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Saturday, October 08, 2011 by Chris Wellekens

7 Journals
7-1A New Journal on Speech Sciences and call for Papers for Special issue on experimental prosody
Dear fellow prosodists,

It is with a special joy that Sandra Madureira and myself announce here the launching of a new electronic journal which follows the principles of the Directory of Open Source Journals (DOAJ)*. The Journal of Speech Sciences (<http://www.journalofspeechsciences.org>) is sponsored by the  Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences, an organisation founded in 2007 initially for helping organise Speech Prosody 2008.

This journal proposes to occupy an ecological niche not covered by other journals where our community can publish, especially as regards its strength in linguistic and linguistically-related aspects of speech sciences research (but also speech pathology, new metholodologies and techniques, etc). Another reason for its special place in the speech research ecosystem is optinality of language's choice. Though English is the journal main language, people wanting to disseminate their work in Portuguese and French can do that, provided that they add an extended abstract in English (a way to make their work more visible outside the luso- and francophone communities).

This journal was only made possible thanks to a great team working for the journal, and an exceptionally good editorial board. See the journal web page for that: <http://www.journalofspeechsciences.org>.

For its first issue we propose a special issue on Experimental Prosody. Please, see the Call for Papers below and send your paper to us!

All the best, Plinio (State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil) and Sandra (Catholic Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil)

* Official inscription to the DOAJ and ISSN number can only be done/attributed after the first issue.
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Call for Papers

The Journal of Speech Sciences  (JoSS) is an open access journal which follows the principles of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), meaning that its readers can freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of any article electronically published in the journal. It is accessible at <http://www.journalofspeechsciences.org>.

The JoSS covers experimental aspects that deal with scientific aspects of speech, language and linguistic communication processes. Coverage also includes articles dealing with pathological topics, or articles of an interdisciplinary nature, provided that experimental and linguistic principles underlie the work reported. Experimental approaches are emphasized in order to stimulate the development of new methodologies, of new annotated corpora, of new techniques aiming at fully testing current theories of speech production, perception, as well as phonetic and phonological theories and their interfaces.

The JoSS is supported by the initiative of the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences (LBASS), <http://www.lbass.org>. Founded in the 16th of February 2007, the LBASS aims at promoting, stimulating and disseminating research and teaching in Speech Sciences in Brazil and Portugal, as well as establishing a channel between sister associations abroad.

The JoSS editorial team decided to launch the journal with a special issue on Experimental Prosody. The purpose of this Special Issue is to present recent progress and significant advances in areas of speech science devoted to experimental approaches in prosody research. Submitted papers must address a topic specific to experimental prosody in one of the following research areas:

Experimental Prosodic Phonology; Acoustics of prosody; Articulatory prosody; Perception of prosody; Prosody, discourse and dialogue; Emotion and Expression; Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues of prosody; Prosody physiology and pathology; Prosody acquisition; Prosody and the brain (especially neuro-imagery and EEG evidence of syntax-prosody interface and prosody functions); Corpus design and annotation for prosody research; Psycholinguistics of speech prosody processing.

Original, previously unpublished contributions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, though the final decision as to publication is taken by the two editors. The primary language of the Journal is English. Contributions in Portuguese and in French are also accepted, provided a 1-page (circa 500 words) abstract in English be provided. The goal of this policy is to ensure a wide dissemination of quality research written in these two Romance languages.

For preparing the manuscript, please follow the instructions at the JSS webpage and submit it to the editors with the subject “Submission: Special Issue on Experimental Prosody”.

 
Editors

Plinio A. Barbosa (Speech Prosody Studies Group/State University of Campinas, Brazil)
Sandra Madureira (LIACC/Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil)

 E-mail: {pabarbosa, smadureira}@journalofspeechsciences.org

 Important Dates

Submission deadline:             January 30th, 2011
Notification of acceptance:    March 10th, 2011
Final manuscript due:             March 25th, 2011
Publication date:                    April, 2011

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7-2Special issue Signal Processing : LATENT VARIABLE ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL SEPARATION

The journal Signal Processing published by Elsevier is issuing a call for a special issue on latent variable models and source separation. Papers dealing with multi-talker ASR and noise-robust ASR using source separation techniques are highly welcome.



