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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The 35th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) organizing committee is inviting you to submit your research papers.
The conference will be held in person, on November 6-8, 2023 in Atlanta.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED to JULY 21, 2023 (Firm deadline).
We look forward to your submissions on Easy Chair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictai2023

Details on the conference venue and registration will appear on the ICTAI 2023 website: https://ictai.computer.org/2023/

SO PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline Paper submission: July 21, 2023 ()
Acceptance notification: August 24, 2023
Camera-ready: September 20, 2023

The IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) is a leading IEEE-CS annual scientific meeting for three decades.
It provides a major international forum where the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies.
The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications.
The ICTAI encompasses all technical aspects of specifying, developing, and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of the AI-based components such as algorithms, architectures, and languages.

Topics include (but not limited to):
1. AI Foundations
2. AI in Domain-specific Applications
3. AI in Computer Systems
4. AI in Data Analytics, Data Mining and Big Data
5. AI in Smart Cities
6. AI Synergistic Models
7. Machine Learning
8. Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, Cognition
9. AI and Decision Systems
10. Uncertainty in AI
11. AI and Societal Impact

Paper submission:

SUBMISSION should be made through the Easy Chair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictai2023

The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or published elsewhere work.
Papers should be submitted electronically in pdf and should conform to IEEE specifications (single spaced double column, 10 point font size, up to maximum 8 pages).

Proceedings:
All accepted papers will be examined by at least two-three reviewers of the program committee.
All presented papers will be included in proceedings of ICTAI 2023 published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Special Issues Extended versions of the conference best papers will be invited for publication in various IEEE and Int. Journals.

ICTAI provide several financial awards to the top-5 best student papers and to the ICTAI Best Paper Award

ICTAI 2023 INVITED SPEAKERS:

Dr. Wendy Nilsen, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, USA
Professor Dr Björn W. Schuller, Imperial College London, UK
Dr. Daniel Koller, Director Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA,USA
Professor Dr. Sukarno Mertoguno, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

ICTAI 2023 organizing committee

General Chair
Anna Esposito, University of Campania, Italy

Program Chairs
Ming Yang, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA
Gennaro Cordasco, University of Campania, Italy

Financial-Registration Chairs
Michail Alexiou, GIT, Atlanta, GA, USA
Zhigang Li, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA

Local Web Chair
Narayana Varma Addepalli, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA

Publicity Chairs
Carmela Comito, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Jian Yu, Tianjin University, China
Chloe Xie, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA

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Les RJCP sont des journées marrainées par l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (https://www.afcp-parole.org/) qui offrent aux jeunes chercheurs l’occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux, d'élargir leurs connaissances et d’échanger sur les divers domaines de la Parole. Nous serons heureux d'accueillir tous les intéressés par des échanges autour de la recherche en parole, jeunes chercheurs ou non  (dans la limite des places disponibles). Il y aura au progamme des sessions posters, des conférences, des formations et des visites de plateformes expérimentales dédiées à la parole. Une table ronde consacrée aux poursuites de carrière/perspectives professionnelles après la thèse vous sera également proposée. Plus d’informations seront affichées sur notre site Web au cours de l'été (à découvrir ici) !

DATES IMPORTANTES

• 15/06/2023 - Ouverture de l’appel à posters  

• 16/09/2023 - Date limite d'envoi des résumés (extended)

• 22/09/2023 - Notification d’acceptation aux auteurs

• 25/09/2023 - 1ère phase d’ouverture des inscriptions 

• 30/10/2023 - Fermeture des inscriptions (celle-ci pourra intervenir plus tôt si nous atteignons rapidement le nombre maximum de personnes que nous pouvons accueillir)

• 29/11/2023 - 01/12/2023 - RJCP
  
  

THÈMES

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

* Acoustique de la parole
* Acquisition de la parole et du langage 
* Analyse, codage et compression de la parole
* Applications à composantes orales (dialogue, indexation, etc)
* Apprentissage d’une langue seconde
* Communication multimodale 
* Dialectologie 
* Évaluation, corpus et ressources 
* Langues en danger 
* Modèles de langage 
* Parole audio-visuelle
* Pathologies de la parole 
* Phonétique et phonologie 
* Phonétique clinique 
* Production / Perception de la parole
* Prosodie
* Psycholinguistique 
* Reconnaissance et compréhension de la parole 
* Reconnaissance de la langue
* Reconnaissance du locuteur
* Signaux sociaux, sociophonétique 
* Synthèse de la parole…

APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS

Masterants, doctorants, post-doctorants*, industriels* et jeunes chercheurs en recherche d'emploi* sont invités à soumettre un résumé de 300 mots maximum présentant leurs travaux à venir, en cours ou terminés pour la session posters: https://rjcp-2023.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit 

Le nombre de pages de références n’est pas restreint. Les templates seront à retrouver sous peu sur notre site, dans la section “Appel à Communications”.

Le Comité d’organisation RJCP pourra prendre en charge l’impression des posters pour les personnes non affiliées à un laboratoire de recherche. Cette décision sera prise après discussion. Pour en faire la demande, veuillez nous contacter à jcparole@gmail.com.

*Jusqu’à 3 ans après la thèse

Nous espérons vous voir nombreux,

Le comité d'organisation

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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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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 or Nov 3, 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. More information on the challenges will be coming soon.

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

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Second Call for Papers for the 30th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling — MMM 2024

January 29 – February 2, 2024 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands


*** MMM is a B-ranked conference, following the CORE ranking updates published in June 2021.


MMM is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners for sharing new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all MMM related areas. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and demonstrations reporting novel and compelling applications. Special sessions, Brave New Ideas session, keynote lectures, the Video Browser Showdown and the MediaEval workshop will also contribute to a high-quality program.


Conference Website: http://mmm2024.org/


MMM 2024 proposes eight special sessions:

  *   MDRE: Multimedia Datasets for Repeatable Experimentation
  *   MOMST: Multi-Object Multi-Sensor Tracking
  *   MARGeM: Multimodal Analytics and Retrieval of Georeferenced Multimedia
  *   ICDAR: Intelligent Cross-Data Analysis and Retrieval
  *   XR-MACCI: eXtended Reality and Multimedia: Advancing Content Creation and Interaction
  *   FMM: Foundation Models for Multimedia
  *   MULTICOM: Towards Multimedia and Multimodality in Conversational Systems
  *   CultMM Cultural AI in Multimedia


MMM 2024 also hosts two community events:

  *   Video Browser Showdown (VBS): https://videobrowsershowdown.org<https://videobrowsershowdown.org/>
  *   MediaEval: https://multimediaeval.github.io/editions/2023/


Submission Deadlines

  *   Regular and special session papers are due September 4, 2023
  *   BNI papers and demonstration submissions are due October 2, 2023
  *   MediaEval and VBS deadlines are separately defined by the respective event organisers


Submission website is now open. Regular and special session paper submissions are limited to 12 content pages, including all figures, tables, and appendices, in the Springer LNCS style. Additional 2 pages containing only cited references are allowed. Please note that this is a change from previous MMM conference editions.


MMM seeks contributions on the following research topics:


Multimedia Content Analysis

  *   Multimedia indexing
  *   Multimedia mining
  *   Multimedia abstraction and summarisation
  *   Multimedia annotation, tagging and recommendation
  *   Multimodal analysis for retrieval applications
  *   Semantic analysis of multimedia and contextual data
  *   Interactive learning
  *   Multimedia knowledge acquisition and construction
  *   Multimedia verification
  *   Multimedia fusion methods
  *   Multimedia content generation

Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications

  *   Media representation and algorithms
  *   Multimedia sensors and interaction modes
  *   Multimedia privacy, security and content protection
  *   Multimedia standards and related issues
  *   Multimedia databases, query processing, and scalability
  *   Multimedia content delivery, transport and streaming
  *   Wireless and mobile multimedia networking
  *   Sensor networks (video surveillance, distributed systems)
  *   Audio, image, video processing, coding and compression
  *   Multi-camera and multi-view systems

