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| 3-1-1 | (2015-09-06) Call for Satellite Workshops of INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany**** Call for Satellite Workshops ****
INTERSPEECH 2015 will be held in the beautiful city of Dresden, Germany, on September 6-10, 2015
The theme is 'Speech beyond Speech - Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important
Biosignal'. The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for
satellite workshops, which will be held in proximity to the main conference.
The Organizing Committee will work to facilitate the organization of such satellite workshops,
to stimulate discussion in research areas related to speech and language, at locations in Central
Europe, and around the same time as INTERSPEECH. We are particularly looking forward to
proposals from neighboring countries. If you are interested in organizing a satellite workshop,
or would like a planned event to be listed as an official satellite event, please contact the organizers
or the Satellite Workshop Chair at fmetze@cs.cmu.edu The Satellite Workshop coordinator along
with the INTERSPEECH team will help to connect (potential) workshop organizers with local
contacts in Germany, if needed, and will try to be helpful with logistics such as payment, publicity,
and coordination with ISCA or other events. Proposals should include:
* workshop name and acronym * organizers' name and contact info
* website (if already known)
* date and proposed location of the workshop
* estimated number of participants
* a short description of the motivation for the workshop
* an outline of the program and invited speakers
* a description of the submission process (e.g. deadlines, target acceptance rate)
* a list of the scientific committee members
Proposals for satellite workshops should be submitted by email to workshops@interspeech2015.org
by August 31st, 2014 We strongly recommend that organizers also apply for
ISCA approval/ sponsorship, which will greatly facilitate acceptance as an INTERSPEECH satellite
event. We plan to notify proposers no later than October 30, 2014. If you have any questions about
whether a potential event would be a good candidate for an INTERSPEECH 2015 satellite workshop
feel free to contact the INTERSPEECH 2015 Satellite Workshops Chair.
Sincerely,
Florian Metze
Satellite Workshops Chair fmetze@cs.cmu.edu
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| 3-1-2 | (2015-09-06) 2nd CfP for INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany
2nd Call for INTERSPEECH 2015
INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to applications.
INTERSPEECH 2015 in Dresden (Germany) will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is evident that not all characteristics of speech are already fully understood. We therefore encourage contributions that analyze and model speech as a biosignal in a broad understanding, e.g. for extracting information about the speaker, for identifying processes leading to speech production, or for generating speech signals with specific bio-characteristics. Contributions to all other areas of speech science and technology are also welcome.
Important Dates
20 March 2015 Paper: submission deadline 20 March 2015 Tutorial: submission deadline 17 April 2015 Show and Tell: submission deadline 01 May 2015 Tutorial: notification of acceptance/rejection 01 June 2015 Paper: notification of acceptance/rejection 01 June 2015 Show and tell: notification of acceptance/rejection 10 June 2015 Paper: camera-ready 10 June 2015 Show and Tell: camera-ready 20 June 2015 Early registration deadline 6-10 Sep 2015 Conference in Dresden, Germany
Call for Papers
The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting paper submissions. Please refer to our CfP page for more details. 20th March 2015 – Paper: submission deadline
Call for Tutorials
The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for tutorials which will be held on September 6 (first day of conference) in the main venue Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) location. Please refer to here for more details. 20th March 2015 – Tutorial: submission deadline
Special Sessions
Special Sessions & Challenges will be organized for INTERSPEECH 2015, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. Please refer to http://interspeech2015.org/events/special-sessions/ . List of tentatively accepted Special Sessions and Challenges:
Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication
Biosignal-based Spoken Communication
Interspeech 2015 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE): Degree of Nativeness, Parkinson’s & Eating Condition
Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures
Zero Ressource Speech Technologies: Unsupervised Discovery of Linguistic Units
Robust Speech Processing using Observation Uncertainty and Uncertainty Propagation
Speech Science in End User Applications
Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies
Speech and Language Processing of Children’s Speech
Advanced Crowdsourcing for Speech and Beyond
Call for Show and Tell
The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting for contribution to Show and Tell special event. Please refer to our Show and Tell page for more details. 17th April 2015 – Full submission deadline, proposals should be submitted by email to is2015showntell@gmx.de.
Call for Satellite Workshops
The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is still open for proposals for satellite workshops, which will be held in proximity to the main conference. Please refer to here for more details or manually navigate to http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/spl-nl/2014-05/2014-05-is2015/ Proposals for satellite workshops should be submitted by email to Florian Metze
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| 3-1-3 | (2015-09-06) Calls for INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany Calls for INTERSPEECH 2015
INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to applications.
INTERSPEECH 2015 will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is evident that not all characteristics of speech are already fully understood. We therefore encourage contributions that analyze and model speech as a biosignal in a broad understanding, e.g. for extracting information about the speaker, for identifying processes leading to speech production, or for generating speech signals with specific bio-characteristics. Contributions to all other areas of speech science and technology are also welcome.
Important Dates 30 Nov 2014 special sessions: paper submission deadline
Call for Papers The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting for paper submissions. Please refer to our CfP page for more details. 15.09.2014 – Details on paper submission and topics can be found on our CfP page.
Call for Special Sessions Submissions of Special Sessions & Challenges proposals are encouraged for INTERSPEECH 2015, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics. 16.10.2014 – For more information please refer to our SS-CfP page.
Call for Show and Tell The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting for contribution to Show and Tell special event. Please refer to our Show and Tell page for more details. 17.04.2015 – Full submission deadline, proposals should be submitted by email tois2015showntell@gmx.de.
Call for Tutorials The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for tutorials, which will be held on September 6 (first day of conference) in the main venue Maritim International Congress Center (ICD) location. Please refer to here for more details. 15.10.2014 – Proposals for tutorials should be submitted by email to Alexander Raake.
Call for Satellite Workshops The Organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2015 is now inviting proposals for satellite workshops, which will be held in proximity to the main conference. Please refer to here for more details or manually navigate to http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/sl-tc/spl-nl/2014-05/2014-05-is2015/ Proposals for satellite workshops should be submitted by email to Florian Metze.
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| 3-1-4 | (2015-09-06) Interspeech 2015 Call for tutorials General conference information – INTERSPEECH 2015 INTERSPEECH is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to applications. INTERSPEECH 2015 will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. It is evident that not all characteristics of speech are already fully understood. We therefore encourage contributions that analyze and model speech as a biosignal in a broad understanding, e.g. for extracting information about the speaker, for identifying processes leading to speech production, or for generating speech signals with specific bio-characteristics. Contributions to all other areas of speech science and technology are also welcome.
Call for tutorials INTERSPEECH conferences are attended by researchers with a long-term track-record in speech sciences and technology, as well as by early-stage researchers or researchers interested in a new domain within the INTERSPEECH areas. With the current edition of INTERSPEECH, we seek to specifically reflect different audiences in the choice of tutorials, where it will clearly be indicated what prior knowledge the audience should have. As a consequence, we encourage proposals for tutorials addressing introductory topics or advanced topics in an introductory style, and tutorials targeting experienced researchers who want to dig deeper into a given new topic. Tutorials may introduce an uprising area of speech-related research, or present an overview of an important more established area. The tutorials can be of either three hours or six hours duration. The tutorials are expected to cover the state-of-the-art of the proposed topics rather than to primarily present the authors own research. INTERSPEECH 2015 will be organized around the theme Speech beyond Speech: Towards a Better Understanding of the Most Important Biosignal, which acknowledges the fact that speech is the most important biosignal humans can produce and perceive. As a consequence, we especially encourage tutorials from fields that are directly related with this theme. Of course the call is not restricted to the conference theme, and open to any kind of tutorial related with speech science and technology. Tutorial Proposal Submission Proposals for the INTERSPEECH 2015 tutorials should be up to 4 pages long. Proposal submissions must conform to the format defined in the tutorial proposal preparation guidelines and provided in the authors’ kit on the INTERSPEECH 2015 website, along with the Call for Tutorials. Tutorial proposal submission deadline is on Friday 20 March 2015 midnight (11:59pm) GMT. There will be no extension of deadlines. The working language of the conference is English, and proposals must be written in English, too.
All proposals should be submitted to tutorials@interspeech2015.org Preliminary Tutorial Proposal Template
Important Dates
We look forward to welcoming you to INTERSPEECH 2015 in Dresden! Alexander Raake
Assessment of IP-based Applications TU Berlin & Deutsche Telekom/T-Labs (Research & Innovation) +49391580239574 (Fax) E-Mail: alexander.raake@telekom.de
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| 3-1-5 | (2015-09-06)) CfP INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on INTERSPEECH 2015
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| 3-1-6 | (2016) INTERSPEECH 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA Interspeech 2016 will take place from September 8-12 2016 in San Francisco, CA, USA General Chair is Nelson Morgan. You may from now on be tempted by the nice pictures of the cover page of its tentative website http://www.interspeech2016.org
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| 3-1-7 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (December 2014) Updates from INTERSPEECH 2015 Dear colleague, Interspeech 2015 in Dresden is approaching at an increasing pace, and the entire team of organizers is trying to ensure that you will get a conference which meets all, and hopefully surpasses some, of your expectations. Regarding the usual program of oral and poster sessions, special sessions and challenges, keynotes, tutorials and satellite workshops, the responsible team is working hard to ensure that you will get a program which is not only of respectable breadth and depth, but which also tackles a couple of innovative topics, some of them centered around the special topic of the conference “Speech beyond speech: Towards a better understanding of our most important biosignal”, some of them also addressing other emergent topics. We would particularly like to draw your attention to the approaching deadlines: In addition to regular papers, we will also experiment with a virtual attendance format for persons who are – mainly for visa or health reasons – not able to come to Dresden to present their paper. For these persons, a limited number of technology-equipped poster boards will be available where online presentations can be held. The number of virtual attendance slots is strictly limited (thus potentially leading to a lower acceptance rate). The corresponding papers have to pass the normal review process, but the deadline will most probably be around 14 days before the normal paper submission deadline. More details on this format will be announced soon. In the upcoming months, we will keep you updated via this thread, and we will present some historical instruments and techniques related to speech technology which nicely illustrate that Dresden has a rich history in speech science and technology. Interspeech 2015 will hopefully contribute to this history with the latest scientific and technological advances. The entire organizing team is looking forward to welcoming you in Dresden. On behalf of the organizing team,
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| 3-1-8 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (February 2015) +++ INTERSPEECH 2015 – February Update +++ Dear colleagues, The preparations for Interspeech 2015 in Dresden are running at an increasing pace, and I got the impression that we have a very active contribution from the community this year. Bernd Möbius and Elmar Nöth, our TCP Chairs, have set up a comprehensive and balanced group of Area Chairs for the new areas we have agreed upon with ISCA, and which will soon be published on our website. The ten preliminarily accepted Special Sessions and Challenges are active in collecting contributions; as an example, the session “Advanced Crowdsourcing for Speech and Beyond” has received 17 requests for research funds, which will now be evaluated according to their fit to the special session topic. And our sponsorship, industry and exhibition chairs, Tim Fingscheidt, Claudia Pohlink, Jimmy Kunzmann and Reinhold Häb-Umbach, are actively soliciting sponsoring money to make the event most affordable for you. The 2nd Call for Papers is out (deadline March 20): In addition there is a special Call for Papers with Virtual Presentation which solicits contributions to this special format we will experiment with at this year’s Interspeech for the first time, and which will be limited to exceptional cases which otherwise would not be able to participate: In addition, there is still the option to submit proposals for Tutorials (deadline March 20) and Show and Tell contributions (deadline April 17): All further information can be found on our Website which Tim Polzehl is eager to keep updated. For automatically receiving continuous updates, we recommend that you follow us on Twitter (@interspeech2015), or that you use social channels such as LinkedIn or Facebook. And: Please do not delete your Interspeech 2014 App, it will automatically receive an update for Interspeech 2015. Finally, Dresden is also polishing her historical charm, and for Interspeech attendants the most important aspect of this might be the second contribution to our historical series, which this time is dedicated to the world’s first successful attempt of a mechanical speech synthesiser. On behalf of the organizing team, A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication Complete article including figures available at: http://interspeech2015.org/conference/historical-review/
The speaking machine of Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804) can be considered as the first successful attempt of a mechanical speech synthesiser. The Austrian-Hungarian engineer is still famous for his 'chess turk' but it was his 'Sprachmaschine' that can count as a milestone in (speech) technology. In his book 'Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst der Beschreibung einer sprechenden Maschine' (published 1791, no English translation yet) he described the function of the machine which was intended to give a voice for deaf people. Contemporary personalities like Goethe confirmed the authenticity of a child voice when the speaking machine was played.
How does the machine work? The machine consists of bellows that is connected with a tube to a wooden wind chest. On the other side of the wind chest a round wooden block represents the interface to an open rubber funnel (as the vocal tract). In the wind chest there are two modified recorders to produce the fricatives [s] and [S]. The voice generator is located inside the wooden block. The artificial voice is generated with the help of a reed pipe borrowed by the pipe organ. It has an ivory reed vibrating against a wooden hollow shallot (like in a clarinet). The trained human operator plays the machine like a musical instrument. The right elbows control the air pressure by pressing on the bellows, two fingers of the right hand close or open the access for stops and nasals, two other fingers of the right hand for the fricatives. Vowels are performed by the palm of left hand in different ways.
Replicas Apart from parts of one of the originals that are hosted at the Deutsches Museum in Munich there are several reconstructions based on Kempelen's quite detailed descriptions. The replicas built in Budapest, Vienna, York and Saarbrücken allow a lively demonstration of the mechanical generation of speech as well its acoustic analysis but also perception tests with today's listeners. Interestingly, the art of constructing artificial voices led to the profession of 'voice makers' in Eastern-German Thuringia (more information in one of the next newsletters). Original products of the Thuringian 'Stimmenmacher' as well as one of the replicas located at TU Dresden are at display of the HAPS (Historische Akustisch-Phonetische Sammlung) available for ears, eyes (and hands) at the re-opening of HAPS at 4 Sept, which is also the start of the Interspeech satellite Workshop on The History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR 2015).
