ISCApad number 83

May 17th, 2005

Dear Members,

The technical committee of Interspeech2005 will meet end of May. Authors who have submitted papers will be noticed acceptance or rejection soon.
At Interspeech 2005 in Lisbon, a quiz will be submitted to the participants: please send pertinent or insiduous questions (see below how).

ISCA Board under the recommendations of the ISCA Advisory Committee has selected the location for Interspeech-ICSLP 2008: the city of Brisbane (Australia) will welcome all participants. We congratulate the team who wrote a convincing bid under Denis Burnham's leading. I remind all members that Denis is heading MARCS Auditory Labs at University of West Sidney. The board also congratulates the other proposers who made such a good job that it was quite hard for the board to come to a final decision.

The list of preprints in Speech Communication is particularly long this month: speech community was very active! If your lab has subscribed to sciencedirect.com, you have access to a pdf version of these papers.

Our list of members is monthly updated from the delivery problems met when sending ISCAPad. However some of you are unreachable due to strong firewalls filtering our messages: in case you missed some issues of ISCApad you may download them from our website .

Do not forget to send the information you want to display for members in time to be included in IscaPad (last week of each month).

Christian Wellekens

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. ISCA News
  2. Courses, internships, data bases, softwares
  3. Job openings
  4. Journals and Books
  5. Future Interspeech Conferences
  6. Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW)
  7. Forthcoming Events supported (but not organized) by ISCA
  8. Future Speech Science and technology events

ISCA NEWS

-INTERSPEECH2005 SCIENCE QUIZ - CALL FOR QUESTIONS
A new, imaginative activity at INTERSPEECH-EUROSPEECH in LISBON! Participants will be challenged to find questions to 20 intruiging questions from the area of language and speech science and technology. Sparkling discussions are expected during coffee breaks, lunches and during Lisbon night life.
YOU are invited to submit questions by email before June 1, 2005. See the INTERSPEECH2005 Science Quiz webaddress for more details.

-ORGANIZATION of INTERSPEECH 2009 -- EUROSPEECH
Call for proposals
Individuals or organisations interested in organizing INTERSPEECH 2009 -- EUROSPEECH should submit by 15 December 2005 a brief preliminary proposal, including:
* The name and position of the proposed general chair and other principal organizers.
* The proposed period in September/October 2009 when the conference would be held
*The institution assuming financial responsibility for the conference and any other sponsoring institutions
*The city and conference center proposed (with information on that center's capacity)
*Information on transportation and housing for conference participants
*Likely support from local bodies (e.g. governmental)
*The commercial conference organizer (if any)
*A preliminary budget
Guidelines for the preparation of the proposal are available at our website. Additional information can be provided by Julia Hirschberg . Those who plan to put in a bid are asked to inform ISCA of their intentions as soon as possible. They should also consider attending Eurospeech 2005 in Lisbon to discuss their bids, if possible.
Proposals should be submitted by email to the above address. Candidates fulfilling basic requirements will be asked to submit a detailed proposal by 28 February 2006.
Julia Hirschberg
Vice President and Conference Liaison, ISCA
Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
1214 Amsterdam Avenue, M/C 0401
450 CS Building
New York, NY 10027
phone: (212) 939-7114 FAX: (212) 666-0140 Webaddress

-MEMBERSHIP FEES
Membership fees have been revised to in order to further broaden membership in speech research communities worldwide, and in order to ensure that fee level is not a barrier to ISCA membership. Details can be found on our Website.

-AISV - "Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce" -(Italian Association for Speech Sciences) was finally constituted as a new ISCA SIG associated Regional Branch for ITALY.
The purpose of AISV as a new ISCA Regional Branch for ITALY will be to promote interest in Speech Communication in that particular region; to provide members of ISCA in ITALY with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in Speech Communication; to sponsor meetings and workshops in Speech Communication that appear to be timely and worthwile, operating within the framework of ISCA's by-laws for SIGs; and to provide and make available resources relevant to Speech Communication, including text and speech corpora, analysis tools, analysis and generation software, research papers and generated data. Moreover, the purpose of the Association is to promote, in the scientific, technical, normative, industrial, social, professional and didactic fields, the study of Speech Sciences in Italy. In particular, the Association is turned to all the subjects differently involved in the study of Phonetics (Acoustic/Articulatory), of the Speech Signal Processing and of the Automatic Treatment of the Language (Trattamento Automatico del Linguaggio - TAL) in which are grouped all those disciplines that take care of voice man-machine interaction and of human language understanding.
Piero Cosi
AISV Presidente
ISTC-SPFD CNR
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione
Sezione di Padova "Fonetica e Dialettologia"
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via G. Anghinoni, 10 - 35121 Padova (Italy)
SMCL
Speech and Multimodal Communication Laboratory
phone: +39 049 8274413 fax: +39 049 8274416

- A LIST OF MEMBERS (including membership numbers and subcription expiry dates) is available online at: http://www.isca-speech.org/member_list.html

-ISCApad publishes now a LIST of PAPERS
accepted for publication in Speech Communication (under heading Journals,...). These papers can be also viewed on the website of ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com) if your institution has subscribed to Speech Communication.

-ISCA GRANTS
are available for students and young scientists attending meetings. Even if no information on the grants is advertised on the conference announcement, they may apply.
For more information: http://www.isca-speech.org/grants

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COURSES, DATABASES, SOFTWARES

SUMMER SCHOOL: VARIATION IN SPEECH PRODUCTION AND SPEECH PERCEPTION

On August 10-15, 2005, the Nordic Network on Variation in Speech Production and Speech Perception (VISPP) will organize an international summer school on speech variation in Palmse, Estonia.
Course list:

Fiona Gibbon (Queen Margaret University College, UK): Speech production and pathologies: normal and disordered EPG data

Valerie Hazan (University College London, UK): Issues of individual variability in speech production and/or perception in various populations (L1 and L2 speakers, children with dyslexia, children with hearing impairment)

Anne-Marie Öster (KTH, Sweden): Pronunciation training in relation to variation in phonological capabilities for prelingually hearing-impaired children and L2 speakers using several computer-based systems

Martin Russell (University of Birmingham, UK): Engineering approaches to modelling variability in speech signals

Detailed information on our website

-Information on ON-GOING THESES

could be very useful for thesis supervisors, researchers as well as PhD students. A list of speech theses is available under the section HLTheses at http://www.elsnet.org

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JOB OPENINGS

(also have a look at http://www.isca-speech.org/jobs as well as http://www.elsnet.org > Jobs)

-IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland: two open positions for senior esearchers .

IDIAP is currently seeking exceptional senior researchers with a proven record of high level research, as well as project management, in the areas of speech processing and computer vision.
Activities in speech processing currently cover speech recognition (using HMMs and hybrid HMM/ANN approaches), novel feature extraction and acoustic modeling techniques, decoders for large vocabulary speech recognition systems, sound source localizaion and tracking (microphone arrays), speaker turn detection, etc.
Activities in computer vision currently cover object recognition, motion analysis, text recognition, detection and recognition (for faces, gestures, etc), and video indexing.
Most of these research ativities take place in the framework of National long term research initiatives such as the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on "Interactive Multimodal Information Management" (IM2 for more detail) or large European projects such as "Augmented Multi-party Interaction" (see AMI for more detail).
Succesfull candidates are expected to have several years experience in the above areas, with good and practical knowledge of C/C++ and related programming languages. While still being active in research, they also have experience in project management and supervision of researchers, including PhD students. Given the links between IDIAP and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), academic careers can also be envisionned for exceptional candidates.
Interested candidates should send a letter of motivation, along with their detailed CV and names of 3 references to our human resources dpt. More information can also be obtained by contacting Prof. Hervé Bourlard .

-JUNIOR RESEARCH POSITIONS in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at ROVIRA I VIRGILI University (Tarragona, Spain).

