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| 3-1-1 | (2023-08-20) Interspeech 2023 Dublin, Registration open Registration Now Open We are delighted to announce that the INTERSPEECH 2023 conference registration is now open with Early Bird reduced rates available until 9th June 2023. Along with the conference registration you can book your accommodation, social events, tutorials, and satellite events. We strongly recommend that delegates visit the conference website https://www.interspeech2023.org/ to review each of the items above, before starting the registration process.
Registration procedures and fees depend on whether you are a member of ISCA at the time of the conference. To participate in the conference, your ISCA membership must be valid during the entire conference (August 20-24, 2023). Those who have a valid membership until August 24th 2023, should select the members rate, all other delegates should select the non-member rate which also includes one year’s ISCA membership. The ISCA Member Listing service allows you to search in the ISCA membership database for one’s name, membership number and status for verification purpose. Click here for more details.
*Light registrations do not include Party at the Storehouse tickets
Party at the Storehouse
Exhibition and Sponsorship Various sponsorship and exhibition packages, plus other support and partnership opportunities are available to book.
Contact us to learn more or discuss a package to suit your requirements.
Many thanks to our sponsors and supporters:
To ensure you are kept up to-to-date with news about INTERSPEECH 2023, please sign up to our newsletter through the conference website. Click here or visit www.interspeech2023.org
We look forward to welcoming you to Dublin to the 24th INTERSPEECH conference from August 20th to 24th 2023! Contact Us
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| 3-1-2 | (2023-08-20) Show and Tell @Interspeech 2023
INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. An important addition to the regular and special sessions are the Show and Tell demonstrations, where participants are given the opportunity to present engaging and interactive demonstrations to conference attendees. Contributions must highlight scientific or technological innovations of a concept relevant to INTERSPEECH and may relate to a regular paper. Demonstrations should be based on innovations and fundamental research in the areas of speech communication, speech production, perception, acquisition, or speech and language technologies.
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| 3-1-3 | (2024-07-02) 12th Speech Prosody Conference @Leiden, The Netherlands Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
Professor Barbosa and I are very pleased to announce that the 12th Speech Prosody Conference will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, July 2-5, 2024, and will be organized by Professors Yiya Chen, Amalia Arvaniti, and Aoju Chen. (Of the 303 votes cast, 225 were for Leiden, 64 for Shanghai, and 14 indicated no preference.)
Also I'd like to remind everyone that nominations for SProSIG officers for 2022-2024 are being accepted still this week, using the form at http://sprosig.org/about.html, to Professor Keikichi Hirose. If you are considering nominating someone, including yourself, feel free to contact me or any current officer to discuss what's involved and what help is most needed.
Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso CCSB 3.0408, +1-915-747-6827 nigel@utep.edu https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/
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| 3-1-4 | (2024-09-01) Interspeech 2024, Jerusalem, Israel.
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| 3-1-5 | (2025-08-217) Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands INTERSPEECH 2025
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| 3-1-6 | (2026) Interspeech 2026, Australia The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is honoured to have been selected to host INTERSPEECH 2026. Our theme of Diversity & Equity ? Speaking Together strongly reflects Sydney and our broader region. Sydney is Oceania?s largest city and is also its most linguistically diverse: more than 300 different languages are spoken and 40% of Sydneysiders speak a language other than English at home. Consistent with the goals of ISCA ?to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology?, INTERSPEECH Sydney will highlight the diversity of research in our field with a firm focus on equity and inclusivity. Recognizing the importance of multi-dimensional approaches to speech, INTERSPEECH 2026 will foster greater interdisciplinarity to better inform current and future work on speech science and technology. We look forward to welcoming all to Sydney!
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| 3-1-7 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers: see https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARSA seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However, presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.
Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials. If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org PS. The online seminar scheme is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:
Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.
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| 3-1-8 | Speech Prosody courses Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
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| 3-2-1 | (2023-08-28) DiSS Workshop 2023 (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech), Bielefeld, GE We are happy to announce that the DiSS Workshop 2023 (Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech)
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| 3-3-1 | (2023-07-15) MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, New York,NY, USA MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
The underlying theme of the current edition is *Digitalisation and Forensic Data Science: From evidence acquisition to interpretation*.
LIST OF SPEAKERS (almost confirmed) Fabio Bruno, Interpol, Singapore Didier Meuwly - University of Twente, NL Matthew Stamm, Drexel University, USA Giovanni Tessitore - Polizia Scientifica, IT Christian Reiss - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, DE
..others coming soon.
DIRECTORS Sebastiano Battiato - University of Catania, Italy Donatella Curtotti - University of Foggia, Italy Giovanni Ziccardi, University of Milan, Italy
PhD FORUM A special session is organized for participants who intend to take advantage of the audience for resenting their current research/tool in the area. Moreover this year, three prizes sponsored by Amazon AWS will be awarded (AWS credits to the top 3 students for a total value of $3500). Students will be selected by the scientific committee on the basis of their CV and the presentations to be given during the demo poster session.
APPLICATION The school will be open to about 75 qualified, motivated and pre-selected candidates. Ph. D. students, post-docs, young researchers (both academic and industrial), senior researchers (both academic and industrial) or academic/industrial professionals are encouraged to apply at: www.ifoss.it
The expected school fee will be of 550 euros for Master and Phd students granted by academia, € 600 for other academic positions and € 700 for industrial. Reduced Fee will be reserved to LEAs, private lawyers and practitioners 400 Euros. The fee will include all course materials, coffee breaks, bus service from Catania Airport to School Location and return, WiFi Internet Connection, a guided tour, a social dinner and all the events scheduled in the programme.
A certain number of scholarships will be available soon depending on sponsorship income.
Applications to attend IFOSS 2023 should be received before 07/05/2023. Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by mid of May. Late registration can be done with an extra payment of € 100.
ACCOMODATIONS IFOSS participants will be hosted at Hotel Village Baia Samuele (school location) at very special rates. There are no other accommodation options. IFOSS 2023 participants must make reservations for accommodation, using the accommodation reservation form (available soon) to be sent directly to Baia Samuele reception. More details at https://www.ifoss.it/accommodation/
After a certain date there is no guarantee for reservations in Hotel Village Baia Samuele. More information will be announced as soon as possible on the web site. Depending on chosens settings (Single, Double or Triple Room) the overall cost enclosing Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner should span in the range (600-1000 euros) in the period 16(in) to 22 (out) July 2023.
LOCATION OF IFOSS 2023 IFOSS 2023 will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele in Punta Sampieri - Scicli (Ragusa), Sicily from 16-22 July 2023. Sicily is one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean. The island is very rich in archeological sites from various Ancient Civilizations. The sea, weather, food and the wine are excellent. In particular Punta Sampieri - Scicli (RG) is located in the south east of Sicily in a late Baroque area called Val di Noto. The Val di Noto area is included in the Unesco World Heritage List and includes eight nearby towns: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli. The location of the school rises in the middle of an ample bay delimited on the west from Sampieri and on the east from a cliff, on which is founded an ancient furnace, rare example of industrial archaeology. The Hotel Village Baia Samuele stretches in a gentle slant to the beach: 120 thousand square meters delimited from rows of secular cypresses. An ultramodern village with an original architecture, pleasant design and all comforts you can imagine. The frame of plants and flowers, typical of this angle of Sicily, in front of the island of Malta, completes this gilded dream of the Mediterranean.
