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| 3-1-1 | (2018-06-13) 9th Speech Prosody Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, NEW DEADLINE The new deadline for manuscript submission to Speech Prosody 2018 is January 8, 2018.
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| 3-1-2 | (2018-09-02) CfP Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India Interspeech 2018
September 2-6, 2018, Hyderabad International Convention Centre
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
http://www.interspeech2018.org
Call for Papers, Proposals for Special Sessions and Challenges, Tutorials, and Satellite Workshops
Interspeech is the world's largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. It will be held in India for the first time. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced applications. Contributions to all areas of speech science and technology are welcome. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, Interspeech 2018 will feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. The tutorials will be held in the Hyderabad International Convention Centre. A number of satellite events will also take place around Interspeech 2018.
Original papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
1. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition
2. Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody
3. Analysis of Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
4. Speaker and Language Identification
5. Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals
6. Speech Coding and Enhancement
7. Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation
8. Speech Recognition ? Signal Processing, Acoustic Modeling, Robustness, and Adaptation
9. Speech Recognition ? Architecture, Search, and Linguistic Components
10. Speech Recognition ? Technologies and Systems for New Applications
11. Spoken Dialog Systems and Analysis of Conversation
12. Spoken Language Processing ? Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Resources, and Evaluation
A complete list of the scientific area topics including special sessions is available at http://interspeech2018.org/areas-and-topics/
Paper Submission
Papers intended for Interspeech 2018 should be up to 4 pages of text. An optional fifth page could be used for references only. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the author's kit on the conference web page. Please be aware that Interspeech 2018 will use new templates and submissions will be accepted only in the new format. Submissions may also be accompanied by additional files such as multimedia files, to be included on the proceedings' USB drive. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and have not been submitted elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English.
Important Dates
Submission portal opens: February 1, 2018
Abstract submission deadline: March 16, 2018
Final paper submission deadline: March 23, 2018
Acceptance/rejection notification: June 3, 2018
Camera-ready paper due: June 17, 2018
Special sessions and challenges proposals due: December 1, 2017
Satellite workshop proposals due: December 8, 2017
Show and Tell proposals due: March 30, 2018
Tutorial proposals due: February 1, 2018
Registration opens: June 10, 2018
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| 3-1-3 | (2019-09-15) Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria Interspeech 2019 will be held in Graz, Austria. https://www.tugraz.at/events/interspeech-2019/home/
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| 3-2-1 | (2018-07-12) CfP SIGDIAL 2018 CONFERENCE, Melbourne, Australia CALL FOR PAPERS SIGDIAL 2018 CONFERENCE http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference19/ The 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2018) will be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, July 12-14, 2018. SIGDIAL will be co-located with ACL 2018 which will be held July 15-20 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. 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 eighteen 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, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:
SPECIAL SESSIONS We also welcome papers to special sessions (http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/sigdial2018/calls.html#callforspecialsessions). The special session proposal deadline is January 14, 2018, with acceptance decisions announced January 26, 2018. In order for papers submitted to special sessions to appear in the SIGDIAL conference proceedings, they must undergo the regular SIGDIAL review process. SUBMISSIONS The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be accepted as long papers for oral presentation or long papers for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos, sound files, etc.
Multiple Submissions: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission link). SIGDIAL 2018 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. Blind Review: Building on last year?s move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2018 will follow the new ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors? names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL 2018 format. Authors are expected to use the ACL LaTeX style template or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL 2018 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2018 style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Link TBA. IMPORTANT NOTE: ADOPTION OF ACL 2018 AUTHOR GUIDELINES As noted above, SIGDIAL 2018 is adopting the new ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines[1] will be rejected without review. Preserving Double Blind ReviewThe following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected, or withdrawn.
Citation and ComparisonIf you are aware of previous research that appears sound and is relevant to your work, you should cite it even if it has not been peer-reviewed, and certainly if it influenced your own work. However, refereed publications take priority over unpublished work reported in preprints. Specifically:
MENTORING Submissions with innovative core ideas that may be in need of language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and 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. BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2018 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. IMPORTANT DATES
SIGDIAL 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan
Program Chairs: Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
Local Chair: Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia
Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
Mentoring Chair: Alex Papangelis, Toshiba Research, UK SIGdial President: SIGdial Vice President: SIGdial Secretary: SIGdial Treasurer:
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| 3-2-2 | (2018-07-12) SIGDIAL 2018 Conference: Call for Special Sessions, Melbourne, Australia
SIGDIAL 2018 Conference: Call for Special Sessions
Special Session Submission Deadline: January 14, 2018 Special Session Notification: January 26, 2018 The SIGDIAL organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference and may be organized as a poster session, a panel 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. The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself but taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, while the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.
We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities.
Submissions:
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 in the session; 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.
Links:
Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings. http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/ https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/multiling-2015-multilingual-summarization-multiple-documents-online-fora-and-call-centre-con SIGDIAL 2018 Organizing Committee General Chair: Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan Program Chairs: Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China Local Chair: Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan Mentoring Chair: Alex Papangelis, Toshiba Research, UK SIGdial President:
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA SIGdial Vice President:
Kallirroi Georgila, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, USA SIGdial Secretary:
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service, USA SIGdial Treasurer:
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corp, USA
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| 3-2-3 | ISCA-endorsed events. The 2017 vintage was very fruitful with 19 events endorsed by ISCA
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| 3-3-1 | (2017-05-08) 11th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA, Miyazaki, Japan 11th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA
Co-located with LREC 2018, Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Submission deadline: January 20, 2018
SHARED TASK: Identifying parallel sentences in comparable corpora
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MOTIVATION
In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research in
comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or several languages that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. TOPICS Given that LREC takes place for the first time in Asia, this year's
special theme is 'Comparable Corpora for Asian Languages'. But we solicit contributions also on all other topics related to comparable corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora: ? Human translations
? Automatic and semi-automatic methods ? Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web ? Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora ? Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora ? Rare and minority languages, across language families ? Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Applications of comparable corpora:
? Human translations
? Language learning ? Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization ? Bilingual projections ? Machine translation ? Writing assistance ? Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora:
? Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora
? Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora ? Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, and named entities from comparable corpora ? Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora ? Cross-language distributional semantics SUBMISSION INFORMATION Please follow the style sheet and templates provided for the main conference at http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/
The submission website is https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/BUCC2018/ Papers should be submitted as a PDF file. Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from four (4) to eight (8) pages including references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors? identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop organizers. For further information, please contact Reinhard Rapp: reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de For further information see BUCC 2018 website: http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2018/
IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 20 January 2018
Notification of acceptance: 10 February, 2018 Early bird registration (reduced rates): 15 February, 2018 Camera ready final papers: 25 February, 2018 Workshop date: May 8, 2018 SHARED TASK: Identifying parallel sentences in comparable corpora As a continuation of the previous year's shared task, we announce a modified
shared task for 2018. As is well known, a bottleneck in statistical machine translation is the scarceness of parallel resources for many language pairs and domains. Previous research has shown that this bottleneck can be reduced by utilizing parallel portions found within comparable corpora. These are useful for many purposes, including automatic terminology extraction and the training of statistical MT systems. The aim of the shared task is to quantitatively evaluate competing methods for extracting parallel sentences from comparable monolingual corpora, so as to give an overview on the state of the art and to identify the best performing approaches. Any submission to the shared task is expected to be accompanied by a short
paper (4 pages plus references). This will be accepted for publication in the workshop proceedings after a basic quality check: hence the submission will go via Softconf with the standard peer-review process. SHARED TASK SCHEDULE
Shared task sample and training sets released: 22 December 2017
Shared task test set release: 22 January 2018 Shared task test submission deadline: 29 January 2018 Shared task paper submission deadline: 2 February 2018 Shared task camera ready papers: 25 February 2018 For further information concerning the shared task see https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2018/bucc2018-task.html
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany), Chair
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMS, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France), Shared task organizer Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ahmet Aker (University of Sheffield, UK)
Caroline Barrière (CRIM, Montréal, Canada) Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France) Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany) Natalie Kubler (Université Paris Diderot USPC, Frtance) Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corp., US) Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France) Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., US) Lene Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US) Reinhard Rapp (Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences and University of Mainz, Germany) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada) Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, US) Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France) IDENTIFY, DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LANGUAGE RESOURCES Please make sure that your papers take into account the following information from the LREC-organizers about the LRE Map, the 'Share your LRs!' initiative and the ISLRN number:
* Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the
submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. * As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so
as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2018 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
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| 3-3-2 | (2018) CfP IBREVAL? 2018 Evaluation of Human Language Technologies for Iberian Languages IBEREVAL? 2018: Evaluation of Human Language Technologies for Iberian Languages
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| 3-3-3 | (2018-00-00) Ateliers Sciences et voix, Grenoble, France Les Ateliers Sciences et Voix reprennent pour une nouvelle Saison ASV5, de novembre 2017 à juin 2018 (http://atelier-sciences-voix.fr/). Nous vous retrouverons les jeudis matins de 9h30 à 12h à l?Amphi2 du Bâtiment Stendhal de l?Université Grenoble Alpes (Attention, le lieu change par rapport aux saisons précédentes). Le Bâtiment Stendhal s?étend sur le Campus de l?UGA, du 1086 au 1366 Avenue Centrale (arrêt des tramways B ou C - 'Bibliothèques Universitaires'). Les amphis sont orientés comme indiqué sur le plan ci-dessous; l'Amphi2 est situé dans le Hall Nord du Bâtiment Z. Les ateliers seront toujours accessibles également sur internet, en podcast live ou différé. Voici le programme préliminaire de la Saison ASV5:
En espérant vous retrouver nombreux à ces occasions,
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| 3-3-4 | (2018-01-22) 4th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA, BigDat 2018, Timisoara, Romania 4th INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA --- Regular registration deadline: January 19, 2018 ---
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| 3-3-5 | (2018-01-24) Program WIC Midwintermeeting on Deep Learning, 24 January 2018 – v2, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Program WIC Midwintermeeting on Deep Learning, 24 January 2018 – v2 Venue: Eindhoven University of Technology, Zwarte Doos, Filmzaal Organizers: Prof.dr. Peter H.N. de With, Dr. Gijs Dubbelman (TU Eindhoven, VCA), (program & titles may change)
A. HEALTHCARE SESSION 1 10.10 -- 10.50 hrs. Prof.dr. Alfred v Gerwen (Radboud Nijmegen), “Deep Learning in Cognitive Science”.
