3-3-1 | 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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3-3-2 | (2025-07-13 )International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS) - Punta Sampieri - Scicli (Ragusa), Sicily, IT 13-19 July 2025
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?
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Esteemed Experts: Gain insights from luminaries who will enrich your understanding with their profound knowledge and experience.
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Diverse Perspectives: Join a global cohort of around 75 like-minded professionals, researchers, and academicians, fostering an environment ripe for learning and networking.
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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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3-3-3 | (2025-07-20) CfP 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark
Call for Papers for the 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)
20-23 July 2025 at the University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark.
ProComm is the flagship conference of the IEEE Professional Communication Society.
The conference takes place under the theme: “Digital Solutions and Multimodal Challenges”
Modern communication calls for more than traditional methods today. Digital solutions play a crucial role as they expand the efficiency and reach of communication. Multimodal communication, an evolution of this trend, is about the challenge of seamlessly integrating various media forms, from messaging apps to video calls – and it is also about the challenge of understanding how the different type and layers of communication, text and images, speech and body language, interact and interfere in the creation of attractive and effective messages. In an increasingly interconnected world, the integration of digital solutions and multimodal communication is crucial for effective exchange and collaboration. While, of course, inviting papers from all areas of professional communication, the conference will put a focus on building such inter-disciplinary bridges, using our Acoustics Lab’s international network to invite (foreign) language teachers, public-speaking coaches, researchers from the speech sciences, and speech-communication engineers to the event.
The 2025 issue of the conference is hosted by the CIE Acoustics Lab at the University of Southern Denmark in Sonderborg, Denmark.
Please note that the website for the 2025 conference is constantly updated. Information about keynotes, important dates etc. follow in autumn 2024.
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3-3-4 | (2025-07-21) 12th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Porto, Portugal
12th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING (with a special focus on Large Language Models, Foundation Models and Generative AI)
DeepLearn 2025
Porto – Maia, Portugal
July 21-25, 2025
https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/
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Co-organized by:
University of Maia
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA Brussels/London
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Early registration: January 23, 2025
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SCOPE:
DeepLearn 2025 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimarães, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luleå, Bournemouth, Bari, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Porto.
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedicine and health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, business and finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, materials design, video technology, social systems, earth and sustainability, etc. etc.
The field is also raising a number of relevant questions about robustness of the algorithms, explainability, transparency, interpretability, as well as important ethical concerns at the frontier of current knowledge that deserve careful multidisciplinary discussion.
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 18 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table and a hackathon competition among participants. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely.
DeepLearn 2025 will place special emphasis on large language models, foundation models and generative artificial intelligence.
ADDRESSED TO:
Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well.
Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses.
Overall, DeepLearn 2025 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
VENUE:
DeepLearn 2025 will take place in Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, recognized by UNESCO in 1996 as a World Heritage Site. The venue will be:
University of Maia Avenida Carlos de Oliveira Campos - Castêlo da Maia 4475-690 Maia Porto, Portugal
https://www.umaia.pt/en
STRUCTURE:
3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.
All lectures will be videorecorded. Participants will be able to watch them again for 45 days after the event.
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Also companies will be able to present their technical developments for 10 minutes.
The school will include a hackathon, where participants will be able to work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges.
Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Yonina Eldar (Weizmann institute of Science), Model Based Deep Learning: Applications to Imaging and Communications
Manuela Veloso (JPMorganChase), The Journey of Humans and AI: Insights from AI in Robotics and AI in Finance
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
Pierre Baldi (University of California Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] From Deep Learning and Transformers to AI Risks and Safety
Sean Benson (Amsterdam University Medical Center), [intermediate] Digital Twins and Generative AI for Personalised Medicine
Xavier Bresson (National University of Singapore), [intermediate/advanced] Graph Transformers, Graph Generative Models and Large Language Models
Nello Cristianini (University of Bath), [introductory] Machina Sapiens - Towards More General Forms of AI
Mark Derdzinski (Dexcom), [introductory] From Prototype to Production: Evaluation Strategies for Agentic Applications
Samira Ebrahimi Kahou (University of Calgary), [intermediate/advanced] Explainability in Machine Learning
Elena Giusarma (Michigan Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning at the Frontier of Astrophysics: Simulating the Universe
Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington), [intermediate/advanced] Real-Time Artificial Intelligence for Science and Engineering
Xia 'Ben' Hu (Rice University), [introductory/advanced] Efficient LLM Serving: Algorithms and Systems
Lu Jiang (ByteDance & Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory/intermediate] Transformers for Image and Video Generation: Fundamentals, Design, and Innovations
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer (University of Colorado), [introductory/intermediate] Multimodal AI for Healthcare
Yingbin Liang (Ohio State University), [intermediate/advanced] Theory on Training Dynamics of Transformers
Chen Change Loy (Nanyang Technological University), [intermediate/advanced] Harnessing Prior for Content Enhancement and Creation
Evan Shelhamer (DeepMind), [intermediate] Test-Time Adaptation for Updating Models on New and Different Data
Atlas Wang (University of Texas Austin), [intermediate] Low Rank Strikes Back in the Era of Large Language Models
Xiang Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), [advanced] Large Language Models for User Behavior Modeling: Cross-Modal Interpretation, Preference Optimization, and Agentic Simulation
Cao (Danica) Xiao (GE HealthCare), [introductory/intermediate] Transforming Healthcare and Drug Development through Multimodal AI with LLMs and Generative AI Technologies
Rex Ying (Yale University), [intermediate/advanced] Multimodal Foundation Models for Graph-Structured Data: Framework and Scientific Applications
OPEN SESSION:
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary oral presentations of work in progress by participants.