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| 3-3-3 | (2023-07-XX) Track 4: Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems - Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC11.T4) Track 4: Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems - Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC11.T4)
Call for Participation TRACK GOALS AND DETAILS: Two main goals and tasks: • Task 1: Propose and develop effective Automatic Metrics for evaluation of open-domain multilingual dialogs. • Task 2: Propose and develop Robust Metrics for dialogue systems trained with back translated and paraphrased dialogs in English. EXPECTED PROPERTIES OF THE PROPOSED METRICS: • High correlation with human annotated assessments. • Explainable metrics in terms of the quality of the model-generated responses. • Participants can propose their own metric or optionally improve the baseline evaluation metric deep AM-FM (Zhang et al, 2020). DATASETS: For training: Up to 18 Human-Human curated multilingual datasets (+3M turns), with turn/dialogue level automatic annotations as toxicity or sentiment analysis, among others. Dev/Test: Up to 10 Human-Chatbot curated multilingual datasets (+150k turns), with turn/dialogue level human annotations including QE metrics or cosine similarity. Data translated and back-translated into several languages (English, Spanish and Chinese). Also, there are several paraphrases with annotations for each dataset. BASELINE MODEL: The default choice is Deep AM-FM (Zhang et al, 2020). This model has been adapted to be able to evaluate multilingual datasets, as well as to work with paraphrased and back translated sentences.
REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION: ChatEval: https://chateval.org/dstc11 GitHub: https://github.com/Mario-RC/dstc11_track4_robust_multilingual_metrics PROPOSED SCHEDULE: Training/Validation data release: From November to December in 2022 Test data release: Middle of March in 2023 Entry submission deadline: Middle of March in 2023 Submission of final results: End of March in 2023 Final result announcement: Early of April in 2023 Paper submission: From March to May in 2023 Workshop: July-September/2023 in a venue to be announced with DSTC11 ORGANIZATIONS: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) National University of Singapore (Singapore) Tencent AI Lab (China) New York University (USA) Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
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| 3-3-4 | (2023-08-07) 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic We would like to welcome you to Prague for the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), which takes place on August 7–11, 2023, in Prague, Czech Republic.
ICPhS takes place every four years, is held under the auspices of the International Phonetic Association and provides an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of basic and applied research in the phonetic sciences. The main areas covered by the Congress are speech production, speech acoustics, speech perception, speech prosody, sound change, phonology, sociophonetics, language typology, first and second language acquisition, forensic phonetics, speaking styles, voice quality, clinical phonetics and speech technology.
We invite papers on original, unpublished research in the phonetic sciences. The theme of the Congress is “Intermingling Communities and Changing Cultures”. Papers related to this theme are especially encouraged, but we welcome papers related to any of the Congress’ scientific areas. The deadline for abstract submission is December 1, 2002, and for full-paper submission December 8, 2022.
We also invite proposals for special sessions covering emerging topics, challenges, interdisciplinary research, or subjects that could foster useful debate in the phonetic sciences. The submission deadline is May 20, 2022.
All information is available at https://www.icphs2023.org/, where it is also possible to register for email notifications concerning the congress.
Contact: icphs2023@guarant.cz
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| 3-3-5 | (2023-08-07) IPA bursaries for ICPhS The president of the IPA, Michael Ashby, would like to call attention to the IPA's generous scheme of student awards and travel bursaries for ICPhS. He hopes that many of us will encourage our students to apply.
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| 3-3-6 | (2023-08-18) SIGUL 2023 Workshop@ Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland
2nd Call for Papers Co-located with Interspeech 2023 Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 August 2023 The 2nd Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2023) provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2023 carries on the tradition of the SIGUL and the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organized since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this workshop will span the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages. Special Features This year, the workshop will be marked with three special events: (1) Special Session in Celtic Language Technology (August 18) SIGUL 2023 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language technologies for Celtic languages. (2) Joint Session with SlaTE 2023 (August 19) SIGUL 2023 will have a joint session with The 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SlaTE 2023). The goal is to accelerate the development of spoken language technology for under-resourced languages through education. (3) Social outing and dinner near Dublin (optional on August 20) Invited Speakers
Workshop Topics Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in natural language processing and spoken language processing for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers and also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics include but are not limited to:
We also welcome various typologies of papers:
Instructions for Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions according to the following guidelines.
Both types of submissions must conform to the Interspeech format defined in the paper preparation guidelines as instructed in the author’s kit on the Interspeech webpage. Papers do not need to be anonymous. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 28 May 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2023 - Camera-ready paper: 21 July 2023 - Workshop date: 18-20 August 2023 Outline of the Program SIGUL 2023 will continue the tradition of the previous SIGUL event that features a number of distinguished keynote speakers, technical oral and poster sessions, and panel discussions to discuss a better future for under-resourced languages and under-resourced communities. Full list of organizers SIGUL Board Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) SIGUL 2023 Organizers Kolawole Adebayo (ADAPT, Ireland) Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Brian Davis (ADAPT, Ireland) John Judge (ADAPT, Ireland) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) SIGUL 2023 Program Committee Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI-CNRS, France) Manex Agirrezabal (University of Copenhagen – Center for Sprogteknologi | Center for Language Technology, Denmark) Shyam S. Agrawal (KIIT, India) Begona Altuna (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | University of the Basque Country, Spain) Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) Matt Coler (University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands) Pradip K. Das (IIT, India) Iria De Dios Flores ( Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes, Spain) A. Seza Doğruöz (Universiteit Gent, België | Ghent University, Belgium) Stefano Ghazzali (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd) Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA) Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC [Artificial Intelligence Research Center], AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan) Laurent Kevers (Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France) Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates) Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Espanya | Spain) Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar) Delyth Prys (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd) Carlos Ramisch (Université Marseille, France) Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italia | Italy) Trond Trosterud (Norges Arktiske Universitet | The Arctic University of Norway)
Acknowledgments SIGUL is a joint Special Interest Group of the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The SIGUL 2023 workshop has been organized with the help of the local organizers of Interspeech 2023 and Slate 2023. This edition has been sponsored by Google and endorsed by Linguapax International.
Contact To contact the organizers, please mail sigul2023@ml.jaist.ac.jp (Subject: [SIGUL2023]).
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| 3-3-7 | (2023-08-20) Special session at Interspeech 2023 on DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments [DISPLACE] Challenge. We would like to bring to your notice the launch of the special session at Interspeech 2023 on DIarization of SPeaker and LAnguage in Conversational Environments [DISPLACE] Challenge.
The DISPLACE challenge entails a first of kind task to perform speaker and language diarization on the same data, as the data contains multi-speaker social conversations in multilingual code-mixed speech. In multilingual communities, social conversations frequently involve code-mixed and code-switched speech. In such cases, various speech processing systems need to perform the speaker and language segmentation before any downstream task. The current speaker diarization systems are not equipped to handle multi-lingual conversations, while the language recognition systems may not be able to handle the same talker speaking in multiple languages within the same recording. With this motivation, the DISPLACE challenge attempts to benchmark and improve Speaker Diarization (SD) in multilingual settings and Language Diarization (LD) in multi-speaker settings, using the same underlying dataset. For this challenge, a natural multi-lingual, multi-speaker conversational dataset will be distributed for development and evaluation purposes. There will be no training data given and the participants will be free to use any resource for training the models. The challenge reflects the theme of Interspeech 2023 - 'Inclusive Spoken Language Science and Technology – Breaking Down Barriers' in its true sense.
Registrations are open for this challenge which will contain two tracks - a) Speaker diarization track and b) Language diarization track.
A baseline system and an open leaderboard is available to the participants. The DISPLACE challenge is split into two phases, where the first phase is linked to the Interspeech paper submission deadline, while the second phase aligns with the camera ready submission deadline. For more details, dates and to register, kindly visit the DISPLACE challenge website: https://displace2023.github.io/
We look forward to your team challenging to
Thank you and Namaste, The DISPLACE team
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| 3-3-8 | (2023-08-26) CfP 12th Speech Synthesis Workshop - Grenoble-France CfP 12th Speech Synthesis Workshop - Grenoble-France - https://ssw2023.org - August 26-28, 2023:
The Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) is the main meeting place for research and innovation in speech synthesis, i.e. predicting speech signals from text input. SSW welcomes contributions not only in the core TTS technology but also papers from contributing sciences: from phoneticians, phonologists, linguists, neuroscientists to experts of multimodal human-machine interaction.