Multimedia Applications, Interfaces and Services

  *   Media content retrieval, browsing and recommendation tools
  *   Extended reality (AR/VR/MR) and virtual environments
  *   Real-time and interactive multimedia applications
  *   Multimedia analytics applications
  *   Egocentric, wearable and personal multimedia
  *   Urban and satellite multimedia
  *   Mobile multimedia applications
  *   Question answering, multimodal conversational AI and hybrid intelligence
  *   Multimedia authoring and personalisation
  *   Cultural, educational and social multimedia applications
  *   Multimedia for e-health and medical applications

Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of Multimedia

  *   Fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics in multimedia modeling
  *   Environmental footprint of multimedia modeling
  *   Large multimedia models and LLMs
  *   Multimodal pretraining and representation learning
  *   Reproducibility, interpretability, explainability and robustness
  *   Embodied multimodal applications and tasks
  *   Responsible multimedia modeling and learning
  *   Legal and ethical aspects of multimodal generative AI
  *   Multimedia research valorisation
  *   Digital transformation

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 Call for Special Sessions at the International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology

Special sessions are 90-minute sessions that are part of the IWSDS main program. 
Registration to special sessions is included with IWSDS registration.

Authors are requested to submit PDF files (maximum three pages) of their proposal to 
iwsds2024@gmail.com.

The proposal must indicate:
Special Session title.
Name, affiliation, e-mail of the organizers.
A description of the workshop / Special Session title including:
objectives;
topics of interest;
justification;
expected number of submissions;
tentative program.
Tentative program committee members (only for workshop proposals).
Special audio-visual, internet, computer or equipment requirements in case of a 
non-virtual event.
Whether the workshop / special session has been run before:
where and when;
number of participants in the previous event.
Any additional information that might be relevant for the proposal evaluation.

The deadline for the special session proposal is October 13th.

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The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024 will invite 
paper submissions. IWSDS 2024 will be held March 4-6, 2024 in Sapporo, Japan.

https://sites.google.com/grp.riken.jp/iwsds2024

IWSDS 2024 will be a primarily in person event with a hybrid component for those who 
cannot travel to Japan. We especially invite paper submissions on the following topics:

- User engagement and emotion in dialogue systems
- Proactive, anticipatory, or incremental interaction
- Use of humor and metaphors in dialogue systems
- Multimodal and situated dialogue systems
- Companions and personal assistant dialogue systems
- Educational and healthcare applications
- Big data and large scale dialogue systems
- Digital resources for interactive dialogue management
- Domain transfer and adaptation techniques for dialogue systems
- Dialogue systems for low-resource languages
- Multilingual dialogue systems
- Dialogue system evaluation
- Machine learning for dialogue systems
- Interaction styles in dialogue systems

However, submissions are not limited to these topics and we encourage you to submit 
papers in all areas of natural language dialogue systems.

Categories of Submissions:
- Long Research Papers:
These are reserved for reports on mature original research results. The expected length 
of a long paper submission should be in the range of 8-13 pages of content, plus up to 3 
pages for references. Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 2 
additional pages of content (8-15 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be 
taken into account but the number of pages for references will not change (up to 3 pages).

- Short Research Papers:
Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or 
ongoing original research efforts. The expected length of a short paper submission should 
be in the range of 4-7 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for references. Final 
versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional page of content 
(4-8 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account but the 
number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).

- Position Papers:
These deal with novel unexplored research ideas or viewpoints which describe trends or 
fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion. The expected length 
of a position paper submission should be 2 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for 
references. Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional 
page of content (2-3 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into 
account but the number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).

- Demo Submissions – System Papers:
Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a 
description of their system and demo. The expected length of a demo/system paper 
submission should be up to 5 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for references. Final 
versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional page of content 
(up to 6 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account but the 
number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).

As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in post-workshop proceedings.

We welcome demonstrations from the authors of long and short papers which can be shown 
during the demo session. At the submission time, you will have an option to indicate 
whether the paper will be accompanied by a demonstration.

Submission:

Authors of all papers (including papers submitted to the special sessions) are requested 
to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the IWSDS 2024 paper submission system.
Submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IWSDS2024

Submission deadline:
Paper Title, Author, and Abstract Submission: November 10th
Paper Submission: November 17th

We look forward to meeting you at Sapporo.





