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| 3-3-1 | (2012-09-07) SCALE-SAPA Conference 2012 Portland OR. USA
SAPA-SCALE Conference 2012 Salon Ballroom, Hilton Portland 7-8 September 2012, Portland, OR, USA
http://www.sapaworkshops.org/2012/
SAPA-SCALE 2012, the ISCA and SCALE supported conference on Statistical and Perceptual
Audition will be held in the Salon Ballroom, Hilton Portland (Interspeech Venue) on 7-8 September.
This is the latest in the SAPA series of workshops on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (previous
editions were SAPA 2004, 06, 08, 10). This year the event this year is organized jointly with the
Speech Communication with Adaptive Learning (SCALE) consortium. The principal objective of the
conference is to bring together researchers addressing perceptually motivated speech and audio
processing tasks with the tools of statistical signal processing and machine learning. This will be a
two-day, single-track conference with an informal atmosphere structured to promote discussion.
There will be keynotes from leading researchers in addition to a limited number of oral
presentations chosen for breadth and provocation. Papers at the workshop cover the following
topics:
* Generalized audio and speech analysis
* Audio scene analysis and classification
* Music analysis * Signal separation
* Automatic and Human speech recognition * Speech synthesis
* Multi-channel analysis
The technical program for the workshop is on the conference website
(http://www.sapaworkshops.org/2012/).
On-site registration costs $50. All INTERSPEECH attendees (as well as any others who
may be interested in these topics) are invited to attend.
Organizers:
Paris Smaragdis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bhiksha Raj, Carnegie Mellon University
Dan Ellis, Columbia University
Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh
Simon King, University of Edinburgh
Dietrich Klakow, Universitat des Saarlandes
Herve Bourlard, IDIAP
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| 3-3-2 | (2012-09-09) Cf Participation Speaker Trait Challenge at Interspeech 2012Call for Participation INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge Personality, Likability, Pathology http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is12-speaker-trait-challenge _____________________________________________ The Challenge Whereas the first open comparative challenges in the field of paralinguistics targeted more 'conventional' phenomena such as emotion, age, and gender, there still exists a multiplicity of not yet covered, but highly relevant speaker states and traits. In the last instalment, we focused on speaker states, namely sleepiness and intoxication. Consequently, we now focus on speaker traits. The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge broadens the scope by addressing three less researched speaker traits: the computational analysis of personality, likability, and pathology in speech. Apart from intelligent and socially competent future agents and robots, main applications are found in the medical domain. In these respects, the INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge shall help bridging the gap between excellent research on paralinguistic information in spoken language and low compatibility of results. Three Sub-Challenges are addressed: . In the Personality Sub-Challenge, the personality of a speaker has to be determined based on acoustics potentially including linguistics for the OCEAN five personality dimensions, each mapped onto two classes. . In the Likability Sub-Challenge, the likability of a speaker's voice has to be determined by a learning algorithm and acoustic features. While the annotation provides likability in multiple levels, the classification task is binarised. . In the Pathology Sub-Challenge, the intelligibility of a speaker has to be determined by a classification algorithm and acoustic features. The measures of competition will be Unweighted Average Recall of the two classes. Transcription of the train and development sets will be known. All Sub-Challenges allow contributors to find their own features with their own machine learning algorithm. However, a standard feature set will be provided per corpus that may be used. Participants will have to stick to the definition of training, development, and test sets. They may report on results obtained on the development set, but have only five trials to upload their results on the test sets, whose labels are unknown to them. Each participation will be accompanied by a paper presenting the results that undergoes peer-review and has to be accepted for the conference in order to participate in the Challenge. The organisers preserve the right to re-evaluate the findings, but will not participate themselves in the Challenge. Participants are encouraged to compete in all Sub-Challenges. Overall, contributions using the provided or equivalent data are sought in (but not limited to) the following areas: . Participation in the Personality Sub-Challenge . Participation in the Likability Sub-Challenge . Participation in the Pathology Sub-Challenge . Novel features and algorithms