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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Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,

I'm pleased to announce that Speech Prosody 2026 will be in Philadelphia, organized by Jianjing Kuang and Mark Liberman.  (There were 80 votes for Shanghai, 128 for Philadelphia, and 15 had no preference.)

I’m also pleased to announce the resumption of our lecture series with a talk by Simon Roessig:

Syntagmatic prominence relations in prosodic focus marking

Lecturer: Simon Roessig (University of York, UK)

Host: Plinio A. Barbosa (Unicamp, Brazil)

Sept 24th at 1 pm (Brasilia time = UTC - 3)

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUE9pRbq9w0

Abstract: This talk is about the role of prenuclear prominences and their relation to nuclear accents in German and English. The production results (German) that I will present show that the realization of the prenuclear domain depends on whether it is focal or prefocal. The prenuclear noun is characterized by larger F0 excursions, higher F0 maxima, and longer durations when it is in broad focus than when it precedes a narrow focus. Furthermore, the realization of the prenuclear domain depends on the following focus type: The prenuclear noun is produced with smaller F0 excursions, lower F0 maxima and shorter durations before a corrective focus than before a non-corrective narrow focus. The findings suggest that the phonetic manifestation of information structure is distributed over larger prosodic domains with an inverse relationship in the syntagmatic dimension. In addition, the study contributes further evidence that continuous phonetic detail is used to encode information structural categories. An important question that arises from the production data is whether this phonetic detail can be used by listeners in perception. I will present first results from a series of perception experiments (German and English) to investigate this question.

Plan: 1. I will begin by outlining what we know about focus prosody in the nuclear and prenuclear domains. 2. I will then present findings from a production study that examines the prosody of the prenuclear domain in different types of focus. 3. These results show that there are interesting strength relations between prenuclear and nuclear prosody in the encoding of focus types. 4. I will present preliminary findings from perception experiments investigating the question whether listeners use prenuclear prominence modulations in identifying focus types. 5. Finally, I will conclude with a discussion of the results and future directions.

Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair

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

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The ISCA Board has decided to award the organisation of Interspeech 2027 to São Paulo, Brazil. We are very excited to introduce researchers from all over the world to the South American continent for the first time.

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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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Call for ICMI Workshop Papers
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Cross-Cultural Multimodal Interaction (CCMI)
Summary:
This workshop seeks to establish an international research platform to investigate the impact of linguistic and cultural differences on 

nonverbal behavior and their effects on communication dynamics. Moving beyond merely identifying nonverbal behavior patterns 

in specific cultural contexts, the workshop aims to uncover the mechanisms behind adaptation, change, and misunderstanding in 

intercultural interactions. The first year will focus on data-related challenges, such as collecting and annotating high-quality data 

across different regions. While advances in sensor technology, machine learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs) have been 

applied to linguistic diversity, their use in nonverbal communication remains underexplored. Given the known cultural variations in 

gestures, facial expressions, and turn-taking, integrating insights from humanities research with multimodal analysis is crucial. 

As LLMs continue to shape human-machine interactions globally, understanding and incorporating cultural differences in nonverbal 

behavior is an urgent and significant research challenge.

Webpage: 
https://sites.google.com/view/ccmi2025/home
Deadline: 
7 July 2025
Organizers:
Koji Inoue, Kyoto University, Japan
Shogo Okada, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan
Divesh Lala, Kyoto University, Japan
Sahba Zojaji, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Nancy F. Chen, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
Holistic and Responsible Affective Intelligence (HRAI)
Summary:
Affective computing techniques are typically developed for specific tasks in controlled settings, lacking the flexibility to handle multiple affective states simultaneously. Recently, foundation models have emerged as a promising solution, demonstrating strong performance across various affective tasks and offering a more comprehensive approach to affective intelligence. However, their adoption also raises critical ethical concerns, including privacy risks, fairness, sustainability, and bias. Therefore, ensuring their responsible and ethical use is more urgent than ever. This workshop aims to advance both the holistic development of affective computing and the understanding of its associated ethical challenges.

Webpage: 
https://sites.google.com/view/hariworkshop

Deadline: 
8 July 2025
Organizers:
Yuanchao Li, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dimitrios Kollias, Queen Mary University London, UK
Guillaume Chanel, University of Geneva , Switzerland
Marios Fanourakis, University of Geneva , Switzerland
Leimin Tian, CSIRO, Australia
Michal Muszynski, IBM Research, Switzerland
Brandon Booth, University of Memphis, USA
Huili Chen, Princeton University, USA
Catherine Lai, University of Edinburgh, UK
IMAGINE-RS: 1st Workshop on Interactive Multimodal Analysis and Geospatial Intelligence for Remote Sensing
Summary:
The fusion of AI-driven geospatial intelligence with interactive and explainable AI redefines how we interpret and interact with remote sensing data. IMAGINE-RS brings together researchers from remote sensing, HCI, AI, cognitive science, and geospatial analytics to explore advancements in AR/VR, conversational AI, BCI, and haptic feedback for geospatial applications. This workshop brings interdisciplinary discussions on enhancing interactive AI methods and evaluating their impact on precision agriculture, disaster response, and environmental monitoring. Promoting human-centered geospatial intelligence aims to identify key challenges and drive collaboration toward trustworthy, accessible, and transparent AI-driven Earth observation systems.

Webpage: 
https://sites.google.com/view/imagine-rs-icmi2025/

Deadline: 
15 July 2025
Organizers:
Ankit Jha, LNM Institute of Information Technology Jaipur, India
Biplab Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Danfeng Hong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Moloud Abdar, Deakin University, Australia
Anmol Srivastav, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India
Poulami Dalapati,  LNM Institute of Information Technology Jaipur, India
Keshav Kaushik,  LNM Institute of Information Technology Jaipur, India
Lokendra Chauhan, QEN Labs, USA
 

The Fifth International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP)
Summary:
Pain typically is measured by patient self-report, but self-reported pain is difficult to interpret and may be impaired or in some circumstances not possible to obtain. For instance, in patients with restricted verbal abilities such as neonates, young children, and in patients with certain neurological or psychiatric impairments (e.g., dementia). Additionally, the subjectively experienced pain may be partly or even completely unrelated to the somatic pathology of tissue damage and other disorders. Therefore, the standard self-assessment of pain does not always allow for an objective and reliable assessment of the quality and intensity of pain. Given individual differences among patients, their families, and healthcare providers, pain often is poorly assessed, underestimated, and inadequately treated. To improve assessment of pain, objective, valid, and efficient assessment of the onset, intensity, and pattern of occurrence of pain is necessary. To address these needs, several efforts have been made in the machine learning and computer vision communities for automatic and objective assessment of pain from video as a powerful alternative to self-reported pain. The workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary researchers working in the field of automatic multimodal assessment of pain (using video and physiological signals). A key focus of the workshop is the translation of laboratory work into clinical practice.

Webpage: 
http://aap-workshop.net 

Challenge:
https://sites.google.com/view/ai4pain2025/home

Deadline: 
8 July 2025
Organizers:
Zakia Hammal, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Raul Fernandez-Rojas, University of Canberra, Australia.
Steffen Walter, University Hospital Ulm, Germany.
Nadia Berthouze, University College London, UK.
Roland Goecke, University of Canberra, Australia.
Ben Seymour, University of Oxford, UK.

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International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS) - Sicily, IT 13-19 July 2025

Forensic Horizons: Investigating Truth in the Digital and AI Era

Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, and AI-Driven Investigations

The fourth edition of IFOSS will aim to provide both an objective and clear overview and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research as well as the professional best practices in Forensics and related fields. The courses will be delivered by world renowned experts, from either academia, law enforcement and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of real Forensics problems. Leading scientists from the different fields involved will introduce the topics. A typical course is broad enough to provide a general introduction to the chosen topic, whilst one can learn the most relevant contributions in depthThe school will aim to provide a stimulating opportunity for professionals and young researchers, as well as Ph.D. students.

After the big success of the first two editions with about 75 attendees from all over the world,

also this year we will focus on Digital Forensics and Law with specific emphasis on the AI revolution.

In the following the related recap videos:

IFOSS 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a35Wjkygx0&ab_channel=IFOSS

IFOSS 2023: https://youtu.be/lfRZ8LyfYYs?si=MJ_7g3BORdZH-sNo

IFOSS 2024: https://youtu.be/525Krq0ZGF4?si=1a6VlSdO1PWr9VJt

The underlying theme of the current edition is:

 Forensic Horizons: Investigating Truth in the Digital and AI Era Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, and AI-Driven Investigations

Why Attend?

• Esteemed Experts: Gain insights from luminaries who will enrich your understanding with their profound knowledge and experience.

• Diverse Perspectives: Join a global cohort of around 75 like-minded professionals, researchers, and academicians, fostering an environment ripe for learning and networking.

• A Blend of Theory and Practice: Engage in comprehensive sessions that balance academic rigor with practical applications in forensic science.

LIST OF SPEAKERS (fully confirmed)

Fernando-Perez Gonzalez, University of Vigo, ES

Andrea Cavallaro, EPFL, CH

Didier Meuwly - University of Twente, NL

Jacopo Della Torre - University of Genova, IT

Fabio Bruno, Interpol, Singapore

Gianluca Foresti, University of Udine, IT

Stefano Mele - ICT Authority, San Marino
Marcello Albergoni- ACN, IT

..others coming soon.

DIRECTORS

Sebastiano Battiato - University of Catania, Italy

Donatella Curtotti -  University of Foggia, Italy

Giovanni Ziccardi, University of Milan, Italy

PhD FORUM

A special session is organized for participants who intend to take advantage of the audience for presenting their current research/tool in the covered areas. A Special Issue to follow up on the themes covered in the School will be published in some indexed high-impact journals (to be announced early). Applicants are particularly encouraged to submit their original research to the SI (the usual refereeing procedure applies to guarantee the highest scientific standards).

APPLICATION

The school will be open to about 75 qualified, motivated and pre-selected candidates. Ph. D. students, post-docs, young researchers (both academic and industrial), senior researchers (both academic and industrial) or academic/industrial professionals are encouraged to apply at: www.ifoss.it

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

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

Applications to attend IFOSS 2025 should be received before 04/05/2025.

Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by mid of May.

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

ACCOMODATIONS

IFOSS participants will be hosted at Hotel Village Baia Samuele (school location) at very special rates. There are no other accommodation options. IFOSS 2025 participants must make reservations for accommodation, using the accommodation reservation form (available soon) to be sent directly to Baia Samuele reception.

After a certain date there is no guarantee for reservations in Hotel Village Baia Samuele. More information will be announced as soon as possible on the web site. Depending on chosens settings (Single, Double or Triple Room) the overall cost enclosing Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner should span in the range (650-1000 euros) in the period 13(in) to 19 (out) July 2025.

LOCATION 

IFOSS 2025 will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele in Punta Sampieri - Scicli (Ragusa), Sicily from 13-19 July 2025.

Sicily is one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean. The island is very rich in archeological sites from various Ancient Civilizations. The sea, weather, food and the wine are excellent. In particular Punta Sampieri - Scicli (RG) is located in the south east of Sicily in a late Baroque area called Val di Noto. The Val di Noto area is included in the Unesco World Heritage List and includes eight nearby towns: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli. The location of the school rises in the middle of an ample bay delimited on the west from Sampieri and on the east from a cliff, on which is found an ancient furnace, rare example of industrial archaeology. The Hotel Village Baia Samuele stretches in a gentle slant to the beach: 120 thousand square meters delimited from rows of secular cypresses. An ultramodern village with an original architecture, pleasant design and all the comforts you can imagine. The frame of plants and flowers, typical of this angle of Sicily, in front of the island of Malta, completes this gilded dream of the Mediterranean.

MORE INFORMATION

Website: www.ifoss.it

 info@ifoss.it 

FOLLOW US ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InternationalForensicsSummerSchool/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ifoss_official 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ifoss_official/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ifoss

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Dear colleagues,

while we are finalising the program, the registration for the 13th edition of the Speech Synthesis Workshop is now open with all the information available on the official SSW website at the registration page: <https://blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/registration-2/>

There are two ways to register:
- if you *register for Interspeech*, please use the Interspeech registration portal: <https://www.aanmelder.nl/164976/registration>. The payment will then be made using their platform
- if you **do not register for Interspeech**, you can register by using the dedicated form: <https://forms.gle/Hn4NqmiJP8ptWCgh8>. The payment will be made by bank transfer

Due to circumstances beyond our control, there is no ISCA discount this year. The registration fees are:
- *regular* 500€
- *student* 300€

Registration for the 2025 Blizzard Challenge is also open. The workshop attendance is free, but the space is limited. Priority is given to the participants. Therefore, if you want to secure your place, please register using the following form:  <https://forms.gle/vqtRSRuz1wEUYEKv5>

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Leeuwarden,
The SSW and the Blizzard Challenge Organising committees

--
Sébastien Le Maguer - Department of Digital Humanities - University of Helsinki
website: <http://seblemaguer.github.io/>

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Call for Abstracts

This is a Call for Abstracts for the “Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop” (YFRSW) to be held right before Interspeech 2025 in the Netherlands. The purpose of this workshop is to encourage female* students to pursue a career in speech research and technology. This is a great opportunity to network with and get feedback from senior researchers in the field. If you are (or someone you know is) a female* Bachelor’s or Master’s student in speech science and/or technology, please consider submitting (or encourage others to submit) an abstract by May 2nd, 2025! Participants of YFRSW will be offered partial financial support towards their travel and Interspeech 2025 registration expenses. 

All details on the Call for Abstracts can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/yfrsw-2025/abstract-submission 

If you have any questions, please get in touch with the YFRSW organization committee! 

