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3-3 Other Events
| 3-3-1 | (2020-10-20) ACM Multimedia 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI ACM Multimedia 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI Keynote
Conversational AI Efforts within Facebook AI Applied Research Alborz Geramifar, Facebook Panel Alex Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (Moderator) Zhenzhong Lan, Westlake University, China Alex Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ben Sauer, UK
Melissa Lim, Farfetch, UK Project highlights
CO-ADAPT: Human and Work Station Adaptation Support to aging citizens Giulio Jacucci iFetch: Multimodal conversational agents for the online fashion marketplace Ricardo G. Sousa (Farfetch) Papers
=====================Enriching Responses with Crowd-sourced Knowledge for Task-oriented Dialogues Lizi Liao (National University of Singapore)*; YINGXU HE (National University of Singapore); Zheng Zhang (Tsinghua University); Tat-Seng Chua (National university of Singapore) The design of a trust-based game as a conversational component of interactive environment for a human-agent negotiation
Andrey Vlasov (Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Health)*; Oksana Zinchenko (International Laboratory for Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics); Zhenjie Zhao (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology); Mansur Bakaev (DeMontroyal); Arsenjy Karavaev (DeMontroyal) Towards a real-time measure of the perception of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction
Maria Tsfasman (TU Delft)*; Avinash Saravanan (TU Delft); Dekel Viner (TU Delft); Daan Goslinga (TU Delft); Sarah de Wolf (TU Delft); Chirag Raman (Delft University of Technology ); Catholijn M Jonker (Delft University of Technology); Catharine Oertel (TU Delft) Organizers
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João Magalhães, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University. Ricardo G. Sousa, Farfetch. Carlos Santiago, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa. ---
ACM Multimedia 2022 General co-Chair
NOVA LINCS - Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 3-3-2 | (2021-10-13) 3rd International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR-2021), Paris (Virtual only) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
3rd International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR-2021) 13th-15th October 2021 Paris, France (Virtual Only) http://vihar-2021.vihar.org VIHAR-2021 is the third international workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots. Taking place virtually in Paris, France (online only) on 13-15 October 2021, VIHAR-2021 aims to bring together researchers studying vocal-based interaction in-and-between humans, animals and robots from a variety of different fields. This includes speech, animal vocalisations or other acoustic interaction. VIHAR-2021 will provide an opportunity to share and discuss theoretical insights, best practices, tools and methodologies, and to identify common principles underpinning vocal behaviour in a multi-disciplinary environment. The registration is free but mandatory. The workshop follows the success of previous International workshops on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR-2017 and VIHAR-2019). If you wish to join the VIHAR community, you can read more about us here, subscribe to our mailing list here, follow Facebook group. We invite original submissions of abstracts in all areas of vocal interactivity. Suggested workshop topics may include, but are not limited to the following areas: * Physiological and morphological comparisons between vocal systems in animals * Properties and functions of animal signals * Evolution of vocal interactivity * Vocal imitation and learning * Conveyance of emotion * Comparative analyses of human and animal vocalisations * Use of vocalisation * Vocal interactivity between non-conspecifics * Spoken language systems * Technology-based research methods * Vocal interaction with robots To present your work/ideas at VIHAR you will need to submit: ? Title
? Authors (and institutional affiliations)
? Abstract (max 500 words; you are also encouraged to include one image/diagram)
? One sentence stating the relevance to VIHAR
? Does this work relate to: Humans? Animals? Robots? (Multiple selections are certainly permitted!)
The number of proposals from each presenter (?first author?) is limited to two. The number of proposals that a co-author can be involved in is limited to five.A panel of experts will curate the submissions in order to ensure they belong to the scope of the workshop. A compilation of the abstracts will be published online on the workshop website in the form of abstracts-only proceedings. The authors will have the opportunity to submit papers to special issue organized in a journal after the VIHAR workshop. Submission link: https://forms.gle/VbvmLX3izxcFuFft9 Key Dates: - Submission deadline - 1st Sep. 2021 8th Sep 2021 - Notification of acceptance - 22nd Sep 2021 - Workshop - 13th-15th October 2021 (Virtual) Organisers: - Mohamed Chetouani, Sorbonne Universite, ISIR, CNRS - Dan Stowell, Tilburg University / Naturalis Biodiversity Centre - Angela Dassow, Carthage College - Ricard Marxer, Université de Toulon, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LIS - Roger K. Moore, University of Sheffield - Elodie Briefer, University of Copenhagen - Nicolas Obin, IRCAM / Sorbonne University If you wish to join the VIHAR community, please subscribe to our mailing list by entering your e-mail address at http://www.freelists.org/list/vihar and then responding to the confirmation e-mail that you will receive from the list server.