-- call for sponsors ---------------------------------

We are starting to solicit sponsorship for IWSDS2024. These funds will be used to offset 
some costs for items such as social events, honorariums for invited speakers, etc. In 
exchange for your support, we will provide the opportunity to promote your company during 
the workshop and through the webpage. The sponsorship package for IWSDS2024 is shown 
below. We would greatly appreciate it if you could contribute to IWSDS2024.

Bronze:
Donation amount: $1000
Logo with links on the workshop website
Acknowledgement during opening/closing

Silver:
Donation amount: $3000
Same perks as Bronze
Poster for promoting sponsor's activity during event
10 mins presentation at sponsor session (during lunch)

Gold:
Donation amount: $5000
Same perks as Silver
One of the best papers with the sponsor's name

Contact
Please feel free to post any question or comments to organizer's mailing list: 
iwsds2024@gmail.com.

Sincerely Yours,
IWSDS2024 organizing committee

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Dear Speech Prosody SIG members,

We are delighted to announce that Speech Prosody 2024 will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands (02–05 July 2024). The conference aims to showcase the facets of prosodic variation and their role in the production, comprehension, and acquisition of speech in order to obtain a better understanding of the structure and function of prosody. The theme includes four subthemes:

a. Prosody through the lifespan

b. Typology and cross-linguistic variation

c. Individual and social variation

d. Contact-induced variation

The conference will include both thematic sessions, based on the above subthemes, and non-thematic sessions. We also invite proposals for special sessions, workshops, and tutorials.

We welcome submissions on any aspect of prosody in language. Contributions relating to the conference themes, and particularly, submissions by junior researchers, on under-studied languages, and/or with interdisciplinary research methods, are strongly encouraged.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Phonology and phonetics of prosody

Prosody and its interfaces with morphology, syntax, and semantics

Prosody and pragmatics

Rhythm and timing

Tone and intonation

Interaction between segmental and suprasegmental features

Production and perception of prosody

Acquisition of first, second, and third language prosody

Prosody in neurodevelopmental disorders

Prosody and speech and language impairments

Assessment of prosody and measures to evaluate prosodic skills

Prosody in infant-directed speech, child-directed speech, and elderly speakers

Psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural correlates of prosody

Cognitive processing and modelling of prosody

Prosody in language contact

Prosody of under-resourced languages and dialects

Audiovisual and multimodal prosody

Prosody of sign language

Prosody in language and music

Prosody in speaker characterization and recognition

Prosody in speech synthesis, recognition, and understanding

Forensic voice and language investigation

Prosody in computer language learning systems

Computational modelling and applications of prosody

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Call for Special Sessions: Deadline 30 October 2023

We invite proposals for special sessions on interdisciplinary, under-studied, and emerging topics.

Proposals should be sent to sp2024@hum.leidenuniv.nl as a PDF file and include:

·       Title of the proposed session

·       Names and affiliations of organizers (including brief bio and contact information)

·       Motivation and description (maximally 500 words)

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Call for Workshops and Tutorials: Deadline 30 October 2023

We invite proposals for workshops and tutorials, to be held in Leiden on 01 July 2024.  We encourage proposals on interdisciplinary, under-studied, and emerging topics, as well as cutting-edge research methods that address those topics.

Proposals should be sent to sp2024@hum.leidenuniv.nl as a PDF file and include:

·       Title of the workshop/tutorial and a brief description (maximally 500 words)

·       Names and affiliations of organizers (including brief bio and contact information)

·       Invited speakers (if any) for workshops and expected audience for tutorials

·       Proposed duration of the workshop/tutorial and estimated number of participants

·       Technical and administrative requirements

·       Sources of funding for the proposed workshop/tutorial

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Call for Abstracts and Papers:

Deadlines: 20 December 2023 for abstract and 07 January 2024 for 4-page paper

Abstracts (including title, author information, and a 200-word description of the research) should be submitted by 20 December, 2023. The deadline for submitting a full 4-page full paper is 07 January 2024.

