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Friday, November 10, 2023 by Chris Wellekens

3 Events
3-1 ISCA Events
3-1-1(2024-07-02) 12th Speech Prosody Conference @Leiden, The Netherlands

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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3-1-2(2024-09-01) Cf Papers at Interspeech 2024, Greece

Call for Papers

Important Dates
Paper Submission Portal Open: 17 January 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: 02 March 2024
Paper Update Deadline: 09 March 2024
Paper Acceptance Notification: 06 June 2024

Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications.

Interspeech 2024 will feature oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions and challenges, show & tell, exhibits, and satellite events.

The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. For decades, our focus has been on enhancing speech technologies across various dimensions: spontaneous speech, large vocabulary, different conditions, robustness in adverse acoustic environments, multiple languages, speaker verification, and language identification. This effort continues. As technology evolves, we are ready to embrace the next set of challenges and explore new application domains. 

 The organizing committee of Interspeech 2024 is committed to the advancement of speech technology in the wider sense while seeking new challenges. A non-exhaustive list of topics that goes beyond the traditional Interspeech topics includes: speech and health, animal voice recognition and understanding, speech for memory and heritage, voice communication across ages, and human-machine interaction, including gaming, virtual and augmented reality, and robot audition. We hope you will join our vision on “Speech and Beyond”.

 

Paper Submission

Interspeech 2024 seeks original and innovative papers covering all aspects of speech science and technology. The language of the conference is English, so papers must be written in English. The paper length is up to four pages in two columns with an additional page for references only. Submitted papers must conform to the format defined in the author’s kit provided on the conference website and may optionally be accompanied by multimedia files. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically and will be evaluated through rigorous peer review on the basis of novelty and originality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strengths, and quality of references. The Technical Programme Committee will decide which papers to include in the conference programme using peer review as the primary criterion, with secondary criteria of addressing the conference theme, and diversity across the programme as a whole.

BLUE SKY TRACK

This year, we also encourage the authors to consider submitting to the new BLUE SKY track of highly innovative papers in fields or directions that have not yet been explored with strong theoretical or conceptual justification.  Large-scale experimental evaluation will not be required for papers in this track. Incremental work will not be accepted. If you think your work satisfies these requirements, please consider submitting a paper to this challenging and competitive track. Please note that to achieve the objectives of this BLUE SKY track, we will ask the most experienced reviewers (mainly our ISCA Fellow members) to assess the proposals.

Click here for further information regarding the procedure for submitting Papers. 

 

VENUE

Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow.


We hope that one of the upcoming editions of Interspeech will take place in Jerusalem. 

 

To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.organd reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.

 

Scientific Areas and Topics

Interspeech 2024 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication, including – but not limited to – the following topics:

Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition

Speech Synthesis

Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody

Spoken Language Generation

Paralinguistics in Speech and Language

Automatic Speech Recognition

Analysis of Conversation

Spoken Dialogue and Conversational AI Systems

Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders

Spoken Language Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization

Speaker and Language Identification

Technologies and Systems for New Applications

Speech and Audio Signal Analysis

Resources and Evaluation

Speech Coding and Enhancement

Beyond traditional speech topics (not limited to the provided list)

CONTACTS

For all questions related to scientific aspects: tpcchairs@interspeech2024.org

For general questions: generalchairs@interspeech2024.org

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3-1-3(2024-09-01) Cf Satellite events at Interspeech 2024, Greece

Call for Satellite Events

The Organizing Committee will facilitate the organization of satellite workshops to stimulate discussion in research areas related to speech and language in conjunction with Interspeech 2024.

If you are interested in organizing a satellite workshop or would like a planned event to be listed as an official satellite event, please contact the Satellite Workshop Chairs at satelliteevents@interspeech2024.org.

Note that all satellite workshops need to obtain ISCA endorsement. Proposals for the satellite workshops should be submitted to the ISCA workshop portal.
Click here to access.

A guideline for the submission can be found on the ISCA website by clicking here.

Satellite Event organizers who would like to offer co-registration as part of the Interspeech 2024 conference registration form should contact Satellite Workshop Chairs at satelliteevents@interspeech2024.org 

The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. Whilst it is not a requirement to address this theme, we encourage proposers to keep it in mind.

Important Dates
Submission to ISCA workshop portal: As soon as possible.

Once the ISCA endorsement has been granted.

Requests for co-registration with Interspeech 2024, submitted to satelliteevents@interspeech2024.org: 1st February 2024.

Confirmation as an Interspeech 2024 satellite event: 22nd February 2024.

Should you have any queries regarding the suitability of a prospective event as an Interspeech 2024 satellite workshop, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the Satellite Workshop Chairs at satelliteevents@interspeech2024.org.

Satellite Workshop Chairs:

Vered Aharonson, ACLP – Afeka Center for Language Processing, Afeka, the Academic College of Engineering in Tel-Aviv

Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

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3-1-4(2024-09-01) Cf Show&Tell at Interspeech 2024, Greece

Call for Show&Tell for Interspeech 2024

Important Dates
Proposals of Show&Tell due: 22nd April 2024
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 14th May 2024
Final paper and final video: 11th June 2024

Submissions for Show&Tell are invited for Interspeech 2024https://interspeech2024.org/

 

Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. An important addition to the regular and special sessions is the Show&Tell demonstrations, where participants are given the opportunity to present engaging and interactive demonstrations to conference attendees. Contributions must highlight scientific or technological innovations of a concept relevant to Interspeech and may relate to a regular paper. Demonstrations should be based on innovations and fundamental research in the areas of speech communication, speech production, perception, acquisition, or speech and language technologies. This year, Interspeech is theme,Speech and Beyond, which may include, but is not limited to the topics: speech and health, animal voice recognition and understanding, speech for memory and heritage, voice communication across ages, and human-machine interaction, including gaming, virtual and augmented reality, and robot audition.

Proposals, as well as any questions, should be submitted to the Show&Tell Chairs: Eli Tzirkel (GM, Israel) and Ofer Schwartz (CEVA, Israel) at show-tell@interspeech2024.org

VENUE

Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow.


We hope that one of the upcoming editions of Interspeech will take place in Jerusalem. 

 

To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.organd reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.

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3-1-5(2024-09-01) Cf Special Session at Interspeech 2024, Greece.

Call for Special Sessions for Interspeech 2024

Important Dates
Proposals of special sessions due:
05January 2024
Notification of pre-selection:
19 January 2024
Final list of special sessions: 6 June 2024

Submissions for special sessions are invited for INTERSPEECH 2024https://interspeech2024.org/.

Special Sessions should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest in speech communication. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference’s theme,Speech and Beyond, are particularly welcome. Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference regular topics, and if applicable, to to conference’s theme. Special Sessions may include Challenges.

Each special session proposal must contain the following information:

  • Title of the proposed special session

  • Names and affiliations of the organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer).

  • Up to five bullet points on what makes the session special.

  • A summary (up to one page) stating the importance of the session’s topic and objectives. The summary should also explain why the topic cannot be properly covered by regular conference sessions.

  • A tentative list of authors who could contribute papers to the session. Note that with an approximate 50% acceptance rate for INTERSPEECH papers, special sessions should have a minimum of 12 anticipated submissions, unless their format allocates time to other formats than paper presentations.

  • Special sessions may have a different format from a regular session, e.g., panel discussion, longer summary talks, or a mixed thereof. In the proposal, the session format should be clearly defined (panel, oral, posters, etc.).

  • Additional or non-standard resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster stands, etc.) required for organizing the special session.

Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and significance to the conference.

Papers for approved Special Sessions must be submitted according to the same schedule and procedure as used for regular papers. Papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special Session organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions.

Note that the ISCA board has decided that challenges/special sessions can run for a maximum of three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal ineligible, we encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech Satellite Workshop instead.

Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special Session Chairs: Mathew Magimai Doss (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) and Elizabeth Shriberg (Ellipsis Health, USA) at specialsessions@interspeech2024.org

VENUE

Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow.


We hope that one of the upcoming editions of Interspeech will take place in Jerusalem. 

 

To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.organd reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.

 

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3-1-6(2024-09-01) Cf Tutorials at Interspeech 2024, Greece.

Call for Tutorials for Interspeech 2024

Important Dates
Proposals of tutorials due: 15 February 2024
Notification of pre-selection: 31 March 2024
Final list of tutorials: 15 May 2024

Submissions for tutorials are invited for Interspeech 2024https://interspeech2024.org/

The tutorial Day of Interspeech 2024 (on September 1st) is an opportunity for experts in a speech domain to deliver rich learning experiences to attendees in areas that include longstanding research challenges, current topics of research and emerging areas. The potential audience for tutorials includes a broad spectrum of Interspeech attendees ranging from experienced researchers with an established track record in speech science and technology, to early-stage researchers and researchers interested in learning about a new domain.

In order to offer a high quality and diverse set of tutorials at Interspeech 2024, we invite proposals that address introductory and advanced topics in a tutorial style. Proposals that target early-stage researchers, as well as those aimed at experienced researchers who might want to delve deeper into a new speech-related area are welcome. Tutorials will be 3 hours in duration, and can introduce an emerging or currently active area of speech-related research, or present an overview of an established area of research, rather than focus on the presenter’s individual research area.

The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. Whilst it is not a requirement to address this theme in a Tutorial, we encourage proposers to keep it in mind and to explore ways it might resonate in their Tutorial. We also encourage proposals that address the pillars of responsible AI (fairness, explainability, sustainability, security, …).

Date and Venue of the Tutorial

September 1st, 2024 – 8 tutorials (4 parallel tutorial sessions in the morning and afternoon) • Venue – TBA (but all in-person)

Proposals should follow the proposed format:

  1. Tutorial title

  2. Presenter(s) name and affiliation

  3. Description of the proposal (1 – 2 pages), which includes a few relevant references and any webpages/material useful for reviewing the proposal

  4. Explanation of the relevance of the proposed tutorial (0.5 – 1 page)

  5. Tutorial logistics, including

    • One session (three hours) or two sessions (2* three hours)

    • Description of presentation format (e.g. one or more presenters etc.)

    • Special equipment required for the tutorial

    • Description of accompanying material provided (handouts, storage devices with media, etc.)

  6. Presenter information 

    • Biography of presenter(s) 

    • Key publications of presenter(s) on the tutorial topic 

    • List of previous tutorial experience

  7. Audience information

    • Target audience (e.g. new researchers to the field, research students, specialists of adjacent fields)

    • Other considerations/comments

  8.  Bibliography (from description)

Submission Procedure:

Proposals for the Interspeech 2024 tutorials must be no more than 4 pages long and must conform to the format stated above (please, ensure that the headings listed above are identified clearly).

Proposals should be submitted by email to tutorials@interspeech2024.org

By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video recording of the tutorial for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. Access to recording materials will be given through the ISCA Video Archives.

Questions? Please contact our Tutorial Chairs (Isabel Trancoso INESC-ID / IST University of Lisbon, Portugal and Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo MIT LIncoln Lab, USA) at tutorials@interspeech2024.org

VENUE

Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow.


We hope that one of the upcoming editions of Interspeech will take place in Jerusalem. 

 

To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.organd reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.

 

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3-1-7(2024-09-01) Interspeech 2024, moved to Greece.

INTERSPEECH 2024

Venue

Due to the current security situation in Israel and after consulting the ISCA board, the Interspeech 2024 organizing committee decided to move the conference venue to another country in the eastern Mediterranean - Greece. Details will follow.

We hope that one of the upcoming editions of Interspeech will take place in Jerusalem.

To stay updated, we invite prospective participants to regularly visit the website www.interspeech2024.org and reach out to IS24 PCO, Ortra, at interspeech2024@ortra.com and/or ISCA conference coordinators at conferences@isca-speech.org.


 

Call for Paper

 

 

Important Dates
Paper Submission Portal Open: 17 January 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: 2 March 2024
Paper Update Deadline: 9 March 2024
Paper Acceptance Notification: 6 June 2024

 

Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications.

Interspeech 2024 will feature oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions and challenges, show & tell, exhibits, and satellite events.

The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. For decades, our focus has been on enhancing speech technologies across various dimensions: spontaneous speech, large vocabulary, different conditions, robustness in adverse acoustic environments, multiple languages, speaker verification, and language identification. This effort continues. As technology evolves, we are ready to embrace the next set of challenges and explore new application domains.

The organizing committee of Interspeech 2024 is committed to the advancement of speech technology in the wider sense while seeking new challenges. A non-exhaustive list of topics that goes beyond the traditional Interspeech topics includes: speech and health, animal voice recognition and understanding, speech for memory and heritage, voice communication across ages, and human-machine interaction, including gaming, virtual and augmented reality, and robot audition. We hope you will join our vision on 'Speech and Beyond'.

 

Paper Submission
Interspeech 2024 seeks original and innovative papers covering all aspects of speech science and technology. The language of the conference is English, so papers must be written in English. The paper length is up to four pages in two columns with an additional page for references only. Submitted papers must conform to the format defined in the author's kit provided on the conference website and may optionally be accompanied by multimedia files. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically and will be evaluated through rigorous peer review on the basis of novelty and originality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strengths, and quality of references. The Technical Programme Committee will decide which papers to include in the conference programme using peer review as the primary criterion, with secondary criteria of addressing the conference theme, and diversity across the programme as a whole.

 

 

Blue Sky Track
This year, we also encourage the authors to consider submitting to the new BLUE SKY track of highly innovative papers in fields or directions that have not yet been explored with strong theoretical or conceptual justification. Large-scale experimental evaluation will not be required for papers in this track. Incremental work will not be accepted. If you think your work satisfies these requirements, please consider submitting a paper to this challenging and competitive track. Please note that to achieve the objectives of this BLUE SKY track, we will ask the most experienced reviewers (mainly our ISCA Fellow members) to assess the proposals.

 

 

Scientific Areas and Topics
Interspeech 2024 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication, including - but not limited to - the following topics:

 

  • Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition
  • Speech Synthesis
  • Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody
  • Spoken Language Generation
  • Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
  • Automatic Speech Recognition
  • Analysis of Conversation
  • Spoken Dialogue and Conversational AI Systems
  • Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders
  • Spoken Language Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization
  • Speaker and Language Identification
  • Technologies and Systems for New Applications
  • Speech and Audio Signal Analysis
  • Resources and Evaluation
  • Speech Coding and Enhancement
  • Beyond traditional speech topics (not limited to the provided list)

 

 

CONTACTS
For all questions related to scientific aspects: tpcchairs@interspeech2024.org
For general questions: generalchairs@interspeech2024.org
 

 

Call for Tutorials

 

 

Important Dates
Proposals of tutorials due: 15 February 2024
Notification of pre-selection: 31 March 2024
Final list of tutorials: 15 May 2024

 

Submissions for tutorials are invited for Interspeech 2024 https://interspeech2024.org/.