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| 3-3-3 | (2021-10-18) ACM ICMI 2021: Call for Doctoral Consortium, Montreal, Canada Doctoral Consortium - Call for Contributions ***************************************
ACM ICMI 2021: Call for Doctoral Consortium
https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cfdc
18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada
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The goal of the ACM ICMI Doctoral Consortium (DC)
is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a
group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions,
to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress,
and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing
and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction.
We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the
process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area
of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees
that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).
Who should apply?
While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training,
the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of
forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or
have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research,
and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting
institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
Why should you attend?
The DC provides an opportunity to build a social network that includes the cohort of DC students,
senior students, recent graduates, and senior mentors. Not only is this an opportunity to get feedback
on research directions, it is also an opportunity to learn more about the process and to understand what comes next.
We aim to connect you with a mentor who will give specific feedback on your research and whom you can talk to during lunch.
We specifically aim to create an informal setting where students feel supported in their professional development.
Agenda:
09:00 - 09:30: Invited talk
09:30 - 11:00: DC talks 1
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00: DC talks 2
13:00 - 14:30: Lunch mentoring session
14:30 - 15:15: Panel discussion (senior PhD students and recent graduates)
15:15 - 15:45: Coffee break
15:45 - 17:00: Table discussions (small group discussions about topics of interest)
Submission Guidelines:
Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
1. Extended Abstract: A four-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SigConf format.
Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers.
The submissions will not be anonymous. In particular, it should cover:
- The key research questions and motivation of your research;
- Background and related work that informs your research;
- A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem;
- Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies;
- The research approach and methodology;
- Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work;
- A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work;
2. Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support.
Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral
Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.
3. CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
Review Process:
The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated
by a number of factors including
(1) the quality of the submission,
(2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and
(3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance.
More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions
of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond.
Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds,
methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort.
We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample.
Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Financial Support:
The conference is pleased to offer partial financial support for doctoral students participating
in the Doctoral Consortium and attending the conference. Only students who apply and are accepted
for participation in the Doctoral Consortium can be considered for financial support.
The number and size of the offers of financial support are contingent upon the number of invited student participants.
Attendance:
All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium
and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work
as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session.
A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster
session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
Process:
- Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template#aL2)
- Submission system: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi
- Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
- Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session
- Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library
- Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs:
a) Iolanda Leite (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and
b) Alessandro Vinciarelli (University of Glasgow).
Submission: July 2nd Notification: Camera ready: August 16th
Important Dates:
Submission deadline July 2nd, 2021
Notifications August 6th, 2021
Camera-ready August 16th, 2021
Questions?
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2021 Doctoral Consortium,
visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (https://icmi.acm.org/2021)
For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
- Iolanda Leite (iolanda@kth.se)
- Alessandro Vinciarelli (Alessandro.Vinciarelli@glasgow.ac.uk)
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| 3-3-4 | (2021-10-18) Call for ICMI 2021 Long and Short Papers (updated) Call for ICMI 2021 Long and Short Papers ***************************************
ICMI 2021: Call for Long and Short Papers
http://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cfp
18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada
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Call for Long, Short and Blue Sky Papers
The 23rd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021) will be held in Montreal, Canada.
ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human
and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development.
The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies,
and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis,
interface design, and system development.
We are keen to showcase novel input and output modalities and interactions to the ICMI community.
ICMI 2021 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers,
technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations),
Blue Sky papers, demonstrations, exhibits, doctoral spotlight papers, and late-breaking papers.
The conference will also feature workshops and grand challenges.
The proceedings of ICMI 2021 will be published by ACM as part of their series
of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library,
and the adjunct proceedings will feature the workshop papers
We also want to welcome conference papers from behavioral and social sciences.
These papers allow us to understand how technology can be used to increase our
scientific knowledge and may focus less on presenting technical or algorithmic novelty.
For this reason, the 'novelty' criteria used during ICMI 2021 review will be based on
two sub-criteria (i.e., scientific novelty and technical novelty as described below).
Accepted papers at ICMI 2021 only need to be novel on one of these sub-criteria.
In other words, a paper which is strong on scientific knowledge contribution
but low on algorithmic novelty should be ranked similarly to a paper
that is high on algorithmic novelty but low on knowledge discovery.
- Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring some new knowledge to the scientific community.
For example, discovering new behavioral markers that are predictive of mental health
or how new behavioral patterns relate to children's interactions during learning.
It is the responsibility of the authors to perform a proper literature review and clearly
discuss the novelty in the scientific discoveries made in their paper.
- Technical Novelty: Papers reviewed with this sub-criterion should include novelty in their computational
approach for recognizing, generating or modeling data. Examples include: novelty in the learning
and prediction algorithms, in the neural architecture, or in the data representation.
Novelty can also be associated with new usages of an existing approach.
This year's conference theme: In the past years and specially 2020, the questions of Behavioral Health
and Virtual Connectivity have become central to our life.
In particular, COVID-19 has disrupted our normal social life and interactions at work,
bringing challenges but also opportunities to improve our team sociability and productivity.
This situation calls for multimodal systems to enhance social and emotional remote interaction
as well as to increase productivity during remote collaboration.
Our behavioral health has been severely impacted the past months.
The needs for non-intrusive sensing technology, smart environments (e.g., elderly home monitoring),
wearable and assistive devices for rehabilitation, well-being and ageing population
and multimodal interfaces to support behavioral changes have become a crucial necessity.
As such, this year, ICMI welcomes contributions on our theme for Behavioral Health and Virtual Connectivity.
Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Affective computing and interaction
- Cognitive modeling and multimodal interaction
- Gesture, touch and haptics
- Healthcare, assistive technologies
- Human communication dynamics
- Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction
- Interaction with smart environment
- Machine learning for multimodal interaction
- Mobile multimodal systems
- Multimodal behavior generation
- Multimodal datasets and validation
- Multimodal dialogue modeling
- Multimodal fusion and representation
- Multimodal interactive applications
- Speech behaviors in social interaction
- System components and multimodal platforms
- Visual behaviours in social interaction
- Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction
Blue Sky Papers
ICMI 2021 is pleased to partner with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to initiate
a new Blue Sky paper track that emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions.
This track solicits papers relevant to ICMI content that go beyond the usual research paper
to present new visions that stimulate the ICMI community to pursue innovative new directions.
They may challenge existing assumptions and methodologies,or propose new applications or theories.
The papers are encouraged to present high-risk controversial ideas. Submitted papers are expected
to represent deep reflection, to argue rigorously, and to present ideas from
a high-level synthetic viewpoint (e.g., multidisciplinary, based on multiple methodologies).
Submissions should be 4 pages, independent of references. The CCC will further distribute
and publicize any papers published in this track, and they will sponsor awards
to honor the first ($1,000), second ($750), and third ($500) place papers, in the form of travel grants.
The submission deadline is the same with main conference papers.
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
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| 3-3-5 | (2021-10-18) Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges @ ICMI2021, Montreal, Canada Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
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ICMI 2021: Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
http://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=challenges
18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada
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We are calling for teams to propose one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges.
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum
for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces,
and system development.
Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human
communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes.
In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics and physiological
signal processing, for example, the availability of datasets and common tasks have led to great progress.
We invite the ICMI community to collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our domain for the next 5 years.
ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work.
Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible.
Challenge papers will be indexed in the main proceedings of ICMI.
We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events.
We are looking for exciting and stimulating challenges including but not limited to the following categories:
- Dataset-driven challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities
of current and future multimodal problems, and one or more multimodal
tasks whose performance can be objectively measured and compared in rigorous conditions.
Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses.
- Use-case challenge: This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based)
and the associated resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration
of specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also establish systematic evaluation procedures.
- Health challenge: This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary
of a health related task, whose analysis, diagnosis, treatment or prevention can be aided by Multimodal
Interactions. The challenge should focus on exploring the benefits of multimodal (audio, visual, physiological, etc) solutions for the stated task.
- Policy challenge: Legal, ethical, and privacy issues of Multimodal Interaction systems in the age of AI.
The challenge could revolve around opinion papers, panels, discussions, etc.
Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:
1.Title
2.Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge
3.Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
4.Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction
5.Length (full day or half day)
6.Plan for soliciting participation
7.Description of how submissions (challenge?s submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
8.Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions
9.Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
10.Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization
11.Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers;
summary of the Grand Challenge;
list of potential Technical Program Committee members
and their affiliations, important dates
Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan.
A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure
its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance;
an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case.
Continuation of or variants on the 2019 challenges are welcome,
though we ask for submissions of this form to highlight the number
of participants that attended during the previous year and describe
what changes (if any) will be made from the previous year.
