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MESSAGE from Christian Wellekens, Board Member in charge of Publications,
Dear ISCA Members,
I have the pleasure to be in regular contact with you via the editorial of this newsletter but
this time I will describe my activity for ISCA.
During each month I collect your messages about job openings, for conference and workshop calls
for papers and announcements,new books, and so onThen I edit these in standard HTML form and
try to give a standard appearance. With the help of Manu,our administrator, I update the memberlist that is used to
contact you and to send you ISCApad every
month. Then I try to interpret all messages returned as Mail Delivery problems either because you are protected against
ISCA messages (!) or this kind of format (this is the reason I decided to send you a prenotice short mail),
or because you moved and did not send us your new address or because a misprint was made when encoding your email address.
This is in fact the only way for us to check the links we have with you. Manu and I try to keep the
information on our website and in ISCApad up to date. I am particularly happy to observe a large number of
job openings coming for domains suc as aid to deaf children, research in anthropology in addition to the typical
domains covered by ISCA. This is indeed my periodical activity.
But in addition I am in contact with Elsevier, who is the publisher of Speech Communication and to improve the
service to our members and to the authors. Concerning the copyright problems and archive diffusion, I am working with
our archivist Wolfgang Hess.
Last but not least I receive many messages from you asking how to access different ISCA services that I try to solve
quickly, most of time I forward to Manu.
The presentation of ISCApad has improved but is not taking advantage of all technical possibilities: I am currently
working on a quite different
presentation where the newsletter will be just a very short summary with links to our website where the full newsletter
will be located. Of course, the summary will be sent every month
since we want to keep this contact with you.
It is great to work for you and the whole speech community!
Chris Wellekens
Editorial
Dear Members,
ISCA Board wishes you a very fruitful and happy New Year 2007. We hope that this year will fullfil most of your career and
scientific expectations, will
offer you interesting conferences and workshops and will bring peace and happiness in your personal life.
I also have the pleasure to say more about my personal activity at the board since it is my turn to write the
monthly message (see above).
Our Distinguished lecturer program is progressing well and we are proud to announce that Professor Mark Swerts Tilburg University NL)and Professor
Chin-Hui Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology USA) have agreed to serve as distinguished lecturers. You will find their brief
bio under our section ISCA News.
In December 2006, we had elections of members of our new ISCA Advisory Committee
(please see the memberlist under section ISCA News). We congratulate new members, past members who have been reelected and thank members whose term ended:
ISCA benefits
from their advice in many situations.
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
Distinguished Lecturer Program
Our first Distinguished Lecturers will be Professor Mark Swerts and Professor Chin-Hui Lee: we congratulate them
for having been selected and are proud to welcome them as our first
DL's.
Professor Marc Swerts
Tilburg University
Faculty of Arts
Communication & Cognition
P.O. Box 90153
NL - 5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
tel: +31 13 4662922
fax: +31 13 4663110
Website:Website
Marc Swerts (1966) is full professor in Discourse Studies at Tilburg University (The
Netherlands). He obtained a PhD in 1994 at the Eindhoven University of Technology (The
Netherlands) on the results of research conducted at the Institute for Perception Research
(IPO), which consisted of an experimental-phonetic approach to discourse prosody in
spontaneous speech materials. After that, he has worked and published on various other
research topics, related to (1) the evaluation of various components of spoken dialogue
systems, (2) the variability in the phonetic structure of spoken Dutch, (3) crosslinguistic
analyses of prosodic cues to information structure, and (4) audiovisual correlates of various
pragmatic functions (which is currently his main research interest). He has served on the
editorial board of Language & Speech, Computational Linguistics and Speech
Communication, and a considerable number of scientific committees of major international
conferences, and he was a guest co-editor for 2 special issues of Speech Communication and 1
of Language and Speech. He has also been a visiting researcher at various academic and
industrial research institutes in the USA (Boston University, AT&T Laboratories), Japan
(ATR, Doshisha University), Sweden (KTH, Umea University), Italy (Padova University) and
Romania (University of Bucharest). He currently teaches different BA and MA courses in the
Communication & Cognition programme of Tilburg University, and for the postgraduate
research master programme between Tilburg and Nijmegen. Marc Swerts has also been an
invited lecturer for a bullit course on “Prosody and information status” at the KTH institute
in Stockholm (Sweden), and was previously invited to teach at the 2002 European
Postgraduate College, organised by Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh, in
Saarbruecken (Germany), and at the 2006 Lot Summer school in Amsterdam (The
Netherlands). He also yearly teaches for the international User-System Interaction
postgraduate programme of the Technical University in Eindhoven (The Netherlands).
He is the author of many publications listed on the University web
Possible topics/titles for lectures
1. Phonetic correlates of dialogue and discourse structure
2. Functions of audiovisual prosody
3. Error-handling in human-human and human-machine interactions
Professor Chin-Hui Lee
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
EDUCATION
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Electrical Engineering B.S. 1973
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Engineering and Applied Science M.S. 1977
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Electrical Engineering Ph.D.1981
APPOINTMENTS
Georgia Institute of Technology, Professor 2002-present
National University of Singapore, IDA Distinguished Visiting Professor 2001-2002
Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff 1996-2001
Director, Dialogue Systems Research 1997-2001
AT&T, Bell Laboratories, Member of Technical Staff 1986-1996
Digital Sound Corporation, Principal Research Scientist, Manager, DSP Group 1984-1986
Verbex Corporation, Senior Research Scientist 1981-1983
PUBLICATONS: From a total of 75 journal publications, 25 patents, 300 papers
ISCA GRANTS
are available for students and young scientists
attending meetings.
For more information: http://www.isca-speech.org/grants
Members of the ISCA Advisory Committee
Alan Black
Anne Cutler
Mazin Gilbert
Bjorn Granstrom
Wolfgang Hess
Helen Meng
Satoshi Nakamura
Hermann Ney
Rolf Carlson
Paul Dalsgaard
Hiroya Fujisaki (life member)
John Hansen
Keikichi Hirose
Julia Hirschberg (ex oficio)
Soonhyob Kim
Chin Hui Lee
Joseph Mariani (life member)
Roger Moore
Mari Ostendorf
Louis Pols
Yoshinori Sagisaka
Tanja Schultz
Elizabeth Shriberg
Richard Stern
Baozong Yuan
Victor Zue
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SIG's activities
A list of Speech Interest
Groups can be found on our
web.
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COURSES, INTERNSHIPS
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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BOOKS, DATABASES, SOFTWARES
Incurses em torno do ritmo da fala
Author: ( Plinio A. Barbosa
Publisher: Pontes Editores (city: Campinas)
Year: 2006 (released 11/24/2006)
(In Portuguese, abstract attached.)
