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Dear Members,
Elections for the ISCA Board are currently ongoing (ten candidates, five
posts), with a deadline for the reception of votes of 31 July. You received
full information in a previous mail. If you did not receive your ballot,
please contact the
secretariat . We very much hope for a good
(electronic!) turnout for these elections, so please make sure to read
the biographies and statements of the ten candidates and to cast your
vote by the deadline.
The future major event will be our yearly conference
Interspeech 2005 welcome by Lisbon (Portugal). Do not miss important events:
1. On Tuesday September 6th, board members will be happy to
meet student
members at the student reception to answer their questions and to record their
suggestions for ISCA future.
2. The general assembly of ISCA on September 7.
All members are heartly welcome to actively participate.
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
- ISCA News
- Courses, internships, data bases, softwares
- Job openings
- Journals and Books
- Future Interspeech Conferences
- Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW)
- Forthcoming Events supported (but not organized) by ISCA
- Future Speech Science and technology events
ISCA NEWS
-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.
-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)
-RESEARCH OPENINGS AT ICSI (Berkeley).
The International Computer Science Institute
(ICSI) invites applications
for positions in speech processing. Interested parties with a range of
experience (e.g., both recent PhDs and those with more extensive
experience) are encouraged to apply.
The ICSI Speech Group (including its predecessor, the ICSI Realization
Group) has been a source of novel approaches to speech processing since
1988. It is primarily known for its work in speech recognition, although
it has housed major projects in speaker recognition, metadata
extraction, and speech coding in the last few years.
Applications should include a cover letter, vita, and the names of at
least 3 references (with both postal and email addresses). Applications
should be sent by email to morgan@icsi.berkeley.edu and by postal mail to:
ICSI
1947 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
ICSI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications
from women and minorities are especially encouraged. Hiring is
contingent on eligibility to work in the United States.
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Position at IDIAP
Just in case that for one reason or another you do not want to apply for
or do not succeed to get one other wonderful positions advertised in
this ISCAPad, please be aware that IDIAP Research Institute in Martigny,
Switzerland (Prof. Hynek Hermansky) is seeking several qualified junior
researchers (PhD students or Post-Doctoral Research Associates) for new
multi-year projects on biologically-motivated feature extraction and
recognition of various acoustic events. Unaffiliated PhD hopefuls may
have a chance to join the Doctoral School at the Federal Institute of
Technology, Lausanne. For your information and to arrouse your interest,
Martigny is at the foothills of Mont Blanc (French speaking part of
Switzerland), the working language at IDIAP is English, salaries are
better than competitive, Geneva Lake with all its attractions is at
biking distance (not to speak about hiking and skiing opportunities in
Valaisan's Alps - check the map), and last but not least, the research
record of IDIAP, speaks for itself (check it at our
website).
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PhD Studentship on 'Communicative/Expressive Speech Synthesis' at University of Sheffield
Recent years have seen a substantial growth in the capabilities of Speech
Technology systems, both in the research laboratory and in the commercial
marketplace. However, despite this progress, contemporary speech technology
is not able to fulfil the requirements demanded by many potential
applications, and performance is still significantly short of the
capabilities exhibited by human talkers and listeners, especially in
interactive real-world environments.
This shortfall is especially noticeable in the 'text-to-speech' (TTS)
systems that have been developed for automated spoken language output.
Considerable advances have been made in naturalness and voice quality, yet
state-of-the-art TTS systems still exhibit a rather limited range of
speaking styles, a general lack of expressiveness and restricted
communicative functionality.
The objective of this research is to investigate novel approaches to
text-to-speech synthesis that have the potential to overcome these
limitations, and which could contribute to the next-generation of
speech-based systems, especially in application areas such as assistive
technology.
Funding is available immediately for an eligible UK/EU student. Applicants
should possess a computational background and should ideally have some
knowledge/experience of speech processing.
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Roger K. Moore
For further information, contact
Prof. Roger Moore or see
our website
for how to apply.
The Speech and Hearing research group in
Computer Science at the University of Sheffield has an international
reputation in the multi-disciplinary field of speech and hearing research.
With three chairs, four faculty, five research associates and around twelve
research students, this is one of the strongest teams worldwide. A unique
aspect of the group is the wide spectrum of research topics covered, from
the psychophysics of hearing through to the engineering of state-of-the-art
speech technology systems.
-IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland: two open positions for
senior researchers
.
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
.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY : Postdoctoral Research Position in
Speech Recognition
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.
Address for Applications (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.
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.
-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.
Tomoki Toda, Hisashi Kawai, Minoru Tsuzaki and Kiyohiro Shikano, An evaluation of cost functions sensitively capturing local degradation of naturalness for segment selection in concatenative speech synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 29 June 2005, .
K.Y. Leung, M.W. Mak, M.H. Siu and S.Y. Kung, Adaptive articulatory feature-based conditional pronunciation modeling for speaker verification, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 29 June 2005, .
Louis ten Bosch, Nelleke Oostdijk and Lou Boves, On temporal aspects of turn taking in conversational dialogues, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 29 June 2005, .