The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics,
which includes rooms and equipment to run the Workshop,
coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference.
Important Dates and Contact Details
Proposals due: January 27, 2021
Proposal notification: February 3, 2021
Paper camera-ready: August 17, 2021
Grand challenge date: October 18 or 22, 2021
Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2021 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs,
Jean-Marc Odobez and Dirk Heylen via icmi2021-challenge-chairs@acm.org.
Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions.
Proposals are due by January 27, 2021. Notifications will be sent on February 3, 2021.
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| 3-3-6 | (2021-10-18) Cf Workshops International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021), Montreal, Canada
The online registration portal for ACM ICMI 2021 is now open!
Please visit https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=registration for details and to register.
ICMI-2021 is currently being planned in HYBRID FORM - the conference will happen
both physically in Montreal and virtually, giving the opportunity to connect
to all of you that won't be able to make it to Montreal.
We will have 34 oral presentation, 66 posters, 9 Doctoral Consortium presentation, and 3 Blue Sky presentations.
Please visit https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=accepted for a full list of accepted papers.
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2021)
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| 3-3-7 | (2021-10-20) 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI at ACM Multimedia 2021, Chengdu, China 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI Papers are up to 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references.
Papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. All submissions must be written in English and be formatted according to the ACM templates and guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system. ### Timeline - Submission: July 30 - Notification: August 26 - Camera-ready copy: September 2 - Workshop: October 20 ### Organizers - Joao Magalhaes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute - Ricardo G. Sousa, Farfetch, Portugal - Carlos Santiago, ISR/IST, Portugal ---
ACM Multimedia 2022 General co-Chair
NOVA LINCS - Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 3-3-8 | (2021-10-25) IEEE Workshop L3DAS21 Machine Learnng for 3D Audio Signal Processing, Gold Coast, Australia
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| 3-3-9 | (2021-11-10) WMT 2021 Shared Task: Machine Translation using Terminologies, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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| 3-3-10 | (2021-11-17) PerceptiO Perception of the living , U.of Strasbourg France
PerceptiO Perception and the living La perception et le vivant University of Strasbourg, France UR 1339 LiLPa – Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit Chair of the USIAS Language Sciences – University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study University of Haute-Alsace, France UR 4363 ILLE – Research Institute for European Languages and Literatures IdEx Symposium 2021 17-20 November The University of Strasbourg (France), through its Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit 1339 LiLPa, as well as the USIAS Chair of Language Sciences (University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study), and the University of Haute-Alsace (France), through its Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures Re- search Unit 4363 ILLE, will host in Alsace the symposium 'PerceptiO: Perception and the living' from the 17th to the 20th of November, 2021. Chaired by the Alsatian University duo, the international organising committee of the event will also include in its ranks (in alphabetical order of the partner countries): the Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technologies – IRSTL of the University of Mons (Belgium), First People’s Hospital in Chengdu, First People’s Hospital in Zigong and Binzhou Medical University (China), the Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department at the University of Kentucky (United States of America), Chair of French Language of the University of Opole (Poland), Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor (Senegal) and the Department of Romance Studies of Matej Bel University of Banská Bystrica, LICoLab – Language, Information and Communication Laboratory and Department of British and American Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (Slovakia).
The symposium, which will bring together specialists from all horizons (both in terms of continents and fields of specialisation), will be devoted to perception and the living, a theme that will have to be tackled under its various disci-plinary seams, whether they fall within the commonly accepted classification established since the 20th Century in the Sciences (formal, physical, life, social) or that of the Arts (architecture, sculpture, visual arts, music, literature, perform-ing arts, cinema). The general objective of the congress will thus entail addressing the question of how (the world of) the living caters for perceptions, both in terms of apprehension, feeling, understanding, analysis, construction, of profiling, of transmis-sion as of reception, to try to uncover the still quite vague outlines of the very notion of perception and related phenom-ena, in order to further the study of known properties and/or specificities or, moreover, to shed light on novel ones. More specifically, the major tack will notably involve, from the observation of how these properties or specificities fit into the living (world), means of highlighting the duality of the ontologies of perception (sensory vs intellectual). In practice, we shall question, starting from the living (world), in particular the matrices, the molds, the frames, the actants, the circumstances, the ins and outs of perception through, preferably, inter, trans, multi, pluri or intradisciplinary approaches – even if the mono or uni-disciplinary approach will not be excluded. Note that all types of languages, be they natural or artificial, can serve as empirical bases and that, regardless of the approach considered, experimental and/or clinical approaches will be highly appreciated, as well as contrastive ones. To this end, whether theoretical or applied, systematic or experimental, contextual or independent, synchronic or diachronic, prescriptive, descriptive or programmatic, intra or interdisciplinary, proposals thus requested will fit into at least one pair of disciplines from the Sciences and/or the Arts, such as: mathematics-linguistics, painting-music, biol-ogy-anthropology, medicine-linguistics, anthropology-music, physics-painting, sociology-linguistics, philosophy-mathematics, psychology-anthropology, computer science-linguistics, etc. Regarding the official classification of the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) disciplinary fields, the symposium includes all disciplines: Mathematics, Physics, Earth and Universe Sci-ences, Chemistry, Engineering Sciences, Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Biology, Health, Agronomy, Ecology, Environment, Markets and Organisations, Standards, social institutions and behaviours, Space, environment and societies, Human spirit, language, education, Languages, Texts, Arts and cultures, Ancient and contemporary Worlds.
