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Editorial
Dear Members,
ISCA is a worldwide association and it is not always easy to figure out all consequences. I was ready to wish you excellent summer
holidays but an Australian colleague drew my attention on his wintertime! Anyway, inhabitants of the north part
of the world have currently started a holiday season.
I wish them an excellent resting period and I remind them not to extend their holidays later than the last week of August when
we will all meet at Interspeech 2007 in Antwerp, Belgium.
I also draw your attention to the increased number of job openings advertised in ISCApad and on our website. I contact
the labs and the companies
each month to check if the positions are filled or not and all offers published in this issue have been validated.
Do not hesitate to inform me on the recent books devoted to speech science or technology: it is a service offered to the
community to advertise books.
ISCA board will be partly renewed at the next General Assembly at Interspeech 2007 in Antwerp. Please read carefully
the information you received on the voting
procedure: please do participate if you want a strongly representative board.
My last recommendation is to read carefully the call for proposals for Interspeech 2011: be audacious and submit
attractive proposals.
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
Reminder : ISCA Board Election 2007
All current ISCA members should now have received information on how to vote for members of the new board.
If you have not received the election message, please contact the ISCA secretariat.
DEADLINE FOR VOTING : JULY 31, 2007, 18:00 UTC
The ISCA Secretariat
Organization of INTERSPEECH 2011 : CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Individuals or organizations interested in organizing:
INTERSPEECH
2011
should submit by 15 November 2007 a brief preliminary proposal,
including:
* The name and position of the proposed general chair and
other principal organizers.
* The proposed period in September/October
2011 when the conference would be held.
* The institution assuming
financial responsibility for the conference and any other cooperating
institutions.
* The city and conference center proposed (with
information on that center's capacity).
* The commercial conference
organizer (if any).
* Information on transportation and housing for
conference participants.
* Likely support from local bodies (e.g.
governmental).
* A preliminary budget.
Interspeech conferences may
be held in any country, although they generally should not occur in the
same continent in two consecutive years. The coming Interspeech events
will take place in Antwerp (Belgium, 2007), Brisbane (Australia, 2008),
Brighton (UK, 2009) and Makuhari (Japan, 2010).
Guidelines for the
preparation of the proposal are available on our website.
Additional information can be provided by Isabel Trancoso.
Those who
plan to put in a bid are asked to inform ISCA of their intentions as soon
as possible. They should also consider attending Interspeech 2007 in
Anwerp to discuss their bids, if possible.
Proposals should be
submitted by email to the above address. Candidates fulfilling basic
requirements will be asked to submit a detailed proposal by 28 February
2008.
Prix de these AFCP
Association Francophone de la
Communication Parlee
Cloture definitive le 21 juin 2007
L'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlee (AFCP) decerne
chaque annee un prix scientifique pour une excellente these du domaine.
L'AFCP souhaite ainsi promouvoir toutes les facettes de la recherche en
communication parlee : des travaux fondamentaux aux travaux appliques, du
domaine des STIC, SHS ou SDV. L'objectif de ce prix est de dynamiser les
jeunes chercheurs, tout en faisant connaitre leurs travaux.
Le jury est
compose des chercheurs elus du CA de l'AFCP.
- R. Ridouane est laureat
du prix 2004 pour: "Suite de consonnes en berbere: phonetique et
phonologie",
- M. Dohen en 2005 pour: "Deixis prosodique
multisensorielle: production et perception audiovisuelle de la
focalisation contrastive en francais"
La remise officielle du prix se
fera lors de la rencontre francophone "Les Journees d'Etudes sur la
Parole" (JEP) 2008 (Avignon). Chaque recipiendaire se verra remettre la
somme de 500 euros, et sera invite a resumer ses travaux lors d'un
expose.
CALENDRIER
Peut candidater tout docteur ayant soutenu
sa these entre le 1er octobre 2005 et le 31 decembre 2006. On ne peut
candidater qu'a une seule edition.
Candidature avant le 21 juin 2007
(depot de la these & envoi postal).
Resultats : mi juillet
2007.
DOSSIER DE CANDIDATURE
serveur AFCP des theses qui regroupe la plupart des theses
francophones du domaine
2/ Postez un CD a:
Herve' Glotin Prix AFCP
UMR CNRS LSIS
Univ. Sud Toulon Var, BP20132
83957 La Garde Cedex 20
- France
contenant un seul fichier (votre nom.pdf) avec dans
l'ordre:
* resume de votre these (2 pages),
* liste de vos
publications,
* tous les rapports (jury et rapporteus) scannes de votre
soutenance de these,
* une lettre de recommandation scannee de votre
dir. de these pour ce prix,
* votre CV (avec coord. completes dont
Email).
SIG's activities
A list of Speech Interest
Groups can be found on our
web.
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COURSES, INTERNSHIPS
Master in Human Language Technologies and Interfaces at the
University of Trento
Website
organized by:
University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler Irst
Call for
applications, Academic Year 2007/08
Goal
Human language
technology gives people the possibility of using speech and/or natural
language to access a variety of automated services, such as airline
reservation systems or voicemail, to access and communicate information
across different languages, and to keep under control the increasing
amount of information available by automatically extracting useful content
and summarizing it. This master aims at providing skills in the basic
theories, techniques, and applications of this technology through courses
taught by internationally recognized researchers from the university,
research centers and supporting industry partners. Students enrolled in
the master will gain in depth knowledge from graduate courses and from
substantial practical projects carried out in research and industry
labs.
Courses:
Speech Processing, Machine Learning for NLP,
Human Language, Text Processing, Spoken Dialog Systems,Human Computer
Interaction, Language Resources, Multilingual Technology
Requisites
Master degree level ( min 4 years) in the area of
computer science, electrical engineering, computational linguistics and
cognitive science and other related disciplines. English language
(official language)
Student Grants
A limited number of
fellowships will be available.
Application Deadline
Non EU
Students: June, 15
EU Students: end of July
Info
E-mail
University of
Trento-Department of Information and Communication
Technologies Via
Sommarive, 14-38100 Povo (Trento), Italy
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
Databases
HIWIRE database
We would like to
draw your attention to the Interspeech 2007 special session "Novel
techniques for the NATO non-native Air Traffic Control and HIWIRE cockpit
databases"
http://www.interspeech2007.org/Technical/nato_atc.php
that
we are co-organizing. For this special session we make available (free of
charge) the cockpit database, along with training and testing HTK scripts.
Our goal is to investigate feature extraction, acoustic modelling and
adaptation algorithms for the problem of (hands-free) speech recognition
in the cockpit. A description of the task, database and ordering
information can be found at the website of the
project We hope that you will be able to participate to this special
session.
Alex Potamianos, TUC
Thibaut Ehrette, Thales
Research
Dominique Fohr, LORIA
Petros Maragos, NTUA
Marco
Matassoni, ITC-IRST
Jose Segura, UGR
- Language Resources Catalogue - Update
ELRA is happy to
announce that new Speech Related Resources are now available in its
catalogue. Moreover, we are pleased to announce that years 2005 and 2006
from the Text Corpus of "Le Monde" (ELRA-W0015) are now
available.
*ELRA-S0235 LC-STAR Hebrew (Israel) phonetic lexicon
*The LC-STAR Hebrew (Israel) phonetic lexicon comprises 109,580 words,
including a set of 62,431 common words, a set of 47,149 proper names
(including person names, family names, cities, streets, companies and
brand names) and a list of 8,677 special application words. The lexicon is
provided in XML format and includes phonetic transcriptions in SAMPA. More
information
*ELRA-S0236 LC-STAR English-Hebrew (Israel) Bilingual
Aligned Phrasal lexicon
*The LC-STAR English-Hebrew (Israel) Bilingual
Aligned Phrasal lexicon comprises 10,520 phrases from the tourist domain.
It is based on a list of short sentences obtained by translation from
US-English 10,449 phrasal corpus. The lexicon is provided in XML format.
More information
*ELRA-S0237 LC-STAR US English
phonetic lexicon
*The LC-STAR US English phonetic lexicon comprises
102,310 words, including a set of 51,119 common words, a set of 51,111
proper names (including person names, family names, cities, streets,
companies and brand names) and a list of 6,807 special application words.
The lexicon is provided in XML format and includes phonetic transcriptions
in SAMPA. More
information
*ELRA-W0015 Text corpus of "Le Monde"
*Corpus from
"Le Monde" newspaper. Years 1987 to 2002 are available in an ASCII text
format. Years 2003 to 2006 are available in .XML format. Each month
consists of some 10 MB of data (circa 120 MB per year). More
information
*ELRA-S0238 MIST Multi-lingual Interoperability in
Speech Technology database
*The MIST Multi-lingual Interoperability in
Speech Technology database comprises the recordings of 74 native Dutch
speakers (52 males, 22 females) who uttered 10 sentences in Dutch,
English, French and German, including 5 sentences per language identical
for all speakers and 5 sentences per language per speaker unique. Dutch
sentences are orthographically annotated. More
information
and also More
information
*ELRA-S0239 N4 (NATO Native and Non Native)
database
*The (NATO Native and Non Native) database comprises speech
data recorded in the naval transmission training centers of four countries
(Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Canada) during naval
communication training sessions in 2000-2002. The material consists of
native and non-native speakers using NATO Naval English procedure between
ships, and reading from a text, "The North Wind and the Sun," in both
English and the speaker's native language. The audio material was recorded
on DAT and downsampled to 16kHz-16bit, and all the audio files have been
manually transcribed and annotated with speakers identities using the
tool, Transcriber.
More
information
and also More
information
*ELRA-W0047 Catalan Corpus of News Articles
*The
Catalan Corpus of News Articles comprises articles in Catalan from 1
January 1999 to 31 March 2007. These articles are grouped per trimester
without chronological order inside.
More
information
and also More
information
*ELRA-L0075 Bulgarian Linguistic Database
*This
database contains 81,647 entries in Bulgarian with a linguistic
environment tool (for WINDOWS XP). The data may be used for morphological
analysis and synthesis, syntactic agreement checking, phonetic stress
determining.
More
information
and also More
information
For more information on the catalogue, please contact
Valérie Mapelli
Our on-line
catalogue has moved to the following
address. Please update your bookmarks.
Books
Speech enhancement-Theory and Practice
Author: Philipos C.
Loizou, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Publisher: CRC
Press
Year:2007
Speech and Language Engineering
Editor: Martin
Rajman
Publisher: EPFL Press, distributed by CRC Press
Year:
2007
Human Communication Disorders/ Speech therapy
This
interesting series can be listed on Wiley
website
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)
Chef de Projet technique TAL / Text Mining - basé dans le Nord Pas de Calais
Société :
Vous intégrez la division digitalisation du leader Européen du traitement de l’information
(1200 collaborateurs en France, Europe, Asie et aux USA), internationalement reconnu pour ses expertises et ses
savoir-faire au service du client. Ses clients sont principalement les institutions (centres de recherche,
grandes bibliothèques, offices des brevets,...) et les grands acteurs internationaux de l’édition.
L'activité Content Mining s'adresse notamment à une clientèle appartenant aux secteurs de l'industrie pharmaceutique
et de la bioinformatique.
Offre :
En coordination avec le service commercial et la production, vous êtes responsable de la bonne réalisation des projets, et de la mise en oeuvre des solutions les mieux adaptées aux besoins des clients, et aux contraintes économiques des projets.
Pour cela, vous vous investissez dans une parfaite connaissance des moyens et solutions de l'entreprise et de leurs applications.
Vos missions s'articulent autour de trois activités:
1/ Consultant Avant Vente (25% du poste)
- Accompagner l'équipe commerciale auprès des clients et prospects, dans un objectif d'information, de compréhension,
d'identification des besoins, et leur apporter une réponse technique complète;
- Définir la ou les solutions adaptées pour couvrir l'ensemble des besoins en adéquation avec les moyens techniques
à disposition; le cas échéant, reformuler la demande du client en fonction des savoir-faire de l'entreprise;
- En coordination avec le commercial, présenter la proposition technique et financière au client, s'accorder sur
la solution retenue;
- Savoir repérer auprès des clients les besoins non satisfaits ou futurs;
- Assurer une fonction de veille tant commerciale que technologique.
2/ Gestion de Projet Technique (75% du poste):
- Apporter les solutions techniques et financières aux besoins des clients avec la collaboration des
services techniques de l'entreprise (production, R&D, Méthodes,...);
- Assurer la mise en œuvre de la solution en s'appuyant sur l'ensemble des acteurs de l'entreprise,
avec pour objectif la satisfaction client.