10.50 – 11.15 hrs. Coffee Break
B . ACADEMIC SESSION 11.15 – 11.55 hrs. Dr. Cees Snoek (Univ. of Amsterdam), “Developments in Deep Learning”, 11.55 – 12.35 hrs. Prof.dr. Theo Gevers (Univ. of Amsterdam), “Deep Learning and applications in surveillance”
12.35 – 13.35 hrs. Lunch break
C. INDUSTRIAL SESSION and SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS 13.35 – 14.10 hrs. Dr. Guillaume Barat (nVidia Munich, Germany), “nVidia GPUs applications with Deep Learning” 14.10 – 14.35 hrs. Dr. Bas Boom (CycloMedia Technology, Zaltbommel, NL), “Deep Learning applications in Geo-referenced data” 14.35 – 15.00 hrs. Dr. Rob Wijnhoven (ViNotion BV), “Traffic analysis with Deep Learning” 15.00 – 15.25 hrs. Dr. Gijs Dubbelman (TU Eindhoven, VCA), “Deep Learning R&D with the car industry”
15.25 - 15.50 hrs. Coffee & Tea, drinks
D. HEALTHCARE SESSION 2 15.50 – 16.20 hrs. Dr. Javier Olivan Bescos (Philips Healthcare, Best, The Netherlands), “Deep Learning applied in Image Guided Therapy Systems” 16.20 – 16.45 hrs. Dr. Sveta Zinger and Farhad G. Zanjani (TU Eindhoven, VCA), “Deep learning for cancer detection”
16.45 -- 16.55 hrs. Closing Statements by program chair and WIC chair
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Send the following email with 'Registration WIC Midwintermeeting Deep Learning' in the subject line Fill in and Copy this in an email to J.C.M.d.Valk.Roulaux@tue.nl or P.H.N.de.With@tue.nl
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I herewith register for the WIC Midwintermeeting on January 24th, 2018 at the Eindhoven University of Technology. When I do not show up without timely cancellation, I will pay the registration fee by bank transfer after receiving the details in a separate WIC email. This is confirmed by providing my personal details.
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| 3-3-6 | (2018-04-08) 12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS, Ramat Gan, Israel 12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
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| 3-3-7 | (2018-04-15) ICASSP 2018, Calgary, AB, Canada. Update:new date and new location
IEEE ICASSP 2018 UPDATE
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CFA 2018 Le Havre ? 23?27 avril 2018
14ème Congrès Français d?Acoustique
http://www.cfa2018-sfa.fr
Le prochain Congrès Français d'Acoustique se tiendra au Havre du 23 au 27 avril 2018. Il est organisé par la Société Française d'Acoustique (SFA) et sa section Grand Nord.
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Welcome to ICNLSP 2018 (www.icnlsp.org), an IEEE technically co-sponsored conference. It is the second edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing. The first edition ICNLSP 2015 (www.icnlsp.org/icnlsp2015) was held in Algiers on October 2015.
In addition to regular papers representing finished work, position papers describing ongoing research are also appreciated.
Signal processing, acoustic modeling
Architecture of speech recognition system
Deep learning for speech recognition
Analysis of speech
Paralinguistics in Speech and Language
Pathological speech and language
Speech coding
Speech comprehension
Summarization
Speech Translation
Speech synthesis
Speaker and language identification
Phonetics, phonology and prosody
Cognition and natural language processing
Information retrieval
Text categorization
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Computational Social Web
Arabic dialects processing
Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
New language models
Arabic OCR
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Lluis Marquez, Principal scientist, QCRI, Qatar
- Gérard Chollet, Emeritus CNRS researcher, France
- Djamel Bouchaffra, Professor, CDTA, Algeria
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chair: Mourad Abbas
Mourad Abbas Researcher, CRSTDLA, Algeria
Ahmed Abdelali Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Mohamed Afify Researcher, Microsoft, Egypt
Mansour Alghamdi Professor, KACST, Saudi Arabia
Farah Benamara Zitoune, Associate Professor, Paul Sabatier Univ., France
Daoud Berkani Professor, ENP, Algeria
Djamel Bouchaffra Professor, CDTA, Algeria
Youcef Chibani Professor, USTHB, Algeria
Gérard Chollet Emeritus researcher,CNRS, France
Kareem Darwish Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Mohamed Elfeky Researcher, Google Inc., USA
Ahmed Guessoum Professor, USTHB, Algeria
Valia Kordoni Associate professor, Humboldt University, Germany
Eric Laporte Professor, UPEM, France
Georges Linarès Professor, University of Avignon, France
Walid Magdy Associate professor, University of Edinburgh, UK
Lluis Marquez Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Preslav Nakov Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Ahmed Rafea Professor, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Khaled Shaalan Professor, The British University in Dubai, UAE
Otakar Smrz Researcher, D?ám-e D?am Language Institute, Czech Republic
Rudolph Sock Professor, University of Strasbourg, France
Stephan Vogel Researcher, QCRI, Qatar
Marcos Zampieri Researcher, University of Wolverhampton, UK
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 18 December 2017
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2018
Camera-ready paper due: 28 February 2018
Conference dates: 25, 26 April 2018
CONTACT
Dr. Mourad Abbas
m_abbas04@yahoo.fr
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Colloque international de Sciences du langage
26-28 avril 2018
Université d’Opole, Pologne
Argumentaire
La rencontre sera centrée sur la perception en langue, en discours et en parole, thème qu’il s’agira avant tout d’aborder sous ses diverses coutures linguistiques, soient-elles grammaticales, morphologiques, syntaxiques, sémantiques, pragmatiques, discursives, logiques, cognitives, phonétiques, sociolinguistiques, psycholinguistiques, etc. L’objectif général du colloque sera ainsi de s’interroger sur la question de savoir comment notre langage prend en charge nos perceptions, tant en termes de construction, de profilage, de transmission que de réception, pour tenter de rendre plus nets les contours encore flous de l’expression linguistique de la perception, d’en approfondir l’étude des propriétés et/ou spécificités connues voire d’en mettre au jour de nouvelles. De manière plus spécifique, il s’agira entre autres, à partir de l’observation de la façon dont elles s’inscrivent dans le langage, de faire ressortir la dualité des ontologies de la perception (sensorielle vs intellectuelle). En pratique, à partir de la langue, du discours et de la parole, l’on interrogera le moule et la matrice linguistiques de la perception à travers, notamment, les axes suivants :
- descriptif (quels outils et/ou mécanismes instruisent nos perceptions, les décrivent, les véhiculent ou en rendent compte ?) ; - lexicologique (comment les dictionnaires traitent-ils des vocables et des structures de la perception ?) ; - prospectif (les grammaires, ouvrages grammaticaux, manuels scolaires ou autres référentiels pédagogiques de demain devront-ils intégrer la perception comme contenu à part entière, et si oui, comment ?) ; - didactique (faut-il enseigner la perception comme un contenu indépendant, et si oui, comment ? ; quel(s) lien(s) établir entre perception et acquisition d’une langue étrangère ?) ; - épistémologique (qu’est-ce qu’une perception, quels en sont les fondements, les modes et les dynamiques de production, d’évolution, d’organisation, de réception et/ou de validation ?) ; - contrastif (qu’est-ce qui distingue la perception d’un évènement de celle d’un objet, d’un fait ou d’une action ? ; qu’est-ce qui distingue un compte rendu de perception en français d’un compte rendu de perception dans d’autres langues données ?) ; - traductologique (quelles difficultés concrètes représente la traduction des comptes rendus de perception du français vers une langue cible donnée, et comment pallier ces problèmes ?) ; - historique (quand les notions de perception, de contenu et compte rendu de perception sont-elles apparues en linguistique, et comment ont-elles évolué ?).
À cet effet, qu’elles soient théoriques ou appliquées, systématiques ou expérimentales, contextuelles ou indépendantes, synchroniques ou diachroniques, prescriptives, descriptives ou programmatiques, intra ou interdisciplinaires, les propositions de communication ainsi sollicitées devront nécessairement s’inscrire dans au moins l’un des domaines fondamentaux des Sciences du langage. En outre, toutes les langues et tous les types de langages, naturels comme non naturels, pourront être pris comme base empirique. Enfin, quelle que soit l’approche envisagée, les démarches expérimentales et/ou cliniques seront très appréciées.
