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ISCApad #292 |
| Wednesday, October 05, 2022 by Chris Wellekens |
4 Academic and Industry Notes
| 4-1 | New Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research covering all areas of language science,Univ. of Paris, France The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a newly-formed Paris-area graduate program covering all areas of language science. It offers a comprehensive Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics consortium. Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required. For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html New funding opportunity: https://u-paris.fr/en/call-for-applications-international-students-miem-scholarship-program/ Application deadline : February 1st 2021 (program starting September 1st 2021) PGSL is funded by Smarts-UP (Student-centered iMproved, Active Research-based Training Strategy at Université de Paris) through the ANR SFRI grant « Grandes universités de recherche » (PIA3) 2020-2029.
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| 4-2 | Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil Cambridge's Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence MPhil
Are you interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, or machine learning? Please consider applying to the University of Cambridge?s Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence (MLMI) MPhil programme.
The MLMI MPhil is an elite 11 month programme with a small cohort of about 30 students each year. Due to its small size there is the opportunity to carry out PhD-like research projects on the course (see here for previous students? dissertations), as well having a number of bespoke taught modules with lots of opportunities to interact with the faculty and other members of the course (see here for a list of modules and here for a list of the teaching staff).
Previous members of the MPhil have gone on to study for PhDs in top research groups (e.g. at Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, and MIT), and have gone into top industry positions (e.g. Microsoft Research, Facebook AI Research, Open AI, and AstraZeneca).
This year our programme is restructuring around four overlapping tracks: speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. You apply to one of these tracks and this choice shapes your module options and the research project that you will take on. We are especially interested in candidates who are interested in speech and language processing, computer vision & robotics, and human-computer interaction as we have significant capacity to expand in these areas this year.
Details about the application process can be found on our website. The application deadline is 2nd December 2021.
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| 4-3 | Serveur Discord pour jeunes chercheurs. Nous souhaitons vous faire part aujourd'hui de la création d'un serveur Discord pour les jeunes chercheurs en parole: https://discord.gg/kSgaZp7yg9
Cet espace de discussion a pour but de rassembler la communauté des jeunes chercheurs en parole en France (étudiants en master, doctorants, post-doctorants...).
Vous pourrez notamment y partager vos derniers papiers publiés, vos questions ou appels à l'aide pour l'utilisation d'un logiciel (ou autre), ou simplement rentrer en contact avec des personnes qui travaillent dans votre domaine ou des domaines liés au votre. Rien n'est fixe, le serveur est voué à évoluer au cours de son utilisation! Il peut aussi nous servir à nous retrouver lors d'une conférence ou autre. En tant que jeunes chercheurs avec un petit réseau, on connaît tous ce sentiment peu confortable d'être seul(e) à une conférence, malgré les 1500 personnes autour de nous. Alors plutôt que de stresser chacun dans notre coin, autant nous retrouver et partager tout ça ensemble en nous donnant rendez-vous grâce au serveur de discussion!
La création de ce serveur Discord fait suite à l'appel du comité d'organisation des JEP pour l'organisation d'un événement à destination des jeunes chercheurs en parole lors des Journées d'Etudes en Parole qui auront lieu à Noirmoutier du 13 au 17 juin 2022 (https://jep2022.univ-nantes.fr/). Nous l'avons d'abord créé pour discuter entre jeunes chercheurs sur ce que l'on pourrait imaginer comme événement, puis nous avons pensé qu'il serait intéressant de l'ouvrir à tous pour recueillir vos besoins/envies et voir ce qui pourrait intéresser un maximum de personnes. Il est donc également destiné à essayer de mieux cerner les besoins de formation de chacun. Rassurez-vous, il est partagé en deux: une catégorie pour tous, et une catégorie pour celles et ceux intéressés par l'organisation de journées d'études, ainsi, pas de spam inutile. Si vous souhaitez rejoindre cette deuxième catégorie, il faudra me le notifier dans le canal #général ou me le demander par message privé*.
Rendez-vous sur le serveur pour faire vivre notre communauté de jeunes chercheurs!
Merci aux organisateurs des JEP et à l'AFCP pour leur soutien.
