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| 3-1-1 | (2014-09-14) CfP INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore Interspeech 2014 Singapore September 14-18, 2014
INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language processing, both in humans and in machines. The theme of INTERSPEECH 2014 is 'Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages'. INTERSPEECH 2014 emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of speech science and technology spanning basic theories to applications. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, the conference will also feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. A number of satellite events will take place immediately before and after the conference. Please follow the details of these and other news at the INTERSPEECH website www.interspeech2014.org. We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including but not limited to: 1: Speech Perception and Production 2: Prosody, Phonetics, Phonology, and Para-/Non- Linguistic Information 3: Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals 4: Speech Coding and Enhancement 5: Speaker and Language Identification 6: Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation 7: Speech Recognition - Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, and Adaptation 8: Speech Recognition - Architecture, Search & Linguistic Components 9: LVCSR and Its Applications, Technologies and Systems for New Applications 10: Spoken Language Processing - Dialogue, Summarization, Understanding 11: Spoken Language Processing -Translation, Info Retrieval 12: Spoken Language Evaluation, Standardization and Resources A detailed description of these areas is accessible at:
http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=conference_areas.html
Paper Submission Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2014 proceedings should be up to 4 pages of text, plus one page (maximum) for references only. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and provided in the Authors’ kit, on the INTERSPEECH 2014 website, along with the Call for Papers. Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia files, which will be included in the official conference proceedings USB drive. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and are not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g. another conference, workshop, or journal). Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system, which will be opened in February 2014. The conference will be conducted in English. Information on the paper submission procedure is available at: http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=submission_procedure.html There will be NO extension to the full paper submission deadline.
We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore!
Helen Meng and Bin Ma Technical Program Chairs
Contact
Email: tpc@interspeech2014.org organizers.interspeech2014@isca-speech.org— For general enquiries
Conference website: www.interspeech2014.org
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| 3-1-2 | (2014-09-14) INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore
It is a great pleasure to announce that the 15th edition of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH) will be held in Singapore during September 14-18, 2014. INTERSPEECH 2014 will bring together the community to celebrate the diversity of spoken languages in the vibrant city state of Singapore. INTERSPEECH 2014 is proudly organized by the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS), the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
Ten steps to Singapore
You want to know more about Singapore?
During the next ten months, the organization committee will introduce you to Singaporean culture through a series of brief newsletters featuring topics related to spoken languages in Singapore. Please stay tuned!
Workshops
Submission deadline: December 1, 2013
Satellite workshops related to speech and language research will be hosted in Singapore as well as in Phuket Island, Thailand (1 hr 20 min flight from Singapore) and in Penang, Malaysia (1 hr flight from Singapore).
Proposals must be submitted by email to workshops@interspeech2014.org before December 1, 2013. Notification of acceptance and ISCA approval/sponsorship will be announced by January 31, 2014.
Sponsorship and Exhibition
The objective of INTERSPEECH 2014 is to foster scientific exchanges in all aspects of Speech Communication sciences with a special focus on the diversity of spoken languages. We are pleased to invite you to take part in this major event as a sponsor. For more information, view the Sponsorship
Conference venue
INTERSPEECH 2014 main conference will be held in the MAX Atria @ Singapore Expo.
Organizers
Lists of the organizing, advisory and technical program committees are available on line (here).
Follow us
Facebook: ISCA
Twitter: @Interspeech2014 follow hash tags: #is2014 or #interspeech2014
LinkedIn Interspeech
Contact
Conference website: www.interspeech2014.org
organizers.interspeech2014@isca-speech.org— For general enquiries
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| 3-1-3 | (2015) INTERSPEECH 2015 Dresden RFA Interspeech 2015
September 6-10, 2015, Dresden, Germany
SPECIAL TOPIC Speech Beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal
MOTIVATION Speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is the most common means of human-human communication, and therefore research and development in speech and language are not only paramount for understanding humans, but also to facilitate human-machine interaction. Still, not all characteristics of speech are fully understood, and even fewer are used for developing successful speech and language processing applications. Speech can exploit its full potential only if we consider the characteristics which are beyond the traditional (and still important) linguistic content. These characteristics include other biosignals that are directly accessible to human perception, such as muscle and brain activity, as well as articulatory gestures.
INTERSPEECH 2015 will therefore be organized around the topic “Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal”. Our conviction is that spoken language processing can make a substantial leap if it caters for the full information which is available in the speech signal. By opening our prestigious conference to researchers in other biosignal communities, we expect that substantial advances can be made discussing ideas and approaches across discipline and community boundaries.
ORGANIZERS The following preliminary list of principal organizers plan INTERSPEECH 2015:
LOCATION The event will be staged in the recently built Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) in Dresden, Germany. As the capital of Saxony, an up-and-coming region located in the former eastern part of Germany, Dresden combines glorious and painful history with a strong dedication to future and technology. It is located in the heart of Europe, easily reached via two airports, and will offer a great deal of history and culture to INTERSPEECH 2015 delegates. Guests are well catered for in a variety of hotels of different standards and price ranges, making INTERSPEECH 2015 an exciting as well as an affordable event.
CONTACT Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller, Quality and Usability Lab, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, TU Berlin Sekr. TEL-18, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, D-10587 Berlin, Germany Web: www.interspeech2015.org
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| 3-1-4 | (2016) INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA Interspeech 2016 will take place from September 8-12 2016 in San Francisco, CA, USA General Chair is Nelson Morgan.
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| 3-1-5 | CfP Speech Technology for the Interspeech App Call for Proposals Speech Technology for the Interspeech App During the past Interspeech conference in Lyon, a mobile application (app) was provided for accessing the conference program, designing personal schedules, inspecting abstracts, full papers and the list of authors, navigating through the conference center, or recommending papers to colleagues. This app was designed by students and researchers of the Quality and Usability Lab, TU Berlin, and will be made available to ISCA and to future conference and workshop organizers free-of-charge. It will also be used for the upcoming Interspeech 2014 in Singapore, and is available under both iOS and Android. In its current state, the app is limited to mostly touch-based input and graphical output. However, we would like to develop the app into a useful tool for the spoken language community at large, which should include speech input and output capabilities, and potentially full spoken-language and multimodal interaction. The app could also be used for collecting speech data under realistic environmental conditions, for distributing multimedia examples or surveys during the conference, or for other research purposes. In addition, the data which is being collected with the app (mostly interaction usage patterns) could be analyzed further. The Quality and Usability Lab of TU Berlin would like to invite interested parties to contribute to this development. Contributions could be made by providing ready-built modules (e.g. ASR, TTS, or alike) for integration into the app, by proposing new functionalities which would be of interest to a significant part of the community, and preferably by offering workforce for such future developments. If you are interested in contributing to this, please send an email with your proposals to interspeechapp@qu.tu-berlin.de by October 31, 2013. In case that a sufficient number of interested parties can be found, we plan to submit a proposal for a special session around speech technology in mobile applications for the upcoming Interspeech in Singapore. More information on the current version of the app can be found in: Schleicher, R., Westermann, T., Li, J., Lawitschka, M., Mateev, B., Reichmuth, R., Möller, S. (2013). Design of a Mobile App for Interspeech Conferences: Towards an Open Tool for the Spoken Language Community, in: Proc. 14th Ann. Conf. of the Int. Speech Comm. Assoc. (Interspeech 2013), Aug. 25-29, Lyon.
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| 3-1-6 | INTERSPEECH 2014 Calls for workshops, special sessions and tutorialsINTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE September 14-18, 2014
http://www.interspeech2014.org
The organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2014 invites proposals for workshops,
special sessions and tutorials around INTERSPEECH 2014, which will be held in Singapore
on September 14-18, 2014.
The theme of INTERSPEECH 2014 is “Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages”.
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WORKSHOPS (submission by the 1 December, 2013) ******************************
The Organizing Committee would be pleased to host various workshops and satellite events
of INTERSPEECH 2014 in order to stimulate focus areas and research activities related to
speech and language. If you are interested in organizing a workshop, or would like a planned
event to be listed as an official satellite event:
More information on http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=call_for_workshop.html
Contact Dr Chai Wutiwiwatchai at: workshops@interspeech2014.org ***********************
SPECIAL SESSIONS (submission by the 31 December, 2013) ****************************
Submissions of Special Session proposals covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new
emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics are encouraged. Submissions
related to the special focus of the conference, “Celebrating the Diversity of Spoken Languages”,
are particularly welcome. Apart from a particular theme, special sessions should be the
opportunity for a format different from a regular session.
More information on
http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=call_for_special_sessions.html
Contact Dr. Tomi H. Kinnunen at: tkinnu@cs.uef.fi *************************************
TUTORIALS (submission by the 3 January 2014) **************************************
INTERSPEECH 2014 will host a number of high calibre tutorials covering interdisciplinary topics
and/or emerging areas of interest. Applications for tutorials that either introduce a new area of
interest to the speech research community or provide a condensed overview of an active area of
speech related research are strongly encouraged. Each tutorial will be of three or six hour
duration and is expected to provide a complete coverage of the proposed topic rather than focus
on individual research. More information on
http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=call_for_tutorial.html
Contact Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah at: ambi@ee.unsw.edu.au.
The Organizing team
of INTERSPEECH 2014
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| 3-1-7 | INTERSPEECH 2014 Singapore Newsletter January 2014
English in Singapore
Attending INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore you will probably be glad to know that English is spoken in any corner of the island. Indeed, it is one of the four national languages and the second language spoken in Singapore's homes. According to the last census, in 2010, 89% of the population is literate in English, making of Singapore a very convenient place for tourism, shopping, research or to hold a conference.
Historical context of English in Singapore
The history of Singapore started as the first settlements were established in the 13th century AD [2]. Along the years, Singapore was part of different kingdoms and sultanas until the 19th century, when modern Singapore was founded under the impulsion of the British Empire. In 1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles landed in Singapore and established a treaty with the local rulers to develop a new trading station. From this date, the importance of Singapore continuously grew under the influence of Sir Raffles who, despite not being very present on the island, was the real builder of modern Singapore. Singapore remained under British administration until the Second World War and became a Crown Colony after the end of the conflict. Followed a brief period during which Singapore was part of the Federation of Malaya before becoming independent in 1965 and part of the Commonwealth of Nations.
From this history, Singapore conserved English as one of its four official languages as well as many landmarks that deserve a visit beside of INTERSPEECH. Amongst them, Singapore Botanic Garden, founded in 1859, is internationally renowned [3]. This urban garden of 74 hectares was laid there by Sir Raffles to cultivate and preserve local plants in the tradition of the tropical colonial gardens. Including a Rain Forest, several lakes, an orchid garden and a performance stage, Singapore Botanic Garden is a very popular place to enjoy free concerts on week end afternoons.
Other green spot in the “City in a Garden”, the Padang (field in Malay) was created by Sir Raffles, always him, who planned to reserve the space for public purposes. The place is now famous for the two cricket clubs founded in 1870 and 1883 at both ends of the field and the games that can be watched on weekends.
Amongst the numerous landmarks inherited from the British colonization, the most famous include St Andrew's Anglican cathedral, the Victoria Theater, the Fullerton building, Singapore's City Hall, Old Parliament house, the Central Fire Station and many black and white bungalows built from the 19th century for the rich expatriate families. Some of those bungalows, now transformed in restaurant, will offer you a peaceful atmosphere to enjoy a local diner.
The role of English in Singapore
English has a special place in Singapore as it is the only national language which is not a “mother-tongue”. Indeed, Alsagoff [6] framed English as “cultureless” in that it is “disassociated from Western culture” in the Singaporean context. This cultural voiding makes English an ethnically neutral language used as lingua franca between ethnic groups [5] after replacing the local Malay in this role [4]. Interestingly, English is the only compulsory language of education, and its status in school is that of First Language, as opposed to the Second Language status delegated to the other official languages. By promoting the use of English as working language, the will of the government is to not advantage or disadvantage any ethnic group.
Nevertheless, the theoretical equality stated in the constitution between the four national languages is not always present in practice. For instance, English is overwhelming parliamentary business and some governmental websites are only available in English. Additionally, all legislation is in English only [4].
Singapore English
The standard Singapore English is almost similar to the British English although very cosmopolitan, with 42% of the population born outside the country. Nevertheless, a new standard of pronunciation has been emerging recently [1]. Interestingly, this pronunciation is independent of any external standard and some aspects of it cannot be predicted by reference to British English or any other variety of external English.
The other form of English that you will hear in Singapore is known as Singlish. It is a colorful Creole including words from the many languages spoken in Singapore such as various Chinese dialects (Hokkien, TeoChew, and Cantonese), Malay or Tamil. Many things might be said about Singlish and another newsletter will be especially dedicated to this local variant. Don't miss it!
[1] Deterding, David (2003). 'Emergent patterns in the vowels of Singapore English' National Institute of Education, Singapore. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
[2] http://www.yoursingapore.com/content/traveller/en/browse/aboutsingapore/a-brief-history.html
[3] http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5786/ , (on line January 7th, 2014)
[4] Leimgruber, J. R. (2013). The management of multilingualism in a city-state: Language policy in Singapore. In I. G. Peter Siemund, Multilingualism and Language Contact in Urban Areas: Acquisition development, teaching, communication (pp. 229-258). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
[5] Harada, Shinichi. 'The Roles of Singapore Standard English and Singlish.' 情報研究 40 (2009): 69-81.
[6] Alsagoff, L. (2007). Singlish: Negotiating culture, capital and identity. In Language, Capital, Culture: Critical studies of language and education in Singapore (pp. 25-46). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
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| 3-2-1 | (2014-06-23) JEP 2014 (www.jep2014.org) Le Mans FranceAppel à Communications JEP 2014 (www.jep2014.org) Les Journées d'Études de la Parole (JEP) sont consacrées à l'étude de la communication parlée
ainsi qu'à ses applications. Ces journées ont pour but de rassembler l'ensemble des
communautés scientifiques francophones travaillant dans le domaine. La conférence se veut
aussi un lieu d'échange convivial entre doctorants et chercheurs confirmés.