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Important dates:

Special session proposal deadline                               30/10/2023

Workshop and tutorial proposal deadline                   30/10/2023

Abstract submission opens                                         20/11/2023

Abstract submission deadline                                     20/12/2023

Full paper submission deadline                                   07/01/2023

Notification of acceptance (by email)                         25/02/2024

Yiya Chen  sp2024@hum.leidenuniv.nl

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13th International Conference

on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics

Erlangen, Germany 22nd-26th of July 2024

we cordially invite you to participate in the 13th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, July 22nd – 26th of 2024!

After the successful hosting in 2012, we are pleased to welcome you back in Erlangen, Germany! There will be two days of workshops prior to the three days of conference and several social events in the beautiful Nuremberg Metropolitan Region.

The workshops (July 22nd-23rd) and the conference (July 24th-26th) will focus on voice physiology and biomechanics including computational, numerical and experimental modeling, machine learning, tissue engineering, laryngeal pathologies and many more. Abstract submission and registration will be open from November 1st, 2023.

We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you in Erlangen, July 2024!

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Call for Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024

At its 25th edition, the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is a continuation of the very successful series of evaluation campaigns of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) which ran between 2000 and 2009, and established a framework of systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. As a leading annual international conference, CLEF uniquely combines evaluation laboratories and workshops with research presentations, panels, posters and demo sessions. In 2024, CLEF takes place in September,  9-12 at the University of Grenoble Alpes, France.

Researchers and practitioners from all areas of information access and related communities are invited to submit proposals for running evaluation labs as part of CLEF 2024. Proposals will be reviewed by a lab selection committee, composed of researchers with extensive experience in evaluating information retrieval and extraction systems. Organisers of selected proposals will be invited to include their lab in the CLEF 2024 labs programme, possibly subject to suggested modifications to their proposal to better suit the CLEF lab workflow or timeline.

Background

The CLEF Initiative (http://www.clef-initiative.eu/) is a self-organised body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual information in different modalities - including text and multimedia - with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research and development by providing an infrastructure for:

1. independent evaluation of information access systems;

2. investigation of the use of unstructured, semi-structured, highly-structured, and semantically enriched data in information access; 

3. creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking; 

4. exploration of new evaluation methodologies and innovative ways of using experimental data; 

5. discussion of results, comparison of approaches, exchange of ideas, and transfer of knowledge.
   
   

Scope of CLEF Labs

We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs:

1. “Campaign-style” Evaluation Labs for specific information access problems (during the twelve months period preceding the conference), similar in nature to the traditional CLEF campaign “tracks”. Topics covered by campaign-style labs can be inspired by any information access-related domain or task.
   
   

2. Labs that follow a more classical “workshop” pattern, exploring evaluation methodology, metrics, processes, etc. in information access and closely related fields, such as natural language processing, machine translation, and human-computer interaction.
   
   

We highly recommend organisers new to the CLEF format of shared task evaluation campaigns to first consider organising a lab workshop to discuss the format of their proposed task, the problem space and practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2024 programme will reserve about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions. During the conference, the lab organisers will present their overall results in overview presentations during the plenary scientific paper sessions to give non-participants insights into where the research frontiers are moving. During the conference, lab organisers are expected to organise separate sessions for their lab with ample time for general discussion and engagement with all participants - not just those presenting campaign results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions, etc. as appropriate. CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative lab proposals. 

Potential task proposers unsure of the suitability of their task proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact the CLEF 2024 Lab Organizing Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability or design at an early stage.

Proposal Submission

Lab proposals must provide sufficient information to judge the relevance, timeliness, scientific quality, benefits for the research community, and the competence of the proposers to coordinate the lab. Each lab proposal should identify one or more organisers as responsible for ensuring the timely execution of the lab. Proposals should be 3 to 4 pages long and should provide the following information:

1. Title of the proposed lab.
    

2. A brief description of the lab topic and goals, its relevance to CLEF and the significance for the field.
    

3. A brief and clear statement on usage scenarios and domain to which the activity is intended to contribute, including the evaluation setup and metrics.
    

4. Details on the lab organiser(s), including identifying the task chair(s) responsible for ensuring the running of the task. This should include details of any previous involvement in organising or participating in evaluation tasks at CLEF or similar campaigns.
    