Jürgen Trouvain and Fabian Brackhane
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| 3-1-9 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (January 2015)
+++ INTERSPEECH 2015 Update – and a look back! +++ Dear colleagues, The regular paper deadline for Interspeech 2015 in Dresden is only 2 months away, so we hope that you are preparing for your submissions. We have received an impressive number of Special Session and Challenges proposals. The list of preliminarily accepted proposals, together with more information on each session and its organizers, can be found under http://interspeech2015.org/events/special-sessions/. Thus, in case that your interests fall within the area of one of these Special Sessions or Challenges, consider submitting there. Please note that March 20 is – apart from the general paper deadline – also the deadline for tutorial proposals. More details on tutorial proposal submissions can be found under http://interspeech2015.org/calls/call-for-tutorials/. The deadline for Show & Tell papers is then April 17. The current list of Satellite Workshops will be updated successively and can be found under http://interspeech2015.org/events/workshops/. From now on, we will have a monthly view back to the history of speech communication and technology which happened in Dresden. On behalf of the organizing team, Sebastian Möller (General Chair) A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication Part 1: The historic acoustic-phonetic collection Information Technology at the TU Dresden goes back to Heinrich Barkhausen (1881–1956), the 'father of the electron valve', who taught from 1911 to 1953. Speech research in a narrower sense started with the development of a vocoder in the 1950s. Walter Tscheschner (1927–2004) performed his extensive investigations on the speech signal using components of the vocoder. In 1969, a scientific unit for Communication and Measurement was founded in Dresden. It is the main root of the present Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication. W. Tscheschner was appointed Professor of Speech Communication and started with research in speech synthesis and recognition, which today continues. Numerous objects from the history of Speech Communication in Dresden, but also from other parts of Germany, are preserved at the historic acoustic-phonetic collection of the TU Dresden. Until the opening of Interspeech 2015, we will present interesting exhibits from the collection in this newsletter monthly. Today, we give an introduction. The historic acoustic-phonetic collection of the TU Dresden consists of three parts: • Objects that illustrate the development of acoustics and speech technology at the TU Dresden. The most interesting devices are speech synthesizers of various technologies. • Objects illustrating the development of experimental phonetics from 1900 until the introduction of the computer. The items of this part were collected by D. Mehnert from different phonetics laboratories and rehabilitation units throughout Germany. • Objects which were formerly collected at the Phonetics Institute of Hamburg University. This important collection, which was founded by Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia, was transferred to Dresden in 2005 in accordance with a contract due to the closing of the Hamburg institute. The collection is presented in the Barkhausenbau at the main campus of the TU Dresden. Recently, it is moving to new rooms which are more convenient for the presentation. The newly installed collection will be re-opened at the opportunity of Interspeech 2015. For this purpose, we cordially invite to a workshop on the history of speech communication, called HSCR2015, which will be held as a satellite event of Interspeech 2015 at September 4/5, 2015, in the Technical Museum of the City of Dresden. It is organized by the special interest group (SIG) on 'The History of Speech Communication Sciences', which is supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the International Phonetic Association (IPA). More information on the workshop is presented on http://www.sig-hist.org/. Rüdiger Hoffmann (Local Chair)
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| 3-1-10 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (March 2015) A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication Part 3: Voices for toys - First commercial spin-offs in speech synthesis
Complete article including figures available at:
When Wolfgang von Kempelen died in 1804, his automata (including the speaking machine) came in ownership of Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772 – 1838), who demonstrated them at many tours in Europe and America. He was a clever mechanic and applied Kempelen’s ideas in a mechanical voice for puppets, which could pronounce “Mama” and “Papa”. He received a patent on it in 1824 (Figure 1).
The idea of speaking puppets and toys was continued mainly in the area of Sonneberg in Thuringia, Germany. This small town was the world capital of manufacturing puppets and toys in the 19th century. The voices consist of a bellow, a metal tongue for voicing, and a resonator. There are three reasons why we appreciate the mechanical voices as a milestone in the development of speech technology:
1. The mechanical voices established the first commercial spin-off in speech research. The toy manufacturers in Sonneberg recognized the importance of Mälzel’s invention and produced speaking puppets from 1852. The “Stimmenmacher” (voices maker) was a specific profession, and we find eight manufacturers for human and animal voices alone in Sonneberg in 1911. The most important of them was Hugo Hölbe (1844 – 1931), who developed mechanisms which were able to speak not only Mama/Papa (Figure 2), but also words like Emma, Hurrah, etc.
2. The mechanical voices were applied in the first book with multimodal properties. The bookseller Theodor Brand from Sonneberg received a patent for his “speaking picture book” in 1878. This book shows different animals. Pulling a knob, which corresponds to a picture, activates the voice of the animal (Figure 3). The picture book was published in several languages and was a huge commercial success all over the world.
3. The mechanical voices are the first attempt to support the rehabilitation of hard hearing people by means of speech technology. The German otologist Johannes Kessel (1839 – 1907) demonstrated Hölbe’s voices as a training tool in speech therapy at a conference in 1899. The quality of this kind of synthetic speech proved to be not sufficient for this purpose, however.
The samples from Kessel came to the Phonetic Laboratory of Panconcelli-Calzia in Hamburg, who mentioned them in his historic essays. Due to the transfer of the phonetic exhibits from Hamburg to Dresden in 2005, you can visit the mechanical voices in the HAPS of the TU Dresden now.
Rüdiger Hoffmann Photographs Copyright TU Dresden / HAPS
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| 3-2-1 | (2015-05-18) International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing (NOLISP) 2015, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing (NOLISP) 2015.
Details are on the website:
https://sites.google.com/site/nolisp2015/
The conference will be held on May 18-20, 2015 in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS, www.iiassvietri.it) and will be followed by the International workshop WIRN 2015 (http://www.wirn2015.polito.it/) that can be attended also by those registered at NOLISP 2015.
NOLISP is a long-lasting conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing devoted to the discussion of novelties and innovations in the field of speech perception, processing and recognition.
This year NOLISP extends speech processing to speech dynamics and social signal processing thanks to the participation of two outstanding invited speakers: Jonathan Harringthon (http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~jmh/) Alessandro Vinciarelli (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/vincia/)
IMPORTANT DATES
PUBLICATION AND PAGE LIMITATIONS The accepted contributions will be published as short chapter on the Springer serie ?Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies? see http://www.springer.com/series/8767 , indexed by SCOPUS.
We will be pleased to have you and your colleagues at this event.
Profs Anna Esposito and Carlo Francesco Morabito on the behalf of the Local Chairs: Alda Troncone and Gennaro Cordasco
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| 3-2-2 | (2015-09-02) SIGDIAL 2015 CONFERENCEPreliminary Call for Papers SIGDIAL 2015 CONFERENCE Wednesday, September 2 to Friday, September 4, 2015 The 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
(SIGDIAL 2015) will be located in Prague, Czech Republic. SIGDIAL will be held September 2-4. The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research
in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series
of fifteen successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of
discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves
as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome formal, corpus-based, system-building or analytical work on discourse and
dialogue including but not restricted to the following themes and topics: - Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems - Corpora, Tools and Methodology - Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling - Computational Sociolinguistics - Collaborative Process Analysis - Dimensions of Interaction - Open Domain Dialogue - Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialogue and Written Text - Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology - Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialogue SUBMISSIONS Special Session Proposals The SIGDIAL organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. A SIGDIAL special
session is the length of a regular session at the conference; may be organized as a poster session,
a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session. Special sessions may,
at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions. Those wishing to
organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the
topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit
and participate; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session). These proposals should be
sent to conference[at]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session
proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general and program co-chairs. Papers The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and
demonstration descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference
proceedings. - Long papers may, at the discretion of the technical program committee, be accepted for oral
or poster presentation. They must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, content, and
examples. Two additional pages are allowed for references and appendices, which may include
extended example discourses or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. - Short papers will be presented as posters. They should be no longer than 4 pages, including
title and content. One additional page is allowed for references and appendices. - Demonstration papers should be no longer than 3 pages, including references. A separate
one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demonstration descriptions,
specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a SIGDIAL special
session, which would highlight a particular area or topic. All papers will undergo regular peer
review. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this
information (see submission format). A paper accepted for presentation at SIGDIAL 2015 must
not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Any questions
regarding submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips or sound
clips and examples of available resources for review purposes. Submission is electronic using paper submission software. FORMAT All long, short, and demonstration submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2015 format.
We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for
the ACL 2015 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2015 style guidelines
ACL 2015 style guidelines, and they must be electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous. Papers may include
authors' names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. MENTORING SERVICE For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring service. Submissions with
innovative core ideas that may need language (English) or organizational assistance will be
flagged for 'mentoring' and conditionally accepted with recommendation to revise with a mentor.
An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the
authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. Any questions about
the mentoring service can be addressed to the mentoring chair Svetlana Stoyanchev at
mentoring[at]sigdial.org. STUDENT SUPPORT SIGDIAL also offers a limited number of scholarships for students presenting a paper accepted
to the conference. Application materials will be posted at the conference website. BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue and discourse science and technology,
SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent
researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SPONSOR THE CONFERENCE SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email the
sponsorships chair Kristy Boyer at sponsor-chair[at]sigdial.org. DIALOGUE AND DISCOURSE SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal Dialogue and Discourse,
which is endorsed by SIGdial. IMPORTANT DATES Special Session Proposal Deadline: Sunday, 15 March 2015 (23:59, GMT-11) Special Session Notification: Monday, 30 March 2015 Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Submission Deadline: Thursday, 30 April 2015
(23:59, GMT-11) Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Notification: Friday, 12 June 2015 Final Paper Submission Deadline (mentored papers only): Monday, 13 July 2015 Final Paper Submission Deadline (all types except for mentored papers): Monday, 20 July 2015 Conference: Wednesday, 2 September 2015 to Friday, 4 September 2015 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam, Germany Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Technical Program Co-Chairs Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Mentoring Chair Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T, USA Local Chair Filip Jurcicek, Charles University, Czech Republic Sponsorships Chair Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University, USA SIGdial President Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA SIGdial Vice President Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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| 3-2-3 | (2015-11-09) CFP Conference on multimodal interaction (ICMI 2015), Seattle, USA Call for Contributions
ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015) November 9-13, 2015, Seattle, WA, USA
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ICMI is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal interaction and multimodal interfaces. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and integrative, multimodal system development.
Calls for Contributions (chronological order):
* Grand Challenge Proposals. Deadline: February 21, 2015 (http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfc) * Workshop Proposals. Deadline: April 11, 2015 (http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfw) * Long and Short Papers. Deadline: May 15, 2015 (http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfp) * Doctoral Consortium Papers. Deadline: July 14, 2015 (http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfdc) * Demonstration Proposals. Deadline: August 14, 2015 * Exhibit Proposals. Deadline: September 4, 2015 (http://icmi.acm.org/2015/index.php?id=cfd)
TOPICS
* Multimodal signal and interaction processing technologies - Multimodal signal processing, inference, and input fusion - Combinations of signals and semantic interpretations - Multimodal output planning and coordination - Machine learning approaches for multimodal signals * Multimodal models for human-human and human-machine interaction - Multimodal models for human communication dynamics - Models for physically situated human-robot/computer interaction - Models for multiparty, group and social interaction - Affective computing and interaction models - Models for long-term multimodal interaction * Multimodal data, evaluation and tools - Multimodal corpora, resources and tools - Evaluation methodologies, assessment and metrics - Multimodal annotation methodologies and coding schemes - Design issues, principles and best practices for multimodal interfaces * Multimodal systems and applications - Ambient intelligence and smart environments - Human-robot interaction and embodied conversational agents - Multimodal interfaces for internet-of-things - Meeting spaces and meeting analysis systems - Multimodal mobile applications
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| 3-2-4 | Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events
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| 3-3-1 | (2015-03-18) CORIA 2015, Paris, France (papers accepted in French and in English) Appel à communications CORIA 2015 (http://coria2015.lip6.fr/) et RJCRI 2015
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| 3-3-2 | (2015-03-18) CORIE et RJCRI, Paris, France Appel à participations : CORIA et RJCRI 18 au 20 mars, INSTITUT HENRI POINCARE (IHP), 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris Créée en 2004 par l'association ARIA (http://www.asso-aria.org/), regroupant les chercheurs francophones du domaine de la recherche d'information (RI), la conférence CORIA (Conférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications) verra sa douzième édition se dérouler du 18 au 20 Mars 2015 à Paris, France (http://coria2015.lip6.fr/).