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| 4-4 | ASR challenge in Hindi We are excited to announce the Interspeech-2022 ASR challenge in Hindi using the data collected by Gram Vaani - a social technology enterprise. The data consists of 100 hours of transcribed data and 1000 hours of unlabelled data. More details about the challenge can be found in the attached flyer or at the following website: https://sites.google.com/view/gramvaaniasrchallenge/home?authuser=0
We solicit your participation in this challenge, and innovative work done as part of this challenge may be submitted to the Interspeech-2022 Special Session on Low Resource ASR Development (https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/low-resource-asr-development-special-session-interspeech-2022)
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| 4-5 | The new ISLRN Web Portal is now open (ELRA) Press Release – Immediate Paris, France, March 23, 2022 The new ISLRN Web Portal is now open. ELRA is happy to release a new version of ISLRN (International Standard Language Resource Number) web portal. In order to improve the performance of the portal, with an up-to-date technical infrastructure, ISLRN was ported into latest versions of Django and Python frameworks. Consequently, the website design was also adapted to make the navigation and the functionalities clearer and faster for users. Some of the main design changes currently are: - The main page now offers an extensive description of ISLRN and a single click button to request for an ISLRN number. Subpages can now be viewed from the top menu at all levels of the portal; - The search tool that allows for looking for resources “by ISLRN” or “by resource name” has been combined into one single search box with predictive typing function and is also accessible at all levels of the portal; - Expressive icons allow users to locate the functionalities in a more intuitive way; - Language Resources description pages are better structured and the ISLRN ID of the resource may be copied directly from the Language Resource description page; - Functionalities of management pages (both for users and administrators), such as profile pages or user internal submission pages are improved.
About ISLRN The ISLRN (International Standard Language Resource Number) is a unique persistent identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The establishment of ISLRNs was a major step in the networked and shared world of Human Language Technologies. Unique resources must be identified as they are, and meta-catalogues require a common identification format to manage data correctly. Therefore, Language Resources should carry identical identification schemes regardless their representations, their types and their storage place (hard drives, internet or intranet). To find out more about ISLRN, please visit the website: http://islrn.org/
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| 4-6 | WSIS hackathon UNESCO and the International Telecommunications Union ITU are organizing a global hackathon on ICTs to support the decade of indigenous languages, as part of the 2022 WSIS Forum. The WSIS hackathon will launch on 19 April through 10 May. Prize winners will be selected in three categories: Knowledge, Empowerment and Preservation. UNESCO and ITU will organize two mentoring sessions, most likely on the 21st and 25th of April this month, with one session held in the morning (for Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asian time zone) and another in the afternoon (for the Americas). The mentoring session would involve your hearing pitch sessions by the coding teams and then providing your constructive feedback in such areas as relevance & originality, feasibility, suggestions for additional tweaks/improvements. The mentors may also give opening or closing remarks highlighting the challenges and needs facing indigenous populations and languages from your perspective. There is a chance we may also forward you any further questions from the hackathon teams, which you may help respond to if you wish. These mentoring sessions will be a key aspect of the global hackathon. We are hoping for as many as 60 teams to sign up for a five minute pitch session with one of at least six volunteer mentors, approximately ten mentoring sessions for you of 5 minutes each, over perhaps a two hour period. REQUEST: I hope that you may agree to volunteer your time to help mentor the coding teams, and/or designate, if you are not available, representative(s) from your organization to be our WSIS hackathon mentors. N.B. Bilingual mentors in any language would be useful, e.g. Spanish/English bilingual speakers for the afternoon session, and French/Arabic/English for the morning session. Upon hearing back from you on your availability, I will send you more details, options and ways to engage and contribute. p.s. I also welcome you to please share the hackathon link (registration deadline is 19 April) on your mailing lists and newsletters to encourage more indigenous participants who may be interested. https://icts-for-indigenous-languages.hackerearth.com/fr/ Thank you so much for your consideration. Best regards, Joe
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| 4-7 | Le projet European Language Equality Le projet European Language Equality vise à établir un agenda stratégique concernant la
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| 4-8 | Annoted tweet corpus , ELDA and INSA Rouen ELDA and INSA Rouen Normandie partner to release the Annotated tweet corpus in Arabizi, French and English ELDA and INSA Rouen Normandie are pleased to announce the release of the Annotated tweet corpus in Arabizi, French and English. This corpus was built by ELDA on behalf of INSA Rouen Normandie (Normandie Université, LITIS team), in the framework of the SAPhIRS project (System for the Analysis of Information Propagation in Social Networks), funded by the DGE (Direction Générale des Entreprises, France) through the RAPID programme (2017-2020). This project aimed at studying the mechanisms of information and opinion propagation within social networks: identifying influential leaders, detecting channels for disseminating information and opinion. The purpose of the corpus constitution, completed in 2020, was to collect and annotate tweets in 3 languages (Arabizi, French and English) for 3 predefined themes (Hooliganism, Racism, Terrorism). The annotated tweet corpus in Arabizi, French and English can be found in the ELRA Catalogue under the following links and references:
For more information and/or questions, please write to contact@elda.org.