Website
Speech Quality of VoIP: Assessment and Prediction
Author: Alexander Raake
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, UK-Chichester, September 2006
Website
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/
Jobs)
A European Commission-Funded
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in:
The Evolutionary Anatomy of Speech
Applications are invited for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow, based in the
AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity , at the
Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London.
The post-holder will work with Dr James Steele on the European Commission-funded
project HANDTOMOUTH, to investigate hard tissue markers of vocal tract form in
living primates and extinct hominins. Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant
discipline and be experienced in speech physiology and/or comparative skeletal
anatomy. The post is tenable for a period of 2 years starting 1st March 2007, or as
soon as possible thereafter. There are no nationality or residence restrictions on
eligibility.
Salary Scale: Grade 7. (from £25,889 to £31,840 plus London Allowance of £2497,
according to previous experience).
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr James Steele on Tel: +44 (0)20 7679
4773 or by email.
For details of how to apply please download an application form and job
description/person specification from the News page of the AHRC CECD web
site
or contact:
HANDTOMOUTH Project Manager
c/o Manu Davies , Administrator,
AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity,
Institute of Archaeology,
University College London,
31-34 Gordon Square,
London WC1H 0PY
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4607
Fax: +44 (0)20 7383 2572
The closing date for applications is 9th February 2007
Software Engineer Position at Be Vocal, Mountain View, CA,USA
We are currently looking for a Software Engineer with previous exposure to Speech, to work in our Speech and Natural Language Technology group.
This group’s mission is to be the center of excellence for speech and natural language technologies within BeVocal. Responsibilities include assisting in the
development of internal tools and processes for building Natural Language based speech applications as well as on ongoing infrastructure/product improvements.
The successful candidate must be able to take direction from senior members of the team and will also be given the opportunity to make original contributions to
new and existing technologies during the application development process. As such, you must be highly motivated and have the ability to work well independently
in addition to working as a team.
Responsibilities
* Develop and maintain speech recognition/NLP tools and supporting infrastructure
* Develop and enhance component speech grammars
* Work on innovative solutions to improve overall Speech/NL performance across BeVocal’s deployments.
Requirements
* BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Linguistics, an MS is a preferred.
* 2-5 years of software development experience in Perl, Java, C/C++. A willingness and ability to pick up additional software languages as needed is essential.
* Exposure or experience with speech recognition/pattern recognition either from an academic environment or directly related work experience.
* Experience working as part of a world-class speech and language group is highly desirable.
* Experience building natural language applications is preferred.
* Experience building LVCSR speech recognition systems is a plus.
For immediate consideration, please send your resume by email and include
"Software Engineer, Speech" in the subject
line of your email. Principals only please (no 3rd parties or agencies). Contact
for details
BeVocal's policy is to comply with all applicable laws and to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees without regard to
non-job-related factors such as race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, marital status or sexual orientation.
This policy applies to all areas of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfer, and social and recreational
programs.
Postdoctoral Fellow -- Speech Synthesis- Alfred I. Dupont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
The Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE has an
immediate opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Speech Synthesis in the
Speech Research Laboratory, within the Department of Biomedical
Research. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Linguistics, Psychology, or a related field, demonstrated experience in
data-based speech synthesis techniques, and an interest in modeling
prosody, particularly intonation, in speech synthesis systems. The
primary responsibilities for this position include: Developing a model
for intonation that can be trained on and capture the important
talker-specific features of an individual's speech while also
representing phonologically motivated f0 characteristics; implementing
the intonation model for the ModelTalker TTS system; and assisting in
the creation of unit concatenation voices for the ModelTalker TTS
system. A Ph.D. in Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, or closely
related field with demonstrated knowledge of and experience in
concatenative speech synthesis techniques, speech analysis techniques,
and acoustic phonetics is required. Computer programming experience
with C or C++, knowledge of additional languages is a plus. Experience
with Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems is essential.
This is a two-year grant-funded position. For more information, email
Dr Timothy Bunnel or call at (302) 651-6835. Applicants may also
post their resume on-line at www.nemours.org or send resume with salary
requirements to Dr. Timothy Bunnell, Department of Biomedical Research,
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, P.O. Box 269, Wilmington, DE 19899.
Position at Saybot in China
Job title: Speech Scientist
Location: China (Beijing or Shanghai)
Saybot develops software technology and curricula for learning spoken english. Since 2005, we have been
building software which features state-of-the-art speech technologies and innovative interactive lessons to
help users practice speaking English. We are currently looking for talented speech scientists to help strengthen
our R&D team and to develop our next-generation products. Successful candidates would have proven excellence
and good work ethics in academic or industry context and demonstrated creativity in building speech systems
with revolutionary designs.
* MS/PhD degree in speech technology (or related).
* Expertise in at least one of the following areas and basic knowledge of the others:
o acoustic model training,
o speaker adaptation,
o natural language understanding,
o prosody analysis,
o embedded recognizers.
* Excellent programming skills in both object-oriented languages (C++, C# or Java) and scripting (Perl or Python).
* Good knowledge and experience in at least one commonly used recognizer (HTK, Sphinx, Nuance...).
* Excellent communication skills in written and oral English.
* Experience in machine translation is a plus.
* Experience in VoIP integration is a plus.
* Experience in language teaching is a plus.
Contact: Sylvain Chevalier
Speech Recognition Research/Software Engineer-
Cambridge, England
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge Research Lab (CRL) are
looking for a research engineer for our ASR R&D. The successful
candidate will work on the design and implementation of speech
recognition systems. This post would suit someone with a PhD in
the area and industrial software engineering experience.
Required:
Degree in a relevant subject:
Very strong software skills in C, Perl/Python and Linux
Good knowledge of pattern processing
Good software architecture design skills
Experience of working in a team
Good English and communication skills
Preferred:
Background in speech recognition or HMM based pattern processing,
particulary noise robustness
PhD or 1st class degree
Industrial coding experience
Knowledge of more than one major European language
The CRL Speech Technology Group is a multinational team of dynamic
individuals. Established in 2002, we play a significant role in developing
Toshiba’s speech recognition and synthesis capabilities. Work done within
the group contributes to Toshiba’s core speech technology and support of
European and American languages. We collaborate with Toshiba RDC in
Japan, Toshiba China and the University of Cambridge.
An attractive salary and benefit package will be offered.
Applicants should send a CV, the names and addresses
of three referees
and a covering letter to: Questions or requests
for further details can be sent to Kate Knill
Closing date for applications: 14 January 2007 (or until job filled)
Dr Kate Knill, Group Leader, Speech Technology Group,
Cambridge Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Limited
St George House, 1 Guildhall St
Cambridge, CB2 3NH, UK.