En 2014, les JEP sont organisées au Mans par le Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université
du Maine (LIUM) et par le Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique (LINA), sous l'égide
de l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP). Dates importantes Soumission des communications : 31 janvier 2014 Notification d’acceptation : 28 mars 2014 Soumission des versions définitives : 11 avril 2014 Conférence : du 23 au 27 juin 2014 Thématiques Les communications porteront sur la communication parlée et le traitement de la parole dans
leurs différents aspects. Les thèmes de la conférence incluent, de façon non limitative : Acoustique de la parole Acquisition de la parole et du langage Analyse, codage et compression de la parole Applications à composantes orales (dialogue, indexation, etc) Apprentissage d'une langue seconde Communication multimodale Dialectologie Évaluation, corpus et ressources Langues en danger Modèles de langage Parole audio-visuelle Pathologies de la parole Perception de parole Phonétique et phonologie Phonétique clinique Prises de position présentant un point de vue sur les sciences et technologies de la parole Production de parole Prosodie Psycholinguistique Reconnaissance et compréhension de la parole Reconnaissance de la langue Reconnaissance du locuteur Signaux sociaux, sociophonétique Synthèse de la parole Critères de Sélection Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet
de publications antérieures. Les contributions proposées seront examinées par au moins deux
spécialistes du domaine. Seront considérées en particulier : - l’importance et l’originalité de la contribution ; - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine ; - la situation des travaux présentés dans le contexte de la recherche internationale ; - l’organisation et la clarté de la présentation ; - l’adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence. Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la conférence. Bourses L’AFCP offre un certain nombre de bourses pour les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs désireux de
prendre part à la conférence, voir le site de l’AFCP. L’ISCA apporte également un soutien financier aux jeunes chercheurs participant à des
manifestations scientifiques sur la parole et le langage, voir le site de l’ISCA. Contacts : yannick.esteve@univ-lemans.fr ou emmanuel.morin@univ-nantes.fr
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| 3-2-2 | (2014-09-08) Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2014) 17th International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2014) Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic TSD SERIES TSD series 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. 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 (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, 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) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair) Eneko Agirre, Spain Genevieve Baudoin, France Paul Cook, Australia Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Karina Evgrafova, Russia Darja Fiser, Slovenia Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, GB Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Maria Khokhlova, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom France Mihelic, Slovenia Hermann Ney, Germany Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Oliva, Czech Republic Karel Pala, Czech Republic Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Fabio Pianesi, Italy Maciej Piasecki, Poland Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Stefan Steidl, Germany Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Tadic, Croatia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Yorick Wilks, GB Marcin Wolinski, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy 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. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. CONFERENCE PROGRAM The conference program will include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised. IMPORTANT DATES March 15 2014 ............ Submission of abstract March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2014 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2014@tsdconference.org The official TSD 2014 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/ LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Eindhoven, Rome and Prague and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
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| 3-3-1 | (2014) Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin. Speech Prosody 2014 in Dublin.
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| 3-3-2 | (2014- 05-27) CfP WILDRE2- 2nd Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation
SUBMISSIONSPapers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by two program committee members. Accepted papers will be given up to 10 pages (for full papers) 5 pages (for short papers and posters) in the workshop proceedings, and will be presented oral presentation or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the style-sheet, which will be provided on the LREC 2014 website (lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/). Please submit papers in PDF/doc format to the LREC website We are seeking submissions under the following category
Though our area of interest covers all NLP/language technology related activity for Indian languages, we would like to focus on the resource creation in the following areas-
Both submission and review processes will handled electronically using the Start interface of the LREC website. The workshop website will provide the submission guidelines and the link for the electronic submission. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc... For further information on this initiative, please refer to http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/. Conference Chairs
Program Committee (to be updated)
Workshop contact:Esha Banerjee, Sr Linguist, ILCI project @JNU esha.jnu@gmail.com
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| 3-3-3 | (2014-01-14) 6ème Journée d'Etude et de Formation sur la Parole (JEFP), Aix en Provence 6ème Journée d'Etude et de Formation sur la Parole (JEFP) organisée sous l'égide de l'AFCP :
L'étude de la parole conduit des chercheurs de différentes disciplines (sciences humaines, sciences de l’ingénieur, science de la vie,...) à collaborer. Ces disciplines ont chacune leurs références et leurs applications, et il apparaît extrêmement judicieux de mettre ces connaissances et expertises en commun pour appréhender certaines questions de recherche. Fortes de leur succès, ces journées repartent pour une nouvelle édition 2013/2014. La sixième JEFP aura lieu le 14 Janvier 2014 de 9h30 à 18h au Laboratoire Parole et Langage au 5 Avenue Pasteur, Aix en-Provence. Cette journée aura pour thématique « Etude et analyse prosodiques de la parole: de la forme acoustique aux fonctions linguistiques », et afin d’appréhender au mieux cette dernière, la journée s’articulera en deux parties ; une théorique avec les interventions de : Albert Di Cristo « la Prosodie de la parole à la lumière de l’articulation Formes-Fonctions-Sens » Mariapaola D’imperio « Modèles autosegmental-métrique et d’alignement tonal » Daniel Hirst « Analyse acoustique et modélisation de l’intonation » Ensuite une partie ateliers pratiques qui a pour but de faciliter la prise en main de nouveaux programmes de traitement de la parole, avec pour intervenants : Philippe Martin « WinPitch : Programme d’analyse acoustique » Brigitte Bigi et Tatsuya Watanabe « SPPAS : Outils et ressources pour un traitement optimisé de la langue » L'ensemble des résumés des interventions sont accessibles depuis l’adresse suivante http://jefp.univ-avignon.fr/jefp_3.php Etant donné que les places sont limitées, nous vous invitons à vous inscrire le plus rapidement possible, ces journées s’adressent prioritairement aux doctorants et jeunes chercheurs, mais restent ouvertes à d’autres participants. Nous vous rappelons également que ces journées sont gratuites. L’inscription se fait en envoyant un email à l’adresse suivante L’AFCP dispose d’un budget alloué au remboursement (total ou partiel) de vos frais de transport, le remboursement se fera sur pièces justificatives à présenter à la fin de la journée. Merci de nous prévenir lors de votre inscription si vous souhaitez bénéficier d’une bourse de transport et de nous donner une idée du montant. Compte tenu de la politique tarifaire de la SNCF, pensez à réserver vos billets rapidement. En espérant vous voir nombreux, Bien cordialement,
Le comité d’organisation des 6émes JEFP.
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| 3-3-4 | (2014-01-18) 5th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2014), Napa, CA, USA 5th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2014)
Situated Dialog
Napa, California, US, January 18-20, 2014
** ANNOUNCEMENT **
Following the success of IWSDS-2009 (Irsee, Germany), IWSDS-2010 (Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan), IWSDS-2011 (Granada, Spain), and IWSDS-2012, (Paris, France), the Fifth International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS-2014) will be held in Napa, California, US on January 18-20, 2014.
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.
To date many dialog systems have been developed for well-defined domains most notably information access and simple transactions. As spoken language technologies become more sophisticated more diverse domains have begun to be explored. One direction has been towards systems that are untethered and that do not rely on a clearly demarcated domain. More recently, researchers have begun to explore systems for domains that require a clear awareness of dynamic context and surroundings, also known as situated dialog systems. Such domains include robotic and automotive systems, but also systems found in mobile devices and in the cloud.
Situated dialog represents the next step in creating spoken language systems that can be used by humans as a part of everyday life but it presents new research challenges. For example perception becomes significantly more important as the current state of the world plays a role in the interaction; moreover situated dialog often requires more advanced reasoning capabilities than non-situated systems. Humans might also expect systems to understand and retain new information and be able to accept relatively complex direction. Many of these systems are used in hands-busy eyes-busy situations, where spoken language becomes the principal means of communication.
Areas of research that touch on Situated Dialog: * Auditory scene analysis and interpretation * Acquisition and tracking of dialog channels * Explicit and implicit grounding * Out-of-Vocabulary inputs and their resolution * Advanced conversational capabilities: Initiation and termination * Managing multi-party dialogs * Multi-modal interaction (gesture and gaze) * Language-based learning and instruction * Dialog interaction for robotic systems or kiosks * Interfaces to automotive systems * Spoken language for mobile applications
Research and development in the following areas are relevant to this meeting; we also invite the submission of original papers in any related area:
* Speech recognition and understanding, 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.
PAPER SUBMISSION
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. As usual, it is planned that a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference. 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 6-10 pages, not including references.
* 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.
* 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.
IMPORTANT DATES: October 13, 2013 (23:59 GMT) Deadline for submission November 18, 2013: Author notification December 2, 2013: Deadline for final submission of accepted paper December 23, 2013: Final Program available online January 18-20, 2014 Workshop
VENUE: IWSDS 2014 will be held as a two-day residential seminar at The Carneros Inn in Napa, USA, where attendees will be accommodated. January 20th will be devoted to visits at laboratories in the Bay Area's Silicon Valley.
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)
Organizing Committee: Alexander Rudnicky (CMU) (Chair), Ian Lane (CMU), Antoine Raux (Lenovo), Teruhisa Misu (HRI USA)
Scientific Committee: Jan Alexandersson - DFKI, Germany; Masahiro Araki - Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan; André Berton - Daimler, Germany; Dan Bohus - Microsoft, USA; Axel Buendia - SpirOps, France; Susan Burger - CMU, USA; Felix Burkhard - Deutsche Telekom Lab., Germany ; oraida Callejas - Univ. Granada, Spain; Heriberto Cuayahuitl - DFKI, Germany; Yannick Estève - LIUM, France; Sadaoki Furui - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; David Griol - Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; Joakim Gustafson - KTH, Sweden; Olivier Hamon - ELDA, France; Paul Heisterkamp - Daimler, Germany; Dirk Heylen - Univ. Twente, The Netherlands; Ryuichiro Higashinaka - NTT, Japan; Julia Hirshberg - Columbia Univ., USA; Kristiina Jokinen - Helsinki Univ., Finland; Tatsuya Kawahara - Kyoto Univ., Japan; Harksoo Kim - Kangwon National University, Korea ;Hong Kook Kim - Gwangju Inst. of Science and Technology, Korea; Seokhwan Kim - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Kazunori Komatani - Nagoya Univ, Japan; Fabrice Lefèvre - LIA, France; Haizhou Li - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Matthew Marge - CMU, USA; Michael McTear - Univ. Ulster, UK; Yasuhiro Minami - NTT, Japan; Teruhisa Misu - HRI, USA; Mikio Nakano - Honda Resaerch Institute, Japan; Shrikanth S. Narayanan - SAIL, USA; Elmar Nöeth - Univ. Erlangen, Germany; Roberto Pieraccini - ICSI - Berkeley, USA; Olivier Pietquin - Sup'Elec, France; Norbert Reithinger - DFKI, Germany; Björn Schuller - Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany; Lizbeth Shriberg - ICSI, SRI and Microsoft, USA; Gabriel Skantze - KTH, Sweden; Sebastian Stüker - KIT, Germany; Kazuya Takeda - Nagoya Univ., Japan; Stefanie Tellex - Brown U., USA; David Traum - USC, USA; Hsin-min Wang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Nigel Ward - UTEP, USA; Jason Williams - Microsoft, USA
Supporting organization: SIGdial
** Please contact air@cs.cmu.edu or visit www.iwsds.org for more information. **
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| 3-3-5 | (2014-01-22) AISV 2014 X Convegno Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Scienze della VoceX Convegno Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Scienze della VoceUniversità degli Studi di Torino22-24 gennaio 2014The conference will take place at the Department of Foreign Languages of the University of Turin, via Verdi, 10. Contact: aisv2014@gmail.com
gemellato con l'evento Conferenza TAL 2014 Organizzato da Associazione Italiana di Scienze della VoceLFSAGUniversità degli Studi di Torino
Besides the topics which are usually discussed in the AISV workshops you are invited to submit abstracts in the following fields:
Abstract Submission
Your abstract must be formatted in PDF format and composed of about 2000 words (or 10000 characters, included spaces). The deadline for the abstracts' submission is scheduled for October 14, 2013. There is no template for the abstract. Contributions should be in anonymous form avoiding citations and minimizing those elements that would allow reviewers to determine the identity of the authors. For this purpose we invite you NOT to put the bibliography in the abstract (which will be inserted in the final paper). Abstracts containing cues about their authors will be anonymized by a member of the organizing committee.