For more information, please consult: https://ssw2023.org/
The submission website is now open: https://openreview.net/group?id=Interspeech.org/2023/Workshop/SSW
Deadlines:
Note also that the data for Blizzard challenge 2023 on French have been released: https://www.synsig.org/index.php/Blizzard_Challenge_2023
Deadlines:
The decisions about SSW2023 papers have been just released. From 45 submitted papers, 37 were accepted and 8 rejected. With these high-quality papers, 3 invited talks, a round-table on 'ethics & generative AI-driven systems' and two memorable social events, the workshop sounds exciting! We look forward to welcoming you in Grenoble after Interspeech! The registration is now open: https://ssw2023.org/index.php/registration. Early bird registration is till July 12th. The LBR submission is also open till June 28th. You failed at ICASSP, Interspeech or SSW? You have on-going exciting, cutting-edge or experimental research? You are a Master student or PhD and want to present early-stage results? The Late-Breaking Reports (LBR) of SSW provide authors with the opportunity to present early-stage results and new ideas over exciting, cutting-edge or experimental research. LBRs are an excellent opportunity for researchers (e.g. results of a Master thesis) new to the field to participate in the conference. LBRs should be max 2 pages (including figures and references). Please find the latex style in : LBR_SSW2023. Send your .pdf submission as attached file to: organisation@ssw.org with object: 'LBR submission' ! All LBR submissions will undergo screening by the organizing committee. Accepted LBRs will be presented in a dedicated poster session. They will be assembled and published in a companion proceeding.
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| 3-3-9 | (2023-08-29) Blizzard Challenge 2023 We are delighted to announce the call for participation in the Blizzard Challenge 2023. This is an open evaluation of corpus-based speech synthesis systems using common datasets and a large listening test.
This year, the challenge will provide a French dataset from two native speakers. The two tasks involve building voices from this data. Please read the full announcement and the rules at:
Please register by following the instructions on the web page.
Important: please send all communications about Blizzard to the official address blizzard-challenge-organisers@googlegroups.com and not to our personal addresses.
Please feel free to distribute this announcement to other relevant mailing lists.
Olivier Perrotin & Simon King
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| 3-3-10 | (2023-08-30) CfP Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2023), Singapore *********************************************
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| 3-3-11 | (2023-09-04) CfP 26th Intern.Conf. on text, speech and dialogue (TSD 2023), Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic ***************************************************************************
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| 3-3-12 | (2023-09-07) Journée scientifique « Modèles de langue pour les domaines de spécialité », Nantes, France Dans le cadre du GdR CNRS Traitement automatique des langues (GdR TAL), le LS2N organise
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| 3-3-13 | (2023-09-07?) 16th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC2023), Varna, Bulgaria
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| 3-3-14 | (2023-09-10) Call for Demos @ Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference (ACII 2023),MIT, MA, USA
We are inviting you to submit your papers to the demo track of the annual gathering of the Association for the Advancement Of Affective Computing’s (AAAC) 2023 Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Conference (ACII 2023). It is the perfect opportunity to showcase demonstrations of recent advancements in this space. Technologies, multimodal products, and prototypes are all welcome for presentation, to engage with an international community of experts from various corners of social science, computer science, and data science. Demo presenters will benefit from heightened exposure for their work, and feedback from scientists and experts in the field. We encourage creative, artistic and thought-provoking experiences, and research prototypes and commercial products. Demos are also an excellent opportunity to find beta testers and other collaborators. A two-page extended abstracts is required and will be published in the conference proceedings for all accepted demos. Website: https://acii-conf.net/2023/calls/demos/
Location: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
Sep 10 - Sep 13, 2023 Important Dates Submission Deadline: 30th June, 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 11th July, 2023 Camera Ready Submissions: 1st August, 2023 Conference Dates: 10-13th September 2023 Requirements Submissions of demonstrations of research prototypes and innovative commercial products related to applications of affective computing and intelligent interaction are welcome. Submission Guidelines The submission materials should be combined into a single document including the following:
The demo papers submission process will be handled through the Easy Chair system. Please note that the demo presenters must register for the conference. Evaluation Criteria Each demo paper will be reviewed and selected based on its scientific contribution, originality and innovation, social impact, potential for widespread use, and relevance to topics of ACII. Demo papers should include detailed technical explanations of the methods used. Similar demos will be grouped together to maximize the visibility of the presenters and their technologies. Contacts: Please direct all questions to Prasanth Murali (murali.pr@northeastern.edu) or Daniel McDuff (dmcduff@google.com).
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| 3-3-15 | (2023-09-10) Cfp Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) Conference 2023, Cambridge, MA, USA
The Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) invites you to join us at our 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), which will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,on September 10th – 13th, 2023. The Conference series on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction is the premier international venue for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and, more generally, affective phenomena. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore (conditional on the approval by IEEE Computer Society) and indexed by EI. A selection of the best articles at ACII 2023 will be invited to submit extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. The theme of ACII 2023 is “Affective Computing: Context and Multimodality”. Fully understanding, predicting, and generating affective processes undoubtedly requires the careful integration of multiple contextual factors (e.g., gender, personality, relationships, goals, environment, situation, and culture), information modalities (e.g., audio, images, text, touch, and smells) and evaluation in ecological environments. Thus, ACII 2023 especially welcomes submitted research that assesses and advances Affective Computing’s ability to do this integration. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Recognition and Synthesis of Human Affect from ALL Modalities
Affective Interfaces
Affective, Social and Inclusive Robotics and Virtual Agents
Open Resources for Affective Computing
Fairness, Accountability, Privacy, Transparency and Ethics in Affective Computing
Important dates Main track submissions: 14 April 2023 Decision notification to authors: 2 June 2023 Camera ready submission for main track: 16 June 2023
The remaining important dates can be found at the ACII website.
We hope to see you at ACII 2023! ACII2023 Organizers AFFECTIVE COMPUTING & INTELLIGENT INTERACTION
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| 3-3-16 | (2023-09-11) 24th Annual Meeting of SIGDIAL/INLG, Prague, Czech Republic The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG) will be held jointly in Prague on September 11-15, 2023.
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers, continuing a series of 23 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for 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:
* Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering and information retrieval. Discourse issues in text generated by large language models. * Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications. Knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue. State representation, tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue. * Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora. * Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of conversations(i.e., beyond a single sentence), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions. * Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology.
Submissions
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Submitted long papers may be accepted for oral or for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters. * Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. * Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. * Demo descriptions should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.
Multiple Submissions
SIGDIAL 2023 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Overlap with the SIGDIAL workshop submissions is permitted for non-archived workshop proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs [at] sigdial.org.
Blind Review
Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2023 will follow the 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 format, which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word)
Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Submission Deadline
SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.
Regular submission
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the Softconf/START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 15, 2023 (23:59 GMT-11). Details and the submission link will be posted on the conference website.
Submission via ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2023 is June 19, 2023. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2023.
Mentoring
Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of 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 2023 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. SIGDIAL 2023 Program Committee Svetlana Stoyanchev and Shafiq Rayhan Joty Conference Website: https://2023.sigdial.org/
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| 3-3-17 | (2023-09-11) Call for Workshops - Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2023, MIT MediaLab, Cambridge, MA, USA
The organizing committee of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2023 is now inviting proposals for workshops and challenges. The biennial conference is the flagship conference for research in Affective Computing, covering topics related to the study of intelligent systems that read, express, or otherwise use emotion.
