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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Call Speech Prosody 2024

Speech Prosody 2024 (SP2024) 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:

1. Prosody through the lifespan
2. Typology and cross-linguistic variation
3. Individual and social variation
4. Contact-induced variation

The conference will include both thematic sessions, based on the above subthemes, and non-thematic sessions, as well as 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

Important dates:

Abstract submission deadline

20/12/2023

Full paper submission deadline

07/01/2024

Notification of acceptance (by email)

25/02/2024

Revised paper submission

23/03/2024

Please note that the deadline of 20 December 2023 for 200-word abstract submission will not be extended. See the conference website for the submission guidelines and paper templates. 

EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sp2024

We hope to see you at Speech Prosody 2024 in Leiden!

Laura Smorenburg, on behalf of Yiya, Aoju and Amalia

This mail was sent through the SProSIG mailing list, which is for announcements of interest to the speech prosody research community.

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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:

CONTACTS

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

For general questions: generalchairs@interspeech2024.org

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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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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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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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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

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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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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.

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'.

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)

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

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

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

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

ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1^ère 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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Call for Papers

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

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

- annotation and indexing in sports

- tracking people/ athlete and objects in sports

- activity recognition, classification, and evaluation in sports

- 3D scene and motion reconstruction in sports

- event detection and indexing in sports

- performance assessment in sports

- injury analysis and prevention in sports

- data driven analysis in sports

- graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

- automated training assistance in sports

- camera pose and motion tracking in sports

- brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions in sports

- personal virtual (home) trainers/coaches in sports

- datasets in sports

- graphical effects in sports

- alternative sensing in sports (beyond the visible spectrum)

- multimodal perception in sports

- exploiting physical knowledge in learning systems for sports

- sports knowledge discovery

- narrative generation and narrative analysis in sports

- mobile sports application

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

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

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 

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

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                            14 July 2023 

Acceptance Notification:             30 July 2023

Camera Ready Submission:         12 August 2023 

Workshop Date:                            TBA; either Oct 29 or Nov 3, 2023

Challenges

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This year again, MMSports carries out a competition where participants can compete on state-of-the-art problems applied to real-world sport specific data. The competition is made of individual challenges, each of which is sponsored by SportRadar with a US$1,000.00 prize. Each challenge comes with a toolkit describing the task, the dataset and metrics on which participants will be evaluated. More information on the challenges will be coming soon.

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

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

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


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


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


Conference Website: http://mmm2024.org/


MMM 2024 proposes eight special sessions:

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


MMM 2024 also hosts two community events:

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


Submission Deadlines

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


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


MMM seeks contributions on the following research topics:


Multimedia Content Analysis

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

Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications

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

Multimedia Applications, Interfaces and Services

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

Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of Multimedia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Submission:

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

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

We look forward to meeting you at Sapporo.





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

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

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

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

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

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

Sincerely Yours,
IWSDS2024 organizing committee

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As previously announced, the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP2024) will be organized from May 13 to May 17 2024, in Autrans, France, supported by several laboratories in France working on speech production research. 

!CONFERENCE ORGANISATION: PRIORITY TO FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS!

In the spirit of most editions, 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. Virtual participation will be possible but with strong limitations: (a) remote participants can only submit for a poster presentation (without live interactions), (b) only on-site oral presentations will be live broadcasted giving possibilities for interactions with remote participants, (c) on-site poster presentations won't be broadcasted. 

All accepted abstracts will have the possibility to be extended as a 4-page paper (to be published in the proceedings of the conference). This optional 4-page paper will not be reviewed but will be considered for a subsequent selection of works to be gathered in a special issue of a journal (to be specified).

!IMPORTANT DATES!

December 15, 2023         2-page abstract submission deadline (template will be provided on https://issp24.sciencesconf.org/)

February 1, 2024             Notification of acceptance

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

May 13-17, 2024             ISSP2024 in Autrans, France

!KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & TOPICS!

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.

Six keynotes will be presented that illustrate 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).

 For updated information, please visit regularly our conference website: https://issp24.sciencesconf.org/ and follow us on Twitter/X @issp2024!

