FIRST WORKSHOP ON SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND AUDIO IN MULTIMEDIA

Organized by
ISCA SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia
IEEE SIG on Audio and Speech Processing for Multimedia

as a satellite event of Interspeech 2013

Aug. 22—23, 2013, Marseille, France

http://slam2013.lif.univ-mrs.fr

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The first Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM) aims at bringing together researchers working in speech, language and audio processing to analyze, index and access multimedia data. Multimedia data are now available in very large amounts with a wide variety of formats and qualities, from professional content to user-generated ones: Lectures, meetings, interviews, debates, conversational broadcast, podcasts, social videos on the Web, etc. Such data, along with the associated use scenarios, raise specific challenges: Robustness facing the high variability in quality; Efficiency to handle very large amount of data; Semantics shared across modalities; Potentially high error rates in transcription; etc. Worldwide, several national and international research projects are focusing on audio analysis of multimedia data. Similarly, various benchmark initiatives have been initiated such as TRECVID MED, MediaEval, or ETAPE and REPERE in France.

The SLAM workshop intends to bring together players from the field to share recent research results, discuss ongoing and future projects, benchmarking initiatives and applications. We expect communications on research work, project description, evaluation initiative, demonstrations and applications dealing with speech and/or language and/or audio on any type of multimedia material.

The workshop is organized in conjunction with Interspeech 2013 over 1.5 days, starting Thu. 22, 2013 at mid-day and ending Fri. 23, 2013 afternoon, right before the main conference. Marseille is conveniently connected by high-speed train to Lyon where the Interspeech conference will take place. The format of the workshop will include an invited talk and oral presentations of scientific work.


*Important dates*
registration deadline : July 10th, 2013
workshop: August 22-23, 2013
Interspeech conference: August 25-30, 2013

The first SLAM workshop is jointly organized by the newly created ISCA SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia and by the IEEE SIG on Audio and Speech Processing in Multimedia. This first edition is intended as the first of a series of workshop.

General Chairs:
Frédéric Bechet (LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille Université)
Guillaume Gravier (IRISA, CNRS)

Scientific committee:
Xavier Anguera (Telefónica)
Frédéric Bechet (Aix Marseille Université)
Delphine Charlet (Orange Labs)
Gerald Friedland (ICSI)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Guillaume Gravier (CNRS)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
Martha Larson (TU Delft)
Lin-Shan Lee (National Taiwan University)
Georges Linarès (Université d'Avignon)
Florian Metze (CMU)

Organizing committee:
Patrice Bellot (LSIS-CNRS, Aix Marseille Université)
Hervé Bredin (LIMSI, CNRS)
Benoît Favre (LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille Université)
Sylvain Meigner (LIUM, Université du Maine)
Christian Raymond (IRISA, INSA Rennes)

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SIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE 

14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue 

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference14/ Metz, France 23-24 August 2013 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge 

research in discourse and dialog to both academic and industry researchers. 

Continuing with a series of thirteen successful previous meetings, this conference 

spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored 

by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on discourse 

and dialog for both ACL and ISCA. Topics of Interest We welcome formal, corpus-based, 

implementation or analytical work on discourse and dialog including but not restricted 

to the following themes and topics:

 - Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems 

- Corpora, Tools and Methodology 

- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling 

- Dimensions of Interaction 

- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology 

For a detailed list, see the complete list of topics of interest on the SIGDIAL 2013 website. 

Special Theme: Discourse and Dialogue in Social Media Processing language in social 

media has attracted a noticeable amount of interest in recent years.

 Language in this new kind of media offers many opportunities and challenges, 

from the point of view of discourse and dialogue. To start with, an astounding 

amount of conversational data is created each day on Twitter and Facebook, 

but also on many blogs. Additionally, social media provides a window into a variety

 of human behaviors that rarely appear in the controlled data sets our community is 

accustomed to work with. We invite submissions on all aspects of discourse and 

dialogue processing of language as used in a variety of social media platforms, 

from Twitter and Facebook, to any type of blogs, micro-blogs, collaborative wikis, 

and multimedia sharing sites. We particularly welcome contributions that highlight 

new insights into discourse and dialogue phenomena in this new genre, or describe 

new discourse and dialogue processing models emerging from it. 

INVITED SPEAKERS 

Dr Jerome R. Bellegarda, Apple Inc, USA 

Prof Bonnie L. Webber, University of Edinburgh,UK

 SUBMISSIONS 

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and 

demo descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. 

Long papers will be presented in full plenary presentations. They must be no longer 

than 8 pages, including title, content, and examples. 

Two additional pages are allowed for references and appendices, which may include 

extended example discourses or dialogs, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. 

Short papers will be featured in short plenary presentations, followed by posters. 

They should be no longer than 4 pages, including title and content. One additional 

page is allowed for references and appendices. Demonstrations will be presented in 

special sessions, separate from short paper presentations and poster sessions. 

Demo descriptions will appear in a dedicated section of the proceedings and should 

be no longer than 3 pages, including references. To encourage late breaking demos, 

demo submissions have a later deadline. Papers that have been or will be submitted 

to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission format). 

SIGDIAL 2013 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) 

published elsewhere, except for demonstrations. Any questions regarding submissions 

can be sent to the technical program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. 

Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips 

or sound clips and examples of available resources for review purposes. Submission

 is electronic using paper submission software at https://www.softconf.com/d/sigdial2013/ 

FORMAT 

All long, short, and demo submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2013 format. 