3/ Administratif:
- Établir des comptes-rendus d'activité sur l'ensemble des projets pris en charge;
- Assurer l'interface entre les services commerciaux, de production, et le client.
Profil :
- Formation supérieure (Bac+4/5) en informatique.
- Vous avez acquis une expérience de 3 à 5 ans en tant que Chef de Projet technique, dans les domaines suivants:
Text Mining, Reconnaissance des formes, Traitement du Langage, Linguistique, TAL.
Une connaissance du domaine de la GED ou du Knowledge Management serait un plus.
- Autonome en Anglais dans un contexte professionnel (oral et écrit).
Comment candidater?
Entrez votre profil sur le site Web du cabinet de
recrutement e-Match consulting en mentionnant la reference 73
Contact
Olivier Grootenboer
+33.6.88.39.37.39
cabinet de Recrutement & Chasse e-Match
consulting
PostDoc in Spoken Language and Dialog Research (LUNA project) at AMI2 Lab
LUNA Project: The LUNA (SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING IN MULTILINGUAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS)
project is funded by the European Commission FP6 program. The project addresses the problem
of real-time understanding of spontaneous speech in the context of advanced conversational
systems for problem-solving tasks and/or cooperative work interfaces. The LUNA consortium and
more information on the project can be found at the website.
Job description: The postdoc will be investigating machine learning techniques
for adaptive spoken dialog prototyping. S/he will be responsible to design
adaptive algorithms for language understanding and dialog modelling. S/he will
work with the AMI2 team and lead the spoken dialog prototyping for such adaptive system.
Requirements: The ideal candidate we are looking for has a Ph.D. in
Computer Science, two-year postdoc experience and background in
human-machine dialog research for spoken and/or multimodal conversational
systems. He/She will have strong programming skills and be team-work oriented.
AMI2 Lab: The Adaptive Multimodal Information and Interface
( AMI2 )Lab at University of Trento pursues excellence
research in next-generation interfaces for human-machine and human-human
communication. The AMI2 lab has a state-of-the-art speech and language
technology infrastructure and collaborations with premiere international
research centers and industry research labs.
How to apply: The University of Trento is an equal opportunity
employer. Interested applicants should submit their CV along with
their statement of research interest and three reference letters.
The starting date for the position is as early as September 1st 2007.
The duration of the contract will be 24 months, salary will depend on
experience and qualifications. Please send your application to:
Prof. Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi
Director of AMI2 Lab
About University of Trento and Information and Communication
Technology Department: The University of Trento is constantly
ranked as premiere Italian graduate university institution. The DIT Department has a strong focus on
Interdisciplinarity with professors from different faculties of the
University (Physical Science, Electrical Engineering, Economics,
Social Science, Cognitive Science, Computer Science) with
international background. English is the official language.
Expert Linguistique, basé à Nancy, FRANCE
travaillant
typiquement dans un laboratoire dédié TAL.
Profil recherché
- Formation d'origine: Ingénieur ou DEA/DESS informatique /
Intelligence Artificielle de formation
- 5 à 10 ans d'expérience min
- Salaire jusqu'à 45/48K€ en fonction du profil
- Fibre ou
expérience en R&D
- Compétences reconnues en Text Mining
(étiquetage morpho syntaxique, Reconnaissance de forme, Analyse
sémantique, Traduction automatique, Apprentissage naturel et
Linguitique)
- Profil humain: MANAGER, leader d'équipe.
Comment
candidater:
Entrez votre profil sur le site Web du cabinet de
recrutement e-Match consulting
Contact
Olivier Grootenboer
+33.6.88.39.37.39
cabinet de Recrutement & Chasse e-Match
consulting
Speech Software Engineer, CereProc, Edinburgh, UK
Fixed Term for 1 year to be reviewed after 9 months Salary 25,000
BP to 30,000 BP per annum dependent upon experience
CereProc is a
Scottish company, based in Edinburgh, the home of advanced speech
synthesis research, with a sales office in London. The CereProc team have
extensive experience across the entire speech technology domain.
We are
looking for a talented and skilled individual to undertake research on a
SMART Feasibility Study awarded by the Scottish Executive to CereProc to
investigate articulatory approaches to text to speech (TTS) and automatic
speech recognition (ASR) associated with the needs of an ease-of-use audio
wav file creation system for use commercially.
The ideal candidate will
have a degree in Electronic Engineering or related discipline, a PhD in
Speech Technology or a related topic, an understanding of the principles
of digital signal processing with regard to ASR and TTS, an ability to
write computer programs (e.g., in C/C++/Python), and will be
self-motivated with strong organisational skills.
It would also be
desirable for the candidate to have experience of working with a
University spin out company, native level Japanese, familiarity with
hidden Markov models, state-space methods or stochastic processes and
experience in graphical user interface design.
Salary range 25,000BP to
30,000 BP dependent on experience including pension contributions, 37.5
Hour Week with a degree of flexibility, and up to 20 days annual leave
plus statutory holidays per annum.
To apply for this position please email your CV (including 2
referees) and current salary details.
Senior Speech Engineer in UK
Presented by http://www.voxid.co.uk/
This
description is NOT exhaustive and we would welcome applications from any
speech developers who feel they can add value to this company. Please
forward your CV with salary expectations as we may have an alternative
position for you.
Job Role:
To develop and deliver products,
meeting customer needs and expectations.
To undertake areas of research
and development on speech recognition technology within the
constraints/direction of the Client Business development
plan.
Duties and Responsibilities:
*To assist in the ongoing
development of speech technologies for commercial deployment.
*To
further improve existing client products
*Organise and manage own work
to meet goal and objectives
*Use personal judgement and initiative to
develop effective and constructive solutions to challenges and obstacles
*Provide technical support to customers of the company on projects and
activities when required.
*Document and maintain such records as
required by the company operating procedures.
*Maintain an
understanding of Speech recognition technology in general and the client
products and technology specifically
*Communicate and present to
customers and others, information about the client product range and its
technology.
*Providing technical expertise to other members of the team
and staff at the client
*R&D in various aspects of automatic speech
recognition and related speech technologies (e.g. speech data mining,
Keyword/phrase spotting, multilingual speech recognition,
LVCSR).
*Adhere to local and externally relevant health and safety laws
and policies and bring any matters to the attention of local management
without delay
*Take responsibility for self-development and continuing
personal development
Person specification
Good degree
in a relevant subject
Further degree in the Speech Recognition field or
2 years experience
Experience in a product based environment
Special Skills:
Product orientated
Experienced
C++
Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team (Speech Scientists and
software engineers)
Special Aptitudes:
Ability to put theory
in to practice to apply knowledge to develop products
Can work and
communicate effectively with colleagues outside their own area of
expertise.
Quick to develop new skills where required
Analytical,
with good problem solving ability.
High level of attention to
detail
Experience of multi-threaded and computational intensive
algorithms
Disposition:
Team Player but also able to work
independently
Self - starter
Motivated & Enthusiastic
Results
orientated
Location: UK
Salary : Dependent On
experience
We are a specialist UK recruitment company seeking speech
recognition developers to join one of our many UK speech companies. This
description is NOT exhaustive and we would welcome applications from any
speech developers who feel they can add value to this company. Please
forward your CV with salary expectations as we may have an alternative
position for you
R&D Engineer
Presented by http://www.voxid.co.uk/
Job
Description
As a member of a small team of research and development
engineers you will work both independently and in teams developing
algorithms and models for large vocabulary speech recognition. Good C and
Linux shell scripting skills are essential, as is experience of either
digital signal processing or statistical modelling. The ability to
administer a network of Linux PCs is highly desirable, as are
language/linguistic skills. Knowledge of Python and Perl would be
advantageous.
In addition to the technical skills mentioned above, the
successful candidate will have a proactive personality, excellent oral and
written communication skills, and a desire to learn all aspects of speech
recognition.
Key Skills
1st/2.1 degree in numerate
subject.
2+ years of C and Linux shell programming.
Excellent
communication skills.
Experience of digital signal processing or
statistical modelling (this could be an undergraduate/masters
project).
Additional Skills Linux system administration.
Experience
with HTK.
Python and/or Perl programming.
Language/linguistic
knowledge.
Salary : Commensurate with experience + discretionary
share option scheme.
R&D Language Modeller in UK
An excellent
opportunity presented by http://www.voxid.co.uk/,we are looking
for a self-motivated speech engineer, who enjoys working in the dynamic
and flexible environment of a successful
company.
Requirements
*3+ years relevant industrial /
commercial experience or very relevant academic experience
In-depth
knowledge about probabilistic language modelling, including estimation
methods, smoothing, pruning, efficient representation, interpolation,
trigger-based models
*Experience in development and/or deployment of a
speech recognition engines, with emphasis on efficient training techniques
and large vocabulary systems
*Understanding of the technology and
techniques used in ASR engines
*A good degree in an appropriate
subject, PhD preferred
*Good software engineering skills, knowledge of
scripting languages (e.g. shell scripting, Perl) and experience working
under both Linux and Windows
Desirable
*Experience working
with HTK, Sphinx and/or Julius
*Experience with probabilistic lattice
parsing
*Have worked on a live application or service that includes
speech recognition
Salary : 40K BP
Any speech candidates who
believe they can add value to our global clients , we would be happy to
represent you.
Several openings at NuanceNuance is the leading provider
of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the
world. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience
Nuance by calling directory assistance, requesting account information,
dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination,
or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. With
more than 2000 employees worldwide, we are committed to make the user
experience more enjoyable by transforming the way people interact with
information and how they create, share and use documents. Making each of
those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is about.
Senior Engineer
As part of the team, the candidate will be creating speech technologies for embedded applications varying from simple command and control up to natural
speech dialogue on mobile and automotive platforms.
The candidate will join an experienced international team with expertise in creating, optimizing and testing portable ASR software for embedded devices.
The position can be located at our Aachen office (Germany), the Nuance International Headquarters in Merelbeke, near Ghent (Belgium), or our Tel-Aviv office (Israel).
Responsibilities
· Design, implementation, evaluation, optimization and testing of new ASR algorithms and tools;
· Involvement in the creation of applications, demonstrators and evaluators of the developed technology;
· Occasionally provide support directly to customers and to our Embedded Professional Services Team.
Required Skills
· Background in ASR technologies
· Knowledge of C, C++, Pearl or Python, Matlab and Mobile / Automotive
· Familiarity with Embedded Programming Techniques
· Excellent English communication skills, written and spoken.
· Positive "can-do" attitude, well organized
· Customer Service attitude, excellent presentation and communication skills
· Ability to manage projects and to deal with critical situations.
Ideal Skills
· 2-3 years work experience in relevant area
Education
· MS or BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related Technical Degree
Interested?
Please send your CV to Deanna Roe .
We are looking forward to receiving your application!
RESEARCH ENGINEER LVCSR
As part of the team, the
candidate will be creating speech technologies for embedded applications
varying from simple command and control up to natural speech dialogue on
mobile and automotive platforms.
The candidate will join an experienced
international team with expertise in creating, optimizing and testing
portable ASR software for embedded devices. The position can be located at
our Aachen office (Germany), the Nuance International Headquarters in
Merelbeke, near Ghent (Belgium), or our Tel-Aviv office
(Israel).
Responsibilities
· Design, implementation,
evaluation, optimization and testing of new algorithms and tools, with a
focus on search, grammar processing, dictation and/or natural language
understanding.
· Occasional involvement in the creation of
demonstrators and evaluators of the developed technology.
·
Occasionally provide support directly to customers and to our Embedded
Professional Services Team
Required
Skills
· Background
in ASR research is required: preferably with ASR search techniques, CFG
parsing, FSM processing, dictation or natural language understanding
technology.
· Knowledge of C, C++, Pearl or Python, Matlab
· Excellent English
communication skills, written and
spoken.
· Positive
"can-do" attitude, well
organized
· Customer
Service attitude, excellent presentation and communication
skills
· Ability to deal
with critical situations.
Ideal
Skills
· 2-3
years work experience in relevant area or Ph.D. in speech processing
Education
·
MS or BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related Technical
Degree
Please send your CV in English to : Deanna Roe
SOFTWARE
ENGINEER
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will be
responsible for porting Nuance state-of-the-art speech recognition and
text to speech products to different embedded platforms typically found in
the automotive, mobile or game station markets. As development engineer in
the Professional Services team, you will be in close contact with the
research lab developing the technologies, and will be contributing to
speech enabling mobile phones (dialing by voice, SMS reading), automotive
hands-free car-kits (dialing by voice, acoustical echo canceller),
automotive and mobile navigation systems (route guidance or traffic
information through TTS), game stations, or similar kind of devices where
speech is bringing clear added value. As experienced engineer, you will
rapidly be working together with our customers’ integration teams to help
them including our technologies into successful products in an efficient
way, and managing from A to Z complete projects and customer interaction.
