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| 3-1-1 | (2015-06-20) Call for participation at INTERSPEECH 2015- Early registration. Early registration deadline at a discounted fee is rapidly approaching: 20 June 2015! Call for Participation | 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. Important Dates
Tutorials The Organizing Committee is announcing eight tutorials to be held on September 6:
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Special Sessions The following ten Special Sessions & Challenges (September 7-10) cover interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to the main conference topics: Biosignal-based Spoken Communication 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 For further information about the Keynotes and Regular Sessions, the Doctoral Workshop, nine Satellite Workshops and two related conferences but also on post-venue tours, please refer to the program website: http://interspeech2015.org/program/ Sebastian Möller (General Chair), Oliver Jokisch (Publicity Chair)
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| 3-1-2 | (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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| 3-1-3 | (2015-09-06) 3rd and Final Call for INTERSPEECH 2015, Sep 6-10, Dresden, Germany. 3rd and Final Call for INTERSPEECH 2015, Sep 6-10, Dresden, Germany.
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
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
INTERSPEECH 2015 hosts a wide range of Events, e.g. Special Sessions and Workshops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10 Special Sessions - 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 Resource 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
10 Satellite Workshops - Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing (ERRARE) - Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) - Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Education (SLaTE) - International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR) - Workshop on Speech and Audio Technologies for the Digital Humanities (SAT4DH) - Blizzard Challenge Workshop - Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) - International Workshop on Speech Robotics (IWSR) - The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing (FAAVSP) - MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation (MediaEval)
3 Related Events - Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD) - The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing (FAAVSP) - International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD)
Visit www.interspeech2015.org
******************************************************** Dr. Tim Polzehl Quality and Usability Lab, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, SoftwareCampus Technische Universität Berlin E-mail: tim.polzehl@telekom.de
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| 3-1-4 | (2015-09-06) Announcement of the Pleanary sessions at Interspeech 2015 Dear Colleagues,
Interspeech-2015 will start in about 3 months and it is time to announce our plenary speakers.
Following the tradition of most past Interspeech conferences, the organizing committee of Interspeech-2015 has decided to present four keynote talks in Dresden, one on each day of the conference. It is also tradition that the first keynote talk will be presented by the ISCA medaillist just at the end of the opening ceremony on Monday morning, Sept. 7, 2015. Information on this year’s ISCA medaillist will be published later in June.
Information on the other three plenary speakers will be however very soon available on the Interspeech-2015 website and here we provide already a brief introduction of the candidates:
Prof. Klaus Scherer from the University of Geneva will present a keynote talk about vocal communication as major carrier of information about a person’s physique, enduring dispositions, strategic intention and current emotional state. He will also discuss the importance of voice quality in comparision to other modalities, e.g. facial expressions, in this context. Prof. Scherer is one of the most prominent researchers in the area of emotion psychology and was holder of an ERC Advanced Grant covering these research topics.
Prof. Katrin Amunts from the Institut of Neuroscience and Medicine at the Research Centre Juelich/Germany will deliver a talk about her research within the European FET-Flagship „The Human Brain Project“. The expectations from this presentation are twofold: Firstly, many of the Interspeech attendants might have heard about the huge „EU Flagship Projects“ which are funded with more than $ 1 Billion each, but does not know what exactly is going on in such a project and how it is organized and structured. This talk will introduce the FET-Flagship project that is mostly relevant to the Interspeech-Community, the „Human Brain Project“. Prof. Amunts is not only the leader of the Subproject 2 “Strategic Human Brain Data”, but is additionally very well-known for her work on how language is mapped in regions of the human brain and how to create a 3D atlas of the human brain.. From her talk we can expect the perfect combination of speech & language research with neural brain research within the probably most prominent project in this area.
Everybody in the Speech Community knows the popular „Personal Digital Assistants“, such as Siri, Cortana, or Google Now. However, many of those people might not know exactly what detailed technology is behind these highly commercially successful systems. The answer to this question will be given by Dr. Ruhi Sarikaya from Microsoft in his keynote address. His group has been building the language understanding and dialog management capabilities of both Cortana and Xbox One. In his talk, he will give an overview of personal digital assistants and describe the system design, architecture and the key components behind them. He will highlight challenges and describe best practices related to bringing personal assistants from laboratories to the real-world.
I hope you agree that we will have truly exciting plenary talks at this year’s Interspeech and the Interspeech-2015 team is looking forward to sharing this experience with you soon in September in Dresden.
Gerhard Rigoll Plenary Chair, Interspeech-2015
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| 3-1-5 | (2015-09-06) Call for Applications: Doctoral Consortium at Interspeech 2015Call for Applications: Doctoral Consortium at Interspeech 2015Prospective and current doctoral students from all speech-related disciplines are invited to apply for admission to the Doctoral Consortium to be held at Interspeech 2015 in Dresden, Germany. The doctoral consortium is aimed at providing students working on speech-related topics with an opportunity to discuss their doctoral research with experts from their fields, and to receive feedback from experts and peers on their PhD projects. The format of the Doctoral Consortium will be a one-day workshop prior to the main conference (6th September). It will involve short presentations by participants summarizing their projects, followed by an intensive discussion of these presentations. The Doctoral Consortium is a new format at Interspeech, and is held this year in exchange for the ?Students Meet Experts? lunch event that was held at previous Interspeech Conferences. It is organized by the Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA-SAC). How to apply: Who should apply: Important dates: For further questions please contact: doctoral.workshop@interspeech2015.org
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| 3-1-6 | (2015-09-06) CfP Doctoral Consortium at Interspeech 2015Call for Applications: Doctoral Consortium at Interspeech 2015Prospective and current doctoral students from all speech-related disciplines are invited to apply for admission to the Doctoral Consortium to be held at Interspeech 2015 in Dresden, Germany. The doctoral consortium is aimed at providing students working on speech-related topics with an opportunity to discuss their doctoral research with experts from their fields, and to receive feedback from experts and peers on their PhD projects. The format of the Doctoral Consortium will be a one-day workshop prior to the main conference (6th September). It will involve short presentations by participants summarizing their projects, followed by an intensive discussion of these presentations. The Doctoral Consortium is a new format at Interspeech, and is held this year in exchange for the ?Students Meet Experts? lunch event that was held at previous Interspeech Conferences. It is organized by the Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA-SAC).
How to apply: Who should apply: Important dates: For further questions please contact: doctoral.workshop@interspeech2015.org
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| 3-1-7 | (2015-09-06)) CfP INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies INTERSPEECH 2015
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| 3-1-8 | (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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| 3-1-9 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (June 2015)
A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication Part 6: Measuring speech respiration Complete article including figures available at: http://interspeech2015.org/conference/historical-review/ The respiratory behaviour of humans provides important bio-signals, in speech communication we are interested in respiration while speaking. The investigation of speech respiration mainly entails the observation of i) activity of muscles relevant for in- and exhalation, ii) lung volume, iii) airflow, iv) sub-glottal air pressure, and v) kinematic movements of the thorax and the abdomen. In the 'early days' of experimental phonetics the measurements were mainly focused on lung volume and the kinematic behaviour of the rib cage and the belly. We present here three devices that are also part of the historic acoustic-phonetic collection (HAPS) which will be re-opened during the International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research. The Atemvolumenmesser (Figure 1) is an instrument to measure the vital capacity of the lung and the phonatory flow, respectively. The human subject maximally inhales with the help of a mask put onto mouth and nose. The subsequent expelling air arrives into the bellows via a mouthpiece and a rubber tube. The resulting volume can be seen on a vertical scale. A stylus that is mounted on a small tube at the scale allows to register the temporal dynamics of speech breathing with the help of a kymograph. Figure 2 shows a Gürtel-Pneumograph ('belt-pneumograph') which serves to investigate the respiratory movements. The wave-like surfaced rubber tubes are fixed around the upper part of the body of the human subject in order to measure the thoracic and abdominal respiration. Changes of the kinematics result in changes of the air pressure to be transmitted via tubes of so-called Marey capsules onto the stylus to be registered with a kymograph. The kymograph was the core instrument of the experimental phonetic research until the 1930s. The 'wave-writer' graphically represents changes over time. A revolving drum was wrapped with a sheet of paper with soot (impure carbon) on the surface and a fine-grained stylus easily writes the measured changes. A clockwork motor was responsible for the constant revolution of the drum. Time-relevant parameters like speech wave forms, air pressure changes of the pneumograph or air volume changes of the Atemvolumenmesser were transduced into kinematic parameters via the Marey capsules and registered on the time axis. The drum in Figure 3 has a height of 180 mm and circumference of 500 mm. At the beginning the drum is at the top and sinks continuously downwards during the registration process. This spiral movement allows the graphical recording of longer curves on the paper. The speed of the revolution of the drum could be set between 0.1 and 250 mm per second. Jürgen Trouvain and Dieter Mehnert
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| 3-1-10 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (April 2015)
A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication Part 4: Helmholtz Resonators Complete article including figures available at: http://interspeech2015.org/conference/historical-review/ Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 –1894) was a German physician and physicist who made important contributions in many areas of science. One of these areas was acoustics, where he published the famous book Before the invention of Helmholtz resonators, strong partial tones in a sound wave were typically identified by very thin, elastic membranes that were spanned on circular rings similar to drums. Such a membrane has a certain resonance frequency (in fact multiple frequencies) that depends on its material, tension, and radius. If the sound field around the membrane contains energy at this frequency, the membrane is excited and starts It was also known that the sensitivity of this method could be improved when the membrane was spanned over the (removed) bottom of a bottle with an open neck end. The key idea of Helmholtz was to replace this bottle by a hollow sphere with an open neck at one 'end' and another small spiky opening at the opposite 'end'. The spiky opening had to be inserted into one ear canal. In this way, the eardrum was excited similarly to the membrane with the sand of the previous technique. However, due to the high sensitivity of the ear, partial tones could be detected much more easily. A further advantage of these resonators was that their resonance frequencies can be expressed analytically in terms of the volume of the sphere and the diameter and the length of the neck. Hence these resonators became important experimental tools for the subjective sound analysis in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. The HAPS at the TU Dresden contains three sets of Helmholtz resonators. The biggest of these sets contains 11 resonators, which are tuned to frequencies between 128 Hz and 768 Hz. The HAPS also contains a related kind of resonators that were invented by Schaefer (1902). These resonators are tubes with one open end and one closed end. The closed end also has a small spiky opening that has to be inserted into the ear canal. These resonators maximally respond to frequencies of which the wavelength is four times the length of the tube. Helmholtz used his resonators not only for sound analysis, but also for the synthesis of vowels. Therefore, he first had to analyze the resonances of the vocal tract for different vowels. He did this by means of a set of tuning forks, which he placed and excited directly in front of his open mouth when he silently articulated the different vowels. When the frequency of a tuning fork was close to a resonance of the vocal tract, the resulting sound became much louder than for the other frequencies. For each of the vowels /u/, /o/, and /a/, he was only able to detect a single To synthesize the vowels /u/, /o/, and /a/ with a single Peter Birkholz
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| 3-1-11 | 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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| 3-1-12 | 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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| 3-1-13 | 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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| 3-1-14 | 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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| 3-1-15 | INTERSPEECH 2015 Update (May 2015) A View from Dresden onto the History of Speech Communication
Part 5: Artificial vocal fold models – The investigation of phonation The investigation of the larynx was (and is) one of the predominant topics in phonetic research. In the early times of experimental phonetics, mechanical models of the larynx or, at least, of the vocal folds have been utilized according to the paradigm of analysis-by-synthesis.
The first models used flat parallel elastic membranes or other simple elements to simulate the function of the vocal folds (Fig. 1). However, the geometry of these models was rather different from that of real human vocal folds. A substantial progress was made by Franz Wethlo (1877 – 1960), who worked at the Berlin university
The historical collection (HAPS) at the TU Dresden owns several cushion pipes from Wethlo in different sizes, modelling male, female, and children’s voices. A team from the TU Dresden repeated Wethlo’s experiments with his original equipment in 2004. Therefore, the cushion pipes were connected to a historical “vocal tract model”. This vocal tract model was actually a stack of wooden plates with holes of different diameters to model the varying cross-sectional area of the vocal tract between the glottis and the lips (Fig. 3). This “configurable” vocal tract model came to the HAPS collections from the Institute of Phonetics in Cologne. The artificial vocal folds were used to excite vocal tract configurations for the vowels /a/, /i/ and /u/, but listening experiments showed that these artificial vowels were rather difficult to discriminate.
Today, there is renewed interest in
Rüdiger Hoffmann & Peter Birkholz
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| 3-2-1 | (2015-06-26) 6th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, ExLing 2015, Athens, Greece 6th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics ExLing 2015 26-27 June 2015, Athens, Greece http://conferences.phil.uoa.gr/exling/
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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
For more information, please visit the conference website:
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| 3-2-4 | (2016-05-30) Speech Prosody Boston, USASpeech Prosody 2016 will be held in Boston, USA from May 30 to June 3, 2016. 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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| 3-2-5 | Forthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored EventsForthcoming ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRWs) & Sponsored Events
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| 3-3-1 | (2015-05-21) Seminaires du GIPSA Grenoble France Jeudi 21 Mai 2015 13h30-14h30 Salle B314 du Département Parole et Cognition (Bâtiment ENSE3, 11 rue des mathématiques, Saint Martin d?Hères)
Pr. David Ostry Motor Control Laboratory, McGill university
 / Haskins LaboratorySensory Systems and Speech Motor Learning
Abstract _________________ Jeudi 28 Mai 2015 13h30-14h30 Salle B314 du Département Parole et Cognition (Bâtiment ENSE3, 11 rue des mathématiques, Saint Martin d?Hères)
Matthieu Lavandier Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État ? Université de Lyon
Intelligibilité de la parole dans les salles bruyantes : démasquage spatial, réverbération, modulations d?enveloppe et hauteur tonale.
Abstract
La perception de la parole dans le bruit est facilitée par
le fait que nous ayons deux oreilles. Ces deux oreilles nous permettent de bénéficier de démasquage spatial : une source de bruit masque moins une source de parole si ces deux sources sont à des positions différentes. Ce mécanisme est malheureusement moins efficace en présence de réverbération, l?ensemble des réflexions sonores dans la salle environnante. Si la source de « bruit » est une voix concurrente à séparer de la voix cible que l?auditeur cherche à comprendre, d?autres indices acoustiques peuvent être utilisés par le système auditif. Les modulations d?enveloppe de la source concurrente pourront être exploitées pour mieux comprendre la cible, la réverbération intervenant à nouveau sur ce mécanisme. Une différence de hauteur tonale entre les voix à séparer peut également être utilisée par l?auditeur. Ces différents mécanismes perceptifs mis en jeu lors de l?écoute de parole dans des salles bruyantes seront décrits au travers de la présentation d?un modèle prédictif de l?intelligibilité qui sera systématiquement confronté à des données expérimentales. Ce type de modèle constitue un outil intéressant pour étudier la réception de la parole dans les situations dites de cocktail-party. Il pourrait s?avérer également utile pour étudier la production de la parole dans ces situations._________________
Jeudi 4 Juin 2015 13h30-14h30 Salle B314 du Département Parole et Cognition (Bâtiment ENSE3, 11 rue des mathématiques, Saint Martin d?Hères)
Malinda Carpenter School of Psychology and Neuroscience, university
of St Andrews, St Andrews, ScotlandDepartment of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Beyond imperatives and declaratives: The complexity of infants? pointing and iconic gestures
Abstract In this talk I will present an overview of our work _________________
Jeudi 11 Juin 2015 13h30-14h30 Salle B314 du Département Parole et Cognition (Bâtiment ENSE3, 11 rue des mathématiques, Saint Martin d?Hères)
Christian Herbst Voice Research Lab, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Palacký university
Olomouc, Czech RepublicLaboratory of Bioacustis, Department of Cognititive Biology, university
ViennaElephant on the bench. Ex-vivo investigation of mammalian sound production Abstract
Excised larynx preparations allow studying the biophysics of mammalian sound production under controlled laboratory conditions. Research done in the past decades focused mainly on humans, but recently the approach has been extended to investigating nonhuman mammals. In this presentation, this author will present a partial overview of his own work with excised larynges, with relevance for the fields of bioacoustics and basic voice science. In particular, it will be shown that: Elephants? voice production mechanism for infrasound vocalizations below 20 Hz conforms to the myo-elastic aerodynamic theory of voice production (MEAD). This physical principle thus extends across a remarkably large range of fundamental frequencies and body sizes in mammals, spanning more than four orders of magnitude. A method for visually and quantitatively assessing the regularity of vibrations of systems on the way to chaos is being presented. This method is applied The remainder of the talk is concerned with a critical evaluation of electroglottography (EGG), a low-cost non-invasive impedance measurement method for monitoring some oscillatory aspects of vocal fold vibration. The EGG waveform?s purported correspondence to the time-varying vocal fold contact area was investigated in an excised hemi-larynx experiment involving two high-speed video HSV cameras operating at 6000 fps, synchronized with EGG, and the results suggest a tolerable but not perfect agreement. Furthermore, an investigation of the coincidence of positive peaks in the derivative of the EGG waveform (dEGG) with incidents of glottal closure and opening, utilizing an excised larynx setup with synchronized ultra-HSV at 27000 fps was performed. Results show that dEGG peaks do not necessarily coincide with incidents of glottal closure and opening. Findings from these last two studies suggest that EGG should be interpreted and analyzed with care, and that further research is necessary to establish expected error margins. _________________
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| 3-3-2 | (2015-06-05) Physics-based Voice Simulation Techniques ”, Florence, Italy ”Physics-based Voice Simulation Techniques”
Call for Participation
The EUNISON FET-Open European project invites PhD/MS/undergraduate students working on voice modelling or similar topics, and interested researchers to join our one-day Summer School
Those wishing to attend should submit a brief CV and a letter of motivation as to why they want to attend by filling an online registration form. The deadline for application
The one-day Summer School attendance is free of charge but participants must fund
Recommended prior attendance: MAVEBA workshops on replicas and simulation, and PEVOC Round Table on physic-based voice simulation. The final date and time schedule of these activities will be published soon here.
