Call for Special Sessions/Challenges

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Call for Special Sessions/Challenges for INTERSPEECH 2023 in Dublin, Ireland in August 2023.

Submissions are encouraged covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference’s theme, Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology, are particularly welcome. Apart from supporting a particular theme, special sessions may also have a different format from a regular session.

Check out https://www.interspeech2023.org/special-sessions-challenges/ for more information, including how to submit your proposal.

Important Dates

Proposals of special sessions/challenges due       9th November 2022

Notification of pre-selection       14th December 2022

Final list of special sessions         17th May 2023

For all updates on INTERSPEECH 2023, refer to our website at https://www.interspeech2023.org/

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Call for Tutorials - Extended Submission Deadline
10th February 2023

Extended Dates for Tutorial Submissions

Submission Extended Deadline Date	10th February 2023
Acceptance Notification	24th February 2023

Special Sessions/Challenges		Satellite Sessions
Be sure to check our website regularly for details on Special Sessions/Challenges. For further information on Special Sessions/Challenges, please click the button below.		We are delighted to announce a number of Satellite Sessions have been confirmed. For more information, please click the button below.

 

Exhibition and Sponsorship

Various sponsorship packages with exhibition and other support and partnership opportunities available to book. Exhibition Early Bird rates are available until 31 January 2023. Book today to secure your stand. Contact us to learn more or discuss a package to suit your needs.

 

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Show and Tell Submissions

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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

Professor Barbosa and I are very pleased to announce that the 12th Speech Prosody Conference will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, July 2-5, 2024, and will be organized by Professors Yiya Chen, Amalia Arvaniti, and Aoju Chen.  (Of the 303 votes cast, 225 were for Leiden, 64 for Shanghai, and 14 indicated no preference.) 

Also I'd like to remind everyone that nominations for SProSIG officers for 2022-2024 are being accepted still this week, using the form at http://sprosig.org/about.html, to Professor Keikichi Hirose.  If you are considering nominating someone, including yourself, feel free to contact me or any current officer to discuss what's involved and what help is most needed.

Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair

Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

CCSB 3.0408,  +1-915-747-6827

nigel@utep.edu    https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/   

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The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is honoured to have been selected to host INTERSPEECH 2026. Our theme of Diversity & Equity ? Speaking Together strongly reflects Sydney and our broader region. Sydney is Oceania?s largest city and is also its most linguistically diverse: more than 300 different languages are spoken and 40% of Sydneysiders speak a language other than English at home. Consistent with the goals of ISCA ?to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology?, INTERSPEECH Sydney will highlight the diversity of research in our field with a firm focus on equity and inclusivity. Recognizing the importance of multi-dimensional approaches to speech, INTERSPEECH 2026 will foster greater interdisciplinarity to better inform current and future work on speech science and technology. We look forward to welcoming all to Sydney!

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Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers:  see

https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars

ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS

A seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However,  presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.

ISCA has set up a pool of speakers prepared to give on-line talks. In this way we can enhance the experience of students working in our field, often in difficult conditions. To find details of the speakers,

• visit isca-speech.org
• Click Distinguished Lecturers in the left panel
• Online Seminars then appears beneath Distinguished Lecturers: click that.

Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials.

If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org

If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org

PS. The online seminar scheme  is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:

Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.

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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

We would like to draw your attention to three upcoming short courses from the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences:

- Prosody & Rhythm: applications to teaching rhythm,
  Donna Erickson (Haskins), March 16, 19, 23 and 26

- Prosody, variation and contact,
  Barbara Gili Fivela (University of Salento, Italy), April 19, 21, 23, 26 and 28

- Rhythmic analysis of languages: main challenges,
  Marisa Cruz (University of Lisbon), June 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 10

For details:
  http://www.letras.ufmg.br/padrao_cms/index.php?web=lbass&lang=2&page=3670&menu=&tipo=1
 
 
 
Plinio Barbosa and Nigel Ward

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We are happy to announce that the DiSS Workshop 2023 (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech)
will take place in Bielefeld (Germany) August 28-30. It will include also a special day
on laughter and other non-verbal vocalizations, to connect disfluency research to
research on related phenomena. Submissions are encouraged from all fields that deal with
these phenomena, including: psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition,
psycholinguistics, linguistics, conversation analysis, computational linguistics, speech
technology, gesture analysis, dialogue systems, speech production and perception.

Paper submission will be handled via the CMT platform. Three student grants for attending
the conference will be made available through ISCA. Please check the workshop website:
https://tinyurl.com/diss2023 for further information.

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: 31 March 2023
Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023
Author registration deadline: 16 June 2023
Registration deadline: 28 July 2023
DiSS workshop: 28-30 August 2023

Keynote Speakers:

Ludivine Crible (Ghent University, Belgium)
Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University, Germany)


Looking forward to seeing you in Bielefeld,
Simon Betz, Bogdan Ludusan and Petra Wagner

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ICMR2023 – ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

https://icmr2023.org/

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====ACM ICMR 2023 Doctoral Symposium, Call for papers======== 

ACM ICMR 2023 https://icmr2023.org doctoral symposium plans to bring together Ph.D. students working on topics aligned with the topics of this year conference:

• Multimedia content-based search and retrieval,
• Multimedia-content-based (or hybrid) recommender systems,
• Large-scale and Web-scale multimedia retrieval,
• Multimedia content extraction, analysis, and indexing,
• Multimedia analytics and knowledge discovery,
• Multimedia machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks,
• Relevance feedback, active learning, and transfer learning,
• Fine-grained retrieval for multimedia,
• Event-based indexing and multimedia understanding,
• Semantic descriptors and novel high- or mid-level features,
• Crowdsourcing, community contributions, and social multimedia,
• Multimedia retrieval leveraging quality, production cues, style, framing, and affect,
• Synthetic media generation and detection,
• Narrative generation and narrative analysis,
• User intent and human perception in multimedia retrieval,
• Query processing and relevance feedback,
• Multimedia browsing, summarization, and visualization,
• Multimedia beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data,
• Mobile multimedia browsing and search,
• Multimedia analysis/search acceleration, e.g., GPU, FPGA,
• Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for multimedia analysis/search,
• Privacy-aware multimedia retrieval methods and systems,
• Fairness and explainability in multimedia analysis/search,
• Legal, ethical and societal impact of multimedia retrieval research,
• Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., news/journalism, media, medicine, sports, commerce, lifelogs, travel, security, and environment.

We encourage contributions from students working in the full space of these topics, which is defined by dimensions including:

• Content: image, video, music, spoken audio, sensor data;
• Tasks: retrieval, recommendation, summarization, multimedia mining;
• Multiple modalities: multimodal fusion, cross-media retrieval;
• Algorithms: memory-based, rule-based, model-based, deep learning;
• Retrieval pipeline: hashing, indexing, representation, similarity metrics, query interpretation, results presentation;
• Interaction: relevance feedback, conversational and emotional interfaces;
• Relevance Criteria: topic, style, quality, intent;
• Challenges: large-scale data, fine-grained retrieval, evaluation, interfaces, crowdsourcing, privacy, new applications.

The doctoral symposium will take place during the main conference in a dedicated oral session. The goal is to provide a forum for Ph.D. students to present ongoing research in a collaborative environment and to share ideas with other renowned and experienced researchers. Participants will discuss their research ideas and results, and they will receive constructive feedback from an audience consisting of peers as well as more senior people. It will be an excellent opportunity for developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the Ph.D. students in their future careers and also of the community.

The Ph.D. students of the accepted doctoral symposium papers coming at the conference to present solely their doctoral symposium paper will be entitled to a student registration fee for the entire conference.

Eligibility

Prospective student attendees should already have a clear direction for research, and possibly have published some results. Preference will be given to students who have advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.

Maximum Length of a Paper

Each doctoral symposium paper should not be longer than 4 pages.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Due: February 17, 2023
• Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2023
• Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 20, 2023

Single-Blind Review

ACM ICMR will use a single-blind review process for doctoral symposium paper selection. Authors should provide author names and affiliations in their manuscript. Selections will be based on the submitted 4 pages paper, singly authored by the student wishing to attend. Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium Committee (appointed by the Doctoral Symposium Chairs). Accepted proposals will be published in the conference proceedings. Doctoral students who submit to the Doctoral Symposium are encouraged to submit a paper on their research to the main conference. However, acceptance for participation in the Doctoral Symposium will be based solely on the paper written ad-hoc for the event. All papers will be reviewed with respect to overall quality of presentation, potential for future impact of the research on the field, and expected benefit to the other doctoral students attending the conference.

Submission Instructions

Applications to the Doctoral Symposium should include a 4 pages paper summarizing the applicant’s dissertation research. The paper should include:

• Abstract and the keywords;
• Motivation, problem description;
• Background and related work (including key references);
• Novelty and significance relative to the state of the art;
• Approach, data, methods and proposed experiments;
• Results obtained and work in progress;
• Specific research issues for discussion at the Doctoral Symposium.

In addition to the paper, the applicants are expected to provide a 1 page appendix that should describe the benefits that would be obtained by attending the Doctoral Symposium, including:

• A statement by the student saying why they want to attend the Symposium;
• A statement by their advisor saying how the student would benefit by attending the Symposium.

Advisors should also specifically state whether the student has written, or is close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent), and when they expect the student would defend their dissertation if they progress at a typical rate.

The appendix should be uploaded as a separated file. See the Paper Submission section.

Contact

For any questions regarding demo submissions, please email the Doctoral Symposium Chairs:

Aisling Kelliher  aislingk@vt.edu

Jenny Benois-Pineau jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr

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Le Mans University (France), in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University (USA) and AlloMédia (France) will host a two-week summer school on Human Language Technologies.

The program of this summer school aims at training experts in speech processing and natural language processing.

