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Dear Members,
During the last month, I sent several unusual messages from ISCA
at the risk of bothering some members.
They were justified by the importance of the events.
The speech community lost two prominent members:
First Candace Kamm who was active in speech research
at AT&T Bell Labs and
at Bellcore, and more recently was Director of Research at FX Palo Alto Laboratory,
was the victim of a terrible disease; she died last November.
More recently, Peter Ladefoged died
in London
on his way back from India. You will find below an obituary signed by Pat Keating
and Dani Bird from UCLA.
ISCA is quite proud that its international coverage is broadening as demonstrated by the
organization of MULTILING in Stellenbosch (South Africa): we thought that this ITRW
deserved a special message to you.
In this February issue, we begin a new section devoted to our Special Interest Groups (SIG's)
activity. All SIG's are invited to send me short reports on or links to their activities.
They will be published in ISCApad next issue.
I remind all members to inform our secretariat or myself if they plan to
change their email or affiliation in order ISCA will not lose its members
and will be able to contact them via ISCApad.
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
Peter Ladefoged: an obituary by Pat Keating,
with help from Dani Byrd
Peter Ladefoged was born on Sept.17, 1925, in Sutton, Surrey, England. He attended Haileybury from 1938 to 1943, and Caius College Cambridge from 1943 to 1944. His university education was then interrupted by his war service in the Royal Sussex Regiment from 1944 to 1947. He resumed his education at the University of Edinburgh, where he received an MA in 1951 and a PhD in 1959. At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet. Peter's dissertation was on The Nature of Vowel Quality, specifically on the cardinal vowels and their articulatory vs. auditory basis. At the same time, he began important research projects with Donald Broadbent, Walter Lawrence, M. Draper, and D. Witteridge, with his first publications appearing in 1956. His 1957 paper with Donald Broadbent, "Information conveyed by vowels", was particularly influential. In 1953, he married Jenny MacDonald; he told her that if she married him they would travel to every continent.
In 1959-60 Peter taught in Nigeria, and thus began his lifelong commitment to instrumental phonetic fieldwork. He returned to Africa in 1961-62 to do the work that resulted in A Phonetic Study of West African Languages. Peter himself wrote in its introduction, "I do not know of any previous attempt to use data provided by palatograms, linguagrams, casts of the mouth, photographs of the lips and spectrograms all of the same utterance, supplemented by tracings of cine-radiology films and pressure and flow recordings of similar utterances of the same word"; and this was for 61 languages! Ian Maddieson has noted that nothing like it has been done since.
When not in Africa, Peter was teaching at Edinburgh. After summer research visits at the Royal Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan, the Ladefogeds decided to move to America permanently. Peter joined the UCLA English Department in 1962, and in 1966 he moved to the newly-formed Linguistics Department . He established, and directed until 1991, the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory , which became the most prominent linguistic phonetics laboratory in the world.
Not long after he arrived at UCLA, he was asked to work as the phonetics consultant for the 1964 movie My Fair Lady. He advised on equipping Henry Higgins's phonetics lab, he made all the phonetic transcriptions seen on-screen, and it is his voice heard producing the vowel sounds. A picture of him on the movie set is on the UCLA Phonetics Lab's home page , and Peter gave a multimedia lecture about his experience to the UCLA Friends of Linguistics in Spring 2004.
During his career Peter became a world-wide field linguist, visiting Nigeria, Botswana, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Senegal, India, Yemen, Papua New Guinea, Nepal, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Korea, Scotland, the Aleutians, and China . Much of Peter's fieldwork remains unique to this day. Many data collection and analytic techniques in the field were originated or refined by Peter (and often tried out on himself). His instantly-classic 1996 Sounds of the World's Languages (with Ian Maddieson) summarized his knowledge of all the sounds he had studied and remains the definitive reference work. Ian Maddieson summarized this aspect of Peter's career in this way: "Among many distinctive contributions to phonetics by Peter Ladefoged is an insistence on the immense diversity of phonetic phenomena in the languages of the world, particularly at the segmental level. (...) Perhaps more than any other phonetician he has always expected to find surprises, and has gone to far corners of the world in search of them." [from his 2005 Acoustical Society presentation; punctuation added].
Peter loved laboratory phonetics, and instrumental analysis was always a key component of his fieldwork. Earlier in his career, the instruments were back home in the Phonetics Lab, but later he brought the lab to the field. His 2003 book Phonetic Data Analysis: An introduction to phonetic fieldwork and instrumental techniques teaches other linguists his methods. But his laboratory interests went beyond recording sounds of the world's languages. He studied speech production in English speakers, from the electromyography of speech respiration to tongue positions of vowels to articulatory-acoustic modeling. And throughout his career he was interested in speech technology, especially speech synthesis. He also consulted on many cases of forensic speaker identification.