Tutorials (45 minutes each)
Oriol Guasch, La Salle-URL, Barcelona, Spain Sten Ternström, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Xavier Pelorson, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France Stefan Becker, Friedrich Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany
Oriol Guasch, La Salle-URL, Barcelona, Spain Johan Jansson, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Joan Baiges, CIMNE-UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Oriol Guasch, La Salle-URL, Barcelona, Spain
Olov Engwall and Örjan Ekeberg, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Johan Jansson and Sten Ternström KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Organizers
This one-day Summer School is organized by the FET European project EUNISON (Extensive UNIfied-domain SimulatiON of the human voice).
In the EUNISON project, we seek to build a new voice simulator that is based on physical first principles to an unprecedented degree. From given inputs, representing topology or muscle activations or phonemes, it will render the 3-D physics of the voice, including of course its acoustic output. This will give important insights into how the voice works, and how it fails. The goal is not a speech synthesis system, but rather a voice simulation engine, with many applications; given the right controls and enough computer time, it could be made to speak in any language, or sing in any style. The model will be operable on-line, as a reference and a platform for others to exploit in further studies. The long-term prospects include more natural speech synthesis, improved clinical procedures, greater public awareness of voice, better voice pedagogy and new forms of cultural expression.
More information at www.eunison.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 30887
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| 3-3-3 | (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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| 3-3-4 | (2015-06-10) 13th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Prague, Czech Republic (Extended deadline) CBMI 2015
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| 3-3-5 | (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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| 3-3-6 | (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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| 3-3-7 | (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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| 3-3-8 | (2015-06-22) 22nd conference on Natural Language Processing, Caen, France,
22nd conference on Natural Language Processing
University of Caen Lower Normandy June 22-25, 2015 - Caen, France http://taln2015.greyc.fr ----------------
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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IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- -Workshop submission deadline: Friday, January 30, 2015 (23:59 Paris time)
-Program Committee response: Friday, February 6 2015 -Camera ready paper due: Friday, May 8, 2015 ----------------
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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FORMAT ---------------- Workshop papers are in French (or in English for authors not speaking French). Workshop papers must adhere to the TALN style and are between 12 and 14 pages.
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| 3-3-9 | (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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| 3-3-10 | (2015-06-22) Natural Language Processing Students Conference, Univ.Caen, Normandy, France RECITAL 2015 : Call for Papers
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| 3-3-11 | (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 http://itic.univ-montp3.fr/JPC6/#p4
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 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 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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| 3-3-12 | (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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| 3-3-13 | (2015-07-11) ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems (MLIS'15), Lille, France ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems (MLIS'15)
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| 3-3-14 | (2015-07-13) EUROLAN 2015, Sibiu, RomaniaCall for participationEUROLAN 2015 - First CallSummer School on
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Workshop on Adaptive Natural Language Processing at IJCAI 2015
https://sites.google.com/site/adaptivenlp2015/
Workshop in conjunction with IJCAI 2015
Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-27 2015
Motivation and Aims
Natural Language Processing is becoming more and more ubiquitous as technologies become omnipresent in our daily life. This involves a huge effort to develop language-based interfaces, text analytics, search engines, writing assitants among other systems and their related tools and resources. Adaptation has been key to facilitate rapid development of language-based systems, with reuse of existing resources as alternatives to creating tools and resources from scratch. These approaches have benefited from the recent surge of complex Machine Learning approaches as applied to NLP tasks. This is the case for Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Active Learning, Domain Adaptation, and even Representation Learning and Deep Learning, which have had a very positive impact on NLP tasks and applications.
This workshop aims to provide a meeting point for researchers working on the portability of language resources and methodologies across languages and domains, with a special focus on exploiting available knowledge as a base to facilitate and enhance new developments. We understand that there is a common factor between tasks like porting a parser between related languages, adapting a dialogue system for a different domain, using rules inferred from an annotated corpus together with an unannotated corpus to port an information extraction system to another domain, or simplifying texts for different kinds of readers, among others. We believe that sharing insights on such approaches will be enriching and will contribute to a better understanding of the problems and solutions.
We expect that themes like Representation Learning, Deep Learning and Active Learning, and their successful applications to various areas of NLP, will raise interesting, intellectually challenging discussions.
Workshop Topics
Contributions may present results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives.
The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Semi-supervised learning, Deep Learning, Active learning and Representation learning for domain adaptation, language portability and task portability
Adaptation and reuse of tools and resources for closely related languages
Adaptation of highly valuable resources, like treebanks, to languages not closely related
Linguistic issues in language portability: false friends, asymmetric discretization of semantic continuum
Learning from multiple domains
Development of multi-domain datasets
Evaluation paradigms for complex learning
Domain adaptation for specific applications: parsing, machine translation, information extraction, document classification, sentiment analysis and author attribution and profiling
Format of submissions
Submissions are invited for papers presenting high quality, previously unpublished research. Selection criteria include originality of ideas, correctness, clarity and significance of results and quality of presentation.
We welcome two types of contributions:
Long papers (10 pages), presenting substantial, original and completed research work. Accepted long papers will be presented orally.
Short papers (6 pages), with a small, focused contribution, work in progress, a negative result or an opinion piece. Accepted short papers will be presented either orally or as a poster.
Short papers can be combined with a system demonstration.
The only accepted format for submitting papers is Adobe PDF. Papers should follow IJCAI-15 formatting Guidelines.
As the review process will be double-blind, your submission must not include the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s). Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Pérez, 2003) ...', must be avoided. Instead, citations such as 'Pérez (2003) previously showed ...', must be used.
Submissions will be electronic, the submission site will be made available soon.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: April 27 2015
Acceptance/rejection notification: May 20 2015
Camera-ready deadline: May 30, 2015
Workshop: July 25-27 2015 at IJCAI 2015
Programme Committee
Luciana Benotti (UNC, Argentina)
Xavier Carreras (XEROX-XRCE, France)
Helena Caseli (UFSCar, Brazil)
José Castaño (UBA, Argentina)
Carlos Iván Chesñevar (UNS, Argentina)
Martín Domínguez (UNC, Argentina)
Pablo Duboue (Les Laboratoires Foulab, Canada)
Marcelo Errecalde (UNSL, Argentina)
Hugo Jair Escalante (INAOE, Mexico)
Paula Estrella (UNC, Argentina)
Mikel Forcada (UA, Spain)
Maria Fuentes Fort (UPC, Spain)
Xavier Gómez Guinovart (UVigo, Spain)
Agustín Gravano (UBA, Argentina)
Franco Luque (UNC, Argentina)
Rada Mihalcea (UNT, USA)
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (USP, Brazil)
Lluís Padró (UPC, Spain)
Muntsa Padró (Nuance, Canada)
Martí Quixal (UTübingen, Germany)
Thiago Pardo (USP, Brazil)
Ted Pedersen (UMN, USA)
German Rigau (UPV, Spain)
Aiala Rosá (UdelaR, Uruguay)
Paolo Rosso (UV, Spain)
Horacio Saggion (UPF, Spain)
Thamar Solorio (UH, USA)
Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno (LIA/UAPV, France)
Cristina Vertan (UH, Germany)
Dina Wonsever (UdelaR, Uruguay)
Organizing Committee
Laura Alonso i Alemany (UNC, Argentina)
Núria Bel (UPF, Spain)
Irene Castellón (UB, Spain)
Manuel Montes y Gómez (INAOE, Mexico)
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Núria Bel
/Professora Agregada/
Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada
Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge
Roc Boronat, 138 | 08018 Barcelona
[Tel.] +34 935422250+34 935422250 -| +34 935422322
+34 935422322
nuria.bel@upf.edu
http://www.upf.edu/pdi/iula/nuria.bel
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Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (3rd edition)
Co-located with ACL 2015, Beijing, China
July 31, 2015
Submission deadline: May 14, 2015
https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2015
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First Call for Papers
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in algorithms that learn and use
continuous representations for words, phrases, or documents in many natural language
processing applications. Among many others, influential proposals that illustrate this
trend include latent Dirichlet allocation, neural network based language models and
spectral methods. These approaches are motivated by improving the generalization power of
the discrete standard models, by dealing with the data sparsity issue and by efficiently
handling a wide context. Despite the success of single word vector space models, they
are limited since they do not capture compositionality. This prevents them from gaining a
deeper understanding of the semantics of longer phrases, sentences and documents.
Regarding this issue, some pertinent questions arise: should word/phrase/sentence
representations be of the same sort? Could different linguistic levels require different
modeling approaches ? Is compositionality determined by syntax, and if so, how do we
learn/define it? Should word representations be fixed and obtained distributionally, or
should the encoding be variable? Should word representations be task-specific, or should
they be general?
In this workshop, we invite submissions of papers on continuous vector space models for
natural language processing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Neural networks
* Spectral methods
* Distributional semantic models
* Language modeling for automatic speech recognition, statistical machine translation,
and information retrieval
* Automatic annotation of texts
* Phrase and sentence-level distributional representations
* The role of syntax in compositional models
* Formal and distributional semantic models
* Language modeling for logical and natural reasoning
* Integration of distributional representations with other models
* Multi-modal learning for distributional representations
* Knowledge base embedding
INVITED SPEAKERS
The workshop will showcase presentations from 4 to 6 keynote speakers. The confirmed
speakers are:
Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University)
Jason Weston (Facebook AI Research)
Kyunghyun Cho (Université de Montréal)
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Authors should submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF format, with up to
2 additional pages for references. The reported research should be substantially
original. The papers will be presented orally or as posters.
All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the ACL 2015 formatting
requirements (see the ACL 2015 Call For Papers http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html).
Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the
papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Submissions must be made through the
Softconf website set up for this workshop:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2015/CVSC/
Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no distinction will be
made between papers presented orally or as posters.
IMPORTANT DATES
14 May 2015 : Submission deadline
4 June 2015 : Notification of acceptance
21 June 2015 : Camera-ready deadline
31 July 2015 : Workshop
ORGANIZERS
Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud, France)
Edward Grefenstette (University of Oxford, UK)
Karl Moritz Hermann (University of Oxford, UK)
Hugo Larochelle (Université de de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research, USA)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in construction)
Marco Baroni, University of Trento
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montreal
Phil Blunsom, University of Oxford
Antoine Bordes, Facebook
Leon Bottou, Microsoft
Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge
Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh
Georgiana Dinu, University of Trento
Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Andriy Mnih, University College London
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University of London
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Peter Turney, NRC
Jason Weston, Facebook
Guillaume Wisniewski, LIMSI-CNRS
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Workshop on continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (3rd edition)
Co-located with ACL 2015, Beijing, China
July 31, 2015
Submission deadline: May 14, 2015
https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2015
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INVITED SPEAKERS
The workshop will showcase presentations from 5 keynote speakers. ? Kyunghyun Cho
(Université de Montréal)
? Stephen Clark university of Cambridge)
? Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan university)
? Ray Mooney university of Texas at Austin)
? Jason Weston (Facebook AI Research)
AIMS AND SCOPE
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in algorithms that learn and use
continuous representations for words, phrases, or documents in many natural language
processing applications. Among many others, influential proposals that illustrate this
trend include latent Dirichlet allocation, neural network based language models and
spectral methods. These approaches are motivated by improving the generalization power of
the discrete standard models, by dealing with the data sparsity issue and by efficiently
handling a wide context. Despite the success of single word vector space models, they
are limited since they do not capture compositionality. This prevents them from gaining a
deeper understanding of the semantics of longer phrases, sentences and documents.
Regarding this issue, some pertinent questions arise: should word/phrase/sentence
representations be of the same sort? Could different linguistic levels require different
modelling approaches ? Is compositionality determined by syntax, and if so, how do we
learn/define it? Should word representations be fixed and obtained distributionally, or
should the encoding be variable? Should word representations be task-specific, or should
they be general?
In this workshop, we invite submissions of papers on continuous vector space models for
natural language processing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Neural networks
* Spectral methods
* Distributional semantic models
* Language modeling for automatic speech recognition, statistical machine translation,
and information retrieval
* Automatic annotation of texts
* Phrase and sentence-level distributional representations
* The role of syntax in compositional models
* Formal and distributional semantic models
* Language modeling for logical and natural reasoning
* Integration of distributional representations with other models
* Multi-modal learning for distributional representations
* Knowledge base embedding
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Authors should submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in electronic, PDF format, with up to
2 additional pages for references. The reported research should be substantially
original. The papers will be presented orally or as posters.
All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the ACL 2015 formatting
requirements (see the ACL 2015 Call For Papers http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html).
Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the
papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Submissions must be made through the
Softconf website set up for this workshop:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2015/CVSC/
Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, where no distinction will be
made between papers presented orally or as posters.
IMPORTANT DATES
14 May 2015 : Submission deadline
4 June 2015 : Notification of acceptance
21 June 2015 : Camera-ready deadline
31 July 2015 : Workshop
ORGANIZERS
Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI-CNRS/Université Paris-Sud, France)
Edward Grefenstette (Google DeepMind, UK)
Karl Moritz Hermann (Google DeepMind, UK)
Hugo Larochelle (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
Scott Wen-tau Yih microsoft Research, USA)
program COMMITTEE
Marco Baroni, university of Trento
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montreal
Phil Blunsom, university of Oxford
Antoine Bordes, Facebook
Leon Bottou, Facebook
Stephen Clark, university of Cambridge
Shay Cohen, university of Edinburgh
Georgiana Dinu, University of Trento
Kevin Duh, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Andriy Mnih, Google DeepMind
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University of London
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Peter Turney, NRC
Jason Weston, Facebook
Guillaume Wisniewski, LIMSI-CNRS
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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
AlCoB 2015
Mexico City, Mexico
August 4-6, 2015
Organized by:
Centre for Complexity Sciences (C3)
School of Sciences
Institute for Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS)
Graduate Program in Computing Science and Engineering
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/
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AIMS:
AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction.
The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.
Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.
VENUE:
AlCoB 2015 will take place in Mexico City, the oldest capital city in the Americas and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. The venue will be the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
SCOPE:
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
Exact sequence analysis
Approximate sequence analysis
Pairwise sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment
Sequence assembly
Genome rearrangement
Regulatory motif finding
Phylogeny reconstruction
Phylogeny comparison
Structure prediction
Compressive genomics
Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ...
Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis ?
Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ...
Microbiome analysis
Systems biology
STRUCTURE:
AlCoB 2015 will consist of:
invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
to be announced
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Stephen Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA)
Yurii Aulchenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Daniel G. Brown (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Yuehui Chen (University of Jinan, China)
Keith A. Crandall (George Washington University, Washington, USA)
Joseph Felsenstein (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA)
Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, Japan)
Igor Grigoriev (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA)
Yike Guo (Imperial College, London, UK)
Javier Herrero (University College London, UK)
Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Hsuan-Cheng Huang (National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Ian Korf (University of California, Davis, USA)
Nikos Kyrpides (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA)
Yun Li (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
Jun Liu (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
Mingyao Li (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Rodrigo López (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
Andrei N. Lupas (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany)
B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Carlos Martín-Vide (chair, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain)
Tarjei Mikkelsen (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA)
Henrik Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
Christine Orengo (University College London, UK)
Modesto Orozco (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain)
Christos A. Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Manuel Peitsch (Philip Morris International R&D, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
David A. Rosenblueth (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico)
Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Alessandro Sette (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA)
Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
Alfonso Valencia (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain)
Kai Wang (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Zidong Wang (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK)
Harel Weinstein (Cornell University, New York, USA)
Jennifer Wortman (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA)
Jun Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA)
Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Hongyu Zhao (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Francisco Hernández-Quiroz (Mexico City)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
David A. Rosenblueth (Mexico City, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2015
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/Registration.php
DEADLINES:
Paper submission: March 2, 2015 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 10, 2015
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: April 19, 2015
Early registration: April 19, 2015
Late registration: July 21, 2015
Submission to the journal special issue: November 6, 2015
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
AlCoB 2015
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Rovira i Virgili University
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Call for Participation
The 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 :
- Accommodation in single bedrooms in the University Residence Hall costs from 285? to 329?, (depending on bedclothes renting or not), per person for the whole one-month stay.
- Meals (in the city) will cost about 400? for the 4 weeks, but this can be reduced by about a half if you eat at the university canteen at lunch time and cook for yourself at the dorm for dinner.
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?
- Experienced researchers are invited to propose research projects to be undertaken by a few people (5-10) during 4 weeks. The proposal should explain what to do, how many people are necessary, profile of these people, etc.
- Once the projects have been supervised and approved by the technical committee, they are listed on this website.
- Then there is a call for participation (*this email*): students/researchers from all around the world send their CVs and choose the project they prefer according to their expertise or interest.
- Teams are built by the project leaders in cooperation with the organizers according to the preferences of the students/researchers and their suitability for the project.
- Finally, the team members come to Mons and spend four wonderful and productive weeks together. There is no registration fee for participants and accommodation will be relatively cheap.
Organizers
eNTERFACE?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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Call for extended abstracts
Workshop on Phonetic Learner Corpora
Satellite workshop of ICPhS at 12 August 2015 in Glasgow
Most of the data used to explore and explain phonetic variation in the speech of foreign
language learners was recorded on a small-scale in experimental research. Likewise
language learner corpora are usually based on written rather than on spoken data whereas
phonetically annotated corpora of various speech styles do not explicitly consider
language learners as speakers. However, we notice a growing number of research using
large-scale collections of phonetic learner data as well as the development and
investigation of full-fledged phonetic learner corpora.
The aim of this half-day workshop is to bring together researchers working with largescale
data sets of speech in a background of foreign and second language learning. The
targetaudience comprises colleagues setting up learner corpora, experts in phonetic
corpora, researchers with phonetic and phonological experiments in L2 acquisition, and
those with an interest in phonetic aspects of L2 teaching and non-native speech in general.