Website
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT POSITION IN "AUDIO CONTENT ACCESS" at IRCAM (Paris)
PRESENTATION OF THE MUSICDISCOVER PROJECT :
The goal of the MusicDiscover project is to give access to the contents of
musical audios recordings (as it is the case, for example, for texts),
i.e. to a structured description, as complete as possible, of the recordings:
melody, genre/style, rate/rhythm, instrumentation, musical structure,
harmony, etc. The principal objective is thus to develop and evaluate means
directed towards the contents, which include techniques and tools for
analysis, indexing, representation and search for information. These means
will make it possible to build and use such a structured description.
This project of the ACI "Masses of Data" is carried out in collaboration
between Ircam (Paris), Get-Telecom (Paris) and the LIRIS (Lyon) since
October 2004. The principal lines of research are :
- Rhythmic analysis and detection of ruptures
- Recognition of musical instruments and indexing
- Source Separation
- Structured Description
- Research of music by similarity
- Recognition of musical titles
- Classification of musical titles in genre and emotion.
The available position relates to the construction and the use of the
Structured Description in collaboration with the other lines of research.
DEVELOPMENTS TASKS:
A position is available from December 1st 2006 within the "Equipe
Analyse/Synthese" of Ircam for a 9 months total duration.
The contents of work are as follows:
- Participation in the design of a Structured Description
- Software development for construction and use of Structured Descriptions
- Participation in the definition and development of the graphic interface
- Participation in the evaluations
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCE:
- Experience of research in Audio Indexing and signal processing
- Experience in Flash, C and C++ and Matlab programming.
- High productivity, methodical work, excellent programming style.
- Good knowledge of UNIX and Windows environments.
AVAILABILITY :
- The position is available in the "Analysis/Synthesis" team in the R&D
department from November 1st 2006 for a duration of 9 months.
EEC WORKING PAPERS :
- In order to start immediately, the candidate should preferably have EEC
citizenship or already own valid EEC working papers.
SALARY:
- According to background and experience.
TO APPLY:
- Please send your resume with qualifications and informations adressing the
above issues, preferably by email to
Xavier Rodet, Analyse/Synthese team manager.
or by fax at:
(33 1) 44 78 15 40, care of Xavier.Rodet
or by surface mail to:
Xavier Rodet, IRCAM, 1 Place Stravinsky, 75004 Paris.
Introducing IRCAM
IRCAM is a leading non-profit organization dedicated to musical
production, R&D and education in acoustics and music, located in the center
of Paris (France), next to the Pompidou Center. It hosts composers,
researchers and students from many countries cooperating in contemporary
music production, scientific and applied research. The main topics
addressed in its R&D departement are acoustics, psychoacoustics, audio
synthesis and processing, computer aided composition, user interfaces, real
time systems.
Detailed activities of IRCAM and its groups are presented on our
WWW
server
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JOURNALS
Call for Papers- Special Issue of the
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
on New Approaches to Statistical Speech and Text Processing
Dramatic advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology in
recent years has enabled serious growth in spoken language processing
research, both for human-computer interaction and spoken document
processing. The challenges of working with spoken language, including
ASR errors and disfluencies, were major factors in the adoption of
statistical techniques in the language processing community. Statistical
methods now dominate many areas of text processing as well, enabled by
growing collections of linguistic data resources and developments in
machine learning. While transfer of methods from spoken- to written-
language processing continues, advances in written-language processing
also now have a significant impact on spoken-language processing.
This issue seeks to highlight the cross-fertilization in speech and text
processing by publishing novel statistical modeling and learning methods
that span a variety of language processing applications.
We invite papers describing new approaches to statistical language
processing of both spoken and written language. Submissions must not
have been previously published, with the exception that substantial
extensions of conference papers will be considered. Of particular
interest are methods that transfer recent developments from text
processing to speech processing and vice versa, but new methods in one
domain are also welcome. Papers describing new strategies for
integrating acoustic and linguistic cues in spoken language processing
are also encouraged.
Topics of interest include:
- Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning
- Discriminative learning
- Transfer or adaptation to new domains
- Active learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Memory-based learning and neighborhood methods
- Novel statistical models
- Statistical methods for feature selection or transformation
Specific applications of interest include information extraction,
question answering, text segmentation and classification, summarization,
translation, language generation and spoken language dialogs. Papers
that address component problems of these larger applications are also
encouraged, including parsing, discourse analysis, and talker
interaction analysis. The issue aims to cover a variety of applications
as well as different statistical methods.
Submission procedure:
Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the
Information for Authors as published in any recent issue of the
Transactions.
Note that all rules will apply with regard to submission lengths,
mandatory overlength page charges, and color charges. Manuscripts should
be submitted electronically through the online
IEEE manuscript
submission system.
When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on "Special Issue
of TASLP on New Approaches to Statistical Speech and Text Processing".
Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions Audio,
Speech and Language Processing and indicate in the Comments to the
Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the
Special Issue on New Approaches to Statistical Speech and Text
Processing. We require a completed copyright form to be signed and faxed
to +1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the
manuscript number on the top of the page.
Schedule:
Submission deadline: 15 June 2007
Notification of final acceptance: 15 December 2008
Final manuscript due: 1 February 2008
Publication date: May 2008
Guest Editors:
Dr. Bill Byrne Cambridge University, UK
Dr. Mark Johnson Brown University, USA
Dr. Lillian Lee Cornell University, USA
Dr. Steve Renals University of Edinburgh, UK
Call for papers for a special issue of 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 institutions. 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 PAPERS
ISCA and the Interspeech 2007 organizing committee would like to
encourage submission of papers for the upcoming conference.
AREAS AND TOPICS OF INTEREST:
A.Human speech production, perception and communication
Phonology and phonetics
Discourse and dialogue
Prosody (production, perception, prosodic structure)
Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)
Speech production
Speech perception
Physiology and pathology
Spoken language acquisition, development and learning
B.Speech and Language technology
Speech and audio processing
Speech enhancement
Speech coding and transmission
Spoken language generation and synthesis
Speech recognition
Spoken language understanding
Accent and language identification
Cross-lingual and multi-lingual processing
Multimodal/multimedia signal processing
Speaker characterization and recognition
C.Spoken language systems and applications
Dialogue systems
Systems for information retrieval
Systems for translation
Applications for aged and handicapped persons
Applications for learning and education
Other applications
D.Resources, standardization and evaluation
Spoken language resources and annotation
Evaluation and standardization
E.Others (please specify)
PAPER SUBMISSION
The deadline for full paper submission (4 pages) is March 23, 2007.
Paper submission is done exclusively via the conference website,
using the submission guidelines. These guidelines will mention that
authors also have the opportunity to include a restricted number of
multimedia files in their submission.
Previously-published papers should not be submitted, nor papers
already submitted and/or accepted for publication in journals or
upcoming conferences.
At the time of submission, authors will have the opportunity to
specify that they would like to present their paper in one of the
Special Sessions. All the information on Special Sessions and how
to contribute to them will be available on the Interspeech 2007
website by the time the paper submission opens.
