPR 2021 papers.

**Important Dates**

* Proposal deadline: September 4, 2020
* Proposal notification: September 11, 2020
* Paper deadline: November 6, 2020
* Notification: December 25, 2020
* Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Conference Organizing Committee*
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Honorary Co-Chairs:
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

General Co-Chairs:
Benoit Huet, Median Technologies, France
Jianquan Liu, NEC Corporation, Japan
Keiji Yanai, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Program Co-Chairs:
Naoko Nitta, Osaka University, Japan
Shuqiang Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Special Session Co-Chairs:
Kyoung-Sook Kim, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Tomoko Kajiyama, Hiroshima City University, Japan

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Jiaying Liu, Peking University, China
Masakazu Iwamura, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Pradeep K. Atrey, University at Albany, SUNY, USA

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Chengcui Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Go Irie, NTT, Japan
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Zheng Wang, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Demo Co-Chairs:
Hideki Nakayama, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Qiang Ma, Kyoto University, Japan
Ramazan Savas Aygun, Kennesaw State University, USA

Poster Co-Chairs:
Terumi Umematsu, NEC Corporation, Japan
Yoko Yamakata, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Award Committee Co-Chairs:
Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sponsorship & Industry Co-Chairs:
Atsushi Keyaki, Denso IT Labs, Japan
Guan-Ming Su, Dolby Labs, USA
Min Luo, EY Advanced Technology Tax Lab, Japan
Yoji Kiyota, LIFULL Co., Ltd., Japan
Yongqing Sun, NTT, Japan
Yusuke Uchida, Mobility Technologies Co., Ltd., Japan

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Irland
Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan
Kien A. Hua, University of Central Florida, USA
Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada
Makoto Onizuka, Osaka University, Japan
Min Chen, University of Washington Bothell, USA
Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Wen-Huang Cheng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:
Xueting Wang, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Yusuke Matsui, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Publication Co-Chairs:
Atsushi Hashimoto, OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Japan
Masato Shirai, Shimane University, Japan

Finance Co-Chairs:
Shigeyuki Sakazawa, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Wei-Bang Chen, Virginia State University, USA

Registration Co-Chairs:
Nakamasa Inoue, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yuyang Dong, NEC Corporation, Japan

Web & SNS Co-Chairs:
Takahiro Komamizu (Web), Nagoya University, Japan
Yuanyuan Wang (SNS), Yamaguchi University, Japan

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*CONTACT*
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If you have any questions, please try to contact us by the following mailing list.
[question@mipr2021.org]

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APPEL À COMMUNICATION / CALL FOR PAPERS
CORIA 2021

La 17ème édition de CORIA (COnférence en Recherche d?Information et Applications) sera organisée du 14 au 16 avril 2021, conjointement aux rencontres jeunes chercheurs en RI (RJCRI). Elle est la principale manifestation soutenue par l?Association Francophone de Recherche d?Information et Applications ARIA (http://www.asso-aria.org).

Site Web de CORIA 2021 :
http://www.asso-aria.org/coria/2021/ 

Site de soumission :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coria2021

Calendrier :
Soumission des résumés : 16 février 2021

Soumission des articles : 23 février 2021

Notification : 23 mars 2021

Version définitive des articles : 2 avril 2021

Conférence : 14 au 16 avril 2021

CORIA vise à rassembler les équipes et les personnes menant des travaux scientifiques dans le domaine de la recherche d?information et de ses applications : recherche d?information sur le web, sur les réseaux sociaux ou sur des collections spécifiques, systèmes de recommandation, fouille de documents, d?images, d?enregistrements audio, de vidéos, assistants personnels et chatbots? Devenue activité quotidienne du grand public, la recherche d?information est essentielle à de nombreux usages du numérique. L?activité scientifique et technologique associée ne cesse de croître en interaction avec d?autres domaines de l?informatique et d?autres disciplines, mathématiques, linguistique, sciences cognitives, mais aussi en lien direct avec l?industrie et les acteurs de l?internet, des médias, de la culture, de la santé ou de l?éducation. Les modèles récents intègrent l?apprentissage automatique, la fouille de données, le traitement automatique des langues, le traitement de la parole et du signal, l?analyse d?images ou encore l?informatique affective.

La conférence CORIA est ouverte à l?ensemble de la communauté scientifique internationale concernée par la recherche d?information du point de vue théorique comme du point de vue des applications. Le public visé par CORIA est celui des chercheurs académiques, incluant les étudiants en master et doctorat, des industriels et de tous les spécialistes du domaine. Toutes les publications CORIA sont diffusées en accès ouvert sur le site de l?ARIA et sont indexées par DBLP.

Soumissions
Les soumissions anonymisées seront évaluées par au moins 3 membres du comité de programme. Elles devront être déposées via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coria2021 en respectant le format ?revue Hermès? (https://isi.revuesonline.com/appel.jsp).

Il est possible de soumettre des articles dans 3 formats : 
- mini (4 pages + références) : traduction résumée d'un papier déjà publié, résultat négatif, prise de position, description d'un projet. 
- court (8 pages + références) : résultats préliminaires ou état de l'art,  
- long (12 à 16 pages + références) : article scientifique complet.
Des articles de longueur inférieure peuvent être soumis sans que cela soit préjudiciable. CORIA/RJCRI accepte les articles en anglais lorsque les auteurs sont anglophones. Des résumés d?articles déjà publiés en anglais peuvent également être soumis après traduction en français et adaptation à CORIA/RJCRI.

Les soumissions à RJCRI suivent les mêmes règles avec pour contrainte principale que le premier auteur doit être jeune chercheu.r.se (non docteur.e, ou docteur.e ayant soutenu après le 1er janvier 2020). Les soumissions RJCRI seront dirigées vers une partie dédiée du comité de programme qui sera chargée de fournir des relectures étendues, constructives et pédagogiques.

Thèmes (liste non exhaustive) :
- Apprentissage et fouille pour la RI : apprentissage profond, apprentissage de représentations, apprentissage d?ordonnancement, classification
- Représentation de l?information : indexation, entités liées, multimédia, profils, bases de connaissances
- Compréhension de requêtes : intention de recherche, suggestion de requêtes, difficulté des requêtes, adaptation aux requêtes
- Interaction utilisateur : interrogation flexible, interfaces, visualisation, modélisation de l?utilisateur, du contexte et de l?usage, accessibilité, RI conversationnelle, personnalisation, RI collaborative
- Systèmes question/réponse, systèmes de dialogue et chatbots
- RI dans l?environnement nomade
- RI et Humanités Numériques
- RI interactive
- Traitement automatique de la langue naturelle écrite et orale pour la recherche d?information : résumé automatique, détection d?entités nommées et de relations, analyse de sentiments, fouille d?arguments?
- RI et connaissances : web sémantique, web des données, ontologies
- RI pour les assistants personnels et/ou vocaux
- RI multilingue : recherche d?information multilingue, traduction automatique
- Passage à l?échelle : architectures, performance, compression
- Analyse du Web : grands graphes, utilisation de la topologie du web, lois de puissances, citations, analyse de liens
- Réseaux sociaux : analyse de réseaux, d?opinions, diffusion d?information, prédiction d?activités, détection d?événements
- Filtrage et recommandation
- Catégorisation de textes/images
- Extraction d?information
- Multimédia (image, audio, vidéos, sons, musiques) et texte : indexation, recherche, catégorisation, alignement, etc.
- Systèmes de recherche d?information dédiés : recherche d?information génomique, géographique, médicale, recherche de brevets, RI pour les bibliothèques numériques
- Ressources et évaluation de la RI : évaluation, bancs d?essais, métriques, expérimentations qualitatives des systèmes
- Transparence, équité et explicabilité des systèmes de RI

Au plaisir de vous retrouver en avril prochain.

