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| 3-1-1 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021 Agenda The registration portal is now open
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| 3-1-2 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia 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 ?
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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| 3-1-3 | (2022-09-18) Interspeech 2022, Incheon, South Korea Incheon in South Korea will welcome Interspeech 2022.
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| 3-1-4 | (2023-08-20) Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland , ISCA has reached the decision to hold INTERSPEECH-2023 in Dublin, Ireland (Aug. 20-24, 2023)
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| 3-1-5 | (2024) Interspeech 2024, Jerusalem, Israel. eISCA conference committee has decided Interspeech 2024 will be held in Jerusalem, Israel.
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| 3-1-6 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS 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 SEMINARSA 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.
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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| 3-1-7 | Speech Prosody courses Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
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| 3-2-1 | (2022-05-23) Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal The Speech Prosody 2022 website is now live, at http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/sp2022/index.html ,? Dear SProSIG Members,
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| 3-2-2 | The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report. The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): The LT4All Programme and Editorial Committees are very happy to announce that the set of
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| 3-3-1 | (2021-04-14) CfP CORIA 2021(updated) APPEL À COMMUNICATION / CALL FOR PAPERS La 17ème édition sera organisée le 15 avril 2021 par l?équipe MRIM du Laboratoire d?Informatique de Grenoble. Elle se tiendra virtuellement en raison de la pandémie de COVID-19.
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| 3-3-2 | (2021-04-18) 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2021 Spring, Beersheba, Israel (Rescheduled) 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
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| 3-3-3 | (2021-05-09) 2nd Workshop on Momentary Emotion Elicitation & Capture (virtual)We invite researchers and practitioners across disciplines to join us in our 2nd MEEC WS
(https://meec-ws.com/) at CHI 2021, where the
goal is to collaboratively sketch and define effective and ethical means of elicitation, sensing, and
annotation of human emotions.
** CALL FOR PAPERS **
To train machines to sensibly detect and recognize human emotions, we need valid emotion ground truths.
A fundamental challenge here
is the momentary emotion elicitation and capture (MEEC) from individuals continuously and in real-time,
without adversely affecting user
experience nor breaching ethical standards. In this half-day virtual CHI 2021 workshop, the goals are:
(1) have participant talks and a keynote presentation by Prof. Mohammad Soleymani
(2) collaboratively ideate elicitation, sensing, and annotation techniques
(3) create mappings of when to apply an elicitation method
We seek contributions across disciplines that explore how emotions can be naturally elicited and captured in
the moment. Topics include:
Elicitation:
? multi-modal (e.g., film, music) and multi-sensory (e.g., smell, taste, thermal) elicitation
? emotion elicitation across domains (e.g., automotive, healthcare)
? elicitation and immersiveness (e.g., AR/VR)
? elicitation over time (e.g., mood)
? ethical considerations
Capture:
? emotion models (dimensional, discrete)
? annotation modalities (e.g., speech, gestures) and tools (e.g., questionnaires, ESMs)
? devices (e.g., mobile, wearable) and sensors (e.g., RGB / thermal cameras, EEG, eye tracking)
? attention considerations (e.g., interruptions)
? ethical issues in tracking and detection
** HOW TO PARTICIPATE **
We invite position papers, posters, and demos (2-9 pages, including references) that describe/showcase
emotion elicitation and/or
capture methods. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by 2 peers, and selected on their potential to spark
discussion.
Submissions should be prepared according to the ACM Master Article template (single column) (see CHI Publication Formats page:
https://chi2021.acm.org/for-authors/chi-publication-formats) and submitted in PDF through Easychair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=meec2021). Accepted submissions will be made available on
the workshop website. At least one
author must register for the workshop and one day of the conference, with (TBD) special rates for remote
attendance.
** IMPORTANT DATES **
? Deadline: 21 February, 2021
? Notification: 7 March, 2021
? Workshop date: Sunday, 9 May, 2021, CET 14:00-18:15 (UTC+01:00) / JST 20:00-01:15 (next day) /
EST 08:00-12:15
** ORGANIZERS **
? Abdallah El Ali (CWI, The Netherlands)
? Monica Perusquia-Hernandez (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
? Mariam Hassib (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
? Yomna Abdelrahman (Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany)
? Joshua Newn (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Website: https://meec-ws.com/
Contact: aea@cwi.nl
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| 3-3-4 | (2021-05-25) CfP ACM NOSSDAV 2021, Istambul, Turkey Registration deadline: December 11th Submission deadline: December 14th
ACM NOSSDAV 2021 - Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- May 25-28, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey 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):
Important dates and submissions instructions: https://nossdav.org/2021/#submission
Supporters ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Several travel grants will be offered ** 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 Follow Us ---------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12430121/ http://weixin.qq.com/r/tBIlPQzEH1FgrUhe90em https://www.facebook.com/acmmmsys/ https://www.instagram.com/acmmmsys/
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| 3-3-5 | (2021-05-27) JPC 2021 - Toulouse, France JPC 2021 - Toulouse du 27 au 29 mai 2021 Appel à Communication - Depuis leur création en 2005, les Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC) ont été régulièrement organisées sur une base bisannuelle. Après une dernière édition organisée en Belgique par nos collègues du Laboratoire de phonétique de l?Université de Mons (sous l?égide de l?Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage), à l?instar de l?édition organisée à Liège en 2013, les JPC reviennent en France pour leur 9e édition. Co-organisée par l?IRIT, le laboratoire Octogone-Lordat et le centre hospitalo-universitaire de Toulouse ainsi que par le Laboratoire Informatique d?Avignon, la manifestation se tiendra à l?Université de Toulouse du 27 au 29 mai 2021.