ELIGIBLE TOPICS
The eligible topics are the institute's current or future research directions:
- Formal language theory and its applications.
- Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology.
- Bioinformatics.
- Language and speech technologies.
- Formal theories of language acquisition and evolutionary linguistics.
- Computational neuroscience.
Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them.
JOB PROFILE
- Duration: 5 years.
- The researchers that can prove an exceptional record during that period will be eligible for a permanent senior research position.
- Work contract with all Social Security rights.
- The main duty of the position is research, with possible supervising and doctoral teaching too.
- The scheme funding the position is extremely competitive.
ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS
- PhD degree got before May 13, 2003.
- Experience at a foreign institute for at least 2 years.
- Age less than 34.
- Exceptional research career, with a very strong record of publications and other achievements.
- There is no restriction on nationality.
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
- Salary at the level of a young Associate Professor in the Spanish university system.
- Full public health insurance coverage.
EVALUATION PROCEDURE
It will consist of 2 steps:
- a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute,
- a full proposal (application form + CV + letters of reference + letter of acceptance by the host institute), to be assessed externally by the funding agency.
SCHEDULE
Expressions of interest are welcome until May 4, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-9" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after.
Preselected candidates will be given full support in the application process by the host institute. The deadline for completing the whole process is May 10, 2005.
CONTACT
Carlos Martin-Vide

STANFORD UNIVERSITY : Postdoctoral Research Positions in Speech Recognition and Synthesis

Position 1: Postdoctoral Researcher in Speech Recognition
The Stanford NLP Group seeks to hire an outstanding postdoctoral researcher in speech recognition, emphasizing skills in machine learning and high-level knowledge-based approaches to language.
Particular topics of interest include the incorporation of spoken parse structures and discourse and prosodic information early in the speech recognition process, and the use of word-specific discriminative classifiers, particularly for highly confusable words such as function words and filled pauses. The emphasis is on the use of both complex linguistic representations and features, and machine learning techniques such as dynamic graphical models and discriminative models. An ideal candidate is a recent PhD in computer science, linguistics, or electrical engineering, who has hands-on experience with spoken language processing, good formal background in machine learning techniques, and exposure to higher-level natural language processing and linguistic structure. We're looking for someone with strong computational and mathematical skills, good organizational skills, and the ability to be part of and show leadership within a team.
The work will be part of a new grant-funded project 'Human-Like Speech Processing' run at Stanford by Dan Jurafsky and Christopher Manning, in collaboration with partners at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California. A postdoc would need to contribute to the goals of this project, and participate in project reviews and evaluations. The postdoc will join a leading interdisciplinary speech and language processing group with strengths in speech recognition, statistical natural language processing, dialogue understanding, and psycholinguistic models of language processing and development. for more information.
The position is available for 2 years, subject to satisfactory performance. To apply, please email a cover letter, emphasizing relevant background and project experience, a CV, a one-page statement of research interests, and arrange for 2 or 3 references to be sent to the address below (by post or email). Applications received by May 10 will receive full consideration, but the position will remain open until filled. Stanford University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.
Position 2: Postdoctoral Researcher in Speech Synthesis
Stanford University seeks to hire an outstanding postdoctoral researcher in computer speech synthesis. The goals of this research effort are to generate prosodic structure appropriate for communicating specific meanings and information structures.
Specific topics of interests include the role of prosody in synthesis, particularly of expressive and emotional speech, improved synthesis of function words in various prosodic environments, new probabilistic algorithms for synthesis and prosody, and research on speech recognition that addresses links to these aspects of synthesis.
An ideal candidate is a recent PhD in computer science, linguistics, or electrical engineering, with research experience in spoken language processing, knowledge of prosody, and familiarity with machine learning. We're looking for someone with strong computational skills and good linguistic background.
The work is part of a grant-funded project 'Expressive Prosody for Speech Synthesis', run at Stanford by Dan Jurafsky, in collaboration with Simon King, Rob Clark, and Mark Steedman at the University of Edinburgh, and the postdoc would need to help contribute to the goals of the project.
You would be joining a leading interdisciplinary speech and language processing group with strengths in speech recognition, statistical natural language processing, dialogue understanding, and psycholinguistic models of language processing and development. The position is available for 1 year, with an additional year possible subject to satisfactory performance. To apply, please email a cover letter, emphasizing relevant background and project experience, a CV, a one-page statement of research interests, and arrange for 2 or 3 references to be sent to the address below (by post or email). Applications received by May 10 will receive full consideration, but the position will remain open until filled. Stanford University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.
Address for Applications for either position (email preferred):
Attn: Nikhila Pai
Linguistics Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150, USA
Tel: 650-723-4284
Website

Post-doc and PhD Research Assistantship Positions
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Texas at Dallas

Post-doc and PhD research assistantship positions in the areas of digital signal processing and speech processing are available in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Potential candidates should have a solid background in signal processing, preferably in the speech processing area. Other areas such as signal processing applied to communications are also acceptable.
The candidate will be working on research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health. To get an idea about our current research projects, you may visit our website.
The University of Texas-Dallas (UTD) is located in one of the most attractive suburbs of the Dallas metropolitan area. There are over 250 high-tech companies within a few miles of the campus, including Nortel Networks, Texas Instruments, Samsung, Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia, etc. The University of Texas at Dallas enrolls approximately 8,500 undergraduate and 5,500 graduate students. The school’s freshman class stands at the forefront of Texas state universities in terms of average SAT scores. For additional information about UTD, please visit the university’s web site.
Interested applicants should email their curriculum vitae along with a list of three professional references to Prof. Philip Loizou.

-Postdocs at DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES, Berlin
Deutsche Telekom, in collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin, is setting up a new corporate research and development center under the name of "Deutsche Telekom Laboratories". Several postdoc positions are open each in the broad areas of Human Interface, Multimedia, Security, and Networking ( please refer to http://www.deutsche-telekom-laboratories. de ). Outstanding applicants will be invited to interview and speak at one of three symposia which we will hold in Berlin in April and June 2005.

JOURNALS and BOOKS

Special issue of Speech Communication Journal on ROBUSTNESS ISSUES IN CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION

Following the ISCA Tutorial and COST 278 Research Workshop (ITRW) on Robustness Issues in Conversational Interaction (Robust2004) held at the University of East Anglia (Norwich) in August 2004 a special edition of the Speech Communication Journal is planned along the same theme of robustness. This special edition will focus on methods of developing robustness against effects that are known to degrade the performance of components within conversational interaction systems. Degradation can arise from many different sources (acoustic noise, packet loss, speaker variability, etc) and compensation against these may come from a variety of different techniques; from signal processing, model adaptation, confidence measures, dialogue strategies and inclusion of additional modalities. In particular the special edition will focus on the following areas:
*Robustness against environmental noise
-Model adaptation
-Feature extraction
-Filtering and transformations
-Enhancement
*Robustness against unreliable transmission channels
-Distributed approaches to ASR
-Channel protection
-Error concealment – reconstruction or adaptation
*Robust conversational system design
-Utterance verification
-Confidence measures
-Error handling
-Dialogue strategies
-User modelling and adaptation
*Non-speech modalities to improve robustness
-Multi-modal interaction
-Modality fusion and synchronisation
-Non-speech audio
-Non-acoustic features
*Robustness to speaker variability
-Spontaneous speech
-Dialects and non-native speakers
-Speaker adaptation
Submission of papers is open to both participants of Robust2004 (through submission of an extended workshop paper) and non-participants alike.
Guest Editors

Dr. Ben Milner, University of East Anglia, UK
Prof. Borge Lindberg, Aalborg University, Denmark
Prof. Christian Wellekens, EURECOM, France

Important Dates
Submission deadline 31th July 2005 (extended deadline)

Submission Procedure:
Electronic submission http://ees.elsevier.com/specom. During submission authors must select the Section as "Special Issue Paper", not "Regular Paper", and the title of the special issue should be referenced in the "Comments" page along with any other information.

Special Issue of Signal Processing (Elsevier) on MULTIMODAL HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES

Closely linked with the actions of the Network of Excellence on Multimodal Interfaces SIMILAR we are seeking for original manuscripts for a Special Issue of Signal Processing scheduled to appear in January 2006.
Multimodal Interfaces represent an emerging interdisciplinary research direction, involving speech and language, vision, gesture, haptics and other senses.

The topics of interest are (but not limited to):
· Multimodal-multisensor input and output interfaces
· Multimodal interface design and evaluation
· Architecture, Tools and System Infrastructure for multimodal interfaces
· Fusion techniques
· Processing of speech, language and action patterns
· Gaze, gesture and vision-based interfaces
· Speech & conversational interfaces
· Musical interfaces
· Haptics interfaces
· Adaptive multimodal interfaces
· Multimodal interfaces for Mobile, Wearable, Tangible, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality systems
· Applications of multimodal interfaces

Papers for this special issue will be chosen from the submissions whether they are unpublished results or those previously included in conference publications. The submissions that are revised or extended versions of previous conference publications should contain at least 30% new material. Copies of any previous published work affiliated with the new submission must also be included as supportive documentation upon submission.