They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 13, 2025.
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry.
Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event.
Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 13, 2025.
HACKATHON:
A hackathon will take place, where participants can work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. They will be coordinated by Professor Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama). The challenges will be released 2 weeks before the beginning of the school. A jury will judge the submissions and the winners of each challenge will be announced by August 25, 2025. The winning teams will receive a modest monetary prize and the runners-up will get a certificate.
SPONSORS:
Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from
https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/sponsors/
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Sergei V. Gleyzer (Tuscaloosa, hackathon chair) José Paulo Marques dos Santos (Maia, local chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) José Luís Reis (Maia) Luís Paulo Reis (Porto) David Silva (London, organization chair)
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/registration/
The selection of 6 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course.
Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
Fees comprise access to all program activities and lunches.
There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
The fees for on site and for online participation are the same.
ACCOMMODATION:
Accommodation suggestions will be available in due time at
https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/accommodation/
CERTIFICATE:
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of academic activities. This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
david@irdta.eu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Universidade da Maia
Universidade do Porto
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London
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3-3-5 | (2025-08) Registration at the 2025 editions of the Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) and The Blizzard Challenge
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
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Sébastien Le Maguer - Department of Digital Humanities - University of Helsinki
website: <http://seblemaguer.github.io/>
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3-3-6 | (2025-08-17) Cf abstracts “Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop” (YFRSW) @ Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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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3-3-7 | (2025-08-18) The 2nd International Generative AI and Computational Language Modelling Conference (GACLM 2025), Valencia, Spain
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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3-3-8 | (2025-08-24) 13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13) , Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (updated)
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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3-3-9 | (2025-08-25) CfP The 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Avignon, France
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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3-3-10 | (2025-08-25) CfP TSD-2025, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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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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3-3-11 | (2025-08-25) SIGDIAL 2025 Conference, Avignon, France
*** 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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3-3-12 | (2025-08-27) Blizzard Challenge, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (updated)
We have now released updated version of the Bildts dataset and the lexicon. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the release of the lexicon was delayed, so we have updated the schedule of the challenge which is now[1].
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
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We are delighted to announce the 2025 edition of the Blizzard Challenge, which will be co-located with the Speech Synthesis Workshop 2025 (SSW13).
The theme of this edition of SSW is 'Scaling down: sustainable synthesis for language diversity'. In line with this theme, the challenge focuses on synthesizing speech for Bildts, a unique language variety from the Netherlands.
About Bildts
Bildts (Indo-European > West Germanic) is spoken in Het Bildt, a region in the Dutch province of Friesland. With approximately 10,000 first and second language speakers, it represents a vibrant example of European linguistic diversity. The language variety has been systematically through grammatical descriptions, dictionaries with pronunciation information, literary works, media productions (weekly radio broadcasts, theater performances), and regular newspaper columns.
For the Blizzard Challenge 2025, we have curated a dataset of high-quality audio recordings with corresponding linguistic resources. This choice of Bildts aligns with our theme of 'sustainable synthesis for language diversity' - it presents participants with the real-world challenge of developing synthesis capabilities for a well-documented but data-limited language variety, representative of the thousands of smaller languages that could benefit from speech technology. The challenge is composed of two tasks:
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the traditional hub which this year consists of creating a synthetic voice for Bildts using the data
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a Zeroshot TTS for Bildts for different speakers with reference audio files provided during the release of the test set
Data download
A pronunciation dictionary for Bildts will be made available to participants in February 2025. This will include phonetic transcriptions that can be used for training text-to-speech systems. Participants will be notified when this resource becomes available.
Timeline
This is a preliminary timeline and is subject to change.
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Feb 032025 - challenge announcement and registration open
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Feb 03 2025 - training dataset released
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Aug 17-21 2025 - INTERSPEECH 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Aug 24-26 2025 - SSW13, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
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Aug 27 2025 - Blizzard Challenge 2025 Workshop, same location as SSW
Any questions?