Invited Speakers
- Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt U Berlin, Germany)
- Sylvain Detey (Waseda U, Japan) and Isabelle Racine (Geneva U, Switzerland).
Submissions
Interested colleagues are invited to submit an extended abstract by mid May. We also
plan to publish a special issue with contributions presented at the workshop. Please note
that the submission deadline for this special issue will be soon after the workshop.
Workshop website: <http://www.ifcasl.org/workshop.html>
Important Dates
15 May 2015 submission deadline of a two-page abstract (ICPhS paper template)
5 June 2015 notification of acceptance
15 June 2015 early registration deadline (mandatory for presenters)
15 July 2015 late registration deadline
12 Aug 2015 workshop
15 Sept 2015 submission deadline for planned special issue
Organisers
Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University, Saarbrücken)
Frank Zimmerer (Saarland University, Saarbrücken)
Mária Gósy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Anne Bonneau (LORIA, Nancy)
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IVA 2015 Doctoral Consortium, August 24th in Delft, The Netherlands
http://iva2015.tudelft.nl
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The Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2015 Doctoral Consortium will be held on
Monday, the 24th of August, two days before the main IVA conference (26th of
August - 28th of August, 2015). We invite and encourage PhD students working in
the area of virtual agents to present and discuss their work. PhD students
working on human-human and human-robot interaction with a relevance to
intelligent virtual agents are also encouraged to apply.
The doctoral consortium offers PhD students the opportunity to discuss and
present their research plans and progress to peers and experts in an interactive
way. During the doctoral consortium, several distinguished researchers will
provide feedback and guidance on the students' current research and future
research directions. Students who would like to benefit from this feedback and
guidance are welcome to apply. Students who have a clear topic and have already
made some progress are especially encouraged to apply.
Based on the student's application, the organizing committee will select a group
of students that will be invited to participate. The students selected are
expected to attend and to give an oral presentation at the Doctoral Consortium.
Students will also be given the possibility to present a poster during the
poster session of the main conference.
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Submission Guidelines and Instructions
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In order to apply for the doctoral consortium, the PhD student should follow
these submission guidelines and instructions:
1. An application describing the student’s current and planned research should
be submitted in the IVA paper format (see http://iva2015.tudelft.nl/?q=node/4)
2. Applications should be submitted as PDF documents (not exceeding 6 pages)
through the IVA submission system http://iva2015.confmaster.net/ (select the
doctoral consortium option).
Applications should be well written and organized. They should clearly describe:
* Aim(s) and objective(s) of the research
* The challenge(s) that the student's research is addressing
* The approach and method(s) used by the student to address the objective(s) and
challenge(s)
* The current status of the student's research and future directions
* Optional: Specific issues or questions the student seeks feedback on at the
consortium
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Important dates
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* Submission deadline: 15th of March 2015
* Notification date: 6th of April 2015
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Registration
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* Cost: 25 EUR
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Contact and questions
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Khiet Truong, University of Twente, k.p.truong@utwente.nl
Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Reykjavik University, hannes@ru.is
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4th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2015) co-located with 10th International
Conference on
Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2015)
Universite Paul Sabatier
Toulouse, France
August 24-28, 2015
All accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the Security and
Communication Networks,
Wiley or EURASIP Journal on Information Security.
IWCC Overview
Today's world's societies are becoming more and more dependent on open networks such as
the Internet -
where commercial activities, business transactions and government services are realized.
This has led to
the fast development of new cyber threats and numerous information security issues which
are exploited
by cyber criminals. The inability to provide trusted secure services in contemporary
computer network
technologies has a tremendous socio-economic impact on global enterprises as well as
individuals.
Moreover, the frequently occurring international frauds impose the necessity to conduct
the
investigation of facts spanning across multiple international borders. Such examination
is often subject
to different jurisdictions and legal systems. A good illustration of the above being the
Internet, which
has made it easier to perpetrate traditional crimes. It has acted as an alternate avenue
for the
criminals to conduct their activities, and launch attacks with relative anonymity. The
increased
complexity of the communications and the networking infrastructure is making
investigation of the crimes
difficult. Traces of illegal digital activities are often buried in large volumes of
data, which are
hard to inspect with the aim of detecting offences and collecting evidence. Nowadays, the
digital crime
scene functions like any other network, with dedicated administrators functioning as the
first
responders.
This poses new challenges for law enforcement policies and forces the computer societies
to utilize
digital forensics to combat the increasing number of cybercrimes. Forensic professionals
must be fully
prepared in order to be able to provide court admissible evidence. To make these goals
achievable,
forensic techniques should keep pace with new technologies.
The aim of 4th International Workshop on Cyber Crime is to bring together the research
accomplishments
provided by the researchers from academia and the industry. The other goal is to show the
latest
research results in the field of digital forensics and to present the development of
tools and
techniques which assist the investigation process of potentially illegal cyber activity.
We encourage
prospective authors to submit related distinguished research papers on the subject of
both: theoretical
approaches and practical case reviews.
The workshop will be accessible to both non-experts interested in learning about this
area and experts
interesting in hearing about new research and approaches.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Cyber crimes: evolution, new trends and detection Cyber crime related investigations
Computer and
network forensics Digital forensics tools and applications Digital forensics case studies
and best
practices Privacy issues in digital forensics Network traffic analysis, traceback and
attribution
Incident response, investigation and evidence handling Integrity of digital evidence and
live
investigations Identification, authentication and collection of digital evidence
Anti-forensic
techniques and methods Watermarking and intellectual property theft Social networking
forensics
Steganography/steganalysis and covert/subliminal channels Network anomalies detection
Novel applications
of information hiding in networks Political and business issues related to digital
forensics and anti-
forensic techniques
SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION
Authors are invited to submit Papers will be accepted based on peer review
(3 per paper) and should contain original, high quality work. All papers must be written
in English.
Authors are invited to submit their papers according the following guidelines: two
columns, single-
spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page.
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (maximum 8 pages) via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcc20150). Papers accepted by the workshop will
be published
in the Conference Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Failure to adhere
to the page
limit and formatting requirements will be grounds for rejection.
Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the
authors will
register and present the paper in the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 20, 2015 (extended!): Regular Paper Submission [submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcc20150]
May 10, 2015: Notification Date
June 1, 2015: Camera-Ready Paper Deadline
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Artur Janicki, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (Publicity and Publication Chair)
CONTACTS
Contact IWCC 2015 Chair using this email address: iwcc.chairs@gmail.com.
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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*
Jan 16, 2015: Submission of special session proposals
Jan 30, 2015: Special session decisions announced
Apr 10, 2015: Paper submission deadline
May 22, 2015: Notification of acceptance
Jun 12, 2015: Submission of camera-ready papers
Aug 26-28, 2015: Conference dates Jan 16, 2015: Submission of special session proposals
*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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** 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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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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EUSIPCO 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS
NICE, COTE D'AZUR, FRANCE
31st AUGUST - 4th SEPTEMBER 2015
EUSIPCO is the flagship conference of the European Association for Signal Processing
(EURASIP). The 23rd edition will be held in Nice, on the French Riviera, from 31st August
4th September 2015. EUSIPCO 2015 will feature world-class speakers, oral and poster
sessions, keynotes, exhibitions, demonstrations and tutorials and is expected to attract
in the order of 600 leading researchers and industry figures from all over the world.
TECHNICAL SCOPE
The focus will be on signal processing theory, algorithms, and applications. We invite
the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not
limited to:
-Audio and acoustic signal processing
-Machine learning
-Speech processing
-Signal processing for education
-Image and video processing
-Design and implementation of signal processing systems
-Multimedia signal processing
-Signal processing theory and methods
-Information forensics and security
-Sensor array, multichannel and communications signal processing -Bio-inspired image and
signal processing
-Medical image and signal processing
-Nonlinear signal processing
-Signal processing applications
Accepted papers will be included in IEEEXplore. Paper submission details are available at
the conference website: www.eusipco2015.org.
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
Two 'EUSIPCO Best Student Paper Awards' will be presented at the conference banquet.
Papers will be selected by a committee composed of area and technical chairs.
LOCATION AND VENUE
Nestled between the foot of the Alpes and the Mediterranean Sea, the location can be
accessed easily from the Nice Cote d'Azur international airport, France's busiest outside
of Paris, with direct connections to almost 100 European destinations and 14
international destinations including New York (JFK) and Dubai. The conference will be
held at the Nice Acropolis Convention Centre, named 'Europe's number one convention
centre' for three consecutive years. The Acropolis is located in the heart of the city
only minutes away from the Promenades des Anglais and the Baie des Anges.
IMPORTANT DATES
-Special session proposals: 1st December 2014
-Tutorial proposals: 13th February 2015
-Full paper submissions: 13th February 2015 extended to February 27th
-Notification of acceptance: 22nd May 2015
-Camera-ready papers: 19th June 2015
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General chairs
Jean-Luc Dugelay (EURECOM)
Dirk Slock (EURECOM)
Technical chairs
Marc Antonini (I3S/UNS/CNRS)
Nicholas Evans (EURECOM)
Cedric Richard (UNS/OCA)
Plenary Talks
Sergios Theodoridis (UoA)
Josiane Zerubia (INRIA)
Special Sessions
Marco Carli (U. Roma)
Thierry Dutoit (UMONS)
Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT)
Tutorials
Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL)
Patrick Naylor (Imperial)
Publicity
Benoit Huet (EURECOM)
Nikos Nikolaidis (AUTH)
Publications
Patrizio Campisi (U. Roma Tre)
Claude Delpha (Université Paris Sud)
Student activities
Christophe Beaugeant (Intel)
Ana Perez (UPC/CTTC)
Awards
Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Sponsorship
Lionel Fillatre (I3S/UNS/CNRS)
Mounir Ghogho (U. Leeds)
International Liaisons
Thierry Blu (CUHK)
Mohamed Deriche (KFUPM)
Douglas O'Shaughnessy (INRS)
Kenneth Rose (UCSB)
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech, 450 Route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, FRANCE
E-mail: info@eusipco2015.org
Website: www.eusipco2015.org
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Special issue on
Biometric Spoofing and Countermeasures
IEEE TRANS. INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY
http://www.eurecom.fr/~evans/docs/TIFSsi.pdf
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Special issue on
Biometric Security and Privacy
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
http://www.eurecom.fr/~evans/docs/SPMsi.pdf
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23rd European Signal Processing Conference
(EUSIPCO) 2015 in NICE
http://www.eusipco2015.org
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Nick Evans
EURECOM
Multimedia Communications Dept.
Campus SophiaTech
450 route des Chappes
06410 Biot Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)4 93 00 81 14+33 (0)4 93 00 81 14
Fax: +33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
My site:
http://www.eurecom.fr/~evans
Official EURECOM page:
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/evans.en.htm
Research group:
http://audio.eurecom.fr
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Joint Conference PEVOC & MAVEBA 2015: August 31 - September 4, 2015, Palazzo degli Affari, Piazza Adua 1, Firenze, Italy
http://pevoc-maveba.dinfo.unifi.it/
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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 22, 2015 extended
Info on submission on http://www.gespin4.univ-nantes.fr/70179108/0/fiche___pagelibre/&RH=1412770436454&RF=1412770411004
· 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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Deadline Extension: May 25, 2015 paper submission deadline
Leipzig, Sept. 3: Satellite of SLaTE 2015: L1 Teaching, Learning and Technology
co-located with SLATE (Leipzig) and INTERSPEECH (Dresden)
https://sites.google.com/site/l1teachingandtechnology/
The aim of this 1-day SoS (Satellite of a Satellite) workshop is to bridge the gap between researchers in education and researchers in speech and text processing technology by organising a joint event where researchers from one workshop are able to visit the other workshop to get an idea of the respective positions on the state of the art on the topic of language and technology in education.
The SoS workshop intends to join researchers across countries on the topic of language teaching/learning. In contrast to SLaTE, papers submitted here do not have to employ any technology yet. We are looking for contributions from users that may not be aware of all the possibilities that the technologies have to offer to solve educational research problems. What these papers bring to the table are problem statements and data collections that the speech and text processing community may in turn not be aware of. Thus we are looking for symbioses between the two disciplines in research about learning/teaching language. It is important for both areas to get to know each other's research questions and potential application for technologies.
Key to this will be provided by the collocation of the event with SLaTE (focusing on technology for education) that allows you to meet people with similar interests, share your work and forge new interactions across disciplines. In doing so, we are looking for a broad range of contributions from didactics, psychology and pedagogy from researchers interested in bridging the current gap to automation. Demonstrations as well as samples of data collections and annotations are welcome.
In order to join the two communities of SLaTE (Spoken Language Technology for Education) and Education in discussions regarding the possibilities of applying this technology to educational questions and datasets, we invite SLaTE attendees to attend the discussions in our workshop and our attendees to attend talks on the first morning of SLaTE. We hope to thus foster new connections and gain access to innovative connections between technology and education.
Invited Speaker: Visualising Multiple Sources of Learning Data for Learners and Teachers in the Language Context; Susan Bull; university of Birmingham, UK
Topics of Interest:
NOTICE: the maximum number of pages is 8, but it is not required !!
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Data collection, methods, annotation, recognition, analysis, diagnostic, progression of skills, for example in:
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Handwriting
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Spoken interaction
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Story telling
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Text production
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Spelling errors
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Evaluation of L1/L2 teaching methods
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Teaching L2 Kids in an L1 class environment
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Models of learning
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Applications for teaching, self-learning, classroom learning
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Giving Feedback
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Technology in the classroom
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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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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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INTERSPEECH 2015
Call for paper: submission for INTERSPEECH 2015 Special Session on
Synergies of Speech and Multimedia Technologies
Paper submission deadline: March 20, 2015
Special Session page:
http://multimediaeval.org/files/Interspeech2015_specialSession_SynergiesOfSpeechAndMultimediaTechnologies.html
Motivation:
Growing amounts of multimedia content is being shared or stored in
online archives. Alternative research directions in the speech
processing and multimedia analysis communities are developing and
improving speech or multimedia processing technologies in parallel,
often using each others work as ?black boxes?. However, genuine
combination would appear to be a better strategy to exploit the
synergies between the modalities of content containing multiple
potential sources of information.
This session seeks to bring together the speech and multimedia research
communities to report on current work and to explore potential synergies
and opportunities for creative research collaborations between speech
and multimedia technologies. From the speech perspective the session
aims to explore how fundamentals of speech technology can be benefit
multimedia applications, and from the multimedia perspective to explore
the crucial role that speech can play in multimedia analysis.
The list of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to):
- Navigation in multimedia content using advanced speech analysis features;
- Large scale speech and video analysis
- Multimedia content segmentation and structuring using audio and visual
features;
- Multimedia content hyperlinking and summarization;
- Natural language processing for multimedia;
- Multimodality-enhanced metadata extraction, e.g. entity extraction,
keyword extraction, etc;
- Generation of descriptive text for multimedia;
- Multimedia applications and services using speech analysis features;
- Affective and behavioural analytics based on multimodal cues;
- Audio event detection and video classification;
- Multimodal speaker identification and clustering.
Important dates:
20 Mar 2015 paper submission deadline
01 Jun 2015 paper notification of acceptance/rejection
10 Jun 2015 paper camera-ready
20 Jun 2015 early registration deadline
6-10 Sept 2015 Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany
Submission takes place via the general Interspeech submission
system. Paper contributions must comply to the INTERSPEECH paper
submission guidelines, cf. http://interspeech2015.org/papers.
There will be no extension to the full paper submission deadline.
We are looking forward to receive your contribution!
Organizers:
- Maria Eskevich, Communications Multimedia Group, EURECOM, France
(maria.eskevich@eurecom.fr <mailto:maria.eskevich@eurecom.fr>)
- Robin Aly, Database Management Group, University of Twente, The
Netherlands (r.aly@utwente.nl <mailto:r.aly@utwente.nl>)
- Roeland Ordelman, Human Media Interaction Group, University of Twente,
The Netherlands (roeland.ordelman@utwente.nl
< mailto:roeland.ordelman@utwente.nl>)
- Gareth J.F. Jones, CNGL Centre for Global Intelligent Content, Dublin
City University, Ireland (gjones@computing.dcu.ie
< mailto:gjones@computing.dcu.ie>)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Bio-inspired Cyber Security & Networking (BCSN 2015) co-located with 27th
International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 2015)
Workshop website: http://stegano.net/BCSN2015
Het Pand
Ghent, Belgium
September 11th, 2015
OVERVIEW
Nature is probably the most amazing and recognized invention machine on Earth. Its
ability to address complex and large-scale
problems has been developed after many years of selection, genetic drift and mutations.
As a result, it is not surprising that
natural systems continue to inspire inventors and researchers.
Nature's footprint is present in the world of Information Technology, where there are an
astounding number of computational
bio-inspired techniques. These well-regarded approaches include genetic algorithms,
neural networks, ant algorithms just to name a
few. For example several networking management and security technologies have
successfully adopted some of nature's approaches,
which take form of swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, sensor networks, etc.
Nature has also developed an outstanding ability to recognize individuals or foreign
objects to protect a group or a single
organism.
Those abilities have great possibility to improve the area of security and network.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together the research accomplishments provided by
the researchers from academia and the
industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the field of
bio-inspired security and networking.
The workshop will be accessible to both non-experts interested in learning about this
area and experts interesting in hearing about
new research and approaches.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Bio-inspired security and networking algorithms & technologies
- Moving-target techniques
- Bio-inspired anomaly & intrusion detection
- Adaptation algorithms
- Biometrics
- Biomimetics
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Adaptive and Evolvable Systems
- Machine Learning, neural networks, genetic algorithms for cyber security & networking
- Prediction techniques
- Expert systems
- Cognitive systems
- Sensor networks
- Information hiding solutions (steganography, watermarking) for network traffic
- Cooperative defense systems
- Theoretical development in heuristics
- Management of decentralized networks
- Bio-inspired algorithms for dependable networks
SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION
Submissions are limited to 6 pages 2-column IEEE conference style with minimal font size
of 10 pt. Papers will appear in the
conference proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore. Submissions are handled
through the EDAS system. Upon final
camera-ready paper submission, authors will need to sign an IEEE copyright form for each
accepted paper to comply with IEEE
regulations.
Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the
authors will register and present the paper in
the conference.
The extended versions of all papers accepted for BCSN will be published in a special
issue of the JCR journal (tentative).
IMPORTANT DATES
May 22, 2015 (extended!): Regular Paper Submission
June 15, 2015: Notification Date
July 1, 2015: Camera-Ready Paper Deadline
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Errin W. Fulp, Wake Forest
University, USA Hiroshi Wada, Unitrends,
Australia Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Contact BCSN 2015 chairs using this email address:
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SLPAT 2015
Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)
11th September 2015, co-located with Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany
Submission deadline: 8th June 2015
http://www.slpat.org/slpat2015
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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:
- 8 June: Paper due
- 15 July: Notification of acceptance
- 1 August: Camera-ready papers due
- 11 September SLPAT workshop
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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Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing – ERRARE 2015
12-13 September 2015, Sinaia (Romania)
The Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Draganescu” (ICIA) of the Romanian Academy in collaboration with IMMI-CNRS, LIMSI-CNRS and the LAbEx EFL organizes the second edition of the “Errare” workshop, in September 12-13, 2015, as a satellite event of Interspeech 2015 (http://interspeech2015.org/).
The workshop will be organized around the topic of errors produced and processed by humans and machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data with a particular focus on spoken language. It distinguishes itself from other conferences addressing these issues by providing a forum for dialogue and exchange between researchers working in linguistics, including psycho- and neurolinguistics, on the one hand, and researchers in computer science, machine learning and multimedia speech and language processing, on the other hand.
For this interdisciplinary workshop, we would like to gather these different communities around the issues of variation, ambiguity and errors in speech and language. The purpose of this workshop is to share interdisciplinary expertise on a heterogeneous phenomenon referred to as “variation” and “ambiguity” in some domains and as “errors” in others. Researchers are invited to share their thoughts and observations through case studies run in the context of various initiatives.
A large panel of research areas shares a common object of study: human language. These areas encompass historically well-established research communities: classical humanities and social sciences (phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, etc.), and more recent domains of the sciences (brain and computer science). Research objectives include analyzing, modeling, understanding and theorizing the human processing of speech variation. For linguists and psycholinguists variation in speech involves some matching process between variable surface forms and stable underlying forms: in such a framework errors may naturally arise as mismatches occurring at the interface of surface and underlying representations. Yet by which mechanisms errors may arise and how to interpret the patterning of errors within theoretical models of speech production and perception has been a matter of controversy. Speech error research in recent years has particularly highlighted the fuzzy boundary between the concepts of 'variability', ambiguity' and 'error'.
Research activities most often include corpora consisting of various types of recorded speech from controlled (laboratory) speech to large scale data. Such corpora may be a result of a variety of capturing techniques from standard audio recordings to multi-sensor capturing of either articulation gestures or brain activities. Errors can also be envisioned as a result of noisy data capturing conditions.
sharing experience with errors, variation and ambiguity is expected to produce beneficial insights for the different communities:
Concerning humanities, variation and ambiguity are central to the different branches of linguistics. Furthermore, human production and perception errors challenge the existing language acquisition, production and perception models.
For automatic speech and language processing, residual errors indicate regions which escape current modeling capacities. In-depth analyses in collaboration with linguists, psycholinguists and speech scientists may contribute to a better understanding of these phenomena and to the proposal of innovative strategies.
Brain sciences, a recent rapidly evolving research area, open new opportunities and the study of errors can contribute to reveal the hidden organization of the brain.
We invite contributions focusing on errors produced by humans and/or machines from (but not limited to) the following areas:
Cognition and brain studies related to errors in speech
Speech production (e.g. slips of the tongue...)
Speech perception
First and second language acquisition
Bilingualism and code switching
Voice pathologies / clinical phonetics
Prosody
Natural language processing
Corpus linguistics
Automatic speech processing
Speech and multimodality
Speech and language translation
Spoken Interaction
Information retrieval
Evaluation methods
“Errare 2015” will welcome about 80 participants, with both invited and submitted papers.
Important dates:
15 May 2015: updated submission deadline
15 June 2015 : notifications of acceptance
29 June 2015 : final papers
Workshop dates : 12-13 September 2015
Organizing committee:
Ioana Vasilescu (LIMSI-CNRS)
Gilles Adda (IMMI-LIMSI)
Joseph Mariani (IMMI-LIMSI)
Verginica Mititelu (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Dan Tufis (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Maria Candea (Un iversity Paris 3)
Ioana Chitoran university Paris 7)
Sophie Rosset (LIMSI-CNRS)
Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS)
Laurence Devillers university Paris 4/LIMSI)
program committee:
Gilles Adda (IMMI-LIMSI)
Martine Adda-Decker (University Paris 3/LIMSI)
Tiberiu Boros (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Maria Candea (University Paris 3)
Ioana Chitoran (University Paris 7)
Laurence Devillers (University Paris 4/LIMSI)
Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)
Lori Lamel (LIMSI-CNRS)
Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania)
Joseph Mariani (IMMI-LIMSI)
Verginica Mititelu (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Bernd T. Meyer (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
Marianne Pouplier (Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung Munchen)
Sophie Rosset (LIMSI-CNRS)
Dan Tufis (ICIA, Romanian Academy)
Ioana Vasilescu (LIMSI-CNRS)
Guillaume Wisniewski (LIMSI-CNRS)
Scientific committee:
To be announced soon.
Website :
http://errare2015.racai.ro
Contact:
Ioana Vasilescu ioana@limsi.fr
Verginica Mititelu vergi@racai.ro
Gilles Adda gadda@limsi.fr
Joseph Mariani joseph.mariani@limsi.fr
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TSD 2015 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Eighteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2015)
Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 14-17 September 2015
http://www.tsdconference.org
TSD HIGHLIGHTS
* Keynote speakers: Hermann Ney, Dan Roth, Björn W. Schuller,
Peter D. Turney, and Alexander Waibel.
* TSD is traditionally published by Springer-Verlag and regularly listed
in all major citation databases: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings
Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc.
* TSD offers high-standard transparent review process - double blind,
final reviewers discussion.
* TSD is officially recognized as an INTERSPEECH 2015 satellite event.
* TSD will take place in Pilsen, the European Capital of Culture 2015.
* TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material,
all meals, one social event, etc) for an easily affordable fee starting
at 270 EUR for students and 330 EUR for full participants.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 31, 2015 ............ Submission of full papers
May 10, 2015 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31, 2015 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
September 14-17, 2015 ....... Conference date
TSD SERIES
TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over
the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in
their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD
proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation
databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that
will be made available on a CD to participants at the time of the
conference.
TOPICS
Keynote topic:
Challenges of Modern Era in Speech and Language Processing
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
(multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility
analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship
attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
(machine translation, natural language understanding,
question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
and personality modelling)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
Eneko Agirre, Spain
Genevieve Baudoin, France
Vladimir Benko, Slovakia
Paul Cook, Australia
Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic
Karina Evgrafova, Russia
Darja Fiser, Slovenia
Eleni Galiotou, Greece
Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, United Kingdom
Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
Yannis Haralambous, France
Hynek Hermansky, USA
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
Ales Horak, Czech Republic
Eduard Hovy, USA
Maria Khokhlova, Russia
Daniil Kocharov, Russia
Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
Valia Kordoni, Germany
Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
Bernardo Magnini, Italy
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
France Mihelic, Slovenia
Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
Hermann Ney, Germany
Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
Karel Pala, Czech Republic
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
Maciej Piasecki, Poland
Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
James Pustejovsky, USA
German Rigau, Spain
Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
Anna Rumshisky, USA
Milan Rusko, Slovakia
Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
Pavel Skrelin, Russia
Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
Stefan Steidl, Germany
Georg Stemmer, Germany
Marko Tadic, Croatia
Tamas Varadi, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
Yorick Wilks, United Kingdom
Marcin Wolinski, Poland
Victor Zakharov, Russia
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on
processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
CONFERENCE FEES
The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It
includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee
breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event
admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as
possible, the accommodation and the conference trip are not included.
Full participant:
early registration by May 31, 2015 - CZK 9.000 (approx. 330 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2015 - CZK 10.000 (approx. 370 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 10.700 (approx. 390 EUR)
Student (reduced):
early registration by May 31, 2015 - CZK 7.400 (approx. 270 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2015 - CZK 9.000 (approx. 330 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 10.000 (approx. 370 EUR)
LOCATION
The city of Plzeň (Pilsen) is situated in Western Bohemia at the
confluence of four rivers. With its 170,000 inhabitants it is the fourth
largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial,
commercial, and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the
Pilsen Region. In addition, Pilsen won the title of the European Capital
of Culture for the upcoming year 2015.
Pilsen is well-known for its brewing tradition. The trademark
Pilsner-Urquell has a good reputation all over the world thanks to the
traditional recipe, high quality hops and good groundwater. Beer lovers
will also appreciate a visit to the Brewery Museum or the Brewery itself.
Apart from its delicious beer, Pilsen hides lots of treasures in its core.
The city can boast the second largest synagogue in Europe. The dominant of
the old part of the city center is definitely the 13th-century Gothic
cathedral featuring the highest church tower in Bohemia (102.34 m). It is
possible to go up and admire the view of the city. Not far from the
cathedral is the splendid Renaissance Town Hall from 1558 and plenty of
pleasant cafes and pubs are situated on and around the main square.
There is also the beautiful Pilsen Historical Underground - under the city
center, a complex network of passageways and cellars can be found. They
are about 14 km long and visitors can see the most beautiful part of this
labyrinth during the tour. It is recommended to visit the City Zoological
Garden, having the second largest space for bears in Europe and keeping
several Komodo dragons, large lizards which exist only in a few zoos in
the world.
The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen provides a variety of courses for
both Czech and international students. It is the only institution of
higher education in this part of the country which prepares students for
careers in engineering (electrical and mechanical), science (computer
science, applied mathematics, physics, and mechanics), education (both
primary and secondary), economics, philosophy, politics, archeology,
anthropology, foreign languages, law and public administration, art and
design.
ABOUT CONFERENCE
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University,
Brno. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA).
Venue: Plzeň (Pilsen), Parkhotel Congress Center Plzeň, Czech Republic
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
Ms Anna Habernalová, TSD2015 Conference Secretary
E-mail: tsd2015@tsdconference.org
Phone: (+420) 724 910 148
Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with capitals
'TSD' on top.
TSD 2015 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2015
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The University of Aveiro, Portugal is pleased to announce that
will be hosting the 16th Science of Aphasia (SoA) Conference between
the 17th and 22nd of September 2015.
This year's program theme is Neuroplasticity and Language and includes
the following invited speakers:
Argye Hillis(Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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)
The SoA conferences have brought together, for the past 15 years,
senior and junior scientists working in the multidisciplinary field
of Neurocognition of language and deal with normal function as well
as disorders. The conference structure ensures direct and informal
interaction between all participants.
The conference program will include keynotes (mornings), and contributed
oral and poster presentations (afternoons) over 4 days (between the 18th and
the 21st of September 2015). Full/student registration will include the
conference proceedings, lunches, coffee breaks, a social program and conference
dinner. Participants will be able to register only for a day as well.
Abstracts can be submitted at http://www.soa-online.com/submission/
until the 1st of April. Selected abstract authors will then be invited to submit full
length papers.
Conference proceeding will be published as part of a special number
of the journal Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologi. The papers are published
online at the journal's website (see previous conference proceedings here)
and a printed copy is distributed to all conference participants.
The venue is the School of Health Sciences at University of Aveiro's
Campus de Santiago, overlooking the Aveiro's lagoon, which is
renowned internationally for its many buildings designed by famous
Portuguese architects, only at a short distance from the city centre
(5 minute walk).
Luis M. T. Jesus
(Local Chair)
University of Aveiro, Portugal
http://www.soa-online.com/
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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
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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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SPECOM 2015 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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17th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2015)
Venue: Athens, Greece, September 20-24, 2015
Web: http://specom.nw.ru
ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by University of Patras (Patras, Greece), in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia), St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and ITMO University (St. Petersburg, Russia).
SPECOM conferences
Ten years later the SPECOM conference returns to Greece. Recently SPECOM venue is significantly varied: Patras, Greece, 2005; St.Petersburg, Russia, 2006; Moscow, Russia, 2007; St.Petersburg, Russia, 2009; Kazan, Russia, 2011; Plzen, Czech Republic, 2013; Novi Sad, Serbia, 2014. The last conferences were organized in parallel with TSD'2013 and DOGS'2014 and had a great success and benefits of joining the various research teams.
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for September 2015.
TOPICS
The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of human-machine interaction, particularly:
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing
Forensic speech investigations and security systems
Нuman-robot interaction
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Signal processing and feature extraction
Speaker identification and diarization
Speaker verification systems
Speech and language resources
Speech driving systems in robotics
Speech enhancement
Speech perception and speech disorders
Speech recognition and understanding
Speech translation automatic systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken language processing
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems
INVITED SPEAKERS
Gerhard Rigoll - Institute for Human-Machine-Communication, TU Munich, Germany
Yannis Stylianou - Computer Science Dept. Univ. of Crete, and Toshiba, Cambridge Research Lab, Cambridge, UK
Murat Saraclar - Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are encouraged.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Etienne Barnard, North-West University, South Africa
Laurent Besacier, Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, France
Vlado Delic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Evangelos Dermatas, University of Patras, Greece
Christoph Draxler, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Communication, Germany
Thierry Dutoit, University of Mons, Belgium
Nikos Fakotakis, University of Patras, Greece
Peter French, University of York, UK
Hiroya Fujisaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Todor Ganchev, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria
Ruediger Hoffmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Slobodan Jovicic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dimitri Kanevsky, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Walter Kellerman, Erlangen-Nurnberg University, Germany
George Kokkinakis, University of Patras, Greece
Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Lin-shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Boris Lobanov, United Institute of Informatics Problems, Belarus
Benoit Macq, University Сatholique de Louvain, Belgium
Yuri Matveev, ITMO University, Russia
Roger Moore, Sheffield University, UK
John Mourjopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Konstantinos Moustakas, University of Patras, Greece
Geza Nemeth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Heinrich Niemann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Alexander Petrovsky, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus
Elias Potamitis, University of Patras, Greece
Rodmonga Potapova, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia
Dimitar Popov, Bologna University, Italy
Lawrence Rabiner, Rutgers University, USA
Gerhard Rigoll, Munich University of Technology, Germany
Andrey Ronzhin, SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Murat Saraclar, Bogazici University, Turkey
Jesus Savage, University of Mexico, Mexico
Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Eberhard Stock, Halle, Germany
Milan Secujski, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Pavel Skrelin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Viktor Sorokin, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russia
Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece
Christian Wellekens, EURECOM, France
Milos Zelezny, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
Details about the social events will be available on the web page.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site.
Papers submitted to SPECOM 2015 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
As the reviewing is blind, the paper should not include authors' names and affiliations.
IMPORTANT DATES
April 30, 2015 ............ Submission of full papers (extended deadline)
June 01, 2015 ............ Notification of acceptance
June 15, 2015 ............ Camera ready papers and registration
September 20-24, 2015 ..... Conference dates
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.
CONFERENCE FEES
The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, meals during the conference, the accommodation, and the conference trip are not included.
Full participant:
early registration by June 15, 2015 – 380 EUR
late registration by August 20, 2015 – 420 EUR
on-site registration – 470 EUR
Student (reduced):
early registration by June 15, 2015 – 300 EUR
late registration by August 20, 2015 – 330 EUR
on-site registration – 370 EUR
The payment may be refunded up until August 20, at the cost of 60 EUR. No refund is possible after this date.
At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration fee by June 15, 2015 for their paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included in the regular registration fee. An author with more than one paper pays the additional paper rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid the full registration fee. In the case of uncertainty, feel free to contact the organising committee for clarification.
VENUE
The conference will be organized in Athens, Greece.
Each year, more and more travelers are choosing Athens for their leisure and business travel all year round. Athens offers a variety of things to see and do, and most of the times, under favorable weather conditions. Athens is considered one of Europe's safest capitals; its transportation network is user-friendly; there are numerous museums and archeological sites and hundreds of restaurants to satisfy every taste.
CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM Secretariat
E-mail: specom@iias.spb.su
Phone/Fax: +7 812 328 7081
Fax: +7 812 328 4450 — Please, designate the faxed material with capitals 'SPECOM' on top.
SPECOM 2015 conference web site: www.specom.nw.ru
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(ASMMC2015)Prof. Lei Xie, Email: lxie@nwpu.edu.cn
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57th International Symposium ELMAR-2015
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September 28-30, 2015
Zadar, Croatia
Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2015
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS
TOPICS
--> Image and Video Processing
--> Multimedia Communications
--> Speech and Audio Processing
--> Wireless Communications
--> Telecommunications
--> Antennas and Propagation
--> e-Learning and m-Learning
--> Navigation Systems
--> Ship Electronic Systems
--> Power Electronics and Automation
--> Naval Architecture
--> Sea Ecology
--> Special Sessions:
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2015/special_sessions/
SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of full papers: March 25, 2015
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 6, 2015
Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: June 3, 2015
Preliminary program available online by: June 17, 2015
Registration forms and payment deadline: June 17, 2015
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= Call for Participation =
= MultiLing 2015: Multilingual Summarization of Multiple Documents,
Online Fora and Call Centre Conversations =
= Introduction =
From Caesar's `Veni, Vidi, Vici' to `What might be in a summary?'