Sincerely,

YFRSW Organizing Committee

youngfemaleresearchersinspeech@gmail.com

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The 2nd International Generative AI and Computational Language Modelling Conference (GACLM 2025)

https://gaclm.org/2025/

18-21 August, 2025 | Valencia, Spain

Hybrid Event

Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section

GACLM 2025 CFP:

With the emergence of Generative AI (GenAI), the world is experiencing a new era of generative models producing various types of data, including textual and visual data. This is accompanied by the unprecedented advancement of Computational Language Modeling (CLM) techniques that are supporting a wide range of downstream applications. Both Generative AI and Computational Language Modeling are leading the paradigm shift we are witnessing in Artificial Intelligence.

The International Generative AI and Computational Language Modeling Conference (GACLM 2025) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions of this new era of Artificial Intelligence systems based on GenAI and CLM. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to GACLM, with special interest in, but not limited to, the following:

• Human-Centered Generative AI
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Text generation, summarization, and question answering
• Sentiment analysis, misinformation detection, and emotion detection
• Machine translation and multilingual models
• Language comprehension, grammar and style checking, and complex reasoning
• Document processing and information retrieval
• Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• Adversarial machine learning and applications
• Generative adversarial networks (GANs)
• GenAI and diffusion models
• Federated and distributed learning for GenAI
• Fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Synthetic data generation and data augmentation
• Explainable AI (XAI) and trustworthy AI systems
• GenAI in healthcare, education, robotics, and smart cities
• GenAI for cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT) systems
• GenAI for sustainability and human good
• Computer vision, creative applications, and video generation
• GenAI ethics and governance

Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings

Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5' x 11' two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the GACLM Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion.

Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must follow the IEEE paper format. And include up to 7 keywords. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers can be up to 6 pages.

Important Dates:

• Paper submission deadline: May 20th 2025
• Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2025
• Camera-ready Submission: July 31th, 2025

Contact:

Please send any inquiry on GACLM to: info@gaclm.org

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This is the second call for papers for the 13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13).

Submission website: <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SSW2025/Track/1/Submission/Create>
Submission deadline: April 1, 2025 - initial submission; April 14, 2025 - paper update

= General information =

13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13) - 24-26 August 2025 in Leeuwarden, NL - <https://blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/>

We are delighted to announce the 13th edition of the Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) which will take place in Leeuwarden (the Netherlands),
from Sunday the 24th till Wednesday the 26th of August 2025. The workshop is a satellite event of the Interspeech 2025 conference (held in
Rotterdam, the Netherlands).

The SSW is the main meeting place for research and innovation in speech synthesis, i.e. predicting speech signals from text input.
Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology is a key component of numerous applications: speech-to-speech translation, digital assistants, conversational
agents, social robots. While early research focused on basic intelligibility, contemporary systems now achieve remarkable naturalness. Current
research frontiers include emotional expression, speaking style control, and efficient deployment for the world's languages.

**Theme: Scaling down: Sustainable synthesis for language diversity**

SSW13 focuses on making speech synthesis more accessible for the world's languages. We encourage submissions addressing:

- Data-efficient methods for low-resource languages
- Computationally sustainable approaches
- Cross-lingual transfer learning
- Language-specific challenges in TTS

= Key Information =

- Paper Format: Up to 6 pages including references using the Interspeech 2025 template
- Review Process: Double-blind peer review
- Presentation format: Oral and poster sessions
- Virtual Participation:  None, in-person only

= Important Dates =

- **April 6, 2025: Updated submission deadline (title/authors)** - April 20, 2025: Updated full paper deadline
- June 21, 2025: Notification of acceptance - July 4, 2025: Camera-ready deadline
- August 17-22, 2025: Interspeech (Rotterdam)
- August 24-26, 2025: SSW13 (Leeuwarden)

= Topics =

SSW welcomes contributions not only in the core TTS technology but also includes researchers from related science -- from phoneticians,
phonologists, and neuroscientists to experts of multimodal human-machine interaction.

First, we are delighted to already **announce two keynote speakers**: - **Alistair Conkie** from Apple - **Anna-Mari Wallenberg** from the University of Helsinki

Core tech
- End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis
- Direct waveform generation
- Voice conversion and modification
- Multilingual/cross-lingual synthesis
- Low-resource TTS methods

Linguistic aspects
- Text normalization and preprocessing
- Prosody modeling
- Expression and emotion
- Natural language generation for TTS
- G2P conversion

Applications & eval
- Speech synthesis for accessibility
- Embedded/edge deployment
- Quality assessment metrics
- Privacy and security
- Ethical considerations

Special applications
- Singing synthesis
- Non-human vocalization
- Talking faces/avatars
- Clinical applications

We look forward to welcoming you in Leeuwarden!

The SSW13 Organising committee

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SIGDIAL 2025: Second Call for Papers (**submission deadline is April 21**)

The 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) will be held in Avignon, France on August 25-27, 2025.

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers, continuing a series of 25 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for ACL and ISCA.

**Topics of Interest**

SIGDIAL 2025 invites submissions of original research on all aspects of discourse and dialogue. We encourage formal, corpus-based, experimental, or analytical work, as well as work on implementations and applications, including but not limited to the following areas:

* Discourse Processing: Research on rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing, discourse connectives, reference resolution, event representation, and causality in narrative. This also includes work on argument mining, text quality and style, cross-lingual discourse analysis, and discourse considerations in applications like machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering, and information retrieval. We particularly encourage submissions that explore discourse issues in text generated by large language models.

* Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Investigations into the pragmatics and semantics of conversations, going beyond the single sentence level. This includes research on rational speech acts, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, and presuppositions.

* Dialogue Systems: Contributions related to task-oriented and open-domain dialogue systems, whether spoken, multimodal, embedded, situated, or text-based. This includes research on system components, evaluation, and applications. Specific areas of interest include knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue, state representation and tracking, policy learning, social and emotional intelligence, dialogue in virtual reality and human-robot interaction, entrainment, alignment, and priming. We also welcome work on generation for dialogue, style, voice, personality, and safety and ethics in dialogue systems.

* LLM-Based Dialogue Technologies: Research on the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in dialogue systems, including but not limited to areas like prompt engineering, fine-tuning for dialogue, data synthesis and augmentation for dialogue tasks, safety and ethics of LLMs in conversation, and evaluation of LLM-generated dialogue.

* Corpora, Tools, and Methodology: Submissions focused on corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue. We encourage submissions related to annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodologies, and corpora development.

* Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology: We welcome submissions showcasing innovative applications of dialogue and discourse processing technology in various domains.

**Submission Types**

The following submission types are expected:

* Long Papers: 8 pages max, excluding references and appendices; +1 page in the final version. Long papers should describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Include concrete evaluation and analysis where appropriate.

* Short Papers: 4 pages max, excluding references and appendices; +1 page in the final version. Short papers should present focused contributions, such as concise descriptions of novel ideas, negative results, or interesting application notes.

* Demo Descriptions: 4 pages max, including references. Also a separate 1-page document for equipment requirements. Demo descriptions should clearly outline the system to be demonstrated, its functionality, and its relevance to the SIGDIAL community.

**Submission Guidelines**

* Content Essential for Review: All content crucial for understanding your contribution or assessing its technical correctness should be included in the main paper, not solely in appendices. Reviewers are not obligated to review appendices.

* Supplementary Materials: Authors are encouraged to submit supplementary materials like corpora, code, videos, or sound files to ensure reproducibility and/or enhance their submissions.

* Multiple Submissions Policy: SIGDIAL 2025 cannot accept work that is currently under review, or has been published elsewhere, including other conferences or journals with overlapping review periods.

* Blind Review: Long and short papers will undergo double-blind review, following [ACL policies](https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines). Demo descriptions will NOT be anonymous.

* Submission Format: All submissions must adhere to the two-column ACL format ([Overleaf template](https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr) and downloadable [LaTeX/Word templates](https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) available). Submit electronically in PDF format.

**Submission Deadlines**

SIGDIAL accepts both regular submissions via the Softconf/START system and commitments of papers previously reviewed through ACL Rolling Review (ARR).

* Regular Submission (Softconf/START): <https://www.softconf.com/n/sigdial2025/>
  Submission deadline is April 21, 2025 (23:59 GMT-11). The authors are allowed to update ONLY the PDF until April 28, 2024 (23:59 GMT-11).

* [ACL Rolling Review (ARR)](https://aclrollingreview.org/) Commitment: before June 6, 2024 (23:59 GMT-11)

**Mentoring Program**

SIGDIAL 2025 offers a mentoring program to assist authors whose submissions show promise but require improvement in language or organization. Accepted papers flagged for mentoring will receive guidance from experienced SIGDIAL members to prepare their work for publication.

**Best Paper Awards**

SIGDIAL 2025 will recognize outstanding contributions with Best Paper Awards. All accepted papers are eligible.

**Presentation Format**

All accepted papers must be presented in person at the conference venue in either oral or poster sessions. Remote presentations will only be considered in exceptional circumstances (e.g., visa or health issues) with prior approval from the organizers.

**Student Travel Grant**

To broaden participation, SIGdial plans to support a number of selected students for paper presentations at SIGdial. Details of application for the grant will be announced soon.

SIGDIAL 2025 General Chair and Program Committee

**Conference Website:** <https://2025.sigdial.org>

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                     TSD 2025 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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The twenty-eighth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2025)
               Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, 25-28 August 2025
                       http://www.tsdconference.org/

TSD 2025 will be organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, in
cooperation with Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. This
event continues the tradition of the TSD series, which started in 1998 and
has become a prime forum for interaction between researchers in computer
processing of both spoken and written language from all over the world.


IMPORTANT DATES

* >>> 30 May 2025 <<< ..... Deadline for submission of contributions
* 20 June 2025 ............ Notification of acceptance or rejection
* 27 June 2025 ............ Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers
* 25-28 August 2025 ....... Conference dates

For the review, a full paper must be submitted by the above deadline.


CONFERENCE FEES

The Early Bird registration fees are as follows:

    Including Event             Full Registration       Student Registration
    Conference Fee              EUR 360                   EUR 280
    w/o Conference Trip 

    Full Conference Fee         EUR 400                   EUR 310

Please note that the Early Bird fee is available by June 27, 2025.  After
this date, regular registration fees will apply, which are higher.


CONFIRMED GUEST SPEAKERS

* Bernd Möbius (Phonetics, Prosody, Surprisal, Speech Modeling)
* Heidi Christesen (Disordered Speech, ASR, Accessibility)
* Others in negotiation...


TSD SERIES

Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer in their Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly
indexed by major citation databases such as Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.


TOPICS

Topics include (but are not limited to):

* Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, new
  acoustic/language models)
* Corpora and Language Resources (large language models, text and spoken
  corpora, lexicons, disambiguation)
* Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual speech synthesis,
  expressive speech)
* Tagging, Classification, and Parsing (sentiment analysis, credibility
  analysis, summarization)
* Semantic Processing (information extraction, retrieval, data mining,
  ontologies)
* Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation,
  question-answering, assistive tech)
* Automatic Dialogue Systems (multilingual, self-learning,
  question-answering)
* Multimodal Techniques (visual speech synthesis, emotion and personality
  modeling)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Elmar Nöth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany (General Chairman)
Rodrigo Agerri, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Vladimír Benko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Archna Bhatia, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Jan Černocký, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Simon Dobrišek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kamil Ekštein, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Karina Evgrafova, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Yevhen Fedorov, Cherkasy State Technological University, Ukraine
Volker Fischer, EML Speech Technology GmbH, Germany
Darja Fišer, Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia
Lucie Flek, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Björn Gambäck, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Radovan Garabík, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czechia
Eva Hajičová, Charles University, Czechia
Yannis  Haralambous, IMT Atlantique, France
Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Daniel Hládek, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Aleš Horák, Masaryk University, Czechia
Eduard  Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Maria Khokhlova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Aidar Khusainov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Russia
Daniil Kocharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Miloslav Konopík, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Evgeny Kotelnikov, Vyatka State University, Russia
Pavel Král, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Siegfried Kunzmann, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning, United States
Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Croatia
Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Universtity of the Basque Country, Spain
Natalija Loukachevitch, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
David Mareček, Charles University, Czechia
Václav Matoušek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Roman Mouček, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Daša Munková, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia
Agnieszka  Mykowiecka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
Juan Rafael  Orozco-Arroyave, University of Antioquia, Colombia
Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Josef Psutka, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
James  Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, United States
German Rigau, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Leon  Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Anna  Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States
Milan  Rusko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University, Czechia
Mykola  Sazhok, International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems, Ukraine
Pavel  Skrelin, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Pavel Smrž, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Czechia
Ján Staš, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Marko Robnik Šikonja, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jan Trmal, Johns Hopkins University, Czechia
Tamas Varadi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Aleksander Wawer, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Pascal Wiggers, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Alina Wróblewska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jerneja Žganec Gros, Alpineon, Slovenia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include:

* Invited Papers
* Oral Presentations
* Poster/Demonstration Sessions

Papers will be presented in topic-oriented sessions. The official language
of TSD 2025 is English. However, papers dealing with text and speech
processing in linguistic environments other than English are strongly
encouraged (as long as they are written in English).


The conference is planned as an on-site event. The conference will offer
a rich social programme.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 12 pages (including
references) in the LNCS format. Authors are also encouraged to present
practical demonstrations of software, projects, or interesting material
relevant to the conference topics. Demonstration abstracts of up to one
page will not appear in the proceedings.

Papers must not be under review by any other conference or publication
during the TSD review cycle, and they must not be previously published or
accepted for publication elsewhere.


VENUE

Erlangen-Nuernberg is home to Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat
Erlangen-Nuernberg. The city offers a rich cultural heritage and convenient
transport links within Germany and throughout Europe.