For complete submission guidelines at: authors.elsevier.com The paper submission should be by e-mail, in PDF format, to multimodal@imag.fr
Prospective authors are invited to announce as early as possible the tentative title and the list of authors to this address.

For any questions
Thierry Dutoit - Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
Laurence Nigay - University Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, France,
Michael Schnaider - Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung e.V. , Germany,

Important dates:
Special Issue Submission Deadline: May 31, 2005
Notification of Final Acceptance: September 30, 2005
Complete Publication Materials Due: November 30, 2005
Publication: January 2006

-Papers accepted for FUTURE PUBLICATION in Speech Communication

Full text available on http://www.sciencedirect.com for Speech Communication subscribers and subscribing institutions. Click on Publications, then on Speech Communication and on Articles in press. The list of papers in press is displayed and a .pdf file for each paper is available.

Chiu-yu Tseng, Shao-huang Pin, Yehlin Lee, Hsin-min Wang and Yong-cheng Chen, Fluent speech prosody: Framework and modeling, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 16 May 2005, .

Hansjörg Mixdorff and Hartmut R. Pfitzinger, Analysing fundamental frequency contours and local speech rate in map task dialogs, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 16 May 2005, .

Daniel Hirst, Form and function in the representation of speech prosody, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 16 May 2005, .

Keikichi Hirose, Kentaro Sato, Yasufumi Asano and Nobuaki Minematsu, Synthesis of F0 contours using generation process model parameters predicted from unlabeled corpora: Application to emotional speech synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 16 May 2005, .

Takeshi Saitou, Masashi Unoki and Masato Akagi, Development of an F0 control model based on F0 dynamic characteristics for singing-voice synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 16 May 2005, .

E. Shriberg, L. Ferrer, S. Kajarekar, A. Venkataraman and A. Stolcke, Modeling prosodic feature sequences for speaker recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 16 May 2005, .

Hasan Palaz, Yücel Bicil, Alper Kanak and Mehmet Ugur Dogan, New Turkish intelligibility test for assessing speech communication systems, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 May 2005, .

Florien J. van Beinum, Caroline E. Schwippert, Pieter H. Been, Theo H. van Leeuwen and Cecile T.L. Kuijpers, Development and application of a /bAk/-/dAk/ continuum for testing auditory perception within the Dutch longitudinal dyslexia study, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 12 May 2005, .

Els den Os, Lou Boves, Stéphane Rossignol, Louis ten Bosch and Louis Vuurpijl, Conversational agent or direct manipulation in human-system interaction, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 12 May 2005, .

Liya V. Bondarko, Phonetic and phonological aspects of the opposition of 'soft' and 'hard' consonants in the modern Russian language, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 12 May 2005, .

Greg Kochanski and Chilin Shih, Erratum to "Quantitative measurement of prosodic strength in Mandarin [Speech Communication 41 (2003) 625-645]", Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 11 May 2005, .

Tanja Bänziger and Klaus R. Scherer, The role of intonation in emotional expressions, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, .

Rolf Carlson and Björn Granström, Data-driven multimodal synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, .

Andrej Zgank, Bogomir Horvat and Zdravko Kacic, Data-driven generation of phonetic broad classes, based on phoneme confusion matrix similarity, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, .

Astrid van Wieringen and Jan Wouters, Normalization and feasibility of speech understanding tests for Dutch speaking toddlers, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, .

Yi Xu, Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, .

Björn Granström and David House, Audiovisual representation of prosody in expressive speech communication, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, .

Jin-Song Zhang, Satoshi Nakamura and Keikichi Hirose, Tone nucleus-based multi-level robust acoustic tonal modeling of sentential F0 variations for Chinese continuous speech tone recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 5 May 2005, .

Jerome R. Bellegarda, Unsupervised, language-independent grapheme-to-phoneme conversion by latent analogy, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 3 May 2005, .

David House, Phrase-final rises as a prosodic feature in wh-questions in Swedish human-machine dialogue, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 3 May 2005, .

Rolf Carlson, Julia Hirschberg and Marc Swerts, Cues to upcoming Swedish prosodic boundaries: Subjective judgment studies and acoustic correlates, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 3 May 2005, .

Jan van Santen, Alexander Kain, Esther Klabbers and Taniya Mishra, Synthesis of prosody using multi-level unit sequences, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 3 May 2005, .

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Ken Chen, Jennifer Cole, Sarah Borys, Sung-Suk Kim, Aaron Cohen, Tong Zhang, Jeung-Yoon Choi, Heejin Kim, Taejin Yoon and Sandra Chavarria, Simultaneous recognition of words and prosody in the Boston University Radio Speech Corpus, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 3 May 2005, .

Christine D.L. van Gogh, Joost M. Festen, Irma M. Verdonck-de Leeuw, Andrew J. Parker, Louis Traissac, Anthony D. Cheesman and Hans F. Mahieu, Acoustical analysis of tracheoesophageal voice, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 April 2005, .

Kathiresan Manickam, Christopher Moore, Terry Willard and Nicholas Slevin, Quantifying aberrant phonation using approximate entropy in electrolaryngography, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 April 2005, .

Christopher Dromey, Jose Silveira and Paul Sandor, Recognition of affective prosody by speakers of English as a first or foreign language, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 27 April 2005, .

Eric Fosler-Lussier, William Byrne and Daniel Jurafsky, Editorial, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 27 April 2005, .

Thomas Hain, Implicit modelling of pronunciation variation in automatic speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 26 April 2005, .

Israel Cohen, Speech enhancement using super-Gaussian speech models and noncausal a priori SNR estimation, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 26 April 2005, .

Makiko Muto, Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki and Yoshinori Sagisaka, Effect of speaking rate on the acceptability of change in segment duration, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 21 April 2005, .

Erhard Rank and Gernot Kubin, An oscillator-plus-noise model for speech synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 April 2005, .

Chai Wutiwiwatchai and Sadaoki Furui, A multi-stage approach for Thai spoken language understanding, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 April 2005, .

Shuangyu Chang, Mirjam Wester and Steven Greenberg, An elitist approach to automatic articulatory-acoustic feature classification for phonetic characterization of spoken language, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 20 April 2005, .

Sadaoki Furui, Masanobu Nakamura, Tomohisa Ichiba and Koji Iwano, Analysis and recognition of spontaneous speech using Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 April 2005, .

Sieb G. Nooteboom, Lexical bias revisited: Detecting, rejecting and repairing speech errors in inner speech, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 April 2005, .

Preeti Rao and Pushkar Patwardhan, Frequency warped modeling of vowel spectra: Dependence on vowel quality, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 April 2005, .

Donglai Zhu, Satoshi Nakamura, Kuldip K. Paliwal and Renhua Wang, Maximum likelihood sub-band adaptation for robust speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 April 2005, .

Stephen So and Kuldip K. Paliwal, Multi-frame GMM-based block quantisation of line spectral frequencies, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 April 2005, .

Martine Adda-Decker, Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Gilles Adda and Lori Lamel, Investigating syllabic structures and their variation in spontaneous French, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 8 April 2005, .

Anne Cutler, Roel Smits and Nicole Cooper, Vowel perception: Effects of non-native language vs. non-native dialect, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 April 2005, .

Kevin M. Indrebo, Richard J. Povinelli and Michael T. Johnson, Sub-banded reconstructed phase spaces for speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 24 February 2005, .

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FUTURE CONFERENCES

Publication policy: Hereunder, you will find very short announcements of future events. The full call for participation can be accessed on the conference websites
See also our Web pages (www.isca-speech.org) on conferences and workshops.

FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES

INTERSPEECH 2005 / EUROSPEECH

September 4--8, 2005
Lisbon, Portugal
www.interspeech2005.org
info@interspeech2005.org
Theme: Ubiquitous Speech Processing
CALL FOR PAPERS/TUTORIALS/SPECIAL SESSIONS
Topics of interest:
Phonetics and Phonology
Discourse and Dialogue
Prosody
Paralinguistic and Nonlinguistic Information
Speech Production
Speech Perception
Physiology and Pathology
Spoken Language Acquisition, Development and Learning
Signal Analysis, Processing and Feature Estimation
Single- and Multi-channel Speech Enhancement
Speech Coding and Transmission
Spoken Language Generation and Synthesis
Speech Recognition: Acoustic processing for ASR, language and pronunciation modeling, adaptation and general robustness issues, engineering issues in ASR (e.g. searches, large vocabulary), etc.
Spoken Language Understanding
Speaker Characterization and Recognition
Language/Dialect Identification
Multi-modal/Multi-media Processing
Spoken Language Resources and Annotation
Spoken/Multi-modal Dialogue Systems
Spoken Language Extraction/Retrieval
Spoken Language Translation
Spoken Language Technology for the Aged and Disabled (e-inclusion)
Spoken Language Technology for Education (e-learning)
New Applications
Evaluation and Standardization
Ubiquitous Speech Processing
Others
Paper submission
Full paper submission (4 pages) by April 15, 2005 exclusively via the conference website.
No previously published papers should be submitted.
Notification of acceptance by June 10, 2005.
Minor updates allowed during June 10 - June 17.
Important dates:
Full paper submission deadline: April 15, 2005
Notification of paper acceptance/rejection June 10, 2005
Early registration deadline: June 25, 2005
Organizer:
L2F - Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, INESC ID Lisboa
Rua Alves Redol, 9 - 1000-029 Lisbon - Portugal
Phone:+351 213100268 Fax: +351 213145843 http://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt

-INTERSPEECH (ICSLP)-2006
17-21 September 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Chair: Richard M.Stern, Carnegie Mellon University,USA http://www.interspeech2006.org

-INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH)-2007
August 27-31,2007,Antwerp, Belgium
Chair: Dirk van Compernolle, K.U.Leuven and Lou Boves, K.U.Nijmegen
Website

-INTERSPEECH (ICSLP)-2008
date to be defined mid September-early October 2008, Brisbane, New South Wales, Australia
Chairman: Denis Burnham, MARCS, University of West Sydney.

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FUTURE ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP (ITRW)

-ISCA Workshop on PLASTICITY in SPEECH PERCEPTION (PSP 2005)

Organized by: UCL Centre for Human Communication, UCL, London, UK
co-sponsored by the Acoustical Society of America and ISCA
Senate House (heart of London)
15-17 June 2005, London, UK
This 3-day workshop will bring together researchers who examine changes in speech perception during infancy and adulthood, from clinical and non-clinical perspectives and will also include selected speakers who study plasticity in other domains and modalities.
Invited speakers:
Anne Cutler, Max Planck Institute, Netherlands
James Flege, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington, USA
David Moore, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, UK
Christophe Pallier, Inserm Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France
David Pisoni, Indiana University, USA
Franck Ramus, CNRS Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Sciences Laboratory, France
Stuart Rosen, UCL, UK
Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Glenn Schellenberg, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
Sophie Scott, UCL, UK
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission 1 Feb 2005
Notification of acceptance, intructions to authors 28 Feb 2005
Deadline of early registration: 1 April 2005
Deadline for final papers (optional): 1 May 2005
Workshop dates 15-17 June 2005
Contact: Valerie Hazan

YOUNG RESEARCHERS' ROUNDTABLE ON SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

an ISCA event in conjunction with
INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2005
9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday, September 1st, 2005
Website
Contact
Workshop Overview

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems will bring together students, post docs, and junior researchers from different countries, different research institutions, and different disciplines who share an interest in applied dialog systems research. It will provide a setting in which participants can discuss their own research and work and obtain feedback from others who are at a similar level and who are working on similar problems. It will also provide a forum for discussing recent papers and talks with an eye toward (1) solving the problems participants currently face in their work and (2) identifying issues that are likely to be important in the coming years. Perhaps most importantly, the event will help to create a more permanent international network of young researchers working in spoken dialog systems.

This workshop will be a full-day event consisting of multiple small-group discussions of topics that will be chosen based on suggestions submitted by the participants themselves.

Potential roundtable discussion topics could include:
- What are best practices for conducting and evaluating user studies of spoken dialog systems?
- How can users be made aware of the capabilities and limitations of spoken dialog systems?
- Spoken dialog systems and robots: what are the issues and challenges?
- What skills must a dialog agent have to be able to engage in a multi-participant conversation?
- Where can spoken dialog systems have a significant impact in the world?
- What are best practices for rapidly deploying dialog systems in the real world?
- Should human-computer communication mimic human-human communication?
- How can a dialog system learn from its own experience automatically?

After the small-group discussions, each of the groups will present a summary to the rest of the participants. We hope that the discussion format will foster creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialog systems research, setting the stage for the colocated conferences SIGdial and INTERSPEECH.

We invite participation from students, post docs, and junior researchers who are currently working in applied spoken dialog systems research. We also invite participation from those who are working in related fields such as human factors, speech recognition, artificial intelligence, or speech synthesis, as applied to spoken dialog systems. Potential participants should submit a 2-page paper following the template provided at www.cs.cmu.edu/~dod/roundtable/cfp.html. The paper will include a statement of research interests, an overview of past, current and future work, a discussion of what you consider to be the most compelling issues in spoken dialog systems, and a short biographical sketch. Accepted papers will be collated and distributed to participants in CD-ROM and/or paper format. We also plan to publish the position papers and presentations from the workshop on the web, subject to sponsor or publisher constraints.

Fees (EURO):
Students: 40.00 EUR
Postdocs and junior researchers: 60.00 EUR
Lunch and light refreshments are included in the registration fee.
Important Dates:
Participation will be limited to 45 people.
Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis beginning March 1st, 2005
Submissions will no longer be accepted after July 1st, 2005
Workshop date (full day): September 1st, 2005

-6th SIGdial Workshop on DISCOURSE and DIALOGUE

Lisbon, Portugal, 2-3 September 2005
(held in conjunction with Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005)
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/ workshop6/
Topics of interest:
1. Dialogue Systems
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems
2. Corpora, Coding Schemes and Tools
Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based and multi-modal dialogue including its support.
3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modelling
The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence).
Submission of papers and abstracts
Long papers (10 pages max) for full plenary presentation as well as short papers (5 pages max) and demonstrations.
Deadline: April 25,2005 at workshop6@sigdial.org
Style files are available at http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop6/ style/

Workshop website
Sigdial website
Eurospeech website

Organizing Committee
Laila Dybkjær, University of Southern Denmark,
Wolfgang Minker , University of Ulm, Germany.

-DISFLUENCY IN SPONTANEOUS SPEECH 2005

Aix-en-Provence, France, September 10-12,2005
organised by the DELIC team of the University of Provence.
The meeting is timed to allow participants at INTERSPEECH (Lisbon, September 4-8) to attend. Previous meetings (Berkeley, 1999; Edinburgh, 2001; Gothenburg, 2003) have seen papers addressing normal disfluency from a wide range of disciplines, from automatic speech recognition and computational linguistics to linguistic analysis, psycholinguistics (production and comprehension), and beyond. Papers comparing normal disfluencies to those occurring in communication disorders are also welcome. 4-page papers by April 8 2005 to papers@disfluency.org
Once accepted, papers may be revised and extended to 6 pages.
Website
Additional infos diss05@disfluency.org
The DiSS Planning team
Jean Veronis, DELIC, Université de Provence, France.
Robert Eklund, Teliasonera, Sweden.
Robin Lickley, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, UK.
Liz Shriberg, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Åsa Wengelin, Lund University, Sweden.