Chang Huai You, Soo Ngee Koh and Susanto Rahardja, Masking-based [beta]-order MMSE speech enhancement,
Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 29 June 2005, .
Vincent J. van Heuven and Ellen van Zanten, Speech rate as a secondary prosodic characteristic of polarity
questions in three languages, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 29 June 2005, .
Cecilia Odé and Rob van Son, Note from the Guest Editors, Speech Communication, In Press,
Uncorrected Proof, Available online 21 June 2005, .
Zheng-Hua Tan, Paul Dalsgaard and Børge Lindberg, Automatic speech recognition over error-prone wireless networks,
Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 17 June 2005, .
Sebastian Möller, Jan Krebber and Paula Smeele, Evaluating the speech output component of a smart-home system,
Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, .
Giampiero Salvi, Dynamic behaviour of connectionist speech recognition with strong latency constraints,
Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, .
Christopher Dromey, Shawn Nissen, Petrea Nohr and Samuel G. Fletcher, Measuring tongue movements during speech:
Adaptation of a magnetic jaw-tracking system, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, .
Sarunas Paulikas and Dalius Navakauskas, Restoration of voiced speech signals preserving prosodic features,
Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, .
Joseph Mariani, Speech Communication: Louis Pols Special Issue, Speech Communication, In Press,
Uncorrected Proof, Available online 31 May 2005, .
Renée van Bezooijen, Approximant /r/ in Dutch: Routes and feelings, Speech Communication, In Press,
Corrected Proof, Available online 31 May 2005, .
J.D. Trout, Lexical boosting of noise-band speech in open- and closed-set formats, Speech Communication,
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 31 May 2005, .
Jean-Luc Rouas, Jérôme Farinas, François Pellegrino and Régine André-Obrecht, Rhythmic unit extraction and modelling
for automatic language identification, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 31 May 2005, .
Yoshinori Sagisaka, Takumi Yamashita and Yoko Kokenawa, Generation and perception of F0 markedness for communicative
speech synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 31 May 2005, .
Keikichi Hirose, Daniel Hirst and Yoshinori Sagisaka, Editorial, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof,
Available online 31 May 2005, .
Valerie Hazan, Anke Sennema, Midori Iba and Andrew Faulkner, Effect of audiovisual perceptual training on
the perception and production of consonants by Japanese learners of English, Speech Communication, In Press,
Corrected Proof, Available online 23 May 2005, .
Gérard Bailly and Bleicke Holm, SFC: A trainable prosodic model, Speech Communication, In Press,
Corrected Proof, Available online 23 May 2005, .
Yi-Jian Wu, Hisashi Kawai, Jinfu Ni and Ren-Hua Wang, Discriminative training and explicit duration modeling for
HMM-based automatic segmentation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 23 May 2005, .
Israel Cohen, Speech enhancement using super-Gaussian speech models and noncausal a priori SNR estimation,
Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 May 2005, .
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, Corrected 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, Corrected 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, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 May 2005, .
D.J. Hirst, Form and function in the representation of speech prosody, Speech Communication,
In Press, Corrected 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, Corrected 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, Corrected Proof,
Available online 16 May 2005, .
Hasan Palaz, Yücel Bicil, Alper Kanak and Mehmet Ug[#x303;]ur Dog[#x303;]an, New Turkish intelligibility test
for assessing speech communication systems, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected 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, Corrected 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, Corrected 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, Corrected 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, .
Rolf Carlson and Björn Granström, Data-driven multimodal synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press,
Corrected 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, Corrected 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, Corrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, .
Yi Xu, Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions, Speech Communication, In Press,
Corrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, .
Tanja Bänziger and Klaus R. Scherer, The role of intonation in emotional expressions, Speech Communication,
In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 10 May 2005, .
Björn Granström and David House, Audiovisual representation of prosody in expressive speech communication,
Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected 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, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 May 2005, .
David House, Phrase-final rises as a prosodic feature in wh-questions in Swedish human-machine dialogue,
Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected 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, Corrected 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, Corrected 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, Corrected 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, .
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, .
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
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)
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
-
ISCA Workshop on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing (MULTILING 2006)
Organized by: Stellenbosch University Centre for Language and Speech Technology
in collaboration with ISCA
9-11 April 2006, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Keynote speaker: Tanja Schultz - Interactive Systems Laboratories,
Carnegie Mellon University
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: 26 August 2005
Notification of acceptance: 14 October 2005
Deadline of early registration & full paper submission: 10 February 2006
Workshop dates: 9-11 April 2006
Contact: Justus Roux or consult the
workshop 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
-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
-Symposium on Speech Technology for CLINICAL and EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS
Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp,Belgium
September 2,2005
Information and registration
-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
IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction 2005
(in conjunction with ICCV'2005)
Website
October 21, 2005, Beijing, China.
