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| 3-3-1 | (2013-01-17) TRALOGY II: The quest for meaning: where are our weak points and what do we need?, CNRS, Paris Registration to TRALOGY II is now open! Following the success of the first Conference in March 2011, we are glad to invite you to this new forum for those interested in all fields where human and machine translation meet. This conference is a place where professionals, scientists and trainers can congregate, meet and talk about the future of the trade with technology and research in mind.
This edition will be dedicated to meaning, how it is sought while we work and by technological processes as well, and the limits to be explored in common by scientists and real human translators to enhance and assist translation in progress.
A registration form is available on the TRALOGY website :
http://www.tralogy.eu/spip.php?article34&lang=en
Registration is free-of-charge. As the number of places at the venue is limited, make sure to register early, so that we can confirm your final registration.
Tralogy II: Human and Machine Translation. The quest for meaning: where are our weak points and what do we need?
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| 3-3-2 | (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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| 3-3-3 | (2013-04-02) 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
LATA 2013
Bilbao, Spain
April 2-5, 2013
Organized by: Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2013/
AIMS:
LATA is a yearly conference in theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the International Schools in Formal Languages and Applications developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2013 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, systems biology, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.).
VENUE:
LATA 2013 will take place in Bilbao, at the Basque Country in Northern Spain. The venue will be the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM).
SCOPE:
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
‐ algebraic language theory ‐ algorithms for semi‐structured data mining ‐ algorithms on automata and words ‐ automata and logic ‐ automata for system analysis and programme verification ‐ automata, concurrency and Petri nets ‐ automatic structures ‐ cellular automata ‐ combinatorics on words ‐ computability ‐ computational complexity ‐ computational linguistics ‐ data and image compression ‐ decidability questions on words and languages ‐ descriptional complexity ‐ DNA and other models of bio‐inspired computing ‐ document engineering ‐ foundations of finite state technology ‐ foundations of XML ‐ fuzzy and rough languages ‐ grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, multidimensional, unification, categorial, etc.) ‐ grammars and automata architectures ‐ grammatical inference and algorithmic learning ‐ graphs and graph transformation ‐ language varieties and semigroups ‐ language‐based cryptography ‐ language‐theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial life ‐ parallel and regulated rewriting ‐ parsing ‐ pattern recognition ‐ patterns and codes ‐ power series ‐ quantum, chemical and optical computing ‐ semantics ‐ string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics ‐ string processing algorithms ‐ symbolic dynamics ‐ symbolic neural networks ‐ term rewriting ‐ transducers ‐ trees, tree languages and tree automata ‐ weighted automata
STRUCTURE:
LATA 2013 will consist of:
‐ invited talks ‐ invited tutorials ‐ peer‐reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Jin-Yi Cai (Madison), Complexity Dichotomy for Counting Problems Kousha Etessami (Edinburgh), Algorithms for Analyzing Infinite-state Recursive Probabilistic Systems Luke Ong (Oxford), tutorial Languages and Automata for Higher-order Model Checking Joël Ouaknine (Oxford), tutorial Discrete Linear Dynamical Systems Thomas Schwentick (Dortmund), Applications of Automata in Database Theory -- Challenges to Automata Theory from Databases Andrei Voronkov (Manchester), The Lazy Reviewer Assignment Problem in EasyChair
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Uppsala) Franz Baader (Dresden) Jos Baeten (CWI, Amsterdam) Christel Baier (Dresden) Gerth Stølting Brodal (Aarhus) John Case (Delaware) Marek Chrobak (Riverside) Mariangiola Dezani (Torino) Rod Downey (Wellington) Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas) Ivo Düntsch (Brock) E. Allen Emerson (Austin) Javier Esparza (Technical University Munich) Michael R. Fellows (Darwin) Alain Finkel (ENS Cachan) Dov M. Gabbay (King’s, London) Jürgen Giesl (Aachen) Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney) Georg Gottlob (Oxford) Annegret Habel (Oldenburg) Reiko Heckel (Leicester) Sanjay Jain (Singapore) Charanjit S. Jutla (IBM Thomas J. Watson) Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern) Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen) S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton) Hans-Jörg Kreowski (Bremen) Tak-Wah Lam (Hong Kong) Gad M. Landau (Haifa) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg) Richard Lipton (Georgia Tech) Jack Lutz (Iowa State) Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau) Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck, Kaiserslautern) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Paliath Narendran (Albany) Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich) David A. Plaisted (Chapel Hill) Jean-François Raskin (Brussels) Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin) Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy) Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna) Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh) Alfonso Valencia (CNIO, Madrid) Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech) Heribert Vollmer (Hannover) Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo Tech) Pierre Wolper (Liège) Louxin Zhang (Singapore)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Peter Leupold (Tarragona) Carlos Martín‐Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Magaly Roldán (Bilbao) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) Enrique Zuazua (Bilbao, co-chair)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single‐spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2013
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer‐reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The period for registration is open from August 6, 2012 to April 2, 2013. The registration form can be found at the website of the conference:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2013/
FEES:
Early registration fees: 500 Euro Early registration fees (PhD students): 400 Euro Late registration fees: 540 Euro Late registration fees (PhD students): 440 Euro On‐site registration fees: 580 Euro On‐site registration fees (PhD students): 480 Euro
At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have a registered author who paid the fees by January 2, 2013 will be excluded from the proceedings.
One registration gives the right to present only one paper.