for the analysis of speaker traits . Unsupervised learning methods for speaker trait analysis . Perception studies, additional annotation and feature analysis on the given sets . Context exploitation in speaker trait assessment The results of the Challenge will be presented at Interspeech 2012 in Portland, Oregon. Prizes will be awarded to the Sub-Challenge winners. If you are interested and planning to participate in the Speaker Trait Challenge, or if you want to be kept informed about the Challenge, please send the organisers an e-mail to indicate your interest and visit the homepage: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is12-speaker-trait-challenge _____________________________________________ Organisers: Björn Schuller (TUM, Germany) Stefan Steidl (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Anton Batliner (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Elmar Nöth (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Alessandro Vinciarelli (University of Glasgow, UK) Felix Burkhardt (Deutsche Telekom, Germany) Rob van Son (Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands) _____________________________________________ If you want to participate, please find the License Agreement at: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/IS12-STC-Agreement.pdf Thank you for excusing cross-postings. All the best, Björn Schuller On behalf of the Organisers ___________________________________________ Dr. Björn Schuller Senior Lecturer Technische Universität München Institute for Human-Machine Communication D-80333 München Germany +49-(0)89-289-28548 schuller@tum.de www.mmk.ei.tum.de/~sch ___________________________________________
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| 3-3-3 | (2012-09-09) CfP Special session at Interspeech 2012 on Glottal Source Processing: from Analysis to Applications Special session at the next Interspeech conference Portland, Oregon, September 9-13, 2012. If you think that you could have a contribution to submit in April, could you please return by email for January 12 the tentative title, authors and affiliations
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| 3-3-4 | (2012-09-12) 54th International Symposium ELMAR-201254th International Symposium ELMAR-2012
September 12-14, 2012
Zadar, Croatia
Paper submission deadline: March 19, 2012
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS
TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS
IEEE Region 8
IEEE Croatia Section
IEEE Croatia Section SP, AP and MTT Chapters
EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY
IEEE Xplore, INSPEC, SCOPUS and CPCI
(Conference Proceedings Citation Index)
TOPICS
--> Image and Video Processing
--> Multimedia Communications
--> Speech and Audio Processing
--> Wireless Communications
--> Telecommunications
--> Antennas and Propagation
--> e-Learning and m-Learning
--> Navigation Systems
--> Ship Electronic Systems
--> Power Electronics and Automation
--> Naval Architecture
--> Sea Ecology
--> Special Sessions:
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2012/special_sessions/
--> Student Session (B.Sc. and M.Sc. students only):
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2012/student_session/
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
* Prof. Abdelhak M. Zoubir, Germany:
Recent Advances on Bootstrap for Signal Processing
* Prof. Alan Hanjalic, The Netherlands:
Advances in Multimedia Information Retrieval
SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of full papers: March 19, 2012
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 21, 2012
Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: May 29, 2012
Preliminary program available online by: June 12, 2012
Registration forms and payment deadline: June 19, 2012
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| 3-3-5 | (2012-09-14) WOCCI 2012 - Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, Portland, OR, USAWOCCI 2012 - Workshop on Child, Computer and InteractionSatellite Event of INTERSPEECH 2012September 14-15, 2012Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.http://www.wocci.org/ !!! Deadline for full paper (4-8 pages) submission: June 15, 2012 !!! This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of multimodal child-machine interaction with particular emphasis on, but not limited to, speech interactive interfaces. Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level but also at the interaction level. The Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities to demonstrate various state-of-the-art components that can make up the next generation of child centered computer interaction. These technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core well-being of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities, and first and second language learning. The Workshop should serve for presenting recent advancements in all core technologies for multimodal child-machine interaction as well as experimental systems and prototypes. Technical Scope:Papers are solicited on any technical areas relevant to the Workshop. The technical committee will select papers for oral/poster presentation.