La Perception en langue et en discours (3e éd.) Université d’Opole, 26-28 avril 2018
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Comité scientifique
Elżbieta BIARDZKA (Université de Wrocław, Pologne) – Krzysztof BOGACKI (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Laura CALABRESE (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique) – Joanna CHOLEWA (Université de Białystok, Pologne) – Bernard COMBETTES (Université de Lorraine, France) – Ivana DIDIRKOVÁ (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique) – Christelle DODANE (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – María Luisa DONAIRE FERNANDEZ (Université d’Oviedo, Espagne) – Brigitte GARCIA (Université Paris 8, France) – Teresa GIERMAK-ZIELIŃSKA (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Geneviève GIRARD-GILLET (Université Paris 3, France) – Christopher GLEDHILL (Université Paris 7, France) – Aude GREZKA (CNRS, France) – Fabrice HIRSCH (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – Małgorzata IZERT (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Alicja KACPRZAK (Université de Łodź, Pologne) – Greta KOMUR-THILLOY (Université de Haute-Alsace, France) – Anna KRZYŻANOWSKA (Université Marie Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Pologne) – Radosław KUCHARCZYK (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Katarzyna KWAPISZ-OSADNIK (Université de Silésie, Pologne) – Christelle LACASSAIN-LAGOIN (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France) – Jan LAZAR (Université d’Opole, Pologne) – Sébastien MARENGO (Université de Sherbrooke & Université de Montréal, Canada) – Claude MULLER (Université Bordeaux 3, France) – Sylvester OSU (Université de Tours, France) – Urszula PAPROCKAPIOTROWSKA (Université catholique de Lublin, Pologne) – Sebastian PIOTROWSKI (Université catholique de Lublin, Pologne) – Jean-Christophe PELLAT (Université de Strasbourg, France) – Mária PAĽOVÁ (Université P.J. Šafárik de Košice, Slovaquie) – Ewa PILECKA (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Jérémi SAUVAGE (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – Laura PINO SERRANO (Université de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, Espagne) – Elżbieta SKIBIŃSKA (Université de Wrocław, Pologne) – Dorota ŚLIWA (Université catholique de Lublin, Pologne) – Maciej SMUK (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) – Rudolph SOCK (Université de Strasbourg, France) – Agnès STEUCKARDT (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – Witold UCHEREK (Université de Wrocław, Pologne) – Danièle VAN DE VELDE (Université Lille 3, France) – Dan VAN RAEMDONCK (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique) – Béatrice VAXELAIRE (Université de Strasbourg, France) – Bertrand VERINE (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) – Sadia ZOUBIR-SHAW (Université du Kentucky, États-Unis d’Amérique)
Comité d’organisation
Elżbieta BIARDZKA (Université de Wrocław, Pologne) Magdalena DAŃKO (Université d’Opole, Pologne) Fabrice HIRSCH (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France) Greta KOMUR-THILLOY (Université de Haute-Alsace, France) Katarzyna KWAPISZ-OSADNIK (Université de Silésie, Pologne) Christelle LACASSAIN-LAGOIN (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France) Fabrice MARSAC (Université d’Opole, Pologne) Mária PAĽOVÁ (Université P.J. Šafárik de Košice, Slovaquie) Ewa PILECKA (Université de Varsovie, Pologne) Rudolph SOCK (Université de Strasbourg, France) Sadia ZOUBIR-SHAW (Université du Kentucky, États-Unis d’Amérique)
La Perception en langue et en discours (3e éd.) Université d’Opole, 26-28 avril 2018
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Renseignements pratiques
Les propositions de communication, nécessairement établies à partir du fichier « PropCom » ci-joint et non anonymées, devront être envoyées simultanément à Magdalena Dańko : mdanko@uni.opole.pl et à Fabrice Marsac : fmarsac@uni.opole.pl avant le 15 décembre 2017 (indiquer « PLD 2018 » comme objet). Les notifications d’acceptation ou de rejet des propositions de communication seront transmises aux auteurs au plus tard le 25 janvier 2018 et un premier programme provisoire du colloque suivra à compter du 15 février. Les communications devront ne pas dépasser 20 minutes de temps de parole (auxquelles s’ajouteront 10 minutes pour les questions) et la langue de présentation sera préférablement le français (même si l’anglais est également possible). Ultérieurement, les contributions écrites retenues par le Comité scientifique convoqué à cet effet feront l’objet d’une publication, dans le courant de l’année civile 2019, comme volume(s) thématique(s) dans la Collection Dixit Grammatica (L’Harmattan, France). Les frais d’inscription (de 400 PLN ou 100 €) comprennent le dîner de gala du premier jour (jeudi 26), la sortie culturelle nocturne du deuxième jour (vendredi 27) et la publication des contributions. Les frais de logement et autres frais de restauration sont exclusivement à la charge des participants. Le colloque se tiendra au Département des Philologies de l’Université d’Opole (situé au 11a de la Place Kopernika : http://www.uni.opole.pl/en). Le Comité d’organisation prévoit, entre autres activités gratuites, une visite guidée de la ville et de ses principaux attraits culturels et touristiques.
Dans le vif espoir de vous compter parmi nous à l’occasion de cette troisième édition de « La Perception en langue et en discours »,
Pour le Comité d’organisation,
Magdalena Dańko et Fabrice Marsac
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The schedule for all the LREC 2018 Workshops and Tutorials is online at
http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/workshops-and-tutorials/
On this web page you will find a link to each Workshop Call for Papers/Web site and each
Tutorial Outline, when available.
Don't hesitate to contact Workshop and/or Tutorial organisers if you have specific
questions on their event.
For general LREC 2018 matters, please contact us at lrec@lrec-conf.org.
LREC 2018 in Miyazaki (Japan), May 7-12, 2018
www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2018
Follow us on Twitter: @LREC2018
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LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -
Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan
7-12 May 2018
Main Conference: 9-10-11 May 2018
Workshops and Tutorials: 7-8 & 12 May 2018
Conference web site: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/
Twitter: @LREC2018
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
The European Language Resource Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international organisations ? many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural Language Processing - Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand, the Korean Society for Language and Information, the Korean Special Interest Group of Human and Cognitive Language Technology, ...
CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies
and tools, communicate on-going and planned activities, identify industrial uses and needs, and address requirements from e-science and e-society, with respect to scientific, technology, policy and organisational issues.
For this edition, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, LREC goes East in order to support a stronger interaction and synergy with the Asian NLP community and to help promoting Asian Language Resources and Language Technologies.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from a wide spectrum of related disciplines to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LTs) and development of corresponding products,
services and applications, and standards.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data
* Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
* Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
* Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
* Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
* LRs and Semantic Web
* LRs and Crowdsourcing
* Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up
Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications
* Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
* LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, web services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
* Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
* Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
* Industrial LRs requirements
* User needs, LT for accessibility
Issues in LT evaluation
* LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
* Validation and quality assurance of LRs
* Benchmarking of systems and products
* Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
* User satisfaction evaluation
General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation
* International and national activities, projects and initiatives
* Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
* Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
* Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
* Replicability and reproducibility issues
* Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues
LREC 2018 HOT TOPICS
Asian Language Resources
Special attention will be devoted to highlight the wide variety of initiatives for the creation, use and evaluation of Asian Language Resources and Technologies. Special attention will be paid to Less-Resourced Languages in the Asian area, including (local) Sign Languages.
International Contribution to Olympics 2020
LREC 2018 would like to promote all LTs that would support better interactions and communications between the Olympics 2020 visitors and the local hosts. This involves all speech- and text-based computer interactions, speech/sign to speech/sign translations, human-human communications mediated by computers, etc. Assessment of the above mentioned technologies is also an important area within LREC 2018.
Language Resources in the Online World
In a time in which more and more (language) data are generated, either by human beings or by machines, and directly streamed, the question arises how LRs and LTs can cope with this development. A first challenge is to address and to provide for correctives to hate speeches, cyberbullying, fake news, etc. Can LT provide means to process and respond in a timely manner to such language data streamed in a huge amount at high speed? In this context, language technologists have to intensify cooperation with humanities, especially social and political sciences, psychology but also economics, and more.
DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRs!
In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map ? now a normal step in the submission procedure of many conferences ? LREC recognises the importance of sharing resources and making them available to the community. When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special LREC repository set up by ELRA. Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before the conference, to be re-used, compared, analysed. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, contributes to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
PROGRAMME
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. We will also organise an Industrial Track.
SUBMISSIONS AND DATES
General submission page: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/
Submission of extended abstracts for oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 25 September 2017
LREC 2018 asks for a 3 to 4 pages (references excluded) extended abstract which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet. Extended abstracts must be submitted through START @ https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/main/ and will be peer-reviewed. Submissions are NOT anonymous.
Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 25 September 2017
Workshop and Tutorial Proposals must be submitted online @ http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/ and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.
PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format. Final papers will range from 4 to 8 pages, with no difference in quality between shorter and longer submissions.
There is also no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered. The importance of LREC in Natural Language Processing is reflected by the H5-Index citation ranking in Google Scholar: LREC is ranked 3rd among Computational Linguistics conferences. In addition, since 2010, LREC Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari ? CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Khalid Choukri ? ELRA, Paris - France
Christopher Cieri ? Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA
Thierry Declerck ? DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Koiti Hasida ? The University of Tokyo, Tokyo - Japan
Hitoshi Isahara ? Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi - Japan
Bente Maegaard ? Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Denmark
Joseph Mariani ? LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay - France
Asuncion Moreno ? Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain
Jan Odijk ? UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands
Stelios Piperidis ? Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece
Takenobu Tokunaga ? Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo ? Japan
CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Sara Goggi, CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ?Antonio Zampolli?, Pisa, Italy
Hélène Mazo, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France
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AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ==========================================
Call for Papers
AREA will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) and is organized as a half-day session with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop.