(Karen Sparck-Jones, 1993) summarization techniques have been key to
successfully grasping the main points of large amounts of information,
and much research has been devoted to improving such techniques. In
the past two decades, the progress of summarization research has been
supported by evaluation exercises and shared tasks such as DUC, TAC
and, more recently, MultiLing (2011, 2013). Multiling is a
community-driven initiative for benchmarking multilingual
summarization systems, nurturing further research, and pushing the
state-of-the-art in the area. The aim of MultiLing 2015 is to
continue this evolution and, in addition, to introduce new tasks
promoting research on summarizing free human interaction in online
fora and customer call centres. With this call we wish to invite the
summarization research community to participate in MultiLing 2015.
= The Tasks =
MultiLing 2015 will feature the Multilingual Multi-document Summarization
task familiar from previous editions and its predecessor, the Multilingual
Single-document Summarization. In addition, we will pilot two new tracks,
Online Forum Summarization (OnForumS) and Call Centre Conversation
Summarization (CCCS), in collaboration with the SENSEI EU project
(http://www.sensei-conversation.eu). We describe each task in turn below.
== Multilingual Multi-document Summarization (MMS) ==
The multilingual multi-document summarization track aims to evaluate the
application of (partially or fully) language-independent summarization
algorithms on a variety of languages. Each system participating in the track
will be called to provide summaries for a range of different languages,
based on a news corpus. Participating systems will be required to
apply their methods to a minimum of two languages.
Evaluation will favor systems that apply their methods to more languages.
The corpus used in the Multilingual multi-document summarization track
will be based on WikiNews texts (http://www.wikinews.org/). Source
texts will be UTF-8, clean texts (without any mark-up, images,etc.).
The task requires systems to generate a single, fluent, representative
summary from a set of documents describing an event sequence. The language of
the document set will be within a given range of languages and all documents
in a set share the same language. The output summary should be of the same
language as its source documents. The output summary should be 250 words at
most.
== Multilingual Single-document Summarization (MSS) ==
Following the pilot task of 2013, the multi-lingual single-document
summarization
task will be to generate a single document summary for all the given Wikipedia
feature articles from one of about 40 languages provided. The provided training
data will be the 2013 Single-Document Summarization Pilot Task data
from MultiLing 2013.
A new set of data will be generated based on additional Wikipedia
feature articles.
For each language 30 documents are given. The documents will be UTF-8
without mark-ups and images.
For each document of the training set, the human-generated summary is
provided. For MultiLing 2015
the character length of the human summary for each document will be
provided, called the target length.
Each machine summary should be as close to the target length provided
as possible. For the purpose of
evaluation all machine summaries greater than the target length will
be truncated to the target length.
The summaries will be evaluated via automatic methods and participants
will be required to perform
some limited summarization evaluations.
The manual evaluation will consist of pairwise comparisons of
machine-generated summaries. Each evaluator
will be presented the human-generated summary and two
machine-generated summaries. The evaluation task
is to read the human summary and then judge if the one
machine-generated summary is significantly closer to
the human generated summary information content (e.g. system A >
system B or system B > system A) or if
the two machine-generated summaries contain comparable quanties of
information as the human-generated summary.
== Online Forum Summarization (OnForumS) ==
Most major on-line news publishers, such as The Guardian or Le Monde,
publish articles on different topics and encourage reader engagement
through the provision of an on-line comment facility. A given news
article can often give rise to thousands of reader comments -- some
related to specific points within the article, others that are replies
to previous comments. The great volume of such user-supplied comments
suggests the need for automated methods to summarize this content,
which in turn poses an exciting and novel challenge for the
summarization community.
The purpose of the Online Forum Summarization (OnForumS) track at
MultiLing'15 is to set the ground for investigating how such a mass
of comments can be summarised. We posit that a crucial initial step in
developing reader comment summarization systems is to determine what
comments relate to, be that either specific points within the text of
the article, the global topic of the article, or comments made by
other users. This constitutes a linking task. Furthermore, a set of
link types or labels may be articulated to capture whether, for
example, a comment agrees with, elaborates, disagrees with, etc., the
point made in the commented-upon text. Solving this labelled linking
problem should facilitate the creation of reader comment summaries by
allowing, for example, that comments relating to the same article
content can be clustered, points attracting the most comment can be
identified, representative comments can be chosen for each key point,
and the implications of labelled links can be digested (e.g., numbers
for or against a particular point), etc.
The SMS task at MultiLing'15 is a particular specification of the
linking task, in which systems will take as input a news article with
a reduced set of comments (sifted, according to predefined criteria,
from what could otherwise be thousands of comments) and are asked to
link and label each comment to sentences in the article (which, for
simplification, are assumed to be the appropriate units here), to the
article topic as a whole, or to preceding comments. Precise guidelines
for when to link and for the link types, will be released as part of
the formal task specification, but we anticipate the condition for
linking will require sentences addressing the same assertion, and that
link types will include at least agreement, disagreement, and
sentiment indicators. The data will cover at least three
languages (English, Italian, and French); a small set of
link-labelled articles will be provided by the SENSEI project
for each of these languages for illustration and for
development. Additional languages may be covered if the data for these
are provided by the participants in the task. These data could be
either translations of the data for other languages, or comparable
articles *on the same topics*.
Evaluation will be based on the results of a crowd-sourcing exercise,
in which crowd workers are asked to judge whether potential links, and
associated labels, are correct for each given test article plus
associated comments.
== Call Centre Conversation Summarization (CCCS) ==
Speech summarization has been of great interest to the community
because speech is the principal modality of human communications and
it is not as easy to skim, search or browse speech transcripts as it
is for textual messages. Speech recorded from call centers offers a
great opportunity to study goal-oriented and focused conversations
between an agent and a caller. The Call Centre Conversation
Summarization (CCCS) task consists in automatically generating
summaries of spoken conversations in the form of textual synopses that
shall inform on the content of a conversation and might be used for
browsing a large database of recordings. Compared to news
summarization where extractive approaches have been very successful,
the CCCS task's objective is to foster work on abstractive
summarization in order to depict what happened in a conversation
instead of what people actually said.
The MultiLing'15 CCCS track leverages conversations from the DECODA
and LUNA corpora of French and Italian call center recordings, both
with transcripts available in their original language as well as
English translation (both manual and automatic). Recording duration
range from a few minutes to 15 minutes, involving two or sometimes
more speakers. In the public transportation and help desk domains, the
dialogs offer a rich range of situations (with emotions such as anger
or frustration) while staying in a coherent domain.
Given transcripts, participants to the task shall generate abstractive summaries
informing a reader about the main events of the conversations, such as
the objective of the caller, whether and how it was solved by the
agent, and the attitude of both parties. Evaluation will be performed
by comparing submissions to reference synopses written by experts.
Both conversations and reference summaries are kindly provided by the
SENSEI project.
= How can I participate? =
For now you only need to fill in your contact details in the following form:
http://go.scify.gr/multiling2015participation
Make sure you also visit the MultiLing community website:
http://multiling.iit.demokritos.gr/
= Roadmap =
Finalization pending.
(PLEASE PROVIDE FEEDBACK on the submission dates, if you plan to participate,
by e-mailing: ggianna AT iit DOT demokritos DOT gr.)
* Training data ready: (date to be finalized per task) Dec 12th, 2014
* Test data available: Feb 15th, 2015
* System submissions due: Feb 28th, 2015
* Evaluation starts: Mar 1st, 2015
* Evaluation ends: Mar 31st, 2015
* Paper submission due: May 1st, 2015
* Paper reviews due: May 15th, 2015
* Camera-ready due: Jun 15th, 2015
* Workshop: 1st week of Sep , 2015
*NOTE*: Individual task dates may differ. Please check the MultiLing
website (http://multiling.iit.demokritos.gr) for more information.
= Venue =
(Finalization pending)
Collocated with SIGDIAL, Prague, Czech Republic
= Program Committee Members =
(Full list of PC members pending)
The Program Committee members are:
George Giannakopoulos - NCSR Demokritos (overall chair, MMS Task chair)
Jeff Kubina, John Conroy - IDA Center for Computing Sciences (MSS Task chairs)
Mijail Kabadjov - University of Essex (OnForumS Task co-chair)
Josef Steinberger - University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
(OnForumS Task co-chair)
Benoit Favre - University of Marseille (CCCS Task co-chair)
Udo Kruschwitz and Massimo Poesio - University of Essex
Emma Barker, Rob Gaizauskas and Mark Hepple - University of Sheffield
Vangelis Karkaletsis - NCSR Demokritos
Fabio Celli - University of Trento
Data Contributors (from MultiLing 2013)
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Georgios Petasis, George Giannakopoulos - NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece
Josef Steinberger - University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Mahmoud El-Haj - Lancaster University, UK
Ahmad Alharthi - King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Maha Althobaiti - Essex University, UK
Corina Forascu - Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence (RACAI), and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of
Iasi (UAIC), Romania
Jeff Kubina, John Conroy, Judith Shleshinger - IDA/Center for
Computing Sciences, USA
Lei Li - Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China
Marina Litvak - Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel
Sabino Miranda - Center for Computing Research, Instituto Politécnico
Nacional, Mexico
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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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2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA15) Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, New York October 18-21, 2015
Important Dates The 2015 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA?15) will be held at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York, and is supported by the Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The objective of this workshop is to provide an informal environment for the discussion of problems in audio and acoustics and signal processing techniques leading to novel solutions. Technical sessions will be scheduled throughout the day. Afternoons will be left free for informal meetings among workshop participants. Papers describing original research and new concepts are solicited for technical sessions on, but not limited to, the following topics: Acoustic Signal Processing:
Audio and Music Signal Processing:
Audio and Speech Coding:
Hearing and Perception:
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ACM Multimedia 2015 Workshop
*Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia*
26 ? 30 October 2015, Brisbane, Australia
http://slim-sig.irisa.fr/slam2015
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The third workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM) aims at bringing
together researchers working in speech, language and audio processing to analyze, index
and access multimedia data. Multimedia data are now available in enormous volumes in a
wide variety of formats and qualities, from professional content to user-generated ones:
Lectures, meetings, interviews, debates, conversational broadcast, podcasts, social
videos on the Web, etc. Such data, along with the associated use scenarios, raise
specific challenges: Robustness facing the high variability in quality; Efficiency to
handle very large amount of data; Semantics shared across modalities; Potentially high
error rates in transcription; etc. Worldwide, several national and international research
projects are focusing on audio and language analysis of multimedia data. Similarly,
various benchmark initiatives have devoted effort to offering tasks related to multimodal
multimedia challenges (e.g., TRECVid, CLEF, MediaEval).
Following SLAM 2013 in Marseille, France, and SLAM 2014 in Pinang, Malaysia, both
collocated with the Interspeech conference, SLAM 2015 moves to the multimedia community.
To make the most of the collocation with ACM Multimedia, the workshop features a
dedicated session to highlight work on multimodality and fusion, at the intersection of
speech, audio, language and computer vision.
SLAM gathers players from the fields of speech and audio processing and of multimedia to
share recent research results, discuss ongoing and future projects, explore potential
areas for interdisciplinary collaboration or sharing or ideas, and develop new
benchmarking initiatives of mutual interest to multimedia and language researchers. We
expect contributions on ongoing research work, project descriptions, evaluation
initiatives, demonstrations and applications emphasizing the speech and/or language
and/or audio contribution to any type of multimedia technology.
As a special focus of SLAM 2015, we particularly welcome contributions on video
hyperlinking, as a case study where the speech and language modalities are complemented
by audio and vision.
*Important dates*
Paper submission deadline July 10, 2015
Notification of acceptance August 2, 2015
Camera ready paper August 10, 2015
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The Oriental Chapter of COCOSDA (International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) / CASLRE (Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation) is pleased to announce that the 18th Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE Conference will be held during October 28-30 2015 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE is an international conference held annually by the oriental chapter of COCOSDA/CASLRE. It aims at boosting the research and development in the field of speech databases and speech technology and enthusing the interests towards spoken language research in East and Southeast Asia. The past Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE conferences were held in Tsukuba, Taipei, Beijing, Jeju, Huahin, Singapore, Delhi, Jakarta, Penang, Hanoi, Beijing, Kyoto, Katmandu, Hsinchu, Macau, Gurgaon, and Phuket.
The Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE Conference in Shanghai will feature world-class plenary speakers, and interactive lecture and poster sessions. Conference proceedings have been indexed by IEEE Xplore in the past years, and we will continue to submit the accepted papers to the IEEE Xplore database with Engineering Index (EI) this year. Papers are invited to report substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech databases, assessments and speech input/output, including, but not limited to:
- Assessment of speech input and output technologies
- Multilingual speech corpora
- Phonetic/phonological systems for oriental languages
- Romanization of Non-Roman Characters
- Segmentation and labeling
- Speech databases and text corpora
- Speech processing and applications
- Speech prosody
- Standards in annotation and evaluation
- Any other relevant topics
Prospective authors are invited to submit four-page papers at http://www.ococosda2015.org
Important Dates:
- Full Paper Submission June 15, 2015
- Notification of AcceptanceAugust 15, 2015
- Final Manuscript SubmissionAugust 30, 2015
- Early Registration DeadlineSeptember 15, 2015
The conference venue is located in School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which enjoys the beautiful campus along with the active, intellectual and intimate campus atmosphere.
Shanghai is regarded as the Paris of the east; it has a seamless blending of modern and traditional, east and west. Its famous attractions, such as the Bund, Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai World Financial Center, and Oriental Pearl TV Tower have never failed to amaze visitors. We welcome you to Shanghai to experience the culture, architecture, and cuisine of this amazing metropolis.
For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.ococosda2015.org
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First Call for Participation
ICMI 2015 Doctoral Consortium 17th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
Nov 9-13, 2015, Seattle, USA. http://icmi.acm.org/2015/<http://icmi.acm.org/2014/>
NOTE: All accepted students will receive financial support to attend ICMI!
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Highlights:
Dates:
Submission deadline: July 14th, 2015
Notifications: August 24th, 2015
Camera-ready deadline: TBA
Consortium Date: November 9th, 2015
Process:
? Submission format: Five-page, ACM SIGCHI proceedings format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform).
? Submission system: http://precisionconference.com/~icmi
? Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
? Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session
? Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library
? Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Carlos Busso (University of Texas at Dallas) and Vidhyasaharan Sethu (University of New South Wales)
Overview:
The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing multimodal interfaces. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing multimodal interfaces. The Consortium will be held on November 9th, 2015. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).
Who should apply?
While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing multimodal interfaces are encouraged to apply.
Submission Guidelines:
Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
? Extended Abstract: A five-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SIGCHI proceedings format. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions should not be anonymous and should cover:
? The key research questions and motivation of your research,
? Background and related work that informs your research,
? A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem,
? Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies,
? The research approach and methodology,
? Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work,
? A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work.
? Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support. Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.
? CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format into a single document and submitted through the ICMI submission system (http://precisionconference.com/~icmi) in the 'Doctoral Consortium' track.
Review Process:
The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in that order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Students who are in the process of forming their PhD research plan or are developing the research they have planned but are not too close to completing their degrees would most benefit from participating in the consortium. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women are especially encouraged to apply.
Financial Support:
We will provide financial support to all the accepted students, covering the majority of the costs of attending the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference.
Attendance:
All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
Questions?
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2015 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (http://icmi.acm.org/2015/).
For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
? Carlos Busso, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA (busso@utdallas.edu)
? Vidhyasaharan Sethu, University of New South Wales, Australia (v.sethu@unsw.edu.au)
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Second Call for Participation
ICMI 2015 Doctoral Consortium 17th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
NOTE: All accepted students will receive financial support to attend ICMI!
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Highlights:
Submission deadline: July 14th, 2015
Notifications: August 24th, 2015
Camera-ready deadline: TBA
Consortium Date: November 9th, 2015
Process:
? Submission format: Five-page, ACM SIGCHI proceedings format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform).
? Submission system: http://precisionconference.com/~icmi
? Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
? Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session
? Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library
? Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs: Carlos Busso (University of Texas at Dallas) and Vidhyasaharan Sethu (University of New South Wales)
Overview:
The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing multimodal interfaces. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing multimodal interfaces. The Consortium will be held on November 9th, 2015. We expect to provide economic support to most attendees that will cover part of their costs (travel, registration, meals etc.).
Who should apply?
While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing multimodal interfaces are encouraged to apply.
Submission Guidelines:
Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
? Extended Abstract: A five-page description of your PhD research plan and progress in the ACM SIGCHI proceedings format. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions should not be anonymous and should cover:
? The key research questions and motivation of your research,
? Background and related work that informs your research,
? A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem,
? Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies,
? The research approach and methodology,
? Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work,
? A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work.
? CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format into a single document and submitted through the ICMI submission system (http://precisionconference.com/~icmi) in the 'Doctoral Consortium' track.
Review Process:
The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in that order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Students who are in the process of forming their PhD research plan or are developing the research they have planned but are not too close to completing their degrees would most benefit from participating in the consortium. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women are especially encouraged to apply.
Financial Support:
We will provide financial support to all the accepted students, covering the majority of the costs of attending the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference.
Attendance:
All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their PhD work as a short talk at the Consortium and as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines for the poster session will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
Questions?
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2015 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (http://icmi.acm.org/2015/).
For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
? Carlos Busso, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA (busso@utdallas.edu)
? Vidhyasaharan Sethu, University of New South Wales, Australia (v.sethu@unsw.edu.au)
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== ICMI 2015 - SECOND CALL For WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Important dates:
- workshop proposal: 8th of MAY NEW DEADLINE
- Workshop acceptance notification: 11th of May
- workshop day: 13th of November
The International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) will be held in Seattle, USA, November 9-13, 2015. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface designs, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops on a day around the main conference to further foster the mingling and exchanges around new research, technology, social science models, application and business opportunities Examples of recent workshops include:
- Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction: Eye-Gaze and Multimodality
- Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modelling for Human-Computer Interaction System
- Workshop on Smart Material Interfaces: Another Step to a Material Future
- Workshop on Social Behaviour in Music
- Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction
- Roadmapping the Future of Multimodal Interaction Research including Business Opportunities and Challenges
This tradition will continue at ICMI-2015 and workshops will be held on 13th November 2015 after the ICMI main technical program. Of interest are focused workshops on emerging research areas of the main conference topics, and in particular those favoring multi-disciplinary views around application areas, business opportunities, or societal challenges.