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) :
Une attention particulière sera portée aux propositions ciblant la thématique autour des mesures de la parole. Les propositions de communication devront être sous la forme d?un résumé de 400 mots, hors titre, auteurs et références, en respectant ce modèle de résumé à télécharger.
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| 3-3-6 | (2021-05-31) CfP 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), Reykjavik, Iceland NoDaLiDa 2021 May 31 - June 02, 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)May 31 - June 2, 2021 Reykjavik, Iceland CALL FOR PAPERSThe 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. SUBMISSIONSNoDaLiDa 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:
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
SUBMISSION FORMATSAll 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-PUBLICATIONPapers 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 MANAGEMENTSubmissions 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 For all practical inquiries, please email nodalida2021-loc@googlegroups.com.
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| 3-3-7 | (2021-06-05) IEEE Data Science and Learning Workshop (DSLW2021), Toronto, Canada
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| 3-3-8 | (2021-06-06) CfP ICASSP 2021, Toronto, Canada
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| 3-3-9 | (2021-06-23) Workshop 'From speech technology to big data phonetics and phonology: a win-win paradigm' @ PaPE 2021, Barcelona, Spain 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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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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| 3-3-10 | (2021-06-28) CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING (CBMI2021)
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| 3-3-11 | (2021-07-06) 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): 'Democratizing AI Development', Limassol, Cyprus *** Last Call for Papers ***
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| 3-3-12 | (2021-07-12) ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2021, Taipei,Taiwan 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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| 3-3-13 | (2021-07-12) CfProposals ICMR2021 Special sessions , Taipei, Taiwan We are calling for proposals on ICMR2021 Special Sessions. We look
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| 3-3-14 | (2021-07-26) 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
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| 3-3-15 | (2021-07-29) SIGDIAL 2021 Conference, Singapore SECOND 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-IJCNLP 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.
IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM THE FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
- Special Sessions
SIGDIAL 2021 will have two special sessions:
- Safety for E2E Conversational AI - SummDial: Summarization of Multi-Party Dialogues and Meetings
Papers submitted for these special sessions as SIGDIAL regular papers will be reviewed in the same way as other SIGDIAL submissions. The submission deadline and the paper format are the same. Please see their websites for details (including different types of paper submissions and deadlines).
- Hybrid Conference
SIGDIAL 2021 is preparing for a hybrid in-person and virtual conference where people can participate online if they want. 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 (11:59pm GMT-11) 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 has 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 conference[at]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.
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before the April 2, 2021 deadline (23:59 GMT-11). Please see the conference website for details.
For special session long and short papers please select the session under ?Submission Type?. 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 Chairs: Gina-Anne Levow, University of Washington, USA 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, LivePerson, USA
SIGdial President Emeritus: Jason Williams, Apple, USA
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| 3-3-16 | (2021-08-23) The European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Dublin, Ireland 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 29th EUSIPCO organised in 2021 by Dublin Ireland. Technical scopeWe invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers from all areas of signal processing including but not limited to:
Key dates
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
-- Announcements mailing list https://lists.eurasip.org/mailman/listinfo/announcements
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| 3-3-17 | (2021-08-25) Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop (on line)
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| 3-3-18 | (2021-08-27) 4th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR) in Prague We invite researchers across disciplines to participate in the 4th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR) in Prague. Web: https://hscr2021.ff.cuni.cz/
** CALL FOR PAPERS ** The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in historical aspects of all areas of speech communication research. Contributions on any such topic will be welcome. What is worth examining, among other things, is the approach of researchers to their material. The special focus will be on the link in linguistic signs between the form (sound) and the meaning (sense) in speech communication research. The phonetic endeavour was often claimed to concern only the form, while meaning was delegated to semanticians (affective psychology, pragmatics or semantics in broader sense). Studying the sound structure of human speech without a regard to communicative meanings is not only one-sided and incomplete, but also difficult to integrate into the wider scientific knowledge. The way researchers managed/refused to ignore meanings (functions) could be quite inspiring today. Invited speakers are Angelika Braun from Trier University (Germany) with a talk entitled ?Leaving the ivory tower: How real-life events have impacted phonetics throughout history? and Tomá? Hoskovec, President of the Prague Linguistic Circle (Czech Rep.) with a talk on ?The relationship of meaning, sense and form throughout the history of European research?. The proceedings will be published in the book series Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation at TUDpress (Technical University Dresden). See: https://hscr2021.ff.cuni.cz/
** IMPORTANT DATES **
** ORGANIZERS ** Jan Volín (Jan.Volin@ff.cuni.cz), Institute of Phonetics, Charles University Pavel ?turm (Pavel.Sturm@ff.cuni.cz), Institute of Phonetics, Charles University
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| 3-3-19 | (2021-08-30) Interspeech 2021 Special Session on the Multilingual and code-switching ASR challenges for low resource Indian languages, Brno, Czechia. Announcing the Multilingual and code-switching ASR challenges for low resource Indian languages - Interspeech 2021 Special Session
Recently, there have been increasing interests in multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) where a speech recognition system is built to cater to multiple low resource languages by taking advantage of low amount of labeled corpora in multiple languages. On the other hand, with multilingualism becoming common in today?s world, there has been increasing interest in code-switching ASR as well. In code-switching, multiple languages are freely interchanged within a single sentence or between sentences. The success of low-resource multilingual and code-switching ASR often depends on the variety of languages in terms of their acoustics, linguistic characteristics as well as amount of data available and how these are carefully considered in building the ASR system. In this challenge, we would like to focus on building multilingual and code-switching ASR systems through two different sub-tasks related to a total of seven Indian languages with constraints on the data available for acoustic modeling and language modeling.