Please contact blizzard-challenge-organisers@googlegroups.com if you have any questions.
Please feel free to distribute this announcement. The Blizzard Challenge 2025 Organising team
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3-3-13 | (2025-08-28) Third Run of the Automatic Minuting Shared Task - AutoMin @ SIGDIAL 2025
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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3-3-14 | (2025-09-01) Workshop « Lenition and fortition in world's languages: new interdisciplinary insights », Lille, France
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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3-3-15 | (2025-09-01) L’école d’été ETAL 2025, Roscoff, France
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) :
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Traitement des données textuelle, évaluation et explicabilité par Marie Candito
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Apprentissage de représentation pour le langage (intervenant(e) en attente)
- Modèles multimodaux pour l’interaction orale par Laurent Besacier
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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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3-3-16 | (2025-09-06) Labs @CLEF2025, Madrid, Spain
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CLEF 2025
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
Madrid, Spain, September 9-12, 2025
http://clef2025.clef-initiative.eu
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Call for Lab Proposals
At its 26th edition, the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is a continuation of the very successful series of evaluation campaigns of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) -- which ran between 2000 and 2009 -- and established a framework of systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. As a leading annual international conference, CLEF uniquely combines evaluation laboratories and workshops with research presentations, panels, posters and demo sessions. In 2025, CLEF takes place in September, 9-12 in Madrid, Spain.
Researchers and practitioners from all areas of information access and related communities are invited to submit proposals for running evaluation labs as part of CLEF 2025. Proposals will be reviewed by a lab selection committee, composed of researchers with extensive experience in evaluating information access, retrieval, and extraction systems. Organisers of selected proposals will be invited to include their lab in the CLEF 2025 labs programme, possibly subject to suggested modifications to their proposal to better suit the CLEF lab workflow or timeline.
Background
The CLEF Initiative (http://www.clef-initiative.eu/) is a self-organised body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual information in different modalities - including text and multimedia - with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research and development by providing an infrastructure for:
1. independent evaluation of information access systems;
2. investigation of the use of unstructured, semi-structured, highly-structured, and semantically enriched data in information access;
3. creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking;
4. exploration of new evaluation methodologies and innovative ways of using experimental data;
5. discussion of results, comparison of approaches, exchange of ideas, and transfer of knowledge.
Scope of CLEF Labs
We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs:
1. “Campaign-style” Evaluation Labs for specific information access problems (during the twelve months period preceding the conference), similar in nature to the traditional CLEF campaign “tracks”. Topics covered by campaign-style labs can be inspired by any information access-related domain or task.
2. Labs that follow a more classical “workshop” style, exploring evaluation methodologies, metrics, processes, etc. in information access and closely related fields, such as natural language processing, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.
We highly recommend organisers new to the CLEF format of shared task evaluation campaigns to first consider organising a lab workshop to discuss the format of their proposed task, the problem space and practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2025 programme will reserve about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions. During the conference, the lab organisers will present their overall results in overview presentations during the plenary scientific paper sessions to give non-participants insights into where the research frontiers are moving. During the conference, lab organisers are expected to organise separate sessions for their lab with ample time for general discussion and engagement with all participants -- not just those presenting campaign results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions, etc. as appropriate. CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative lab proposals.
Potential task proposers unsure of the suitability of their task proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact the CLEF 2025 Lab Organising Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability or design at an early stage.
Proposal Submission
Lab proposals must provide sufficient information to judge the relevance, timeliness, scientific quality, benefits for the research community, and the competence of the proposers to coordinate the lab. Each lab proposal should identify one or more organisers as responsible for ensuring the timely execution of the lab.
Proposals should be 3 to 4 pages long and should provide the following information:
1. Title of the proposed lab.
2. A brief description of the lab topic and goals, its relevance to CLEF and the significance for the field.
3. A brief and clear statement on usage scenarios and domain to which the activity is intended to contribute, including the evaluation setup and metrics.
4. Details on the lab organiser(s), including identifying the task chair(s) responsible for ensuring the running of the task. This should include details of any previous involvement in organising or participating in evaluation tasks at CLEF or similar campaigns.
5. The planned format of the lab, i.e., campaign-style (“track”) or workshop.
6. Is the lab a continuation of an activity from previous year(s) or a new activity?
a) For activities continued from previous year(s): Statistics from previous years (number of participants/runs for each task), a clear statement on why another edition is needed, an explicit listing of the changes proposed, and a discussion of lessons to be learned or insights to be made.
b) For new activities: A statement on why a new evaluation campaign is needed and how the community would benefit from the activity.
7. Details of the expected target audience, i.e., who do you expect to participate in the task(s), and how do you propose to reach them.