The 30th JSALT Summer School will take place from Monday 12 June to Friday 23 June 2023.
JSALT Summer School consists in a  2-week long series of lectures by world-class NLP and Speech processing researchers.

The school will take place in Le Mans (France).

What JSALT Summer School represents:

  Advanced lectures by first class researchers. See the list of speakers here
  (https://jsalt2023.univ-lemans.fr/en/summer-school/programme.html)

  An atmosphere that fosters connections and interaction.

The Summer School school is limited to about 100 attendees, and targets primarily students at master level (research oriented) or PhD level.
A number of places are reserved for academics and researchers from the industry.

Registration options:

- Full Summer School (limited to 50 attendees)
       including 30 hours of lectures
       and 27 hours of hands on sessions
       1500€ including private appartement for 2 weeks, breakfast and lunches

- Lectures only: 30 hours of lectures (50 attendees)
       750€ including breakfast and lectures

- Online only : 30 hours of lectures
       500€

Registration at https://jsalt2023-sumschool.sciencesconf.org/

Best,

JSALT 2023 Organizers
Contact: jsalt2023@univ-lemans.fr

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JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023

Ouverture des inscriptions / Tarifs réduits jusqu'au 14 avril inclus

https://www.irit.fr/jpc2023/

Chères et Chers collègues,

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JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023

https://www.irit.fr/jpc2023/

JPC 2023 - Toulouse du 15 au 17 juin 2023

Ouverture des inscriptions 

https://www.irit.fr/jpc2023/

Chères et Chers collègues,

 Appel à Communication

Rencontre scientifique internationale, les Journées de Phonétique Clinique sont principalement destinées à rassembler et à favoriser les échanges entre chercheurs, cliniciens, informaticiens, ingénieurs, phonéticiens et tout autre professionnel s’intéressant au fonctionnement de la parole, de la voix et du langage. Les JPC accueillent autant les experts que les jeunes chercheurs et les étudiants des domaines cliniques (médecine, orthophonie/logopédie), psychologique, informatique et des sciences du langage.

La production et la perception de la parole, de la voix et du langage de l’enfant et de l’adulte, sain ou atteint d’une pathologie, sont les domaines de prédilection des JPC. Ils y sont ainsi abordés selon des points de vue variés, permettant le partage des savoirs et l’ouverture de nouvelles pistes de réflexion, de recherche et de collaboration.

Lors de cette neuvième édition, la thématique des mesures de la parole sera mise en avant. Elle s’inscrit dans un cadre conceptuel dont les facettes sont multiples : analyses perceptives, traitement automatique du signal, caractérisations de l’intelligibilité, du trouble de la parole, des di/ysfluences atteignant le débit de la parole, la prosodie… Sa pertinence clinique est essentielle : l’évaluation du trouble, de ses conséquences fonctionnelles et de l’impact sur la qualité de vie est primordiale pour le suivi des patients atteints de pathologies neurologiques, cancérologiques…

Trois conférences plénières seront prévues autour du thème des journées. Une table ronde ainsi que des ateliers feront également partie du programme de cette nouvelle édition. 

Les propositions de communication (résumé de 400 mots, hors titre, auteurs et références) porteront sur les problématiques suivantes (liste non exhaustive) :

• Parole et perturbations des systèmes perceptifs, auditifs et visuels
• Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologiques
• Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé
• Évaluation fonctionnelle de la parole, du langage et de la voix.
• Diagnostic et traitement des troubles de la parole et de la voix parlée et chantée
• Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique
• Troubles cognitifs et moteurs de la parole et du langage
• …

Une attention particulière sera portée aux propositions ciblant la thématique autour des mesures de la parole.                                       

Dates importantes : 

- 20 janvier 2023 → Date limite de soumission des résumés via SciencesConf : https://jpc2023.sciencesconf.org/
- 30 mars 2023 → Notification aux auteurs
- du 30 mars au 15 mai 2023 → Inscriptions au tarif réduit
- 15 mai 2023 → Version finale des résumés
- Du 15 au 17 juin 2023 → Journées 

Téléchargez le flyer des JPC'2023 pour diffusion dans vos labos, sociétés savantes, ... 

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Call for Papers and Participation [CfP] for the SLaTE-2023 workshop
.
The workshop on 'Speech and Language Technology in Education' (SLaTE 2023) will be held in Dublin, Ireland, on 18-20 August 2023; just before Interspeech 2023.
The 2nd day (August 19) of the workshop will be jointly organized with the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL).
The 3rd day (August 20) will be the social event, and thus is optional.
.
Papers are invited on the SLaTE core topics (esp. for the 1st day),
for the 2nd day (with SIGUL) focusing on the following two themes:
1. Educational Technologies and minority/endangered languages
2. Educational Technologies, Disability and Inclusion in the minority language context
.
Deadlines:
23 May, 2023 - Initial Paper Submission
30 May, 2023 - Final Paper Submission
.
For more information, see: https://sites.google.com/view/slate2023
If you want to contact us: slate2023@gmail.com
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===== CFP deadline extension IWCS 2023 =====

      Paper submissions:
        15 March --> 22 March 2023
      https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers

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15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS)

Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

20-23th June 2023

      http://iwcs2023.loria.fr/


IWCS is the biennial meeting of SIGSEM [1], the ACL special interest
group on semantics [2]; this year's edition is organized in person by the
Loria [3] and IDMC [4] of the Université de Lorraine.

      [1] http://sigsem.org/
      [2] http://aclweb.org/
      [3] https://www.loria.fr/fr/
      [4] http://idmc.univ-lorraine.fr/

The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers
interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction,
representation and neuralisation of meaning in natural language,
whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective.
IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to
computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference
and workshops will take place 20-23 June 2023.


=== TOPICS OF INTEREST ===

We invite paper submissions in all areas of computational semantics, in
other words all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within
written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal communication.

Presentations will be oral and posters.

Submissions are invited on these closely related areas, including the
following:

* design of meaning representations
* syntax-semantics interface
* representing and resolving semantic ambiguity
* shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning
* hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics
* distributional semantics
* alternative approaches to compositional semantics
* inference methods for computational semantics
* recognising textual entailment
* learning by reading
* methodologies and practices for semantic annotation
* machine learning of semantic structures
* probabilistic computational semantics
* neural semantic parsing
* computational aspects of lexical semantics
* semantics and ontologies
* semantic web and natural language processing
* semantic aspects of language generation
* generating from meaning representations
* semantic relations in discourse and dialogue
* semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
* multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
* semantics-pragmatics interface
* applications of computational semantics


=== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ===


Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Both
types should be submitted not later than 3 March (anywhere on earth).

Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages
(not counting acknowledgements and references).
Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research)
must not exceed 4 pages (not counting acknowledgements and references).

Both types will be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL
Anthology. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version.

Style-files:

IWCS papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure
as used by ACL. Please use our specific style-files or the Overleaf template, taken
from ACL 2021. Similar to ACL 2021, initial submissions should be fully anonymous
to ensure double-blind reviewing.

Submitting:

Papers should be submitted in PDF format via Softconf:

https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers

Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper.
Contact the organisers if you have problems using Softconf.

No anonymity period

IWCS 2023 does not have an anonymity period. However, we ask you to be
reasonable and not publicly advertise your preprint during (or right before) review.


=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

15 March --> 22 March 2023 (anywhere on earth) Paper submissions

17 April 2023 Decisions sent to authors

15 May 2023 Camera-ready papers due

20-23 June 2023 IWCS conference


=== CONTACT ===

For questions, contact: iwcs2023-contact@univ-lorraine.fr


Maxime Amblard, Ellen Breithloltz (the IWCS 2023 organizers) 

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InqBnB4 workshop: Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary

Nancy (France), 20 June 2023, hosted by IWCS 2023

https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/inqbnb4-inquisitiveness-below-and-beyond-the-sentence-boundary/

InqBnB is a workshop series bringing together researchers interested in the semantics and
pragmatics of interrogatives (questions or embedded interrogative clauses). This series was
originally organized by the Inquisitive Semantics Group of the Institute for Logic, Language
and Computation (ILLC) from the University of Amsterdam. As such, the focus point mainly
revolves around analyses using or related to inquisitive semantics.

After three successful editions in the Netherlands, we hope to open the inquisitive community
to a wider audience. The 4th edition is planned on 20 June 2023, just before IWCS 2023
(Internation Conference on Computational Semantics). As invited speakers we are welcoming
Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh) and Todor Koev (Universität Konstanz).

InqBnB4 invites submissions on original and unpublished research focussed on the properties
of inquisitive content. We are mainly interested in theoretical questions, formal models and
empirical work. But we are also welcoming papers based on statistical or neural models,
provided their main goal is to bring new insights regarding inquisitiveness.

Here are some examples of questions of interest:
 * Which operators (connectives, quantifiers, modals, conditionals) generate inquisitiveness?
 * How do these operators project the inquisitive content of their arguments?
  * e.g. what triggers maximality, exhaustivity or uniqueness of readings?
 * How does inquisitive content interact with informative content in compositional semantics?
  * e.g. how do interrogative words interact with negative polarity items, free choice items,
      indefinites or plurality?
 * How do conventions of use interact with inquisitive content?
  * e.g. how can non-answering responses (e.g. clarification questions) be handled?
 * In which ways is pragmatics sensitive to inquisitive content?
  * e.g. how does answer bias and ignorance inferences arise?
 * What kind of discourse anaphora are licensed by inquisitive expressions?
  * e.g. does dynamic inquisitive semantics manage to correctly derive donkey anaphora?

*Submission:*
Submission link on SoftConf:
https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/inqbnb4/

Sumitted papers must not exceed eight (8) pages (not counting acknowledgement,
references and appendices). Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version.
Submitted papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by
ACL. Please use the specific style-files or the Overleaf template for IWCS 2023, taken from
ACL 2021. Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing.
The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology.