-ITRW 2005 Workshop on DSP for IN-VEHICLE and MOBILE SYSTEMS

Saturday, September 3, 2005 at Hotel do Mar, Sesimbra, Portugal
(Satelite event of Interspeech 2005)
Organized by The International Alliance for Advanced Studies on In-Car Human Behavioral Signals in cooperation with the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
This biennial is sponsored in part by: National Science Foundation (USA), 21st Century Center of Excellence at Nagoya University (Japan) and International Speech Communication Association
The topics include but not limited to:
· DSP technologies for personalization of vehicle
· DSP technologies in vehicle and traffic control
· DSP technologies in fatigue and DUI detection
· Audio & video processing in mobile & cellular applications
· Multi-sensor applications and fusion
· Deployment of multimedia devices in vehicles
· Human interface in mobile environment
· Applications
Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit a photo-ready paper electronically (normally four pages, but up to six pages can be permitted with prior approval.)
Important dates:
Brief Summary of the paper and a letter of intent to participate is due on March 20, 2005
Notification of acceptance mailed out by April 20, 2005
Full paper submission to be received by June 20, 2005
Advance registration before August 1, 2005
Workshop Date September 3, 2005
Chairs
Honorary Chair: Fumitada Itakura, Meijo University, Japan.
Co-Chair: Hüseyin Abut, SDSU. Huseyin Abut
Co-Chair: Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya Uni., Japan. Kazuya Takeda
Program Chair: John Hansen, Univ. Colorado John Hansen
Website

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS SUPPORTED (but not organized) by ISCA

eNTERFACE'05

Mons, Belgium, July 18th - August 12th, 2005.
Conference website
Call for Participation
The eNTERFACE summer workshops, organized by the SIMILAR European Network of Excellence , aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, attached to specific projects, working on free software. Each week ends by a presentation session, starting by a tutorial state-of-the art survey of aspects of multimodal interfaces design, given by an invited senior researcher, and followed by a presentation of the results achieved by each project group.
The eNTERFACE'05 committee now invites candidate participants to apply for a summer workshop on multimodal interfaces, to be held in Mons, Belgium, from July 18th to August 12th, 2005. eNTERFACE'05 will welcome 40 students, researchers, and seniors, working in teams on the following projects (selected from the proposals we have received in a previous Call for Projects):

*Combined Gesture-Speech Analysis and Synthesis (Coordinators : Profs. Murat Tekalp, Engin Erzin, Yucel Yemez, Mehmet Emre Sargin, Koc University Multimedia, Vision and Graphics Lab, Istambul). This project will include the preparation of a database, the study of correlations between speech features and gesture units, the modeling of gesture units, and the adaptation of units for specific speakers.

*Multimodal Caricatural Mirror (Coordinator : Prof. B. Macq, UCL Louvain La Neuve). This project aims at creating a caricatural mirror where people could see their own emotions amplified (image+speech) by an avatar, on a wide screen facing them. It includes multimodal face tracking, multimodal emotion recognition, and multimodal emotion synthesis.

*Biologically-driven musical instrument (Coordinator : Prof. Benoit Macq, UCL Louvain La Neuve). The goal is to build a virtual musical instrument driven by EMGs, EEGs, Heart beats, video, etc.

*Multimodal Focus Attention Detection in an Augmented Driver Simulator (Coordinators : Profs. Laurent Bonnaud & Alice Caplier, INPG_LIS, Grenoble; Prof. B. Macq, TELE Lab, UCL Louvain La Neuve). This project proposes to use physiological signals, the analysis of facial expression as well as tracking of the user's focus (eye tracking) in an augmented reality driver simulator able to appropriately react to hypovigilence.

*Multilingual Multimodal Biometric Identification/Verification (Coordinator : Prof. Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete) This project will involve the recording of a multilingual multimodal (face, lips, speech, writing, body movement) database for biometric identification/verification. It will then perform on site tests of the various scenarios of fusion between various modalities and under various noise conditions. The project will be concluded by suggestions on the next steps in fusion R&D.

*Speech Conductor (Coordinator : Prof. C. D'Alessandro, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris) The Speech Conductor project aims at developing a gesture interface for driving ("conducting") a text to speech synthesis system. Then, automatic speech synthesis will be modified in real time according to the gestures of a Speech Conductor. The Speech Conductor will add expression and emotion to the speech flow using speech signal modification algorithms and gesture interpretation algorithms.

*A Multimodal (Gesture+Speech) Interface for 3D Model Search and Retrieval Integrated in a Virtual Assembly Application (Coordinator : Prof. Dimitrios Tzovaras ITI-CERTH, Thessaloniki). The goal of the project is the development of a multimodal interface for content-based search of 3D objects based on sketches. This user interface will integrate gesture and speech modalities to aid the user in sketching the outline of the 3D object he/she wants to search from a large database.


People (seniors, PhD students, undergraduate students) interested in participating to the workshop should send us an application email, before April 1st, with the following information:
* A short CV (1 page max.)
* A list of 3 preferred projects to be work on
* A list of skills to offer for these projects
* Possibility to bring a laptop? with wireless connection? (computers will be available otherwise)

No funding will be provided for researchers, but no registration fees will be asked for. Researchers will therefore have to pay for their travel, lodging, and catering expenses. Catering and lodging will be available at the University, at minimal rates (360 EU for lodging and breakfast; 15 EU per day for lunch+dinner). See our website for more information. Seven undergraduate students will be selected, whose travel, lodging and catering expenses will be paid by the workshop organizers.


Important dates :
* April 1st, 2005: End of the Call for Participation
* April 15th: Notification of Acceptance and Team Building
* July 18th-August 12th: eNTERFACE Workshop
Contact person: Francois Severin

AUDITORY-VISUAL SPEECH PROCESSING (AVSP 2005)

July24-27 Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Website
Papers and posters
Hands-on demos of the 3D Full-head Modeling System
Important dates
Submission of 2-page abstracts and 4-6 page papers March15, 2005
Notification of acceptance March 31,2005
Early registration (reduced fees) March 31, 2005
Camera ready papers and abstracts May 15 2005
Normal registration June 15 2005

-Pan European Voice Conference (PEVOC 6)
http://www.pevoc6.com/home.htm
August 31 - September 3, 2005, London, UK

International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE TSD 2005

Postovni dvur, Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic
September 12-16, 2005 (right after Eurospeech 2005)
Conference website
Call for papers
TSD 2005 is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. TSD 2005 is also supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
Keynote speakers
Tue Sep 13:
Frederick Jelinek, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA: The confirmed title will be announced later
Hynek Hermansky, IDIAP Martigny, Switzerland: The Role of Speech in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction
Wed Sep 14:
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan: Why Is the Recognition of Spontaneous Speech so Hard?
Klaus Fellbaum, BTH Cottbus, Germany: On the Acoustic Components in Multimedia Presentations
Thu Sep 15:
Leon J. M. Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands: Affect-Sensitive Multimodal HCI
Pavel Slavik, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic: Speech Based User Interfaces for Users with Special Needs
Detailed abstracts of the invited talks can be found in section "Invited Speakers" .
Topics
Topics of the international conference will include (but are not limited to):
*text corpora and tagging;
*transcription problems in spoken corpora;
*sense disambiguation;
*links between text and speech oriented systems;
*parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts;
*multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialogue systems;
*information retrieval and information extraction;
*text/topic summarization;
*machine translation;
*semantic networks and ontologies;
*speech modelling;
*speech segmentation;
*speech recognition;
*text-to-speech synthesis;
*dialogue systems;
*development of dialogue strategies;
*prosody in dialogues;
*user modelling;
*knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems;
*assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;
*applied systems and software;
*facial animation;
*visual speech synthesis.
Important dates
Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers May 10,2005
Camera-ready papers submission May 31,2005
Notification of acceptance tutorial proposals April 30,2005
Tutorial date September 12,2005
Notification of acceptance workshop proposals April 30,2005
Workshop date September 12,2005
Addresses
All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
Ms. Helena Benesova
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Univerzitni 8, CZ - 306 14 PLZEN
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 377 632 401 Fax: +420 377 632 402
The preferred way of contacting the conference organising committee is in writing to Mr. Kamil Ekstein, TSD 2005 Public Relations Manager
ICQ: 331 357 910

-SPECOM 2005
10th International Conference on Speech and Computer

October 17-19 2005,
University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Topics
Topics of interest for paper submission include but are not limited to:
a.. Speech production and perception
b.. Speech analysis and processing
c.. Natural language processing
d.. Speech coding and transmission
e.. Speech recognition and understanding
f.. Speech synthesis
g.. Spoken dialog systems
h.. Speaker recognition
i.. Multi-modal processing
j.. Speech and language resources
k.. Applied systems for Human-Computer Interaction

Submission of papers
Four page papers in english will be accepted only by electronic submission through e-mail in ASCII format

Important dates
Submission of full paper: June 27, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2005
Early registration: July 29, 2005
Late registration: September 10, 2005

General Chair
George Kokkinakis, WCL, University of Patras, Greece
For further information:Website or e-mail to our secretary