While most of the job will take place in our offices in Merelbeke, a few
short trips inside or outside Europe might be possible. Your
Profile
- Requirements:
o Bachelors or Graduate University
degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science
or equivalent.
o Professional experience in the Embedded market
o
Fluent in English, both written and spoken
o Strong customer
communication skills
o Strong Ansi C programming skills
o Ability to
travel for short trips
o Strong team player, capable to work
independently or/and to manage other engineers when needed
o Self
learner, with sense of initiative, and perseverance to deliver high
quality work
- Nice to have
o Experience with embedded hardware
platforms, operating systems, and software development
o Knowledgeable
about audio streaming technologies, real-time protocols, codecs, signal
processing
o Knowledgeable about WinCe, Linux
o
Multi-lingual
Please send your CV in English to : Deanna Roe
JUNIOR MOBILE
APPLICATION DEVELOPER
Located in Aachen (Germany)
As a Mobile
application developer you will be part of a team creating ground-breaking
software for mobile devices (smartphones or personal navigation devices,).
You will design, implement and maintain applications that make uses of
Nuance’s state-of-the-art speech recognition and speech synthesis
technologies to deliver new experience to Nuance customers: hands-free
dialing and control of the phone, selection of songs on a media player by
voice, voice entry of destination in a navigation device or dictation of
SMS. You will follow up with latest industry developments for mobile
platform and work with new mobile devices before they hit the market. You
will work in a multi-cultural international team located in Belgium,
Germany, Israel and the USA.
Qualifications:
· Bachelor or
Master Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical
Engineering of equivalent.
· Strong C/C++ programming skills
·
Hands-on experience with object-oriented design & object-oriented
programming
· Good software/system troubleshooting skills
·
Familiarity with one of the following development platforms: Symbian,
Windows Mobile, BREW, J2ME.
· Fluent in English, both written in
spoken.
· Ability to work in a multinational team
· Self- &
quick learner
· Ability to work under time pressure and take
initiative
Strong candidates will also have the following;
·
Understanding of speech recognition software.
· Knowledge of Java.
· Practical experience with Nokia’s S60 development platform.
·
Familiarity with cross-platform software design principles
· Exposure
to Agile software development methodologies
· Knowledge of other
European or Asian languages
Please send your CV in English to Deanna Roe
If you have any
questions, please contact her on +44 7717506622
TEMPORARY FULL-TIME
LANGUAGE SPECIALIST
Nuance Communications, Inc., a world-wide
leader in speech technology, is seeking full-time temporary language
specialist to develop our newest TTS technology into various
languages.
Positions are available for the following languages:
·
Finnish
· Dutch ( The Netherlands)
· Australian English
·
Mandarin (People’s Republic of China)
· Mandarin (Taiwan)
·
Cantonese
· Japanese
· Korean
· Danish
· Norwegian
·
Egyptian Arabic
· Greek
· Hindi
· Portuguese (Iberian)
·
Indian English
· Russian
· Swedish
· Turkish
· Spanish
(Catalan)
Responsibilities:
· Helping in development of the
linguistic processing components
· Design of text corpora for recording
and testing
· Processing speech data
· Creating and tuning the TTS
voice
· Testing and productization of the TTS voice
.
Requirements:
· Native or near native speaker of one of them
above-mentioned languagesbr> · Speak English fluently (working
language)
· Have some experience working in speech/NLP/linguistics
either in academia or in industry
· Have some computational ability –
no programming is required, but you should be comfortable working with MS
Windows
· If you know some AWK or Perl, it would be an advantage
·
Willing to work in Merelbeke (near Ghent in Belgium) for the duration of
the contract
Offer:
-A 3-5 months contract
-Training in
all aspects of the job, and you will be working with a talented and
committed team
-An exciting job with an innovative and performing
international company
-The opportunity to work in an enthusiastic,
supportive team
-Competitive remuneration package
-Relocation,
travel and accommodation assistance
Please send your CV in English to
Deanna Roe
ALGORITHMS
DEVELOPER
We are seeking a brilliant algorithms developer for
research and implementation of core technology for speech recognition and
synthesis on cellular handsets.
Responsibilities:
-Research and implementation of technology
that is required for different applications of mobile devices, such as
voice enabled dialing, application launching etc.
-Develop modeling
methods and algorithms for enhanced quality and robustness considering
limited computational resources
-Specific models and algorithms for
different languages
-Define and implement schemes and tools that are
required for turning technologies into products – such as creating
specific models for project and tuning parameters
-Deliver models and
algorithms to the product group – guide and support the absorption of new
technologies.
-Development of methodology and tools for research and
model creation
-M.Sc. in computer-science, software engineering,
physics, or mathematics, B.Sc. with distinction will also be
considered.
Your profile:
- Completed the following
courses with grade above 85: At least one C/C++ course with final project,
Probability theory and statistics, Algorithms
- Excellent research and
implementation skills are required with at least 1 year of proven
experience in the following areas: Developing C/C++ code, Development,
implementation and analysis of algorithms and mathematical models
-
Knowledge of Perl, Python, Windows/Linux scripts, SQL
- Experience in
the following areas is highly desirable: Speech– processing, Machine
learning, Statistical modeling; Neural networks, Bioinformatics.
-
Knowledge in one or more of the following an advantage:Digital signal
processing, Image processing, Computational linguistics
- Advanced
written and spoken English
Locations: Israel, Tel aviv /
Germany, Aachen / Belgium, Merelbeke
Please send your CV in English to
Deanna Roe
The experience
speaks for itself
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS WITHIN THE SOUND TECHNOLOGY GROUP,
LINKOPING , SWEDEN
Two positions for postdoctoral associates are
available within the Sound Technology Group Sound Technology Group , Digital Media Division at the Department of Science and Technology
(ITN), Linkoping Universityat
Campus Norrkoping, Sweden.
Our research is focused on physical and
perceptual models of sound sources, sound source separation and adapted
signal representations.
Candidates must have a strong background in
research and a completed Ph.D.
Programming skills (e.g. Matlab, C/C++
or Java) are very desirable, as well as expertise in conducting
acoustic/auditory experiments.
We are especially interested in
candidates with research background in the following areas:
. Auditory
Scene Analysis
Classification of Sound Sources
. Sound
Processing
. Spatial Audio and Hearing
. Time-Frequency and Wavelet
Representations
. Acoustics (theoretical and experimental)
but those
with related research interests are also welcome to apply.
Preferred
starting date is September 2007.
Inquiries and CVs must be addressed
to
Prof. G.
Evangelista
Digital Media Division
Department of Science and
Technology (ITN)
Linkoping Institute of Technology (LiTH) at Campus
Norrkoping
Room: K5724 (K=E5kenhus, Bredgatan 33)
SE-60174
Norrkoping, Sweden
Phone: +46 11 36 31 01
Fax: +46 11 36 32 70
Cambridge University Engineering Department- Machine
Intelligence Laboratory - Speech Group
Research Associate in
Spoken Dialogue Systems
Applications are invited for a Research
Associate position in the Machine Intelligence Laboratory to join a group
lead by Professor Steve Young working in the area of Spoken Dialogue
Systems. The technical focus is on the use of reinforcement learning
within man-machine interfaces to enable automatic learning of dialogue
behaviour and on-line adaptation. The work will involve statistical
modelling, algorithm design, system development and user evaluation. The
successful candidate will have a good first degree and preferably a higher
degree in a relevant area. Good programming skills in C/C++ are essential.
The appointment will be for two years initially, starting as soon as
possible. Salary is in the range 324,402 BP to 331,840 BP p.a. Further
details and an application form can be found at our website. Informal
enquiries should be addressed by email to Professor Young. Applicants should
email their completed application form together with their CV and a
covering letter describing their research experiences, interests and goals
to Rachel Fogg Rachel Fogg.
The University is committed to equality of
opportunity.
Opening on Speech recognition at Telefonica, Barcelona
(Spain)
The speech Technology Group at Telefonica Investigacion y
Desarrollo (TID) is looking for a highly qualified candidate for an
engineering position on speech recognition and related
technologies.
The selected person will become a part of a
multidisciplinary team of young highly motivated people in an objective
driven, friendly atmosphere located in a central area of Barcelona
(Spain).
Minimum requirements ar:
Degree in Computer Science
/Electrical Engineering/Computational Linguistics or similar with 2+ years
of experience (Ph.D. preferred) on speech technology.
Good knowledge of
speech recognition and speech synthesis.
Proven programming expertise
in C++ and Java
Good level of English (required) and some knowledge of
Spanish (preferred)
High motivation and teamwork spirit
Salary
depending on the experience and value of the applicant
Starting date as
soon as possible
The speech technology group is a well established
group within TID with more than 15 years of experience in research and
development of technology for internal use of Telefonica group as well as
outside organizations. It is also a very active partner in many National
and European projects. TID is the research and development company inside
the Telefonica group, currently one of the biggest Telecom companies. It
is the biggest private research center in Spain in number of employees and
available resources.
Please send your resume and contact information
to
Sonia Tejero
Tlf: +34 93 365
3024
Sound to Sense: 18 Fellowships in speech research
Sound to Sense (S2S) is a Marie Curie Research Training Network
involving collaborative speech research amongst 13 universities in 10
countries. 18 Training Fellowships are available, of which 12 are
predoctoral and 6 postdoctoral (or equivalent experience). Most but not
all are planned to start in September or October 2007.
A research
training network’s primary aim is to support and train young researchers
in professional and inter-disciplinary scientific skills that will equip
them for careers in research. S2S’s scientific focus is on
cross-disciplinary methods for modelling speech recognition by humans and
machines. Distinctive aspects of our approach include emphasis on
richly-informed phonetic models that emphasize communicative function of
utterances, multilingual databases, multiple time domain analyses, hybrid
episodic-abstract computational models, and applications and testing in
adverse listening conditions and foreign language learning.
Eleven
projects are planned. Each can be flexibly tailored to match the Fellows’
backgrounds, research interests, and professional development needs, and
will fall into one of four broad themes.
1: Multilinguistic and
comparative research on Fine Phonetic Detail (4 projects)
2: Imperfect
knowledge/imperfect signal (2 projects)
3: Beyond short units of speech
(2 projects)
4: Exemplars and abstraction (3 projects)
The
institutions and senior scientists involved with S2S are as follows:
*
University of Cambridge, UK (S. Hawkins (Coordinator), M. Ford, M. Miozzo,
D. Norris. B. Post)
* Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium (D. Van
Compernolle, H. Van Hamme, K. Demuynck)
* Charles University, Prague,
Czech Republic (Z. Palková, T. Dub?da, J. Volín)
* University of
Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France (N. Nguyen, M. d’Imperio, C.
Meunier)
* University Federico II, Naples, Italy (F. Cutugno, A.
Corazza)
* Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (L. ten Bosch,
H. Baayen, M. Ernestus, C. Gussenhoven, H. Strik)
* Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway (W. van
Dommelen, M. Johnsen, J. Koreman, T. Svendsen)
* Technical University
of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (M. Giurgiu)
* University of the Basque
Country, Vitoria, Spain (M-L. Garcia Lecumberri, J. Cenoz)
* University
of Geneva, Switzerland (U. Frauenfelder)
* University of Bristol, UK
(S. Mattys, J. Bowers)
* University of Sheffield, UK (M. Cooke, J.
Barker, G. Brown, S. Howard, R. Moore, B. Wells)
* University of York,
UK. (R. Ogden, G. Gaskell, J. Local)
Successful applicants will
normally have a degree in psychology, computer science, engineering,
linguistics, phonetics, or related disciplines, and want to acquire
expertise in one or more of the others.
Positions are open until
filled, although applications before 1 May 2007 are recommended for
starting in October 2007.
Further details are available from the web
about:
+ the
research network (92kB) and how to apply, + the research
projects(328 kB).
Research scientist- Speech Technology- Princeton, NJ,
USA
Company Profile: Headquartered in Princeton, NJ, ETS
(Educational Testing Service)is the world's premier educational
measurement institution and a leader in educational research. As an
innovator in developing achievement and occupational tests for clients in
business, education, and government, we are determined to advance
educational excellence for the communities we serve.
