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| 3-1-1 | (2010-09-22) 7th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW7), Kyoto,Japan CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-1-2 | (2010-09-26) INTERSPEECH 2010 Chiba Japan ======================================== INTERSPEECH2010 Call for Papers
Makuhari,Japan / September 26-30, 2010 http://www.interspeech2010.org ========================================
Dear Colleague,
INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on issues surrounding the science and technology of spoken language processing(SLP) both in humans and in machines. It is our great pleasure to host INTERSPEECH 2010 in Japan, the birthplace of ICSLP, which has held two ICSLPs, in Kobe and Yokohama, in the past. The theme of INTERSPEECH 2010 is 'Spoken Language Processing for All Ages, Health Conditions, Native Languages and Environments'. INTERSPEECH 2010 emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach covering all aspects of speech science and technology spanning the basic theories to applications. Besides regular oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, exhibits, and special sessions are planned.
'INTERSPEECH conferences are indexed in ISI'
We invite you to submit original papers in any related area, including but not limited to:
HUMAN SPEECH PRODUCTION, PERCEPTION AND COMMUNICATION
* Human speech production * Human speech and sound perception * Linguistics, phonology and phonetics * Intersection of spoken and written languages * Discourse and dialogue * Prosody (e.g., production, perception, prosodic structure, modeling) * Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g., emotion and expression) * Physiology and pathology of spoken language * Spoken language acquisition, development and learning * Speech and other modalities (e.g., facial expression, gesture)
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
* Speech analysis and representation * Speech segmentation * Audio segmentation and classification * Speaker turn detection * Speech enhancement * Speech coding and transmission * Voice conversion * Speech synthesis and spoken language generation * Automatic speech recognition * Spoken language understanding * Language and dialect identification * Cross-lingual and multi-lingual speech processing * Multimodal/multimedia signal processing (including sign languages) * Speaker characterization and recognition * Signal processing for music and song * Spoken language technology for prosthesis, rehabilitation, wellness and welfare * Computational linguistics for SLP * Written Language Processing for SLP
SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
* Spoken dialogue systems * SLP Systems for information extraction/retrieval * Systems for spoken language translation * Applications for aged and handicapped persons * Applications for learning and education * Other applications
RESOURCES, STANDARDIZATION AND EVALUATION
* Spoken language resources and annotation * Evaluation and standardization of spoken language systems
Special Sessions * Open Vocabulary Spoken Document Retrieval * Compressive Sensing for Speech and Language Processing * Social Signals in Speech * The Voice - a Special Treat for the Social Brain? * Quality of Experiencing Speech Services * Speech Intelligibility Enhancement for All Ages, Health Conditions, and Environments * INTERSPEECH 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge - Age, Gender, and Affect * The Speech Models - Searching for Better Representations of Speech * Fact and Replica of Speech Production
Paper Submission
Papers for the INTERSPEECH 2010 proceedings should be up to four pages in length and conform to the format given in the paper preparation guidelines and author kits which is now available on the INTERSPEECH 2010 website along with the Final Call for Papers. Optionally, authors may submit additional files, such as multimedia files, to be included on the Proceedings CD-ROM. Authors shall also declare that their contributions are original and not being submitted for publication elsewhere (e.g., another conference, workshop, or journal). Papers must be submitted via the on-line paper submission system. The deadline for submitting a paper is 30 April 2010. This date will not be extended. Inquiries regarding paper submissions should be directed via email to submission@interspeech2010.org.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: 30 April 2010 Notification of acceptance or rejection: 2 July 2010 Camera-ready paper due: 9 July 2010 Authors' registration deadline: 12 July 2010 Early registration deadline: 28 July 2010 Conference dates: 26-30 September 2010
Please visit our website at http://www.interspeech2010.org/
General Chair Keikichi Hirose General Vice Chair Yoshinori Sagisaka
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| 3-1-3 | (2011-08-27) INTERSPEECH 2011 Florence Italy Interspeech 2011 Palazzo dei Congressi, Italy, August 27-31, 2011. Organizing committee Piero Cosi (General Chair), Renato di Mori (General Co-Chair), Claudia Manfredi (Local Chair), Roberto Pieraccini (Technical Program Chair), Maurizio Omologo (Tutorials), Giuseppe Riccardi (Plenary Sessions). More information www.interspeech2011.org
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| 3-1-4 | (2012-09-09) INTERSPEECH 2012, Portland, Oregon USA INTERSPEECH 2012 Portland, U.S., 09-13 September 2012
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| 3-1-5 | (2013-08-23) Interspeech 2013 Lyon France Interspeech 2013 Lyon, France 23-29 August 2013 General Chair: Frédéric Bimbot
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| 3-2-1 | (2010-09-24) SIGDIAL 2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SIGDIAL 2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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| 3-2-2 | (2010-12-12) IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology SLT 2010 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology SLT 2010 December 12-15, 2010 Berkeley, CA
Call for Papers
The Third IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop will be held between December 12-15, 2010 in Berkeley, CA. The goal of this workshop is to allow the spoken language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. This workshop has been endorsed/sponsored by the ISCA and ACL as well. The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010 (http://www.dialrc.org/sdc) will be organized as a special session.
