J?ai le plaisir d?annoncer la première édition des Deep Voice Paris, un évènement co-organisé par Sorbonne Université, le Centre d?Intelligence Artificielle de la Sorbonne (SCAI) et l?IRCAM.
Deep Voice est l'événement parisien dédié à la voix et à l'intelligence artificielle dont l'objectif est de réunir l'expertise technique et l'innovation business/entrepreneuriale. Cet événement de 2 jours combinera une présentation keynote, deux ateliers pratiques, une table ronde thématique et des moments de networking afin de favoriser l'échange et la collaboration entre tous les participants.
L?émotion sera à l?honneur de cette première édition, avec :
- 23 juin Keynote - Text-to-Speech neuronal expressif - Thomas Drugman (Amazon) - 24 juin Table ronde - Assistants, emo/co-bots et réalité virtuelle : comment la simulation des émotions va-t-elle modifier notre rapport affectif aux machines et notre immersion dans un monde social artificiel ? Susana Sánchez Restrepo (SoftBank Robotics), Nadia Guerouaou (CHRU Lille), Catherine Pelachaud (Sorbonne Université), Jean-Julien Aucouturier (CNRS), Serge Tisseron (Université de Paris, Académie des technologies) / Nicolas Obin (modérateur)
Le programme complet et les inscriptions sont accessibles ici :
(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/.
?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)
The eighteenth edition of CBMI will be organized by the CRIStAL laboratory at University of Lille, Lille, France from 28 to 30 June 2021 as a fully virtual event.
Topics of interest for the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following: audio and visual and multimedia indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for multimedia indexing, visual content analysis, audio (speech, music, etc.) content analysis and mining, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis.
The CBMI2021 programme this year consists of: ? 3 keynote talks from leading academics and practitioners ? 30 full papers (across seven sessions, including three special sessions) ? 13 posters and demos
Keynotes ? Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy ? Using Memory and Attention for Compatible-garments Outfit Recommendation ? Mohan Kankanhalli, School of Computing, National University of Singapore ? Privacy-aware Analytics for Human Attributes from Images ? Cécile Favre, University of Lyon, France - Diversity and Women in Multimedia
Special sessions ? Bio-inspired circuits, systems and algorithms for multimedia (BICSAM) ? Content-based learning in astrophysics (CoBLA) ? Mining and indexing multimedia data for remote sensing of the environment and our changing planet (Remote Sensing)
CBMI (eighteenth edition) aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following: audio and visual and multimedia indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for multimedia indexing, visual content analysis, audio (speech, music, etc.) content analysis and mining, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis. After successful CBMI editions in Toulouse, London, Dublin, Madrid, Prague? this year the conference will be held in Lille, France. The city is one of the main European scientific, technological and cultural centers. Conference attendees will profit of the highest quality scientific talks, demonstrations and cultural events.
## STUDENT PARTICIPATION: We strongly encourage students to participate in CBMI-21 event and submit their research. With support of ACM SIGMM, CBMI2021 will sponsor several students and prizes will be awarded to the best student poster presentations of CBMI2021.
## SPECIAL SESSIONS: Three hot scientific topics of special sessions: - Bio-inspired circuits, systems and algorithms for multimedia - Content-based learning in astrophysics (CoBLA) - Mining and indexing multimedia data for remote sensing of the environment and our changing planet
(2021-06-28) CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France (Fully virtual)
CBMI 2021 Call for participation
The eighteenth edition of CBMI will be organized by the CRIStAL laboratory at University of Lille, Lille, France from 28 to 30 June 2021 as a fully virtual event.
Topics of interest for the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following: audio and visual and multimedia indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for multimedia indexing, visual content analysis, audio (speech, music, etc.) content analysis and mining, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis.
The CBMI2021 programme this year consists of: ? 3 keynote talks from leading academics and practitioners ? 30 full papers (across seven sessions, including three special sessions) ? 13 posters and demos
Keynotes ? Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy ? Using Memory and Attention for Compatible-garments Outfit Recommendation ? Mohan Kankanhalli, School of Computing, National University of Singapore ? Privacy-aware Analytics for Human Attributes from Images ? Cécile Favre, University of Lyon, France - Diversity and Women in Multimedia
Special sessions ? Bio-inspired circuits, systems and algorithms for multimedia (BICSAM) ? Content-based learning in astrophysics (CoBLA) ? Mining and indexing multimedia data for remote sensing of the environment and our changing planet (Remote Sensing)
(2021-07-01) WEBINAIRE : LA BATTERIE MONPAGE-2.0.S D'ÉVALUATION DE LA PAROLE
*********** WEBINAIRE : LA BATTERIE MONPAGE-2.0.S D?ÉVALUATION DE LA PAROLE ********* L'équipe MonPaGe a le plaisir d'annoncer un premier séminaire gratuit d'introduction à la batterie MonPaGe.
OBJECTIFS: Se familiariser avec la batterie MonPaGe-2.0.s* d?évaluation des troubles moteurs de la parole chez l?adulte (*MonPaGe-2.0.s est téléchargeable depuis le site : lpp.in2p3.fr/monpage/)
CONTENUS: 1. Introduction sur les principes de la conception de MonPaGe 2. Démonstration de la passation et cotation de MonPaGe-2.0
PUBLIC CIBLE: Logopédistes/Logopèdes/Orthophonistes travaillant avec une population adulte Plus largement, chercheurs et étudiants en parole pathologique
ORGANISATION: Equipe MonPaGe (lpp.in2p3.fr/monpage/)
INTERVENANT.E.S: Véronique Delvaux, FNRS & IRSTL, Université de Mons, Belgique Cécile Fougeron, LPP, CNRS-Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, France Marina Laganaro, FPSE, Université de Genève, Suisse Nathalie Lévêque LPP CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris & Hôpital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris Michaela Pernon, LPP CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris & Université de Genève
End-user development (EUD) aims at empowering end users to develop and adapt systems at a level of complexity that is adequate to their expertise, practices, and skills. EUD may occur along the entire software lifecycle, with the purpose of making users able to participate in their artifact development, not only at design time, but also during actual use.
Originally, EUD was conceived as a more general concept than end-user programming; thus, scholars proposed methods, techniques and tools that allow end users to modify or extend software artifacts, such as spreadsheets, web applications, video games, and mobile applications. In the co-called Internet of Things era, end-user development moved on to address the problem of defining and modifying the behavior of smart environments, including smart objects, pervasive displays, smart homes, smart cities, and so on. Therefore, the term 'end-user development' acquired a broader meaning covering approaches, frameworks and socio-technical environments that allow end users to express themselves in crafting digital artifacts that encompass both software and hardware technology.
Recent research and technological trends like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cyber-Security, Robotics, and Industry 4.0, have contributed to renew the vision of end-user development, by providing tools and platforms that allow end users to harness the power of AI to create solutions involving Computer Vision, Image Processing, Conversational User Interfaces, as well as solutions for smart environments. Such developments lower the threshold for creating AI solutions, and expand the programmer base for such solutions, by extending AI application both for professional and discretionary use.
IS-EUD is a bi-annual event for researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to EUD, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Work Interaction Design, and related areas.
IS-EUD 2021 Theme: Democratizing AI Development
The 2021 edition of IS-EUD focuses on EUD for AI-based systems, where end users are called on to become end-user developers of intelligent agents, digital twins, collaborative and social robots. This edition would like to discuss the adoption of EUD in new fields, the proposal of novel EUD paradigms, and the impact of AI-based EUD in terms of user acceptability and appropriation. One of the most interesting topics in human-AI interaction is explainability of AI-based systems: research submissions presenting end- user oriented solutions to this problem will be particularly welcome. Theoretical and empirical work analyzing pros and cons of this new EUD wave, identifying requirements for end-user development of AI and acceptance of related solutions is invited. Software infrastructures and eco- systems supporting the reuse of solutions and the emergence of meta- design practices are of particular interest to this community, linking the challenges relating AI to topics central to the IS-EUD community.
Conference Topics
The conference welcomes contributions that: • describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development • describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor digital artifacts • present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development • develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development
Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: • User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices • Conversational interfaces for end-user development • End-user development for big data visualization and exploration • End-user development for collaborative robotics • End-user development for social robotics • End-user development in Industry 4.0 • End-user development and explainable AI-based systems • Cybersecurity and end-user development • End-user development in daily life • Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development • Empirical studies of end-user development • Recommender systems to support end-user development • Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches • Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies • Evaluation of end-user development technologies • Supporting creative work through end-user development
Submissions
We invite two types of paper submissions: 1. Regular papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field 2. Short papers, up to 8 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field
All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2021, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference.
Workshop proposals are invited (max 6 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half day or one-day long and will be held on July 6, 2021. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to http://ceur-ws.org for online publication.
Submissions of regular papers, short papers and workshop proposals should indicate in the title page 'Regular', 'Short' or 'Workshop' respectively.