Job
Description: ETS Research & Development has a Research Scientist
opening in the Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing Group.
This group conducts research focusing on the development of new
capabilities in automated scoring and NLP-based analysis and evaluation
systems, which are used to improve assessments, learning tools and test
development practices for diverse groups of users that include K-12
students, college students, English Language Learners and lifelong
learners. The Research Scientist position involves applying scientific,
technical and software engineering skills to designing and conducting
research studies and developing capabilities in support of educational
products and services. The job is a full-time job.
Required
qualifications
· A Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing,
Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering
with a focus on speech technology, particularly speech recognition.
Knowledge of linguistics is a plus.
· Evidence of at least three years
of independent substantive research experience and/or experience in
developing and deploying speech technology capabilities, preferably in
educational environments.
· Demonstrable contributions to new and/or
modified theories of speech processing and their implementation in
automated systems.
· Practical expertise with speech recognition
systems and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g.,
Java, Perl, C/C++, Python).
· Three years of independent substantive
research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying speech
technology capabilities, preferably in educational environments.
How to apply
Please send copy of your resume, along with
cover letter stating salary requirements and job #2965, to e-mail
ETS offers competitive
salaries, outstanding benefits, a stimulating work environment, and
attractive growth potential. ETS is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative
Action Employer.
Web site
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.
Positions at Saybot in Shanghai,China
About the
company
Saybot is a leading speech technology platform provider for
people interested in learning and improving their spoken English. Through
Saybot’s innovative speech-based platform, English teachers, publishers,
and schools can create and sell spoken English curricula to 180 million
English learners in China. By focusing on spoken English learning and
speech technology innovations, Saybot and its partners, such as the
biggest English textbook publisher in China, are making English learning
more efficient, effective, and fun.
The company was originally backed
up by technology visionaries (Nicholas Negroponte and Leonard Kleinrock)
and well funded by first tier VCs in Asia.
Positions: Speech
Scientists.
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. We seek motivated and enthusiastic colleagues, at both senior and
junior level.
This position is based in Shanghai,
China
Requirements:
* 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 and adaptation,
o
natural language understanding and dialogue systems,
o prosody
analysis,
o recognition on embedded platforms.
* Excellent
programming skills in both object-oriented languages (C++, C# or Java) and
scripting (Perl or Python).
* Excellent communication skills in written
and oral English.
Contact: Sylvain Chevalier
2 Positions in Research and Development in "Audio description
and indexing" at IRCAM-Paris
PRESENTATION OF THE SAMPLE
ORCHESTRATOR PROJECT:
The goal of the Sample Orchestrator project
is to develop and test new applications for managing and manipulating
sound samples based on audio content. On the one hand the commercial
availability of large databases of sound samples available on various
supports (CD, DVD, online), are currently limited in their applications
(synthesizers by sampling). On the other hand, recent scientific and
technological development in audio indexing and database management allow
the development of new musical functions: database management based on
audio content, audio processing driven by audio content, development of
orchestration tools.
TASKS:
Two positions are available from
April 15th 2007 within the "Equipe Analyse/Synthese" of Ircam for (each) a
12 months total duration (possibility of extending the contracts). The
main tasks to be done for the research and development positions are:
-
Research and development of new audio features and algorithms for the
description of instrumental, percussive and FX sounds.
- Research and
development of new audio features and algorithms for the morphological
description of sounds
- Research and development of new audio features
and algorithms for sounds containing "loops"
- Research and
development of algorithms for automatic audio indexing
- Research and
development of algorithms for fast search by similarity in large databases
- Participation in the definition of the specification
-
Participation in user evaluation and feedback
- Integration into the
final application
RESEARCH POSITION:
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
AND COMPETENCE:
- High skills in Audio indexing and signal processing
- High skills in Matlab programming
- High productivity,
methodical work, excellent programming style.
- Good knowledge of
UNIX, Mac and Windows environments
SALARY:
According to background
and experience.
DEVELOPMENT POSITION:
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
AND COMPETENCE:
- Skills in Audio indexing and signal processing
-
High skills in C/C++ programming
- High productivity, methodical work,
excellent programming style.
- Good knowledge of UNIX, Mac and Windows
environments
SALARY:
According to background and experience.
EEC WORKING PAPERS:
In order to start immediately, the
candidate should preferably have EEC citizenship or already own valid EEC
working papers.
AVAILIBILITY:
The positions are available
in the "Analysis/Synthesis" team in the R&D department from April 15th
2007 for (each) a duration of 12 months (possibility of extending the
contracts).
TO APPLY:
Please send your resume with
qualifications and informations addressing the above issues, preferably by
email 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.
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
department 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.
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
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
On-line Registration, Housing and Practical Information is
now available at the conference
website
ISCA, together with the Interspeech 2007 organizing
committee, would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming
conference.
Interspeech 2007 is organized by the Belgian and Dutch
speech communities. It is the 10th biennial Eurospeech conference and the
8th in the annual series of Interspeech events organized by the
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), after Beijing,
Aalborg, Denver, Geneva, Jeju, Lisbon and Pittsburgh.
The conference
will be held August 27-31 in Antwerp, Belgium.
The main conference
(August 28-31) will take place in the Flanders Congress and Concert
Centre(FCCC) and the adjacent Astrid Park Plaza Hotel. The FCCC is one of
the historic conference centres of Europe; it connects to the Antwerp zoo
and is located right in the city centre. Antwerp is a lively midsize town
with a well preserved medieval center, keeping conference centre and most
hotels and social event venues within comfortable walking distance.
Antwerp was the home town of the famous painter Rubens and is today well
known as an international centre of diamonds. It also hosts one of the
largest harbors in the world.
The Technical Program will include in
parallel 3 oral, 3 poster and 1 special session, totaling 745 papers,
selected from 1268 submitted full papers. For the first time in
INTERSPEECH history, a standard of 3 reviews per paper was used to
evaluate the submissions.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Tuesday 28th:
ISCA Medalist: Victor Zue (MIT) "On Organic Interfaces"
- Wednesday
29th: Sophie Scott (Univ. College London) "How the Brain Decodes Speech -
Some Perspectives from Functional Imaging"
- Thursday 30th: Alex Waibel
(CMU and Univ. of Karlsruhe) "Computer-Supported Human-Human Multilingual
Communication"
- Friday 31th: TBA
TUTORIALS:
Tutorials for
Interspeech 2007 are organized by internationally recognized experts in
their fields and will be held on Monday, August 27 on premises of the city
centre campus of the University of Antwerp.
Morning
tutorials:
- Voice Quality in Vocal Communication presenter:
Christophe d'Alessandro
- The Modulation Spectrum and Its Application
to Speech Science and Technology presenters: Les Atlas, Steven Greenberg
and Hynek Hermansky
- Spoken Language Processing by Mind and Machine
presenters: Roger K. Moore and Anne Cutler
- Processing
Morphologically-Rich Languages presenters: Katrin Kirchhoff and Ruhi
Sarikaya
Afternoon tutorials:
- Voice Transformation,
presenter: Yannis Stylianou
- A Mathematical Theory of Speech Signals
- Beyond the Linear Model presenters: Gernot Kubin and Erhard Rank
-
Talking to Computers: from Speech Sounds to Human Computer Interaction
presenters: Giuseppe Riccardi and Sebastian Varges
- Machine Learning
for Text and Speech Processing, presenters: Antal van den Bosch and Walter
Daelemans
REGISTRATION:
The online registration for the
conference is now open. Authors of accepted papers should make sure that
at least one of its authors has registered by the early registration
deadline of June 22, 2007. Papers without any author registration will be
removed from the final program.
ACCOMMODATION: A large number of
rooms has been reserved in several hotels of which most are within a 5-10'
walking distance from the conference centre. An online hotel reservation
form is available on the conference website.
TRAVEL:
Antwerp
is easily reached from the international airports of Brussels and
Amsterdam.
For up to date information on
the technical and social program and for practical arrangements please
visit the conference
website.
If you can't find an essential piece of information there,
please send an email .
We
hope to welcome you in Antwerp in August !
Dirk Van Compernolle,
General Chair
Lou Boves, General Chair
Jean-Pierre Martens,
Technical Program Chair
Helmer Strik, Technical Program Chair
INTERSPEECH 2008-ICSLP September 22-26, 2008, Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia
Conference Website
Chairman: Denis Burnham, MARCS, University of West Sydney.
INTERSPEECH 2009-EUROSPEECH Brighton, UK,
Conference Website
Chairman:
Prof. Roger Moore,
University of Sheffield.
INTERSPEECH 2010-ICSLPChiba, Japan
Conference Website
ISCA is pleased to
announce that INTERSPEECH 2010 will take place in Makuhari-Messe, Chiba,
Japan, September 26-30, 2010. The event will be chaired by Keikichi Hirose
(Univ. Tokyo), and will have as a theme "Towards Spoken Language
Processing for All - Regardless of Age, Health Conditions, Native
Languages, Environment, etc."
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FUTURE ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP (ITRW)
6th ISCA Speech Synthesis Research Workshop (SSW-6)
University of Bonn (Germany), August 22-24, 2007
A satellite
of INTERSPEECH 2007 (Antwerp)in collaboration with SynSIG and IfK
(University of Bonn)
Organized shortly after the 16th International
Congress on Phonetic Sciences (Saarbrücken, Germany, August 6-10, 2007).
Like its predecessors in Autrans (France) 1990, New Paltz (NY, USA) 1994,
Jenolan (Australia) 1998, Pitlochry (UK) 2001, and Pittsburgh (PA, USA)
2004, SSW-6 will cover all aspects of speech synthesis and adjacent
fields, such as:
TOPICS (updated list)
* Text processing for
speech synthesis
* Prosody Generation for speech synthesis
*
Speech modeling for speech synthesis applications
* Signal processing
for speech synthesis
* Concatenative speech synthesis (diphones,
polyphones, unit selection)
* Articulatory synthesis
* Statistical
parametric speech synthesis
* Voice
transformation/conversion/adaptation for speech synthesis
* Expressive
speech synthesis
* Multilingual and/or multimodal speech synthesis
* Text-to-speech and content-to-speech
* Singing speech synthesis
* Systems and applications involving speech synthesis
* Techniques
for assessing synthetic speech quality
* Language resources for speech
synthesis
* Aids for the handicapped involving speech synthesis.
Deadlines (updated)
* Full-paper submission (up to 6 pages)
- May 14, 2007 (EXTENDED DEADLINE!)
* Notification of acceptance - June
25, 2007
* Deadline for paper modification - July 15, 2007
Please
send your papers, preferably as PDF files, as an e-mail attachment. Further
information can soon be obtained from the website of the
workshop,
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
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 Odyssey 2008
The Speaker and Language
Recognition Workshop
21-25 January 2008, Stellenbosch, South
Africa
Topics
* Speaker recognition(identification,
verification, segmentation, clustering)
* Text dependent and
independent speaker recognition
* Multispeaker training and
detection
* Speaker characterization and adaptation
* Features for
speaker recognition
* Robustness in channels
* Robust classification
and fusion
* Speaker recognition corporaand evaluation
* Use of
extended training data
* Speaker recognition with speaker
recognition
* Forensics, multimodality and multimedia speaker
recogntion
* Speaker and language confidence estimation
* Language,
dialect and accent recognition
* Speaker synthesis and
transformation
* Biometrics
* Human recognition
* Commercial
applications
Paper submission
Proaspective authors are
invited to submit papers written in English via the Odyssey website. The style
guide, templates,and submission form can be downloaded from the Odyssey
website. Two members of the scientific committee will review each paper.
Each accepted paper must have at least one registered author. The
Proceedings will be published on CD
Schedule
Draft paper due
July 15, 2007
Notification of acceptance September 15,2007
Final
paper due October 30, 2007
Preliminary program November 30,
2007
Workshop January 21-25, 2008
Futher informations: venue,
registation...
On the workshop website
Chairs
Niko
Brummer, Spescom Data Voice, South Africa
Johan du Preez.Stellenbosch
University,South Africa
ISCA TR Workshop on Experimental Linguistics
2008
August 2008, Athens, Greece
Website
Prof. Antonis Botinis
ITRW on Evidence-based Voice and Speech Rehabilitation in Head
& Neck Oncology
May 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
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,
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.