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| 3-3-3 | (2015-03-20) Conference Theory of mind and Language: Experimental data and clinical applications, Univ. Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France Conference Theory of mind and Language: Experimental data and clinical applications Vendredi March 20 2015 LPL, UMR 7309 CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université Aix-en-Provence, Salle B011 Theory of mind is the ability to form representations of other people?s mental states and to use these representations to understand, predict and judge their statements and behaviours (Baron-Cohen, Leslie, & Frith, 1985; Premack & Woodruff, 1978). Study of this ability has become a major focus for cognitive sciences in the last twenty years, showing that this ability plays a fundamental role for social interactions. While loads of researches (particularly in pathology and in development) give support to a relationship between theory of mind and language, the role of this cognitive ability in meaning construction is still under debate. Is theory of mind conveyed by language (e.g. reference marker, prosody, gestures) during social interaction? Does theory of mind play a role in meaning construction? Do speakers take the perspective of the listener to explain or understand meaning? If it is the case, do linguistic forms such as reference markers or intonation contours signal how the speaker takes the listener?s perspective into account? And how do the listeners use this linguistic information to interpret the speaker?s mental states? The aim of this conference will be to present and discuss experimental data dealing with the relationship between theory of mind and language in different population (e.g. development, healthy people, pathology). Our main goal will be to bring together researchers from different backgrounds (cognitive sciences, experimental psychology, neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, phonetics/phonology, and pragmatics) with a view to improve our understanding of how language can convey theory of mind during social interactions. The conference is organized by Maud Champagne-Lavau, Cristel Portes, Amandine Michelas (LPL) and Claire Beyssade (Paris 8 & Institut Jean Nicod) Registration is free but you must register to be able to attend the conference, at the following link: http://mindprogest.sciencesconf.org Important dates * Deadline for abstract submission: 15 February 2015 * Notification of acceptance: 20 February 2015 * Deadline for inscription: 6 March 2015 Program 8h30 ? 9h00 : Accueil des participants / Welcome 9h00 ? 10h00 : Rethinking the Theory-of-Mind Hypothesis of Autism Tiziana Zalla, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS UMR 8129, ENS, Paris, France 10h00 ? 10h30 : Pause/coffee break 10h30 ? 11h15 : Assessing theory of mind during conversation in Mild cognitive impairment Noémie Moreau, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université 11h15 ? 12h00 : Do patients with schizophrenia use backchannels to navigate joint projects? Madelyne Klein, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université 12h00-13h00 : Pause déjeuner / Lunch break 13h00 ? 14h00 : Session poster / poster session 14h00 ? 15h00 : Prosodic and referential marking in oral narratives by Adults with High Functioning Autism Francesco Cangemi1, Marion Fossard2, Martine Grice1, Martina Krüger1, Kai Vogeley3 1Institute of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics, University of Cologne, Germany. 2Institut des sciences du langage et de la communication, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 3Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Cologne, Germany 15h00 ? 15h45 : The intonational encoding of commitment, attitude attribution and call on addressee in French Cristel Portes, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université 15h45 ? 16h15 : Pause/coffee break 16h15 ? 17h00 : Relationship between theory of mind and intonational focus marking in French: Results from schizophrenia Amandine Michelas, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université 17h00 ? 17h30 : Conclusion Posters Impact of sleep deprivation on sarcasm detection Gaétane Deliens, Fanny Stercq, Alison Mary, Hichem Slama, Axel Cleeremans, Philippe Peihneaux & Mikhaail Kissine Language and Social skills in Infants and Children with 22q11.2 Microdeletion Syndrome Magali Ngawa, Jean-Jacques Detraux, Koviljka Barisnikov & Steve Marejus Parent-child conversations about emotions and ToM competences in children with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder Stéphanie Mazzone & Nathalie Nader-Grosbois N400 abnormalities during intentional inference production in subjects with schizotypal traits Anne-Lise Bohec, Hélène Francisque, Alain Blanchet & Milena Kostova Theory of Mind abilities during discourse production: do elderly participants adjust their referential choices? Mélanie Sandoz, Amélie M. Achim, Jean-François Démonet & Marion Fossard A metarepresentation base approach to negation Elena Albu Liens entre théorie de l?esprit et syntaxe des complétives chez les enfants à développement typique et avec troubles du spectre autistique Morgane Burnel, Stéphanie Durrleman & Anne Reboul Cristel Portes Maître de conférences en Sciences du langage *** Aix Marseille Université -UFR ALLSH - Pôle Langues, Langage et Cultures - Département de Sciences du langage 29 avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1 *** Laboratoire Parole et Langage - CNRS - UMR 7309 5 avenue Pasteur 13604 Aix en Provence 04 13 55 35 95 -- Joëlle Lavaud Laboratoire Parole et Langage CNRS - Aix Marseille Université (AMU) 5 avenue Pasteur 13100 Aix-en-Provence joelle.lavaud@lpl-aix.fr Tel : 04 13 55 27 10
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| 3-3-4 | (2015-03-20) Conference:Theory of mind and Language: Experimental data and clinical applications, Aix-Marseille University Conference Theory of mind and Language: Experimental data and clinical applications
Friday 20 March 2015
Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille University) Conference room B011, 5 avenue Pasteur, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France
Theory of mind is the ability to form representations of other people’s mental states and to use these representations to understand, predict and judge their statements and behaviours (Baron-Cohen, Leslie, & Frith, 1985; Premack & Woodruff, 1978). Study of this ability has become a major focus for cognitive sciences in the last twenty years, showing that this ability plays a fundamental role for social interactions. While loads of researches (particularly in pathology and in development) give support to a relationship between theory of mind and language, the role of this cognitive ability in meaning construction is still under debate.
Is theory of mind conveyed by language (e.g. reference marker, prosody, gestures) during social interaction? Does theory of mind play a role in meaning construction? Do speakers take the perspective of the listener to explain or understand meaning? If it is the case, do linguistic forms such as reference markers or intonation contours signal how the speaker takes the listener’s perspective into account? And how do the listeners use this linguistic information to interpret the speaker’s mental states?
The aim of this conference will be to present and discuss experimental data dealing with the relationship between theory of mind and language in different population (e.g. development, healthy people, pathology). Our main goal will be to bring together researchers from different backgrounds (cognitive sciences, experimental psychology, neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, phonetics/phonology, and pragmatics) with a view to improve our understanding of how language can convey theory of mind during social interactions.
The conference is organized by Maud Champagne-Lavau, Cristel Portes, Amandine Michelas (LPL) and Claire Beyssade (Paris 8 & Institut Jean Nicod).
Registration and abstract submission for the conference can be completed at the following link: http://mindprogest.sciencesconf.org Registration is free but you must register to be able to attend the conference.
Call for posters We welcome the submission of abstracts for posters on any area of scientific domains (experimental psychology, cognitive neurosciences, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics) with a view to improve our understanding of the relationship between ToM and Language. Abstracts should be written in English or French and not exceed 250 words. An extra page may be added for figures and references. Submissions must be sent with the author’s name(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es).
Important dates
Program
8h30 – 9h00 : Accueil des participants / Welcome
9h00 – 10h00 : Rethinking the Theory-of-Mind Hypothesis of Autism Tiziana Zalla, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS UMR 8129, ENS, Paris, France
10h00 – 10h30 : Pause/coffee break
10h30 – 11h15 : Assessing theory of mind during conversation in Mild cognitive impairment Noémie Moreau, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université
11h15 – 12h00 : TITRE à venir Madelyne Klein, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université
12h00-13h00 : Pause déjeuner / Lunch break
13h00 – 14h00 : Session poster / poster session
14h00 – 15h00 : Prosodic and referential marking in oral narratives by Adults with High Functioning Autism Francesco Cangemi1, Marion Fossard2, Martine Grice1, Martina Krüger1, Kai Vogeley3 1Institute of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics, University of Cologne, Germany.
15h00 – 15h45 : The intonational encoding of commitment, attitude attribution and call on addressee in French Cristel Portes, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université
15h45 – 16h15 : Pause / coffee break
16h15 – 17h00 : Relationship between theory of mind and intonational focus marking in French: Results from schizophrenia Amandine Michelas, LPL, CNRS UMR 7309, Aix-Marseille Université
17h00 – 17h30 : Conclusion
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| 3-3-5 | (2015-03-27) Journées de l'ALOES: Catégories de la grammaire traditionnelle et analyse de l’oral spontané, Aix-en-Provence, France Catégories de la grammaire traditionnelle et analyse de l’oral spontané Vendredi 27 mars 2015
Ces dernières années, l’étude linguistique de la langue parlée s’est singulièrement développée, grâce notamment aux nouvelles technologies, qui facilitent de manière inestimable la collecte de données, l’analyse acoustique et les calculs statistiques. L’avancement de la recherche en pragmatique, dialectologie, analyse du discours, phonologie suprasegmentale, et d’autres encore, est considérable. Reste à savoir si la grammaire de l’anglais oral, c’est-à-dire, la connaissance des contraintes en matière d’agencement, de distribution, de combinatoire et de conditions d’emploi des termes, doit ou peut être élucidée avec les mêmes outils que celle de l’écrit. La question que nous souhaitons poser lors de cette journée d’étude est donc : dans quelle mesure les catégories héritées des traditions grammaticales d’avant l’essor décrit plus haut sont-elles applicables à l’analyse linguistique de l’anglais oral spontané ? Par exemple, si l’on veut élucider le fonctionnement d’un réseau de marqueurs comme so, I mean, that is, qui peuvent paraître sémantiquement proches ou interchangeables dans certains contextes, est-il utile de savoir qu’ils proviennent de constructions hétérogènes (adverbe de phrase, proposition à sujet personnel ou impersonnel) ? Y aurait-il un terme apte à les regrouper, ou faudrait-il se contenter de « discourse markers », qui rassemble tellement d’entités que sa valeur explicative est faible ? Par catégorie, on n’entend pas seulement parties du discours et types de phrases mais aussi des notions telles que subordination, hypothétique, parenthétique, discours direct et indirect, portée, etc … Face à des passages d’oral spontané, plusieurs entrées sont possibles pour traiter de cette problématique:
Les communicants sont invités à choisir un corpus d’oral spontané, en diffusant des passages sonores de préférence dialogués, ce qui exclut le recours à des textes transcrits sans support oral ainsi qu’à de l’écrit oralisé (discours journalistique et discours préparé). Les propositions de communication (25 minutes) devront être envoyées pour le 15 janvier 2015 à Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell (isabelle.gaudy-campbell@univ-lorraine.fr). Elles comprendront une vingtaine de lignes et seront accompagnées d’une courte bibliographie. Les langues de travail sont le français et l'anglais. Une notification d’acceptation sera adressée dans les 15 jours. La journée d’étude se tiendra la veille de la journée de l’ALOES au Laboratoire Parole et Langage, 5 avenue Pasteur, 13100 Aix en Provence.
*OSLiA (Oral Spontané et Linguistique Anglaise) est un réseau qui compte parmi les Special Interest Groups de l’ALOES.
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| 3-3-6 | (2015-04-14) Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech, Enschede, The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call for Papers for the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other
Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech
14-15 April 2015, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Following the previous workshops on laughter held in Saarbruecken (2007), Berlin
(2009), and Dublin (2012), we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming
workshop in Enschede, the Netherlands in April 2015.
Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play
important roles in displaying social and affective behaviors and in controlling
the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, filled pauses, and short utterances
such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that
have been studied previously from various research fields. However, much is
still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal
vocalisations (production/encoding) and their relations to their intentions and
perceived meanings (perception/decoding) in interaction.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse research
areas and to provide an exchange forum for interdisciplinary discussions in
order to gain a better understanding of laughter and other non-verbal
vocalisations. The workshop will consist of invited talks and oral presentations
of ongoing research and discussion papers.
We invite contributions concerning laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations
from the fields of phonetics, linguistics, psychology, conversation analysis,
social signal processing, and human-machine/robot interaction. In particular,
topics related to the following aspects are very much welcomed:
* Multimodal interaction: visual aspects of non-verbal vocalisations, e.g.,
smiles, relation between non-verbal vocalisations and visual behaviors
* Social and affective behavior: decoding and encoding of emotion/socio-related
states in non-verbal vocalisations
* Conversation: (pragmatic) role of non-verbal vocalisations in dialog
* Computation: automatic analysis and generation of non-verbal vocalisations
Submission procedure
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Researchers are invited to submit an extended abstract of their work, including
work in progress. Please send your extended abstract of max. 3 pages, 11pt font
(including references) in PDF format to laughterworkshop2015 at gmail dot com.
Each submission should follow the ICSPhS style - the author kits (LaTeX and
Word) can be downloaded from the workshop website. In the email, please include
the name of the authors, their affiliations and the emailaddress of the
corresponding author, and a title of the abstract. Abstracts will undergo a
review process performed by at least 2 reviewers. The submissions will be made
available online.
Registration
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Attendees are asked to register by sending an email to laughterworkshop2015 at
gmail dot com. A registration fee of 50 Euros has to be paid on site (in cash).
Important dates
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* Abstract submission deadline: 9 February 2015
* Notification acceptance/rejection: 1 March 2015
* Registration deadline by email: 6 April 2015
* Workshop dates: 14-15 April 2015
Venue
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The DesignLab at University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Website
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Please check the website http://laughterworkshop2015.wordpress.com for updated
information about the workshop!
Organizers
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Jürgen Trouvain, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland University
Nick Campbell, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity
College Dublin
Khiet Truong, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente/Radboud University
Dirk Heylen, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
Contact information
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Khiet Truong | k dot p truong at utwente dot nl
Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University
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| 3-3-7 | (2015-04-20) Mobile Voice Conference, San Jose, CA, USA 'Relationships with Personal Assistants, from the Assistants' Point of View' Rob Chambers, the Group Engineering Manager for the Audio and Speech Platform team at Microsoft, will deliver a keynote talk, 'Relationships with Personal Assistants, from the Assistants' Point of View.' Chambers asks, Have you ever wondered what it?s like to be a ?digital? personal assistant? What about answering the questions of millions of people all at the same time, across all different languages? In this keynote session, Rob Chambers will present what he believes the industry?s leading digital personal assistants currently think about their roles, the challenges that they face, and the steps that they?re taking to become the best digital personal assistants for each and every one of their users. Chambers is responsible for integrating speech and natural language into Windows 10. Previously, Rob managed the delivery of all cloud-based systems that power Cortana, Microsoft?s personal digital assistant. Rob has spent the majority of his 20 years at Microsoft driving the advance of speech and natural language across a wide spectrum of Microsoft products. The Mobile Voice Conference is being held in San Jose, California, April 20-21. Check out the full program. The Mobile Voice Conference is organized by the Applied Voice Input Output Society (www.AVIOS.org) and Bill Meisel's TMA Associates (www.tmaa.com), publisher of Speech Strategy News. For information on sponsorship opportunities, contact info@mobilevoiceconference.com Share Online Like on Facebook Tweet this on Twitter? AVIOS 1458 Athenour Ct. San Jose California 95120 United States
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| 3-3-8 | (2015-04-23) Jordanas Pataconicas de Linguistica Formal, Argentina Jordanas Pataconicas de Linguistica Formal, Argentina 23-25 April 2015 Universidad Nacional de Comahue, General Roca, Argentina
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| 3-3-9 | (2015-05-07) 3rd International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR2015), San Diego, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 3-3-10 | (2015-05-28) International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics, Toulouse, France (extended deadline) International Conference for Young Researchers in Linguistics
Discourse(s) In Linguistics: Units and Levels of Analysis
May 28th and 29th 2015 Toulouse - France www.jetou2015.fr
Submission Deadline: Friday October 24th 2014 EXTENDED Call for Papers
The doctoral students in Linguistics of the laboratories at Toulouse University, France:
CLLE-ERSS (Équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique) IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) OCTOGONE-Lordat (Centre Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Langage et de la Cognition)
are organizing the 5th edition of JéTou (Journées d'études Toulousaines), an international conference aiming at gathering doctoral students and young researchers (who have defended their dissertation within the past three years) together, from the different disciplines of Linguistics, on an open and multidisciplinary theme.