Demonstration and Work in Progress papers are also welcomed.
A Demonstration paper (max 6 pages) should be structured according to the following: • Abstract (150 words maximum) • Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community • Detailed description of the planned demonstration activity • Diagrams or screenshots (if relevant) • Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) • References
Work in Progress submissions (max 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions.
Finally, the IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress.
Demonstration, Work in Progress and Doctoral Consortium submissions should indicate in the title page “Demo”, “WiP” or “DC” respectively. Accepted submissions will be included in IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to http://ceur-ws.org for online publication.
(2021-07-06) CfP 18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2021), On line.
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your latest research results (regular or position papers) to the 18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2021), that will be held Online from July 06 to July 08, 2021, until the 21st of May. Please notice this is a hard deadline and will not be extended.
SIGMAP 2021 is an annual conference whose goal is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications, including theory and practice in various heterogeneous and interrelated fields including image, video and audio data processing, new sources of multimodal data (text, social, health, etc.) and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information. Multimedia is a research field that includes computing methods in which different modalities are integrated and combined, with the aim to take advantage from each data source.
The conference will be held in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia and will include in its technical program remarkable distinguished speakers, such as:
Amarnath Gupta, University of California San Diego, United States Henning Schulzrinne, United States Noel O?Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Engineering Index (EI), Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index and a short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a CCIS Series book. All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. Also, a short list of best papers will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science journal.
Kind regards, Mónica Saramago
On behalf of Conference Chair Andrew Sung, University of Southern Mississippi, United States Program Chair Simone Santini, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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):
(2021-07-26) 4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
4th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
DeepLearn 2021 Summer Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain July 26-30, 2021 Co-organized by: Department of Information Engineering Marche Polytechnic University Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA Brussels/London https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/ ****************************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: January 25, 2021 --- ************************************************ SCOPE: DeepLearn 2021 Summer will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova and Warsaw. Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles. ADDRESSED TO: Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2021 Summer is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. VENUE: DeepLearn 2021 Summer will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the Atlantic Ocean, with a mild climate throughout the year, sandy beaches and a renowned carnival. The venue will be: Palacio de Congresos Gran Canaria Institución Ferial de Canarias Avenida de la Feria, 1 35012 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria https://www.infecar.es/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=360&Itemid=896 STRUCTURE: 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), Data, Intelligence and Shortcuts Petia Radeva (University of Barcelona), Uncertainty Modeling and Deep Learning in Food Analysis Indr? ?liobait? (University of Helsinki), Any Hope for Deep Learning in Deep Time? PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (University of the Basque Country), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University), [introductory] Machine Learning Methods for Robust Artificial Intelligence Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Online, Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, and Adaptivity Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning Fundamentals and Their Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal and Feature Extraction, End-to-end Deep Learning, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware Ça?lar Gülçehre (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning Balázs Kégl (Huawei Technologies), [introductory] Deep Model-based Reinforcement Learning Vincent Lepetit (ENPC ParisTech), [intermediate] Deep Learning and 3D Geometry Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing: Introduction and Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning Andy Liaw (Merck Research Labs), [introductory] Machine Learning and Statistics: Better together Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/advanced] Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Lyle John Palmer (University of Adelaide), [introductory/advanced] Epidemiology for Machine Learning Investigators Jan Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt), [intermediate] Robot Learning José C. Príncipe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Björn W. Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Signal Processing Sargur N. Srihari (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Generative Models in Deep Learning Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Kernel Machines Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), [intermediate] Representation Learning in Limited Data Settings René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning Haixun Wang (Instacart), [introductory/intermediate] Abstractions, Concepts, and Machine Learning Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 18, 2021. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 18, 2021. EMPLOYER SESSION: Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 18, 2021. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Moccia (Ancona) Sara Morales (Brussels) Marina Paolanti (Ancona) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) Luca Romeo (Ancona) David Silva (London, co-chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/registration/ The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will get exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time at https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/accommodation/ CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david@irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA, Brussels/London Institución Ferial de Canarias
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.
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.
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
(2021-08-02) Workshop Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions
AREA-II - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ==========================================
Call for Papers
AREA- II will be an online event at the 32nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2021. AREA-II is organized in the second ESSLLI week with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA-II is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop.
AREA II is the follow up on the first AREA meeting at LREC 2018 (http://www.areaworkshop.org/). There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of the AREA II workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas where actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, HRI, human-computer communication, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.
While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ?EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation?), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication.
We invite submissions on foundational, conceptual, and practical issues involving modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
- dynamic models of actions
- formal semantic models of actions
- affordance modeling
- manipulation action modeling
- linking multimodal descriptions and presentations of actions (image, text, icon, video)
- automatic action recognition from text, images, and videos
- communicating and performing actions with robots or avatars for joint tasks
- action language grounding
- evaluation of action models
IMPORTANT DATES
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First CfP: 8 April
Final CfP: 30 April 2021
Extended Deadline for paper submission: May 23, 2021
Review deadline: 16 June 2021
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2021
Deadline for camera-ready version: 11 July 2021
Workshop Date: 2-3 August 2021
SUBMISSION
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Three types of submissions are invited:
- Research papers, describing original research; these can be either long (6-8 pages, not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including references);
- Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (2-4 pages including references);
- Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software, tools, or systems (2-4 pages including references).
We will decide whether to have an oral or poster presentation, depending on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop schedule.
Papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use style templates, which are available as an Overleaf template and can also be downloaded directly (Latex and Word). The templates themselves contain only specific notes (e.g., LaTeX notes in the .tex file). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to *ACL conferences available here. Similar to ACL 2021, initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing.
(2021-08-14) 7th SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series (MiLeTS) 2021 Virtual conference
08-14) 7th SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series (MiLeTS) 2021 Aug 14th, 2021 - KDD Virtual Conference https://kdd-milets.github.io/milets2021/ --------------------------------------------------------------
---------------- KEY DATES ---------------- Paper Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2021, 11:59PM Alofi Time Author Notification: June 10th, 2021 Camera Ready Version: June 24th, 2021 Workshop: August 14th, 2021 -------------------------------------------------
MiLeTS is the premier KDD workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series.
Time series data are ubiquitous. In domains as diverse as finance, entertainment, transportation, and health care, we observe a fundamental shift away from parsimonious, infrequent measurement to nearly continuous monitoring and recording. Rapid advances in diverse sensing technologies, ranging from remote sensors to wearables and social sensing, are generating rapid growth in the size and complexity of time series archives. Thus, although time series analysis has been studied extensively, its importance only continues to grow. What is more, modern time series data pose significant challenges to existing techniques (e.g., irregular sampling in hospital records and spatiotemporal structure in climate data). Finally, time series mining research is challenging and rewarding because it bridges a variety of disciplines and demands interdisciplinary solutions. Now is the time to discuss the next generation of temporal mining algorithms. The focus of MiLeTS workshop is to synergize the research in this area and discuss both new and open problems in time series analysis and mining. The solutions to these problems may be algorithmic, theoretical, statistical, or systems-based in nature. Further, MiLeTS emphasizes applications to high impact or relatively new domains, including but not limited to biology, health and medicine, climate and weather, road traffic, astronomy, and energy.
The MiLeTS workshop will discuss a broad variety of topics related to time series, including: · Time series pattern mining and detection, representation, searching and indexing, classification, clustering, prediction, forecasting, and rule mining. · BIG time series data. · Hardware acceleration techniques using GPUs, FPGAs and special processors. · Online, high-speed learning and mining from streaming time series. · Uncertain time series mining. · Privacy preserving time series mining and learning. · Time series that are multivariate, high-dimensional, heterogeneous, etc., or that possess other atypical properties. · Time series with special structure: spatiotemporal (e.g., wind patterns at different locations), relational (e.g., patients with similar diseases), hierarchical, etc. · Time series with sparse or irregular sampling, non-random missing values, and special types of measurement noise or bias. · Time series analysis using less traditional approaches, such as deep learning and subspace clustering. · Applications to high impact or relatively new time series domains, such as health and medicine, road traffic, and air quality. · New, open, or unsolved problems in time series analysis and mining.
------------------------------ Submission Guidelines ------------------------------ Submissions should follow the SIGKDD formatting requirements and will be evaluated using the SIGKDD Research Track evaluation criteria. Preference will be given to papers that are reproducible, and authors are encouraged to share their data and code publicly whenever possible. Submissions are strongly recommended to be no more than 4 pages, excluding references or supplementary materials (all in a single pdf). The appropriateness of using additional pages over the recommended length will be judged by reviewers. All submissions must be in pdf format using the workshop template (latex, word). Submissions will be managed via the MiLeTS 2021 EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=milets2021.
Note on open problem submissions: To promote new and innovative research on time series, we plan to accept a small number of high-quality manuscripts describing open problems in time series analysis and mining. Such papers should provide a clear, detailed description and analysis of a new or open problem that poses a significant challenge to existing techniques, as well as a thorough empirical investigation demonstrating that current methods are insufficient.