Présidents du comité de programme CORIA/RJCRI :
CORIA - Antoine Doucet, La Rochelle Université (L3i, EA 2118)
RJCRI - Adrian Chifu, Aix-Marseille Université (LIS, UMR CNRS 7020)

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7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
 
BigDat 2021 Spring
 
Beersheba, Israel
 
April 18-22, 2021
 
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/bigdat2021s/
 
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--- Early registration deadline: January 15, 2021 ---
 
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SCOPE:
 
BigDat 2021 Spring 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 24 four-hour and a half courses and 2 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 2021 Spring 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 2021 Spring 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:
 
Maria Girone (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Big Data Challenges at the CERN HL-LHC
 
Lisa Schurer Lambert (Oklahoma State University), Research Methods as a Lens: How We Know What We Know
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
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
 
Michael X. Cohen (Radboud University Nijmegen), [introductory] Dimension Explosion and Dimension Reduction in Brain Electrical Activity
 
Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate] Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Data
 
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
 
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
 
B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] Digital Media Forensics
 
Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences
 
José M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory] Graph Signal Processing
 
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 Problem
 
Karsten Reuter (Max Planck Society), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning for Materials and Energy Applications
 
Ramesh Sharda (Oklahoma State University), [introductory/intermediate] Network-based Health Analytics
 
Steven Skiena (Stony Brook University), [introductory/intermediate] Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning
 
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 April 10, 2021.
 
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 April 10, 2021.
 
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 April 10, 2021.
 
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/bigdat2021s/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:
 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London

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JPC 2021 - Toulouse du 27 au 29 mai 2021

https://www.irit.fr/jpc2021/

2e Appel à Communication

Rencontre scientifique internationale, les Journées de Phonétique Clinique sont principalement destinées à rassembler et à favoriser les échanges entre chercheurs, cliniciens, informaticiens, ingénieurs, phonéticiens et tout autre professionnel s?intéressant au fonctionnement de la parole, de la voix et du langage. Les JPC accueillent autant les experts que les jeunes chercheurs et les étudiants des domaines cliniques (médecine, orthophonie/logopédie), psychologique, et des sciences du langage.

La production et la perception de la parole, de la voix et du langage de l?enfant et de l?adulte, sain ou atteint d?une pathologie, sont les domaines de prédilection des JPC. Ils y sont ainsi abordés selon des points de vue variés, permettant le partage des savoirs et l?ouverture de nouvelles pistes de réflexion, de recherche et de collaboration.

Lors de cette neuvième édition, la thématique des mesures de la parole sera mise en avant. Elle s?inscrit dans un cadre conceptuel dont les facettes sont multiples : analyses perceptives, traitement automatique du signal, caractérisations de l?intelligibilité, du trouble de la parole, des di/ysfluences atteignant le débit de la parole, la prosodie? Sa pertinence clinique est essentielle : l?évaluation du trouble, de ses conséquences fonctionnelles et de l?impact sur la qualité de vie est primordiale pour le suivi des patients atteints de pathologies neurologiques, cancérologiques?

Trois conférences plénières sont déjà programmées faisant intervenir Lorraine Baqué, de l?Université Autonome de Barcelone, Vincent Martel-Sauvageau de l?Université Laval à Québec (Département de réadaptation Faculté de médecine) et Isabel Trancoso de l?Université de Lisbonne. 

Une table ronde ainsi que des ateliers feront également partie du programme de cette nouvelle édition. 

Les propositions de communication porteront sur les problématiques suivantes (liste non exhaustive) :

• Parole et perturbations des systèmes perceptifs, auditifs et visuels
• Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologiques
• Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé
• Évaluation fonctionnelle de la parole, du langage et de la voix.
• Diagnostic et traitement des troubles de la parole et de la voix parlée et chantée
• Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique
• Troubles cognitifs et moteurs de la parole et du langage
• ?

Une attention particulière sera portée aux propositions ciblant la thématique autour des mesures de la parole.

Dates importantes : 

? 15 janvier 2021 ? Soumission des résumés via Easychair : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jpc2021
? 15 mars 2021 ? Notification aux auteurs
? du 15 mars au 1^er mai 2021 ? Inscriptions au tarif réduit
? 1^er mai 2021 ? Version finale des résumés
? Du 27 au 29 mai 2021 ? Conférence

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Registration deadline: December 11th

Submission deadline: December 14th 

ACM NOSSDAV 2021 - Call for Papers

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May 25-28, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey

https://nossdav.org/2021/

As in previous years, NOSSDAV focuses on both established and emerging research topics, high-risk high-return ideas and proposals, and future research directions in multimedia systems. The single-track format encourages academic and industry researchers and practitioners to engage in fruitful and constructive discussions. Out-of-the-box ideas are particularly welcome; NOSSDAV prefers exciting-even-if-incomplete papers over complete-but-boring papers.

The workshop seeks papers in all areas of multimedia systems with an emphasis on the systems aspects. Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers with real-world experimental results and datasets. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and immersive systems

• Deep learning approaches to improve multimedia delivery and processing

• Cloud architectures for multimedia coding and processing

• Wireless, mobile, IoT and embedded systems for multimedia applications

• Medical, surveillance and autonomous driving multimedia systems

• Network-distributed media processing

• Networked GPUs/TPUs, graphics and virtual environments

• Security in multimedia systems

Important dates and submissions instructions: https://nossdav.org/2021/#submission

Supporters

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Adobe, Ozyegin University, Turkish Airlines, Twitch, YouTube, Comcast, Medianova, MulticoreWare, AMD, Argela, Bigdata Teknoloji, Bitmovin, DASH-IF, Mux, Nokia, Pixery, SSIMWAVE, Streaming Video Alliance, Tencent, Unified Streaming, Ericsson, Interdigital, Sky

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JPC 2021 - Toulouse du 27 au 29 mai 2021

https://www.irit.fr/jpc2021/

Appel à Communication -

Rencontre scientifique internationale, les Journées de Phonétique Clinique sont principalement destinées à rassembler et à favoriser les échanges entre chercheurs, cliniciens, informaticiens, ingénieurs, phonéticiens et tout autre professionnel s?intéressant au fonctionnement de la parole, de la voix et du langage. Les JPC accueillent autant les experts que les jeunes chercheurs et les étudiants des domaines cliniques (médecine, orthophonie/logopédie), psychologique, et des sciences du langage.

La production et la perception de la parole, de la voix et du langage de l?enfant et de l?adulte, sain ou atteint d?une pathologie, sont les domaines de prédilection des JPC. Ils y sont ainsi abordés selon des points de vue variés, permettant le partage des savoirs et l?ouverture de nouvelles pistes de réflexion, de recherche et de collaboration.

Lors de cette neuvième édition, la thématique des mesures de la parole sera mise en avant. Elle s?inscrit dans un cadre conceptuel dont les facettes sont multiples : analyses perceptives, traitement automatique du signal, caractérisations de l?intelligibilité, du trouble de la parole, des di/ysfluences atteignant le débit de la parole, la prosodie? Sa pertinence clinique est essentielle : l?évaluation du trouble, de ses conséquences fonctionnelles et de l?impact sur la qualité de vie est primordiale pour le suivi des patients atteints de pathologies neurologiques, cancérologiques?

Trois conférences plénières sont déjà programmées faisant intervenir Lorraine Baqué, de l?Université Autonome de Barcelone, Vincent Martel-Sauvageau de l?Université Laval à Québec (Département de réadaptation Faculté de médecine) et Isabel Trancoso de l?Université de Lisbonne. 

Une table ronde ainsi que des ateliers feront également partie du programme de cette nouvelle édition. 