The format, style, and content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be of a half-day or one day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be included in the conference proceedings thumb drive and indexed by the ACM organization.
Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format via email to odobez@idiap.ch , by 8th of May, 2015. The proposal should include the following:
- Workshop title,
- List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short bio,
- Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact,
- Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program.
- Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation (industry/academia)
- Paper submission procedure (submission via web site, via email, etc.) if applicable. Workshop organizers can rely on the ICMI submission system precisionconference.com, or use their preferred one, e.g. http://cmt.research.microsoft.com/cmt/
- Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.),
- Paper submission and acceptance deadlines (camera-ready and early registration deadlines for a workshop must coincide with the corresponding deadlines of ICMI-2015 - see Important Dates).
- Special space and equipment requests, if any.
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1st CFP International Workshop on Advancements in Social Signal Processing for Multimodal Interaction (ASSP4MI@ICMI2015)
17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015); November 13, 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/icmi2015-assp4mi
http://icmi.acm.org/2015/
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OVERVIEW
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The last decade has shown a significant increase in research in affective computing and social signal processing (SSP). This body of work is inherently multimodal (e.g. eye gaze, vocal and facial expressions) and multidisciplinary (e.g. psychology, linguistics, computer science) of nature by addressing foci that call for these approaches. Major foci are the understanding and automatic detection and interpretation of emotional and social behavior in spontaneous interactions, as well as the generation of socially normative behavior in specific situations. The interpretation of multimodal behaviors also makes it possible to endow systems, such as virtual agents or robots, with socially intelligent capabilities.
The developments in the field are remarkable, especially with respect to methods and applications, which are tightly intertwined. These developments have also led to the emergence of related (sub)fields such as computational social science where data-driven modeling of massive amounts of behavioral data of groups of people for the understanding of social phenomena is key. SSP seems to be continuously developing as a lively multidisciplinary research domain, bringing along new challenges, methods, application areas and emerging fields of research.
After a decade of the introduction of SSP as a research field, we believe it is time to take stock and look into the future. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers to discuss recent as well as future developments in SSP for multimodal interaction research: where do we stand now, what are the recent developments in novel methods and application areas, what are the major challenges, and how do we further mature and broaden and increase the impact of SSP? We also believe it is necessary to ensure the quality and advancement of the research in SSP and by training students with the necessary expertise. Since SSP is a relatively new research domain, a textbook for teaching SSP is not available (yet). How we may teach SSP is therefore another topic of interest in this workshop.
TOPICS
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We invite both research and position papers and aim for a mix of presentations around recent research and around presentations/discussions about the future of SSP. Papers related to the following topics are in particular encouraged, although other topics are also welcome:
* Recent research *
- Detection and interpretation of social behaviors in human-human and human-agent interaction
- Generation of social agent (virtual and robot) behavior
- Databases and methods for data collection and annotation for SSP research
- Analysis of social group behaviors
* Methodology *
- Standardization: what are standard practices in SSP research?
- Cross-disciplinary methods: what methods can be borrowed from other disciplines?
- What are novel methods used in SSP: e.g., virtual research environments (VRE), virtual reality, novel data collection methods, crowdsourcing, methods dealing with multimodal information, human-in-the-loop machine learning?
* Application Areas *
- What are the novel application areas, e.g., human-robot interaction, health, clinical and therapeutic settings, smart environments, multimedia retrieval, what can they offer SSP and vice versa?
- What could be the killer applications of SSP?
- How is SSP used in other disciplines, such as psychology?
* Education *
- What are the fundamentals in SSP to be taught to students, what would a course in SSP look like?
- What capabilities should a student being trained in SSP have?
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: July 13, 2015
Paper notification: August 10, 2015
Workshop: November 13, 2015
* All other dates, including registration and camera-ready submission deadlines, will follow the ICMI 2015 dates and deadlines.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Interested researchers are invited to submit a paper in the same ACM publication format as the main conference, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/pubform.doc (Word) and http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL2 (LaTeX). Papers may be up to six pages long including references. Submissions must be made to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=assp4mi.
ORGANIZERS
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Khiet Truong, University of Twente/Radboud University, the Netherlands
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Mohamed Chetouani, University Pierre and Marie-Curie, France
Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Albert Ali Salah, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
CONTACT
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k dot p dot truong AT utwente dot nl
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3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
SLSP 2015
Budapest, Hungary
November 24-26, 2015
Organised by:
Laboratory of Speech Acoustics
Department of Telecommunications and Telematics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
http://alpha.tmit.bme.hu/speech/
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2015/
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AIMS:
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying
excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are
currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at
attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large,
well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these
areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and
people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2015, significant room will be
reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular
focus will be put on methodology.
VENUE:
SLSP 2015 will take place in Budapest, on the banks of the Danube and an
extensive UNESCO World Heritage site. The venue will be the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Budapest University of
Technology and Economics.
SCOPE:
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical
models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing.
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:
anaphora and coreference resolution
authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
computer-aided translation
corpora and language resources
data mining and semantic web
information extraction
information retrieval
knowledge representation and ontologies
lexicons and dictionaries
machine translation
multimodal technologies
natural language understanding
neural representation of speech and language
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
parsing
part-of-speech tagging
question-answering systems
semantic role labelling
speaker identification and verification
speech and language generation
speech recognition
speech synthesis
speech transcription
spelling correction
spoken dialogue systems
term extraction
text categorisation
text summarisation
user modeling
STRUCTURE:
SLSP 2015 will consist of:
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Xavier Carreras (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, FR), Low-rank Matrix
Learning for Compositional Objects, Strings and Trees
Sebastian Riedel (University College London, UK), Embedding Probabilistic
Logic for Machine Reading
Steve Young (University of Cambridge, UK), Open-domain Statistical Spoken
Dialogue Systems
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Steven Abney (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, France)
Jill Burstein (Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA)
Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, Pisa, Italy)
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado, Denver, USA)
W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Marc Dymetman (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France)
Guillaume Gravier (IRISA, Rennes, France)
Kadri Hacioglu (Sensory Inc., Santa Clara, USA)
Udo Hahn (University of Jena, Germany)
Thomas Hain (University of Sheffield, UK)
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA)
Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Tracy Holloway King (A9.com, Palo Alto, USA)
Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Claudia Leacock (McGraw-Hill Education CTB, Monterey, USA)
Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, chair)
Alessandro Moschitti (University of Trento, Italy)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montréal, Canada)
Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Adam Pease (IPsoft Inc., New York, USA)
Fuchun Peng (Google Inc., Mountain View, USA)
Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Javier Ramírez (University of Granada, Spain)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK)
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Douglas A. Reynolds (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, USA)
Michael Riley (Google Inc., Mountain View, USA)
Laurent Romary (INRIA, Saclay, France)
Horacio Saggion (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain)
David Sánchez (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain)
Roser Saurí (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK)
Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz, Austria)
Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Greece)
Yannis Stylianou (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Cambridge, UK)
Maosong Sun (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Tomoki Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Klára Vicsi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Enrique Vidal (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Junichi Yamagishi (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
György Szaszák (Budapest)
Klára Vicsi (Budapest, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should
be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS
series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2015
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will
be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers
contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2015/Registration.php
DEADLINES:
Paper submission: June 23, 2015 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 28, 2015
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: August 11, 2015
Early registration: August 11, 2015
Late registration: November 10, 2015
Submission to the journal special issue: February 26, 2016
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SLSP 2015
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543+34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Budapesti M?szaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
SLSP 2015
Budapest, Hungary
November 24-26, 2015
Organised by:
Laboratory of Speech Acoustics
Department of Telecommunications and Telematics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
http://alpha.tmit.bme.hu/speech/
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2015/
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AIMS:
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2015, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology.
VENUE:
SLSP 2015 will take place in Budapest, on the banks of the Danube and an extensive UNESCO World Heritage site. The venue will be the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
SCOPE:
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical models (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
anaphora and coreference resolution
authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
computer-aided translation
corpora and language resources
data mining and semantic web
information extraction
information retrieval
knowledge representation and ontologies
lexicons and dictionaries
machine translation
multimodal technologies
natural language understanding
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
parsing
part-of-speech tagging
question-answering systems
semantic role labelling
speaker identification and verification
speech and language generation
speech recognition
speech synthesis
speech transcription
spelling correction
spoken dialogue systems
term extraction
text categorisation
text summarisation
user modeling
STRUCTURE:
SLSP 2015 will consist of:
invited talks
invited tutorials
peer?reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
to be announced
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Steven Abney (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Jean-François Bonastre (University of Avignon, France)
Nicoletta Calzolari (National Research Council, Pisa, Italy)
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado, Denver, USA)
W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Udo Hahn (University of Jena, Germany)
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA)
Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Tracy Holloway King (A9.com, Palo Alto, USA)
Claudia Leacock (McGraw-Hill Education CTB, Monterey, USA)
Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Carlos Martín?Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, chair)
Alessandro Moschitti (University of Trento, Italy)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montréal, Canada)
Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Adam Pease (IPsoft Inc., New York, USA)
Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Javier Ramírez (University of Granada, Spain)
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Douglas A. Reynolds (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, USA)
Michael Riley (Google Inc., Mountain View, USA)
Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz, Austria)
Tomoki Toda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Klára Vicsi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Enrique Vidal (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Junichi Yamagishi (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín?Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
György Szaszák (Budapest)
Klára Vicsi (Budapest, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single?spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2015
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series will be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer?reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/SLSP2015/Registration.php
DEADLINES:
Paper submission: June 23, 2015 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: July 28, 2015
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNAI proceedings: August 11, 2015
Early registration: August 11, 2015
Late registration: November 10, 2015
Submission to the journal special issue: February 26, 2016
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SLSP 2015
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543+34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Budapesti M?szaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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Pre-announcement
3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
Supported by IEEE ASRU 2015
Launch Date: February 2015
Results: ASRU, Dec 13-17 2015,
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/
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Dear colleague,
Following the success of the 2011 and 2013 CHiME challenges it gives us great pleasure to
pre-announce the 3rd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-3)
CHiME-3 will be an official IEEE ASRU 2015 Challenge Task. Participants will be invited
to submit CHiME-3 papers to the ASRU workshop to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona 13-17
December. Papers will be presented at a Special Session.
THE TASK
The CHiME-3 scenario will be ASR for a multi-microphone tablet device in everyday, noisy
environments. It will represent a significant step forward in terms of both realism and
difficulty with respect to the previous CHiME challenges.
The challenge will feature:
- 6-channel microphone array data,
- real acoustic mixing, i.e. talkers speaking in challenging noisy environments,
- varied noise settings including cafe, street junction, public transport.
To maintain compatibility with the 2nd CHiME challenge, the new challenge will re-use the
WSJ evaluation framework. Utterances will be provided embedded in continuous audio with
ground truth VAD annotations.
MATERIALS
At time of launch in February we will provide:
- a development test set, recorded by 4 US talkers across 4 noise environments,
- a real training set, comprised of 2000 utterances spoken by 4 US talkers in noisy
environments plus several hours of noise background per environment,
- tools for generating a simulated training set by remixing WSJ and background audio with
impulse responses estimated from the real data,
- a reference speech enhancement system and a state-of-the-art DNN-based Kaldi ASR system.
As with previous CHiME challenges we invite participation from both the signal processing
and the speech recognition communities. To support teams who lack access to the necessary
GPU infrastructure required to run the evaluation system, we will offer 'remote
evaluation' as a service.
If you are considering participating please email chimechallenge@gmail.com and you will
be added to the email list for receiving further updates.
IMPORTANT DATES
Feb 20, 2015 -- Launch - Training data + dev data release
May 15, 2015 -- Test set released
July 15, 2015 -- Challenge paper submission deadline
September 11, 2015 -- Paper notification & release of CHiME-3 results
December 13-17, 2015 -- ASRU Workshop
ORGANISERS
Jon Barker, University of Sheffield, j.p.barker@sheffield.ac.uk
Ricard Marxer, University of Sheffield, r.marxer@sheffield.ac.uk
Emmanuel Vincent, Inria, emmanuel.vincent@inria.fr
Shinji Watanabe, MERL, watanabe@merl.com
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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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tions at ASRU 2015Demonstration & Toolkit Call for Proposals
The program committee for the 14th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding is accepting proposals for the Demo & Toolkit session that will be held during the workshop. The demonstration session has become an exciting highlight of the ASRU workshops. The event will include demonstrations of latest innovations by research groups in industry, academia, and government. Demonstrations can be related to any of the topics defined by ASRU:
- ASR / LVCSR systems
- Language modeling
- Acoustic modeling
- Decoder / search
- Spoken language understanding
- Spoken dialog systems
- Multilingual speech & language processing
- Robustness in speech recognition
- Spoken document retrieval
- Speech to speech translation
- Text-to-speech
- Speech summarization
- New applications of ASR
- Speech signal processing
- Neural networks in ASR
- Low / zero resources
- Mobile applications in speech processing
- Far field speaker and speech recognition
The deadline for submission of proposals for the Demo & Toolkit session is September 18, 2015 with notification of acceptance by October 2, 2015.
Submissions should be mailed to the Demonstration Chairs (demo-chairs@asru2015.org ).?Proposals should include the demonstration title, list of authors, and an abstract of no more than two pages. The proposal should clearly explain what is novel and innovative in the proposed demonstration or toolkit. For demonstrations, the proposal should detail what will be demonstrated. For toolkits, the proposal should explain where the toolkit can be obtained.
Each demonstration will be allotted one table, space for a poster, and a power outlet. Presenters are responsible for all other equipment and shipping to and from the workshop. Wireless internet will also be available. If you have any special requirements, please contact the Demonstration Chairs.
ASRU 2015 Demonstration Chairs
Thomas Schaaf, Amazon, (e-mail: thomas.schaaf@ieee.org) Patrick Nguyen, Metanautix, (e-mail: dr.pngx@gmail.com) Marsal Gavaldà, Expect Labs, (e-mail: mgavalda@gmail.com)
MORE INFORMATION
For updates see www.asru2015.org <http://www.asru2015.org>, or follow us on twitter: @ASRU2015
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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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Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4
First Call for Participation
April 1, 2015 (Registration opens)
http://www.colips.org/workshop/dstc4/index.html
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*--- MOTIVATION ---*
Dialog state tracking is one of the key sub-tasks of dialog management, which defines the representation of dialog states and updates them at each moment on a given on-going conversation. To provide a common benchmark for this task, the first Dialog State Tracking Challenge (DSTC) was organized [1]. More recently, Dialog State Tracking Challenges 2 & 3 have been successfully completed [2].
In this fourth edition of the Dialog State Tracking Challenge, we will focus on a dialog state tracking task on human-human dialogs. We expect these shared efforts on human dialogs will contribute to progress in developing much more human-like systems. In addition to the main task, we propose four pilot tracks for the core components in developing end-to-end dialog systems, and an open track based on the same dataset.
The provided dataset consists of 35 dialog sessions between 3 tour guides and 35 tourists with a total length of 21 hours, plus their manual transcriptions and speech act and semantic labels annotations at turn level.
*--- PROPOSED TASKS ---*
Main task:
? Dialog State Tracking at Sub-dialog Level: Fill out the frame of slot-value pairs for the current sub-dialog considering all dialog history prior to the turn. A baseline system will be provided.
Pilot tasks (optional):
? Spoken language understanding: Tag a given utterance with speech acts and semantic slots.
? Speech act prediction: Predict the speech act of the next turn imitating the policy of one speaker.
? Spoken language generation: Generate a response utterance for one of the participants.
? End-to-end system: Develop an end-to-end system playing the part of a guide or a tourist.
Open track (optional):
? Proposed by teams willing to work on any task of their interest over the provided dataset
*--- IMPORTANT DATES ---*
01 Apr 2015: Registration opens
15 Apr 2015: Labeled training data is released
17 Aug 2015: Unlabeled test data is released
31 Aug 2015: Entry submission deadline
04 Sep 2015: Evaluation results are released
Jan 2016: Results presented at IWSDS 2016
*--- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---*
Seokhwan Kim (I2R, Singapore)
Luis Fernando D?Haro (I2R, Singapore)
Rafael E. Banchs (I2R, Singapore)
Jason D. Williams (Microsoft, USA)
Matthew Henderson (U. Cambridge, UK)
*--- CONTACT DETAILS ---*
Seokhwan Kim: kims AT i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Luis Fernando D?Haro: luisdhe AT i2r.a-star.edu.sg
1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01, Singapore 138632
Fax: (+65) 6776 1378
*--- REFERENCES ---*
[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/dstc/
[2] http://camdial.org/~mh521/dstc/
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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.
More information will be available soon at: http://www.lrec-conf.org.
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5ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française
Organisé par l’Institut de Linguistique Française (CNRS – FR 2393)
du 4 au 8 juillet 2016,
à l’Université François Rabelais de Tours
APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS
Organisation
Dates : 4 au 8 juillet 2016
Lieu : Université François Rabelais de Tours
Site web : http://cmlf2016.sciencesconf.org/
Contact : fr2393.cmlf2016@cnrs.fr
Institution en charge de l’organisation
Institut de Linguistique Française – FR 2393 du CNRS Courriel : FR2393.secretariat-general@cnrs.fr
Téléphone : 01 43 13 56 45
Adresse : 44, rue de l’Amiral Mouchez – 75014 Paris
Site web : http://www.ilf.cnrs.fr/
Programme prévisionnel
Le Congrès fonctionne par appel à communications. Les réponses à l’appel à communications sont attendues jusqu’au 30 novembre 2015. Le nombre total de communications est estimé à 200 environ.
4 conférences et 2 tables rondes plénières seront organisées.