COVID-19 Time Series Analysis Special Track: The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting almost everyone worldwide and is expected to have life-altering short and long-term effects. There are many potential applications of time series analysis and mining that can contribute to the understanding of this pandemic. We encourage the submission of high-quality manuscripts describing original problems, time-series datasets, and novel solutions for time series analysis and forecasting of COVID-19.
The review process is single-round and double-blind (submission files have to be anonymized). Concurrent submissions to other journals and conferences are acceptable. Accepted papers will be presented as posters during the workshop and listed on the website. Besides, a small number of accepted papers will be selected to be presented as contributed talks.
Any questions may be directed to the workshop e-mail address: kdd.milets@gmail.com.
----------------- KEY DATES ----------------- Paper Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2021, 11:59PM Alofi Time Author Notification: June 10th, 2021 Camera Ready Version: June 24th, 2021 Workshop: August 14th, 2021
------------------------------- Organizing Committee ------------------------------- Sanjay Purushotham University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Yaguang Li Google
Zhengping Che Didi Chuxing
-------------------------- Steering Committee -------------------------- Eamonn Keogh University of California Riverside
Yan Liu University of Southern California
Abdullah Mueen University of New Mexico
------------- Contact: -------------- Any questions may be directed to the workshop e-mail address: kdd.milets@gmail.com.
(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 scope
We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers from all areas of signal processing including but not limited to:
Audio and acoustic signal processing
Speech and language processing
Multimedia signal processing
Signal processing theory and methods
Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
Signal processing for communications
Radar and sonar signal processing
Signal processing over graphs and networks
Nonlinear signal processing
Statistical signal processing
Compressed sensing and sparse modelling
Image and video processing
Optimization methods
Machine learning
Bio-medical image and signal processing
Signal processing for computer vision & robotics
Computational imaging/ Spectral imaging
Information forensics and security
Signal processing for power systems
Signal processing for education
Bioinformatics and genomics
Signal processing for big data
Design/implementation of signal processing systems
(2021-08-25) Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop (on line)
Second Call for Papers
*The 10th edition of the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop will be held online on August 25-26, 2021*. It will be followed by *a special day on (dis)fluency in speech and language pathology on August 27, 2021*.
NEW important dates: - April 9, 2021: Submission deadline - May 22, 2021: Notification of acceptance - August 25-27, 2021: Fully virtual workshop
Submissions are encouraged within the following fields: disfluency in spontaneous speech in - psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, - psycholinguistics, - linguistics, conversation analysis, - computational linguistics, speech technology, - gesture analysis, - dialog systems, - pathological speech disfluency, - evolutionary aspects on speech production and perception
(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.
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).
(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):
The Fearless Steps Initiative by UTDallas-CRSS led to the digitization, recovery, and diarization of 19,000 hours of original analog audio data, as well as the development of algorithms to extract meaningful information from this naturalistic data resource. As an initial step to motivate a stream-lined and collaborative effort from the speech and language community, UTDallas-CRSS is hosting a series of progressively complex tasks to promote advanced research on naturalistic “Big Data” corpora. This began with ISCA INTERSPEECH-2019: 'The FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 1 (FSC-P1)'. This first edition of this challenge encouraged the development of core unsupervised/semi-supervised speech and language systems for single-channel data with low resource availability, serving as the “First Step” towards extracting high-level information from such massive unlabeled corpora. This was followed with ISCA INTERSPEECH-2020 which held the Special Session for FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 2 (FSC-P2), which focused on developing supervised learning strategies for the 100 hour Challenge Corpus.
As a natural progression following the successful Inaugural Challenge FSC-P1 and FEARLESS STEPS Challenge FSC-P2, the FEARLESS STEPS Challenge: Phase 3 (FSC-P3) focuses on development of single-channel supervised learning strategies with an aim to test system generalizability to varying channel and mission data. FSC-P3 also provides an additional challenge task of Conversational Analysis, motivating researchers to work on natural language understanding and group dynamics analysis. FSC-P3 provides 80 hours of ground-truth data through Training and Development sets, with 20 hours of blind-set Apollo-11 evaluation data, 5 hours of unseen channel evaluation data and an additional 5 hours of blind-set Apollo-13 mission evaluation data. Based on feedback from the Fearless Steps participants, additional Tracks for streamlined speech recognition, speaker diarization, and conversational analysis have been included in the FS#3. The results for this Challenge will be presented at the ISCA INTERSPEECH-2021 Special Session. We encourage participants to explore any and all research tasks of interest with the Fearless Steps Corpus – with suggested Task Domains listed below. Research participants can however, also utilize the FSC-P3 corpus to explore additional problems dealing with naturalistic data, which we welcome as part of the special session.
Challenge Tasks in Fearless Steps Phase 3 (FSC-P3):
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!
(2021-09-04) First Shared Task on Automatic Minuting***AutoMin @ Interspeech 2021***
***First Shared Task on Automatic Minuting***
***AutoMin @ Interspeech 2021***
When most of our interactions went virtual, the need for automatic support for the smooth running of the online events such as project meetings became more intense. Summarizing meeting contents is one of them. We propose AutoMin, the First Shared Task on Automatic Minuting of meeting proceedings. With this shared task, we would invite the speech and natural language processing community to investigate the challenges of automatic minuting with real meeting data in two different settings: technical project meetings (both in English and Czech) and parliamentary proceedings (English). AutoMin is an ISCA-sponsored Interspeech 2021 satellite event. AutoMin 2021 will be a full-virtual event.
We propose one main task and two subsidiary tasks. The subsidiary tasks are optional.
Main Task A: The main task consists of automatically creating minutes from multiparty meeting transcripts. The generated minute would be evaluated both via automatic and manual metrics.
Task B: Given a pair of meeting transcripts and minutes, the task is to identify whether the minutes belong to the transcript. During our data preparation from meetings on similar topics, we found that this task could be challenging given the similarity in various named entities.
Task C: Given a pair of minutes, the task is to identify whether the two minutes belong to the same or different meetings. This sub-task is important as we want to uncover how minutes created by two different persons for the same meeting may differ in content and coverage.
***Registration***
All participants should register using the following link:
Please send the signed data usage form to Tirthankar Ghosal at <ghosal@ufal.mff.cuni.cz> along with your Github id/email id to get access to the training data(mandatory)
***Important Dates***
Registration and CfP
May 08, 2021
Training and Dev Set Data Available
May 15, 2021
Test Data Available
June 15, 2021
System Run and Report Submission
July 15, 2021
Result Announcement
August 15, 2021
Camera Ready Submission
August 25, 2021
Event Date
September 4, 2021
Invited Paper submission to Information Journal
TBA
***Publication***
All teams are required to submit a brief technical report describing their method. Please submit using the Interspeech 2021 paper template (https://www.interspeech2021.org/author-resources). All reports must be a minimum of 2 pages and a maximum of 4 pages excluding references. Reports must be written in English. The proceedings will be hosted at the ISCA archive.
Selected authors would be additionally invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of the Information Journal by MDPI (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information).
***Organizers***
Tirthankar Ghosal, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic
Muskaan Singh, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic
Anja Nedoluzhko, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic
Ond?ej Bojar, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic
In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, unrelated corpora on the other.
Comparable corpora have been used in a range of applications, including Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Cross-lingual text classification, etc. The linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP, for example to extract parallel corpora from comparable corpora for neural MT. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.
TOPICS
This year our special topic is 'Neural Networks in Comparable Corpora Research'. But we solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel) corpora, including but not limited to the following:
Building Comparable Corpora:
* Automatic and semi-automatic methods * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora * Rare and minority languages, across language families * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora
Applications of comparable corpora:
* Human translation * Language learning * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization * Bilingual and multilingual projections * Machine translation * Writing assistance * Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora
Mining from Comparable Corpora:
* Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and pre-trained multilingual transformer models * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora * Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide for low-resource languages in neural machine translation) * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, and named entities from comparable corpora * Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora * Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora
IMPORTANT DATES
July 5, 2021: Paper submission deadline July 31, 2021: Notification of acceptance August 31, 2021: Camera ready final papers September 6, 2021: Workshop date
The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology.
The link for participation in the online workshop will be communicated to registered participants in due time.
Workshop fees are 45 Euros for presenters (30 Euros for student presenters) and 15 Euros for non-presenters. For further details see https://ranlp.org/ranlp2021/fees.php
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please follow the style sheet and templates provided for the main conference at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2021/submissions.php Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference manager at https://www.softconf.com/ranlp2021/BUCC2021/ Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages plus unlimited references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be included in the ACL Anthology.
Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop organizers by e-mail.