Sub-task1
This sub-task involves building a multilingual ASR system in six languages, namely, Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Telugu, Tamil, and Gujarati. The blind test set will comprise recordings from a subset (or all) of these six languages
Sub-task2
This sub-task involves building a code-switching ASR system separately for Hindi-English and Bengali-English code-switched pairs. The blind test set will comprise recordings from these two code-switched language pairs.
Submissions to this special session should show results on one or both of the above mentioned tasks. Submissions on any topic related to building multilingual code-switching ASR are welcome. This includes (but is not limited to):
Organizers:
Kalika Bali (Mircosoft Research)
Prasanta Kumar Ghosh (IISc Bangalore)
Raoul Nanavati (Navana Tech.)
Jai Nanavati (Navana Tech.)
Sirnivasa Raghavan (Navana Tech.)
Vivek Seshadri (Microsoft Research)
Preethi Jyothi (IIT Bombay)
Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay)
Samarth Bharadwaj (IBM Research)
Ashish Mittal (IIT Bombay & IBM Research)
Shreya Khare (IBM Research)
For more details and participation, please visit
https://navana-tech.github.io/IS21SS-indicASRchallenge/
Timeline
February 2, 2021 - Registration for the challenge opens
February 10, 2021 - Release training & test data
February 15, 2021 - Release baseline recipe
February 28, 2021 - Release blind test audio to participants
March 2, 2021 - Test trial upload begins
March 26, 2021 - Abstract submission deadline
March 26, 2021 - Final test trial upload deadline
April 2, 2021 - Interspeech final paper upload deadline
June 15, 2021 - Camera ready paper deadline
For any questions, write to
is21ss.indicasrchallenge@gmail.com
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| 3-3-20 | (2021-08-30) The Fearless Steps Challenge(FSC) @ Interspeech 2021 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.
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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| 3-3-21 | (2021-08-31) DiCOVA Interspeech challenge 2021 Announcing the DiCOVA Interspeech challenge 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 100 million infections, and more than 2 million casualties. The global crisis spans across 200 countries. Large scale testing, social distancing, and face masks have been critical measures to help contain the spread of the infection. Even with the onset of the vaccination programs, the WHO highlights large scale testing and precautionary measures must be followed for the next couple of years. While the list of symptoms is regularly updated, it is established that in symptomatic cases COVID-19 seriously impairs normal functioning of the respiratory system. Does this alter the acoustic characteristics of breath, cough, and speech sounds produced through the respiratory system? This is an open question that we would like scientifically answer. A COVID-19 diagnosis methodology based on acoustic signal analysis, if successful, can provide a remote, scalable, and economical means for testing of individuals. This can supplement the existing nucleotides based COVID-19 testing methods, such as RT-PCR and RAT.
The DiCOVA Challenge is designed to find answers to the question by enabling participants to analyze an acoustic crowdsourced mobile based dataset gathered from COVID-19 positive and non-COVID-19 individuals. The findings will be presented in a special session at Interspeech 2021, the flagship conference of the global speech science and technology community, to be held in Brno from Aug 31-Sept 3, 2021. The timeliness, and the global societal importance of the challenge warrants focused effort from researchers across the globe, including from the fields of medical and respiratory sciences, mathematical sciences, and machine learning engineers. We look forward to your participation! For more details and participation, please visit
Timeline
Registration Opens: 5th Feb 2021 Data Release (Train and Dev): 15th Feb 2021 Baseline System Release: 22nd Feb 2021 Evaluation data and Leaderboard active: 1st Mar 2021 Final evaluation and Report submission: 21st Mar 2021 Interspeech Abstract submission: 26th Mar 2021 Interspeech Paper submission: 2nd Apr 2021 Any questions can be directed to
dicova2021@gmail.com
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| 3-3-22 | (2021-09-06) 24th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2021), Olomouc, Czech Republic **************************************************************************
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| 3-3-23 | (2021-09-06) TSD 2021 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND DEMONSTRATIONS, Olomouc, Czech Republic **************************************************************************
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| 3-3-24 | (2021-09-07) CfP Text Mining and Applications (TeMA?21) Track of EPIA?21, Lisbon, Portugal Call for Papers Text Mining and Applications (TeMA?21) Track of EPIA?21
TeMA 2021 will be held at the 20th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2021) taking place at Lisbon, Portugal, from 7th to 9th September 2021. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2021 URL: : http://appia.pt/epia2021/ This announcement contains the following information: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Program Committee and [8] Contacts. [1] Track Description The 9th Track of Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2021) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following recent advances in general IA sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using text mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind by the members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of Springer?s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the 20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2021.
[2] Topics of Interest TM, NLP, and Social Media Content Analysis
Applications:
[3] Important dates Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2021 Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2021 Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2021 EPIA Conference: September 7-9, 2021(Lisbon, Portugal) [4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNAI series. Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity. References to own work may be included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management website at: http://appia.pt/epia2021/ Authors should consult Springer?s authors? guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
[5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2021 conference.