BIOMETRICS on the INTERNET

Third COST 275 WORKSHOP , Hatfield, UK
October 27-28 ,2005 Website

-4th International Workshop on
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
MAVEBA 2005

Firenze, 29-31 October 2005
Extended deadline for paper submission: May 20,2005
Claudia Manfredi
http://maveba.det.unifi.it

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FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS

-DEAF and HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN Europe 2005

London 13-14 May 2005
Promoting joined-up working for Europe’s professionals with deaf children and their families.
The meeting is designed to bring together the wide range of professionals and voluntary organisations throughout Europe with an interest in childhood hearing impairment. There is a growing awareness of the need to work collaboratively across organisations and professional boundaries and with the users themselves if the goal of delivering high quality hearing services to all of Europe’s children who need them is to be achieved. This meeting will provide exciting opportunities to explore these challenges. It will also raise the profile of hearing impairment and an awareness of the needs of our children across Europe.
The meeting will be held under the auspices of NDCS (National Deaf Children’s Society) and RNID (Royal National Institute for Deaf People) and will be organised by The Ear Foundation. The meeting will be held in central London on 13/14 May 2005..
Registration form and further details from:
Brian Archbold
http://www.dhice.org

-NODALIDA 2005

the 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics
Joensuu, Finland, May 20-21, 2005
ling.joensuu.fi/nodalida2005/
1000 word abstract before January 31,2005 (extended deadline) to be mailed to nodalida2005
Registration before March 31,2005
Contact: Stefan Werner
In connection with NODALIDA, the following events will be organized on May 18-19 (and possibly May 22):
* Seminar of the NorFA Language Technology research program, May 18-19
* Special Session on Treebanks for Spoken Language and Discourse, organized by the Nordic Treebank Network, May 19 (please visit our website)
* Workshop on reference (to be confirmed)

-7èmes Journées internationales du Réseau français de phonologie RFP 2005
7th Annual Meeting of the French Network of Phonology

Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence,
June 2-4, 2005.
Website
E-mail
Co-chairs:
Mariapaola D'Imperio, co-présidente (LPL)
Noël Nguyen, co-président (LPL)

-47th International Symposium ELMAR-2005 focused on MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS and APPLICATIONS

08-10 June 2005
Zadar, Croatia
Conference website
Submission deadline: February 11, 2005
The aim of the symposium is to promote the interface of researchers involved in the development, design and application of methods and techniques within the framework of multimedia systems and technologies, multimedia applications, image and video processing, digital video broadcasting (DVB), navigation systems, marine electronics, etc.

Topics
Multimedia
* Multimedia Systems and Technologies
* Multimedia Applications
* Image and Video Processing
* Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
* Mobile Technologies and Services
* Wireless Communications
* Speech and Audio Processing
* Face Recognition and Analysis
* Electronic Media
Electronics in Marine
* Navigation Systems
* Ship Electronic Systems
* Power Electronics and Automation
* Radiocommunications
* Antennas and Propagation
* Sound and Vibration
* Remote Sensing / Monitoring
* Meteorology
* Sea Ecology
Submission
Instructions for Authors
Authors are invited to submit their papers in electronic form by February 11, 2005. Please send the electronically version in PDF format by e-mail
Plenary talks
Prof. Fernando Pereira, PORTUGAL:
MPEG-21 standard: defining an open multimedia framework
Prof. Luis Torres, SPAIN:
Face recognition: The problems, the challenges and the proposals
Schedule for important dates
Deadline for submission of full papers: February 11, 2005
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: March 11, 2005
Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: March 25, 2005
Preliminary program available on the web-site by: April 01, 2005
Registration deadline: April 22, 2005

Mini-exhibition facilities will be available for companies wishing to display their products, services, hardware & software and literature relating to the symposium topics. The companies wishing to participate in the exhibition are kindly requested to contact Asst.Prof. Mislav Grgic.

Contact information
Asst.Prof. Mislav Grgic
ELMAR-2005
FER, Unska 3 / XII
HR-10000 Zagreb
CROATIA
Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851
Fax: + 385 1 6129 717

-LEXICOM'05

5th Annual Workshop in Lexicography and Lexical Computing
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
June 10th-14th 2005
http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/lexicom2005/ Led by the Lexicography MasterClass: Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell, Lexicom is an intensive one-week workshop, where seminars on theoretical issues alternate with practical sessions at the computer, working in small groups, each person with his/her own computer.
Topics we cover
1. designing and building text corpora
2. software for analyzing corpus data
3. designing and using dictionary databases
4. Frame Semantics and its application to lexicography
5. corpus analysis: discovering word senses, recording contextual information
6. writing entries for dictionaries & lexicons
The workshop also includes two 'master classes': one in advanced corpus-based lexicography (including bilingual entries) and the other in lexical computing.
Michael Rundell, Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff
The Lexicography MasterClass
Lexical Computing Ltd
University of Sussex
+44 (0)1273 705773

-Fourth International Workshop on
CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING

June 21-23, 2005, Riga, Latvia
Conference website
Reval Hotel Latvija, Riga, Latvia
Selected papers will appear (after extension and peer-review) in a Special Issue of the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications.
Topics of interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:
* Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
* Multimedia content extraction
* Matching and similarity search
* Construction of high level indices
* Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
* Representation models
* Content-based search techniques
* Multimedia data mining
* Presentation tools
* Meta-data compression and transformation
* Handling of very large scale multimedia database
* Organisation, summarisation and browsing of multimedia documents
* Applications
Paper Submission
Submit full papers of not more than eight (8) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Style files (Latex and Word) are provided for the convenience of the authors.
Important dates
Submission of full paper (to be received by): February 18, 2005
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers: April 29, 2005

-The 5th EURASIP conference focused on SPEECH and IMAGE PROCESSING, MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS and SERVICES
EC-SIP-M 2005

June 29 - July 2, 2005
Smolenice, Slovak Republic

Important deadlines
Full paper proposals February 28, 2005
Notification of acceptance April 16, 2005
Camera ready papers April 30, 2005

Conference website
For more information please contact Gregor Rozinaj
chair of the Programme comittee
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Ilkoviova 3
812 19 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
Phone: +421 2 682 79 414
Fax: +421 2 682 79 601

-SLU 2005
AAAI Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding

Held in conjunction with The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AAAI 2005
July 9 or 10, 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Call for Papers
Accepted papers
Workshop Program
Instructions for Authors
Program Committee
Workshop Topics
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Approaches to building an SLU
* rule-based, data-driven, or hybrid
* automatic adaptation across domains
- Approaches to robustness in SLU
* Handling uncertain and erroneous input
* Handling dysfluencies and language variations
- Tighter integration of Speech Recognition and SLU
* Exploiting weighted packed representation of hypotheses
* Exploiting prosodic and emotional cues from speech
- Approaches to semantic representations provided by SLU
* Combining shallow and deep representations
* Representations permitting robust inference mechanisms
- Tools and Data Resources
- Issues and metrics for evaluation of SLU
- SLU in the context of Applications
* multilingual systems
* multimodal systems
* tutoring systems
* speech mining systems
* spoken dialog systems
Paper Submission
All submissions must be sent by e-mail, with the subject line "AAAI-05 SLU Workshop paper submission". Please use the AAAI prescribed formatting instructions. Papers must be 5 to 8 pages long, including all references and figures. All papers must be submitted in either PDF (preferred) or postscript format. If any special fonts are used, they must be included in the submission. The papers must be original, and have not been published. Note that reviewing will NOT be blind, the paper submissions may include the authors' names and affiliations. Important Dates
* April 20, 2005: Deadline for electronic submission
* May 11, 2005: Notification of acceptance or rejection
* May 18, 2005: Submission of camera-ready papers
Workshop Co-Chairs
* Srinivas Bangalore , AT&T Labs-Research, NJ, USA. e-mail.
* Dilek Hakkani-Tur , AT&T Labs-Research, NJ, USA. e-mail.
* >/a> Gokhan Tur , AT&T Labs - Research, NJ, USA. e-mail.