This 2015 edition will be devoted to a reflection on the following theme: “Discourse(s) in Linguistics: Units and Levels of Analysis”.
The term discourse, understood in its broadest sense as a multimodal language production (oral, written, verbal, gestural) is at the heart of Linguistics. Both in production and reception, investigation methods have led to analysis levels with variable granularities, where overlapping units maintain relationships with strong interdependence. Therefore, discourse depends on both the object and the meaning given to it.
Common issues are: planning, segmentation, organization, modeling. A valuable reflection involving different fields arises from these challenges; more than ever, an interdisciplinary practice is necessary to further the various aspects of discourse.
Research in these fields has taken different forms. Besides, the gap between theoretical models and empirical studies based on real data has been significantly reduced in the last few years. Qualitative as well as quantitative, these works have raised new questions: choice of units, collection and annotation of corpora, evaluation procedures, comparison and interpretation of results, etc.
This edition will focus mainly on levels of analysis and units in discourse. Possible topics include:
Obviously, this list does not include all the research possibilities following from the theme of the conference, which is why every submission that addresses the notions of discourse in the Language Sciences will be read and reviewed. Proposals which include theoretical reflections and actual data will be particularly appreciated.
JéTou 2015 offers a challenging theme that every field of Language Sciences can adapt for themselves. This conference will give the opportunity, to those who wish to come, to ask questions, discuss and compare their work, their methods, their reflections in an interdisciplinary context, which favours positive interactions and constructive debates.
Guest Speakers :
Submission Guidelines:
Articles must be written in French or English.
Submissions must not exceed 3 pages for an oral presentation as well as for a scientific poster (references included). These three pages must include a title, a summary and up to 5 keywords (letter type: Times New Roman 12, simple spacing, normal margin). You can indicate by email your preference for an oral presentation (20 min + 10 min for questions) or for a scientific poster, but the final decision on the format of the presentation will be made by the organization committee alone.
Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jtou2015
The conference proceedings will be published and given to the participants (5 pages for a scientific poster and 10 pages for an oral presentation).
Selection Criteria
Each submission will be reviewed by at least two experts in the relevant field. The following elements will be considered:
. in the field.
Schedule
Deadline for submission of summaries: Friday October 10th 2014, Notification of acceptance: Friday November 21st 2014, Submission deadline for long papers: Friday January 16th 2015, Submission deadline for final versions: Friday April 10th 2015,
Conference: Thursday May 28th and Friday May 29th 2015 at Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (Mirail campus).
Organising Committee
Francesca Cortelazzo, Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, Laury Garnier, Luce Lefeuvre, Sophie Mayras-Cauchois, Olivier Nocaudie, Florian Savreux, Maxime Warnier.
Website www.jetou2015.fr Contact contact.jetou2015@gmail.com
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| 3-3-11 | (2015-06-08) Workshop in Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics and Lexical Computing, Tel?, Czech Republic Workshop in Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics and Lexical Computing
Tel?, Czech Republic
June 8th-12th 2015
Lexicom is a five-day intensive workshop created by the Lexicography MasterClass. Seminars on theoretical issues alternate with hands-on work at the computer. Working in small groups or individually, you will learn how to create dictionaries and other lexical resources, from the preparation of corpora to the planning, design and writing of entries. This is the workshop's fifteenth year and we now have over 380 graduates, from all parts of the world: reviews of previous events can be found here. It will be led by Michael Rundell, Milo? Jakubí?ek, Adam Kilgarriff and Vojt?ch Ková? For more details and registration form see http://www.lexmasterclass.com/lexicom-telc-2015/
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| 3-3-12 | (2015-06-10) 13th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Prague, Czech Republic (Extended deadline) CBMI 2015
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| 3-3-13 | (2015-06-10) Appel à communications : Analyse des discours hors-normes :,approches, concepts et méthodes, Univ. Sherbrooke, Canada Plus d'informations sur http://www.hors-normes2015.evenement.usherbrooke.ca/index.html Depuis peu, on voit émerger un intérêt réciproque entre des sous-disciplines des Sciences du langage qui n’avaient guère coutume de dialoguer : la présente rencontre, qui réunit analystes du discours, phonéticiens, sémanticiens, didacticiens, acquisitionnistes, historiens de la langue et des représentations linguistiques, sociologues du langage etc. en est une illustration. Ce choc des cultures amène l’analyse du discours à considérer des discours oraux, écrits, hybrides sortant de « l’ordinaire », à s’ouvrir à une analyse de discours qui, envisagés depuis les traditions disciplinaires de l’AD et du point de vue de leurs fonctionnements ou encore des présupposés épistémologiques qu’ils interrogent ou bousculent, peuvent être qualifiés de hors-normes. Les domaines d’études où le hors-norme se manifeste ne sont pas limités aux points listés ci-dessous, toute proposition pertinente sera étudiée avec attention.
Sous quelles formes, quels contenus et selon quelles conditions de production, les discours sociaux recourent-ils au hors-norme ? Selon quels paramètres sociaux et discursifs les locuteurs placent-ils le curseur entre norme et hors-norme ? En interrogeant la qualification de « hors-norme » appliquée à des discours, ce colloque invite aussi à repenser les normes de l’analyse de discours. Éléments de bibliographieAdam, Jean-Michel, 2012, Préface de Ecrivainer. La Langue morcelée de Samuel Daiber, par Vincent Capt, Lausanne, Infolio Collection de l’Art Brut, Collection Contre-courant. Angenot, Marc,2008, Dialogues de sourds. Traité de rhétorique antilogique, Paris, Mille et une nuit, collection Essais. Bourdieu, Pierre, 1983 « Vous avez dit 'populaire' ? », Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Vol. 46, L’usage de la parole, p. 98-105. Branca-Rosoff, Sonia, Schneider, Nathalie, 1994, L’écriture des citoyens. Une analyse linguistique de l'écriture des peu-lettrés pendant la période révolutionnaire, Paris, Klincksieck. Bres, Jacques, Haillet, Patrick-Pierre, Mellet, Sylvie, Nolke, Henning, Rosier, Laurence (éds), 2005, Dialogisme et polyphonie, Bruxelles, De Boeck. Collette, Karine, Rousseau, Jean, 2013, « Littératie et responsabilité en santé », Globe, revue internationale d’études québécoises, vol.16, no 1, p. 133-157. De Robillard, Didier, 2008, Perspectives alterlinguistiques, Paris, L’Harmattan, vol. 1 et 2. Demonet Michel, Geffroy Annie, Gouaze Jean, Lafon Pierrre, Mouillaud, Maurice, Tournier, Maurice, 1978 [1975], Des tracts en Mai 68. Mesures de vocabulaire et de contenu, Paris, Champ libre (1re édition : Presses de la FNSP). Didirkova, Ivana, Hirsch, Fabrice, 2014, « Etude préliminaire des caractéristiques phonétiques sur le bégaiement : le cas du français et du slovaque », Actes des XXXe Journées d'Etudes sur Ernst Gerhard, 2003, « Les peu lettrés devant les normes de la textualité », D. Osthus, C. Polzin-Haumann, C. Schmitt (éds), La norme linguistique, Bonn, Romanistischer Verlag. Ernst, Gerhard, 2010, « “qu’il n’y a orthographe ny virgule encorre moins devoielle deconsol et pleinne delacunne“ : la norme des personnes peu lettrées (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles) », M. Iliescu, H. Siller-Runggaldier, P. Danler (éds), Actes du XXVe Congrès International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes, Innsbruck 2007, Berlin, New York, De Gruyter, vol. 3, p. 543-551. Fairon, Cédric, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie, 2014, SMS Communication. A Linguistic Approach, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins. Fex Sören, « Perceptual evaluation », Journal of Voice, 1992, 6, p. 155-158. Foucault, Michel, 1973, Moi, Pierre Rivière ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère : un cas de parricide au XIX e siècle, Paris, Gallimard. Larrivée, Pierre, 2011, « Au-delà de la polyphonie », Le Français moderne, 79, 1, p.223-234. Macherey, Pierre, 2009, De Canguilhem à Foucault. La force des normes, Paris, La Fabrique. Maingueneau, Dominique, 2014, Discours et analyse de discours, Paris, Armand Colin. Manesse, Danièle, « Les enfants des classes populaires, la langue et la norme », Cahiers pédagogiques, 500, p. 92-94. Panckhurst, Rachel, Moïse, Claudine, 2011, « SMS « conversationnels » : caractéristiques interactionnelles et pragmatiques », 79e colloque Acfas, Sherbrooke, May 9-10, 2011. Paveau, Marie-Anne, 2010, « La norme dialogique. Propositions critiques en philosophie du discours », Semen, n° 19, p. 141-159. Pêcheux, Michel, 1969, L’analyse automatique du discours, Paris, Dunod. Ricoeur, Paul, 1986, l’idéologie et l’utopie, Paris, Seuil, 1997. Sarfati, Georges-Élia, 2008, « Pragmatique linguistique et normativité : remarque sur les modalités discursives du sens commun », Langages vol. 2, 170, p. 92-108. Siouffi, Gilles, Steuckardt, Agnès (éds), 2007, Les linguistes et la norme, Berne, Peter Lang.