CONTACT INFORMATION

All correspondence related to the conference, including paper submissions
and general inquiries, should be directed to:

TSD 2025 Organizing Committee
E-mail: tsd2025@tsdconference.org
We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Erlangen-Nürnberg
for TSD 2025

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*** Call for Participation ***
SIGDIAL 2025 Conference
August 25-27, 2025
Avignon, France

https://2025.sigdial.org

Online Registration only
Registration: https://2025.sigdial.org/registration/
Early Registration Deadline: July 18th, 2025

The 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) will be held in Avignon, France on August 25-27, 2025. The organizers of SIGDIAL 2025 invite all researchers and practitioners, SIGDial members, and SIGDIAL 2025 industry partners and sponsors to join the conference.

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of 25 successful previous
meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.

SIGDIAL 2025 features 3 keynote speeches by Chris Welty, Alex Lascarides, and Abdellah Fourtassi https://2025.sigdial.org/keynotes/ as well as regular paper presentations and demonstrations. The conference program will be available at https://2025.sigdial.org/main-program/, including sessions for long and short papers, oral and poster sessions, and a demo/industrial session.

All participants are required to attend in-person.

A welcome reception will take place in the Avignon University premises (“the cloitre”), accompanied by a demonstration of the brand new robot Mirokaï by ERM. A banquet inside the Palace of Popes, including a guided visit, will allow attendees to privately access the famous Avignon bridge during the “apéritif”.

To broaden participation, SIGdial plans to support a number of selected students for paper presentations at SIGdial. Applicants should send a request to sigdial25@univ-avignon.fr with a statement letter, explaining the need for support and the provisional amount required, a resume and a confirmation from their institution that they are not in capacity to fund the mission.

We thank you for your support and look forward to welcoming you at the conference!

SIGDIAL 2025 Organizers

*** SIGDIAL 2025 is sponsored by Aday ***

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The lexicon is now available at <https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/2025/> and the dataset is available on zenodo: <https://zenodo.org/records/14995211>

Finally, as the challenge moves to its next stage, all discussion will now happen on the blizzard discuss group (<https://groups.google.com/g/blizzard-challenge-discuss/> ).

Kind regards,
Sébastien Le Maguer for the Blizzard Challenge organising committee


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*Mar 21 2025 – team registration closes*
Apr 04 2025 – test sentences released to participants
*Apr 11 2025 – deadline for participants to submit synthetic speech (23:59 AoE)*
Apr 14 2025 – last date for payment of the entry fee (more details will be sent soon)
Apr 30 2025 – evaluation systems go live
Jun 20 2025 – end of the evaluation period
Jun 27 2025 – release of results

1. the traditional hub which this year consists of creating a synthetic voice for Bildts using the data
2. a Zeroshot TTS for Bildts for different speakers with reference audio files provided during the release of the test set

• Feb 032025 - challenge announcement and registration open
• Feb 03 2025 - training dataset released
• Mar 07 2025 - team registration closes
• Mar 28 2025 - test sentences released to participants
• Apr 04 2025 - deadline for participants to submit synthetic speech (23:59 AoE)
• Apr 07 2025 - last date for payment of the entry fee (more details in February)
• Apr 24 2025 - evaluation systems go live
• Jun 20 2025 - end of the evaluation period
• Jun 27 2025 - release of results
• Jul 18 2025 - deadline to submit workshop papers (23:59 AoE)
• Aug 01 2025 - notification of acceptance
• Aug 08 2025 - camera ready
• Aug 17-21 2025 - INTERSPEECH 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Aug 24-26 2025 - SSW13, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
• Aug 27 2025 - Blizzard Challenge 2025 Workshop, same location as SSW

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Third Run of the Automatic Minuting Shared Task - AutoMin @ SIGDIAL 2025
A great opportunity to assess LLMs' ability to summarize and retrieve
information from long contexts

We propose AutoMin 2025, the third instance of bi-annual shared task on
meeting summarization into structured meeting minutes. We build upon
our past experience from two previous AutoMins and add a new challenge
to facilitate personalized access: answering questions about meeting
content. As in the previous editions, the tasks are run in English and
Czech while the new question-answering task will be run monolingually
(English-only) and cross-lingually (Czech questions about English
meetings). This challenge is highly relevant for assessing LLMs'
ability to summarize and retrieve information from long contexts,
equivalent to the length of an hour-long meeting.
A dedicated workshop is scheduled for August 28th, 2025, as part of
SIGDIAL 2025: https://2025.sigdial.org.

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Le workshop « Lenition and fortition in world's languages: new interdisciplinary insights », porté par Ioana Vasilescu (LISN CNRS & UPSaclay),  Adèle Jatteau (U Lille), Mathilde Hutin (ATILF/U de LorraineATILF/U de Lorraine), Johanna Cronenberg et Ioana Chitoran (Paris Cité), Martine Adda-Decker (LPP/U Sorbonne Nouvelle) a été sélectionné pour la 2ᵉ Rencontre « Langues et langage à la croisée des disciplines ».

Ce workshop réunira des recherches interdisciplinaires sur la variation phonétique dans des corpus multilingues, avec un focus particulier sur les phénomènes de lénition et de fortition.

👉 Description détaillé du workshop https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Workshop_lenitionfortition.pdf
🔴 Appel à contributions est ouvert jusqu'au 30 mars 2025 ❗
🔗 Plus d'informations sur l'appel https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7
Le réseau LLcD, soutenu par le CNRS, organise chaque année cette conférence internationale pour faire progresser la compréhension du langage humain et des systèmes linguistiques, en favorisant l'interdisciplinarité et de nouvelles collaborations.
📅 Dates de la 2ème Rencontre annuelle LLcD : 1-5 septembre 2025
📍 Lieu : Université de Lille, ESJ Lille, France 

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L’école d’été ETAL 2025 aura lieu du 1 au 5 septembre dans le magnifique cadre de Roscoff à la station biologique de Sorbonne Université.
Cette école, soutenue par le CNRS et le GdR TAL, s'adresse aux doctorant.e.s, chercheur.se.s et industriel.le.s qui souhaitent améliorer leur compréhension et leur maîtrise du traitement automatique des langues et de ses applications.
Elle regroupe des cours et des mises en pratique, donnés par des membres de la communauté, sur l'historique du domaine, les modèles actuels ainsi que les enjeux éthiques et sociétaux du TAL.

La liste des cours et intervenants est encore en cours, mais vous pourrez trouver un aperçu ci-dessous (cours en français et supports en anglais) :

• Traitement des données textuelle, évaluation et explicabilité par Marie Candito

• Apprentissage de représentation pour le langage (intervenant(e) en attente)
  

• Modèles multimodaux pour l’interaction orale par Laurent Besacier

• Moteur de recherche et RAG par José G Moréno

• Traitement automatique du langage multimodal par Benoît Favre et Benjamin Piwowarski
  
  
• Analyse critique des modèles de langage : éthique, coût environnemental, biais par Anne-Laure Ligozat

Nous ouvrons les pré-inscriptions pour participer à l'école ETAL 2025. Le nombre de places est limité, une pré-inscription est mise en place via le lien suivant : https://framaforms.org/pre-inscription-ecole-dete-etal-2025-roscoff-1746001772

Date limite des pré-inscriptions : 21 mai 2025
Notification : 23 mai 2025
(Le principal critère de sélection sera d'assurer une hétérogénéité entre les laboratoires/organismes)

Le tarif sera compris entre 500 et 550€ en fonction du nombre de participants et comprend :
- l'hébergement du dimanche 31 août au vendredi 5 septembre (en chambre double ou simple selon les disponibilités)
- les repas du midi du lundi au vendredi
- le repas du banquet du jeudi soir
- les pauses café durant les 5 jours de formation

Plus d'informations sur le site web : https://etal2025.sciencesconf.org/
Nous restons à votre disposition pour toutes questions, 

Les organisateurs : Gaël Lejeune, Benjamin Piwowarski, Laure Soulier

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Ce message pour vous annoncer que la deadline pour le prochain workshop History of Speech Communication Research (Paris les 10-12 septembre) est prolongée jusqu'au 22 mai.  Cf: https://iwhscr2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Nous nous étonnons de ne pas avoir reçu de soumissions mettant en valeur les recherches historiques et patrimoniales qui sont présentes dans les différents labos de la communauté francophone. C'est dommage de pas profiter de l'occasion de ce workshop international.

Si vous souhaitez présenter sous une forme différente qu'un article, ce que vous faites sur le sujet (présentation d'instruments, posters, autre...), n'hésitez pas à nous contacter ! 

This is the last call for paper for the 7th Workshop on the history of speech communication research (HSCR), which will take place in Paris, France from 10th to 12th September 2025.
    
HSCR provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on all aspects of the history of research on speech and speech communication. 

A special focus of this edition will be on geographical and disciplinary exchanges within and beyond the field of speech research.    Advances in our field have, from its beginning, been stimulated by intensive exchanges within the community through international exchanges between scholars and students, the development of international societies, congresses and journals, but also through fruitful transfers of knowledge, approaches, technology and instrumentation between disciplines.    
    
Contributions on any such topic will be welcome, as well as on any topics related to the historical aspects of research on speech and speech communication.  

Contributions must not be longer than 10 pages and follow the guidelines provided. The papers will be published in the book series Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation at TUDpress (Technical University Dresden) and also stored electronically in the ISCA archive.   

We are also pleased to announce a joined keynote by Jacques Durand (CLLE, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) & Chantal Lyche (University of Oslo) on “Early transcriptions of English and French in the International Phonetic Association: the weight of spelling reform on the birth of the IPA” and a keynote by Pavel Šturm (Charles University in Prague) on “Transfer of knowledge across spaces and disciplines: The case of Czech phonetics”

        
We are very much looking forward to receiving your submissions by May 15th, 2025.    
    
The organizing committee,    
Annie Rialland & Cécile Fougeron (chairs)    
together with Juliusz Cecelewski, Christelle Dodane, Jiayin Gao, Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Bowei Shao.   

contact: hscr2025@gmail.com    
    
Key dates:    
Manuscript submission: May 15, 2025    
Notification of acceptance: June 02, 2025    
Revised manuscript submission: July 05, 2025

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Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que la date limite de soumission des résumés pour la conférence Phonetic Approaches to Under-Documented Languages (avec un accent particulier sur les langues tibéto-birmanes), qui se tiendra les 18 et 19 septembre 2025 au Campus Condorcet à Aubervilliers (Paris), a été prolongée.

La nouvelle date limite est fixée au 15 juin 2025.

Cette prolongation vise à permettre aux personnes intéressées de disposer d'un peu plus de temps pour finaliser et soumettre leur proposition. Nous encourageons chaleureusement toutes les chercheuses et tous les chercheurs travaillant dans les domaines concernés à profiter de ce délai supplémentaire pour envoyer leur résumé.

Les résumés ne doivent pas dépasser 1 000 mots, références, tableaux et figures compris.

Les propositions de communication doivent être soumises via le site de la conférence :

https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org

Approches phonétiques des langues sous-dotées (Avec un accent particulier sur les langues tibéto-birmanes) (Phon-UDL)

18–19 septembre 2025 | Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, Paris

Organisé par le Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale (CRLAO, CNRS) et le Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP, CNRS)

À travers ce colloque, nous souhaitons explorer le potentiel des méthodes phonétiques instrumentales pour renforcer la documentation des langues en danger, ainsi que réfléchir au rôle de la phonétique dans la classification des langues sous-dotées.

Les langues sous-dotées — telles que de nombreuses langues tibéto-birmanes — offrent un potentiel considérable pour faire progresser notre compréhension de la typologie phonologique et des processus de changement phonétique. Toutefois, la pleine exploitation de ce potentiel suppose souvent l’intégration de la phonétique instrumentale et expérimentale aux méthodologies plus traditionnelles de la linguistique descriptive et documentaire.

Des approches analytiques telles que l’analyse acoustique des phonèmes ou des systèmes tonals, les descriptions articulatoires, ou encore les études aérodynamiques constituent des outils précieux complémentaires. Ces méthodes permettent d’enrichir les descriptions synchroniques des langues sous-dotées, tout en jetant les bases pour l’identification de correspondances phonétiques entre variétés apparentées, et pour affiner les typologies phonologiques. L’association de la phonétique descriptive aux méthodes instrumentales modernes permet d’aboutir à des descriptions plus précises et approfondies des systèmes phonologiques.

Ce colloque vise à examiner les apports de la phonétique instrumentale et expérimentale à l’étude et à la classification des langues sous-dotées, en invitant des communications autour des thématiques suivantes :

- Le rôle de la phonétique descriptive dans la documentation et l’analyse des langues peu dotées en ressources ;

- Les corrélations entre les aspects articulatoires et acoustiques dans les langues sous-dotées ;

- L’interaction entre l’articulation et la perception dans la structuration des systèmes phonologiques ;

- Applications de techniques instrumentales telles que l’électropalatographie, l’imagerie par ultrasons dans le travail de terrain en phonétique ;

- La place des langues à tons et des systèmes prosodiques complexes dans les typologies phonologiques ;

- Les études sur la qualité de la voix et la variation intra- et interlocuteurs dans la production des phonèmes ;

- Les apports aux bases de données phonologiques visant à enrichir les typologies existantes.

Nous encourageons les contributions abordant une ou plusieurs de ces thématiques. Les propositions portant sur des langues tibéto-birmanes peu documentées sont particulièrement encouragées.

Modalités de soumission

Les résumés ne doivent pas dépasser 1 000 mots, références, tableaux et figures compris.

- Date limite de soumission des résumés : 1er juin 2025  

- Notification des décisions : 10 juillet 2025  

- Dates du colloque : 18–19 septembre 2025, à Paris

Les propositions de communication doivent être soumises via le site de la conférence :

https://phon-udl.sciencesconf.org

Pour toute question ou difficulté, vous pouvez nous contacter à l’adresse suivante :

phon-udl@sciencesconf.org

La conférence se déroulera en mode hybride, permettant aux participants de présenter leurs communications soit en présentiel, soit à distance. Nous sommes impatients de recevoir des contributions de collègues, qu’ils soient proches ou éloignés.

Nous vous remercions pour votre attention et nous réjouissons de découvrir vos contributions !