The tutorial Day of Interspeech 2024 (on September 1st) is an opportunity for experts in a speech domain to deliver rich learning experiences to attendees in areas that include longstanding research challenges, current topics of research and emerging areas. The potential audience for tutorials includes a broad spectrum of Interspeech attendees ranging from experienced researchers with an established track record in speech science and technology, to early-stage researchers and researchers interested in learning about a new domain.

In order to offer a high quality and diverse set of tutorials at Interspeech 2024, we invite proposals that address introductory and advanced topics in a tutorial style. Proposals that target early-stage researchers, as well as those aimed at experienced researchers who might want to delve deeper into a new speech-related area are welcome. Tutorials will be 3 hours in duration, and can introduce an emerging or currently active area of speech-related research, or present an overview of an established area of research, rather than focus on the presenter's individual research area.

The theme of Interspeech 2024 is Speech and Beyond. Whilst it is not a requirement to address this theme in a Tutorial, we encourage proposers to keep it in mind and to explore ways it might resonate in their Tutorial. We also encourage proposals that address the pillars of responsible AI (fairness, explainability, sustainability, security, ...).

Date and Venue of the Tutorial
September 1st, 2024 - 8 tutorials (4 parallel tutorial sessions in the morning and afternoon)
Venue - TBA (but all in-person)

 

Proposals should follow the proposed format:
  1. Tutorial title
  2. Presenter(s) name and affiliation
  3. Description of the proposal (1 - 2 pages), which includes a few relevant references and any webpages/material useful for reviewing the proposal
  4. Explanation of the relevance of the proposed tutorial (0.5 - 1 page)
  5. Tutorial logistics, including
    • One session (three hours) or two sessions (2 * three hours)
    • Description of presentation format (e.g. one or more presenters etc.)
    • Special equipment required for the tutorial
    • Description of accompanying material provided (handouts, storage devices with media, etc.)
  6. Presenter information
    • Biography of presenter(s)
    • Key publications of presenter(s) on the tutorial topic
    • List of previous tutorial experience
  7. Audience information
    • Target audience (e.g. new researchers to the field, research students, specialists of adjacent fields)
    • Other considerations/comments
  8. Bibliography (from description)

 

 

Submission Procedure:

 

Proposals for the Interspeech 2024 tutorials must be no more than 4 pages long and must conform to the format stated above (please, ensure that the headings listed above are identified clearly).

 

Proposals should be submitted by email to tutorials@interspeech2024.org

 

By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video recording of the tutorial for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. Access to recording materials will be given through the ISCA Video Archives.

 

Questions? Please contact our Tutorial Chairs (Isabel Trancoso INESC-ID / IST University of Lisbon, Portugal and Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo MIT LIncoln Lab, USA) at tutorials@interspeech2024.org

 

 


 

Call for Special Sessions

 

Important Dates
Proposals of special sessions due: 5 January 2024
Notification of pre-selection: 19 January 2024
Final list of special sessions: 6 June 2024

Submissions for special sessions are invited for INTERSPEECH 2024 https://interspeech2024.org/.

Special Sessions should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest in speech communication. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference's theme, Speech and Beyond, are particularly welcome. Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference regular topics, and if applicable, to to conference's theme. Special Sessions may include Challenges.

Each special session proposal must contain the following information:

  • Title of the proposed special session
  • Names and affiliations of the organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer).
  • Up to five bullet points on what makes the session special.
  • A summary (up to one page) stating the importance of the session's topic and objectives. The summary should also explain why the topic cannot be properly covered by regular conference sessions.
  • A tentative list of authors who could contribute papers to the session. Note that with an approximate 50% acceptance rate for INTERSPEECH papers, special sessions should have a minimum of 12 anticipated submissions, unless their format allocates time to other formats than paper presentations.
  • Special sessions may have a different format from a regular session, e.g., panel discussion, longer summary talks, or a mixed thereof. In the proposal, the session format should be clearly defined (panel, oral, posters, etc.).
  • Additional or non-standard resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster stands, etc.) required for organizing the special session.

 

Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and significance to the conference.

Papers for approved Special Sessions must be submitted according to the same schedule and procedure as used for regular papers. Papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special Session organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions.

Note that the ISCA board has decided that challenges/special sessions can run for a maximum of three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal ineligible, we encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech Satellite Workshop instead.

Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special Session Chairs: Mathew Magimai Doss (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) and Elizabeth Shriberg (Ellipsis Health, USA) at specialsessions@interspeech2024.org.

 


Call for Show & Tell

Important Dates
Proposals of Show & Tell due: 22nd April 2024
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 14th May 2024
Final paper and final video: 11th June 2024

Submissions for Show & Tell are invited for Interspeech 2024 https://interspeech2024.org/.

Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. An important addition to the regular and special sessions is the Show&Tell demonstrations, where participants are given the opportunity to present engaging and interactive demonstrations to conference attendees. Contributions must highlight scientific or technological innovations of a concept relevant to Interspeech and may relate to a regular paper. Demonstrations should be based on innovations and fundamental research in the areas of speech communication, speech production, perception, acquisition, or speech and language technologies. This year, Interspeech is theme, Speech and Beyond, which may include, but is not limited to the topics: speech and health, animal voice recognition and understanding, speech for memory and heritage, voice communication across ages, and human-machine interaction, including gaming, virtual and augmented reality, and robot audition.

Proposals, as well as any questions, should be submitted to the Show&Tell Chairs: Eli Tzirkel (GM, Israel) and Ofer Schwartz (CEVA, Israel) at show-tell@interspeech2024.org.




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3-1-8(2025-08-17) Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

INTERSPEECH 2025
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 17-22 August 2025
Chairs: Odette Scharenborg, Khiet Truong and Catha Oertel
26th INTERSPEECH event

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3-1-9(2026) Interspeech 2026, Australia

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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3-1-10ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS

 

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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3-1-11Speech Prosody courses

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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3-2 ISCA Supported Events
3-3 Other Events
3-3-1(2023-11-18 ) CfP The 2nd International Conference on Tone-and-Intonation (TAI 2023), Singapore
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(2023-11-18) TAI 2023, Singapore, Call for Papers
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The 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023), Singapore, November 18-21, 2023

Theme:  East Meets West: Languages and Approaches

Website:  http://www.tai2023.org


We are delighted to announce the upcoming 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023), to be held in the vibrant city of Singapore during 18-21 November 2023. Jointly sponsored by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the International Phonetic Association (IPA), this event is organized by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) and the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA), with valuable support from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

The theme of this year’s conference is “East Meets West: Languages and Approaches”. Building on this theme, we aim to foster a dialogue between Eastern and Western perspectives in the study of tone and intonation. We cordially invite you to participate and contribute to this unique academic discourse. We especially encourage submissions that explore and compare Eastern and Western languages and methodologies, thus contributing to a more comprehensive and global understanding of tone and intonation.

Submissions related to phonetic and phonological analyses of tone and intonation are eagerly anticipated at TAI 2023. We welcome contributions on various topics, including, but not limited to, the production and perception of tone and intonation, the semantics and pragmatics of tone and intonation, the acquisition and teaching of tone and intonation in L1 and L2, and cross-linguistic comparisons of tone and intonation. In line with our theme, we particularly encourage submissions that explore the intersection of Eastern and Western approaches to these topics. In the spirit of interdisciplinarity, we also invite researchers from adjacent fields to submit papers on tone and intonation, further broadening the scope and enriching the discussions at the conference.