Send the abstract in attachment to an e-mail addressed to aisv2014@gmail.com Please state in the body of the message the following data:
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| 3-3-6 | (2014-02-23) CfP MMEDIA 2014, The Sixth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia, Nice ,FMMEDIA 2014, The Sixth International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia February 23 - 27, 2014 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/MMEDIA14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPMMEDIA14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitMMEDIA14.html Submission deadline: October 12, 2013 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html MMEDIA 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Fundamentals in multimedia Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications; New multimedia platforms; Multimedia architectural specification languages; Theoretical aspects and algorithms for multimedia; Multimedia content delivery networks; Network support for multimedia data; Multimedia data storage; Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems; Multimedia signal coding and processing (audio, video, image); Multimedia applications (telepresence, triple-play, quadruple-play, …); Multimedia tools (authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, …); Computational multimedia intelligence (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, …); Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis; Multimedia networking; Wired and wireless multimedia systems; Distributed multimedia systems; Multisensor data integration and fusion; Multimedia and P2P; Multimedia standards Multimedia content and modeling Interfaces for multimedia creation; Multimedia streaming and services; Image modeling and editing; Audio modeling and transformation; Video modeling and transformation; Image recognition; Multimedia databases; Multimedia coding and encryption; Multimedia modeling for learning content; Multimedia description languages; Image clustering; Media fusion for communication and presentation Self-organizing multimedia architectures Self-organization in multimedia systems; Self-organization in multimedia communities; Self-organized multimedia networks; Multimedia content distribution and consumption; Adaptive multimedia interfaces; Multimedia retrieval Multimedia content-based retrieval and analysis Multimodal data analysis; Multimedia databases; Semi-automatic and automatic methods for multimedia annotation; Image/video/audio databases; Content-based image retrieval; Semantics-based search and integration of multimedia and digital content; Multimedia data modeling, indexing, and mining; Statistical modeling of multimedia data; Multimedia extraction and annotation; Content search/browsing/retrieval; Internet imaging and multimedia; Multimodal content analysis; Multimedia abstraction and summarization; Semantic analysis of multimedia data; Media assimilation and fusion Perception and cognition for multimedia users Quality of experience; Relevance feedback; Human-computer interaction; Multimodal interaction; Multimodal user interfaces; Mobile user-centered interfaces; Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming; Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems (digital TV, mobile systems, gaming,…); Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks; Visualization and virtual reality; Intelligent browsing and visualization; Perception and cognition; Perception and modeling of the environment; Multimedia collaboration; Social networking Multimedia ontology Multimedia semantics; Emergent semantics; Media ontology learning; Ontology for media web mining; Multimedia ontologies; Multimedia information management; Approaches using metadata standards; Conceptual clustering; Modeling and recognition of visual objects and actions Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for multimedia mobility; Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in intelligent transportation systems; Enabling platforms for mobile multimedia; Roaming and limited bandwidth; Intermittent connectivity; Streaming mobile multimedia; Mobile multimedia software architectures; Mobile multimedia applications and services; Communication and cooperation via mobile multimedia; Business models for mobile multimedia; Provisioning of mobile multimedia services; Context-aware mobile and ubiquitous multimedia; Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment; Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia in ad hoc networks; Personalization, privacy and security in mobile multimedia; Social and regulatory aspects of mobile multimedia; Multimedia in the Extended Home; Ubiquitous/Seamless content sharing Multimedia services Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services; Multimedia content distribution services; Real-time multimedia services; Audio-visual multimedia services; Multimedia signal processing and communications; Media representation and algorithms; Audio, image, video processing, coding and compression; Multimedia database, content delivery and transport; Multimedia service protocols; Mobility of multimedia services; Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems; Media enabled eCommerce service; Case studies, field trials and evaluation of new multimedia services Multimedia applications Real-time interactive multimedia applications Adaptive and context-aware multimedia applications; Ambiance multimedia applications; Media applications on mobile devices; Multi-modal interaction; Virtual environments; Personalization; Collaboration, contextual metadata, collaborative tagging; Web applications; Multimedia authoring; Multimedia-enabled new applications (eLearning, entertainment,…..); Cooperative networks and applications; Mobile multimedia applications & services; Semantic metadata for mobile applications; Semantics enabled multimedia applications; Semantics enabled networks and middleware for multimedia applications; Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks/RFID applications Industrial use-cases and applications Multimedia security and content protection Multimedia security (watermark, encryption,… ); Mobile multimedia systems and services; Security, privacy, and cryptographic protocols; Network security issues and protocols; Key management and authentication; Authentication and access control; Intrusion detection and prevention; Content protection and digital rights management; Trusted computing; Information hiding; Protection of user-generated content Multimedia control and management Wireless and mobile multimedia network management; Multimedia measurement, control, and management; Content management and delivery; IP multimedia system operations and management; Managing the quality of experience and quality of service; Measuring the quality of performance in multimedia systems; Mobile multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization; Monitoring and managing mobile multimedia; Resource reservation for multimedia services; Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management; Management of service oriented architectures; Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services ----------------------- Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComMMEDIA14.html
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| 3-3-7 | (2014-03-03) CfP International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing BIOSIGNALS website: http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/ March 3 - 6, 2014 Angers, Loire Valley, France Technical Co-sponsorship by: ESEM In Cooperation with: AAAI and EUROMICRO Co-organized by: ESEO Sponsored by: INSTICC INSTICC is Member of: WfMC, OMG and FIPA Logistics Partner: SCIT EVENTS IMPORTANT DATES: Regular Paper Submission: September 19, 2013 Authors Notification (regular papers): December 6, 2013 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: December 20, 2013 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Let me kindly inform you that the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS 2014 - http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/) steering committee cordially invites you to submit a paper to the BIOSIGNALS 2014 Conference, to be held in Angers, France. The deadline for paper submission is scheduled for September 19, 2013.The purpose of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of knowledge, including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological systems. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of these signals is a multidisciplinary area including signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence techniques, amongst others. BIOSIGNALS is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 113 submissions, 13% were accepted as full papers. Additionally, 24% were presented as short papers and 27% as posters.Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.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/).Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/BestPaperAward.aspx). Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea. This conference is part of the 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC (http://www.biostec.org/) and it is co-located with four related conference, namely:- BIODEVICES - International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (http://www.biodevices.biostec.org/)- BIOIMAGING - International Conference on Bioimaging (http://www.bioimaging.biostec.org/)- BIOINFORMATICS - International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (http://www.bioinformatics.biostec.org/)- HEALTHINF - International Conference on Health Informatics (http://www.healthinf.biostec.org/) Registration to one conference allows free access to all other BIOSTEC conferences.We would like to highlight the Doctoral Consortium on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies that will take place in conjunction with BIOSTEC and aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field (http://www.biostec.org/DoctoralConsortium.aspx). We hope to welcome you in Angers, France next March, 2014! Should you have any question please don't hesitate contacting me. Kind regards,Vera Coelho BIOSIGNALS SecretariatAv. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.2910-595 Setubal, PortugalTel.: +351 265 100 033 Fax: +44 203 014 8813Email: biosignals.secretariat@insticc.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BIOSTEC Conference Co-chairs Guy Plantier, ESEO, GSII, France Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Ana Fred, Technical University of Lisbon / IT, Portugal Hugo Gamboa, CEFITEC / FCT - New University of Lisbon, Portugal PROGRAM CHAIR:Harald Loose, Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE:Please check the program committee members at http://www.biosignals.biostec.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx CONFERENCE TOPICS:- Speech Recognition- Neural Networks- Biometrics- Pattern Recognition- Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing- Wearable Sensors and Systems- Real-Time Systems- Evolutionary Systems- Acoustic Signal Processing- Time and Frequency Response- Wavelet Transform- Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing- Physiological Processes and Bio-signal Modeling, Non-linear dynamics- Cybernetics and User Interface Technologies- Electromagnetic fields in biology and medicine- Fuzzy Systems and Signals- Monitoring and Telemetry- Cardiovascular Signals- Image Analysis and Processing- Detection and Identification- Motion Control
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| 3-3-8 | (2014-03-10) 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY ANDAPPLICATIONS(LATA2014), Madrid, Spain8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2014 Madrid, Spain March 10-14, 2014 Organized by: Research Group on Implementation of Language-Driven Software and Applications (ILSA) Complutense University of Madrid Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: LATA is a yearly conference on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2014 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, language technology, artificial intelligence, etc.). VENUE: LATA 2014 will take place in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The venue will be the School of Informatics of Complutense University. 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 codes combinatorics on words compilers computability computational complexity data and image compression decidability issues on words and languages descriptional complexity DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) 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 natural language and speech automatic processing parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns 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 2014 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Dana Angluin (Yale, US) Eugene Asarin (Paris Diderot, FR) Jos Baeten (Amsterdam, NL) Christel Baier (Dresden, DE) Jan Bergstra (Amsterdam, NL) Jin-Yi Cai (Madison, US) Marek Chrobak (Riverside, US) Andrea Corradini (Pisa, IT) Mariangiola Dezani (Turin, IT) Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas, US) Michael R. Fellows (Darwin, AU) Jörg Flum (Freiburg, DE) Nissim Francez (Technion, IL) Jürgen Giesl (Aachen, DE) Annegret Habel (Oldenburg, DE) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sampath Kannan (Philadelphia, US) Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern, US) Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque, US) Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen, DE) S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins, US) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton, CA) Gad M. Landau (Haifa, IL) Andrzej Lingas (Lund, SE) Jack Lutz (Iowa State, US) Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, FR) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, IT) Faron G. Moller (Swansea, UK) Paliath Narendran (Albany, US) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch, ZA) Jean-François Raskin (Brussels, BE) Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin, DE) Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT) Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy, FR) Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio, JP) Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna, IT) Colin Stirling (Edinburgh, UK) Jianwen Su (Santa Barbara, US) Jean-Pierre Talpin (IRISA, Rennes, FR) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Rick Thomas (Leicester, UK) Sophie Tison (Lille, FR) Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney, AU) Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech, AT) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Ana Fernández-Pampillón (Madrid) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Antonio Sarasa (Madrid) José-Luis Sierra (Madrid, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English 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=lata2014 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 July 15, 2013 to March 10, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 14, 2013 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2013 Early registration: December 9, 2013 Late registration: February 24, 2014 Starting of the conference: March 10, 2014 End of the conference: March 14, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: June 14, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2014 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: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad Complutense de Madrid Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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| 3-3-9 | (2014-03-19) Semaine du document numérique, Nancy, FRSemaine du Document Numérique et de la Recherche d'Information
http://sdnri2014.loria.fr
Date : 19-21 mars 2014
Lieu : Nancy L'ARIA (Association francophone de Recherche d'Information et Applications)
et le GRCE (Groupement de Recherche en Communication écrite) ont décidé d'organiser
simultanément les conférences CORIA et CIFED dans le cadre de la semaine du document
numérique et de la recherche d’information (SDNRI) en mars 2014 à Nancy. CORIA et
CIFED sont les points de rassemblement des communautés francophones respectivement
en recherche d'information et en analyse de l'écrit et des documents numérisés. Tout en
préservant les spécificités de chaque conférence, cette édition constituera une opportunité
pour les deux communautés de se retrouver autour de thématiques pour lesquelles il existe
des synergies de recherche (recherche de documents multimédia, modèle d'interaction avec
l'utilisateur, passage à l'échelle de système de recherche de d'information, outils d'évaluation
de performance pour la recherche d'information). L'objectif est le rassemblement de plus
de 120 participants autour de sessions thématiques, spécifiques et communes. Pendant la
conférence CIFED-CORIA 2014 seront également organisées les Rencontres Jeunes
Chercheurs (RJC) en recherche d'information et en analyse de l'écrit et des documents numérisés. 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 RJC donneront lieu à une présentation orale et sous forme de poster. Les soumissions conjointes RJC et CIFED-CORIA sont autorisées. ============================================= Thématiques CIFED ⁃ Théorie et modèles pour la reconnaissance de formes en écrit et document ⁃ Méthodes d’analyse d’images, de segmentation et de reconnaissance de l’écrit ⁃ Numérisation, acquisition et compression ⁃ Analyse de dessins, plans, cartes, reconnaissance de graphiques, formules mathématiques ⁃ Traitement de documents en ligne, multimédia et web ⁃ Architectures matérielles et logicielles pour l’analyse d’images et la reconnaissance des formes ⁃ Extraction et structuration d’informations graphiques, manuscrites, structurées ⁃ Indexation de grandes base d’images de documents (bibliothèques, archives, formulaires, …) ⁃ Recherche/fouille d’information dans les images de documents et les écrits ⁃ Interrogation par l’exemple (CBIR, word spotting, symbol spotting, …) ⁃ Reconnaissance de symboles, de l’écrit, des structures ⁃ O.C.R. et dématérialisation ⁃ Format et codage des documents et plasticité des documents ⁃ Encre électronique, nouvelles modalités d’acquisition et d’interaction ⁃ Interaction multipoints en conception de documents structurés ⁃ Camera-OCR, nouveaux dispositifs mobiles, … ⁃ Reconnaissance de textes incrustés dans les vidéos ⁃ Reconnaissance de textes dans les scènes naturelles ⁃ Identification, authentification des écritures et des signatures manuscrites ⁃ Évaluation de performances ============================================= Thématiques CORIA ⁃ 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, recherche d’information cross-média, fusion des informations ⁃ Passage à l’échelle : indexation, performances, architectures ⁃ Classification automatique, clustering, ranking, apprentissage automatique ⁃ Filtrage, routage, détection de nouveautés ⁃ Modélisation du contexte, personnalisation ⁃ Traitement Automatique de la Langue Naturelle pour la recherche d’information ⁃ Systèmes de Questions Réponses ⁃ Extraction d’informations : ontologies, ressources et recherche d’informations, détection d’entités nommées et des relations ⁃ 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 et des styles de vie ⁃ 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, métadonnées, ontologies, web sémantique, web de données, 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 Soumission 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 pour les soumissions à CIFED et CORIA et 10 pages maximum pour les journées RJC. Les articles soumis ou récemment acceptés à des conférences internationales sont recevables, sous réserve qu’ils soient traduits et adaptés pour CORIA ou CIFED. Une version étendue des meilleurs articles sera publiée dans une revue ou dans un livre. ============================================= Dates importantes • Soumission des articles : 15 décembre 2013 • Réponse aux auteurs : 15 janvier 2014 • Dépôt des articles définitifs : 15 février 2014 • Conférence : mercredi 19-21 mars 2014 Présidents des comités de programme CORIA-CIFED ⁃ Marie-Francine Moens (Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgique) ⁃ Christian Viard-Gaudin (IRCCyN - Université de Nantes) Présidents du comité de programme RJC ⁃ Haïfa Zargayouna, LIPN, Université Paris 13 ⁃ Oriol Ramos-Terrades, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Président du comité d’organisation ⁃ Salvatore-Antoine Tabbone, LORIA-Université de Lorraine Vous trouverez sur le site http://sdnri2014.loria.fr toutes les informations sur les thématiques spécifiques et communes des conférences.