Le comité d’organisation

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=== Workshop SIR ===

First Workshop on Semantics for Interdisciplinary Research
SIR@IXCS2025 - Düsseldorf - September 24 2025

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	https://team.inria.fr/semagramme/first-workshop-on-semantics-for-interdisciplinary-research/

	https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01

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In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increasingly intersected with the humanities and social sciences,

 offering new methodologies for analyzing textual data, interpreting meaning, and modelling language-based phenomena. 

The potential for multi-disciplinary research using NLP methods is particularly great in computational semantics (CS), as its 

ability to process and represent meaning opens up innovative pathways for researchers in history, philosophy, literary studies,

 political science, etc.  This workshop aims to explore how semantic models and tools can be leveraged to tackle traditional and 

emerging questions in the Humanities in a broader sense (Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Management, Literature, Languages, 

Art, …). 

A major theme of  SIR is the role of semantics in NLP applied to the humanities (both statistical and symbolic approaches).

=== Topics to Explore ===
    • CS and the humanities: issues, tools and applications
    • Quantitative and qualitative approaches as a breakthrough in the Humanities
    • NLP transforming humanities issues
    • Contributions and limitations for understanding meaning
    • Links between formal semantics and neural models
    • Ambiguity, polyphony and interpretation in the Humanities
    • Ethics and bias in semantic modelling
    • Interdisciplinary dialogue between AI, NLP and Humanities
 
=== Dates ===
    • Deadline : July 21th (anywhere on earth) (previously July 14th)
    • Notification : August 25th (anywhere on earth)
    • Camera Ready : September 10th (anywhere on earth)
    • Workshop : September 24th (anywhere on earth)
 
=== Submission Information ===
Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 4 pages (with an extra page in the camera ready version for

 accepted papers). Papers should be submitted no later than 14 July 2025 (anywhere on earth).
 
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. For inclusion in the proceedings, at

 least one author must register to the conference and present the paper in person. 
 
Submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing.
 
=== Submission ===
https://openreview.net/group?id=inria.fr/INRIA/S%C3%A9magramme/2025/SIR01
 
=== Style Files ===
The workshop follow the IWCS 2025 template see the workshop web page.
 
=== Organizers ===
Maxime Amblard, Université de Lorraine
Ellen Breitholtz, Gothenburg University

=== Contact ===
maxime.amblard@univ-lorraine.fr and ellen.breitholtz@ling.gu.se

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Call for Papers

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8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'25) @ ACM Multimedia, Oct 27 – Oct 31, 2025, Dublin, Ireland

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper for the 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Dublin, Ireland together with ACM Multimedia 2025. 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 6 to 8 pages, plus up to two pages for the references. 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 with the same review period.

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 

http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2025/index.html

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                           16 July 2025 

Acceptance Notification:                24 July 2025

Camera Ready Submission:         26 August 2025 

Workshop Date:                            TBA; either Oct 27th or Oct 28th, 2025

Challenges

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Once again, MMSports is running a competition that challenges participants to solve a cutting-edge problem applied to real-world sport-specific data. This year’s challenge is 'SoccerTrack Challenge 2025: Tracking and Identifying Soccer Players in Fixed Viewpoint Video“. It is a competition designed to advance the tracking and identification of soccer players in fixed viewpoint video footage. Participants will be provided with a dataset of match footage annotated with bounding boxes and player IDs for training. During the test phase and the final challenge phase, participants will be given unseen match footage in which they must perform player identification and tracking and submit their results. The ranking will be based on the performance of the tracking models on this unseen data. Also the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will also be awarded with 150,000 JPY, 60,000 JPY and 30,000 JPY, respectively. More information on the challenges can be found at http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2025/challenge.html. 

ACM MMSports’25 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito

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SPECOM-2025 – SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

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27th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2025)

October 13-15, 2025

Szeged, Hungary

Web: https://specom.inf.u-szeged.hu

ORGANIZER

SPECOM-2025 conference is organized by the University of Szeged.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:

• Affective computing

• Audio-visual speech processing

• Corpus linguistics

• Computational paralinguistics

• Deep learning for audio processing

• Feature extraction

• Forensic speech investigations

• Human-machine interaction

• Language identification

• Large language models

• Multichannel signal processing

• Multilingual speech technology

• Multimedia processing

• Multimodal analysis and synthesis

• Natural language generation

• Natural language understanding

• Sign language processing

• Speaker diarization

• Speaker identification and verification

• 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

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral sessions, and poster/demonstration sessions.

SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit full papers of 10-15 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Authors should submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2025

DEADLINES

June 30, 2025 ………. Submission of full papers (extended!)

July 31, 2025 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection

August 10, 2025 ...... Camera-ready papers

August 15, 2025 ...... Early registration

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer Nature as books in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS / LNAI, Scopus Q2) series listed in all major international citation databases.

GENERAL CHAIRS

Gábor Gosztolya – University of Szeged, Hungary

Alexey Karpov – SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

CONTACTS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2025 Secretariat

E-mail: specom@inf.u-szeged.hu

Web: https://specom.inf.u-szeged.hu

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SpeD 2025 – Welcome message

The “SpeD 2025” Organizing Committee warmly invites you to attend the 13th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The conference will be held in-person at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.

The conference will bring together scientists, developers, and professionals to present their work, meet colleagues, discuss new ideas, and build collaboration between university, research center, and commercial sector research groups. The technical program will include oral sessions, keynotes by renowned speakers, and demonstrations of latest research on a wide range of topics positioned at the forefront of science and engineering in speech technology and human-computer dialogue.

The past editions of the “SpeD” conference series were sponsored by IEEE and EURASIP (technical sponsors), the proceedings being indexed by the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, Scopus, and the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index (the WoS indexing process has not been finalized for the previous 2023 edition). This year, papers accepted and presented during the conference will also be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements, and for indexing in Web of Science.

Joint event

This year, the Language Data Space (LDS)  Workshop organised by the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu”, Romanian Academy, will be co-located with “SpeD”.

Main Topics

• Self-Supervised and Generative Models for Speech Representation
• Robust Spoken Language Recognition and Understanding
• Efficient and Low-Resource Speech Recognition for Edge and Embedded Systems
• Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Expressive Speech Synthesis
• End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation and Multimodal Language Models
• Speaker Recognition, Diarization, and Adaptive Speaker Embeddings
• Conversational Search, Spoken Document Understanding, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Paralinguistic Speech Processing and Emotion Recognition in the Wild
• Speech Enhancement, Dereverberation, and Noise-Robust Processing
• AI-driven Speech Technology: Large-Scale Models and Fine-Tuning Strategies
• Conversational AI, Large Language Models, and Multimodal Dialogue Systems
• Speech Forensics, Deepfake Detection, and Synthetic Speech Analysis
• Clinical Speech Processing for Health, Well-being, and Cognitive Assessment
• Multilingual and Low-Resource Speech Data Collection, Annotation, and Benchmarking
• Human-Centric Speech Interfaces: UX, Personalization, and Ethical Design
• Voice AI for Smart Environments, Assistive Tech, and Wearable Devices
• Speech Pathology, Augmentative Communication, and AI-Driven Therapy
• Bias, Fairness, and Ethical Considerations in Speech AI Deployment
• Next-Gen Speech and Speaker Recognition: Continual Learning and Adaptation
• Multimodal and Audio-Visual Speech Processing with Foundation Models
• Cross-Modal Information Retrieval and Multisensory AI
• Advanced Audio Signal Processing for Spatial and 3D Audio Applications
• AI-Powered Human-Robot Interaction and Conversational Embodied Agents
• Efficient, Scalable, and Sustainable Deep Learning for Speech Processing

Additional Topics in NLP and Multimodal Processing

• Text Summarization and Abstractive Generation
• Language Modeling and Pre-trained Architectures (e.g., Transformers)
• Automatic Question Answering and Knowledge Extraction
• Cross-lingual and Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications
• NLP Applicattions is Social Media, Programming and Virtual Reality
• NLP for Low-Resource Languages
• Bias Detection and Fairness in NLP Systems
• Explainability and Interpretability in NLP Models
• Speech-to-Image and Image-to-Text Systems
• Event Detection and Narrative Understanding
• Spoken and Written Language Alignment Models
• Multimodal Emotion Analysis, Recogition and Generation
• Gesture and Gaze Integration in Multimodal Systems
• Multimodal Interaction and Dialogue Systems
• Multimodal Data Fusion Techniques

Schedule (provisional)

• Paper submission (5 – 6 pages, IEEE format): June 2, 2025.
• Notification of acceptance and reviewers’ comments: August 15, 2025.
• Submission of final papers: September 5, 2025.
• Conference: October 19-22, 2025.

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21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2025, Dublin, Ireland, 22-24 october 2025

https://www.cbmi2025.org/

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Important Dates (2nd submission round)

Regular, Special Session Papers and Demonstration Papers

• Paper deadline: July 21, 2025 (AoE, firm deadline)

• Paper notification: September 16, 2025 (AoE)

• Camera-ready and registration due: September 26, 2025 (AoE)

The second round also invites submissions rejected at ACM MM for a fast track, for details see https://www.cbmi2025.org/guidelines/overview/

Call for Regular Papers

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. 

The organisers of CBMI 2025 call for novel and original research papers that are addressing the various topics of interest related to the conference. We encourage contributions both on theoretical aspects and applications of CBMI in the new era of Artificial Intelligence and foundation/language-backed-backed models for multimedia for multimedia. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished research papers highlighting significant contributions addressing these topics.

Authors can submit full papers (6 pages + up to 2 pages for references) or short papers (4 pages + up to 2 pages references).

Submissions to CBMI are peer reviewed in a double blind process and the language of the conference is English. For full details on the submission process see the submission guidelines.

Authors of high-quality papers accepted to the conference may be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special journal issue.

Call for Special Session Papers

The organisers of CBMI 2025 call for novel and original research papers that are relevant for the following special sessions:

• MmIXR: Multimedia Indexing for XR is a special session that encompasses methods for processes during Extended Reality authoring as well as during the immersive experience.

• ExMA: Explainability in Multimedia Analysis is a special session that aims to gather scientific contributions that will help improve the trust and transparency of multimedia analysis systems.

• VR4B: Video Retrieval for Beginners is a special session that aims at providing better insights into how interactive video retrieval systems are usable by users who have a solid IT background, but are not familiar with the details of the system.

• UHBER: Multimodal Data Analysis for Understanding of Human Behaviour, Emotions and their Reasons is a special session that addresses the processing of all types of data related to understanding of human behaviour, emotion, and their reasons, such as current or past context. 

• AMHTAI: Advancing Medical Healthcare through AI is a special session that focuses on the latest advancements in AI-driven medical multimedia processing, IoT-enabled pervasive healthcare, and human-computer interaction.

• Multimedia AI in Modern CB Retrieval: Challenges and Applications is a special session that focuses on AI-powered CB retrieval across diverse domains, including multimedia verification and fact-checking, healthcare, large-scale news retrieval, and 3D multimedia analysis.

Please seehttps://www.cbmi2025.org/cfp/special-sessions/  for more details.

Call for Demonstrations

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics.  We invite authors to report on novel and compelling demonstrations in all topic areas of CBMI. Demonstration papers are subject to peer review according to criteria such as novelty, interestingness, applications of or enhancements to state-of-the-art, and potential impact.

The length of the papers should be up to 4 pages. An additional 1-2 pages should be appended to the paper that illustrate how the demo will be conducted on-site at CBMI 2025. This additional content will not be published in the conference proceedings, should the submission be accepted. Including a link to a video showing the demo in action is highly encouraged. The submissions are peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. For full details on the submission process see the submission guidelines.

Presenters are expected to bring the necessary equipment (computers, etc.) themselves. The conference will provide a table, power outlet, screen, wireless (shared) internet and a poster board. If you have special needs (e.g., more space), please include a related note in your demo submission.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest to the CBMI community include (but are not limited to) the following:

Multimedia Content Analysis and Indexing:

• Media content analysis and mining

• AI/ML approaches for content understanding

• Multimodal and cross-modal indexing

• Activity recognition and event-based multimedia indexing and retrieval 

• Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)

• Conversational search and question-answering systems

• Multimedia recommendation

• Multimodal analytics, summarization, visualization, organization and browsing of multimedia content

• Multimedia verification (e.g., multimodal fact-checking, deep fake analysis)

• Foundation models, large multimedia models, large language models and vision language models

• Explainability in multimedia learning

• Large scale multimedia database management

• Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems

Multimedia User Experiences:

• Extended reality (AR/VR/MR) interfaces

• Mobile interfaces and user interaction

• Presentation and visualization tools

• Affective adaptation and personalization

• Relevance feedback and interactive learning

Applications of Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval:

• Multimedia and sustainability

• Healthcare and medical applications

• Cultural heritage and entertainment applications

• Educational and social applications

• Egocentric, wearable and personal multimedia

• Applications to forensics, surveillance and security

• Environmental and urban multimedia applications

• Earth observation and astrophysics

• Physical and industrial processes

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Call for Papers
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8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'25) @ ACM Multimedia, Oct 27 – Oct 31, 2025, Dublin, Ireland

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper for the 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Dublin, Ireland together with ACM Multimedia 2025. 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 6 to 8 pages, plus up to two pages for the references. 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 with the same review period.

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 
http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2025/index.html

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Due:                           11 July 2025 
Acceptance Notification:                1 August 2025
Camera Ready Submission:         11 August 2025 
Workshop Date:                            TBA; either Oct 27th or Oct 28th, 2025

Challenges
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Once again, MMSports is running a competition that challenges participants to solve a cutting-edge problem applied to real-world sport-specific data. This year’s challenge is 'SoccerTrack Challenge 2025: Tracking and Identifying Soccer Players in Fixed Viewpoint Video“. It is a competition designed to advance the tracking and identification of soccer players in fixed viewpoint video footage. Participants will be provided with a dataset of match footage annotated with bounding boxes and player IDs for training. During the test phase and the final challenge phase, participants will be given unseen match footage in which they must perform player identification and tracking and submit their results. The ranking will be based on the performance of the tracking models on this unseen data. Also the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will also be awarded with 150,000 JPY, 60,000 JPY and 30,000 JPY, respectively. More information on the challenges can be found at http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2025/challenge.html. 