The organizing committee,
Cécile Fougeron & Pascal Perrier (chairs)
together with Jalal Al-Tamimi, Pierre Baraduc, Véronique Boulenger, Mélanie Canault, Maëva Garnier, Fanny Guitard-Ivent, Anne Hermes, Fabrice Hirsch, Leonardo Lancia, Yves Laprie, Yohann Meynadier, Slim Ouni, Rudolph Sock, Béatrice Vaxelaire

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*** Workshop “Speech production models and empirical evidence from typical and pathological speech” ***

We are pleased to announce the workshop “Speech production models and empirical evidence from typical and pathological speech” which will take place on Monday the 13^th of May 2024 in Grenoble from 10 AM to 4 PM. 

The workshop is organized in the context of the ChaSpeePro Sinergia FNS project and is aimed at debating, in a convivial and constructive atmosphere, theoretical positions and empirical evidence from both typical and pathological speech on three major questions: 

1. Planning/programming/execution or phonological/phonetic/motor encoding (or other encoding/computing distinctions): How to define the different processes in (motor) speech production?
2. Encoding units/representations in speech production models: Which ones, how many different units, and how are they selected and combined in larger units?
3. How are different speech modulations (whispered, loud, fast, clear, …) encoded/parametrized for production?

The day will be organized with four talks in the morning and round tables in the afternoon to debate these questions. We are happy to announce the following invited participants:

Morning talks:

              Frank Guenther, Boston University
              Ben Parrell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
              Antje Mefferd, Vanderbilt University

              Marina Laganaro, Cécile Fougeron & ChaSpeePro Team

Round tables moderator/discussants:

Louis Goldstein, University of Southern California
Monica Lancheros Pompeyo, Université de Génève
Hélène Lœvenbruck, Université Grenobles-Alpes
Doris Mücke, University of Cologne
Caroline Niziolek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pascal Perrier, Université Grenobles-Alpes
Wolfram Ziegler, LMU Munich

The registration will be free but limited and will open in February. For updates and registration check back the workshop’s website. 

Note that transportation from Grenoble to Autrans will be organized after the workshop for the people attending ISSP2024 which starts in the evening of the 13th in Autrans.

Looking forward to fruitful discussions with many enthusiastic participants! 

The organizing committee,
Marina Laganaro, Cécile Fougeron, Maëva Garnier, Anne Hermes & Pascal Perrier
and the ChaSpeePro Team

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27èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2024)

Passage(s)

3 et 4 juin 2024

4, rue des Irlandais 75005 Paris

Chers et chères collègues,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous faire parvenir en pièce jointe l’appel à communications pour les 27èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs qui auront lieu les 3 et 4 juin 2024 à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Maison de la Recherche) au 4, rue des Irlandais - 75005 PARIS.

Le thème sélectionné cette année est le suivant : « Passage(s)»

Les communications se feront en français.

Le format des communications orales sera de 20 minutes, puis 10 minutes de discussion.

Soumission des propositions :

Toute personne souhaitant réaliser une communication est invitée à soumettre un abstract d’un maximum de 3000 caractères espaces comprises (hors figure(s) et bibliographie) en français jusqu’au 6 février 2024 à 19h (heure de Paris). Les propositions de communication devront être déposées sur : https://rjc27.sciencesconf.org/ . En choisissant l’option “Nouveau dépôt” vous pourrez saisir vos données personnelles (nom, prénom, affiliation). La proposition de communication est anonyme, merci de ne pas mettre vos nom, prénom et affiliation universitaires dans le fichier PDF que vous allez joindre à votre proposition.