Workshops at ACII allow a group of scientists an opportunity to get together to network and discuss a specific topic in detail. Examples of past workshops include: Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, Applied Multimodal Affect Recognition, Functions of Emotions for Socially Interactive Agents, Emotions in Games, Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces, Affective Touch, Group Emotions, and Affective Computing for Affective Disorders. We want to encourage workshop proposals that draw together interdisciplinary perspectives on topics in affective computing. We also welcome Challenge-type workshops, where workshop participants would work on a shared task. This year, given our location in Boston and proximity to leading medical institutions, we particularly invite workshops that touch on health and wellness, spanning theoretical topics on affect in mental health to fielded medical applications of affective computing. Workshops should focus on a central question or topic. Workshop organizers will be responsible for soliciting and reviewing papers, and putting together an exciting schedule, including time for networking and discussion. Workshop organizers are also expected to present a short summary of the workshop during the main conference. Example workshops from ACII2022 are available at: https://acii-conf.net/2022/workshops/ The workshop proposals website: https://acii-conf.net/2023/calls/workshops/ Send your workshop proposal to both workshop chairs. Please include the following (max three pages):
Proposals will be reviewed in a confidential manner and acceptance will be decided by the ACII 2023 Workshop Chairs and ACII 2023 Senior Program Committee. Decisions about acceptance are final. Important dates February 17, 2023: Workshop proposal submission deadline. Refer to https://acii-conf.net/2023/important-dates/ for other dates. Workshop Chairs Timothy Bickmore, Northeastern University, t.bickmore@northeastern.edu Nutchanon Yongsatianchot, Northeastern University, n.yongsatianchot@northeastern.edu
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| 3-3-18 | (2023-09-11) Cf Workshops and Tutorials/24th Annual Meeting of SIGDIAL/INLG, Prague, Czech Republic The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial 2023) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2023) will be held jointly in Prague on September 11-15, 2023. We now welcome the submission of workshop and tutorial proposals, which will take place on September 11 and 12 before the main conference. We encourage submissions of proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse, dialogue, and natural language generation communities. This program is intended to offer new perspectives and bring together researchers working on related topics. We especially encourage the sessions that would bring together researchers from SIGDial and INLG communities. Topics of interest include all aspects related to Dialogue, Discourse and Generation including (but not limited to) annotation and resources, evaluation, large language models, adversarial and RL methods, explainable/ethical AI, summarization, interactive/multimodal/situated/incremental systems, data/knowledge/vision-to-text, and applications of dialogue and NLG. The proposed workshops/tutorials may include a poster session, a panel session, an oral presentation session, a hackathon, a generation/dialogue challenge, or a combination of the above. Workshop organizers will be responsible for soliciting, reviewing, and selecting papers or abstracts. The workshop papers will be published in a separate proceedings. Workshops may, at the discretion of the SIGDial/INLG organizers, be held as parallel sessions. Submissions Workshop and Tutorial proposals should be 2-4 pages containing: title, type (workshop or tutorial), a summary of the topic, motivating theoretical interest and/or application context; a list of organizers and sponsors; duration (half-day or full-day), and a requested session format(s): poster/panel/oral/hackathon session. Please include the number of expected attendees. The workshop proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co-chairs. Links Those wishing to propose a workshop or tutorial may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDial meetings: Natural Language in Human Robot Interaction (NLiHRI 2022) BigScience Workshop: LLMs 2021 Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence 2019 https://www.inlg2019.com/workshop https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm https://inlg2018.uvt.nl/workshops/ Important Dates Mar 24, 2023: Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline April 14, 2023: Workshops/Tutorials Notifications The proposals should be sent to conference@sigdial.org
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| 3-3-19 | (2023-09-19) CfP ACM IVA 2023 @ Würzburg, Germany. CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM IVA 2023
The annual ACM Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) is the premier international event for interdisciplinary research on the development, application, and evaluation of Intelligent Virtual Agents with a focus on the ability for social interaction, communication or cooperation. Such artificial agents can be embodied graphically (e.g. virtual characters, embodied conversational agents) or physically (e.g. social or collaborative robots). They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action allowing them to participate in dynamic social environments. This includes human-like interaction qualities such as multimodal communication using facial expressions, speech, and gesture, conversational interaction, socially assistive and affective interaction, interactive task-oriented cooperation, or social behaviour simulation. IVAs are highly relevant and widely applied in many important domains including health, tutoring, training, games, or assisted living.
We invite submissions of research on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: theoretical foundations of intelligent virtual agents, agent and interactive behaviour modelling, evaluation, agents in simulations, games, and other applications. Please see the detailed list of topics below.
VENUE ====== IVA 2023 will take place in Würzburg, Germany. Würzburg is a vibrant town located by the river Main in northern Bavaria, between Frankfurt and Nuremberg. The mix of stunning historical architecture and the young population is what makes the atmosphere so unique, including 35,000 students from three different universities. The mild and sunny climate is ideal to enjoy the many activities Würzburg has to offer: visiting a beer garden next to the river, attending a sporting or cultural event or taking a stroll through one of the parks.
IVA is targeted to be an in-person conference. In case of extraordinary circumstances, such as visa problems or health issues, video presentation will be possible. However, there is no digital or hybrid conference system planned, thus it is not possible to attend this year’s IVA conference remotely.
IMPORTANT DATES =================== Abstract submission: April 14, 2023 Paper submission: April 18, 2023 Review notification / start of rebuttal: May 31, 2023 Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2023 Camera ready deadline: July 18, 2023 Conference: September 19-22, 2023
All deadlines are anywhere on earth (UTC−12).
SPECIAL TOPIC =================== This year’s conference will highlight a special topic on “IVAs in future mixed realities”, e.g., in social VR and potential incarnations of a Metaverse. Immersive and potentially distributed artificial virtual worlds provide new forms of full-size embodied human-human interaction via avatars of arbitrary looks, enabling interesting intra- and interpersonal effects. They also enable hybrid avatar-agent interactions between humans and A.I.s, unlocking the full potential of non-verbal behavior in digital face-to-face encounters, significantly enhancing the design space for IVAs to assist, guide, help but also to persuade and affect interacting users. We specifically welcome all kinds of novel research on technological, psychological, and sociological determinants of such immersive digital avatar-agent encounters.
TYPES OF SUBMISSION =================== - Full Papers (7 pages + 1 additional page for references): Full papers should present significant, novel, and substantial work of high quality.
- Extended Abstracts (2 pages + 1 additional page for references) Extended abstracts may contain early results and work in progress.
- Demos (2 pages + 1 additional page for references +1 one page with demo requirements) Demos submissions focus on implemented systems and should contain a link to a video of the system with a maximum length of 5 minutes.
All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by a group of external expert reviewers. All accepted submissions will be published in the ACM proceedings.
Accepted full papers will be presented either in oral sessions or as posters during the conference (depending on the nature of the contribution), extended abstracts will be presented as posters, and demos will be showcased in dedicated sessions during the conference. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors must register for the conference.
IVA 2023 will also feature workshops and a doctoral consortium. Please visit the website (https://iva.acm.org/2023) for more details and updates.
TRACKS =================== For full paper submissions, IVA will have different paper tracks with different review criteria. Authors need to indicate which one of the following tracks they want to submit their paper to:
1. Empirical Studies
2. Computational Models and Methods
3. Operational Systems and Applications
SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS ======================== IVA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
AGENT DESIGN AND MODELING: - Cognition (e.g. task, social, other) - Emotion, personality and cultural differences - Socially communicative behaviour (e.g., of emotions, personality, relationship) - Conversational and dialog behavior - Social perception and understanding of other’s states or traits - Machine learning approaches to agent modeling - Adaptive behavior and interaction dynamics - Models informed by theoretical and empirical research from psychology
MULTIMODAL INTERACTION: - Verbal and nonverbal behavior coordination (synthesis) - Multimodal/social behavior processing - Face-to-face communication skills - Interaction qualities engagement, rapport, etc.) - Managing co-presence and interpersonal relation - Multi-party interaction - Data-driven modeling
SOCIALLY INTERACTIVE AGENT ARCHITECTURES: - Design criteria and design methodologies - Engineering of real-time human-agent interaction - Standards / measures to support interoperability - Portability and reuse - Specialized tools, toolkits, and toolchains
EVALUATION METHODS AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES: - Evaluation methodologies and user studies - Metrics and measures - Ethical considerations and societal impact - Applicable lessons across fields (e.g. between robotics and virtual agents) - Social agents as a means to study and model human behavior
APPLICATIONS: - Applications in education, skills training, health, counseling, games, art, etc. - Virtual agents in games and simulations - Social agents as tools in psychology, neuroscience, social simulation, etc - Migration between platforms
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS ========================= Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in the “ACM Standard” format, more specifically the “SigConf” format. Please consulthttps://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for the Latex template, word interim template, or connection to the overleaf platform. All papers need to be submitted in PDF-format.
