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MESSAGE from : Michael Picheny, in charge of the Membership services and web coordinator.
Dear ISCA members,
Every month a different ISCA board member gets to write a brief message to the members.
I am pleased to have the opportunity to tell you a little bit about myself and my responsibilities on the board.
I work at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center where I am responsible for managing a number of projects in the speech area.
The projects cover work on Large Vocabulary Transcription, Speech-to-Speech Translation, and Text-to-Speech,
to highlight just a few areas. I have been at IBM for over 25 years (I have a watch to show for it!) with most of my
earlier work focusing on large vocabulary speech recognition for dictation applications. I am also active in the IEEE,
being the former chair of the Speech Technical Committee of the Signal Processing Society, and am currently on the
Awards Board of SPS.
As you probably know, the day-to-day responsibilities for running ISCA are divided amongst the board members.
I am the ISCA board member who oversees membership and web services. This makes me quite lucky because most of the
work is performed by the incredibly capable Manu Foxonet, who runs our day-to-day membership operations. I also have
the pleasure to interact with Matt Bridger, our wonderful webmaster. I therefore find I have to do very little myself!
I am sure many of you have dealt with Manu regarding membership issues, but very few of you know what Matt has been
doing behind the scenes. Amongst other things, Matt has brought our website into the 21st century by enabling all
our membership functions to be managed through a set of web-based interfaces. Most recently he engineered a move
of the entire website to a public ISP from its former university home, thus relieving support burden and improving
access. Plans for the future include a new "face" to the site with improved usability.
I myself spent some time working on a membership survey this summer that was administered by Manu and Matt.
We briefly presented the results at the General Assembly at Interspeech 2006. Some of the main highlights of the survey
were
* 60% access website 4 or more times a year
* 26% familiar with services on ISCA website, 33% frequently use archive, 20% look at website features other
than ISCApad and archive
* 60% know about SIGs and participate.
* 83% satisfied with ISCA conferences
* 60% say number of papers fine, rest say too many
* 65% say main advantage of ISCA conference is that it is focused.
* 55% say there should be more awards, such as an Interspeech "Best Paper" and the creation of ISCA fellows
One of my short term goals is to follow this survey up with another survey gauging reactions to Interspeech and
probing issues raised by the survey such as enhanced awards and usability improvements to the website. It is an
honor being able to serve the membership of ISCA and I look forward to working with the other board members to
maintain ISCA as the premier professional association for speech researchers.
Michael Picheny
Editorial
Dear Members,
This month, you will have the opportunity to discover Michel Picheny's activities on the board.
He particularly reports on a recent survey among the members to evaluate the impacts of our services that
was extensively presented at the last General Assembly in Pittsburgh. This message of Michael
Picheny is a good opportunity for you to have a look on our website to discover several features and services of ISCA
that you may have overlooked up to now.
The organization of an Interspeech conference should start several years before its venue.
It is already time to think about Interspeech 2010 and you will find below a call for bids
for this future event.
I remind you that
I would appreciate it if you draw my attention on new books devoted to speech science and/or technology:
so that I can advertise them in ISCApad.
Several recent books are already lised in the appropriate section.
Christian Wellekens
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ISCA News
- SIG's activities
- Courses, internships
- Books, databases,
softwares
- Job openings
- Journals
- 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
ISCA DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS PROGRAM
Announcement and
Call for Nominations
PURPOSE and PLAN
ISCA has just started a
new Distinguished Lecturers Program to send Distinguished Lecturers to
travel to different parts of the world to give lectures to help promote
research activities on speech science and technologies. No more than 3
Distinguished Lecturers will be selected by the end of 2006, with 2-year
terms of 2007-2008. The first Distinguished Lecturer Tour is planned for
the first half of 2007.
NOMINATIONS and SELECTION
A
Distinguished Lecturers Committee has been organized. The members of the
Committee for the year 2006 are: Sadaoki Furui (chair), Louis Pols, Renato
DeMori, Nelson Morgan, and Lin-shan Lee (secretary). Nominations of
candidates are called. Each nomination should include information (short
biography, selected publications, website, etc. plus topics/titles of up
to 3 possible lectures) of no more than 2 pages to be sent to the Committee Chair ). Only those who
receive the highest votes by the Committee, exceeding a minimum threshold
of 2/3, are selected. Nominations for this year should be received before
the deadline of Nov 15 2006.
COMMITMENTS of the LECTURERS
The
candidates selected by the Committee will be contacted and asked for the
commitment of making time available for Lecture Tours, including the
possibility of traveling to some regions specially identified as
under-represented in ISCA programs (China, India, Eastern Europe, Latin
America, South and West Asia, Africa). Those who agree are announced as
ISCA Distinguished Lecturers.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS
TOURS
Distinguished Lecturers Tours are arranged by ISCA upon
invitation only. The local hosts should be responsible for making and
funding the local arrangements including accommodation and meals, and ISCA
will pay travel costs. A Distinguished Lecturer Tour is realizable when at
least three locations are included, and at least two lectures will be
given at each location.
MORE DETAILS
More details of this
Program can be found at ISCA
website
.
Call for Bids for Interspeech 2010
Organization of
INTERSPEECH 2010
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Individuals or organizations
interested in organizing: INTERSPEECH 2010 should submit by 15 December
2006 a brief preliminary proposal, including:
* The name and position
of the proposed general chair and other principal organizers.
* The
proposed period in September/October 2010 when the conference would be
held
* The institution assuming financial responsibility for the
conference and any other cooperating institutions
* The city and
conference center proposed (with information on that center's capacity)
* The commercial conference organizer (if any)
* 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
Interspeech conferences may be held in any country, although they
generally should not occur in the same continent in two consecutive years.
(IS2009 will be held in Brighton, UK.) Guidelines for the preparation of
the proposal are available on our website.
Additional information can be provided by Isabel Trancoso.
Those
who plan to put in a bid are asked to inform ISCA of their intentions as
soon as 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
2007.
Message from our Student Activity Committee (SAC)
ONE-STOP solution for ALL researchers in Speech and Language Processing area
Have you SIGNED UP at isca-students.org? It is FREE to ALL researchers. It takes
just 2 MINUTES to sign up.
ISCA Student Section has launched the new version of their website which is
sponsored by ISCA. Check out the new features of the website! There are many
reasons for both students and also other researchers to become a user at
isca-students.org!
Some of the reasons ...
NETWORKING: meet new people, and keep in touch with your colleagues
RESOURCES: have a one-stop easy access to research resources
MAILING LISTS: monitor mailing lists easily at one location
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS: post/search internship/job/academic positions
FREEWARE/SHAREWARE: search shareware/freeware
THESES ARCHIVE: search all the theses and dissertations
DISCUSSION FORUMS: discuss research online with your colleagues
ONLINE COURSES: search online courses
ARTICLES: access to articles in speech and language processing area
BOOKS and REVIEWS: submit/read reviews for books in your area
GRANTS: increase your chance of getting a grant by providing your profile
and many more in the close future ...
GRANT APPLICATION: submit online applications to ISCA grants
RESEARCH FEEDBACK: get feedback for your conference presentation/publication
RESUME DATABASE: submit your resume or search the resume database
ISCA ARCHIVE: search ISCA publication archive by title, author, group, etc.
AUTOMATIC PUBLICATION HISTORY BUILDER: using our databases, we will provide your
publication history
DEMOS: search demos by entering keywords
INTERVIEWS: access to interviews (text, audio, video) - Transcripts coming soon
for: "How to get your dream job? What are they looking for?", Interspeech'06
Student Panel Discussion.
Murat Akbacak
ISCA-SAC
President
PhD Student, University of Colorado at Boulder
Research
Intern, University of Texas at Dallas
ISCA student branch
ISCA GRANTS
are available for students and young scientists
attending meetings.
For more information: http://www.isca-speech.org/grants
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SIG's activities
A list of Speech Interest
Groups can be found on our
web.
SLATE - NEW SIG on Speech and Language Technology in Education
The purpose of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE)
shall be to promote interest in the use of speech and natural language processing
for education; to provide members of ISCA with a special interest in speech and
language technology in education with a means of exchanging news of recent
research developments and other matters of interest in Speech and Language
Technology in Education; to sponsor meetings and workshops on that subject
that appear to be timely and worthwhile, operating within the framework of
ISCA's by-laws for SIGs; and to provide and make available resources relevant
to speech and language technology in education, including text and speech corpora,
analysis tools, analysis and generation software, research papers and generated data.
Please visit its website or send inquiries to
Maxine Eskenazi .
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COURSES, INTERNSHIPS
AVIOS Speech Application Development Contest
Demonstrate your
creativity and programming skills by entering the AVIOS Speech Application
Development Contest organized by the Applied Voice Input Output Society.
Develop a speech application using either VoiceXML or "X+V" by December
15 and win cash prizes of up to $2000 per student team plus world-wide
recognition on the AVIOS web site and other public announcements.
