Thirteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2010)

                Brno, Czech Republic, 6-10 September 2010

                     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       

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:        
 March 15 2010 ............ Submission of abstracts    
 March 22 2010 ............ Submission of full papers   

 Submission of abstract serves for better organization of the review  process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is  necessary.
   
TSD SERIES    

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):
      text corpora and tagging
      transcription problems in spoken corpora
      sense disambiguation
      links between text and speech oriented systems
      parsing issues
      parsing problems in spoken texts
      multi-lingual issues
      multi-lingual dialogue systems
      information retrieval and information extraction
      text/topic summarization
      machine translation
      semantic networks and ontologies
      semantic web
      speech modeling
      speech segmentation
      speech recognition
      search in speech for IR and IE
      text-to-speech synthesis
      dialogue systems
      development of dialogue strategies
      prosody in dialogues
      emotions and personality modeling
      user modeling
      knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems
      assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue
      applied systems and software
      facial animation
      visual speech synthesis

Papers on processing languages other than English are strongly  encouraged.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
         Frederick Jelinek, USA (general chair)
      Hynek Hermansky, Switzerland (executive chair)
      Eneko Agirre, Spain
      Genevieve Baudoin, France
      Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
      Attila Ferencz, Romania
      Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
      Louise Guthrie, GB
      Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
      Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
      Patrick Hanks, Czech Republic
      Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
      Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
      Ales Horak, Czech Republic
      Eduard Hovy, USA
      Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
      Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
      Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
      Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
      Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
      Hermann Ney, Germany
      Elmar Noeth, Germany
      Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
      Karel Pala, Czech Republic
      Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
      Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
      Fabio Pianesi, Italy
      Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
      Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
      James Pustejovsky, USA
      Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
      Milan Rusko, Slovakia
      Ernst G. Schukat-Talamazzini, Germany
      Pavel Skrelin, Russia
      Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
      Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
      Marko Tadic, Croatia
      Tamas Varadi, Hungary
      Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
      Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
      Yorick Wilks, GB
      Victor Zakharov, Russia

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
      John Carroll, University of Sussex, UK
      Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA

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.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
     Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages  formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be  presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the  presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the  reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the  on-line form accessible from the conference website.
     Papers submitted to TSD 2010 must not be under review by any other  conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be  previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
     As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'  names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the  author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...',  should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously  showed (Smith, 1991) ...'.  Papers that do not conform to the  requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.
     The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX  or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final  versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer  Lecture Notes.  Authors using a WORD compatible software for the  final version must use the LNCS template for WORD and within the  submit process ask the Proceedings Editors to convert the paper  to LaTeX format.  For this service a service-and-license fee of  CZK 1500 will be levied automatically.
     The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file  with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,  presenters will receive further information on submitting their  camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on  the final paper format see  http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings.)
     Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed  software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the  conference.  The presenters of the demonstration should provide the  abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not  appear in the conference proceedings.
      
IMPORTANT DATES
     March 15 2010 ............ Submission of abstracts
     March 22 2010 ............ Submission of full paper
     May 15 2010 .............. Notification of acceptance
     May 31 2010 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
     July 23 2010 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts
     July 30 2010 ............. Notification of acceptance for
                                        demonstrations sent to the authors
     September 6-10 2010 ...... Conference date

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
     The official language of the conference is English.    
  
ACCOMMODATION
     The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in  the 3-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the  accommodation will be available at the conference website.    
  
ADDRESS  
 
All correspondence regarding the conference should be  addressed to
      Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2010
      Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
      Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
      phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29
      fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
      email: tsd2010@tsdconference.org
    
The official TSD 2010 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/       

LOCATION    
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a  population of almost 400.000. The city is the country's judiciary and  trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of Moravia, which is in the  south-east part of the Czech Republic. Brno had been a Royal City  since 1347 and with its six universities it forms also a cultural  center of the region.
    
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow  and Prague and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or  Vienna (130 km).    