ACM MMSports’25 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito

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====== MA-LLM Call for Papers ======

First Workshop on Multimedia Analytics with Multimodal Large Language Models

Dates: 27/28 October 2025

Location: Dublin, Ireland

https://ma-llm25.github.io/

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The First Workshop on Multimedia Analytics with Multimodal Large Language Models at ACM Multimedia 2025 aims to explore the potential and pitfalls of bringing Multimodal Large Language Models into multimedia analytics, and the new forms of interaction between system and experts that emerge from this. To guide this exploration, we invite original research and position papers on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Multimodal Large Language Models 

• Multimedia Analytics

• Multimedia Interaction

• Multimedia Summarisation

• Visual Analytics

• Interactive Multimedia Systems

• Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning

Important Dates:

• Paper submission deadline: June 20, 2025  Extended to June 27, 2025

• ACM MM’25 Fast Track submission deadline: July 11, 2025

• Author acceptance notification: August 1, 2025

• Camera-Ready: August 11, 2025

• Workshop date: 27/28 October 2025

Authors are invited to submit original full (up to 8 pages) or short (up to 4 pages) papers to be presented at the workshop upon acceptance.  Papers rejected or withdrawn from ACM Multimedia 2025 can be resubmitted to this workshop via the Fast Track. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM-MM Workshops proceedings.

You can submit your work via OpenReview. All listed authors must have an up-to-dateOpenReview profile. Note that creating a profile without an institutional email may require moderation (up to 2 weeks).

Complete submission instructions are available on the website https://ma-llm25.github.io/. 

Organizers:

• Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 

• Shin’ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

• Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Lucia Vadicamo, CNR-ISTI, Italy

• Laura Toni, University College London, United Kingdom

• Nanne van Noord, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 

• Shuai Wang, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 

• Yassin Mohamadi, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole 2025 : Extension de la deadline !   05 au 07 novembre 2025, Paris, France  https://rjcp2025.sciencesconf.org/

• Ouverture de l’appel à posters  : 12/05/2025
• Date limite d'envoi des résumés : 30/06/2025 => 07/07/2025
• Notification d’acceptation aux auteurs : 08/09/2025
• 1ère phase d’ouverture des inscriptions : 08/09/2025
• Fermeture des inscriptions : 08/10/2025
• RJCP : 05-07/11/2025

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The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge 

• https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/

• Task: develop attacker systems against voice anonymization

• Deadline for participants to submit a list of training data and models: 13th October 2024

• Publication of the full final list of training data and models: 15th October 2024

• Deadline for participants to submit scores, evaluation results and system descriptions: 5th December 2024

• Deadline for participants to submit 2-page papers to ICASSP-2015 (by invitation only): 9th December 2024

• Paper acceptance notification: 30th December 2024

• Camera-ready 2-page papers due: 13th January  2025

• Special session at ICASSP 2025 (Hyderabad, India): 6-11 April 2025

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Dear colleagues,

Registration for The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is now open!

The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is supported by ICASSP 2025 as the SP Grand Challenge (https://2025.ieeeicassp.org/sp-grand-challenges/#gc7). It focuses on developing attacker systems against voice anonymization, which will be evaluated against a set of anonymization systems submitted to the VoicePrivacy 2024 Challenge. Training, development, and evaluation datasets are provided along with a baseline attacker system. Participants shall develop their attacker systems in the form of automatic speaker verification systems and submit their scores on the development and evaluation data to the organizers. To do so, they can use any additional training data and models, provided that they are openly available and declared before the specified deadline. The metric for evaluation is equal error rate (EER). Results will be presented at the ICASSP 2025 special session to which 5 selected top-ranked participants will be invited to submit and present their challenge systems.

Please find more information in The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Evaluation Plan: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/docs/Attacker_Challenge_Eval_Plan.pdf

Registration: https://t.co/pPEXxHEtP6

Contact: attacker.challenge@inria.fr

The VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Organizers:

Xiaoxiao Miao - Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore

Natalia Tomashenko - Inria, France

Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France

Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan

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The 3rd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2025)

https://fllm-conference.org/2025/

25-28 November, 2025 | Vienna, Austria

Hybrid Conference and Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Austrian Section

FLLM 2025 CFP:

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 Conference 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  with special interest in but not limited to:

•     Architectures and Systems
• Transformers and Attention
• Bidirectional Encoding
• Autoregressive Models
• Massive GPU Systems
• Prompt Engineering
• Multimodal LLMs
• 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 and EXplainable AI
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Federated Learning for FLLM
• Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs
• 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

Call for Workshop Papers:

• The Artificial Intelligence Models and Systems Symposium (AIMS)
• The 2nd International Workshop on Advances of GenAI in Software Engineering (GenAISE)
• The 2nd International Workshop on Large Language Models for Cybersecurity (LLMCS)
• The 2nd International Workshop on Prompt Engineering Large Language Models (PromptEng)
• The 2nd International Workshop on Generative AI for Textual Document Analysis (GENAIDOC)
• The 2nd International Workshop on Sustainable AI for Natural Language Processing (SusAI)
• The 2nd International Symposium on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
• The 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity (AICS)

Journal Special Issue:

Selected high quality papers will be invited for  special issue submission at the Information Processing & Management (impact factor : 6.9)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-processing-and-management

Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings

Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5' x 11' two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Extra pages (up to 4 pages) can be purchased for a fee. Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FLLM Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers.

Important Dates:

• Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2025 (Extended)
• Notification of acceptance:  September 15, 2025
• Camera-ready Submission: October 10, 2025

Contact:

Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: info@fllm-conference.org

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Le collège TLH (Traitement du Langage Humain) de l'Association
Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA) et l'Association
Française pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA)
organisent une journée d'étude conjointe sur les technologies
linguistiques pour les langues peu dotées.
Elle aura lieu à Paris, le vendredi 12 décembre 2025. La participation
à la journée sera gratuite, mais l'inscription sera obligatoire.

Appel à contributions

Aujourd'hui, la plupart des technologies et recherches en traitement
automatique des langues reposent sur l'exploitation de corpus dans
quelques langues majoritaires. Même les approches dites 'multilingues'
qui exploitent des centaines de langues différentes, restent biaisées
envers les langues majoritaires. Ainsi la recherche sur le
développement de modèles de traitement du langage spécifiques aux
langues minoritaires est aujourd'hui très importante.

Cette journée d’étude vise à réunir les chercheuses et chercheurs
travaillant sur les applications
du traitement automatique des langues et de l'intelligence
artificielle au contexte des langues peu dotées. Les communications
pourront porter entre autres sur les thématiques suivantes :

- Développement de technologies linguistiques spécifiques (traducteurs
automatiques, systèmes d'ASR…).
- Développement de ressources (corpus, lexiques…).
- Problématiques sociales liées à l'IA dans des contextes de
minorisation des langues.
- Apprentissage automatique dans un contexte de frugalité.
- Intégration et accès aux technologies linguistiques pour les
communautés linguistiques minorisées.
- Applications du TAL à la linguistique computationnelle pour des
langues peu dotées.
- Problématiques liées aux aspects phonétiques et prosodiques des
langues non écrites (orales et signées).

Les propositions de communications sont attendues avant le 15
septembre sous la forme d’un résumé de une à deux pages, en français
ou en anglais. En cas d'acceptation, elles donneront lieu soit à une
communication orale, soit à un poster, en fonction des préférences de
leurs auteur⋅ices et des contraintes imposées par l'organisation.

Dates importantes :

Soumission des résumés : 15 septembre 2025
Notification aux auteurs et autrices : 6 octobre 2025
Date de la journée : 12 décembre 2025

Contacts :
Loïc Grobol <lgrobol@parisnanterre.fr>
Gaël Lejeune <gael.lejeune@sorbonne-universite.fr>
Marie Tahon <marie.tahon@univ-lemans.fr>

Date :
12 December 2025

Lieu :
(à confirmer) Maison de la recherche de Sorbonne Université, 28 Rue Serpente
Paris

Organisation
Loïc Grobol <lgrobol@parisnanterre.fr>
Gaël Lejeune <gael.lejeune@sorbonne-universite.fr>
Marie Tahon <marie.tahon@univ-lemans.fr>

Page de la journée (appel, programme, plateforme de soumission) :
https://www.atala.org/content/journ%C3%A9e-d%C3%A9tudes-afia-atala-technologies-linguistiques-pour-les-langues-peu-dot%C3%A9es

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

LREC 2026

Organised by the ELRA Language Resources Association

Palma, Mallorca, Spain

11-16 May 2026


The Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
(LREC) will be held at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma,
Mallorca, Spain, on 11-16 May 2026. LREC serves as the primary forum for
presentations describing the development, dissemination, and use of
language resources involving both traditional and recently developed
approaches.

The scientific program will include invited talks, oral presentations,
and poster and demo presentations, as well as a keynote address by the
winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. Submissions describing all aspects
of language resource development and use are invited, including, but not
limited to, the following:

Language Resource Development

     Methods and tools for mono- and multi-lingual language resource
development and annotation
     Knowledge discovery/representation (knowledge graphs, linked data,
terminologies, lexicons, ontologies, etc.)
     Resource development for less-resourced/endangered languages
     Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for interoperability

Language Resource Use

     Use of language resources in systems and applications for any area
of language and speech processing
     Use of language resources in assistive technologies, support for
accessibility
     Efficient/low-resource methods for language and speech processing

Evaluation

     Methodologies and protocols for evaluation and benchmarking of
language technologies
     Measures for validation of language resources and quality assurance
     Usability of user interfaces and dialogue systems
     Bias, safety, and user satisfaction metrics
     Interpretability/explainability of language models and language and
speech processing tools

Language Resources and Large Language Models

     Language resource development for LLMs (monolingual, multilingual,
multimodal)
     (Semi-)automatic generation of training data
     Training, fine-tuning, adaptation, alignment, and representation
learning
     Guardrails, filters, and modules for generative AI models

Policy and Organizational Considerations

     International and national activities, projects, initiatives, and
policies
     Language coverage and diversity
     Replicability and reproducibility
     Organisational, economic, ethical, climate, and legal issues

Separate calls will be issued for Workshops, Tutorials and Industry Track.


Submission

Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length (excluding references) and
follow the LREC stylesheet, which will soon be available on the
conference website.

At the time of submission, authors are offered the opportunity to share
related language resources with the community. All repository entries
are linked to the LRE Map [https://lremap.elra.info/], which provides
metadata for the resource.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which include
both oral and poster papers in the same format. Determination of the
presentation format (oral vs. poster) is based solely on an assessment
of the optimal method of communication (more or less interactive), given
the paper content.

Important dates

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

     Oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission: 17 October 2025
     Notification of acceptance: 13 February 2026
     Camera Ready due: 6 March 2026
     Workshop and tutorial proposals submission: 17 October 2025
     LREC 2026 conference: 11-16 May 2026


More information on LREC 2026: https://lrec2026.info/

Contact: info@lrec2026.info

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as a component of prosody. Hence our desire to lay particular emphasis on its structural makeup and
description as well as on existing assessment protocols (cf. e.g., San Segundo and Mompean, 2017, San
Segundo, 2021).
Participants are invited to submitproposals for both oral and poster presentations on the following
issues and other related topics:
In what way can the study of voice quality influence our conception of prosodic models?
How can voice quality be measured and described?
How do auditory impressions and instrumental measurements compare in assessing voice
quality?
How do auditory and instrumental evaluations compare in measuring intonation? Or rhythm?
How do the components of prosody respectively or conjointly contribute to informing accent
studies and surveying language variation and change?
What are the evidential values of voice quality, intonation and rhythm acoustics in forensic
voice analysis?
How can voice quality, intonation and rhythm be integrated into models of speech synthesis?
In what manner can prosodic research be useful to speech therapists in clinical situations?
To what extent could the study of voice quality, intonation and rhythm help us gain a better
understanding of the prosody-syntax and prosody-discourse interfaces?
Could an in-depth analysis of these three prosodic components benefit the study of prosody in
spoken interaction?
Should the precedence of prosody over lexicon and syntax in child language acquisition inform
the debate over the directionality of the prosody-syntax interface?
More generally, to what extent can language acquisition research shape our understanding of
the role and status of prosody?
How far could foreign language teaching benefit from a prosody-based approach? And how can
this be implemented practically?
Even though the talks will be given in English, they may bear on any language(s).
Submissions must include a title and a one-page anonymous abstract (excluding references), and
be submitted through SciencesConf at:https://ugaprosody2026.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit, by
February 16, 2026.
Oral Presentations will consist of 30-minute presentations followed by 10-minute question and
discussion sessions. Posters should be prepared in Portrait format with a maximum size of A0.
Instructions for submission can be found here:https://doc.sciencesconf.org/en/deposer/sou-
mettre.html.
Keynote speakers:
Eugenia San Segundo, Materials Science Institute of Madrid – CSIC
Felix Schaeffler, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Radek Skarnitzl, Charles University, Prague
Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow

REFERENCES
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MACKENZIE-BECK, J. M. (2005). “Perceptual analysis of voice quality: the place of Vocal Profile
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 We are pleased to invite submissions for Speech Prosody 2026, the 13th International Conference on Speech Prosody, to be held May 26–29, 2026, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

https://www.speechprosody2026.org

Speech Prosody is the largest international forum dedicated to prosody in all its forms. This year’s theme, Prosodic Encodings in Context: From Structure and Cognition to Technology, and Back, highlights our commitment to advancing interdisciplinary inquiry into the role of prosody in human communication. The conference aims to bring together scholars from linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, speech technology, and related fields to explore emerging insights and challenges. It will foster collaboration across disciplines and inspire new research at the intersection of structure, cognition, and technology.