More details
2nd INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES
2006-2008
Rovira i Virgili University,Research Group on
Mathematical Linguistics
Tarragona Spain
Programme, registration
conditions can be found on the Website
Studentships available for 2006/7 at the Department of Computer
Science
The University of Sheffield - UK
One-Year MSc in HUMAN
LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
The Sheffield MSc in Human Language Technology has
been carefully tailored to meet the demand for graduates with the
highly-specialised multi-disciplinary skills that are required in HLT,
both as practitioners in the development of HLT applications and as
researchers into the advanced capabilities required for next-generation
HLT systems. The course provides a balanced programme of instruction
across a range of relevant disciplines including speech technology,
natural language processing and dialogue systems.
The programme is
taught in a research-led environment. This means that you will study the
most advanced theories and techniques in the field, and also have the
opportunity to use state- of-the-art software tools. You will also have
opportunities to engage in research-level activity through in-depth
exploration of chosen topics and through your dissertation.
Graduates
from this course are highly valued in industry, commerce and academia. The
programme is also an excellent introduction to the substantial research
opportunities for doctoral-level study in HLT.
A number of studentships
are available, on a competitive basis, to suitably qualified applicants.
These awards pay a stipend in addition to the course fees.
See further details
of the course
Information on
how to apply
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, DATABASES, SOFTWARES
Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech, Studies in the Evolution
of Language
Author: Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Website
Speech Recognition Over Digital Channels
Authors: Antonio M.
Peinado and Jose C. Segura
Publisher: Wiley, July 2006
Website
Multilingual Speech Processing
Editors: Tanja Schultz and
Katrin Kirchhoff ,
Elsevier Academic Press, April 2006
Website
Reconnaissance automatique de la parole: Du signal a
l'interpretation
Authors: Jean-Paul Haton
Christophe
Cerisara
Dominique Fohr
Yves Laprie
Kamel Smaili
392 Pages
Publisher: Dunod
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JOB OPENINGS
We invite all laboratories and industrial companies which have job
offers to send them to the ISCApad
editor: they will appear in the newsletter and on our website for
free. (also have a look at http://www.isca-speech.org/jobs.html
as well as http://www.elsnet.org/ Macquarie
University
Jobs)
PhD position at the University of Canberra, Australia
As part of the collaborative research project "From Talking Heads to
Thinking Heads" two PhD scholarships are available at the University of
Canberra. The project is funded under a joint ARC/NH&MRC Thinking
Systems Special Initiative Grant to build an Embodied Conversational
Agent. The scholarships are for PhD research in the areas of Automatic
Speech Recognition (Audiovisual) and Detection of Speaker
Characteristics (Audiovisual) and are currently valued at AUD25,118 per
annum. (Please note that non-residents of Australia or New Zealand are
required to pay substantial course fees to study in Australia). Further
information can be found at our website
or by sending an email to Prof. Michael Wagner.
Scholarships in related project areas may also be available at
Macquarie University and at
Flinders University.
Open position for a Research Engineer-Speech Production Research at MIT,Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: Research Engineer-Speech Production Research
Req Number: mit-00003505
Department: Research Laboratory Of Electronics
Location(s): Cambridge MA
FT/PT: Full Time
Employment / Payroll Category: SRS (Research)
Work Shift: M-F 9:00-5:00
RESEARCH ENGINEER-SPEECH PRODUCTION GROUP, Research Laboratory of
Electronics, to help conduct research on speech motor control, including
the role of hearing. The research involves speech production and perception
experiments on adults with normal hearing and on cochlear implant users, in
conjunction with the development of neurocomputational models simulating
brain functions underlying speech. Will assist with many aspects of the
research including computational modeling; running experiments (making
multichannel recordings of acoustic and movement signals); working with
interactive Windows-based software for experiment control, signal
processing, and data analysis; and performing graphical and statistical
analysis of extracted data. Duties also include transducer system
calibration and maintenance, hard/software integration and development, and
participation in designing and reporting on experiments.
REQUIREMENTS: a master's or Ph.D in bioengineering, electrical engineering,
computational neuroscience, computer science, or related field. Experience
in the following areas highly desirable: research in speech communication
and/or motor control, Windows- and Linux-based programming in C++ and
MATLAB (including applications for real-time data acquisition), and the use
and calibration/maintenance of laboratory instrumentation. MIT-00003505
SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION by the
Website
Open position for a Research Specialist-Speech Production Group at MIT,Cambridge, MA, USA
Title: Research Specialist-Speech Production Group
Req Number: mit-00003504
Department: Research Laboratory Of Electronics
Location(s): Cambridge MA
FT/PT: Full Time
Employment / Payroll Category: SRS (Research)
Work Shift: M-F 9:00-5:00
RESEARCH SPECIALIST-SPEECH PRODUCTION GROUP, Research Laboratory of
Electronics, to manage and help run a research project exploring the role
of hearing in speech, specifically in postlingually-deafened adults who use
cochlear implants. Will be responsible--in collaboration with a large
research team--for many aspects of the research, including recruiting and
scheduling subjects, making acoustic recordings, running perceptual tests,
and extracting and managing large amounts of data. Will also assist with
experimental design, data analysis, and preparation of manuscripts and
presentations; and supervise a technical assistant.
REQUIREMENTS: a minimum of a master's degree in speech and hearing science,
speech-language pathology, audiology, experimental psychology, experimental
phonetics, biomedical engineering, or other related field. Experience with
acoustic phonetics and research methods very important. Ability to work
with adults who are hard-of-hearing or deaf essential, as are strong
organizational and planning skills. MIT-00003504
SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION by the
web
PhD position in Speech Recognition at ESAT/PSI, Leuven,
Belgium
The ESAT/PSI speech group has a vacancy for a junior
research working towards a PhD degree in the framework of the TELEX
project.
The TELEX project aims at improving our hybrid and template
based speech recognition system.
The major research topics are
intrinsic improvements in the template based system by long span modeling
and distance metrics. We will also aim at introducing pronunciation
variation modeling into the template based framework.
This research
will be performed in close collaboration with the Computer Science
Department (CW/Nines) and the university of Gent. There will also be
intense collaboration with the Marie Curie network Sound to Sense.
More
information on the project may be found at our website
Candidates
ideally have a university degree in engineering or computer science.
Candidates with a general science degree and excellent programming skills
may apply as well.
Knowledge of or experience in the following areas
form an asset:
- speech recognition and speech modelling
- C/C++
programming
- statistical parameter estimation
The position is
available as of 01 Jan 2007 though an earlier starting date is possible as
well.
Interested applicants should send their CV to Prof. Dirk Van Compernolle
.
PhD position in Template Based Speech Recognition at ESAT/PSI,
Leuven,Belgium.
The ESAT/PSI speech group has a vacancy for a
junior research working towards a PhD degree in the framework of the TELEX
project (TELEX: combining acoustic TEmplate with LEXical modeling). The
TELEX project aims at improving our hybrid and template based speech
recognition system. The major research topics are intrinsic improvements
in the template based system by long span modeling and better distance
metrics. We will also aim at introducing pronunciation variation modeling
into the template based framework.
This research will be performed in
close collaboration with the Computer Science Department (CW/Nines) of the
K.U.Leuven and the university of Gent. There will also be intense
collaboration with the Marie Curie network Sound to Sense. More
information on the project may be found at our website
Candidates
ideally have a university degree in engineering or computer science.
Candidates with a general science degree and excellent programming skills
may apply as well. Knowledge of or experience in the following areas form
an asset:
- speech recognition and speech modelling
- C/C++
programming
- statistical parameter estimation
The position is
available as of 01 Jan 2007 though an earlier starting date is possible as
well.
Interested applicants should send their CV to Prof. Dirk Van Compernolle
.
Positions available at Acapela Group, Mons,
Belgium
R&D engineer TTS
R&D engineer
ASR
Computational linguist TTS
Details can be found
on ISCA website.
Informations can be obtained by contacting
Fabrice Malfrere
Open positions at the Adaptive Multimodal Interface Research
Lab at University of Trento (Italy)
Areas
Automatic
Speech Recognition (PhD Research Fellowship)
Natural Language
Processing (PhD Research Fellowship)
Machine Learning (PhD Research
Fellowship/Senior Researcher)
HCI/User Interface (Junior
Researcher)
Multimodal/Spoken Dialog (Senior Researcher)
The
Adaptive Multimodal Interface research lab pursues excellence research in
next-generation interfaces for human-machine and human-human
communication. The research positions will be funded by the prestigious
Marie Curie Excellence grant awarded by the European Commission for
cutting edge and interdisciplinary research.
The candidates for PhD
research fellowships should have background in speech, natural language
processing or machine learning. The successful applicants should have EE
or CS degree with strong academic records. The students will be part of an
interdisciplinary research team working on speech recognition, language
understanding, spoken dialog, machine learning and adaptive user
interfaces.
Deadline for application submission is July 11,
2006.
The candidates for the junior/senior researcher positions should
have a PhD degree either in computer science, cognitive science or related
disciplines. They will have an established international research track
record in their field of expertise and leadership skills. Deadline for
application submission is November 1, 2006.