- Professor Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Chair of Physiology of Perception and Action) - Professor Luc Fraisse (Institut Universitaire de France & University of Strasbourg) - Research Director Anne Giersche (University of Strasbourg & Inserm – Cognitive neuropsychology, pathophysiol-ogy of schizophrenia) - Professor Bernard Harmegnies (Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technology, University of Mons) - Professor Karine Lacombe (Sorbonne University, Inserm, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, St An-toine’s Hospital, Paris) - Professor David Poeppel (Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck-Institute Frankfurt & New York University) - Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg, Chair of Chemical Topology and Molecular Machines) - Research Director Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA-Lab, Speech-Cognition Department, Grenoble Alpes University)
Proposals for papers, based on the PropCom framework below (Annex 1), will be sent simultaneously to Fabrice Marsac (f.marsac@unistra.fr) and Rudolph Sock (sock@unistra.fr) before March 31st, 2021 (indicate 'Symposium Per-ceptiO 2021' as the subject). Notifications of acceptance or rejection of proposals will be sent to the authors by 30 April 2021 at the latest, and a first provisional programme of the event will follow around 15th of May. The D-Day, oral communications, organised around the plenary lectures, will not exceed 15 minutes (plus 5 minutes for questions). Poster sessions, which are scientifically equivalent in importance to the oral communications, will also be organised. The language of presentation will be either French or English. After the symposium, the written contributions selected by the scientific committee will be published in 2023 as volume(s)/thematic volume(s) or varia in international journal(s). Registration fees (150 € for permanent staff and 50 € for doctoral students) include the gala dinner on the second day (Thursday 18), the traditional paracolloquial activities (including a guided tour of the magnificent Strasbourg and its main cultural and tourist attractions, as well as the European Institutions) and the publication of contributions. Ac-commodation and other catering costs are the sole responsibility of participants. The meeting will take place at the University of Strasbourg (Accueil – Université de Strasbourg (unistra.fr)) and at the Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme, Alsace – MISHA (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA)). Depending on the sanitary context in November 2021, the symposium will be held in praesentia or will be par-tially/completely dematerialised.
Currently being set up, the scientific committee of PerceptiO 2021 will be responsible for both the scientific review of proposals, carried out, as usual, by peers on a double-blind basis, and for reviewing subsequent submitted articles, also conducted on a double-blind basis by peers, in view of their publication in the course of 2023.