8. Brief details of tasks to be carried out in the lab. The proposal should clearly motivate the need for each of the proposed tasks and provide evidence of its capability of attracting enough participation. The dataset which will be adopted by the Lab needs to be described and motivated in the perspective of the goals of the Labs; also indications on how the dataset will be shared are useful. It is fine for a lab to have a single task, but labs often contain multiple closely related tasks, needing a strong motivation for more than 3 tasks, to avoid useless fragmentation.
9. Expected length of the lab session at the conference: half-day, one day, two days. This should include high-level details of planned structure of the session, e.g. participant presentations, invited speaker(s), panels, etc., to justify the requested session length.
10. Arrangements for the organisation of the lab campaign: who will be responsible for activities within the task; how will data be acquired or created, what tools or methods will be used, e.g., how will necessary queries be created or relevance assessment carried out; any other information which is relevant to the conduct of your lab.
11. If the lab proposes to set up a steering committee to oversee and advise its activities, include names, addresses, and homepage links of people you propose to be involved.
Lab proposals must be submitted via EasyChair at the following address:
choosing the “CLEF 2025 Lab Proposals” track.
Reviewing Process
Each proposal submitted by 7 July 2024 will be reviewed by the CLEF 2025 Lab Organising Committee. The acceptance decision will be sent by email to the responsible organiser by 5 Aug 2024. The final length of the lab session at the conference will be determined based on the overall organisation of the conference and the number of participant submissions received by a lab.
Advertising Labs at CLEF 2024 and ECIR 2025
Organisers of accepted labs are expected to advertise their labs at both CLEF 2024 (September 9-12, 2024, Grenoble, France) and ECIR 2025 (April 6-10, Lucca, Italy). So, at least one lab representative should attend these events.
Advertising at CLEF 2024 will consist of displaying a poster describing the new lab, running a break-out session to discuss the lab with prospective participants, and advertising/announcing it during the closing session.
Advertising at ECIR 2025 will consist of submitting a lab description (due on early October 2024) to be included in ECIR 2025 proceedings and advertising the lab in a booster session during ECIR 2025.
Lab Proposals from Newcomers
If you have not organised a lab before, do not panic! The CLEF 2025 Lab Organising Committee Lab is willing to mentor you by offering help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft lab proposal.
If you are a newcomer interested in receiving guidance, please send an e-mail with the following tag in the subject “[Mentorship CLEF 2025 Lab Proposals]” to: clef2025-lab-proposals@easychair.org.
We also encourage newcomers to refer to Friedberg et al. (2015) for initial guidance on preparing their proposal:
Friedberg I, Wass MN, Mooney SD, Radivojac P. Ten simple rules for a community computational challenge. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr 23;11(4):e1004150.
Important Dates
- 7 July 2024: Lab proposals submission
- 5 August 2024: Notification of lab acceptance
- 9-12 Sep 2024: Advertising Accepted Labs at CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France
- October 2024 (TBA by ECIR): Submission of short lab description for ECIR 2025 (https://ecir2025.eu/key-dates/)
- 6-10 April 2025: Advertising labs at ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy
- April-May: Lab evaluation cycle
- May-June: Review process of participant papers
- June 2025: Review of the condensed labs overviews
- July 2025: CEUR-WS Working Notes Preview for Checking by Authors and Lab Organisers
- 6-12 Sep 2025: Labs at CLEF 2025, Madrid, Spain
CLEF 2025 Lab Chairs
- Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain
- Damiano Spina, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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3-3-17 | (2025-09-08) EUSIPCO 2025, Palermo, Italy

Paper submission date extended to March 13th.
On behalf of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), it is a great pleasure of the organizing committee to invite you to the 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025) to be held in Isola delle Femmine-Palermo, Italy, on September 8-12, 2025.
EUSIPCO 2025 offers a comprehensive technical program, addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing, which include plenary talks by distinguished international speakers, tutorials and oral sessions, cutting-edge research demos and poster presentations, as well as a round table with leading industrial ICT operators. Finally, yet importantly, the program include several social events in the heart of Sicily that you will never forget.