5. The planned format of the lab, i.e., campaign-style (“track”) or workshop.
    

6. Is the lab a continuation of an activity from previous year(s) or a new activity?  

1. For activities continued from previous year(s): Statistics from previous years (number of participants/runs for each task), a clear statement on why another edition is needed, an explicit listing of the changes proposed, and a discussion of lessons to be learned or insights to be made.
   
   

2. For new activities: A statement on why a new evaluation campaign is needed and how the community would benefit from the activity.
    

7. Details of the expected target audience, i.e., who do you expect to participate in the task(s), and how do you propose to reach them.
    

8. Brief details of tasks to be carried out in the lab. The proposal should clearly motivate the need for each of the proposed tasks and provide evidence of its capability of attracting enough participation. The dataset which will be adopted by the Lab needs to be described and motivated in the perspective of the goals of the Labs; also indications on how the dataset will be shared are useful. It is fine for a lab to have a single task, but labs often contain multiple closely related tasks, needing a strong motivation for more than 3 tasks, to avoid useless fragmentation.
    

9. Expected length of the lab session at the conference: half-day, one day, two days. This should include high-level details of planned structure of the session, e.g. participant presentations, invited speaker(s), panels, etc., to justify the requested session length.
    

10. Arrangements for the organisation of the lab campaign: who will be responsible for activities within the task; how will data be acquired or created, what tools or methods will be used, e.g., how will necessary queries be created or relevance assessment carried out; any other information which is relevant to the conduct of your lab.
     

11. If the lab proposes to set up a steering committee to oversee and advise its activities, include names, addresses, and homepage links of people you propose to be involved.
    
    

Lab proposals must be submitted at the following address:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2024

choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Proposals” track.

Reviewing Process

Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by the CLEF 2024 Lab Organizing Committee. The acceptance decision will be sent by email to the responsible organiser by 28 July 2023. The final length of the lab session at the conference will be determined based on the overall organisation of the conference and the number of participant submissions received by a lab.

Advertising Labs at CLEF 2023 and ECIR 2024

Organisers of accepted labs are expected to advertise their labs at both CLEF 2023 (18-21 September 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece) and ECIR 2024 (24-28 March 2024, Glasgow, Scotland). So, at least one lab representative should attend these events.

Advertising at CLEF 2023 will consist of displaying a poster describing the new lab, running a break-out session to discuss the lab with prospective participants, and advertising/announcing it during the closing session.

Advertising at ECIR 2024 will consist of submitting a lab description to be included in ECIR 2024 proceedings (11 October 2023) and advertising the lab in a booster session during ECIR 2024.

Mentorship Program for Lab Proposals from newcomers

CLEF 2019 introduced a mentorship program to support the preparation of lab proposals for newcomers to CLEF. The program will be continued at CLEF 2024 and we encourage newcomers to refer to Friedberg et al. (2015) for initial guidance on preparing their proposal:

Friedberg I, Wass MN, Mooney SD, Radivojac P. Ten simple rules for a community computational challenge. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr 23;11(4):e1004150.

The CLEF newcomers mentoring program offers help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft lab proposal by assigning a mentor to you, who help you in preparing and maturing the lab proposal for submission. If your lab proposal falls into the scope of an already existing CLEF lab, the mentor will help you to get in touch with those lab organisers and team up forces.

Lab proposals for mentorship must be submitted at the following address:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2024

choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship” track.

Important Dates

• 29 May 2023: Requests for mentorship submission (only newcomers)

• 29 May 2023 - 16 June 2023: Mentorship period

• 7 July 2023: Lab proposals submission (newcomers and veterans)

• 28 July 2023: Notification of lab acceptance

• 18-21 Sep 2023: Advertising Accepted Labs at CLEF 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece

• 11 October 2023: Submission of short lab description for ECIR 2024

• 13 November 2023: Lab registration opens

• 24-28 March 2024: Advertising labs at ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK

CLEF 2024 Lab Chairs

• Petra Galuscakova, University of Stavanger, Norway

• Alba García Seco de Herrera, University of Essex, UK

CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship Chair

• Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France

• Florina Piroi, TU Wien, Austria

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