Calendrier

Date limite de soumission : 06 février 2024

Notification aux participants : Avril 2024

Dates du colloque : 3 et 4 juin 2024

Le Comité d’organisation des RJC 2024

PASSAGE(S) Les 3 et 4 juin 2024 à Paris Créées en 1998, les Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs et Chercheuses en Sciences du Langage de l’ED 622 (Université Paris Cité et Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) offrent la possibilité aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses inscrit·es en Doctorat ou en Master Recherche de présenter leurs travaux sous forme de communications orales. Le thème retenu pour l'appel à communications de cette 27e édition est 'Passage(s)'. Par cette formulation, nous souhaitons attirer l’attention sur les changements continus ou discrets pouvant affecter les langues, la parole, les pratiques langagières. Au pluriel, les passages considèrent ces transferts comme une source d’emprunts et de défis réciproques, au plan interdisciplinaire, mais aussi des échanges entre monde scientifique et domaine public. Le thème des RJC 2024 ne s’inscrit dans aucun cadre critique ou théorique en particulier. Il a pour volonté de laisser libre cours aux différentes interprétations des participant·es à travers plusieurs pistes décrites à titre d’exemples. 1. Passage(s) du temps En diachronie, les passages peuvent renvoyer aux stades successifs de l’évolution d’une langue ; mais aussi aux moments charnières de transition, de bascule, de transformation. On pourra donc réfléchir aux genèses langagières, aux états de langue, aux styles d’époque, aux politiques linguistiques et à leur impact sur la revitalisation des langues en danger (Grinevald & Costa, 2010 ; Bennett, 2020). On pourra également inviter dans le débat le concept d’émergence (Adam, 2012), s’intéresser aux faits de rémanence. À l’échelle des locuteur·ices, le passage du temps affecte tous les aspects du langage et de la parole, de leur acquisition à leur déclin. On invite ici à réfléchir aux transitions que peuvent vivre les locuteur·ices : premières acquisitions d’une ou plusieurs langues, évolution de leurs répertoires langagiers (CECRL, 2000), pathologies (Busto-Crespo et. al., 2016) et vieillissement sain (Stathopoulos, 2011; Tremblay, 2019). 2. Passage(s) sociodiscursifs Au niveau sociolinguistique, on invite à réfléchir au code-switching (Hall & Nilep 2015) et au code-mixing (Auer 1999), aux phénomènes de contact de langue (Léglise & Alby 2013), ainsi qu’aux processus de traduction. Au niveau discursif, on peut s'intéresser aux effets de dialogisme (Bakhtine 1929) ou de représentation du discours autre (Authier-Revuz 2020). Enfin, on s’intéressera aussi aux passages du sens d’un mot à un autre dans le temps et dans le discours (Lecolle 2007), au conflit de définition ou à la resignification. 3. Passage(s) didactiques On pourra considérer l’acte d’enseignement-apprentissage comme passage ou transmission des savoirs. En nous focalisant sur les sujets, il est également possible de considérer le passage, pour l’apprenant·e, d’un niveau de maîtrise à un autre (progression) ou d’un statut d’apprenant·e à un statut de locuteur·ice et pour l’enseignant·e, du passage du statut de locuteur·ice au statut d’enseignant·e. On pourra également considérer la vulgarisation scientifique comme un passage transformatif (Véron 2021). 