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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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:

• Speech recognition and synthesis in embedded systems
• Speech technology in vehicles
• Speech technology and education
• Speech technology for the disabled
• Speech and multimedia
• Applications to non-speech acoustic signals from biological, musical and technological fields

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
Fachbereich Informatik und Medien
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Hansjörg Mixdorff
13353 Berlin
Luxemburger Straße 10

Tel: 030 4504 2364
Fax: 030 4505 2013
E-Mail: essv2010@beuth-hochschule.de

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission Deadline (max. 1 page):
  1 May 2010
• Notification of Acceptance:
  15 May 2010
• Deadline for conference papers to be published in the proceedings:
  15 July 2010

Local Organizers

Hansjörg Mixdorff
Sascha Fagel
Lutz Leutelt

 Call for Papers

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52nd International Symposium ELMAR-2010

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September 15-17, 2010                     Zadar, Croatia        
Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2010              
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/                      
CALL FOR PAPERS                    
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2010/call_for_papers/elmar2010_cfp07.pdf  
TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS  IEEE Region 8 IEEE Croatia Section IEEE Croatia Section Chapter of the Signal Processing Society IEEE Croatia Section Joint Chapter of the AP/MTT Societies EURASIP - European Assoc. Signal, Speech and Image Processing  
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY  IEEE Xplore, INSPEC and SCOPUS 
 
TOPICS
--> Image and Video Processing
--> Multimedia Communications
--> Speech and Audio Processing
--> Wireless Commununications
--> Telecommunications
--> Antennas and Propagation
--> Navigation Systems
--> Ship Electronic Systems
--> Power Electronics and Automation
--> Naval Architecture
--> Sea Ecology
--> Special Sessions Proposals - A special session consist     
of 5-6 papers which should present a unifying theme from     
a diversity of viewpoints 
 
KEYNOTE TALKS 
* Prof. Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK:   Telepresence, the 'World-Wide Wait' and 'Green' Radios...  * Dr. Michael M. Bronstein, Technion - Israel Institute    of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL:   Non-rigid, non-rigid, non-rigid world 
* Dr. Mikel M. Miller, AFRL Munitions Directorate,    Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA:   Got GPS? The Navigation Gap 
* Dr. Panos Liatsis, City University London, UK:   3D reconstruction and stenosis quantification    in CT angiograms
 
SUBMISSION  Papers accepted by two reviewers will be published in  conference proceedings available at the conference and  abstracted/indexed in IEEE Xplore, INSPEC and SCOPUS  databases. More info is available here:  http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2010/paper_submission/  

SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES 

Deadline for submission of full papers: March 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 10, 2010
Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: May 20, 2010
Preliminary program available online by: June 14, 2010
Registration forms and payment deadline: June 21, 2010  

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS  Ive Mustac, Tankerska plovidba, Zadar, Croatia Branka Zovko-Cihlar, University of Zagreb, Croatia  
PROGRAM CHAIR  Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia 
CONTACT INFORMATION  Prof. Mislav Grgic  FER, Unska 3/XII  HR-10000 Zagreb  CROATIA  Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851 
Fax: + 385 1 6129 717 
E-mail: elmar2010 (at) fer.hr 
For further information please visit:  http://www.elmar-zadar.org/

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 LVA/ICA 2010
       September 27-30, 2010 - Saint-Malo, France
           9th International Conference on
     Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation

        formerly the International Conference on
  Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation

                http://lva2010.inria.fr/

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Ten years after the first workshop on Independent Component Analysis in
Aussois, the series of ICA conferences has shown the liveliness of the
community of theoreticians and practitioners working in this field.
While ICA and blind signal separation have become mainstream topics, new
approaches have emerged to solve problems involving signal mixtures or
various other types of latent variables: semi-blind models, matrix
factorization using Sparse Component Analysis (SCA), Non-negative Matrix
Factorization (NMF), Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (PLSI), but
also tensor decompositions, Independent Vector Analysis (IVA),
Independent Subspace Analysis (ISA), ...

The 9th edition of the conference, renamed LVA/ICA to reflect this
evolution towards more general Latent Variable Analysis problems in
signal processing, will offer an interdisciplinary forum for scientists
and engineers to experience renewed theoretical surprises and face
real-world problems.

In addition to contributed papers (oral and poster presentations), the
meeting will feature keynote talks by leading researchers:

    Pierre Comon, University of Nice, France
    Stephane Mallat, Ecole Polytechnique, France
    Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow, UK
    Arie Yeredor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

as well as a community-based evaluation campaign (SiSEC 2010), a panel
discussion session, and a special late-breaking / demo session.