Prospective authors are invited to submit a 2-page abstract (1-page text and 1-page tables/ figures/ references) through our paper submission system. After the conference, authors can submit an optional 5-page full paper for inclusion in the ISCA Proceedings.

Conference Timeline:

· 01 May 2023         Online abstract submission open
· 30 Jun 2023           Abstract submission deadline
· 15 Aug 2023          Notification of abstract acceptance
· 20 Sep 2023          Early bird registration deadline
· 18-21 Nov 2023    Conference in Singapore
· 31 Jan 2024           Submission of the revised abstract and an optional full paper
 
 

The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended until 10 July 2023. Authors have the opportunity to update their submissions until 17 July 2023. Please find the detail at www.tai2023.org.

 

We are very honored to have invited the following keynote speakers:

   - Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University, USA

   - James Kirby, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

   - Ying-Ying Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 
 
 
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3-3-2(2023-11-22) The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023) , Abu Dhabi, UAE

The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023)  

https://fllm-conference.org/FLLM2023/index.php 

Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 22-23, 2023. 

(Co-located with SNAMS and Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE) 

FLLM Call for Papers: 

With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure.  

The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to:  


  • Architectures and Systems 
    • Transformers and Attention  
    • Bidirectional Encoding 
    • Autoregressive Models 
    • Massive GPU Systems  
    • Prompt Engineering 
    • Fine-tuning 
  • Challenges 
    • Hallucination 
    • Cost of Creation and Training 
    • Energy and Sustainability Issues 
    • integration 
    • Safety and Trustworthiness 
    • Interpretability  
    • Fairness 
    • Social Impact 
  • Future Directions 
    • Generative AI 
    • Explainability 
    • Federated Learning for FLLM 
    • Data Augmentation 
  • Natural Language Processing Applications 
    • Generation 
    • Summarization 
    • Rewrite  
    • Search 
    • Question Answering 
    • Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning 
    • Clustering and Classification 

 

  • Applications 
    • Natural Language Processing 
    • Communication Systems 
    • Security and Privacy 
    • Image Processing and Computer Vision 
    • Life Sciences 
    • Financial Systems 

 

Submission Guidelines: 

Papers submitted to FLLM must be the original work of the authors. They may not be simultaneously under review elsewhere. Publications that have been peer-reviewed and have appeared at other conferences or workshops may not be submitted to FLLM. Authors should be aware that IEEE has a strict policy with regard to plagiarism https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html The authors' prior work must be cited appropriately. 

All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in FLLM will be submitted to IEEEXplore for publication with SNAMS proceedings. 

 

Important Dates 

  • Paper Submission Deadline: 21-October-2023  
  • Notification of acceptance: 8-November -2023  
  • Camera-ready Submission: 15-November-2023 

Please send any questions about FLLM to Yaser Jararweh: yijararweh@just.edu.jo 

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3-3-3(2023-11-29) 10e Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP-2023) , Grenoble, France

RJCP 1er appel à posters

https://rjcp-2023.sciencesconf.org/

10e Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole (RJCP-2023)

Du 29/11 au 01/12 2023, Grenoble, France 

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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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3-3-4(2023-11-29) SPECOM 2023, Hubli-Dharwad, India



Announcing the SPECOM 2023 Call for Papers! 

 

The Call for Papers for SPECOM 2023 is now open! The 25th  International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM) will be held from 29th November- 1st December 2023 in Hubli-Dharwad, India. 

This flagship conference will offer a comprehensive technical program presenting all the latest developments in research and technology for speech processing and its applications. Featuring world-class oral and poster sessions, plenaries and perspective exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials,  and satellite workshops, it is expected to attract leading researchers and global industry figures, providing a great networking opportunity. Moreover, exceptional papers and contributors will be selected and recognized by SPECOM.

Website Link: https://iitdh.ac.in/specom-2023/

Call for papers PDF is available here.

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

Technical Scope:


We invite submissions of original unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:


  • Affective computing

  • Audio-visual speech processing

  • Corpus linguistics

  • Computational paralinguistics

  • Deep learning for audio processingVoice

  • Forensic speech investigations

  • Human-machine interaction

  • Language identification

  • Multichannel signal processing

  • Multimedia processing

  • Multimodal analysis and synthesis

  • Sign language processing

  • Speaker recognition

  • Speech and language resources

  • Speech analytics and audio mining

  • Speech and voice disorders

  • Speech-based applications

  • Speech driving systems in robotics

  • Speech enhancement

  • Speech perception

  • Speech recognition and understanding

  • Speech synthesis

  • Speech translation systems

  • Spoken dialogue systems

  • Spoken language processing

  • Text mining and sentiment analysis

  • Virtual and augmented reality

  • Voice assistants



Organizers:


  • General chairs:

    • Prof. Yegnanarayana Bayya (IIIT Hyderabad)

    • Prof. Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT Gurugram)

  • Technical Program Committee Chairs:

    • Prof. Rajesh M. Hegde (IIT Dharwad)

    • Prof. Alexey Karpov (SPC RAS St. Petersburg)

    • Prof. K. Samudravijaya (KL University)

    • Dr. Deepak K. T. (IIIT Dharwad)

  • Organizing Commiittee:

    • Prof. S R M Prasanna (IIT Dharwad)

    • Prof. Suryakanth V gangashetty (KL University)

Important dates:

  • Paper Submission Starts: 15 May 2023

  • Paper Submission Deadline: 31 July 2023

  • Paper Acceptance Notification: 8 September 2023 

  • Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 24 September 2023

  • Early Bird Registration Deadline: 24 September 2023 

  • Author Registration Deadline: 20 March 2023 

  • Conference date: 29 November - 1 December 2023

  • Satellite workshop: 2 December 2023

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3-3-5(2023-12-11) Journée commune AFIA-THL / AFCP — 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude d ela communication parlée- LIA, Avignon, France
Le programme de la journée commune AFIA-THL / AFCP sur le thème  'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée » est maintenant disponible en ligne !
Cette journée se tiendra à l’université d’Avignon le 11 décembre 2023.

L’inscription à la journée est gratuite, mais obligatoire. Le nombre de places étant limité, n’attendez pas le dernier moment pour vous inscrire.

Pour accéder au programme, aux informations de la journée et au formulaire d’inscription, suivez le lien !!!!
 
 
Informations sur la journée
 
L'Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA), au travers de son collège Technologies du Langage Humain (TLH), organise avec l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), une première journée commune sur le thème 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée' le lundi 11 décembre 2023 sur Avignon.
 
L'objectif de cette journée est de réunir chercheur.euse.s dont l'objet d'étude est la communication parlée, que ce soit du point de vue des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (SHS) ou du Traitement Automatique des Langues et de l'Intelligence Artificielle. Il s'agira au cours de cette journée d'aborder la question de l'extraction de connaissances interprétables dans le signal de parole par le biais d'approches automatiques, en particulier basées sur des apprentissages profonds, pour l'étude de la communication parlée au sens large. Ces études pourront porter sur des thématiques comme l'analyse de la parole dans le domaine de la phonétique ou de la linguistique, la caractérisation du locuteur pour des tâches de reconnaissance, de segmentation et regroupement en locuteurs, de comparaison de voix (criminalistique), l'analyse de la voix/parole pathologique, l'analyse des informations para-linguistiques (autre que le locuteur) comme la parole expressive, les émotions, les accents régionaux, etc., l'étude de comportements cognitifs autour de l'acquisition de la parole, ... Côté Traitement Automatique des Langues et de l'Intelligence Artificielle, les thèmes autour des modèles auto-supervisés de représentation de la parole, de l'explicabilité des modèles, de l'évaluation de l'interprétabilité et de la pertinence des explications, des boucles interactives avec l'utilisateur, pourront également être abordés.
 
