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ISCApad Archive » 2015 » ISCApad #202 |
ISCApad #202 |
| Monday, April 13, 2015 by Chris Wellekens |
| 1 Editorial |
| 2 ISCA News |
| 2-1 | A message from Bernd Möbius and Elmar Nöth, Interspeech TPC Chairs |
| 2-2 | Announcement: Election of members for the Board of ISCA (March-April 2015) |
| 2-3 | Call to vote |
| 2-4 | Videos of Interspeech conferences |
| 2-5 | Call for application: Christian Benoit award |
| 2-6 | Interspeech 2013 abstracts and papers |
| 3 Events |
| 3-1 ISCA Events |
| 3-1-1 | (2015-09-06) Call for Satellite Workshops of INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany |
| 3-1-2 | (2015-09-06) 3rd and Final Call for INTERSPEECH 2015, Sep 6-10, Dresden, Germany. |
| 3-1-3 | (2015-09-06) Calls for INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany |
| 3-1-4 | (2015-09-06) Interspeech 2015 Call for tutorials |
| 3-1-5 | (2015-09-06)) CfP INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on |
| 3-1-6 | (2016) INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 3-1-7 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (April 2015) |
| 3-1-8 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (December 2014) |
| 3-1-9 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (February 2015) |
| 3-1-10 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (January 2015) |
| 3-1-11 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (March 2015) |
| 3-2 ISCA Supported Events |
| 3-2-1 | (2015-05-18) International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing (NOLISP) 2015, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy |
| 3-2-2 | (2015-09-02) SIGDIAL 2015 CONFERENCE |
| 3-2-3 | (2015-11-09) CFP Conference on multimodal interaction (ICMI 2015), Seattle, USA |
| 3-2-4 | (2016-05-30) Speech Prosody Boston, USA |
| 3-2-5 | Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events |
| 3-3 Other Events |
| 3-3-1 | (2015-04-14) Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech, Enschede, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-2 | (2015-04-20) Mobile Voice Conference, San Jose, CA, USA |
| 3-3-3 | (2015-04-23) Jordanas Pataconicas de Linguistica Formal, Argentina |
| 3-3-4 | (2015-04-23) Journée des Masters LEx 2015 (JLEx 2015), Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 3-3-5 | (2015-05-07) 3rd International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2015), San Diego, USA |
| 3-3-6 | (2015-05-28) International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics, Toulouse, France (extended deadline) |
| 3-3-7 | (2015-06-08) Workshop in Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics and Lexical Computing, Tel?, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-8 | (2015-06-10) 13th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Prague, Czech Republic (Extended deadline) |
| 3-3-9 | (2015-06-10) Appel à communications : Analyse des discours hors-normes :,approches, concepts et méthodes, Univ. Sherbrooke, Canada |
| 3-3-10 | (2015-06-11) 18th Meeting Young Researchers (RJC 2015), Paris, France (extended) |
| 3-3-11 | (2015-06-17) 20th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB'15), Passau, Germany |
| 3-3-12 | (2015-06-22) 22nd conference on Natural Language Processing, Caen, France, |
| 3-3-13 | (2015-06-22) Atelier ETeRNAL Ethique et TRaitemeNt Automatique des Langues, Caen, France |
| 3-3-14 | (2015-06-22) Natural Language Processing Students Conference, Univ.Caen, Normandy, France |
| 3-3-15 | (2015-06-22) TALN 2015 : APPEL À DÉMONSTRATIONS |
| 3-3-16 | (2015-06-22) TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015 Conference, University of Caen Lower Normandy, Caen, France (extended deadline) |
| 3-3-17 | (2015-06-29) 6èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique, Montpellier, France |
| 3-3-18 | (2015-07-01) CONSECUTIVITY AND SIMULTANEITY IN LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES AND SPEECH, Strasbourg, France |
| 3-3-19 | (2015-07-11) ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems (MLIS'15), Lille, France |
| 3-3-20 | (2015-07-13) EUROLAN 2015, Sibiu, Romania |
| 3-3-21 | (2015-07-25) Workshop on Adaptive Natural Language Processing at IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 3-3-22 | (2015-07-31) CfP Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (3rd edition), Beijing, China |
| 3-3-23 | (2015-08-04) 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, Mexico City |