                         SIGNAL PROCESSING
               http://www.elsevier.com/locate/sigpro

                          Special issue on
           LATENT VARIABLE ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL SEPARATION

                     DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2011


While independent component analysis and blind signal separation have become mainstream topics in signal and image processing, new approaches have emerged to solve problems involving nonlinear signal mixtures or various other types of latent variables, such as semi-blind models and matrix or tensor decompositions. All these recent topics lead to new developments and promising applications. They are the main goals of the conference LVA/ICA 2010 which took place in Saint-Malo, France, from September 27 to 30, 2010.

The aim of this special issue is to provide up to date developments on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, including theoretical analysis, algorithms and applications. Contributions are welcome both from attendees of the above conference and from authors who did not attend the conference but are active in these areas of research.

Examples of topics relevant to the special issue include:
- Non-negative matrix factorization
- Joint tensor factorization
- Latent variables
- Source separation
- Nonlinear ICA
- Noisy ICA
- BSS/ICA applications: image analysis, speech and audio data, encoding of natural scenes and sound, telecommunications, data mining, medical data processing, genomic data analysis, finance,...
- Unsolved and emerging problems: causality detection, feature selection, data mining,...

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Manuscript submissions shall be made through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at
http://ees.elsevier.com/sigpro/
Once logged in, click on “Submit New Manuscript” then select “Special Issue: LVA” in the “Choose Article Type” dropdown menu.

IMPORTANT DATES:
January 15, 2011: Manuscript submission deadline
May 15, 2011: Notification to authors
September 15, 2011: Final manuscript submission
December 15, 2011: Publication

GUEST EDITORS:
Vincent Vigneron, University of Evry – Val d’Essonne, France
Remi Gribonval, INRIA, France
Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA, France
Vicente Zarzoso, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France
Terrence J. Sejnowski, Salk Institute, USA

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7-3IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: Special Issue on Fundamental Technologies in Modern Speech Recognition
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Special Issue on Fundamental Technologies in Modern Speech Recognition
		 
Guest Editors:		 
Sadaoki Furui   Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan  
                (furui@cs.titech.ac.jp)
Li Deng         Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA (deng@microsoft.com)
Mark Gales      University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (mjfg@eng.cam.ac.uk)
Hermann Ney     RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
                (ney@cs.rwth-aachen.de)
Keiichi Tokuda  Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan 
                (tokuda@nitech.ac.jp)

Recently, various statistical techniques that form the basis of fundamental technologies underlying today’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) research and applications have attracted new attentions. These techniques have significantly contributed to progress in ASR, including speaker recognition, and their various applications.  The purpose of this special issue is to bring together leading experts from various disciplines to explore the impact of statistical approaches on ASR.  The special issue will provide a comprehensive overview of recent developments and open problems.

This Call for Papers invites researchers to contribute articles that have a broad appeal to the signal processing community.  Such an article could be for example a tutorial of the fundamentals or a presentation of a state-of-the-art method.  Examples of the topics that could be addressed in the article include, but are not limited to:
 * Supervised, unsupervised, and lightly supervised training/adaptation
 * Speaker-adaptive and noise-adaptive training
 * Discriminative training
 * Large-margin based methods
 * Model complexity optimization
 * Dynamic Bayesian networks for various levels of speech modeling and decoding
 * Deep belief networks and related deep learning techniques
 * Sparse coding for speech feature extraction and modeling
 * Feature parameter compensation/normalization
 * Acoustic factorization
 * Conditional random fields (CRF) for modeling and decoding
 * Acoustic source separation by PCA and ICA
 * De-reverberation
 * Rapid language adaptation for multilingual speech recognition
 * Weighted-finite-state-transducer (WFST) based decoding
 * Uncertainty decoding
 * Speaker recognition, especially text-independent speaker verification
 * Statistical framework for human-computer dialogue modeling
 * Automatic speech summarization and information extraction

Submission Procedure:
Prospective authors should submit their white papers to the web submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spmag-ieee.