Les propositions de communication porteront sur les problématiques suivantes (liste non exhaustive) :

• Parole et perturbations des systèmes perceptifs, auditifs et visuels
• Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologiques
• Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé
• Évaluation fonctionnelle de la parole, du langage et de la voix.
• Diagnostic et traitement des troubles de la parole et de la voix parlée et chantée
• Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique
• Troubles cognitifs et moteurs de la parole et du langage
• ?

Une attention particulière sera portée aux propositions ciblant la thématique autour des mesures de la parole.

Dates importantes : 

? 15 janvier 2021 1e février 2021 ? Soumission des résumés via Easychair : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jpc2021
? 15 mars 2021 ? Notification aux auteurs
? du 15 mars au 1^er mai 2021 ? Inscriptions au tarif réduit
? 1^er mai 2021 ? Version finale des résumés
? Du 27 au 29 mai 2021 ? Conférence

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NoDaLiDa 2021 May 31 - June 02, 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland

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23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)

May 31 - June 2, 2021 Reykjavik, Iceland

http://nodalida2021.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) invites submissions to its bi-annual conference on human language and speech technologies. NoDaLiDa 2021 will be held between Monday, May 31 and Wednesday, June 2, 2021, on the campus of Reykjavik University, Iceland. We are monitoring the ongoing global pandemic and will update the conference plans (e.g. moving to a virtual or hybrid format) as needed closer to the conference dates.

SUBMISSIONS

NoDaLiDa addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis and computational linguistics, including work in closely-related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies.

We invite paper submissions of three types:

• regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
• short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and
• demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations.

We particularly encourage the submission of papers on completed or on-going work, where the first author is a Master or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time.

Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa 2021 proceedings, which are published as part of the NEALT Proceedings Series by Linköping University Electronic Press and in the ACL Anthology.

SCHEDULE

• Monday, February 1, 2021: Submission of Papers
• Monday, March 15, 2021: Notification of Acceptance
• Monday, April 12, 2021: Camera-Ready Manuscripts
• Monday, May 31, 2021: Pre-Conference Workshops
• Tuesday and Wednesday, June 1-2, 2021: Main Conference

SUBMISSION FORMATS

All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2021 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from the following address:

http://nodalida2021.org/authorkit.zip

Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review.

The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers, and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references.

DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time in the Easychair submission system, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa 2021. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation the papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.

NoDaLiDA follows the ACL policy an anonymization and anonymity period.

The anonymity period for NoDaLiDa 2021 is from January 1, 2021.

SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT

Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements and no later than (end of day, anywhere in the world):

Monday, February 1, 2021

NoDaLiDa 2021 utilizes the EasyChair conference management system for submission, reviewing, and preparation of proceedings.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodalida2021

To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific programme of the conference, please email nodalida2021-pc@googlegroups.com

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The workshop titled 'From speech technology to big data phonetics and phonology: a win-win paradigm' will be held on June 23, 2021, during the international conference Phonetics And Phonology In Europe (PaPE 2021). We are pleased to invite you to submit abstracts on related topics to the workshop. The workshop will take place virtually or in personin Barcelona, Spain (depending on the evolution of the current sanitary situation). 

Important dates: 

Abstract deadline: 1 February 2021? 

Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2021? 

Workshop: 23 June 2021, 14:00 ? 17:00 (Barcelona time) 

Detailed information on the workshop can be find below or at https://pape2021.upf.edu/session/creativity-and-variability-prosody-and-information-2-2-2/. 

We look forward to receiving your abstracts! 

Best wishes, 

Yaru Wu, on behalf of the organisers 

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From speech technology to big data phonetics and phonology: a win-win paradigm 

Organizers:  

Martine Adda-Decker (CNRS LPP, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) 

Ioana Chitoran (Université de Paris, France) 

Adèle Jatteau (Université de Lille, France) 

Mathilde Hutin (CNRS LIMSI, Université Paris-Saclay, France) 

Lori Lamel (CNRS LIMSI, Université Paris-Saclay, France) 

Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 

Peggy Renwick (University of Georgia, Athens, USA) 

Barbara Schuppler (Graz University of Technology, Austria) 

Laura Spinu (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA) 

Ioana Vasilescu (CNRS LIMSI, Université Paris-Saclay, France) 

Yaru Wu (CNRS LIMSI, Université Paris-Saclay, France; CNRS LPP ? Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) 

Summary description / Motivation 

?During the last decade, the term ?big data? has become a major keyword in numerous areas of social sciences and humanities, which are increasingly concerned with the need for digital processing of an ever-growing influx of data. Among these areas, phonetics and laboratory phonology are at the forefront, as substantial benefit can be expected from the study of larger and richer data collections, supported by faster, partially automated processing. 

The current scientific and technological constellation holds promise for a virtuous circle of shared interests in large corpus-based and statistically supported modeling of phonetic variation opening avenues for both linguists and technology stakeholders. Indeed, a new research field, ?big data phonetics?, is emerging that relies on corpora and approaches borrowed from speech technologies. In return, speech technologies may take advantage of statistically grounded observations in order to better disentangle the sources and the patterns of speech variation. 

We propose a workshop dedicated to this exciting research direction combining methods, approaches and corpora from speech technology domains with phonetics and laboratory phonology studies. 

Background and research questions? 

Traditionally, research in phonetics and phonology is driven by specific hypotheses, which may entail requirements both on the speech data?s acoustic quality and their linguistic content and structure. Raw large-scale corpora typically include all kinds of noises adding to the highly variable nature of speech conditioned by many linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. When relying on such heterogeneous material, phonetics and laboratory phonology research needs to reconsider both the matter of addressing scientific hypotheses and the methods to process such data. One of the purposes of the workshop is to discuss access to such data and the various challenges of processing large-scale corpora for speech analysis by phoneticians and phonologists. A related question concerns the most efficient methods borrowed from speech technologies that can be ?diverted? for the needs of phonetic analysis. 

The symmetrical speech technology-driven purpose of this workshop is to draw a state of the art of the speech variation challenges for speech technologies and to provide suggestions on how these technologies could benefit from phonetic and phonology-driven analyses. For example, Automatic Speech Recognition systems and related applications are known to degrade ungracefully when faced with unseen variation. Research aimed at improving lexical modeling for speech recognition and L2 pronunciation learning may benefit from large corpus-based phonetics and phonology research. 

Several special sessions on similar topics have been dedicated to big data in phonetic research as part of phonetics and phonology scientific manifestations (see VLSP, UPenn in 2011, Special sessions at ICPhS 2015, ICPhS 2019 and LSRL 2019). 

The workshop will not only promote the use of speech technologies as an aide for linguistic studies and provide insight on how to make use of recent developments, but also make research in phonetics and phonology visible to the speech technology community. 

Topics and areas of interest? 

We encourage submissions on any topics related to the list of questions listed below: 

- How to analyze variation phenomena in continuous speech using large corpora?? 

- How to take advantage of large corpora for segmental and supra-segmental studies? What caveats?? 

- How to investigate ongoing phonological processes using large corpora? 

?- How to capture sound change in the pool of large-scale corpora??- How to clean and structure annotation of raw speech data?? 

- How could expertise and research in phonetics and phonology take part in the advancement of speech technology (eg. improving pronunciation dictionaries)? 

Submission information? 

Abstract of the workshop follows the PaPE 2021 conference abstract guidelines . Please find the abstract template of the conference here. All presentations will be oral and follow the PaPE format. 

Abstracts should be submitted through Easychair by 1 February 2021. Authors may submit one abstract as first author and up to three abstracts as a co-author. 

Important dates: 

Abstract deadline: 1 February 2021? 

Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2021? 

Workshop: 23 June 2021, 14:00 ? 17:00 (Barcelona time) 

Website : https://pape2021.upf.edu/session/creativity-and-variability-prosody-and-information-2-2-2/ 

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CBMI (eighteenth edition) aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following: audio and visual and multimedia indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for multimedia indexing, visual content extraction, audio (speech, music, etc.) content extraction, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis?

