| 3-2-2 | (2011-08-24) CfP SLaTE-2011 workshop Venice, Italy
CALL FOR PAPERS
We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the SLaTE-2011 workshop
August 24-26, 2011 (before Interspeech-2011 in Florence, Italy)
Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy
http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/SLaTE2011/
ISCA-SIG SLaTE
The ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) promotes the use of speech and language technology for educational purposes, and provides a forum for exchanging information (http://www.sigslate.org).
WORKSHOP THEMES
The workshop will address all topics related to SLaTE, such as:
- Speech technology for education
- Natural language processing for education
- Spoken dialogue systems for education
- Applications using speech and/or natural language processing for education
- Intelligent tutoring systems using speech and natural language
- Development of language resources for SLaTE applications
- Assessment of SLaTE methods and applications
We especially welcome contributions on the future of Speech and Language Technology in Education, e.g. mobile learning, serious gaming, virtual reality, social media (networks), etc.
In addition, we would like to invite demonstrations of systems.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Full 4-page papers should be submitted before April 8, 2011.
Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers will be given by June 10, 2011.
For further information see http://project.cgm.unive.it/events/SLaTE2011/
If you have questions, you can send an e-mail to SLaTE2011-org (at) let.ru.nl
ORGANIZATION
SLaTE-2011 will be organized by Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, technical program), Rodolfo Delmonte and Rocco Tripodi (Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, local organizers), within the framework of the ISCA-SIG SLaTE (see http://www.sigslate.org).
Best regards,
Helmer Strik, Catia Cucchiarini, Rodolfo Delmonte, and Rocco Tripodi
The SLaTE-2011 Organizing Committee
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| 3-2-3 | (2011-08-31) AVSP 2011 The 11th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
AVSP 2011 The 11th International Conference
on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing
August 31 - September 3, 2011
Volterra, Italy
http://www.avsp2011.org
The 11th international conference on Auditory-Visual Speech
Processing (AVSP) will be held from August 31 to September 3,
2011, directly following the INTERSPEECH2011 conference.
AVSP is a uniquely interdiciplinary conference, being focused on
synergy effects of auditory and visual speech information on
human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine
interaction. AVSP conferences have attracted a lot of researchers
in various fields, such as psychologists, computer engineers,
neuroscientists, linguists, phoneticians, and robot engineers.
The AVSP2011 conference will consist of oral and poster
presentations, a demo session and lectures by invited speakers
(announced later).
Submission of papers or demo proposals are invited in any areas
of auditory-visual speech processing including but not limited
to:
* Audio-visual speech synthesis
* Audio-visual speech recognition by humans and machines
* Models of multimodal integration
* Multimodal processing of spoken events
* Cross-linguistic studies of audio-visual speech processing
* Developmental studies of audio-visual speech processing
* Role of gestures accompanying speech
* Audio-visual prosody
* Modeling, animation and recognition of gestures and expressions
* Neurophysiology and neuropsychology of audition and vision
* Scene analysis using audio and visual information
* Novel techniques for animation of talking faces
* Data collection and corpora for audio-visual speech processing
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline 5 May 2011 (Final)
Notification of Acceptance 16 June 2011
Camera-ready Paper 1 July 2011
Early Registration Deadline 27 June 2011
Late Registration Deadline 22 August 2011
Conference 31 August - 3 September 2011
Submission
Prospective participants can submit a contribution in one of two
formats:
1. Full 4 or 6 page papers
2. 1 page demo proposals. Accepted proposals will be presented
during a demo session at the conference
Submission instructions can be found on the conference website
http://www.avsp2011.org. Submissions in both formats will be
reviewed by members of the scientific committee.
Organizing Committee
Jonas Beskow
Olov Engwall
Giampiero Salvi
Samer Al Moubayed
(Department of Speech, Music, and Hearing. KTH, Sweden.)