To ensure inclusive participation in a time of uncertainty, Speech Prosody 2026 will be held in a hybrid format. We warmly encourage participants to attend in person, but will also provide meaningful virtual participation options for those facing travel restrictions. Our goal is to bring the field together despite these challenges and uphold the spirit of community that defines Speech Prosody.

We welcome submissions on any aspect of prosody in spoken or signed languages. Submissions that reflect the conference theme or adopt integrative approaches are especially encouraged. We also welcome work by junior researchers, on understudied languages, or using interdisciplinary methods.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Phonology and phonetics of prosody
Interfaces with morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Rhythm and timing; tone and intonation
Segmental-suprasegmental interactions
Production, perception, and modeling of prosody
Prosody acquisition in L1, L2, and L3
Language impairments and prosodic assessment
Infant-, child-, and elder-directed prosody
Cognitive, psycholinguistic, and neural bases of prosody
Prosody in language contact and variation
Under-resourced languages and dialects
Multimodal and audiovisual prosody
Sign language and musical prosody
Prosody in speech synthesis, recognition, and understanding
Forensic prosody and speaker characterization
Language learning systems and educational technology
Computational modeling and applications of prosody

Important dates:
Proposals for special sessions, workshops, tutorials, and show & tell due: September 15, 2025 
Notification of acceptance of special sessions: October 15, 2025
Abstract submission opens: October 16, 2025
Abstract submission deadline: November 15, 2025
Full paper submission deadline: November 21, 2025
Notification of acceptance for papers: January 16, 2026
Camera-ready papers due: January 31, 2026
Registration opens: Early February 2026

For full details, please visit the official website: https://www.speechprosody2026.org

We look forward to your contributions! Submissions for special sessions, workshops, tutorials and show&tells are open!

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10e CONGRÈS MONDIAL DE LINGUISTIQUE FRANÇAISE (CMLF)
L’Université d’Artois (Arras)
organise le 10e Congrès mondial de linguistique française
du 6 au 10 juillet 2026

APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Comité d’organisation
Franck Neveu, Sophie Prévost, Agnès Steuckardt, Gabriel Bergounioux,
Gilles Philippe, Gilles Merminod, Jan Goes, Luis Meneses-Lerin

Organisation
Dates : 6 au 10 juillet 2026
Lieu : Université d’Artois
Site web : https://cmlf2026.sciencesconf.org/
Programme prévisionnel
Le Congrès est organisé sur la base d’un appel à communications. Les réponses à l’appel sont
attendues jusqu’au 19 décembre 2025. Le nombre total de communications est estimé à 200
environ.
5 conférences plénières seront organisées.
Conférences plénières
Les conférences plénières permettent à des chercheurs invités de réputation internationale
d’offrir un état de la recherche en linguistique française :
Valentina Bisconti, Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Jan Goes, Université d’Artois
Salah Mejri, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Sophie Piron, Université du Québec à Montréal
Olivier Soutet, Sorbonne Université
Calendrier
 Mai 2025, diffusion de l’appel
 1er septembre 2025, ouverture de la plateforme
 19 décembre 2025, date limite de réception des propositions de communication
 13 mars 2026, notification de l’acceptation ou du refus des propositions de
communication, et directives pour la version définitive
 Mai 2026, mise à disposition des textes pour l’éditeur
 du lundi 6 juillet au vendredi 10 juillet 2026, congrès à Arras (Université d’Artois)

Organisation générale
Franck Neveu, Sorbonne Université
Sophie Prévost, CNRS/ENS-PSL/Sorbonne Nouvelle, Lattice
Agnès Steuckardt, Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3
Gabriel Bergounioux, Université d’Orléans
Gilles Philippe, Université de Lausanne
Gilles Merminod, Université de Lausanne
Jan Goes, Université d’Artois
Luis Meneses-Lerin, Université d’Artois
Comité local d’organisation
Jan Goes, Université d’Artois, Luis Meneses-Lerin, Université d’Artois
Laboratoire coordonnateur
UR Grammatica, Université d’Artois
Laboratoires porteurs du congrès
 Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF / UMR 7118
CNRS – Université de Lorraine)
 Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL / UMR 7320 CNRS – Université Côte d’Azur)
 Centre de Recherches Inter-langues sur la Signification en Contexte (CRISCO / EA
4255 Université Caen Normandie)
 CLESTHIA : Langages, systèmes, discours (EA 7345 Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
 Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE/ UMR 5263 CNRS – Université de
Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)
 DIPRALANG (EA 739 Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3)
 Histoire des Théories Linguistiques (HTL / UMR 7597 CNRS – Université de Paris –
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
 Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM / UMR 8132 CNRS – ENS-PSL)
 Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations (ICAR / UMR 5191 CNRS –
Université Lumière Lyon 2 – ENS de Lyon – INRP)
 Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique (LLL / UMR 7270 CNRS – Université d’Orléans
– Université de Tours –BnF)
 Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL / UMR 7309 CNRS – Aix-Marseille Université)
 Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (Lattice / UMR 8094 CNRS –
ENS-PSL – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
 Lexiques, Textes, Discours, Dictionnaires : Centre Jean Pruvost (LT2D / EA 7518
Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
 Linguistique et Didactique des Langues Étrangères et Maternelle (LIDILEM / EA
609 Université Grenoble Alpes)
 Linguistique, Langues, Parole (LiLPa / EA 1339 Université de Strasbourg)
 Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus (MoDyCo / UMR 7114 CNRS – Université Paris
Nanterre)
 PRAXILING (UMR 5267 CNRS – Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3)
 Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL / UMR 8163 CNRS – Université de Lille)
 Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire (STIH / Sorbonne Université)
Remarques sur l’évaluation des propositions
Le Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est la manifestation internationale de référence
sur et pour la linguistique française qui se caractérise par une procédure exigeante en
matière d’évaluation des communications présentées au congrès :
 les propositions de communication ne sont pas des résumés mais de véritables
articles (10 pages minimum, 15 pages maximum) comprenant une bibliographie ;
 la gestion des propositions, de leur répartition entre comités thématiques et au sein des
comités thématiques s’effectue via une plateforme de gestion de congrès scientifique ;
 la publication des actes est assurée par EDP - http://www.edpsciences.org (publication
des actes sur www.linguistiquefrancaise.org) ;
 l’évaluation des propositions est faite par des experts au moyen d’une grille unifiée et
après une anonymisation des soumissions ;
 les communications acceptées font l’objet d'une publication en version intégrale dans les
actes ;
 les actes et le lien vers les résumés seront accessibles à l’ouverture du congrès.
Partenaires sollicités pour le financement de la manifestation
 Université d’Artois
 Ville d’Arras
 Ministère français de la Culture – Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux
Langues de France

Présentation scientifique
Intérêt scientifique
Le dixième Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est organisé par une équipe ayant eu en
charge l’organisation des précédents CMLF, et par des membres de l’Université d’Artois.
L’unité de recherche GRAMMATICA (Université d’Artois) coordonne la gestion
administrative et matérielle du congrès. Au total, ce sont dix-neuf laboratoires qui portent le
CMLF 2026, en participant à son fonctionnement scientifique et budgétaire. Une telle
organisation est exceptionnelle par son ampleur et par la volonté de partenariat scientifique
qu’elle révèle.
Le Congrès Mondial, qui a été organisé par l’ILF (Institut de Linguistique française – FR 2393 –
CNRS) jusqu’en 2018, s’est tenu
à Paris en 2008
à La Nouvelle-Orléans en 2010
à Lyon en 2012
à Berlin en 2014
à Tours en 2016
à Mons en 2018
à Montpellier en 2020 (distanciel en raison de la pandémie)
à Orléans en 2022
à Lausanne en 2024
Chacun de ces congrès a attiré près de 300 participants et les résultats ont fait l’objet d’une
publication immédiate en ligne (https://www.linguistiquefrancaise.org/component/issues/).
Ce congrès est organisé sans aucun privilège d’école ou d’orientation et sans exclusive
théorique ou conceptuelle. Chaque domaine ou sous-domaine, chaque type d'objet, chaque
type de questionnement et chaque problématique portant sur le français peut y trouver sa place.
Le CMLF est organisé en sessions thématiques qui permettent de couvrir la plus grande partie
du champ scientifique
1 Discours, pragmatique et interaction
2 Francophonie
3 Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique
4 Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité
5 Lexique
6 Linguistique de l’écrit, linguistique du texte, sémiotique, stylistique
7 Linguistique et didactique (français langue première, français langue seconde)
8 Morphologie
9 Phonétique, phonologie et interfaces
10 Psycholinguistique et acquisition
11 Ressources et outils pour l’analyse linguistique
12 Sémantique
13 Sociolinguistique, dialectologie et écologie des langues
14 Syntaxe
Chaque thématique est pilotée par un Président ou une Présidente, et coordonnée par un Vice-
président ou une Vice-Présidente travaillant en relation étroite avec le comité d’organisation du
congrès. Les comités scientifiques sont constitués par des spécialistes. Un soin particulier a été
accordé à la sélection de ces comités afin de s’assurer qu’ils présenteront les plus grandes
garanties scientifiques pour le succès du congrès. On trouve donc dans chaque comité des
linguistes connu(e)s mondialement pour leur contribution au domaine. Le rôle de ces comités
est de sélectionner les propositions de communications.
MODALITES DE SOUMISSION ET DE PUBLICATION DES
COMMUNICATIONS
Les soumissions se font sous la forme d’articles de 10 à 15 pages.
Toutes les communications (y compris les conférences plénières) seront publiées sous la
forme d'un article d’environ 10-15 pages dans les actes du congrès disponibles en ligne.
Les actes des neuf précédents congrès peuvent être consultés sur www.linguistiquefrancaise.org

Comité scientifique
Le Comité scientifique est composé des présidents et des présidentes, des vice-présidents et des
vice-présidentes, et des membres des 14 comités correspondant aux thématiques du Congrès.
1 - Discours, pragmatique et interaction
Président : Gilles Merminod (Université de Lausanne, Suisse)
Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Agnès Steuckardt (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)
Autres membres du comité : Valérie Bonnet (Université de Toulouse), Laura Calabrese
(Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique), Georgeta Cislaru (Université Paris Nanterre), Gaëtane
Dostie (Université de Sherbrooke), Alice Krieg-Planque (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Marjut
Johnasson (Université de Turku, Finlande), Julien Longhi (Cergy-Pontoise Université),
Dominique Maingueneau (Sorbonne Université), Émilie Née (Université Paris-Est Créteil),
Sandra Nossik (Université de Franche-Comté), Aleksandra Nowakowska (Université de
Montpellier Paul-Valéry), Frédérique Sitri (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Maud Verdier
(Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry), Patricia Von Münchow (Université Paris-Cité)
Présentation
Le terme de discours, quel que soit le sens que lui donnent les diverses théories et traditions de
recherche, renvoie aux manifestations concrètes du langage dans les pratiques sociales.
L’analyse du discours a développé une approche centrée sur l’analyse conjointe du discours et de
ses conditions de production, qu’on les nomme contexte ou situation. Elle a ouvert des
perspectives à la fois théoriques et pratiques : d’abord, grâce à l’usage de corpus écrits et
institutionnels, relativement homogènes ; puis, progressivement par l’intégration de corpus
oraux, souvent plus spontanés et hétérogènes ; enfin, par l’emploi de corpus numériques, dont
les approches linguistiques ont intégré les spécificités sémiotique et technique.
La pragmatique couvre tous les aspects pertinents pour l’interprétation des énoncés, liés non
seulement au système linguistique mais aussi au contexte de production et aux savoirs
extralinguistiques. Son champ d’application s’est enrichi avec le développement des pratiques de
constitution de corpus de données orales et vidéo, qui permettent d’intégrer dans les analyses
une grande diversité de phénomènes (prosodie, multimodalité, interaction entre données
visuelles et textuelles).
L’analyse de l’interaction et l’analyse conversationnelle mettent au centre de leurs préoccupations
la nature sociale et mutuellement coordonnée des actions langagières. Elles voient le discours
comme un échange, et l’interaction comme le site primordial de l’exercice et de l’émergence du
langage. La prise en compte de la multimodalité permet à ces approches d’ouvrir de nouvelles
perspectives sur l’articulation complexe entre langage, gestes, regards et postures corporelles
ainsi que sur l’interaction entre l’être humain et le monde qui l’entoure.
Cette session, ouverte à toutes formes d’analyse du discours et de l’interaction, privilégiera les
approches clairement ancrées sur des données empiriques, qui, soit interrogent les imbrications
théoriques des champs de l’analyse du discours, de la pragmatique et de l’interaction, soit
ouvrent la voie à de nouvelles applications de ces disciplines. Les méthodologies pourront être
qualitatives, quantitatives ou mixtes.
2 – Francophonie
Présidente : Esther Baiwir (Université de Lille)
Vice-président/coordonnateur : André Thibault (Sorbonne Université)
Autres membres du comité : Mathieu Avanzi (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), Myriam
Bergeron-Maguire (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Marc Chalier (Sorbonne Université), Guillaume Fon
Sing (Université Paris Cité), Catherine Léger (Université de Victoria, Canada), Bohdana Librova
(Université Côte d’Azur), Benjamin Storme (Université de Gand, Belgique), Dominique Tiana
Razafindratsimba (Université de Rennes), Nadine Vincent (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada).
Présentation
L’étude du français en francophonie occupe de plus en plus de place dans la discussion
scientifique, de pair avec l’extension de sa diffusion dans le monde. Cet objet polymorphe peut
être appréhendé de plusieurs façons : les points de vue internes, qu’il s’agisse des aspects
phonétiques/phonologiques, morpho-syntaxiques et lexico-sémantiques, gagnent à être croisés
avec les points de vue externes :
- facteurs de variation diachronique, diastratique, pragmatique et stylistique ;
- contacts de langue, alternance et mélange codiques ;
- étiolement, accommodation et loyauté linguistiques ;
- étymologie, histoire des mots et lexicographie historico-différentielle ;
- élaboration de normes nationales.
La session invite à soumettre des articles se rattachant à toutes ces approches, dans le respect
de tous les cadres théoriques. Une invitation spéciale est lancée aux chercheurs qui travaillent sur
les français d’Amérique.
3 - Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique
Président : Walter de Mulder (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgique)
Vice-présidente : Sophie Prévost (Lattice, ENS-PSL, Université Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Autres membres du comité : Wendy Ayres Bennett (University of Cambridge), Daniela Capin
(Université de Strasbourg, LiLPa), Anne Carlier (Université Paris Sorbonne, STIH), Bernard
Combettes (Université de Lorraine, ATILF), Andreas Dufter (Institut für Romanische Philologie
der Universität München), Julie Glikman (Université de Lorraine, ATILF), Céline Guillot-
Barbance (ENS Lyon, IHRIM), Alexei Lavrentiev (ENS Lyon, IHRIM), Tom Rainsford
(Universität Stuttgart, Allemagne), Esme Winter Froemel (Julius-Maximilians-Universität
Würzburg, Allemagne)
Présentation
Les études proprement diachroniques, portant sur l’évolution de phénomènes à travers les
siècles ou sur des diachronies courtes (y compris de la langue des 20-21es siècles) sont
encouragées, quel que soit le domaine dont elles relèvent (phonétique, morphologie, syntaxe,
lexique, sémantique ou pragmatique), qu’il s’agisse d’écrit ou d’oral, et que les analyses soient
descriptives ou plus spécifiquement théoriques.