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| 3-3-14 | (2015-06-11) 18th Meeting Young Researchers (RJC 2015), Paris, France (extended) 18th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC 2015) from June 11th, 2015 to June 12th, 2015 Created in 1998, the Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs (RJC) of the Doctoral School “Langage et langues” (ED 268, Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris 3) offer junior researchers preparing for a master's or a doctorate degree, as well as post-doctorates, the opportunity to present their work in paper or poster sessions. “Language contact: situations, representations, realizations” Introduced by U. Weinreich (1953), the notion of ‘language contact’ has to do with any situation where two languages are simultaneously present, thus affecting an individual’s or a community’s linguistic behavior (Moreau, 1997). ‘Language contact’ is at the heart of both linguistic variation and linguistic change, in their diachronic and synchronic aspects. The phenomenon takes place in spaces the borders of which fluctuate depending on migrations, economic and cultural dynamics, or political policies (colonization, external cultural domination…). The 18th Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs offer an opportunity to think about connections and interferences between languages on the one hand, and between varieties inside a given language on the other hand, both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. In recent years, an increasing number of research studies on ‘language contact’ have been led in a renewed methodological and epistemological frame of reference, based on variability awareness and on rooting linguistic data in materiality (Nicolai, 2007). These works are at opposite extremes from those conducted during the nineteenth century, since the latter dismissed the mere idea of ‘language contact’, in order to focus on language filiation instead (Tabouret-Keller, 1988). The conference addresses the issue of ‘language contact’ through three complementary notions: ‘situation’, ‘representation’ and ‘realization’. Tackling ‘language contact’ implies observing and making an empirical description not only of institutional, social, professional and family circumstances, but also of language learning and language acquisition in plurilinguistic or diglossic contexts. In addition, ‘situation’ is deeply implanted in psycholinguistics as well: mastering several languages impacts brain structure and cognitive processes. The term should therefore be understood in a broader sense, as it can refer to both individual and collective levels of analysis. Regional languages and language choices made by multilingual writers are examples thereof. Moreover, ‘language contact’ also takes part in the tension between language description and linguistic prescription. The conference will take into consideration the way speakers, as well as linguists and grammarians, build and convey social and metalinguistic representations of languages in contact, based on their own judgement. Studying ‘language contact’ is an invitation to discuss identity construction processes and to examine further notions such as ‘linguistic insecurity’ or ‘imagined communities’ (Anderson, 1983). Realizations pertaining to language contact are many and diverse. They are indeed compound language productions, some of which may be viewed from a collective standpoint, like borrowings, or Creole and pidgin languages. Others are to be observed from an individual angle, for instance interferences (phonic, syntactic, lexical) caused, in part, by transfers between the various languages known to a multilingual speaker. To this framework belong ‘code switching’ and, in the field of acquisition and didactics, ‘interlanguage’. The great variety of such realizations sheds new light on current language typologies. Similarly, new problems arise in the area of natural language processing, where multilingual corpora are giving birth to methodological issues that differ from those raised by monolingual corpora. Likewise, translation studies appear as a kind of language contact realization; as a matter of fact, translators have to deal with theoretical and practical difficulties regarding both languages brought into contact through translation and languages already in contact in the original texts (Ballard, 2006). All of the mentioned theoretical approaches are likely to bring researchers in linguistics to discuss a shared topic, and allow them to reflect on this discipline’s status within the Humanities. Participants are encouraged to consider all means of language expression (oral, written, sign language). References: ANDERSON Benedict (1983), Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Londres: Verso. BALLARD Michel (2005-2006) (dir.), La traduction, contact de langues et de cultures, 2 vol., Arras: Artois Presses Université. MOREAU Marie-Louise (1997), Sociolinguistique. Concepts de base, Bruxelles: Mardaga. NICOLAI Robert (2007), « Le contact des langues : point aveugle du ‘linguistique’ », Journal of Language Contact, Evolution of languages, contact and discourse, Thema n° 1: 1-10. TABOURET-KELLER Andrée (1988), « Contacts de langues : deux modèles du XIXème siècle et leurs rejetons aujourd'hui », Langage et société, n° 43: 9-22. WEINREICH Uriel (1953), Languages in contact, findings and problems, New York: Linguistic Circle of New York. Invited speakers : Robert NICOLAÏ Professor Emeritus at the Sophia Antipolis Nice University (opening conference). Valerie SPAETH University Professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (closing conference). Scientific committee: Martine ADDA DECKER, José Ignacio AGUILAR RIO, Angélique AMELOT, Nicolas AUBRY, Nicolas AUDIBERT, Michelle AUZANNEAU, Eric BEAUMATIN, Irmtraud BEHR, Violaine BIGOT, Philippe BOULA DE MAREUIL, Maria CANDEA, Jean-Louis CHISS, Francine CICUREL, Matteo DE CHIARA, Geneviève DE WECK, Jeanne-Marie DEBAISIEUX, Didier DEMOLIN, Christine DEPREZ, Serge FLEURY, Jean-Marie FOURNIER, Emmanuel FRAISSE, Florentina FREDET, Cedric GENDROT, Kim GERDES, Anna GHIMENTON, Daniel GILE, Luca GRECO, Yana GRINSHPUN, Jean-Patrick GUILLAUME, Pierre HALLE, Rouba HASSAN, Agnès HENRI, Frédéric ISEL, Raphaël KABORE, Takeki KAMIYAMA, Dominique KLINGLER, René LACROIX, Marie-Christine LALA, Florence LEFEUVRE, Cécile LEGUY, Catherine MULLER, Valélia MUNI TOKE, Samia NAIM, Jean-Paul NARCY-COMBES, Gabriella PARUSSA, Claire PILLOTLOISEAU, Konstantin POZDNIAKOV, Christian PUECH, Sandrine REBOUL-TOURE, Francis RICHARD, Rachid RIDOUANE, Anne SALAZAR ORVIG, Didier SAMAIN, Pollet SAMVELIAN, Dan SAVATOVSKY, Valérie SPAËTH, Sofia STRATILAKI, Isabelle TELLIER, Jacqueline VAISSIERE, Andrea VALENTINI, Daniel VÉRONIQUE, Patricia VON MÜNCHOW, Geneviève ZARATE. Organizing committee: Emre BAYRAKTAR, Marie-Amélie BOTALLA, Laura-Maï DOURDY, Nora FANGELGUSTAVSON, Ophélie GANDON, Laura GUZMAN, Fanny IVENT, Muriel JORGE, Janina KLEIN, Mathilde MECHLING, Coraline PRADEAU, Komi SIMNARA, Marco STEFANELLI, Jane WOTTAWA, Yaru WU. The conference is open to graduate students (master, doctorate) and young researchers. Free admission Participants will receive a certificate of attendance. Important dates : Submission deadline : February 28th, 2015 Notification of acceptance : end of April 2015 Conference dates : June 11th and 12th, 2015 Corrected article deadline : 30 June 2015 Conference location: Institut de linguistique et de phonétique générales et appliquées (ILPGA) Address: 19, rue des Bernardins - 75005 PARIS Public transportation : Metro : Maubert Mutualité (line 10) ; Bus: 24, 47, 63, 86, 87 ; RER : Saint Michel (B and C lines) Presentations: Oral presentations and posters will be made in English or in French. Oral presentations will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. The size of the posters will be A0. Poster authors will be invited to give a short oral presentation of their work. Submission : Paper submissions are to be sent by e-mail to the following address: rjc-ed268@univparis3. fr, before February 28th, 2015. The e-mail message should specify : Personal data (last name, first name, e-mail and personal postal address); University affiliation; Educational level (master / doctorate / postdoc; specify the number of years for the doctorate); Research supervisor(s); Research field(s) of the submitted paper; Title of the submitted paper. Submissions are to be sent in the form of an article, in an attached .rtf file named “rjc2015_NAME.rtf” (eg: “rjc2015_SMITH.rtf”). This file should contain only the following information: Title of the submitted paper; Summary of about 100 words, in the paper’s language; 5 keywords in French, the same keywords in English; For oral presentations: a 6 to 8-page article (25 000 characters maximum, spaces included) ; for posters: a 5-page article (15 000 characters maximum, spaces included); Bibliography. The format of the article should be as follows: - Times New Roman 12 pt font; - 1,5 line spacing; - 2,5 cm margins at all edges; - justified left and right; - headings: Times New Roman 12 pt, bold, using a hierarchical numbering (1. ; 1.1. ; 1.1.1) and no more than 3 heading levels. In the case of phonetic transcriptions, please use the SILDoulos font, available here. Only one submission will be examined for each participant. The accepted submissions will be sent back to the authors in order to be corrected and laid out in mid-April. The corrected article will have to be transmitted to the organizing committee before the conference. The organizing committee reserves the right to refuse an article that would not meet the conference’s scientific requirements after correction. Publication : The proceedings will be published on-line after the conference. All information is available on : www.univ-paris3.fr/rjc-ed268
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| 3-3-15 | (2015-06-17) 20th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB'15), Passau, Germany Call for Papers: 20th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB'15)
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| 3-3-16 | (2015-06-22) 22nd conference on Natural Language Processing, Caen, France,
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GOALS ---------------- Workshops are aimed at specific TALN themes in order to gather targeted presentations. Each workshop has its own program committee and president. Each workshop organizer is in charge of the workshop call for papers and paper selection. The TALN conference committee will make take care of the local arrangements and organization (conference rooms, breaks and paper publication).
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WORKSHOP SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ---------------- Workshop proposals should be sent via email to Jean-Marc Lecarpentier (jean-marc.lecarpentier[at]unicaen.fr). Proposals should include a brief description of the theme and goals of the workshop (1 page in PDF), the composition of the program committee and the wished length of the workshop. The TALN program committee will select workshops amongst the proposals received.
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| 3-3-17 | (2015-06-22) Atelier ETeRNAL Ethique et TRaitemeNt Automatique des Langues, Caen, France Atelier ETeRNAL Ethique et TRaitemeNt Automatique des Langues
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| 3-3-18 | (2015-06-22) CfP TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015 Conference, Caen, Lower Normandy, France TALN 2015 | RÉCITAL 2015 Conference
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| 3-3-19 | (2015-06-22) Natural Language Processing Students Conference, Univ.Caen, Normandy, France RECITAL 2015 : Call for Papers
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| 3-3-20 | (2015-06-29) 6èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique, Montpellier, France 1er appel à communication 6èmes Journées de Phonétique clinique Montpellier 29 juin - 1er juillet 2015
Organisées pour la première fois à Paris en 2005 puis rééditées successivement à Grenoble (2007), Aix-en-Provence (2009), Strasbourg (2011) et Liège (2013), les Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC) réunissent des chercheurs et des ingénieurs mais aussi des médecins (ORL, phoniatres, chirurgiens,?) ainsi que des orthophonistes s?intéressant tous aux questions liées aux pathologies de la parole et du langage. Les 6èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique, qui font suite aux précédentes éditions, se dérouleront à Montpellier du 29 juin au 1er juillet 2015, où elles sont organisées conjointement par le laboratoire Praxiling (CNRS UMR 5267, Université Paul-Valéry), le Département Universitaire d?Orthophonie (Université Montpellier 1), l?Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier (INSERM U1051) et le CHU Gui de Chauliac de Montpellier (service des troubles de la voix et de la déglutition). L?objectif de ces Journées interdisciplinaires sera de faire progresser les connaissances fondamentales relatives à la communication parlée, dans le but de mieux comprendre, évaluer, diagnostiquer et remédier aux troubles de la production et de la perception de la parole, du langage et de la voix chez les sujets pathologiques. Dans ce contexte, cette série de colloques internationaux représente une opportunité pour des professionnels, des chercheurs confirmés et des jeunes chercheurs de formations différentes de présenter des résultats expérimentaux nouveaux et d?échanger des idées de diverses perspectives. Ainsi, des données sur la production et la perception de la parole chez le sujet sain et chez le sujet pathologique peuvent être analysées de manière adéquate et des modèles peuvent être développés, de sorte que les mécanismes qui gouvernent la production et la perception de la parole puissent être mieux compris, et exploités efficacement, en particulier dans le cadre d?applications cliniques. Les propositions de communications porteront ainsi sur les études de la parole et de la voix pathologiques, chez l?adulte et chez l?enfant. Les thèmes des 6èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique incluront donc, de façon non exhaustive, les problématiques suivantes : · Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé
· Parole et perturbations des systèmes perceptifs, auditifs et visuels
· Troubles cognitifs et moteurs de la parole et du langage
· Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologiques
· Évaluation fonctionnelle du langage, de la parole et de la voix.
· Diagnostic et traitement des troubles de la parole et de la voix parlée et chantée
· Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique
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Pour cette 6° édition, une attention toute particulière sera accordée à la question innovante de la prise en charge des populations bilingues et/ou polyglottes. Ainsi, les propositions portant sur la question de l?adaptation (ou de l?inadaptation) des outils de dépistage et de prise en charge dans une perspective translinguistique et/ou transculturelle bénéficieront d?un intérêt tout particulier. Dates Importantes
Deadline pour soumission des propositions de communication (résumé de 500 mots hors bibliographie) : 1er mars 2015
Ouverture de la plateforme de dépôt des propositions : 1er février 2015
Notification aux auteurs : 7 avril 2015
Conférence : 29 juin-1er Juillet 2015
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| 3-3-21 | (2015-07-01) CONSECUTIVITY AND SIMULTANEITY IN LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES AND SPEECH, Strasbourg, France
CONSECUTIVITY AND SIMULTANEITY IN LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES AND SPEECH
CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY THE RESEARCH UNIT 1339 LINGUISTIQUE, LANGUES, PAROLE (LILPA) UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG (UNISTRA) / STRASBOURG (FRANCE) AND THE FACULTY OF ARTS PAVOL JOZEF ŠAFÁRIK UNIVERSITY (UPJŠ) / KOŠICE (SLOVAKIA) 1st TO 3rd JULY 2015 STRASBOURG / FRANCE This international and interdisciplinary conference focuses on original and innovative work on the complex dynamic character of the consecutivity/simultaneity couple in the field of linguistics. It covers all disciplines of linguistics, as well as other related scientific areas (e.g. information sciences, computer sciences, medicine, etc.) preoccupied resolutely by linguistic issues. If the paradigm of consecutivity usually examines phenomena which succeed in time, in space and in a conceptual order, these consecution relationships can also denote dynamic interdependence between causality and simultaneity; the latter referring to phenomena which occur at the same time. In the field of semantics and syntax, some linguistic categories illustrate temporal properties (gerund, the past participle, etc.) and aspectual properties (accomplished, unaccomplished, durational, etc.) of consecutivity and/or simultaneity. Similarly, temporal markers such as and, then, etc., are characterised by their ability to alternatively denote these two properties. Finally, some syntactic constructions, including textual ones, induce through their own iconicity, spatiotemporal interpretation (incidence vs dependence, correlation vs causality, etc.). Regarding languages, interpretation, unlike translation, carried out either consecutively (with or without taking down notes) or simultaneously (in the cabin or outside the cabin – 'chuchotage'), relies mainly on reformulation strategy, this re-expression technique being more rapid and more salient in the context of simultaneous interpretation. As concerns texts, we shall consider the intricacies of relationships between diachronic and synchronic variations observable in manuscripts, and also syntactic twists or semantic constants. In didactics of first and foreign languages, it is useful to observe how opposing the simultaneous to the consecutive determines institutional didactic choices (e.g. notional vs action perspective), expert choices (direct vs deferred or face-to-face vs mediated teaching, etc.) and also pedagogical choices (spontaneous vs reformulated production, active vs imitative approach, etc.). In sociolinguistic investigations carried out by dialectologists, investigators are confronted with linguistic and meta-linguistic formulations of informants, formulations that these very informants may change, for various reasons and at different times of the investigation. It is the tension between consecutivity and simultaneity of productions of the same speaker which help to adequately approach the object of one’s study, and better understand language changes observed by researchers, together with the reasons for linguistic repositioning carried out by informants. In speech production and speech perception, we shall confront the (quasi)sequential representation of phonetic and phonological segments within a phonetic and phonological gestural analysis, in terms of coarticulation of segments, or even in terms of their co-production. We shall argue that co-production of articulatory gestures serves to optimise rapid and global perception of speech. Proposals should highlight, in one of the themes mentioned below: 1) Either the study of a given problem within the linguistic sciences, related to the analysis of consecutivity and simultaneity; 2) Either an issue allowing improvement or development of methods, tools and procedures for the analysis of consecutivity and simultaneity in a field of linguistics. In all cases, the perspective adopted by the conference will be met to and clarified. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF THE SYMPOSIUM: FRENCH AND ENGLISH THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE
TERMS OF SUBMISSION Proposals should include the following information: – Title of the paper; – Outline of the problem of the study providing all relevant details; – 4-5 keywords. The entire contribution will not exceed four pages, including references (Times 12, 1.5 spacing). Proposals will be submitted online, and will be subject to evaluation by the Scientific Committee and by a team of evaluators. IMPORTANT DATES ♦ Dissemination of the call for papers: November 10, 2014 ♦ Opening of the site for the submission of 2-4 page abstracts: December 1, 2014 ♦ Deadline for submission: January 18, 2015 ♦ Notification: March 29, 2015 ♦ Registration opens: – Early Bird registration: March 30 to April 26, 2015 (special tariff for students / PhD) – Full tariff registration: from 27 April 2015 ♦ Registration deadline: May 18, 2015 ♦ Date of the conference: 1 to 3 July 2015 ORGANISERS LILPA Research Unit (Linguistics, Languages & Speech), Dir. Rudolph Sock Research Teams (E.R.) composing the Unit: • Language Didactics (Dir. Laurent Kashema) • Discourse Functioning and Translation (Dir. Maryvonne Boisseau) • Research Groupe on European Multilingualism (Dir. Dominique Huck) • Speech and Cognition (Dir. Béatrice Vaxelaire) • Scolia (Dir. Pierre Nobel) Faculty of Arts of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ) / Košice (Slovakia): • Renáta Panocová • Štefan Franko • Mária Paľová ORGANISING COMMITTEE (IN CONSTITUTION) Angelina Aleksandrova, Stéphanie Debaize, Camille Fauth, Anna Gilg, Élodie Lang, Jean-Paul Meyer, Rudolph Sock.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS List to be finalised. WORKSHOPS Worhshop1: Interpretation and Translation Workshop 2: Data acquisition systems and databases
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| 3-3-22 | (2015-07-25) Workshop on Adaptive Natural Language Processing at IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina Workshop on Adaptive Natural Language Processing at IJCAI 2015
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| 3-3-23 | (2015-07-31) CfP Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (3rd edition), Beijing, China Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (3rd edition)
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| 3-3-24 | (2015-08-04) 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, Mexico City 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
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| 3-3-25 | (2015-08-10) 11th one-month Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Mons, BelgiumCall for ParticipationThe NUMEDIART Institute for Creative Technology of University of Mons, Belgium, invites researchers to join eNTERFACE?15, the 11th one-month Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, to be held in Mons, Belgium, the European Capital of Culture 2015, from August 10th to September 4th, 2015. eNTERFACE workshops gather in a single place a team of senior project leaders, researchers, and students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, each team being attached to a specific project. If you are a senior/junior researcher or a PhD/MS/undergraduate student working on similar topics and you want to collaborate in (at least) one of these projects, please fill out the online registration form. You will be asked to upload a short CV in electronic format (doc, docx or pdf) along with a list of skills you can offer to the selected project teams. You can choose up to three projects. The project leaders will select their team members among the applicants. The workshop attendance is free of charge but participants must fund their own travel, accommodation, and living expenses. The estimated costs are as follows :
What are eNTERFACE workshops?The eNTERFACE workshops aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of leading professionals in multimodal human-machine interfaces together with students (both graduate and undergraduate), to work on a prespecified list of challenges, for 4 complete weeks. In this respect, it is an innovative and intensive collaboration scheme, designed to allow researchers to integrate their software tools, deploy demonstrators, collect novel databases, and work side by side with a great number of experts. It brings together 80 researchers for a whole month, subsequently it is the largest summer workshop on multimodal interfaces. The workshop is held on an annual basis and organized around several research projects dealing with multimodal human-machine interfaces design. It is thus radically different from traditional scientific workshops, in which only specialists meet for a few days to discuss state-of-the art problems, but do not really work together. The eNTERFACE was initiated by the FP6 Network of Excellence SIMILAR. After the completion of SIMILAR, the workshop continued to attract wide interest under the aegis of the OpenInterface Foundation. It was organized by Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) in 2005, University of Zagreb (Croatia) in 2006, Bogaziçi University (Turkey) in 2007, CNRS-LIMSI (France) in 2008, University of Genova (Italy) in 2009, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in 2010, University of West Bohemia (Czech Republic) in 2011, Metz Supélec (France) in 2012, New University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 2013, and University of Basque Country (Spain) in 2014. How does it work?