[6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva, DI ? FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal (Contact person). Pablo Gamallo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain. Paulo Quaresma, DI ? Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal. Irene Rodrigues., DI ? Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal
[7] Program Committee: Adam Jatowt ? Universit of Kioto, Japan Alberto Diaz ? Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Spain Alberto Simões ? Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal Alexandre Rademaker ? IBM / FGV, Brazil Altigran Silva ? Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil Antoine Doucet ? University of Caen, France António Branco ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Béatrice Daille ? University of Nantes, France Bruno Martins ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Eric de La Clergerie ? INRIA, France Fernando Batista ? Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Francisco Couto ? Faculdade de Ciências ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Gabriel Pereira Lopes ? Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ? Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Gaël Dias ? University of Caen Basse-Normandie Hugo Oliveira ? Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Iñaki Vicente - Language Technology, Elhuyar Foundation Irene Rodrigues ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal Jesús Vilares ? University of A Coruña, Spain Joaquim Ferreira da Silva ? Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia ? Universidade Nova de Lisboa Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska ? ESIGETEL, France Luisa Coheur ? Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal Manuel Vilares Ferro ? University of Vigo, Spain Marcos Garcia - Universidade da Coruña, Spain Mário Silva ? Instituto Superior Técnico ? Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Miguel Alonso ? Universidade da Coruña, Spain Pablo Gamallo ? Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain Patricia Martín-Rodilla ? Universidade da Coruña, Spain Paulo Quaresma ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal Pavel Brazdil ? University of Porto, Portugal Renata Vieira ? Universidade de Évora, Portugal Sérgio Nunes ? Faculdade de Engenharia ? Universidade do Porto, Portugal
[8] Contacts Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829?516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ? Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ? E?mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt
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| 3-3-25 | (2021-09-08) IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021), Tokyo, Japan (Rescheduled) IEEE MIPR 2021 Rescheduled September 8-10
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| 3-3-26 | (2021-09-08) The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Fake Multimedia (FakeMM'21), Tokyo, Japan The 3rd IEEE Workshop onFake Multimedia (FakeMM'21) September 8-10, 2021 Tokyo, Japan
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| 3-3-27 | (2021-09-27) 23rd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2021), St Petersburg, Russia*******************************************************
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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| 3-3-28 | (2021-10-06) ESANN 2021 - 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Co ESANN 2021 - 29th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges, Belgium, 6-7-8 October 2021
Call for papers
The call for papers is available at https://www.esann.org. Deadline for submissions: May 10, 2021.
The ESANN conferences cover machine learning, artificial neural networks, statistical information processing and computational intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are covered. In addition to regular sessions, 7 special sessions will be organized on the following topics: - Anomaly and change point detection in geometric and non vector data - Complex Data: Learning Trustworthily, Automatically, and with Guarantees - Federated Learning – Methods, Applications and Beyond - Deep learning for graphs - Interpretable Models in Machine Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning for Measuring and Analyzing Online Social Communications - Machine learning and data mining for urban mobility intelligence
ESANN 2021 builds upon a successful series of conferences organized each year since 1993. ESANN has become a major scientific event in the machine learning, computational intelligence and artificial neural networks fields over the years.
The conference will be organized in Bruges, one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Designated as the 'Venice of the North', the city has preserved all the charms of the medieval heritage. Its centre, which is inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list, is in itself a real open air museum. We hope that October 2021 will be the right time to organize a physical conference again, after the Covid-19 pandemic; current forecasts are optimistic for events organized after the summer 2021. Of course health and safety of the participants are our top priority; in the unfortunate event that the situation is not safe yet, the conference will be organized online on the same dates.
We hope to receive your submission to ESANN 2021 and to see you in Bruges!
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| 3-3-29 | (2021-10-18) ACM ICMI 2021: Call for Doctoral Consortium, Montreal, Canada Doctoral Consortium - Call for Contributions ***************************************
ACM ICMI 2021: Call for Doctoral Consortium
https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cfdc
18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada
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The goal of the ACM ICMI Doctoral Consortium (DC)
is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a
group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions,
to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress,
and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing
and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction.
We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the
process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area
of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees
that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).
Who should apply?
While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training,
the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of
forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or
have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research,
and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting
institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
Why should you attend?
The DC provides an opportunity to build a social network that includes the cohort of DC students,
senior students, recent graduates, and senior mentors. Not only is this an opportunity to get feedback
on research directions, it is also an opportunity to learn more about the process and to understand what comes next.
We aim to connect you with a mentor who will give specific feedback on your research and whom you can talk to during lunch.
We specifically aim to create an informal setting where students feel supported in their professional development.
Agenda:
09:00 - 09:30: Invited talk
09:30 - 11:00: DC talks 1
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00: DC talks 2
13:00 - 14:30: Lunch mentoring session
14:30 - 15:15: Panel discussion (senior PhD students and recent graduates)
15:15 - 15:45: Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00: Table discussions (small group discussions about topics of interest)
Submission Guidelines:
Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
1. Extended Abstract: A four-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SigConf format.
Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers.
The submissions will not be anonymous. In particular, it should cover:
- The key research questions and motivation of your research;
- Background and related work that informs your research;
- A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem;
- Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies;
- The research approach and methodology;
- Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work;
- A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work;
2. Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support.
Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral
Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.
3. CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
Review Process:
The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated
by a number of factors including
(1) the quality of the submission,
(2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and
(3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance.
More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions
of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond.
Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds,
methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort.
We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample.
Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Financial Support:
The conference is pleased to offer partial financial support for doctoral students participating
in the Doctoral Consortium and attending the conference. Only students who apply and are accepted
for participation in the Doctoral Consortium can be considered for financial support.
The number and size of the offers of financial support are contingent upon the number of invited student participants.
Attendance:
All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium
and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work
as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session.
A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster
session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
Process:
- Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2)
- Submission system: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi
- Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
- Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session
- Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library
- Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs:
a) Iolanda Leite (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and
b) Alessandro Vinciarelli (University of Glasgow).
Submission: July 2nd Notification: Camera ready: August 16th
Important Dates:
Submission deadline July 2nd, 2021
Notifications August 6th, 2021
Camera-ready August 16th, 2021
Questions?
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2021 Doctoral Consortium,
visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (https://icmi.acm.org/2021)
For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
- Iolanda Leite (iolanda@kth.se)
- Alessandro Vinciarelli (Alessandro.Vinciarelli@glasgow.ac.uk)
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| 3-3-30 | (2021-10-18) Call for ICMI 2021 Long and Short Papers Call for ICMI 2021 Long and Short Papers ***************************************
ICMI 2021: Call for Long and Short Papers
http://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cfp
18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada
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Call for Long, Short and Blue Sky Papers
The 23rd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada.
ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human
and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development.
The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies,
and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis,
interface design, and system development.
We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community.
ICMI 2021 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers,
technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations),
Blue Sky papers, demonstrations, exhibits, doctoral spotlight papers, and late-breaking papers.
The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges.
The proceedings of ICMI 2021 will be published by ACM as part of their series
of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library,
and the adjunct proceedings will feature the workshop papers
We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social sciences.
These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to increase our
scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting technical or algorithmic novelty.
For this reason, the 'novelty' criteria used during ICMI 2021 review will be based on
two sub-criteria (i.e., scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below).
Accepted papers at ICMI 2021 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria.
In other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution
but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper
that is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery.
- Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the scientific community.
For example, discovering new behavioral markers that are predictive of mental health
or how new behavioral patterns relate to children's interactions during learning.
It is the responsibility of the authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly
discuss the novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.
- Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include novelty in their computational
approach for recognizing, generating or modeling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning
and prediction algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation.
Novelty can also be associated with new usages of an existing approach.
This year's conference theme: In the past years and specially 2020, the questions of Behavioral Health
and Virtual Connectivity have become central to our life.
In particular, COVID-19 has disrupted our normal social life and interactions at work,
bringing challenges but also opportunities to improve our team sociability and productivity.
This situation calls for multimodal systems to enhance social and emotional remote interaction
as well as to increase productivity during remote collaboration.
Our behavioral health has been severely impacted the past months.
The needs for non-intrusive sensing technology, smart environments (e.g., elderly home monitoring),
wearable and assistive devices for rehabilitation, well-being and ageing population
and multimodal interfaces to support behavioral changes have become a crucial necessity.
As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Behavioral Health and Virtual Connectivity.
Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Affective computing and interaction
- Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction
- Gesture, touch and haptics
- Healthcare, assistive technologies
- Human communication dynamics
- Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction
- Interaction with smart environment
- Machine learning for multimodal interaction
- Mobile multimodal systems
- Multimodal behavior generation
- Multimodal datasets and validation
- Multimodal dialogue modeling
- Multimodal fusion and representation
- Multimodal interactive applications
- Speech behaviors in social interaction
- System components and multimodal platforms
- Visual behaviours in social interaction
- Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction
Blue Sky Papers
ICMI 2021 is pleased to partner with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to initiate
a new Blue Sky paper track that emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions.
This track solicits papers relevant to ICMI content that go beyond the usual research paper
to present new visions that stimulate the ICMI community to pursue innovative new directions.
They may challenge existing assumptions and methodologies,or propose new applications or theories.
The papers are encouraged to present high-risk controversial ideas. Submitted papers are expected
to represent deep reflection, to argue rigorously, and to present ideas from
a high-level synthetic viewpoint (e.g., multidisciplinary, based on multiple methodologies).
Submissions should be 4 pages, independent of references. The CCC will further distribute
and publicize any papers published in this track, and they will sponsor awards
to honor the first ($1,000), second ($750), and third ($500) place papers, in the form of travel grants.
The submission deadline is the same with main conference papers.
Important Dates
Paper Submission: May 26, 2021
Reviews to authors: July 7, 2021
Rebuttal due: July 12, 2021
Paper notification: July 26, 2021
Camera-ready paper: August 16, 2021
Presenting at main conference: October 18-22, 2021
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| 3-3-31 | (2021-10-18) Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges @ ICMI2021, Montreal, Canada Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
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ICMI 2021: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
http://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=challenges
18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada
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We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges.
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum
for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces,
and system development.
Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human
communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes.
In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics and physiological
signal processing, for example, the availability of datasets and common tasks have led to great progress.
We invite the ICMI community to collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our domain for the next 5 years.
ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work.
Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible.
Challenge papers will be indexed in the main proceedings of ICMI.
We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events.
We are looking for exciting and stimulating challenges including but not limited to the following categories:
- Dataset-driven challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities
of current and future multimodal problems, and one or more multimodal
tasks whose performance can be objectively measured and compared in rigorous conditions.
Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses.
- Use-case challenge: This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based)
and the associated resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration
of specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also establish systematic evaluation procedures.
- Health challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary
of a health related task, whose analysis, diagnosis, treatment or prevention can be aided by Multimodal
Interactions. The challenge should focus on exploring the benefits of multimodal (audio, visual, physiological, etc) solutions for the stated task.
- Policy challenge: Legal, ethical, and privacy issues of Multimodal Interaction systems in the age of AI.
The challenge could revolve around opinion papers, panels, discussions, etc.
Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:
1.Title
2.Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge
3.Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
4.Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction
5.Length (full day or half day)
6.Plan for soliciting participation
7.Description of how submissions (challenge?s submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
8.Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions
9.Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
10.Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization
11.Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers;
summary of the Grand Challenge;
list of potential Technical Program Committee members
and their affiliations, important dates
Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan.
A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure
its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance;
an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case.
Continuation of or variants on the 2019 challenges are welcome,
though we ask for submissions of this form to highlight the number
of participants that attended during the previous year and describe
what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year.
The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics,
which includes rooms and equipment to run the Workshop,
coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference.
Important Dates and Contact Details
Proposals due: January 27, 2021
Proposal notification: February 3, 2021
Paper camera-ready: August 17, 2021
Grand challenge date: October 18 or 22, 2021
Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2021 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs,
Jean-Marc Odobez and Dirk Heylen via icmi2021-challenge-chairs@acm.org.
Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions.
Proposals are due by January 27, 2021. Notifications will be sent on February 3, 2021.