Fees comprise access to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks and lunches.
PAYMENT:
Early (resp. late) registration fees must be paid by bank transfer before January 2, 2013 (resp. March 23, 2013) to the conference bank account:
Uno-e Bank bank’s address: Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142 BIC/SWIFT: UNOEESM1 account holder: C. Martin – GRLMC account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Please mention LATA 2013 and your name in the subject. A receipt will be provided on site.
Remarks:
- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the conference. - People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the bank transfer order was carried out by the deadline. - PhD students will need to provide evidence of their status on site.
People registering on site must pay in cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much recommended to do it earlier.
DEADLINES:
Paper submission: November 9, 2012 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: December 16, 2012 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 25, 2012 Early registration: January 2, 2013 Late registration: March 23, 2013 Starting of the conference: April 2, 2013 End of the conference: April 5, 2013 Submission to the post‐conference journal special issue: July 5, 2013
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
LATA 2013 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34‐977‐559543 Fax: +34‐977‐558386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics Diputació de Tarragona Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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| 3-3-4 | (2013-04-03) CORIA 2013Neuchatel Suisse CORIA 2013, Neuchâtel (Suisse), du 3 au 5 Avril 2013 CORIA 2013 (http://coria.unine.ch) est la dixième édition de la COnférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications. Organisée avec le support de l'ARIA (Association francophone de Recherche d'Information et Applications, http://www.asso-aria.org), elle est la principale manifestation francophone dans ce domaine. CORIA a pour but de rassembler les équipes et les chercheurs menant des travaux scientifiques dans le domaine de la recherche d'informations : recherche d'information sur le web, extraction d'information au sein de documents multimédia, analyse d'opinion ou de réseaux sociaux, contextes monolingue ou multilingue, recherche de documents numériques et d'images, apprentissage et classification automatiques, interfaces homme-machine pour l'accès à l'information, etc. CORIA se veut largement ouverte à l'ensemble de la communauté scientifique concernée par la Recherche d'Information. Après s'être tenue à Toulouse, Grenoble, Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Lannion, Toulon, Sousse (Tunisie, en partenariat avec CIFED), Avignon, Bordeaux (en partenariat avec CIFED), CORIA aura lieu cette année du 3 avril au 5 avril 2013 à Neuchâtel (Suisse). L'activité scientifique en recherche d'information connaît une évolution forte depuis la généralisation du web et, plus récemment, le développement de l'informatique nomade. Les limites du domaine sont elles-mêmes en mutation et favorisent les synergies avec les travaux en apprentissage automatique, traitement automatique des langues, traitement de l'image, traitement de la parole, communication écrite et documents, systèmes d'information et bases de données, représentation et gestion des connaissances... Les domaines d'application sont vastes et peuvent être appliqués au web dans sa globalité ou restreints par exemple à des bibliothèques numériques ou des réseaux sociaux. Le public visé par CORIA 2013 est celui des universitaires et chercheurs - confirmés ou non -, des industriels et des spécialistes du domaine et des étudiants en Master se dirigeant vers les métiers de la Recherche. Les soumissions peuvent être faites en anglais ou en français. Les contributions peuvent concerner des travaux académiques ou des applications industrielles. Le programme prévoit deux conférences invitées, l'une de Jamie Callan (CMU), la seconde de Donna Harman (NIST). Ces deux conférenciers feront par ailleurs un cours dédiés aux doctorants lors d'un séminaire du CUSO, le mardi 2 avril 2013 (le jour précédant la conférence). Pendant la conférence CORIA 2013 seront également organisées les 8e Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en Recherche d'Information (RJCRI). Elles ont pour objectif de permettre à tous les doctorants de présenter leur problématique de recherche, d'établir des contacts avec des équipes travaillant sur des domaines similaires ou connexes, et d'offrir à l'ensemble de la communauté un aperçu des axes de recherche actuels. Les travaux sélectionnés pour les RJCRI donneront lieu à une présentation orale et sous forme de poster. Cette année, les soumissions conjointes RJCRI et CORIA sont autorisées (voir modalités dans RJCRI http://coria.unine.ch/rjcri.htm ) Thématiques (liste non exhaustive) • Théorie et modèles formels pour la RI : modèle logique, modèles de langages • Multilinguisme : Recherche d'information multilingue, traduction automatique • Multimédia (images, audio, vidéos, son, musique) : indexation, navigation, accès, interactions avec le texte • Passage à l'échelle : indexation, performances, architectures • Classification automatique, clustering, ranking, apprentissage automatique • Filtrage, routage, détection de nouveautés • Systèmes de Questions Réponses • Extraction d'informations : ontologies, ressources et recherche d'informations, détection d'entités nommées • Web : grands graphes, utilisation de la topologie du web, lois de puissances, citations, analyse de liens • RI et documents structurés : RI et XML, RI précise et recherche de passages • Réseaux sociaux : analyse de blogs et de sites communautaires, suivi de conversations, analyse de rumeurs, analyse de sentiments, détection d'opinion • Recherche collaborative : filtrage, systèmes de recommandation • Interaction utilisateur : interrogation flexible, interfaces, visualisation, modélisation de l'utilisateur, accessibilité, indexation collaborative • Traitement et représentation des connaissances : logique floue, méta-données, ontologies, web sémantique, ingénierie des connaissances • Bibliothèques numériques : RI sur des livres numérisés, robustesse, OCR et indexabilité • Systèmes de recherche d'information dédiés : recherche d'information génomique, géographique • RI distribuée : recherche d'information mobile, située, P2P • Outils pour la recherche d'information : évaluation, bancs d'essais, métriques, expérimentations qualitatives des systèmes Dates importantes (modifiées) La soumission des articles se fera en deux étapes : d'abord la soumission d'un résumé et ensuite la soumission de l'article. Le calendrier de soumission est le même pour CORIA et les RJCRI : - Date limite de soumission des articles : 14/12/2012 - Réponse aux auteurs : 01/02/2013 - Date limite de soumission de la version finale : 22/02/2013