Audio Visual Speech Processing Workshop (AVSP
2008)
Tentative location:Queensland coast near Brisbane (most
likely South Stradbroke Island)
Tentative date: 27-29 September 2008
(immediately after Interspeech 2008)
Following in the footsteps of
previous AVSP workshops / conferences, AVSP workshop (ISCA Research and
Tutorial Workshop) will be hold concomitantly to Interspeech2008,
Brisbane, Australia, 22-26 September 2008. The aim of AVSP2008 is to bring
together researchers and practitioners in areas related to auditory-visual
speech processing. These include human and machine AVSP, linguistics,
psychology, and computer science. One of the aims of the AVSP workshops is
to foster collaborations across disciplines, as AVSP research is
inherently multi-disciplinary. The workshop will include a number of
tutorials / keynote addresses by internationally renowned researchers in
the area of AVSP.
Organizers
Roland Goecke, Simon Lucey,
Patrick Lucey
Australian National University,RSISE, Bldg. 115,
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Robust ASR Workshop
Santiago,
Chile
October-November 2008
Dr. Nestor Yoma
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS SUPPORTED (but not organized) by ISCA
AVSP 2007
International Conference on Auditory-Visual
Speech Processing 2007,
August 31 - September 3, 2007
Kasteel
Groenendael, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands
The next International
Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP 2007) will be
organised by different members of Tilburg University (The Netherlands). It
will take place in Kasteel Groenendael in Hilvarenbeek (The Netherlands)
from August 31, 2007 till September 3, 2007, immediately following
Interspeech 2007 in Antwerp (Belgium). Hilvarenbeek is located at close
distance from Antwerp, so that attendance at AVSP 2007 can easily be
combined with participation in Interspeech 2007.
Auditory-visual speech
production and perception by human and machine is an interdisciplinary and
cross-linguistic field which has attracted speech scientists, cognitive
psychologists, phoneticians, computational engineers, and researchers in
language learning studies. Since the inaugural workshop in Bonas in 1995,
Auditory-Visual Speech Processing workshops have been organised on a
regular basis (see an overview at the avisa website). In line with
previous meetings, this conference will consist of a mixture of regular
presentations (both posters and oral), and lectures by invited speakers.
All presentations will be plenary.
We are happy to announce that the
following experts have agreed to give a keynote lecture at our conference:
Sotaro
Kita (Birmingham)
Asif
Ghazanfar (Princeton)
More details about the conference can be
found on the website
Further information
The 12th International Conference on Speech
and Computer
October 15-18, 2007
Organized by Moscow State
Linguistic University
General Chair:
Prof. Irina Khaleeva (Moscow
State Linguistic University)
Chair:
Prof. Rodmonga Potapova (Moscow
State Linguistic University)
SPECOM'07 is the twelfth conference in the
annual series of SPECOM events. It is organized by Moscow State Linguistic
University and will be held in Moscow, Russia, under the sponsorship of
Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Ministry of Education and
Science of Russian Federation, the International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA) and others. SPECOM'07 will cover various aspects of
speech science and technology. The program of the conference will include
keynote lectures by internationally renowned scientists, parallel oral and
poster sessions and an exhibition. The sci-tech exhibition that will be
held during the conference will be open to companies and research
institutions. The official language of the Conference will be
English.
Important Dates (Extended)
Paper submission opening
February 1, 2007
Full paper deadline (EXTENDED) June 20, 2007
Paper
acceptance notification: July 1, 2007
Conference October 15-18,
2007
Topics
o Speech signal coding and decoding;
multi-channel transmitted speech intelligibility; speech information
security
o Speech production and perception modeling
o Automatic
processing of multilingual, multimodal and multimedia information
o
Linguistic, para- and extralinguistic communicative strategies
o
Development and testing of automatic voice and speech systems for speaker
verification; speaker psychoemotional state and native language
identification
o Automatic speech recognition and understanding
systems
o Language and speech information processing systems for
robotechnics
o Automated translation systems
o New information
technologies for spoken language acquisition, development and learning
o Text-to-speech conversion systems
o Spoken and written natural
language corpora linguistics
o Multifunctional expert and information
retrieval systems
o Future of multi-purpose and anti-terrorist speech
technologies
PAPER SUBMISSION
The deadline for full paper
submission (4-6 pages) is April 25, 2007. Papers are to be sent by e-mail
to specom2007@mail.ru. All manuscripts must be in English. Please note
that the size of a single letter must not exceed 10 Megabytes (that is,
the total size of all the attached files should not be greater than 7
Megabytes to leave room for recoding operations performed by the e-mail
software). In case the paper files are larger than 7 Megabytes, it is
recommended to pack them into a split WinRar or WinZip archive and send
part by part in a series of letter.
All the papers will be reviewed by
an international scientific committee. Each author will be notified by
e-mail of the acceptance or rejection of her/his paper by May 30, 2007.
Minor updates of accepted papers will be allowed during May 30 - June 15,
2007.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
Submission of a paper or poster is
more likely to be accepted if it is original, innovative, and contributes
to the practice of worldwide scientific communication. Quality of work,
clarity and completeness of the submitted materials will be
considered.
REGISTRATION
Registration will be available at
the Conference on arrival. Early registration deadline: July 10, 2007. The
registration fees are planned to be approximately as follows:
Regular
500 EUR
Students/PG Students 200 EUR
NIS (New Independent States),
Regular 300 EUR
NIS, Students/PG Students 100 EUR
Russia, Regular
150 EUR
Russia, Students/PG Students (no Proceedings) Free Extra Copy
of Proceedings (hard copy) 20 EUR
Extra Proceedings CD/DVD 10
EUR
Information regarding accommodation costs will be available later.
All the registration and accommodation payments will be accepted in cash
during the registration procedure on arrival.
PAPER PREPARATION
GUIDELINES
In the following you will find guidelines for preparing
your full paper to SPECOM'07 electronically.
· To achieve the best
viewing experience both for the Proceedings and the CD (or DVD), we
strongly encourage you to use Times Roman font. This is needed in order to
give the Proceedings a uniform look. Please use the attached printable
version of this newsletter as a model.
· Authors are requested to
submit PDF files of their manuscripts, generated from the original
Microsoft Word sources. PDF files can be generated with commercially
available tools or with free software such as PDFCreator.
· Paper
Title - The paper title must be in boldface. All non-function words must
be capitalized, and all other words in the title must be lower case. The
paper title is centered.
· Authors' Names - The authors' names
(italicized) and affiliations (not italicized) appear centered below the
paper title.
· Abstract - Each paper must contain an abstract that
appears at the beginning of the paper.
· Major Headings - Major
headings are in boldface.
· Sub Headings - Sub headings appear like
major headings, except that they are in italics and not bold face.
·
References - Number and list all references at the end of the paper. The
references are numbered in order of appearance in the document. When
referring to them in the text, type the corresponding reference number in
square brackets as shown at the end of this sentence [1].
·
Illustrations - Illustrations must appear within the designated margins,
and must be positioned within the paper margins. Caption and number every
illustration. All half-tone or color illustrations must be clear when
printed in black and white. Line drawings must be made in black ink on
white paper.
· Do NOT include headers and footers. The page numbers,
session numbers and conference identification will be inserted
automatically in a post processing step, at the time of printing the
Proceedings.
· Apart from the paper in PDF format, authors can upload
multimedia files to illustrate their submission. Multimedia files can be
used to include materials such as sound files or movies. The proceedings
CD (DVD) will NOT contain readers or players, so only widely accepted file
formats should be used, such as MPEG, Windows WAVE PCM (.wav) or Windows
Media Video (.wmv), using only standard codecs to maximize compatibility.
Authors must ensure that they have sufficient author rights to the
material that they submit for publication. Archives (RAR, ZIP or ARJ
format) are allowed. The archives will be unpacked on the CD (DVD), so
that authors can refer to the file name of the multimedia illustration
from within their paper. The submitted files will be accessible from the
abstract card on the CD (DVD) and via a bookmark in the manuscript. We
advise to use SHORT but meaningful file names. The total unzipped size of
the multimedia files should be reasonable. It is recommended that they do
not exceed 32 Megabytes.
· Although no copyright forms are required,
the authors must agree that their contribution, when accepted, will be
archived by the Organizing Committee.
· Authors must proofread their
manuscripts before submission and they must proofread the exact files
which they submit.
POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Only electronic
presentations are accepted. PowerPoint presentations can be supplied on
CD, DVD, FD or USB Flash drives. Designated poster space will be wooden or
felt boards. The space allotted to one speaker will measure 100 cm (width)
x 122 cm (height). Posters will be attached to the boards using pushpins.
Pins will be provided. Thanks for following all of these instructions
carefully! If you have any questions or comments concerning the
submission, please don't hesitate to contact the conference organizers.
Please address all technical issues or questions regarding paper
submission or presentation to our technical assistant Nikolay Bobrov.
CFP IEEE ASRU 2007
Automatic Speech Recognition and
Understanding Workshop
The Westin Miyako Kyoto, Japan
December 9
-13, 2007
Conference
website
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 16, 2007
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. There is also a demonstration session, which has become
another highlight of the ASRU workshop. Demonstration proposals will be
handled separately. Please note that the submission dates for papers are
strict deadlines.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline
July 16, 2007
Paper acceptance/rejection notification September 3,
2007
Demonstration proposal deadline September 24, 2007
Workshop
advance registration deadline October 15, 2007
Workshop December 9-13,
2007
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
CfP-3rd International Conference on Large-scale Knowledge
Resources (LKR 2008)
3-5 March, 2008, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Tokyo Japan
Website
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Application of Large-scale",Tokyo Institute of
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knowledge, namely how to build, organize, maintain and utilize knowledge
are the central issues in a wide variety of fields. The 21st Century COE
program, "Framework for Systematization and Application of Large-scale
Knowledge Resources (COE-LKR)" conducted by Tokyo Institute of Technology
is one of the attempts to challenge these important issues. Inspired by
this project, LKR2008 aims at bringing together diverse contribution in
cognitive science, computer science, education and linguistics to explore
design, construction, extension, maintenance, validation, and application
of knowledge.
Topics of Interest to the conference
includes:
Infrastructure for Large-scale Knowledge
Grid
computing
Network computing
Software tools and development
environments
Database and archiving systems
Mobile and ubiquitous
computing
Systematization for Large-scale Knowledge
Language
resources
Multi-modal resources
Classification, Clustering
Formal
systems
Knowledge representation and ontology
Semantic
Web
Cognitive systems
Collaborative knowledge
Applications and
Evaluation of Large-scale Knowledge
Archives for science and
art
Educational media
Information access
Document
analysis
Multi-modal human interface
Web applications
Organizing
committee General conference chair: Furui, Sadaoki (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Program co-chairs: Ortega, Antonio (University of Southern
California)
Tokunaga, Takenobu (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Publication chair: Yonezaki, Naoki (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Publicity chair: Yokota, Haruo (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Local organizing chair: Shinoda, Koichi (Tokyo Institute of
Technology)
Submission
Since we are aiming at an
interdisciplinary conference covering wide range of topics concerning
large-scale knowledge resources, authors are requested to add general
introductory description in the beginning of the paper so that readers of
other research area can understand the importance of the work. Note that
one of the reviewers of each paper is assigned from other topic area to
see if this requirement is fulfilled.
There are two categories of paper
presentation: oral and poster. The category of the paper should be stated
at submission. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research
papers, in English, up to 12 pages for oral presentation and 4 pages for
poster presentation, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines
available at the Springer LNCS Web page. .
Details of the submission procedure will be announced later
on.
Reviewing
The reviewing of the papers will be blind and
managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of
Area Chairs and associated Program Committee Members. Final decisions on
the technical program will be made by a meeting of the Program Co-Chairs
and Area Chairs. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three
program committee members, and one of the reviewers is assigned from a
different topic area.
Publication
The conference proceedings
will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI), which will be available at the
conference.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: 30
August, 2007
Notification of acceptance: 10 October, 2007
Camera
ready papers due: 10 November, 2007
e-mail
correspondence
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
ICPhS 2007 Satellite Workshop on
Speaker Age
Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
August
4, 2007
Website
Submission
Deadline: April 15, 2007
SCOPE:
This workshop is dedicated to
current research on speaker age, a speaker-specific quality which is
always present in speech. Although researchers have investigated several
of aspects of speaker age, numerous questions remain, including (1) the
accuracy by which human listeners and automatic recognizers are able to
judge child and adult speaker age from speech samples of different types
and lengths, (2) the acoustic and perceptual features (and combination of
features) which contain the most important age-related information, and
(3) the optimal methods for extracting age-related features and
integrating speaker age into speech technology and forensic applications.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from
divergent backgrounds (e.g. forensics, phonetics, speech therapy and
speech technology) to share their expertise and results. Further
information can be found on the workshop website.