Cette journée sera ainsi l'occasion de montrer des approches automatiques déjà existantes d'extractions de connaissances interprétables, pour répondre aux besoins des chercheur.euse.s en SHS mais également d'exprimer de la part de ces derniers, de nouveaux besoins. 
Elle s’adresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheur.euse.s qu’aux chercheur.euse.s plus avancé.e.s du domaine. Elle est ouverte à la présentation de travaux à différents stades d’avancement voire à la présentation de projets de recherche en voie d'être lancés.
 
Outre l'intervention d'un conférencier invité et la tenue d'une discussion animée en fin de session, la journée sera rythmée par des communications orales et des posters.
 
 
Nous espérons vous voir nombreux !
 
Le comité d’organisation (Marie Tahon, Corinne Fredouille pour l’AFIA/TLH et Maëva Garnier, Olivier Perrotin pour l’AFCP)

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— APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS ORALES : Journée commune AFIA-THL / AFCP — 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée' - 
le lundi 11 décembre 2023 au Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon.
 
 
 DERNIER RAPPEL : DEADLINE AU 29 SEPTEMBRE A diffuser le plus largement possible
 
L'Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA), au travers de son collège Technologies du Langage Humain (TLH), organise avec l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), une première journée commune sur le thème 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée' le lundi 11 décembre 2023 sur Avignon.
 
L'objectif de cette journée est de réunir chercheur.euse.s dont l'objet d'étude est la communication parlée, que ce soit du point de vue des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (SHS) ou du Traitement Automatique des Langues et de l'Intelligence Artificielle. Il s'agira au cours de cette journée d'aborder la question de l'extraction de connaissances interprétables dans le signal de parole par le biais d'approches automatiques, en particulier basées sur des apprentissages profonds, pour l'étude de la communication parlée au sens large. Ces études pourront porter sur des thématiques comme l'analyse de la parole dans le domaine de la phonétique ou de la linguistique, la caractérisation du locuteur pour des tâches de reconnaissance, de segmentation et regroupement en locuteurs, de comparaison de voix (criminalistique), l'analyse de la voix/parole pathologique, l'analyse des informations para-linguistiques (autre que le locuteur) comme la parole expressive, les émotions, les accents régionaux, etc., l'étude de comportements cognitifs autour de l'acquisition de la parole, ... Côté Traitement Automatique des Langues et de l'Intelligence Artificielle, les thèmes autour des modèles auto-supervisés de représentation de la parole, de l'explicabilité des modèles, de l'évaluation de l'interprétabilité et de la pertinence des explications, des boucles interactives avec l'utilisateur, pourront également être abordés.
 
Cette journée sera ainsi l'occasion de montrer des approches automatiques déjà existantes d'extractions de connaissances interprétables, pour répondre aux besoins des chercheur.euse.s en SHS mais également d'exprimer de la part de ces derniers, de nouveaux besoins. 
Elle s’adresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheur.euse.s qu’aux chercheur.euse.s plus avancé.e.s du domaine. Elle est ouverte à la présentation de travaux à différents stades d’avancement voire à la présentation de projets de recherche en voie d'être lancés.
 
Outre l'intervention d'un conférencier invité et la tenue d'une discussion animée en fin de session, la journée sera rythmée par des communications orales de durée variable (de 10 à 20mn) en fonction des soumissions reçues.
 
Soumissions
Les propositions de communications orales sont attendues sous la forme d'un résumé d’une page environ au format texte comprenant un titre, une liste d'auteur.e.s, une liste de mots-clés et un résumé du contenu de la présentation proposée. 
 
Elles devront être envoyées au format pdf par mail à Marie Tahon (marie.tahon@univ-lemans.fr) et Corinne Fredouille (corinne.fredouille@univ-lemans.fr)
 
Dates importantes
 
  • 1ER RAPPEL : 10/07/2023 
  • Date limite des soumissions :  15/09/2023
  • Notification aux auteur.e.s : 29/09/2023
  • Organisation de la journée : 11/12/2023
 
 
Co-organisation et Comité scientifique
La journée est co-organisée par Marie Tahon et Corinne Fredouille du collège TLH de l'AFIA et Maëva Garnier et Olivier Perrotin de l'AFCP et soutenue par un comité scientifique constitué de membres des deux institutions.
 
 
Programme et inscriptions
Le programme et le formulaire d'inscription seront disponibles prochainement.
L'inscription à la journée sera gratuite mais obligatoire.
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3-3-6(2023-12-16) The 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023), Taipeh, Taiwan

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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3-3-7(2023-xx-xx) École Rhénane des Sciences du langage, Université de Strasbourg, France

Ouverture des inscriptions à l’édition 2023-2024 de l'école ErSciLang :

 

« Paroles d’experts » : École Rhénane des Sciences du langage

1ère édition : ErSciLang 2023-2024

 

Formation gratuite en ligne, inscription obligatoire

Université de Strasbourg

 

 

Chaire Sciences du langage

USIAS, Institut d’Études Avancées

Université de Strasbourg

 

 

Présentation

L’Ecole Rhénane des Sciences du langage (ErSciLang) réunit enseignants chercheurs expérimentés et apprenants dans une dynamique de formation et d’échange. Les leçons dispensées par des chercheurs reconnus internationalement pour leur expertise visent à faire le point théorique sur des thématiques et des concepts clefs des différents secteurs des Sciences du Langage. Au carrefour de la transmission, de la formation et de la recherche, ErSciLang se donne comme objectif la co-construction d’un espace de rencontre entre experts et apprenants avec pour vocation d’ouvrir, dans une optique de linguistique cumulative, de nouvelles passerelles d’apprentissage et de recherche dans le domaine des Sciences du Langage.

 

Public : étudiants en master Sciences du langage, doctorants, post-doctorants, enseignants-chercheurs

 

 

Vous trouverez le programme détaillé et le portail des inscriptions en suivant ce lien :

https://erscilang.wordpress.com/

 

 

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3-3-8(2023-xx-xx) CfP 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'23) @ ACM Multimedia, Ottawa, Canada

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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3-3-9(2024-01-29) Second Call for Papers for the 30th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling — MMM 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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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3-3-10(2024-03-04) Cf Special sessions: The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, Japan
 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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3-3-11(2024-03-04) CfP The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024, Sapporo, Japan
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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3-3-12(2024-03-24) Seventh International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'24) ; Glasgow, UK

++ CALL FOR PAPERS ++  

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Seventh International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'24 

Held in conjunction with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'24)  

March 24th, 2024 – Glasgow, Scotland 

Website: https://text2story24.inesctec.pt 

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++ Important Dates ++  

    - Submission Deadline: January 10th, 2024  

    - Acceptance Notification: February 23rd, 2024 

    - Camera-ready copies: March 15th, 2024 

    - Workshop: March 24th, 2024 

  

++ Overview ++   

Over these past years, significant breakthroughs, led by Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs), have been made in understanding natural language text. However, the ability to capture, represent, and analyze contextual nuances in longer texts is still an elusive goal, let alone the understanding of consistent fine-grained narrative structures in text. In the seventh edition of the Text2Story workshop, we aim to bring to the forefront the challenges involved in understanding the structure of narratives and in incorporating their representation in well-established frameworks, as well as in modern architectures (e.g., transformers) and AI-powered language models (e.g, chatGPT) which are now common and form the backbone of almost every IR and NLP application. It is hoped that the workshop will provide a common forum to consolidate the multi-disciplinary efforts and foster discussions to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task.  