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VENUE

Saint Malo (http://www.saint-malo-tourisme.com/index.jsp?lang=en), the
corsair city, is an ancient city and pitoresque sea resort located in
Brittany, in the north-west of France.
Chateaubriand, Surcouf, Jacques Cartier... from writers to privateers
and sailors, many were the good men who hailed from Saint-Malo. As if in
honour of their pride and independence, the forts and ramparts of the
corsair city face the sea, adding to the city's charm and its
exceptional setting. To visitors and event-goers, the city offers the
beauty of its maritime views and the wealth of its historical heritage.
A city of 52,000 inhabitants that is lively all year round, Saint-Malo's
heart beats to the rhythm of the major event it hosts, festivals as the
Etonnants Voyageurs or Internationally renowned regattas such as the
Route du Rhum.

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IMPORTANT DATES

• April 7, 2010: Paper submission deadline
• June 15, 2010: Notification of acceptance
• June 30, 2010: Final paper due
• July 31, 2010: Late-breaking / demo / SiSEC abstract submission deadline

Detailed submission instructions will shortly be made available on the
conference website http://lva2010.inria.fr/.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in all areas of latent
variable analysis and signal separation, including but not limited to:
• Theoretical frameworks: probabilistic, geometric &
biologically-inspired modeling; flat, hierarchical & dynamic structures;
sparse coding; kernel methods; neural networks
• Models: linear & nonlinear models; continuous & discrete latent
variables; convolutive & noisy mixtures; linear & quadratic
time-frequency representations
• Algorithms: blind & semi-blind estimation; identification &
convergence conditions; local & evolutionary optimization; computational
complexity; adaptation & modularity
• Speech and audio data: source separation; denoising & dereverberation;
Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (CASA); Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR)
• Images: segmentation; fusion; texture analysis; color imaging; coding;
scene analysis
• Biomedical data: functional imaging; BCI; genomic data analysis;
systems biology
• Unsolved and emerging problems: causality detection; feature
selection; data mining; control; psychology; social networks; finance;
artificial intelligence; real-time applications
• Resources: software; databases; objective & subjective evaluation
procedures

Papers must be original and must not be already published nor under
review elsewhere. Papers linked to a submission to SiSEC 2010 are highly
welcome. The proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag’s Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series.

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SPECIAL ISSUE AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special
issue of a journal.

The Best Student Paper Award will distinguish the work of a PhD student
with original scientific contributions and the quality of his/her
presentation at LVA/ICA 2010. Eligible papers must be first-authored and
presented by the PhD student during the Conference. Candidates will be
asked to notify their participation on the submission form. A prize of
400 € offered by the Fondation Metivier will be awarded to the winner.

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LATE-BREAKING / DEMO / SiSEC SESSION

A special session will be dedicated to the presentation of:
• early results and ideas that are not yet fully formalized and evaluated
• software and data of interest to the community, with focus on open
source resources
• signal separation systems evaluated in SiSEC 2010 but not associated
with a full paper

Presenters are invited to submit a non-reviewed abstract, which will be
included in the conference program but not published in the proceedings.


We look forward to receiving your technical contribution and meeting you
in Saint-Malo!


Remi Gribonval and Emmanuel Vincent
General Chairs

Vincent Vigneron and Eric Moreau
Technical Chairs

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The 10th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing Beijing, China October 24-28, 2010

http://icsp10.bjtu.edu.cn

Important Deadline:
Submission of Papers: June 15, 2010

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:
 A. Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
 B. Spectrum Estimation & Modeling
 C. TF Spectrum Analysis & Wavelet
 D. Higher Order Spectral Analysis
 E. Adaptive Filtering &SP
 F. Array Signal Processing
 G. Hardware Implementation for Signal Processing
 H. Speech and Audio Coding
 I. Speech Synthesis & Recognition
 J. Image Processing & Understanding
 K. PDE for Image Processing
 L. Video compression &Streaming
 M. Computer Vision & VR
 N. Multimedia & Human-computer Interaction
 O. Statistic Learning & Pattern Recognition
 P. AI & Neural Networks
 Q. Communication Signal processing
 R. SP for Internet and Wireless Communications
 S. Biometrics & Authentification
 T. SP for Bio-medical & Cognitive Science
 U. SP for Bio-informatics
 V. Signal Processing for Security
 W. Radar Signal Processing
 X. Sonar Signal Processing and Localization
 Y. SP for Sensor Networks
 Z. Application & Others

 *Attention*
 Under the support of numerous reviewers and authors, ICSP has been holded for 20 years. In this session, as a celebration for ICSP, we will hold celebration events and awards, which include Outstanding Paper Award, Outstanding Student Paper Award, etc. For details, please visit http://icsp10.bjtu.edu.cn .