Important Dates:Full paper (4-8 pages) submission: June 15, 2012 Organizing Committee:Izhak Shafran, Oregon Health and Science University, USA Program Committee:Kay Berkling, Inline GmbH, Germany
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| 3-3-6 | (2012-10-01) Human Activity and Vision Summer School, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, FranceHuman Activity and Vision Summer School - Monday 1st to Friday 5th of October 2012 - INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis/Nice on the French Riviera - website: http://www.multitel.be/events/human-activity-and-vision-summer-school == Overview The Human Activity and Vision Summer School will address the broad domains of human activity modeling and human behavior recognition, with an emphasis on vision sensors as capturing modality. Courses will comprise both tutorials and presentations of state-of-the-art methods by active researchers in the field. The goal of the courses will be to cover most of the whole human activity analysis chain, starting from the low level processing of videos and audio for detection and feature extraction, to medium level (tracking and behavior cue extraction) and higher level modeling and recognition using both supervised and unsupervised techniques. Applications of the different methods to action and activity recognition in different domains ranging from Activities of Daily Living to surveillance (individual behavior recognition, crowd monitoring) will be considered. Presentation of real uses cases, market needs, and current bottlenecks in the surveillance domain will also be addressed, with one half day devoted to presentations and panel discussions with professional and industrial presenters. See list of topics and speaker below. == Audience The summer school is open to young researchers (in particular master or Ph.D. students) and researchers from both the academia and industry working or interested in the human activity analysis domain or connected fields like surveillance. == Application/Registration The registration is Euros 300. This includes all the courses, coffee breaks and lunch. The fee does not include accommodation or dinners. A limited number of cheap accommodations for students are available. To apply for a position at the Summer School and find more practical information, please go to: http://www.multitel.be/events/human-activity-and-vision-summer-school == List of topics and confirmed speakers * Object detection and tracking - Francois Fleuret (Idiap Research Institute) - Alberto del Bimbo and Federico Pernici (Università di Firenze) - Cyril Carincotte (Multitel) - Jean-Marc Odobez (Idiap research Institute) * Crowd analysis and Simulation - Mubarak Shah (University of Central Florida) - Paola Goatin (INRIA) - Cyril Carincotte (Multitel) * Action and behavior recognition - Ivan Laptev (INRIA) - Ben Krose (University of Amsterdam) - Francois Bremond (INRIA) * Social Behavior Analysis - Elisabeth Oberzaucher (University of Vienna) - Hayley Hung (University of Amsterdam) * Unsupervised activity discovery and active learning - Tao Xiang (University of Queen Mary) - Jean-Marc Odobez and Remi Emonet (IDIAP) * Body and head Pose estimation - Cheng Chen (Idiap Research Institute) - Guillaume Charpiat (INRIA) * Audio processing - Maurizio Omologo (Foundation Bruno Kessler) - Bertrand Ravera (Thales Communication France) Jean-Marc Odobez, IDIAP Senior Researcher, EPFL Maitre d'Enseignement et de Recherche (MER) IDIAP Research Institute (http://www.idiap.ch) Tel: +41 (0)27 721 77 26 Web:http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez
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| 3-3-7 | (2012-10-22) cfp participation and papers/ 2nd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2012)2nd International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2012) in conjunction with ACM ICMI 2012, October 22, Santa Monica, California, USA http://sspnet.eu/avec2012/ http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012/ Register and download data and features: http://avec-db.sspnet.eu/accounts/register/ _____________________________________________________________ Scope The Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2012) will be the second competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual and audiovisual emotion analysis, with all participants competing under strictly the same conditions. The goal of the Challenge is to provide a common benchmark test set for individual multimodal information processing and to bring together the audio and video emotion recognition communities, to compare the relative merits of the two approaches to emotion recognition under well-defined and strictly comparable conditions and establish to what extent fusion of the approaches is possible and beneficial. A second motivation is the need to advance emotion recognition systems to be able to deal with naturalistic behavior in large volumes of un-segmented, non-prototypical and non-preselected data as this is exactly the type of data that both multimedia retrieval and human-machine/human-robot communication interfaces have to face in the real world. We are calling for teams to participate in emotion recognition from acoustic audio