By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.
Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
This event is sponsored by SIGAI.
Please visit the conference website for detailed information on how to submit your paper.
CONFERENCE WEBSITE ===================
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| 3-3-20 | (2023-09-20) CBMI 2023, Orléans, France Call for SS Proposals at CBMI’2023================== CBMI’2023 http://cbmi2023.org/ is calling for high quality Special Sessions addressing innovative research in content – based multimedia indexing and its related broad fields. The main scope of the conference is in analysis and understanding of multimedia contents including
and all this in the era of Artificial Intelligence for analysis and indexing of multimedia and multimodal information. A special oral session will contain oral presentations of long research papers, short papers will be presented as posters during poster sessions with special mention of an SS.
- Long research papers should present complete work with evaluations on topics related to the Conference. - Short research papers should present preliminary results or more focused contributions. - An SS proposal has to contain - Name, title, affiliation and a short bio of SS chairs; - The rational ; - A list of at least 5 potential contributions with a provisional title, authors and affiliation.
The dead line for SS proposals is coming: 23rd of January
Please submit your proposals to the SS chairs jenny.benois-pineau@u-bordeaux.fr mourad.oussalah@oulu.fi adel.hafiane@insa-cvl.fr
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| 3-3-21 | (2023-09-22) Last Call for Papers: Linguistic Insights from and for Multimodal Language Processing @KONVENS 2023, Ingolstadt, Germany We invite you to submit to the first edition of our workshop on 'Linguistic Insights from
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| 3-3-22 | (2023-10-09) Cf Tutorials ICMI 2023, Paris, France =====================================
* Deadline extended to 22 May 2023 *
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ICMI 2023 2nd Call for tutorial proposals
https://icmi.acm.org/2023/call-for-tutorials/
25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
9-13 October 2023, Paris, France
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ACM ICMI 2023 seeks half-day (3-4 hours) tutorial proposals addressing current and emerging topics within the scope of 'Science of Multimodal Interactions'. Tutorials are intended to provide a high-quality learning experience to participants with a varied range of backgrounds. It is expected that tutorials are self-contained.
Prospective organizers should submit a 4-page (maximum) proposal containing the following information:
1. Title
2. Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Tutorial
3. A short list of the distinctive topics to be addressed
4. Learning objectives (specific and measurable objectives)
5. The targeted audience (student / early stage / advanced researchers, pré-requisite knowledge, field of study)
6. Detailed description of the Tutorial and its relevance to multimodal interaction
7. Outline of the tutorial content with a tentative schedule and its duration
8. Description of the presentation format (number of presenters, interactive sessions, practicals)
9. Accompanying material (repository, references) and equipment, emphasizing any required material from the organization committee (subject to approval)
10. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions) together with their contact information and a list of 1-2 key publications related to the tutorial topic
11. Previous editions: If the tutorial was given before, describe when and where it was given, and if it will be modified for ACM ICMI 2023.
Proposals will be evaluated using the following criteria:
- Importance of the topic and the relevance to ACM ICMI 2023 and its main theme: 'Science of Multimodal Interactions'
- Presenters' experience
- Adequateness of the presentation format to the topic
- Targeted audience interest and impact
- Accessibility and quality of accompanying materials (open access)
Proposals that focus exclusively on the presenters' own work or commercial presentations are not acceptable.
Unless explicitly mentioned and agreed by the Tutorial chairs, the tutorial organizers will take care of any specific requirements which are related to the tutorial such as specific handouts, mass storages, rights of distribution (material, handouts, etc.), copyrights, etc.
Contact Details
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Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2023 Tutorial Chairs, Prof. Hatice Gunes and Dr. Guillaume Chanel: icmi2023-tutorial-chairs@acm.org
Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions.
Important Dates
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Tutorial Proposal Deadline May 22, 2023 (extended)
Tutorial Acceptance Notification June 5, 2023
Camera-ready version of the tutorial abstract July 3, 2023
Tutorial Dates Either 9 or 13 October 2023
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| 3-3-23 | (2023-10-09) 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023), Paris, France 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) 9-13 October 2023, Paris, France
The 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) will be held in Paris, France. ICMI is the premier international forum that brings together multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction research. Multimodal AI encompasses technical challenges in machine learning and computational modeling such as representations, fusion, data and systems. The study of social interactions englobes both human-human interactions and human-computer interactions. A unique aspect of ICMI is its multidisciplinary nature which values both scientific discoveries and technical modeling achievements, with an eye towards impactful applications for the good of people and society.
ICMI 2023 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), demonstrations, exhibits, doctoral consortium, and late-breaking papers. The conference will also feature tutorials, workshops and grand challenges. The proceedings of all ICMI 2023 papers, including Long and Short Papers, will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings and Digital Library, and the adjunct proceedings will feature the workshop papers.
Novelty will be assessed along two dimensions: scientific novelty and technical novelty. Accepted papers at ICMI 2023 will need to be novel along one of the two dimensions:
Please see the Submission Guidelines for Authors https://icmi.acm.org/ for detailed submission instructions. Commitment to ethical conduct is required and submissions must adhere to ethical standards in particular when human-derived data are employed. Authors are encouraged to read the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (https://ethics.acm.org/).
ICMI 2023 conference theme: The theme for this year’s conference is “Science of Multimodal Interactions”. As the community grows, it is important to understand the main scientific pillars involved in deep understanding of multimodal social interactions. As a first step, we want to acknowledge key discoveries and contributions that the ICMI community enabled over the past 20+ years. As a second step, we reflect on the core principles, foundational methodologies and scientific knowledge involved in studying and modeling multimodal interactions. This will help establish a distinctive research identity for the ICMI community while at the same time embracing its multidisciplinary collaborative nature. This research identity and long-term agenda will enable the community to develop future technologies and applications while maintaining commitment to world-class scientific research. Additional topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Important Dates Paper Submission: May 1, 2023 Rebuttal period: June 26-29, 2023 Paper notification: July 21, 2023 Camera-ready paper: August 14, 2023 Presenting at main conference: October 9-13, 2023
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| 3-3-24 | (2023-10-09) ACM ICMI 2023 2ND CALL FOR BLUE SKY PAPERS, Paris France ===========================================
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| 3-3-25 | (2023-10-09) ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITS, Paris, France
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| 3-3-26 | (2023-10-09) ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING RESULTS, Paris, France ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING RESULTS * Notifications: August 13th, 2023 * Camera-ready deadline: September 3rd, 2023
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| 3-3-27 | (2023-10-09) CfParticipation GENEA Challenge 2023 on speech-driven gesture generation, Paris, France Call for participation: GENEA Challenge 2023 on speech-driven gesture generation Location: Official Grand Challenge of ICMI 2023, Paris, France Website: https://genea-workshop.github.io/2023/challenge/ Overview The state of the art in co-speech gesture generation is difficult to assess, since every research group tends to use their own data, embodiment, and evaluation methodology. To better understand and compare methods for gesture generation and evaluation, we are continuing the GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Challenge, wherein different gesture-generation approaches are evaluated side by side in a large user study. This 2023 challenge is a Grand Challenge for ICMI 2023 and is a follow-up to the first and second editions of the GENEA Challenge, arranged in 2020 and 2022.