Important Dates: • Paper Submission: July 16, 2010 • Notification: September 1, 2010 • Workshop: December 12-15, 2010
Workshop Topics: • Spoken language understanding • Spoken document summarization • Machine translation for speech • Spoken language based systems • Spoken language generation • Question answering from speech • Human/computer interaction • Educational/healthcare applications • Speech data mining • Information extraction • Spoken document retrieval • Multimodal processing • Spoken dialog systems • Spoken language systems • Spoken language databases • Assistive technologies
Organizing Chairs: • Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI • Mari Ostendorf, U. Washington
Technical Chairs: • Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, Portugal • Tim Paek, Microsoft Research
Area Chairs: • Julia Hirschberg, Columbia U. • Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen • Andreas Stolcke, SRI/ICSI • Ye-Yi Wang, Microsoft Research
Finance Chair: • Gokhan Tur, SRI International
Advisory Board: • Mazin Gilbert, AT&T Labs • Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs • Giuseppe Riccardi, U. Trento
Demo Chairs: • Alex Potamianos, Tech. U. of Crete • Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki U. of Tech.
Publicity Chair: • Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM • Benoit Favre, U. Le Mans
Panel Chairs: • Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Of Tech. • Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U.
Publication Chair: • Yang Liu, U. Texas, Dallas
Local Organizers: • Dimitra Vergryi, SRI International • Murat Akbacak, SRI International • Sibel Yaman, ICSI • Arindam Mandal, SRI International
Europe Liaisons: • Frederic Bechet, U. Avignon • Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh
Asia Liaisons: • Helen Meng, C. U. Hong Kong • Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH
Keynote Speakers: • Michael Jordan, U. California, Berkeley • Chris Manning, Stanford U. • James W. Pennebaker, U. Texas, Austin
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| 3-3-1 | (2010-09-06) Thirteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2010) Brno, Czech Republic Thirteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2010) Brno, Czech Republic, 6-10 September 2010 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 THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Papers on processing languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. 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 LOCATION For the participants with some extra time, some nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
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| 3-3-2 | (2010-09-08) 21st Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV) Call for Papers 21st Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV) 8 - 10 September 2010 in Berlin Dear friends of our conference series, Also in the year 2010 the conference Electronic Speech Signal Processing will bring together those interested in speech technology in research and applications. After a long break the event will be once again held in Berlin, at Beuth University of Applied Sciences. Although this has traditionally been a German event, we also invite our colleagues from abroad to contribute. Therefore conference languages will be German and English. The conference will again focus on speech signal processing at large, with the following being potential topics of contributions, but not an exhaustive list:
This time is the twenty-first that the ESSV takes place. As always the organizers strive to develop a scientifically sophisticated program reflecting the cutting edge of speech technology. We are relying on your active cooperation and invite you cordially to make a contribution in the form of a talk or a poster. The proceedings will be published as usual in the series 'Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation' of TUDpress publishing. Paper Submission More info about the proceedings, venue and accommodations will be updated regularly online at the following address: http://public.beuth-hochschule.de/~mixdorff/essv2010/index_english.html. You can also contact us by post, fax or E-mail at the following address: Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin Important Dates
Local Organizers Hansjörg Mixdorff Call for Papers
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| 3-3-3 | (2010-09-15) 52nd International Symposium ELMAR-2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 52nd International Symposium ELMAR-2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ September 15-17, 2010 Zadar, Croatia SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of full papers: March 15, 2010 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Ive Mustac, Tankerska plovidba, Zadar, Croatia Branka Zovko-Cihlar, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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| 3-3-4 | (2010-09-27) Intern Conf on Latent semantic variable analysis and signal separation- St Malo F LVA/ICA 2010