analysis, linguistic audio analysis, video analysis, or any combination of these. As benchmarking database the SEMAINE database of naturalistic video and audio of human-agent interactions, along with labels for four affect dimensions will be used. Emotion will have to be recognized in terms of continuous time, continuous valued dimensional affect in the dimensions arousal, expectation, power and valence. Two Sub-Challenges are addressed: The Word-Level Sub-Challenge requires participants to predict the level of affect at word-level and only when the user is speaking. The Fully Continuous Sub-Challenge involves fully continuous affect recognition, where the level of affect has to be predicted for every moment of the recording. Besides participation in the Challenge we are calling for papers addressing the overall topics of this workshop, in particular works that address the differences between audio and video processing of emotive data, and the issues concerning combined audio-visual emotion recognition Topics include, but are not limited to: Audio/Visual Emotion Recognition: . Audio-based Emotion Recognition . Linguistics-based Emotion Recognition . Video-based Emotion Recognition . Social Signals in Emotion Recognition . Multi-task learning of Multiple Dimensions . Novel Fusion Techniques as by Prediction . Cross-corpus Feature Relevance . Agglomeration of Learning Data . Semi- and Unsupervised Learning . Synthesized Training Material . Context in Audio/Visual Emotion Recognition . Multiple Rater Ambiguity Application: . Multimedia Coding and Retrieval . Usability of Audio/Visual Emotion Recognition . Real-time Issues Important Dates ___________________________________________ Paper submission July 31, 2012 Notification of acceptance August 14, 2012 Camera ready paper and final challenge result submission August 18, 2012 Workshop October 22, 2012 Organisers ___________________________________________ Björn Schuller (Tech. Univ. Munich, Germany) Michel Valstar University of Nottingham, UK) Roddy Cowie (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Maja Pantic (Imperial College London, UK) Program Committee ___________________________________________ Elisabeth André, Universität Augsburg, Germany Anton Batliner, Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom, Germany Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA Fang Chen, NICTA, Australia Mohamed Chetouani, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), Fance Laurence Devillers, Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI), France Julien Epps, University of New South Wales, Australia Anna Esposito, International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Italy Raul Fernandez, IBM, USA Roland Göcke, Australian National University, Australia Hatice Gunes, Queen Mary University London, UK Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA Aleix Martinez, Ohio State University, USA Marc Méhu, University of Geneva, Switzerland Marcello Mortillaro, University of Geneva, Switzerland Matti Pietikainen, University of Oulu, Finland Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK Stefan Steidl, Uinversität Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Jianhua Tao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Fernando de la Torre, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Mohan Trivedi, University of California San Diego, USA Matthew Turk, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK Please regularly visit our website http://sspnet.eu/avec2012 for more information.
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| 3-3-8 | (2012-10-26) CfP Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech, Dublin Ireland Call for Papers for the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech
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| 3-3-9 | (2012-10-26) ICMI-2012 Workshop on Speech and Gesture Production in Virtually and Physically Embodied Conversational Agents, S.Monica, CA, USA ICMI-2012 Workshop on Speech and Gesture Production in Virtually and Physically Embodied Conversational Agents
CONFERENCE: 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-2012)
LOCATION: Santa Monica, California, USA
IMPORTANT DATES:
* Submission deadline: Monday, June 4, 2012
* Notification: Monday, July 30, 2012
* Camera-ready deadline: Monday, September 10, 2012
* Workshop: Friday, October 26, 2012
DESCRIPTION:
This full day workshop aims to bring together researchers from the embodied conversational agent (ECA) and sociable robotics communities to spark discussion and collaboration between the related fields. The focus of the workshop will be on co-verbal behavior production — specifically, synchronized speech and gesture — for both virtually and physically embodied platforms. It will elucidate the subject in consideration of aspects regarding planning and realization of multimodal behavior production. Topics discussed will highlight common and distinguishing factors of their implementations within each respective field. The workshop will feature a panel discussion with experts from the relevant communities, and a breakout session encouraging participants to identify design and implementation principles common to both virtually and physically embodied sociable agents.