Schedule:
 * White paper due:         October 1, 2011
 * Invitation notification: November 1, 2011
 * Manuscript due:          February 1, 2012
 * Acceptance notification: April 1, 2012
 * Final manuscript due:    May 15, 2012
 * Publication date:        September 15, 2012 

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7-4CfP Journal of Speech Science

Call for Papers

Journal of Speech Sciences (JoSS)

Volume 1, number 2 (regular issue)

 

This is the Call for the second issue of the Journal of Speech Sciences (JoSS). The JoSS covers experimental aspects that deal with scientific aspects of speech, language and linguistic communication processes. Coverage also includes articles dealing with pathological topics, or articles of an interdisciplinary nature, provided that experimental and linguistic principles underlie the work reported. Experimental approaches are emphasized in order to stimulate the development of new methodologies, of new annotated corpora, of new techniques aiming at fully testing current theories of speech production, perception, as well as phonetic and phonological theories and their interfaces.

Original, previously unpublished contributions should be sent through the journal website (www.journalofspeechsciences.org) until July 15th. The primary language of the Journal is English. Contributions in Portuguese, in Spanish (Castillan) and in French are also accepted, provided a 1-page (between 500-600 words) abstract in English be provided. The goal of this policy is to ensure a wide dissemination of quality research written in these two Romance languages. The contributions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, though the final decision as to publication is taken by the two editors.

For preparing the manuscript, please follow the instructions at the JoSS webpage. If accepted, the authors must use the template given in the website for preparing the paper for publication.

Important Dates

Submission deadline:                July 15th, 2011*
Notification of acceptance:       September, 2011
Final manuscript due:               November, 2011
Publication date:                      December, 2011

 

* If arrived after that data the paper will follow the schedule for the third issue, volume 2.

 

First issue titles and authors (to appear in July 2011)

Regular papers

. SILVA, Jair de Almeida; MEIRELES, Alexsandro Rodrigues. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil. Sociophonetic study of the Capixaba speech rhythm (in Portuguese)

. SILVA, Carolina Garcia de Carvalho; NAME, Maria Cristina. Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Is “limpa” a verb or an adjective? The role of phonological phrase boundaries on syntactic parsing (in Portuguese)

 

Acceptance rate: 33%

 

Invited papers

. HIRST, Daniel, Université de Provence. The analysis by synthesis of speech melody - from data to models*.

. SAN-SEGUNDO, Rubén1, BONAFONTE, Antonio2, MARTÍNEZ-HINAREJOS, Carlos D.3, ORTEGA, Alfonso4, 1Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; 2Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña; 3Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; 4Universidad de Zaragoza.  Review of Research on Speech Technology: main contributions from Spanish research groups

. XU, Yi, University College London. Experimental Prosody: A methodological review*.

 

*These titles are provisory.

 

About the JoSS

The Journal of Speech Sciences (JoSS) is an open access journal which follows the principles of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), meaning that its readers can freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of any article electronically published in the journal. It is accessible at <http://www.journalofspeechsciences.org>.

The JoSS covers experimental aspects that deal with scientific aspects of speech, language and linguistic communication processes. The JoSS is supported by the initiative of the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences (LBASS), <http://www.lbass.org>. Founded in the 16th of February 2007, the LBASS aims at promoting, stimulating and disseminating research and teaching in Speech Sciences in Brazil and Portugal, as well as establishing a channel between sister associations abroad.

 

Editors

Plinio A. Barbosa (Speech Prosody Studies Group/State University of Campinas, Brazil)

Sandra Madureira (LIACC/Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil)

 

E-mail: {pabarbosa, smadureira}@journalofspeechsciences.org

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7-5Open Journal of Modern Linguistics

Dear Colleagues,

As you may already know that Open Journal of Modern Linguistics has now been formally launched and already received a lot of attention worldwide.

Open Journal of Modern Linguistics is a peer-reviewed and open access journal, publishing original research papers, reports, reviews and commentaries in all areas of modern linguistics online as well as in print .

Main Scope

  • Applied linguistics
  • Clinical linguistics
  • Developmental linguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • Linguistic typology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Stylistics
  • Biolinguistics
  • Computational linguistics
  • Evolutionary linguistics
  • Language geography
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Sociolinguistics

You are cordially invited to submit your papers to this international journal. We aim to ensure the turnaround time to be less than six months. With your support, we believe that it will soon become an international leading journal. For more information, please visit the journal homepage: www.scirp.org/Journal/ojml .