  

++ List of Topics ++  

Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific advance on all aspects of storyline generation and understanding from texts including but not limited to narrative information extraction aspects, narratives representation, knowledge extraction, ethics and bias in narratives, datasets and evaluation protocols and narrative applications such as visualization of narratives, multi-modal aspects, Q&A, etc. To this regard, we encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics:  

Information Extraction Aspects 

  • Temporal Relation Identification 

  • Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events 

  • Causal Relation Extraction and Arrangement 

  • Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction 

Narrative Representation 

  • Annotation protocols 

  • Narrative Representation Models 

  • Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation 

Narrative Analysis and Generation 

  • Argumentation Analysis 

  • Language Models and Transfer Learning in Narrative Analysis  

  • Narrative Analysis in Low-resource Languages 

  • Multilinguality: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis 

  • Comprehension of Generated Narratives 

  • Story Evolution and Shift Detection 

  • Automatic Timeline Generation 

Datasets and Evaluation Protocol 

  • Evaluation Methodologies for Narrative Extraction 

  • Annotated datasets 

  • Narrative Resources 

Ethics and Bias in Narratives 

  • Bias Detection and Removal in Generated Stories 

  • Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation 

  • Misinformation and Fact Checking 

Narrative Applications 

  • Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections 

  • Narrative Summarization 

  • Narrative Q&A 

  • Multi-modal Narrative Summarization 

  • Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives 

  • Social Media Narratives 

  • Narrative Simplification 

  • Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives 

  • Storyline Visualization 


++ Dataset ++  

We challenge the interested researchers to consider submitting a paper that makes use of the tls-covid19 dataset - published at ECIR'21 - under the scope and purposes of the text2story workshop. tls-covid19 consists of a number of curated topics related to the Covid-19 outbreak, with associated news articles from Portuguese and English news outlets and their respective reference timelines as gold-standard. While it was designed to support timeline summarization research tasks it can also be used for other tasks (e.g., Q&A), especially when combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.  A script to reconstruct and expand the dataset is available at https://github.com/LIAAD/tls-covid19. The article itself is available at this link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72113-8_33  

  

++ Submission Guidelines ++   

We solicit the following types of contributions: 

  • Full papers 

 up to 8 pages + references 

    Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed. 

  • Short papers 

up to 5 pages + references 

    Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue. 

  • Demos | Resource Papers 

up to 5 pages + references 

    Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the text2story community; 

       Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights. 

  

++ Workshop Format ++  

   Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral presentations.  

  

++ Invited Speakers ++ 

   Jochen L. Leidner, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany 

   Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, Scotland 

 

++ Organizing committee ++  

   Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) 

   Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal) 

   Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 

   Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe) 

   Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel) 

  

++ Proceedings Chair ++ 

    João Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC & Universidade da Beira do Interior) 

    Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC)  

  

++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++  

    Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto)   

    Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology)  

  

++ Program Committee ++  

Álvaro Figueira (INESC TEC & University of Porto)  

Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz)  

Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle)  

António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon)  

Anubhav Jangra (IIT Patna, Japan)  

Arian Pasquali (Faktion AI)  

Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto)  

Begoña Altuna (Universidad del País Vasco)  

Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology)  

Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)  

Bruno Martins (IST & INESC-ID, University of Lisbon)  

Brucce dos Santos (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP)  

David Semedo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) 

Deya Banisakher (Florida International University)  

Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)  

Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC)  

Henrique Lopes Cardoso (LIACC & University of Porto)  

Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University)  

Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering)  

Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University)  

João Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC & University of Beira Interior)  

Liana Ermakova (HCTI, Université de Bretagne Occidentale)  

Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino)  

Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon)  

Luis Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Minho)  

Marc Finlayson (Florida International University)  

Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie)  

Mariana Caravanti (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP)  

Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna)  

Natalia Vanetik (Sami Shamoon College of Engineering)  

Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto)  

Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  

Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora)  

Purificação Silvano (CLUP & University of Porto)  

Ross Purves (University of Zurich)  

Satya Almasian (Heidelberg University)  

Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto)  

Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (University of Washington)  

Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg)  

Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) 

  

++ Contacts ++  

Website: https://text2story24.inesctec.pt  

For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2024@easychair.org


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3-3-13(2024-04-14) Cf Tutorials, ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea

ICASSP 2024 Call for Tutorials

Submit your Proposals by 6 September 2023

The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) invites proposals for Tutorials. The 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Seoul, Korea, from April 14 to April 19, 2024, at COEX.

 

Tutorial proposals in all areas of signal processing and its applications, as listed in the conference topics, are warmly invited, and encouraged, especially those related to the theme of the conference and to new and emerging topics.

 

ICASSP 2024 will be an in-person conference; so, for each accepted tutorial, its proposer(s) will have to present it in person in Seoul.

 

Please submit your proposals by 6 September 2023. Learn more about the ICASSP 2024 conference topics and the Tutorials submission guidelines here

Call for Tutorial Proposals

Guidelines 

Tutorials will have a duration of 3 hours, including a 20-minute break, and will take place before the main technical program. For each accepted tutorial, its proposer(s) will have to present it in-person in Seoul.

 

Tutorial proposals should include the following essential information:
  • Title of the tutorial.
  • Presenter name(s), contact information, short biography (maximum of 1000 characters), and five recent related publications.
  •  A summary of presenter’s previous tutorial delivery experience.
  • The rationale for the tutorial including: importance, timeliness, novelty, how it can introduce new ideas/topics/tools to the SP community. 
  • A detailed description of the tutorial outlining the topics and subtopics covered.
  • A statement of any previous or related versions of this tutorial.

Please read carefully the guidelines outlined next before submitting your tutorial proposal via this submission link.

 

 Important Dates
  • Proposal Submission Deadline: 6 September 2023 
  • Acceptance Notification: 18 October 2023
     

ICASSP 2024 is a flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a global network of signal processing and data science professionals. A membership to IEEE SPS connects you with more than 18,000 researchers, academics, industry practitioners, and students advancing and disseminating the latest breakthroughs and technology. By joining, you’ll receive significant savings on registration to future events, including ICASSP 2024, as well as access to highly-ranked journals, continuing education materials, and a robust technical community. Learn more about how you can save and grow with us! 

 
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3-3-14(2024-04-14) CfP ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea

Announcing the ICASSP 2024 Call for Papers! 

Submit your Papers by 6 September 2023.

The Call for Papers for ICASSP 2024 is now open! The 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Seoul, Korea, from April 14 to April 19, 2024, at COEX.

 

ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. It offers a comprehensive technical program presenting all the latest development in research and technology in the industry that attracts thousands of professionals annually. We hope you will engage in various sessions filled with valuable lectures, cutting-edge topic keynotes with world-renowned speakers, along with great opportunities to network with industry pioneers and leading researchers.

 

Please submit your papers by 6 September 2023. Learn more about the ICASSP 2024 Call for Papers and submission guidelines here

Submit a Conference Paper

Authors are invited to submit papers that are up to four pages for technical content including figures and references, and one optional fifth page containing only references. The submission website will be available soon. 

 

SP Society Journal Paper Presentations

Authors of papers published or accepted in IEEE SPS journals may present their work at ICASSP 2024 at appropriate tracks. These papers will neither be reviewed nor included in the proceedings. In addition, the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJSP) will provide a special track for longer submissions with the same processing timeline as ICASSP. Accepted papers will be published in OJSP and presented in the conference but will not be included in the conference proceedings.