*Important dates:*
 * Submission deadline: 14 April
 * Author notification: 12 May
 * Camera ready: 9 June
 * Workshop day: 20 June

*Organizers:*
 * Valentin D. Richard [1], Loria, Université de Lorraine
 * Philippe de Groote [2], Loria, INRIA Nancy – Grand Est
 * Floris Roelofsen [3], ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam

*Programme committee:*
 * Local chair: Valentin D. Richard, Université de Lorraine
 * Chair: Floris Roelofsen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
 * Maria Aloni [11], Universiteit van Amsterdam
 * Lucas Champollion [4], New York University (NYU)
 * Jonathan Ginzburg [5], Université Paris Cité
 * Philippe de Groote [2], INRIA Nancy – Grand Est
 * Todor Koev [12], Universität Konstanz
 * Jakub Dotlačil [6], Universiteit Utrecht
 * Reinhard Muskens [7], Universiteit van Amsterdam
 * Maribel Romero [8], Universität Konstanz
 * Wataru Uegaki [9], University of Edinburgh
 * Yimei Xiang [10], Rutgers Linguistics

[1] https://valentin-d-richard.fr/
[2] https://members.loria.fr/PdeGroote/
[3] https://www.florisroelofsen.com/
[4] https://champollion.com/
[5] http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Gens/Ginzburg
[6] http://www.jakubdotlacil.com/
[7] http://freevariable.nl/
[8] https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/romero/
[9] https://www.wataruuegaki.com/
[10] https://yimeixiang.wordpress.com/
[11] https://www.marialoni.org/
[12] https://todorkoev.weebly.com/

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Hae-Sung Jeon and colleagues are organizing a workshop titled Speech Prosody and Beyond,

June 20-23 in Seoul, with abstracts due February 5. 

Details are at https://ukskprosodynetwork.github.io/ .

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Les GdR LIFT et TAL organisent le 28 juin 2023 à Paris une journée d'étude sur les corpus
glosés.

Les gloses interlinéaires sont le format utilisé pour annoter les données sur les langues
nouvellement décrites, notamment dans les cadres de la linguistique descriptive et de la
typologie linguistique. Elles font l'objet d'un intérêt croissant depuis plusieurs années
de la part des chercheurs en linguistique informatique, du fait de la diversité empirique
auxquelles elles donnent accès et des défis posés par la normalisation et la
structuration de ce format.

Cette journée d'étude se penchera en particulier sur les questions de la conversion des
données existantes, sur la normalisation et la sémanticisation des gloses, et sur les
méthodes d'apprentissage pour assister la génération ou la validation de gloses et
l'inférence de représentations linguistiques.

Cette journée a pour but de réunir des membres de communautés scientifiques différentes
s'intéressant aux gloses interlinéaires et de favoriser les échanges entre points de vue.
Le séminaire sera entièrement gratuit et aura lieu en présence et en ligne via la
plateforme Zoom.

La journée s'organisera entre des conférences invitées, des présentations courtes de
travaux en cours et une session de posters. Nous sollicitons donc des propositions de
communication (2 page maximum) sur les thèmes suivants:

- retour d'expérience sur des projets d'aggrégation, de conversion ou d'homogénéisation
de corpus de gloses interlinéaires ;
- exploration sur la diversité des formats et des conventions utilisés dans les
différents corpus de gloses interlinéaires
- retour d'expérience sur des projets d'infrastructure pour la réalisation, l'archivage
ou la diffusion de corpus glosés
- normalisation et standardisation, sémanticisation : élaboration de référentiels,
conversion des étiquettes des corpus glosés vers des référentiels;
- projets portant sur  le développement de nouveaux outils d'annotation et d'exploration
de corpus glosés;
- travaux en traitement  automatique des langues réalisés sur des corpus glosés, à des
fins de constructions de représentations linguistiques, de transfert de connaissances,
d'automatisation ou de validation des gloses

Calendrier:
- 15 mai 2023 : soumission des propositions de communication sur le site
https://glose2023.sciencesconf.org
- 01 juin 2023: notification aux auteur-e-s
- 28 juin 2023: journée d'étude

Cet atelier est organisé sous l'égide du GDR LIFT (https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/) et du GDR
TAL (https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/) avec le soutien des projets ANR CLD 2025 et Autogramm
(https://autogramm.github.io/).

Organisation:
- Sylvain Loiseau (LACITO)
- Sylvain Kahane (MODYCO)
- François Yvon (CNRS)

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9e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF) du 1er au 5 juillet 2024, à l’Université de Lausanne

Les Universités de Bâle, Berne, Fribourg, Genève, Lausanne, Neuchâtel et Zurich accueilleront le 9e Congrès mondial de linguistique française, qui se tiendra du 1er au 5 juillet 2024 sur le campus de l’Université de Lausanne

Comité d’organisation Franck Neveu, Sophie Prévost, Agnès Steuckardt, Gabriel Bergounioux, Gilles Philippe, Gilles Merminod 2 

APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS

Organisation Dates : 1er au 5 juillet 2024

Lieu : Université de Lausanne

Site web : cmlf2024.sciencesconf.org

Programme prévisionnel . Le Congrès est organisé sur la base d’un appel à communications. Les réponses à l’appel sont attendues jusqu’au 17 décembre 2023. Le nombre total de communications est estimé à 200 environ. 4 conférences plénières seront organisées.

Conférences plénières  Les conférences plénières permettent à des chercheurs invités de réputation internationale d’offrir un état de la recherche en linguistique française : Sascha Diwersy, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3 Peter Lauwers, Université de Gand Anne-Catherine Simon, Université Catholique de Louvain Mireille Tremblay, Université de Montréal

Calendrier  avril 2023, diffusion de l’appel

 4 septembre 2023, ouverture de la plateforme

 17 décembre 2023, date limite de réception des propositions de communication

 10 mars 2024, notification de l’acceptation ou du refus des propositions de communication, et directives pour la version définitive

 15 avril 2024, mise à disposition des textes pour l’éditeur

 du lundi 1er juillet au vendredi 5 juillet 2024, congrès à Lausanne

 Organisation générale Franck Neveu, Sorbonne Université Sophie Prévost, CNRS/ENS-PSL/Sorbonne Nouvelle, Lattice Agnès Steuckardt, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3 Gabriel Bergounioux, Université d’Orléans Gilles Philippe, Université de Lausanne Gilles Merminod, Université de Lausanne Comité local d’organisation Lorenza Mondada (Bâle), Anne-Gaëlle Toutain, Sandrine Zufferey (Berne), Gilles Corminbœuf, Richard Huyghe (Fribourg), Isabelle Charnavel, Christopher Laenzlinger (Genève), Marie-Hélène Côté, Rudolf Mahrer (Lausanne), Laure Anne Johnsen, Corinne Rossari (Neuchâtel), Marguerite Dallas, Tabea Ihsane et Elisabeth Stark (Zurich).

Laboratoire coordonnateur Lattice– Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (UMR 8094 CNRS – ENS-PSL – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Laboratoires porteurs du congrès

 Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF / UMR 7118 CNRS – Université de Lorraine)

 Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL / UMR 7320 CNRS – Université Côte d’Azur)

 Centre de Recherches Inter-langues sur la Signification en Contexte (CRISCO / EA 4255 Université Caen Normandie)

 CLESTHIA : Langages, systèmes, discours (EA 7345 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

 Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE/ UMR 5263 CNRS – Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)

 DIPRALANG (EA 739 Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3)

 Histoire des Théories Linguistiques (HTL / UMR 7597 CNRS – Université de Paris – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)  Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM / UMR 8132 CNRS – ENS-PSL)

 Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations (ICAR / UMR 5191 CNRS – Université Lumière Lyon 2 – ENS de Lyon – INRP)

 Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique (LLL / UMR 7270 CNRS – Université d’Orléans – Université de Tours –BnF)

 Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL / UMR 7309 CNRS – Aix-Marseille Université)

 Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (Lattice / UMR 8094 CNRS – ENS-PSL – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) 

 Lexiques, Textes, Discours, Dictionnaires : Centre Jean Pruvost (LT2D / EA 7518 Université de Cergy-Pontoise)  Linguistique et Didactique des Langues Étrangères et Maternelle (LIDILEM / EA 609 Université Grenoble Alpes)

 Linguistique, Langues, Parole (LiLPa / EA 1339 Université de Strasbourg)  Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus (MoDyCo / UMR 7114 CNRS – Université Paris Nanterre)

 PRAXILING (UMR 5267 CNRS – Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3)

 Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL / UMR 8163 CNRS – Université de Lille)

 Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire (STIH / Sorbonne Université)

Remarques sur l’évaluation des propositions Le Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est la manifestation internationale de référence sur et pour la linguistique française qui se caractérise par une procédure exigeante en matière d’évaluation des communications présentées au congrès :

 les propositions de communication ne sont pas des résumés mais de véritables articles (10 pages minimum, 15 pages maximum) comprenant une bibliographie ;

 la gestion des propositions, de leur répartition entre comités thématiques et au sein des comités thématiques s’effectue via une plateforme de gestion de congrès scientifique ;

 la publication des actes est assurée par EDP - http://www.edpsciences.org (publication des actes sur www.linguistiquefrancaise.org) ;

 l’évaluation des propositions est faite par des experts au moyen d’une grille unifiée et après une anonymisation des soumissions ;

 les communications acceptées font l’objet d'une publication en version intégrale dans les actes ;

 les actes et le lien vers les résumés seront accessibles à l’ouverture du congrès.