Date: 7 May 2018
Venue: the Phoenix Seagaia Resort
Location: Miyazaki, Japan
http://www.areaworkshop.org/
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS
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There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of this workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas in which actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, human-computer communication, document design, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic.
While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ?EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation?), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication.
We invite submissions on foundational, conceptual, and practical issues involving modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
- dynamic models of actions
- formal semantic models of actions
- affordance modeling
- manipulation action modeling
- linking multimodal descriptions and presentations of actions (image, text, icon, video)
- automatic action recognition from text, images, and videos
- communicating and performing actions with robots or avatars for joint tasks
- action language grounding
- evaluation of action models
IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for paper submission: 7 January 2018
Review deadline: 1 February 2018
Notification of acceptance: 11 February 2018
Deadline for camera-ready version: 1 March 2018
Early registration deadline: TBA
Workshop Date: 7 May 2018
SUBMISSION
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Three types of submissions are invited:
- Research papers, describing original research; these can be either long (6-8 pages, not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including references);
- Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (2-4 pages including references);
- Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software, tools, or systems (2-4 pages including references).
We will decide whether to have an oral or poster presentation, depending on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop schedule.
Papers should be in compliance with the style sheet adopted for the LREC Proceedings. The AREA proceedings will be published in the LREC 2018 proceedings.
Papers should be submitted through the START conference manager set up for LREC 2018. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).
MORE INFORMATION
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For more information visit the workshop webpage at: http://www.areaworkshop.org/
Or contact us at: jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu, i.f.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Jan Alexanderson DFKI
Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland
Anja Belz University of Brighton
Johan Bos University of Groningen
Kirsten Bergmann Bielefeld University
Harry Bunt Tilburg University
Simon Dobnik University of Gothenburg
Eren Erdal Aksoy Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie
Kristiina Jokinen AIRC AIST
Johan Kwisthout Radboud University Nijmegen
Nikhil Krishnaswamy Brandeis University
Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh
Andy Lucking Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Siddharth Narayanaswamy University of Oxford
Paul Piwek Open University
Matthias Rehm Aalborg University
Gisela Redeker University of Groningen
Daniel Sonntag DFKI
Michael McTear University of Ulster
Mariet Theune University of Twente
David Traum USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Florentin Wörgötte Georg-August University Göttingen
Luke Zettlemoyer UW CSE
ORGANIZERS
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James Pustejovsky Brandeis University
Ielka van de Sluis University of Groningen
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Call For Papers
LREC 2018 Industry Track will take place on 10 May, 2018
http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/industry-track/
The European Language Resource Association (ELRA, www.elra.info) is glad to announce the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international organisations ? many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural Language Processing - Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand, the Korean Society for Language and Information, the Korean Special Interest Group of Human and Cognitive Language Technology, and a number of industrial partners and supporters.
Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT) with over 1200 attendees from all over the world. LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards. As a hot LREC 2018 topic, an industry track will take place during the main conference.
Track Description
Human language technologies have become increasingly important parts of our lives. These technologies have emerged from decades of collaborations between academic and industrial research organizations; collaborations are made possible by the unique strengths of both communities and a set of shared practices (algorithms, evaluation methods, datasets, and the like). But despite this, there are substantial differences between research in academic and industrial settings.
In contrast to academic research: industrial speech and language technologies may pose unique challenges of scale; language resources from industry may demand different algorithms or evaluation methodologies than in academic settings; and the practices of academic and industrial settings may converge on distinct methods for the same problem; industrial systems and practices may pose ethical challenges not present in academic settings.
Topics of Interest
Topics include but not limited to:
Industrial systems
For this topic we welcome submissions which discuss industrial systems. They may describe technical innovations which are enabled by the industrial setting, or they may describe the implementation of a deployed industrial system. We also welcome submissions which discuss failures to replicate 'state-of-the-art' performance when provided with the affordances of an industrial setting. Finally, we also welcome opinion papers which discuss similarities and differences between academic and industrial practices for system development and evaluation, or which consider ethical issues specific to systems deployed at industry scale.
Tools and platforms for data collection
Data collected in an industry setting may pose specific technical, legal, and ethical challenges not normally encountered in academic settings. The infrastructure within which developers in industry operate can provide tremendous advantages, but also unique challenges. There can be significant differences in the context of a tool's operator or a data platform's customer in industry vs. academic applications. Platforms may be globally distributed, and the scale itself of the data and of the deployment of industry technologies can add significant complexity, which may demand innovative approaches. Industry developers may also face special problems in defining users, their orientation to their tasks, and what constitutes a successful interaction from the standpoint of the user and of data acquisition efforts. We welcome submissions which discuss industrial tools and platforms used to collect data.
Human computation in industry
Industrial language technologies depend on machine learning methods, which in turn require large, diverse collections of labeled data collected from humans for rapid iterative development and refinement. We welcome submissions which discuss issues in experimental design for human computation, the challenges of quality, diversity, and representation in crowdsourcing, and ethical issues posed by data collection via crowdsourcing and outsourcing.
Asian languages
One goal for this year's LREC is to strengthen connections with the Asian speech and language community. Therefore we welcome submissions which discuss industrial resources and technologies specific to the challenges posed by Asian languages.
Spoken languages and dialects
We are particularly interested in work which describes industrial resources and technologies for spoken languages, non-standard dialects, and therefore we welcome submissions which focus on these topics, especially those submissions which contrast spoken and written language?or standard and non-standard language?resources and technologies.
Less-resourced languages
One special topic for this year's LREC is less-resourced languages, especially those used in Asia, and therefore we welcome submissions which discuss resources and technologies for such languages in an industry setting.
Submission
We encourage submissions of papers for oral or poster presentation. Papers should follow theLREC stylesheet. The working language of the track is English. Submitted papers must be written and delivered in English and be up to 4 pages in length.
Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/IndustryTrack/.
Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
Describing your language resources (LRs) in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). This LREC feature is available to submissions within this track and highly recommended.
To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2018 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each LR. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
Important Dates & Deadlines
- Paper submission: 10 February 2018
- Notification of acceptance: 12 March 2018
- Camera-ready paper: 26 March 2018
- Track Date: 10 May 2018
Organizing Committee
- Linne Ha, Director of Research Program in NLU, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (New York)
- Kyle Gorman, Software Engineer, Speech & Language Algorithms, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (New York)
- Jimmy Kunzmann, Manager Research and Development, European Media Laboratory GmBH (EML), (Heidelberg)
- Constantine Lignos, Computer Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
- Richard Sproat, Senior Research Scientist, Speech & Language Algorithms, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (New York)
- Martin Jansche, Software Engineer, NLU, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (London)
- Ryan MacDonald, Research Scientist, NLU, Research & Machine Intelligence, Google (London)
- Tomoki Nagase, Senior Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Lab., Fujitsu Laboratories (Tokyo)
- Khalid Choukri, ELDA CEO (Paris)
Industry Track Contact
Send your inquiries to: lrec2018-industry-track@googlegroups.com
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First Call for Papers
MULTIMODAL CORPORA 2018:
Multimodal Data in the Online World
12 May 2018, Phoenix Seagaia Conference Center, Miyazaki, Japan
Introduction
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We are pleased to announce that in 2018, the 12th Workshop on Multimodal Corpora will once again be collocated with LREC.
This workshop follows similar events held at LREC 00, 02, 04, 06, 08, 10, ICMI 11, LREC 2012, IVA 2013, LREC 2014, and LREC 2016. The workshop series has established itself as of the main events for researchers working with multimodal corpora, i.e. corpora involving the recording, annotation and analysis of several communication modalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, body posture, gaze, etc.
Special theme and topics
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As always, we aim for a wide cross-section of the field of multimodal corpora, with contributions ranging from collection efforts, coding, validation, and analysis methods to tools and applications of multimodal corpora. Success stories of corpora that have provided insights into both applied and basic research are welcome, as are presentations of design discussions, methods and tools. This year, to comply with one of the hot topics of the main conference, we would also like to pay special attention to multimodal corpora collected and adapted from data occurring online rather than especially created for specific research purposes.
In addition to this year?s special theme, other topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
· Multimodal corpus collection activities (e.g. direction-giving dialogues, emotional behaviour, human-avatar and human-robot interaction, etc.) and descriptions of existing multimodal resources
· Relations between modalities in human-human interaction and in human-computer or human-robot interaction
· Multimodal interaction in specific scenarios, e.g. group interaction in meetings or games
· Coding schemes for the annotation of multimodal corpora
· Evaluation and validation of multimodal annotations
· Methods, tools, and best practices for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, and use of multimedia and multimodal corpora
· Interoperability between multimodal annotation tools (exchange formats, conversion tools, standardization)
· Collaborative coding
· Metadata descriptions of multimodal corpora
· Automatic annotation, based e.g. on motion capture or image processing, and its integration with manual annotations
· Corpus-based design of multimodal and multimedia systems, in particular systems that involve human-like modalities either in input (Virtual Reality, motion capture, etc.) and output (virtual characters)
· Automated multimodal fusion and/or generation (e.g., coordinated speech, gaze, gesture, facial expressions)
· Machine learning applied to multimodal data
· Multimodal dialogue modelling
Programme
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The workshop will consist primarily of paper and poster presentations. In addition, we want to start discussing a shared task involving multimodal corpus development and/or use for predicting communication behaviour. Therefore, prior to the workshop, participants will be asked to submit ideas for such a shared task. The goal is for the task to be launched next time the workshop is held.