Each corresponding author will be notified by e-mail of the acceptance
or rejection of her/his paper by May 25, 2007. Minor updates of accepted
papers will be allowed during May 25 - June 3, 2007.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submission deadline: March 23, 2007
Notification of paper acceptance/rejection May 25, 2007
Early registration deadline: June 22, 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 (NOLISP'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
8th Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial), Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp, September 2-3, 2007
Held immediately following Interspeech 2007
Continuing with a series of successful workshops in Sydney, Lisbon, Boston, Sapporo, Philadelphia, Aalborg,
and Hong Kong, this workshop spans the ACL
and ISCA SIGdial interest area of discourse and dialogue.
This series provides a regular forum for the presentation of research in this area to both the larger
SIGdial community as well as researchers outside this community. The workshop is organized by SIGdial,
which is sponsored jointly by ACL and ISCA.
Topics of Interest
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation or
analytical work on discourse and dialogue including but not restricted
to the following three themes:
1. Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems
Discourse semantic and pragmatic issues in NLP applications such as text summarization, question answering,
information retrieval including topics like:
· Discourse structure, temporal structure, information structure
· Discourse markers, cues and particles and their use
. (Co-)Reference and anaphora resolution, metonymy and bridging resolution
· Subjectivity, opinions and semantic orientation
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems including topics such as:
· Dialogue management models;
· Speech and gesture, text and graphics integration;
· Strategies for preventing, detecting or handling miscommunication (repair and correction types,
clarification and under-specificity, grounding and feedback strategies);
· Utilizing prosodic information for understanding and for disambiguation;
2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology
Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based and multi-modal dialogue including its support, in particular:
· Annotation tools and coding schemes;
· Data resources for discourse and dialogue studies;
· Corpus-based techniques and analysis (including machine learning);
· Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology, metrics and case studies;
The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence) including the following issues:
· The semantics/pragmatics of dialogue acts (including those which are less studied in the semantics/pragmatics framework);
· Models of discourse/dialogue structure and their relation to referential and relational structure;
· Prosody in discourse and dialogue;
· Models of presupposition and accommodation; operational models of conversational implicature.
Submissions
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers for full plenary presentation as well as short papers
and demonstrations. Short papers and demo descriptions will be featured in short plenary presentations, followed by
posters and demonstrations.
· Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, examples, references, etc. In addition to this, two additional pages are allowed as an appendix which
may include extended example discourses or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc.
· Short papers and demo descriptions should aim to be 4 pages or less (including title, examples, references, etc.).
Please use the official ACL style files.
Submission/Reviewing will be managed by the START system. Link to follow.
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information
(see submission format). SIGdial 07 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been)
published elsewhere.
Authors are encouraged to make illustrative materials available, on the web or otherwise.
For example, excerpts of recorded conversations, recordings of human-computer dialogues, interfaces to working systems,
etc.
Important Dates (subject to change)
Submission May 2, 2007
Notification June 13, 2007
Final submissions July 6, 2007
Workshop September 2-3, 2007
Websites
Workshop website:To be announced
Submission website:To be announced
Sigdial website
Interspeech 2007 website
Email
Program Committee (confirmed)
Harry Bunt, Tilburg University, Netherlands (co-chair)
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA (co-chair)
Simon Keizer, Tilburg University, Netherlands (local chair)
Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm, Germany
David Traum, USC/ICT, USA
CfP-
SLaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop
The Summit Inn, Farmington, Pennsylvania USA October 1-3, 2007.
Website
Speech and natural language processing technologies have evolved from being emerging new technologies to being reliable techniques
that can be used in real applications. One worthwhile application is Computer-Assisted Language Learning. This is not only helpful to
the end user, the language learner, but also to the researcher who can learn more about the technology from observing its use in a real setting.
This workshop will include presentations of both research projects and real applications in the domain of speech and language technology
in education.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper deadline: May 1, 2007.
Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2007.
Early registration deadline: August 1, 2007.
Preliminary programme available: September 1, 2007.
Workshop will take place: October 1-3, 2007.
LOCATION
The workshop will be held in the beautiful Laurel Highlands. In early October the vegetation in the Highlands puts on a beautiful show of colors
and the weather is still not too chilly. The event will take place at the Summit Inn, situated on one of the Laurel Ridges. It is close to the Laurel Caverns
where amateur spelunkers can visit the underground caverns. The first night event will be a hayride and dinner at a local winery and the banquet will take
place at Frank Lloyd Wright’s wonderful Fallingwater.
TOPICS
The workshop will cover all topics which come under the purlieu of speech and language technology for education.
In accordance with the spirit of the ITRWs, the upcoming workshop will focus on research and results,
give information on tools and welcome prototype demons
trations of potential future applications.
The workshop will focus on research issues, applications, development tools and collaboration. It will be
concerned with all topics which fit under the purview of speech and language technology for education.
Papers will discuss theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, persistent difficulties, general research
tools and techniques. Papers that critically evaluate approaches or processing strategies will be especially
welcome, as will prototype demonstrations of real-world applications.
The scope of acceptable topic interests includes but is not limited to:
- Use of speech recognition for CALL
- Use of natural language processing for CALL
- Use of spoken language dialogue for CALL
- Applications using speech and/or natural language processing for CALL
- CALL tutoring systems
- Assessment of CALL tutors
ORGANIZATION-CONTACT
The workshop is being organized by the new ISCA Special Interest Group, SLaTE.
The general chair is Dr. Maxine Eskenazi from Carnegie Mellon University .
PROGRAMME
As per the spirit of ITRWs, the format of the workshop will consist of a non-overlapping mixture of oral, poster
and demo sessions. Internationally recognized experts from pertinent areas will deliver several keynote lectures
on topics of particular interest.
All poster sessions will be opened by an oral summary by the session chair.
A number of poster sessions will be succeeded by a discussion session focussing on the subject of the session.
The aim of this structure is to ensure a lively and valuable workshop for all involved.
Furthermore, the organizers would like to encourage researchers and industrialists to bring along
their applications, as well as prototype demonstrations and design tools where appropriate.
The official language of the workshop is English. This is to help guarantee the highest degree of
international accessibility to the workshop. At the opening of the workshop hardcopies and CD-ROM of the
abstracts and proceedings will be available.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We seek outstanding technical articles in the vein discussed above. For those who intend to submit papers,
the deadline is May 1, 2007. Following preliminary review by the committee,
notification will be sent regarding acceptance/rejection. Interested authors should send full 4 page camera-ready
papers.
REGISTRATION FEE
The fee for the workshop, including a booklet of Abstracts, the Proceedings on CD-ROM is:
- $325 for ISCA members and
- $225 for ISCA student members with valid identification
Registrations after August 1, 2007 cannot be guaranteed.
ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION
All meals except breakfast for the two and a half days as well as the two special events are included in this price.
Hotel accommodations are $119 per night , and breakfast is about $10. Upon request we will furnish bus transport
from the Greater Pittsburgh Airport and from Pittsburgh to Farmington at a cost of about $30. ISCA membership
is 55 Euros. You must be a member of ISCA to attend this workshop.
ITRW on Evidence-based Voice and Speech Rehabilitation in Head & Neck Oncology
May 2008, 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
CFP-
ETSI Workshop: Speech and Noise in Wideband Communication
22nd & 23rd May 2007, at ETSI Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France.
As new types of voice coders, noise cancellation algorithms, transmission technologies and
consequently transmission impairments enter the scene and convergence becomes ever more a
reality, the standardization community faces new challenges.
Being organised by TC STQ, STF 294 and Mesaqin, under contract to ETSI,
the main objectives of the workshop are to:
* Discuss the status, latest advances and trends in wideband speech and audio coding, in
particular in the presence of interfering sounds and noise
* Present the results of STF 294: Improving the quality of eEurope wideband speech
applications by developing a standardised performance testing and evaluation methodology
for background noise transmission
* Exchange information and establish relationships between research, state and industrial
organizations involved in the topic
Topics that will be addressed will include speech and audio wideband coding, noise suppression and
its artefacts, and quality assessment.
A round table discussion will permit participants to offer views on the current issues and challenges
that we will be facing in the future.
Participation in the workshop is free of charge, and open to everyone.
Candidate speakers are invited to send an abstract of their presentation to Jan Holub
by Friday 16th March 2007.
For further details, consult the workshop Website
For registration please see our web
CFP IEEE ASRU 2007
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
The Westin Miyako Kyoto, Japan
December 9 -13, 2007
Conference website
The tenth biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and
Understanding (ASRU) cooperated by ISCA will be held during December
9-13, 2007. The ASRU workshops have a tradition of bringing together
researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial
setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech
recognition and understanding.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
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
- speech-to-speech translation
- spontaneous speech processing
- speech summarization,
- new applications of ASR.
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM
The workshop program will consist of invited lectures, oral and poster
presentations, and panel discussions. Prospective authors are invited to
submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references,
to the ASRU 2007 website . All papers will be
handled and reviewed electronically. The website will provide you with
further details. Please note that the submission dates for papers are
strict deadlines.
TENTATIVE DATES
July, 2007 Camera-ready submission deadline
August, 2007 Paper acceptance/rejection notices emailed
September, 2007 Demonstration proposal deadline
October, 2007 Workshop advance registration deadline
December 9-13, 2007 Workshop
REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION
Registration will be handled via the ASRU 2007 website .
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs:
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto Univ.)
Technical Chairs:
Jean-Claude Junqua (Panasonic)
Helen Meng (Chinese Univ. Hong Kong)
Satoshi Nakamura (ATR)
Publication Chair:
Timothy Hazen, MIT, USA
Publicity Chair:
Tomoko Matsui, ISM, Japan
Demonstration Chair:
Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya U, Japan
Call for Papers (Preliminary version)
Speech Prosody 2008
Campinas, Brazil,
May 6-9, 2008
Speech Prosody 2008 will be the fourth conference of a series of international events of the Special Interest Groups on Speech Prosody (ISCA), starting by the one held in Aix-en Provence, France, in 2002. The conferences in Nara, Japan (2004), and in Dresden, Germany (2006) followed the proposal of biennial meetings, and now is the time of changing place and hemisphere by trying the challenge of offering a non-stereotypical view of Brazil. It is a great pleasure for our labs to host the fourth International Conference on Speech Prosody in Campinas, Brazil, the second major city of the State of São Paulo.
It is worth highlighting that prosody covers a multidisciplinary area of research involving scientists from very different backgrounds and traditions, including linguistics and phonetics, conversation analysis, semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistics, acoustics, speech synthesis and recognition, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, speech therapy, language teaching, and related fields. Information: sp2008_info@iel.unicamp.br. Web site: http://sp2008.org.
We invite all participants to contribute with papers presenting original research from all areas of speech prosody, especially, but nor limited to the following.
Scientific Topics
Prosody and the Brain
Long-Term Voice Quality
Intonation and Rhythm Analysis and Modelling
Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Prosody
Cross-linguistic Studies of Prosody
Prosodic variability
Prosody in Discourse
Dialogues and Spontaneous Speech
Prosody of Expressive Speech
Perception of Prosody
Prosody in Speech Synthesis
Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding
Prosody in Language Learning and Acquisition
Pathology of Prosody and Aids for the Impaired
Prosody Annotation in Speech Corpora
Others (please, specify)
Organising institutions
Speech Prosody Studies Group, IEL/Unicamp | Lab. de Fonética, FALE/UFMG | LIACC, LAEL, PUC-SP
Important Dates
Call for Papers: May 15, 2007
Full Paper Submission: Sept. 30, 2007
Notif. of Acceptance: Nov. 30, 2007
Early Registration: Dec. 20, 2007
Conference: May 6-9, 2008
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FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS
Third
Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language
(SSML)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will hold the third
Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language
(SSML) on 13-14 January, 2007. The Workshop will be held at
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Hyderabad,
India, jointly hosted by Bhrigus Software and IIIT.
The goal of this third workshop is to identify and prioritize
requirements for extensions and additions to SSML that will improve
the use of SSML for rendering non-English languages.
The workshop is open to the public. However, position papers are
required to participate. Each organization or individual wishing to
participate must submit a position paper by 1 December. Participation
is pending acceptance of the position paper by the program committee.
Full call for participation
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)
NAACL HLT 2007-
CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
Rochester, New York, USA
Conference: April 22-27, 2007
Submission deadline: Jan 18, 2007
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/
Demo Co-Chairs:
Bob Carpenter, Alias I, Inc.
Amanda Stent, Stony Brook University
Jason D. Williams, AT&T Labs - Research
Proposals are invited for the NAACL HLT 2007 Demonstrations Program.
This program is aimed at offering first-hand experience with new
systems, providing opportunities to exchange ideas gained from creating
systems, and collecting feedback from expert users. It is primarily
intended to encourage the early exhibition of research prototypes, but
interesting mature systems are also eligible.
Accepted proposals will be presented during the NAACL HLT 2007
Demonstrations Program. In addition, a plenary session in the NAACL HLT
main conference will be reserved for proposals of exceptional quality
and of broad interest.
Submission of a demonstration proposal on a particular topic does not
preclude or require a separate submission of a paper on that topic; it
is possible that some but not all of the demonstrations will illustrate
concepts that are described in companion papers.