The eighteenth edition of CBMI will be organized by the CRIStAL laboratory at University of Lille, Lille, France, following the successful previous editions of Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009, Grenoble 2010, Madrid 2011, Annecy 2012, Veszprem 2013, Klagenfurt 2014, Prague 2015, Bucharest 2016, Firenze 2017, La Rochelle 2018, and Dublin 2019.

Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers in the broad field of content-based multimedia indexing and applications. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, large-scale search, learning in retrieval, social media indexing and retrieval. Additional special sessions are planned in areas such as deep learning for retrieval, social media retrieval, cultural heritage, surveillance and security.

Authors can submit full length (6 pages - to be presented as oral presentation) or short papers (4 pages - to be presented as posters). Papers can be submitted to the regular paper sessions, demo session, or to one of the special sessions. Additionally demonstration papers (up to 4 pages) may also be submitted that highlight interesting and novel demos of CBMI-related technologies. The submissions are peer reviewed in a single blind process. The language of the conference is English. The CBMI 2020 conference adheres to the IEEE paper formatting guidelines. When preparing your submission, please follow the IEEE guidelines given by IEEE at the Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.

The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and ACM DL. In addition, authors of certain best papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special issue of a leading journal in the field (e.g. MTAP - Springer), and other best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions in a book (ISTE/WILEY publisher).

Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following:
? Audio and visual and multimedia indexing
? Multimodal and cross-modal indexing
? Deep learning for multimedia indexing
? Visual content extraction
? Audio (speech, music, etc) content extraction
? Identification and tracking of semantic regions and events
? Social media analysis
? Metadata generation, coding and transformation
? Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
? Mobile media retrieval
? Event-based media processing and retrieval
? Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval
? Multimedia data mining and analytics
? Multimedia recommendation
? Large scale multimedia database management
? Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
? Personalization and content adaptation
? User interaction and relevance feedback
? Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools
? Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems
? Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery, video surveillance
? Cultural heritage applications

DATES:
Conference date : 28-30 June 2021, at Lille, France.
Contact: cbmi2021-organisation@univ-lille.fr
Deadline for regular paper and demo submissions : 15 January 2021
Notification of acceptance : 15 March 2021
Camera-ready papers due : 30 March 2021

STUDENT PARTICIPATION:
We strongly encourage students to participate in CBMI-21 event and submit their research. We strongly believe in their power and they are the future of the research in content-based multimedia indexing. For these reasons and for the first time in the history of the conference, the 2021 edition of CBMI with support of ACM SIGMM (www.sigmm.org), will sponsor several students, authors of papers submitted and accepted by CBMI-21, and being corresponding author of a paper. The student status will be recognized only to PhDs and master students. Certain students will be totally sponsored, including registration fees, accommodations and travel expenses. Other students will be partly sponsored, including substantial reduction in the registration fees, no cut-backs to the students? conference experience, and budget accommodation options and arrangement for room sharing.

Furthermore, in this edition, prizes will be awarded to the best student poster presentations of CBMI2021. All the participants registered to CBMI2021 as student will be automatically admitted to the selection for the awards. All the papers accepted as poster presentation by the Technical Program Committee (TPC), from students will be considered for the awards, given that a full-paper manuscript has been submitted.

The student poster awards committee will evaluate the nominated contributions during the poster sessions of CBMI2021. The evaluation criteria will be independently established by the Committee before the conference and will take into account the scientific content as well as the technical quality of the posters.

The Student Poster Awards will be announced during the Gala Dinner, on June 29th.

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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2021

Taipei, Taiwan, July 12--15, 2021

http://icmr2021.org/index.html

ACM ICMR 2021 is calling for high quality original papers addressing innovative research in multimedia retrieval and its related broad fields. The main scope of the conference is not only search and retrieval of multimedia data but also analysis and understanding of multimedia contents including community-contributed social data, lifelogging data and automatically generated sensor data, integration of diverse multimodal data, deep learning-based methodology and practical multimedia applications.

We are seeking original high quality submissions addressing innovative research in the field. Contributions addressing the challenges of large-scale search and user behavior analysis are especially welcome.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

?- Multimedia content-based search and retrieval;

?- Multimedia-content-based (or hybrid) recommender systems;

?- Large-scale and web-scale multimedia retrieval;

?- Multimedia content extraction, analysis, and indexing;

?- Multimedia analytics and knowledge discovery;

?- Multimedia machine learning, deep learning, and neural nets;

?- Relevance feedback, active learning, and transfer learning;

?- Zero-shot learning and fine-grained retrieval for multimedia;

?- Event-based indexing and multimedia understanding;

?- Semantic descriptors and novel high- or mid-level features;

?- Crowdsourcing, community contributions, and social multimedia;

?- Multimedia retrieval leveraging quality, production cues, style, framing, affect;

?- Narrative generation and narrative analysis;

?- User intent and human perception in multimedia retrieval;

?- Query processing and relevance feedback;

?- Multimedia browsing, summarization, and visualization;

?- Multimedia beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data;

?- Mobile multimedia browsing and search;

?- Multimedia analysis/search acceleration, e.g., GPU, FPGA;

?- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for multimedia analysis/search;

?- Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, sports, commerce, lifelogs, travel, security, environment.

Important Dates

Deadline for Full/Short/Special Session/Brave New Idea Paper Submission: February 21, 2021

Deadline for Demo/Doctoral Symposium Paper Submission: March 21, 2021

Acceptance Notification of Full/Short/Special Session/Demo/Doctoral Symposium Papers: April 11, 2021

Deadline for Workshop Paper Submission: April 20, 2021

Acceptance Notification of Workshop Papers: May 20, 2021

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We are calling for proposals on ICMR2021 Special Sessions. We look
forward to receiving proposals before *** January 15, 2021 ***.



[[[ Call for Special Session Proposals ]]]
ACM ICMR is one of the leading Conference series in the Multimedia
research field. In 2021, ACM ICMR will be held in Taipei, Taiwan
during July 12 and 15.

We are planning to host one or more Special Sessions on innovative
and frontier topics in the field of multimedia retrieval. Special
sessions differentiate from the regular sessions in the sense that
they address very specific problems or very focused communities. They
should attract the presentation of innovative contributions in the
targeted narrow domain. The Special Session papers (6 pages) will
appear in the ACM ICMR 2021 proceedings and will be presented at the
conference in a dedicated oral session. A typical Special Session
should target around 4-5 accepted papers.

[[ Important Dates ]]
- Proposal Submission Due:                Jan. 15, 2021
- Proposal Notification of Acceptance:        Jan. 31, 2021 (Tentative)
< For Accepted Special Sessions>
- Paper Submission Deadline:                Feb. 21, 2021
- Paper Acceptance Notification:        Apr. 11, 2021
- Camera Ready Submission Deadline:        May   1, 2021

[[ Submission Instructions ]]
Proposals should be submitted by email to the Special Session Chairs,
either in plain-text or PDF format. Please include the following
information:
 - Title of the proposed Special Session
 - Description of the importance of the topic and the rationale for
   the proposal
 - Identification of the target audience and how the topic is related
   to ACM ICMR
 - A brief bio and contact information of the organizers
 - A tentative / confirmed list of invited papers (titles /
   affiliations / authors; if the case)
 - Information about any supporting projects (if the case)

[[ Evaluation of the Proposals ]]
Proposals will be evaluated based on topic appropriateness for ACM
ICMR, its relevance and potential impact in the targeted field, the
experience of the organizers, the potential in attracting high quality
submissions, and the overall quality of the written proposal.