Site de dépôt des articles de Coria : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coria2013 Site de dépôt des articles de RJCRI : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rjcri2013 Format des articles • Les soumissions peuvent être faites en anglais ou en français. • Les contributions peuvent concerner des travaux académiques ou des applications industrielles. • Les textes de communications doivent comporter 16 pages maximum au format des revues Hermes. Ils doivent être précédés d'une page de garde comportant le titre, les noms et coordonnées précises des auteurs, une liste de mots clé en français et en anglais, un résumé d'une vingtaine de lignes au maximum. La mention « article soumis à CORIA et RJCRI » doit être portée sur la page de garde le cas échéant. • Les articles peuvent être écrits en Word ou en LaTeX. • Le format des articles Word et LaTeX peut être téléchargé sur le site Hermes. • Les articles déposés doivent être au format PDF exclusivement. Modalités RJCRI : voir http://coria.unine.ch/rjcri.htm Catherine Berrut, Professeur Université Joseph Four ier Laboratoire LIG et Polytech Grenoble BP 53 - 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 tel : 04 76 51 42 63 mail : catherine.berrut@imag.fr
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| 3-3-5 | (2013-05-26) 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre May 26 - 31, 2013 , Vancouver, Canada www.ICASSP2013.com CALL FOR PAPERS Announcement: New paper submission deadline has been extended to November 30, 2012 due to the recent hurricane. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, with up to four pages for technical content including figures and possible references, and with one additional optional 5th page containing only references. ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and over 120 lecture and poster sessions. Topics include but are not limited to: Audio and acoustic signal processing Bio-imaging and signal processing Signal processing education Speech processing Industry technology tracks Information forensics and security Machine learning for signal processing Multimedia signal processing Sensor array & multichannel signal processing Design & implementation of signal processing systems Signal processing for communications & networking Image, video & multidimensional signal processing Signal processing theory & methods Spoken language processing Vancouver: Vancouver is consistently rated as the most livable city in the world. It is surrounded by dense pine forests, snow-capped mountains and fjords. It is a city with vast beaches and lush parks combined with magnificent architecture. Please see www.ICASSP2013.com for details regarding Paper Submission , “no-show” policy and tutorials Organizing Committee ==================== General Chairs Rabab Ward, University of British Columbia Li Deng, Microsoft Technical Program Chairs Vikram Krishnamurthy, University of British Columbia Kostas Plataniotis, University of Toronto Finance Chair Jane Wang, University of British Columbia Special Sessions Chairs Xiaodong He, Microsoft Wu Chou, Huawei Tutorials Chair Khaled El-Maleh, Qualcomm Local Arrangement Chair Panos Nasiopoulos, University of British Columbia Social Program Chair Rabab Ward, University of British Columbia Publicity Chairs Lina Karam, Arizona State University Michel Sarkis, Qualcomm Publication Chairs Michael Adams, University of Victoria Vicky Zhao, University of Alberta Exhibit Chairs Dong Yu, Microsoft Wu Chou, Huawei Hank Liao, Google Entrepreneurial Relationship Ton Kalker, Huawei Conference Management Billene Mercer, Conference Management Services, Inc.
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| 3-3-6 | (2013-05-30) Appel aux 16èmes Rencontres Jeunes ChercheursAppel aux 16èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (30-31 mai): modèles et modélisation dans les sciences du langage | date limite: 13 janv. 2013 Créées en 1998, les Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs de l'École Doctorale « Langage et langues» (ED 268, Université Sorbonne nouvelle) offrent la possibilité aux jeunes chercheurs inscrits en Doctorat ou en Master Recherche de présenter leurs travaux sous forme de communication orale ou de poster. Modèles et modélisation dans les sciences du langage Comment appréhender la diversité du réel sans chercher à la structurer et à formuler des règles supposées expliquer ou du moins décrire son fonctionnement ? Comment comprendre un phénomène sans d’abord en concevoir des fonctionnements possibles ? Même si le recours à une réalité idéale ne suffit pas toujours à la compréhension d’un phénomène langagier, d’un fonctionnement psychologique ou encore d’une stratégie cognitive, la construction et l’exploitation de modèles semblent parfois indispensables. Tout comme apparaît nécessaire la remise en cause et la révision de ces représentations, afin d’appréhender des réalités plus nuancées. La multiplicité des approches adoptées par les différentes disciplines engage à interroger non seulement la notion de modèle, mais aussi la modélisation des données langagières, que ce soit à des fins descriptives, explicatives ou prédictives. On peut donc s’intéresser aux différentes définitions du modèle, et se pencher sur leur mise en pratique, leur potentiel transdisciplinaire et leurs éventuelles transformations. On peut aussi s’interroger sur la pertinence et les limites de ces modèles, voire de la notion même de modèle. Selon les approches des chercheurs et chercheuses, le modèle peut ainsi être perçu comme une nécessité ou comme un obstacle, comme un indice de rigueur ou comme un biais scientifique. S’agit-il d’un carcan théorique auquel les données empiriques doivent s’ajuster ? Ou s’agit-il d’une construction sans laquelle la dynamique et le fonctionnement d’une réalité seraient impossible à appréhender ? Les RJC 2013 invitent les participants à réfléchir sur la conception, l’utilisation, l’adaptation et la remise en cause de modèles en sciences du langage. Nous retiendrons en particulier les communications appartenant aux disciplines suivantes : acquisition du langage et des langues, analyse du discours, anthropologie linguistique, didactique des langues et des cultures, histoire des idées linguistiques, linguistique générale, linguistique historique et comparée, morphologie, neurolinguistique, phonétique, phonologie, pragmatique, psycholinguistique, rhétorique, sémantique, sociolinguistique, syntaxe, TAL, traduction et traductologie, typologie linguistique. Le colloque est ouvert à tous : masterants, doctorants, chercheurs... Date limite de soumission des propositions : 14 janvier 2013 Contact : rjc.ed268.p3@gmail.com Appel complet et détails sur la page Internet : www.univ-paris3.fr/rjc2013