AREAS OF INTEREST
We encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of
software and hardware related to all areas of human language technology.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, natural language,
speech, and retrieval systems for:
- Speech recognition and generation;
- Speech retrieval and summarization;
- Rich transcription of speech;
- Interactive dialogue;
- Information retrieval, filtering, and extraction;
- Document classification, clustering, and summarization;
- Language modeling, text mining, and question answering;
- Machine translation;
- Multilingual and cross-lingual processing;
- Multimodal user interface;
- Mobile language-enabled devices;
- Tools for Ontology, Lexicon, or other NLP resource development;
- Methods for evaluation;
- Unusual techniques, or applications to other domains.
Please refer to the NAACL HLT 2007 CFP
for
a more detailed but not necessarily an exhaustive list of relevant
topics. (also above in this ISCApad)
SUBMISSION FORMAT
A demo proposal should consist of the following parts:
- An extended abstract of up to two pages, including the title,
authors, full contact information, and technical content to be
demonstrated. It should give an overview of what the demonstration is
aimed to achieve, how the demonstration illustrates novel ideas or
late-breaking results, and how it relates to other systems or projects
described in the context of other research (i.e., references to related
literature).
- A detailed requirement description of hardware, software, and
network access expected to be provided by the local organizer.
Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their requirements
(possibly preparing different demos for different logistical
situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what you
absolutely must be provided with. We will do our best to provide
equipment and resources but at this point we cannot guarantee anything
beyond the space and power supply.
- A concise outline of the demo script, including the accompanying
narrative, and either a web address to access the demo or visual aids
(e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). The demo script should be
no more than 6 pages.
The demo abstract must be submitted electronically in the Portable
Document Format (PDF). It should follow the format guidelines for the
main conference papers. Authors are encouraged to use the style files
provided on the NAACL HLT 2007 website.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Demo proposals should be submitted electronically to the demo ]
co-chairs at naaclhlt2007demos@gmail.com.
REVIEWING
Demo proposals will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to
the conference, innovation, presentation, and potential logistical
constraints. Demonstrations will also be evaluated on the underlying
techniques or science they illustrate, but will not be expected to
contribute new approaches.
PUBLICATION
The accepted demo abstracts will be published in the Companion Volume
to the Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2007 Conference.
FURTHER DETAILS
Further details on the date, time, and format of the demonstration
session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date. Please send
any inquiries to the demo co-chairs at naaclhlt2007demos@gmail.com.
Please check
for latest
updates.
IMPORTANT DATES
Jan 18, 2007 Submission deadline
Feb 22, 2007 Notification of acceptance
Mar 1, 2007 Submission of final demo related literature
Apr 22-27, 2007 Conference
All submissions or camera-ready copies are due by 11:59pm EST on the =
date specified above.
Colloque parole-Laboratoire des sciences de la
parole- Charleroi - Parentville (Belgique)
A l'occasion de l'inauguration de leur "Laboratoire des sciences de la
parole" Didier Demolin et Bernard Harmegnies organisent les 30 et 31
mars 2007 les premières "Journées des sciences de la parole", à
Charleroi - Parentville (Belgique).
Date limite pour la soumission des contributions : 12 février 2007.
Thèmes: synthèse de parole, origine des langues, imagerie et parole,
phonétique, phonologie, méthodes et techniques d'étude de la production
et de la perception de la parole, didactique de l'oral, développement du
langage, sociolinguistique, etc.
Informations: Website
.
Contacts:Email
Bourses AFCP disponibles.
2nd CFP 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LATA 2007)
Tarragona Spain
March 29 - April 4 2007
Website
Extended submission deadline: December 7th, 2006
AIMS
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: extended to December 7th, 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
Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technology
April 26, 2007
Rochester, NY
Call for Papers
In the recent years, we have seen rapid adoption of dialog systems in commercial applications. They range from
telephone-based services, in-car interactive systems, to online conversational service agents and talking
characters in computer games. Open-standard platforms such as VoiceXML have been adopted by the industry, and
become the driving force for the faster adoption of dialog applications.
The widespread dialog applications in industry setting pose challenges for researchers in both industrial and
academic worlds. Progress from academic world has not benefited the real world applications to a satisfactory extent.
This is partly due to different research interests and priorities from the two camps: one is heavily driven by
imminent daily needs from the end customers; the other is largely driven by academic curiosity towards understanding
the nature of human-human and human-machine dialogs. The two research agenda lead to somewhat different performance
and evaluation metrics.
The purpose of this one day workshop is to provide a forum to bring industrial and academic researchers
together to share their experiences and visions in the dialog technology development, and to identify topics that are
of interest to both camps.
Topics
We invite submissions of papers covering the full range of dialog systems. Topics of interest include (but are
not limited to):
Robustness and error handling in dialog systems
Adaptive dialog systems
Scalability of dialog systems
Domain portability issues
Methodology and tools for use case and dialog flow design
Performance evaluation methods and metrics
Comparison of statistical and non-statistical approaches in terms of effort and performance
Challenging issues for the future research
The application and limitations of open standards such as VoiceXML and SALT
In depth discussion of dialog systems successfully deployed in industrial applications,
which include but are not limited to:
Call centers
Internet service
Automotive
Mobile devices
Computer games
Desktop applications
Other topics
Submissions
We invite academic and industrial researchers and practitioners to submit original research papers,
well-written surveys, or papers describing deployed systems to the workshop. The papers must not exceed
8 pages in length including references and should be prepared using the HLT-NAACL format. The reviewing process
will be blind, so authors' names, affiliations, and all self-references should not be included in the paper.
Submissions should be sent through the HLT submission page (http://www.softconf.com/hlt/wsdialog/).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2007
Acceptance Notification: February 17, 2007
Camera-ready Copy: February 24, 2007
Workshop Date: April 26, 2007
Organizing Committee
Fuliang Weng, Bosch Research
Ye-Yi Wang, Microsoft Corporation
Gokhan Tur, SRI International
Junling Hu, Bosch Research
Program Committee
James Allen, University of Rochester
Mark Fanty, Nuance Communications
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, ICSI, UC Berkeley
Juan Huerta, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
Michael Johnston, AT&T Labs
Yun-Cheng Ju, Microsoft Research, Microsoft
Dekang Lin, Google Labs, Google
Helen Meng, CUHK
Tim Peak, Microsoft Research, Microsoft
Stanley Peters, Stanford University
Roberto Pieracini, SpeechCycle
Stephanie Seneff, MIT
Lenhart Schubert, University of Rochester
Steve Young, Cambridge University
Question and Comments: Please contact Fuliang Weng
CALL FOR PAPERS AND INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATIONS--
A C[H]ORD: VOCAL INTERACTION IN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES,
GAMES, AND MORE
to be held as an official part of the CHI 2007 conference on Sunday,
29 April 2007 in San Jose, California, and we cordially invite you
to take part in it.