The applicants should be
fluent in English. The Italian language competence is optional and
applicants are encouraged to acquire this skill on the job. The applicants
should have good programming skills in most of the following
C++/Java/JavaScript/Perl/Python. University of Trento is an equal
opportunity employer. Interested applicants should send their CV along
with their statement of research interest and three reference letters to:
Prof. Ing. Giuseppe
Riccardi
The University of
Trento is constantly ranked as premiere Italian graduate university
institution (see ). DIT Department
-DIT has a strong focus on
interdisciplinarity with professors from different faculties of the
University (Physical Science, Electrical Engineering, Economics, Social
Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science) with international
background.
-DIT aims at exploiting the complementary experiences
present in the various research areas in order to develop innovative
methods and technologies, applications and advanced services. -English is
the official language.
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JOURNALS
Call for papers for a special issue ofr Speech Communication on
Iberian Languages
Iberian languages (henceforth IL) are amongst the most widely spoken languages in the world.
Nowadays, 628 million people on virtually all continents have Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque,
Galician, etc. as their official language. Consequently, important speech research centers and companies,
both public and private, are focusing their interest on those languages. This effort has resulted in novel
and generic approaches applicable to any language, as well as in the optimization of existing techniques
or systems. It is worth highlighting that the community working on speech science and technology in IL
speaking countries has already reached world-class level in many areas and has continuously increased in
size in the last 15 years.
Speech technology proposed in the context of a non-Iberian language (e.g., English) may not be directly
applicable to IL. All linguistic and paralinguistic dimensions, from phonetics to pragmatics, are amongst
the features that certainly distinguish IL from others considered in speech science and technology
research. As a result, original work and optimization of existing techniques and systems may be necessary
in many areas of Iberian spoken language research.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to present recent progress and significant advances in all areas of
speech science and technology research in the context of IL. Submitted papers must address topics
specific to IL and/or issues raised by analyses of spoken data that shed light on speech science and
linguistic theories regarding these languages. Research which deals with IL data, but makes use of
standard techniques should not be submitted for this Special Issue. However, both research presenting
relevant optimization of current technology and systems, and work exploring specific features of IL
spoken corpora will be considered for submission.
This Special Issue is one of the first initiatives proposed by the recently created SIG-IL (ISCA Special
Interest Group on Iberian Languages, URL http://www.il-sig.org). The purposes of the SIG-IL are to
promote research activities on IL, to sponsor and/or organise meetings, workshops and other events on
related topics, and to make speech corpora publicly available by promoting joint evaluation efforts.
Furthermore, the SIG-IL is also strongly committed to encouraging world-class research within its
community in order to contribute with new ideas to the field of speech science and technology.
Original, previously unpublished submissions for the following areas, involving IL and detailing
the language-specific aspects, are encouraged:
Topics
o Linguistics, Phonology and Phonetics
o Prosody
o Paralinguistic & Nonlinguistic Information in
Speech
o Discourse & Dialogue
o Speech Production
o Speech Perception
o Physiology & Pathology
o Spoken Language Acquisition, Development
and Learning
o Spoken Language Generation & Synthesis
o Language/Dialect Identification
o Speech and Speaker Recognition: acoustic,
language and pronunciation modeling.
o Spoken Language Understanding
o Multi-modal / Multi-lingual Processing
o Spoken Language Extraction/Retrieval
o Spoken Language Translation
o Spoken/Multi-modal Dialogue Systems
o Spoken Language Resources and Annotation
o Evaluation and Standardization
o Spoken Language Technology for the Aged
and Disabled (e-inclusion)
o Spoken Language Technology for Education
(e-learning)
o Interdisciplinary Topics in Speech and
Language
o New Applications
Guest Editors
Isabel Trancoso INESC-ID, Portugal
Nestor Becerra-Yoma Univ. de Chile, Chile
Plinio A. Barbosa Univ. of Campinas, Brazil
Rubén San-Segundo UPM, Spain
Kuldip Plaiwal Griffith University, Australia
Important Dates
Submission deadline: May 31st, 2007
Notification of acceptance: October 31st, 2007
Final manuscript due: December 30th, 2007
Tentative publication date: March, 2008
Submission Procedure
Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the Speech Communication Journal for
electronic submission (http://ees.elsevier.com/specom). During submission authors must select the
Section “Special Issue Paper”, not “Regular Paper”, and the title of the special issue should be referenced
in the “Comments” (Special Issue on Iberian Languages) 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 in stitutions. Free
access for all to the titles and abstracts of all volumes and even by
clicking on Articles in
press and then Selected papers.
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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 (http://www.isca-speech.org/) on
conferences and workshops.
FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES
INTERSPEECH 2007-EUROSPEECHAugust 27-31,2007,Antwerp,
Belgium
Chair: Dirk van Compernolle, K.U.Leuven and Lou Boves,
K.U.Nijmegen
Website
INTERSPEECH 2007 is the eighth conference in the annual series of
INTERSPEECH events and also the tenth biennial EUROSPEECH conference. The
conference is jointly organized by scientists from the Netherlands and
Belgium, and will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, August 27-31, 2007, under the
sponsorship of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
The INTERSPEECH meetings are considered to be the top international
conferences in spoken language processing, with more than 1000 attendees
from universities, industry, and government agencies. The conference offers
the prospect of meeting the future leaders of our field, exchanging ideas,
and exploring opportunities for collaboration, employment, and sales through
keynote talks, tutorials, technical sessions, exhibits, and poster sessions.
In recent years the INTERSPEECH meetings have taken place in a number of
exciting venues including most recently Pittsburgh, Lisbon, Jeju Island
(Korea), Geneva, Denver, Aalborg (Denmark), and Beijing.
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
ISCA, together with the INTERSPEECH 2007 organizing committee, would like to
encourage submission of Special Session proposals for the upcoming
conference, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging
areas of interest related to the main conference topics:
Human speech production and perception
Human speech communication
Speech coding and speech enhancement
Speech and audio signal processing
Automatic speech and speaker characterization
Speech synthesis
Automatic speech recognition
Speech technology applications
Speech and multimodal resources
Other relevant topics
Persons who would like to organize a special session are invited to
email a
one-page proposal on or
before November 15, 2006.
Special sessions will be allocated one time slot of two hours. In
exceptional cases two consecutive time slots may be allocated. Proposals
should clearly describe the topic and the format of the session and explain
why the topic cannot be covered appropriately in one or more regular
sessions. Proposals also should include a list of at least ten names of
independent persons or research groups who can be expected to make
contributions to the special session.
All papers submitted for Special Sessions will undergo the normal peer
reviewing process organized by the Scientific Committee of the conference.
CALL FOR TUTORIALS
We also encourage proposals for three-hour tutorials to be held on August
27, 2007. Those interested in organizing a tutorial should email a one-page
description of the proposed tutorial
on or before January 8, 2007.
Proposals for tutorials should contain the following information:
* Title of the tutorial
* Summary and relevance
* The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of
the tutorial speakers, with a one-paragraph statement describing the
research interests and areas of expertise of the speaker(s)
* Any special requirements for technical needs (display projector,
computer infrastructure, etc.)
IMPORTANT DATES
Proposals for special sessions: November 15, 2006
Proposals for tutorials: January 8, 2007
Tutorial Day: August 27, 2007
Main conference: August 28-31, 2007
Further information via website or email.
ORGANIZERS
Professor Dirk Van Compernolle (General Chair)
Professor Lou Boves (General Co-Chair)
c/o
Annitta De Messemaeker
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Department of Electrical Engineering
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10
B3001 Heverlee
Belgium
Fax: +32 16 321723
Email
Website
INTERSPEECH 2008-ICSLP September 22-26, 2008, Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia
Chairman: Denis Burnham, MARCS, University of West Sydney.
INTERSPEECH 2009-EUROSPEECH Brighton, UK,
Chairman:
Prof. Roger Moore,
University of Sheffield.
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FUTURE ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP (ITRW)
Third ITRW on NON-LINEAR SPEECH PROCESSING (NPLISP'07)
May 22-25,
2007 , Paris, France
Website
Many specifics of the speech signal are not well addressed by the conventional models currently used in the field
of speech processing. The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss novel ideas, work and results related
to alternative techniques for speech processing, which depart from mainstream approaches.
SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit a 3 to 4-page paper proposal in English, which will
be evaluated by the Scientific Committee. Final papers will be due 1 month after the workshop,
for inclusion in the CD-ROM proceedings. A special issue in Speech Communication (Elsevier) will follows.