There will also be one or two keynote speakers.
Important dates
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Deadline for paper submission: 12 January
Notification of acceptance: 9 February
Final version of accepted paper: 23 February
Final program and proceedings: 9 March
Workshop: 12 May
Submissions
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Submissions should be 4 pages long, must be in English, and follow the LREC?s submission guidelines.
Demonstrations of multimodal corpora and related tools are encouraged as well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted).
Submissions should be made at the following address:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/MMC2018/
Time schedule and registration fee
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The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon session.
Registration and fees are managed by LREC ? see the LREC 2018 website (http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/).
Identify, Describe and Share your Language Resources (LRs)!
Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about ?Sharing LRs? (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new ?regular? feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2018 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
Organizing Committee
Patrizia Paggio
Centre for Language Technology, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Kirsten Bergmann
Cluster of Excellence in Cognitive Interaction Technology, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany
Institute of Cognitive Science, Univ. Osnabrück, Germany
Jens Edlund
KTH Speech, Music and Hearing, Stockholm, Sweden
Dirk Heylen
Univ. Twente, Human Media Interaction, Enschede, The Netherlands
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: To avoid a clash with ICASSP 2018 new schedule and location, the committee has agreed to reschedule IWSDS to 14-16 May 2018 (see below for all the new dates).
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Call for Paper: 2018 The first Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018)
Location: Beijing, China
Website: http://acii-asia-2018.org/index.html
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: 10 January 2018
Notification of Acceptance: 6 March 2018
Camera Ready Papers Due: 23 March 2018
Conference: 20 -22 May 2018
The first AAAC Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018) is the premier Asian forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. ACII Asia 2018 will be held in the historic city Beijing, China 20-22 May 2018.
The theme of ACII Asia 2018 will be “Affective Intelligence”. ACII Asia 2018 will emphasize the collaboration between engineering and human sciences (including biological, social and cultural aspects of human life) and highlight the impact and applications of affective computing technologies in the wider world. Within affective science more broadly, there is an explosion of interest in realizing more natural human-computer interaction by taking affective computing into consideration. Also, understanding of how emotion is represented in the brain and how it shapes the body in biological processes is welcomed in ACII Asia 2018.
The meeting will be jointly hosted by the Technical Committee on Human-Computer-Interaction of China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), the Technical Committee on Artificial Psychology and Artificial Emotion of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Local Interest Group Asia of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) and Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science (CASIA).
Proceedings are proposed to be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore.
The conference will address, but is not limited to the following topics:
Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect:
• Motion Capture for Affect Recognition
• Synthesis of Multimodal Affective Behavior
• Multimodal Data Fusion for Affect Recognition
• Affective Speech Analysis, Recognition and Synthesis
• Affective Text Processing and Sentiment Analysis
• Facial and Body Gesture Recognition, Modelling and Animation
• Recognition and Synthesis of Auditory Affect Bursts (Laughter, Cries, etc.)
• Affect Recognition from Alternative Modalities (Physiology, Brain Waves, etc.)
Affective Interfaces:
• Interfaces for Attentive & Intelligent Environments
• Human-Centred Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces
• Design of Affective Loop and Affective Dialogue Systems
• Evaluation of Affective, Behavioural, and Proactive Interfaces
• Mobile, Tangible and Virtual/Augmented Multimodal Proactive Interfaces
• Tools and System Design Issues for Building Affective and Proactive Interfaces
Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems:
• Ethical Issues in Affective Computing
• Computational Models of Emotional Processes
• Cultural Differences in Affective Design and Interaction
• Social and Behavioral Science Involving Affective Computing
• Issues in Psychology & Cognition of Affect in Affective Computing Systems
Affective and Social Robotics and Virtual Agents:
• Embodied Issues in Emotion
• Personality in Embodied Conversational Agents
• Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action
• Models of Emotion for Embodied Conversational Agents
• Biologically-Inspired Architectures for Affective and Social Robotics
• Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents
• Developmental and Evolutionary Models for Affective and Social Robotics
Affective Applications:
• Biometrics
• Affective Databases and Annotation Tools
• Virtual Reality, Entertainment, Education, Ambient Intelligence
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2ème APPEL A COMMUNICATION - JOURNÉES D'ÉTUDES SUR LA PAROLE 2018
Le Laboratoire Parole et Langage d'Aix-en-Provence organise la XXXIIème édition des Journées d'Études sur la Parole qui aura lieu du 4 au 8 juin 2018 dans les locaux d'Aix-Marseille Université ? Campus Schuman, Aix-en-Provence.
Les Journées d?Études sur la Parole réunissent depuis près de 50 ans une centaine de chercheurs de la communauté francophone en sciences et technologies de la parole venant de différents horizons scientifiques : linguistique et phonétique, informatique, ingénierie, technologie, médecine et clinique, psychologie, didactique, physique, neurosciences? Ces Journées visent à diffuser des travaux de recherche originaux et à activer des échanges entre chercheurs confirmés et jeunes chercheurs dans ce domaine. Elles ont une vocation internationale, voulant réunir la communauté francophone au-delà du territoire français.
Pour la 5è fois, le Laboratoire Parole et Langage (www.lpl-aix.fr) organise cette conférence sous l?égide et la caution scientifique de l?Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP, www.afcp-parole.org). La dernière édition dans la ville d?Aix-en-Provence date de 1986. Nous souhaitons faire de cette nouvelle édition, une conférence lisible, fédératrice et « historique » en proposant un coloriage thématique tourné vers l?histoire des sciences de la parole. L?édition 2018 des JEP veut attirer les projecteurs sur l?histoire des ciences et des technologies de la parole à travers presque 50 ans de JEP en y dédiant une session spéciale. Les JEP 2018 veulent ainsi rendre hommage à aux anciens ayant ?uvrer au développement scientifique et humain de la communauté ?parole? et de nos laboratoires.
Les JEP 2018 comprendront des communications orales et affichées ainsi que des conférences invitées. Par ailleurs, des conférenciers invités seront également sollicités dans le cadre de la session spéciale historique ?Bernard Teston?.
La langue officielle de la conférence est le français.
Dates importantes ***ATTENTION, CHANGEMENT DE DATES***
- Date limite de soumission des articles complets : 1er février 2018 (23h59, heure de Paris)
- Notification aux auteurs : 2 avril 2018
- Ouverture des inscriptions : 2 avril 2018
- Date limite de remise de la version définitive publiable : 15 avril 2018 (23h59, heure de Paris)
- Fin d?inscription anticipée : 20 avril 2018
- Fin d?inscription tardive : 11 mai 2018
- Conférence : 4-8 juin 2018
Types de communication
Les auteurs sont invités à présenter des travaux de recherche originaux ou comportant un apport substantiel par rapport à de précédents travaux déjà partiellement ou totalement publiés. Dans ce cas, l'article soumis devra faire explicitement référence à la-aux publication-s concernée-s dans sa bibliographie.
Les articles seront présentés, lors de la conférence, sous forme d?une communication orale ou affichée.
Thématiques scientifiques
Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes liés à la communication parlée et au traitement de la parole dans leurs aspects empiriques, théoriques et applicatifs. Les thèmes de la conférence incluent, de façon non limitative :
- Phonétique, phonologie
- Prosodie
- Production, perception
- Cognition
- Acquisition, apprentissage
- Santé, troubles, handicap
- Géolinguistique, sociolinguistique
- Traitement automatique
- Synthèse
- Reconnaissance, dialogue, compréhension
- Codage, ressources, évaluation
- Corpus
Critères de sélection
Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine considérant en particulier :
- l?adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence
- l?importance et l?originalité de la contribution
- la correction du contenu scientifique et technique
- la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine
- la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale
- l?organisation et la clarté de la présentation.
Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes en ligne dès le début de la conférence.
Modalités de soumission
Les articles seront rédigés en français et devront être soumis en format pdf.
La taille des articles ne devra pas dépasser 8 pages, plus une page dédiée aux références bibliographiques.
Une feuille de style LaTeX, un modèle Word et un modèle LibreOffice sont disponibles sur le site web de la conférence dans la rubrique Appel: https://jep2018.sciencesconf.org.
Bourses
L?AFCP offre un certain nombre de bourses pour les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs désireux de prendre part à la conférence, voir le site de l?AFCP : http://www.afcp-parole.org.
L?ISCA apporte également un soutien financier aux jeunes chercheurs participant à des manifestations scientifiques sur la parole et le langage, voir le site de l?ISCA : http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb.
Informations et contact
Site web : https://jep2018.sciencesconf.org
Contact email : jep2018.soumission@lpl-aix.fr
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Objectifs
Afin d’encourager le dialogue et les rencontres transdisciplinaires, sous l’égide de l’Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), le comité d’organisation des JEP 2018 lance un appel à l’organisation d’ateliers transversaux, ciblés sur une thématique particulière. Ces ateliers seront co-organisés par au moins deux laboratoires sous une forme ouverte et participative, par exemple une table ronde, débat, session pratique ou workshop... Quatre ateliers prendront place la matinée du vendredi 8 juin 2018 à l’issue des JEP 2018. Ils disposeront d’un créneau de 3 heures au maximum.
L’organisation d’atelier sera confiée aux responsables des projets d’atelier acceptés. Ils seront chargés d’assurer la sollicitation ou l’appel à communications, la définition du programme scientifique et la communication avec les participants à l’atelier. Ils devront s'assurer de l'inscription à l’atelier des participants, inscrits ou non-inscrits aux JEP. Les organisateurs des JEP prendront en charge la partie logistique des ateliers (gestion des salles, pauses café et diffusion des articles et constitution des actes). Les invitations dans le cadre de ces ateliers ne seront pas prises en charge par l’organisation des JEP 2018.