In case of questions, please contact Reinhard Rapp: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
* Reinhard Rapp (Athena R.C.; Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences; University of Mainz, Germany), chair and contact person: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) * Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
* Ahmet Aker (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) * Ebrahim Ansari (Institue for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) * Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain) * Hitoshi Isahara (Otemon Gakuin University, Japan) * Kyo Kageura (The University of Tokyo, Japan) * Natalie Kübler (CLILLAC-ARP, Université de Paris, France) * Philippe Langlais (Univerité de Montréal, Canada) * Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan) * Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France) * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (RWS, USA) * Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany) * Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France) * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, USA) * Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Belgium) * Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France)
(2021-09-06) 24th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2021), Olomouc, Czech Republic
TSD 2021 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************
The twenty-fourth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2021) Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 06-09, 2021 http://www.tsdconference.org
IMPORTANT
Deadline for submission is approaching fast (April 18, 2021) and it is not going to be postponed.
We work on a very tight schedule. However, if you absolutely need a few extra days, please submit an abstract, make a clear note of when you submit the final version, and submit it as a common document.
CALL FOR SATELLITE WORKSHOP AND DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS
The TSD 2021 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support from the TSD organizing committee. The workshops and demonstrations will take place in physical and/or virtual form, depending on the situation with COVID-19.
Please, see the separate call for Workshops and Demonstrations.
As the situation in September 2021 cannot be easily predicted, the TSD 2021 organizing committee is ready to organize a virtual conference, if necessary.
* PC members have good experience with it since TSD 2020, * A virtual conference would mean significantly decreased conference fees. * If the majority of participants could travel to the Czech Republic, the onsite mode of the conference is preferred. For others, there would be special virtual sessions. Organizers will record all the sessions.
All measures have been taken to ensure that the organization of the TSD 2021 conference in September 2021 is not threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
TSD HIGHLIGHTS
* Keynote speakers:
Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo, Canada) Kate Knill (University of Cambridge, UK) Lucie Flek (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany) Ivan Vulic (University of Cambridge, UK)
* The TSD 2021 conference is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2021 satellite event. * The TSD 2021 conference is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). It holds the status of an ISCA Supported Event. * The TSD book of proceedings is traditionally published by Springer and regularly listed in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc. * TSD offers a high-standard transparent review process - double blind, final reviewers' discussion. * TSD 2021 is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech Republic. * The conference is organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts, Palacky university, Olomouc. * TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all meals, social events, etc.) for an easily affordable fee.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 18, 2021 ........... Deadline for submission of contributions May 21, 2021 ............. Notification of acceptance or rejection May 31, 2021 ............. Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers
September 06-09, 2021 .... TSD 2021 conference time
TSD 2021 is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech Republic. Thus, it is nicely colocated with Interspeech 2021 which is going to be held in Brno, Czech Republic, a week earlier (August 30 - September 3, 2021). Olomouc is only 77 km (48 mi) away from Brno (30-45 min by car, 1 hour by public transport).
TSD SERIES
The TSD series has evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.
The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in the form of navigable content. Printed books will be available for an extra fee.
TOPICS
Topics of the 24th conference will include (but are not limited to):
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modeling).
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries).
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing).
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution).
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection).
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies).
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues).
Multimodal Techniques and Modeling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modeling, emotion and personality modeling).
The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
LOCATION
Olomouc is a beautiful place on the Morava river with more than a thousand-year-long history. Once a capital of Moravia - one of the three historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown - nowadays, it still somehow waits to be rediscovered. The world-renowned tourist guide Lonely Planet alerted to this fact by putting Olomouc onto the list of TOP 10 tourist destinations not to be missed during a visit to Europe. It even claimed Olomouc is one of the most unappreciated destinations in the Czech Republic.
By its beauty, Olomouc can, however, easily compete with not only Prague but any other most sought spots around Europe. It certainly deserves our attention.
One can find there the second most important urban conservation zone in the Czech Republic, surrounded by splendorous parks, an incredible concentration of ecclesiastical structures, UNESCO-protected monuments, and even a horolog with a history maybe more interesting than the Prague one. All together safe from the neverending bustle of large cities.
The most important monument in Olomouc is the Holy Trinity Column standing in the central square. It represents the largest group of Baroque statues in one structure in Central Europe. Apart from many historical buildings such as Olomouc castle with the gothic cathedral of St. Wenceslas or the former Olomouc fortress, another interesting point about Olomouc is the astronomical clock, designed in the spirit of Socialist Realism.
The city of Olomouc has a convenient location close to the geographic centre of Moravia (a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic), on the banks of the river Morava. The place forms an important highway and railroad junction; thus, it is easily accessible using both individual and public means of transport.
Olomouc lies 260 km (162 mi) eastwards from the Czech capital Prague, and 210 km (130 mi) from both the Slovakian capital Bratislava and the Austrian capital Vienna. The closest international airports are 77 km (48 mi) away in Brno, and 202 km (126 mi) away in Katowice in Poland.
We are very excited about the fact that the TSD 2021 is going to take place in such a fabulous, unique city rich in history as Olomouc.
ABOUT CONFERENCE
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen; the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno; and the Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc.
(2021-09-06) TSD 2021 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND DEMONSTRATIONS, Olomouc, Czech Republic
************************************************************************** TSD 2021 - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND DEMONSTRATIONS **************************************************************************
The twenty-fourth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2021) Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 06-09, 2021 http://www.tsdconference.org
INTRODUCTION
The TSD 2021 Organizing Committee invites you to submit proposals for workshops and demonstrations using forms given below.
The TSD 2021 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops and demonstrations on topics related to the general theme of the conference with organizational support from the TSD organizing committee.
WORKSHOPS
The role of workshops is to provide a setting for focused, intensive scientific exchange among researchers and engineers interested in a specific topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas as well as for the discussion of novel aspects of established research topics. Recommended workshop length is half day or full day.
DEMONSTRATIONS
The role of demonstrations is to provide an extensive amplification of papers presented at the TSD or stand-alone demonstrations of software or hardware. Demonstrations offer an opportunity to showcase not only a novel technology (software & hardware) but also interactive applications of learning algorithms, dialog and conversational AIs, learning from demonstration, real-time visualization of learning models etc.
Interaction with the audience during the demonstration is a critical element. Therefore, the creativity of demonstrators to propose new ways in which interaction and engagement can fully leverage this year's conference will be particularly relevant for the selection. Recommended length of a demonstration is 15 minutes up to an hour.
TOPICS
The TSD organizing committee requires proposals for workshops and demonstrations on research topics of interest to TSD 2021 attendees. For more information regarding the conference topics please visit the conference website here.
FORMAT
The workshops and demonstrations will take place in physical and/or virtual form, depending on the situation with COVID-19.
We do hope to be able to have a physical conference. Nevertheless, we can confirm that, in any scenario, TSD 2021 will provide the opportunity to participate virtually and with a reduced registration pricing that factors out local costs (e.g. coffee breaks, lunches, social events). This applies also for workshops and demonstrations.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 18, 2021 ........... Deadline for workshop proposals May 31, 2021 ............. Deadline for demonstration proposals
September 06-09, 2021 .... TSD 2021 conference time
Earlier proposal submission is highly preferred for the workshop propagation to be included in the conference Call for Papers and on the conference website.
WORKSHOP AND DEMONSTRATION FEES
TSD 2021 does not offer separate workshop and demonstration fees. All participants are expected to register at the main conference. All main conference participants can attend an open workshop. However workshop organizers can set a separate fee..
For more information regarding the conference fees visit the conference website here.
SUBMISSION
Workshop and demonstration proposals can be sent via the submission form here.
ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA
Each workshop and demonstration proposal will be evaluated according to the relevance of its topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop's potential for attracting participants and generating useful results.
At least one author of each accepted proposal must register and attend TSD 2021 in order for the workshop to be accepted and the summary of the workshop published.
SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION
All proposal submissions will be subject to review by the TSD organising committee. After the notification of acceptance, the submitters will be contacted for the practical details. In order to include the selected submissions to the conference a full registration of the submitter is recommended before the deadline for submission of contributions to the conference, i.e. April 18, 2021.
(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
Entity Recognition and Disambiguation
Relation Extraction
Analysis of Opinions, Emotions and Sentiments
Text Clustering and Classification
Machine Translation
Summarization
Word Sense Disambiguation
Co-Reference Resolution
Language Modeling
Syntax and Parsing
Distributional Models and Semantics
Multi-Word Units
Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
Spatio-Temporal Text Mining
Entailment and Paraphrases
Natural Language Generation
Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage
Cross-Lingual Approaches
Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining
Applications:
Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems
Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting
Web Content Annotation
Computational Social Science
Computational Journalism
Health and Well-being
Big Data Analysis
[3] Important dates
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 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
(2021-09-08) IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021), Tokyo, Japan (Rescheduled)
IEEE MIPR 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021)
Rescheduled September 8-10 Tokyo, Japan. https://mipr2021.org/ Sponsored by IEEE TCMC. Supported by IEICE, IPSJ, ITE. ============================================================
Huge amounts of multimedia data are increasingly available and the knowledge of spatial and/or temporal phenomena becomes critical for many applications, which requires techniques for the processing, analysis, search, mining, and management of multimedia data. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2021) will take place in Tokyo, Japan on September 8-10, 2021. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to become acquainted with new theories and technologies in multimedia information processing and retrieval. MIPR 2021 is now inviting submissions of regular research papers, demo papers, workshop proposals, special session proposals, and tutorial proposals. Please refer to the detail of each category in the following.