We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files 

tailored for the ACL 2013 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2013 

style guidelines (http://acl2013.org/site/call.html), and they must be electronic in PDF. 

As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous. 

MENTORING SERVICE 

For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring service. 

Submissions with innovative core ideas that may need language (English) or 

organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and conditionally accepted 

with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously

 published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare

 their submissions for publication. Any questions about the mentoring service can be 

addressed to the mentoring chair, Dr. Kallirroi Georgila, at kgeorgila[at]ict.usc.edu. 

BEST PAPER AWARDS 

In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse science and technology, 

SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent 

researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. 

SPONSORSHIP 

SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email 

the conference organizers at sigdial-conf[at]sigdial.org. 

DIALOGUE AND DISCOURSE SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to 

the journal Dialogue and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGDIAL. 

IMPORTANT DATES 

Long and Short Papers Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, 3 May 2013 (23:59, GMT-11) 

Paper Notification: Friday, 21 June 2013 

Final Paper Due 

- For papers accepted subject to receiving mentoring Friday, 19 July 2013 

- For accepted papers Wednesday, 24 July 2013 

Demos 

Demo Paper Submission Deadline Tuesday, 2 July 2013 (23:59, GMT-11) 

Demo Paper Notification Wednesday, 10 July 2013 

Final Demo Paper Due Wednesday, 24 July 2013 

Conference Friday-Saturday, 23-24 August 2013 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 

General Co-Chairs 

Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 

Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany

 Technical Program Co-Chairs 

Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 

Jason D. Williams, Microsoft Research, USA 

Mentoring Chair 

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies 

Local Chair 

Olivier Pietquin, Supelec, France 

Sponsorships Chair 

Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA

SIGDIAL President 

Tim Paek, Microsoft Research,USA 

SIGDIAL Vice President 

Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA 

SIGDIAL Secretary/Treasurer 

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland 

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                                  Call for Papers

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Fourth International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems

                                       PQS 2013

                                 2-4 September 2013

                                   Vienna, Austria

                                  http://pqs.ftw.at

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The fourth international workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems aims to bring together leading professionals and scientists from different fields that are all related to perceptual quality. Supported by ISCA and the European COST action Qualinet, this event will serve as a forum facilitating for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between both academic and industrial researchers working on different aspects of perceptual quality of systems. Inaugurated in Herne/Mont Cenis (2003) and continued in Berlin (2006) and Bautzen (2010), PQS 2013 will be held in Vienna, Austria.

User perceived quality of technical systems is grounded on human experience and therefore hence a highly complex and multidimensional phenomenon.  Thus, any approach to quality assessment and prediction has to take the relevant human perception and judgment factors into account, an issue that has been addressed by a number of scientific disciplines including psychophysics, cognitive psychology, speech and audiovisual quality assessment, human computer interaction (HCI), usability and user experience research, and Quality of Experience (QoE).

Authors are invited to submit extended paper abstracts (1.5-2 pages) until March 31, 2013 using the guidelines and tools available under the following link:

http://pqs.ftw.at/submission

Contributions typically refer to methodological aspects of quality and usability assessment and evaluation, the underlying perception and judgment processes, as well as to user perceived quality of particular technologies, systems or services. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Methodologies and Methods of Quality Assessment and Evaluation

* Metrology: Test Design and Scaling

* Quality of Speech, Audio and Music

* Quality of Images and Video

* Quality of Haptics

* Quality of Multimodal and Multi-sensory Perception

* Perceptual Quality vs. Quality of Experience vs. User Experience vs. Usability

* Semio-Acoustics and -Perception

* Quality Engineering Processes

* Quality and Usability of

                - Speech Technology Devices

                - Interactive Telecommunication Systems and Services

                - Multi-Modal User Interfaces

                - Haptic and Olfactory Interfaces

                - Audiovisual, 3D and Virtual Reality Systems

Important Dates:

- Submission (Extended Abstracts): March 31, 2013

- Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2013

- Camera-ready submission: June 15, 2013

Local Organizing Committee:

Raimund Schatz, FTW

 Sebastian Egger, FTW

General Organizing Committee:

Sebastian Möller, TU Berlin

Alexander Raake, TU Berlin

Ercan Altinsoy, TU Dresden

 Tobias Hossfeld, University of Würzburg

Technical Program Committee:

Alan Sharpley, Dynastat, USA

Ina Wechsung, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany

Katrien de Moor, Ghent University, Belgium

Durand Begault, NASA-Ames Research Center, USA

Hans W. Gierlich, HEAD acoustics GmbH, Germany

Jens Blauert, IKA, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

John Beerends, TNO Telecom, The Netherlands

Jonas Braasch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

Kate Stevens, MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Margret Pinson, NTIA Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, Boulder, USA

Norbert Reithinger, DFKI Projektbüro Berlin, Germany

Patrick Le Callet, University of Nantes, France

Peter Svensson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Ramón López-Cózar Delgado, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Ulrich Heute, DSS, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany

Andrew Perkis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Christian Timmerer, Alpe Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

Jens Berger, SwissQual / Rohde & Schwarz, Switzerland

Ulrich Reiter, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Stefan Winkler, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore

Akira Takahashi, NTT, Japan

Harilaos Koumaras, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Tiago Falk, INRS-EMT, Canada

For further information please visit http://pqs.ftw.at

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