KEY DATES
Submission (full paper): 15 January 2007
Notification of acceptance: 23 February 2007
Workshop: 22-25 May 2007
Final (revised) paper: 25 June
6th ISCA Speech Synthesis Research Workshop
(SSW-6)
Bonn (Germany), August 22-24, 2007
A satellite of
INTERSPEECH 2007 (Antwerp)in collaboration with SynSIG
Details will be
posted by early 2007
Contact
Prof. Wolfgang Hess
ITRW on Robustness
November 2007, Santiago, Chile
ITRW on Evidence-based Voice and Speech Rehabilitation in Head & Neck Oncology
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008
Cancer in the head and neck area and its treatment can have debilitating effects on communication. Currently available treatment options such as radiotherapy,
surgery, chemo-radiation, or a combination of these can often be curative. However, each of these options affects parts of the vocal tract and/or voice to a more
or lesser degree. When the vocal tract or voice no longer functions optimally, this affects communication. For example, radiotherapy can result in poor voice quality,
limiting the speaker’s vocal performance (fatigue from speaking, avoidance of certain communicative situations, etc.). Surgical removal of the larynx necessitates
an alternative voicing source, which generally results in a poor voice quality, but further affects intelligibility and the prosodic structure of speech. Similarly, a
commando procedure (resection involving portions of the mandible / floor of the mouth / mobile tongue) can have a negative effect on speech intelligibility.
This 2 day tutorial and research workshop will focus on evidence-based rehabilitation of voice and speech in head and neck oncology. There will be 4 half day
sessions, 3 of which will deal with issues concerning total laryngectomy. One session will be devoted to research on rehabilitation of other head and neck cancer
sites. The chairpersons of each session will prepare a work document on the specific topic at hand (together with the two keynote lecturers assigned), which will
be discussed in a subsequent round table session. After this there will be a 30’ poster session, allowing 9-10 short presentations. Each presentation consists of
maximally 4 slides, and is meant to highlight the poster’s key points. Posters will be visited in the subsequent poster visit session. The final work document will
refer to all research presently available, discuss its (clinical) relevance, and will attempt to provide directions for future research. The combined work document,
keynote lectures and poster abstracts/papers will be published under the auspices of ISCA.
Organizers
Prof. dr. Frans JM Hilgers
Prof. dr. Louis CW Pols, PhD
dr. Maya van Rossum.
Sponsoring institutions:
Institute of Phonetic Sciences - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication,
The Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Dates and submission details as well as a website address will be announced in a later issue.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS SUPPORTED (but not organized) by ISCA
IV Jornadas en Tecnologia del Habla
Zaragoza,
Spain
November 8-10, 2006
Website
International Workshop on Spoken Language
Translation (IWSLT 2006)
Evaluation campaign for language
translation
Palulu Plaza Kyoto (right in front of Kyoto Station)
(Japan)
November 30-December 1 2006
Website
Spoken language
translation technologies attempt to cross the language barriers between
people having different native languages who each want to engage in
conversation by using their mother-tongue. Spoken language translation has
to deal with problems of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine
translation (MT).
One of the prominent research activities in spoken
language translation is the work being conducted by the Consortium for
Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR III), which is an
international partnership of research laboratories engaged in automatic
translation of spoken language. Current members include ATR (Japan), CAS
(China), CLIPS (France), CMU (USA), ETRI (Korea), ITC-irst (Italy), and
UKA (Germany).
A multilingual speech corpus comprised of
tourism-related sentences (BTEC*) has been created by the C-STAR members
and parts of this corpus were already used for previous IWSLT workshops
focusing on the evaluation of MT results using text input () and the translation of ASR
output (word lattice, NBEST list) using read speech as input (). The full BTEC* corpus
consists of 160K of sentence-aligned text data and parts of the corpus
will be provided to the participants for training purposes.
In this
workshop, we focus on the translation of spontaneous speech which includes
ill-formed utterances due to grammatical incorrectness, incomplete
sentences, and redundant expressions. The impact of spontaneity aspects on
the ASR and MT systems performance as well as the robustness of state-of-
the-art MT engines towards speech recognition errors will be investigated
in detail.
Two types of submissions are invited:
1) participants in
the evaluation campaign of spoken language translation technologies,
2) technical papers on related issues.
Evaluation campaign (see
details on our website)
Each participant in the evaluation campaign
is requested to submit a paper describing the utilized ASR and MT systems
and to report results using the provided test data.
Technical Paper
Session
The workshop also invites technical papers related to
spoken language translation. Possible topics include, but are not limited
to:
+ Spontaneous speech translation
+ Domain and language
portability
+ MT using comparable and non-parallel corpora
+ Phrase
alignment algorithms
+ MT decoding algorithms
+ MT evaluation
measures
Important Dates
+ Evaluation Campaign
May 12,
2006 -- Training Corpus Release
August 1, 2006 -- Test Corpus Release
[00:01 JST]
August 3, 2006 -- Result Submission Due [23:59
JST]
September 15, 2006 -- Result Feedback to Participants
2006
September 29, 2006 -- Paper Submission Due
October 14, 2006 --
Notification of Acceptance
October 27, 2006 -- Camera-ready Submission
Due
- system registrations will be accepted until release of test
corpus
- late result submissions will be treated as unofficial result
submissions
+ Technical Papers
July 21, 2006 -- Paper Submission Due
[23:59 JST]
September 29, 2006 -- Notification of Acceptance
October 27, 2006 -- Camera-ready Submission
Due
Contact
Michael
Paul
ATR Spoken Language Communication Research
Laboratories
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288
Japan
International Symposium on Chinese Spoken
Language Processing (ISCSLP'2006)
Singapore Dec. 13-16,
2006
Conference
website
Topics
ISCSLP'06 will feature world-renowned
plenary speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and a number of lecture and poster
sessions on the following topics:
* Speech Production and Perception
* Phonetics and Phonology
* Speech Analysis
* Speech Coding
* Speech Enhancement
* Speech Recognition
* Speech Synthesis
* Language Modeling and Spoken Language Understanding
* Spoken
Dialog Systems
* Spoken Language Translation
* Speaker and
Language Recognition
* Indexing, Retrieval and Authoring of Speech
Signals
* Multi-Modal Interface including Spoken Language Processing
* Spoken Language Resources and Technology Evaluation
*
Applications of Spoken Language Processing Technology
* Others
The
official language of ISCSLP is English. The regular papers will be
published as a volume in the Springer LNAI series, and the poster papers
will be published in a companion volume. Authors are invited to submit
original, unpublished work on all the aspects of Chinese spoken language
processing.
The conference will also organize four special
sessions:
* Special Session on Rich Information Annotation and Spoken
Language Processing
* Special Session on Robust Techniques for
Organizing and Retrieving Spoken Documents
* Special Session on Speaker
Recognition
* Special Panel Session on Multilingual Corpus Development
Schedule
* Full paper submission by Jun. 15, 2006
*
Notification of acceptance by Jul. 25, 2006
* Camera ready papers by
Aug. 15, 2006
* Early registration by Nov. 1, 2006
Please visit
the conference website for more
details.
ISCSLP 2006-Special session on speaker recognition
Singapore, Dec 13-16, 2006
Website
Chair:
Dr Thomas Fang Zheng, Tsinghua
Univ., Beijing.
Speaker recognition (or voiceprint recognition, VPR)
is one of the most important branches in speech processing. Its
applications become wider and wider in various fields, such as public
security, anti-terrorism, justice, telephony banking, personal services,
and so on. However, there are still many fundamental and theoretical
problems to solve, such as issues of background noises, cross-channel,
multiple-speakers, and short speech segment for training and testing.
The purpose of this special session is to invite researchers in this
field to present their state-of-art technical achievements. Papers are
invited to cover, but not limited to, the following topics:
*
Text-dependent and text-independent speaker identification
*
Text-dependent and text-independent speaker verification
* Speaker
detection
* Speaker segmentation
* Speaker tracking
* Speaker
recognition systems and application
* Resource creation for speaker
recognition
This special session also provides a platform for
developers in this field to evaluate their speaker recognition systems
using the same database provided by this special session. Evaluation of
speaker recognition systems will cover the following tasks:
*
Text-independent speaker identification
* Text-dependent and
text-independent speaker verification
* Text-independent cross-channel
speaker identification
* Text-dependent and text-independent
cross-channel speaker verification
Final details on these tasks
(including evaluation criteria) will be made available in due course. The
development and testing data will be provided by the Chinese Corpus
Consortium (CCC). The data sets will be extracted from two CCC databases,
which are CCC-VPR3C2005 and CCC-VPR2C2005-1000. Participants are required
to submit a full paper to the conference describing their algorithms,
systems and results.
Schedule for this special session
*
Feb. 01, 2006: On-line registration open, CLOSED on May 1st, 2006
*
May. 01, 2006: Development data made available to participants
* May.
21, 2006 (revised): Test data made available to participants
* Jun. 7,
2006 (revised):Test results due at CCC
* Jun. 10, 2006: Results
released to participants
* Jun. 15, 2006: Papers due (using ISCSLP
standard format)
* Jul. 25, 2006: The full set of the two databases
made available to the participants of this special session upon request
* Dec. 16, 2006: Conference presentation
This special session is
organized by the CCC .
Please
address your enquiries to Dr.
Thomas Fang Zheng.
Download the Speaker
Recognition Evaluation Registration Form
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FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS
Call for papers- 9th DIMACS Implementation Challenge Workshop:
Shortest Paths
WEBSITE
Goals
Shortest
path problems are ones of the most fundamental combinatorial optimization
problems with many applications, both direct and as subroutines in other
combinatorial optimization algorithms. Algorithms for these problems have
been studied since 1950's and still remain an active area of research. One
goal of this Challenge is to create a reproducible picture of the state of
the art in the area of shortest path algorithms. To this end we are
identifying a standard set of benchmark instances and generators, as well
as a benchmark implementations of well-known shortest path algorithms.