============================================================ *HISTORY & ACCEPTANCE RATE* ============================================================ - IEEE 3rd MIPR 2020 @ Shenzhen: 19.5% (Acceptance Rate) - IEEE 2nd MIPR 2019 @ San Jose: 19.5% (Acceptance Rate) - IEEE 1st MIPR 2018 @ Miami : 19.5% (Acceptance Rate) - 12 years of MIPR (workshop) in conjunction with IEEE ISM.
============================================================ *Call for Regular Papers* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 will take place in Tokyo, Japan on Sep 8-10, 2021. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval.
**Topics** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Multimedia Retrieval - Multimedia Search and Recommendation - Web-Scale Retrieval - Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning - 3D and sensor data retrieval - Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval - High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features
* Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining - Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and / or Multimodal Fusion - Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection - High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures) - Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
* Content Understanding and Analytics - Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis - Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration - Affective and Perceptual Multimedia - Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans
* Multimedia and Vision - Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality - Visual Concept Detection - Object Detection and Tracking - 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications
* Networks for Multimedia Systems - Internet Scale System Design - Information Coding for Content Delivery
* Systems and Infrastructures - Multimedia Systems and Middleware - Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics - Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing
* Data Management - Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage - Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy - Standards and Policies for Data Management
* Novel Applications - Multimedia applications for health and sports - Multimedia applications for culture and education - Multimedia applications for fashion and living - Multimedia applications for security and safety
*Internet of Multimedia Things - Real-Time Data Processing - Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones - Mobile and Wearable Multimedia
and others.
**Paper Submission** The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages plus reference pages). Authors are encouraged to compare their approaches, qualitatively or quantitatively, with existing work and explain the strength and weakness of the new approaches. We are planning to invite selected submissions to journal special issues.
**Important Dates** - Paper submission deadline: October 2, 2020 - Notification of acceptance: December 18, 2020 - Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021
============================================================ *Call for Demo Papers* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 organizing committee invites proposals for technical demonstrations to be presented in conjunction with the conference. Technical Demonstrations will show leading edge work in any area of multimedia information retrieval. Demonstrations offer the opportunity to present and receive feedback on live working systems in an informal setting. Submissions are particularly encouraged in the following areas with emphasis on multimedia information retrieval, but not limited to:
### Multimedia information Retrieval * Multimedia Search and Recommendation * Web-Scale Retrieval * Relevance Feedback * Active/Transfer Learning * 3D and Sensor Data Retrieval * Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval * High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features * Summarization * Personalized Retrieval * Browsing History * Fuzzy Retrieval * Accuracy Measures for Retrieval
### Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining in Multimedia * Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and/or Multimodal Fusion * Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection * High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures) * Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
### Content Understanding and Analytics in Multimedia * Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis * Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration * Affective and Perceptual Multimedia * Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans * Bias and Fairness in Multimedia Analysis
### Multimedia and Vision * Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality * Visual Concept Detection * Object Detection and Tracking * 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications
### Multimedia Information Systems and Infrastructures * User Interface * Query-By-Retrieval Methods * Retrieval Paradigms * Novel Interfaces for Retrieval * Multimedia Systems and Middleware * Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality * Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics * Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing * GPU-based Retrieval
### Multimedia Data Management * Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage * Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy * Standards and Policies for Data Management * Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Retrieval
### Novel Applications in Multimedia * Multimedia Forensics and Security * Urban planning and emergency responses * Environmental monitoring * Education (using Multimedia for Education or Education about Multimedia) * Social Networks (multimedia content) * Multimedia Information Retrieval from Scientific Databases * Multimedia for Healthcare and Medicine
### Internet of Multimedia Things * Real-Time Data Processing * Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones * Mobile and Wearable Multimedia
The written and spoken language of IEEE MIPR 2021 is English. For technical demonstrations, authors should submit:
* a 4-page manuscript in double-column IEEE format including the authors’ names and affiliations, following the submission guidelines available on the IEEE MIPR 2021 web page * a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the IEEE MIPR 2021 web page * a presentation/video, which can be a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, a Flash presentation, an MPEG/WMV video clip, or a link on for the corresponding presentation on Social Media (e.g., vimeo, YouTube) not more than five minutes long.
Please create a single zip archive of all files, and upload it to the paper submission system. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. All technical demonstration papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online access via IEEEXplore.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Demonstrators will be provided with space and access to a local network, however, demos should not rely on Internet access. The participants will be required to provide their own computing equipment and any additional network, display, or other specific hardware needed for the demonstration.
**Important Dates**
* Paper submission deadline: November 6, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: December 25, 2020 * Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021
============================================================ *Call for Tutorials* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 invites proposals for tutorials to be held on March 22 or March 24, 2021 (tentative date). We welcome 1.5 hours or 3 hours tutorial. Each tutorial is expected to focus on a significant research topic and/or application of multimedia information processing and retrieval.
Proposals should be submitted in single PDF file by email to Tutorial Chairs via [tutorial@mipr2021.org], and must include the following information:
* Title of the Tutorial * Names, titles, affiliations, and primary contact email of the Tutorial Organizers/Speakers * Preference for 1.5 hour or 3h event * 300-word Abstract (for publicity purposes) * Full description of the Tutorial including topics covered by the Tutorial and a brief description and detail of each topic * CV’s for Organizers/Speakers including relevant publications and list of tutorials given in past conferences or workshops (if any) * Planned materials to be distributed to attendees (if any)
Each proposal will be evaluated by Tutorial Chairs based on their estimated benefit to the community. Specific factors to be considered include relevance, timeliness, importance, experience, and the Organizers’/Speakers’ qualifications.
IEEE MIPR 2021 local arrangements will provide for rooms and necessary equipment needed for the tutorial session (microphones, video projector, and screen). Each tutorial speaker will need to cover her/his registration.
**Important Dates**
* Proposal deadline: November 6, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: November 13, 2020 * Camera-ready (1-page abstract of the Tutorial) deadline: January 8, 2021
============================================================ *Call for Workshop Proposals* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 invites proposals for half- or full-day workshops to be held during the conference. Workshops are expected to focus on new research directions and novel applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval.
Workshop proposals should be submitted in plain text or PDF, by e-mail to Workshop Chairs via [workshop@mipr2021.org], and must include the following elements:
* Title and its acronym * Duration (full-day or half-day) * Description of the workshop topic * A draft CFP (not exceeding 500 words) * Short description of how the organizers plan to attract quality submissions * Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any) * Information on past editions (if any) * Short biographies of the organizers * Contact information of the organizers (including names, affiliations, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses)
After a workshop proposal is accepted, the organizers should create a Web page for the workshop and notify the workshop chairs of its URL. The main conference web site will provide a link to each workshop.
**Important Dates**
* Workshop proposal deadline: September 4, 2020 * Workshop proposal notification: September 11, 2020 * Paper submission deadline: November 6, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: December 25, 2020 * Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021
============================================================ *Call for Special Session Proposals* ============================================================
IEEE MIPR 2021 will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021 [https://mipr2021.org]. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. At this time, we invite you to propose special sessions for MIPR 2021. Special sessions supplement the regular program for MIPR 2021. They provide new and emerging topics in the fields of multimedia information processing and retrieval. Each special session should provide an overview of the state-of-the-art and highlight important research directions in a field of special interest to MIPR participants. Each Special Session should be a focused effort rather than defined broadly.
Each special session should consist of about 5 oral papers with authors from at least three independent institutions. The session organizers will be responsible for the selection of these papers. Special session papers can be invited or submitted. They will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of MIPR 2021.
* Title of the special session * Session abstract (approximately 100 words), with stating the importance of the topic and the rationale for the session * Names and affiliations of the organizers (including brief bios and contact information) * List of potential authors committed to submit paper (including a tentative title and a 300-word abstract for each paper)
Once the proposal has been approved, it is the duty of the organizers to publicize their special session among researchers and practitioners in each session field. The organizers will organize the review process as below.
1. Establish an independent program committee for your Special Session (SS-PC). 2. Assign 3 reviewers through SS-PC to each submitted paper. 3. Arrange a draft of peer-reviewed result for each paper, and suggest it to the program co-chairs and special session co-chairs (the final judgment is achieved by program co-chairs).
If a proposal is not accepted, potential papers in that proposal can still be submitted to regular track. If a significant number of the papers are rejected after peer-review for an approved Special Session, this Special Session may be cancelled or merged to other sessions.
Those who are interested in organizing a special session should submit a proposal with the above requirements by email to the Special Session co-chairs [special-session-chairs@mipr2021.org], and all the papers in the special sessions should follow the same style as the regular MIPR 2021 papers.