TOPICS(not restricted to this list)
* Affective HCI, emotion, motivational aspects
* Multimedia data modeling and visualization
* Multimodal event detection and recognition
* Human motion and gesture recognition
* HCI issues in image/video retrieval
* Learning aspects in HCI
* Input and interactions techniques
* Perceptual user interfaces
* Wearable and pervasive technologies in HCI
IMPORTANT DATES
July 4, 2005: Submission of full paper
August 2, 2005: Notification of acceptance
August 15, 2005: Camera-ready full paper
PAPER SUBMISSION
The authors should email full papers (no longer than 10 pages in the
Springer LNCS style in English), to lim@liacs.nl
with the following information:
(1) Title of paper & short abstract summarizing the main contribution
(2)
Names and contact info of all authors, also specifying the contact author..
(3) The paper in postscript or PDF format.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program
committee. The intention is to have the proceedings published in the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Michael Lew, LIACS Media Lab, The Netherlands
Thomas Huang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-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
- LREC 2006 - 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center, GENOA - ITALY
MAIN CONFERENCE: 24-25-26 MAY 2006
WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 22-23 and 27-28 MAY 2006
Conference web site
The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006, is organised by
ELRA in cooperation with a wide range of international associations and organisations.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Topics which may be addressed by papers submitted to the conference are faal in these wide categories
(details on our website):
Issues in the design, construction and use of Language Resources (LRs)
Issues in Human Language Technologies (HLT) evaluation
Special Highlights
LREC targets the integration of different types of LRs (spoken, written, and other modalities), and of the
respective communities. To this end, LREC encourages submissions covering issues which are common
to different types of LRs and language technologies, such as dialogue strategy, written and spoken
translation, domain-specific data, multimodal communication or multimedia document processing, and
will organise, in addition to the usual tracks, common sessions encompassing the different areas of LRs.
The 2006 Conference emphasises in particular the importance of promoting:
- synergies and integration between (multilingual) LRs and Semantic Web technologies,
- new paradigms for sharing and integrating LRs and LT coming from different sources,
- communication with neighbouring fields for applications in e-government and administration,
- common evaluation campaigns for the objective evaluation of the performances of different
systems,
- systems and products (also industrial ones) based on large-size and high quality LRs.
LREC therefore encourages submissions of papers, panels, workshops, tutorials on the use of LRs
in these areas.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster or demo presentations should consist of about 1000
words.
A limited number of panels, workshops and tutorials is foreseen: proposals will be reviewed by the
Programme Committee.
For panels, please send a brief description, including an outline of the intended structure (topic, organiser,
panel moderator, tentative list of panelists).
For workshops and tutorials, see the dedicated section below.
Only electronic submissions will be considered. Further details about submission will be circulated in
the 2nd Call for Papers to be issued at the end of July and posted on the LREC web site (www.lrec-conf.org).
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 14 October 2005
* Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers, referenced demos: 14 October 2005
* Notification of acceptance of panels, workshops and tutorials proposals: 7 November 2005
* Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters, referenced demos: 16 January 2006
* Final versions for the proceedings: 20 February 2006
* Conference: 24-26 May 2006
* Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 22 and 23 May 2006
* Post-conference workshops and tutorials: 27 and 28 May 2006
WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials will be organised on 22 and 23 May 2006, and post-conference
workshops and tutorials on 27 and 28 May 2006. A workshop/tutorial can be either half day or full day.
Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no longer than three pages, and include:
* A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the workshop/tutorial will
address.
* The reasons why the workshop/tutorial is of interest this time.
* The names, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of the
workshop/tutorial organising committee, which should consist of at least three people
knowledgeable in the field, coming from different institutions.
* The name of the member of the workshop/tutorial organising committee designated as the
contact person.
* A time schedule of the workshop/tutorial and a preliminary programme.
* A summary of the intended workshop/tutorial call for participation.
* A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements.
CONSORTIA AND PROJECT MEETINGS
Consortia or projects wishing to take this opportunity for organising meetings should contact the
ELDA
office .
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa, Italy (Conference chair)
Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France
Aldo Gangemi, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione del CNR, Roma, Italy
Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
Jan Odijk, ScanSoft, Merelbeke, Belgium and UIL-OTS, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Daniel Tapias, Telefonica Moviles, Madrid, Spain
For more information about ELRA (European Language Resources Association), please contact:
Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO
55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin,
75013 Paris - France
Tel: + 33 1 43 13 33 33
Fax: + 33 1 43 13 33 30
Email
Web Elra
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-XXVIèmes Journées d'Étude sur la Parole
12-16 juin 2006
Bretagne
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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.
- 9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference(WESPAC IX 2006)
June 26-28, 2006
Seoul, Korea
Program Highlights of WESPAC IX 2006
(by Session Topics)
* Human Related Topics- Aeroacoustics
* Product Oriented Topics
* Speech Communication
* Analysis: Through Software and Hardware
* Underwater Acoustics
* Physics: Fundamentals and Applications
* Other Hot Topics in Acoustics
WESPAC IX 2006 Secretariat
SungKyunKwan University, Acoustics Research Laboratory
300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-ku, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
Tel: +82-31-290-5957 Fax: +82-31-290-7055
E-mail
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