Partenaires sollicités pour le financement de la manifestation

 Fonds National Suisse pour la recherche

 Ville de Lausanne

 Ministère français de la Culture – Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France 

Présentation scientifique Intérêt scientifique Le neuvième Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est organisé par une équipe ayant eu en charge l’organisation des précédents CMLF, par des membres de l’Université de Lausanne, et par un comité local réunissant des représentants de sept universités suisses. Un laboratoire du CNRS coordonne en France une partie de la gestion administrative et matérielle du congrès. Au total, ce sont dix-neuf laboratoires français et sept universités suisses qui portent le CMLF 2024, en participant à son fonctionnement scientifique et budgétaire. Une telle organisation est exceptionnelle par son ampleur et par la volonté de partenariat scientifique qu’elle révèle. Le Congrès Mondial, qui a été organisé par l’ILF (Institut de Linguistique française – FR 2393 – CNRS) jusqu’en 2018, s’est tenu à Paris en 2008 à La Nouvelle-Orléans en 2010 à Lyon en 2012 à Berlin en 2014 à Tours en 2016 à Mons en 2018 à Montpellier en 2020 à Orléans en 2022 Chacun de ces congrès a attiré près de 300 participants et les résultats ont fait l’objet d’une publication immédiate en ligne (https://www.linguistiquefrancaise.org/component/issues/). Ce congrès est organisé sans aucun privilège d’école ou d’orientation et sans exclusive théorique ou conceptuelle. Chaque domaine ou sous-domaine, chaque type d'objet, chaque type de questionnement et chaque problématique portant sur le français peut y trouver sa place. Le CMLF est organisé en sessions thématiques qui permettent de couvrir la plus grande partie du champ scientifique

1 Discours, pragmatique et interaction

2 Francophonie

3 Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique

4 Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité

5 Lexique

6 Linguistique de l’écrit, linguistique du texte, sémiotique, stylistique

7 Linguistique et didactique (français langue première, français langue seconde)

8 Morphologie

9 Phonétique, phonologie et interfaces 

10 Psycholinguistique et acquisition

11 Ressources et outils pour l’analyse linguistique

12 Sémantique

13 Sociolinguistique, dialectologie et écologie des langues

14 Syntaxe

Chaque thématique est pilotée par un Président ou une Présidente d’une université suisse et coordonnée par un Vice-président ou une Vice-Présidente d’une université ou d’un organisme de recherche français. Les comités scientifiques sont constitués par des spécialistes. Un soin particulier a été accordé à la sélection de ces comités afin de s’assurer qu’ils présenteront les plus grandes garanties scientifiques pour le succès du congrès. On trouve donc dans chaque comité des linguistes connu(e)s mondialement pour leur contribution au domaine. Le rôle de ces comités est de sélectionner les propositions de communications.

MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ET DE PUBLICATION DES COMMUNICATIONS Les soumissions se font sous la forme d’articles de 10 à 15 pages. Toutes les communications (y compris les conférences plénières) seront publiées sous la forme d'un article d’environ 15 pages dans les actes du congrès disponibles en ligne. Les résumés des communications seront imprimés dans un recueil distribué dès le début du congrès et resteront accessibles sous forme électronique sur le site du CMLF. Les actes des huit précédents congrès peuvent être consultés sur www.linguistiquefrancaise.org 

Comité scientifique Le Comité scientifique est composé des présidents et des présidentes, des vice-présidents et des vice-présidentes, et des membres des 14 comités correspondant aux thématiques du Congrès.

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MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
http://www.mldm.de
 
When    Jul 16, 2023 - Jul 21, 2023
Where    New York, USA
Submission Deadline    Jan 15, 2023
Notification Due    Mar 18, 2023
Final Version Due    Apr 5, 2023
Categories:    machine learning   data mining   pattern recognition   classification
 
Call For Papers
MLDM 2023
18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
July 15 - 19, 2023, New York, USA

The Aim of the Conference
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world who deal with machine learning and data mining in order to discuss the recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic research papers as well as application papers are welcome.

Chair
Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI, Germany

Program Committee
Piotr Artiemjew University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Sung-Hyuk Cha Pace Universtity, USA
Ming-Ching Chang University of Albany, USA
Mark J. Embrechts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and CardioMag Imaging, Inc, USA
Robert Haralick City University of New York, USA
Adam Krzyzak Concordia University, Canada
Chengjun Liu New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Krzysztof Pancerz University Rzeszow, Poland
Dan Simovici University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Agnieszka Wosiak Lodz University of Technology, Poland
more to be annouced...


Topics of the conference

Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the following topics:

Association Rules
Audio Mining
Autoamtic Semantic Annotation of Media Content
Bayesian Models and Methods
Capability Indices
Case-Based Reasoning and Associative Memory
case-based reasoning and learning
Classification & Prediction
classification and interpretation of images, text, video
Classification and Model Estimation
Clustering
Cognition and Computer Vision
Conceptional Learning
conceptional learning and clustering
Content-Based Image Retrieval
Control Charts
Decision Trees
Design of Experiment
Desirabilities
Deviation and Novelty Detection
Feature Grouping, Discretization, Selection and Transformation
Feature Learning
Frequent Pattern Mining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a35Wjkygx0&ab_channel=IFOSS

The underlying theme of the current edition is

*Digitalisation and Forensic Data Science: From evidence acquisition to interpretation*.

LIST OF SPEAKERS (almost confirmed)

Fabio Bruno, Interpol, Singapore

Didier Meuwly - University of Twente, NL

Matthew Stamm, Drexel University, USA

Giovanni Tessitore - Polizia Scientifica, IT

Christian Reiss - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, DE

..others coming soon.

DIRECTORS

Sebastiano Battiato - University of Catania, Italy

Donatella Curtotti -  University of Foggia, Italy

Giovanni Ziccardi, University of Milan, Italy

PhD FORUM

A special session is organized for participants who intend to take advantage of the audience for  resenting their current research/tool in the area. Moreover this year, three prizes sponsored by Amazon AWS will be awarded (AWS credits to the top 3 students for a total value of $3500). Students will be selected by the scientific committee on the basis of their CV and the presentations to be given during the demo poster session.

APPLICATION

The school will be open to about 75 qualified, motivated and pre-selected

candidates. Ph. D. students, post-docs, young researchers (both academic and

industrial), senior researchers (both academic and industrial) or

academic/industrial professionals are encouraged to apply at: www.ifoss.it

<http://www.ifoss.it/>

The expected school fee will be of 550 euros for Master and Phd students granted by academia, € 600 for other academic positions and € 700 for industrial. Reduced Fee will be reserved to LEAs, private lawyers and practitioners 400 Euros. The fee will include all course materials, coffee breaks, bus service from Catania Airport to School Location and return, WiFi Internet Connection, a guided tour, a social dinner and all the events scheduled in the programme.

A certain number of scholarships will be available soon depending on sponsorship income.

Applications to attend IFOSS 2023 should be received before 07/05/2023.

Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by mid of May.

Late registration can be done with an extra payment of € 100.

ACCOMODATIONS

IFOSS participants will be hosted at Hotel Village Baia Samuele (school location) at very special rates. There are no other accommodation options. IFOSS 2023 participants must make reservations for accommodation, using the accommodation reservation form (available soon) to be sent directly to Baia Samuele reception. 
 

More details at https://www.ifoss.it/accommodation/

After a certain date there is no guarantee for reservations in Hotel Village Baia Samuele.

More information will be announced as soon as possible on the web site.

Depending on chosens settings (Single, Double or Triple Room) the overall cost enclosing Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner should span in the range (600-1000 euros) in the period 16(in) to 22 (out) July 2023.

LOCATION OF IFOSS 2023

IFOSS 2023 will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele in Punta Sampieri - Scicli (Ragusa), Sicily from 16-22 July 2023.

Sicily is one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean. The island is very rich in archeological sites from various Ancient Civilizations. The sea, weather, food and the wine are excellent. In particular Punta Sampieri - Scicli (RG) is located in the south east of Sicily in a late Baroque area called Val di Noto. The Val di Noto area is included in the Unesco World Heritage List and

includes eight nearby towns: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli.

The location of the school rises in the middle of an ample bay delimited on the west from Sampieri and on the east from a cliff, on which is founded an ancient furnace, rare example of industrial archaeology. The Hotel Village Baia Samuele stretches in a gentle slant to the beach: 120 thousand square meters delimited from rows of secular cypresses. An ultramodern village with an original architecture, pleasant design and all comforts you can imagine. The frame of plants and flowers, typical of this angle of Sicily, in front of the island of Malta, completes this gilded dream of the Mediterranean.

MORE INFORMATION

www.ifoss.it

info@ifoss.it

FOLLOW US ON

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InternationalForensicsSummerSchool/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IFOSS22
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ifoss_official/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ifoss/

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We would like to welcome you to Prague for the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), which takes place on August 7–11, 2023, in Prague, Czech Republic.

ICPhS takes place every four years, is held under the auspices of the International Phonetic Association and provides an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of basic and applied research in the phonetic sciences. The main areas covered by the Congress are speech production, speech acoustics, speech perception, speech prosody, sound change, phonology, sociophonetics, language typology, first and second language acquisition, forensic phonetics, speaking styles, voice quality, clinical phonetics and speech technology.

We invite papers on original, unpublished research in the phonetic sciences. The theme of the Congress is “Intermingling Communities and Changing Cultures”. Papers related to this theme are especially encouraged, but we welcome papers related to any of the Congress’ scientific areas. The deadline for abstract submission is December 1, 2002, and for full-paper submission December 8, 2022.

We also invite proposals for special sessions covering emerging topics, challenges, interdisciplinary research, or subjects that could foster useful debate in the phonetic sciences. The submission deadline is May 20, 2022.

All information is available at https://www.icphs2023.org/, where it is also possible to register for email notifications concerning the congress.