The organizing committee is inviting submission of original unpublished research papers on signal processing topics, including but not limited to:
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- Audio and acoustic signal processing
- Speech and language processing
- Image and video processing
- Multimedia signal processing
- Signal processing theory and methods
- Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
- Signal processing for communications
- Radar and sonar signal processing
- Signal processing over graphs and networks
- Nonlinear signal processing
- Statistical signal processing
- Compressed sensing and sparse modelling
- Optimization methods
- Machine learning
- Bio-medical image and signal processing
- Signal processing for computer vision and robotics
- Computational imaging / spectral imaging
- Information forensics and security
- Signal processing for power systems
- Signal processing for education
- Bioinformatics and genomics
- Signal processing for big data
- Signal processing for the Internet of Things
- Design/implementation of signal processing systems
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Accepted papers will be included in IEEEXplore©. EURASIP enforces a “no-show” policy. Detailed procedures to submit papers will be reported on the website: www.eusipco2025.org
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- Special Session proposals
- Notification of Special Session acceptance
- Satellite Workshop proposal
- Notification of Satellite Workshop acceptance
- Tutorial proposal
- Notification of Tutorial acceptance
- Paper submission
- Paper acceptance notification
- Demo proposal
- Notification of Demo acceptance
- Camera-ready paper upload
- Author’s registration deadline
- 3MT video and one-page abstract submission
- 3MT shortlist announced
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- January 10, 2025
- January 10, 2025
- January 24, 2025
- January 31, 2025
- March 1, 2025
- March 13, 2025
- May 20, 2025
- May 4, 2025
- May 31, 2025
- June 20, 2025
- June 20, 2025
- July 4, 2025
- August 10, 2025
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Fulvio Gini, University of Pisa, Italy Giuseppe Campobello, University of Messina, Italy
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Technical Program Co-Chairs:
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Maria Sabrina Greco, University of Pisa, Italy Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy Augusto Sarti, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
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Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
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Salvatore Serrano, University of Messina, Italy Daniele Croce, University of Palermo, Italy
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Special Sessions Co-Chairs:
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Abdelhak Zoubir, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Luca Sanguinetti, University of Pisa, Italy Fabio Antonacci, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
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Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Federica Battisti, University of Padua, Italy
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Alfonso Farina, Consultant to Leonardo S.p.A., Rome, Italy Nicola Adami, University of Brescia, Italy Michele Chiabrera, Inventvm, Pavia, Italy
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Patrice Abry, CNRS, ENS de Lyon, France Kostas Berberidis, University of Patras, Greece
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Nicola Acito, University of Pisa, Italy Giacomo Bacci, University of Pisa, Italy
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Pia Addabbo, Università degli studi Giustino Fortunato, Benevento, Italy Alberto Bernardini, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Danilo Orlando, University of Pisa, Italy
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Salvatore Serrano, University of Messina, Italy Mark Sandler, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom Igal Bilik, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Lucio Marcenaro, Università di Genova, Italy Stéphanie Bidon, ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France
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Paolo di Lorenzo, University of Roma Sapienza, Italy Alexander Bertrand, KU Leuven, Belgium
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Social Media and WEB Co-Chairs:
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Stefano Mangione, University of Palermo, Italy Mirco Pezzoli, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Filippo Battaglia, University of Messina, Italy
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Mark d’Inverno, Goldsmith University of London, United Kingdom
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Domenico Garlisi, University of Palermo, Italy Fabrizio Giuliano, University of Palermo, Italy
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Georgios B. Giannakis, University of Minnesota, USA K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science (IIS), Bangalore, India Hing Cheung So, City University of Hong Kong, China Paulo Sergio Ramirez Diniz, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Thushara D. Abhayapala, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Janusz Konrad, University of Boston, USA Xiangrong Wang, Beihang University, Beijing, China Alberto Moreira, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
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3-3-18 | (2025-09-10) 7th Workshop on the history of speech communication research (HSCR), Paris, France
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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3-3-19 | (2025-09-18) Approches phonétiques des langues sous-dotées, Aubervilliers, Paris, France (updated)
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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3-3-20 | (2025-09-24) First Workshop on Semantics for Interdisciplinary Research SIR@IXCS2025 - Düsseldorf - Germany (updated)
=== 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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3-3-21 | (2025-09-?) 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Dublin, Ireland
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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3-3-22 | (2025-10-08) CfP SPECOM 2025, Szeged, Hungary (updated)
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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:
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Affective computing
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Audio-visual speech processing
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Corpus linguistics
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Computational paralinguistics
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Deep learning for audio processing
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Feature extraction
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Forensic speech investigations
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Human-machine interaction
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Language identification
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Large language models
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Multichannel signal processing
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Multilingual speech technology
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Multimedia processing
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Multimodal analysis and synthesis
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Natural language generation
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Natural language understanding
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Sign language processing
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Speaker diarization
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Speaker identification and verification
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Speech and language resources
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Speech analytics and audio mining
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Speech and voice disorders
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Speech-based applications
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Speech driving systems in robotics
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Speech enhancement
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Speech perception
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Speech recognition and understanding
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Speech synthesis
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Speech translation systems
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Spoken dialogue systems
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Spoken language processing
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Text mining and sentiment analysis