| 3-3-24 | (2015-08-10) 11th one-month Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Mons, Belgium |
| 3-3-25 | (2015-08-20) IVA 2015 Doctoral Consortium, Delft, The Netherlands |
| 3-3-26 | (2015-08-24) 4th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2015) (extended deadline) |
| 3-3-27 | (2015-08-24) LVA 2015 - 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation,Liberec, Czech Republic (Extended deadline) |
| 3-3-28 | (2015-08-27) 2nd CfP 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association 5EUROSLA 2015),Université d'Aix-Marseille, France |
| 3-3-29 | (2015-08-27) CfP EUROSLA 25, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| 3-3-30 | (2015-08-31) CfP EUSIPCO 2015, Nice, France (updated) |
| 3-3-31 | (2015-08-31) Joint Conference PEVOC & MAVEBA 2015, Firenze, Italia |
| 3-3-32 | (2015-09-02) GESPIN 2015 Gesture and Speech in Interaction, Nantes, France (extended deadline) |
| 3-3-33 | (2015-09-04) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2015) |
| 3-3-34 | (2015-09-05) Workshop on the History of Speech Communication, Dresden, Germany |
| 3-3-35 | (2015-09-06 ) INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies |
| 3-3-36 | (2015-09-11) FAAVSP - The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Vienna, Austria |
| 3-3-37 | (2015-09-11) Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Dresden, Germany |
| 3-3-38 | (2015-09-12) Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing – ERRARE 2015, Sinaia (Romania) |
| 3-3-39 | (2015-09-14) CfP Eighteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2015), Pilzen, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-40 | (2015-09-17) 16th Science of Aphasia (SoA) Conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal |
| 3-3-41 | (2015-09-17) CfP EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 3-3-42 | (2015-09-20) 17th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2015), Athens, Greece |
| 3-3-43 | (2015-09-28) 57th International Symposium ELMAR-2015 , Zadar, Croatia |
| 3-3-44 | (2015-09-xx) MultiLing 2015:Multilingual Summarization of Multiple Documents, Online Fora and Call Centre Conversations, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 3-3-45 | (2015-10-15) Young Researchers in Sciences of Language, Laboratory Praxiling, University of Montpellier, France |
| 3-3-46 | (2015-10-18) 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA15), New Paltz, NY, USA |
| 3-3-47 | (2015-11-24) 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Budapest, Hungary |
| 3-3-48 | (2015-12-13) 3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge at ASRU 2015 |
| 3-3-49 | (2015-12-13) ASRU 2015 : IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Scottsdale, AZ, USA |
| 3-3-50 | (2015-12-13) Calls for Challenge Task Proposals ASRU 2015, Scottsdale, Az, USA (updated) |
| 3-3-51 | (2015-xx-xx) Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 |
| 3-3-52 | (2016-05-23) LREC 2016, Portorož (Slovenia) |
| 3-3-53 | (2016-07-13) LabPhon 15: Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation,Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA |
| 4 Academic and Industry Notes |
| 4-1 | Carnegie Speech |
| 4-2 | Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences at USC CA USA |
| 4-3 | Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems |
| 4-4 | Master in linguistics (Aix-Marseille) France |
| 4-5 | NEW MASTER IN BRAIN AND COGNITION AT UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, BARCELONA |
| 4-6 | Masters à la Sorbonne (Paris) |
| 4-7 | The International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) |
| 4-8 | New Masters in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing at Cambridge University, UK |
| 4-9 | MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark |
| 4-10 | AASP TC Challenges |
| 4-11 | Base de données LIBRE et GRATUITE pour la reconnaissance du locuteur |
| 4-12 | Campagne d'évaluation MULTILING |
| 5 Resources |
| 5-1 Books |
| 5-1-1 | Tuomas Virtanen, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj (editors),Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition,Wiley |
| 5-1-2 | Niebuhr, Olivier, Understanding Prosody:The Role of Context, Function and Communication |
| 5-1-3 | Albert Di Cristo: « La Prosodie de la Parole : Une Introduction », Editions de Boeck-Solal (296 p) |
| 5-1-4 | Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, 'Aux sources de la parole: auto-organisation et évolution', Odile Jacob |