TOPICS:
Under the focus of speech-gesture-based multimodal human-agent interaction, the workshop invites submissions describing original work, either completed or still in progress, related to one or more of the following topics:
* Computational approaches to:
- Content and behavior planning, e.g., rule-based or probabilistic models
- Behavior realization for virtual agents or sociable robots
* From ECAs to physical robots: potential and challenges of cross-platform approaches
* Behavior specification languages and standards, e.g., FML, BML, MURML
* Speech-gesture synchronization, e.g., open-loop vs. closed-loop approaches
* Situatedness within social/environmental contexts
* Feedback-based user adaptation
* Cognitive modeling of gesture and speech
SUBMISSIONS:
Workshop contributions should be submitted via e-mail in the ACM publication style to icmi2012ws.speech.gesture@gmail.com in one of the following formats:
* Full paper (5-6 pages, PDF file)
* Short position paper (2-4 pages, PDF file)
* Demo video (1-3 minutes, common file formats, e.g., AVI or MP4) including an extended abstract (1-2 pages, PDF file)
If a submission exceeds 10MB, it should be made available online and a URL should be provided instead.
Submitted papers and abstracts should conform to the ACM publication style; for templates and examples, follow the link: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings in ACM Digital Library; video submissions and accompanying abstracts will be published on the workshop website. Contributors will be invited to give either an oral or a video presentation at the workshop.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
* Dan Bohus (Microsoft Research)
* Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire)
* Jonathan Gratch (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)
* Alexis Heloir (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
* Takayuki Kanda (ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories)
* Jina Lee (Sandia National Laboratories)
* Stacy Marsella (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)
* Maja Matarić (University of Southern California)
* Louis-Philippe Morency (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)
* Bilge Mutlu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
* Victor Ng-Thow-Hing (Honda Research Institute USA)
* Catherine Pelachaud (TELECOM ParisTech)
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:
* Ross Mead (University of Southern California)
* Maha Salem (Bielefeld University)
CONTACT:
* Workshop Questions and Submissions (icmi2012ws.speech.gesture@gmail.com)
* Ross Mead (rossmead@usc.edu)
* Maha Salem (msalem@cor-lab.uni-bielefeld.de)
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| 3-3-10 | (2012-10-29) Workshop on Audio and Multimedia Methods for Large‐Scale Video Analysis, Nara, Japan Audio and Multimedia Methods for Large‐Scale Video Analysis First ACM International Workshop at ACM Multimedia 2012 ***Extended submission deadline: July 15th 2012 *** Media sharing sites on the Internet and the one‐click upload ca‐ The diversity in content, recording equipment, environment, qual‐ The goal of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Audio and Mul‐ Topics include novel acoustic and multimedia methods for Submissions: Workshop submissions of 4‐6 pages should be format‐ Important dates: Organizers: Panel Chair:
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| 3-3-11 | (2012-11-01) AMTA Workshop on Translation and Social Media (TSM 2012) AMTA Workshop on Translation and Social Media
(TSM 2012) Call for Papers November 1st, 2012 San Diego, CA, USA http://www.eu-bridge.eu/tsm_amta2012.php -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
--------------- The Workshop ---------------
During the last couple of years, user generated content on the World Wide Web has increased significantly. Users post status updates, comments, news and observations on services like Twitter; they communicate with networks of friends through web pages like Facebook; and they produce and publish audio and audio-visual content, such as comments, lectures or entertainment in the form of videos on platforms such as YouTube, and as Podcasts, e.g., via iTunes.