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Virtual and augmented reality
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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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3-3-23 | (2025-10-19) The 13th conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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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3-3-24 | (2025-10-22) 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2025, Dublin, Ireland
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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
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Paper deadline: July 21, 2025 (AoE, firm deadline)
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Paper notification: September 16, 2025 (AoE)
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Media content analysis and mining
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AI/ML approaches for content understanding
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Multimodal and cross-modal indexing
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Activity recognition and event-based multimedia indexing and retrieval
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Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
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Conversational search and question-answering systems
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Multimedia recommendation
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Multimodal analytics, summarization, visualization, organization and browsing of multimedia content
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Multimedia verification (e.g., multimodal fact-checking, deep fake analysis)
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Foundation models, large multimedia models, large language models and vision language models
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Explainability in multimedia learning
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Large scale multimedia database management
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Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems
Multimedia User Experiences:
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Extended reality (AR/VR/MR) interfaces
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Mobile interfaces and user interaction
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Presentation and visualization tools
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Affective adaptation and personalization
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Relevance feedback and interactive learning
Applications of Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval:
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Multimedia and sustainability
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Healthcare and medical applications
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Cultural heritage and entertainment applications
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Educational and social applications
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Egocentric, wearable and personal multimedia
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Applications to forensics, surveillance and security
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Environmental and urban multimedia applications
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Earth observation and astrophysics
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Physical and industrial processes
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3-3-25 | (2025-10-27) 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'25) @ ACM Multimedia,, Dublin, Ireland
Call for Papers ------------------- 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 -------------- 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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3-3-26 | (2025-10-27) First Workshop on Multimedia Analytics with Multimodal Large Language Models, Dublin, Ireland
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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:
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Multimodal Large Language Models
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Multimedia Analytics
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Multimedia Interaction
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Multimedia Summarisation
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Visual Analytics
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Interactive Multimedia Systems
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Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning
Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline: June 20, 2025 Extended to June 27, 2025
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ACM MM’25 Fast Track submission deadline: July 11, 2025
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Author acceptance notification: August 1, 2025
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Camera-Ready: August 11, 2025
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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:
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Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Shin’ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
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Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Lucia Vadicamo, CNR-ISTI, Italy
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Laura Toni, University College London, United Kingdom
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Nanne van Noord, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Shuai Wang, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Yassin Mohamadi, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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3-3-27 | (2025-11-05) Rencontre des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole 2025, Paris, France (extended deadline)
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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/
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La 11ème édition des Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole, organisée par le Groupe des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole ( JCeP) et marrainée par l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée ( AFCP), se tiendra à Paris, du 5 au 7 novembre 2025.
Ces journées s’adressent prioritairement aux jeunes chercheur·se·s travaillant dans les domaines de la parole, offrant un cadre convivial pour présenter leurs travaux, échanger avec la communauté scientifique, et élargir leurs perspectives de recherche. L’évènement est également ouvert, dans la limite des places disponibles, à toute personne intéressée par la recherche sur la parole.
Le programme comprendra des sessions posters, des conférences, des ateliers de formation, ainsi que des visites de plateformes expérimentales dédiées à l’étude de la parole. Une table ronde sur la communication scientifique en tant qu’expert, explorant l’apport de l’expertise en parole à la société, sera également au programme.
Des informations complémentaires seront mises en ligne sur notre site prochainement (à découvrir ici). Restez connectés !
POURQUOI PROPOSER UN POSTER ?
Les RJCP s’adressent aux jeunes chercheur·se·s désireux·ses de partager leurs travaux dans un cadre bienveillant et stimulant. Y présenter un poster est l’opportunité de valoriser vos recherches, quel que soit leur degré d’avancement, d’échanger avec vos pairs et des experts du domaine et de construire un réseau scientifique essentiel pour la suite de votre parcours académique ou professionnel.
THÉMATIQUES
Nous invitons les communications sur les thématiques suivantes (liste non exhaustive):
* Acoustique de la parole
* Acquisition de la parole et du langage
* Analyse, codage et compression de la parole
* Applications à composantes orales (dialogue, indexation, etc)
* Apprentissage d’une langue étrangère
* Communication multimodale
* Dialectologie
* Évaluation, corpus et ressources
* Langues peu dotées
* Modèles de langage
* Parole audio-visuelle
* Pathologies de la parole
* Phonétique et phonologie
* Phonétique clinique
* Production / Perception de la parole
* Prosodie
* Psycholinguistique
* Reconnaissance et compréhension de la parole
* Reconnaissance de la langue
* Reconnaissance du locuteur
* Signaux sociaux, sociophonétique
* Synthèse de la parole
MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION
Masterant·e·s, doctorant·e·s, post-doctorant·e·s†, industriel·le·s† et jeunes chercheur·se·s en recherche d'emploi† sont invité·e·s à soumettre un résumé de 300 mots maximum présentant leurs travaux à venir, en cours ou récemment achevés, pour les sessions posters.
Le nombre de pages de références n’est pas restreint.
Les modèles des résumés (LaTeX, Word et LibreOffice) sont disponibles dans la section “Appel à communications” de notre site.
Les résumés doivent être soumis au format PDF.