**Important Dates**
* Proposal deadline: September 4, 2020 * Proposal notification: September 11, 2020 * Paper deadline: November 6, 2020 * Notification: December 25, 2020 * Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021
Honorary Co-Chairs: Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
General Co-Chairs: Benoit Huet, Median Technologies, France Jianquan Liu, NEC Corporation, Japan Keiji Yanai, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Program Co-Chairs: Naoko Nitta, Osaka University, Japan Shuqiang Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Special Session Co-Chairs: Kyoung-Sook Kim, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China Tomoko Kajiyama, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Workshop Co-Chairs: Jiaying Liu, Peking University, China Masakazu Iwamura, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Pradeep K. Atrey, University at Albany, SUNY, USA
Tutorial Co-Chairs: Chengcui Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Go Irie, NTT, Japan Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zheng Wang, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Demo Co-Chairs: Hideki Nakayama, The University of Tokyo, Japan Qiang Ma, Kyoto University, Japan Ramazan Savas Aygun, Kennesaw State University, USA
Poster Co-Chairs: Terumi Umematsu, NEC Corporation, Japan Yoko Yamakata, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Award Committee Co-Chairs: Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sponsorship & Industry Co-Chairs: Atsushi Keyaki, Denso IT Labs, Japan Guan-Ming Su, Dolby Labs, USA Min Luo, EY Advanced Technology Tax Lab, Japan Yoji Kiyota, LIFULL Co., Ltd., Japan Yongqing Sun, NTT, Japan Yusuke Uchida, Mobility Technologies Co., Ltd., Japan
Publicity Co-Chairs: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Irland Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan Kien A. Hua, University of Central Florida, USA Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada Makoto Onizuka, Osaka University, Japan Min Chen, University of Washington Bothell, USA Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Wen-Huang Cheng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Xueting Wang, The University of Tokyo, Japan Yusuke Matsui, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Publication Co-Chairs: Atsushi Hashimoto, OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Japan Masato Shirai, Shimane University, Japan
Finance Co-Chairs: Shigeyuki Sakazawa, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Wei-Bang Chen, Virginia State University, USA
Registration Co-Chairs: Nakamasa Inoue, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Yuyang Dong, NEC Corporation, Japan
Web & SNS Co-Chairs: Takahiro Komamizu (Web), Nagoya University, Japan Yuanyuan Wang (SNS), Yamaguchi University, Japan
Due to the COVID pandemic in the world, SPECOM-2021 conference with satellite events may be partially or fully organized as a teleconference via Zoom service within the announced dates. In the case of a teleconference, essentially reduced registration fees are provided for authors, as well as a free registration for participants. The proceedings will be prepared in time and published by Springer in LNCS/LNAI book series, the on-line proceedings will be available before the conference start.
EXTENDED DEADLINES (!)
June 14, 2021 .......... Submission of full papers (final date)
July 14, 2021 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection
July 25, 2021 ........... Camera-ready papers
July 30, 2021 ........... Early registration
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Junichi YAMAGISHI, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan – Automatic detection of generated voices and faces – ASVspoof and deepfake detection.
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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:
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.
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
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!
(2021-10-18) Call for ICMI 2021 Long and Short Papers (updated)
Call for ICMI 2021 Long and Short Papers
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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.
Updated ICMI'21 timeline: June 2 (Extended) Final paper submission deadline June 3-5 SPCs bidding period June 5-10 Reviewer assignment period July 7 Review completion deadline July 7-12 Rebuttal period July 13-18 Reviewer discussion July 21 Meta-review deadline July 26 Authors' notification
Camera-ready paper: August 16, 2021
Presenting at main conference: October 18-22, 2021
(2021-10-18) Cf Workshops International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021), Montreal, Canada
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The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021) will be held in in Montreal, Canada, October 18-22nd, 2021. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models and applications. Examples of recent workshops include:
- Media Analytics for Societal Trends - Neuromanagement and Intelligent Computing - Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction - Multimodal e-Coaches - Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology - Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data - Human-Habitat for Health - Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction - Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents - Child Computer Interaction - Insights on Group & Team Dynamics - Multimodal Interaction for Education
We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.).
The content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings.
Submission
Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Akane Sano and Emily Mower Provost (icmi2021-workshop-chairs@acm.org) The proposal should include the following:
- Workshop title - List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies - Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact - Tentative list of keynote speakers - Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program - Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation - Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.) - Paper submission and acceptance deadlines - Special space and equipment requests, if any
Important Dates: Workshop proposal submission: Monday, February 8, 2021 Notification of acceptance: Monday, February 22, 2021 Workshop papers due: End of July, 2021 (suggested) Workshop Date: October 18-22, 2021
ACM Multimedia is the premier international conference in multimedia. It covers multiple emerging fields focusing on advancing the research and applications of many media, including but not limited to images, text, audio, speech, music, sensor and social data. It strongly encourages a complete and integrated approach to exchange, process and utilize information across modalities, as well as all cutting-edge research on each medium with potential of great positive impacts on everyday lives and technological breakthroughs. While the community has a tradition of developing and innovating AI and system approaches to handle big data and improve users? experiences on engaging and interacting with multimedia, it is also uniquely angled towards novel applications and urgent industrial challenges. As such the conference openly embraces new intellectual perspectives from both industry and academia, and welcomes submissions from related fields, such as artificial intelligence, vision and languages, data sciences, HCI and multimedia signal processing, as well as healthcare, education and beyond. We invite the submissions in four major themes of multimedia.
Engaging Users with Multimedia Emotional and social signals Multimedia search and recommendations Summarization, analysis and storytelling
Experience Interactions and quality of experiences Art and culture Multimedia applications
Multimedia Systems Systems and middleware Transport and delivery Data systems management and indexing
Understanding Multimedia Content Multimodal fusion and embedding Vision and language Media interpretation
2. Highlights of ACM Multimedia 2020
Scientific Diversity: It is among our top priorities to ensure a top-quality conference that covers a full diversity of all fields of multimedia research including a variety of media modalities by addressing both technological and practical challenges.
Value: We strive to select the most innovative and the highest-quality research aiming at the most impactful novelty on individual media and/or from a systematic perspective of innovating and integrating multiple components across modalities.
Sharing: We value the sharing of not only knowledge (in the form of papers, presentations and demos) but also the code and open-source software. While we will continue the implementation of the ACM Artifact Review and Badging, best efforts will be made on sharing and preserving the open-source code and systems resulting from the published papers.
3. Location
The conference will be held in Chengdu, the capital city of the Sichuan Province in China.
4. Important Dates
Reproducibility Companion Paper - 7 Feb 2021
Workshop Proposals Submission - 20 Feb 2021
Grand Challenge Proposal Submission - 10 Jan 2021
Grand Challenge Proposal Notification - 31 Jan 2021
Technical Demo and Video Program Submission - 15 Jun 2021
Regular Papers Notification - 3 Jul 2021
Grand Challenge Solutions Submission - 11 Jul 2021
Workshop Papers Submission - TBD
5. Organizing Committee
Honorary Chairs:
Yunhe Pan, Zhejiang University, China Qionghai Dai, Tsinghua University, China
General Chairs:
Heng Tao Shen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China John R. Smith, IBM, USA
Technical Program Committee Chairs:
Yang Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Pablo Cesar, CWI & TU Delft, Netherland Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Panel Chairs:
Xian-Sheng Hua, Alibaba Cloud, China Fei Wu, Zhejiang University, China Stevan Rudinac, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Xiaochun Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Tutorials Chairs:
Changsheng Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Dong Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland
Workshop Chairs:
Meng Wang, Hefei University of Technology, China Peng Wang, The University of Wollongong, Australia Piotr Koniusz, Data61/CSIRO & Australian National University, Australia Lianli Gao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Brave New Idea Track Chairs:
Chang Wen Chen, University at Baffalo, USA Zi Huang, The University of Queensland, Australia Qin Jin, Renmin University of China, China
Multimedia Grand Challenge Chairs:
Xirong Li, Remin University, China Lixin Duan, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Lu Fang, Tsinghua University, China David Brady, University of Arizona, USA
Open Source Software Chairs:
Jingdong Wang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan Qi Dai, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Technical Demo Chairs:
Jingkuan Song, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Richang Hong, Hefei University of Technology, China
Video Program Chairs:
Jitao Sang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Rainer Lienhart, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Interactive Arts Chairs:
Klaus Schöffmann, Klagenfurt University, Austria Ning Xie, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Local Organization Chairs:
Yimin Zhou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Xing Xu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Sponsor Chairs:
Tao Mei, Jingdong, China Qi Tian, Huawei, China
Web and Social Media Chairs:
Benoit Huet, Eurecom, France Xiao Wu, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Publicity Chairs:
Ann Morrison, Aalborg University, Denmark Jinhui Tang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Finance Chairs:
Yanli Ji, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Tatsuya Harada, The University of Tokyo, Japan
History Preservation Chair:
Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reproducibility Companion Chairs:
Michael Alexander Riegler, SimulaMet, Norway Naoko Nitta, Osaka University, Japan
Doctoral Symposium Chairs:
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore Bing Zeng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Travel Grant Chairs:
Fumin Shen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Huimin Lu, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Industry Track Chairs:
Changhu Wang, ByteDance AI Lab, China Dong Yu, Tencent AI Lab, China Rongrong Ji, Xiamen University, China Jianlong Fu, Microsoft Research Asia, China Rita Cucchiara, UNIMORE (tentative)
Proceedings Chairs:
Liqiang Nie, Shandong University, China Hanwang Zhang, Nanyang University of Technology, Singapore Peng Cui, Tsinghua University, China
Best Paper Committee Chair:
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Registration Chairs:
Wen Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University, China
(2021-10-25) IEEE Workshop L3DAS21 Machine Learnng for 3D Audio Signal Processing, Gold Coast, Australia
IEEE MLSP Data Challenge 2021
L3DAS21 Machine Learning for 3D Audio Signal Processing
Scope of the Challenge
The L3DAS21 Challenge for the IEEE MLSP 2021 aims at encouraging and fostering research on machine learning for 3D audio signal processing. In multi-speaker scenarios it is very important to properly understand the nature of a sound event and its position within the environment, what is the content of the sound signal and how to leverage it at best for a specific application (e.g., teleconferencing rather than assistive listening or entertainment, among others). To this end, L3DAS21 Challenge presents two tasks: 3D Speech Enhancement and 3D Sound Event Localization and Detection, both relying on first-order Ambisonics recordings in reverberant office environment.