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| 3-3-10 | (2014-04-03) Workshop on Late Stages in Speech and Communication Development (LSCD 2014), UCL, London, GB Workshop title: Workshop on Late Stages in Speech and Communication Development (LSCD 2014)
Dates: 3-4 April 2014 Location: UCL, London, UK Meeting website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/speech/lscd-2014 Contact email: lscd-2014@langsci.ucl.ac.uk Submission deadline: 6 January 2014
Workshop description: Much emphasis in research on speech and communication development has been on the rapid developments that occur in the first five years of life. However, less attention has been given to later stages of development. When, in fact, is development truly complete? Research has shown that even when a child is judged to be consistently producing all speech sounds, production is not adult-like, with more dispersed and variable phoneme categories and motor gestures. Similarly, in speech perception, phoneme categories are less clearly defined until early teens and children are more affected by noise and reverberation. Cognitive, attentional and memory factors may also influence children's ability to use speech effectively; communicative and conversational strategies (such as repair and turn-taking) continue to develop in adolescence. The age at which a given linguistic unit or communicative competence has been acquired and what constitutes the criterion for successful acquisition is therefore a far from trivial question. This will be a particular focus of the workshop, along with the interplay between speech development and cognitive, perceptual and motor systems. The workshop will provide an opportunity for interactions between researchers from areas of developmental research that rarely meet, even though they are linked: speech and communication is often investigated either from a purely phonetic/phonological perspective, or focused on interactional/pragmatic principles. The manner in which the two interact through development is little explored. These questions are relevant for clinical and educational practice, and also inform theories of language processing and levels of representations.
Invited speakers include: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL) tbc Melissa Redford (University of Oregon) Stuart Rosen (UCL) Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto) Bill Wells (University of Sheffield) Natalia Zharkova (Queen Margaret University)
Call for papers: We invite submissions, for oral and poster presentations, that deal with the following topics focusing on populations aged 5 years to early adulthood: - Later developments in speech perception in typically-developing children - Later developments in speech production in typically-developing children - Development in discourse: structure, repair strategies, dysfluencies - Speech and communication development in bilinguals and second-language learners - Development in auditory, cognitive, attentional skills and impact on speech and communication development - Development of sociolinguistic variations - Perception and production in adverse listening conditions - Research on speech and communication development in atypical populations that informs on typical development
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 6 January, 2014, via Easychair (submission site open from 15 November). Submitted abstracts should not include authors and affiliations and must not be longer than two pages of A4-format. References and figures can be on an additional page. Abstracts should be single-spaced and in Calibri 11pt font. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by two reviewers. Authors will be requested to submit a final version of the extended abstract after acceptance.
Important dates: First call for papers 1 October 2013 Abstract submission opens 15 November 2013 Submission deadline of abstracts 6 January 2014 Notification of acceptance 31 January 2014 Workshop 3-4 April 2014
Local Organising committee: Sonia Granlund Lorna Halliday Valerie Hazan (Chair) Merle Mahon Caroline Newton Michèle Pettinato Outi Tuomainen
The workshop is organised under the aegis of the ESRC project on Speaker-controlled Variability in Children's Speech in Interaction based at UCL.
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| 3-3-11 | (2014-04-26) EACL 2014 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning, Gothenburg, Sweden EACL 2014 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning 26 April 2014 Gothenburg, Sweden https://sites.google.com/site/cognitivews2014/ Deadline for Paper Submissions: January, 23rd, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12) Endorsed by the Special Interest Group of the ACL on Natural Language Learning (SIGNLL)
The human ability to acquire and process language has long attracted interest and generated much debate due to the apparent ease with which such a complex and dynamic system is learnt and used on the face of ambiguity, noise and uncertainty. This subject raises many questions ranging from the nature vs. nurture debate of how much needs to be innate and how much needs to be learned for acquisition to be successful, to the mechanisms involved in this process (general vs specific) and their representations in the human brain. There are also developmental issues related to the different stages consistently found during acquisition (e.g. one word vs. two words) and possible organizations of this knowledge. These have been discussed in the context of first and second language acquisition and bilingualism, with cross linguistic studies shedding light on the influence of the language and the environment. The past decades have seen a massive expansion in the application of statistical and machine learning methods to natural language processing (NLP). This work has yielded impressive results in numerous speech and language processing tasks, including e.g. speech recognition, morphological analysis, parsing, lexical acquisition, semantic interpretation, and dialogue management. The good results have generally been viewed as engineering achievements. Recently researchers have begun to investigate the relevance of computational learning methods for research on human language acquisition and change. The use of computational modeling is a relatively recent trend boosted by advances in machine learning techniques, and the availability of resources like corpora of child and child-directed sentences, and data from psycholinguistic tasks by normal and pathological groups. Many of the existing computational models attempt to study language tasks under cognitively plausible criteria (such as memory and processing limitations that humans face), and to explain the developmental stages observed in the acquisition and evolution of the language abilities. In doing so, computational modeling provides insight into the plausible mechanisms involved in human language processes, and inspires the development of better language models and techniques. These investigations are very important since if computational techniques can be used to improve our understanding of human language acquisition and change, these will not only benefit cognitive sciences in general but will reflect back to NLP and place us in a better position to develop useful language models. Success in this type of research requires close collaboration between the NLP, linguistics, psychology and cognitive science communities. The workshop is targeted at anyone interested in the relevance of computational techniques for understanding first, second and bilingual language acquisition and language change in normal and clinical conditions. Long and short papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: *Computational learning theory and analysis of language learning and organization *Computational models of first, second and bilingual language acquisition *Computational models of language changes in clinical conditions *Computational models and analysis of factors that influence language acquisition and use in different age groups and cultures *Computational models of various aspects of language and their interaction effect in acquisition, processing and change *Computational models of the evolution of language *Data resources and tools for investigating computational models of human language processes *Empirical and theoretical comparisons of the learning environment and its impact on language processes *Cognitively oriented Bayesian models of language processes *Computational methods for acquiring various linguistic information (related to e.g. speech, morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, and discourse) and their relevance to research on human language acquisition *Investigations and comparisons of supervised, unsupervised and weakly-supervised methods for learning (e.g. machine learning, statistical, symbolic, biologically-inspired, active learning, various hybrid models) from a cognitive perspective SUBMISSIONS We invite three different submission modalities: * Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references): Long papers should report on original, solid and finished research including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques. * Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references): Short papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results and/or philosophical discussion. * System demonstration (2 pages): System demonstration papers should describe and document the demonstrated system or resources. We encourage the demonstration of both early research prototypes and mature systems, that will be presented in a separate demo session. All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the EACL 2014 formatting requirements (available at http://www.eacl2014.org/files/eacl-2014-styles.zip). We strongly advise the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files. For long and short papers, the reported research should be substantially original. The papers will be presented orally or as posters. The decision as to which paper will be presented orally and which as poster will be made by the program committee based on the nature rather than on the quality of the work. Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as posters. Submission and reviewing will be electronic, managed by the START system: https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/CogACLL/ Submissions must be uploaded onto the START system by the submission deadline: January 23rd, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12 hours) Please choose the appropriate submission type from the START submission page, according to the category of your paper. --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Jan 23, 2014 Long and Short Paper submission deadline Feb 05, 2014 System Demonstrations submission deadline Feb 20, 2014 Notification of acceptance Mar 03, 2014 Camera-ready deadline Apr 26, 2014 Workshop PROGRAM COMMITTEE Afra Alishahi Tilburg University (Netherlands) Colin J Bannard University of Texas at Austin (USA) Marco Baroni University of Trento (Italy) Robert Berwick Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Philippe Blache LPL, CNRS (France) Jim Blevins University of Cambridge (UK) Antal van den Bosch Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) Chris Brew Nuance Communications (USA) Ted Briscoe University of Cambridge (UK) Alexander Clark Royal Holloway, University of London (UK) Robin Clark University of Pennsylvania (USA) Stephen Clark University of Cambridge (UK) Matthew W. Crocker Saarland University (Germany) Walter Daelemans University of Antwerp (Belgium) Dan Dediu Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (The Netherlands) Barry Devereux University of Cambridge (UK) Benjamin Fagard Lattice-CNRS (France) Jeroen Geertzen University of Cambridge (UK) Ted Gibson Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Henriette Hendriks University of Cambridge (UK) Marco Idiart Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Mark Johnson Brown University (USA) Aravind Joshi University of Pennsylvania (USA) Gianluca Lebani University of Pisa (Italy) Igor Malioutov Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Marie-Catherine de Marneffe The Ohio State University (USA) Maria Alice Parente Federal University of ABC (Brazil) Massimo Poesio University of Trento (Italy) Brechtje Post University of Cambridge (UK) Ari Rappoport The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) Anne Reboul L2C2-CNRS (France) Kenji Sagae University of Southern California (USA) Sabine Schulte im Walde University of Stuttgart (Germany) Ekaterina Shutova University of California, Berkeley (USA) Maity Siqueira Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Mark Steedman University of Edinburgh (UK) Suzanne Stevenson University of Toronto (Canada) Remi van Trijp Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris (France) Shuly Wintner University of Haifa (Israel) Charles Yang University of Pennsylvania (USA) Beracah Yankama Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Menno van Zaanen Tilburg University (Netherlands) Alessandra Zarcone University of Stuttgart (Germany) WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Italy) Muntsa Padró (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Thierry Poibeau (LATTICE-CNRS, France) Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to cognitive2014@gmail.com
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| 3-3-12 | (2014-04-26) CHI 2014 Workshop on Designing Speech and Language Interactions, Toronto, Canada CHI 2014 Workshop on
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| 3-3-13 | (2014-04-27)CfP 3rd WORKSHOP ON HYBRID APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION (HyTra 2014), Gotheborg, Sweden 1st Call for Papers THIRD WORKSHOP ON HYBRID APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION (HyTra 2014) Co-located with EACL 2014 http://eacl2014.org/ Gothenburg, Sweden April 27, 2014 Deadline for paper submissions: January 23, 2014 http://sites.google.com/site/hytra2014 ========================================================================= WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The aim of the HyTra workshop series is to bring together researchers developing and applying statistical, example-based, or rule-based translation systems, and those enhancing MT systems by combining elements from different approaches, to promote discussion and sharing of ideas among them. Hereby one relevant focus is on effectively combining linguistic and data driven approaches (rule-based and statistical MT). Another focus is on hybridization in the context of human translation. The 3rd Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra-3) intends to continue developing and empowering the research agenda in the area of Hybrid Translation already started at its first and second editions. The previous two editions (see http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/esirmt-hytra/ and http://hytra.barcelonamedia.org/hytra2013/) were co-located with EACL 2012 in Avignon and with ACL 2013 in Sofia, and the proceedings were published on the ACL Anthology. TOPICS We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following topics: - ways and techniques of hybridization - architectures for the rapid development of hybrid MT systems - applications of hybrid systems - hybrid systems dealing with under-resourced languages - hybrid systems dealing with morphologically rich languages - using linguistic information (morphology, syntax, semantics) to enhance statistical MT (e.g. with hierarchical or factored models) - using contextual information to enhance statistical MT - bootstrapping rule-based systems from corpora - hybrid methods in spoken language translation - extraction of dictionaries and other large-scale resources for MT from parallel and comparable corpora - induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from corpora - machine learning techniques for hybrid MT - describing structural mappings between languages (e.g. tree-structures using synchronous/transduction grammars) - heuristics for limiting the search space in hybrid MT - alternative methods for the fair evaluation of the output of different types of MT systems (e.g. relying on linguistic criteria) - system combination approaches such as multi-engine MT (parallel) or automatic post-editing (sequential) - open source tools and free language resources for hybrid MT SUBMISSIONS Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work without exceeding five pages of content plus one extra page for references. Characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without exceeding eight pages of content plus two extra pages for references. Submissions will be judged according to the criteria of the main conference (EACL 2014). Authors are invited to submit papers on original and previously unpublished work. Formatting should be according to EACL 2014 specifications using LaTeX or MS-Word style files, see section 'submission format' at http://eacl2014.org/call-for-papers. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind, so the submissions should not reveal the authors' identity. Submission is electronic in PDF format using the START submission system at the URL to be provided on the Workshop Website. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop contact person (see below). If accepted, withdrawals are only possible within two days after notification. For an accepted paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must register for the workshop and actually present the paper. The papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be made available via the ACL Anthology. BEST PAPERS Authors of selected papers will be invited to contribute extended versions of their papers as book chapters for an edited volume on hybrid MT. IMPORTANT DATES January 23, 2014: Deadline for paper submission February 20, 2014: Notification of acceptance March 3, 2014: Camera ready papers due April 27, 2014: Workshop in Gothenburg ORGANIZERS Rafael E. Banchs (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Marta R. Costa-jussa (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Reinhard Rapp (Universities of Aix-Marseille and Mainz) Patrik Lambert (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) Kurt Eberle (Lingenio GmbH, Heidelberg) Bogdan Babych (University of Leeds) CONTACT PERSON Rafael E. Banchs: rembanchs (at) i2r (dot) a-star (dot) edu (dot) sg
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| 3-3-14 | (2014-05-04) ICASSP 2014, Florence, Italy ICASSP 2014
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| 3-3-15 | (2014-05-05) 10th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014 Cologne Germany MODIFIED10th International Seminar on Speech Production – ISSP 2014We are pleased to announce the 10th International Speech Production Seminar, which will take place in Cologne from 5th to 8th May 2014. This international meeting was launched in 1988 in Grenoble, with the aim of providing an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on all aspects of speech production from fields as diverse as phonology, phonetics, prosody, mechanics, acoustics, physiology, motor control, neuroscience, computer science and human interaction. At this meeting we shall be celebrating the tenth anniversary of this series.
