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| Wednesday, October 05, 2022 by Chris Wellekens |
7 Journals
| 7-1 | CfP TAL Journal (Open Access), Special issue on 'Cross/multimodal NLP' Call for Papers
TAL Journal (Open Access), Special issue on 'Cross/multimodal NLP'
Submission deadline: 31 March 2022 Abstract submission deadline is removed. The only deadline is now the full paper submission deadline. If possible, the authors are invited to let us know their intent to submit by email to tal-63-2@sciencesconf.org one week before the full paper submission deadline.
Website: https://tal-63-2.sciencesconf.org
Natural language is not limited to the written modality. It includes and interacts with many others. On the one hand, a message can be conveyed through other language modalities, including audio (speech), gestures and facial expressions (sign language or completed speech). It may also be accompanied by social attitudes and non-verbal dimensions, including signs of affect, spontaneity, pathology, co-adaptation with dialogue participants, etc. Natural language processing (NLP) is thus a joint processing of multiple information channels. On the other hand, natural language is often used to describe concepts and denote entities that are essentially multimodal (description of an image, an event, etc.). Many problems then require bridges between different modalities.
The objective of this special issue of the journal TAL is to promote NLP in multimodal contexts (several modalities contribute to the resolution of a problem) or inter-modal contexts (passage from one modality to another). Thus, the contributions expected for this special issue are, among others (but not exclusively), in the following fields of application:
In the face of the predominance of work on written language processing and the historical compartmentalisation of communities specific to each modality (image processing, signal processing, neuroscience, etc.), authors are encouraged to highlight the specificities (benefits, difficulties, perspectives, etc.) linked to inter- or multimodality in their work, for instance concerning:
IMPORTANT DATES
LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. If all authors are French speakers, they are requested to submit their contributions in French.
FORMAT Papers must be between 20 and 25 pages, references and appendices included (no length exemptions are possible). Authors who intend to submit a paper are encouraged to click the menu item 'Paper submission' (PDF format).
To do so, they will need to have an account, or create it, on the sciencesconf platform (go to http://www.sciencesconf.org and click on 'create account' next to the 'Connect' button at the top of the page). To submit, come back to the page https://tal-63-2.sciencesconf.org/ , connect to the account and upload the submission.
From now on, TAL will perform double-blind review: it is thus necessary to anonymize the manuscript and the name of the pdf file.
Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the journal (https://www.atala.org/content/instruction-authors-style-files-0)
ABOUT THE JOURNAL Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL, ?Natural Language Processing?) is an international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing) since 1960 with the support of the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an electronic mode of publication, with printing on demand. This has no impact however on the reviewing and selection process.
EDITORIAL BOARD Guest editors:
Members (under development):
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| 7-2 | TAL Journal: Special issue: review articles TAL Journal: Special issue: review articles
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| 7-3 | Appel à contributions: le masque du locuteur, revue Langue(s) et Parole, 2022 The speaker's mask: a transdisciplinary interrogator of the complexity of speech Call for papers At the time of this call, the current health crisis still requires the world population to wear face masks designed to protect each individual from droplets and aerosols received or projected during breathing, speaking or singing. Several publications attest to the effectiveness of approved masks in this protection, which varies according to the material of the equipment and its duration of use. However, the study of these devices is also a matter for the human sciences. In particular, the language sciences are not left out in the study of the effects of the mask on the wearer's ability to be heard (Giovanelli et al. 2021) and intelligible (Palmiero et al. 2016), regardless of the communication situation or speech style (Cohn et al. 2021). Speech acoustics (Magee et al. 2020), phonetics, discourse analysis (Onipede 2021), modeling, recognition (Kodali et al. 2021), and psycholinguistics can, for example, be convened by such research regarding a current universal everyday concern. Although several publications have recently appeared in this field, many ways remain to be explored for this transdisciplinary subject. In this volume, we propose to pursue the reflection ay least through the following thematic reflections: • Speech perception: How does hiding the lower part of the face alter the receiver’s perception of the message produced by the emitter, and how does the latter adapt to this communicational change? • Spoken articulation: How does the articulatory discomfort experienced by the masked speaker alter the management of speech