Contact: icphs2023@guarant.cz

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The president of the IPA, Michael Ashby, would like to call attention to the IPA's generous scheme of student awards and travel bursaries for ICPhS. He hopes that many of us will encourage our students to apply.

https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/news/202210/ipa-student-awardstravel-bursaries-and-g%C3%B6sta-bruce-scholarships-icphs-2023 <https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/news/202210/ipa-student-awardstravel-bursaries-and-g%C3%B6sta-bruce-scholarships-icphs-2023>

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2nd Call for Papers

SIGUL 2023 Workshop

Co-located with Interspeech 2023

Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 August 2023

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2023) provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2023 carries on the tradition of the SIGUL and the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organized since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this workshop will span the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages.

Special Features

This year, the workshop will be marked with three special events:

(1) Special Session in Celtic Language Technology (August 18)

SIGUL 2023 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language technologies for Celtic languages.

(2) Joint Session with SlaTE 2023 (August 19)

SIGUL 2023 will have a joint session with The 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SlaTE 2023). The goal is to accelerate the development of spoken language technology for under-resourced languages through education.

(3) Social outing and dinner near Dublin (optional on August 20)

Invited Speakers

• Subhashish Panigrahi, O Foundation and Law for All Initiative: Reclaiming Our Voices - Imagining Community-Led Ai/Ml Practices

• Delyth Prys, Language Technologies Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr: TBA

Workshop Topics 

Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in natural language processing and spoken language processing for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers and also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Processing any under-resourced languages (covering less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages)

• Cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages

• Fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts, dictionaries, grammars, and language models

• Zero-resource speech technologies and self-supervised learning

• Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling

• Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects

• Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems

• Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages

• Special topic: 

• Celtic language technology

• Spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages via education

We also welcome various typologies of papers:

• research papers;

• position papers for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches);

• research posters for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development or description of new resources;

• demo papers, and early-career/student papers, to be submitted as extended abstracts and presented as posters.

Instructions for Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions according to the following guidelines.

• Research and position papers: a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page reserved exclusively for references.

• Demo papers, and early-career/student papers: a maximum of three pages with the 3rd page reserved for references. 

Both types of submissions must conform to the Interspeech format defined in the paper preparation guidelines as instructed in the author’s kit on the Interspeech webpage. Papers do not need to be anonymous. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication.

Important Dates

- Paper submission deadline: 28 May 2023

- Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2023 

- Camera-ready paper: 21 July 2023 

- Workshop date: 18-20 August 2023

Outline of the Program

SIGUL 2023 will continue the tradition of the previous SIGUL event that features a number of distinguished keynote speakers, technical oral and poster sessions, and panel discussions to discuss a better future for under-resourced languages and under-resourced communities. 

Full list of organizers SIGUL Board

Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy)

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

SIGUL 2023 Organizers

Kolawole Adebayo (ADAPT, Ireland)

Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Brian Davis (ADAPT, Ireland)

John Judge (ADAPT, Ireland)

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy)

SIGUL 2023 Program Committee

Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI-CNRS, France)

Manex Agirrezabal (University of Copenhagen – Center for Sprogteknologi | Center for Language Technology, Denmark)

Shyam S. Agrawal (KIIT, India)

Begona Altuna (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia)

Matt Coler (University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands)

Pradip K. Das (IIT, India)

Iria De Dios Flores ( Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes, Spain)

A. Seza Doğruöz (Universiteit Gent, België | Ghent University, Belgium)

Stefano Ghazzali (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd) 

Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA)

Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC [Artificial Intelligence Research Center], AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan)

Laurent Kevers (Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France)

Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates)

Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France)

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Espanya | Spain)

Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar)

Delyth Prys (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd) 

Carlos Ramisch (Université Marseille, France)

Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italia | Italy)

Trond Trosterud (Norges Arktiske Universitet | The Arctic University of Norway)

Acknowledgments

SIGUL is a joint Special Interest Group of the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The SIGUL 2023 workshop has been organized with the help of the local organizers of Interspeech 2023 and Slate 2023. This edition has been sponsored by Google and endorsed by Linguapax International. 

Contact

To contact the organizers, please mail sigul2023@ml.jaist.ac.jp (Subject: [SIGUL2023]).

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We would like to bring to your notice the launch of the special session at Interspeech 2023 on DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments [DISPLACE] Challenge.  

The DISPLACE challenge entails a first of kind task to perform speaker and language diarization on the same data, as the data contains multi-speaker social conversations in multilingual code-mixed speech. In multilingual communities, social conversations frequently involve code-mixed and code-switched speech. In such cases, various speech processing systems need to perform the speaker and language segmentation before any downstream task. The current speaker diarization systems are not equipped to handle multi-lingual conversations, while the language recognition systems may not be able to handle the same talker speaking in multiple languages within the same recording. 

With this motivation, the DISPLACE challenge attempts to benchmark and improve Speaker Diarization (SD) in multilingual settings and Language Diarization (LD) in multi-speaker settings, using the same underlying dataset. For this challenge, a natural multi-lingual, multi-speaker conversational dataset will be distributed for development and evaluation purposes. There will be no training data given and the participants will be free to use any resource for training the models. The challenge reflects the theme of Interspeech 2023 - 'Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology – Breaking Down Barriers' in its true sense.  

Registrations are open for this challenge which will contain two tracks - a) Speaker diarization track and b) Language diarization track. 

A baseline system and an open leaderboard is available to the participants. The DISPLACE challenge is split into two phases, where the first phase is linked to the Interspeech paper submission deadline, while the second phase aligns with the camera ready submission deadline. For more details, dates and to register, kindly visit the DISPLACE challenge website: https://displace2023.github.io/

We look forward to your team challenging to 'displace' the state-of-the-art in speaker, language diarization. 

Thank you and Namaste,

The DISPLACE team 

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2023)
30 August - 1 September 2023, Singapore
http://ieee-mipr.org/


The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing
and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR 2023) will take place both physically and virtually,
August 30 ? September 1, 2023, in Singapore. The conference will provide a
forum for original research contributions and practical system design,
implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and
retrieval.

Topics (Please see http://ieee-mipr.org/call_papers.html).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Multimedia Retrieval
2. Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining
3. Content Understanding and Analytics
4. Multimedia and Vision
5. Networks for Multimedia Systems
6. Systems and Infrastructures
7. Data Management
8. Novel Applications
9. Internet of Multimedia Things
and others.

Paper Submission:

The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages), short papers (4 pages),
and demo papers (4 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.
Instructions and a link to the submission website are available here:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MIPR2023

Important Dates (http://ieee-mipr.org/dates.html):
  - Regular Paper (6 pages) and Short Paper (4 pages) Submission Due: April 19, 2023
  - Notification of Decision: May 25, 2023
  - Camera-ready deadline: July 10, 2023
  - Conference Date: August 30-Sep 1, 2023
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                     TSD 2023 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
***************************************************************************

                 Twenty-sixth International Conference on
                   TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2023)

                Pilsen, Czech Republic, 4-7 September 2023
                       http://www.tsdconference.org/


*** The paper submission deadline was postponed! ***

*** NEW *** The best papers' authors will be asked to provide extended
versions of their papers to be published in a topical issue of the Springer
Nature Journal of Computer Science (https://www.springer.com/journal/42979)


The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Plzen (Pilsen) in co-operation with the Faculty of
Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and is supported by the
International Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic,
Primavera **** Hotel & Congress Centre


THE IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for submission of contributions:       Postponed to April 30, 2023
Notification of acceptance or rejection:        May 22, 2023
Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: June 4, 2023
TSD 2023:                                       September 4-7, 2023


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. The TSD conference proceedings 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. Moreover, LNAI series is listed in
all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and
    spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized
    lexicons, dictionaries)

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech,
    handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of
    feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological
    and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual
    processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text
    labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity
    speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction,
    information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge
    representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation,
    plagiarism detection, fake news 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 Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and
    personality modelling)

Papers dealing with text and speech processing in linguistic environments
other than English are strongly encouraged (as long as they are written in
English).


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Elmar Noth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany (General Chairman)
Rodrigo Agerri, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Vladimir Benko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Archna Bhatia, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Jan Cernocky, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Simon Dobrisek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kamil Ekstein, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Karina Evgrafova, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Yevhen Fedorov, Cherkasy State Technological University, Ukraine
Volker Fischer, EML Speech Technology GmbH, Germany
Darja Fiser, Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia
Lucie Flek, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany
Bjorn Gamback, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Radovan Garabik, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Jan Hajic, Charles University, Czechia
Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Czechia
Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique, France
Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Charles University, Czechia
Ales Horak, Masaryk University, Czechia
Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Denis Jouvet, Inria, France
Maria Khokhlova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Aidar Khusainov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Russia
Daniil Kocharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Miloslav Konopik, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Ivan Kopecek, Masaryk University, Czechia
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Evgeny Kotelnikov, Vyatka State University, Russia
Pavel Kral, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Siegfried Kunzmann, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning, United States
Nikola Ljubesic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Croatia
Natalija Loukachevitch, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Bernardo Magnini , Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Oleksandr Marchenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Vaclav Matousek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Roman Moucek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Agnieszka  Mykowiecka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
Juan Rafael  Orozco-Arroyave, University of Antioquia, Colombia
Karel Pala, Masaryk University, Czechia
Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Josef Psutka, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, United States
German Rigau, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States
Milan Rusko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Pavel Rychly, Masaryk University, Czechia
Mykola Sazhok, International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems, Ukraine
Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Pavel Skrelin, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Czechia
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Marko Robnik Sikonja, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marko Tadic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jan Trmal, Johns Hopkins University, Czechia
Tamas Varadi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Aleksander Wawer, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Pascal Wiggers, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Marcin Wolinski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Alina Wroblewska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Victor Zakharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Jerneja Zganec Gros, Alpineon, Slovenia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference programme will include invited keynote speeches given by
respected influential researchers/academics, presentations of accepted
papers in both oral and poster/demonstration form, and interesting social
events. The papers will be presented in plenary and topic-oriented
sessions.