† Jusqu’à 3 ans après la thèse
DATES IMPORTANTES
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Ouverture de l’appel à posters : 12/05/2025
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Date limite d'envoi des résumés : 30/06/2025 => 07/07/2025
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Notification d’acceptation aux auteurs : 08/09/2025
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1ère phase d’ouverture des inscriptions : 08/09/2025
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Fermeture des inscriptions : 08/10/2025
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RJCP : 05-07/11/2025
INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES
Le Comité d’organisation RJCP pourra prendre en charge l’impression des posters pour les personnes non affiliées à un laboratoire de recherche.
Cette prise en charge se fera au cas par cas. Pour en faire la demande, veuillez nous contacter à jcparole@gmail.com.
Nous espérons vous voir nombreux·es,
Nous remercions nos partenaires actuels :
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3-3-28 | (2025-11-06) The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge, ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India
The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge
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https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/
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Task: develop attacker systems against voice anonymization
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Deadline for participants to submit a list of training data and models: 13th October 2024
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Publication of the full final list of training data and models: 15th October 2024
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Deadline for participants to submit scores, evaluation results and system descriptions: 5th December 2024
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Deadline for participants to submit 2-page papers to ICASSP-2015 (by invitation only): 9th December 2024
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Paper acceptance notification: 30th December 2024
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Camera-ready 2-page papers due: 13th January 2025
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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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3-3-29 | (2025-11-25) The 3rd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2025), Vienna, Austria
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:
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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3-3-30 | (2025-12-06) CfP ASRU 2025, Honolulu, HI, USA
The ASRU Workshop is a flagship event of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. It has a tradition of bringing together researchers from
academia and industry to discuss problems in automatic speech recognition and understanding.
The workshop will feature invited talks/keynotes, regular papers and special sessions. All papers will be presented as posters.
If you have any questions, please contact the ASRU 2025 TPC Chairs at tpc@ieeeasru.org.
- Automatic speech recognition
- Spoken language processing
- Speech enhancement and separation
- Speech analysis
- Speaker and language recognition
- Speaker diarization
- Text-only language processing
- Multimodal speech processing
- Multilingual speech processing
- Emotion recognition and paralinguistics
- Speech synthesis and spoken language generation
- Resources (new corpora, toolkits, evaluation metrics, etc.)
- Machine learning for speech application
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28 mars 2025 Paper submissions open
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28 mai 2025 Regular & special session papers due
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4 juin 2025 Paper revision due
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6 août 2025 Paper notification of acceptance
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3-3-31 | (2025-12-12) Journée d'étude conjointe (TLH, AFIA,ATALA) sur les technologies linguistiques pour les langues peu dotées, Paris, France
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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3-3-32 | (2026-05-11) LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
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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3-3-33 | (2026-05-21) CfP International conference “Prosody at the crossroads of disciplinary pathways”, Université Grenoble Alpes, France (Saint-Martin-d’Hères campus,IMAG building)
Call for Papers International conference “Prosody at the crossroads of disciplinary pathways” Thursday 21 and Friday 22 May, 2026, Université Grenoble Alpes, France (Saint-Martin-d’Hères campus,IMAG building) Over the past decades, the enthusiasm generated by prosodic studies has spread well outside the boundaries of the traditional subfields of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics) and reached the related disciplines of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, clinical and forensic practice as well as language processing (cf. Di Cristo, 2004). Whereas prosody has traditionally been used as an umbrella term covering the interconnected phenomena of stress, rhythm and intonation (whose phonetic expressions mainly involve changes in fundamental frequency, intensity and duration and their perceptual correlates [Lehiste, 1970; Arvaniti, 2020]), we also aim to include voice quality in the program alongside the established categories of stress and intonation, to encourage discussion on the nature of prosodic features. Intonationis a supralexical phenomenon consisting in variations in fundamental frequency and their perceptual correlates observed at sentence or constituent level (Ladd, 1996; Cruttenden, 1997). It canfulfilallthreeessentialfunctionsofspeech:linguistic,paralinguisticandextralinguistic (Abercrombie, 1967). Therhythmof languages or varieties of languages relates to the hierarchical organisation