This year the challenge will focus on gesture synthesis in a dyadic setting, i.e., gestures that depend not only on speech, but also on the behaviour of an interlocutor in a conversation. We invite researchers in academia and industry working on any form of corpus-based non-verbal behaviour generation and gesticulation to submit entries to the challenge, whether their method is driven by rule or machine learning. Participants are provided a large, common dataset of speech (audio+aligned text transcriptions) and 3D motion to develop their systems, and then use these systems to generate motion on given test inputs. The generated motion clips are rendered onto a common virtual agent and evaluated for aspects such as motion quality and appropriateness in a large-scale crowdsourced user study.
Data ********************* The 2023 challenge is based on the Talking With Hands 16.2M dataset (https://github.com/facebookresearch/TalkingWithHands32M). The official challenge dataset also includes additional annotations, and is only available to registered participants.
Timeline ********************* April 1 – Participant registration opens May 1 – Challenge training dataset released to participants June 7 – Test input released to participants June 14 – Deadline for participants to submit generated motion July 3 – Release of crowdsourced evaluation results to participants July 14 – Paper submission deadline August 4 – Author notification August 11 – Camera-ready papers due October 9 or 13 – Challenge presentations at ICMI
If you would like to receive a notification when challenge registration opens, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/MFEXv84xGL3NrY3d9/.
Challenge paper ********************* Challenge participants are required to submit a paper that describes their system and findings, and will present their work at the Grand Challenge session at ICMI. All accepted papers will be part of the ACM ICMI 2023 main proceedings. Papers that are not accepted will have a chance to be considered for the GENEA Workshop 2023, whose papers are published in the ACM ICMI 2023 companion proceedings.
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| 3-3-28 | (2023-10-09) ICMI'23 CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES, Paris, France ICMI'23 CALL FOR MULTIMODAL GRAND CHALLENGES
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9-13 October 2023, Paris - France
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Teams are encouraged to submit proposals for one or more ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges. The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) is the world's leading venue for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. Identifying the best algorithms and their failure modes is necessary for developing systems that can reliably interpret human-human communication or respond to human input. The availability of datasets and common goals has led to significant development in domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, computational (para-) linguistics, and physiological signal processing, for example. We invite the ICMI community to propose, define, and address the scientific Grand Challenges in our field during the next five years. The goal of the ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges is to elicit fresh ideas from the ICMI community and to generate momentum for future collaborative efforts. Challenge tasks involving analysis, synthesis, and interaction are all feasible.
We invite organizers from various fields related to multimodal interaction to propose and run Grand Challenge events at ICMI 2023. 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 weaknesses.
* System-driven 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.
Prospective organizers should submit a five-page maximum proposal containing the following information:
1. Title
2. Abstract appropriate for possible Web promotion of the Challenge
3. Distinctive topics to be addressed and specific goals
4. Detailed description of the Challenge and its relevance to multimodal interaction
5. Length (full day or half day)
6. Plan for soliciting participation and list of potential participants
7. Description of how submissions to the challenge will be evaluated, and a list of proposed reviewers
8. Proposed schedule for releasing datasets (if applicable) and/or systems (if applicable) and receiving submissions.
9. Short biography of the organizers (preferably from multiple institutions)
10. Funding source (if any) that supports or could support the challenge organization
11. Draft call for papers: affiliations and email address of the organizers; 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 previous ICMI grand 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 (if any) will be made from the previous year.
The ICMI conference organizers will offer support with basic logistics, which includes rooms and equipment to run the challenge workshop, coffee breaks synchronized with the main track, etc.
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Proposals due: February 3, 2023
Proposal notification: February 10, 2023
Paper camera-ready: August 13, 2023
Grand challenge date: October 9 or 14, 2023
Proposals should be emailed to the ICMI 2023 Multimodal Grand Challenge Chairs, Sean Andrist and Fabien Ringeval: icmi2023-grand-challenge-chairs@acm.org
Prospective organizers are also encouraged to contact the co-chairs if they have any questions.
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| 3-3-29 | (2023-10-09) International Workshop on Multimodal Conversational Agents for Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Paris, France Website: https://sites.google.com/mit.edu/mcapnd2023
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| 3-3-30 | (2023-10-09)ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CONTRIBUTIONS, Paris, France ========================================================
ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CONTRIBUTIONS
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9-13 October 2023, Paris - France
https://icmi.acm.org/2023/doctoral-consortium/
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The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces.
Who should apply?
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While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
Why should you attend?
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The DC provides an opportunity to build a social network that includes the cohort of DC students, senior students, recent graduates, and senior mentors. Not only is this an opportunity to get feedback on research directions, it is also an opportunity to learn more about the process and to understand what comes next. We aim to connect you with a mentor who will give specific feedback on your research. We specifically aim to create an informal setting where students feel supported in their professional development.
Important Dates
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Submission deadline June 18, 2023
Notifications July 24, 2023
Camera-ready August 6, 2023
Submission Guidelines
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Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to ICMI are eligible to apply for the Doctoral Consortium (DC) and should submit the following materials:
1. Extended Abstract: A description of the PhD research plan and progress. Extended abstracts can be a maximum of four pages, although references can extend to a fifth page if needed. They should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI Short Papers (https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/). However, unlike short papers, DC submissions will not be anonymous. Be sure to include:
* The key research questions and motivation of the student’s research
* Background and related work that informs the student’s research
* A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem
* The research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies
* The research approach and methodology
* Research results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work
* A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of the PhD work
2. Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student’s PhD advisor, which should focus on the student’s PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student’s PhD training and research.
3. Curriculum Vitae: A two-page CV describing the student’s background and work.
All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
Process
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* Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/)
* Submission system: Precision Conference System
(https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/icmi23a)
* Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
* Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session
* Proceedings: Extended abstracts published in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library
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| 3-3-31 | (2023-10-29) ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE) - Emotion Share and RequestsCall for Participation: ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE) - Emotion Share and Requests http://www.compare.openaudio.eu/2023-2/ The ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE) is an open Grand Challenge dealing with states and traits of speakers as manifested in their speech signal’s properties and beyond. In this 14th edition, we introduce two new Sub-Challenges: • Emotion Share Sub-Challenge, • Requests Sub-Challenge Sub-Challenges allow contributors to find their own features with their own machine learning algorithm. Participants have five trials on the test set per Sub-Challenge. Participation has to be accompanied by a paper presenting the results that undergoes the ACM peer-review. Contributions using the provided or equivalent data are sought for (but not limited to): • Participation in a Sub-Challenge • Contributions around the Challenge topics Results of the Challenge and Prizes will be presented at ACM Multimedia 2023 in Ottawa between 29 October and 3 November 2023. Organizers General Chairs:
- Björn Schuller (University of Augsburg, Germany / Imperial College London, UK / audEERING)
- Anton Batliner (University of Augsburg, Germany)
- Shahin Amiriparian (University of Augsburg, Germany)
- Alexander Barnhill (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg Erlangen, Germany)
- Alan S. Cowen (Hume.AI, USA)
- Claude Montacié (Sorbonne University, France)
Data Chairs:
- Alice Baird (Hume.AI, USA)
- Nikola Lackovic (Malakoff Humanis, France)
[IMPORTANT] Please note, in case of participation: for the Requests sub-challenge, you have to sign the EULA the same way as in previous years: it is mandatory that it is signed by a *permanent* member of the staff, not for instance by a student!