Social events including an excursion to the world-famous Pilsner Urquell
Brewery and a trip in the vicinity of Plzen will allow additional informal
interactions of the conference participants.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (known so far)

* Philippe Blache -- Director of Research at the Laboratoire
  Parole et Langage (LPL), Institute of Language, Communication and the
  Brain CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, France

* Ivan Habernal -- Head of the Trustworthy Human Language
  Technologies (TrustHLT) Group   Department of Computer Science,
  Technische universitat Darmstadt, Germany

* Daniela Braga (negotiations in progress) -- Founder and CEO
  at Defined.ai, Bellevue, Washington, United States


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages (in
total, i.e. with all figures, bibliography, etc. included) formatted in
the LNAI/LNCS style. Those accepted will be presented either orally or as
posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the
recommendation of the reviewers. Each paper is examined by at least
3 reviewers and the process is double blind.

The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission
interface accessible from the TSD 2023 web application at
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2023/index.php?form=mypapers

The papers submitted to the TSD 2023 must not be under review at any other
conference or other type of publication during the TSD 2023 review cycle,
and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or
interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The
presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one
page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference
proceedings.

*** NEW *** The best papers' authors will be asked to provide extended
versions of their papers to be published in a topical issue of the
Springer Nature Journal of Computer Science
(https://www.springer.com/journal/42979)


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee arranged discounted accommodation of appropriate
standards at the conference venue. Details about the conference
accomodation will be available on the TSD 2023 web page at
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2023/index.php?page=accommodation

The prices of the accommodation (and limited-budget options) will be
available on the conference website, too.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to

    TSD 2023 - KIV
    Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia
    Univerzitni 8, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic
    Phone: +420 730 851 103
    Fax: +420 377 632 402 (mark the material with letters 'TSD')
    E-mail: tsd2023@tsdconference.org

The e-mail and the conference phone is looked after by the TSD 2023
conference secretary Ms Marluce Quaresma (speaks English, Portuguese, and
Czech).

The official TSD 2023 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

The city of Plzen (or Pilsen in Germanic languages) is situated in the
heart of West Bohemia at the confluence of four rivers: Uhlava, Uslava,
Radbuza, and Mze. With its approx. 171,000 inhabitants it is the fourth
largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial, commercial,
and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the Pilsen Region. In
addition, it has been elected the European Capital of Culture for 2015 by
the Council of the European Union.

The city of Plzen has a convenient location in the centre of West Bohemia.
The place lied on the crossroads of important medieval trade routes and
nowadays it naturally forms an important highway and railroad junction;
thus, it is easily accessible using both individual and public means of
transport.

Plzen lies 85 km (53 mi) south-westwards from the Czech capital Prague,
222 km (138 mi) from the Bavarian capital Munich, 148 km (92 mi) from the
Saxon capital Dresden, and 174 km (108 mi) from the Upper Austrian capital
Linz. The closest international airport is the Vaclav Havel Airport Prague,
which is 75 km (47 mi) away and one can get from there to Plzen very easily
within about two hours by Prague public transport and a train/bus.

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Dans le cadre du GdR CNRS Traitement automatique des langues (GdR TAL), le LS2N organise
une journée scientifique sur le thème des « modèles de langue pour les domaines de
spécialité », le 7 septembre 2023 à Nantes. La journée sera organisée autour de
présentations orales invitées, de présentations sous la forme de posters et de démos (cf.
appel ci-dessous) ainsi que d’une table ronde.


## Thèmes

Les modèles de langue de grande taille (LLM) constituent aujourd’hui le composant central
de toute solution du Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL). Néanmoins leur
exploitation pour le traitement de domaines de spécialité requiert de faire face à de
nombreux défis en raison de la spécificité thématique, du genre et des caractéristiques
linguistiques et stylistiques de ces domaines.

L’objectif de cette journée est de rassembler des chercheur.ses et des industriel.les des
communautés francophones du TAL, de la RI et de la parole pour échanger et faire le point
sur les dernières avancées et problématiques autour des questions d’exploitation des LLM
pour le traitement des domaines de spécialité.

Nous invitons des communications sur les thèmes suivants (liste non exhaustive) :

* Interdisciplinarité des LLM, avantages et limites de modèles « encore plus grands » par
rapport à des modèles spécialisés ;
* Adaptation des LLM à un domaine de spécialité (pré-entraînement, ajustement, adaptation
des architectures) ;
* Ingénierie de l’instruction et du prompt (few-shot learning, zero-shot learning,
contrastive learning) ;
* Injection de connaissances externes et explicabilité des modèles ;
* Transfert interlingue (cross-lingual transfer) et approches multimodales ;
* Prise en compte des spécificités linguistiques du domaine (style, discours…) ;
* Prise en compte de la quantité et de la nature des ressources disponibles (corpus,
bases de connaissances) pour ce domaine ou des domaines voisins ;
* Récentes avancées dans le domaine médical, scientifique, juridique, financier… ;
* Sous-domaines, biais, diversité et inclusion dans les LLM ;
* Aspects légaux et éthiques au travers des modèles.


## Orateur.trice.s. invité.e.s

Les orateur.trice.s invité.e.s seront précisé.e.s ultérieurement.


## Appel à communications (poster, démo)

Dans le cadre de cette journée, nous invitons les chercheuses et chercheurs, travaillant
sur ces thèmes, dans un cadre académique ou industriel, à présenter leurs travaux (démo
ou poster), même déjà publiés, pour échanger avec des collègues du domaine. Pour cela, il
suffit de soumettre un résumé d’une page maximum, et/ou le poster s’il est déjà existant,
et/ou l’article décrivant les travaux si déjà publié, en français ou en anglais.

* Soumission des résumés/posters/articles : au fil de l’eau et au plus tard le 7 juillet
2023
* Notification aux auteurs : au maximum 1 semaine après réception de la proposition

Site de soumission : https://gdr-tal-nantes.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit


## Inscription

Gratuite mais obligatoire via la page
https://gdr-tal-nantes.sciencesconf.org/registration, avant le 7 juillet 2023.



## Contact

Pour toute question, contactez Solen Quiniou et Nicolas Hernandez
(prénom.nom@univ-nantes.fr).

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The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,on September 10th – 13th, 2023. 

The Conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier international venue for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and, more generally, affective phenomena. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore (conditional on the approval by IEEE Computer Society) and indexed by EI. A selection of the best articles at ACII 2023 will be invited to submit extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

The theme of ACII 2023 is “Affective Computing: Context and Multimodality”. Fully understanding, predicting, and generating affective processes undoubtedly requires the careful integration of multiple contextual factors (e.g., gender, personality, relationships, goals, environment, situation, and culture), information modalities (e.g., audio, images, text, touch, and smells) and evaluation in ecological environments. Thus, ACII 2023 especially welcomes submitted research that assesses and advances Affective Computing’s ability to do this integration.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect from ALL Modalities

• Multimodal Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States

• Contextualized Modeling of Cognitive and Affective States

• Facial and Body Gesture Recognition, Modeling and Animation
• Affective Speech Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis
• Recognition and Synthesis of Auditory Affect Bursts (Laughter, Cries, etc.)
• Motion Capture for Affect Recognition
• Affect Recognition from Alternative Modalities (Physiology, Brain Waves, etc.)
• Affective Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis
• Multimodal Data Fusion for Affect Recognition
• Synthesis of Multimodal Affective Behavior
• Summarisation of Affective Behavior

Affective Science using Affective Computing Tools

• Studies of affective behavior perception using computational tools

• Studies of affective behavior production using computational tools

• Studies of affect in medical/clinical settings using computational tools

• Studies of affect in context using computational tools

Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Designing Computational Systems

• Computational Models of Affective Processes

• Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems

• Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction 

Affective Interfaces

• Interfaces for Monitoring and Improving Mental and Physical Well-Being

• Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems

• Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces

• Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments

• Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces

• Distributed/Collaborative Multimodal Proactive Interfaces

• Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces

• Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces

 Affective, Social and Inclusive Robotics and Virtual Agents

• Artificial Agents for Supporting Mental and Physical Well-Being
• Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action
• Embodied Emotion
• Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics
• Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics
• Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents
• Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents
• Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents

Affect and Group Emotions

• Analyzing and modeling groups taking into account emergent states and/or emotions

• Integration of artificial agents (robots, virtual characters) in the group life by leveraging its affective loop: interaction paradigms, strategies, modalities, adaptation

• Collaborative affective interfaces (e.g., for inclusion, for education, for games and entertainment)

Open Resources for Affective Computing

• Shared Datasets for Affective Computing

• Benchmarks for Affective Computing

• Open-source Software/Tools for Affective Computing

Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Transparency and Ethics in Affective Computing   

• Bias, imbalance and inequalities in data and modeling approaches in the context of Affective Computing

• Bias mitigation in the context of Affective Computing

• Explainability and Transparency in the context of Affective Computing

• Privacy-preserving affect sensing and modeling

• Ethical aspects in the context of Affective Computing

Applications

• Health and well-being
• Education
• Entertainment
• Consumer Products
• User Experience

Important dates

Main track submissions: 14 April 2023

Decision notification to authors: 2 June 2023

Camera ready submission for main track: 16 June 2023

The remaining important dates can be found at the ACII website.

We hope to see you at ACII 2023!

ACII2023 Organizers

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING & INTELLIGENT INTERACTION

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The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG) will be held jointly in Prague on September 11-15, 2023.

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers, continuing a series of 23 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for ACL and ISCA.

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 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. Discourse issues in text generated by large language models.

  *   Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications. Knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue. State representation, 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. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue.