Calendrier
- Date des ateliers : vendredi 8 juin 2018
- Date limite de soumission de la proposition : 15 janvier 2018
- Réponse du comité de programme des JEP (CA AFCP) : 2 février 2018
- Ouverture des inscriptions aux ateliers : 2 février
- Clôture des inscriptions aux ateliers : 15 mai 2018
Modalités de proposition
Les propositions d'ateliers (2 pages maximum) comprendront les éléments suivants :
- Titre de l'atelier
- Nom, prénom, affiliation, adresse électronique des responsables de l’atelier
- Nom, prénom et coordonnées de la personne de contact pour la communication avec les organisateurs
- Une description synthétique de la thématique de l'atelier
- Le format envisagé
- Comité scientifique
- Participants invités ou attendus
Les propositions seront envoyées en format pdf à l’adresse suivante : jep2018.atelier@lpl-aix.fr. Elles seront soumises à l’avis au comité de programme des JEP, à savoir de comité d’administration de l’AFCP.
Publication dans les actes
Le format souhaité suivra les recommandations des JEP2018.
Comité d'organisation des ateliers
- Anna Marczyk (LPL)
- Thierry Legou (LPL)
Contact et informations
jep2018.atelier@lpl-aix.fr
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The 9th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from 13 to 16 June, 2018 at Collegium Iuridicum Novum, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Speech Prosody is the biennial flagship conference of SProSIG with 300 - 400 participants each time.
The deadline for Workshop, Tutorial & Special Session proposal submission is 15 September. We encourage you to make proposals by sending e-mail to prosodist@gmail.com and jolabachan@gmail.com
The paper submission deadline is 10 December. (Submission page will open on 1 October.)
For details, please go to Speech Prosody 2018 home page http://sp9.home.amu.edu.pl/index.php
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The Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages will be held in Berlin, Germany from Monday June 18 to Wednesday June 20, 2018. This symposium follows the successful TAL 2016 conference in Buffalo, NY, USA. TAL 2018 will be organized at Beuth University Berlin conveniently located in the city center close to all major attractions. TAL 2018 is timed after Speech Prosody 2018 in Poznan, Poland, June 13-16, only a quick train ride away.
Websites and deadlines:
TAL 2018: http://public.beuth-hochschule.de/~mixdorff/tal2018/
Speech Prosody 2018: http://sp9.home.amu.edu.pl/, paper deadline 10 December 2017
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2018 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology
We are pleased to invite one page research proposals for a workshop on Machine Learning for Speech and Language Technology at Johns Hopkins University June 25 to August 3, 2018 (Tentative)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: Monday, October 9th, 2017.
One-page proposals are invited for the annual Frederick Jelinek Memorial Workshop in Speech and Language Technology. Proposals should aim to advance the state of the art in any of the various fields of Human Language Technology (HLT) or related areas of Machine Intelligence, including Computer Vision and Healthcare. Proposals may address emerging topics or long-standing problems. Areas of interest in 2018 include but are not limited to:
* SPEECH TECHNOLOGY: Any aspect of information extraction from speech signals; techniques that generalize in spite of very limited amounts of training data and/or which are robust to input signal variations; techniques for processing of speech in harsh environments, etc.
* NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Knowledge discovery from text; new approaches to traditional problems such as syntactic/semantic/pragmatic analysis, machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, summarization, etc.; domain adaptation; integrated language and social analysis; etc. * MULTIMODAL HLT: Joint models of text or speech with sensory data; grounded language learning; applications such as visual question-answering, video summarization, sign language technology, multimedia retrieval, analysis of printed or handwritten text.
* DIALOG AND LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING: Understanding human-to-human or human-to-computer conversation; dialog management; naturalness of dialog (e.g. sentiment analysis).
* LANGUAGE AND HEALTHCARE: information extraction from electronic health records; speech and language technology in health monitoring; healthcare delivery in hospitals or the home, public health, etc.
These workshops are a continuation of the Johns Hopkins University CLSP summer workshop series, and will be hosted by various partner universities on a rotating basis. The research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops should serve as good examples for prospective proposers: http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/. An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated by October 13th, 2017. Authors passing this initial screening will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in Baltimore on November 10-12th, 2017. Proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas. Two or three research topics and the teams to tackle them will be selected at this meeting for the 2018 workshop. We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop to collaboratively pursue research on the selected topics. Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and students. Authors of successful proposals typically lead these teams. Other senior participants come from academia, industry and government. Graduate student participants familiar with the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance. Undergraduate participants, selected through a national search, are rising star seniors: new to the field and showing outstanding academic promise. If you are interested in participating in the 2018 Summer Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed. If a topic in your area of interest is chosen as one of the topics to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available to participate in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith commitment that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will actively pursue it. We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to make your six-week participation possible.
Proposals must be submitted to jsalt2018@clsp.jhu.edu by 5PM EDT on Monday, 10/09/2017.
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The 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18) will be held in Gurugram, India on 29-31 August 2018
The workshop on spoken language technologies for under- resourced languages is the sixth in a series of even-year SLTU workshops. Five previous workshops were successfully organized: SLTU'16 in Yogyakarta (Indonesia), SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa), SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia) and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam).
There are more than 6000 languages in the world and only few are well represented digitally. India alone, with a country of 780 spoken languages and 86 different scripts that reflect its incredible diversity, has lost around 250 languages in the last 50 years and many more are at the verge of getting extinct. A major focus of this workshop is on Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages, but study on other under resourced languages are also encouraged. The workshop is being planned as a satellite workshop to INTERSPEECH 2018.
Contact: kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com <mailto:kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com> Website: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018 <http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018>
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for technical content (including figures, tables, etc) plus one additional page containing only references.
Areas/Topics
q Language resource development, acquisition and representation
q Linguistic theories, Corpus Development and Resources
q Linguistic and cognitive studies
q Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units
q Code switched lexical modelling
q Multi-lingual and cross-lingual spoken language processing
q Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing
q Machine translation and dialogue systems
q Application of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages.
Important Dates
q Full Paper Submission: 15th June, 2018
q Acceptance Notification: 10th July, 2018
q Camera Ready Papers: 17th July, 2018
q Early Registration: 24th July, 2018
q Workshop Dates: 29-31st August, 2018
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EUSIPCO 2018
26th European Signal Processing Conference
Rome, Italy
September 3-7, 2018
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The 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) will be held in Rome, the Eternal City, in Italy from September 3 to September 7, 2018. The flagship conference of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) will offer a comprehensive technical program addressing all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing and its applications. It will feature world-class speakers, oral and poster sessions, keynotes and plenaries, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, demo and ongoing work sessions and satellite workshops, and is expected to attract many leading researchers and industry figures from all over the world.
Technical Scope
We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:
- Audio and acoustic signal processing
- Speech and language processing
- Image and video processing
- Multimedia signal processing
- Signal processing theory and methods
- Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
- Signal processing for communications
- Radar and sonar signal processing
- Signal processing over graphs and networks
- Nonlinear signal processing
- Optimization methods
- Machine learning
- Statistical signal processing
- Compressed sensing and sparse modeling
- Bio-medical image and signal processing
- Signal processing for computer vision and robotics
- Computational imaging/Spectral imaging
- Information forensics and security
- Signal processing for power systems
- Signal processing for education
- Bioinformatics and genomics
- Signal processing for big data
- Signal processing for the internet of things
- Design/implementation of signal processing systems
- Other signal processing areas
Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore®. EURASIP Society enforces a ?no-show? policy. Procedures to submit papers, proposals for special sessions, tutorials and satellite workshops are detailed at the EUSIPCO 2018 website (www.eusipco2018.org).
Important dates
Tutorial proposals: 18 February 2018
Full paper submissions: 18 February 2018
Notification of paper acceptance: 18 May 2018
Camera-ready papers: 18 June 2018
STUDENT PAPER AWARDS: ?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.
TUTORIAL AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS: Tutorials will be held on September 3, 2018. Brief tutorial proposals should include title, outline, contact information, biography and selected publications for the presenter(s), and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Special session proposals should include title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a list of invited papers.
3 MINUTE THESIS (3MT):
EUSIPCO 2018 is offering a 3 Minutes Thesis contest, where PhD students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance. It is an exercise for students to consolidate their ideas so they can present them concisely to an audience specialized in different signal processing fields.
SATELLIT? WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:
The 2018 edition of EUSIPCO is proud to organize a half day of thematic workshops on Friday, September 7, 2018, after the end of the main conference, which will provide a forum to participate in specific scientific events and present research focused on current innovative topics in signal processing technology and its extension to other fields.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
GENERAL CHAIR
Patrizio Campisi, Roma Tre University, Italy
GENERAL CO-CHAIR
Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
TECHNICAL CO-CHAIRS
Sergio Barbarossa, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Augusto Sarti, Polythecnic University of Milan, Italy
PLENARY TALKS
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Enrico Magli, Polythecnic University of Turin, Italy
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Paulo Lobato Correia, IST Lisbon, Portugal
Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria
TUTORIALS AND DEMO
Bulent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey
Marco Carli, Roma Tre University, Italy
STUDENT ACTIVITIES CHAIR
Juan Ramon Troncoso-Pastoriza, EPFL, Switzerland
PUBLICATIONS CHAIR
Emanuele Maiorana, Roma Tre University, Italy
FINANCE CHAIR
Francesco De Natale, University of Trento, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Carmen Garcia Mateo, University of Vigo, Spain
Stefania Colonnese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
INTERNATIONAL LIAISON
Ajay Kumar, PolyU, Hong Kong
Shantanu Rane, PARC, USA
Anderson Rocha, University of Campinas, Brazil
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Call for papers CBMI 2017 - La Rochelle, France 4-6 Sept 2018
International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
(Main submission deadline May 04, 2018)
CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of
content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and
analytics.