Another goal is to enable current researchers to compare their codes with
each other, in hopes of identifying the more effective of the recent
algorithmic innovations that have been proposed. The final goal is to
publish proceedings containing results presented at the Challenge
Workshop, and a book containing the best of the proceedings
papers.
Scope
The Challenge addresses a wide range of
shortest path problems, including all sensible combinations of the
following:
* Point-to-point, single-source, all-pairs.
*
Non-negative arc lengths and arbitrary arc lengths (including negative
cycle detection).
* Directed and undirected graphs.
* Static and
dynamic problems. The latter include those dynamic in CS sense (arc
additions, deletions, length changes) and those dynamic in OR sense (arc
transit times depending on arrival times).
* Exact and approximate
shortest paths.
* Compact routing tables and shortest path oracles.
Implementations on any platform of interest, for example desktop
machines, supercomputers, and handheld devices, are encouraged.
How
to participate
People interested in submitting papers to the
Challenge Workshop can find benchmark instances, generators, and code for
the problems they address at the Challenge website, along with detailed
information on file formats. Your work can take two different
directions.
1. Defining instances for algorithm evaluation. The
instances should be natural and interesting. By the latter we mean
instances that cause good algorithms to behave differently from the other
instances. Interesting real-life application data are especially
welcome.
2. Algorithm evaluation. Description of implementations of
algorithms with experimental data that supports conclusions about
practical performance. Common benchmark instances and codes should be used
so that there is common ground for comparison. The most obvious way for
such a paper to be interesting (and selected for the proceedings) is if
the implementation improves state-of-the-art. However, there may be other
ways to produce and interesting paper, for example by showing that an
approach that looks well in theory does not work well in practice by
explaining why this is the case.
Challenge Book
The best
papers presented at the Challenge Workshop will be selected for
publication in a book published in the DIMACS Book Series.
Important
dates
- August 25, 2006: Paper submission deadline
- September
25, 2006: Author notification
- November 13-14, 2006: Challenge
Workshop, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway,
NJ
Organizing Committee
Camil Demetrescu, University of Rome
"La Sapienza"
Andrew Goldberg, Microsoft Research
David Johnson,
AT&T Labs - Research
Advisory Committee
Paolo Dell'Olmo,
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Irina Dumitrescu, University of New
South Wales
Mikkel Thorup, AT&T Labs-Research
Dorothea Wagner,
Universitaet Karlsruhe
Call for papers 8th International Conference on Signal
Processing
Nov. 16-20, 2006, Guilin, China
website
The 8th International
Conference on Signal Processing will be held in Guilin, China on Nov.
16-20, 2006. It will include sessions on all aspects of theory, design and
applications of signal processing. Prospective authors are invited to
propose papers in any of the following areas, but not limited to:
A.
Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
B. Spectrum Estimation &
Modeling
C. TF Spectrum Analysis & Wavelet
D. Higher Order
Spectral Analysis
E. Adaptive Filtering &SP
F. Array Signal
Processing
G. Hardware Implementation for Signal Processing
H.
Speech and Audio Coding
I. Speech Synthesis & Recognition
J.
Image Processing & Understanding
K. PDE for Image Processing
L.
Video compression &Streaming
M. Computer Vision & VR
N.
Multimedia & Human-computer Interaction
O. Statistic Learning &
Pattern Recognition
P. AI & Neural Networks
Q. Communication
Signal processing
R. SP for Internet and Wireless Communications
S.
Biometrics & Authentification
T. SP for Bio-medical & Cognitive
Science
U. SP for Bio-informatics
V. Signal Processing for
Security
W. Radar Signal Processing
X. Sonar Signal Processing and
Localization
Y. SP for Sensor Networks
Z. Application &
Others
CI 2006 Special Session on Natural Language Processing for
Real Life Applications
November 20-22, 2006 San Francisco,
California, USA
Website
Topics
The
Special Session on Natural Language Processing for Real Life Applications
will cover the following topics (but is not limited to):
1. speech
recognition, in particular
* multilingual speech recognition
* large
vocabulary continuous speech recognition with focus on the
application
2. real life dialog systems
* natural language dialog
systems
* multimodal dialog systems
3. speech-based
classification
* speaker classification, i.e. exploiting paralinguistic
features of the speech to gather information about the speaker (for
example age, gender, cognitive load, and emotions)
* language and
accent identification
Paper Submission
Please submit papers
for the special session directly to the session chair
(christian.mueller@dfki.de). DO NOT submit the papers through the IASTED
website. Otherwise, the papers will be handled as general papers for the
conference. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two independent
reviewers. The final selection of papers for the session will be done by
the session chair; acceptance/rejection letters and review comments along
with registration information will be provided by IASTED by the general
Notification deadline.
Formatting instructions
Please follow
the formatting instructions provided by IASTED. Website.
Important
Dates
Submissions due June 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance
August 1, 2006
Camera-ready manuscripts due September 1,
2006
Registration Deadline September 15, 2006
Conference November 20
- 22, 2006
Registration
All papers accepted for the special
session are required to register before the general conference
registration deadline.
ELEVENTH AUSTRALASIAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPEECH
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 6-8 DECEMBER
2006
Conference Website
Conference Website
The Australasian Speech Science and Technology
Association (ASSTA) is a scientific association that aims to advance the
understanding of speech science and its application to speech technology.
ASSTA and the University of Auckland are pleased to announce the Eleventh
International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2006).
Conference Themes
Submissions are invited for oral and
poster presentations. Submissions should describe original contributions
to spoken language, speech science and/or technology that will be of
interest to an audience including scientists, engineers, linguists,
psychologists, speech and language therapists, audiologists and other
professionals. Submissions are invited in all areas of speech science and
technology, but particularly in the following areas:
Speech
production
Acoustic phonetics
Acoustics of accent change
Music
and speech processing
Emotional speech, voice, intonation and prosody
Applications of speech science and technology
Speech Processing for
Forensic Applications
Speech recognition and understanding
Speaker
recognition and classification
Speech enhancement and noise
cancellation
Pedagogical technologies for speech and singing
Corpus
management and speech tools
Contributions of speech science and
technology to Phonetics and Phonology of Australian and New Zealand
English audiology and speech language therapy (PANZE)
Combined session
with Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation
Keynote
Speakers
Prof. Joseph Perkell, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Prof. Pat Keating, University of California Los
Angeles
Prof. Michael Corballis, University of
Auckland.
Important Dates
. Abstract submission closing date
- Monday, 28 August 2006
. Acceptance notice date - Monday, 25
September 2006
. Manuscript closing date - Monday, 6 November 2006
.
Early registration date for conference and pre-conference workshop -
Sunday, 29 October 2006
. Presenter/Author registration Deadline -
Sunday, 29 October 2006
. Pre-conference tutorials and workshops - 5
December 2006
. SST 2006 Conference, 6-8 December
Important
Contacts:
Abstract and Manuscript Submission: these should be
submitted online. Click on
the "Submission" link and follow the guidelines posted. Word and Latex
templates, and a comprehensive author's guide for submissions, are
available on the website.
Registration: An online registration form
can be found on the conference website. Any queries regarding your
registration should be directed either to the University Conference
Management or to the Conference Chair Dr Catherine
Watson.
Pre-Conference Workshops: Any enquiries regarding the
Pre-Conference workshops should be sent to Assoc. Prof. Paul
Warren.
Conference Organising Committee: Dr Catherine Watson
(chair), Assoc. Prof. Paul Warren, Dr Waleed Abdulla, Dr Elaine Ballard,
Helen Charters, Dr. Claire Fletcher Flynn, Dr Bernard Guillemin, Dr
William Thorpe, Assoc. Prof. Suzanne Purdy, Dr Peter Keegan
Conference
Advisory Committee Prof. Cathy Best, Prof. Bob Bogner, Prof. Herve
Bourlard, Prof. Anne Cutler, Prof. Hiroya Fujisaki, . Jonathan Harrington,
Prof. Hynek Hermansky, Prof. Louis Pols, Prof. Peter Thorne, Prof. Roger
Wales, Assoc. Prof. Paul Warren, Assoc. Prof. Thomas Fang Zheng
Pre-Conference Workshops: Morning 1. Speech Processing Waleed Abdulla,
University of Auckland 2. Intonation and Prosody in AuE and NZ Janet
Fletcher, University of Melbourne and Paul Warren, Victoria University of
Wellington Afternoon 3. Speech database management and access Jen Hay,
University of Canterbury 4. The phonetics of Maori Peter Keegan,
University of Auckland Accommodation: A variety of accommodation options
have been arranged at special conference rates. An accommodation
reservation form can be downloaded from the website
http://www.assta.org/sst/2006/. Other hotels within walking distance of
the University include The Copthorne, Duxton, Rydges and Quest on Mount.