Les conférences plénières permettent à des chercheurs invités de réputation internationale d’offrir un état de la recherche en linguistique française :
Marie-José Béguelin, Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse)
Aidan Coveney, University of Exeter (Royaume-Uni)
Harriet Jisa, Université Lyon 2
Alain Polguère, Université de Lorraine
Tables rondes plénières thématiques
Philologie et herméneutique numérique(s)
Le français, langue en contact
Calendrier
15 mai 2015 : Ouverture de la plateforme de dépôt des communications
30 novembre 2015 : Date limite de réception des communications
29 février 2016 : Notification de l'acceptation ou du refus des propositions de communication, et directives pour la version définitive
31 mars 2016 : Réception de la version définitive des articles
2
Organisateurs
- Franck Neveu, Directeur de l’ILF (Institut de Linguistique Française), Université Paris-Sorbonne
- Gabriel Bergounioux, Université d‘Orléans
- Marie-Hélène Côté, Université Laval (Québec)
- Jean-Michel Fournier avec l’assistance de Sylvester Osu et Philippe Planchon, Université François Rabelais de Tours
- Linda Hriba, Université d’Orléans
- Sophie Prévost, CNRS, laboratoire Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (Lattice)
Co-organisateurs
Les unités de recherche composant l’Institut de Linguistique Française :
Unités Mixtes de Recherche
Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF)
UMR 7118 CNRS – Université de Lorraine – Direction : Éva Buchi
Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL)
UMR 7320 CNRS – Université Nice Sophia Antipolis – Direction : Damon Mayaffre
Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE)
UMR 5263 CNRS – Université de Toulouse II - Direction : Hélène Giraudo. Responsable de l’équipe de linguistique CLEE-ERSS : Cécile Fabre
Equipe d’informatique linguistique du Laboratoire d’Informatique Gaspard Monge (LIGM)
UMR 8049 – CNRS – Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée – Direction : Marie-Pierre Béal. Responsable de l’équipe d’informatique linguistique : Eric Laporte et Tita Kyriacopoulou
Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations (ICAR)
UMR 5191 CNRS – Université Lumière Lyon 2 – ENS de Lyon – INRP – Direction : Sandra Teston-Bonnard
Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL)
UMR 7309 CNRS – Aix - Marseille Université – Direction : Noël Nguyen
Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition (Lattice)
UMR 8094 CNRS – ENS – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Direction : Thierry Poibeau
Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Informatique (LDI)
UMR 7187 CNRS – UP13 – UCP – Direction : Gabrielle Le Tallec Lloret
Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus (MoDyCo)
UMR 7114 CNRS – Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense – Direction : Jean-Luc Minel
Equipe «Linguistique» de l’Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)
UMR 8132 CNRS – Direction : Paolo d’Iorio, Responsable de l’équipe « Linguistique » : Irène Fenoglio
PRAXILING
UMR 5267 CNRS – Université Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3 – Direction : Agnès Steuckardt. Représentante du laboratoire à l’ILF : Christine Béal
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL)
UMR 8163 CNRS – Université de Lille – Direction : Philippe Sabot. Représentante du laboratoire à l’ILF : Georgette Dal
Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique (LLL)
UMR 7270 – Université d’Orléans – Université de Tours – CNRS – BnF – Direction : Gabriel Bergounioux 3
Analyse Linguistique Profonde à Grande Echelle (ALPAGE)
UMR-I 001 – INRIA et Université Paris-Diderot – Direction Benoît Sagot
Équipes d’accueil
Centre de Recherche sur les médiations (CREM)
EA 3476 – Université de Lorraine – Pôle PRAXITEXTE – Direction : Jacques Walter. Représentante du laboratoire à l’ILF : Béatrice Fracchiolla
Centre de Recherches Inter-langues sur la Signification en Contexte (CRISCO)
EA 4255 – Université de Caen Basse-Normandie – Direction : Pierre Larrivée
CLESTHIA
EA 7345 – Langages, systèmes, discours – Direction : Gabriella Parussa. Représentante du laboratoire à l’ILF : Florence Lefeuvre
Linguistique et Didactique des Langues Etrangères et Maternelle (LIDILEM)
EA 609 – Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 – Direction : Marinette Matthey
Linguistique, Langues et Parole (LiLPa)
EA 1339 – Université de Strasbourg – Direction : Rudolph Sock
Sens, Texte, Informatique, Histoire (STIH)
EA 4509 – Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4) – Direction : Joëlle Ducos
Remarques sur l’évaluation des propositions
Le Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est une grande manifestation internationale sur et pour la linguistique française qui se caractérise par une procédure exigeante en matière d’évaluation des communications présentées au congrès :
les propositions de communication ne sont pas des résumés mais de véritables articles (10 pages minimum, 15 pages maximum) comprenant une bibliographie ;
la gestion des propositions, de leur répartition entre comités thématiques et au sein des comités thématiques s'effectue via une plateforme de gestion de congrès scientifique - http://www.sciencesconf.org/ - et d'EDP - http://www.edpsciences.org avec publication des actes sur www.linguistiquefrancaise.org);
l'évaluation des propositions est faite par des experts au moyen d'une grille unifiée et après une anonymisation des soumissions ;
la production d'un CD-ROM d'actes avec index, moteur de recherche et d'un livret des résumés est assurée par le logiciel dédié, ce qui assure l'homogénéité et la qualité du résultat ;
les communications acceptées font l'objet d'une publication en version intégrale dans les actes ;
les actes sont distribués à l'ouverture du congrès.
Partenaires sollicités pour du financement de la manifestation
Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie
CNRS : Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales - Section 34 du CNRS
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France
Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Ville de Tours
Communauté d’agglomération Tours Plus
Département d’Indre-et-Loire
Région Centre-Val de Loire
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Présentation scientifique
Intérêt scientifique
Le cinquième Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française est organisé par l’Institut de Linguistique Française (ILF), Fédération de Recherche du CNRS (FR 2393) qui est sous la tutelle de cet organisme et du Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche. L’ILF regroupe vingt laboratoires de recherche, qui sont les co-organisateurs de ce congrès en partenariat avec de nombreuses associations nationales et internationales. Une telle organisation, conjointement prise en charge par vingt unités de recherche, est exceptionnelle par son ampleur et la volonté de partenariat scientifique qu’elle révèle.
Le premier Congrès Mondial a été organisé à Paris par l’ILF en 2008, le deuxième à La Nouvelle-Orléans, le troisième à Lyon en 2012 et le quatrième à Berlin en 2014. Chacun de ces quatre congrès a attiré plus de 300 participants et les résultats ont fait l’objet d’une publication en ligne immédiate accompagnée par un volume de résumés et un CD-ROM d’actes.
Ce congrès est organisé sans aucun privilège d'école ou d'orientation et sans exclusive théorique ou conceptuelle. Chaque domaine ou sous-domaine, chaque type d'objet, chaque type de questionnement et chaque problématique portant sur le français peut y trouver sa place.
Le CMLF est organisé en 15 sessions, lesquelles soulignent le fait que la linguistique française n’est pas limitée à tel ou tel domaine érigé en modèle pour les autres sous-disciplines du champ. Quatorze thématiques ont été retenues, qui permettent de balayer la plus grande partie du champ scientifique : (1) Discours, Pragmatique et Interaction, (2) Francophonie, (3) Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique, (4) Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité, (5) Lexique(s), (6) Linguistique de l’écrit, Linguistique du texte, Sémiotique, Stylistique, (7) Linguistique et Didactique (français langue première, français langue seconde), (8) Morphologie, (9) Phonétique, Phonologie et Interfaces, (10) Psycholinguistique et Acquisition, (11) Ressources et Outils pour l’analyse linguistique, (12) Sémantique, (13) Sociolinguistique, Dialectologie et Écologie des langues, (14) Syntaxe. A ces quatorze thématiques a été ajoutée une quinzième session « pluri-thématique », laissant ouverte la possibilité de travailler dans plusieurs domaines, voire en marge des territoires disciplinaires traditionnels.
Chaque thématique est pilotée par un Président et coordonnée par un Vice-président (membre du Comité directeur de l’ILF, ou bien choisi par ce comité). Les comités scientifiques comportent une proportion équilibrée de spécialistes français et étrangers. Un soin particulier a été accordé à la sélection des comités afin de s’assurer qu’ils présenteraient les plus grandes garanties scientifiques pour le succès du congrès. On trouve donc dans chaque comité des linguistes connu(e)s mondialement pour leur contribution au domaine. Le rôle de ces comités est de sélectionner les propositions de communications.
Les soumissions se feront sous la forme de brefs articles de 10 à 15 pages.
Toutes les communications (y compris les conférences plénières) seront publiées sous la forme d'un article de 10 à 15 pages dans les actes du congrès (sous forme de CD-ROM accompagnant un livret des titres et des résumés des communications) et maintenues sous forme électronique sur le site du CMLF. L'archive électronique restera accessible après le congrès.
Comité scientifique
Le Comité scientifique est composé des comités des 14 thématiques du Congrès et des responsables de la session pluri-thématique : 5
- Discours, Pragmatique et Interaction
Présidente : Sabine Diao-Klaeger (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Allemagne), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Christine Béal (Université Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3)
Autres membres du comité : Chantal Claudel (Université Paris 8), Gaétane Dostie (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), Laurent Fillietaz (Université de Genève, Suisse), Marie-Noëlle Guillot (University of East Anglia, Royaume-Uni), Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (Université Lumière - Lyon 2), Sophie Moirand (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3), Kerry Mullan (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australie), Juan Manuel Lopez Muñoz (Universidad de Cádiz, Espagne), Christian Plantin (Université Lumière - Lyon 2), Agnès Steuckardt (Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3), Britta Thörle (Universität Siegen, Allemagne), Frédéric Torterat (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), Patricia Von Münchow (Université Paris Descartes), Véronique Traverso (Université Lumière - Lyon 2)
Présentation
L’analyse du discours, dans son acception contemporaine, se définit essentiellement par la mise en relation des manifestations concrètes du langage avec ses conditions de production, et implique donc une prise en considération du locuteur, du référent et de la situation de communication. Vu sous cet angle, le discours, qu’il soit écrit ou oral, se caractérise par la présence de la subjectivité de l’énonciateur (linguistique de l’énonciation) et également par la manière dont le locuteur met en scène de façon plus ou moins implicite d’autres voix que la sienne à propos du même objet (dialogisme). La pragmatique possède un champ d’application très large, couvrant tous les aspects pertinents pour l’interprétation des énoncés, liés non seulement au système linguistique mais aussi au contexte de production. Son domaine s’est encore enrichi avec le développement de nouvelles pratiques de constitution de corpus de données orales et vidéo, qui permettent d’intégrer dans les analyses une grande diversité de phénomènes (prosodie, multimodalité notamment). Dans le cas des interactions verbales, c’est la co-présence (en face à face, au téléphone, sur skype) de deux ou plusieurs personnes qui exerce une influence déterminante sur la forme et le contenu que va prendre l’énoncé. Pour certains linguistes, elles constituent simplement une sous-catégorie du discours, qui possède des caractéristiques propres (notamment le contexte interactif), mais qui ne peut être décrite comme un objet entièrement autonome (certains parlent d’ailleurs de discours-en-interaction). Parallèlement, le courant de l’analyse conversationnelle développe une méthodologie et des objectifs distincts de l’analyse du discours (approche strictement empirique et inductive, focalisation sur les usages situés, le contexte séquentiel et les conduites multimodales). Cette section, ouverte à toute forme d’analyse du discours et de l’interaction, privilégiera néanmoins les approches qui sont clairement ancrées sur des données empiriques et qui interrogent les imbrications théoriques des champs de l’analyse du discours, de la pragmatique et de l’interaction.
- Francophonie
Présidente : Chantal Lyche (Université d’Oslo, Norvège), Vice-président/ coordonnateur : André Thibault (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Autres membres du comité : Fouzia Benzakour (Université de Rabat et Université de Sherbrooke), Peter Blumenthal (Universität zu Köln, Allemagne), Jürgen Erfurt (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Allemagne), Carole de Féral (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), Michel Francard (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique), Andres Kristol (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), Gudrun Ledegen (Université de Rennes 2), Salah Mejri (Université Paris-XIII)
Présentation
L'étude du français en francophonie occupe de plus en plus de place dans la discussion scientifique, de pair avec l'extension de sa diffusion dans le monde. Cet objet polymorphe peut être appréhendé de plusieurs façons : les points de vue internes, qu'il s'agisse des aspects phonétiques/phonologiques, morpho-syntaxiques et lexico-sémantiques, gagnent à être croisés avec les points de vue externes (facteurs de variation diachronique, diastratique, pragmatique et stylistique; contacts de langue, 6
alternance et mélange codiques; étiolement, accommodation et loyauté linguistiques; étymologie, histoire des mots et lexicographie historico-différentielle ; élaboration de normes nationales; sémiotique littéraire). La session invite à soumettre des articles se rattachant à toutes ces approches, dans le respect de tous les cadres théoriques.
- Histoire du français : perspectives diachronique et synchronique
Présidente : Lene Schøsler (Université de Copenhague, Danemark), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Sophie Prévost (CNRS/ENS/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Autres membres du comité : Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Cambridge University, Royaume Uni) , Eva Buchi (CNRS/Université de Lorraine), Anne Carlier (Université Lille 3), Bernard Combettes (Université de Lorraine), Walter De Mulder (Université d’Anvers, Belgique), Monique Dufresne (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada), Céline Guillot-Barbance (ENS de Lyon), Christiane Marchello-Nizia (ENS de Lyon), Nicolas Mazziotta (Universität Stuttgart, Allemagne), Maria Selig (Universität Regensburg, Allemagne), Richard Waltereit (Newcastle University, Royaume Uni).
Présentation
Les études proprement diachroniques, portant sur l'évolution de phénomènes à travers les siècles ou sur des diachronies courtes (y compris de la langue des 20-21èmes siècles) sont encouragées, quel que soit le domaine dont elle relèvent (phonétique, morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique, ou pragmatique), qu’il s’agisse d’écrit ou d’oral, et que les analyses soient descriptives ou plus spécifiquement théoriques.
Seront également accueillis des travaux visant à approfondir ou discuter des théories sur le changement.
Enfin, des études synchroniques consacrées à une période ancienne précise, antérieure au 20ème siècle, trouveront également leur place dans cette section.
- Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité
Président : Bernard Colombat (Université Paris-Diderot), Vice-président/coordonnateur : Franck Neveu (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Autres membres du comité : Danielle Candel (CNRS/Université Paris-Diderot), Marie-Christine Lala, (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Jacqueline Léon (Université Paris-Diderot), Sophie Piron (Université du Québec, Montréal), Pierre-Yves Testenoire (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Anne-Gaëlle Toutain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3)
Présentation
L’histoire et l’épistémologie de la science linguistique ont connu au cours des dernières décennies un développement considérable, témoignant en cela de la nécessité cruciale pour les linguistes de s’interroger sur les objets, les orientations, le langage, les frontières et l’historicité de leur domaine de recherche. La session « Histoire, Épistémologie, Réflexivité » du Congrès se donne pour objectif d’établir un état des lieux de cet ensemble de problématiques. Pour ce faire, elle souhaite susciter des propositions de communication orientées, notamment, vers les questions suivantes :
- la grammatisation et l’histoire du français ;
- la linguistique française comme linguistique du français ou comme théorisation française des langues; les modélisations et les pratiques de recherche en linguistique française ; la notion de
« tradition » en linguistique; la « tradition grammaticale française » ; la notion de « linguistique nationale » ;
- l’histoire des théories des langues et du langage comme composante de la réflexivité linguistique ; la notion d’« école linguistique » ;
- la terminologie et la terminographie linguistiques ;
- l’histoire du métalangage français ; l’historicité de la linguistique française ; les fondements et les objectifs de l’historiographie en linguistique française ; la constitution et l’emploi des bases de données textuelles en histoire de la linguistique ; l’édition de textes grammaticaux anciens ;
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l’usage des corpus en terminographie linguistique ; l’exploitation scientifique des premiers outils linguistiques français ;
- l’interface science du langage/philosophie du langage ; le tournant philosophique de la linguistique ; la philosophie de la linguistique, etc.
- Lexique(s)
Président : Jean-François Sablayrolles (Université Paris 13), Vice-président/coordonnateur : Francis Grossmann (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3)
Autres membres du comité : Xavier Blanco (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Espagne), François Gaudin (Université de Rouen et LDI), Alicja Kacprzak (Université de Lodz, Pologne), Marie-Claude L’Homme (Université de Montréal, Canada), Aïno Niklas-Salminen (Université Aix-Marseille), Alain Polguère (Université de Lorraine et IUF), Agnès Tutin (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3), Vorger Camille (Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Esme Winter-Froemel (Universität Trier, Allemagne)
Présentation
Le lexique entretient des relations avec (quasiment) toutes les branches de la langue (à laquelle serait-il complètement étranger ?) et, par voie de conséquence, la lexicologie est donc en relation avec (quasiment) toutes les branches des sciences du langage (à laquelle serait-elle complètement étrangère ?). Les évolutions des approches théoriques dans les sciences du langage (morphologie constructionnelle, études combinatoires, linguistique cognitive, approche computationnelle, linguistique de corpus, lexicométrie, textométrie, analyse du discours… se répercutent donc sur les études lexicales. À côté de ces études synchroniques, diverses, on observe aussi un retour à l’histoire et à l’évolution des mots et de leurs sens. De nouvelles réflexions se sont développées sur la nature des unités lexicales et des éléments qui les forment, sur leur traitement polysémique ou homonymique, sur les processus de figement et de défigement, sur la néologie et sur les évolutions du lexique de la langue, etc. et tout ceci a des répercussions pratiques sur la confection de dictionnaires (traditionnels ou tournés vers le TAL), l’enseignement des langues, la traduction…Cette session souhaite fournir des regards croisés entre lexicologie, terminologie, lexicographie, métalexicographie, constitution de lexiques électroniques pour le traitement automatique de la langue, analyse des textes fondée sur le lexique…La session Lexique(s) invite les contributeurs à soumettre des propositions portant sur tous les aspects de l’étude du lexique français : description et/ ou modélisation soit dans une perspective historico-comparative, soit dans une perspective synchronique.