of variably salient speech units in the temporal development of the production of the speech chain (Dellwo, 2003). The nature of these units varies depending on languages or language varieties. Along with Laver (1968, 1980, 1994), Sharpe (1970) and Mackenzie-Beck (2005), we consider thatvoice quality– which also conveys linguistic, paralinguistic and extralinguistic information – does not only result from speakers’ biologically-derived differences in vocal apparatus, but also from articulatory(orsupralaryngeal) as well asphonatory(orlaryngeal) settings. Articulatory settingconsists in the overall positioning of the articulatory organs. Wilson (2006) defines it as the “underlying or default posture of the articulators (i.e., the tongue, jaw, and lips)”, whereas Honikman (1964) considers that it consists in “the gross oral posture and mechanics [requisite as a framework for the integrating of the isolated sounds into that whole] which constitutes the pronunciation of a language”. This also applies to every idiolect. Phonatory settingsconsist in the way the vocal folds are made to vibrate. Stuart-Smith (2004) describes them as “glottal configurations” or “stricture types”; that is, the potential combination of specific types of tensions that can be brought to bear on the vocal folds. Laver (1994) established a typology of the various phonatory settings that can be achieved through these means. Prosody is traditionally defined as a set of elements whose function is superimposed upon that of the intrinsic features of segments (Lehiste, 1970). However, the growing literature establishing that children’s acquisition of prosodic structure far predates that of discrete units like phonemes and words (cf. e.g., Davis et al., 2000; Polzehl et al., 2024) suggests that it is preferable to conceive of it as an underlying matrix into which the segments are embedded. The main aim of this conference is to promote and enhance collaborations between researchers from different subdomains in order to review and discuss the applications of prosodic research to such fields as language acquisition, foreign language teaching, forensic and clinical phonetics, voice recognition, speech synthesis and sociolinguistics. Despite the existence of a growing literature on the subject, voice quality remains by far the most under-investigated of the elements listed above, especially as it has not conventionally been recognised
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 ABERCROMBIE, D. (1967).Elements of General Phonetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ARVANITI, A. (2020). “The Phonetics of Prosody.” InOxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics(online).Retrieved14Jan.2025,fromhttps://oxfordre.com/lin- guistics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.001.0001/acrefore-9780199384655-e-411. CRUTTENDEN, A. (1997 [1986]).Intonation(2nded.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DAVIS, B. L., MACNEILAGE, P. F., MATYEAR, C. L., & POWELL, J. K. (2000). “Prosodic correlates of stress in babbling: An acoustical study”.Child Development, 71, 1258–1270. DELLWO, V. (2003). “Rhythm & Speech Rate: A variation coefficient for delta C”.Proceedings of the 38thlinguistic Colloquium, Budapest. DI CRISTO, A. (2004). “La prosodie au carrefour de la phonétique, de la phonologie et de l’articulation formes-fonctions”.Travaux interdisciplinaires du Laboratoire parole et langage d'Aix-en-Provence, vol. 23, pp. 67-211. HONIKMAN, B. (1964). “Articulatory Settings”. In D. ABERCROMBIE, D. B. FRY, P. A. D. MACCARTHY, N. C. SCOTT & J. L. M. TRIM (eds.),In Honour of Daniel Jones: Papers Contributed on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday 12 September 1961, 73-84. LAVER, J. (1968). “Voice quality and indexical information”,British Journal of Disorders of Communication3, 43-54. LAVER, J. (1980).The Phonetic description of voice quality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. LAVER, J. (1994).Principles of phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. LEHISTE, I. (1970)Suprasegmentals. Cambridge, Massachussets: MIT Press. MACKENZIE-BECK, J. M. (2005). “Perceptual analysis of voice quality: the place of Vocal Profile Analysis”. In W. J. HARDCASTLE and J. M. MACKENZIE-BECK (eds.),A Figure of Speech: a Festchrift for John Laver. London: Laurence Erlbaum, 285-322. POLZEHL, T., HERZIG, T., WICKE, F., WERMKE, K., KHAMSEHASHARI, R., DAHLEM, M., MÖLLER,S.(2024).“TowardsClassifyingMotherTonguefromInfantCries–Findings Substantiating Prenatal Learning Theory”.Proc.Interspeech2024, 4199-4203. SAN SEGUNDO & MOMPEAN (2017). “A simplified vocal profile analysis protocol for the assessment of voice quality and speaker similarity.”Journal of Voice, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 644-e11- 644-e27. SAN SEGUNDO, E. (2021). “International survey on voice quality: Forensic practitioners versus voice therapists”.Estudios de Fonética Experimental, Vol. XXX, pp. 9-34. SHARPE,M. C.(1970).“Voicequality:Asuggestedframeworkfordescriptionandsome observations”. In S. A. WURM and D. C. LAYCOCK (eds.),Pacific Linguistic Studies in Honour of Arthur Capell. Pacific Linguistics Series C, 13, 115-132. STUART-SMITH, J. (2004).Phonetics and philology – Sound Change in Italic. Oxford: Oxford University Press. WILSON, I. L. (2006). “Articulatory settings of French and English monolingual and bilingual speakers”. Unpublished PhD Thesis. University of British Columbia.
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3-3-34 | (2026-05-26) Speech Prosody 2026, the 13th International Conference on Speech Prosody, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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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3-3-35 | (2026-07-06) 10e CONGRÈS MONDIAL DE LINGUISTIQUE FRANÇAISE (CMLF), Arras, France
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 17 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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3-3-36 | (2029-04-22) 2029 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Copenhague, Denmark.
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