| 5-1-5 | Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner , Computational Paralinguistics: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech and Language Processing, Wiley, ISBN: 978-1-119-97136-8, 344 pages, November 2013 |
| 5-1-6 | Li Deng and Dong Yu, Deep Learning: Methods and Applications, Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing |
| 5-2 Database |
| 5-2-1 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (2015-03) |
| 5-2-2 | ELRA releases free Language Resources |
| 5-2-3 | LDC Newsletter (March 2015) |
| 5-2-4 | Appen ButlerHill |
| 5-2-5 | OFROM 1er corpus de français de Suisse romande |
| 5-2-6 | Real-world 16-channel noise recordings |
| 5-2-7 | Aide à la finalisation de corpus oraux ou multimodaux pour diffusion, valorisation et dépôt pérenne |
| 5-2-8 | Rhapsodie: un Treebank prosodique et syntaxique de français parlé |
| 5-2-9 | Annotation of “Hannah and her sisters” by Woody Allen. |
| 5-2-10 | French TTS |
| 5-2-11 | Google 's Language Model benchmark |
| 5-2-12 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) (ELRA Press release) |
| 5-2-13 | ISLRN new portal |
| 5-2-14 | Speechocean – update (March 2015) |
| 5-2-15 | kidLUCID: London UCL Children’s Clear Speech in Interaction Database |
| 5-2-16 | Robust speech datasets and ASR software tools |
| 5-2-17 | International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN) implemented by ELRA and LDC |
| 5-2-18 | ISLRN adopted by Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission |
| 5-2-19 | ELRA News |
| 5-2-20 | Forensic database of voice recordings of 500+ Australian English speakers |
| 5-2-21 | Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings |
| 5-2-22 | Press release: Opening of the ELRA License Wizard |
| 5-3 Software |
| 5-3-1 | ROCme!: a free tool for audio corpora recording and management |
| 5-3-2 | VocalTractLab 2.0 : A tool for articulatory speech synthesis |
| 5-3-3 | Bob signal-processing and machine learning toolbox (v.1.2..0) |
| 5-3-4 | COVAREP: A Cooperative Voice Analysis Repository for Speech Technologies |
| 5-3-5 | Release of the version 2 of FASST (Flexible Audio Source Separation Toolbox). |
| 5-3-6 | Cantor Digitalis, an open-source real-time singing synthesizer controlled by hand gestures. |
| 6 Jobs |
| 6-1 | (2014-12-05) R/D voice INTER GmbH in Dresden , Germany |
| 6-2 | (2014-12-05) Master thesis with available Ph.D scholarship ar GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France |
| 6-3 | (2014-12-06) Stage recherche M2 : Modèles connexionnistes pour la génération automatique dans le cadre de l'interaction vocale, LIA, Avignon, France |
| 6-4 | (2014-12-06) 2 Post-doc positions at the Italian Institute of Technology. |
| 6-5 | (2014-12-06) Post-Doc/Research position in speech intelligibility enhancement, Telecom Paris Tech,France |
| 6-6 | (2014-12-06) PhD Position in Second Language Speech Segmentation at the University of Kansas |
| 6-7 | (2014-12-05) Stage de Master2 à Nancy, France |
| 6-8 | (2014-12-10) MIT Postdoctoral Associate Opportunity,Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 6-9 | (2014-12-08) INGENIEUR EN TECHNIQUES EXPERIMENTALES, Aix en Provence, France |
| 6-10 | (2014-12-12) 2 POSTDOC positions in Machine Learning for Machine translation, LIMSI, Orsay, France |
| 6-11 | (2014-12-12) Internship at Orange Labs, Lannion, France |
| 6-12 | (2014-12-16) Intersship at Orange Lab, France |
| 6-13 | (2015-01-05) Internship at LORIA, Nancy, France |
| 6-14 | (2015-01-05) Proposition de post-doc au LORIA (Nancy, France) |
| 6-15 | (2015-01-05) Internship at GIPSA, Grenoble, France |
| 6-16 | (2015-01-08) Senior Research Engineer at Dolby, Beijing, China |
| 6-17 | (2015-01-15) Senior Research Engineer at Dolby Labs, Beijing, China |
| 6-18 | (2015-01-18) Post-doc position at LORIA (Nancy, France) |
| 6-19 | (2015-01-20) Full-time two-year postdoctoral position at University Paris Diderot |
| 6-20 | (2015-01-20) Two year postdoc position at Aix-Marseille University (France) |
| 6-21 | (2015-01-22) Internship: Sous-titrage automatique de parole dans une 'smart clas ' pour l'accessibilité des personnes sourdes, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble,France |
| 6-22 | Thesis position at Telecom Paris Tech, Paris F. |
| 6-23 | (2015-01-25) Announcement for 1 PhD and 4 postdoctoral students at CentraleSupélec, Paris |
| 6-24 | (2015-01-31) Offre stage M2R au LIMSI/CNRS, Orsay, F |