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| 3-3-7 | (2013-06-01) 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, Vancouver, Canada 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
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| 3-3-8 | (2013-06-03) CfP International workshop on Field Speech and Mobile Data, Milan, Italy International workshop on Field Speech and Mobile Data. We invite submissions that address theoretical, technical, and practical issues of Field Speech and Mobile Data. Reports on ongoing implementations and applications research are particularly welcome. http://www2.nict.go.jp/univ-com/isp/fsmd2013/index.html This workshop is a satellite workshop of the IEEE MDM 2013 conference.14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, June 3-6 2013, Milan, Italy http://mdm2013.dico.unimi.it/ Suggested topics should address research & development issues related to Field Speech and Mobile.
Data as follows. Field speech data processing Speech recognition for mobile devices Speech-to-speech translation Spoken dialog systems Voice user interfaces Speech data mining Spoken document retrieval Cyber-physical systems Internet of Things Security and privacy for mobile speech data management Spatio-temporal databases Audio and video transcriptions for mobile multimedia Multimodal processing Data engineering and information management Social networks Smart-X services Service computing & Cloud computing with speech data - Paper submission January 31, 2013 - Result notification March 6, 2013 - Final version March 13, 2013 - Workshop date June 3, 2013 IEEE MDM 2013 For questions, please contact the FSMD2013 organizing committee at the following e-mail address: fsmd2013-contact@khn.nict.go.jp
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| 3-3-9 | (2013-06-04) CfParticipation 2nd Competition on speaker recognition in mobile environment using MOBIO database The Biometric group at the Idiap Research Institute is organizing the second competition on speaker recognition in mobile environment using MOBIO database for the 2013 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB-2013) to be held in Madrid, Spain on June 4-7, 2013. You are highly invited to participate to this competition.
Contacts:
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| 3-3-10 | (2013-06-17) CfP 11th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing C B M I 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-3-11 | (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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| 3-3-12 | (2013-07-01) CfP French Phonology Network Meeting 2013 (RFP 2013), Nantes, France
CALL FOR PAPERS French Phonology Network Meeting 2013 (RFP 2013) After the conferences organized in Orléans 2010, Tours 2011 and Paris 2012, the French Phonology Network (Réseau Français de Phonologie) is launching a call for papers for a new meeting in the same spirit that will take place in Nantes from July, 1st to 3rd, 2013 thanks to the LLing (EA3827, Université de Nantes), FoReLL (Université de Poitiers) and MSH-Ange Guépin. Invited speakers * Phillip Backley (Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japon). * Didier Demolin (GIPSA Grenoble / UMR 5216 , France). * Andrew Nevins (University College London, Royaume-Uni) * Bert Vaux (King’s College Cambridge, Royaume-Uni). * Sophie Wauquier (Université de Paris 8 / UMR 7023, France). * Leo Wetzels (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Pays-Bas). Main session Phonologists of every school or background are warmly welcome to participate. Issues at stake may be in the field of general phonology or of the phonological analysis of a linguistic phenomenon of a specific language. Submissions that will be taken into consideration will be those dealing with signal processing, perception, acquisition, diachrony, dialectology, formalism, epistemology and all issues which explicitly file under the field of phonology and its interfaces. Thematic session 1 : Acquisition This thematic session aims at addressing the latest issues in the field of phonological acquisition of a first or second language. It will bring forward data which are unattested in adult’s languages and challenge phonological theories. Submissions dealing with any aspect/level of phonological acquisition are welcome. They may be concerned with minimal units in phonology (features, elements, segments), the syllable, prosody, processes (in production or perception) among other topics. Contributions may be couched in any theoretical framework, and may be concerned with the acquisition of a single language or adopt a cross-linguistic/typological perspective. Thematic session 2 : Harmony Harmony is a wide-spread process among the world’s languages. It may be defined as a syntagmatic change whereby a given segment absorbs some of the properties of another segment in the same phonological domain. When it is perceived as some kind of long-distance assimilation, harmony -which may be local (strict contiguity) or extended to a given domain (syllable, foot, word, phonological phrase)- may target vowels (vowel harmony) or consonants (consonant harmony). If locality seems to play a crucial role in its definition, harmony is also sensitive to directionality. Intervening segments (within the domain within which harmony applies) may prevent harmony to take place or be transparent: are these really invisible or are they somehow involved in the harmony process? Are harmony processes due to phonetic (e.g. phonologization of a coarticulation process) or to strictly phonological principles (e.g. computation of a restricted set of principles)? This thematic session aims at bringing together people who are concerned with harmony in general phonology as well as with harmonic relations in speech perception and production, prosody, acquisition, development, the structuring of the lexicon, automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis (this list, of course, should not be interpreted as being exhaustive). Submission format and selection Abstracts will be written either in French or in English and will not exceed two pages in length, (A4 format, Times font, size 12), including examples and references, and will be submitted through Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rfp2013. The abstract must be completely anonymous and do not contain any information that identifies the authors. Submissions will then be forwarded to two peers for assessment and the final selection will be carried out by a board meeting.