TOPICS:
The
topics cover, among others, the following issues:
- methods and tools
to identify acoustic correlates of speaker age
- systems which
automatically recognize (or estimate) speaker age
- studies on the
human perception of speaker age
- projects on the synthesis of speaker
age
SUBMISSION:
If you are interested in contributing to the
workshop, please send an extended abstract to both of the organizers Christian Mueller and Susanne Schotz by April 15,
2007. Contributions on work in progress are specifically encouraged. The
abstract does not have to be formatted. Feel free to send .doc, .pdf, .txt
or .tex files.
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
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
ParaLing'07: International workshop on "Paralinguistic speech
- between models and data"
Thursday 2 - Friday 3 August 2007
Saarbrücken, Germany
Workshop website
in
association with the 16th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences,//
Saarbrücken, Germany, 6-10 August 2007
Summary of the call for
participation
This two-day workshop is concerned with the general
area of paralinguistic speech, and will place special emphasis on attempts
to narrow the gap between "models" (usually built making strong
simplifying assumptions) and "real data" (usually showing a high degree of
complexity).
Papers are invited in a broad range of topics related to
paralinguistic speech. Papers can be submitted for oral or poster
presentation; acceptance for oral presentation is more likely for papers
that explicitly address the general theme of the workshop, i.e. "bridging"
issues.
There are at least two different versions of bridging: a weak
one and a strong one. The weak, more modest one aims at a better mutual
understanding, the strong one at profiting from each other's work. We do
not know yet whether after these two days, we really will be able to
profit from each other in our own work; however, we do hope that we will
have reached a level of mutual understanding that will make future
co-operation easier.
WORKSHOP THEME
Research on various
aspects of paralinguistic and extralinguistic speech has gained
considerable importance in recent years. On the one hand, models have been
proposed for describing and modifying voice quality and prosody related to
factors such as emotional states or personality. Such models often start
with high-intensity states (e.g., full-blown emotions) in clean lab
speech, and are difficult to generalise to everyday speech. On the other
hand, systems have been built to work with moderate states in real-world
data, e.g. for the recognition of speaker emotion, age, or gender. Such
models often rely on statistical methods, and are not necessarily based on
any theoretical models.
While both research traditions are obviously
valid and can be justified by their different aims, it seems worth asking
whether there is anything they can learn from each other. For example:
"Can models become more robust by incorporating methods used for dealing
with real-world data?"; "Can recognition rates be improved by including
ideas from theoretical models?"; "How would a database need to be
structured so that it can be used for both, research on model-based
synthesis and research on recognition?" etc.
While the workshop will be
open to any kind of research on paralinguistic speech, the workshop
structure will support the presentation and creation of cross-links in
several ways:
- papers with an explicit contribution to cross-linking
issues will stand a higher chance to be accepted as oral papers;
-
sessions and proceedings will include space for peer comments and answers
from authors;
- poster sessions will be organised around cross-cutting
issues rather than traditional research fields, where possible.
We
therefore encourage prospective participants to place their research into
a wider perspective. This can happen in many ways; as illustrations, we
outline two possible approaches.
1. In application-oriented research,
such as synthesis or recognition, a guiding principle could be the
requirements of the "ideal" application: for example, the recognition of
finely graded shades of emotions, for all speakers in all situations; or
fully natural-sounding synthesis with freely specifiable expressivity;
etc. This perspective is likely to highlight the hard problems of today's
state of the art, and a cross-cutting perspective may lead to innovative
approaches yielding concrete steps to reduce the distance towards the
"ideal".
2. A second illustration of attaining a wider perspective
would be to attempt to cross-link work in generative modelling (e.g.,
expressive speech synthesis) and analysis (e.g., recognition of
expressivity from speech). Researchers on generation are invited to
investigate the relevance of their work for analysis, and vice versa. What
methodologies, corpora or descriptive inventories exist that could be
shared between analysis and generation, or at least mapped onto each
other? If certain parameters have proven to be relevant in one area, to
what degree is it possible to transfer them to the other area? Issues of
relevance in this area may include, among other things, personalisation,
speaker dependency vs. independency, links between voice conversion in
synthesis and speaker calibration in (automatic) recognition or (human)
perception, etc.
TOPICS
Paper are invited in all areas
related to paralinguistic speech, including, but not limited, to the
following topics:
- prosody of paralinguistic speech
- voice quality
and paralinguistic speech
- synthesis of paralinguistic speech
(model-based, data-driven, ...)
- recognition/classification of
paralinguistic properties of speech
- analysis of paralinguistic speech
(acoustics, physiology, ...)
- assessment and perception of
paralinguistic speech
- typology of paralinguistic speech (emotion,
expression, attitude, physical states, ...)
While all papers must be
related to paralinguistic speech, papers making the link with a related
area, e.g. investigating the interaction of the speech signal with the
meaning of the verbal content, are explicitly welcome.
IMPORTANT
DATES
1st call for papers 1 December 2006
2nd call for papers 1
February 2007
Deadline for full-paper submission 23April (extended
deadline!)
Notification of acceptance 1 June
Final version of
accepted papers 15 June
Workshop 2-3 August 2007
LOCATION AND
REGISTRATION FEES
The workshop will take place at DFKI on the
campus of Saarland University, Germany; on the same campus, the
International Conference of Phonetic Sciences will take place during the
following week.
Workshop registration fees: To be calculated, but will
be around ~150 EUR
SUBMISSIONS
The workshop will consist of
oral and poster presentations. Submitted papers will stand a higher chance
of being accepted as oral presentations when the relevance to the workshop
theme is evident.
Final submissions should be 6 pages long, and must be
in English. Word+Latex+OpenOffice templates will be made available on the
workshop website.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Marc Schröder, DFKI
GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany
Anton Batliner, University of
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Christophe d'Alessandro, LIMSI, Paris,
France
eNTERFACE summer workshops
Bogazici University,
Istanbul, Turkey.
Website
These
4 week workshops, organized by the SIMILAR European Network of Excellence,
"aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and
development work by gathering, in a single place, a group of senior
project leaders, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, working
together on a pre-specified list of challenges". The two previous
workshops were held at Mons (05) and Dubrovnik (06), and ISCA was listed
as a sponsor in both organizations.
Prof. Murat Saraclar
>SSP 2007 - IEEE Statistical signal processing workshop
(SSP)
The Statistical Signal Processing (SSP) workshop, sponsored
by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, brings members of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society together with researchers from allied fields such as
statistics and bioinformatics. The scope of the workshop includes basic
theory, methods and algorithms, and applications of statistics in signal
processing.
Topics
Theoretical topics:
- Adaptive
systems and signal processing
- Monte Carlo methods
- Detection
and estimation theory
- Learning theory and pattern recognition
-
Multivariate statistical analysis
- System identification and
calibration
- Time-frequency and time-scale analysis
Application
areas:
- Bioinformatics and genomic signal processing
- Automotive
and industrial applications
- Array processing, radar, and sonar
-
Communication systems and networks
- Sensor networks
- Information
forensics and security
- Biosignal processing and medical imaging
-
New methods, directions, and applications
Date and venue
The
workshop will be held on August 26-29, 2007, in Madison, Wisconsin, a
vibrant city situated on a narrow isthmus between two large lakes. The
workshop will be co-located at the spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright inspired
Monona Terrace Convention Center. Plenary lecturers include:
- William
Freeman (MIT)
- Emmanuel Candes (Caltech)
- George Papanicolaou
(Stanford)
- Nir Friedman (Hebrew University)
- Richard Davidson
(Univ. of Wisconsin)
How to submit
Paper submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more
than three (3) pages including results, figures, and references. Papers
will be accepted only by electronic submission by EMAIL starting March 1, 2007.
Important
dates
Submission of 3-page extended summary: April 1,
2007
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2007
Submission of 5-page
camera-ready papers: July 1, 2007
The workshop will include a welcoming
reception, banquet, technical poster sessions, several special invited
sessions, and several plenary lectures.
Further information available
on conference web.
Speech and Audio Processing in Intelligent Environments
Special Session at Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium
Ambient
Intelligence (AmI) describes the vision of technology that is invisible,
embedded in our surroundings and present whenever we need it. Interacting
with it should be simple and effortless. The systems can think on their
own and can make our lives easier with subtle or no direction. Since the
early days of this computing and interaction paradigm speech has been
considered a major building block of AmI. The purpose of speech and audio
processing is twofold:
• Support of explicit interaction: Speech as an
input/output modality that facilitates the aforementioned simple and
effortless interaction, preferably in cooperation with other modalities
like gesture.
• Support of implicit interaction: Speech, and acoustic
signals in general, as a source of context information which provide
valuable information, such as “who speaks when and where”, to be utilized
in systems that are context-aware, personalized, adaptive, or even
anticipatory.
Goal
The goal of this special session is to
give an overview of major achievements, but also to highlight major
challenges. Does state-of-the-art of speech and audio processing meet the
high expectations expressed in the scenarios of AmI, will it ever do? We
would also like to address in this special session what are the
perspectives and promising concepts for the future. The session will
consist of an introduction in the form of a short tutorial, followed by
the presentation of contributed papers and the session will conclude with
a panel discussion.
Submission
Researchers who are interested
in contributing to this special session are invited to submit a paper
according to the regular submission procedure of INTERSPEECH 2007, and to
select “Speech and Audio Processing in Intelligent Environments” as the
topic of their first choice. The paper submission deadline is March 23,
2007.
Topics
The subjects to be covered include, but are not
restricted to:
- Speech and audio processing for context acquisition
(e.g. online speaker change detection and tracking, acoustic scene
analysis, audio partitioning and labelling)
- Ubiquitous speech
recognition (e.g. ASR with distant microphones, distributed speech
recognition)
- Context-aware and personalized speech processing (e.g.
in spoken dialogue processing, acoustic and language modelling)
-
Speech processing for intelligent systems (e.g. descriptions of
prototypes, projects)
Contacts
Session organizers:
Prof. Dr. Reinhold
Haeb-Umbach
Department of Communications Engineering
University
of Paderborn, Germany
Prof. Dr.
Zheng-Hua Tan
Department of Electronic Systems
Aalborg
University, Denmark
The 2007 International Workshop on Intelligent Systems
and Smart Home (WISH-07)
Conference webite
Niagara
Falls, Canada, August 28-September 1, 2007
In Conjunction with The 5th
International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and
Applications (ISPA-07) http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ispa07/
Workshop
Overview
Smart Home Environments (SHE) are emerging rapidly as an
exciting new paradigm including ubiquitous, grid, and peer-to-peer
computing to provide computing and communication services any time and
anywhere. Our workshop is intended to foster the dissemination of
state-of-the-art research in the area of SHE including intelligent system,
security services, business models, and novel applications associated with
its utilization. The goal of this Workshop is to bring together the
researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share
ideas, problems and solutions relating to all aspects of intelligent
systems and smart home.
We invite authors to submit papers on any
aspect of intelligence systems / smart home research and practice. All
papers will be peer reviewed, and those accepted for the workshop will be
included in a proceedings volume published by
Springer-Verlag.
Workshop Topics (include but are not limited to
the following)
I. Intelligent Systems
- Ubiquitous and Artificial
Intelligent
- Environment sensing / understanding
- Information
retrieval and enhancement
- Intelligent data analysis and e-mail
processing
- Industrial applications of AI
- Knowledge acquisition,
engineering, discovery and representation
- Machine learning and
translation
- Mobile / Wearable intelligence
- Natural language
processing
- Neural networks and intelligent databases
- Data mining
and Semantic web
- Computer-aided education
- Entertainment
-
Metrics for evaluating intelligent systems
- Frameworks for integrating
AI and data mining
II. Smart Home
- Wireless sensor networks (WSN) /
RFID application for SH
- Smart Space (Home, Building, Office)
applications and services
- Smart Home network middleware and
protocols
- Context Awareness for Smart Home Services
- Multimedia
Security and Services in SH
- Security Issues for SHE
- Access
control and Privacy Protection in SH
- Forensics and Security Policy in
SH
- WSN / RFID Security in SH
- Commercial and industrial system
& application for SH
Important Dates
Paper Submission
deadline March 31, 2007
Acceptance notification May 21,
2007
Camera-ready due June 01, 2007
Workshop date August
28th-September 1th, 2007
Organization
* Steering
Co-Chairs
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University,
Canada
Minyi Guo, University of Aizu, Japan
* General
Co-chairs
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung
Hua University, Taiwan
Jong
Hyuk Park Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea * Program Co-chairs
Cho-Li Wang The University of Hong
Kong, Hong Kong
Gang Pan Zhijiang
University, China
Proceeding & Special Issue
The workshop
proceedings will be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS).