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| 3-3-5 | (2010-09-27) Summer School CPMSP2 - 2010 Cognitive and Physical Models of Speech Production, Speech Perception and Production-Perception Interaction Announcement
Summer School CPMSP2 - 2010
“Cognitive and Physical Models of Speech Production, Speech Perception and Production-Perception Interaction”
Part III: Planning and Dynamics
Berlin – September 27-October 1, 2010
After two successful editions in Lubmin (2004) and Autrans (2007), we are pleased to announce the 3rd International CPMSP2 Summer School on “Cognitive and Physical Models of Speech Production, Speech Perception and Production-Perception Interaction”. The summer school will be held in Berlin from the 27th of September to the 1st of October 2010.
The focus of this summer school will be the planning of speech sequences and its interactions with dynamical properties of speech production and speech perception. It will be organized around 9 tutorials addressing related issues from the linguistic, neurophysiologic, motor control, and perception perspectives. The following invited speakers have accepted to present these tutorials:
Rachine Ridouane – LPP – Paris: Units in speech planning
Pierre Hallé – LPP – Paris: Units in speech acquisition
Noël Nguyen – LPL – Aix-en-Provence: The dynamical approach to speech perception
Linda Wheeldom – University of Birmingham: Phonological monitoring in the production of spoken sequences
Jelena Krivokapic – Yale University: Prosodic planning in spoken sequences
Paul Cisek – Département de Physiologie – Université de Montréal: Human movement planning and control
Marianne Pouplier – IPS – München: Dynamical coupling of intergestural planning
Pascal Perrier – Gipsa-lab – Grenoble: Gesture planning integrating dynamical constraints and related issues in speech motor control
Peter Dominey – SCBRI - Lyon : Sensorimotor interactions and the construction of speech sequences
The summer school is open to all students, postdocs and researchers. Its aim is to provide a platform for interchanges between students, junior and senior researchers by means of poster presentations, discussion forums and working groups, related to the topics addressed in the tutorials. Further information and conditions for participation can be found at http://summerschool2010.danielpape.info/
Dates
Applications with one page abstract : April 6, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2010
Conference: September 27 – October 1, 2010
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Organisers:
Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin)
Melanie Weirich (ZAS Berlin)
Daniel Pape (IEETA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro)
Pascal Perrier (GIPSA-lab, Grenoble INP, Grenoble)
Contact: berlin.dynamics@gmail.com
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| 3-3-6 | (2010-10-24) 10th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing , Beijing, China The 10th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing Beijing, China October 24-28, 2010 Important Deadline: The International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP), sponsored by the IEEE Beijing Section, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied signal processing. ICSP 2010 will bring together leading engineers and scientists in signal processing from around the world. Research frontiers in fields ranging from traditional signal processing applications to evolving multimedia and video technologies are regularly advanced by results first reported in ICSP technical sessions. Topics include, but are not limited to: *Attention* *Proceedings* *Paper Submission*
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| 3-3-7 | (2010-10-29) CfP Multimedia in Forensics, Security and Intelligence (MiFor 2010)-Firenze Italy CALL FOR PAPERS The workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Forensics Forgery detection and identification, detection of stenography Security Digital/encrypted domain watermarking for multimedia Intelligence Searching for illicit content in multimedia data Important Dates (tentative) Paper Submission: June 10, 2010 Papers submissions for MiFor 2010 should follow the submission format and guidelines for regular ACM Multimedia 2010 papers, and be up to 6 pages in length. Guidelines for preparing submissions can be found at: http://www.acmmm10.org/authors/submission/full-and-short-papers/. Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers for oral and poster presentations at the workshop will be included in the workshop's proceedings, which will be published together with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference 2010. In addition, we plan to realize a special issue or an edited volume by asking the authors of the best papers to submit a substantially extended version of their workshop papers. Additional information is available at the workshop website:
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| 3-3-8 | (2010-10-29) CfP: ACM Multimedia 2010 Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2010) ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 3-3-9 | (2010-10-29) Conference on Phonetic Universals Max Planck Institute We invite papers from linguists, as well as from scholars from related
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| 3-3-10 | (2010-11-08) 12th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces Call for Papers: ICMI-MLMI 2010
12th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and 7th Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction
Beijing, China, November 8-12, 2010
The Twelfth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and the Seventh Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction will be held jointly in Beijing China during November 8-12, 2010. The primary aim of ICMI-MLMI 2010 is to further scientific research within the broad field of multimodal interaction, methods, and systems, focusing on major trends and challenges, and working towards identifying a roadmap for future research and commercial success. The conference will continue to feature a single-track with keynote speakers, technical paper presentations, poster sessions, a doctoral consortium, and demonstrations of state of the art multimodal systems and concepts. The conference will be followed by workshops.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multimodal input and output interfaces - Multimodal human behavior analysis - Machine learning methods for multimodal processing - Fusion techniques and hybrid architectures - Processing of language and action patterns - Gaze and vision-based interfaces - Speech and conversational interfaces - Pen-based interfaces - Haptic interfaces - Brain-computer interfaces - Cognitive modeling of users - Multi-biometric interfaces - Multimodal-multisensor interfaces - Interfaces for attentive and intelligent environments - Mobile, tangible and virtual/augmented multimodal interfaces - Distributed/collaborative multimodal interfaces - Tools and system infrastructure issues for designing multimodal interfaces - Evaluation of multimodal interfaces - AI techniques and adaptive multimodal interfaces
Paper Submission There are two different submission categories: regular paper and short paper. The page limit is 8 pages for regular papers and 4 pages for short papers.
Demo Submission Proposals for demos shall be submitted to demo chairs electronically. A two page description with photographs of the demo is required.
Organizing Committee General Chairs: Wen Gao, Peking University Chin-Hui Lee, Georgia Tech Jie Yang, Carnegie Mellon University
Program Chairs Xilin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research
Important Dates Workshop proposals due: April 1, 2010 Workshop proposal acceptance notification: May 1, 2010 Paper submission: May 20, 2010 Author notification: July 20, 2010 Camera-ready due: August 20, 2010 Conference: Nov. 8-10, 2010 Workshops: Nov. 11-12, 2010
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| 3-3-11 | (2010-11-11) 3rd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction (WOCCI 2010) The 3rd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction WOCCI 2010 (www.wocci.org) will be held in Beijing, China, on November 11-12, 2010. T he Workshop is a satellite event of the Twelth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), which is held this year jointly with the Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction ICMI-MLMI 2010 (http://www.acm.org/icmi/2010/index.html) that will take place in the same venue on November 8-10, 2010. This 2-day session follows the first two of the WOCCI series which were held in Crete in October 2008 and Boston in November 2009, respectively. Two page abstract submission: July 1, 2010 Notification of acceptance: July 20, 2010 Final paper (4-8 pages) submission and authors' registration: August 20, 2010 The Workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in all aspects of multimodal child-machine interaction with particular emphasis on, but not limited to, speech interactive interfaces. Children are special both at the acoustic/linguistic level but also at the interaction level. The Workshop provides a unique opportunity for bringing together different research communities to demonstrate various state-of-the-art components that can make up the next generation of child centred computer interaction. These technological advances are increasingly necessary in a world where education and health pose growing challenges to the core wellbeing of our societies. Noticeable examples are remedial treatments for children with or without disabilities, and first and second language learning. The Workshop should serve for presenting recent advancements in all core technologies for multimodal child-machine interaction as well as experimental systems and prototypes.