- Linguistique de l’écrit, Linguistique du texte, Sémiotique, Stylistique
Président : Thomas Broden (Université de Purdue, États-Unis), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Irène Fenoglio (ITEM, CNRS-ENS)
Autres membres du Comité d’évaluation : Driss Ablali (Université de Lorraine) Céline Beaudet (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada), Christophe Leblay (Université de Turku, Finlande), Julie Lefebvre (Université de Lorraine), Aya Ono (Université de Keio, Japon), Gilles Philippe (Université de Lausanne, Suisse)
Présentation
Cette section invite à s’interroger sur les propriétés linguistiques de l’écrit. Plusieurs angles d’approche peuvent être proposés : l’écriture en production (genèse, cognition, textualisation), l’écrit constitué (formes énonciatives, faits de discours, constitution des genres), le texte (cohérence, composantes, argumentation) mais aussi la sémiotique de l’écrit et la stylistique, dans sa dimension théorique et comparative. Vu l’ampleur de la thématique, on privilégiera les propositions dont les enjeux ne se limitent pas à la seule analyse du corpus d’appui mais manifestent une préoccupation épistémologique et méthodologique claire et innovante. Le Congrès mondial de linguistique française visant tout particulièrement à faire un état des lieux de la recherche et à dégager des perspectives nouvelles, on veillera donc, dans tous les cas, à privilégier la problématique sur le corpus. 8
- Linguistique et Didactique (français langue première, français langue seconde)
Présidente : Carole Fleuret (Université d'Ottawa, Canada), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Béatrice Fracchiolla (Université de Lorraine)
Autres membres du comité : Nathalie Auger ((Université Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3)), Lucile Cadet (Université Paris 8), Pierre Escudé (Université de Bordeaux), Cécile Gois (Université François Rabelais de Tours), Martine Kervran (Université de Brest), Eva Lemaire (University of Alberta, Canada), Jean-François de Pietro (Institut de recherche et de documentation pédagogique de Neuchâtel, Suisse)
Présentation
Les domaines de recherche couverts par la didactique du français (langue première ou seconde) sont en lien étroit – mais non exclusifs – avec différents champs des sciences du langage, comme la psycholinguistique et l'acquisition, la linguistique textuelle, l'analyse du discours et l'enseignement, la sociolinguistique, la morphologie et l'enseignement de l’orthographe, de le la lecture et de l'écriture, la syntaxe et l'enseignement de la grammaire, la sémantique, le lexique, la phraséologie et l'enseignement du vocabulaire, etc. Les liens nombreux, divers et complexes qui peuvent lier ces différents champs mériteront d’être investis lors de cette nouvelle édition du CMLF, dans toute leur variété et avec toute la précision requise. De telles exigences sont d’autant plus fortes que sont remarquables la diversité des situations d’enseignement de la langue française et l’étendue des recherches entreprises dans ce cadre thématique ; sans parler des enjeux sociaux de réussite scolaire qui sont associés à la maîtrise du français.
Les contributions soumises devront circonscrire, dans le cadre d’une problématique linguistique et didactique définie, les fondements notionnels et méthodologiques sur lesquels elles se développent, ainsi que les conditions des observations, des applications et des résultats qu’elles auront permis de mettre à jour.
- Morphologie
Présidente : Angela RALLI (Université de Patras, Grèce), Vice-présidente/ coordonnatrice : Georgette Dal (Université de Lille)
Autres membres du comité : Bernard Fradin (Université Paris-Diderot), Nabil Hathout (Université Jean Jaurès), Marianne Kilani-Schoch (Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Judith Meinschaefer (Freie Universität Berlin, Allemagne), Fiammetta Namer (Université de Lorraine), Angela Ralli (Université de Patras, Grèce), Franz Rainer (Institut für romanische Sprachen Wirtschaftsuniversität, Autriche)
Présentation
La thématique « Morphologie » se conçoit comme un lieu d’échanges, sans exclusive théorique. Elle accueille toute soumission originale portant sur la morphologie constructionnelle ou la morphologie flexionnelle du français, le cas échéant dans une perspective contrastive. La thématique est ouverte aux propositions théoriques ou davantage applicatives, dès lors qu’elles prennent appui sur des données du français. Elles peuvent également porter sur les interfaces, intra- ou extrasystème, se situer dans une perspective psycholinguistique ou dans celle du traitement automatique des langues.
Les principaux critères de sélection des soumissions sont les suivants :
- nouveauté des faits linguistiques étudiés ou originalité de l’analyse proposée,
- assise empirique des analyses et couverture des données,
- clarté de l’exposition et solidité de l’argumentation,
- connaissance de la littérature scientifique du champ, nationale et internationale.
- Phonétique, Phonologie et Interfaces
Président : Zsuzsanna Fagyal (Université d’Illinois Urbana-Champaign, États-Unis), Vice-président/coordonnateur : Rudolph Sock (Université de Strasbourg)
Autres membres du comité : Lorraine Baqué (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Espagne), Marie-Hélène Côté (Université Laval, Québec), Cécile Fougeron (CNRS/ Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Randall Gess (Université Carleton, Canada), Bernard Harmegnies (Université de Mons, Belgique), Yvan Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) 9
Présentation
Les grands phénomènes phonologiques du français, domaine longtemps privilégié des modélisations théoriques, ont reçu ces dernières années un éclairage fructueux grâce aux apports de disciplines connexes. La session phonologie a pour objectif de témoigner des bienfaits de cette synergie et de montrer comment la diversité des approches a permis de réelles avancées dans la compréhension de nombreux problèmes et dans la réflexion phonologique en général. Elle est ouverte à la pluralité des thématiques, et s’intéresse aux regards croisés que la phonologie (phonologie théorique, phonologie de laboratoire), la phonétique, et les disciplines qui les côtoient peuvent apporter aux grandes questions de la phonologie du français et de la théorie phonologique. La session phonologie/phonétique invite à des soumissions d’articles originaux sur tous les aspects de la phonologie/phonétique du français. Cela inclut notamment :
- la phonologie segmentale
- la phonologie autosegmentale
- la phonétique et la phonologie de laboratoire
- la prosodie
- l’interface phonétique/phonologie
- l’interface phonologie/morphologie
- l’interface phonologie/syntaxe
- l’interface phonologie/pragmatique
- l’interface phonologie/sémantique
- l’interface phonologie/psycholinguistique
- l’interface phonologie/sociolinguistique
- les phonologies en contact
- phonétique, phonologie et études cliniques
- Psycholinguistique et Acquisition
Présidente : Michèle Kail (CNRS/Université Paris 8), Vice- président/coordonnateur : Christophe Parisse (INSERM, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
Autres membres du comité : Sandra Benazzo (Université Paris 8), Séverine Casalis (Université de Lille), Lucile Chanquoy (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), Michèle Guidetti (Université Toulouse II – Le Mirail), Heather Hilton (Université Lumière – Lyon 2), Sophie Kern (CNRS/Université Lumière – Lyon 2), Virginie Laval (Université de Poitiers), Christelle Maillart (Université de Liège, Belgique), Armanda Martins da Costa (Université de Lisbonne, Portugual), Colette Noyau (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), Anne Salazar Orvig (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3), Hélène Delage (Université de Genève, Suisse), Marie-Anne Schelstraete (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique), Annie Tremblay (Université du Kansas, Etats-Unis), Jürgen Weissenborn (Université Humboldt, Allemagne)
Présentation La psycholinguistique étudie les processus mentaux et les structures cognitives intervenant dans la perception, la compréhension, la production et l’acquisition du langage oral et du langage écrit. Elle concerne un large champ de recherches interdisciplinaires. Les études présentées dans la thématique « Psycholinguistique, Acquisition » concerneront des locuteurs adultes et enfants, normaux ou présentant une pathologie du langage. Elles seront centrées sur la langue française notamment lorsque celle-ci est susceptible de mettre en évidence des aspects particuliers du traitement ou du développement, par comparaison ou non avec d’autres langues. Ces études peuvent concerner des locuteurs monolingues francophones ou des locuteurs qui comptent le français dans le répertoire des langues qu’ils utilisent.
- Ressources et Outils pour l’analyse linguistique
Présidente : Christiane Fellbaum (Université de Princeton, Etats-Unis), Vice-président /coordonnateur: Jean-Luc Minel (MoDyCo, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense et CNRS)
Autres membres du comité : Delphine Battistelli (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), Olivier Baude (Université d’Orléans), Farah Benamara (Université Paul Sabatier -Toulouse), Maria Jose Bocorny-Fillato (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sud, Brésil), Anne Condamines (CNRS et Université Toulouse), Serge Heiden (ENS de Lyon), Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal, Canada), Eric Laporte (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée), 10
Dominique Longrée (Université de Liège et Université Saint-Louis, Belgique), Yvette Yannick Mathieu (CNRS et Université Paris-Diderot), Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes), Jean-Marie Pierrel (Université de Lorraine), Dina Wonsever (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
Présentation La mise à disposition de grands corpus électroniques oraux ou écrits ainsi que celle de ressources annotées à des niveaux divers (morphologique, syntaxique, sémantique et discursif) ouvre la voie à des travaux qui interrogent les approches classiques des Sciences du Langage. Le développement d’outils de traitement informatique (tels que les outils de collectes de données langagières, les outils d'aide à la transcription, les outils d’annotation automatique ou manuelle, les outils d'analyse fondés sur des traitements symboliques et/ou statistiques, les systèmes d’apprentissage, etc.) transforme les méthodes d’accès aux sources et affecte les démarches d'étude linguistique. La question de la mutualisation et de la capitalisation des ressources devient maintenant un enjeu majeur pour l’ensemble de la communauté, soulevant des problématiques d’interopérabilité, de normalisation et des questions d’ordre juridique, éthique et déontologique. Différentes initiatives internationales contribuent ainsi à développer un Web de données linguistiques (LLOD) et l’on observe une tendance des instances à accompagner ce mouvement : divers projets de constitution de « grands » corpus et de groupes de travail d'annotation, mise en place de laboratoires et d’équipements d’excellence dédiés, tels que l’Equipex ORTOLANG, les consortium de la TGIR HumaNum, l’ European Research Infrastructure Consortium DARIAH, etc. Avec une démarche différente des colloques internationaux spécialisés dans le Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL), cette session du CMLF 2016 voudrait ouvrir un espace d’échanges scientifiques entre différentes approches linguistiques, sans exclusive de cadres théoriques, de méthodologies ou de pratiques axées sur la théorie et/ou l’empirisme. Cette session sera l’occasion de mettre en relief tout aussi bien des recherches émergentes que des travaux qui consolident les approches existantes. La session « Ressources et outils pour l’analyse linguistique» invite à soumettre des propositions d’articles originaux dont l’objet est de construire, développer, exploiter des ressources ou des outils dans tous les domaines de la linguistique française, aussi bien à l’oral qu’à l’écrit : morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique, discursif, phonétique, phonologie.
- Sémantique
Président : Maj-Britt Mosegaard-Hansen (University of Manchester, Royaume Uni), Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Catherine Schnedecker (Université de Strasbourg)
Autres membres du comité : Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (Tel Aviv University, Israël), Claire Beyssade (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS Paris), Jacques François (Université Caen Basse Normandie et Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3), Catherine Fuchs (ENS/Université Paris 3), Agatha Jackiewicz (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Anne Le Draoulec (CNRS/Université Toulouse II - Le Mirail), Wiltrud Mihatsch (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Allemagne), Jacques Moeschle (Université de Genève), Henning Nolke (Université d’Aarhus, Danemark), Coco Noren (Université d’Uppsala, Suède), Iva Novakova (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3), Vincent Nyckees (Université Paris-Diderot), Corinne Rossari (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), Marleen Van Peteghem (Université de Gand, Belgique)
Présentation
Le comité scientifique de la thématique Sémantique du CMLF est ouvert à toute proposition de communication en rapport avec le champ tel que caractérisé ci-dessous, sans aucune exclusive, ni théorique ni méthodologique.
Outre l’exploration des sous-domaines désormais bien identifiés (cf. axes 1 à 8) que couvre la sémantique, sera également envisagée une dimension prospective (axes 9 à 10) :
1. Sémantique lexicale et grammaticale en synchronie et en diachronie ;
2. Sémantique et interfaces avec d’autres disciplines linguistiques : prosodie, morphologie lexicale, syntaxe, pragmatique du discours, linguistique textuelle …;
3. Sémantique pragmatique (présupposition, implicatures, …
4. Sémantique générale et typologie des langues, sémantique contrastive ;
5. Sémantique et applications dans les domaines de :
a. la lexicographie uni- et multi-lingue ;
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b. le TAL ((faisceaux d’)indices sémantiques utilisés pour la fouille textuelle ; constitution d’ontologies, … ;
c. …
6. Sémantique cognitive
7. Sémantique(s) formelle(s)
8. Sémantique et modélisation(s)
9. Place et rôle de la sémantique dans la réflexion épistémologique en Sciences du Langage
10. Perspectives pour la sémantique de demain
11. Nouvelles méthodes d’investigation en sémantique (apports des grands corpus, techniques de fouille documentaire, …
- Sociolinguistique, Dialectologie et Écologie des langues
Présidente : Annette Gerstenberg (Freie Universität Berlin, Allemagne), Vice-président/coordonnateur : Gabriel Bergounioux (Université d'Orléans)
Autres membres du comité : Hélène Blondeau (Université de Floride, Etats-Unis), Janice Carruthers (Université de Belfast, Royaume-Uni), Federica Diémoz (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), Martin Elsig (Université de Francfort, Allemagne), Dominique Fattier (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Narcis Iglesias (Université de Gérone, Espagne), Marinette Matthey (Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3), Chérif Mbodj (CLAD/Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal)
Présentation
La sociolinguistique est à concevoir comme la prise en compte, dans la linguistique, de la variation inhérente aux langues et à leurs emplois. Longtemps fondée sur une pratique philologique des textes et sur une analyse des auteurs qui sous-estimaient l’hétérogénéité des productions, la linguistique, confrontée à la description de langues à tradition orale, a dû établir des données finalisées en constituant des corpus représentatifs du savoir et des pratiques des locuteurs. Les enquêtes ont mis en évidence la grande diversité et variabilité des formes phonétiques, morphosyntaxiques ou lexicales. Elles ont rendu sensibles les différences qu’introduisent les genres du discours et l’imbrication des faits de langue et de culture. L’étude des dialectes et des créoles, des langues mixtes et des pidgins, et plus généralement la notation des langues à tradition orale dans des contextes où les relations d’échange étaient inégales ont transformé les représentations traditionnelles et les outils de description. Les réalités plurilingues des sociétés contemporaines comportent des nouveaux enjeux sociolinguistiques. La sociolinguistique, dans son acception la plus large, participe à une compréhension des phénomènes qui, dans le temps, relèvent de la diachronie, dans l’espace, de la dialectologie, dans l’espace social de la sociologie du langage, dans les emplois de la pragmatique, de la théorie de la communication, voire de l’ethnométhodologie. Cependant, au lieu d’une conception qui raisonne en termes d’écarts les réalisations qui ne coïncident pas avec une image de la langue fixée par une écriture et des principes normatifs, elle conçoit la diversité interne (sociologie) et externe (écologie des langues) comme étant au principe même de leur analyse, précédant les réductions opérées pour en sélectionner une forme stabilisée à des fins de transcription ou d’étude. Dès lors que l’oral a prévalu sur l’écrit, que les langues vivantes ont supplanté les langues mortes, que les effets omniprésents du contact des langues ont ruiné le mythe de leur pureté, les circonstances de leur usage ont été mises en avant et, en même temps, des outils d’analyse efficaces ont été développés. La sociolinguistique est devenue le lieu d’un débat avec des disciplines qui, dans leur domaine, se trouvaient confrontées aux mêmes phénomènes. En linguistique, le français, par l’importance de sa diffusion internationale et les flux migratoires dans son aire d’expansion, par son horizon de rétrospection, son observation attentive des effets du changement linguistique et la grande diversité de ses variations, par sa créolisation et sa présence sur les nouveaux canaux de communication, le français, donc, représente un terrain d’observation privilégié, un champ d’expérimentation pour les théories contemporaines. La tradition sociolinguistique 12
du français l’a illustré qui ne demande qu’à poursuivre son déploiement dans la session « Sociolinguistique, dialectologie et écologie des langues ».
- Syntaxe
Président : Michel Pierrard (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgique),
Vice-présidente/coordonnatrice : Florence Lefeuvre (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3)
Autres membres du comité :
Christophe Benzitoun (Université de Lorraine), Gilles Corminboeuf (Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse), Antoine Gautier (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Eva Havu (Université d’Helsinki, Finlande), Hans Petter Helland (Université d’Oslo, Norvège), Dominique Legallois (Université de Caen Basse Normandie), Nathalie Rossi-Gensane (Université Lumière - Lyon 2), Elisabezth Stark (Université de Zurich, Suisse)
Présentation
La syntaxe du français est un domaine fondamental dans la connaissance de la langue et sa description. Elle participe à la diversification des méthodes de recherche et au renouveau des approches théoriques qui recouvre les divers domaines linguistiques. Elle s’enrichit de la confrontation à la diversité des structures syntaxiques qui sont étudiées en typologie et syntaxe générale. Grâce à l’élaboration actuelle de corpus variés, aussi bien oraux qu’écrits, elle peut affiner ses modèles conceptuels.
La section « syntaxe » a pour objectif de faire état des dernières avancées sur les plans descriptif et théorique. Elle accueillera des thèmes variés et des approches diversifiées tout en privilégiant des sujets originaux et des démarches novatrices qui contribuent à une meilleure compréhension de la syntaxe du français ou qui constituent des avancées dans la modélisation théorique. Les personnes intéressées sont invitées à soumettre des communications portant sur tous les phénomènes syntaxiques (syntaxe des catégories, syntaxe (inter-)propositionnelle, ordre des mots, variation synt
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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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