 *Proceedings*
 The proceedings with Catalog number of IEEE and Library of Congress will be published prior to the conference in both hardcopy and CD-ROM, and distributed to all registered participants at the conference. The proceedings will be indexed by EI.

 *Paper Submission*
 Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, four-page, double-column papers, including figures and references, to the ICSP Technical Committee by June 15, 2010 at http://icsp10.bjtu.edu.cn. For questions about paper submission, please contact the technical program secretaries, Ms. TANG Xiaofang and Dr. AN Gaoyun at bfxxstxf@bjtu.edu.cn and gyan@bjtu.edu.cn .
 For more information, please visit the ICSP 2010 web site at: http://icsp10.bjtu.edu.cn.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The ACM Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics, Security and Intelligence (MiFor 2010), http://madm.dfki.de/mifor2010/MiFor2010.html
 
in conjunction with the 2010 ACM Multimedia (ACM-MM), http://www.acmmm10.org/
 
Firenze, Italy
October 29, 2010
 
With the proliferation of multimedia data on the web, surveillance cameras in cities, and mobile phones in everyday life we see an enormous growth in multimedia data that needs to be secured to prevent illegal use, to be analyzed by forensic investigators to detect and reconstruct illegal activities, or be used as source of intelligence. The sheer volume of such datasets makes manual inspection of all data impossible. In recent years the multimedia community has developed new exciting solutions for management of large collections of video footage, images, audio and other multimedia content, knowledge extraction and categorization, pattern recognition, indexing and retrieval, searching, browsing and visualization, and modeling and simulation in various domains. Due to the inherent uncertainty and complexity of the data appearing in criminal cases applying those techniques are not straightforward. The time is ripe, however, to tailor these results for forensics, security and intelligence.

The workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Forensics

Forgery detection and identification, detection of stenography
Device characterization and identification
Media forensic applications and attack analysis
Crime scene reconstruction and annotation
Forensic investigation of surveillance data, video analytics
Multimodal analysis of surveillance data
Multimodal analysis of biometric traces
Authenticity of multimedia data
 

Security

Digital/encrypted domain watermarking for multimedia
Signal processing in the encrypted domain
Multimedia content protection and violation detection
Digital rights management
Robust hashing and content fingerprinting
Cryptography for content protection
 

Intelligence

Searching for illicit content in multimedia data
Image, video, and text linking
Multimedia near duplicate detection and retrieval
Multimedia interfaces, visual analytics
Identity detection
Scalable multimedia search
 

Important Dates (tentative)

Paper Submission: June 10, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2010
Camera-ready Version: July 20, 2010
Workshop Date: October 29, 2010
 Paper Submissions and Author Guidelines

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:
http://madm.dfki.de/mifor2010/MiFor2010.html
 
 
Workshop Chairs:
Sebastiano Battiato (University of Catania, Italy)
Sabu Emmanuel (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Adrian Ulges (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany)
Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, The Netherland)

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Extended aper submission deadline: June 14, 2010
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CfP: ACM Multimedia 2010 Workshop on
Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS 2010)
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Workshop held on 29 October 2010, in Firenze, Italy
in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010

Website: http://www.searchingspeech.org/

The SSCS 2010 workshop is devoted to presentation and discussion of recent research results concerning advances and innovation in the area of spoken content retrieval and the area of multimedia search that makes use of automatic speech recognition technology.

Spoken audio is a valuable source of semantic information, and speech analysis techniques, such as speech recognition, hold high potential to improve information retrieval and multimedia search. Nonetheless, speech technology remains underexploited by multimedia systems, in particular, by those providing access to multimedia content containing spoken audio. Early success in the area of broadcast news retrieval has yet to be extended to application scenarios in which the spoken audio is unscripted, unplanned and highly variable with respect to speaker and style characteristics. The SSCS 2010 workshop is concerned with a wide variety of challenging spoken audio domains, including: lectures, meetings, interviews, debates, conversational broadcast (e.g., talkshows), podcasts, call center recordings, cultural heritage archives, social video on the Web and spoken natural language queries. As speech steadily moves closer to rivaling text as a medium for access and storage of information, the need for technologies that can effectively make use of spontaneous conversational speech to support search becomes more pressing.