[[ Contact ]]
For any question regarding special session submissions, please email
the Special Session chairs:
 - Shuqiang JIANG, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
   (sqjiang@ict.ac.cn)
 - Ichiro IDE, Nagoya University, Japan
   (ide@i.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

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4^th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
 
DeepLearn 2021 Summer
 
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
 
July 26-30, 2021
 
Co-organized by:
 
Department of Information Engineering
Marche Polytechnic University
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA
Brussels/London
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/
 
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--- Early registration deadline: January 25, 2021 ---
 
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SCOPE:
 
DeepLearn 2021 Summer 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 Summer 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 Summer will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the Atlantic Ocean, with a mild climate throughout the year, sandy beaches and a renowned carnival. The venue will be:
 
Palacio de Congresos Gran Canaria
Institución Ferial de Canarias
Avenida de la Feria, 1
35012 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
 
https://www.infecar.es/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=360&Itemid=896
 
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:
 
Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), Data, Intelligence and Shortcuts
 
Petia Radeva (University of Barcelona), Uncertainty Modeling and Deep Learning in Food Analysis
 
Indr? ?liobait? (University of Helsinki), Any Hope for Deep Learning in Deep Time?
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (University of the Basque Country), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis
 
Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University), [introductory] Machine Learning Methods for Robust Artificial Intelligence
 
Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Online, Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, 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
 
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] Machine Learning and Statistics: Better together
 
Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/advanced] Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition
 
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
 
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
 
Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Kernel Machines
 
Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), [intermediate] Representation Learning in Limited Data Settings
 
René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning
 
Haixun Wang (Instacart), [introductory/intermediate] Abstractions, Concepts, and Machine Learning
 
Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects
 
OPEN SESSION:
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 18, 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 July 18, 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 July 18, 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/deeplearn2021s/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 will get 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 at
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/accommodation/
 
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
 
Institución Ferial de Canarias

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

SIGDIAL 2021 CONFERENCE

July 29-31, 2021

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference22/

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2021) will be held on July 29-31, 2021 in Singapore.

SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL- 2021, which will be held on August 1-6 in Bangkok, Thailand (https://2021.aclweb.org/ ).

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

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

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

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

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

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

- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology

IMPORTANT DATES

Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Submission: April 2, 2021

Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Notification: May 24, 2021

Final Paper Submission: June 8, 2021

Conference: July 29-31, 2021

SUBMISSIONS

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

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

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

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

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

Multiple Submissions

SIGDIAL 2021 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs[at]sigdial.org <http://sigdial.org/>.

Blind Review

SIGDIAL 2021 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors? names and affiliations, and

self-references are allowed.

Submission Format

All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL conference.
https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/papers/#paper-submission-and-templates
Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.

ADOPTION OF ACL AUTHOR GUIDELINES

As noted above, SIGDIAL 2021 is adopting the ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines will be rejected without review.

Preserving Double Blind Review

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

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

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

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

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

You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted or is not widely cited).

In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version.

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

MENTORING

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

BEST PAPER AWARDS

In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2021 will include the best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.

General Chair:
Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Program Chair:

Zhou Yu, Columbia University, USA

Publication Chair: 

Jessy Li, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Sponsorship Chair:

David Vandyke, Apple, UK

Mentoring Chair:

Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull, UK

Finance Chair:
Yan Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

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

SIGdial Vice President:

Mikio Nakano, C4A Research Institute, Japan

SIGdial Secretary:

Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA

SIGdial Treasurer:

Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President Emeritus:

Jason Williams, Apple, USA

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The European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) is the flagship conference of European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), and it is a great pleasure of the organizing committee to invite you to the 29^th EUSIPCO organised in 2021 by Dublin Ireland. 

Technical scope 

We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers from all areas of signal processing including but not limited to: 

Key dates  

• Submission date: 22nd February 2021 (Extended) 
• Notification of Acceptance: 20 April 2021 
• Conference dates: 23-27 August 2021 

Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore© & published Open Access by EURASIP. See https://eusipco2021.org/call-for-papers/  &  https://eusipco2021.org/papers/  for formatting instructions.  

Follow Twitter @eusipco 2021  and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/eusipco 

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 Call for Papers

*The 10th edition of the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop will be held in
Paris Saint-Denis, on August 25-26, 2021*. It will be followed by *a special day on
(dis)fluency in speech and language pathology on August 27, 2021*.


Important dates:
- Mid-September 2020: First call for papers
- March 15, 2021: Submission deadline
- May 10, 2021: Notification of acceptation
- August 25-27, 2021: DiSS workshop


Submissions are encouraged within the following fields: disfluency in spontaneous speech,
psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics,
conversation analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, gesture analysis,
dialog systems, pathological speech disfluency, and evolutionary aspects on speech
production and perception.

You will find the call for papers and all the details at this URL: http://diss2021.fr/.

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ISCApad INTERSPEECH February 2021 February 10, 2021

The Fearless Steps Challenge(FSC)

TIMELINE: Challenge Start Date (Data Release): February 11th 2021

INTERSPEECH-2020 Papers dealing with FEARLESS STEPS deadline: April 2, 2021

Website Link: https://fearless-steps.github.io/ChallengePhase3/

Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3tAWDCK

CHALLENGE OVERVIEW

The Fearless Steps Initiative by UTDallas-CRSS led to the digitization, recovery, and diarization of 19,000 hours of original analog audio data, as well as the development of algorithms to extract meaningful information from this naturalistic data resource. As an initial step to motivate a stream-lined and collaborative effort from the speech and language community, UTDallas-CRSS is hosting a series of progressively complex tasks to promote advanced research on naturalistic “Big Data” corpora. This began with ISCA INTERSPEECH-2019: 'The FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 1 (FSC-P1)'. This first edition of this challenge encouraged the development of core unsupervised/semi-supervised speech and language systems for single-channel data with low resource availability, serving as the “First Step” towards extracting high-level information from such massive unlabeled corpora. This was followed with ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 which held the Special Session for FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 2 (FSC-P2), which focused on developing supervised learning strategies for the 100 hour Challenge Corpus.

As a natural progression following the successful Inaugural Challenge FSC-P1 and FEARLESS STEPS Challenge FSC-P2, the FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 3 (FSC-P3) focuses on development of single-channel supervised learning strategies with an aim to test system generalizability to varying channel and mission data. FSC-P3 also provides an additional challenge task of Conversational Analysis, motivating researchers to work on natural language understanding and group dynamics analysis. FSC-P3 provides 80 hours of ground-truth data through Training and Development sets, with 20 hours of blind-set Apollo-11 evaluation data, 5 hours of unseen channel evaluation data and an additional 5 hours of blind-set Apollo-13 mission evaluation data. Based on feedback from the Fearless Steps participants, additional Tracks for streamlined speech recognition, speaker diarization, and conversational analysis have been included in the FS#3. The results for this Challenge will be presented at the ISCA INTERSPEECH-2021 Special Session. We encourage participants to explore any and all research tasks of interest with the Fearless Steps Corpus – with suggested Task Domains listed below. Research participants can however, also utilize the FSC-P3 corpus to explore additional problems dealing with naturalistic data, which we welcome as part of the special session.

Challenge Tasks in Fearless Steps Phase 3 (FSC-P3):

1. Speech Activity Detection (SAD)

2. Speaker Identification (SID)

3. Speaker Diarization:

3a. Track 1: Diarization using reference SAD

3b. Track 2: Diarization using system SAD

4. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR):

4a. Track 1: ASR using reference Diarization

4b. Track 2: Continuous stream ASR

5. Conversational Analysis (CONV):

5a. Track 1: Hotspot Detection

5b. Track 2: Extractive Summarization

Organizers

John H.L. Hansen (john.hansen@utdallas.edu)

Christopher Cieri (ccieri@ldc.upenn.edu)

Omid Sadjadi (omid.sadjadi@nist.gov)

Aditya Joglekar (aditya.joglekar@utdallas.edu)

Meena Chandra Shekar (meena.chandrashekar@utdallas.edu)

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Announcing the DiCOVA Interspeech challenge 2021 

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                     TSD 2021 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
**************************************************************************

The twenty-fourth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD2021)
              Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 06-09, 2021
                       http://www.tsdconference.org

We are taking advantage of this opportunity to wish you Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year! Stay safe and healthy during these uncertain and
unprecedented times.