 

IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJSP) Submission Track

Following the same timeline as the conference papers, authors have the option to submit their paper for publication with the Open Journal of Signal Processing instead of in the conference proceedings.

 

IEEE OJSP has introduced a Short Papers submission category and review track, with a limit of eight pages plus an additional page for references (8+1). This is intended as an alternative publication venue for authors who would like to present at ICASSP 2024, but who prefer Open Access or the longer paper format than the traditional ICASSP 4+1 format.

 

Open Preview

Conference proceedings will be available in IEEE Xplore, free of charge, to all registered attendees/authors, 30 days prior to the conference start date, through the conference end date.

 

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission Deadline: 6 September 2023 
  • Reviews Available to Authors: 9 November 2023
  • Author Response Period: 9-15 November 2023 
  • Paper Acceptance Notification: 13 December 2023 
  • Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 11 January 2024 
     

ICASSP 2024 is a flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a global network of signal processing and data science professionals. A membership to IEEE SPS connects you with more than 18,000 researchers, academics, industry practitioners, and students advancing and disseminating the latest breakthroughs and technology. By joining, you’ll receive significant savings on registration to future events, including ICASSP 2024, as well as access to highly-ranked journals, continuing education materials, and a robust technical community. Learn more about how you can save and grow with us! 

 
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3-3-15(2024-04-14) Grand Challenge @ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea

Announcing the Grand Challenges for ICASSP 2024!

Participate in a Grand Challenge at ICASSP 2024! The 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Seoul, Korea, from April 14 to April 19, 2024, at COEX.

 

View all 11 official ICASSP Grand Challenges below. To learn more about how to participate and important dates, please visit the challenges individual websites listed on the ICASSP website

     
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3-3-16(2024-04-14) ICASSP 2024 Call for short courses, Seoul, Korea

ICASSP 2024 Call for Short Course Proposals

Submit your Proposals by 18 September 2023

ICASSP 2024, in collaboration with the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) Education Board, is planning offerings of education short courses for in-person attendance at the conference. 

 

The 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held in Seoul, Korea, from April 14 to April 19, 2024, at COEX.

 

The education-oriented short courses will offer Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) certificates to those who complete each course.

 

Given that students, academics, and industry researchers and practitioners worldwide have a broad diversity of interests and areas of expertise, the IEEE SPS goal is to develop meaningful methods of offering beneficial and relevant courses in support of our members’ educational needs.

 

Learn more about the Short Course proposal requirements here

General Information 

Duration

Each course should have a total duration of 10 hours, distributed over 4 days, at 2.5 hours per day, or over 2 days at 5 hours per day during the conference.

 

Coverage

Short Courses should be different than tutorials and aim for a broader view covering a wide spectrum of ideas and results in their area, and not focusing only on research results from a specific individual or group. Both established and emerging domains are welcome, and we also encourage experiential, hands-on components that introduce methods and tools.

 

Target Audience

  • Students
  • Researchers from universities or research labs/centers and industry
  • Signal processing engineers and practitioners from industry
  • Hybrid combinations of the above
 Important Dates
  • Proposal Submission Deadline: 18 September 2023 
  • Acceptance Notification: 20 November 2023

Learn more about the Short Course submission guidelines and instructions here

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3-3-17(2024-04-14) Satellite Workshops @ ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea.

Announcing the Satellite Workshops at ICASSP 2024!

The ICASSP 2024 Workshop Committee is pleased to announce 15 Satellite Workshops that will be hosted at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, taking place in Seoul, Korea, 14-19 April 2024. 

 

Satellite Workshop Papers will be accepted until 30 November 2023. Deadlines may vary by workshop. 

 

View all 15 official ICASSP Satellite Workshops below. Learn more about the individual workshops and participation guidelines here.

     

ICASSP 2024 Satellite Workshops

  • Deep Neural Network Model Compression
  • Trustworthy Speech Processing (TSP)
  • Self-supervision in Audio, Speech and Beyond (SASB)
  • ICASSP 2024 Workshop on Explainable AI for Speech and Audio
  • Workshop on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures
  • Timely and Private Machine Learning over Networks
  • Second Workshop on Signal Processing for Autonomous Systems (SPAS)
  • Revolutionizing Interaction: Embodied Intelligence and the New Era of Human-Robot Collaboration
  • SPID-CPS: Signal Processing for Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems
  • 1st Workshop on Integration of Sensing, Communication, and Computation (ISCC)
  • Signal Processing and Machine Learning Advances in Automotive Radars
  • Workshop on Radio Maps and Their Applications (RMA)
  • Super-resolution integrated communications, localization, vision and radio mapping (SUPER-CLAM)
  • Fearless Steps APOLLO: A Naturalistic Team based Speech Communications Community Resource (FS-APOLLO)
  • Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2024): Efficient and Personalized Speech Processing through Data Science

ICASSP 2024 is a flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a global network of signal processing and data science professionals. A membership to IEEE SPS connects you with more than 18,000 researchers, academics, industry practitioners, and students advancing and disseminating the latest breakthroughs and technology. By joining, you’ll receive significant savings on registration to future events, including ICASSP 2024, as well as access to highly-ranked journals, continuing education materials, and a robust technical community. Learn more about how you can save and grow with us! 

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3-3-18(2024-05-13) 13th International Seminar on Speech Production, Autrans, France
13th International Seminar on Speech Production, 13-17 May 2024, in Autrans, France
 
It is time for the next International Seminar on Speech Production.
 
After the launch in 1988 in Grenoble, followed by in Leeds (1990), Old Saybrook (1993), Autrans (1996), Kloster Seeon (2000), Sydney (2003), Ubatatuba (2006), Strasbourg (2008), Montreal (2011), Cologne (2014), Tianjin (2017) and virtually in in 2020, the 13th ISSP will come back (close) to Grenoble.
 
After a very successful virtual ISSP in 2020 (Haskins Labs), we are ready again for an in-person meeting in a very beautiful location in the mountains of Autrans (of course we will provide an option to attend virtually).
Take your calendars and mark the 13-17 May 2024 for the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production co-organized by several laboratories in France
 
More information including the website and important dates will be provided soon.
 
We are looking forward to meeting you in Autrans in 2024!
 
The organizing committee, Cécile Fougeron & Pascal Perrier together with Jalal Al-Tamimi, Pierre Baraduc, Véronique Boulanger, Mélanie Canault, Maëva Garnier, Anne Hermes, Fabrice Hirsch, Leonardo Lancia, Yves Laprie, Yohann Meynadier, Slim Ouni, Rudolph Sock, Béatrice Vaxelaire
 
Follow us on twitter @issp2024!
 

Claire PILLOT-LOISEAU

. Maître de Conférences HDR en Phonétique
. Responsable du DU de Phonétique Appliquée à la Langue Française (DUPALF)

Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie UMR 7018 (LPP)
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, département Institut de Linguistique et de Phonétique Générales et Appliquées (ILPGA)

. 4, rue des Irlandais, 75005 PARIS (Laboratoire)  
. 8, Avenue de Saint Mandé, 75012, PARIS (Université)


!CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT!
The next 
International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP2024) will be organized in less than a year, from May 13 to May 17 2024, in Autrans, France, supported by several laboratories in France working within speech production research. Topics of interest for this conference cover different aspects of speech production, including articulation, acoustics, neural substrates, motor control, disorders, and their links to perception, communication, development and language.

 

!KEYNOTE SPEAKERS!