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| 3-3-13 | (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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| 3-3-14 | (2013-07-15) 9th International Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Lisbon, Portugal The 9th International Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces; July 15th - August 9th 2013; Lisbon (Portugal) * After the previous workshops, held in Mons (Belgium), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Istanbul (Turkey), Paris (France), Genova (Italy), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Plzen (Czech Republic) and Metz (France) which had an impressive success record and had proven the viability and usefulness of this original workshop, the 9th edition will take place in the New University of Lisbon (Portugal). eNTERFACE workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, attached to specific projects, working on free software. Each week will typically consist of working sessions by the teams on their respective projects plus a tutorial given by an invited senior researcher and a presentation of the results achieved by each project group. The last week will be devoted to writing an article on the results obtained by the teams plus a big session where all the groups will present their achievements. Proceedings are expected to be published by Springer, IFIP AICT series (indexed in Web of Science). - Presence and telepresence - Teleoperation and telerobotics - Assistive and rehabilitation technologies - Human-robot and human-environments interactions in smart environments - Game and serious game applications - Multimodal interfaces for collaborative systems - Multimodal signal analysis and synthesis - Signal-level and meaning-level data fusion - Usability in ubiquitous computing - Intuitive interfaces and personalized systems in real and virtual environments - User, context and semantics aware self-learning and adapting systems - Applications of multimodal interfaces * January 12th, 2013: Reception of a 1 page Notification of Interest, with a summary of project goals, work-packages and deliverables; * February 2nd, 2013: Reception of the complete project proposal in the format provided by the Author’s kit; * February 17th, 2013: Notification of project acceptance; publication of the Call for Participation; * April 1st, 2013: Closing of the Call for Participation; * April 15th, 2013: Publication of teams; * July 15th – August 9th, 2013: eNTERFACE’13 Workshop. Proposals should be submitted in PDF format to: yr@uninova.pt The organizing committee of eNTERFACE'13 is looking forward for your submissions. -- Prof. Yves Rybarczyk Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa Campus da Caparica 2829-516 Caparica PORTUGAL Tel: +351 917691175 Email: y.rybarczyk@fct.unl.pt Site: https://sites.google.com/a/uninova.pt/yr/
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| 3-3-15 | (2013-07-29) 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING, Tarragone, Spain 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
SLSP 2013
Tarragona, Spain
July 29-31, 2013
Organised by:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University
Research Institute for Information and Language Processing (RIILP) University of Wolverhampton
http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2013/
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AIMS:
SLSP is the first event in a series to host and promote research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences including papers in any of these fields, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between areas and people will hopefully happen. SLSP will reserve significant space for young scholars at the beginning of their careers.
VENUE:
SLSP 2013 will take place in Tarragona, 100 km. to the south of Barcelona.
SCOPE:
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:
- phonology, morphology - syntax, semantics - discourse, dialogue, pragmatics - statistical models for natural language processing - supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech - statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods - similarity - alignment - language resources - part-of-speech tagging - parsing - semantic role labelling - natural language generation - anaphora and coreference resolution - speech recognition - speaker identification/verification - speech transcription - text-to-speech synthesis - machine translation - translation technology - text summarisation - information retrieval - text categorisation - information extraction - term extraction - spelling correction - text and web mining - opinion mining and sentiment analysis - spoken dialogue systems - author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
STRUCTURE:
SLSP 2013 will consist of:
‐ invited talks ‐ invited tutorials ‐ peer-reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Yoshua Bengio (Montréal), tutorial Learning Deep Representations Christof Monz (Amsterdam), Challenges and Opportunities of Multilingual Information Access Tanja Schultz (Karlsruhe Tech), Multilingual Speech Processing with a special emphasis on Rapid Language Adaptation
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair) Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair)
Jerome Bellegarda (Apple Inc., Cupertino) Robert C. Berwick (MIT) Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble) Bill Byrne (Cambridge) Jen-Tzung Chien (National Chiao Tung U, Hsinchu) Kenneth Church (IBM Research) Koby Crammer (Technion) Renato De Mori (McGill & Avignon) Thierry Dutoit (U Mons) Marcello Federico (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento) Katherine Forbes-Riley (Pittsburgh) Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Tech) Yuqing Gao (IBM Thomas J. Watson) Ralp Grishman (New York U) Dilek Hakkani-Tür (Microsoft Research, Mountain View) Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd., Brighton) Dietrich Klakow (Saarbrücken) Philipp Koehn (Edinburgh) Mikko Kurimo (Aalto) Lori Lamel (CNRS-LIMSI, Orsay) Philippe Langlais (Montréal) Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Qun Liu (Dublin City) Daniel Marcu (SDL) Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (INAOEP, Puebla) Masaaki Nagata (NTT, Kyoto) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala) Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon Qatar, Doha) Miles Osborne (Edinburgh) Manny Rayner (Geneva) Giuseppe Riccardi (U Trento) José A. Rodríguez Fonollosa (Technical U Catalonia, Barcelona) Paolo Rosso (Technical U Valencia) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) Tomek Strzalkowski (Albany) Gökhan Tür (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha) Kuansan Wang (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong) Min Zhang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Yunxin Zhao (U Missouri, Columbia)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, Co-Chair) Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton, Co-Chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single‐spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions are to be uploaded to:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2013