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| 3-3-12 | (2010-11-15) Tutorial and Special Session on Forensic Voice Comparison and Forensic Acoustics CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-3-13 | (2010-11-29) 2010 Int. Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2010) Taiwan CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-3-14 | (2010-12-02) CfP 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010) 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
(IWSLT 2010)
Second Call for Participation / Papers
December 2-3, 2010
Paris, France
http://iwslt2010.fbk.eu
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The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)
is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation
campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers
and system descriptions are presented. The 7th International Workshop
on Spoken Language Translation will take place in Paris, France
on 2-3 December 2010.
=== Scientific Papers: to be submitted at latest on September 10, 2010 (deadline extended)
The IWSLT invites submissions of scientific papers to be published
in the workshop proceedings and presented in dedicated technical sessions
of the workshop, either in oral or poster form. The workshop welcomes high
quality contributions covering theoretical and practical issues in the field
of machine translation (MT), in general, and spoken language translation (SLT),
including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS)
and MT, in particular.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Speech and text MT
- Integration of ASR and MT
- MT and SLT approaches
- MT and SLT evaluation
- Language resources for MT and SLT
- Open source software for MT and SLT
- Pivot-language-based MT
- Adaptation in MT
- Simultaneous speech translation
- Efficiency in MT
- Stream-based algorithms for MT
- Multilingual ASR and TTS
Submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by three members of the workshop
program committee. Authors of accepted papers are requested to present their
paper at the workshop.
=== Evaluation Campaign
IWSLT evaluations are not organized for the sake of competition, but their goal
is to foster cooperative work and scientific exchange. In this respect, IWSLT
proposes challenging research tasks and an open experimental infrastructure
for the scientific community working on spoken and written language translation.
This year, the IWSLT evaluation campaign offers three tasks:
- public speeches (TALK) on a variety of topics, from English to French (NEW CHALLENGE),
- spoken dialogues (DIALOG) in travel situations, between Chinese and English,
- traveling expressions (BTEC), from Arabic, Turkish, and French to English.
For each task, monolingual and bilingual language resources are provided to
participants in order to train their translation systems, as well as sets of manual
and automatic speech transcripts (with n-best and lattices) and reference translations,
allowing researchers working only on written language translation to also participate.
Moreover, blind test sets will be released and all translation outputs produced
by the participants will be evaluated using several automatic translation quality
metrics. Human assessment will be carried out for the translation of spoken dialogues
and basic travel expressions.
The goal of this year's new challenge (translation of public speeches) is to
establish reference baselines and appropriate evaluation protocols for future
evaluations. As a consequence, although an evaluation server will be set-up to compute
several translation accuracy metrics, there will be no official ranking of participants
published by the organizers for this task.
Each participant in the evaluation campaign is requested to submit a paper describing
the MT system, the utilized resources, and results using the provided test data.
Contrastive run submissions using only the bilingual resources provided by IWSLT
as well as investigations of the contribution of each utilized resource are highly
appreciated. Results feedback will be provided by the organizers a few days after
the run submissions. Finally, all participants are requested to present their papers
describing their MT systems at the workshop.