We are delighted to announce that the conference will be organized around 6 keynotes illustrating the diversity of research topics in - and out of - the field of Speech Production: María Florencia Assaneo (UNAM, Mexico), Adrien Meguerditchian (Aix-Marseille U., France), Doris Mücke (U. of Cologne, Germany), Caroline Niziolek (U. Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Sophie Scott (UCL, UK), Jason Shaw (Yale U., USA).

 

!IMPORTANT DATES!

December 15, 2023 2-page abstract submission deadline

February 1, 2024 Notification of acceptance

April 15, 2024 optional full 4-page paper submission deadline

May 13-17, 2024 ISSP2024 in Autrans, France

 

For updated information on our invited speakers, on the scientific and organizing committee, and more practical information, please visit regularly our conference website: https://issp24.sciencesconf.org/ and follow us on Twitter @issp2024!

 

!SURVEY!

HYBRID OR NOT?

In the spirit of most editions of the conference, we have chosen to have a unity of place for the scientific exchanges and accommodation, and this will be in a conference center in the mountains near Grenoble.

Although we prefer all participants to be on-site during the conference, we are considering the possibility to organize it in a hybrid mode. Thus, could you answer as soon as possible the survey (if you plan to attend on-site or if you plan to attend remotely). This gives us a better idea of how we will proceed:https://framaforms.org/issp24-survey-1685914178

 

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3-3-19(2024-05-20)CfP LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Torino, Italy

LREC-COLING 2024
The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation
Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italy)

20-25 May, 2024

https://lrec-coling-2024.lrec-conf.org

 

Twitter: @LrecColing2024

First Call for papers 

Two international key players in the area of computational linguistics, the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), are joining forces to organize the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) to be held in Torino, Italy on 20-25 May, 2024.

IMPORTANT DATES

(All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”)

  • 22 September 2023: Paper anonymity period starts
  • 13 October 2023: Final submissions due (long, short and position papers)
  • 13 October 2023: Workshop/Tutorial proposal submissions due
  • 22–29 January 2024: Author rebuttal period
  • 5 February 2024: Final reviewing
  • 19 February 2024: Notification of acceptance
  • 25 March 2024: Camera-ready due
  • 20-25 May 2024: LREC-COLING2024 conference

 SUBMISSION TOPICS

LREC-COLING 2024 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of natural language and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken and sign language and multimodal interaction. Submissions are invited in five broad categories: (i) theories, algorithms, and models, (ii) NLP applications, (iii) language resources, (iv) NLP evaluation and (v) topics of general interest. Submissions that span multiple categories are particularly welcome.

(i) Theories, algorithms, and models

  • Discourse and Pragmatics
  • Explainability and Interpretability of Large Language Models
  • Language Modeling
  • CL/NLP and Linguistic Theories
  • CL/NLP for Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
  • Machine Learning for CL/NLP
  • Morphology and Word Segmentation
  • Semantics
  • Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing
  • Textual Inference

(ii) NLP applications

  • Applications (including BioNLP and eHealth, NLP for legal purposes, NLP for Social Media and Journalism, etc.)
  • Dialogue and Interactive Systems
  • Document Classification, Topic Modeling, Information Retrieval and Cross-Lingual Retrieval
  • Information Extraction, Text Mining, and Knowledge Graph Derivation from Texts
  • Machine Translation for Spoken/Written/Sign Languages, and Translation Aids
  • Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining
  • Speech Recognition/Synthesis and Spoken Language Understanding
  • Natural Language Generation, Summarization and Simplification
  • Question Answering
  • Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis
  • Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition

(iii) Language resource design, creation, and use: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data

  • Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs, interoperability
  • Methodologies and tools for LRs construction, annotation, and acquisition
  • Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
  • LRs and Semantic Web (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.)
  • LRs and Crowdsourcing
  • Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up
  • LRs in systems and applications such as information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer-Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, chatbots, voice-activated services, etc.
  • Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
  • LRs in the age of deep neural networks
  • Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
  • Bias in language resources
  • User needs, LT for accessibility

(iv) NLP evaluation methodologies

  • NLP evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
  • Benchmarking of systems and products
  • Evaluation metrics in Machine Learning
  • Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
  • User satisfaction evaluation

(v) Topics of general interest

  • Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
  • Replicability and reproducibility issues
  • Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues
  • Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies
  • International and national activities, projects and initiatives

 

LREC-COLING 2024 invites high-quality submissions written in English. Submissions of three forms of papers will be considered:

A. Regular long papers - up to eight (8) pages maximum*, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work.

B. Short papers - up to four (4) pages*, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc.

C. Position papers - up to eight (8) pages*, discussing key hot topics, challenges and open issues, as well as cross-fertilization between computational linguistics and other disciplines.

* Excluding any number of additional pages for references, ethical consideration, conflict-of-interest, as well as data and code availability statements.

Appendices or supplementary material will be allowed ONLY in the final, camera-ready version, but not during submission, as papers should be reviewed without the need to refer to any supplementary materials.

Linguistic examples, if any, should be presented in the original language but also glossed into English to allow accessibility for a broader audience. 

Note that paper types are decisions made orthogonal to the eventual, final form of presentation (i.e., oral versus poster).

AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Papers must be of original, previously-unpublished work. Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing. Submissions thus must not include authors’ names and affiliations. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

If the paper is available as a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the paper itself. In addition, LREC-COLING 2024 will follow the same policy as ACL conferences establishing an anonymity period during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not allowed.

More specifically, direct submissions to LREC-COLING 2024 may not be made available online (e.g. via a preprint server) in a non-anonymized form after September 22, 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (for arXiv, note that this refers to submission time).

Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite published versions of papers instead of preprint versions when possible.

Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted for publication at LREC-COLING 2024, it must be immediately withdrawn from other venues. If a paper under review at LREC-COLING 2024 is accepted elsewhere and authors intend to proceed there, the LREC-COLING 2024 committee must be notified immediately.

ETHICS STATEMENT

We encourage all authors submitting to LREC-COLING 2024 to include an explicit ethics statement on the broader impact of their work, or other ethical considerations after the conclusion but before the references. The ethics statement will not count toward the page limit (8 pages for long, 4 pages for short papers).

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENT

All papers accepted to the main conference track must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings, and at least one author must register for LREC-COLING2024.

All papers accepted to the main conference will be required to submit a presentation video. The conference will be hybrid, with an emphasis on encouraging interaction between the online and in-person modalities, and thus presentations can be either on-site or virtual.

 

 

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3-3-20(2024-07-02) CfP Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands

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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3-3-21(2024-07-22) 13th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, Erlangen, Germany

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 modelingmachine learningtissue engineeringlaryngeal 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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3-3-22(2024-09-09) Cf Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France

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.
     

  1. 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.
     

  2. 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.
     

  3. 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.
     

  4. 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.
     

  5. 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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3-3-23(2024-09-25) Second international multimodal communication symposium (MMSYM 2024), Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany,

 

we are pleased to announce that the second international multimodal communication symposium (MMSYM 2024) will take place at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, on September 25 - 27, 2024!
Check the MMSYM website for more information and to stay up-to-date: http://mmsym.org
 
We are attaching the Call for Papers for MMSYM 2024 to this Email and invite you to submit abstracts of your multimodal work to the conference! MMSYM 2024 wants to emphasize the following three main research themes: (1) The gesture-speech integration, in particular the prosody-gesture link, (2) formal, automatic and machine-learning approaches to multimodality, and (3) psycholinguistic approaches in multimodal settings.
 
Abstracts can be submitted until March 8, 2024 via OpenReview. Please find more information about abstract submission, templates and guidelines on the MMSYM website.
 
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