OrganizerseNTERFACE?15 is organized by the University of Mons (UMONS), and it will take place at the Faculty of Engineering (FPMs) of Mons, Belgium. The team undertaking eNTERFACE 2015 is part of the NUMEDIART Institute for Creative Technology, with internationally recognised appraisal in the field of sound, image, video, gestures and biosignals processing for applications where human-computer interaction aims to prompt emotion. The city of Mons, cultural capital of Wallonia, has been chosen as European Capital of Culture 2015. For the eNTERFACE 2015 organizing committee, Prof. T. Dutoit Main Chair
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| 3-3-26 | (2015-08-20) IVA 2015 Doctoral Consortium, Delft, The Netherlands IVA 2015 Doctoral Consortium, August 24th in Delft, The Netherlands
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| 3-3-27 | (2015-08-26) LVA 2015 - 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation,Liberec, Czech Republic
LVA 2015 - 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation August 24-26, 2015, Liberec, Czech Republic http://amca.cz/lva2015/ *About LVA* LVA 2015 will be the 12th in a series of international conferences which attracted hundreds of researchers and practitioners over the years. Since its start in 1999 under the banner of Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA), the conference has continuously broadened its horizons. It encompasses today a host of additional forms and models of general mixtures of latent variables. Theories and tools borrowing from the fields of signal processing, applied statistics, machine learning, linear and multilinear algebra, numerical analysis and optimization, and numerous application fields offer exciting interdisciplinary interactions. *Highlights* The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation and it will feature the much-awaited results of the 5th Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2015).Keynote talks will be given by three leading researchers:- Tülay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)- Rémi Gribonval (Inria, France)- DeLiang Wang (Ohio State University, USA) *Call for Papers* The proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS). Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS format) in areas related to latent variable analysis and signal separation, including but not limited to:- Theory: sparse coding, dictionary learning; statistical and probabilistic modeling; detection, estimation and performance criteria and bounds; causality measures; learning theory; convex/nonconvex optimization tools- Models: general linear or nonlinear models of signals and data; discrete, continuous, flat, or hierarchical models; multilinear models; time-varying, instantaneous, convolutive, noiseless, noisy, over-complete, or under-complete mixtures- Algorithms: estimation, separation, identification, detection, blind and semi-blind methods, non-negative matrix factorization, tensor decomposition, adaptive and recursive estimation; feature selection; time-frequency and wavelet based analysis; complexity analysis- Applications: speech and audio separation, recognition, dereverberation and denoising; auditory scene analysis; image segmentation, separation, fusion, classification, texture analysis; biomedical signal analysis, imaging, genomic data analysis, brain-computer interface- Emerging related topics: sparse learning; deep learning; social networks; data mining; artificial intelligence; objective and subjective performance evaluation. *Special Sessions* The program will also feature special sessions on new or emerging topics of interest. Proposals for special sessions must include the session title, rationale, outline, and a list of 4 to 6 invited papers. To submit, see http://amca.cz/lva2015/. *Important Dates*
*Organizing Committee* General chairs:Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic)Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)Program chairs:Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France)Special sessions: Shoji Makino (University of Tsukuba, Japana)SiSEC chair: Nobutaka Ono (NII, Japan)Overseas liaison: Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN, Japan)
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| 3-3-28 | (2015-08-27) 2nd CfP 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association 5EUROSLA 2015),Université d'Aix-Marseille, France ** Second Call for Papers **
UMR 7309 Laboratoire Parole et Langage (Université d?Aix-Marseille), in association with the Département de français langue étrangère (Pôle LLC, UFR ALLSHS, Université d?Aix- Marseille), is pleased to announce that it will host EUROSLA 25, the 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association. The general theme of the Conference is « Second Language Acquisition : Implications for language sciences?. You are kindly invited to submit abstracts for papers, posters, thematic colloquia and doctoral workshop related to this theme or to any other domain and subdomain of second language research.
The Conference will start in the morning of 27 August 2015 and close at 12 a.m on 29 August 2015. Preceding the Conference, there will be a doctoral workshop and a Language Learning roundtable, both on 26 August 2015. The theme of this year?s roundtable is ?SLA and theories of pidginization / creolization?.
Plenary speakers
- Camilla BARDEL (Stockholm University) - Sandra BENAZZO (Université Paris 8) - Christine DIMROTH (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) - Scott H. JARVIS (Ohio University) - Gabriele PALLOTI (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE))
Key dates:
- 1 February 2015: Early bird registration - 27 February 2015: Abstract submission deadline - 24 April 2015: Notification of acceptance - 1 June 2015: Full fee registration starts - 18 July 2015: End of registration
Language Policy
EUROSLA 25 will be a bilingual conference (English and French) ; presentations in one of these languages are particularly encouraged. However, following the Eurosla constitution, any other European language may also be used.
Abstract submission policy
Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one co-authored (i.e. not first-authored) abstract to be considered for oral presentations, including colloquia and doctoral workshops. More than one abstract can be submitted for poster presentations. Paper and poster proposals should not have been previously published. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific committee and evaluated in terms of rigour, clarity and significance of the contribution, as well as its relevance to second language research. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding the title, but including optional references).
Individual papers and posters
Papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for discussion. Poster sessions will be held in two 90-minute slots. In order to foster interaction, all other sessions will be suspended during the poster sessions.
Thematic colloquia
The Thematic colloquia will be organised in two-hour slots running in parallel with other sessions. Each colloquium will focus on one specific topic, and will bring together contributions to the topic. Each thematic colloquium should include a maximum of 4 presentations. Colloquium convenors should allocate time for opening and closing remarks, individual papers, discussants (if included) and general discussion.
Doctoral student workshop
The doctoral student workshop is intended to serve as a platform for discussion of ongoing PhD research within any aspect of second language research. PhD students are invited to submit an abstract for a 10-15-minute presentation. The Doctoral workshop focuses on problems of methodology with regard to either data analysis (interpretation of natural conversation, statistical data, interviews, etc.) or research design (experimental design, corpus design, issues of data collection, etc.). These sessions are not intended as opportunities to present research results, but to discuss future directions. Students whose abstracts are accepted will be required to send their paper to a discussant (a senior researcher). The discussant will lead a 10-15-minute feedback/discussion session on their work.
Student stipends
?As in previous years, several student stipends will be available for doctoral students.?If you wish to apply, please send the following information to 25.eurosla@gmail.com before 27 February 2015:
1. Name, institution, and address of institution; 2. Curriculum vitae (attached); 3. Official confirmation of a PhD student status; 4. Statement (email) from supervisor or head of Department that the applicant?s institution cannot (fully) cover the conference-related expenses.
Publication of papers ? A selection of papers presented at EUROSLA 2015 will be published in the EUROSLA 25 or 26 Yearbook following a peer-review process. There is an annual prize for the best EUROSLA Yearbook article. This includes a framed certificate presented at the EUROSLA General Assembly, a fee waiver for the following EUROSLA conference and conference dinner, and free EUROSLA membership for a year.
To submit an abstract please visit
http://eurosla25.sciencesconf.org/
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| 3-3-29 | (2015-08-27) CfP EUROSLA 25, Aix-en-Provence, France EUROSLA 25 http://eurosla25.sciencesconf.org/
27-29 August 2015 Université d?Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France
** Final Call for Papers **
UMR 7309 Laboratoire Parole et Langage (Université d?Aix-Marseille), in association with the Département de français langue étrangère (Pôle LLC, UFR ALLSHS, Université d?Aix- Marseille), is pleased to announce that it will host EUROSLA 25, the 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association. The general theme of the Conference is « Second Language Acquisition : Implications for language sciences?. You are kindly invited to submit abstracts for papers, posters, thematic colloquia and doctoral workshop related to this theme or to any other domain and subdomain of second language research.
The Conference will start in the morning of 27 August 2015 and close at 12 a.m on 29 August 2015. Preceding the Conference, there will be a doctoral workshop and a Language Learning roundtable, both on 26 August 2015. The theme of this year?s roundtable is ?SLA and theories of pidginization / creolization?.
Plenary speakers
- Camilla BARDEL (Stockholm University) - Sandra BENAZZO (Université Paris 8) - Christine DIMROTH (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) - Scott H. JARVIS (Ohio University) - Gabriele PALLOTI (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE))
Key dates:
- 1 February 2015: Early bird registration - 27 February 2015: Abstract submission deadline - 24 April 2015: Notification of acceptance - 1 June 2015: Full fee registration starts - 18 July 2015: End of registration
Language Policy
EUROSLA 25 will be a bilingual conference (English and French) ; presentations in one of these languages are particularly encouraged. However, following the Eurosla constitution, any other European language may also be used.
Abstract submission policy
Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one co-authored (i.e. not first-authored) abstract to be considered for oral presentations, including colloquia and doctoral workshops. More than one abstract can be submitted for poster presentations. Paper and poster proposals should not have been previously published. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific committee and evaluated in terms of rigour, clarity and significance of the contribution, as well as its relevance to second language research. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding the title, but including optional references).
Individual papers and posters
Papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for discussion. Poster sessions will be held in two 90-minute slots. In order to foster interaction, all other sessions will be suspended during the poster sessions.
Thematic colloquia
The Thematic colloquia will be organised in two-hour slots running in parallel with other sessions. Each colloquium will focus on one specific topic, and will bring together contributions to the topic. Each thematic colloquium should include a maximum of 4 presentations. Colloquium convenors should allocate time for opening and closing remarks, individual papers, discussants (if included) and general discussion.
Doctoral student workshop
The doctoral student workshop is intended to serve as a platform for discussion of ongoing PhD research within any aspect of second language research. PhD students are invited to submit an abstract for a 10-15-minute presentation. The Doctoral workshop focuses on problems of methodology with regard to either data analysis (interpretation of natural conversation, statistical data, interviews, etc.) or research design (experimental design, corpus design, issues of data collection, etc.). These sessions are not intended as opportunities to present research results, but to discuss future directions. Students whose abstracts are accepted will be required to send their paper to a discussant (a senior researcher). The discussant will lead a 10-15-minute feedback/discussion session on their work.