=== Important Dates
Scientific Papers:
- Paper submission due 10 September 2010 (deadline extended)
- Notification of acceptance 16 October 2010
- Camera-ready paper due 10 November 2010
Evaluation Campaign:
- Training corpus release 28 May 2010
- Test corpus release 23 August 2010
- Run submissions due (DIALOG, BTEC) 6 September 2010
- Run submissions due (TALK) 30 September 2010
- MT system description due 14 October 2010
- Notification of acceptance 29 October 2010
- Camera-ready paper due 10 November 2010
=== Organizers
IWSLT Steering Committee:
- Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)
- Marcello Federico (FBK-irst, Italy)
- Satoshi Nakamura (NICT, Japan)
Chairs:
* Workshop:
- Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / KIT, Germany)
- Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, France)
* Evaluation Committee:
- Michael Paul (NICT, Japan)
- Marcello Federico (FBK-irst, Italy)
* Program Committee:
- Ian Lane (CMU, USA)
- François Yvon (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11, France)
Local Organizing Committee:
- Martine Garnier-Rizet (IMMI, Chair)
- Lynn Barreteau (IMMI)
- Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI)
- Aurélien Max (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11)
- Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11)
Program Committee:
- Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11, France)
- Laurent Besacier (LIG, France)
- Arianna Bisazza (FBK-irst, Italy)
- Francisco Casacuberta (ITI-UPV, Spain)
- Boxing Chen (NRC, Canada)
- Mehmet Uğur Doğan (Tubitak-Uekae, Turkey)
- Matthias Eck (Mobile Technologies, USA)
- Philipp Koehn (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)
- Philippe Langlais (Univ. Montreal, Canada)
- Geunbae Geunbae Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
- Yves Lepage (Waseda Univ., Japan)
- Haizhou Li (I2R, Singapore)
- Qun Liu (ICT, China)
- José B. Mariño (TALP-UPC, Spain)
- Coskun Mermer (Tubitak-Uekae, Turkey)
- Hermann Ney (RWTH, Germany)
- Hwee Tou Ng (NUS, Singapore)
- Matthias Paulik (CMU, USA)
- Holger Schwenk (LIUM, France)
- Wade Shen (MIT-LL, USA)
- Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany)
- Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan)
- Hajime Tsukada (NTT, Japan)
- Haifeng Wang (Baidu, China)
- Andy Way (DCU, Ireland)
- Joy Zhang (CMU, USA)
- Imed Zitouni (IBM, USA)
- Chengqing Zong (CASIA, China)
For all information, please visit the IWSLT 2010 Web site: http://iwslt2010.fbk.eu
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| 3-3-15 | (2010-12-02) CfP 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010) 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010)
First Call for Participants / Papers
December 2-3, 2010 Paris, France
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The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is a yearly scientific workshop, associated with an open evaluation campaign on spoken language translation, where both scientific papers and system descriptions are presented. The 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation will take place in Paris, France on 2-3 December 2010.
=== Scientific Papers
The IWSLT invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the workshop proceedings and presented in dedicated technical sessions of the workshop, either in oral or poster form. The workshop welcomes high quality contributions covering theoretical and practical issues in the field of machine translation (MT), in general, and spoken language translation (SLT), including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) and MT, in particular. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Speech and text MT - Integration of ASR and MT - MT and SLT approaches - MT and SLT evaluation - Language resources for MT and SLT - Open source software for MT and SLT - Pivot-language-based MT - Adaptation in MT - Simultaneous speech translation - Efficiency in MT - Stream-based algorithms for MT - Multilingual ASR and TTS
Submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by three members of the workshop program committee. Authors of accepted papers are requested to present their paper at the workshop.
=== Evaluation Campaign
IWSLT evaluations are not organized for the sake of competition, but their goal is to foster cooperative work and scientific exchange. In this respect, IWSLT proposes challenging research tasks and an open experimental infrastructure for the scientific community working on spoken and written language translation. This year, the IWSLT evaluation campaign will offer three tasks:
- public speeches (TALK) on a variety of topics, from English to French (NEW CHALLENGE), - spoken dialogues (DIALOG) in travel situations, between Chinese and English, - traveling expressions (BTEC), from Arabic, Turkish, and French to English.
For each task, monolingual and bilingual language resources will be provided to participants in order to train their translation systems, as well as sets of manual and automatic speech transcripts (with n-best and lattices) and reference translations, allowing researchers working only on written language translation to also participate. Moreover, blind test sets will be released and all translation outputs produced by the participants will be evaluated using several automatic translation quality metrics. Human assessment will be carried out for the translation of spoken dialogues and basic travel expressions.
The goal of this year's new challenge (translation of public speeches) will be to establish reference baselines and appropriate evaluation protocols for future evaluations. As a consequence, although an evaluation server will be set-up to compute several translation accuracy metrics, there will be no official ranking of participants published by the organizers for this task.
Each participant in the evaluation campaign is requested to submit a paper describing the MT system, the utilized resources, and results using the provided test data. Contrastive run submissions using only the bilingual resources provided by IWSLT as well as investigations of the contribution of each utilized resource are highly appreciated. Results feedback will be provided by the organizers a few days after the run submissions. Finally, all participants are requested to present their papers describing their MT systems at the workshop.