In order to move the use of speech and spoken content in retrieval applications and multimedia systems beyond the current state of the art, sustained collaboration of researchers in the areas of speech recognition, audio processing, multimedia analysis and information retrieval is necessary. Motivated by the aim of providing a forum where these disciplines can engage in productive interaction and exchange, Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech (SSCS) workshops were held in conjunction with SIGIR 2007, SIGIR 2008 and ACM Multimedia 2009. The SSCS workshop series continues at ACM Multimedia 2010 with a focus on research that strives to move retrieval systems beyond conventional queries and beyond the indexing techniques used in traditional mono-modal settings or text-based applications.

We welcome contributions on a range of trans-disciplinary research issues related to these research challenges, including:

- Information Retrieval techniques in the speech domain (e.g., applied to speech recognition lattices)
- Multimodal search techniques exploiting speech transcripts (audio/speech/video fusion techniques including re-ranking)
- Search effectiveness (e.g., evidence combination, query/document expansion)
- Exploitation of audio analysis (e.g., speaker’s emotional state, speaker characteristics, speaking style)
- Integration of higher level semantics, including topic segmentation and cross-modal concept detection
- Spoken natural language queries
- Large-scale speech indexing approaches (e.g., collection size, search speed)
- Multilingual settings (e.g., multilingual collections, cross-language access)
- Advanced interfaces for results display and playback of multimedia with a speech track
- Exploiting user contributed information, including tags, rating and user community structure
- Affordable, light-weight solutions for small collections, i.e., for the long tail

Contributions for oral presentations (short papers of 4 pages or long papers of 6 pages) and demonstration papers (4 pages) will be accepted. The submission deadline is 10 June 2010. For further information see the website: http://www.searchingspeech.org/

At this time, we area also pre-announcing a special issue of ACM Transactions on Information Systems on the topic of searching spontaneous conversational speech. The special issue is based on the SSCS workshop series, but will involve a separate call for papers. We will especially encourage the authors of the best papers from SSCS 2010 to submit to the special issue call.

SSCS 2010 Organizers
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Roeland Ordelman, Sound & Vision and Uni. of Twente, Netherlands
Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, Netherlands
Wessel Kraaij, TNO and Radboud University, Netherlands

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We invite papers from linguists, as well as from scholars from related
disciplines, who are concerned with phonetic universals.

http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/10-PhoneticUniversals/index.html

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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

http://www.acm.org/icmi/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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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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CALL FOR PAPERS

Tutorial and Special Session on Forensic Voice Comparison and Forensic Acoustics at 2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancún, Mexico, 15–19 November 2010.
http://cancun2010.forensic-voice-comparison.net/

The official call for papers for the Pan-Am/Iberian meeting is now out and the deadline for submissions is 1 June 2010.
http://asa.aip.org/meetings.html


In February 2009 the National Research Council (NRC) Report to Congress on Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States found that:

“[S]ome forensic disciplines are supported by little rigorous systematic research to validate the discipline’s basic premises and techniques. There is no evident reason why such research cannot be conducted” (p. 22).

“The development of scientific research, training, technology, and databases associated with DNA analysis have resulted from substantial and steady federal support for both academic research and programs employing techniques for DNA analysis. Similar support must be given to all credible forensic science disciplines if they are to achieve the degrees of reliability needed to serve the goals of justice.” (p. 13)

Over the last decade, a small number of researchers (principally in Australia, Spain, and Switzerland) have been working on developing demonstrably valid and reliable forensic voice comparison with evidence evaluated using the same framework as is applied to the evaluation of DNA evidence.

Meanwhile in the Americas there has been little interest in this field of research.

The NRC report gives a new impetus for conducting forensic voice comparison research and holds out the hope for new funding opportunities in this area.

The 2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics provides an excellent opportunity to bring together researchers from Iberia and other parts of the world with researchers from the Americas to help foster research in this area in the Americas.

It also provides a venue for an exchange of ideas between researchers working on acoustic-phonetic and signal-processing approaches to forensic voice comparison. 