4. Passage(s) entre production et perception Nous appelons ici à la réflexion sur les passages entre les différents niveaux linguistiques et phonétiques entrant en jeu dans la production de la parole et sa perception : des phénomènes cognitifs et neurologiques en jeu dans la production d'un message et son énonciation à la perception de celui-ci (Levelt, 2001; Drager, 2010). On pourra également étudier la notion de changement d’état des articulateurs et les altérations vocales et de la parole, avec le conduit vocal en tant que passage physique du flux d'air. 5. Enjeux méthodologiques du(des) Passage(s) Cette perspective envisage le passage en tant qu’élément-clef de la démarche scientifique : de la théorie au terrain (Candea, 2017), de la donnée à l’abstraction, de l’expérimentation à la modélisation théorique, de l’hypothèse au résultat… On considérera alors que toute modélisation théorique est en elle-même traduction, c’est-à-dire passage d’un état à un autre. On pourra s’intéresser aux enjeux du passage d’un support de discours à un autre. On peut citer le passage de l’oral à l’écrit (transcription et grammatisation), ainsi que du brouillon au texte final en linguistique de l’écrit, du hors-ligne au numérique (Paveau, 2017). Le passage d’un objet d’étude marqué à un objet d’étude non marqué (Cameron 2014; Bucholtz 1999; Cesbron 2022) amène à construire les identités linguistiques non marquées socialement en objets d’analyse. Le TAL a contribué à de nombreux passages, comme du manuel à l'automatique avec la traduction ou bien l'annotation automatique de corpus (Balakrishnan & Lloyd-Yemoh, 2014). La numérisation des corpus manuscrits (OCRisation, HTRisation), les données synthétisées (parole, texte) et la reconnaissance de la langue ou du locuteur sont également concernés par ces passages (de l'analogique au numérique, du signal/texte au vecteur...). Bibliographie: Adam, J. (2012), Le modèle émergentiste en linguistique textuelle, L’information grammaticale 134, Paris, Peeters, p. 30-37. Auer, P. (1999). From codeswitching via language mixing to fused lects: Toward a dynamic typology of bilingual speech. International journal of bilingualism, 3(4), 309-332. Authier-Revuz, J. (2020). La Représentation du Discours Autre. Berlin, Boston : De Gruyter. Bakhtine, M., Problèmes de la poétique de Dostoïevski, Paris, Seuil, [1929] 1970. Balakrishnan, V., & Lloyd-Yemoh, E. (2014). 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L’évaluation objective des dysfonctionnements de la voix et de la parole; 2e partie : Les dysphonies. Travaux interdisciplinaires du Laboratoire Parole et Langage, 20, 169‑232 Véronique, G. D. (2013). Émergence des langues créoles et rapports de domination dans les situations créolophones. In Situ. Revue des patrimoines, (20). Weiss, R. J., Skerry-Ryan, R. J., Battenberg, E., Mariooryad, S., & Kingma, D. P. (2021, June). Wave-tacotron: Spectrogram-free end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis. In ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 5679-5683). IEEE. Xue, S. A., & Hao, G. J. (2003). Changes in the human vocal tract due to aging and the acoustic correlates of speech production: a pilot study. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing research, 46(3), 689-701. Comité d’organisation: Léa Robin, Louise Wohmann-Bruzzo, Jean-Claude Mapendano Byamungu, Noémie Trovato, Carole Millot, Hélène Massis, Justin Jacobs, Jules Bouton, Manon Boutin-Charles, Anaïs Ligner Comité scientifique : M. Adda-Decker, J. Aguilar-Rio, A. Amelot, N. Audibert, M. Auzanneau, W. Ayres-Bennett, C. Badiou-Monferran, E. Beaumatin, I. Behr, T. Bertin, P. Boula de Mareuil, C. Brudermann, M. Candea, D. Capin, M. Causa, J-L. Chiss, I. Chitoran, J. Costa, L. Crevier-Buchman, J. David, M. DeChiara, C. Doquet, F. El Qasem, A. Elalouf, P. Faure, C., Fauth, M. Favriaud, S. Fedden, C. Fougeron, J-M. Fournier, I. Galleron, C. Gendrot, D. Gile, L. Greco, P. Halle, F. Isel, A. Lahaussois, M. Lammert, L Lansari, B. Leclercq, F. Lefeuvre, C. Leguy, R. Mahrer, N. Marignier, C. Masson, M. Molinié, A. Morgenstern, C. Muller, F. Neveu, G. Parussa, M-A. Paveau, C. Pillot-Loiseau, C. Pradeau, S. Prevost, N. Quint, S. Reboul-Touré, R. Ridouane, A. Salazar-Orvig, D. Savatovsky, L. Schmoll, G. Siouffi, V. Spaëth, S. Stratilaki, I. Taravella, P-Y. Testenoire, A. Valentini, C. Van Den Avenne, D. Van Raemdonck, H. Vassiliadou, M. B. Villar Diaz, P. Von Münchow, N. Yamaguchi, H-Y Yoo