-Eighth International Symposium
on SIGNAL PROCESSING and its APPLICATIONS, (ISSPA 2005),

22-25 August 2005, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, University of Wollongong

Topics
1. Digital Filter Design & Structures
2. Signal Processing for Communications
3. Multirate Filtering & Wavelets
4. Image and Video Coding
5. Adaptive Signal Processing
6. Image Enhancement and Restoration
7. Time-Frequency/Time-Scale Analysis
8. Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
9. Security Signal Processing & Digital Watermarking
10. Neural Networks & Pattern Recognition
11. Statistical Signal & Array Processing
12. Blind Source Separation
13. Radar & Sonar Processing
14. Signal Processing Education
15. Speech Processing & Recognition
16. Multimedia Signal Processing
17. Image & Multidimensional Signal Processing
18. Image Sequence Analysis & Processing
19. Machine Learning
20. Photonic & Optical Signal Processing
21. VLSI for Signal and Image Processing
22. Other Signal Processing Applications

Submit full length (four pages)

Schedule
Full paper submission: March 15, 2005
Tutorial & special session proposals: March 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2005
Camera ready paper: June 10, 2005

conference website

-FORUM ACUSTICUM 2005

29 August- 2 September 2005
Eotvos Lorand University of Sciences, Budapest
www.fa2005.org

-European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD)

University College Cork, Ireland
29 August - 1 September, 2005
"Innovation through Understanding"

Topics
*Circuits
*Signals
*Systems
*Mathematical Methods
*Computational Methods
*Industrial Applications

Authors are invited to submit a Full 4-page Paper according to posted guidelines. Only electronic submissions will be accepted via the Web at: http://ecctd05.ucc.ie

Contact Details:
email: ecctd05@ue.ucc.ie
internet: http://ecctd05.ucc.ie

-EUSIPCO-2005

The 13th European Conference on Signal Processing
Antalya, Turkey, September 4-8, 2005
Conference website
The main conference themes are:
- Statistical Signal Processing
- Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing
- Biosignal Processing
- Signal Processing for Communications
- Speech Processing
- Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing
- Multimedia Signal Processing
- Nonlinear Signal Processing
- Audio and Electroacoustics
- DSP Implementations and Embedded Systems
- Rapid Prototyping and Tools for DSP Design
- Industrial Applications of Signal Processing
- Signal Processing Education
- Emerging Technologies in Signal Processing
Invited lectures and plenary talks are now announced on the website

-10th MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT

September 12-16, 2005
The Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort and Spa
Phuket, Thailand
Website
Communication from Junichi Tsujii, Conference Chair
As you are aware, Thailand was hit very hard by the recent tsunami, prompting the MT Summit X Steering Committee to carefully reconsider the venue. However, all the news from the local organizing committee and the conference venue (Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort and Spa) has been very positive about having the Summit as we planned. The local organizing committee and the steering committee have received many supportive messages from members of AMTA, EAMT and AAMT. Many suggested that the Summit in Phuket would boost the morale of the local people and thus contribute to local recovery efforts. The suggestion is fully confirmed by the local organizing committee. The steering committee, therefore, has decided to hold with our decision of having the MT Summit X in Phuket from September 12 to 16, 2005. We are considering of ways of showing our sympathy and support to the local people. Some of our plans are in this newsletter and more will follow. We are looking forward to seeing you all at the MT Summit X in Phuket.
Junichi Tsujii, President of AAMT
Conference Chair, MT Summit X
Meassage from Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Local Organizing Chair
...On behalf of the local organizing committee, I would like to express my warm welcome to the Summit participants to Phuket. One of your contributions will be in part to restore normal lives and joyfulness to the local people. Once again, I would like to call for a new challenging research of MT technology for emergency communication that includes cross language, cross culture or language independent communication. In addition, Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort and Spa, the selected location for the MT Summit X venue, is fully operating without any significant damage. It currently serves many international meetings especially on topics related to the tsunami.
Virach Sornlertlamvanich
Local Organizing Chair, MT Summit X
Conference Schedule (not modified)

12 September 2005 Tutorials
13-15 September 2005 Papers, panels and exhibitions
16 September 2005 Workshops

Topics

- MT for the Web
- Practical MT systems (MT for professionals, MT for multilingual eCommerce, MT for localization, etc.)
- Translation aids (translation memory, terminology databases, etc.)
- Translation environments (workflow, support tools, conversion tools for lexica etc.)
- Methodologies for MT
- Human factors in MT and user interfaces
- Speech and dialogue translation
- Natural language analysis and generation techniques geared towards MT
- Dictionaries and lexicons for MT systems
- Text and speech corpora for MT and knowledge extraction from corpora
- MT evaluation techniques and evaluation results
- Standards in text and lexicon encoding for MT
- Cross-lingual information retrieval
- MT and related technologies (information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, etc.)

Details of submission procedure will be announced in the next Call for Papers.

Call for Exhibitions
Kunio Matsui

Important Dates (extended due to circumstances)
13 May 2005 Paper submission deadline
Exhibition registration deadline
24 June 2005 Paper acceptance notifications
22 July 2005 Final camera-ready copy deadline
12-16 September Conference, workshops and tutorials

Web-Site

- ISPA 2005

4th Int'l Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis
Zagreb, Croatia, September 15-17, 2005
Conference website

Topics of interest
A. Image and Video Processing
B. Image and Video Analysis
C. Image Formation and Reproduction
D. Signal Processing
E. Signal Analysis
F. Applications

Important dates
Electronic submission of full paper: February 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 15, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers and registration: May 15, 2005

Hrvoje Babic and Maurice Bellanger, General Co-Chairs
Sven Loncaric and Philip Regalia, Program Co-Chairs

- Fourth International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis September 15-17, 2005, Zagreb, Croatia
Special Session: Video-Based Motion Analysis in Sports

Aims and Scope
Biometrics refer to automatic recognition of people based on their distinctive anatomical or behavorial characteristics such as face, fingerprint, iris, retina, hand geometry, voice...Biometrics-based authentication could become an essential component of effective person identification solutions because biometric identifiers cannot be shared or misplaced, and they intrinsically represent the individual's bodily identity [Jain, 2004]. However, in order to be really effective and adopted, biometric technologies need to be efficient in terms of accuracy, scalability and usability. Evaluating different biometric modalities, according to these three criteria is a very difficult task, since there may be large differences of maturity between modalities, in terms of assesment, databases and deployment for instance.
The purpose of this special session is to bring together researchers to present new results in the biometric domain. More precisely, authors are particulary invited to:
-present the latest advances in conventional signal- and image- based biometric modalities. A non exclusive list of topics related to this point can be:
*Assesment procedures for biometrics
*Voice biometrics
*Image biometrics
*Fusion of modalities
*Applications
*Implementation issues
-propose prospective and exploratory works related to new modalities or "hot topics" in the domain like
* New sensors (IR- or 3D- cameras, microphone arrays...)
*Robustness to impostors (protocols, liveness tests...)
Screening and Telesurveillance applications in smart spaces
Author Instructions and Deadlines
Authors should submit a six page manuscript in double-column format, A4 page size, including authors' names, affiliations, and an abstract. Submissions formating style should adhere to the ISPA author instructions. Papers should be submitted online using the ISPA electronic submission form.
The deadline for submissions is May 1st, 2005.
Special Session Organizer and Chair
For further information prospective authors should contact special session organizers and chairs:
Dr Besacier Laurent, CLIPS/IMAG Laboratory, University J. Fourier, Grenoble, France.
Dr Bonastre Jean-Francois, LIA, University of Avignon, France
Dr Fredouille Corinne, LIA, University of Avignon, France
ISPA home page

-HLT / EMNLP-05

Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Oct. 6-8, 2005
Website
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: June 3, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers: August 12, 2005

-The 2nd International Joint Conference on NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (IJCNLP-05)

October 11-13, 2005, Jeju Island, Korea
organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing .
Scope
IJCNLP-05 invites the submission of original papers in all areas of natural language processing, including, but not limited to:
- the lexicon, phonology and morphology
- word segmentation
- part-of-speech tagging
- syntax and parsing
- semantics and pragmatics
- discourse and dialogue processing
- machine translation and multilingual processing
- question answering
- information extraction and text mining
- text summarisation
- natural language generation
- natural language applications, tools and resources
- linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language

In addition to the above, we are particularly keen to include within the scope of the conference work in speech technology and information retrieval.