IMPORTANT

TSD2021 is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech
Republic. Thus, it is nicely colocated with Interspeech 2021 which is going
to be held in Brno, Czech Republic. Olomouc is only 77 km (48 mi) away from
Brno (30-45 min by car, 1 hour by public transport).

COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS

As the situation in September 2021 cannot be easily predicted, the TSD2021
organizing committee is ready to organize a virtual conference, if necessary.

    * PC members have a good experience with it since TSD2020,
    * A virtual conference would mean significantly decreased conference
      fees.
    * If the majority of participants could travel to the Czech Republic,
      the onsite mode of the conference is preferred. For others, there
      would be special virtual sessions. Organizers will record all the
      sessions.

All measures have been taken to ensure that the organization of the TSD
2021 conference in September 2021 is not threatened by the COVID-19
pandemic.


TSD HIGHLIGHTS

* Keynote speakers: Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo, Canada), Kate
  Knill (University of Cambridge, UK). Other speakers are currently under
  discussion and will be announced at the latest in the next Call for
  papers.
* The TSD2021 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2021
  satellite event.
* The TSD2021 conference is supported by the International Speech
  Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA
  Supported Event.
* The TSD book of proceedings is traditionally published by Springer and
  regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters
  Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC,
  COMPENDEX, etc.
* TSD offers a high-standard transparent review process - double blind,
  final reviewers' discussion.
* TSD 2021 is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech
  Republic.
* The conference is organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts,
  Palacky university, Olomouc.
* TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all
  meals, social events, etc.) for an easily affordable fee.


IMPORTANT DATES

April 18, 2021 ........... Deadline for submission of contributions
May 21, 2021 ............. Notification of acceptance or rejection
May 31, 2021 ............. Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers

September 06-09, 2021 .... TSD2021 conference time

The TSD conference will take place as usual during the week following
Interspeech 2021 (August 30 - September 3, 2021, Czech Republic).

Unfortunately, this year there is a collision with the RANLP conference
(September 6-8, 2021, Bulgaria). We discussed the possibility of changing
the date of the conference, however, as Interspeech 2021 and TSD alike are
held in the Czech Republic (altogether close to each other), we decided to
adhere to the dates and resolve the collision differently.

If you want to attend both conferences, let us know and we will do our best
to provide you with most of the TSD2021 program virtually.


TSD SERIES

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

The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in the form of navigable
content. Printed books will be available for an extra fee.


TOPICS

Topics of the 24th conference will include (but are not limited to):

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

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

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

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

    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 Modeling (video processing, facial animation,
    visual speech synthesis, user modeling, emotion and personality
    modeling).


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2021/index.php?page=committees.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues
related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are
strongly encouraged.


LOCATION

Olomouc is a beautiful place on the Morava river with more than
a thousand-year-long history. Once a capital of Moravia - one of the three
historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown - nowadays, it still somehow waits
to be rediscovered. The world-renowned tourist guide Lonely Planet alerted
to this fact by putting Olomouc onto the list of TOP 10 tourist
destinations not to be missed during a visit to Europe. It even claimed
Olomouc is one of the most unappreciated destinations in the Czech
Republic.

By its beauty, Olomouc can, however, easily compete with not only Prague
but any other most sought spots around Europe. It certainly deserves our
attention.

One can find there the second most important urban conservation zone in the
Czech Republic, surrounded by splendorous parks, an incredible
concentration of ecclesiastical structures, UNESCO-protected monuments, and
even a horolog with a history maybe more interesting than the Prague one.
All together safe from the neverending bustle of large cities.

The most important monument in Olomouc is the Holy Trinity Column standing
in the central square. It represents the largest group of Baroque statues
in one structure in Central Europe. Apart from many historical buildings
such as Olomouc castle with the gothic cathedral of St. Wenceslas or the
former Olomouc fortress, another interesting point about Olomouc is the
astronomical clock, designed in the spirit of Socialist Realism.

The city of Olomouc has a convenient location close to the geographic
centre of Moravia (a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic),
on the banks of the river Morava. The place forms an important highway and
railroad junction; thus, it is easily accessible using both individual and
public means of transport.

Olomouc lies 260 km (162 mi) eastwards from the Czech capital Prague, and
210 km (130 mi) from both the Slovakian capital Bratislava and the Austrian
capital Vienna. The closest international airports are 77 km (48 mi) away
in Brno, and 202 km (126 mi) away in Katowice in Poland.


We are very excited about the fact that the TSD2021 is going to take place
in such a fabulous, unique and rich in history city as Olomouc.

 
ABOUT CONFERENCE

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Pilsen; the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University,
Brno; and the Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc.

VENUE

Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc
Biskupske nam. 842/1
77900 Olomouc
Czech Republic


CONTACT

The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is
writing an e-mail to:

    Ms Lucie Tauchenova, TSD2021 Conference Secretary
    E-mail: tsd@kiv.zcu.cz
    Phone: +420 730 851 103

All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

    TSD2021 - NTIS P2

    Fakulta aplikovanych ved
    Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni
    Univerzitni 8
    CZ-306 14 Plzen
    Czech Republic

    Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with large
    capitals 'TSD' on top.

TSD2021 conference website: http://www.tsdconference.org/

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        SPECOM-2021 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 
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23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2021) 
September 27-30, 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia 
Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2021 

ORGANIZERS 
The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of 

Sciences (SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with the Moscow State Linguistic

 University (MSLU, Moscow, 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 EVENTS 
6th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2021: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2021 

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 8-12 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 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=specom2021 

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. 

IMPORTANT DATES 
May 31, 2021 ............ Submission of full papers 
July 12, 2021 ........... Notification of acceptance 
July 25, 2021 ........... Camera-ready papers 
July 30, 2021 ........... Early registration 
Sept 27-30, 2021 ........ Conference dates 

GENERAL CHAIRS 
Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia 
Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Moscow, Russia 

CONTACTS 
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2021 Secretariat 
E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su 
Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2021

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ICMI 2021: Call for Workshops
https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=CfW
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The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021)
will be held in in Montreal, Canada, October 18-22nd, 2021. ICMI is
the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on
multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis,
interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a
tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference
to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science
models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:

- Media Analytics for Societal Trends
- Neuromanagement and Intelligent Computing
- Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction
- Multimodal e-Coaches
- Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology
- Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data
- Human-Habitat for Health
- Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction
- Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents
- Child Computer Interaction
- Insights on Group & Team Dynamics
- Multimodal Interaction for Education


We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related
to the main conference topics, and those that focus on
multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage
workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors
to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of
experience, geography, etc.).


The content of accepted workshops are under the control of the
workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in
duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop
content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion
and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing
process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will
be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a
short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main
conference proceedings.