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13th International Conference

on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics

Erlangen, Germany 22nd-26th of July 2024

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

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

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

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

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Call for Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024

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

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

Background

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

1. independent evaluation of information access systems;

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

3. creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking; 

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

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

Scope of CLEF Labs

We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs:

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

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

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

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

Proposal Submission

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

1. Title of the proposed lab.
    

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lab proposals must be submitted at the following address:

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

choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Proposals” track.

Reviewing Process

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

Advertising Labs at CLEF 2023 and ECIR 2024

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

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

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

Mentorship Program for Lab Proposals from newcomers

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

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

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

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

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

choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship” track.

Important Dates

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

• 29 May 2023 - 16 June 2023: Mentorship period

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

• 28 July 2023: Notification of lab acceptance

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

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

• 13 November 2023: Lab registration opens

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

CLEF 2024 Lab Chairs

• Petra Galuscakova, University of Stavanger, Norway

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

CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship Chair

• Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France

• Florina Piroi, TU Wien, Austria

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We are pleased to extend an invitation to you to participate in the upcoming Fearless Steps APOLLO Workshop. Our workshop delves into exploring speech communication, technology, and the extensive audio of the historic NASA Apollo program.

The Fearless Steps APOLLO Community Resource, supported by NSF, is a unique and massive naturalistic communications resource. This resource, derived from the Apollo missions, offers a rare glimpse into team-based problem-solving in high-stakes environments, with a rich variety of speech and language data providing invaluable data for researchers, scientists, historians, and technologists.

The Fearless Steps APOLLO corpus contains 30 time-synchronized channels, which capture all NASA Apollo team communications. The PAO (Public Affairs Officer) channel reflects all live public broadcast TV/radio contexts streamed by NASA during the missions. This channel is similar to all Broadcast news corpora.

Our workshop aims to showcase featured speakers, panel discussions, and present the latest findings in speech and language processing. We will explore facets of the Fearless Steps APOLLO corpus, the largest publicly available naturalistic team-based historical audio and meta-data resource.

Topics Covered:

We will be exploring several key areas, including:

1. Big Data Recovery and Deployment in the Fearless Steps APOLLO initiative.

2. Applications in Education, History, and Archival efforts.

3. Insights into Communication Science and Psychology, particularly in Group Dynamics and Team Cohesion.

4. Speech and Language Technology (SLT) development, including ASR, SAD, speaker recognition, and conversational topic detection. 

Workshop Structure:

1. Discuss advancements in digitizing Apollo audio and machine learning solutions for audio diarization.

2. Explore team communication dynamics through speech processing.

3. Explore the utility of Fearless Steps APOLLO resource for: SpchTech (Speech & Language Technology), CommSciPsychTeam (Communication Sciences & Team-based Psychology), & EducArchHist (Education, History, & Archival) communities.

4. The FEARLESS STEPS Challenge, a community engagement and data generation initiative.

The workshop will feature oral talks, including an overview of Fearless Steps APOLLO resource, including Team presentations on systems evaluated for the Fearless Steps Challenge dataset.

Instructions for Authors:

We invite authors to submit a short 1-page research overview that involves the Fearless Steps APOLLO resource. Please submit your Abstracts through our dedicated portal.

The workshop format will include oral presentations for accepted abstracts, which will be announced after the paper submission. Submissions in the form of 1-page abstracts ( and an optional additional page for references, figures, or preliminary results) are encouraged. Detailed formatting instructions and sample PDFs are available on our website. The Complete Fearless Steps Challenge (Phase-1 to Phase-4) Corpora & Naturalistic (Apollo-11 & Apollo-13) corpora can be accessed by filling out a short survey form here: FS-APOLLO Corpora Download Access

The deadline for workshop Abstract submission is set for March 1, 2024. We will announce the acceptance of the Abstracts on March 15, 2024. Both in-person and remote participation options will be available, with a focus on fostering a collaborative environment. Papers accepted to ICASSP 2024 are welcome as Abstract submissions, as well as original research following our format guidelines.

We believe this workshop will be a pivotal step in advancing speech technology and research. We look forward to your participation in enriching the potential of the Apollo Resource and inspiring new approaches in collaborative problem-solving.

For more details, please visit our workshop website.

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