For the Emotion Share Sub-Challenge, EULAs and data will be handled by Hume.AI. For more information visit
http://www.compare.openaudio.eu/2023-2/
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| 3-3-32 | (2023-10-29) Cf participation : the 2nd Conversational Head Generation Challenge @ ACM Multimedia 2023 Call for Participation: the 2nd Conversational Head Generation Challenge @ ACM Multimedia 2023
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| 3-3-33 | (2023-10-29?) 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'23) @ ACM Multimedia, Ottawa, Canada Call for Papers ------------------- 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'23) @ ACM Multimedia, Oct 29 – Nov 3, 2023, Ottawa, Canada
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Ottawa, Canada together with ACM Multimedia 2023. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from many different disciplines to share ideas and methods on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics: - annotation and indexing in sports - tracking people/ athlete and objects in sports - activity recognition, classification, and evaluation in sports - 3D scene and motion reconstruction in sports - event detection and indexing in sports - performance assessment in sports - injury analysis and prevention in sports - data driven analysis in sports - graphical augmentation and visualization in sports - automated training assistance in sports - camera pose and motion tracking in sports - brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions in sports - personal virtual (home) trainers/coaches in sports - datasets in sports - graphical effects in sports - alternative sensing in sports (beyond the visible spectrum) - multimodal perception in sports - exploiting physical knowledge in learning systems for sports - sports knowledge discovery - narrative generation and narrative analysis in sports - mobile sports application - multimedia in sports beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data
Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of their paper. All papers will undergo the same review process and review period.
Please refer to the workshop website for further information: http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2023/index.html
IMPORTANT DATES Submission Due: 14 July 2023 Acceptance Notification: 30 July 2023 Camera Ready Submission: 12 August 2023 Workshop Date: TBA; either Oct 29, 30 or Nov 2, 2023
Challenges -------------- This year again, MMSports carries out a competition where participants can compete on state-of-the-art problems applied to real-world sport specific data. The competition is made of individual challenges, each of which is sponsored by SportRadar with a US$1,000.00 prize. Each challenge comes with a toolkit describing the task, the dataset and metrics on which participants will be evaluated. This year, the second edition has 3 challenges: 2 on basketball and 1 on cricket! More information on the challenges can be found at http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2023/challenge.html.
ACM MMSports’23 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito
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| 3-3-34 | (2023-11-18 ) CfP The 2nd International Conference on Tone-and-Intonation (TAI 2023), Singapore
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| 3-3-35 | (2023-11-29) 10e Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole, Grenoble, France
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Les RJCP sont des journées marrainées par l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (https://www.afcp-parole.org/) qui offrent aux jeunes chercheurs l’occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux, d'élargir leurs connaissances et d’échanger sur les divers domaines de la Parole. Nous serons heureux d'accueillir tous les intéressés par des échanges autour de la recherche en parole, jeunes chercheurs ou non (dans la limite des places disponibles). Il y aura au progamme des sessions posters, des conférences, des formations et des visites de plateformes expérimentales dédiées à la parole. Une table ronde consacrée aux poursuites de carrière/perspectives professionnelles après la thèse vous sera également proposée. Plus d’informations seront affichées sur notre site Web au cours de l'été (à découvrir ici) ! DATES IMPORTANTES
THÈMES Nous invitons les communications sur les thèmes suivants (liste non exhaustive): * Acoustique de la parole APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS Masterants, doctorants, post-doctorants*, industriels* et jeunes chercheurs en recherche d'emploi* sont invités à soumettre un résumé de 300 mots maximum présentant leurs travaux à venir, en cours ou terminés pour la session posters: https://rjcp-2023.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit Le nombre de pages de références n’est pas restreint. Les templates seront à retrouver sous peu sur notre site, dans la section “Appel à Communications”. Le Comité d’organisation RJCP pourra prendre en charge l’impression des posters pour les personnes non affiliées à un laboratoire de recherche. Cette décision sera prise après discussion. Pour en faire la demande, veuillez nous contacter à jcparole@gmail.com. *Jusqu’à 3 ans après la thèse Nous espérons vous voir nombreux,
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| 3-3-36 | (2023-11-29) SPECOM 2023, Hubli-Dharwad, India
Special attractions for commemorating Silver Jubilee of SPECOM
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| 3-3-37 | (2023-12-11) Journée commune AFIA-THL / AFCP --- 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée' , LIA, Avignon, France Journée commune AFIA-THL / AFCP --- 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée' -
le lundi 11 décembre 2023 au Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon.
Appel à communications orales -
L'Association Française pour l'Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA), au travers de son collège Technologies du Langage Humain (TLH), organise avec l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP), une première journée commune sur le thème 'Extraction de connaissances interprétables pour l'étude de la communication parlée' le lundi 11 décembre 2023 sur Avignon.
L'objectif de cette journée est de réunir chercheur.euse.s dont l'objet d'étude est la communication parlée, que ce soit du point de vue des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (SHS) ou du Traitement Automatique des Langues et de l'Intelligence Artificielle. Il s'agira au cours de cette journée d'aborder la question de l'extraction de connaissances interprétables dans le signal de parole par le biais d'approches automatiques, en particulier basées sur des apprentissages profonds, pour l'étude de la communication parlée au sens large. Ces études pourront porter sur des thématiques comme l'analyse de la parole dans le domaine de la phonétique ou de la linguistique, la caractérisation du locuteur pour des tâches de reconnaissance, de segmentation et regroupement en locuteurs, de comparaison de voix (criminalistique), l'analyse de la voix/parole pathologique, l'analyse des informations para-linguistiques (autre que le locuteur) comme la parole expressive, les émotions, les accents régionaux, etc., l'étude de comportements cognitifs autour de l'acquisition de la parole, ... Côté Traitement Automatique des Langues et de l'Intelligence Artificielle, les thèmes autour des modèles auto-supervisés de représentation de la parole, de l'explicabilité des modèles, de l'évaluation de l'interprétabilité et de la pertinence des explications, des boucles interactives avec l'utilisateur, pourront également être abordés.
Cette journée sera ainsi l'occasion de montrer des approches automatiques déjà existantes d'extractions de connaissances interprétables, pour répondre aux besoins des chercheur.euse.s en SHS mais également d'exprimer de la part de ces derniers, de nouveaux besoins.
Elle s’adresse aussi bien aux jeunes chercheur.euse.s qu’aux chercheur.euse.s plus avancé.e.s du domaine. Elle est ouverte à la présentation de travaux à différents stades d’avancement voire à la présentation de projets de recherche en voie d'être lancés.
Outre l'intervention d'un conférencier invité et la tenue d'une discussion animée en fin de session, la journée sera rythmée par des communications orales de durée variable (de 10 à 20mn) en fonction des soumissions reçues.
Soumissions
Les propositions de communications orales sont attendues sous la forme d'un résumé d’une page environ au format texte comprenant un titre, une liste d'auteur.e.s, une liste de mots-clés et un résumé du contenu de la présentation proposée.
Elles devront être envoyées au format pdf par mail à Marie Tahon (marie.tahon@univ-lemans.fr) et Corinne Fredouille (corinne.fredouille@univ-lemans.fr)
Dates importantes
Co-organisation et Comité scientifique
La journée est co-organisée par Marie Tahon et Corinne Fredouille du collège TLH de l'AFIA et Maëva Garnier et Olivier Perrotin de l'AFCP et soutenue par un comité scientifique constitué de membres des deux institutions.
Programme et inscriptions
Le programme et le formulaire d'inscription seront disponibles prochainement.
L'inscription à la journée sera gratuite mais obligatoire.
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| 3-3-38 | (2023-12-16) The 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023), Taipeh, Taiwan The 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023) will be held on December 16 – 20, 2023, at Taipei, Taiwan. The workshop is held every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding. The conference will be an 'in-person' event (with a virtual component for those that can not attend physically). The event will be held in the Beitou Area, the town of hot springs of Taipei. We encourage all to join us for this wonderful event in Taiwan; looking forward to seeing you all in Taiwan. The paper submission deadline is July 3rd, 2023.
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| 3-3-39 | (2024-04-14) Call for Satellite Workshops, ICASSP 2024, SEOUL, South Korea Submit a proposal for ICASSP 2024 by 7 July 2023.
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| 3-3-40 | (2024-05-13) 13th International Seminar on Speech Production, Autrans, France 13th International Seminar on Speech Production, 13-17 May 2024, in Autrans, France
It is time for the next International Seminar on Speech Production.