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI topical subseries of the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The period for registration is open from November 30, 2012 to July 29, 2013. The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2013/Registration
DEADLINES:
Paper submission: March 5, 2013 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 9, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNAI proceedings: April 17, 2013 Early registration: April 24, 2013 Late registration: July 19, 2013 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: October 31, 2013
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SLSP 2013 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Diputació de Tarragona Universitat Rovira i Virgili University of Wolverhampton
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| 3-3-16 | (2013-08) CfP 4th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Grenoble France We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be co-located with Interspeech 2013 in Grenoble in August, 2013. The deadline for submission of papers and demo proposals is 17 May and 31 May, respectively. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline and formatting of regular papers is here:
This 2-day workshop will bring together researchers from all areas of speech and language technology with a common interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. This workshop will provide an opportunity for individuals from both research communities, and the individuals with whom they are working, to assist to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. General topics include but are not limited to: • Automated processing of sign language • Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility • Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living • Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language • Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AAC/AT applications • Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies • NLP for cognitive assistance applications • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies • Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of assistive technology • Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols • Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology • Anything included in this year's special topic • Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This year we are introducing a special topic, which is Smart Homes and ambient intelligent technology applied to augmentative communication. Relevant research topics would include (but are not limited to): • Automatic Speech recognition in multi-source environments • Distant speech recognition • Understanding, modelling or recognition of aged speech • Speech analysis in the case of elderly with impairments, early recognition of speech capability loss • Assistive speech technology • Multimodal speech recognition (context-aware ASR) • Multimodal emotion recognition • Audio scene and smart home context analysis • Applications of speech technology (ASR, dialogue, synthesis) for ambient assisted living
Please contact the conference organizers at slpat2013.workshop@gmail.com with any questions.
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| 3-3-17 | (2013-08-29) 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Annecy - FranceAVSP 2013 The 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing August 29 - September 1, 2013. Annecy - France http://avsp2013.loria.fr The 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP2013) will be held in Annecy, France, from August 29th to September 1st, 2013. AVSP is a satellite workshop of INTERSPEECH 2013, one of the largest conferences on speech communication. Annecy is a charming town in South-eastern France, known for its lake, 'Europe's cleanest lake'. Annecy is about 35km/22miles south of Geneva. AVSP is a uniquely interdisciplinary conference, focusing on the effects of auditory and visual speech information on human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine interaction. AVSP conferences attract many researchers from various fields, such as psychology, computer engineering, neuroscience, linguistics, and robotic engineering. ** Conference Topics Submission of papers are invited in all areas of auditory-visual speech processing including but not limited to: - Human recognition of audio-visual speech - Machine recognition of audio-visual speech - Human and machine models of multimodal integration - Multimodal processing of spoken events - Cross-linguistic studies - Developmental studies - Role of gestures accompanying speech - Modeling, synthesis and recognition of facial gestures - Audio-visual speech synthesis - Prosody - Neuropsychology and neurophysiology of audio-visual speech processing - Scene analysis using audio and visual speech information ** Important Dates - Paper Submission Deadline: May 5, 2013 - Notification of Acceptance: June 8, 2013 - Camera-ready Paper: June 15, 2013 - Early registration deadline: June 28, 2013 - Registration deadline: July 31, 2013 - Conference Dates: Aug 29 - Sep 1, 2013 For the latest information, please check the conference web page: http://avsp2013.loria.fr and feel free to contact us: avsp2013@loria.fr The organizing committee of AVSP 2013 is looking forward for your submissions. Slim Ouni (LORIA - Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France) Frederic Berthommier (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France) Alexandra Jesse (University of Mass. Amherst, MA, USA)
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| 3-3-18 | (2013-08-30) SLaTE-2013 (Speech and Language Technology in Education) Grenoble, France SLaTE-2013 (Speech and Language Technology in Education) will be held in Grenoble, France, on August 30-31 & September 1st, 2013, just after Interspeech 2013 in Lyon.
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| 3-3-19 | (2013-09-01) TSD 2013 - Pilzen, Czech Republic TSD 2013 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
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Sixteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2013)
Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 1-5 September 2013
http://www.tsdconference.org
TSD NEWS
The TSD conference fee was significantly reduced. It is organized in
parallel with SPECOM.
ABOUT CONFERENCE
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno. This year the conference is organized in parallel with
the 15th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM). The
conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association
(ISCA).
Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), angelo Hotel (city center), Czech Republic
TSD SERIES
TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over
the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in
their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD
proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation
databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
(multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility
analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship
attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
(machine translation, natural language understanding,
question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
and personality modelling)
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on
processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair)
Eneko Agirre, Spain
Genevieve Baudoin, France
Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
Darja Fiser, Slovenia
Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, GB
Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
Ales Horak, Czech Republic
Eduard Hovy, USA
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
Diana McCarthy, UK
Hermann Ney, Germany
Elmar Noeth, Germany
Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
Karel Pala, Czech Republic
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
Fabio Pianesi, Italy
Maciej Piasecki, Poland
Jan Pomikalek, Czech Republic
Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
James Pustejovsky, USA
Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
Milan Rusko, Slovakia
Stefan Steidl, Germany
Pavel Skrelin, Russia
Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
Georg Stemmer, Germany
Marko Tadic, Croatia
Tamas Varadi, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
Yorick Wilks, GB
Victor Zakharov, Russia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral
presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be
presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.One day of the conference
will be dedicated to tutorials and workshops.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Pilsen will allow
additional informal interactions. Details about the social event will be
available on the web page.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted
in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either
orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be
based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors
are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form
accessible from the conference web site.
Papers submitted to TSD 2013 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
As the reviewing is blind, the paper should not include authors'
name and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that
reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991)
...', should be avoided. Instead, use citations, such as 'Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...'. Papers that do not conform to the requirements
above are determined to be rejected without review.
The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX (plain)
or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of
the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors
using a MS Word-compatible software for the final version must use the
LNCS template for MS Word and within the submit process ask the
Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to the LaTeX format. For this
service a service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied
automatically.
The paper format for the review has to be either the PDF or PostScript
file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,
speakers will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready
and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper
format see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Authors are also invited to present actual projects, a developed software
or interesting materials relevant to the topics of the conference.
Speakers who have prepared a demonstration should provide an abstract not
exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the
conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 31, 2013 ............ Submission of full papers
May 12, 2013 .............. Notification of acceptance
June 9, 2013 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
September 1-5, 2013 ....... Conference date
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that
will be made available on CD to participants at the time of the
conference.
CONFERENCE FEES
The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It
includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee
breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event
admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as
possible, meals during the conference, the accommodation, and the
conference trip are not included.
Full participant:
early registration by June 9, 2013 - CZK 8.200 (approx. 320 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2013 - CZK 9.400 (approx. 370 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 10.000 (approx. 390 EUR)
Student (reduced):
early registration by June 9, 2013 - CZK 7.000 (approx. 280 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2013 - CZK 8.400 (approx. 330 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 8.900 (approx. 350 EUR)
The payment may be refunded up until August 15, at the cost of CZK 1.500.
No refund is possible after this date. All costs are in Czech Crowns
(Czech Koruna, CZK), see e.g. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for the current
exchange rate.
At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration fee
by June 9, 2013 for their paper to be included in the conference
proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included in the regular
registration fee. The additional paper and page charge is CZK 1000 per
page. Any additional paper is treated as extra pages. An extra page charge
is CZK 1000 per page. An author with more than one paper pays the
additional paper rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid the
full registration fee. In the case of uncertainty, feel free to contact
the organising committee for clarification. As in previous years, we will
do our best to ensure grants for the prospective TSD participants from
economically less powerful countries, especially the countries of the
former Soviet Union and its satellites. By now we are negotiating with our
partner supporting organisations about the form and amount of the grants.
LOCATION
The city of Plzen (Pilsen) is situated in Western Bohemia at the
confluence of four rivers. With its 170,000 inhabitants it is the fourth
largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial,
commercial, and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the
Pilsen Region. In addition, it has been selected as the European capital
of culture for 2015 by the Council of the European Union.
Pilsen is well-known for its brewing tradition. The trademark
Pilsner-Urquell has a good reputation all over the world thanks to the
traditional recipe, high quality hops and good groundwater. Beer lovers
will also appreciate a visit to the Brewery Museum or the Brewery itself.
Apart from its delicious beer, Pilsen hides lots of treasures in its core.
The city can boast the second largest synagogue in Europe. The dominant of
the old part of the city center is definitely the 13th-century Gothic
cathedral featuring the highest tower in Bohemia (102.34 m). It is
possible to go up and admire the view of the city. Not far from the
cathedral is the splendid Renaissance Town Hall from 1558 and plenty of
pleasant cafes and pubs are situated on and around the main square.
There is also the beautiful Pilsen Historical Underground - under the city
center, a complex network of passageways and cellars can be found. They
are about 14 km long and visitors can see the most beautiful part of this
labyrinth during the tour. It is recommended to visit the City Zoological
Garden, having the second largest space for bears in Europe and keeping
several Komodo dragons, large lizards which exist only in a few zoos in
the world.
The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen provides a variety of courses for
both Czech and international students. It is the only institution of
higher education in this part of the country which prepares students for
careers in engineering (electrical and mechanical), science (computer
science, applied mathematics, physics, and mechanics), education (both
primary and secondary), economics, philosophy, politics, archeology,
anthropology, foreign languages, law and public administration, art and
design.
GETTING THERE
The city has access from the D5 motorway connecting Prague (Praha) with
Germany. Pilsen has very good bus and train connections with the capital
of Prague (it takes about 1 - 1.5 hour to get from Prague to Pilsen).
>From Vaclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) you can reach Pilsen by frequent
public transport in 1.5 - 2 hours.