Topics of interest for ISSP 2014 include, but are not restricted to, the following:
Invited speakers: Christian Kell (Brain Imaging Center, Frankfurt, Germany) Oscillatory signatures of speech preparation and production D. Robert Ladd (University of Edinburgh, UK) (title to be announced) Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (MIT, USA) The role of prosody in speech production planning Michael J. Richardson (University of Cincinnati, USA) Behavioural dynamics of social coordination and speech production Caroline Palmer (McGill University, CA) Auditory-motor integration in ensemble music performance Further information is provided here: http://www.issp2014.uni-koeln.de/
To contact the organizers, please send an email to:
Important dates: 1st October 2013: Two page paper submission 15th December 2013: Notification of acceptance 15th January 2014: Online registration open 25th February 2014: Revised version of four page paper 15th March: Deadline for early bird registration 5th May - 8th May 2014 : ISSP 2014
The organizers: Susanne Fuchs, Martine Grice, Anne Hermes, Leonardo Lancia, Doris Muecke
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| 3-3-16 | (2014-05-12) 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2014), Nancy France 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication
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| 3-3-17 | (2014-05-13) CfP 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2014) will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands The Fourth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2014) will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on 13-16 May 2014. The symposium, which follows the successful TAL 2012 in Nanjing, is held on a vibrant campus, which boasts three highly visible academic institutions whose research is relevant to the topic of the symposium: the Centre for Language Studies, the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, both part of Radboud University Nijmegen, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Nijmegen (by Maarten Takens) TAL 2014 is held in the week before the International Conference on Speech Prosody 2014, which is held in Dublin from 21 to 25 May 2014 and like that conference enjoys the support of ISCA SProSig and ISCA SIG-CSLP. The symposium continues the tradition of the previous three symposia of focusing on tone languages, aiming to present state-of-the–art research on the typological, phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic, acquisitional and technological aspects of tonal contrasts, but will also welcome contributions on non-tone languages and art forms like songs and poetry. Important dates
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| 3-3-18 | (2014-05-14) CfP SLTU-2014 WORKSHOP , St Petersburg, Russia SLTU-2014 WORKSHOP – SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU-2014) 14-16 May 2014 St. Petersburg, Russia
Organized by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) in cooperation with LIG (France), LIA (France), and MICA (Vietnam).
The Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages is the fourth in a series of even-year SLTU Workshops. Three previous Workshops were organized: SLTU’12 in Cape Town, SLTU’10 in Penang, and SLTU’08 in Hanoi. SLTU’14 Workshop is held in St. Petersburg (Russia) and has the special focus on Eastern European under-resourced languages (Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Altaic, Caucasian, Turkic, etc.), but papers on automatic processing other under-resourced languages are also encouraged.
SLTU'14 Workshop topics include all areas related to processing any under-resourced and endangered languages: - Language resources development, acquisition, and representation: dictionary, language model, grammars, text and speech corpora, etc. - Automatic speech recognition and synthesis of low-resourced Languages and dialects, etc. - Multi-lingual spoken language processing including analysis and synthesis. - Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems, etc.
Speech Communication special issue on processing under-resourced languages was recently prepared by SLTU board: www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01676393/56
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Etienne Barnard, NWU, South Africa Laurent Besacier, LIG, France Eric Castelli, MICA, Vietnam Dirk Van Compernolle, UCL, Belgium Marelie Davel, NWU, South Africa Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Russia Daniil Kocharov, SPbSU, Russia Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France Haizhou Li, A-star, Singapore Roger K. Moore, Sheffield, UK Pedro Moreno, Google, USA Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan Pascal Nocera, LIA, France Francois Pellegrino, Lyon, France Andrey Ronzhin, SPIIRAS, Russia Yoshinori Sagisaka, Waseda, Japan Ruhi Sarikaya, Microsoft, USA Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe, Germany Pavel Skrelin, SPbSU, Russia Tan Tien Ping, USM, Malaysia
Several keynote lectures will be given by distinguished scientists: Prof. Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) and some other outstanding speakers.
IMPORTANT DATES: - Abstract submission: 10 January, 2014 - Full paper submission: 31 January, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: 03 March, 2014 - Submission of final papers: 17 March, 2014 - Registration due: 17 March, 2014 - Workshop dates: 14-16 May, 2014
Independently of the scientific actions we will provide excellent possibilities for acquaintance with cultural and historical valuables of St. Petersburg city and its beautiful surroundings.
SLTU'14 Workshop Chairs: Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russia) Laurent Besacier (LIG, France) Pascal Nocera (LIA, France) Eric Castelli (MICA, Vietnam)
For the latest information, please check the Workshop web page: www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2014
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| 3-3-19 | (2014-05-20) The 7th Speech Prosody Conference, Dublin, Ireland The 7th Speech Prosody Conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland, May 20-23, 2014, at Trinity College Dublin, directly preceding LREC, the Linguistic Resources and Evaluation Conference. Topics of interest include: communicative situation and speaking style, dynamics of register and style, l2 prosody, phonology and phonetics of prosody, pitch accent, prosody and spoken language systems, prosody and the sounds of language, prosody development in first language acquisition, prosody for forensic applications, prosody in face-to-face interaction: audiovisual modeling and analysis, prosody in neurological disorders, prosody in speech synthesis, recognition and understanding; prosody models and theoretical issues, prosody of sign language, prosody of under-resourced languages and dialects; psycholinguistic, cognitive, and neural correlates of prosody; signal processing; voice quality, phonation, and vocal dynamics, and prosodic characteristics of individuals; and as special review areas, the prosody of nonverbal vocalisations, speech-gesture interaction, and joint/choral speech. More information is available at http://www.speechprosody2014.org/ .
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| 3-3-20 | (2014-05-21) Workshop From Sound to Gesture (S2G): Communication as speech, prosody, gestures and signs, Univ Padova Italy Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
From Sound to Gesture (S2G): Communication as speech, prosody, gestures and signs, University of Padova, Italy - May 21-23, 2014
For info: s2g.conference@gmail.com
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| 3-3-21 | (2014-05-26) 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland ELRA and the LREC Programme Committee are very pleased to announce that the LREC 2012 Proceedings have been accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index of Thomson Reuters. The CPCI is searchable through the Web of Science platform and will provide authors with unprecedented recognition. LREC 2010 proceedings are currently under review, and chances that they will be accepted are high! Once published, the proceedings of LREC 2014 will be submitted for inclusion in the CPCI. Schedule of all the LREC 2014 Workshops and Tutorials is now online at http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/conference-programme/workshops-and-tutorials. ELRA is glad to announce the 9th edition of LREC, organised with the support of a wide range of international organisations. CONFERENCE AIMS LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy issues and to scientific/technological and organisational ones. LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LT) and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards. CONFERENCE TOPICS Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, multimodality * Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability * Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation * Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge * Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation * LRs and Semantic Web * LRs and Crowdsourcing * Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications * Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication * LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, web services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, etc. * Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, * Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-culture, ehealth, e-participation, mobile applications, digital humanities, etc. * Industrial LRs requirements, user needs Issues in LT evaluation * LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures * Validation and quality assurance of LRs * Benchmarking of systems and products * Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems * User satisfaction evaluation General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation * International and national activities, projects and collaboration * Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs * Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages * Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures * Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues. LREC 2014 HOT TOPICS Big Data, Linked Open Data, LRs and HLT The ever-increasing quantities of large and complex digital datasets, structured or unstructured, multilingual, multimodal or multimedia, pose new challenges but at the same time open up new opportunities for HLT and related fields. Ubiquitous data and information capturing devices, social media and networks, the web at large with its big data / knowledge bases and other information capturing / aggregating / publishing platforms are providing useful information and/or knowledge for a wide range of LT applications. LREC 2014 puts a strong emphasis on the synergies of the big Linked Open Data and LRs/LT communities and their complementarity in cracking LT problems and developing useful applications and services. LRs in the Collaborative Age The amount of collaboratively generated and used language data is constantly increasing and it is therefore time to open a wide discussion on such LRs at LREC. There is a need to discuss the types of LRs that can be collaboratively generated and used. Are lexicons, dictionaries, corpora, ontologies (of language data), grammars, tagsets, data categories, all possible fields in which a collaborative approach can be applied? Can collaboratively generated LRs be standardised/harmonised? And how can quality control be applied to collaboratively generated LRs? How can a collaborative approach ensure that lessresourced languages receive the same digital dignity as mainstream languages? There is also a need to discuss legal aspects related to collaboratively generated LRs. And last but not least: are there different types of collaborative approaches, or is the Wikimedia style the best approach to collaborative generation and use of LRs? LREC 2014 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT Share your LRs! In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map – now a normal step in the submission procedure of many conferences – LREC 2014 recognises that the time is ripe to launch another important initiative, the LREC Repository of shared LRs! When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special LREC META-SHARE repository set up by ELRA. Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before the conference, to be reused, compared, analysed, … This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new 'regular' feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. PROGRAMME The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. SUBMISSIONS AND DATES Submission of proposals for oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 15 October 2013 Abstracts should consist of about 1500-2000 words, will be submitted through START @ https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/main/ and will be peer-reviewed. Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 15 October 2013 Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC website ( click Submission from the Home page ) and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. PROCEEDINGS The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format. There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered. In addition a Book of Abstracts will be printed. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Nicoletta Calzolari – CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair) Khalid Choukri – ELRA, Paris - France Thierry Declerck – DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany Hrafn Loftsson – School of Computer Science, Reykjavík University - Iceland Bente Maegaard – CST, University of Copenhagen - Denmark Joseph Mariani – LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, Orsay - France Asuncion Moreno – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain Jan Odijk – UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands Stelios Piperidis – Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece
voice-activated services, etc.
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| 3-3-22 | (2014-05-27) 7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA, Reykjavik (Iceland) 1st Call for Papers
7th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA Building Resources for Machine Translation Research
May 27, 2014
Co-located with LREC 2014 Harpa Conference Centre, Reykjavik (Iceland) DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: February 10, 2014
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/ ============================================================
MOTIVATION
In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research
in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or several languages that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated research concerning the use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual corpora selected according to the same set of criteria, but in different languages or language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora overcome the two limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for original, monolingual texts are much more abundant than translated texts. However, because of their nature, mining translations in comparable corpora is much more challenging than in parallel corpora. What constitutes a good comparable corpus, for a given task or per se, also requires specific attention: while the definition of a parallel corpus is fairly straightforward, building a non-parallel corpus requires control over the selection of source texts in both languages. Parallel corpora are a key resource as training data for statistical
machine translation, and for building or extending bilingual lexicons and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs such as English- French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as parliamentary debates or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite the creation of automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the Web. To exemplify such issues in a practical setting, this year's special focus will be on Building Resources for Machine Translation Research
This special topic aims to address the need for:
(1) Machine Translation training and testing data such as spoken or written monolingual, comparable or parallel data collections, and (2) methods and tools used for collecting, annotating, and verifying MT data such as Web crawling, crowdsourcing, tools for language experts and for finding MT data in comparable corpora. TOPICS We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following topics:
Topics related to the special theme:
* Methods and tools for collecting and processing MT data, including crowdsourcing * Methods and tools for quality control * Tools for efficient annotation * Bilingual term and named entity collections * Multilingual treebanks, wordnets, propbanks, etc. * Comparable corpora with parallel units annotated * Comparable corpora for under-resourced languages and specific domains * Multilingual corpora with rich annotations: POS tags, NEs, dependencies, semantic roles, etc. * Data for special applications: patent translation, movie subtitles, MOOCs, meetings, chat-rooms, social media, etc. * Legal issues with collecting and redistributing data and generating derivatives Building comparable corpora:
* Human translations * Automatic and semi-automatic methods * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora * Rare and minority languages, across language families * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Applications of comparable corpora:
* Human translations * Language learning * Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization * Bilingual projections * Machine translation * Writing assistance Mining from comparable corpora:
* Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora * Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities, etc. IMPORTANT DATES February 10, 2014 Deadline for submission of full papers March 10, 2014 Notification of acceptance March 27, 2014 Camera-ready papers due May 27, 2014 Workshop date SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be
announced on the conference website http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/ ) and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/BUCC2014/ Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6) pages. Characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without exceeding ten (10) pages. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop organizers. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc. For further information, please contact
Pierre Zweigenbaum pz (at) limsi (dot) fr ORGANISERS Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France) Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK) Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK) Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar) Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Aix-Marseille (France) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE * Ahmet Aker, University of Sheffield (UK) * Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, US) * Caroline Barrière (CRIM, Montréal, Canada) * Chris Biemann (TU Darmstadt, Germany) * Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) * Kurt Eberle (Lingenio, Heidelberg, Germany) * Andreas Eisele (European Commission, Luxembourg) * Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France) * Gregory Grefenstette (INRIA, Saclay, France) * Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany) * Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology) * Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan) * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK) * Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France) * Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) * Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US) * Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France) * Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US) * Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US) * Reinhard Rapp (Université Aix-Marseille, France) * Sujith Ravi (Google, US) * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) * Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada) * Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US) * Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France) * Stephan Vogel, QCRI (Qatar) * Guillaume Wisniewski (Université Paris Sud & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France) * Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
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| 3-3-23 | (2014-06-09) eNTERFACE 2014 - 10th SUMMER WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL INTERFACES, Bilbao, Spain eNTERFACE 2014 - 10th SUMMER WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL INTERFACES
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| 3-3-24 | (2014-06-11) 15th ICPLA Conference 2014
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| 3-3-25 | (2014-06-16) Odyssey 2014, Joensuu, Finland ODYSSEY 2014: THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP
June 16-19, 2014, Joensuu, Finland
http://cs.uef.fi/odyssey2014/
IMPORTANT DATES:
NIST i-vector challenge (details TBA):
- Challenge opens: November 2013
- Challenge papers due: February 2014
- Submissions without a paper: April 2014
Regular paper submission: January 22, 2014
Industry submissions + demos February, 2014
Notifications: March 22, 2014
Final papers: April 7, 2014
KEYNOTE TALKERS:
Dr. Samy Bengio, Google Research http://research.google.com/pubs/bengio.html
'Large scale learning of a joint embedding space'
Prof. Martin Cooke, University of the Basque Country http://laslab.org/martin
'Speaking in adverse conditions: from behavioural observations to intelligibility-enhancing speech
modifications'
Third keynote XX (TBA)
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The general themes of the conference include speaker and language recognition and
characterization.
The specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
REGULAR PAPER SUBMISSIONS All regular submissions (max 8 pages) will be reviewed by at least three members of the scientific review committee.The regular submissions must include scientific or methodological novelty; the paper has to review the relevant prior work and state clearly the novelty in the Introduction part.The accepted papers will appear in electronic proceedings. INDUSTRY TRACK AND DEMOS Odyssey committee recognizes a large gap between theoretical research results and real-world deployment of the methods. To foster closer collaboration across industry and academia, Odyssey 2014 features an industry submission track. This can include a description of your target application, a product, a demonstrator, or any combination. In addition to voice biometrics providers, we encourage submissions from companies who are in need for speaker or language recognition technology.The industry paper submissions do NOT have to present methodological novelty, but the submission MUST address one or all of the following aspects:
The industry submissions will NOT undergo full peer review nor will be included to the proceedings. All the industry track submissions can be presented as a posters. The organizing committee may select a few most interesting ones for oral presentation.
NIST SPECIAL SESSIONS: I-VECTOR CHALLENGE & NIST SRE-2012 FOLLOW-UP In addition to regular and industry paper submissions, Odyssey 2014 features two special sessions co-organized with National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST). NIST SRE-2012 special session focuses on extended analyses on the latest, NIST 2012 speaker recognition evaluation (SRE) benchmark, and is targeted for the participants of NIST SRE 2012. The i-vector challenge is a new type of challenge targeted for anyone interested for a 'quick start-up' in speaker recognition. Building modern speaker and language recognition systems requires a lot of preprocessing, corpus engineering and computations, making it challenging for newcomers to enter the field. This prohibits piloting of possibly promising modeling ideas developed outside of speaker recognition community (e.g. machine learning and image processing communities). To bridge this gap, NIST organizes a new type of benchmark, i-vector challenge, synchronized with Odyssey 2014. Preliminary due-date for paper submissions to both special sessions is February 2014. Submissions by this deadline will undergo review both by NIST and by the scientific review committee, and will be included to the conference proceedings if accepted. Late challenge submissions (without a paper) are also encouraged; they can be presented as posters, but will not undergo peer review nor will be included to the conference proceedings. To ensure smooth organization, early (non-binding) preliminary sign-up is required. More details and registration for the i-vector challenge will be available in November 2013. AWARDS Odyssey 2014 features three awards:
All regular and special session papers submitted in time are candidates for the awards. The awards are given based on the review reports AND the presentation at the conference. For the best student paper award, the first author must be a student (does not yet hold a PhD degree) at the time of paper submission. Best 1 to 2 teams (max 1 person per site) in i-vector challenge are provided FREE REGISTRATION to the full Odyssey 2014 workshop.
VENUE and TRAVEL :
Odyssey 2014 will be hosted by School of Computing of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF).
Joensuu is a small town of 75,000 inhabitants in the lakeside Finland -- the capital of green.
It is famous for its peaceful nature, excellent outdoor opportunities as well as many saunas.
Joensuu can be easily reached from Helsinki (50 min flight), which can be reached via direct flights
from several European, North American and Asian cities.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Tomi Kinnunen, chair University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Pasi Franti, co-chair University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Jean-Francois Bonastre University of Avignon, France
Niko Brummer Agnitio, South Africa
Lukas Burget Brno Univ. Technology, Czech Republic
Joseph Campbell MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Jan 'Honza' Cernocky Brno Univ. Technology, Czech Republic
Haizhou Li Inst. Infocomm Research, Singapore
Alvin Martin NIST, USA
Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
For more details: http://cs.uef.fi/odyssey2014/ Email: odyssey@cs.uef.fi
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| 3-3-26 | (2014-06-17) 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) at St Catherine's College Oxford , UK We are pleased to announce the 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) is to be held at St Catherine's College Oxford from 17 - 20 July, 2014. ODC has a reputation as one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency. The conference brings together researchers and clinicians, providing a showcase and forum for discussion and collegial debate about the most current and innovative research and clinical practices. Throughout the history of ODC, the primary aim has been to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice. The conference seeks to promote research that informs management, with interventions that are supported by sound theory and which inform future research. In 2014, the goal of the Oxford Dysfluency Conference is to lead a challenging international debate about the latest research in disorders of fluency and its clinical applications. The 2014 conference will enable delegates to:
Conference Co-Chairs David Rowley, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, UK
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| 3-3-27 | (2014-06-21) The REAL Challenge The REAL Challenge – Call for Participation
The Dialog Research Center at Carnegie Mellon (DialRC) is organizing the REAL Challenge. The goal of the REAL Challenge (dialrc.org/realchallenge) is to build speech systems that are used regularly by real users to accomplish real tasks. These systems will give the speech and spoken dialog communities steady streams of research data as well as platforms they can use to carry out studies. It will engage both seasoned researchers and high school and undergrad students in an effort to find the next great speech applications.
Why have a REAL Challenge? Humans greatly rely on spoken language to communicate, so it seems natural that we would be likely to communicate with objects via speech as well. Some speech interfaces do exist and they show promise, demonstrating that smart engineering can palliate indeterminate recognition. Yet the general public has not yet picked up this means of communication as easily as they have the tiny keyboards. About two decades ago, many researchers were using the internet, mostly to send and receive email. They were aware of the potential that it held and waited to see when and how the general public would adopt it. Practically a decade later, thanks to providers such as AmericaOnline, who had found how to create easy access, everyday people started to use the internet. And this has dramatically changed our lives. In the same way, we all know that speech will eventually replace the keyboard in many situations when we want to speak to objects. The big question is what is the interface or application that will bring us into that era.
Why hasn’t speech become a more prevalent interface? Most of today’s speech applications have been devised by researchers in the speech domain. While they certainly know what types of systems are “doable”, they may not be the best at determining which speech applications would be universally acceptable.
We believe that students who have not yet had their vision limited by knowledge of the speech and spoken dialog domains and who have grown up with computers as a given, are the ones that will find new, compelling and universally appealing speech applications. Along with the good ideas, they will need some guidance to gain focus. Having a mentor, attending webinars and participating in a research team can provide this guidance.
The REAL challenge will combine the talents of these two very different groups. First it will call upon the speech research community who know what it takes to implement real applications. Second, it will advertise to and encourage participation from high school students and college undergrads who love to hack and have novel ideas about using speech.
How can we combine these two types of talent? The REAL Challenge is starting with a widely-advertised call for proposals. Students can propose an application. Researchers can propose to create systems or to provide tools. A proposal can target any type of application in any language. The proposals will be lightly filtered and the successful proposers will be invited to a workshop on June 21, 2014 to show what they are proposing and to team up. The idea is for students to meet researchers and for the latter to take one or more students on their team. Students will present their ideas and have time for discussion with researchers. A year later, a second workshop will assemble all who were at the first workshop to show the resulting systems, measure success and award prizes. Student travel will be taken care of by DialRC through grants.
Preparing students Students will have help from DialRC and from researchers as they formulate their proposals. DialRC will provide webinars on such topics as speech processing tool basics and how to present a poster. Students will also be assigned mentors. Researchers in speech and spoken dialog can volunteer to be a one-on-one mentor to a student. This consists of being in touch either in person or virtually. Mentors can tell the students about what our field consists of, what the state of the art is, and what it is like to work in research. They can answer questions about how the student can talk about their ideas. If you are a researcher in speech and/or spoken dialog and you would like to be a mentor, please let us know at realchallenge@speechinfo.org
What is an entry? The groups will create entries. Here are the characteristics of a successful entry:
How can we assess success? Success will be judged on the basis of originality, amount of regular users and of data and on other criteria to be agreed upon by the Challenge scientific committee and the participants.
Possible prize areas for an entry include:
Details of the measures of success will be refined at the workshop with input from the participants.
Timeline The REAL Challenge was announced at several major conferences during the summer of 2013: SIGDIAL, Interspeech, ACL. It is also being announced to younger participants through their schools and hacker websites.
March 20, 2014 : Proposals due April 20, 2014: Feedback on proposals and invitations to attend the workshop sent out. June 21, 2014 : Workshop in Baltimore Maryland USA. Early summer of 2015 : Resulting systems are presented a year after the first workshop.
What advantage is there for a student to participate? For students, participation in the REAL Challenge will present several unique opportunities:
What does this Challenge contribute to the speech community? For researchers, participation reaps several benefits:
Why should industrial research groups be interested in the Challenge? Industrial research groups should be interested to see:
Organization This Challenge is run by the Dialog Research Center at Carnegie Mellon (DialRC)
REAL Challenge Scientific Committee
Alan W Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Helen Hastie, Heriot Watt University, Scotland Gary Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea Sungjin Lee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Santoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Elmar Noeth, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Antoine Raux, Lenovo, USA David Traum, University of Southern California, USA Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
Contact information: Website : http://dialrc.org/realchallenge Email : realchallenge@speechinfo.org
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| 3-3-28 | (2014-06-24) CfP International Conference of young researchers in Language Didactics and Linguistics, Grenoble Fr. CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference of young researchers in Language Didactics and Linguistics Multidisciplinary conference on the study of language
24 juin – 27 juin 2014 LIDILEM laboratory Stendhal University, Grenoble, France http://cedil2014.u-grenoble3.fr In line with the areas of research of our laboratory, this multidisciplinary conference’s objective is to allow the community of PhD students and young researchers to submit their research topics in the fields of language, its teaching and or literacy, psychology, education sciences, ethnology, neurolinguistics, human-machine communication. RESEARCH THEMES · Linguistics · Psycholinguistics · Linguistic development · Sociolinguistics · Multilingualism · Language didactics, · Natural Language Processing (NLP), · Digital Humanities. CALENDAR · Submission deadline : 15th November 2013 29th November 2013
· Announcement of acceptances : March 3rd, 2013 · Preliminary program : May, 2014 · Reception of final articles : June 2nd, 2014 · Conference dates : Tuesday, 24 June (afternoon) to Friday, 27 June 2014 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Laurent BESACIER (Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, France), Jacqueline BILLIEZ (Université Stendhal de Grenoble, France), Annette BOUDREAU (Université de Moncton, Canada), Gabrièle BUDACH (University of Southampton, England) , Cécile CANUT (Université Paris-Descartes, France), Jean-Pierre CHEVROT (Université Stendhal de Grenoble, France), Jean-Louis CHISS (Université Paris 3, France), Jean-François de PIETRO (Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de Recherche et de Documentation Pédagogique, Switzerland), Jean-Marc DEWAELE (Birbeck, University of London, England), Cécile FABRE (ERSS, Université de Toulouse, France), Isabel GONZALEZ REY (Université St Jacques de Compostelle, Spain), Heather HILTON (Université Paris 8, France), Alexandra JAFFE (California State University Long Beach, United-States), Sophie KERN (Université de Lyon 3, France), Marinette MATTHEY (Université Stendhal de Grenoble, France), Christophe PARISSE (Université de Paris 10, France), Ludovic TANGUY (ERSS, Université de Toulouse, France). LANGUAGES The languages used during the conference will be French or English. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: This conference addresses only young researchers (PhD students and recent doctors). Abstracts must be in French or in English. The abstract should not be more than 2 pages long, including references. Deadline for submission : 15 th November 2013 29th November 2013
For more information refer to the instructions indicated on the conference site: http://cedil2014.u-grenoble3.fr MODALITIES OF COMMUNICATION Presentations and posters of young researchers will follow one another and will be accompanied with plenary conferences of renowned lecturers and researchers stemming from different disciplinary fields. Communication in workshops (20 minutes presentation and an additional 10 minutes for discussion). Presentation of posters. PUBLICATION OF ACTS The abstracts accepted for oral or displayed may be published in the form of articles (8-10 pages) to be submitted before June 2 nd, 2014. Articles will be subjected and selected to a proofreading committee with the possibility of being published in the University Press of Grenoble (PUG) at the beginning of 2015. CONTACT For any further information about submissions or registrations, please email to: cedil2014@gmail.com
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| 3-3-29 | (2014-06-26) 5th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT),Baltimore, USA We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the fifth annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be co-located with ACL 2014 in Baltimore in June 2014. The deadline for submission of papers and demo proposals is 21 March. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline, and formatting of regular papers can be found here here:
http://www.slpat.org/slpat2014
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
Please contact the conference organizers at slpat2014-workshop@googlegroups.com with any questions.
Important dates:
21 March: Paper/demo submissions due 11 April: Notification of acceptance 28 April: Camera-ready papers due 26 - 27 June: SLPAT workshop
We look forward to seeing you!
The organizing committee of SLPAT 2014, Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Germany Dimitra Anastasiou, University of Bremen, Gernany Cui Jian, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen, Germany Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA Rupal Patel, Northeastern University, USA Frank Rudzicz, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and University of Toronto, Canada Annalu Waller, University of Dundee, Scotland Desislava Zhekova, University of Munich, Germany
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| 3-3-30 | (2014-07-01) 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2014), Marseille, F CALL FOR PAPERS
TALN-2014 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing
http://www.taln2014.org
July 1-4 2014
Marseille, FRANCE
IMPORTANT DATES
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1. Long paper
- Paper submission deadline : February 8, 2014 - Notification : March 29, 2014 - Camera ready paper due : May 2, 2014
2. Short paper
- Paper submission deadline : April 12, 2014 - Notification : May 10, 2014 - Camera ready paper due : May 26, 2014
3. Demonstrations
- Submission deadline : April 21, 2014 - Notification : May 10, 2014 - Camera ready paper due : May 26, 2014
PRÉSENTATION ============ Organized by the LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage) and the LIF (Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale), the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN) will take place from 1st to the 4th July at Faculté Saint Charles, Marseille (France).
TALN'2014 is organised under the aegis of ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) and will be held jointly with RECITAL'2014, the conference for young researchers (separated call for papers).