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CALL FOR PAPERS

2010 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2010)
November 29 – December 3, 2010  -  Tainan and Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan
 
http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/iscslp2010/

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ISCSLP is the flagship conference of ISCA SIG-CSLP (International Speech Communication Association, Special Interest Group on Chinese Spoken Language Processing). ISCSLP2010 will be held during November 29 - December 3, 2010 in Tainan and Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan hosted by National Cheng Kung University.
 
Tainan, located in south-western Taiwan, is the city of cultural origin. There are many historical places and heritage sites. In addition, Tainan is a modern city with various shopping centers, department stores, and night markets. It will be a wonderful opportunity to experience Taiwanese cultures when you visit Tainan. Sun Moon Lake, the largest lake located in central Taiwan, is a beautiful alpine lake, with its eastern part rounded like the sun and the western side shaped like a crescent moon. Its crystalline, emerald green body of water reflects the hills and mountains surrounding on all sides. Its natural beauty is further enhanced by numerous cultural and historical sites.

 
We invite your participation in this premier conference, where the language from ancient civilizations embraces modern computing technology. ISCSLP 2010 will feature world-renowned plenary speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and a number of lecture and poster sessions on the following topics:
Speech Production and Perception
Phonetics and Phonology
Speech Analysis
Speech Coding
Speech Enhancement
Speech Recognition
Speech Synthesis
Language Modeling and Spoken Language Understanding
Spoken Dialog Systems
Spoken Language Translation
Speaker and Language Recognition
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Indexing, Retrieval and Authoring of Speech Signals
Multi-Modal Interface including Spoken Language Processing
Spoken Language Resources and Technology Evaluation
Applications of Spoken Language Processing Technology
 
Official Language & Publication
The official language of ISCSLP is English.
All papers accepted will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI Compendex.
 
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work in English.
Papers should be submitted via http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/iscslp2010/paper.htm
Each submission will be reviewed by two or more reviewers.
At least one author of each paper is required to register.
 
Important Dates
Full paper submission by July 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance by Aug. 30, 2010
Camera ready papers by Sep. 13, 2010
Registration to cover an accepted paper by Oct.13, 2010

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 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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7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation

                             (IWSLT 2010)

                  First Call for Participants / Papers

                          December 2-3, 2010

                             Paris, France

                       http://iwslt2010.fbk.eu

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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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IEEE  Workshop on Spoken Language Technology                               SLT 2010                       December 12-15, 2010                         
Berkeley, CA                        
www.slt2010.org 
********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************
Apologies for multiple postings. 
The Third IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) workshop will be held from December 12 to December 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. 
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 

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM: 
The workshop program will consist of tutorials, oral and poster presentations, and panel discussions. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers to the SLT 2010 website http://www.slt2010.org All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with further details. 

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Paper Submission Deadline: July 16, 2010
Paper acceptance/rejection: September 1, 2010
Workshop dates: December 12-15, 2010 

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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The Second IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services.  13/12/2010 - // DeadLine: 20100712 Taichung  Taiwan

http://cbtv2010.inria.fr/

 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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SST2010: Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Melbourne, Australia, 14-16 December 2010
http://www.assta.org/sst/2010/

Second Call for Papers
Call Deadline: 18 June 2010

ASSTA and La Trobe University are pleased to announce the Thirteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2010). The conference will be held at the La Trobe University City Campus, Melbourne.

*Paper submission guidelines and templates are now available from http://www.assta.org/sst/2010/

Conference Themes
Submissions are invited for oral presentations. Submissions should describe original contributions to spoken language, speech science and/or technology that will be of interest to an audience including scientists, engineers, linguists, psychologists, speech and language therapists, audiologists and other professionals.

Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, but particularly in the following areas:
•       Speech production
•       Acoustic phonetics
•       Acoustics of accent change
•       Phonetics and phonology of Australasian languages (OzPhon)
•       Phonetics and Phonology of Australian and New Zealand English (PANZE)
•       Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice
•       Music and speech processing
•       Applications of speech science and technology
•       Speech processing for forensic applications
•       Speech recognition and understanding
•       Speaker recognition and classification
•       Speech enhancement and noise cancellation
•       Pedagogical technologies for speech and singing
•       Corpus management and speech tools
•       Contributions of speech science and technology to audiology and speech language therapy

Plenary Speakers:

Professor  D.R. Ladd
Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh

Professor Hugh McDermott
Bionic Ear Institute and University of Melbourne

Professor Michael Robb        
Department of Communication Disorders, University of Canterbury

Key dates:

Paper submissions due           Friday 18 June 2010
Notification of acceptance      Friday 27 August 2010
Early-bird registration due     Friday 1 October 2010 

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*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:
  Networks/Systems/Security/Architecture
    * Low-cost wireless connectivity
   * Intermittent networks and systems
   * Power-efficient systems
   * Low-cost computing devices
   * Mobile systems and applications
   * Security challenges in developing regions
   HCI/Applications
    * User interfaces for low-literacy populations
   * Multi-lingual computing
   * User-interfaces for low-cost devices
   * Participatory methods and user-centered design
   * Accessibility to disabled populations in developing regions
   * Design and evaluation of applications for health, microfinance,
     education, agriculture, entertainment
   AI/NLP/Data Mining/Speech/Vision
    * Machine learning techniques for large-scale data analysis in
     development contexts
   * Adapting content and applications to local languages and education
     levels
   * Understanding social relationships and information flows in
     disadvantaged societies
   * Speech interfaces and speech recognition for low-resource languages
   * Development of new AI-centric tools/solutions for development
   * Computer vision challenges in development  We also welcome papers outside of these topics that address the DEV  focus on computing innovations supporting social and economic development. 

*Important Dates *
Registration Deadline     July 3, 2010
Submission Deadline     July 10, 2010
Paper Acceptance     September 5, 2010
Final Version     October 5, 2010
Conference     December 17-18, 2010

  General Chair   

Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University  PC Chairs   Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, NYU 

*Steering Committee *

Saman Amarasinghe, MIT
Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington
Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley
Deborah Estrin, UCLA
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton
Roni Rosenfeld, CMU
Kentaro Toyama, UC Berkeley 

*Program Committee *

Muneeb Ali, Princeton, USA
 Saman Amarasinghe, MIT, USA
 Richard Anderson, Univ of Washington, USA
 Ravin Balakrishnan, Univ of Toronto, Canada
 Simone Barbosa, PUC - Rio, Brazil
 Etienne Barnard, Meraka Institute, South Africa
 Michael Best, Georgia Tech, USA
 Gaetano Borriello, Univ of Washington, USA
 Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley, USA
 John Canny, UC Berkeley, USA
 Ed Cutrell, MSR India, India
 James Davis, UC Santa Cruz, USA
 Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
 Nathan Eagle, MIT & Santa Fe Institute, USA
 Deborah Estrin, UCLA, USA
 Neil Ferguson, Imperial College, UK
 Beki Grinter, Georgia Tech, USA
 Eric Horovitz, MSR Redmond, USA
 Ravi Jain, Google, USA
 Matt Jones, Swansea, UK
 Matthew Kam, CMU, USA
 Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
 Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China
 Gary Marsden, Univ of Cape Town, South Africa
 Vanessa Frias Martinez, Telefonica Research, Spain
 Margaret Martonosi, Princeton, USA
 Srini Narayanan, UC Berkeley, USA
 Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, USA
 Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley, USA
 Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford, USA
 John Quinn, Makerere University, Uganda
 Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research India, India
 Bhaskaran Raman, IIT-Bombay, India
 Roni Rosenfeld, CMU, USA
 Umar Saif, LUMS, Pakistan
 Lakshmi Subramanian, NYU, USA
 Bill Thies, MSR India, India
 Kentaro Toyama, UC Berkeley, USA
 Terry Winograd, Stanford, USA

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CALL FOR PAPERS
JéTou 2011  - Comparative Methods and Analysis in the Language Sciences -
April 7th-8th, 2011, Toulouse, France
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The doctoral students and young researchers of the language science laboratories in Toulouse, France:
 
- CLLE-ERSS (équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique)
- Laboratoire Octogone-Lordat (Centre Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Langage et de la Cognition)
 
as well as the computer science laboratory :
 
- IRIT (Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse)
 
are organizing the third edition of JéTou, a conference aimed at doctoral students and young researchers (who have defended their dissertation within the past three years) in the language sciences.
 
The conference will focus on comparative methods and analysis in the language sciences.
 