Papers not exceed 12 pages with free layout style should be
submitted through the
website. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment
that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register
and attend the conference. Otherwise papers will be removed from the LNCS
digital library. A selection of the best papers will be published in a
special issue of Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) and International
Journal of Smart Home (IJSH), respectively.
Contact
For
further information regarding the WISH-07 and paper submission, please
contact ASWAN '07 Cyber-chair or Prof. Hsu.
Special session at Interspeech 2007: Novel techniques for
the NATO non-native military air traffic controller database
(nn-matc)
Following a series of special interest sessions and
(satellite) workshops, at Lisbon (1995), Leusden (NL, 1999) and Aalborg
(2001), the NATO research task group on speech and language technology,
RTO IST031-RTG013, organizes a special session at Interspeech 2007. After
having studied various aspects of speech in noise, speech under stress,
and non-native speech, the research task group has been studying the
effects of all of these factors on various speech technologies.
To this
end, the task group has collected a corpus of military Air Traffic Control
communication in Belgian air space. This speech material consists
predominantly of non-native English speech, under varying noise and
channel conditions. The database has been annotated at several
levels:
* word transcriptions, which allow research to be conducted on
automatic speech recognition and named entity extraction,
* Speaker
turns, identified by call signs, allowing for research in speaker
recognition and clustering and tracking of conversations.
The database
consists of 16 hours of training speech, plus one hour of development and
evaluation test sets.
The NATO research task group is making this
annotated speech database available for speech researchers, who want to
develop novel algorithms for this challenging material. These new
algorithms could include noise-robust speaker recognition, robust speaker
and accent adaptation for ASR, and context driven named entity detection.
In order to facilitate a common task, we have written a suggested test and
evaluation plan to guide researchers. At the special session we will
discuss research results on this common data set.
More information on
the special session, the database and the evaluation plan can be found on
the web-site
Submission
Researchers
who are interested in contributing to this special session are invited to
submit a paper according to the regular submission procedure of
INTERSPEECH 2007, and to select `Novel techniques for the NATO non-native
Air Traffic Control database' in the special session field of the paper
submission form. The paper submission deadline is March 23,
2007.
Contact
Session organizer: David van Leeuwen
TNO Human
Factors
P. O. Box 23
3769 ZG Soesterberg
The Netherlands
Structure-Based and Template-Based Automatic Speech
Recognition - Comparing parametric and non-parametric
approaches
Special Session at INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp,
Belgium
While hidden Markov modeling (HMM) has been the dominant
technology for acoustic modeling in automatic speech recognition today,
many of its weaknesses have also been well known and they have become the
focus of much intensive research. One prominent weakness in current HMMs
is the handicap in representing long-span temporal dependency in the
acoustic feature sequence of speech, which, nevertheless, is an essential
property of speech dynamics. The main cause of this handicap is the
conditional IID (Independent and Identical Distribution) assumption
inherit in the HMM formalism. Furthermore, in the standard HMM approach
the focus is on verbal information. However, experiments have shown that
non-verbal information also plays an important role in human speech
recognition which the HMM framework has not attempted to address directly.
Numerous approaches have been taken over the past dozen years to address
the above weaknesses of HMMs. These approaches can be broadly classified
into the following two categories.
The first, parametric,
structure-based approach establishes mathematical models for stochastic
trajectories/segments of speech utterances using various forms of
parametric characterization, including polynomials, linear dynamic
systems, and nonlinear dynamic systems embedding hidden structure of
speech dynamics. In this parametric modeling framework, systematic speaker
variation can also be satisfactorily handled. The essence of such a
hidden-dynamic approach is that it exploits knowledge and mechanisms of
human speech production so as to provide the structure of the multi-tiered
stochastic process models. A specific layer in this type of models
represents long-range temporal dependency in a parametric form.
The
second, non-parametric and template-based approach to overcoming the HMM
weaknesses involves direct exploitation of speech feature trajectories
(i.e., 'template') in the training data without any modeling assumptions.
Due to the dramatic increase of speech databases and computer storage
capacity available for training, as well as the exponentially expanded
computational power, non-parametric methods using the traditional pattern
recognition techniques of kNN (k-nearest-neighbor decision rule) and DTW
(dynamic time warping) have recently received substantial attention. Such
template-based methods have also been called exemplar-based or data-driven
techniques in the literature.
The purpose of this special session is to
bring together researchers who have special interest in novel techniques
that are aimed at overcoming weaknesses of HMMs for acoustic modeling in
speech recognition. In particular, we plan to address issues related to
the representation and exploitation of long-range temporal dependency in
speech feature sequences, the incorporation of fine phonetic detail in
speech recognition algorithms and systems, comparisons of pros and cons
between the parametric and non-parametric approaches, and the computation
resource requirements for the two approaches.
This special session will
start with an oral presentation in which an introduction of the topic is
provided, a short overview of the issues involved, directions that have
already been taken, and possible new approaches. At the end there will be
a panel discussion, and in between the contributed papers will be
presented.
. Session organizers:
Li Deng
Helmer Strik
Information about this
special session can also be found at the Interspeech
Website
or at the Special
session website
2007 Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems
(YRRSDS)
(Interspeech 2007 Satellite Event)
Website
Antonio Roque - PhD student, USC/ICT -
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~aroque/
Machine Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Special Session
at INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, Belgium
Submission deadline: 23rd
March
Interspeech 2007
website
During the last decade, research in the field of Spoken
Dialogue Systems (SDS) has experienced increasing growth. Yet the design
and optimization of SDS does not simply involve combining speech and
language processing systems such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR),
parsers, Natural Language Generation (NLG), and Text-to-Speech (TTS)
synthesis. It also requires the development of dialogue strategies taking
into account the performances of these subsystems, the nature of the
dialogue task (e.g. form filling, tutoring, robot control, or search), and
the user's behaviour (e.g. cooperativeness, expertise). Currently,
statistical learning techniques are emerging for training and optimizing
speech recognition, parsing, and generation in SDS, depending on
representations of context. Automatic learning of optimal dialogue
strategies is also a leading research topic.
Among machine learning
techniques for dialogue strategy optimization, Reinforcement Learning
using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially Observable MDP
(POMDPs) has become a particular focus. One concern for such approaches is
the development of appropriate dialogue corpora for training and
testing.
Dialogue simulation is often required to expand existing
corpora and so spoken dialogue simulation has become a research field in
its own right. Other areas of interest are statistical approaches in
context-sensitive speech recognition, trainable NLG, and statistical
parsing for dialogue.
The purpose of this special session is to offer
the opportunity to the international community concerned with these topics
to share ideas and have constructive discussions in a single, focussed,
special conference session.
Submission
instructions
Researchers who are interested in contributing to this
special session are invited to submit a paper according to the regular
submission procedure of INTERSPEECH 2007, and to select "Machine Learning
for Spoken Dialogue Systems" in the special session field of the paper
submission form. The paper submission deadline is March 23, 2007.
The
subjects to be covered include, but are not restricted to:
*
Reinforcement Learning of dialogue strategies
* Partially Observable
MDPs in dialogue strategy optimization
* Statistical parsing in
dialogue systems
* Machine learning and context-sensitive speech
recognition
* Learning and NLG in dialogue
* User simulation
techniques for strategy learning and testing
* Corpora and annotation
for machine learning approaches to SDS
* Machine learning for
multimodal interaction
* Evaluation of statistical approaches in
SDS
Contact
Session organizers:
Oliver Lemon, Edinburgh
University School of Informatics
Olivier Pietquin SUPELEC - Metz Campus
IMS Research Group Metz
Speech and language technology for
less-resourced languages
Two-hour Special Session at INTERSPEECH
2007, Antwerp, Belgium
Interspeech website
Special
Session website
Speech and language technology researchers who work
on less-resourced languages often have very limited access to funding,
equipment and software.
This makes it all the more important for them
to come together to share best practice, in order to avoid a duplication
of effort. This special session will therefore be devoted to speech and
language technology for less-resourced languages.
In view of the
limited resources available to the targeted researchers, there will be a
particular emphasis on "free" software, which may be either open-source or
closed-source. However, submissions are also invited from those using
commercial software.
Topics may include (but are not limited to) the
following:
* Examples of systems built using free or purpose-built
software (possibly with demonstrations).
* Presentations of bugs in
free software, and strategies for dealing with them.
* Presentations of
additions and enhancements made to the software by a research group.
*
Presentations of linguistic challenges for a particular less-resourced
language.
* Descriptions of desired features for possible future
implementation.
Submission
Researchers who are interested in
contributing to this special session are invited to submit either a paper
or a demo or both, as follows.
1. Papers can be submitted by proceeding
according to the regular submission procedure of Interspeech 2007 and
selecting "Speech and language technology for less-resourced languages" as
the topic of your first choice. The paper submission deadline is March 23,
2007.
2. We offer a light submission procedure for demos. (Please note:
unlike regular papers, texts submitted with a demo will NOT be published
in the proceedings, but will be made available for download from the SALTMIL website ). In this case,
please submit a short description of the system demonstrated, the demo,
required materials for the demo, and references, to the first of the
session organisers (see below) and to special_sessions@interspeech2007.org
before April 27, 2007. Demo submission texts should be formatted in
accordance with the Interspeech 2007 author kit, and should be between 1
and 4 pages in length.
Session organisers
Dr Briony
Williams
Language Technologies Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr, University of
Wales, Bangor, UK Email: b.williams@bangor.ac.uk
Dr Mikel
Forcada
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informrtics, Universitat
d'Alacant, E-03071 Alacant, Spain Email: mlf@dlsi.ua.es
Dr Kepa
Sarasola
Dept of Computer Languages, Univ of the Basque Country, PK 649
20080 Donostia, Basque Country, Spain Email:
ksarasola@si.ehu.es
Important dates
Four-page paper deadline:
March 23, 2007
Demo submission deadline: April 27, 2007
Notification
of acceptance: May 25, 2007
Early registration deadline: June 22, 2007
Main Interspeech conference: August 28-31, 2007
SYNTHESIS OF SINGING challenge
Special Session at
INTERSPEECH 2007, Antwerp, Belgium
Tuesday afternoon, August 28,
2007
Webpage > Special
Sessions > Synthesis of Singing Challenge
Organized by Gerrit
Bloothooft, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Singing is perhaps the
most expressive usage of human voice and speech. An excellent singer,
whether in classical opera, musical, pop, folk music, or any other style,
can express a message and emotion so intensely that it moves and delights
a wide audience. Synthesizing singing may be considered therefore as the
ultimate challenge to our understanding and modeling of human voice. In
this two hours interactive special session of INTERSPEECH 2007 on
synthesized singing, we hope to present an enjoyable demonstration of the
current state of the art, and we challenge you to
contribute!
Topics
The session will be special in many
ways:
* Participants have to submit a composition of their own choice,
and they have to produce their own version of a compulsory musical
score.
* During the special session, each participant will be allowed
to demonstrate the free and compulsory composition, with additional
explanation.
* The contribution will be commented by a panel consisting
of synthesis experts and singers, and the audience.
* Evaluative
statements will be voted for by everyone, if possible by a voting box
system.
* The most preferred system will be allowed to play the
demonstration during the closing session of the
conference.
Submission
If you are interested to join the
challenge, you are invited to submit a paper on your system and to include
an example composition of your own choice (in .wav format) within the
regular submission procedure of INTERSPEECH 2007, and to select "Synthesis
of Singing Challenge" for Special Session. The deadline is March 23,
2007.
We also offer a light submission procedure that will not result
in a regular peer reviewed paper in the Proceedings. In that case you can
submit the composition of your own choice in .wav format /to the session
organizer/ (see below) before April 27, 2007. See the website for more
details.
The composition may have a maximum duration of two minutes; no
accompaniment is allowed. There are no restrictions with respect to the
synthesis method used, which may range from synthesis of singing by rule,
articulatory modelling, sinusoidal modelling, unit selection, to voice
conversion (include the original in your two minutes demo as well).