Seront également accueillis des travaux visant à approfondir ou discuter des théories sur le
changement.
Enfin, des études synchroniques consacrées à une période ancienne précise, antérieure au 20e
siècle, trouveront également leur place dans cette session.
4 - Histoire, épistémologie, réflexivité
Présidente : Sophie Piron (Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM, Canada)
Vice-président/coordonnateur : Franck Neveu (Sorbonne Université)
Autres membres du comité : Giorgio Graffi (Università degli studi di Verona, Italia), Chloé
Laplantine (CNRS, Laboratoire Histoire des théories linguistiques, Université Paris Cité et Sorbonne
Nouvelle), Vincent Nyckees (Université Paris Cité)
Présentation
Il est crucial, pour les linguistes, de s’interroger sur l’historicité de leur domaine d’études, ses
frontières et ses objets, ainsi que sur les notions et métalangues exploitées par les différents
courants de recherche. La session « Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité » du Congrès a pour
objectif d’établir un état des lieux de cet ensemble de problématiques. Elle souhaite susciter des
propositions de communication autour des thèmes suivants :
– la grammatisation et l’histoire du français ;
– l’historicité de la linguistique française, entendue soit comme linguistique du français, soit
comme théorisation des langues produite en France ; les fondements et les objectifs de
l’historiographie en linguistique française ;
– les notions de « tradition grammaticale française », de « linguistique nationale», d’« école
linguistique » ;
– la constitution et l’emploi des bases de données textuelles en histoire de la linguistique ;
l’édition de textes grammaticaux anciens ; l’exploitation scientifique des premiers outils
linguistiques français ;
– les questions de terminologie, de terminographie, d’histoire du métalangage en linguistique
française ; l’exploitation des corpus en terminographie ;
– les paradigmes théoriques et méthodologiques, qu’ils soient nouveaux (linguistique outillée,
« linguistique expérimentale »...) ou anciens ; leurs impacts épistémologiques sur ce qu’est décrire
/ analyser / modéliser une langue (choix de l’objet, statut des observations, conceptions sous-
jacentes de la langue) ;
– l’interface entre la linguistique française et les autres disciplines (philosophie, sociologie,
psychologie, neurosciences...) ; les problèmes d’interdisciplinarité ;
– la réflexion épistémologique et sociologique sur l’évolution, actuelle ou passée, du domaine ;
conditions de développement des recherches, entre fractionnement et synthèse ; poids des
contingences contextuelles, des facteurs technologiques et institutionnels.

5 - Lexique
Président : Vassil Mostrov (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France)
Vice-présidente/ coordonnatrice : Iva Novakova (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Autres membres du comité : Elena Berthemet (CeLiSo UR 7332, Sorbonne Université),
Cristelle Cavalla (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Ludwig Fesenmeyer (Université
d’Erlangen-Nüremberg, Allemagne), Alexis Ladreyt (Hokkaido University, RFMC, Japon),
Dominique Legallois (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Alain Polguère (Université de
Lorraine), Dirk Siepmann (Université d’Osnabrück, Allemagne), Dorota Sikora
(Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale), Julie Sorba (Université Grenoble Alpes), Camille
Vorger (Université de Lausanne, EFLE, Suisse)
Présentation
Le lexique est au cœur de la réflexion sur la langue, ce qui peut s’expliquer par le fait qu’il
organise l’essentiel des contenus exprimables linguistiquement et est, par là même, le point
d’articulation entre pensée et langage. Il existe, en conséquence, de multiples façons d’aborder
l’étude du lexique. Cette session thématique souhaite mettre l’accent sur trois problématiques, la
troisième étant nouvelle par rapport aux CMLF précédents :
1. L’analyse théorisée de données « authentiques » issues entre autres de l’exploitation de
corpus et de l’observation directe des échanges langagiers ;
2. L’épistémologie des modèles et des théories lexicologiques qui ont façonné la recherche
contemporaine sur le lexique.
3. L’analyse plus spécifique d’unités lexicales relevant du courant émergent de la phraséologie
étendue (pragmatèmes, formules, motifs, routines …) ; comme le rappelle Alain Polguère
(2016), « certaines lexies ou expressions phraséologiques possèdent des propriétés bien
particulières qui font qu’elles ne peuvent être entièrement caractérisées sans référence à un
ensemble de situations de parole dans lesquelles elles doivent être utilisées ».
Cette session accueillera des propositions axées en particulier, mais non exclusivement, sur les
thèmes suivants :
- Méthodes de la lexicologie et de la lexicographie, théoriques et pratiques ;
- Épistémologie de la lexicologie, en particulier sous l’angle de son interaction avec la
lexicographie ;
- Modélisation de la variation lexicale ;
- Phraséologie en contexte d'usage familier ou spécifique, phraséologie étendue ;
- Acquisition des connaissances lexicales et enseignement du lexique ;
- Ressources lexicales pour le traitement automatique des langues (TAL) ;
- Lexique de la langue générale et lexique des langues de spécialité.
6 - Linguistique de l’écrit, linguistique du texte, sémiotique, stylistique
Président : Joël Zufferey (Université de Lausanne, Suisse)
Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Julie Lefebvre (Université Paris Nanterre)
Autres membres du comité : Agathe Cormier (Université Paris Est Créteil), Pierluigi Basso
(Université de Bologne, Italie), Béatrice Dal bo (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Jacques David
(Université de Cergy), Michel Favriaud (Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse), Stéphanie Fonvielle
(Aix-Marseille Université), Sybille Grosse (Université de Heidelberg, Allemagne), Vanise
Medeiros (Université Fédérale Fluminense, Brésil), Pierre-Yves Testenoire (Sorbonne
Université)
Présentation
La session « Linguistique de l’écrit » accueille les travaux organiquement inscrits dans l’analyse
linguistique de l’écrit, c’est-à-dire étudiant les spécificités induites par l’écrit dans la mise en
fonctionnement de la langue. Les contributions examinent des textes écrits ou leur écriture,
appréhendée par ses traces, et peuvent associer diverses perspectives : sémiotique,
stylistique, génétique et linguistique textuelles, linguistique de l’énonciation, analyse du discours.
L’intérêt peut se porter sur les unités de segmentation du texte écrit et leur constitution
syntaxique et textuelle – régularités des genres du discours ou choix d’écriture plus singuliers –
ainsi qu’à la manière dont la mise en espace du verbal participe à sa signification.
La continuité discursive écrite sera abordée selon la progression du discours : variation vs
répétition, complexité syntaxique et textuelle des unités, cohésion/cohérence, enjeux
communicatifs et/ou stylistiques… Il s’agit de proposer des descriptions favorisant la
caractérisation dynamique de la textualité écrite.
Du point de vue des genres, on s’intéressera particulièrement aux corrélations entre
déterminations externes (situation matérielle et contextes sociaux) et propriétés textuelles, pour
décrire soit les traditions discursives écrites, soit les ressources linguistiques elles-mêmes.
Enfin, les spécificités de l’énonciation à l’écrit pourront être abordées en considérant l’image que
l’énonciation écrite donne d’elle-même en se prenant ponctuellement pour objet ou l’image des
autres discours par lesquels l’énonciation écrite, en convoquant ses extérieurs à l’interne, se
délimite et se définit.
La sélection privilégiera les propositions qui ne se limitent pas à la seule analyse du corpus
examiné mais manifestent une préoccupation épistémologique et méthodologique claire et
innovante.
7 - Linguistique et didactique
Présidente : Mariangela Albano (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italie)
Vice-président/ coordonnateur : Jean-Marc Mangiante (Université d’Artois)
Autres membres du comité: Simona Ruggia (Université de Nice côte d'Azur) ; Lucile Cadet
(CY Cergy Paris Université) ; Françoise Olmo (Université Polytechnique de Valence, Espagne) ;
Guillaume Nassau (Université de Lorraine) ; Marie-Christine Pollet (Université libre de
Bruxelles); Véronique Paolacci (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès) ; Angelo Sampaio (Université
fédérale de Bahia, Brésil) ; Carlos Alfredo Pazos (Université autonome de Puebla, Mexique).
Présentation
Constituée en discipline scientifique dans les années 1980, la didactique entretient des liens
étroits et fructueux avec la linguistique. Pour concevoir des activités d’enseignement, analyser les
modalités et les effets d’interventions d’enseignement sur les apprentissages ou encore analyser
des productions d’élèves ou d’apprenant.e.s, elle s’appuie sur de nombreux contenus issus des
travaux de la linguistique : bases théoriques de la description linguistique, unités d’analyse,
variation sociolinguistique, méthodes d’analyse, etc. Le concept de transposition didactique
permet d’interroger les convergences et les écarts entre objets d’enseignement et théories
linguistiques de référence dans les divers domaines de l’enseignement du français : lecture,
écriture, oral, étude de la langue. La didactique du français peut également alimenter en retour les
modèles linguistiques, qui jouent un rôle décisif dans la constitution et l’analyse de corpus
d’apprenant.e.s, oraux ou écrits. Les contributions de cette session, en didactique du français
langue première ou étrangère, du préscolaire à l’université, mettront en évidence l’articulation
entre linguistique et didactique.
8 - Morphologie
Président : Jan Radimský (Université de Bohême du Sud, České Budějovice)
Vice-présidente/coordinatrice : Georgette Dal (Université de Lille)
Autres membres du comité : Olivier Bonami (Université Paris Cité, France) ; Richard Huyghe
(Université de Fribourg, Suisse) ; Nicola Lampitelli (Université Paris Nanterre, France) ;
Stéphanie Lignon (Université de Lorraine, France) ; Maria Rosa Lloret (Universitat de Barcelona,
España) ; Kristel Van Goethem (Université de Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgique)
Présentation
La thématique « Morphologie » accueille toute proposition originale portant sur la morphologie
constructionnelle ou la morphologie flexionnelle du français, le cas échéant dans une perspective
contrastive. La thématique est ouverte aux propositions théoriques ou applicatives, quel que soit
le cadre théorique retenu. Les soumissions peuvent également porter sur les interfaces, intra- ou
extrasystème, se situer dans une perspective psycholinguistique ou dans celle du traitement
automatique des langues. Les propositions adoptant une perspective diachronique ou portant sur
des variétés du français sont également les bienvenues.
Les principaux critères de sélection des soumissions sont :
- la nouveauté des faits linguistiques étudiés ou le caractère original de l’analyse proposée,
- l’assise empirique des analyses et la couverture des données,
- la clarté de l’exposition et la solidité de l’argumentation,
- la connaissance de la littérature scientifique du champ, aux niveaux national et international.
9 - Phonétique, phonologie et interfaces
Présidente : Michela Russo (Université de Lyon & UMR 7023 SFL/U. Paris 8)
Vice-président : Rudolph Sock (Université de Strasbourg)
Autres membres du comité : Nicolas Audibert (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Marie-Hélène
Côté (Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Ivana Didirková (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry),
Heather Goad (Université McGill, Montréal, Canada), Bernard Harmegnies (Université de
Mons, Belgique), Haike Jacobs (Université Radboud, Pays-Bas), Jeffrey Lamontagne (Université
d’Indiana à Bloomington, États-Unis), Kie Ross Zuraw (Université de Californie à Los Angeles,
États-Unis)