Information regarding these hotels can be found on the www.nz.com website
IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language
Technology
Marriott
Palm Beach, Aruba
December 10 --
December 13, 2006
Workshop
website
Paper status is now available by calling the DISCOH spoken
dialog system at 888-681-5290
You are invited to register for the first international workshop on Spoken
Language Technology (SLT),which will be held at the Aruba Marriott,December
10-13, 2006 (Sunday through Wednesday).
Workshop Topics
Spoken language understanding;
Spoken document summarization, Machine translation for speech; Spoken
dialog systems; Spoken language generation; Spoken document retrieval;
Human/Computer Interactions (HCI); Speech data mining; Information
extraction from speech; Question/Answering from speech; Multimodal
processing; Spoken language systems, applications and
standards.
Submissions for the Technical Program
The workshop
program will consist of tutorials, oral and poster presentations, and
panel discussions. Attendance will be limited with priority for those who
will present technical papers; registration is required of at least one
author for each paper. Submissions are encouraged on any of the topics
listed above. The style guide, templates, and submission form will follow
the IEEE ICASSP style. Three members of the Scientific Committee will
review each paper. The workshop proceedings will be published on a
CD-ROM.
Schedule
Camera-ready paper submission deadline July
15, 2006
Hotel Reservation and Workshop registration opens July 30,
2006
Paper Acceptance / Rejection September 1, 2006
Hotel
Reservation and Workshop Registration closes October 15, 2006
Workshop
December 10-13, 2006
Registration and Information
Registration and paper submission, as well as other workshop
information, can be found on the SLT
website.
Organizing Committee
General Chair: Mazin
Gilbert, AT&T, USA
Co-Chair: Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Finance Chair: Gokhan Tur, SRI, USA
Publication Chair: Brian
Roark, OGI/OHSU, USA
Publicity Chair: Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State
U., USA
Industrial Chair: Roberto Pieraccini, Tell-Eureka, USA
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia - ISM
2006
Conference
website
Special track: Remote
Sensors for Audio Processing
In recent decades, the cost of
acoustic technologies has declined dramatically. Advances in networks,
storage devices, and power management have made it practical to consider
the remote location of sensors that either transmit data to a central
processing facility or store the data for later retrieval. Nonetheless,
many challenges remain for the fabrication, deployment and use of remote
sensors. In locations with limited infrastructure, power management and
the ability for the user to access or retrieve the data are paramount. In
some situations, the need for localization or improved signal to noise
ratio may dictate the use of microphone arrays or other signal enhancement
techniques. Deployment in hostile environments such as arctic or deep sea
conditions requires additional considerations. Remote sensors are capable
of generating large acoustic or mixed media datasets. With these large
corpora, the need for automated processing becomes critical as the
staffing requirements for human analysis are both cost and labor
prohibitive. The development of automated analysis can yield valuable data
such as seasonal or diel patterns of animals, perimeter intrusion
detection, access control, and a myriad of other applications. This
special session invites researchers to submit high quality papers
describing either preliminary or mature results on topics related to audio
for remote sensors.
Topics of interest
· Audio classification and
detection tasks for remote sensors (speech, bioacoustics, auditory scene
analysis, etc.)
· Deployment issues
· Power management
·
Networking/Storage/Data Management
· Array processing
· Remote audio
sensors in challenging environments
· Applications of remote sensors
with a significant audio component
Submissions and deadlines
The written and spoken language of ISM2006 is English. Authors
should submit an 8-page technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE
format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract
electronically. Submissions should be directed to Prof. Marie Roch , following the
formatting
instructions available in the submission guidelines for regular
papers. Note that papers should not be submitted directly to ISM web site.
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. All papers should be in
Adobe portable document format (PDF). The paper should have a cover page,
which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's phone
number and e-mail address. The Conference Proceedings will be published by
the IEEE Computer Society Press.
Important dates:
· August 8
- submission of papers
· September 10 - Notification of acceptance of
papers
· September 25 - Camera-ready papers due
· December 11-13 -
Conference at Paradise Point
Resort & Spa in San Diego ,
California
Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems
(EI121)
Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on
Electronic Imaging 28 January - 1 February 2007, San Jose, California,
USA
Conference Chairs:
Alan Hanjalic, Technische Univ. Delft
(Netherlands);
Raimondo Schettini, DISCo/Univ. degli Studi di
Milano-Bicocca (Italy);
Nicu Sebe, Univ. van Amsterdam
(Netherlands)
Topics
Content Analysis:
* image, audio and
video characterization (feature extraction)
* fusion of text, image,
video and audio data
* content parsing, clustering and
classification
* semantic modeling
* image, video and audio
similarity measures
* object and event detection and recognition
*
benchmarking of content analysis methods and algorithms
* generic
methods and algorithms for content analysis
* affective content
analysis.
Content Management and Delivery:
* (Internet) multimedia
databases
* multimedia standards (e.g. SVG, SMIL, MPEG-7)
*
efficient peer-to-peer storage and search techniques
* indexing and
data organization
* system optimization for search and retrieval
*
storage hierarchies, scalable storage
* personalized content
delivery.
Content Search/Browsing/Retrieval:
* multimedia data
mining
* active learning and relevance feedback
* query models
*
browsing and visualization
* search issues in distributed and
heterogeneous systems
* benchmarking search, browsing, and retrieval
algorithms and systems
* generation of video summaries and
abstracts
* cognitive aspects of human/machine systems.
Internet
Imaging and Multimedia:
* peer-to-peer imaging systems for the
Internet
* content creation and presentation for the Internet
* web
cameras: impact on content analysis techniques
* interactive multimedia
creation for the Internet
* content rating, authentication,
non-repudiation, and cultural differences in content perception
* XML
applications
* web crawling, caching, and security
* semantic
web
* (adaptable) user interfaces.
Applications:
* commerce
*
medicine
* news
* entertainment
* wearable and ubiquitous
computing
* management of meetings
* biometrics
* cultural
heritage and education
* collaborative systems and multi-device
applications
* life log applications
* military and civilian
security applications.
The conference program will include invited
keynote presentations, invited special sessions, and a panel of experts
who will be discussing the remaining research challenges related to
multimedia content analysis, management and retrieval.
Important
Dates
Paper Proposals (5,000 words): 04 August 2006 (last
extension)
Final Manuscript Due Date: 13 November 2006
200-word
Final Summary: 20 November 2006
International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal
Processing and their Applications (ISSPA 2007)
ISSPA 2007 marks
the 20th anniversary of launching the first ISSPA in 1987 in Brisbane,
Australia. Since its inception, ISSPA has provided, through a series of 8
symposia, a high quality forum for engineers and scientists engaged in
research and development of Signal and Image Processing theory and
applications. Effective 2007, ISSPA will extend its scope to add the new
track of information sciences. Hence, the intention that the previous full
name of ISSPA is replaced after 2007 by the following new full name:
International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and
their Applications. ISSPA is an IEEE indexed conference.
ISSPA 2007
will be organized between February 12 to 15, 2007 in Sharjah, United Arab
Emirates (UAE) by three prominent institutions located in Sharjah in the
United Arab Emirates: University of Sharjah, American University of
Sharjah, and Etisalat University College.
The regular technical program
will run for three days along with an exhibition of signal processing and
information sciences products. In addition, tutorial sessions will be held
on the first day of the symposium.
Topics
Papers are invited
in, but not limited to, the following topics:
1.Filter Design Theory
and Methods
2. Multirate Filtering & Wavelets
3.Adaptive Signal
Processing
4.Time-Frequency/Time-Scale Analysis
5.Statistical Signal
& Array Processing
6.Radar & Sonar Processing
7.Speech
Processing & Recognition
8.Fractals and Chaos Signal
Processing
9.Signal Processing in Communications
10.Signal
processing in Networking
11. Multimedia Signal Processing
12.
Nonlinear signal processing
13.Biomedical Signal and Image
Processing
14.Image and Video Processing
15.Image Segmentation and
Scene Analysis
16. VLSI for Signal and Image
Processing
17.Cryptology, Steganography, and Digital
Watermarking
18. Image indexing & retrieval
19.Soft Computing
& Pattern Recognition
20. Natural Language Processing
21.Signal
Processing for Bioinformatics
22. Signal Processing for
Geoinformatics
23.Biometric Systems and Security
24.Machine
Vision
25.Data visualization
26. Data mining
27. Sensor Networks
and Sensor Fusion
28.Signal Processing and Information Sciences
Education
29.Others
How to submit?
Prospective authors are
invited to submit full length (four pages) papers for presentation in any
of the areas listed above (indicate area in your submission). We also
encourage the submission of proposal for student session, tutorial and
sessions on special topics. All articles submitted to ISSPA 2007 will be
peer-reviewed using a blind review process.