- Linguistics, Languages and Speech Research Unit UR 1339 LiLPa (University of Strasbourg, France) - USIAS Chair of Language Sciences (University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study) - Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures Research Unit 4363 ILLE (University of Haute-Alsace, France) - Institute for Research in Language Sciences and Technologies – IRSTL (University of Mons, Belgium) - First People’s Hospital in Chengdu (China) - First People’s Hospital in Zigong (China) - Binzhou Medical University (China) - Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department (University of Kentucky, United States of Amer-ica) - Chair of French language (University of Opole, Poland) - Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor (Senegal) - Department of Romance Studies (Matej Bel University of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia) - LICoLab – Language, Information and Communication Laboratory & Department of British and American Studies of the Faculty of Arts (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia)
- Submission of proposals: 31st March 2021 (deadline) - Notification of paper acceptance or refusal: 30th April 2021 (deadline) - Publication of the programme: around 15th of May 2021 (first provisional programme) - Symposium: 17-20 November 2021 - Publication of accepted articles: in 2023 ***
1. Title of the proposal 2. Object(s) of study, research issues 3. Objective(s), theoretical framework(s) and research hypothesis(es) 4. Methodology 5. Results 6. Five key words 7. References 8. Last name, first name and academic affiliation(s) of the author(s) 9. E-mail address(es) for correspondence 10. Specify if it is a doctoral research (if applicable, indicate the name of the thesis supervisor(s))
The scientific committee of PerceptiO 2021 will be composed, among other members, of (teacher-)researchers from the various disciplinary fields established by the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES). For the International Organising Committee, Fabrice MARSAC et Rudolph SOCK University of Strasbourg, France
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| 3-3-11 | (2021-12-01) CfP ACM MULTIMEDIA ASIA 2021, Gold Coast, Australia CFP: ACM MULTIMEDIA ASIA 2021 ACM MULTIMEDIA ASIA 2021 _________________ - Workshop/Grand Challenge Proposals Submission: 28 Jun, 2021 The submission deadline is at 11:59 p.m. of the stated deadline date Anywhere on Earth. ________________ CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Multimedia Asia 2021 invites the submission of research papers presenting novel theoretical and algorithmic solutions addressing problems across the domain of multimedia and related applications. The conference also encourages visionary papers on new and emerging topics; papers presenting novel ideas with promising (preliminary) results in realizing these ideas; application-oriented papers that make innovative technical contributions to social good, healthcare, etc. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Multimedia and Vision ____________________________ HIGHLIGHTS OF ACMMM ASIA 2021 - Multimedia for Social Good: ACMMM ASIA2021 recognises high-quality research that showcases the benefit to the general public. The conference brings to the audience practices that are beneficial for the environment, health, aged care, and overall society. __________________________________ Conference venue: GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY Located within walking distance of Southport’s cutting-edge Health and Knowledge Precinct---including the Gold Coast University Hospital---our world-class Gold Coast campus is home to 21,000 students. As our largest campus, teaching and research span almost all study areas, with a strong focus on medicine, dentistry and health. Centrally based and just minutes from world-famous beaches, you’ll be able to enjoy a vibrant, enviable student lifestyle, with more than 80 student clubs to explore as well as a variety of sporting and fitness amenities, on-campus services, retail outlets, and cafes. __________________________________ GENERAL, PROGRAM, AND LOCAL CHAIRS - General Chairs - Program Chairs - Local Chairs
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| 3-3-12 | (2021-12-02) 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) 2021 Theme: Articulation and Prosody: Between Interface and Integration Date: 2-4 December 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark
The links between articulation and prosody are a subject of growing interest. It is driven, among other things, by increasingly powerful measurement, analysis and recording techniques, by the discovery of syntagmatic and paradigmatic structures in prosody and the simultaneous undermining of strictly linear-segmental models in articulation, as well as the by rapid rise of speech technology and the associated increasing relevance of the emotions, speaking styles, attitudes, social hierarchies, social-role marking, etc. But, how far have we really come in understanding the links between articulation and prosody?
The 2nd International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS II) will be a forum to discuss these questions. Reflecting the development of the articulation-prosody research and continuing the successful concept of the first SEFOS, SEFOS II shall again be a strongly interdisciplinary event. We therefore cordially invite not only all members of the speech-science community to take part in SEFOS II, but also interested members from related fields such as general linguistics, medicine, audiology, psychology, rhetoric, pedagogy, language/speech technology and engineering sciences.
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the organizing committee decided to conduct the conference in the form of a HYBRID CONFERENCE combining a live in person event with a virtual component.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Dr. Cécile Fougeron
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Birkholz
IMPORTANT DATES: 01 Aug 2021: Full paper submission deadline (will NOT be extended!)
NOTE THAT SEFOS II has teamed up with the proceedings branch of deGruyter, 'Sciendo', to publish widely visible (open access) article-length proceedings papers OF UP TO 15 PAGES (ABOUT 10,000 WORDS)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE SEE: https://my.eventbuizz.com/event/2--international-seminar-on-the-foundation-of-speech-8992/detail
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| 3-3-13 | (2021-12-06) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 2021 Theme: 'Tone and Intonation in a globalized, digital world'
Date: 6-9 December 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark The 1st edition of the Tone-and-Intonation (TAI) conference series is proudly hosted by the Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark. Being a merger of the two former conference series TAL (Tonal Aspects of Languages) and TIE (Tone and Intonation in Europe), TAI 2021 welcomes contributions on phonetic and phonological analyses of prosody including (but not limited to) topics related to the production and perception of prosody and rhythm, the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, the acquisition and teaching of prosody in L1 and L2, and cross-linguistic comparisons of prosody.