Scientific Committee
Gerard Bailly (GIPSA)
Piero Cosi (U.PADOVA)
Darren Cosker (U. BATH)
Sacha Fagel (ZOOBE)
Gabriele Fanelli (ETZH)
Björn Granström (KTH)
Valerie Hazan (UCL)
David House (KTH)
Carlos Ishi (ATR)
Alexandra Jesse (UMASS AMHERST)
Christian Kroos (MARCS)
Francisco Lacerda (STOCKHOLM U.)
Dominic W. Massaro (UCSC)
Slim Ouni (LORIA)
Catherine Pelachaud (PARIS TECH)
Gerasimos Potamianos (FORTH)
Laurel Riek (CAMBRIDGE)
Kaoru Sekiyama (U. KUMAMOTO)
Barry-John Theobald (UEA)
Registration Fees
Registration for the conference includes accommodation (3 nights),
meals and printed proceedings. Preliminary rates for early
registrants are 500 EUR for single room and 400 EUR for shared
double. Student attendees are encouraged to seek grants for
participation through ISCA.
Conference Website and Contact Info
http://www.avsp2011.org
info@avsp2011.org
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| 3-2-4 | (2011-09-01) CfP IWSDS2011 - Special Tracks
Call for Papers
IWSDS2011 - Special Tracks
Granada, Spain, September 1-3, 2011
Following on the success of IWSDS2009 (in Irsee, Germany) and IWSDS2010
(in Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan) this 3rd International Workshop on
Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS2011) will bring together researchers from
all over the world working in the field of spoken dialogue systems. It
will provide an international forum for the presentation of research and
applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists.
This year's workshop designates 'Paralinguistic Information and its
Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems' as a special theme of
discussion, considering three Special Tracks:
- Spoken dialogue systems for robotics
- Emotions and spoken dialogue systems
- Spoken dialogue systems for real-world applications
We would also like to encourage discussions of common issues of spoken
dialogue systems.
The workshop will be held just after INTERSPEECH 2011, Florence, Italy,
August 28-31, 2011. It is endorsed by SIGDIAL, a SIG of ISCA and ACL,
and is supported by the Korean Society of Speech Scientists. The
workshop proceedings will be published in a book by Springer.
Web page of the workshop
http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/iwsds2011
Important dates
June 3, 2011: Deadline for Long, Short and Demo papers
June 13, 2011: Author notification
June 19, 2011: Deadline for final submission of accepted paper
June 26, 2011: Deadline for early registration
September 1-3, 2011: Workshop
Chairs
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado - University of Granada, Spain
Tetsunori Kobayashi - Waseda University, Japan
Steering Committee
Gary Geunbae Lee - POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
Joseph Mariani - LIMSI-CNRS and IMMI, Orsay, France
Wolfgang Minker - Ulm University, Germany
Satoshi Nakamura - NICT, Kyoto, Japan
Local Committee
Zoraida Callejas - University of Granada, Spain
David Griol - Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Gonzalo Espejo - University of Granada, Spain
Nieves Abalos - University of Granada, Spain
Scientific Committee
Jan Alexandersson - DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Masahiro Araki- Interactive Intelligence lab, Kyoto Institute of
Technology, Japan
André Berton - Daimler R&D, Ulm, Germany
Sadaoki Furui - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Joakim Gustafson - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Tobias Heinroth - Ulm University, Germany
Paul Heisterkamp - Daimler Research, Ulm, Germany
Kristiina Jokinen - University of Helsinki, Finland
Tatsuya Kawahara - Kyoto University, Japan
Hong Kook Kim - Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Lin-Shan Lee - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Mike McTear - University of Ulster, UK
Mikio Nakano - Honda Research Institute, Japan
Elmar Nöth - University of Erlangen, Germany
Norbert Reithinger - DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Gabriel Skantze - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Alexander Schmitt - Ulm University, Germany
Kazuya Takeda - Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya
University, Japan
Hsin-min Wang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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