production? Does it depend on the segmental and prosodic composition of the speech, on the speaking style or on the communication situation, or even on the representation that the speaker makes of the discomfort caused by the mask to his/her interlocutor? • Voice: What are the effects of wearing a mask on the produced, perceived and felt timbre of the spoken, declaimed or sung voice, in an ecological situation (artistic for example, or in a training context)? Call for papers – Langue(s) & Parole, n°7, 2022 : le masque du locuteur 4 • Modeling and recognition of speech: What modeling and recognition of a 'masked speech signal' are possible? • Transmission of speech: What are the issues in terms of acquisition and education related to wearing a face mask? (Early childhood, schooling, native and foreign languages, teaching, etc.) • Discourse analysis: What are the discourses produced in terms of behavior and reaction, emotions and affects, feelings and proprioception, nonverbal communication and aesthetics as a result of wearing the mask? Does wearing the mask (and subsequently dropping it) have any impact (positive or negative) on the speaker's self-esteem and confidence in front of a group? • Clinical phonetics and linguistics: What links can exist between pathologies of the areas covered by the mask and its use? Can the use of the mask cause significant alterations? What are the adaptations to be made when wearing the mask with respect to voice, speech or communication pathologies? Is wearing a mask linked to an increase in vocal fatigue in speakers who have to practice a profession that requires oral expression in front of a large audience? • Engineering: How can knowledge of the effects of the mask on spoken communication be useful to designers of new devices that are better suited to the communication situation and/or the particularities of the target speakers? In this respect, this volume aims to bring together current research on the issues and effects of wearing a mask as they can be studied from the point of view of the various components of the language sciences (linguistics, phonetics, psycholinguistics, clinical phonetics and linguistics, didactics, sociolinguistics) and their implementation in certain communication contexts (speech therapy, psychology, artistic disciplines, etc.). These reflections, in their theoretical aspect, will contribute to the systemic analyses of oral communication, by providing, for example, data to enlighten the mechanisms of compensation, reorganization of voice, speech or discourse to this multi-effect, external disrupter (Vaxelaire et al. 2007) of language and oral communication systems. The examples of themes proposed above aim, by their diversity, to have the reader perceive the width of the epistemological span targeted by this volume of contributions. Other topics may of course be considered, provided that the research questions involved do question the impact of wearing a mask on the functioning of language and thus contribute, in a transdisciplinary approach, to develop knowledge about the latter. From an application point of view, it is hoped that the contributions collected can contribute to optimizing strategies to overcome the disturbances resulting from wearing the mask. Coordinators Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France Bernard Harmegnies, Université de Mons, Mons, Belgique Languages of publication: French, English Author guidelines : https://revistes.uab.cat/languesparole/languesparole/languesparole/about/submissions Timeline: May 30, 2022: deadline for submission of article proposals to be sent to: r.langues.parole@uab.cat, claire.pillot@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr, Bernard.HARMEGNIES@umons.ac.be End of 2022: print and online publication of the issue Appel à contributions – Call for papers – Langue(s) & Parole, n°7, 2022 : le masque du locuteur 5 References Cohn, M., Pycha, A., & Zellou, G. (2021). Intelligibility of face-masked speech depends on speaking style: Comparing casual, clear, and emotional speech. Cognition, 210, 1-5, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104570 Giovanelli, E., Valzolgher, C., Gessa, E., Todeschini, M., & Pavani, F. (2021). Unmasking the Difficulty of Listening to Talkers With Masks: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. i-Perception, 12(2), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/ 2041669521998393 Kodali, R. K., & Dhanekula, R. (2021). Face Mask Detection Using Deep Learning. In 2021 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI) (pp. 1-5). IEEE. Magee, M., Lewis, C., Noffs, G., Reece, H., Chan, J. C., Zaga, C. J., ... & Vogel, A. P. (2020). Effects of face masks on acoustic analysis and speech perception: Implications for peri-pandemic protocols. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(6), 3562-3568. Onipede, F. M. (2021). Nigerians' Reactions towards COVID-19 Pandemic Health Precautions: A Pragma-Semiotic Analysis, International Review of Social Sciences Research, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 1- 24. Palmiero, A. J., Symons, D., Morgan III, J. W., & Shaffer, R. E. (2016). Speech intelligibility assessment of protective facemasks and air-purifying respirators. Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene, 13(12), 960-968. Vaxelaire, B., Sock, R., Kleiber, G., Marsac, F. (2007). Perturbations et Réajustements. Langue et langage, Publications de l'Université Marc Bloch - Strasbourg 2.