All
accepted contributors (notification on May 25) will be required to produce
their own version of a musical score published by July 1, 2007. The
corresponding sound file should be sent as a .wav file /to the session
organizer/ (see below) before August 21,
2007.
Contact
Session organiser:
Gerrit Bloothooft
UiL-OTS,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Webpage > Special Sessions
> Synthesis of Singing Challenge
Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive
Environments
(in conjunction with ACM Mobile HCI
'07)
Singapore
September 9, 2007
Website
Organisers
* Amit A. Nanavati, IBM India Research Laboratory,
India.
* Nitendra Rajput, IBM India Research Laboratory, India.
*
Alexander I. Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
* Markku
Turunen, University of Tampere, Finland.
Programme
Committee
* Abeer Alwan, UCLA, USA.
* Peter Boda, Nokia Research
Center, Finland.
* Nick Campbell, ATR, Japan.
* Nobuo Hataoka,
Tohuko Inst. of Tech., Japan.
* Matt Jones, Swansea University,
UK.
* Gary Marsden, Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa.
* David
Pearce, Motorola, UK.
* Shrikanth S. Narayanan, USC, USA.
* Yaxin
Zhang, Motorola, China.
Theme
Traditionally, voice-based
applications have been accessed using unintelligent telephone devices
through Voice Browsers that reside on the server. The proliferation of
pervasive devices and the increase in their processing capabilities,
client-side speech processing is emerging as a viable alternative. As in
SiMPE 2006, we will further explore the various possibilities and issue s
that arise while enabling speech processing on resource-constrained,
possibly mobile devices.
In particular, this year's theme will be SiMPE
for developing regions. There are three compelling reasons for
this:
(1) The penetration of mobile phone in emerging economies,
(2)
The importance of speech for semi-literate and illiterate users, an
d,
(3) The completely novel HCI issues that arise when the target
populati on is not tech savvy.
The workshop will highlight the many
open areas that require research attention, identify key problems that
need to be addressed, and also discuss a few approaches for solving some
of them --- not only to build the next generation of conversational
systems, but also help create the next generation of IT users, thus
extending the benefits of technology to a much wider
populace.
Topics of Interest
All areas that enable, optimise
or enhance Speech in mobile and pervasi ve environments and devices.
Possible areas include, but are not restricte d to: * Speech
interfaces/applications for Developing Regions
* Multilingual Speech
Recognition
* Robust Speech Recognition in Noisy and
Resource-constrained Environm ents
* Memory/Energy Efficient
Algorithms
* Multimodal User Interfaces for Mobile Devices
*
Protocols and Standards for Speech Applications
* Distributed Speech
Processing
* Mobile Application Adaptation and Learning
*
Prototypical System Architectures
* User Modelling
Intended
Audience
This cross-disciplinary burgeoning area requires that the
people from various disciplines -- speech, mobile applications, user
interface design, solutions for emerging economies -- meet and discuss the
way forward. It would be particularly relevant and interesting to have
lively discussions betwee n the two communities -- researchers working on
technologies for developing regions and those working on SiMPE areas. We
hope that a fruitful collaboration will take place: the former will
articulate the needs of the population for the latter to address and
jointly solve.
SiMPE 2006 was a common meeting ground to bring together
small isolated groups of people working in SiMPE-related areas. To
continue exchanges further beyond SiMPE 2006, we created the SiMPE wiki,
which currently has 27 participants. A follow-up in SiMPE 2007 will
further strengthen this community and pa ve the way for more fruitful
exchanges and collaborations. The focus on develo ping regions and its
relevance to SiMPE is timely and compelling.
Submissions
We
invite position papers (upto 8 pages - shorter papers are also welco me).
Electronic submission is required. Submissions should be formatted
according to ACM SIG style. All submissions should be in PDF (preferred)
or Postscript format. If any of these requirements is a problem for you,
please feel free to contact the workshop organisers.
We also welcome
participation without paper submission.
Position papers must be
submitted via the conference submission web site.
We are in the
process of trying to publish the proceedings of the workshop as a special
issue. For any comments regarding submissions and participation,
contact ,or website
Key
Dates
* Position Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2007 (11:59 PM
Singapore Time)
* Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2007
* Early
Registration Deadline: July 31, 2007
* Workshop: 8:45AM -- 5:00PM,
September 9, 2007.
Websites
* SiMPE Workshop
*
ACM Mobile HCI '07
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND KNOWLEDGE
REPRESENTATION FOR eLEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Borovets,
Bulgaria
September 26, 2007
Workshop site
RANLP'2007
site
AIMS
Several initiatives have been launched in the
area of Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Knowledge
Representation both at the national and international level aiming at the
development of resources and tools. Unfortunately, there are few
initiatives that integrate these results within eLearning. The situation
is slightly better with respect to the results achieved within Knowledge
Representation since ontologies are being developed which describe not
only the content of the learning material but crucially also its context
and the structure. =46urthermore, knowledge representation techniques and
natural language processing play an important role in improving the
adaptivity of learning environments even though they are not fully
exploited yet. On the other hand, eLearning environments constitute
valuable scenarios to demonstrate the maturity of computational linguistic
methods as well as of natural language technologies and tools. This kind
of task-based evaluation of resources, methods and tools is a crucial
issue for the further development of language and information technology.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss:
*the use of language and
knowledge resources and tools in eLearning;
* requirements on natural
language resources, standards, and applications originating in eLearning
activities and environments;
* the expected added value of natural
language resources and technology to learning environments and the
learning process;
* strategies and methods for the task based
evaluation of Natural Language Processing applications.
The workshop
will bring together computational linguists, language resources
developers, knowledge engineers, researchers involved in
technology-enhanced learning as well as developers of eLearning material,
ePublishers and eLearn ing practitioners. It will provide a forum for
interaction among members of di=0Berent research communities, and a means
for attendees to increase their knowledge and understanding of the
potential of computational resources in
eLearning.
TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
* ontology modelling in the eLearning domain;
* Natural
Language Processing techniques for supplying metadata for learning objects
on a (semi)-automatic basis, e.g. for the automatic extraction of key
terms and their definitions;
* techniques for summarization of
discussion threads and support of discourse coherence in eLearning;
*
improvements on (semantic, cross-lingual) search methods to in learning
environments;
* techniques of matching the semantic representation of
learning objects with the users knowledge in order to support personalized
and adaptive learning;
* adaptive information filtering and retrieval
(content-based filtering and retrieval, collaborative filtering)
*
intelligent tutoring (curriculum sequencing, intelligent solution analysis
, problem solving support)
* intelligent collaborative learning
(adaptive group formation and peer help, adaptive
collaboration)
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions by young
researchers are especially welcomed.
* Format. Authors are invited to
submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this
workshop. Papers should be submitted as a PDF file, formatted according to
the RANLP 2007 stylefiles and not exceeding 8 pages. The RANLP 2007
stylefiles are available at: http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/submissions.htm
*
Demos. Submission of demos are also welcome. Papers submitted as demo
should not exceed 4 pages and should describe extensively the system to be
presented.
* Submission procedure. Submission of papers will be
handled using the START system, through the RANLP Conference. Specific
submission guidelines will be posted on the workshop site shortly.
*
Reviewing. Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the
Program Committee.
* Accepted papers policy. Accepted papers will be
published in the workshop proceedings. By submitting a paper at the
workshop the authors agree that, in case the paper is accepted for
publication, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop; all
workshop participants are expected to pay the RANLP-2007 workshop
registration fee.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline:
June 15, 2007
Paper acceptance notification: July 25,
2007
Camera-ready papers due: August 31, 2007
Workshop date:
September 26, 2007
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote speakers will be
announced shortly before the workshop.
ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE
Paola Monachesi University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Lothar Lemnitzer University of Tuebingen, Germany
Cristina Vertan
University of Hamburg, Germany
CONTACT
Dr. Cristina
Vertan
Natural Language Systems Division
Computer Science
Department
University of Hamburg
Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30
22527
Hamburg GERMANY
Tel. 040 428 83 2519
Fax. 040 428 83
2515
http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~cri
International Conference: "Where Do Come From ?
Phonological Primitives in the Brain, the Mouth, and the Ear"
Universite Paris-Sorbonne (1, rue Victor Cousin 75230 Paris
cedex)
Website
Deadline:
May 6, 2007!
Speech sounds are made up of atomic units termed
"distinctive features", "p honological features" or "phonetic features",
according to the researcher. These units, which have achieved a notable
success in the domain of phonolo gical description, may also be central to
the cognitive encoding of speech, which allows the variability of the
acoustic signal to be related to a sma ll number of categories relevant
for the production and perception of spoke n languages. In spite of the
fundamental role that features play in current linguistics, current
research continues to raise many basic questions conc erning their
cognitive status, their role in speech production and percepti on, the
relation they have to measurable physical properties in the articul atory
and acoustic/auditory domains, and their role in first and second lan
guage acquisition. The conference will bring together researchers working
i n these and related areas in order to explore how features originate and
ho w they are cognitively organized and phonetically implemented. The aim
is t o assess the progress made and future directions to take in this
interdisci plinary enterprise, and to provide researchers and graduate
students from d iverse backgrounds with a stimulating forum for
discussion.
How to submit
Authors are invited to submit an
anonymous two-page abstract (in English or French) by April 30, 2007 to Rachid Ridouane , accompanied
by a separate page stating name(s) of author(s), contact information, and
a pref erence for oral paper vs. poster presentation. Contributions
presenting new experimental results are particularly welcome. Notification
e-mails will b e sent out by June 15, 2007. Publication of selected papers
is envisaged.
Topics
Conference topics include, but are not
limited to:
Phonetic correlates of distinctive
features
Acoustic-articulatory modeling of features
Quantal
definitions of distinctive features
Role of subglottal and/or
side-cavity resonances in defining feature boundaries
Auditory/acoustic
cues to acoustic feature correlates
Visual cues to distinctive
features
Within- and across-language variability in feature realizati
on
Enhancement of weak feature contrasts
Phonological features and
speech motor commands
Features and the mental lexicon
Neurological
representation of features
Features in early and later language
acquisition
Features in the perception and acquisition of non-native
lan guages
Features in speech disorders
The two-day conference
(October 4-5, 2007) will consist of four invited tal ks, four half-day
sessions of oral presentations (30 minutes including disc ussion), and one
or two poster sessions.
Important dates
April 30, 2007
Submission deadline
June 15, 2007 Acceptance notification
date
October 4-5, 2007 Conference venue
Organizers
Rachid
Ridouane (Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology, Paris)
Nick Clements
(Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology, Paris)
Contact
Rachid Ridouane
Ce
colloque est finance par le Ministere Delegue Francais de la la Recherche
sous le programme "Action Concertee Incitative PROSODIE " (Programme de
soutien dans l'innovation et l'excellence en sciences humai nes et
sociales).
3rd Language and Technology Conference (LTC2007): 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.
IMPORTANT
DATES
Deadline for submission of papers for review - May 20,
2007
Acceptance/Rejection notification - June 15, 2007
Submission
of final versions of accepted papers. - July 15, 2007
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
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:
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15
June 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
PREMIER APPEL POUR JEP/TALN/RECITAL 2008 - Avignon France
JEP-TALN-RECITAL'08
- XXVIIemes Journees d'Etude sur la Parole
(JEP'08)
- 15eme conference sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues
Naturelles (TALN'08)
- 10eme Rencontre des Etudiants Chercheurs en
Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues
(RECITAL'08)
Universite d'Avignon et des Pays de
Vaucluse
Avignon du 9 au 13 Juin 2008
Site
web
CALENDRIER
Date limite de soumission: 11 fevrier
2008
Notification aux auteurs: 28 mars 2008
Conference: 9-13 juin
2008
Organise par le LIA (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon),
JEP-TALN-RECITAL'08 regroupe la 27eme edition des Journees d'Etude sur la
Parole (JEP'08), la 15eme edition de la conference sur le Traitement
Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'08) et la 10eme edition des
Rencontres des Etudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement
Automatique des Langues (RECITAL'08).
Pour la troisieme fois, apres
Nancy en 2002 et Fes en 2004, l'AF CP (Association Francophone pour la
Communication Parlee) et l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement
Automatique des Langues) organisent conjointement leur principale
conference afin de reunir en un seul lieu les deux communautes du
traitement de la langue orale et ecrite.
Les sessions plenieres seront
communes aux trois conferences ainsi qu'une session orale
thematique.
Des appels a communication precisant les themes ainsi que
les modalites de soumission pour chaque conference suivront ce premier
appel.
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