In addition, in TAI 2021 two separate special sessions will be dedicated to the challenges and opportunities that globalization and digitization hold for the speech sciences. In this context, we also encourage researchers of neighboring disciplines to submit papers related to tone and intonation to the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES:
01 May 2021 Online abstract submission opens (EasyChair)
04 Jul 2021 Abstract submission deadline
05 Sep 2021 Notification of abstract acceptance
03 Oct 2021 Early bird registration deadline
6-9 Dec 2021 1st Tone-and-Intonation Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark
27 Feb *2022* Deadline for the submission of a corrected abstract and an optional 5-page full paper (4 pages of text plus 1 page for references only)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE SEE:
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| 3-3-14 | (2021-12-06) GDR LIFT(the Research Group on Computational Linguistics, Field Linguistics and Formal Linguistics, Grenoble, France
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| 3-3-15 | (2021-12-13) ASRU, Carthagena, Colombia A S R U 2021 C a r t a g e n a December 13rd - 17th
IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop The IEEE ASRU Workshop is a biennial flagship event of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The workshop will be held on December 13-17, 2021. Since the global situation is still uncertain and given the slow vaccination progress worldwide, it is likely that the workshop will be virtual. We are making several efforts to make it in-person, but we depend on external unpredictable factors. In any case appropriate and timely information will be published in the website and widely distributed using all possible ways. Even if the workshop is virtual, we hope that sometime soon we will be able to welcome you all in Cartagena. Topics All papers related to automatic speech recognition and understanding are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Automatic speech recognition ASR in adverse enviroments New applications of ASR Speech-to-speech translation Spoken document retrieval Speaker/Language recognition Speech emotion recognition Methods and models leveraging multi-lingual resources Spoken language understanding Spoken dialog systems Text-to-speech systems Important dates Paper submission opens: May. 7, 2021 Regular & Challenge paper submission (abstract): Jun 25, 2021 Regular & Challenge paper submission (final paper): Jul 2, 2021 Paper reviews returned: Aug. 18, 2021 Author response due: Aug. 25, 2021 Paper acceptance notification: Sep. 10, 2021 Author registration due: Oct. 8, 2021 Early registration due: Oct. 15, 2021 Demo submission due: Oct. 15, 2021 Demo selection notification: Oct. 29, 2021 ASRU Workshop: Dec. 13-17, 2021
Submission details Authors are invited to prepare papers of 4-6 pages of content and figures, plus up to 2 pages containing only references, to the ASRU 2021 website: www.asru2021.org
This is the link to download the paper submission kit:
https://asru2021.org/calls-for-papers/ Organizing Committee General Chair: Elmar Nöth General Co-Chair: Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave Technical Program Chairs: Carlos Busso, Ville Hautamäki, Kate Knill, Helen Meng, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Dayana Ribas, Korbinian Riedhammer, Isabel Trancoso Panel and Invited Speaker Chairs: Sebastian Möller, Odette Scharenborg Challenge, Special Session & Demonstration Chairs: Heidi Christensen, Jesús Francisco Vargas-Bonilla, Juan Camilo Vásquez Correa Finance Chairs: Sofía Aristizabal, Mauricio Correa Publication Chair: Tobias Bocklet Satellite Workshop Chairs: Carlos Ariel Ferrer, Heidi Christensen, María Claudia González Rátiva Publicity Chairs: Julie Mauclair, Daniela Castaño SLTC Liaison: Antonio Texeira International Liaison: Sadaoki Furui, Hynek Hermansky, Aline Villavicencio Sponsorship Chairs: Jimmy Kunzmann, Mathew Magimai Doss, Richard Stern Local Arrangement Chairs: Daniela Castaño, Mauricio Correa, Andrea Peñaloza
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| 3-3-16 | (2021-?-?) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9) The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.
- Jun 15, 2020: Training data is released - Sep 21, 2020: Test data is released
- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research AI, USA
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| 3-3-17 | (2022-01-17) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2022 ON LINE FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
? Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2022 Jan, 17-22 2022 Grenoble - France ALPS2022 will take place entirely ONLINE
? University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe are announcing the second Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2022. ? We extended the deadline to Sept 30th.
Important Dates Application Deadline - Sept, 30th 2021 Notification - Oct 1st 2021 Registration Deadline - Oct, 31st 2021 Winter School - Jan, 17-22 2022 ? Target Audience This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved to academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry. ? Characteristics This winter school aims to provide talks of renowned NLP researchers, as well as creating an ideal environment to work together. Our list of invited speakers has also been updated and it is awesome !