Submission


Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF
format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs:
Akane Sano and Emily Mower Provost (icmi2021-workshop-chairs@acm.org)
The proposal should include the following:


- Workshop title
- List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies
- Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact
- Tentative list of keynote speakers
- Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.),
anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or
full-day) including tentative program
- Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation
- Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external,
solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.)
- Paper submission and acceptance deadlines
- Special space and equipment requests, if any


Important Dates:
Workshop proposal submission: Monday, February 8, 2021
Notification of acceptance: Monday, February 22, 2021
Workshop papers due: End of July, 2021 (suggested)
Workshop Date: October 18-22, 2021

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===== ACM Multimedia 2021 =====

Oct. 20-24, Chengdu
More details please visit: https://2021.acmmm.org

1. Call for Papers

ACM Multimedia is the premier international conference in multimedia. It covers multiple emerging fields focusing on advancing the research and applications of many media, including but not limited to images, text, audio, speech, music, sensor and social data.  It strongly encourages a complete and integrated approach to exchange, process and utilize information across modalities, as well as all cutting-edge research on each medium with potential of great positive impacts on everyday lives and technological breakthroughs.
While the community has a tradition of developing and innovating AI and system approaches to handle big data and improve users? experiences on engaging and interacting with multimedia, it is also uniquely angled towards novel applications and urgent industrial challenges. As such the conference openly embraces new intellectual perspectives from both industry and academia, and welcomes submissions from related fields, such as artificial intelligence, vision and languages, data sciences, HCI and multimedia signal processing, as well as healthcare, education and beyond.  We invite the submissions in four major themes of multimedia.

Engaging Users with Multimedia
        Emotional and social signals
        Multimedia search and recommendations
        Summarization, analysis and storytelling

Experience
        Interactions and quality of experiences
        Art and culture
        Multimedia applications

Multimedia Systems
        Systems and middleware
        Transport and delivery
        Data systems management and indexing

Understanding Multimedia Content
        Multimodal fusion and embedding
        Vision and language
        Media interpretation

2. Highlights of ACM Multimedia 2020

Scientific Diversity: It is among our top priorities to ensure a top-quality conference that covers a full diversity of all fields of multimedia research including a variety of media modalities by addressing both technological and practical challenges.

Value: We strive to select the most innovative and the highest-quality research aiming at the most impactful novelty on individual media and/or from a systematic perspective of innovating and integrating multiple components across modalities.

Sharing: We value the sharing of not only knowledge (in the form of papers, presentations and demos) but also the code and open-source software. While we will continue the implementation of the ACM Artifact Review and Badging, best efforts will be made on sharing and preserving the open-source code and systems resulting from the published papers.

3. Location

The conference will be held in Chengdu, the capital city of the Sichuan Province in China.

4. Important Dates

Reproducibility Companion Paper - 7 Feb 2021

Workshop Proposals Submission - 20 Feb 2021

Grand Challenge Proposal Submission - 10 Jan 2021

Grand Challenge Proposal Notification - 31 Jan 2021

Regular Papers Submission - 3 Apr 2021 (Abstract: 27 Mar 2021)

Open Source Competition Submission - 7 Jun 2021

Brave New Ideas Submission - 31 May 2021

Interactive Artworks Submission - 15 Jun 2021

Doctorial Symposium Submission - 15 Jun 2021

Panel Proposals Submission - 15 Jun 2021

Tutorial Proposals Submission - 7 Jun 2021

Technical Demo and Video Program Submission - 15 Jun 2021

Regular Papers Notification - 3 Jul 2021

Grand Challenge Solutions Submission - 11 Jul 2021

Workshop Papers Submission - TBD

5. Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs:

Yunhe Pan, Zhejiang University, China
Qionghai Dai, Tsinghua University, China

General Chairs:

Heng Tao Shen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China
John R. Smith, IBM, USA

Technical Program Committee Chairs:

Yang Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Pablo Cesar, CWI & TU Delft, Netherland
Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Panel Chairs:

Xian-Sheng Hua, Alibaba Cloud, China
Fei Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Stevan Rudinac, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Xiaochun Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Tutorials Chairs:

Changsheng Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dong Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland

Workshop Chairs:

Meng Wang, Hefei University of Technology, China
Peng Wang, The University of Wollongong, Australia
Piotr Koniusz, Data61/CSIRO & Australian National University, Australia
Lianli Gao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Brave New Idea Track Chairs:

Chang Wen Chen, University at Baffalo, USA
Zi Huang, The University of Queensland, Australia
Qin Jin, Renmin University of China, China

Multimedia Grand Challenge Chairs:

Xirong Li, Remin University, China
Lixin Duan, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Lu Fang, Tsinghua University, China
David Brady, University of Arizona, USA

Open Source Software Chairs:

Jingdong Wang, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Qi Dai, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Technical Demo Chairs:

Jingkuan Song, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Richang Hong, Hefei University of Technology, China

Video Program Chairs:

Jitao Sang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Rainer Lienhart, Universität Augsburg, Germany

Interactive Arts Chairs:

Klaus Schöffmann, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Ning Xie, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Local Organization Chairs:

Yimin Zhou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Xing Xu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Sponsor Chairs:

Tao Mei, Jingdong, China
Qi Tian, Huawei, China

Web and Social Media Chairs:

Benoit Huet, Eurecom, France
Xiao Wu, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Publicity Chairs:

Ann Morrison, Aalborg University, Denmark
Jinhui Tang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Finance Chairs:

Yanli Ji, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Tatsuya Harada, The University of Tokyo, Japan

History Preservation Chair:

Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Reproducibility Companion Chairs:

Michael Alexander Riegler, SimulaMet, Norway
Naoko Nitta, Osaka University, Japan

Doctoral Symposium Chairs:

Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bing Zeng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Travel Grant Chairs:

Fumin Shen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Huimin Lu, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Industry Track Chairs:

Changhu Wang, ByteDance AI Lab, China
Dong Yu, Tencent AI Lab, China
Rongrong Ji, Xiamen University, China
Jianlong Fu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Rita Cucchiara, UNIMORE (tentative)

Proceedings Chairs:

Liqiang Nie, Shandong University, China
Hanwang Zhang, Nanyang University of Technology, Singapore
Peng Cui, Tsinghua University, China

Best Paper Committee Chair:

Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Registration Chairs:

Wen Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University, China

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PerceptiO

Perception and the living

La perception et le vivant

University of Strasbourg, France

UR 1339 LiLPa – Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit

Chair of the USIAS Language Sciences – University of Strasbourg, Institute for

Advanced Study

University of Haute-Alsace, France

UR 4363 ILLE – Research Institute for European Languages and Literatures

IdEx Symposium 2021

17-20 November

The University of Strasbourg (France), through its Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit 1339 LiLPa, as well as the USIAS Chair of Language Sciences (University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study), and the University of Haute-Alsace (France), through its Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures Re- search Unit 4363 ILLE, will host in Alsace the symposium 'PerceptiO: Perception and the living' from the 17th to the 20th of November, 2021.

Chaired by the Alsatian University duo, the international organising committee of the event will also include in its ranks (in alphabetical order of the partner countries): the Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technologies – IRSTL of the University of Mons (Belgium), First People’s Hospital in Chengdu, First People’s Hospital in Zigong and Binzhou Medical University (China), the Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department at the University of Kentucky (United States of America), Chair of French Language of the University of Opole (Poland), Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor (Senegal) and the Department of Romance Studies of Matej Bel University of Banská Bystrica, LICoLab – Language, Information and Communication Laboratory and Department of British and American Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (Slovakia).

• Argument

The symposium, which will bring together specialists from all horizons (both in terms of continents and fields of specialisation), will be devoted to perception and the living, a theme that will have to be tackled under its various disci-plinary seams, whether they fall within the commonly accepted classification established since the 20th Century in the Sciences (formal, physical, life, social) or that of the Arts (architecture, sculpture, visual arts, music, literature, perform-ing arts, cinema).

The general objective of the congress will thus entail addressing the question of how (the world of) the living caters for perceptions, both in terms of apprehension, feeling, understanding, analysis, construction, of profiling, of transmis-sion as of reception, to try to uncover the still quite vague outlines of the very notion of perception and related phenom-ena, in order to further the study of known properties and/or specificities or, moreover, to shed light on novel ones. More specifically, the major tack will notably involve, from the observation of how these properties or specificities fit into the living (world), means of highlighting the duality of the ontologies of perception (sensory vs intellectual).