Submission information
The proceedings of the conference will be published as a volume in the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI series, and all submissions should therefore be formatted in accordance with the Springer guidelines . Submissions should be at most 12 pages in length in the Springer format, and should be made electronically via the IJCNLP05 home page.
Deadlines
Paper submission deadline: Friday 15th April 2005
Notification of acceptance: Monday 23rd May 2005
Camera ready papers due: Monday 13th June 2005
IJCNLP-05 Conference: Tuesday-Thursday 11th-13th October 2005
Program Committee Chairs
Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

-Int'l Conf. on SMART OBJECTS & AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE

sOc-EUSAI-2005
October 12-14, 2005, Grenoble - France
Conference website

The Smart Objects and Ambient Intelligence conference will explore tools and techniques for augmenting environments with smart, networked, interacting objects.

Important dates:
Submission of papers for review : May 1st 2005
Notification of acceptance : July 1st 2005
Camera-ready papers : September 1st 2005
Advanced registration : September 15th 2005
Main topic areas:
Devices : hand-held, wearable, mobile and ambient artefacts combining sensing, actuation, communication and computation.
Embedded technologies : technologies for embedding sensing, actuation, communication, and computation in artefacts.
Distributed software and systems : network and software technologies and infrastructures to support federations of devices and services, from micro-scale to global-scale.
Context Awareness : technologies and methods for endowing objects and environments with awareness of location, time, environmental conditions, human activity and social situation.
Natural Interaction : technologies and methods for enriching communication through expanded human interaction with physical objects and environments.
Security and privacy : user identification & authentication technologies, biometrics, device-centric and network-centric security.
Ergonomics and design : usability, device and interface ergonomics, usage-based assessment and design of smart objects and ambient environments.

-Conference on TURBULANCES
13-15 OCTOBER 2005
ZENTRUM FÜR ALLGEMEINE SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT, BERLIN
Conference website
The conference is aimed at bringing together phoneticians, phonologists and speech engineers and all those who are currently working on ‘turbulent’ sounds such as fricatives and affricates as well as stops and clicks. By considering these sounds from different perspectives we hope to gain new insights into their phonetic nature and the adequacy of their phonological representation.
Topics
- articulation, aerodynamics, acoustics, and perception of turbulent sounds
- speaker normalization and quantification in articulatory and acoustic description of turbulent sounds
- signal processing specific to turbulent sounds
- the role of phonetics for explaining phonological patterns and processes
- articulatory and/or perceptual basis for postulating phonological features
- the adequacy of (new) phonological theories for application of phonetic facts
Invited speakers:
Seiji Adachi (ATR, Kyoto, Japan)
Hyunsoon Kim (Hongik University, Korea)
Jaye Padgett (University of Santa Cruz, USA)
Christine Shadle (Haskins Labs, New Haven, USA)
Submissions :
General session and poster presentations. Presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes discussion.
The abstract should be anonymous, maximally two pages long. The author’s name and affiliation should be indicated in the email. Format pdf files sent by e-mail
Important dates
Submission of abstracts:1 July.
Notification of acceptance for program 31 July.
Organisers
Susanne Fuchs (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)
Martine Toda (Laboratoire Phonétique et Phonologie, Université Paris III)
Marzena Zygis (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)

-2005 IEEE Workshop on Applications of
SIGNAL PROCESSING to AUDIO and ACOUSTICS

Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, New York
October 16-19, 2005
www.LNT.de/~WASPAA05/
Infos
Topics of interest
Acoustic Scenes
- Scene Analysis: Source Localization, Source Separation, Room Acoustics
- Signal Enhancement: Echo Cancellation, Dereverberation, Noise Reduction, Restoration
- Multichannel Signal Processing for Audio Acquisition and Reproduction
- Virtual Acoustics via Loudspeakers or Headphones
Audio Coding
- Waveform Coding and Parameter Coding
- Spatial Audio Coding
- Internet Audio
- Musical Signal Analysis: Segmentation, Classification, Transcription
- Digital Rights
- Mobile Devices
Hearing and Perception
- Auditory Perception, Spatial Hearing, Quality Assessment
- Hearing Aids
Music
- Signal Analysis and Synthesis Tools
- Creation of Musical Sounds: Waveforms, Instrument Models, Singing
Important dates
Submission of four-page paper: April 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2005
Early registration until: September 1, 2005
General Chair:
Walter Kellermann
Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Professor Walter Kellermann

-International Workshop on SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION 2005

October 24-25, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA
Website
organized by the Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR)
Evaluation campaign and technical papers (see details on website)
Important Dates for the evaluation campaign
Registration: May 17, 2005
Training Corpus Release: May 20, 2005
Test Corpus Release: Aug 16, 2005
Result Submission Due: Aug 18, 2005
Camera-ready Paper: Sep 25, 2005
Workshop: Oct 24-25, 2005
Important Dates for technical papers:
Submission of Draft (8 pages): Jul 12, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: Aug 9, 2005
Camera-ready Paper: Sep 25, 2005
Workshop: Oct 24-25, 2005
Organizers:
Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / UKA, Germany; Chair)
Chiori Hori (CMU, USA, Co-Chair)
Stephan Vogel (CMU, USA, Program Chair)
Christian Boitet (CLIPS, France)
Gianni Lazzari (ITC-irst, Italy)
Youngjik Lee (ETRI, Korea)
Seiichi Yamamoto (ATR, Japan)
Chengqing Zong (CAS, China)
Local Arrangements:
Celine Carraux (CMU, USA)
Contact:
Chiori Hori, Ph.D.,
InterACT, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
TEL/FAX: +1-412-268-9177, E-mail

-7th IEEE International Conference on MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING (MMSP 05)

Oct 30- Nov 2, 2005 in Shanghai, China. Conference website
Topics
- Multimedia Processing
- Multimedia Databases
- Human-Machine Interface
- Multimedia Assurance
- Multimedia Networking
- Multimedia Systems: Design, Implementation and Applications
- Human Perception
- Standards
General Co-chairs
Drs. Xinhua Zhuang, John Sorensen, Qidi Wu
Important deadlines
Notification of acceptance by: July 8, 2005
Camera-ready paper submission by: August 8, 2005

-IEEE ASRU 2005

Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
Cancun, Mexico
November 27 - December 1, 2005
http://www.asru2005.org
Papers in all areas of human language technology are encouraged to be submitted, with emphasis placed on automatic speech recognition and understanding technology, speech to text systems, spoken dialog systems, multilingual language processing, robustness in ASR, spoken document retrieval, and speech-to-speech translation.
Paper submission:
Submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to www.asru2005.org
Special sessions:
Special session proposals should be submitted by June 15 ,2005, to asru05-tc@lists.csail.mit.edu and must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a description of how the session will be organized.
Tentative dates:
May 1, 2005 Workshop registration opens
July 1, 2005 Camera-ready paper submission deadline
August 15, 2005 Paper Acceptance / Rejection notices mailed
Sept. 15, 2005 Revised Papers Due and Author Registration Deadline
Oct. 1, 2005 Hotel Reservation and Workshop Registration
Nov. 27 - Dec.1, 2005 Workshop

-XXVIèmes Journées d'Étude sur la Parole

12-16 juin 2006
Bretagne
Website
OBJECTIFS
En 2006, les JEP sont organisées par l'Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires (IRISA) de Rennes, sous l'égide scientifique de l'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP).
Les principaux thèmes retenus pour la conférence sont:
1 Production de parole
2 Acoustique de la parole
3 Perception de parole
4 Phonétique et phonologie
5 Prosodie
6 Reconnaissance et compréhension de la parole
7 Reconnaissance de la langue et du locuteur
8 Modèles de langage
9 Synthèse de la parole
10 Analyse, codage et compression de la parole
11 Applications à composantes orales (dialogue, indexation...)
12 Évaluation, corpus et ressources
13 Psycholinguistique
14 Acquisition de la parole et du langage
15 Apprentissage d'une langue seconde
16 Pathologies de la parole
17 Autres ...
SOUMISSION
La procédure de soumission des articles sera précisée ultérieurement sur le site de la conférence. Néanmoins, les soumissions porteront sur des articles complets d'une longueur maximum de quatre pages. La date limite de soumission est fixée au 1er mars 2006.
DATES À RETENIR
Date limite de soumission des propositions 1 mars 2006
Notification aux auteurs de l'acceptation ou du refus 3 avril 2006
Soumission des articles finaux 1 mai 2006
Date du congrès 12-16 juin 2006
CONTACTS
Pour les questions scientifiques, contactez Pascal Perrier, Président de l'AFCP.
Pour des renseignements pratiques, jep2006@irisa.fr.

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