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| 3-3-34 | (2021-10-25) IEEE Workshop L3DAS21 Machine Learnng for 3D Audio Signal Processing, Gold Coast, Australia
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| 3-3-35 | (2021-11-17) PerceptiO Perception of the living , U.of Strasbourg France
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).
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.
- 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)
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.
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.
- 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)
- 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 ***
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))
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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| 3-3-36 | (2021-11-17) PerceptiO, Université de Strasbourg, France
PerceptiO La perception et le vivant Perception and the living Université de Strasbourg, France UR 1339 LiLPa – Linguistique, Langues et Parole Chaire des Sciences du langage de l’USIAS – Université de Strasbourg, Institut d’Études Avancées Université de Haute-Alsace, France UR 4363 ILLE – Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes IdEx Symposium 2021 17-20 novembre L’Université de Strasbourg (France), à travers l’UR 1339 LiLPa (Linguistique, Langues et Parole) ainsi que la Chaire des Sciences du langage de l’USIAS (Université de Strasbourg, Institut d’Études Avancées), et l’Université de Haute-Alsace (France), à travers l’UR 4363 ILLE (Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes), accueilleront en Alsace le symposium « PerceptiO : la perception et le vivant/perception and the living » du 17 au 20 novembre 2021. Présidé par le duo universitaire alsacien, le comité d’organisation international de la manifestation comptera également dans ses rangs (dans l’ordre alphabétique des pays) : l’Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage – IRSTL de l’Université de Mons (Belgique), l’Hôpital First People de Chengdu, l’Hôpital First People de Zigong et l’Université médicale de Binzhou (Chine), le Département des langues, littératures et cultures modernes et classiques de l’Université du Kentucky (États-Unis d’Amérique), la Chaire de langue française de l’Université d’Opole (Pologne), l’Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (Sénégal) et le Département d’études romanes de l’Université Matej Bel de Banská Bystrica, le Laboratoire LICoLab – Language, Information and Communication Laboratory et le Département d’études britanniques et américaines de la Faculté des arts de l’Université Pavol Jozef Šafárik de Košice (Slovaquie).
La rencontre, qui réunira des spécialistes de tous horizons (tant en termes de continents que de domaines de spécialité), sera consacrée à la perception et au vivant, thème qu’il s’agira d’aborder sous ses diverses coutures disciplinaires, qu’elles relèvent de la classification communément admise depuis le XXe siècle des Sciences (formelles, physiques, de la vie, sociales) ou de celle des Arts (architecture, sculpture, arts visuels, musique, littéature, arts de la scène, cinéma). L’objectif général du congrès sera ainsi de s’interroger sur la question de savoir comment le (monde du) vivant prend en charge les perceptions, tant en termes d’appréhension, de ressenti, de compréhension, d’analyse, de construction, de profilage, de transmission que de réception, pour tenter de rendre plus nets les contours encore flous de la notion même de perception et des phénomènes afférents, d’en approfondir l’étude des propriétés et/ou spécificités connues voire d’en mettre au jour de nouvelles. De manière plus spécifique, il s’agira notamment, à partir de l’observation de la façon dont elles s’inscrivent dans le (monde du) vivant, de faire ressortir la dualité des ontologies de la perception (sensorielle vs intellectuelle). Dans la pratique, on interrogera, en partant du (monde du) vivant, notamment les matrices, les moules, les cadres, les actants, les circonstants, les tenants ou les aboutissants de la perception à travers, de préférence, les approches inter, trans, multi, pluri ou intradisciplinaires – même si l’approche mono ou unidisciplinaire n’est pas exclue. Précisons que tous les types de langages, naturels comme artificiels, pourront être pris comme base empirique et que, quelle que soit l’approche envisagée, les démarches expérimentales et/ou cliniques seront très appréciées, ainsi que les démarches contrastives. À cet effet, qu’elles soient théoriques ou appliquées, systématiques ou expérimentales, contextuelles ou indépendantes, synchroniques ou diachroniques, prescriptives, descriptives ou programmatiques, intra ou interdisciplinaires, les propositions de communication ainsi sollicitées s’inscriront au moins dans un binôme de disciplines issues des Sciences et/ou des Arts, comme par exemple : mathématique-linguistique, peinture-musique, biologie-anthropologie, médecine-linguistique, anthropologie-musique, physique-peinture, sociologie-linguistique, philosophie-mathématique, psychologie-anthropologie, informatique-linguistique, ... S’agissant du classement officiel des domaines disciplinaires du Haut Conseil de l’Évaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (HCERES), le symposium invite l’ensemble des disciplines : Mathématiques, Physique, Sciences de la terre et de l’univers, Chimie, Sciences pour l’ingénieur, Sciences et technologies de l’information et de la communication, Biologie, Santé, Agronomie, écologie, environnement, Marchés et organisations, Normes, institutions et comportements sociaux, Espace, environnement et sociétés, Esprit humain, langage, éducation, Langues, textes, arts et cultures, Mondes anciens et contemporains.