Nowadays, users do not publish content mainly in English anymore, instead they publish in a multitude of languages. This means that due to the language barrier, many users cannot access all available content. The use of machine and speech translation technology can help bridge the language barrier in these situations. However, in order to automatically translate these new domains we expect several obstacles to be overcome: · Speech recognition and translation systems need to be able to rapidly adapt to rapidly changing topics as user generated content shifts in focus and topic. · Text and speech in social media will be extremely noisy, ungrammatical and will not adhere to conventional rules, instead following its own, continuously changing conventions. At the same time we expect to discover new possibilities to exploit social media content for improving speech recognition and translation systems in an opportunistic way, e.g., by finding and utilizing parallel corpora in multiple languages addressing the same topics, or by utilizing additional meta-information available to the content, such as tags, comments, key-word lists. Also, the network structure in social media could provide valuable information in translating its content. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of machine and speech translation in order to discuss the challenges brought up by the content of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube videos and podcasts. --------------- Call for Papers ---------------
We expect participants to submit discussion papers that argue for new research and techniques necessary for dealing with machine and speech translation in the domain outlined above, as well as papers presenting results of related and potentially preliminary research that is breaking new ground. --------------- Important Dates ---------------
· Full Paper submission deadline: July 31st
· Acceptance/Rejection: August 25th · Camera Ready Paper: September 1st ·Workshop: November 1st
--------------- Organizing Committee ---------------
· Chairs: Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan) and Alex Waibel (KIT, Germany) · Program Chairs: Graham Neubig (NAIST, Japan), Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany), and Joy Ying Zhang (CMU-SV, USA) · Publicity Chair: Margit Rödder (KIT, Germany)
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| 3-3-12 | (2012-11-13) International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012 (IALP 2012),Hanoi, Vietnam
International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012 (IALP 2012) The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP) is a series Over the years, IALP has developed into one of important anaual events on This year, the International Conference on Asian Language Processing 2012 Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Noi, 'River Interior') is the capital and We welcome you to Vietnam to experience the nature, history, and cultural in CONFERENCE TOPICS Paper submissions are invited on substantial, original and unpublished - Under-resourced language studies PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished All submissions must be electronic and in Portable Document Format (PDF) The official language of the conference is English. Papers submitted should Papers may be submitted until July 1, 2012, in PDF format via the START
IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline Jul 1, 2012 MORE INFORMATION To get other details and the latest information about the conference, please Pham Thi Ngoc Yen and Deyi Xiong
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| 3-3-13 | (2012-11-21) Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation, Madrid Spain Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation The Albayzin 2012 Language Recognition Evaluation (Albayzin 2012 LRE) is supported by the Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology (RTTH) and organized by the Software Technologies Working Group (GTTS) of the University of the Basque Country, with the key collaboration of Niko Brümmer, from Agnitio Research, South Africa, for defining the evaluation criterion and coding the script used to measure system performance. The evaluation workshop will be part of IberSpeech 2012, to be held in Madrid, Spain from 21 to 23 November 2012. Registration Deadline: July 16th 2012 Procedure: Submit an e-mail to the organization contact: luisjavier.rodriguez@ehu.es, with copy to the Chairs of the Albayzin 2012 Evaluations: javier.gonzalez@uam.es and javier.tejedor@uam.es, providing the following information:
Data delivery Starting from June 15th 2012, and once registration data are validated, the training (108 hours of broadcast speech for 6 target languages) and development (around 2000 audio segments including 10 target languages and Out-Of-Set languages) datasets will be released via web (only to registered participants). Schedule
Contact Luis Javier Rodríguez Fuentes Software Technologies Working Group (GTTS) Department of Electricity and Electronics (ZTF-FCT) University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Barrio Sarriena s/n 48940 Leioa - SPAIN
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| 3-3-14 | (2012-11-28) International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2012) Paris FInternational Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2012) Towards a Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones. Paris, France, November 28-30, 2012 http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/iwsds2012 Second Announcement Following the success of IWSDS'2009 (Irsee, Germany), IWSDS'2010 (Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan) and IWSDS'2011 (Granada, Spain),the Fourth International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2012) will be held in Paris (France) on November 28-30, 2012. The IWSDS Workshop series provides an international forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists, with a special interest to the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems in everyday applications. Scientific achievements in language processing now results in the development of successful applications such as IBM Watson, Evi, Apple Siri or Google Assistant for access to knowledge and interaction with smartphones, while the coming of domestic robots advocates for the development of powerful communication means with their human users and fellow robots. We therefore put this year workshop under the theme 'Towards a Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones', which covers: -Dialog for robot interaction (including ethics), -Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access, -Dialog for interacting with smartphones, -Mediated dialog (including multilingual dialog involving Speech Translation), -Dialog quality evaluation. We would also like to encourage the discussion of common issues of theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, general tools and techniques, and therefore also invite the submission of original papers in any related area, including but not limited to: -Speech recognition and semantic analysis, -Dialog management, Adaptive dialog modeling, -Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, facial expressions and physiological data, -Emotional and interactional dynamic profile of the speaker during dialog, User modeling, -Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordination and conflict description, -Conflict resolution in complex multi-level decisions, -Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for input and output, -Fusion, fission and information management, Learning and adaptability -Visual processing and recognition for advanced human-computer interaction, -Spoken Dialog databases and corpora, including methodologies and ethics, -Objective and subjective Spoken Dialog evaluation methodologies, strategies and paradigms, -Spoken Dialog prototypes and products, etc. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and we will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. *PAPER SUBMISSION* We distinguish between the following categories of submissions: Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-12 pages. Short Research Papers should not exceed 6 pages in total. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts Demo - System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total. As usual, it is planned that a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference. *IMPORTANT DATES* Deadline for submission: July 16, 2012 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2012 Deadline for final submission of accepted paper: October 8, 2012 Deadline for Early Bird registration: October 8, 2012 Final program available online: November 5, 2012 Workshop: November 28-30, 2012 VENUE: IWSDS 2012 will be held as a two-day residential seminar in the wonderful Castle of Ermenonville near Paris, France, where all attendees will be accommodated. IWSDS Steering Committee: Gary Geunbae Lee(POSTECH, Pohang, Korea), Ramón López-Cózar (Univ. of Granada, Spain), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI and IMMI-CNRS, Orsay, France), Wolfgang Minker (Ulm Univ., Germany), Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) IWSDS 2012 Program Committee: Joseph Mariani (LIMSI & IMMI-CNRS, Chair), Laurence Devillers (LIMSI-CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sorbonne 4), Martine Garnier-Rizet (IMMI-CNRS), Sophie Rosset (LIMSI-CNRS) Organization Committee: Martine Garnier-Rizet (Chair), Lynn Barreteau, Joseph Mariani (IMMI-CNRS) Supporting organizations (to be completed): IMMI-CNRS and LIMSI-CNRS (France), Postech (Korea), University of Granada (Spain), Nara Institute of Science and Technology and NICT (Japan), Ulm University (Germany) Scientific Committee: To be announced Sponsors: To be announced Please contact iwsds2012@immi-labs.org <mailto:iwsds2012@immi-labs.org> or visit http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/iwsds2012 to get more information.
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| 3-3-15 | (2012-12-02) SLT 2012: 4-th IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Miami Florida, December 2-5, 2012 SLT 2012: IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Miami Florida, December 2-5, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) will be held between December 2-5, 2012 in Miami, FL. The goal of this workshop is to allow the speech/language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. SLT will include oral and poster presentations. In addition, there will be three keynote addresses by well-known experts on topics such as machine learning and speech/language processing. The workshop will also include free pre-workshop tutorials on introduction or recent advances in spoken language technology. Submission of papers in all areas of spoken language technology is encouraged, with emphasis on the following topics:
Important Deadlines
Submission Procedure Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to the SLT 2012 website. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines.
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| 3-3-16 | (2012-12-03) UNSW Forensic Speech Science Conference, Sydney, 2012UNSW Forensic Speech Science Conference, Sydney, 2012
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| 3-3-17 | (2012-12-06) 9th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Hong Kong, China The 9th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take Details can be found on the conference website http://iwslt2012.org/
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| 3-3-18 | (2013-01-17) Tralogy II: The quest for meaning: where are our weak points and what do we need?, CNRS, Paris Tralogy is back: http://www.tralogy.eu
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| 3-3-19 | (2013-02-11) International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS, BarcelonaCALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS
website: http://www.biosignals.biostec.org February 11 - 14, 2013 Barcelona, Spain In
Collaboration with: UVIC Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: WfMC
IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: September 3, 2012 (deadline extended)
Authors Notification (regular papers): October 23, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: November 13, 2012
The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information,
Control and Communication (INSTICC) and held In Collaboration with the Universitat
de Vic (UVIC). INSTICC is Member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC).
We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers:
- Pedro Gomez Vilda, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
- Christian Jutten, GIPSA-lab, France
- Adam Kampff, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
- Richard Reilly, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Vladimir Devyatkov, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russian Federation
Details of which can be found on the Keynotes webpage available at:
http://www.biostec.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx
Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers
(full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN
reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. JHPZ A short list of presented papers
will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation
by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). We also would like to highlight the possibility to submit to the following Special Session:
- 3rd International Special Session on Multivariable Processing for
Biometric Systems - MPBS (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/MPBS.aspx)
Please check further details at the BIOSIGNALS conference website
(http://www.biosignals.biostec.org).