For more details and
submission of papers please see : conference website
Important
Dates
Full Paper Submission: September 15, 2006
Tutorials/Special Sessions Proposals: September 15,
2006
Notification of Paper Acceptance: November 15, 2006
Final
Accepted Paper Submission: December 1, 2006
Conference: February 12 to
15, 2007 Contact person:
Dr Mohammed Al-Mualla ISSPA07
Publicity Chair
ICASSP 2007
2007 IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
April 15-20, 2007
Honolulu,
Hawaii, U.S.A.
conference
website
Tutorial Proposals Due August 4, 2006
Special Session
and Panel Proposals Due August 4, 2006
Notification of Special Session
& Tutorial Acceptance September 8, 2006
TOPICS
* Audio
and electroacoustics
* Bio imaging and signal processing * Design and
implementation of signal processing systems
* Image and
multidimensional signal processing
* Industry technology tracks
*
Information forensics and security
* Machine learning for signal
processing
* Multimedia signal processing
* Sensor array and
multichannel systems
* Signal processing education
* Signal
processing for communications
* Signal processing theory and
methods
* Speech processing
* Spoken language
processing
Submission of Papers
Prospective authors are
invited to submit full-length, four-page papers , including figures and
references, to the ICASSP Technical Committee. All ICASSP papers will be
handled and reviewed electronically. Please note that the submission dates
for papers are strict deadlines.
Tutorial, Special Session, and
Panel Proposals
Tutorials will be held on April 15 and 16, 2007.
Brief proposals should be submitted by August 4, 2006, to Hideaki Sakai by
email and must include
title, outline, contact information for the presenter, and a description
of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants together
with a short biography of the presenter and a list of publications related
to the proposal. Special session and panel proposals should be submitted
by August 4, 2006, to Phil Chou through the the ICASSP 2007 website and
must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact
information, and a list of invited speakers.
Important
Deadlines
Tutorial Proposals Due: August 4, 2006
Special
Session and Panel Proposals Due: August 4, 2006
Notification of Special
Session & Tutorial Acceptance: September 8, 2006
Submission of
Camera-Ready Papers: September 29, 2006
Notification of Acceptance (by
email): December 15, 2006
Author's Registration Deadline: February 2,
2007
Chairs
General Chairs
K. J. Ray Liu, University of
Maryland, College Park
Todd Reed, University of Hawaii
Technical
Program Chairs
Anthony Kuh, University of Hawaii
Yih-Fang Huang,
University of Notre Dame
NAACL HLT 2007 Preliminary Call for Papers
Human Language Technologies:
The Conference of the North American Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics
April 22-27, 2007, Rochester, New York
Conference website
General Conference Chair: Candace Sidner (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories)
Program Co-Chairs:
Tanja Schultz (Carnegie Mellon University)
Matthew Stone (Rutgers University)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Local Arrangements: James Allen, Len Schubert, and Dan Gildea (University of Rochester)
NAACL HLT 2007 continues the tradition of the combined Human Language Technology
Conferences (HLT) and North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Meetings begun in 2003. The conference covers a broad
spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact
with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication
through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval,
text summarization, and information extraction. NAACL HLT 2007 will feature full papers,
late-breaking (short) papers, demonstrations, and a doctoral consortium, as well as
pre- and post-conference tutorials and workshops. The conference is organized by
the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL),
who is advised by a board representing the IR and speech communities and North American
HLT funding agencies.
Topics of Interest:
The conference invites the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished
research in disciplines that could impact human language processing systems, with a
special focus on theories and methods that enable compelling combinations of human
language technologies (e.g., Speech with Information Retrieval, Machine Translation
with Speech, Question Answering with Natural Language Processing, etc.). Topics of interest
include but are not limited to:
- Computational analysis of language
Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, dialogue, discourse, style
- Speech processing, including:
Speech recognition and speech generation
Rich transcription: automatic annotation of information structure and sources in speech
- Information retrieval, text classification, and information filtering/recommendation
Text data mining, information extraction, text summarization, and question answering
- Multimodal representations and processing
- Statistical and learning techniques for language, including
Corpus-based language modeling
Lexical and knowledge acquisition
- Development of language resources, including
Lexicons and ontologies
Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks
- Language generation and text planning
- Multilingual processing, including
Machine translation of speech and text
Cross-language information retrieval
Multi-lingual speech recognition and language identification
- Intelligent systems for natural language interaction, including
Conversational systems for collaboration, tutoring and behavioral intervention
Embodied conversational agents, virtual humans and human-robot conversation
Language-enhanced platforms for interactive narrative and digital entertainment
- Evaluation, including
Glass-box evaluation of HLT systems and system components
Black-box evaluation of HLT systems in application settings
Submission information:
Full papers: Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work and
should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings without exceeding eight pages,
including references. Each submission will be judged chiefly on the strength of
the argument it provides in support of its contribution, through e.g. experimental
evaluation, theoretical analysis, or critical engagement with HLT. Reviewing will
be double-blind; each submission will be reviewed by at least three program
committee members.
Late-breaking (short) papers: Submissions describing original, unpublished work
can be submitted as short papers with a later deadline. The submissions should
follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings without exceeding four pages,
including references. Reviewing will be double-blind; each submission will be
reviewed by at least two program committee members. Short paper submissions
may be accepted for oral presentation in plenary OR for presentation in a poster session.
Demonstration, doctoral consortium, tutorial, and workshop proposals: Submission
instructions will be available later.
Multiple-submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other
meetings or publications must provide this information at submission time. In the
event of multiple acceptances, authors must notify the program chairs by
January 5, 2007, indicating which meeting they choose for presentation of their work.
HLT-NAACL 2007 cannot accept for publication work that will be (or has been)
published elsewhere.
Important Dates
Oct 13, 2006 Full paper submissions due
Dec 22, 2006 Full paper notification of acceptance
Jan 18, 2007 Short paper submissions due
Feb 22, 2007 Short Paper notification of acceptance
Mar 5, 2007 Camera-ready full/short papers due
Apr 22-28, 2007 Conference
For more information.
Rochester:
NAACL-HLT 2007 - Call for Doctoral Consortium
Web info
April 22, 2007
Rochester, NY
Application Deadline: Jan 18, 2007
1. Call for Participation
Following the success of last year, the Doctoral Consortium at
NAACL-HLT 2007 will provide an opportunity for a group of senior
Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research and career
objectives with a panel of established researchers in the fields of
natural language processing, speech technology, and information
retrieval. The event is also an opportunity for students to develop
the skills necessary to effectively communicate one's research in
preparation for future job talks.
The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a workshop on April 22, 2007,
immediately before the start of the main conference. Students will
present their work and get feedback from a panel of experienced
researchers. The event will also include a panel presentation on
professional development topics relevant to students pursuing research
careers in academia or industry.
Students will participate in a poster session held during the main
conference and will have a short paper discussing their research
published in the companion volume of the proceedings. Each student's
professional biography, research abstract, and photograph will also be
included in a face book to be distributed to all attendees of the
main NAACL-HLT 2007 conference.
The consortium has the following objectives: (1) to provide feedback
on participants' research and on the presentation of their work to
others; (2) to develop a supportive community of scholars; (3) to
support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on
academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths; and
(4) to contribute to the NAACL-HLT conference goals through
interaction with other researchers and participation in conference
events.
There is a possibility that students who participate in the Doctoral
Consortium may be able to receive an allowance for basic conference
registration, travel, and hotel. The Doctoral Consortium organizers
are currently applying for funding for such travel support. Updates
will be available on the
Doctoral Consortium website.
NAACL-HLT 2007 continues the combination of the Human Language
Technology Conferences (HLT) and North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Annual Meetings
begun in 2003. Human language technology incorporates a broad spectrum
of disciplines working to enable natural language human-computer
interaction, and providing services such as speech recognition,
automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and
information extraction. For
further information on the main
conference.
2. Eligibility for Participation
The event is designed for senior Ph.D. students who are in the last
few years of their doctoral program (who have already settled on a
research direction and who have likely already submitted a thesis
proposal). Students who are conducting research on all aspects of
human language processing are invited to apply. Topics include (but
are not limited to):
+ Computational analysis of language
- Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, dialogue,
discourse, and style
+ Speech processing, including:
- Speech recognition and speech generation
- Rich transcription: automatic annotation of information structure
and sources in speech
+ Information retrieval, text classification, and information
filtering/recommendation
- Text data mining, information extraction, text summarization, and
question answering
+ Multimodal representations and processing
+ Statistical and learning techniques for language, including
- Corpus-based language modeling
- Lexical and knowledge acquisition
+ Development of language resources, including
- Lexicons and ontologies
- Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks
+ Language generation and text planning
+ Multilingual processing, including
- Machine translation of speech and text
- Cross-language information retrieval
- Multi-lingual speech recognition and language identification
+ Intelligent systems for natural language interaction, including
- Conversational systems for collaboration, tutoring and behavioral
intervention
- Embodied conversational agents, virtual humans and human-robot
conversation
- Language-enhanced platforms for interactive narrative and digital
entertainment
+ Evaluation, including
- Glass-box evaluation of HLT systems and system components
- Black-box evaluation of HLT systems in application settings
As part of the application process, students will submit a short paper
summarizing their research goals, completed work, and future
directions. This paper should be the basis for the student's
presentation at the Doctoral Consortium event, which should follow the
format of an abbreviated job talk. Thus, the paper should give an
overview of the student's research and highlight his or her
contributions; the paper may include citations to previous
publications that describe more specific aspects of the student's
research.