- M. le Professeur Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Chaire de physiologie de la perception et de l’action) - M. le Professeur Luc Fraisse (Institut universitaire de France & Université de Strasbourg) - Mme le Directeur de recherche Anne Giersche (Université de Strasbourg & Inserm – Neuropsychologie cognitive, physiopathologie de la schizophrénie) - M. le Professeur Bernard Harmegnies (IRSTL – Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage, Université de Mons) - Mme le Professeur Karine Lacombe (Sorbonne Université, Inserm, Service des maladies infectieuses et tropicales, Hôpital St Antoine, Paris) - M. le Professeur David Poeppel (Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute Frankfurt & New York University) - M. le Professeur Jean-Pierre Sauvage (Université de Strasbourg, Chaire de topologie chimique et machines moléculaires) - M. le Directeur de recherche Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA-Lab, Département parole et cognition, Université Grenoble-Alpes)
Les propositions de communication, établies à partir du canevas PropCom ci-dessous (Annexe n° 1), seront en-voyées simultanément à Fabrice Marsac (f.marsac@unistra.fr) et Rudolph Sock (sock@unistra.fr) avant le 31 mars 2021 (indiquer « Symposium PerceptiO 2021 » comme objet). Les notifications d’acceptation ou de refus des propositions de communication seront transmises aux auteurs au plus tard le 30 avril 2021, et un premier programme provisoire de la manifestation suivra aux alentours du 15 mai. Le jour-j, les communications orales, organisées autour des conférences plénières, ne dépasseront pas 15 minutes de temps de parole (auxquelles s’ajouteront 5 minutes pour les questions). Des sessions affichées (posters), dont l’impor-tance est scientifiquement équivalente aux communications orales, seront également assurées. La langue de présenta-tion sera indifféremment le français ou l’anglais. Ultérieurement, les contributions écrites retenues par le comité scientifique feront l’objet d’une publication, norma-lement dans le courant de l’année civile 2023, comme volume(s)/tome(s) thématique(s) ou varia de revue(s) interna-tionale(s). Les frais d’inscription (de 150 € pour les permanents et de 50 € pour les doctorant(e)s) comprennent le dîner de gala du deuxième jour (jeudi 18), les traditionnelles activités paracolloquantes (dont la visite guidée de la magnifique Stras-bourg et de ses principaux attraits culturels et touristiques, y compris les Institutions européennes) ainsi que l’édition des contributions. Les frais de logement et autres frais de restauration restent exclusivement à la charge des participants. La rencontre siègera à l’Université de Strasbourg (Accueil – Université de Strasbourg (unistra.fr)) et à la Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme, Alsace – MISHA (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA)). Naturellement, en fonction de la réalité de la situation sanitaire en novembre 2021, le symposium se tiendra en présentiel ou sera partiellement/complètement dématérialisé.
Actuellement en cours de constitution, le comité scientifique de PerceptiO 2021 sera à la fois chargé de l’évaluation scientifique des propositions de communication, conduite, comme à l’accoutumée, à double insu par les pairs, et de celle, ultérieure, des contributions écrites, également conduite à double insu par les pairs, en vue de leur publication dans le courant de l’année civile 2023.
- UR 1339 LiLPa – Linguistique, Langues et Parole (Université de Strasbourg, France) - Chaire des Sciences du langage de l’USIAS (Université de Strasbourg, Institut d’Études Avancées, France) - UR 4363 ILLE – Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (Université de Haute-Alsace, France) - Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Langage – IRSTL de l’Université de Mons (Belgique) - Hôpital First People de Chengdu (Chine) - Hôpital First People de Zigong (Chine) - Université médicale de Binzhou (Chine) - Département des langues, littératures et cultures modernes et classiques de l’Université du Kentucky (États-Unis d’Amérique) - Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (Sénégal) - Chaire de langue française de l’Université d’Opole (Pologne) - Département d’études romanes de l’Université Matej Bel de Banská Bystrica (Slovaquie) - Laboratoire LICoLab – Language, Information and Communication Laboratory & Département d’études britanniques et américaines de la Faculté des arts de l’Université Pavol Jozef Šafárik de Košice (Slovaquie)
- Envoi des propositions de communication : 31 mars 2021 (date butoir) - Envoi des notifications d’acceptation ou de refus : 30 avril 2021 (date butoir) - Publication du programme : vers le 15 mai 2021 (premier programme provisoire) - Symposium : 17-20 novembre 2021 - Publication des contributions écrites retenues : courant 2023 ***
1. Titre de la proposition de communication 2. Objet(s) d’étude, problématique 3. Objectif(s), cadre(s) théorique(s) et hypothèse(s) de recherche 4. Méthodologie 5. Résultats 6. Cinq mots ou expressions-clés 7. Indications bibliographiques 8. Nom, prénom et affiliation(s) académique(s) de l’/des auteur(s) 9. Adresse(s) électronique(s) de correspondance 10. Préciser s’il s’agit d’une recherche doctorale (le cas échéant, indiquer le nom du/des directeur(s) de thèse)
Prises de contact en cours, le comité scientifique de PerceptiO 2021 sera, entre autres membres, composé d’(ensei-gnants-)chercheurs issus des différents domaines disciplinaires établis par le Haut Conseil de l’Évaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (HCERES). Pour le comité d’organisation international, Fabrice MARSAC et Rudolph SOCK Université de Strasbourg, France
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| 3-3-37 | (2021-12-02) 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) 2021 Theme: Articulation and Prosody: Between Interface and Integration Date: 2-4 December 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark
The links between articulation and prosody are a subject of growing interest. It is driven, among other things, by increasingly powerful measurement, analysis and recording techniques, by the discovery of syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures in prosody and the simultaneous undermining of strictly linear-segmental models in articulation, as well as the by rapid rise of speech technology and the associated increasing relevance of the emotions, speaking styles, attitudes, social hierarchies, social-role marking, etc. But, how far have we really come in understanding the links between articulation and prosody?
The 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) will be a forum to discuss these questions. Reflecting the development of the articulation-prosody research and continuing the successful concept of the first SEFOS, SEFOS II shall again be a strongly interdisciplinary event. We therefore cordially invite not only all members of the speech-science community to take part in SEFOS II, but also interested members from related fields such as general linguistics, medicine, audiology, psychology, rhetoric, pedagogy, language/speech technology and engineering sciences.
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the organizing committee decided to conduct the conference in the form of a HYBRID CONFERENCE combining a live in person event with a virtual component.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Dr. Cécile Fougeron
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Birkholz
IMPORTANT DATES: 01 Aug 2021: Full paper submission deadline (will NOT be extended!)