=== Important Dates
Evaluation Campaign:
- Training corpus release 28 May 2010 - Test corpus release 23 August 2010 - Run submissions due (DIALOG, BTEC) 6 September 2010 - Run submissions due (TALK) 30 September 2010 - MT system description due 14 October 2010 - Notification of acceptance 29 October 2010 - Camera-ready paper due 10 November 2010
Scientific Papers:
- Paper submission due 4 September 2010 - Notification of acceptance 16 October 2010 - Camera-ready paper due 10 November 2010
=== Organizers
IWSLT Steering Committee:
- Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) - Marcello Federico (FBK-irst, Italy) - Satoshi Nakamura (NICT, Japan)
Chairs:
* Workshop:
- Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / KIT, Germany) - Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, France)
* Evaluation Committee:
- Michael Paul (NICT, Japan) - Marcello Federico (FBK-irst, Italy)
* Program Committee:
- Ian Lane (CMU, USA) - François Yvon (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11, France)
Local Organizing Committee:
- Martine Garnier-Rizet (IMMI, Chair) - Lynn Barreteau (IMMI) - Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI) - Aurélien Max (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11) - Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11)
Program Committee:
- Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/U. Paris Sud 11, France) - Laurent Besacier (LIG, France) - Arianna Bisazza (FBK-irst, Italy) - Francisco Casacuberta (ITI-UPV, Spain) - Boxing Chen (NRC, Canada) - Mehmet Uğur Doğan (Tubitak-Uekae, Turkey) - Matthias Eck (Mobile Technologies, USA) - Philipp Koehn (Univ. Edinburgh, UK) - Philippe Langlais (Univ. Montreal, Canada) - Geunbae Lee (Postech, Korea) - Yves Lepage (GREYC, France) - Haizhou Li (I2R, Singapore) - José B. Mariño (TALP-UPC, Spain) - Coskun Mermer (Tubitak-Uekae, Turkey) - Hermann Ney (RWTH, Germany) - Hwee Tou Ng (NUS, Singapore) - Matthias Paulik (CMU, USA) - Holger Schwenk (LIUM, France) - Wade Shen (MIT-LL, USA) - Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany) - Eiichiro Sumita (NICT, Japan) - Hajime Tsukada (NTT, Japan) - Haifeng Wang (Baidu, China) - Andy Way (DCU, Ireland) - Joy Zhang (CMU, USA) - Chengqing Zong (CASIA, China)
For all information, please visit the IWSLT 2010 Web site: http://iwslt2010.fbk.eu
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| 3-3-16 | (2010-12-12) IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology SLT 2010, Berkeley CA IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology SLT 2010 December 12-15, 2010 SUBMISSIONS FOR THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM: IMPORTANT DATES: ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: Organizing Chairs: Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI Mari Ostendorf, U. Washington Finance Chair: Gokhan Tur, SRI International Advisory Board: Mazin Gilbert, AT&T Labs - Research Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs - Research Giuseppe Riccardi, U. Trento Technical Chairs: Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, Portugal Tim Paek, Microsoft Research Demo Chairs: Alex Potamianos, Tech. U. of Crete Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki U. of Tech. Publicity Chair: Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM Research Benoit Favre, Univ. Le Mans Panel Chairs: Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Of Tech. Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U. Publication Chair: Yang Liu, U. Texas, Dallas Local Organizers: Dimitra Vergryi, SRI International Murat Akbacak, SRI International Sibel Yaman, ICSI Arindam Mandal, SRI International Europe Liaisons: Frederic Bechet, U. Avignon Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh Asia Liaisons: Helen Meng, C. U. Hong Kong Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH
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| 3-3-17 | (2010-12-13) The Second IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services. 13/12/2010 - // DeadLine: 20100712 Taichung Taiwan Following the success of the first edition of the workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services (CBTV), we are pleased to announce the second one in this series. The objective of the workshop is twofold. First, it aims at highlighting the need for powerful and automatic audio and video content-based techniques in building novel TV services. The second objective is to bring in professionals and researchers, and to present the recent advances in the field. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International IEEE Symposium on Multimedia 2010.