After the launch in 1988 in Grenoble, followed by in Leeds (1990), Old Saybrook (1993), Autrans (1996), Kloster Seeon (2000), Sydney (2003), Ubatatuba (2006), Strasbourg (2008), Montreal (2011), Cologne (2014), Tianjin (2017) and virtually in in 2020, the 13th ISSP will come back (close) to Grenoble.
After a very successful virtual ISSP in 2020 (Haskins Labs), we are ready again for an in-person meeting in a very beautiful location in the mountains of Autrans (of course we will provide an option to attend virtually).
Take your calendars and mark the 13-17 May 2024 for the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production co-organized by several laboratories in France
More information including the website and important dates will be provided soon.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Autrans in 2024!
The organizing committee, Cécile Fougeron & Pascal Perrier together with Jalal Al-Tamimi, Pierre Baraduc, Véronique Boulanger, Mélanie Canault, Maëva Garnier, Anne Hermes, Fabrice Hirsch, Leonardo Lancia, Yves Laprie, Yohann Meynadier, Slim Ouni, Rudolph Sock, Béatrice Vaxelaire
Follow us on twitter @issp2024!
Claire PILLOT-LOISEAU
. Maître de Conférences HDR en Phonétique . Responsable du DU de Phonétique Appliquée à la Langue Française (DUPALF)
Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie UMR 7018 (LPP)
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, département Institut de Linguistique et de Phonétique Générales et Appliquées (ILPGA)
. 4, rue des Irlandais, 75005 PARIS (Laboratoire)
. 8, Avenue de Saint Mandé, 75012, PARIS (Université)
!CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT!
!KEYNOTE SPEAKERS! We are delighted to announce that the conference will be organized around 6 keynotes illustrating the diversity of research topics in - and out of - the field of Speech Production: María Florencia Assaneo (UNAM, Mexico), Adrien Meguerditchian (Aix-Marseille U., France), Doris Mücke (U. of Cologne, Germany), Caroline Niziolek (U. Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Sophie Scott (UCL, UK), Jason Shaw (Yale U., USA).
!IMPORTANT DATES! December 15, 2023 2-page abstract submission deadline February 1, 2024 Notification of acceptance April 15, 2024 optional full 4-page paper submission deadline May 13-17, 2024 ISSP2024 in Autrans, France
For updated information on our invited speakers, on the scientific and organizing committee, and more practical information, please visit regularly our conference website: https://issp24.sciencesconf.org/ and follow us on Twitter @issp2024!
!SURVEY! HYBRID OR NOT? In the spirit of most editions of the conference, we have chosen to have a unity of place for the scientific exchanges and accommodation, and this will be in a conference center in the mountains near Grenoble. Although we prefer all participants to be on-site during the conference, we are considering the possibility to organize it in a hybrid mode. Thus, could you answer as soon as possible the survey (if you plan to attend on-site or if you plan to attend remotely). This gives us a better idea of how we will proceed:https://framaforms.org/issp24-survey-1685914178
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| 3-3-41 | (2024-05-20)CfP LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Torino, Italy
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| 3-3-42 | (2024-07-22) 13th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, Erlangen, Germany 13th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics Erlangen, Germany 22nd-26th of July 2024
we cordially invite you to participate in the 13th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics, July 22nd – 26th of 2024! After the successful hosting in 2012, we are pleased to welcome you back in Erlangen, Germany! There will be two days of workshops prior to the three days of conference and several social events in the beautiful Nuremberg Metropolitan Region. The workshops (July 22nd-23rd) and the conference (July 24th-26th) will focus on voice physiology and biomechanics including computational, numerical and experimental modeling, machine learning, tissue engineering, laryngeal pathologies and many more. Abstract submission and registration will be open from November 1st, 2023. We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you in Erlangen, July 2024!
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| 3-3-43 | (2024-09-09) Cf Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024, Grenoble, FranceCall for Labs Proposals @CLEF 2024At its 25th edition, the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is a continuation of the very successful series of evaluation campaigns of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) which ran between 2000 and 2009, and established a framework of systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. As a leading annual international conference, CLEF uniquely combines evaluation laboratories and workshops with research presentations, panels, posters and demo sessions. In 2024, CLEF takes place in September, 9-12 at the University of Grenoble Alpes, France. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of information access and related communities are invited to submit proposals for running evaluation labs as part of CLEF 2024. Proposals will be reviewed by a lab selection committee, composed of researchers with extensive experience in evaluating information retrieval and extraction systems. Organisers of selected proposals will be invited to include their lab in the CLEF 2024 labs programme, possibly subject to suggested modifications to their proposal to better suit the CLEF lab workflow or timeline. Background The CLEF Initiative (http://www.clef-initiative.eu/) is a self-organised body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual information in different modalities - including text and multimedia - with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research and development by providing an infrastructure for:
Scope of CLEF Labs We invite submission of proposals for two types of labs:
We highly recommend organisers new to the CLEF format of shared task evaluation campaigns to first consider organising a lab workshop to discuss the format of their proposed task, the problem space and practicalities of the shared task. The CLEF 2024 programme will reserve about half of the conference schedule for lab sessions. During the conference, the lab organisers will present their overall results in overview presentations during the plenary scientific paper sessions to give non-participants insights into where the research frontiers are moving. During the conference, lab organisers are expected to organise separate sessions for their lab with ample time for general discussion and engagement with all participants - not just those presenting campaign results and papers. Organisers should plan time in their sessions for activities such as panels, demos, poster sessions, etc. as appropriate. CLEF is always interested in receiving and facilitating innovative lab proposals. Potential task proposers unsure of the suitability of their task proposal or its format for inclusion at CLEF are encouraged to contact the CLEF 2024 Lab Organizing Committee Chairs to discuss its suitability or design at an early stage. Proposal Submission Lab proposals must provide sufficient information to judge the relevance, timeliness, scientific quality, benefits for the research community, and the competence of the proposers to coordinate the lab. Each lab proposal should identify one or more organisers as responsible for ensuring the timely execution of the lab. Proposals should be 3 to 4 pages long and should provide the following information:
Lab proposals must be submitted at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2024 choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Proposals” track. Reviewing Process Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by the CLEF 2024 Lab Organizing Committee. The acceptance decision will be sent by email to the responsible organiser by 28 July 2023. The final length of the lab session at the conference will be determined based on the overall organisation of the conference and the number of participant submissions received by a lab.
Advertising Labs at CLEF 2023 and ECIR 2024 Organisers of accepted labs are expected to advertise their labs at both CLEF 2023 (18-21 September 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece) and ECIR 2024 (24-28 March 2024, Glasgow, Scotland). So, at least one lab representative should attend these events. Advertising at CLEF 2023 will consist of displaying a poster describing the new lab, running a break-out session to discuss the lab with prospective participants, and advertising/announcing it during the closing session. Advertising at ECIR 2024 will consist of submitting a lab description to be included in ECIR 2024 proceedings (11 October 2023) and advertising the lab in a booster session during ECIR 2024. Mentorship Program for Lab Proposals from newcomers CLEF 2019 introduced a mentorship program to support the preparation of lab proposals for newcomers to CLEF. The program will be continued at CLEF 2024 and we encourage newcomers to refer to Friedberg et al. (2015) for initial guidance on preparing their proposal: Friedberg I, Wass MN, Mooney SD, Radivojac P. Ten simple rules for a community computational challenge. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr 23;11(4):e1004150. The CLEF newcomers mentoring program offers help, guidance, and feedback on the writing of your draft lab proposal by assigning a mentor to you, who help you in preparing and maturing the lab proposal for submission. If your lab proposal falls into the scope of an already existing CLEF lab, the mentor will help you to get in touch with those lab organisers and team up forces. Lab proposals for mentorship must be submitted at the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2024 choosing the “CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship” track. Important Dates
CLEF 2024 Lab Chairs
CLEF 2024 Lab Mentorship Chair
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