ACCOMMODATION
The organising committee has arranged accommodation for reasonable prices
in the angelo Hotel Pilsen, which is situated in the city center in
walking distance from the main railway station and opposite to the
historical entrance of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery. There are a lot of
restaurants in hotel neighbourhood offering specialities of national and
foreign cuisine. Student halls of residence will be also available at the
time of conference.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
Ms Anna Habernalova, TSD 2013 Conference Secretary
E-mail: tsd2013@tsdconference.org
Phone: +420 722 375 005
Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with capitals
'TSD' on top.
TSD 2013 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2013
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| 3-3-20 | (2013-09-30) 4th Summer school on Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior, Aix en Provence F The 4th summer school on 'Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior” will be hold in Aix-en-Provence from 30.9.2013 to 4.10.2013. Speakers show phonetic differences while producing the very same utterance. These speaker-specific differences occur at various linguistic levels and they can be realized phonetically by many parameters such as voice quality, speech rate, loudness, fundamental frequency, breathing, articulatory behavior, etc. At the same time, listeners can vary in the way they exploit such cues for the purpose of speech perception and understanding. Speaker-specific behavior has long been regarded irrelevant for linguistic theories and is generally treated as noise in the data. Methodologically, speaker-specific variation has often been ignored in the statistical modelling of speech production and perception data. However, there are numerous recent studies showing that speaker-specific variation allows for new insights into learning processes, speech planning and speech motor control strategies, processing of linguistic and paralinguistic information, among others. We seek to link findings from different disciplines by asking the following questions:
The invited international scholars have been chosen to address these issues. This summer school is mainly intended for graduate students, post-docs or researchers who work in the field of speech production, perception and perception-production interaction. We expect about 50 participants. One of the aims of the summer school is to provide a forum for exchanges between students, junior and senior researchers and encourage all participants to contribute to the dialog. Please send a letter of motivation and an abstract (no longer than 1 page) of your prospective contribution till to the 15th of May 2013. http://summerschool13.sciencesconf.org/ Confirmed invited speakers:
Organizing committee (in alphabetical order) Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin, Germany) Caroline Magister (ZAS Berlin, Germany) Daniel Pape (IEETA + UA Aveiro, Portugal) Caterina Petrone (LPL-CNRS Aix-en-Provence, France)
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| 3-3-21 | (2013-10-23) 5ème Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPhC) , Liège (Belgique). 5ème Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPhC) qui auront lieu à Liège les 23, 24, 25 octobre 2013.
Ces journées ont vu le jour à Paris en 2005 (www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/ilpga/JPC-2005/). En 2007, elles se sont déroulées à Grenoble, en 2009 à Aix-en-Provence (aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~jpc3/) et en 2011 à Strasbourg (journees-phonetique-clinique.u-strasbg.fr/). Elles ont lieu tous les deux ans. L’année 2013 sera Liégeoise (Belgique). En effet, elles seront organisées par le service de Logopédie de la Voix de l'Université de Liège de psychologie: cognition et comportement) en étroite collaboration avec le Laboratoires d'Images, Signaux et Dispositifs de Télécommunications de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles.
La phonétique réunit principalement des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs, ingénieurs, médecins et orthophoniste / logopèdes ; différentes corps de métiers complémentaires qui poursuivent le même objectif : une meilleure connaissance des processus d'acquisition, de développement et de dégénérescence du langage, de la parole et de la voix. Cette approche interdisciplinaire vise à optimiser les connaissances fondamentales relatives à la communication parlée, dans le but de mieux comprendre, évaluer, et remédier aux troubles de la parole et de la voix chez le sujet pathologique.
Dans ce contexte, cette série de colloques internationaux sur la production et la perception de la parole, chez le sujet pathologique, représente une opportunité pour des professionnels, des chercheurs confirmés etdes jeu nes chercheurs de formations différentes de présenter des résultats expérimentaux nouveaux et d’échanger des idées de diverses perspectives. Les communications porteront sur les études de la parole et de la voix pathologiques, chez l’adulte et chez l’enfant.
Nous espérons vous voir nombreux à ces 5ème Journées de Phonétique Clinique. Vous trouverez plus d’informations en visitant le site à l’adresse suivante : https://w3.fapse.ulg.ac.be/conferences/JPhC5/index.php
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| 3-3-22 | (2013-12-03) IEEE GlobalSIP Symposia, Austin TexasDeadline for IEEE GlobalSIP Symposia Proposals: November 15, 2012. GlobalSIP: http://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/ Austin, TX. December 3-5, 2013. IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing is a new flagship IEEE Signal Processing Society conference. It will focus on signal and information processing and up-and-coming signal processing themes. GlobalSIP comprises symposia selected based on responses to the call-for-symposia proposals. We are inviting symposia submissions on hot topics related to signal and information processing. Examples of potential topics include: Computational photography Camera networks and analytics Computational manufacturing Information systems for Big Data Processing Bio signal processing Machine learning Emerging sensing modalities Signal processing, learning and decision making in networks Green communications Data and processing for energy management Sparsity in information processing Proposals may be focused on a specific mathematical tool, or on a particular application. Successful symposia may be repeated from year to year. We are currently soliciting symposium proposals. For more information on the preparation of a symposium proposal, please refer to: http://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/SymposiaGuidelines.pdf Symposia proposals may be submitted to any one of the technical program chairs.
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| 3-3-23 | (2014) Speech Prosody 2014 Dublin.Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.
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| 3-3-24 | (xxxx-xx-xx) Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems
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| 3-3-25 | 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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