Student stipends
?As in previous years, several student stipends will be available for doctoral students.?If you wish to apply, please send the following information to 25.eurosla@gmail.com before 27 February 2015:
1. Name, institution, and address of institution; 2. Curriculum vitae (attached); 3. Official confirmation of a PhD student status; 4. Statement (email) from supervisor or head of Department that the applicant?s institution cannot (fully) cover the conference-related expenses.
Publication of papers ? A selection of papers presented at EUROSLA 2015 will be published in the EUROSLA 25 or 26 Yearbook following a peer-review process. There is an annual prize for the best EUROSLA Yearbook article. This includes a framed certificate presented at the EUROSLA General Assembly, a fee waiver for the following EUROSLA conference and conference dinner, and free EUROSLA membership for a year.
To submit an abstract please visit
http://eurosla25.sciencesconf.org/
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| 3-3-30 | (2015-08-31) CfP EUSIPCO 2015, Nice, France (updated) EUSIPCO 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS -Tutorial proposals: 13th February 2015 -Full paper submissions: 13th February 2015 extended to February 27th -Notification of acceptance: 22nd May 2015
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| 3-3-31 | (2015-08-31) Joint Conference PEVOC & MAVEBA 2015, Firenze, Italia Joint Conference PEVOC & MAVEBA 2015: August 31 - September 4, 2015, Palazzo degli Affari, Piazza Adua 1, Firenze, Italy
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| 3-3-32 | (2015-08-xx) MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark MediaEval 2015 Multimedia Benchmark
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| 3-3-33 | (2015-09-02) GESPIN 2015 Gesture and Speech in Interaction, Nantes, France GESPIN 2015 Gesture and Speech in Interaction 2 - 4 September 2015 Universite de Nantes - FRANCE http://www.gespin4.univ-nantes.fr/70179108/1/fiche___pagelibre/&RH=1412770436454 First Call for Papers After Poznań in Poland, Bielefeld in Germany and Tilburg in the Netherlands, the fourth edition of GESPIN will be held in Nantes, France. GESPIN is an international conference on how gesture and speech work together to achieve various goals. This edition will focus especially on “combined units of meaning in gesture and speech”. The following issues may be of particular interest: · Mapping of units in different semiotic modes · Overlapping of units across modalities · Affordances and relevance of different unit types · Multimodal models of cognition · Transliteration of units · Gesture and speech in development · Gesture and speech in dialogue · Multimodal language learning and teaching Yet, papers on all other topics related to the combination of speech and gesture are welcome as well. We also invite proposals for tutorials and hands-on data sessions. Papers and tutorial reports will be published online. Keynote speakers · Alan Cienki (FU Amsterdam) · Jean-Marc Colletta (U. Grenoble) · Ellen Fricke (TU Chemnitz, Germany) · Judith Holler (MPI, Nijmegen) Important dates · Deadline for full papers and workshop proposals: April 15, 2015 · Acceptance of papers & workshops: June 15, 2015 · Revised version of accepted papers: July 15, 2015 · Gespin conference: September 2-4, 2015 Venue Faculte des Langues et Cultures Etrangeres (FLCE) Universite de Nantes Chemin de la Censive du Tertre 44312 Nantes FRANCE Registration fees · Students: 80 € · Academics: 150 € The conference fee will cover the online publication cost of the proceedings, conference package, snacks and drinks during breaks as well as the conference dinner and social program. Submission Please submit full papers (6 pages maximum), written in English (see submission link on website for submission procedure and paper template). Papers will be sent to two reviewers and final selection will be discussed collectively by the organizing committee. Organizing committees Local organizing committee · Gaelle Ferre (principle organizer, Gaelle.Ferre@univ-nantes.fr) · Mark Tutton (principle organizer, Mark.Tutton@univ-nantes.fr) · Manon Lelandais (conference secretary, Manon.Lelandais@etu.univ-nantes.fr) · Benjamin Lourenco (conference secretary, Benjamin.Lourenco@etu.univ-nantes.fr) Scientific board · Mats Andren (U. Lund, Sweden) · Dominique Boutet (Evry, France) · Jana Bressem (TU Chemnitz, Germany) · Heather Brookes (U. Cape Town, South Africa) · Alan Cienki (FU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) · Doron Cohen (U. Manchester, UK) · Jean-Marc Colletta (U. Grenoble, France) · Gaelle Ferre (U. Nantes, France) · Elen Fricke (TU Chemnitz, Germany) · Alexia Galati (U. Cyprus) · Marianne Gullberg (U. Lund, Sweden) · Daniel Gurney (U. Hertfordshire, UK) · Simon Harrison (U. Nottingham Ningbo, China) · Judith Holler (MPI, The Netherlands) · Ewa Jarmołowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Konrad Juszczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Maciej Karpiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Sotaro Kita (U. Warwick, UK) · Stefan Kopp (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Emiel Krahmer (U. Tilburg, The Netherlands) · Anna Kuhlen (U. Humbolt Berlin, Germany) · Silva H. Ladewig (Europa-Universitat Frankfurt, Germany) · Maarten Lemmens (U. Lille 3, France) · Zofia Malisz (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Irene Mittelberg (HUMTEC Aachen, Germany) · Asli Ozyurek (MPI, The Netherlands) · Katharina J. Rohlfing (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Gale Stam (National Louis University, USA) · Marc Swerts (U. Tilburg, The Netherlands) · Michał Szczyszek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Marion Tellier (U. Aix en Provence, France) · Mark Tutton (U. Nantes, France) · Petra Wagner (U. Bielefeld, Germany) GESPIN conference board · Ewa Jarmołowicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Konrad Juszczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Maciej Karpiński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Zofia Malisz (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Katharina J. Rohlfing (U. Bielefeld, Germany) · Michał Szczyszek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) · Petra Wagner (U. Bielefeld, Germany)
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| 3-3-34 | (2015-09-04) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2015) Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE 2015) Satellite event of Interspeech 2015 Leipzig,Germany The ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) promotes the use of speech and language technology for educational purposes, and provides a forum for exchanging information regarding recent developments and other matters of interest related to this topic. For further information please visit http://www.sigslate.org. The upcoming Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Education (SLaTE 2015) will be organized by the Pattern Recognition Lab of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in cooperation with Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig (HfTL). The workshop will be held in Leipzig, September 4–5, 2015. It is a satellite event of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), which will take place afterwards in Dresden, September 6–10, 2015. Dresden is only 120 km away from Leipzig and can be reached easily within 72 minutes by train (ICE). If you are interested, please download our flyer or our posters (poster 1 and poster 2). We will present them at the INTERSPEECH 2015 booth at INTERSPEECH 2014 in Singapore. We are looking forward to welcome you in Leipzig!
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| 3-3-35 | (2015-09-05) Workshop on the History of Speech Communication, Dresden, Germany Workshop on the History of Speech Communication, (Sig-Hist) Technische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany Organizers: Rüdiger Hoffmann ruediger.hoffmann@tu-dresden.de Jürgen Trouvain trouvain@coll.uni-saarland.de
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| 3-3-36 | (2015-09-06 ) INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies INTERSPEECH 2015
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| 3-3-37 | (2015-09-11) FAAVSP - The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Vienna, Austria Call For Papers
FAAVSP - The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing
The International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation (FAA)
The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP)
11-13 September, 2015
Vienna, Austria
* Description
This conference brings together two established interdisciplinary conferences:
The International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation (FAA)
and
The International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP)
Both conferences have a common focus on facial communication research. FAA focuses on facial animation analysis and synthesis addressed in the fields of computer graphics, computer vision and psychology. AVSP focuses on how auditory and visual speech information plays a role in human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine interaction.
The two conferences attract researchers from diverse fields, such as speech processing, computer graphics and computer vision, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, robotics and electrical engineering.
The aim of this first joint conference is to bring together, from both academia and industry, the two communities of facial animation (FAA) and audiovisual speech (AVSP) to discuss research and exchange ideas, data and experiences.
* Topics
Submission of papers are invited in all areas of facial animation and auditory-visual speech processing including but not limited to:
- Acquisition of Facial Shape, Motion and Texture
- Facial animation and rendering techniques
- Facial Model Based Coding and Compression
- Facial Analysis and Animation for Mobile Applications
- Embodied Virtual Agents
- Visual and Audiovisual Speech Synthesis
- Human and machine recognition of audio-visual speech
- Human and machine models of multimodal integration
- Multimodal and perceptual processing of facial animation and audiovisual events
- Cross-linguistic studies of audio-visual speech processing
- Developmental studies of audio-visual speech processing
- Audio-visual prosody
- Emotion and Expressivity modeling
- Gestures accompanying speech and non-linguistic behavior
- Neuropsychology and neurophysiology of audio-visual speech processing
- Scene analysis using audio and visual speech information
- Data collection and corpora for audio-visual speech processing
The conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, 11.-13. September 2015. The session on September 11 will be devoted to FAA topics and those on September 12-13 to AVSP topics. The keynotes will present topics relevant to both communities.
* Important Dates:
8 May 2015: Deadline for paper submission
12 June 2015: Notification of acceptance
19 June 2015: Camera-ready paper
11-13 September 2015: Conference
Two types of submission are possible: Abstracts (1 page) for FAA and AVSP topics, and full papers (4 to 6 pages) for AVSP topics.
The organizing committee of FAAVSP 2015 is looking forward to your submissions.
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| 3-3-38 | (2015-09-11) Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), Dresden, Germany SLPAT 2015 11th September 2015, co-located with Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany
We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) on Friday 11 September 2015 to be co-located with Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline, and formatting of regular papers are here:
http://www.slpat.org/slpat2015
This workshop will bring together researchers from all areas of speech and language technology with a common interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. The workshop will provide an opportunity for individuals from both research communities, and the individuals with whom they are working, to assist to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. General topics include but are not limited to:
• Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility • Speech and language technologies for daily assisted living and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) • Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language • Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) / Assistive Technologies (AT) applications • Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or TTS • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies • NLP for cognitive assistance applications • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies • Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of AT • Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols • Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology • Other topics in AAC and AT
Please contact the conference organizers at slpat2015-workshop@googlegroups.com with any questions.
Important dates:
Frank Rudzicz, PhD Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute; Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto; Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Thotra Incorporated Director, SPOClab (signal processing and oral communications) || Website: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~frank || Phone (office) : 416 597 3422 x7971 || Fax : 416 597 3031
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| 3-3-39 | (2015-09-12) Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing – ERRARE 2015, Sinaia (Romania) Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing – ERRARE 2015
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| 3-3-40 | (2015-09-14) CfP Eighteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2015), Pilzen, Czech Republic TSD 2015 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 3-3-41 | (2015-09-17) 16th Science of Aphasia (SoA) Conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal The University of Aveiro, Portugal is pleased to announce that Hugues Duffau (CHU Montpellier, France) Cathy Price (UCL, UK) Alexandre Castro Caldas (UCP, Portugal) Alexandra Reis (UAlg, Portugal) Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France, France) Uri Hasson (Princeton University, USA) Jenny Crinion (UCL, UK) Brenda Rapp (Johns Hopkins University, USA) David Poeppel (New York University, USA) Dan Bub (University of Victoria, Canada) David Caplan (Harvard Medical School, USA)
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| 3-3-42 | (2015-09-17) CfP EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: EMNLP 2015 September 17-21, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.emnlp2015.org
Long paper submission deadline: May 31, 2015 Short paper submission deadline: June 15, 2015 ===============================================
SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2015.
The conference will be held on September 17-21 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference will consist of three days of full paper presentations with two days of workshops and tutorials.
Conference URL: http://www.emnlp2015.org
The conference web site will include updated information on workshops, tutorials, venue, traveling, etc. For helpful tips on visiting Lisbon, Portugal, please check the WikiTravel website (http://wikitravel.org/en/Lisboa).
As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted for the Transactions of the ACL journal (http://www.transacl.org/).
WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS
EMNLP 2015 will have a large workshop program with 7 workshops and 8 tutorials. See http://www.emnlp2015.org/workshops.html and http://www.emnlp2015.org/tutorials.html for more details.
TOPICS
We solicit papers on all areas of interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to:
- Phonology, Morphology, and Segmentation - Tagging, Chunking, Parsing and Syntax - Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics - Semantics - Summarization and Generation - Statistical Models and Machine Learning Methods - Machine Translation and Multilinguality - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Question Answering - Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining - Spoken Language Processing - Computational Psycholinguistics - NLP for Web and Social Media (including Computational Social Science) - Language and Vision - Text Mining and NLP Applications
IMPORTANT DATES - Long Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2015 - Short Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2015 - Author response period: July 7-10, 2015 - Acceptance notification: July 24, 2015 - Camera-ready submission deadline: August 14, 2015 - Workshops and tutorials: September 17-18, 2015 - Main conference: September 19-21, 2015
All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm (UTC/GMT -11 hours)
SUBMISSIONS
Long papers
EMNLP 2015 submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.
Each long paper submission consists of a paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus two pages for references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page (up to 9 pages with 2 pages for references) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account.
Short papers
EMNLP 2015 also solicits short papers. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. While a short paper is not a shortened long paper, the characteristics of short papers include:
- A small, focused contribution - Work in progress - A negative result - An opinion piece - An interesting application nugget
Each short paper submission consists of up to four (4) pages of content, plus 2 pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) pages in the proceedings and 2 pages for references. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers' comments in their final versions. Each short paper submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.
Both long and short papers
Papers may be accompanied by the resources (software and/or data) described in the papers. Papers that are submitted with accompanying software/data may receive additional credit toward the overall evaluation score, and the potential impact of the software and data will be taken into account when making the acceptance/rejection decisions.
Accepted papers will be presented orally or as a poster (at the discretion of the program chairs). There will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally or as posters.