After 15 successful editions of the CBMI workshop, the event is now becoming a conference
whose next edition will be held in La Rochelle, France.
The scientific program will include invited keynote talks and regular, special and demo
sessions.
Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers in the broad
field of content-based multimedia indexing and applications. We wish to highlight
significant contributions addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also
the related and equally important issues of multimedia content management, user
interaction, large-scale search, learning in retrieval, social media indexing and
retrieval. Additional special sessions are planned in areas such as deep learning for
retrieval, social media retrieval, cultural heritage, surveillance and security.
The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and ACM DL.
In addition, authors of the best papers of the conference will be invited to submit
extended versions of their contributions to a special issue ofMultimedia Tools and
Applications journal (MTAP,
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/11042).
Topics:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
? Audio and visual and multimedia indexing;
? Multimodal and cross-modal indexing;
? Deep learning for multimedia indexing;
? Visual content extraction;
? Audio (speech, music, etc) content extraction;
? Identification and tracking of semantic regions and events;
? Social media analysis;
? Metadata generation, coding and transformation;
? Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text);
? Mobile media retrieval;
? Event-based media processing and retrieval;
? Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval;
? Multimedia data mining and analytics;
? Multimedia recommendation;
? Large scale multimedia database management;
? Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content;
? Personalization and content adaptation;
? User interaction and relevance feedback;
? Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools;
? Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems;
? Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery,
video surveillance;
? Cultural heritage applications.
Important dates:
Full/short paper submission: May 04, 2018
Demo paper submission: May 18, 2018
Special sessions paper submission: May 18, 2018
Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2018
Camera-ready papers due: July 13, 2018
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EUSIPCO 2018
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All the best,
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TSD 2018 - PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for WORKSHOPS
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Twenty-first International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2018)
Brno, Czech Republic, 11-14 September 2018
http://www.tsdconference.org/
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.
CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
The TSD 2018 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops
or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing
committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the
conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by
a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD
review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is
a subject to proposal that should be sent to the contact e-mail
tsd2018@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
(morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
(machine translation, natural language understanding,
question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kenneth Church, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair)
Eneko Agirre, Spain
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
Björn Gambäck, Norway
Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, USA
Tino Haderlein, Germany
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
Pavel Král, Czech Republic
Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
Bernardo Magnini, Italy
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
France Mihelic, Slovenia
Roman Moucek, Czech Republic
Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland
Hermann Ney, Germany
Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
Karel Pala, Czech Republic
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
Maciej Piasecki, Poland
Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
James Pustejovsky, USA
German Rigau, Spain
Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
Anna Rumshisky, USA
Milan Rusko, Slovakia
Pavel Rychlý, Czechia
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
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers,
oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will
be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow
for additional informal interactions.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The conference program will include oral presentations and
poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of
the issues raised.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 15 2018 ............ Submission of abstracts
March 22 2018 ............ Submission of full papers
May 16 2018 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2018 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 8 2018 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 15 2018 ........... Notification of acceptance for
demonstrations sent to the authors
September 11-14 2018 ..... Conference date
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
Ales Horak, TSD 2018
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
email: tsd2018@tsdconference.org
The official TSD 2018 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2018
LOCATION
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a
population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and
trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is
located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known
for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights.
South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal
City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural
center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich,
and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
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ICMI 2018: CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES
20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
https://icmi.acm.org/2018/index.php?id=cfc
Proposals due: January 14th, 2018
Contact: grandchallenge.ICMI18@gmail.com
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Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges
The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Developing systems that can robustly understand human-human communication or respond to human input requires identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes. In fields such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics and physiological signal processing, for example, the availability of datasets and common tasks have led to great progress. We invite the ICMI community to collectively define and tackle the scientific Grand Challenges in our domain for the next 5 years. ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges aim to inspire new ideas in the ICMI community and create momentum for future collaborative work. Analysis, synthesis, and interactive tasks are all possible. Challenge papers will be indexed in the proceedings of ICMI.
The grand challenge sessions are still to be confirmed. We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events. We are looking for exciting and stimulating challenges including but not limited to the following categories:
- Dataset-driven challenge. This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of the complexities of current and future multimodal problems, and one or more multimodal tasks whose performance can be objectively measured and compared in rigorous conditions. Participants in the Challenge will evaluate their methods against the challenge data in order to identify areas of strengths and weakness.
- Use-case challenge. This challenge will provide an interactive problem system (e.g. dialog-based or non-verbal-based) and the associated resources, which can allow people to participate through the integration of specific modules or alternative full systems. Proposers should also establish systematic evaluation procedures.
- Health challenge. This challenge will provide a dataset that is exemplary of a health related task, whose analysis, diagnosis, treatment or prevention can be aided by Multimodal Interactions. The challenge should focus on exploring the benefits of multimodal (audio, visual, physiological, etc) solutions for the stated task.
We are also soliciting proposals that align with the theme of the conference which is machine learning for multimodal interactions.
Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:
- Title
- Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion
- Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
- Detailed description and relevance of the Challenge to multimodal interaction
- Length (full day or half day)
- Plan for soliciting participation
- Description of how submissions (challenge?s submissions and papers) will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
- Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions
- Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
- Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization
- Draft call for papers; affiliations and email address of the organisers; summary of the Grand Challenge; list of potential Technical Program Committee members and their affiliations, important dates
Proposals will be evaluated based on originality, ambition, feasibility, and implementation plan. A Challenge with dataset(s) or system(s) that has had pilot results to ensure its representativity and suitability to the proposed task will be given preference for acceptance; an additional 1 page description must be attached in such case. Continuation of or variants on the 2017 challenges are welcome, though we ask for submissions of this form to highlight the number of participants that attended during the previous year and describe what changes will be made from the previous year.
The ICMI organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment?s to run the Workshop, coffee breaks can be offered if synchronised with the main conference.
Important Dates and Contact Details
Proposals should be emailed to both ICMI 2018 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Dr. Nicholas Cummins and Dr. Fabien Ringeval via grandchallenge.ICMI18@gmail.com. Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions. Proposals are due by January 14th, 2018. Notifications will be sent on February 1st, 2018.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
XV1th International Conference of Creole Studies
'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages and Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'
28 October 2018 - 3 November 2018, Mahé, Seychelles
The International Committee for Creole Studies (Comité International des Etudes Créoles (CIEC)) has organized International Conferences on Creole Studies for the past fifty years, at regular intervals. In 2018, the XVIth International Conference of Creole Studies will be held in Seychelles; the organization has been entrusted to the University of Seychelles in liaison with the CIEC.
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Context |
The international community (UNESCO, UNDP etc.) and the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) support the educational linguistic policy and the possible institutionalization of Creole languages in the dozen of Creole-speaking countries (France and its Departments, Haiti, Dominica, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, San Tome and Principe) that are members of OIF. Creole studies are called upon to contribute decisively to these programs and endeavours.
The importance of Creole studies stems primarily from its contributions to the linguistic, cultural and social development of Creole -speaking societies. Beyond, the study of the genesis and development of Creole social, linguistic and cultural systems constitutes a remarkable field of study for human and social sciences, because 'Creole' societies have been formed recently (three to four centuries of existence as a rule) and because of how they are composed and evolve.
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Presentation |
The XVIth International Symposium on Creole Studies will focus on:
'Creole Worlds, Creole Languages, Development: Educational, Cultural and Economic Challenges'.
This theme invites philosophers, historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, linguists and other researchers in human and social sciences to present their work on contemporary Creole societies in their historical, linguistic, social, political, economic and cultural evolution.
The focus of the colloquium will be on the following four major themes:
A. Creole languages and education
B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development
C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages
D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
Presentation of the themes of the Conference
A. Creole languages and education
Faced with the challenges of education for all, in basic and middle schools, sovereign countries that use a French Creole language have introduced some measure of Creole language teaching in their schools. Some states, such as Seychelles or Haiti, have acquired a vast experience in the domain that should be examined. Mauritius has recently also embarked on this venture which calls for evaluation. The Creole-speaking Outremer Departments, whose creoles are recognized regional languages of France and which benefit from the texts regulating the teaching of regional languages in France, have also many educational practices to share.
B. Creole Worlds and their Cultural and Economic Challenges of Development
Anthropology and the history of Creole worlds are called upon to account for how the creole-speaking social formations, resulting from European colonial expansion, are facing the challenges of development and globalization.
The role of Creole languages in the development of economy (tourism, reception of migrants, etc.) has to be assessed.
Literary production in the Creole speaking islands of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean has developed greatly in recent years in French and English as well as in Creole languages. The study of this renewal of literature and cultural practices also forms part of theme B.
The migratory movements of creole speakers (see also topic C) will also be discussed.
What are the paths of the institutionalization of the Creole languages in their respective areas of influence (see the question of Creole language academies)? Creole militant practices may also be mentioned.