  *   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 Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of conversations(i.e., beyond a single sentence), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions.

  *   Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology.

Submissions

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Submitted long papers may be accepted  for oral or for 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 4 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 2023 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Overlap with the SIGDIAL workshop submissions is permitted for non-archived workshop proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs [at] sigdial.org.

Blind Review

Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL  2023 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, which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word)

Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.

Submission Deadline

SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.

Regular submission

Authors have to fill in the submission form in the Softconf/START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 15, 2023 (23:59 GMT-11).  Details and the submission link will be posted on the conference website.

Submission via ACL Rolling Review (ARR)

Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2023 is June 19, 2023. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2023.

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 2023 will include 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.

SIGDIAL 2023 Program Committee

Svetlana Stoyanchev and Shafiq Rayhan Joty

Conference Website: https://2023.sigdial.org/

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CALL FOR PAPERS  --  ACM IVA 2023

The annual ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the development, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents with a focus on the ability for social interaction, communication or cooperation. Such artificial agents can be embodied graphically (e.g. virtual characters, embodied conversational agents) or physically (e.g. social or collaborative robots). They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action allowing them to participate in dynamic social environments. This includes human-like interaction qualities such as multimodal communication using facial expressions, speech, and gesture, conversational interaction, socially assistive and affective interaction, interactive task-oriented cooperation, or social behaviour simulation. IVAs are highly relevant and widely applied in many important domains including health, tutoring, training, games, or assisted living.

We invite submissions of research on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: theoretical foundations of intelligent virtual agents, agent and interactive behaviour modelling, evaluation, agents in simulations, games, and other applications. Please see the detailed list of topics below.

VENUE

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IVA 2023 will take place in Würzburg, Germany. Würzburg is a vibrant town located by the river Main in northern Bavaria, between Frankfurt and Nuremberg. The mix of stunning historical architecture and the young population is what makes the atmosphere so unique, including 35,000 students from three different universities. The mild and sunny climate is ideal to enjoy the many activities Würzburg has to offer: visiting a beer garden next to the river, attending a sporting or cultural event or taking a stroll through one of the parks.

IVA is targeted to be an in-person conference. In case of extraordinary circumstances, such as visa problems or health issues, video presentation will be possible. However, there is no digital or hybrid conference system planned, thus it is not possible to attend this year’s IVA conference remotely.

IMPORTANT DATES

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Abstract submission: April 14, 2023

Paper submission: April 18, 2023

Review notification / start of rebuttal: May 31, 2023

Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2023

Camera ready deadline: July 18, 2023

Conference: September 19-22, 2023

All deadlines are anywhere on earth (UTC−12).

SPECIAL TOPIC

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This year’s conference will highlight a special topic on “IVAs in future mixed realities”, e.g., in social VR and potential incarnations of a Metaverse. Immersive and potentially distributed artificial virtual worlds provide new forms of full-size embodied human-human interaction via avatars of arbitrary looks, enabling interesting intra- and interpersonal effects. They also enable hybrid avatar-agent interactions between humans and A.I.s, unlocking the full potential of non-verbal behavior in digital face-to-face encounters, significantly enhancing the design space for IVAs to assist, guide, help but also to persuade and affect interacting users. We specifically welcome all kinds of novel research on technological, psychological, and sociological determinants of such immersive digital avatar-agent encounters.

TYPES OF SUBMISSION

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- Full Papers (7 pages + 1 additional page for references):

Full papers should present significant, novel, and substantial work of high quality.

- Extended Abstracts (2 pages + 1 additional page for references)

Extended abstracts may contain early results and work in progress.

- Demos (2 pages + 1 additional page for references +1 one page with demo requirements)

Demos submissions focus on implemented systems and should contain a link to a video of the system with a maximum length of 5 minutes.

All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by a group of external expert reviewers. All accepted submissions will be published in the ACM proceedings.

Accepted full papers will be presented either in oral sessions or as posters during the conference (depending on the nature of the contribution), extended abstracts will be presented as posters, and demos will be showcased in dedicated sessions during the conference. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors must register for the conference.

IVA 2023 will also feature workshops and a doctoral consortium. Please visit the website (https://iva.acm.org/2023) for more details and updates.

TRACKS

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For full paper submissions, IVA will have different paper tracks with different review criteria. Authors need to indicate which one of the following tracks they want to submit their paper to:

1. Empirical Studies

• criteria: methodology, theoretical foundation, originality of result etc.

2. Computational Models and Methods

• criteria: technical soundness, novelty of the model or approach, proof of concept, etc.

3. Operational Systems and Applications

• criteria: innovation of the application, societal relevance, evaluation of effects, etc.

SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS

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IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

AGENT DESIGN AND MODELING:

- Cognition (e.g. task, social, other)

- Emotion, personality and cultural differences

- Socially communicative behaviour (e.g., of emotions, personality, relationship)

- Conversational and dialog behavior

- Social perception and understanding of other’s states or traits

- Machine learning approaches to agent modeling

- Adaptive behavior and interaction dynamics

- Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology

MULTIMODAL INTERACTION:

- Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination (synthesis)

- Multimodal/social behavior processing

- Face-to-face communication skills

- Interaction qualities  engagement, rapport, etc.)

- Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation

- Multi-party interaction

- Data-driven modeling

SOCIALLY INTERACTIVE AGENT ARCHITECTURES:

- Design criteria and design methodologies

- Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction

- Standards / measures to support interoperability

- Portability and reuse

- Specialized tools, toolkits, and toolchains

EVALUATION METHODS AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES:

- Evaluation methodologies and user studies

- Metrics and measures

- Ethical considerations and societal impact

- Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents)

- Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior

APPLICATIONS:

- Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc.

- Virtual agents in games and simulations

- Social agents as tools in psychology, neuroscience, social simulation, etc

- Migration between platforms

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

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Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the “ACM Standard” format, more specifically the “SigConf” format. Please consulthttps://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for the Latex template, word interim template, or connection to the overleaf platform.

All papers need to be submitted in PDF-format.

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.  ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors.  The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022.  We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

This event is sponsored by SIGAI.

Please visit the conference website for detailed information on how to submit your paper.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

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https://iva.acm.org/2023/

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Call for SS  Proposals at CBMI’2023==================

CBMI’2023  http://cbmi2023.org/ is calling for high quality Special Sessions  addressing innovative research in content – based multimedia indexing  and its related broad fields. The main scope of the conference is in  analysis and understanding of multimedia contents including

• Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
• Mobile media retrieval
• Event-based media retrieval
• Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval
• Multimedia data mining and analytics
• Multimedia retrieval for multimodal analytics and visualization
• Multimedia recommendation
• Multimedia verification (e.g., multimodal fact-checking, deep fake analysis)
• Large-scale multimedia database management
• Summarization, browsing, and organization of multimedia content
• Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems
• Explanations of decisions of AI-in Multimedia
• Application domains : health, sustainable cities, ecology, culture… 

and all this in the era of Artificial Intelligence for analysis and indexing of multimedia and multimodal information.

A special oral session will contain oral presentations of long research papers, short papers will be presented as posters during poster sessions with special mention of an SS.

-        Long research papers should present complete work with evaluations on topics related to the Conference.

-        Short research papers should present preliminary results or more focused contributions.

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An SS proposal has to contain

-        Name, title, affiliation and a short bio of SS chairs;

-        The rational ;

-         A  list of at least 5 potential contributions with a provisional title, authors and affiliation.

The dead line for SS proposals is coming:  23rd of January

Please submit your proposals to the SS chairs

jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr

mourad.oussalah@oulu.fi

adel.hafiane@insa-cvl.fr

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25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023)

9-13 October 2023, Paris, France

The 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) will be held in Paris, France. ICMI is the premier international forum that brings together multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction research. Multimodal AI encompasses technical challenges in machine learning and computational modeling such as representations, fusion, data and systems. The study of social interactions englobes both human-human interactions and human-computer interactions. A unique aspect of ICMI is its multidisciplinary nature which values both scientific discoveries and technical modeling achievements, with an eye towards impactful applications for the good of people and society.

ICMI 2023 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits, doctoral consortium, and late-breaking papers. The conference will also feature tutorials, workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of all ICMI 2023 papers, including Long and Short Papers, 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.

Novelty will be assessed along two dimensions: scientific novelty and technical novelty. Accepted papers at ICMI 2023 will need to be novel along one of the two dimensions:

• Scientific Novelty: Papers should bring new scientific knowledge about human social interactions, including human-computer interactions. 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 should propose novelty in their computational approach for recognizing, generating or modeling multimodal 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.

Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors https://icmi.acm.org/ for detailed submission instructions. Commitment to ethical conduct is required and submissions must adhere to ethical standards in particular when human-derived data are employed. Authors are encouraged to read the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (https://ethics.acm.org/).

ICMI 2023 conference theme: The theme for this year’s conference is “Science of Multimodal Interactions”. As the community grows, it is important to understand the main scientific pillars involved in deep understanding of multimodal social interactions. As a first step, we want to acknowledge key discoveries and contributions that the ICMI community enabled over the past 20+ years. As a second step, we reflect on the core principles, foundational methodologies and scientific knowledge involved in studying and modeling multimodal interactions. This will help establish a distinctive research identity for the ICMI community while at the same time embracing its multidisciplinary collaborative nature. This research identity and long-term agenda will enable the community to develop future technologies and applications while maintaining commitment to world-class scientific research.

