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ISCApad #277 |
| Saturday, July 10, 2021 by Chris Wellekens |
4 Academic and Industry Notes
| 4-1 | M.Sc. Program in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Science, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France) M.Sc. Program in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Science
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| 4-2 | Delphi consensus survey - Developing reading passages for the assessment of speech and voice (update)
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| 4-3 | ACM ICMI CALL FOR BIDS 2023
ACM ICMI CALL FOR BIDS 2023 The Steering Board of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) invites proposals to host 25th Annual Conference, to be held between the end of September and mid-November 2023. Priority will be given for proposals hosted in Europe or Africa continents. Strong proposals from other regions are also welcome. ICMI 2018 was in Boulder, Colorado, USA, ICMI 2019 was in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, and ICMI 2020 was recently held as a virtual conference (but originally planned to be in Utrecht, the Netherlands). The bidding process is done in two stages. During the first stage, the initial proposals will be reviewed by the steering committee to identify promising bids and request additional information if necessary. During the second stage, the revised proposals will be reviewed and the final selection. Evaluation Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria (unordered): • Experience and reputation of General Chairs and Program Chairs • Local multimodal interaction community support • (Local) government and industry support • Support and opportunities for students • Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site • Suitability of proposed dates (with list of specific conflicts to avoid) • Adequacy of conference facilities for the anticipated number of attendees • Adequacy of accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities • Overall balance of budget projections • Geographical balance with regard to previous ICMI meetings All communications, including request for information and bid submission, should be sent to the ICMI Steering Board Chair (Yukiko Nakano, y.nakano@st.seikei.ac.jp). Important Dates For ICMI 2023 bids: • January 25, 2021 - Notify intention to submit proposal via email • February 11, 2021 - Draft proposals due • March 1, 2021 - Feedback to bidders • April 5, 2021 - Final bids due • April 26, 2021 - Bid selected Bid Content After the notification of intent, the steering board chair will share with you more details, including successful bids from previous years. The following questions have to be answered for the official bid (both draft and final proposals). Text in square brackets [] contains considerations to be taken into account. 1. Describe briefly the conference, including side events 2. Describe briefly the conference site. 3. What date do you consider? 4. What is the nearest (international) airport? 5. Please give price quotes for the cheapest roundtrip to the conference location from Frankfurt, London, New York, San Francisco, Beijing and Tokyo (assume one week of travel with a Saturday overnight stay) 6. What transportation should participants use from the airport to the conference site? 7. Does the conference site both have a large room for a maximum of 300 people and about 5 smaller rooms for a maximum of 30-70 people? Is there wireless connection available for attendees? What about audio-visual facilities?
8. What is the approximate room rate (single and double occupancy)? Is breakfast included? [Often all the attendees of ICMI stay at the same hotel. If this is your case, the conference chair should find a hotel that allows accommodation for the expected number of people. Booking rooms and meals in the same hotel as the conference rooms often helps reducing the overall costs.] 9. Catering, including breaks, receptions, banquet and entertainment. We encourage organizers to provide coffee breaks and lunches in order to promote community building and discussion 10. Which support can your department give for the organization of the conference (e.g., free secretarial assistance, facilities for on-line payment? 11. Which support can your department give during the conference (e.g., free secretarial assistance, PCs / Macs at the conference site)? 12. What are your plans for sponsorship? To which associations / companies / institutions do you plan to apply for financial assistance? What do you realistically expect to receive from them? What are your plans concerning student travel stipend program [A minimum of $5,000 should be reserved from each year's conference budget to support student travel from each of the three major geographic regions (Americas, Europe-Africa, Asia-Pacific), or $15,000 total. For example, if a grant for $15,000 is obtained from NSF to support U.S. student travel but there is no external funding for students from other continents, then an additional $10,000 of you budget should be set aside for students from the other two continents] 13. What actions will you take to make the conference cheaper for students? (e.g., seek financial support from other organizations, provide cheaper rooms)? What reduction do you realistically expect? 14. Provide the names of people who are foreseen or confirmed for the major Conference Committees: General Chairs, Program Chairs, Sponsorship Chair; volunteer labor, registration handling. One of the General Chairs and one of the Program Chairs should be identified as the lead, who will be the main point of contact for the ICMI steering committee. Describe any experience the team has had in organizing previous conferences and the number of participants at those conferences. 15. Local Multimodal Interaction community 16. How do you propose to run the paper reviewing process? Do you see any possible improvements? 17. How will you organize the content of the conference to ensure a high-quality and energetic exchange of information that includes timely topics and stimulating external speakers? Please be specific in your suggestions for how you would organize the main program and workshops/tutorials 18. Any other aspects that you may find relevant for the evaluation of your proposal Preparing a budget proposal Based on estimates from previous attendance, one might expect 250 participants to ICMI. Please, provide three budgets, one for 150 participants, a second for 200 participants and the last one for 250. Costs that will have to be covered include: • Rental of conference space and meeting rooms • AV equipment • Coffee breaks and possibly lunch • Registration desk/technical helpers (e.g., student volunteers) • Tutorials • Producing and printing the proceedings • 10% ACM fee • 15% contingency fund • Conference poster and advertising • Social banquet • Welcome reception • Lunch for ICMI board meeting
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| 4-4 | New Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research covering all areas of language science,Univ. of Paris, France The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a newly-formed Paris-area graduate program covering all areas of language science. It offers a comprehensive Master curriculum integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics consortium. Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required. For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html New funding opportunity: https://u-paris.fr/en/call-for-applications-international-students-miem-scholarship-program/ Application deadline : February 1st 2021 (program starting September 1st 2021) PGSL is funded by Smarts-UP (Student-centered iMproved, Active Research-based Training Strategy at Université de Paris) through the ANR SFRI grant « Grandes universités de recherche » (PIA3) 2020-2029.
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| 4-5 | Bids for ICMR 2023 The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to
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| 4-6 | ACMMM 2021: Call for Grand Challenge Proposals ===============================================
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| 4-7 | Projet européen ELE (European Language Equality), Dans le cadre du projet européen ELE (European Language Equality), qui vise à créer une
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| 4-8 | 'The Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2021 enhanced at NeurIPS 2021' -------
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| 4-9 | CfP for the 'European Performing Science Night', Call for participation for the 'European Performing Science Night', a project for the European Research Night Led by the Fundació Èpica-La Fura dels Baus and with the participation of the LPL (AMU-CNRS-ILCB) and four other partners, a research team will organize several events during the prestigious European Research Night on 24 September 2021, in Badalone (Catalonia). The project - co-financed under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions - aims to bring scientists closer to the general public through an innovative language based on the performing arts and new language tools for researchers.
Call for participation open from June 7 to July 15: Open Call September ? EPSN (epicalab.com) Contact at the LPL: Clément François clement.francois@univ-amu.fr European Performing Science Night project website: EPSN ? European Performing Science Night (epicalab.com)
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| 4-10 | Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval - Community Evaluation Effort for MultiLingual Information Access (MLIA) on Covid-19 Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval - Community Evaluation Effort for MultiLingual Information Access (MLIA) on Covid-19
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An integral part of the Covid-19 MLIA @ Eval approach is the sharing of information and ideas among the participants. This happens via the rolling technical report where participants describe their solutions as the evaluation rounds progress and the virtual meetings at the end of each round where participants briefly present the main highlights of what worked and what did not work and interactively discuss together in order to share ideas and improve for the next round. We offer tasks in the following languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Swedish. Miltos Deligiannis, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece
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