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| 3-3-18 | (2010-12-14) CfP Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology SST2010: Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
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| 3-3-19 | (2010-12-17) ACM DEV 2010: First ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development *ACM DEV 2010: First ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development* The First ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2010) will be co-located with ICTD 2010 and the focus of the symposium will be on new computing innovations for development. The scope of DEV 2010 is broad covering a wide range of research areas within computer science with a direct focus on development. ACM DEV 2010 aims to bring together all CS researchers with an interest in computing for development. The deadline for paper submissions is July 10th, 2010. We strongly encourage you to submit your best works here. The conference website is: http://dev2010.news.cs.nyu.edu *Call for Papers* DEV 2010 provides an international forum for research in the design and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social and economic development. In particular, we focus on emerging contexts where conventional computing solutions are often inappropriate due to various contextual factors - including, but not limited to, cost, language, literacy, and the availability of power and bandwidth. Focusing on innovative technical solutions to these unique application, infrastructure and user challenges, DEV fosters exchange between computer scientists, engineers, and other scholars and practitioners interested in the use of ICTs for development. DEV provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing new ideas. We expect paper contributions from different existing sub-areas of Computer Science and Engineering with a direct relevance to development. Papers should describe original and previously unpublished research. Three metrics will be applied to judge papers: (a) Relevance of the problem for development; (b) Novelty of the technical solution; (c) Evaluation of the solution, making a case for development-focused impact. All ACM DEV paper submissions should either provide or directly motivate a novel technical solution that has direct implications for development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Important Dates * General Chair Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University PC Chairs Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, NYU *Steering Committee * Saman Amarasinghe, MIT *Program Committee * Muneeb Ali, Princeton, USA
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| 3-3-20 | (2011-04-07) CfP Comparative Methods and Analysis in the Language Sciences Toulouse France CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-3-21 | (2011-05-19) Quatrièmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique Srasbourg F Quatrièmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique IVèmes JPC Strasbourg
Les Quatrièmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique (IVèmes JPC) auront lieu du 19 au 21 mai 2011 à Strasbourg. Ces journées s'inscrivent dans la lignée des premières, deuxièmes et troisièmes journées d'études de phonétique clinique, qui s'étaient tenues respectivement à Paris en 2005, à Grenoble en 2007 et à Aix-en-Provence en 2009. Elles seront organisées par l'Institut de Phonétique de Strasbourg (IPS) & l'U.R. 1339 Linguistique, Langues et Parole (LiLPa) - Equipe Parole et Cognition et la Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l'Homme Alsace (MISHA). Le calendrier, ainsi que les modalités de soumission et d'inscription suivront sous peu. -- Rudolph Sock Institut de Phonétique de Strasbourg (IPS) & Composante Parole et Cognition (PC) E.A. 1339 - Linguistique, Langues et Parole (LiLPa) Université de Strasbourg 22, rue René Descartes 67084 Strasbourg cedex Téléphone : +33 3 68 85 65 68 Fax : +33 3 68 85 65 69 http://misha1.u-strasbg.fr/IPS --------------------------------
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| 3-3-22 | (2011-05-22) ICASSP 2011, Prague ICASSP 2011
Prague hosts IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011. Prague Congress Centre, May 22-27, 2011.
ICASSP is one of the world's major conferences for signal processing, bringing together over 2000 participants and experts from industry and universities.
The conference features world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, demos, and over 120 lecture and poster sessions on the following topics: Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Sensor Array and Multichannel Systems, Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, Speech and Language Processing, Signal Processing for Communications and Networking, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing, Biomedical Imaging, Information Forensics and Security, and Signal Processing Education.
Important deadlines Special Session & Tutorial Proposals Due September 1, 2010 Notification of Special Session & Tutorial Acceptance October 6, 2010 Submission of Camera Ready Papers October 20, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance January 17, 2011 Revised Paper Upload Deadline February 20, 2011 Registration Deadline for Authors March 13, 2011
More information can be found at http://www.icassp2011.com/
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| 3-3-23 | (2011-08-17) 17th International Congress ofPhonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII) 17th International Congress ofPhonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII) in Hong Kong, August 17-21, 2011 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. I CPhS XVII is jointly organized by the City University of Hong Kong, the
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