Both long and short papers should follow the two-column format to be provided at the conference site. We reserve the right to reject submissions if the paper does not conform to these styles, including paper size and font size restrictions.
As the reviewing will be blind, papers 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 (1991) previously showed ...‚”. Submissions that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Separate author identification information is required as part of the on-line submission process.
Submission will be online, managed by the START system (https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2015/papers). The site will be open for accepting submissions one and half months before the conference deadline. To minimize network congestion we request authors upload their submissions as early as possible.
EMNLP multiple submission policy
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted by EMNLP 2015. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.
Authors submitting more than one paper to EMNLP 2015 must ensure that submissions do not overlap significantly (>25%) with each other in content or results.
Preprint servers such as arXiv.org and ACL-related workshops that do not have published proceedings in the ACL Anthology are not considered archival for purposes of submission. Authors must state in the online submission form the name of the workshop or preprint server and title of the non-archival version. The submitted version should be suitably anonymized and not contain references to the prior non-archival version. Reviewers will be told: 'The author(s) have notified us that there exists a non-archival previous version of this paper with significantly overlapping text. We have approved submission under these circumstances, but to preserve the spirit of blind review, the current submission does not reference the non-archival version.' Reviewers are free to do what they like with this information.
PRESENTATION REQUIREMENT
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EMNLP 2015.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair Lluís Márquez, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Program co-Chairs Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
Workshops co-Chairs Zornitsa Kozareva, Yahoo! Labs Jörg Tiedemann, Uppsala University
Tutorial co-Chairs Maggie Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Khalil Sima'an, University of Amsterdam
Publication co-Chairs Daniele Pighin, Google Inc. Yuval Marton, Microsoft Corp.
Publicity Chair Barbara Plank, University of Copenhagen
Sponsorship Team Hang Li, Huawei Technologies João Graça, Unbabel Inc.
SIGDAT Liaison Noah Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
Local co-Chairs André Martins, Priberam João Graça, Unbabel Inc.
Local Publicity Chair Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon
Conference Handbook Chair Fernando Batista, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL)
Website and App Chair Bruno Martins, University of Lisbon
CONTACT contact@emnlp2015.org
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| 3-3-43 | (2015-09-20) 17th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2015), Athens, Greece SPECOM 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
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| 3-3-44 | (2015-09-28) 57th International Symposium ELMAR-2015 , Zadar, Croatia 57th International Symposium ELMAR-2015
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| 3-3-45 | (2015-09-xx) MultiLing 2015:Multilingual Summarization of Multiple Documents, Online Fora and Call Centre Conversations, Prague, Czech Republic = Call for Participation =
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| 3-3-46 | (2015-10-15) Young Researchers in Sciences of Language, Laboratory Praxiling, University of Montpellier, France Young Researchzers in Sciences of Language
Laboratory Praxiling, University of Montpellier, France
Call for papers: CJC2015 « Trace(s) » 15th-16th october 2015 http://www.praxiling.fr/colloque-jeunes-chercheurs-2015,370.html The aim of this 9th edition is to bring together researchers interested in the notion of the trace, from theoretical and methodological perspective in various disciplines. The term trace raises both by its multiple meanings and by its recurring presence in the scientific literature. While trace is a common term used in everyday language, the apparent straightforwardness of its meaning hides a number of complex questions in the literature about the contextualization of the term. These questions are all the more relevant in the digital age where the trace is playing an increasingly important role in IT environments (review Intellectica, No. 59). To begin with, an epistemological questioning calls for a multidisciplinary approach. In 2002, A. Serres drew up an inventory of possible meanings of the term trace (as a marker, as an clue) and discussed its presence in literature, linguistics and philosophy. His approach constitutes a solid basis for our thinking. Serres also reviewed intrinsic links between trace and memory (Ricoeur) and trace and writing (Derrida). Secondly, this notion of trace is omnipresent in the field of Linguistics and can be found at all levels of research (epistemological, pragmatic and praxeological). Therefore, it is worth revisiting, at a methodological level, the practices of identification, creation, exploitation and conservation of objects of research, considered as traces of this research : what about the positioning and choices of young researchers on data collection, analysis of corpus, archiving ? Phonetics and phonology: If we consider sound as a trace in the elastic medium represented by the air, it is worthwhile discussing the notion of the trace in relation to the acoustic signal. In fact, sound traces the acoustic signal thanks to the articulatory gestures. Those gestures can be altered by a communication disorder which will leave a number of traces in the speech. Finally, in the voice, other traces can be observed allowing one to identify the speaker’s gender or his/her emotions. Language acquisition, didactics and language learning: In the learning process, the target language acquisition is based on existing knowledge and skills that will be progressively transferred from the source language. Therefore, various traces of the first language can be found in the second language, reflecting different levels of the language: linguistics, pragmatics or sociocultural. Written communication: In the written communication, the participants are not in a situation of co-presence. Therefore, we can talk about a delayed communication that seems to be an interesting subject for discussion. Indeed, the written communication fits into the framework of elaboration and conservation of the traces. As this communication mode is not subject to the constraints that are tied up with the speech flow, it allows backtracking, corrections or erasing all of which may be studied by the researcher. Finally, the four basic operations of substitution (addition, removal, substitution and displacement) can also be detected thanks to their graphic traces. Digital communication: When considering interactions within the computing environment, it is impossible not to include traces which result from the usage of these devices. Indeed, every user or machine profile leaves a binary line (internet identity). This binary line constitutes a form of digital writing which contributes to a synchronous and an asynchronous communication. This raises several questions related to the trace: its acquisition, its development, its visualization, its archiving, its annotation, its suppression and its recovery. Language processing: Language processing is essential when it comes to make use of the trace, recover it, repair it or rebuild it. To intercept the trace, researchers create algorithmic models in the form of procedures using a software architecture that will run a program on one or more computers, on condition that those computers are connected together via social networks or internet. These models are developed with adjustable variables allowing to specify the task through the gathered trace. Therefore, we will be able to work with the trace: cut or label it, define its structure, evaluate its meaning, contextualize or generate it. Contributions from the following areas of linguistics will be considered with the utmost attention: Syntax, Morphology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Phonetics, Phonology, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, TAL, etc. Proposals combining theoretical reflections and naturally occurring data will be particularly appreciated. Submission: Submitted abstracts should be 800 words long (excluding references and tables). The deadline for our call for papers is March 31st 2015. Submissions must be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?... Proposals will be reviewed anonymously by two members of the Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance will be communicated in May. Registration: Registration should be made via Azur Colloque : http://www.azur-colloque.cnrs.fr/ Fees: Standard registration – early : 70 EUR (on or before September 1st, 2015) Standard registration – regular : 80 EUR (after September 1st, 2015) Visitor registration – early : 80 EUR (on or before September 1st, 2015) Visitor registration – regular : 90 EUR (after September 1st, 2015) Registration fees include: Access to all sessions / Coffee breaks / Lunch Scientific committee forthcoming Planning committee: Ivana Didirkova Nada Jonchère Nathalie Matheu Contact : cjcpraxiling2015@gmail.com
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| 3-3-47 | (2015-10-18) 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA15), New Paltz, NY, USA
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| 3-3-48 | (2015-12-13) 3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge at ASRU 2015 Pre-announcement
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| 3-3-49 | (2015-12-13) ASRU 2015 : IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Scottsdale, AZ, USA ASRU 2015 : IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop December 13-17, 2015 Scottsdale, Arizona, USA http://asru2015.org Twitter: @ASRU2015
CALL FOR PAPERS
The fourteenth biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) will be held on December 13-17, 2015 in Scottsdale, Arizona - USA. The ASRU workshop meets every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition, understanding, and related fields of research.
TOPICS AND FOCUS
Authors are encouraged to submit contributions in all areas of spoken language processing, with emphasis placed on the following topics: - Automatic speech recognition - Spoken language understanding - Speech-to-text systems - Spoken dialog systems - Multilingual language processing - Robustness in automatic speech recognition - Spoken document retrieval - Speech-to-speech translation - Text-to-speech systems - Spontaneous speech processing - Speech summarization - New applications of automatic speech recognition
FORMAT
The workshop features one keynote and one or two invited talks a day. Regular papers are presented as posters. See http://asru2015.org for formatting guidelines. ASRU 2015 will also include challenge tasks, panel discussions and demo sessions.
CHALLENGE TASKS
Three challenge tasks will be reporting results at ASRU 2015: - 3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge - http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge - Automatic Speech recognition In Reverberant Environments (ASpIRE) - https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9933624 - Multi-genre Broadcast Media Transcription Challenge - http://www.mgb-challenge.org/
Papers related to the challenges will be submitted, reviewed, and evaluated in the same way as all ASRU papers. Accepted papers will be presented as posters in special sessions for each challenge task.
The challenges themselves are run by their respective organizers, independently of ASRU 2015. See http://asru2015.org/Challenges.asp for participation details.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures, plus 1-2 additional pages for references only. All papers will be handled and reviewed electronically.
SCHEDULE
Paper due date: Friday July 10, 2015 Paper Notification: Friday Sept 11, 2015 Registration opens: Friday Sept 11, 2015 Demo/toolkit deadline: Friday Sept 25, 2015 Paper Camera ready version due: Friday Oct 2, 2015 Demo/toolkit notification date: Friday Oct 9, 2015 Author and early registration end: Friday Oct 23, 2015 Demo/toolkit camera ready version due: Monday Oct 26, 2015 Workshop: Dec 13-17, 2015
MORE INFORMATION
For updates see www.asru2015.org, or follow us on twitter: @ASRU2015
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| 3-3-50 | (2015-12-13) Calls for Challenge Task Proposals ASRU 2015, Scottsdale, Az, USA (updated)
IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2015
CALL FOR CHALLENGE TASKS
http://asru2015.org/CallForChallenges.asp
Submission deadline: December 31, 2014
ASRU 2015 welcomes proposals for challenge tasks. In a challenge task, participants compete or collaborate to accomplish a common or shared task. The results of the challenge will be presented at the ASRU workshop event in the form of papers reporting the achievements of the participants, individually and/or as a whole. We invite organizers to concretely propose such challenge tasks in the form of a 1-2 page proposal. The proposal should include a description of
* The task and its intended goal
* The task organizers and key contact people for the various aspects of the task
* The data or shared resource that is to be used
* Details on the availability or its collection process
* Required labeling or other pre-processing and the expected timeline of this process
* Privacy concerns around the data or resource as it will be released to all participants
* Licensing terms or conditions for participants
* the evaluation process, how will a test set be defined, what figure of merit will be used to measure success, and how will a common scoring process be put in place to arrive at comparable results for all participants
* the timeline; when will training/test material be made available, when are participant (sub-)system submissions due
* the expected (number of) participants, and whether this is a new installment of an existing challenge or a new challenge series altogether
* any special requests or circumstances, e.g., required timing or format of the challenge execution
Participants will report their achievements in the form of regular format paper submissions to the ASRU workshop. These submissions will undergo the normal ASRU review process, but the organizers can suggest reviewers that would be particularly insightful for the challenge subject matter. Accepted papers will be organized in a special session at the conference (in poster format; the only format used at ASRU). The accepted papers will appear in the ASRU proceedings. Given the possibly lengthy process of organizing and executing a special challenge, prospective organizers are encouraged to submit proposals as soon as possible. The ASRU technical program committee will make acceptance decisions based on a rolling schedule -- i.e., proposals are reviewed as soon as they come in. Challenge proposals should be sent to Technical Program co-chair Michiel Bacchiani at michiel@google.com, and will be accepted until the end of 2014.
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| 3-3-51 | (2016-00-00) Speech Prosody Boston, USASpeech Prosody 2016 will be held in Boston, USA. Congratulations to Dr. Veilleux, Dr. Barnes, Dr. Shattuck-Hufnagel and Alejna Brugos for presenting an outstanding bid, and we look forward to an outstanding conference in Boston in 2016!
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| 3-3-52 | (2016-05-23) LREC 2016, Portorož (Slovenia) ELRA is very pleased to announce that the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference will take place in Portorož (Slovenia) on May 23-28, 2016.
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| 3-3-53 | (2016-07-13) LabPhon 15: Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation,Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA LabPhon 15: Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation July 13-16, 2016, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA Phonological representations are dynamic, shaped by forces on diverse timescales. On the timescale of utterances, interactions between perceptual, motoric, and memory-related processes provide constraints on phonological representations. These same processes, embedded in learning systems and dynamic social networks, shape representations on developmental and life-span timescales, and in turn influence sound systems on historical timescales. Laboratory phonology, through its rich quantitative and experimental methodologies, contributes to our understanding of phonological systems by providing insight into the mechanisms from which representations emerge. Conference themes:
Production dynamics: How are representations constructed and implemented in speech, and what does articulation reveal about the dynamics of production mechanisms? How do these mechanisms shape representations on longer timescales? Perceptual dynamics: What forms of perceptual representation do speaker-hearers use and what are the temporal dynamics of perception? How does the interaction between perception and production constrain phonological systems on life-span and diachronic timescales? Prosodic organization: What are the mechanisms of prosodic organization and how do they give rise to cross-linguistic differences? What are the connections between perception and production of prosodic structure? Lexical dynamics and memory: How do experience and lexical memory influence phonological representations? What are the relations between lexical representation, production, and perception across diverse timescales? Phonological acquisition and changes over the life-span: What is the nature of early representations and how do they change? How does learning a second-language interact with existing representations? Social network dynamics: How does the structure of social networks influence phonological representations on diverse timescales? What are the roles of perception and production in relation to social network dynamics? Contributions to any of these themes or to any other aspects of laboratory phonology will be welcome. A call for papers will be circulated in the fall of 2015. Questions can be addressed to LabPhon15@cornell.edu Updates will appear on http://labphon.org/labphon15 Abby Cohn and Sam Tilsen, LabPhon 15 co-chairs
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