About INSA Rouen Normandie As a leading regional institute for research and higher education in engineering and among the main French establishments, INSA Rouen Normandie holds a major place in the landscape of engineering education in France. Its mission includes education (11 engineering courses including 4 apprenticeship programs, 2 master’s specialization and 7 masters), research (8 laboratories) and the spreading of scientific culture in the following fields of expertise: information systems, big data, mathematics, chemistry and processes, risks management and industrial site recovery, energy, propulsion systems, mechanics, industrial performance, civil engineering and urban design and planning. INSA Rouen Normandie graduates almost 400 engineers and is a member of the INSA group. It is closely tied to the world of industry and has established a large number of partnerships with international organisations. To find out more about INSA Rouen Normandie, please visit: https://www.insa-rouen.fr/
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| 4-9 | Proposals for the 2024 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)
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| 4-10 | ISCSLP2022 Conversational Short-phrase Speaker Diarization Challenge Registration Open
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| 4-11 | CHiME Challenge Call for Proposals CHiME Challenge Call for Proposals
http://www.chimechallenge.org/current/cfp CHiME is a challenge series whose purpose is to produce scientific advances in the field of distant microphone speech processing. The challenge’s six previous iterations from 2011 until 2020 have resulted in major improvements in word error rate and diarisation error rate for single-speaker voice commands in various environments and for multi-speaker conversations in homes. These six previous iterations have been centrally organised. We now wish to introduce a more open model, where the annual CHiME Challenge features independent tasks organised by teams who work within a schedule defined by the CHiME Steering Group. Teams will be responsible for managing the tasks, i.e., providing data and instructions, scoring submissions and results, etc. The CHiME Steering Group will then work to support teams in the development of their task. The Steering Group will also organise a CHiME workshop where the tasks will be presented. The CHiME Steering Group is now inviting task proposals for the CHiME 2023 Challenge. Proposed tasks will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
We wish to foster a collaborative proposal process that minimises overlap between proposals. To this end, if you are considering proposing a task, please sign up to the CHiME mailing list and feel free to discuss your plans. Or if you wish information to be shared more privately, i.e., amongst other bidders only, then you may share details or initial plans with the CHiME Steering Group who will then share with others whose plans may overlap.
Proposal Task bidders should submit a task proposal for review by the Steering Group. The proposal should be a maximum of two pages (pdf format preferred) including the following information:
Submission The proposal should be sent to the CHiME Steering Group (chimech...@gmail.com) by 26th September. The Steering Group will review the proposals and provide feedback by 10th October. In case task amendments are requested, the task acceptance decision will be finalized by 4th November.
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| 4-12 | NLP4NLP Corpus 5 Years After Following a survey of the Interspeech conference presented for the 25th anniversary of
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| 4-13 | About JSALT About JSALT
Each summer, CLSP organizes and hosts a few international teams for an intensive 6-week research workshop on speech and language engineering. These very successful workshops have had a widespread impact on the Human Language Technology community. Recently, we are beginning to experiment with broadening their reach to adjacent research communities. Each workshop team spends 6 weeks together at CLSP (after some advance preparation), working in close proximity on some challenging problem or a promising solution technique that has not yet been well studied. Many teams have had a lasting influence on subsequent research and practice through the publications, software, and data that they produce. For many workshop participants, the biggest benefit is the interaction with other researchers, seeding new and lasting collaborations. The workshops also contribute to the pool of trained specialists in the fields of speech and natural language processing by providing immersive training to undergraduate and graduate students, allowing researchers from different backgrounds to learn from one another, and educating all workshop participants through guest lectures, participant seminars, and team research updates. This year, the ESPERANTO team contributes to the development of speech-to-speech translation systems with a special focus on enabling
the adaptation of such models for under-resourced languages.
Find more about the ESPERANTO project:
Anthony Larcher
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| 4-14 | Cf special sessions @ICASSP 2023
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| 4-15 | LREC 2022 Proceedings The LREC 2022 Proceedings (Main conference and Workshops) are now available in the ACL Anthology at https://aclanthology.org/events/lrec-2022/
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