Each task involves 2 separate tracks: 1-mic and 2-mic recordings, respectively containing sounds acquired by one Ambisonics microphone and by an array of two Ambisonics microphones. The use of two first-order Ambisonics microphones definitely represents one of the main novelties of the L3DAS21 Challenge.
Task 1: 3D Speech Enhancement
The objective of this task is the enhancement of speech signals immersed in the spatial sound field of a reverberant office environment. Here the models are expected to extract the monophonic voice signal from the 3D mixture containing various background noises.The evaluation metric for this task is the sum of the short-time objective intelligibility (STOI) and word error rate (WER).
Task 2: 3D Sound Event Localization and Detection
The aim of this task is to detect the temporal activities of a known set of sound event classes and, in particular, to further locate them in the space.Here the models must predict a list of the active sound events and their respective location at regular intervals of 100 milliseconds. Performance on this task is evaluated according to the location-sensitive detection error, which joins the localization and detection errors.
Besides submitting papers related to L3DAS21 Challenge, authors are encouraged to submit to this special session also papers related to the topic of machine learning for 3D audio signal processing.
Timeline
27 Mar 2021 ? Release of the training and development sets
10 May 2021 ? Release of the evaluation test set
20 May 2021 ? Deadline for submitting results for both tasks
25 Oct 2021 ? Opening of the IEEE Workshop on MLSP 2021
November 10-11 , 2021 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Language domains that require very careful use of terminology are abundant. The need to adequately translate within such domains is undeniable, as shown by e.g. the different WMT shared tasks on biomedical translation.
More interestingly, as the abundance of research on domain adaptation shows, such language domains are (a) not adequately covered by existing data and models, while (b) new (or ?surge?) domains arise and models need to be adapted, often with significant downstream implications: consider the new COVID-19 domain and the large efforts for translation of critical information regarding pandemic handling and infection prevention strategies.
In the case of newly developed domains, while parallel data are hard to come by, it is fairly straightforward to create word- or phrase-level terminologies, which can be used to guide professional translators and ensure both accuracy and consistency.
This shared task will replicate such a scenario, and invites participants to explore methods to incorporate terminologies into either the training or the inference process, in order to improve both the accuracy and consistency of MT systems on a new domain.
IMPORTANT DATES
Release of training data and terminologies
April 2021
Surprise languages announced:
June 28, 2021
Test set available
July 19, 2021
Submission of translations
July 23, 2021
System descriptions due
August 5, 2021
Camera-ready for system descriptions
September 15, 2021
Conference in Punta Cana
November 10-11, 2021
SETTINGS
In this shared task, we will distinguish submissions that use the terminology only at inference time (e.g., for constrained decoding or something similar) and submissions that use the terminology at training time (e.g., for data selection, data augmentation, explicit training, etc). Note that basic linguistic tools such as taggers, parsers, or morphological analyzers are allowed in the constrained condition.
The submission report should highlight in which ways participants? methods and data differ from the standard MT approach. They should make clear which tools were used, and which training sets were used.
LANGUAGE PAIRS
The shared task will focus on four language pairs, with systems evaluated:
English to French
English to Chinese
Two surprise language pairs English-X (announced 3 weeks before the evaluation deadline)
We will provide training/development data and terminologies for the above language pairs. Test sets will be released at the beginning of the evaluation period. The goal of this setting (with both development and surprise language pairs) is to avoid approaches that overfit on language selection, and instead evaluate the more realistic scenario of needing to tackle the new domain in a new language in a limited amount of time. The surprise language pairs will be announced 3 weeks before the start of the evaluation campaigns. At the same time we will provide training data and terminologies for the surprise language pairs.
You may participate in any or all of the language pairs.
ORGANIZERS
Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason University Md Mahfuz ibn Alam, George Mason University Laurent Besacier, NAVER James Cross, Facebook Georgiana Dinu, AWS Marcello Federico, AWS Matthias Gallé, NAVER Philipp Koehn, Facebook / Johns Hopkins University Vassilina Nikoulina, NAVER Kweon Woo Jung, NAVER
(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).
Argument
The symposium, which will bring together specialists from all horizons (both in terms of continents and fields of specialisation), will be devoted to perception and the living, a theme that will have to be tackled under its various disci-plinary seams, whether they fall within the commonly accepted classification established since the 20th Century in the Sciences (formal, physical, life, social) or that of the Arts (architecture, sculpture, visual arts, music, literature, perform-ing arts, cinema).
The general objective of the congress will thus entail addressing the question of how (the world of) the living caters for perceptions, both in terms of apprehension, feeling, understanding, analysis, construction, of profiling, of transmis-sion as of reception, to try to uncover the still quite vague outlines of the very notion of perception and related phenom-ena, in order to further the study of known properties and/or specificities or, moreover, to shed light on novel ones. More specifically, the major tack will notably involve, from the observation of how these properties or specificities fit into the living (world), means of highlighting the duality of the ontologies of perception (sensory vs intellectual).
In practice, we shall question, starting from the living (world), in particular the matrices, the molds, the frames, the actants, the circumstances, the ins and outs of perception through, preferably, inter, trans, multi, pluri or intradisciplinary approaches – even if the mono or uni-disciplinary approach will not be excluded. Note that all types of languages, be they natural or artificial, can serve as empirical bases and that, regardless of the approach considered, experimental and/or clinical approaches will be highly appreciated, as well as contrastive ones.
To this end, whether theoretical or applied, systematic or experimental, contextual or independent, synchronic or diachronic, prescriptive, descriptive or programmatic, intra or interdisciplinary, proposals thus requested will fit into at least one pair of disciplines from the Sciences and/or the Arts, such as: mathematics-linguistics, painting-music, biol-ogy-anthropology, medicine-linguistics, anthropology-music, physics-painting, sociology-linguistics, philosophy-mathematics, psychology-anthropology, computer science-linguistics, etc.
Regarding the official classification of the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) disciplinary fields, the symposium includes all disciplines: Mathematics, Physics, Earth and Universe Sci-ences, Chemistry, Engineering Sciences, Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Biology, Health, Agronomy, Ecology, Environment, Markets and Organisations, Standards, social institutions and behaviours, Space, environment and societies, Human spirit, language, education, Languages, Texts, Arts and cultures, Ancient and contemporary Worlds.
Confirmed plenary speakers (other invitations are pending)
- Professor Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Chair of Physiology of Perception and Action)
- Professor Luc Fraisse (Institut Universitaire de France & University of Strasbourg)
- Research Director Anne Giersche (University of Strasbourg & Inserm – Cognitive neuropsychology, pathophysiol-ogy of schizophrenia)
- Professor Bernard Harmegnies (Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technology, University of Mons)
- Professor Karine Lacombe (Sorbonne University, Inserm, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, St An-toine’s Hospital, Paris)
- Professor David Poeppel (Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute Frankfurt & New York University)
- Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg, Chair of Chemical Topology and Molecular Machines)
- Research Director Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA-Lab, Speech-Cognition Department, Grenoble Alpes University)
Useful information
Proposals for papers, based on the PropCom framework below (Annex 1), will be sent simultaneously to Fabrice Marsac (f.marsac@unistra.fr) and Rudolph Sock (sock@unistra.fr) before March 31st, 2021 (indicate 'Symposium Per-ceptiO 2021' as the subject).
Notifications of acceptance or rejection of proposals will be sent to the authors by 30 April 2021 at the latest, and a first provisional programme of the event will follow around 15th of May.