Website
The research on vocal interaction has primarily been focused on the
use of systems for speech recognition and synthesis. While speech
recognition and synthesis can be successfully used in various
domains, they can be unsuitable for certain scenarios such as in
applications requiring immediate and continuous control and those
involving users with speech impairments.
This workshop aims to discuss the state-of-the-art in vocal
interaction methods that go beyond word recognition by exploiting
the information within non-verbal vocalizations. Among others, we
will discuss different ways in which non-verbal vocal parameters
(e.g. pitch, volume, timbre, etc.) may be used as either primary or
additional source of input into interactive systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Demonstration of systems or interaction techniques incorporating
non-verbal vocal interaction
* Augmentation or emulation of conventional input devices
* Applications in assistive technologies, education, entertainment, and art
* Speech and language therapy and disability compensation
* Psychological aspects of non-verbal interaction
* Physiological limitations, such as resolution of vocal parameters
or fatigue that may occur when producing the sounds
* Social and cross-cultural issues
Short, 4-page position papers addressing topics of the workshop will
be reviewed by an international program committee and selected based
on their quality, innovation, and the potential for fostering
discussion.
Contributors to this workshop will be invited to submit an
extended paper for a special issue of the journal UNIVERSAL ACCESS
IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY.
The workshop will be a full-day event and will consist of
presentations of position papers, demonstration of systems, as well
as group discussions. At least one author of an accepted paper needs
to register for the workshop and for at least one day of the
conference (either day from Monday to Thursday).
Please visit our website for the list of
the program committee members.
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers due: 12 January 2007 (5pm Pacific Time)
Acceptance / rejection notices: 1 February 2007
Camera-ready papers: 15 February 2007
Registration deadline: 9 April 2007
Workshop held: 29 April 2007
Main program of CHI 2007: 30 April -- 3 May 2007
Journal paper manuscripts due: 31 May 2007
Journal publication: Late 2007
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please set your papers in the 2-column ACM format. LaTeX and MS Word
templates are available
here or here
Your paper should not exceed the length of four pages.
Please send your papers in PDF format by
email. Your submissions need not be
anonymized.
Additionally, you are encouraged to submit video(s) of your system
that demonstrates its functionality and interaction methods. Please
do not send this file as attachment to your message. Instead, please
put the file on a non-public WWW page and send us its URL. Your video
should not exceed 50 MB of file size and 5 minutes of length.
Don't hesitate to contact us regarding any questions or concerns.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Workshop organizers:
common e-mail address
Adam J Sporka , (Czech Technical University in Prague);
telephone (+420) 603-287-605 (CET zone)
Susumu Harada (University of Washington)
Sri H Kurniawan /A>(University of Manchester)
Workshop website
CHI 2007 website for workshop participants
Last CFP-Fifth International Workshop on
Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI-2007
June 25-27, 2007, Bordeaux, France
The Workshop is supported by IEEE, EURASIP, European research networks
COST292 and Muscle, INRIA, CNRS, Region d'Aquitaine, University Bordeaux
1, IBM
Topics
Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
Multimedia content extraction
Matching and similarity search
Construction of high level indices
Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
Content-based search techniques
Multimedia data mining
Presentation tools
Meta-data compression and transformation
Handling of very large scale multimedia database
Organisation, summarisation and browsing of multimedia documents
Applications
Evaluation and metrics
Paper submission
Perspective contributors are invited to submit papers via conference
web-site
Submission of full paper (to be received by):
January 25, 2007
Notification of acceptance:
March 10, 2007
Submission of camera-ready papers:
April 10, 2007
Submission of extended versions in Special issue of JSPIC March 1, 2007
Oerganizers
Chair of Organising committee : Jenny Benois-Pineau, LABRI, University
Bordeaux 1, France
*Technical Program Chair :* Eric Pauwels, CWI, The Netherlands
CFP-Interdisciplinary Workshop on "The Phonetics of Laughter
5 August 2007
Saarbrücken, Germany
Website
Aim of the workshop
Research investigating the production, acoustics and perception of
laughter is very rare. This is striking because laughter occurs as an
everyday and highly communicative phonetic activity in spontaneous
discourse. This workshop aims to bring researchers together from various
disciplines to present their data, methods, findings, research
questions, and ideas on the phonetics of laughter (and smiling).
The workshop will be held as a satellite event of the 16th International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Saarbrücken,
Germany.
Papers
We invite submission of short papers of approximately 1500 words length.
Oral presentations will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion time.
Additionally, there will be a poster session.
All accepted papers will be available as on-line proceedings on the web,
there will be no printed proceedings. We plan to publish selected
Submissions
All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by two reviewers.
Please send submissions by e-mail to laughter@coli.uni-sb.de specifying
"short paper" in the subject line and providing
1. for each author: name, title, affiliation in the body of the mail
2. Title of paper
3. Preference of presentation mode (oral or poster)
4. Short paper as plain text
In addition you can submit audio files (as wav), graphical files (as
jpg) and video clips (as mpg). All files together should not exceed 1 Mb.
Important dates
Submission deadline for short papers: March 16, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2007
Early registration deadline: June 16, 2007
Workshop dates: August 5, 2007
Plenary lecture
Wallace Chafe (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Organisation Committee
Nick Campbell (ATR, Kyoto)
Wallace Chafe (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University & Phonetik-Büro Trouvain, Saarbrücken)
Location
The laughter workshop will take place in the Centre for Language
Research and Language Technology on the campus of the Saarland
University in Saarbrücken, Germany. The campus is located in the woods
and is 5 km from the town centre of Saarbrücken.
Contact
Jürgen Trouvain
Saarland University
FR. 4.7: Computational Linguistics and Phonetics
Building C7.4
Postfach 15 11 50
66041 Saarbrücken
Germany
CfP-14th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing,
IWSSIP 2007
and
6th EURASIP Conference Focused on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services
EC-SIPMCS 2007
June 27 – 30, 2007, Maribor, Slovenia
CALL FOR PAPERS
Download Call for Papers
IWSSIP is an International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing which brings together researchers
and developers from both academia and industry to report on the latest scientific and theoretical advances,
to discuss and debate major issues and to demonstrate state of-the-art systems.
The EURASIP conference is initiated by the European Association for Speech, Signal and Image Processing (EURASIP)
that is focused on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services (EC-SIPMCS).
The goal of EC-SIPMCS is to promote the interface researchers involved in the development and applications of
methods and techniques within the framework of speech/image processing, multimedia communications and services.