In practice, we shall question, starting from the living (world), in particular the matrices, the molds, the frames, the actants, the circumstances, the ins and outs of perception through, preferably, inter, trans, multi, pluri or intradisciplinary approaches – even if the mono or uni-disciplinary approach will not be excluded. Note that all types of languages, be they natural or artificial, can serve as empirical bases and that, regardless of the approach considered, experimental and/or clinical approaches will be highly appreciated, as well as contrastive ones.

To this end, whether theoretical or applied, systematic or experimental, contextual or independent, synchronic or diachronic, prescriptive, descriptive or programmatic, intra or interdisciplinary, proposals thus requested will fit into at least one pair of disciplines from the Sciences and/or the Arts, such as: mathematics-linguistics, painting-music, biol-ogy-anthropology, medicine-linguistics, anthropology-music, physics-painting, sociology-linguistics, philosophy-mathematics, psychology-anthropology, computer science-linguistics, etc.

Regarding the official classification of the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) disciplinary fields, the symposium includes all disciplines: Mathematics, Physics, Earth and Universe Sci-ences, Chemistry, Engineering Sciences, Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Biology, Health, Agronomy, Ecology, Environment, Markets and Organisations, Standards, social institutions and behaviours, Space, environment and societies, Human spirit, language, education, Languages, Texts, Arts and cultures, Ancient and contemporary Worlds.

• Confirmed plenary speakers (other invitations are pending)

- Professor Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Chair of Physiology of Perception and Action)

- Professor Luc Fraisse (Institut Universitaire de France & University of Strasbourg)

- Research Director Anne Giersche (University of Strasbourg & Inserm – Cognitive neuropsychology, pathophysiol-ogy of schizophrenia)

- Professor Bernard Harmegnies (Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technology, University of Mons)

- Professor Karine Lacombe (Sorbonne University, Inserm, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, St An-toine’s Hospital, Paris)

- Professor David Poeppel (Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute Frankfurt & New York University)

- Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg, Chair of Chemical Topology and Molecular Machines)

- Research Director Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA-Lab, Speech-Cognition Department, Grenoble Alpes University)

• Useful information

Proposals for papers, based on the PropCom framework below (Annex 1), will be sent simultaneously to Fabrice Marsac (f.marsac@unistra.fr) and Rudolph Sock (sock@unistra.fr) before March 31st, 2021 (indicate 'Symposium Per-ceptiO 2021' as the subject).

Notifications of acceptance or rejection of proposals will be sent to the authors by 30 April 2021 at the latest, and a first provisional programme of the event will follow around 15th of May.

The D-Day, oral communications, organised around the plenary lectures, will not exceed 15 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions). Poster sessions, which are scientifically equivalent in importance to the oral communications, will also be organised. The language of presentation will be either French or English.

After the symposium, the written contributions selected by the scientific committee will be published in 2023 as volume(s)/thematic volume(s) or varia in international journal(s).

Registration fees (150 € for permanent staff and 50 € for doctoral students) include the gala dinner on the second day (Thursday 18), the traditional paracolloquial activities (including a guided tour of the magnificent Strasbourg and its main cultural and tourist attractions, as well as the European Institutions) and the publication of contributions. Ac-commodation and other catering costs are the sole responsibility of participants.

The meeting will take place at the University of Strasbourg (Accueil – Université de Strasbourg (unistra.fr)) and at the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme, Alsace – MISHA (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA)).

Depending on the sanitary context in November 2021, the symposium will be held in praesentia or will be par-tially/completely dematerialised.

• Scientific committee

Currently being set up, the scientific committee of PerceptiO 2021 will be responsible for both the scientific review of proposals, carried out, as usual, by peers on a double-blind basis, and for reviewing subsequent submitted articles, also conducted on a double-blind basis by peers, in view of their publication in the course of 2023.

• Organising committee

- Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit UR 1339 LiLPa (University of Strasbourg, France)

- USIAS Chair of Language Sciences (University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study)

- Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures Research Unit 4363 ILLE (University of Haute-Alsace, France)

- Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technologies – IRSTL (University of Mons, Belgium)

- First People’s Hospital in Chengdu (China)

- First People’s Hospital in Zigong (China)

- Binzhou Medical University (China)

- Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department (University of Kentucky, United States of Amer-ica)

- Chair of French language (University of Opole, Poland)

- Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor (Senegal)

- Department of Romance Studies (Matej Bel University of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia)

- LICoLab – Language, Information and Communication Laboratory & Department of British and American Studies of the Faculty of Arts (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia)

• Reminder of key dates

- Submission of proposals: 31st March 2021 (deadline)

- Notification of paper acceptance or refusal: 30th April 2021 (deadline)

- Publication of the programme: around 15th of May 2021 (first provisional programme)

- Symposium: 17-20 November 2021

- Publication of accepted articles: in 2023

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• • Annex n° 1: PropCom outline (2 pages maximum)

1. Title of the proposal

2. Object(s) of study, research issues

3. Objective(s), theoretical framework(s) and research hypothesis(es)

4. Methodology

5. Results

6. Five key words

7. References

8. Last name, first name and academic affiliation(s) of the author(s)

9. E-mail address(es) for correspondence

10. Specify if it is a doctoral research (if applicable, indicate the name of the thesis supervisor(s))

• • Annex n° 2: scientific committee (in the process of being set up)

The scientific committee of PerceptiO 2021 will be composed, among other members, of (teacher-)researchers from the various disciplinary fields established by the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES).

For the International Organising Committee,

Fabrice MARSAC et Rudolph SOCK

University of Strasbourg, France

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1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021

Date: 6-9 December 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark

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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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The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to
host and organize the 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval,
ICMR2023 (sponsored by the ACM SIGMM). ACM ICMR is the premier
scientific conference for multimedia retrieval.  Its mission is
to provide a forum to discuss,  promote and advance the
state-of-the-arts in multimedia retrieval by bringing together
researchers and practitioners in its related field. It is thus essential
to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality
research papers and for sharing practitioner experience.  The list of
previous ICMRs is at http://www.acmicmr.org/.
We expect ICMR2023 to be held in Europe.

Parties interested in hosting ICMR2023 are invited to submit  their
proposals (20 pages or less) by Friday, 26 February 2021 by email with
the subject line: ICMR2023 to the steering committee chair.
The details of CFP is at http://acmicmr.org/icmr2023.cfo.final.pdf.

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Dear Speech Scientist:

IARPA and NIST are pleased to announce a new speech recognition challenge: OpenASR. Registration is still open.
The goal of the OpenASR (Open Automatic Speech Recognition) evaluation is to develop methods to quickly develop speech recognition systems in a variety of genres from low-resource languages, with minimal amounts of training data. Training data for ten languages will be released to aspirants, with two evaluations conditions: constrained and unconstrained.
The OpenASR challenge was developed out of IARPA's MATERIAL program
< https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material>, but only evaluates WER for ASR.

For more information on the OpenASR timeline and participation details,  please refer to the OpenASR webpage:
https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openasr-challenge

For the registration page, please visit: https://sat.nist.gov/openasr20
Participation is open to Everyone. Feel free to spread the word to interested participants.

Thanks,

The OpenASR Team at IARPA and NIST

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The International Christian University is hosting a Saturday series of prosody talks over the next two months, either 5-7pm or 10am-noon, Japan time.

Talks will Zoomed, and attendance is free, but you do need to pre-register.

October 10: Sara Myrberg,  Lena Borise
October 24: Frank Kgler, Nancy Kula
November 7: Shin Ishihara, Cedric Patin
November 21: Nichole Dehe, Adam Chong
December 5: Emily Elfner, Natalie Weber
December 19: Fatima Hamlaoui, Lauren Clemens

Host:  Seunghun J. Lee
For details:  https://sites.google.com/info.icu.ac.jp/linglab/projects/iculinc/icu-linc

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