The D-Day, oral communications, organised around the plenary lectures, will not exceed 15 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions). Poster sessions, which are scientifically equivalent in importance to the oral communications, will also be organised. The language of presentation will be either French or English.
After the symposium, the written contributions selected by the scientific committee will be published in 2023 as volume(s)/thematic volume(s) or varia in international journal(s).
Registration fees (150 € for permanent staff and 50 € for doctoral students) include the gala dinner on the second day (Thursday 18), the traditional paracolloquial activities (including a guided tour of the magnificent Strasbourg and its main cultural and tourist attractions, as well as the European Institutions) and the publication of contributions. Ac-commodation and other catering costs are the sole responsibility of participants.
The meeting will take place at the University of Strasbourg (Accueil – Université de Strasbourg (unistra.fr)) and at the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme, Alsace – MISHA (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA)).
Depending on the sanitary context in November 2021, the symposium will be held in praesentia or will be par-tially/completely dematerialised.
Scientific committee
Currently being set up, the scientific committee of PerceptiO 2021 will be responsible for both the scientific review of proposals, carried out, as usual, by peers on a double-blind basis, and for reviewing subsequent submitted articles, also conducted on a double-blind basis by peers, in view of their publication in the course of 2023.
Organising committee
- Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit UR 1339 LiLPa (University of Strasbourg, France)
- USIAS Chair of Language Sciences (University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study)
- Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures Research Unit 4363 ILLE (University of Haute-Alsace, France)
- Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technologies – IRSTL (University of Mons, Belgium)
- First People’s Hospital in Chengdu (China)
- First People’s Hospital in Zigong (China)
- Binzhou Medical University (China)
- Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department (University of Kentucky, United States of Amer-ica)
- Chair of French language (University of Opole, Poland)
- Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor (Senegal)
- Department of Romance Studies (Matej Bel University of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia)
- LICoLab – Language, Information and Communication Laboratory & Department of British and American Studies of the Faculty of Arts (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia)
Reminder of key dates
- Submission of proposals: 31st March 2021 (deadline)
- Notification of paper acceptance or refusal: 30th April 2021 (deadline)
- Publication of the programme: around 15th of May 2021 (first provisional programme)
- Symposium: 17-20 November 2021
- Publication of accepted articles: in 2023
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• Annex n° 1: PropCom outline (2 pages maximum)
1. Title of the proposal
2. Object(s) of study, research issues
3. Objective(s), theoretical framework(s) and research hypothesis(es)
4. Methodology
5. Results
6. Five key words
7. References
8. Last name, first name and academic affiliation(s) of the author(s)
9. E-mail address(es) for correspondence
10. Specify if it is a doctoral research (if applicable, indicate the name of the thesis supervisor(s))
• Annex n° 2: scientific committee (in the process of being set up)
The scientific committee of PerceptiO 2021 will be composed, among other members, of (teacher-)researchers from the various disciplinary fields established by the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES).
(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 Directrice de Recherche Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie CNRS-Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris, France
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Birkholz Chair of Speech Technology and Cognitive Systems Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication TU Dresden Dresden, Germany
IMPORTANT DATES:
01 Aug 2021: Full paper submission deadline (will NOT be extended!) 05 Sep 2021: Notification of acceptance (revised papers can be submitted until after the conference) 03 Oct 2021: Early bird registration deadline 02-04 Dec 2021: SEFOS II conference 27 Feb 2022: Deadline for the resubmission of revised full papers
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)
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(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.
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.
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)
The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.
For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and selected the following four parallel tracks by peer-reviews:- Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access (Amazon Alexa AI): This track aims to allow users to have requests that are out of the scope of APIs/DB but potentially available in external knowledge sources. Track participants will develop task-oriented dialogue systems to understand relevant domain knowledge, and generate system responses with the relevant selected knowledge. In addition, the track includes evaluation on generalization over unseen domains and modalities (i.e. moving from written to spoken conversations).- Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University): This track follows its success in DSTC-8 continuing with the effort of building dialog systems under a multi-domain setting. This time extending the task by incorporating new datasets, creating new sub-tasks, and providing a new development platform. The new task specifically focuses on two aspects of dialog systems: language portability and end-to-end system complexity. - Interactive Evaluation of Dialog (CMU & USC): This track targets the creation of systems that can be effectively used in interactive settings by real users. The task is intended to move research beyond datasets, and evaluate models in interactive environments with real users allowing several valuable properties of dialog to be measured: consistency, adaptiveness and user-centric development. DialPort, a platform for interactive assessment with real users will be used for evaluation. - SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI): This track aims to tackle grounding dialog in an evolving multi-modal contextual input. Unlike previous multimodal track challenges, where the context from the non-textual modalities (video and audio) remains unchanged as the dialog progresses, this track encompasses a rich, situated multi-modal user context in the form of a shared image or VR environment that evolves fluidly based on the dialog flow.Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government).Important Dates
- Jun 15, 2020: Training data is released
- Sep 21, 2020: Test data is released
- Oct 5, 2020: Entry submission deadline- Nov 2020: Paper submission deadline- Spring 2021: DSTC9 workshop (venue: TBD)DSTC9 Organizing Committee
- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research AI, USA
- Abhinav Rastogi - Google Research, USA- Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen - National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Luis Fernando D'Haro - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain- Seokhwan Kim - Amazon Alexa AI, USADSTC9 Track OrganizersBeyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access - Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-tur (Amazon Alexa AI)Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II - Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao, Jinchao Li, Lars Liden, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, Shahin Shayandeh, Swadheen Shukla, Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University)Interactive Evaluation of Dialog - Shikib Mehri, Carla Gordon, David Traum, Maxine Eskenazi (CMU & USC)SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI - Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon (EJ) Cho, Paul A. Crook, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Shivani Poddar, Rajen Subba (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI)DSTC Steering Committee
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Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan - Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA - Rafael E. Banchs - Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore - Michel Galley - Microsoft Research AI, USAContact InformationJoin the DSTC mailing list to get the latest updates about DSTC9:- To join the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/join- To post a message: send your message to list@dstc.community- To leave the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/unsubscribeFor specific enquiries about DSTC9: Please feel free to contact dstc9-organizing-committee@dstc.community
(2022-03-??) II Brazilian Prosody Conference, on line
We are pleased to announce the 'II Brazilian Prosody Conference', supported by the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences, to be held in March, 2022, totally online. The event aims to create a space for training and research on Experimental Prosody and its interfaces for students and professionals whose work involves speech, voice, singing, speech communication technologies, speech pathologies, sound production and perception, oral communication, vocal aesthetic, acoustics, language teaching and other related areas.
To better organize the conference and allow the participation of as many people as possible, we created a form that can be accessed through the links below in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The form is simple and straightforward, so it might take less than 5 minutes to complete. https://forms.office.com/r/BHB6qrzW7c We would really appreciate it if you could get back to us till May 25th, 2021.
Thank you very much in advance for your kind collaboration.
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 14th edition of LREC.
LREC 2022 will take place in Marseille at the Palais du Pharo (France) on June 20-25, 2022.
We hope to be able to organise a face-to-face conference, but in the unfortunate event that physical gatherings will not be yet allowed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an online alternative will be set up.
IMPORTANT DATES
? Main Conference: 21-22-23 June 2022
? Workshops and Tutorials: 20-24-25 June 2022
CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources and Evaluation for Language Technologies. LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect to both scientific/technological issues as well as policy and organisational ones.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.
PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize.
We will also organise an Industrial Track for which there will be a separate Call.
PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format.
There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered.
(2023) 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Europe?
The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to host and organize the 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR2023 (sponsored by the ACM SIGMM). ACM ICMR is the premier scientific conference for multimedia retrieval. Its mission is to provide a forum to discuss, promote and advance the state-of-the-arts in multimedia retrieval by bringing together researchers and practitioners in its related field. It is thus essential to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality research papers and for sharing practitioner experience. The list of previous ICMRs is at http://www.acmicmr.org/. We expect ICMR2023 to be held in Europe.
Parties interested in hosting ICMR2023 are invited to submit their proposals (20 pages or less) by Friday, 26 February 2021 by email with the subject line: ICMR2023 to the steering committee chair. The details of CFP is at http://acmicmr.org/icmr2023.cfo.final.pdf.
IARPA and NIST are pleased to announce a new speech recognition challenge: OpenASR. Registration is still open. The goal of the OpenASR (Open Automatic Speech Recognition) evaluation is to develop methods to quickly develop speech recognition systems in a variety of genres from low-resource languages, with minimal amounts of training data. Training data for ten languages will be released to aspirants, with two evaluations conditions: constrained and unconstrained. The OpenASR challenge was developed out of IARPA's MATERIAL program < https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material>, but only evaluates WER for ASR.
For the registration page, please visit: https://sat.nist.gov/openasr20 Participation is open to Everyone. Feel free to spread the word to interested participants.