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| 7-4 | Research Topic (thematic issue): Science, Technology and Art in the Spoken Expression of Meaning Research Topic (thematic issue): Science, Technology and Art in the Spoken Expression of Meaning
Nonverbal language is a rich source of indexical and symbolic information in speech communication and a demanding field for scientific, technological, and artistic investigation. There is no speech communicative interaction in which pragmatic meanings are not conveyed either by voice quality, speech prosody or body gestures. Structuring prosodic information in its varied forms is the means the speaker uses to give a particular meaning to her/his saying. The study of prosody of speech produced by a human speaker or a machine in real-life situations for informing, for allowing a dialogue in the context of human-human or human-machine interactions, for entertaining, for communicating and for impressing the listener can pave the way to a better understanding of how prosody shapes speech production and perception in diverse domains such as technology, art, and scientific investigation.
Submission Deadlines
Link to submission: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/38820/science-technology-and-art-in-the-spoken-expression-of-meaning
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| 7-5 | CfP IEEE/ACM Transactions on ASLP, ACM/TASLP Special issue on the 9th and 10th Dialog System Technology Challenge
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| 7-6 | CfP IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
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| 7-7 | IEEE/ACM TASLP Joint Special Issue on the Ninth and Tenth Dialog System Technology Challenge IEEE/ACM TASLP Joint Special Issue on the Ninth and Tenth Dialog System Technology Challenge
Call for Participation https://dstc10.dstc.community/call-for-talsp-papers ===========================================================================================
The Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC) is an ongoing series of research competitions for dialog systems. To accelerate the development of new dialog technologies, the DSTCs have provided common testbeds for various research problems. The Ninth and Tenth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9&10) consist of the following nine main tracks.
DSTC9: -Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access
-Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II
-Interactive Evaluation of Dialog
-SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI
DSTC10: -MOD: Internet Meme Incorporated Open-domain Dialog
-Knowledge-grounded Task-oriented Dialogue Modeling on Spoken Conversations
-SIMMC 2.0: Situated Interactive Multimodal Conversational AI
-Reasoning for Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog
-Automatic Evaluation and Moderation of Open-domain Dialogue Systems
This special issue will host work on any of the DSTC9&10 tasks. Papers may describe entries in the official DSTC9&10 challenge, or any research utilizing their datasets irrespective of the participation in the official challenge. We also welcome papers that analyze the DSTC9&10 tasks or results themselves. Finally, we also invite papers on previous DSTC tasks as well as general technical papers on any dialog-related research problems.
Submission requirements ----------------------- You can get the author guide from the following link:
https://signalprocessingsociety.org/publications-resources/information-authors
Submission site ----------------------- Submit your paper at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tasl-ieee
Important Dates ----------------------- -Manuscript submission date: October 15, 2022
-First Review Completed: December 15, 2022
-Revised Manuscript Due: January 15, 2023
-Second Review Completed: March 15, 2023
-Final Manuscript Due: April 30, 2023
-Expected publication date: July 2023
CONTACT ------- For any query regarding this special issue please contact steering@dstc.community
Guest Editors Koichiro Yoshino, RIKEN, Japan Chulaka Gunasekara, IBM Research AI, USA
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| 7-8 | Special Issue at the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia:'Pre-trained Models for Multi-Modality Understanding' Dear Colleagues,
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