The short papers accepted for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium
cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with
publicly available proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to
other conferences must indicate this immediately after the title
material on the first page.
Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work
to the main conference are also invited to apply to the Doctoral
Consortium. In this case, the short paper for the Doctoral Consortium
must give an overview of the student's dissertation research, and the
paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this
work.
3. Application Procedure
Applications should contain the following four elements:
(1) A cover letter (under 2-pages) describing the student's progress
in his or her degree program, expected date of graduation, plans after
graduation, and what he or she hopes to gain from the Doctoral
Consortium. The letter should contain the student's name, department,
school, contact information, name of advisor, advisor's e-mail
address, and a short statement affirming that the student meets the
eligibility requirements specified in Section 2 of this Call for
Participation.
(2) The student's Curriculum Vitae (including a list of publications).
(3) A short paper written by the student summarizing his or her
research goals, completed work, and future directions. This paper
should be the basis for the student's presentation at the Doctoral
Consortium event, and it should give an overview of the student's
research and highlight his or her major contributions.
(4) A letter of recommendation from the student's advisor. The
student's advisor should produce a PDF file of the recommendation
letter and e-mail it by
Jan 18, 2007.
The student should send email by
Jan 18, 2007, with three attachments in PDF format: the cover letter,
the Curriculum Vitae, and the short paper.
The short paper should follow the format of "short papers" submitted
to the main NAACL-HLT 2007 conference. It should follow the
two-column format of NAACL/ACL proceedings and should not exceed four
(4) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL
LaTeX or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's
conference. They will be available through the Doctoral Consortium
homepage (listed below). A description of the format will also be
available in case you are unable to use the style files directly.
Papers must conform to the official NAACL-HLT 2007 style guidelines,
and we reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to
these styles including font size restrictions. Submissions should be
in PDF format and must include all fonts, so that the paper will print
(not just view) anywhere.
Further details on the submission procedure and formatting
instructions may be found at the
Doctoral Consortium homepage.
If students are accepted to the Doctoral Consortium, they will also be
asked to submit a short professional biography, research abstract, and
photograph to be included in the face book to be distributed to all
participants at the NAACL-HLT 2007 conference. Detailed formatting
guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be
provided to authors with their acceptance notice.
4. Important Dates
All application materials must be received by 11:59pm (23:59) PST
(Pacific Standard Time) on Jan 18, 2007. Late submissions will be
automatically disqualified. Acknowledgment will be e-mailed soon
after receipt.
Application deadline: Jan 18, 2007
Notification of acceptance: Feb 22, 2007
Camera-ready papers due: Mar 5, 2007
Doctoral Consortium Event: April 22, 2007
NAACL-HLT 2007 Conference: April 22-27, 2007
5. Contact Information
Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs:
Jackson Liscombe (Columbia University)
Phil Michalak (University of Rochester)
Contact the co-chairs of the Doctoral Consortium.
Faculty Advisor:
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)
2nd CFP 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2007)
Tarragona Spain
March 29 - April 4 2007
Website
AIMS
LATA 2007 intends to become a major conference in theoretical computer s
cience and its applications. As linked to the International PhD School
in Formal Languages and Applications that is being developed at the hos
t institute since 2001, it will reserve significant room for young com
puter scientists at the beginning of their career. LATA 2007 will aim
at attracting scholars from both classical theory fields and application
areas (bioinformatics,systems biology,language technology,arti
ficial intelligence, etc)
SCOPE
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include but are not
limited to
- words, languages and automata
- grammars (Chomsky hierarchy contextual, multidimensional, unifi
cation, categorial, etc)
- grammars and automata architectures
- combinatorics on words
- language varieties and semigroups
- algebraic language theory
- computability
- computational,descriptional, communication and parameterized comp
lexity
- patterns and codes
- regulated rewriting
- trees, tree languages and tree machines
- term rewriting
- graphs and graph transformation
- power series
- fuzzy and rough languages
- cellular automata
- DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
- quantum=2C chemical and optical computing
- biomolecular nanotechnology
- automata and logic
- automata for verification
- automata, concurrency and Petri nets
- parsing
- weighted machines
- foundations of finite state technology
- grammatical inference and learning
- symbolic neural networks
- text retrieval and pattern recognition
- string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinform
atics
- mathematical evolutionary genomics
- language-based cryptography
- compression
- circuit theory and applications
- language theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artifici
al life
STRUCTURE
LATA 2007 will consist of
- 2 invited tutorials
- refereed contributions
- open sessions for discussion in specific subfields
- young sessions on professional issues
INVITED SPEAKERS
Volker Diekert (UStuttgart), Equations: From Words to Graph Products
(tutorial)
Nissim Francez and Michael Kaminski (Technion) ,Extensions of Pregroup
Grammars and Their Correlated Automata
Eric Graedel (RWTH Aachen), Infinite Games (tutorial)
Neil Immerman (UMass.Amherst),Nested Words
Helmut Jorgensen (UWestern Ontario), Synchronization and Codes (tent
ative title)
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
research. Papers should not exceed 12 pages and should be formatted a
ccording to the usual LNCS article style=2E Submissions have to be sent
through the webpage
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: November 30 2006
Application for funding (PhD students):December 15 2006
Notification of funding acceptance or rejection: December 31,2006
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: January 31 2007
Early registration: February 15 2007
Final version of the paper for the pre-proceedings: February 28 2007
Starting of the conference: March 29 2007
Submission to the proceedings volume: May 15 2007
RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP-07)
SAMOKOV hotel, Borovets, Bulgaria
conference website
RANLP-07
tutorials: September 23-25, 2007 (Sunday-Tuesday)
RANLP-07 workshops:
September 26, 2007 (Wednesday)
6th Int. Conference RANLP-07: September
27-29, 2007 (Thursday-Saturday)
We are pleased to announce that the
dates for RANLP’07 have been finalised (see above). Building on both the
successful international summer schools organised for more than 17 years,
and previous conferences held in 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2005, RANLP
has become one of the most influential, competitive and far-reaching
conferences, with wide international participation from all over the
world. Featuring leading lights in the area as keynote speakers or
tutorial speakers, RANLP has now grown into a larger-scale meeting with
accompanying workshops and other events. In addition to the 6 keynote
speeches and tutorials on hot NLP topics, RANLP07 will be accompanied by
workshops and shared task competitions.
Volumes of selected papers are
traditionally published by John Benjamins Publishers and previous
conferences have enjoyed support from the European
Commission.
Important dates
: Conference 1st Call for Papers:
October 2006;
Call for Workshop proposals: November 2006,
deadline
of proposals end of January 2007;
Workshop selection: early March
2007;
Conference Submission deadline: March 2007 with notification 30
May 2007;
Workshop Submission deadline: 15 June 2007 with notification
in July 2007;
RANLP-07 tutorials, workshops and conference: 23-30
September 2007
The conference will be held in the picturesque resort of
Borovets. It is located in the Rila mountains and is one of the best known
ski and tourist resorts in South-East Europe. The conference venue Samokov
hotel offers excellent working and leisure facilities. Borovets is only 1
hour away from Sofia international airport.
THE TEAM BEHIND
RANLP-07
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
(Chair of the Organising Committee)
Kalina Bontcheva, University of
Sheffield, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (Chair of
the Programme Committee)
Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Communications,
Boulder, USA
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
Kiril
Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop
Coordinator)
E-mail
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16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Saarland University, Saarbrücken,
6-10 August 2007.
The
first call for papers will be made in April 2006. The deadline for
*full-paper submission* to ICPhS 2007 Germany will be February 2007.
Further information is available under conference website
CFP (First announcement) 3rd Language & Technology
Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer
Science and Linguistics
October 5-7, 2007,
Faculty of
Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz
University,
Poznan, Poland,
Website
CONFERENCE
TOPICS
The conference program will include the following
topics:
* electronic language resources and tools
* formalisation
of natural languages
* parsing and other forms of NL processing
*
computer modelling of language competence
* NL user modelling
* NL
understanding by computers
* knowledge representation
* man-machine
NL interfaces
* Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing
*
speech processing
* NL applications in robotics
* text-based
information retrieval and extraction, question answering
* tools and
methodologies for developing multilingual systems
* translation
enhancement tools
* methodological issues in HLT
* prototype
presentations
* intractable language-specific problems in HLT (for
languages other than English)
* HLT standards
* HLT as foreign
language teaching support
* new challenge: communicative
intelligence
* vision papers in the field of HLT
* HLT related
policies
This list is not closed and we are open to further proposals.
The Program Committee is also open to suggestions concerning accompanying
events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions, ideas and
observations may be addressed directly to the LTC Chair
. FURTHER
INFORMATION
Further details will be available soon. The call for
papers will be distributed by mail and published on the conference site . The site currently
contains information about LTC’05 including freely-downloadable abstracts
of the papers presented.
Zygmunt
Vetulani
LTC’07 Chair
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