The need to explore comparative methods is characteristic of the social sciences. Even more so than researchers in the “hard” sciences, researchers in the social sciences are often confronted with certain limitations with respect to their object of study, and therefore must expand their research beyond their own points of reference.
 
When approaching the topic of comparative methods and analysis in linguistics, one might first consider cross-linguistic comparison, which has given rise to several diverse areas of research, such as comparative linguistics, contrastive linguistics, and linguistic typology.  Cross-linguistic comparison has informed certain principles that would not have been brought to light without looking to other languages.  This is the case at all levels of linguistic description (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics).
 
However, comparative or contrastive approaches also come into play in several other fields of study in the language sciences:
 
- While comparative studies between pathological subjects (aphasia, dyslexia, degenerative diseases, etc.) and non-pathological subjects are useful for clinical aims and objectives (diagnosis, description, and treatment of language pathologies), they also provide us with a better understanding of the cognitive aspects related to the development and use of language by healthy subjects.
- Comparing speakers with respect to their first language, their social identity, or even the way that they speak one or several language(s), allows us to determine universals in the acquisition of language, and inversely, to identify determining factors in attrition phenomena.
- Studies in language pedagogy have relied on contrastive analysis (between one’s first language and a second language) since the mid-20th century.  This is due to the fact that learning a first language involves the development of strategies and specific language patterns.  Also, such studies allow us to observe certain language traits, positive or negative, that “cross over” from the first language into the second language.  The question of multilingualism and plurilinguistic learning also falls into this set of issues.
- The notion of norm is ubiquitous in the language sciences, as language is governed by normalisation rules.  However, these rules, whether implicit or not, do not impede the creativity of speakers.  The multitude of different usages that have been brought to light by using comparative approaches is the proof of this individuality.
- In natural language processing, comparative approaches can be used in different areas of research: comparison of annotations to assess the difficulty of a task, comparison of reference annotation during evaluation, etc.  Some applications, such as the detection of plagiarism, are directly based on the notion of comparison.
- Corpus linguistics offers the necessary tools for wide-scale comparison between different corpora (aligned corpora of different languages, reference corpora vs. specialized corpora, etc.)
- Comparison can also be used as an analytical tool at different levels of linguistic description, such as morphology, syntax, semantics, etc.
 
The purpose of JéTou 2011 is to bring together young researchers working in different disciplines within the language sciences around the common theme of comparative approaches.  This topic, inherently cross-disciplinary, invites reflection on the question of method, which, while central to all research, is often neglected in scientific proceedings.
 
Possible contributions could focus on issues related to the following fields:
 
- descriptive linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- psycholinguistics
- neurolinguistics
- terminology
- language acquisition and pedagogy
- translation
- corpus linguistics
- natural language processing
 
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Types of presentations
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Two types of submissions will be accepted: long articles (8 to 10 pages) and short articles (4 to 5 pages).  Long articles will be presented as oral presentations or as posters, while short articles will be presented as posters.  
 
The proceedings of the conference will be published in book form and will also be available on the conference website.
 
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Criteria for selection
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Each submission will be evaluated by at least two specialists in the chosen field of study.  Submissions will be considered based on the following criteria:
 
1. The importance and originality of the contribution
2. The accuracy of the scientific and technical content
3. The critical discussion of results, particularly with respect to other work in the field
4. The organisation and clarity of the writing
5. Conformity to the theme of the conference
 
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Submission Guidelines
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Articles must be written in French or in English.
Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for a long article or 5 pages for a short article (including figures and examples, but not references).  The text must be written in Times 12, single spaced, in A4 format.  LaTeX and Word style sheets are available on the conference website.
The deadline for submissions is October 15th, 2010.  Submissions must be made using the Easychair conference management system.  Further information regarding the submission process can be found on the JéTou 2011 website: http://jetou2011.free.fr

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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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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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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
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, and the Academia Sinica,
Taipei, under the auspices of the Permanent Council for the
Organization of the International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences and
the International Phonetic Association. We have the pleasure to invite
you to take part in this world event in Hong Kong 2011. For further
information about ICPhS XVII, please visit the congress website
http://www.icphs2011.hk or contact us at icphs2011@cityu.edu.hk.




The Organizers of ICPhS XVII 2011



Congress website: http://www.icphs2011.hk

Email: icphs2011@cityu.edu.hk

Tel.: (852) 3442-7594

Fax: (852) 3442-0356

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