TALN'2014 will include oral presentations of research and position papers, posters, invited speakers and demonstrations. The official language is French. English presentations and papers are accepted for non-French-speaking authors.
TYPES OF COMMUNICATIONS ======================= Two communication formats are proposed: long papers (from 12 to 14 pages) and short papers (from 6 to 8 pages).
Authors are invited to submit two types of communications:
- original research work - position paper on the current state of the research work
Papers should present original works, with substantial new material when comparing to previous publications of the same author(s). Translation of previously published papers are not
There will be two presentation formats: Oral for long papers and Poster for short papers.
All topics of NLP are eligible for a submission.
SELECTION CRITERIA ================== Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts of the domain. For research papers, decisions will be based on the following criteria:
- relevance to the conference topics - importance and originality of the paper - scientific and technical soundness - comparison of the results obtained with those found in relevant works - situation of the research in comparison with international work - clarity of the presentation
For position papers, decisions will be based on the following criteria:
- originality of the point of view presented - breadth of view and the taking into account of the state-of-the-art
The selected communications will be published in the conference proceedings.
The program committee will select one paper (TALN Best Paper) among the
accepted papers which will be recommended for publication (extended form) in
the journal 'Traitement Automatique des Langues' (T.A.L.).
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ======================= Papers will be written in French for French-speaking authors or English for non-French-speaking authors.
A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be made available on the
conference website: http://wwwtaln2014.org
ORGANIZING COMMITEE ===================== Philippe Blache (Président) Carine André Frédéric Béchet Sébastien Bermond Brigitte Bigi Nadéra Bureau Cyril Deniaud Stéphanie Desous Benoît Favre Nuria Gala Joëlle Lavaud Grégoire Montcheuil Alexis Nasr Catherine Perrot Klim Peshkov Laurent Prévot Carlos Ramisch Stéphane Rauzy Claudia Starke
CONTACTS ======== philippe.blache[arobas]lpl-aix.fr nadera.bureau[arobas]lpl-aix.fr
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| 3-3-31 | (2014-07-06) Special Session on Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Digital Audio Applications, Beijing ChinaSpecial Session on Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Digital Audio Applications WCCI 2014 Special Session - Call for Papers 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2014) Beijing, China,
July 6-11 2014.
www.ieee-wcci2014.org Theme and Scope of the Session ___________________________________________ Computational Intelligence (CI) is widely used to face complex modelling, prediction, and recognition tasks, and is largely addressed in different research fields. One of these, characterized by a mature orientation to market for many years already, is represented by Digital Audio, which finds application in diverse contexts like entertainment, security, and health. Scientists and technicians worldwide actively cooperate to develop new solutions and propose them for commercial exploitation, and, from this perspective, the employment of advanced CI techniques, in combination with suitable Digital Signal Processing algorithms, surely constitutes a plus. In particular, this is typically accomplished with the aim of extracting and manipulating useful information from the audio stream to pilot the execution of automatized services, also in an interactive fashion. This often happens in conjunction with data coming from other media, like textual and visual, for which specific and application-driven fusion techniques are needed (which also require the involvement of advanced CI algorithms). Several are the Digital Audio topics touched by such a paradigm. In digital music applications we have music transcription, onset detection, genre recognition, just to name a few. Then, moving to speech processing, speech/speaker recognition, speaker diarization, and source separation are surely representative subjects with a florid literature already. Furthermore, auditory scene analysis, acoustic monitoring and sound detection and identification have lately encountered a certain success in the scientific community and can be thus included in this illustrative list. In dealing with the problems correlated to these different topics, the adoption of data-driven learning systems is often a ``must''. This is not, however, immune to technological issues. Indeed, big amount of data frequently needs to be managed and processed, data which features can change over time due to the time-varying characteristics of the audio stream and of the acoustic environment. Moreover, in many applicative scenarios hard real-time processing constraints must be taken into account. It is indeed of great interest for the scientific community to understand how and to what extent novel CI techniques can be efficiently employed in Digital Audio, in the light of all aforementioned aspects. The aim of this session is therefore to offer a CI oriented look at the large variety of Digital Audio research topics and applications and to discuss the most recent technological efforts from this perspective. Topics ___________________________________________ Intelligent Audio Analysis Audio Information Retrieval Music Content Analysis and Understanding Speech and Speaker Analysis and Classification Cross-domain Audio Analysis Sound Detection and Identification Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Acoustic Monitoring Context-aware Audio Source Separation Intelligent Audio Interfaces Important Dates ___________________________________________ •20 December 2013: Due date for paper submission •15 March 2014: Notification to authors •15 April 2014: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers •6-11 July 2013: Conference Days Organisers ___________________________________________ Stefano Squartini Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) s.squartini@univpm.it Aurelio Uncini Università La Sapienza (Italy) aurel@ieee.org Francesco Piazza Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) f.piazza@univpm.it Björn Schuller Imperial College London (UK), TUM (Germany) schuller@tum.de
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| 3-3-32 | (2014-07-19) Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française at l’Université Libre de Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française 2014 Organisé par l’
Institut de Linguistique Française (CNRS – FR 2393) du 19 au 23 juillet 2014, à l’Université Libre de Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS Dates : 19 au 23 juillet 2014 Lieu : Université Libre de Berlin Site web : http://www.ilf.cnrs.fr/, rubrique Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française Contact
Intérêt scientifique Le quatrième Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est organisé par l’Institut de Linguistique Française (ILF), Fédération de Recherche du CNRS (FR 2393) qui est sous la tutelle de cet organisme et du Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche. L’ILF regroupe dix-sept laboratoires de recherche, qui sont les co-organisateurs de ce congrès en partenariat avec de nombreuses associations nationales et internationales. Une telle organisation, conjointement prise en charge par dix-sept unités de recherche, est exceptionnelle par son ampleur et la volonté de partenariat scientifique qu’elle révèle. Le premier Congrès Mondial a été organisé à Paris par l’ILF en 2008, le deuxième à La Nouvelle-Orléans, le troisième à Lyon en 2012. Chacun de ces trois congrès a attiré plus de 300 participants et les résultats ont fait l’objet d’une publication en ligne immédiate accompagnée par un volume de résumés et un CD-ROM d’actes. Ce congrès est organisé sans aucun privilège d'école ou d'orientation et sans exclusive théorique ou conceptuelle. Chaque domaine ou sous-domaine, chaque type d'objet, chaque type de questionnement et chaque problématique portant sur le français peut y trouver sa place. Le CMLF est organisé en 15 sessions, lesquelles soulignent le fait que la linguistique française n’est pas limitée à tel ou tel domaine érigé en modèle pour les autres sousdisciplines du champ. Quatorze thématiques ont été retenues, qui permettent de balayer la plus grande partie du champ scientifique : (1) Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique, (2) Linguistique et Didactique (français langue première, français langue seconde), (3) Discours, Pragmatique et Interaction, (4) Francophonie, (5) Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité, (6) Lexique(s), (7) Linguistique de l’écrit, Linguistique du texte, Sémiotique, Stylistique, (8) Morphologie, (9) Phonétique, Phonologie et Interfaces, (10) Psycholinguistique et Acquisition, (11) Sémantique, (12) Sociolinguistique, Dialectologies et Écologie des langues, (13) Syntaxe, (14) Ressources et Outils pour l’analyse linguistique. A ces quatorze thématiques a été ajoutée une quinzième session « pluri-thématique », laissant ouverte la possibilité de travailler dans plusieurs domaines, voire en marge des territoires disciplinaires traditionnels. Chaque thématique est pilotée par un Président et coordonnée par un Vice-président (membre du Comité directeur de l’ILF, ou bien choisi par ce comité). Les comités scientifiques comportent une proportion équilibrée de spécialistes français et étrangers. Un soin particulier a été accordé à la sélection des comités afin de s’assurer qu’ils présenteraient les plus grandes garanties scientifiques pour le succès du congrès. On trouve donc dans chaque comité des linguistes connu(e)s mondialement pour leur contribution au domaine. Le rôle de ces comités est de sélectionner les propositions de communications. Les soumissions se feront sous la forme de brefs articles de 10 à 15 pages. Toutes les communications (y compris les conférences plénières) seront publiées sous la forme d'un article de 10 à 15 pages dans les actes du congrès (sous forme de CD-ROM accompagnant un livret des titres et des résumés des communications) et maintenues sous forme électronique sur le site du CMLF. L'archive électronique restera accessible après le congrès.
Rappel du calendrier • 15 mai 2013 : Ouverture de la plateforme de dépôt des propositions de communications • 30 novembre 2013 : Date limite de réception des propositions de communication • 25 février 2014 : Notification de l'acceptation ou du refus et directives pour la version définitive • 25 mars 2014 : Réception de la version définitive des articles • Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française : du 19 au 23 juillet 2014
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| 3-3-33 | (2014-07-25) 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14), Tokyo, Japan. The 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 14) will be held from 25 to 27 July at the National Institute for Japanese Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo, Japan. For more details, see its official website, which is now open: http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/labphon14/
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| 3-3-34 | (2014-08-23) COLING 2014 COLING 2014
Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014
COLING 2014 (http://www.coling-2014.org/), the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, will be organised by CNGL (Centre for Global Intelligent Content) at the Helix Convention Centre at Dublin City University (DCU) from 23-29 August 2014. The COLING conference is organised under the auspices of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL).
ABOUT COLING
The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. The conference is held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The 1st conference was held in New York, 1965. Since then, the conference has developed into one of the premier Natural Language Processing conferences world-wide. The last five conferences were held in Geneva (COLING 2004), Sydney (COLING - ACL 2006), Manchester (COLING 2008), Beijing (COLING 2010) and Mumbai (COLING 2012).
COLING covers a broad spectrum of technical areas related to natural language and computation. The conference will include full papers, oral presentations, poster presentations, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.
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SUBMISSION TIMELINE
Workshops and Tutorials
Call for Workshop and tutorial proposals 18th October 2013 Workshop and tutorial proposals submission 19th January 2014 Workshop and tutorials notification 26th January 2014
Main Conference
Call for Papers To be announced Paper submission 21st March 2014 Paper notification 23rd May 2014 Camera-ready paper submission 6th June 2014
Formal publication date for all COLING 2014 papers: 11th August 2014
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COLING 2014 CHAIRS
Program Co-Chairs
Prof. Junichi Tsujii (Microsoft Research, China) Prof. Jan Hajic (Charles Univ., Czech)
General Chair
Prof. Josef van Genabith (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Scientific Advisory Board
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala Univ., Sweden) Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan) Michael Picheny (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Donia Scott (Univ. of Sussex, UK) Chengqing Zong (CAS, China)
Workshop Chairs
Dr. Jennifer Foster (CNGL, DCU, Ireland) Prof. Dan Gildea (University of Rochester, USA) Prof. Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Tutorial Chairs Prof. Qun Liu (CNGL, DCU, Ireland) Prof. Fei Xia (University of Washington, USA)
Demo Chair
Dr. Lamia Tounsi (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Sponsorship Chairs
Dr. Sharon O’Brien (SALIS / CNGL, DCU, Ireland) Prof. Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany) Dr. Huaping Zhang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Publicity Chairs
Dr. Dorothy Kenny (SALIS, DCU, Ireland) Professor Seong-Bae Park (Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing Associations)
Publication Chairs
Dr. Joachim Wagner (CNGL, DCU, Ireland) Dr. Liadh Kelly (CNGL, DCU, Ireland) Dr. Lorraine Goeuriot (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Local Chair
Dr. Cara Greene (CNGL, DCU, Ireland)
Local Co-Chair
Dr. John Judge (CNGL / NCLT, DCU, Ireland)
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| 3-3-35 | (2014-09-01) 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2014) Lisbon, PortugalThe 22nd European Signal Processing Conference September 1 – 5, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.eusipco2014.org/ ============================================================== Deadline for the submission of Full Papers: FEBRUARY 17, 2014 ============================================================== EUSIPCO 2014 will be held on September 1- 5, 2014, in Lisbon, Portugal. This is one of the largest international conferences in the field of signal processing and will address all the latest developments in research and technology. The conference will bring together individuals from academia, industry, regulation bodies, and government, to exchange and discuss ideas in all the areas and applications of signal processing. EUSIPCO 2014 will feature world-class keynote speakers, special sessions, plenary talks, tutorials, and technical sessions. We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on signal processing topics, including but not limited to: • Audio and acoustic signal processing • Design and implementation of signal processing systems • Multimedia signal processing • Speech processing • Image and video processing • Machine learning • Signal estimation and detection • Sensor array and multichannel signal processing • Signal processing for communications including wireless and optical communications and networking • Signal processing for location, positioning and navigation • Nonlinear signal processing • Signal processing applications including health and biosciences Submitted papers must be camera-ready and no more than five pages long, and conforming to the format that will soon be specified on the EUSIPCO website (http://www.eusipco2014.org/ ). ============================================================== Best Paper Awards ============================================================== Two “EUSIPCO best young author paper awards” will be given at the dinner banquet of EUSIPCO 2014 to the two best papers from authors under the age of 30. ============================================================== Important Dates ============================================================== Proposal for special sessions: December 9, 2013 Proposal for tutorials: February 17, 2014 Electronic submission of full papers: February 17, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2014 Submission of camera-ready papers and copyright forms: June 23, 2014 _______________________________________________
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| 3-3-36 | (2014-09-03) Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology 7 (LARP VII), Aix en Provence, FR Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology 7 (LARP VII) Aix-en-Provence, France Sept. 3-5, 2014 The biannual conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (LARP) seeks to bring together international researchers interested in all areas of Romance phonetics and phonology, in particular within the laboratory phonology approach. In the past decades, research in the laboratory phonology paradigm has expanded significantly so that the disciplines of phonetics and phonology are being investigated from a unique interdisciplinary angle. LARP aims at providing an interdisciplinary forum for world-wide research focusing on the experimental investigation of Romance phonetics and phonology and their related areas, such as language acquisition, language variation and change, prosody, speech pathology, speech technology, as well as the phonology-phonetics interface. LARP VII will be hosted for the first time in Europe, by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage in Aix-en-Provence, and will be the result of a joint effort between Aix-Marseille University (Aix-en-Provence, France) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Meeting Dates: Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology VII will be held from 03-Sept-2014 to 05-Sept-2014. Contact Information: Mariapaola D'Imperio: larp7conference@gmail.com Organizers: Mariapaola D'Imperio (Aix-Marseille University & LPL,CNRS) Pilar Prieto (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Conference webpage: http://larp7.sciencesconf.org/ Abstract Submission Information: Abstracts can be submitted from 15-Dec-2013 until 31-March-2014. Invited speakers Laura Bosch, Univ. Barcelona Martine Grice, Univ. Koeln, Germany Thierry Nazzi, CNRS, Paris Daniel Recasens, Univ. Autonoma, Barcelona
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| 3-3-37 | (2014-09-10) CfP 3rd SWIP - Swiss Workshop on Prosody, Université de Genève, Switzerland Second Call for contributions
3rd SWIP - Swiss Workshop on Prosody
Special Theme : PhonoGenres and Speaking Styles
10-11 September 2014 - University of Geneva
The SWIP (Swiss Workshop on Prosody) is an annual meeting gathering
researchers in the field of prosody. After Zurich in 2012, and
Neuchâtel in 2013, the 3rd SWIP will take place in Geneva on
10-11 September 2014. For this edition, the special theme is
PhonoGenres and Speaking Styles. By this event we mark the end
of the three year FNS research project 'Prosodic and linguistic
characterisation of speaking styles: semi-automatic approach and
applications'.