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
• Human-centered A.I. and ethics
• Interaction with smart environment
• Machine learning for multimodal interaction
• Mobile multimodal systems
• Multimodal behaviour generation
• Multimodal datasets and validation
• Multimodal dialogue modeling
• Multimodal fusion and representation
• Multimodal interactive applications
• Novel multimodal datasets
• Speech behaviours in social interaction
• System components and multimodal platforms
• Visual behaviours in social interaction
• Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction

Important Dates

Paper Submission: May 1, 2023 

Rebuttal period: June 26-29, 2023

Paper notification: July 21, 2023

Camera-ready paper: August 14, 2023

Presenting at main conference: October 9-13, 2023

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ACM ICMI 2023 2ND CALL FOR BLUE SKY PAPERS   
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9-13 October 2023, Paris - France
https://icmi.acm.org/2023/
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ICMI 2023 is pleased to partner with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to continue the Blue Sky Paper track, initialized in 2021 and continued in 2022, 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 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, argue rigorously, and present ideas from a high-level synthetic viewpoint (e.g., multidisciplinary, based on multiple methodologies).

The review of the submissions will be handled by the Blue Sky Paper Chairs: Carlos Busso (University of Texas At Dallas), Philippe Palanque (University Toulouse III, France), and Björn Schuller (University of Augsburg, Germany). Three winners will be selected for presentation in the Blue Sky Paper track and publication in the conference proceedings. The CCC will sponsor awards to honor the first ($1,000), second ($750), and third ($500) place winners in the form of travel grants. In addition, they will further distribute and publicize the three Blue Sky award papers.

Important Dates
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Paper Submission                June 17th, 2023
Paper notification                July 14th, 2023
Camera-ready paper                August 14th, 2023
Presenting at main conference        October 9-13, 2023

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Call for participation: GENEA Challenge 2023 on speech-driven gesture generation
Starting date: May 1

Location: Official Grand Challenge of ICMI 2023, Paris, France

Website: https://genea-workshop.github.io/2023/challenge/
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Overview
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The state of the art in co-speech gesture generation is difficult to assess, since every research group tends to use their own data, embodiment, and evaluation methodology. To better understand and compare methods for gesture generation and evaluation, we are continuing the GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Challenge, wherein different gesture-generation approaches are evaluated side by side in a large user study. This 2023 challenge is a Grand Challenge for ICMI 2023 and is a follow-up to the first and second editions of the GENEA Challenge, arranged in 2020 and 2022.

This year the challenge will focus on gesture synthesis in a dyadic setting, i.e., gestures that depend not only on speech, but also on the behaviour of an interlocutor in a conversation. We invite researchers in academia and industry working on any form of corpus-based non-verbal behaviour generation and gesticulation to submit entries to the challenge, whether their method is driven by rule or machine learning. Participants are provided a large, common dataset of speech (audio+aligned text transcriptions) and 3D motion to develop their systems, and then use these systems to generate motion on given test inputs. The generated motion clips are rendered onto a common virtual agent and evaluated for aspects such as motion quality and appropriateness in a large-scale crowdsourced user study.

Data

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The 2023 challenge is based on the Talking With Hands 16.2M dataset (https://github.com/facebookresearch/TalkingWithHands32M). The official challenge dataset also includes additional annotations, and is only available to registered participants.

Timeline

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April 1  – Participant registration opens

May 1 – Challenge training dataset released to participants

June 7 – Test input released to participants

June 14 – Deadline for participants to submit generated motion

July 3 – Release of crowdsourced evaluation results to participants

July 14 – Paper submission deadline

August 4 – Author notification

August 11 – Camera-ready papers due

October 9 or 13 – Challenge presentations at ICMI

If you would like to receive a notification when challenge registration opens, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/MFEXv84xGL3NrY3d9/.

Challenge paper

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Challenge participants are required to submit a paper that describes their system and findings, and will present their work at the Grand Challenge session at ICMI. All accepted papers will be part of the ACM ICMI 2023 main proceedings. Papers that are not accepted will have a chance to be considered for the GENEA Workshop 2023, whose papers are published in the ACM ICMI 2023 companion proceedings.

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Call for Participation:

ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE) - Emotion Share and Requests http://www.compare.openaudio.eu/2023-2/

The ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE) is an open Grand Challenge dealing with states and traits of speakers as manifested in their speech signal’s properties and beyond. In this 14th edition, we introduce two new Sub-Challenges:

	• Emotion Share Sub-Challenge,
	• Requests Sub-Challenge

Sub-Challenges allow contributors to find their own features with their own machine learning algorithm. Participants have five trials on the test set per Sub-Challenge. Participation has to be accompanied by a paper presenting the results that undergoes the ACM peer-review.

Contributions using the provided or equivalent data are sought for (but not limited to):

	• Participation in a Sub-Challenge
	• Contributions around the Challenge topics

Results of the Challenge and Prizes will be presented at ACM Multimedia 2023 in Ottawa between 29 October and 3 November 2023.

Organizers

  General Chairs:
    - Björn Schuller (University of Augsburg, Germany / Imperial College London, UK / audEERING)
    - Anton Batliner (University of Augsburg, Germany) 
    - Shahin Amiriparian (University of Augsburg, Germany)
    - Alexander Barnhill (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg Erlangen, Germany)
    - Alan S. Cowen (Hume.AI, USA)
    - Claude Montacié (Sorbonne University, France)

  Data Chairs:
    - Alice Baird (Hume.AI, USA)
    - Nikola Lackovic (Malakoff Humanis, France)
 [IMPORTANT] Please note, in case of participation: for the Requests sub-challenge, you have to sign the EULA the same way as in previous years: it is mandatory that it is signed by a *permanent* member of the staff, not  for instance by a student!

For the Emotion Share Sub-Challenge, EULAs and data will be handled by Hume.AI. For more information visit

http://www.compare.openaudio.eu/2023-2/

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Call for Participation: the 2nd Conversational Head Generation Challenge @ ACM Multimedia 2023

We are pleased to invite multimedia researchers to participate the 2nd 'Conversational Head Generation Challenge,' co-located with ACM Multimedia 2023.

About the Challenge:
Conversational head generation highlights both the talking and listening roles generation in an interactive face-to-face conversation. Generating vivid talking head video and proper responsive listening behavior are both essential for digital humans during face-to-face human-computer interaction. More details can be found via: https://vico.solutions/challenge/2023

This distinctive challenge is based on the newly extended ViCo dataset (https://vico.solutions/vico), composed with conversation videos between real humans. Our aim is to bring face-to-face interactive head video generation into a visual competition through this challenge. This year, two tracks will be hosted:
- Talking head video generation (audio-driven speaker video generation) conditioned on the identity and audio signals of the speaker.
- Responsive Listening Head Video Generation (video-driven listener video generation) conditioned on the identity of the listener and with real-time responses to the speaker's behaviors.

As a starting point for the participates, we also provide an open-source baseline method (https://github.com/dc3ea9f/vico_challenge_baseline) that includes audio/video-driven head generation, rendering, and scripts for 13 evaluation metrics.

Important Dates:
- Dataset available for download (training set): March 27th.
- Challenge launch date: April 3rd.
- Paper submissions deadline: July 14th.
- Top submissions will have the opportunity to present their work at the workshop during ACM Multimedia 2023. We encourage all participating teams to submit a paper (up to 4 pages + up to 2 extra pages for references only) briefly describing their solution.

Find out more about the challenge:
- Challenge mainpage (including challenge registration, online evaluation results): https://vico.solutions/challenge/2023
- Challenge page at ACM MM 2023: https://www.acmmm2023.org/grand-challenges-2/

We believe this challenge would greatly benefit from your knowledge and expertise. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or require further information.

Contact: Yalong Bai, Mohan Zhou, Wei Zhang
vico-challenge@outlook.com

The organizing team
March 2023

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Call for Papers

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6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'23) @ ACM Multimedia, Oct 29 – Nov 3, 2023, Ottawa, Canada

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Ottawa, Canada together with ACM Multimedia 2023. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from many different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:

- annotation and indexing in sports

- tracking people/ athlete and objects in sports

- activity recognition, classification, and evaluation in sports

- 3D scene and motion reconstruction in sports

- event detection and indexing in sports

- performance assessment in sports

- injury analysis and prevention in sports

- data driven analysis in sports

- graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

- automated training assistance in sports

- camera pose and motion tracking in sports

- brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions in sports

- personal virtual (home) trainers/coaches in sports

- datasets in sports

- graphical effects in sports

- alternative sensing in sports (beyond the visible spectrum)

- multimodal perception in sports

- exploiting physical knowledge in learning systems for sports

- sports knowledge discovery

- narrative generation and narrative analysis in sports

- mobile sports application

- multimedia in sports beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data

Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of their paper. All papers will undergo the same review process and review period.

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 

http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2023/index.html

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                           14 July 2023 

Acceptance Notification:             30 July 2023

Camera Ready Submission:         12 August 2023 

Workshop Date:                            TBA; either Oct 29, 30 or Nov 2, 2023

Challenges

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This year again, MMSports carries out a competition where participants can compete on state-of-the-art problems applied to real-world sport specific data. The competition is made of individual challenges, each of which is sponsored by SportRadar with a US$1,000.00 prize. Each challenge comes with a toolkit describing the task, the dataset and metrics on which participants will be evaluated. This year, the second edition has 3 challenges: 2 on basketball and 1 on cricket! More information on the challenges can be found at http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2023/challenge.html.

ACM MMSports’23 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito

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Special attractions for commemorating Silver Jubilee of SPECOM

• Students Special Session

• Special Session on Speech Processing for Under-Resource Languages

• Special Session on Industrial Speech and Language Technology

• Satellite Workshop on “Speaker and Language Identification, Verification and Diarization” @ Goa

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The 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023) will be held on December 16 – 20, 2023, at Taipei, Taiwan. The workshop is held every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding. The conference will be an 'in-person' event (with a virtual component for those that can not attend physically). The event will be held in the Beitou Area, the town of hot springs of Taipei. We encourage all to join us for this wonderful event in Taiwan; looking forward to seeing you all in Taiwan. The paper submission deadline is July 3rd, 2023.
http://www.asru2023.org/

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