| 6-25 | (2015-02-20) Funded internship at Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 6-26 | (2015-02-27) 5 fully-funded PhD positions at the University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 6-27 | (2015-02-22) POSTDOC POSITION AT RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS |
| 6-28 | (2015-02-26) Maîtres de Conférences en Informatique, Laboratoire CRIStAL de Lille, France |
| 6-29 | (2015-03-01) NLP research scientist position at ETS, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 6-30 | (2015-03-02) Language Resources Project Manager - Junior at ELDA-ELRA |
| 6-31 | (2015-03-03) Poste de maitre de conférence, ENNSAT, Lannion, France |
| 6-32 | (2015-03-04) Deux postes de Maître de Conférences en informatique, Avignon, France |
| 6-33 | (2015-03-10) Post doc grant at INESC, Lisbon, INESC, Portugal |
| 6-34 | (2015-03-12) Stage (Internship) at ELDA: Développement d'un outil générique d'annotation des ressources linguistiques |
| 6-35 | (2015-03-13) Postdocs in Robust Speaker Verification, Aalborg University, Denmark |
| 6-36 | (2015-03-26) Chargé(e) de recherche en séparation de signaux de parole appliquée à la robotique, IRCAM, Paris |
| 6-37 | (2015-03-28) Associate Research Engineer, NLP at ETS San Francisco, CA, USA |
| 6-38 | (2015-03-29) Post-doc in Experimental Psycholinguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 6-39 | (2015-03-28) Speech R&D Engineer, ValidSoft Limited - London, United Kingdom |
| 6-40 | (2015-03-29) Post-doctoral Position (24 months) University of Michigan |
| 6-41 | (2015-04-01) Post-Doctoral Researcher/Early Stage Researcher (PhD Student), University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus |
| 6-42 | (2015-04-01) Senior Researcher, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus |
| 6-43 | (2015-04-02) PhD grant on 'Efforts and coordination of speech gestures' at GIPSA, Grenoble, France |
| 6-44 | (2015-04-08) Junior Computational Linguist at RecordSure London UK |
| 6-45 | (2015-04-13) These de doctorat à Nancy, France |
| 6-46 | (2005-04-14) Thèse de doctorat à IRISA Lannion Bretagen France |
| 7 Journals |
| 7-1 | Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) on Speech and Language Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology |
| 7-2 | Revue TAL: numéro spécial sur le traitement automatique du langage parlé (updated) |
| 7-3 | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on Spatial Audio |
| 7-4 | Revue TAL: numéro spécial numéro spécial sur le traitement automatique du langage parlé |
| 7-5 | Journal of Natural Language Engineering - Special Issue on “Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora” |
| 7-6 | IEEE/ZACM Trans. ASLP: special issue on continuous space and related methods in natural language processing |
| 7-7 | CfP Special issue Speech Communication on Advances in Sparse Modeling and Low-rank Modeling for Speech Processing |
| 7-8 | [Special Issue] Deep Learning for Speech and Language Processing Applications, EURASIP |
| 7-9 | SPECIAL ISSUE ON DIALOGUE STATE TRACKING (Extended deadline) |
| 7-10 | Special issue of Eurasip Journal in Adv.Signal Proc. 'Silencing the Echoes' - Processing of Reverberant Speech |
| 7-11 | Speech Communication Special issue on Advances in Sparse Modeling and Low-rank Modeling for Speech Processing |
| 7-12 | Special issue of Speech Communication on 'Phase-Aware Signal Processing |
| 7-13 | New journal: Advances in Applied Acoustics |
| 7-14 | Special issue TAL: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES |
| 7-15 | Advances in Applied Acoustics |
| 7-16 | JAIR Special Track on Cross-language Algorithms and Applications (UPDATE) |
| 7-17 | CfP Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage TIPA 2015 |
| 8 Recent Theses |
| 8-1 | Sofia Strömbergsson, 'The /k/s, the /t/s, and the in-betweens. Novel approaches to examining the perceptual consequences of misarticulated speech´ |
| 8-2 | Mohamad Hasan, Bahari, 'Automatic Speaker Characterization Automatic Identification of Gender, Age, Language and Accent from Speech Signals |
| 8-3 | Bing Jiang, 'Using Deep Neural Network for Spoken Language identification' |
| 8-4 | Jan-Niklas Antons, 'Neural Correlates of Quality Perception for Complex Speech Signals' |
| 8-5 | Sung Min Ban, 'Feature and Model Domain Blind Dereverberation for Distant-Talking Speech Recognition' |
| 8-6 | José David Lopes, 'Lexical Entrainment in Spoken Dialog Systems' |