C. Creole languages in a multilingual environment: description and analysis of the dynamics of Creole languages.
Recent globalization have caused many displacements of Creole-speaking populations towards more developed economic zones. New Creole-speaking communities have thus been created outside the territories of birth, such as Haitian communities in North America, populations from the Creole speaking Departments in metropolitan France, Mauritians in Australia and Seychellois in the United Kingdom. Creole speaking newcomers are found in prosperous creole-speaking areas, for instance, Haitians in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean.Immigration to Creole-speaking areas also leads to the emergence of neo-learners of Creole languages. Globalization has led to an unprecedented diffusion of Creole languages, including via language and culture industries. These new sociolinguistic situations of diffusion have hardly been described to date. Similarly, little is known about the impact of these migratory movements on the dynamics of Creole languages. To these themes may be added the study of the genesis and evolution of Creole languages.
D. Creole grammar: typology, variation and teaching
The description of Creole language systems (phonology, grammar) remains necessary. The analysis of the variation of Creole languages and of their linguistic systems is still unsatisfactory. This theme should bring together contributions that attempt to analyze and explain phonological, morphological and grammatical systems in a typological perspective.
This theme may also include work on grammar for teaching. Indeed, in Haiti, the Seychelles and Mauritius, as in the French DROMs, questions arise concerning 'grammar models' and the use of linguistic analyses for teacher training and for teaching of Creole languages as first languages.
Questions
Topics that could be addressed, either in the form of individual papers or as workshops (please contact the organizers), include the following:
- 'Creole' diasporas and their linguistic practices
- Creole varieties developed outside the territories of birth
- The linguistic varieties of neo-learners of Creole languages
- The co - presence of Creole and French
- The development of literacy programs in Creole
- Bilingual education programs integrating the Creole language
- Literatures of Creole-speaking countries
- The state of research on Creole language corpora
- Creole development at school
- Morphology, Syntax etc. of creole languages
- The diachronic studies of Creole languages
- Relations between Creole languages and languages of the slave population (African languages, Malagasy, etc.)
- Creole history, landscape and society
- Creolization and the development of Creole societies
- Philosophy and history of ideas in Creole societies.
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Scientific Committee of the XVIth International Conference of the CIEC |
Enoch Aboh, Christian Barat, Arnaud Carpooran, Penda Choppy, Guillaume Fon Sing, Renaud Govain, Marie-reine Hoareau, Thom Klingler, Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig, Carpanin Marimoutou, Salikoko Mufwene, Joelle Perreau, Laurence Pourchez, Lambert-Félix Prudent, Gillette Staudacher-Valliamee, Albert Valdman, Justin Valentin, Daniel Véronique
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Organization and timetable |
The papers and proposals for workshops may be included in one of the themes of the Conference and / or in a cross-cutting theme.
Proposals for papers or workshops (groupings of 3/4 papers) written in French, English or any French Creole language, with the address and institutional affiliation of the communicant (s) must reach the following e-mail address: Ciec.Sez2018@gmail.combefore 15 January 2018.
The abstracts will describe the theme of the paper, the database, the results expected and will not exceed 3,000 characters or 500 words (including bibliography). Submit 2 copies of the proposal, one anonymous (which will be used for the review), the other with the author's name, address and institutional affiliation.
After evaluation, acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be notified as from the 9 April 2018.
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Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang)
Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand
29-30 November 2018
Call for Papers
We invite submissions for the Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties (ProsLang), to be held at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand, 29-30 November 2018.
The Workshop is coordinated with the 17th Speech Science & Technology Conference,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, 4-7 December 2018.
Aim
As an integral part of spoken language, prosody has been shown to play an important role in many speech production and perception processes. However, our knowledge of the role of prosody in speech processing draws on a relatively narrow range of (mostly closely related) languages. There is an urgent need for more psycholinguistic research looking at commonalities and differences in the use of prosodic cues in speech processing across different languages, and also different varieties of major languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in this area. We are particularly interested in research on: (i) the role of prosody in semantic interpretation, including information structure; and (ii) prosody as an organisational structure for speech production and perception, including multimodal perspectives.
Invited Speakers
Anne Cutler, MARCS, Western Sydney University
Bettina Braun, Universität Konstanz
Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University
Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne
Nicole Gotzner, Leibniz-ZAS Berlin
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to, cross-linguistic and cross-varietal commonalities and differences in:
- the role of prosody in signalling information structure, particularly in the activation and resolution of contrast and contrastive alternatives
- the integration of prosody and morphosyntactic cues in speech comprehension, e.g. as cues to information structure
- the role of prosody in the management and interpretation of discourse
- prosodic structure as an organisational frame in speech production or perception
- links between prosodic structure and multimodal speech cues such as gesture
Submissions
We invite submissions of one-page abstracts following the guidelines on the Workshop website:
https://proslang.wordpress.com/about/
Abstract deadline: 16 April 2018
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2018
Workshop: 29-30 November 2018
Organisers
Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren, Olcay Türk, Mengzhu Yan, VUW; Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne
Please direct any enquiries about the Workshop to: proslangworkshop@gmail.com.
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IEEE SLT2018 | 18 - 21 December 2018
Athens, Greece
www.slt2018.org
The next IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) conference will be held in
Athens, Greece from 18-21 December 2018.
Athens is a historic city and the capital of Greece, located in the most southern-east
part of the Mediterranean Sea. The emblematic city of democracy provides for
amazing sightseeing, great food tastings and endless strolls for shopping in the
buzzing festive capital.
The special theme for SLT2018 will be “Spoken Language Technology in the Era
of Deep Learning: Challenges and Opportunities”.
Important Dates:
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July 2, 2018: Paper submission deadline
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May 7, 2018: Special Session/Tutorial proposal deadline
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Sept 3, 2018: Notification of paper acceptance
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Sept 17, 2018: Author registration & revised paper upload
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Sept 24, 2018: Demo submission deadline
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Nov 5, 2018: Early-registration deadline
You can browse all conference information on the website: www.slt2018.org.
Follow updates on Twitter #SLT2018.
All papers related to spoken language technology are welcome. As part of
special theme, we particularly welcome the submission of papers that address
challenges and limitations in current deep learning approaches and opportunities for
overcoming them (including but not limited to hybrid approaches using deep
learning and traditional knowledge-based methods).
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FIRST JOINT CALL for Workshop Proposals: ACL/COLING/EMNLP/NAACL 2018
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 22, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: November 17, 2017
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), and the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT) invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACL 2018, COLING 2018, EMNLP 2018, or NAACL HLT 2018. We solicit proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL communities. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues:
ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be held in Melbourne, Australia, July 15 - July 20, 2018, with workshops to take place on July 19-20: http://acl2018.org/
COLING 2018 (the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20 - August 25, 2018, with workshops to be held on August 20-21, 2018: http://coling2018.org/
NAACL HLT 2018 (the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1 - June 6, 2018 with workshops to be held on June 5-6, 2018: http://naacl2018.org/
EMNLP 2018 (the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2018) will be held later in 2018 (after the other three conferences). Exact details on dates and venue for EMNLP workshops will be announced later.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers within one week of notification (see Timelines below).
The proposals should contain:
- A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content.
- The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events.
- A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. It is highly desirable for proposals to have at least 75% of the Programme Committee reviewers confirmed at the time of the submission. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to: (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews.
- A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers.
- An estimate of the number of attendees.
- A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants.
- A description of special requirements and technical needs.
- The preferred venue(s) (ACL/COLING/NAACL/EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g. if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise)
- If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g. shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted.
Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker; all other costs must be borne independently by the workshop organizers.
In addition, you will need to specify the following information when you submit via the START System (not in the PDF proposal):
- A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below).
- A URL for the workshop website which will be shown in the web-based survey.
- A list of organizers’ names which will be shown in the web-based survey.
The proposals should be submitted no later than October 22, 2018, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11). Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at
https://www.softconf.com/i/acl-workshops2018
The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. In addition, to estimate the attendance of the different workshops, a new voting mechanism will be implemented, where attendees of ACL-affiliated events from the past 3-5 years will be able to vote on which workshops they would like to attend in 2018. (A representative prototype of the survey is shown here, but is subject to change: https://goo.gl/3cuZON.) The overall diversity of the workshops will also be taken into account to ensure the conference program is varied and balanced. The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the four conferences, taking into account the location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers.
Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. Workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs.
The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL's general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at:
http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook
TIMELINE FOR 2018 WORKSHOPS
Timeline:
October 22, 2018: Proposal Submission Deadline
November 17, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
Individual dates:
* ACL:
Dec 11, 2018: First Call for Workshop Papers
Mar 5, 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
April 8, 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
May 7, 2018: Notification of Acceptance
May 28, 2018: Camera-ready papers due
July 19-20, 2018: Workshop Dates
* COLING:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
Aug 20-21, 2018: Workshop Dates
* NAACL:
27 November 2017: First Call for Workshop Papers
8 January 2018: Second Call for Workshop Papers
2 March 2018: Workshop Paper Due Date
2 April 2018: Notification of Acceptance
16 April 2018: Camera-ready papers due
5-6 June 2018: Workshop Dates
* EMNLP:
TBA: First Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Second Call for Workshop Papers
TBA: Workshop Paper Due Date
TBA: Notification of Acceptance
TBA: Camera-ready papers due
TBA: Workshop Dates
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
* ACL:
Brendan O’Connor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Cambridge
* COLING:
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne
Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University
* NAACL:
Marie Meteer, Brandeis University
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research
* EMNLP:
TBA
For inquiries, send email to the workshop organizers at:
acl-coling-emnlp-naacl-workshops@googlegroups.com
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