- Kyunghyun Cho (NYU, USA)
- Yejin Choi (University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI, USA) - Mona Diab (Facebook AI & The George Washington University, USA)
- Iryna Gurevych and Jonas Pfeiffer (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
- Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Colin Raffel (UNC Chapel Hill, USA and Hugging Face, France) - Djamé Seddah (Université Paris-Sorbonne ? Paris 4, INRIA/Almanach, France)
In addition to the talks, we plan to have several labs (tba) with teacher assistants helping out. Poster sessions will be also organized for participants to present their work and interact with each other. Last year schedule is available on this link.
Website and online application: http://alps.imag.fr/ Questions: alps2021@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
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| 3-3-18 | (2022-02-17) 2022 Motor Speech Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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| 3-3-19 | (2022-03-02) 33rd Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV) ***************************************************
33rd Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV)
2-4 March, 2022, Sonderborg, Denmark
Dear colleagues!
We are pleased to announce that the 33rd edition of the Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV) will take place in early March in Sondeborg, DK. The ESSV conference series spans a wide range of fields that concern the creation, analysis, and (digital) processing of speech signals, with a special focus on applied research, i.e. practical applications and technologies. We therefore ask for contributions (in German or English) on the following topics:
- Speech synthesis and speech generation;
- Speech dialogue systems, also multimodal ones;
- Human-robot and human-computer interaction;
- Quality assessment of spoken language and speech technology;
- Speech recognition and natural language comprehension;
- Nonspeech signals related to speech: Music, biosignals and technical signals;
- Applications in medical, nursing, and rehabilitation technology;
- Cognitive and neural systems;
- Speech technology in industrial and home sectors;
- Measurement, processing and modeling of articulation;
- Phonetic, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of speech technology;
- Studies and applications of paralinguistics;
- Modeling of speech acquisition processes;
- Acoustic and visual pattern recognition related to speech communication.
Contributions on related topics are also very welcome. We particularly encourage students to submit papers and apply for ESSV's annual ?Best Student Paper Award?, which will be presented on the last day of the conference. In addition, guests from research, industry and public institutions as well as interested students are warmly welcome even without an own conference paper. All accepted papers will be published in a conference volume, which will appear in the series 'Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation' (TUDpress), as well as in the public online archive of the ESSV, see http://www.essv.de/ .
Important dates
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12 December 2021 Submission deadline for an extended abstract (2 pages)
26 December 2021 Notification of abstract acceptance
30 January 2022 Camera-ready paper submission deadline
06 February 2022 Early registration deadline
27 February 2022 Submission deadline for the posters (portrait A0, only if we go for a hybrid or visrtual conference)
We would like to ask you to submit your extended Abstracts by 12 December 2021 via the EasyChair platform that has been created for this purpose: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=essv2022
Paper/abstract template
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https://event.sdu.dk/essv2022/downloads
COVID Regulations
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As of today, we are firmly determined to hold 'our' ESSV as a conference in the real world or, alternatively, at least as a hybrid conference. The chances of switching back to the real world for the ESSV are good. You will always find the latest travel and pandemic regulations on the website of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs: https://en.coronasmitte.dk/rules-and-regulations/entry-into-denmark
We will also keep you up to date by email, especially if there are or must be new decisions about how we can hold the conference. If you have any questions about the trip or any other matters relating to the 33rd ESSV, please contact us at ***essv2022@essv.de*** at any time!
Have a great autumn time and stay healthy!
Your Danish ESSV organizing team.*******************************************************
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| 3-3-20 | (2022-03-??) II Brazilian Prosody Conference, on line
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| 3-3-21 | (2022-06-13) JEP2022 - 34e Journées d'Études sur la Parole, Noirmoutier, France
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| 3-3-22 | (2022-06-20) LREC 2022 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseille, France LREC 2022 - 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Conference web site: https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/ Twitter: @LREC2022 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 13th edition of LREC, organised with the support of national and international organisations. We hope to be able to organise a face-to-face conference, otherwise an online or hybrid alternative will be set up.
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral, poster and demo presentations in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. An Industrial Track to report on state of the art within industry and commercial achievements, for which there will be a separate Call, will also be organized
Submission Site: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/main LREC2020 asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed), which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet which will be available on the conference website.
Workshop Proposals Submission Site: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/LRECWorkshops2022/ The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format.
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| 3-3-23 | (2023) 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Europe? The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to
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