NOTE THAT SEFOS II has teamed up with the proceedings branch of deGruyter, 'Sciendo', to publish widely visible (open access) article-length proceedings papers OF UP TO 15 PAGES (ABOUT 10,000 WORDS)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE SEE: https://my.eventbuizz.com/event/2--international-seminar-on-the-foundation-of-speech-8992/detail
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| 3-3-38 | (2021-12-06) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021 Theme: 'Tone and Intonation in a globalized, digital world'
Date: 6-9 December 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark The 1st edition of the Tone-and-Intonation (TAI) conference series is proudly hosted by the Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark. Being a merger of the two former conference series TAL (Tonal Aspects of Languages) and TIE (Tone and Intonation in Europe), TAI 2021 welcomes contributions on phonetic and phonological analyses of prosody including (but not limited to) topics related to the production and perception of prosody and rhythm, the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, the acquisition and teaching of prosody in L1 and L2, and cross-linguistic comparisons of prosody.
In addition, in TAI 2021 two separate special sessions will be dedicated to the challenges and opportunities that globalization and digitization hold for the speech sciences. In this context, we also encourage researchers of neighboring disciplines to submit papers related to tone and intonation to the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES:
01 May 2021 Online abstract submission opens (EasyChair)
04 Jul 2021 Abstract submission deadline
05 Sep 2021 Notification of abstract acceptance
03 Oct 2021 Early bird registration deadline
6-9 Dec 2021 1st Tone-and-Intonation Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark
27 Feb *2022* Deadline for the submission of a corrected abstract and an optional 5-page full paper (4 pages of text plus 1 page for references only)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE SEE:
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| 3-3-39 | (2021-12-13) ASRU, Carthagena, Colombia A S R U 2021 C a r t a g e n a December 13rd - 17th
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop The IEEE ASRU Workshop is a biennial flagship event of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The workshop will be held on December 13-17, 2021. Since the global situation is still uncertain and given the slow vaccination progress worldwide, it is likely that the workshop will be virtual. We are making several efforts to make it in-person, but we depend on external unpredictable factors. In any case appropriate and timely information will be published in the website and widely distributed using all possible ways. Even if the workshop is virtual, we hope that sometime soon we will be able to welcome you all in Cartagena. Topics All papers related to automatic speech recognition and understanding are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Automatic speech recognition ASR in adverse enviroments New applications of ASR Speech-to-speech translation Spoken document retrieval Speaker/Language recognition Speech emotion recognition Methods and models leveraging multi-lingual resources Spoken language understanding Spoken dialog systems Text-to-speech systems Important dates Paper submission opens: May. 7, 2021 Regular & Challenge paper submission (abstract): Jun 25, 2021 Regular & Challenge paper submission (final paper): Jul 2, 2021 Paper reviews returned: Aug. 18, 2021 Author response due: Aug. 25, 2021 Paper acceptance notification: Sep. 10, 2021 Author registration due: Oct. 8, 2021 Early registration due: Oct. 15, 2021 Demo submission due: Oct. 15, 2021 Demo selection notification: Oct. 29, 2021 ASRU Workshop: Dec. 13-17, 2021
Submission details Authors are invited to prepare papers of 4-6 pages of content and figures, plus up to 2 pages containing only references, to the ASRU 2021 website: www.asru2021.org Organizing Committee General Chair: Elmar Nöth General Co-Chair: Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave Technical Program Chairs: Carlos Busso, Ville Hautamäki, Kate Knill, Helen Meng, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Dayana Ribas, Korbinian Riedhammer, Isabel Trancoso Panel and Invited Speaker Chairs: Sebastian Möller, Odette Scharenborg Challenge, Special Session & Demonstration Chairs: Heidi Christensen, Jesús Francisco Vargas-Bonilla, Juan Camilo Vásquez Correa Finance Chairs: Sofía Aristizabal, Mauricio Correa Publication Chair: Tobias Bocklet Satellite Workshop Chairs: Carlos Ariel Ferrer, Heidi Christensen, María Claudia González Rátiva Publicity Chairs: Julie Mauclair, Daniela Castaño SLTC Liaison: Antonio Texeira International Liaison: Sadaoki Furui, Hynek Hermansky, Aline Villavicencio Sponsorship Chairs: Jimmy Kunzmann, Mathew Magimai Doss, Richard Stern Local Arrangement Chairs: Daniela Castaño, Mauricio Correa, Andrea Peñaloza
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| 3-3-40 | (2021-?-?) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.
- Jun 15, 2020: Training data is released - Sep 21, 2020: Test data is released
- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research AI, USA
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| 3-3-41 | (2022-06-16) LREC 2020, Marseille cancelled (COVID 19) Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, LREC 2020 could unfortunately not be held in Marseille in May 2020 as planned.
The LREC 2020 Programme Committee and the ELRA Board have decided that:
1. the 12th edition of LREC, LREC 2020, will not be postponed and is definitely cancelled.
2. the next LREC will be the 13th edition, LREC 2022, which will take place in Marseille (in Pharo) on June 16-24, 2022.
3. ELRA will organize an event around Language Resources and current challenges on Covid-19 in 2021. Details on format, dates and location will follow.
Looking forward to seeing you,
LREC 2020 Programme Committee & ELRA Board
See the 2020 Proceedings:
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| 3-3-42 | (2023) 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Europe? The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to
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| 3-3-43 | New IARPA and NIST challenge:OpenASR Dear Speech Scientist: IARPA and NIST are pleased to announce a new speech recognition challenge: OpenASR. Registration is still open.
For the registration page, please visit: https://sat.nist.gov/openasr20 Thanks, The OpenASR Team at IARPA and NIST
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