Yours sincerely,

Tian Huang
Editorial Office of OJML
Email: ojml@scirp.org

Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
www.scirp.org/Journal/ojml
Online Submission System

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7-6New issue of the Acoustical Science and Technology (AST), English Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan)

 New issue of the Acoustical Science and Technology (AST), (English Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan) (Vol. 32, No4, published on July 1st, 2011.) has been available at
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ast/32/4/_contents  .

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7-7CSL Special issue on SPEECH SEPARATION AND RECOGNITION IN MULTISOURCE ENVIRONMENTS

 COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
                 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/csl

                          Special issue on
   SPEECH SEPARATION AND RECOGNITION IN MULTISOURCE ENVIRONMENTS

                    DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30, 2011


One of the chief difficulties of building distant-microphone speech recognition systems for use in `everyday' applications is that the noise background is typically `multisource'. A speech recognition system designed to operate in a family home, for example, must contend with competing noise from televisions and radios, children playing, vacuum cleaners, and outdoors noises from open windows. Despite their complexity, such environments contain structure that can be learnt and exploited using advanced source separation, machine learning and speech recognition techniques such as those presented at the 1st International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2011).


This special issue solicits papers describing advances in speech separation and recognition in multisource noise environments, including theoretical developments, algorithms or systems.


Examples of topics relevant to the special issue include:
• multiple speaker localization, beamforming and source separation,
• hearing inspired approaches to multisource processing,
• background noise tracking and modelling,
• noise-robust speech decoding,
• model combination approaches to robust speech recognition,
• datasets, toolboxes and other resources for multisource speech separation and recognition.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Manuscript submissions shall be made through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) at
http://ees.elsevier.com/csl/
Once logged in, click on “Submit New Manuscript” then select “Special Issue: Speech Separation and Recognition in Multisource Environments” in the “Choose Article Type” dropdown menu.


IMPORTANT DATES:
November 30, 2011: Paper submission
March 30, 2012: First review
May 30, 2012: Revised submission
July 30, 2012: Second review
August 30, 2012: Camera-ready submission

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7-8CfP Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
  Call for Papers:
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics  
Dear Researcher,

Greetings from the Open Journal of Modern Linguistics(OJML) ,which is published by Scientific Research Publishing ( SRP ), USA.The aim of the International Journal of Open Journal of Modern Linguistics is to provide a forum for scientists and social workers to present and discuss issues in modern linguistics.
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Topics :  
  • Applied linguistics
  • Clinical linguistics
  • Developmental linguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • Linguistic typology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Stylistics
  • Biolinguistics
  • Computational linguistics
  • Evolutionary linguistics
  • Language geography
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
Editorial Board: :  
Honorary Editorial Board  
Prof.Wayne A. Davis Georgetown University, USA
Editorial Board  
Dr.Jennifer B. Austin Rutgers University, USA
Dr.Kirk Baker i-Cubed Analytics, USA
Prof.Cedric A. Boeckx Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain
Prof.Patricia W. Cummins Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Prof.Samuel David Epstein University of Michigan, USA
Dr.Marta Fairclough University of Houston, USA
Prof.María José de la Fuente The George Washington University, USA
Prof.Gerald Thomas Goodnight University of Southern California, USA
Dr.Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes University of Plymouth, UK
Prof.Juliane House Hamburg University, Germany
Prof.Keiko Koda Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dr.Sam Po Law The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Prof.Jeff MacSwan Arizona State University, USA
Dr.Veronika Makarova University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Prof.Itziar Laka Mugarza University of the Basque Country, Spain
Prof.Mineharu Nakayama The Ohio State Universit, USA
Prof.Farzad Sharifian Monash University, Australia
Dr.Karsten Steinhauer McGill University, Canada
Prof.John R. te Velde Oklahoma State University, USA

 

Features:

 

Open Access: free for readers,with low publishing fees paid by authors or their institutions.
High Visibility: indexed in leading indexing and abstracting databases.
Rapid Publication: accepted papers are immediately published online.



Best regards
Sincerely yours,
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Editorial assistant of OJML
E-mail: ojml@scirp.org

Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
Online Submission System

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