Topics of Interest
The program includes keynote and invited lectures by eminent international experts, peer reviewed contributed
papers, posters, invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations and exhibitions around
but not limited to the following topics for IWSSIP and EC-SIPMCS conferences:
• Signal Processing and Systems
• Artificial Intelligence Technologies
• ICT in E-learning/Consulting
• Standards and Related Issues
• Image Scanning, Display and Printing
• Video Streaming and Videoconferencing
• Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)
• Watermarking and Encryption
• Implementation Technologies
• Applications Areas
• Speech and Audio Processing
• Image and Video Processing and Coding
• Audio, Image and Video Indexing and Retrieval
• Multimedia Signal Processing
• Multimedia Databases
• Multimedia and DTV Technologies
• Multimedia Communications, Networking, Services and Applications
• Multimedia Human-Machine Interface and Interaction
• Multimedia Content Processing and Content Description
• Multimedia Data Compression
• Multimedia Systems
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Dr. Kamisety R. Rao, IEEE Fellow, University of Texas Arlington, USA
Prof. Dr. Markus Rupp, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Dr. Levent Onural, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Submission of Regular Papers
Papers must be submitted electronically by March 18, 2007. Each paper will be evaluated by at least two independent
reviewers, and will be accepted based on its originality, significance and clarity.
Publications
All accepted papers will be published in CD Proceedings that will be available at the Conference.
Abstracts of accepted papers will be printed and included in the INSPEC database. Selected papers
will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals.
Tutorial and Special Sessions
Those willing to prepare a tutorial course and those willing to organize special session during EC-SIPMCS 2007 and IWSSIP 2007 Conference should contact dr. Peter Planinši? at ec2007uni-mb.si.
Important Dates
Paper and Poster Submissions: March 18, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2007
Camera ready copy due: May 6, 2007
Author Registration: May 6, 2007
Contact Information:
Fax: +386 2 220 7272
E-mail
Website
Žarko ?u?ej, General Chair
University of Maribor, Slovenia
Peter Planinši?, Program Chair
University of Maribor, Slovenia
CFP-4th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI'07)
28-30 June 2007
Brno, Czech Republic
website
MLMI brings together researchers from the different communities working
on the common theme of advanced machine learning algorithms applied to multimodal human-human and human-computer
interaction. The motivation for creating this joint multi-disciplinary workshop arose from the actual needs of several
large collaborative projects.
MLMI'07 will follow on directly from the annual conference of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL/EACL 2007), which will take place in Prague on June 25-27, 2007.
Important dates
Submission of full papers: 23 February
Submission of extended abstracts: 23 March 2007
Submission of demonstration proposals: 23 March 2007
Acceptance decisions: 17 April 2007
Workshop: 28-30 June 2007
Workshop topics
MLMI'07 will feature talks (including a number of invited speakers), posters and demonstrations.
Prospective authors are invited to submit proposals in the following areas of interest, related to
machine learning and multimodal interaction:
- human-human communication modeling
- human-computer interaction modeling
- speech processing
- image and video processing
- multimodal processing, fusion and fission
- multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling
- multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization
- annotation and browsing of multimodal data
- machine learning algorithms and their applications to the topics above
Satellite events
MLMI'07 will feature special sessions and satellite events such as the Summer school of the
European Masters in Speech and Language (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/emasters/) and the PASCAL Speech
Separation Challenge II (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlincol1/SSC2/). To propose other special
sessions or satellite events for MLMI'07, please contact the organizing committee.
Guidelines for submission
In common with the previous MLMI workshops, revised versions of selected papers
will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (cf. LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299).
Submissions are invited in one of the following formats:
- full papers for oral or poster presentation (12 pages)
- extended abstracts for poster presentation only (1-2 pages)
- demonstration proposals (1-2 pages)
Please submit PDF files using the submission website ,
following the Springer LNCS format
for proceedings and other multiauthor volumes.
Venue
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic and the capital of Moravia. Brno had been a royal city since
1347 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. With a population of almost four hundred thousand and
its six universities, Brno is also the cultural center of the region.
Brno can be easily reached by direct flights from Prague, London and Munich and by trains or buses from Prague
(200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
MLMI'07 will take place at the Hotel Continental (http://www.continentalbrno.cz), a modern hotel located in a
quiet part of the city within walking distance from the city center. The local organizers are members of the
Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology, which was founded
in 1899 as the Czech Technological University.
Organizing Committee
Honza Cernocky, Brno University of Technology (organization co-chair)
Andrei Popescu-Belis, University of Geneva (programme chair)
Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh (special sessions)
Pavel Zemcik, Brno University of Technology (organization co-chair)
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
PRELIMINARY CFP-
2007 IEEE International Conference on
Signal Processing and Communications, United Arab Emirates
24–27 November 2007
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC 2007)
will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 24–27 November 2007. The ICSPC will
be a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the Middle East region and
the World to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all
areas of signal processing and communications. It aims to strengthen relations between
industry, research laboratories and universities. ICSPC 2007 is organized by the IEEE UAE
Signal Processing and Communications Joint Societies Chapter. The conference will include
keynote addresses, tutorials, exhibitions, special, regular and poster sessions. All papers will
be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will
be included in IEEE Explore. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality.
SCOPE
Topics will include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Digital Signal Processing
• Analog and Mixed Signal Processing
• Audio/Speech Processing and Coding
• Image/Video Processing and Coding
• Watermarking and Information Hiding
• Multimedia Communication
• Signal Processing for Communication
• Communication and Broadband Networks
• Mobile and Wireless Communication
• Optical Communication
• Modulation and Channel Coding
• Computer Networks
• Computational Methods and Optimization
• Neural Systems
• Control Systems
• Cryptography and Security Systems
• Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Industrial and Biomedical Applications
• Signal Processing and Communications Education
SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length (4 pages) paper proposals for review.
Proposals for tutorials, special sessions, and exhibitions are also welcome. The submission
procedures can be found on the
conference web site:
All submissions must be made on-line and must follow the guidelines given on the web site.
ICSPC 2007 Conference Secretariat,
P. O. Box: 573, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.),
Fax: +971 6 5611789
ORGANIZERS
Honorary Chair
Arif Al-Hammadi,
Etisalat University College, UAE
General Chair
Mohammed Al-Mualla
Etisalat University College, UAE
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of proposals for tutorials,
special sessions, and exhibitions March 5th, 2007
Submission of full-paper proposals April 2nd, 2007
Notification of acceptance June 4th, 2007
Submission of final version of paper October 1st, 2007
5th International Workshop
on
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
MAVEBA 2007
December 13 - 15, 2007
Conference Hall - Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
Via F. Portinari 5r, Firenze, Italy
DEADLINES:
30 May 2007 - Submission of extended abstracts (1-2 pages, 1 column),
special session proposal
30 July, 2007 - Notification of paper acceptance
30 September 2007 - Final full paper submission (4 pages, 2 columns, pdf
format) and early registration
13-15 December 2007 - Conference venue
CONTACT:
Dr. Claudia Manfredi - Conference Chair
Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications
Universita degli Studi di Firenze
Via S. Marta 3
50139 Firenze, Italy
Phone: +39-055-4796410
Fax: +39-055-494569
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