Phonostylistic prosodic variation, whether regional, social or
situational, is the object of a growing number of studies. They are
systematic or isolated, based on phonetic-phonological studies of
large-scale corpora or on the examination of narrow samples. Approaches
vary between systematic methodologies and ad hoc procedures. Thus, one
of the major goals of the conference is to index different approaches
and to confront their results.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
*PhonoGenres: phonetic-prosodic dimensions; situational, regional,
communicative, macro- or micro-social variations; comparative analysis
*speaker-specific behavior: cliché, idiosyncrasy, distinctive features
*diachronic speaking style variation
*identification of discourse genres and styles
*methodologies and tools for corpus processing of speech in general,
and especially those developed to process the speaking style variation
Invited speakers:
Julia Hirschberg
Philippe Boula de Mareüil
Submission:
First, a one page abstract, plus references, shall be submitted in
English or in French via EasyChair by the 1st of February 2014.
Second, the definitive version of paper shall be submitted by the
1st of June 2014 in order to publish the proceedings - both in paper
and electronic format - at the beginning of the conference. Proceedings
will be published in Cahiers de la Linguistique Française in a short
(6 pages max., about 2000 words) or in a long version (12 pages max.,
about 4000 words). Papers can be written in English or in French with
an abstract in the other language and they must follow style sheet
Please note that the conference language is English.
Important dates:
Submission of abstracts : 1 February 2014
Notification of acceptance: 1 Mars 2014
Submission of final paper for proceedings publication: 1 June 2014
Conference: 10-11 September 2014
Scientific committee:
Antoine Auchlin
Mathieu Avanzi
Philippe Boula de Mareüil
Nick Campbell
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie
Céline De Looze
Volker Dellwo
Jean-Philippe Goldman
Julia Hirschberg
Daniel Hirst
Ingrid Hove
Adrian Leemann
Joaquim Llisterri
Philippe Martin
Piet Mertens
Anne Lacheret
Nicolas Obin
Tea Pršir
Stephan Schmid
Sandra Schwab
Elizabeth Shriberg
Anne Catherine Simon
Organising committee:
Antoine Auchlin
Jean-Philippe Goldman
Tea Pršir
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| 3-3-38 | (2014-12-01) CfP IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing - Atlanta Georgia 2014 Technical Program Chairs: Douglas Williams, Timothy Davidson, and Ghassan AlRegib The IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) is a recently launched flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. GlobalSIP’14 will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, during the week of December 1, 2014. The conference will focus broadly on signal and information processing with an emphasis on up-and-coming signal processing themes. The conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and technical sessions consisting of poster or oral presentations. GlobalSIP’14 will be comprised of colocated symposia selected competitively based on responses to this call-for-symposium proposals. Symposium topics may include, but are not limited to:
Symposium proposals should include the title of the symposium; length of the symposium (one day or two days); projected selectivity of the symposium; paper length requirements (submission: from 2 to 6 pages, final: 4-6 pages, invited papers may be longer); names, addresses, and short CVs (up to 250 words) of the organizers, including the general organizers and the technical chairs; an up-to two page description of the technical issues that the symposium will address (including timeliness and relevance to the signal processing community; names of (potential) technical program committee members; name of (potential) invited speakers (up to 2 for one-day symposia and 4 for two-day ones)); and a draft call-for-papers. Please package everything in a single pdf file. More detailed information can be found at http://renyi.ece.iastate.edu/globalsip2014/cfs.html Symposium proposals should be emailed to Doug Williams (doug.williams@ece.gatech.edu) and Geoffrey Li (liye@ece.gatech.edu) according the following timeline: November 8, 2013: Symposium proposals due Tentative timeline for paper submission:
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| 3-3-39 | (2014-12-23) CfP International Conference on Human Machine Interaction, New Delhi IndiaCall for papersInternational Conference on Human Machine Interaction 2014 23 – 25, December 2014 http://intconfhmi.com In association with SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia. and ASDF (Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties) Chennai Chapter, we will organize the International Conference HMI 2014 which will be held in New delhi -INDIA. Human Machine Interaction (HMI), is a main annual research conference aimed at presenting current research being carried out. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. HMI 2014 is co-sponsored by Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties and SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia and technical co-sponsored by many other universities and institutes. Area of Submission
Topics of interest for HMI is widely declared for the above, but not limited to. Conference Registration Fees Rebate (Discount)We are pleased to inform you that the organizing committee of the HMI2014 allocates a financial support for all participants from developing or emerging countries. This Financial support of among of 150 Dollars is available to help participants to attend HMI2014 You can find more details in: http://intconfhmi.com/register.html
We are waiting for seeing you in India. NB : A select number of Post Conference Excursions will take place during 5 days. As examples : 1 Day Tour to Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Mathura in AC Bus : 25 $ per person 1 Day Tour to Qutub Minar, Parliament, Lotus Temple, India Gate, Gandhi Smiriti, Red Fort, Humayun's Tomb, Rajghat: 25 $ per person
Best Regards Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL General Co-Chair, HMI2014 Head of Research Unit: Sciences & Technologies of Image and Telecommunications ( Sfax University ) GSM +216 20 200005
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| 3-3-40 | Announcing the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems Carnegie Mellon University
degree designed for students who want to rapidly master advanced content-analysis, mining, and intelligent information technologies prior to beginning or resuming leadership careers in industry and government. Just over half of the curriculum consists of graduate courses. The remainder provides direct, hands-on, project-oriented experience working closely with CMU faculty to build systems and solve problems using state-of-the-art algorithms, techniques, tools, and datasets. A typical MIIS student completes the program in one year (12 months) of full-time study at the Pittsburgh campus. Part-time and distance education options are available to students employed at affiliated companies. The application deadline for the Fall 2013 term is December 14, 2012. For more information about the program, please visit http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/education/msiis/overview.shtml
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| 3-3-41 | Cf Participation:URGENT/ NTCIR-11 Spoken Query and Spoken Document Retrieval Task (SpokenQuery&Doc) Call for Participation NTCIR-11 Spoken Query and Spoken Document Retrieval Task (SpokenQuery&Doc) http://www.nlp.cs.tut.ac.jp/ntcir11
(Although the official deadline of the NTCIR-11 task registration is 20th
January, the organizers will accept the registration for SpokenQuery&Doc until
the end of March, 2014.) INTRODUCTION The NTCIR-11 SpokenQuery&Doc task will evaluate information retrieval systems that make use of speech technologies for query input and document retrieval, i.e. speech-driven information retrieval and spoken document retrieval. Spoken document retrieval (SDR) in the SpokenQuery&Doc task builds on the previous NTCIR-9 SpokenDoc and NTCIR-10 SpokenDoc-2 tasks, and will evaluate two SDR tasks: spoken term detection (STD) and spoken content retrieval (SCR). Common search topics will tbe used for STD and SCR which will enable component and whole system evaluations of STD and SCR. The emergence of mobile computing devices means that it is increasingly desirable to interactive with computing applications via speech input. The SpokenQuery&Doc provides the first benchmark evaluation using spontaneously spoken queries instead of typed text queries. Here, a spontaneously spoken query means that the query is not carefully arranged before speaking, and is spoken in a natural spontaneous style, which tends to be longer than a typed text query. Note that this spontaneousness contrasts with spoken queries in the form of spoken isolated keywords which are carefully selected in advance, and represent very different situations in terms of speech processing and composition. One of the advantages of such spontaneously spoken queries as input to retrieval systems is that this enables users to easily submit long queries which give systems rich clues for retrieval, although their spontaneous nature means that they are harder to recognise reliably. TASK OVERVIEW The target data for the SpokenQuery&Doc task is recordings of the first to seventh annual Spoken Document Processing Workshop. For this speech data, manual and automatic transcriptions (with several ASR conditions) will be provided to task participants. These enable researchers interested in SDR, but without access to their own ASR system to participate in the tasks. The main task of SpokenQuery&Doc is searching spoken documents for contents described in response to spontaneously spoken queries (spoken-query-driven spoken content retrieval: SQ-SCR). Partial sub-tasks of the main task will also be conducted. The sub-tasks include a spoken term detection task for the spoken queries (SQ-STD), and a SCR task from the search results of SQ-STD (STD-SCR). For these tasks, manual and automatic transcriptions of the spoken queries are also to be provided. These enable participants from the previous SpokenDoc tasks to participate in the tasks using the text queries. For the SQ-SCR and STD-SCR tasks, a target search unit is either a speech segment that is spoken within a presentation slide (slide retrieval task) or a boundary-free speech segment (passage retrieval task). FOR MORE INFORMATION Please visit: http://www.nlp.cs.tut.ac.jp/ntcir11 TASK REGISTRATION To register for the SpokenQuery&Doc please visit the main NTCIR-11 website at: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-11/ Registration deadline: 20th January 2014 (Although the official deadline of the NTCIR-11 task registration is 20th January, the organizers will accept the registration for SpokenQuery&Doc until the end of March, 2014.) ORGANIZERS Tomoyosi Akiba (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) Hiromitsu Nishizaki (University of Yamanashi, Japan) Hiroaki Nanjo (Ryukoku University, Japan) Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland) If you have any questions, please send e-mails to the task organizers mailing list: ntcadm-spokenqueryanddoc@nlp.cs.tut.ac.jp ======================================================================
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| 3-3-42 | Master in linguistics (Aix-Marseille) France Master's in Linguistics (Aix-Marseille Université): Linguistic Theories, Field Linguistics and Experimentation TheLiTEx offers advanced training in Linguistics. This specialty focuses Linguistics is aimed at presenting in an original way the links between corpus linguistics and scientific experimentation on the one hand and laboratory and field methodologies on the other. On the basis of a common set of courses (offered within the first year), TheLiTEx offers two paths: Experimental Linguistics (LEx) and Language Contact & Typology (LCT) The goal of LEx is the study of language, speech and discourse on the basis of scientific experimentation, quantitative modeling of linguistic phenomena and behavior. It focuses on a multidisciplinary approach which borrows its methodologies to human physical and biological sciences and its tools to computer science, clinical approaches, engineering etc.. Among the courses offered: semantics, phonetics / phonology, morphology, syntax or pragmatics, prosody and intonation, and the interfaces between these linguistic levels, in their interactions with the real world and the individual, in a biological, cognitive and social perspective. Within the second year, a set of more specialized courses is offered such as Language and the Brain and Laboratory Phonology. LCT aims at understanding the world's linguistic diversity, focusing on language contact, language change and variation (European, Asian and African languages, Creoles, sign language, etc.).. This specialty focuses, from a a linguistic and sociolinguistic perspective, on issues of field linguistics and taking into account both the human and socio-cultural dimension of language (speakers, communities). It also focuses on documenting rare and endangered languages and to engage a reflection on linguistic minorities. This path also provides expertise and intervention models (language policy and planning) in order to train students in the management of contact phenomena and their impact on the speakers, languages and societies More info at: http://thelitex.hypotheses.org/678
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| 3-3-43 | Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences at USC CA USA REU Site: Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences --------------------------------------------------------------------
The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) offers a 10-week summer research program for undergraduates in interactive virtual experiences. A multidisciplinary research institute affiliated with the University of Southern California, the ICT was established in 1999 to combine leading academic researchers in computing with the creative talents of Hollywood and the video game industry. Having grown to encompass a total of 170 faculty, staff, and students in a diverse array of fields, the ICT represents a unique interdisciplinary community brought together with a core unifying mission: advancing the state-of-the-art for creating virtual reality experiences so compelling that people will react as if they were real.
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of ICT research, we welcome applications from students in computer science, as well as many other fields, such as psychology, art/animation, interactive media, linguistics, and communications. Undergraduates will join a team of students, research staff, and faculty in one of several labs focusing on different aspects of interactive virtual experiences. In addition to participating in seminars and social events, students will also prepare a final written report and present their projects to the rest of the institute at the end of summer research fair.
Students will receive $5000 over ten weeks, plus an additional $2800 stipend for housing and living expenses. Non-local students can also be reimbursed for travel up to $600. The ICT is located in West Los Angeles, just north of LAX and only 10 minutes from the beach.
This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The site is expected to begin summer 2013, pending final award issuance.
Students can apply online at: http://ict.usc.edu/reu/ Application deadline: March 31, 2013
For more information, please contact Evan Suma at reu@ict.usc.edu.
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