Présentation
La phonologie du français est aujourd’hui au cœur d’un renouveau important, combinant
avancées théoriques et empiriques issues des approches contemporaines avec des perspectives
renouvelées de la phonologie diachronique. Cette session vise à explorer ces développements
récents en soulignant les apports spécifiques des approches théoriques, historiques et
expérimentales à la phonologie du français, étudiées tant de manière autonome qu’en synergie
avec des disciplines connexes. Les travaux sur le français médiéval, l’évolution du latin à l’ancien
français ainsi que les études approfondies sur les interactions graphie-phonologie dans une
perspective diachronique sont particulièrement encouragés.
La phonologie diachronique du français a récemment bénéficié de cadres théoriques et
méthodologiques innovants, en particulier les approches stratales et cycliques, qui s’inscrivent
dans une perspective représentationnelle et computationnelle du changement phonologique. Ces
modèles permettent de renouveler en profondeur l’analyse de phénomènes évolutifs complexes
tels que la nasalisation vocalique, les réorganisations prosodiques (accentuation, structure
rythmique) ou encore les dynamiques segmentales dans leur interaction avec la structure
morphologique et syntaxique. La session intègre également les travaux sur la variation dialectale
et régionale en diachronie, en particulier ceux portant sur les scriptae médiévales, dont l’analyse
éclaire la complexité et la diversité des trajectoires phonologiques du français.
Cette session accueillera également des contributions s’appuyant sur les cadres théoriques les
plus récents de la phonologie contemporaine, tels que la phonologie fondée sur les contraintes
(Optimalité), la phonologie du gouvernement et la phonologie de la dépendance ou élémentaire,
fondée sur des primitives phonologiques clairement définies (éléments, traits primitifs). Ces
approches, ancrées dans une formalisation précise des représentations phonologiques et de leur
interaction avec la phonétique expérimentale, apportent des outils robustes pour analyser les
phénomènes phonologiques actuels du français, ainsi que leurs interfaces avec la morphologie, la
syntaxe et les niveaux du langage, enrichissant ainsi la compréhension théorique et empirique des
processus de changement linguistique.
Phonétique et phonologie sont conjointement au cœur de cette session, dans une perspective
articulant dimensions expérimentales, théoriques et diachroniques ; la première est abordée à
travers ses dimensions articulatoire, acoustique et perceptive, la seconde dans la diversité de ses
cadres d’analyse synchroniques et diachroniques. Les contributions explorant la variation
phonétique du français – qu’elle soit régionale, stylistique, sociophonétique, clinique ou liée à
l’acquisition – sont particulièrement bienvenues. L’apport de la phonétique expérimentale à la
modélisation fine des unités phonologiques, à la dynamique prosodique et aux processus de
coarticulation constitue un axe essentiel pour le dialogue entre phonéticiens et phonologues.
10 - Psycholinguistique et acquisition
Présidente : Régine Kolinski (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Vice-président : Christelle Dodane (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Autres membres du comité : Arianna Bello (Université Rome 3, Italie), Ranka Bijeljac-Babic
(Université Paris Cité), Lucie Broc (Université de Poitiers), Maud Champagne-Lavau (CNRS,
Aix Marseille Université), Anna Ghimenton (Grenoble-Alpes Université), Fanny Meunier
(CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur), Michel Musiol (Université de Lorraine), Thierry Nazzi (CNRS,
Université Paris Cité), Philippe Prevost (Université de Tours), Phaedra Royle (Université de
Montréal, Canada)
Présentation
La psycholinguistique étudie les processus mentaux et les structures cognitives et
neurocognitives intervenant dans la perception, la compréhension, la production du langage à
tous les âges de la vie, chez les monolingues et les bilingues. L’acquisition concerne le
développement du langage oral chez le jeune enfant dès la naissance, l’acquisition du langage
écrit au cours de la scolarité et l’acquisition plurilingue dans des contextes d’immersion ou
d’acquisition formelle. Ces deux champs thématiques concernent tant des locuteurs typiques que
des personnes présentant une pathologie du langage.
Les études seront centrées sur le langage exploré au travers de différents types d’éclairages
théoriques (linguistique, psycholinguistique, neurolinguistique) et différents types de données
(corpus, comportementales, physiologiques). L’appel concerne donc un large champ de
recherches interdisciplinaires.
11 - Ressources et outils pour l’analyse linguistique
Président : Thomas François (Université de Louvain, Belgique)
Vice-présidente/coordinatrice : Iris Eshkol-Taravella (Université Paris Nanterre)
Autres membres du comité : Benoît Crabbé (Université Paris Cité), Bénédicte Pincemin (ENS
de Lyon), Emmanuel Schang (Université d’Orléans), Corinne Rossari (Université de Neuchâtel,
Suisse), Sasha Diwersy (Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry), Marie-Paule Jacques (Université
de Toulouse Jean Jaurès), Patrick Drouin (Université de Montréal, Canada), Annette
Gerstenberg (Universität Postdam, Allemagne)
Présentation
On le sait, la mise à disposition de grands corpus électroniques (oraux, écrits, gestes) qui peuvent
être annotés à des niveaux divers (phonétique, phonologique, morphologique, syntaxique,
sémantique, discursif) ouvre la voie à des travaux qui interrogent les approches classiques des
sciences du langage.
Parmi les questions qui émergent, il y a tout d’abord la question de la mutualisation et de la
capitalisation des ressources. Celle-ci constitue maintenant un enjeu majeur pour l’ensemble de
la communauté, soulevant des problématiques d’interopérabilité, de normalisation mais aussi
d’ordre juridique ou éthique. Parmi les initiatives internationales prises (généralement soutenues
par les instances), il y a par exemple le « Web de données linguistiques » (LLOD), mais aussi
divers projets de constitution de « grands » corpus et de groupes de travail d'annotation, ou
encore des laboratoires et des équipements d’excellence dédiés (tels que l’Equipex
ORTOLANG, les consortium de la TGIR HumaNum, l’European Research Infrastructure
Consortium DARIAH, etc.).

Une autre question majeure concerne l’utilisation et l’apport des outils de traitement
informatique à l’analyse linguistique, que ce soit pour faire émerger des hypothèses ou pour les
valider, avec une difficulté de plus en plus prégnante qui est celle de l’évaluation, à la fois des
outils mais aussi des données annotées (et donc des ressources). Il existe en tout cas
actuellement un nombre important d’outils qui modifient profondément le rapport du linguiste
aux données langagières. Ces outils sont associés à diverses tâches : la collecte de données
langagières, l'aide à la transcription, l’annotation manuelle, l’annotation automatique – elle-même
fondée sur des traitements symboliques et/ou statistiques ou encore sur des méthodes par
apprentissage, etc.
Avec une démarche différente des colloques internationaux spécialisés dans le Traitement
Automatique des Langues (TAL), cette session du CMLF voudrait ouvrir un espace d’échanges
scientifiques entre différentes approches, sans exclusive de cadres théoriques, de méthodologies
ou de pratiques axées sur la théorie et/ou l’empirisme. Cette session sera l’occasion de mettre en
relief tout aussi bien des recherches émergentes que des travaux qui consolideraient des
approches existantes.
La session « Ressources et outils pour l’analyse linguistique » invite à soumettre des propositions
d’articles originaux dont l’objet est de construire ou d’exploiter des ressources mais aussi de
développer ou d’évaluer des outils ou des ressources dans tous les domaines de la linguistique
française (oral, écrit, gestes) et à tous les niveaux d’analyse (phonétique, phonologique,
morphologique, syntaxique, sémantique, discursif).
12 - Sémantique
Président : Marie Lammert (Université Strasbourg)
Vice-président/coordinateur : Marco Fasciolo (Sorbonne Université)
Autres membres du comité : Lucie Barque (Université Paris Cité), Jacques Bres (Université de
Montpellier Paul Valéry), Sandrine Deloor (CY Cergy Paris Université), Sonia Jordana Gomez
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espagne), Pauline Haas (CNRS, ENS, Université Paris
13, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle), Jacques Jayez (Université Paris Cité, ENS Lyon),
Makoto Kaneko (University of Osaka, Japan), Peter Lauwers (Université de Gand, Belgique),
Luis Meneses Lerin (Université d’Artois), Adriana Orlandi (Università degli studi di Modena e
Reggio Emilia, Italie)
Présentation
Toute proposition de communication en rapport avec le champ tel que caractérisé ci-dessous,
sans aucune exclusive, ni théorique ni méthodologique, est bienvenue.
Outre l’exploration des sous-domaines désormais bien identifiés (cf. axes 1 à 8) que couvre la
sémantique, sera également envisagée une dimension prospective (axes 9 à 10) :
1. Sémantique lexicale et grammaticale en synchronie et en diachronie ;
2. Sémantique et interfaces avec d’autres disciplines linguistiques : prosodie, morphologie
lexicale, syntaxe, pragmatique du discours, linguistique textuelle…
3. Sémantique pragmatique (présupposition, implicatures…)
4. Sémantique générale et typologie des langues, sémantique contrastive
5. Sémantique et applications en
a. lexicographie uni- et multi-lingue
b. TAL (constitution d’ontologies, faisceaux d’indices sémantiques utilisés pour la fouille
textuelle ; …)
6. Sémantique cognitive
7. Sémantique(s) formelle(s)
8. Sémantique et modélisation(s)
9. Place et rôle de la sémantique dans la réflexion épistémologique en sciences du langage
10. Perspectives pour la sémantique de demain
11. Nouvelles méthodes d’investigation en sémantique (apports des grands corpus,
techniques de fouille documentaire…)
13 - Sociolinguistique, dialectologie et écologie des langues
Présidente : Gudrun Ledegen (Université Rennes 2)
Vice-président/coordonnateur : Gabriel Bergounioux (Université d’Orléans)
Autres membres du comité : Laurie Dekhissi (Université de Poitiers), Anne Dister (Université
Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Belgique), Emmanuelle Guerin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Philippe
Hambye (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique), Emmanuelle Labeau (Université
d’Anvers, Belgique), Augustin Ndione (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal),
Roberto Paternostro (Université de Genève, Suisse), Wim Remysen (Université de Sherbrooke,
Canada).
Présentation
La sociolinguistique est à concevoir comme la prise en compte, dans la linguistique, de la
variation inhérente aux langues et à leurs emplois. Longtemps fondée sur une pratique
philologique des textes et sur une analyse des auteurs, la linguistique, confrontée à la description
de langues à tradition orale, a dû établir des données finalisées en constituant des corpus
représentatifs du savoir et des pratiques des locuteurs. Les enquêtes ont mis en évidence la
grande diversité et variabilité des formes phonétiques, morphosyntaxiques ou lexicales. Elles ont
rendu sensibles les différences qu’introduisent les genres du discours et l’imbrication des faits de
langue et de culture. L’étude des dialectes et des créoles, des langues mixtes et des pidgins, et
plus généralement la notation des langues à tradition orale dans des contextes où les relations
d’échange étaient inégales ont transformé les représentations traditionnelles et les outils de
description. Les réalités plurilingues des sociétés contemporaines comportent des nouveaux
enjeux sociolinguistiques.
La sociolinguistique, dans son acception la plus large, participe à une compréhension des
phénomènes qui, dans le temps, relèvent de la diachronie, dans l’espace, de la dialectologie, dans
l’espace social de la sociologie du langage, dans les emplois de la pragmatique, de la théorie de la
communication, voire de l’ethnométhodologie. Cependant, au lieu d’une conception qui
raisonne en termes d’écarts les réalisations qui ne coïncident pas avec une image de la langue
fixée par une écriture et des principes normatifs, elle conçoit la diversité interne (sociologie) et
externe (écologie des langues) comme étant au principe même de leur analyse, précédant les
réductions opérées pour en sélectionner une forme stabilisée à des fins de transcription ou
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d’étude. La sociolinguistique est devenue le lieu d’un débat avec des disciplines qui, dans leur
domaine, se trouvaient confrontées aux mêmes phénomènes.
En linguistique, le français, par l’importance de sa diffusion internationale et les flux migratoires
dans son aire d’expansion, par son horizon de rétrospection, son observation attentive des effets
du changement linguistique et la grande diversité de ses variations, par sa créolisation et sa
présence sur les nouveaux canaux de communication, le français, donc, représente un terrain
d’observation privilégié, un champ d’expérimentation pour les théories contemporaines comme
la tradition sociolinguistique du français l’a illustré.
14 - Syntaxe
Président : Ruggero Druetta (Università di Torino, Italie)
Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Florence Lefeuvre (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Autres membres du comité : Anne Abeillé (Université Paris Cité), Denis Apothéloz
(Université de Lorraine), Anne-Sophie Bally (Université de Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada),
Christophe Benzitoun (Université de Lorraine), Alexander Guryev (Institut national des langues
étrangères de Samarcande, Ouzbékistan), Nathalie Rossi-Gensane (Université de Lyon 2),
Gabriela Soare (Université de Genève, Suisse), Dan Van Raemdonck (Université Libre de
Bruxelles, Belgique).
Présentation
La syntaxe du français est un domaine fondamental dans la connaissance de la langue et sa
description. Elle participe à la diversification des méthodes de recherche et au renouveau des
approches théoriques qui recouvre les divers domaines linguistiques. Elle s’enrichit de la
confrontation à la diversité des structures syntaxiques qui sont étudiées en typologie et syntaxe
générale. Grâce à l’élaboration actuelle de corpus variés, aussi bien oraux qu’écrits, elle peut
affiner ses modèles conceptuels.
La session « syntaxe » a pour objectif de faire état des dernières avancées sur les plans descriptif
et théorique. Elle accueillera des thèmes variés et des approches diversifiées tout en privilégiant
des sujets originaux et des démarches novatrices qui contribuent à une meilleure compréhension
de la syntaxe du français ou qui constituent des avancées dans la modélisation théorique. Les
personnes intéressées sont invitées à soumettre des communications portant sur tous les
phénomènes syntaxiques (syntaxe des catégories, syntaxe (inter-)propositionnelle, ordre des
mots, variation syntaxique, phénomènes d’interface avec d’autres domaines linguistiques,
phénomènes de grammaticalisation, de figements, évolution et réanalyse...). L’objet d’étude peut
correspondre à des français parlés et/ou écrits, de différents pays ou régions francophones.
Rappel du calendrier
 Mai 2025, diffusion de l’appel
 1er septembre 2025, ouverture de la plateforme
 19 décembre 2025, date limite de réception des propositions de communication
 13 mars 2026, notification de l’acceptation ou du refus des propositions de
communication, et directives pour la version définitive
 Mai 2026, mise à disposition des textes pour l’éditeur
 du lundi 6 juillet au vendredi 10 juillet 2026, congrès à Arras (Université d’Artois)
https://cmlf2026.sciencesconf.org/

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