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| 3-3-20 | (2013-06-01) 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, Vancouver, Canada 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
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| 3-3-21 | (2013-06-18) Urgent Cf Participation NTCIR-10 IR for Spoken Documents Task (SpokenDoc-2)Call for Participation
NTCIR-10 IR for Spoken Documents Task (SpokenDoc-2)
http://www.cl.ics.tut.ac.jp/~sdpwg/index.php?ntcir10
== INTRODUCTION
The growth of the internet and the decrease of the storage costs are
resulting in the rapid increase of multimedia contents today. For
retrieving these contents, available text-based tag information is
limited. Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) is a promising technology for
retrieving these contents using the speech data included in them.
Following the NTCIR-9 SpokenDoc task, we will continue to evaluate the
SDR based on a realistic ASR condition, where the target documents are
spontaneous speech data with high word error rate and high
out-of-vocabulary rate.
== TASK OVERVIEW
The new speech data, the recordings of the first to sixth annual
Spoken Document Processing Workshop, are going to be used as the
target document in SpokenDoc-2. The larger speech data, spoken
lectures in Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ), are also used as in
the last SpokenDoc-1. The task organizers are going to provide
reference automatic transcriptions for these speech data. These
enabled researchers interested in SDR, but without access to their own
ASR system to participate in the tasks. They also enabled comparisons
of the IR methods based on the same underlying ASR performance.
Targeting these documents, two subtasks will be conducted.
Spoken Term Detection:
Within spoken documents, find the occurrence positions of a queried
term. The evaluation should be conducted by both the efficiency
(search time) and the effectiveness (precision and recall).
Spoken Content Retrieval:
Among spoken documents, find the segments including the relevant
information related to the query, where a segment is either a
document (resulting in document retrieval task) or a passage
(passage retrieval task). This is like an ad-hoc text retrieval
task, except that the target documents are speech data.
== FOR MORE DETAILS
Please visit
http://www.cl.ics.tut.ac.jp/~sdpwg/index.php?ntcir10
A link to the NTCIR-10 task participants registration page
is now available from this page.
Please note that the registration deadline is Jun 30, 2012 (for
all NTCIR-10 tasks).
== ORGANIZERS
Kiyoaki Aikawa (Tokyo University of Technology)
Tomoyosi Akiba (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Xinhui Hu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Yoshiaki Itoh (Iwate Iwate Prefectural University)
Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto University)
Seiichi Nakagawa (Toyohashi University of Technology)
Hiroaki Nanjo (Ryukoku University)
Hiromitsu Nishizaki (University of Yamanashi)
Yoichi Yamashita Ritsumeikan University)
If you have any questions, please send e-mails to the task
organizers mailing list: ntcadm-spokendoc2@nlp.cs.tut.ac.jp
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| 3-3-22 | (2013-07-03) CorpORA and Tools in Linguistics, Languages and Speech, Strasbourg, France Colloque organisé par l’Unité de Recherche 1339 Linguistique, Langues, Parole (LiLPa) Université de Strasbourg – Unistra 3 – 5 juillet 2013 Strasbourg - France CorpORA and Tools in Linguistics, Languages and Speech: Status, Uses and Misuse Conference organised by the Research Unit 1339 Linguistics, Languages and Speech (LiLPa) University of Strasbourg – UNISTRA 3 – 5 July 2013 Strasbourg - France
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| 3-3-23 | Call for Participation MediaEval 2012 Multimedia Benchmark Evaluation Call for Participation
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| 3-3-24 | CfProposals 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017) 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017) Sponsored By The IEEE Signal Processing Society
This Call for Proposal is distributed on behalf of IEEE Signal Processing Society Conference Board for the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) to be held in March or April of 2017. ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing theory and applications. The series is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and has been held annually since 1976. The conference features world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and over 120 lecture and poster sessions. ICASSP is a cooperative effort of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees:
The conference organizing team is advised to incorporate into their proposal the following items.
Submission of Proposal For additional guidelines for ICASSP please contact Lisa Schwarzbek, Manager, Conference Services (l.schwarzbek@ieee.org). Proposal Presentation
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