Fieldwork on little-studied sounds and instrumental laboratory phonetics were two cornerstones of Peter's career. The third was linguistic phonetic theory. The ultimate aim of his studies of the world's sounds was to understand what sounds are possible in languages. His particular passion was the theory of phonetic features for representing phonological contrasts: what features should be proposed in order to distinguish all the contrasts of the world's languages? Should these features be articulatory or auditory or some of each? A related concern was the International Phonetic Alphabet: Peter instigated its expansion in the early 1990s to include symbols for more sounds, he oversaw the preparation and publication of a new Handbook describing the principles behind the alphabet, and he worked to ensure that computer fonts of the alphabet would be widely available. The current vibrant state of the IPA is part of Peter's legacy.
Over his career, he produced 10 books and over 140 other publications. Among the books not mentioned above are Elements of acoustic phonetics (2 editions), Preliminaries to linguistic phonetics, and Vowels and consonants (2 editions). He was working on "Representing linguistic phonetic structure" in 2006.
Peter was also a dedicated and successful teacher. His classroom teaching at UCLA, from introductory linguistics to advanced graduate courses, was always exemplary. His 20 PhD students included such influential figures as Vicki Fromkin, John Ohala, Ian Maddieson, Louis Goldstein, and Cathe Browman. His textbook A Course in Phonetics, which recently released its fifth edition, is the standard in phonetics. It has been one of the most successful textbooks in the field of linguistics, having trained multiple generations of linguists. It draws on his extensive fieldwork experience and has shown generations of students the richness of linguistic sounds. Peter developed computer-based teaching materials for this and other courses, materials now used on-line all over the world. He valued the daily interactions in the Phonetics Lab as an important aspect of his mentoring. In Ian Maddieson's words, "Peter's legacies include more than his writing - they include the development of a teaching style and the creation of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory. As Peter put it in the career summary on his website, "For me, the people mattered more than the equipment". Peter created a lab that remains a model of camaraderie, intellectual challenge and pragmatism."
Among the ways in which his contributions have been honored by colleagues are: a 1972 Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCLA Alumni Association; the 1985 Festschrift edited by Vicki Fromkin, Phonetic Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Peter Ladefoged for his 60th Birthday; the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences Faculty Award in 1991; the Gold Medal at the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences; a D. Lit. degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1993; the Silver Medal in Speech Communication of the Acoustical Society of America in 1994; a Doctor of Science degree from Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh in 2002; and the special session "Phonetic Linguistics: Honoring the contributions of Peter Ladefoged" at the October 2005 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. He was president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1978, and of the International Phonetic Association in 1985.
Although Peter retired in 1991, he never stopped working. At the time of his death he was active as a Research Linguist at UCLA, especially with his NSF grant "Broadening Access to UCLA Phonetic Data"; as one of three editors of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association; as a council member of the International Phonetic Association, and as an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at USC.
He will be deeply missed by many people.
-ISCA GRANTS
are available for students and young scientists
attending meetings.
For more information: http://www.isca-speech.org/grants
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SIG's activities
A list of Speech Interest Groups can be found on
our web.
Two new SIG's have started their work: SIG on Indian Language Speech Processing
and SIG on Iberian Languages.
The following SIG's have recently reported activity
AISV
2005 Activities
* AISV 2005 Summer School on "Modelli linguistici e tecnologici per l'analisi e la gestione di corpora vocali"
Linguistic and Technological Models for the Analysis and Management of Speech Corpora
was organized at Soriano nel Cimino (Viterboand it was a big success: we had 20 new and very interested young
attendees!
* AISV 2005 2nd Annual Conference focused on "ANALISI PROSODICA" - teorie, modelli e sistemi di annotazione Prosodic Analysis - Theory, Models and Annotation Techniques
was organized in Salerno and there were more than 80 attendees.
During the Conference a very interesting RoundTable on "Modelli di Analisi e Sistemi di etichettatura prosodica
a confronto" (Prosodic Analysis and Annotation) was organized with G. Marotta chairman supervision and
D. Hirst, M. D'Imperio, M. Contini, Ph. Martin were invited.
This was a very promising starting point for and Italian-French SIG confronting!
Planned activity in 2006
*AISV 2006 Summer School will be organized always at Soriano nel Cimino (Viterbo) : theme is under discusson.
*AISV 2006 3rd Conference will be held in Trento in December and it will be focused on a more
Technological issue - (Still to be decided!)
AFCP
organizes the XXVIemes Journées d' etude de la parole à Dinard (F)(JEP) (see conference announcements)
SpLC
organizes the IEEE Odyssey 2006 conference
in San Juan, Porto Rico (see conference announcements)
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COURSES, INTERNSHIPS
1st INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
TECHNOLOGIES 2005-2007.
Rovira i Virgili University
Research
Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Tarragona, Spain
Website of the Group
Foundational
courses (April-June 2006)
Foundations of Linguistics I: Morphology,
Lexicon and Syntax -- M. Dolores Jiménez-López, Tarragona
Foundations
of Linguistics II: Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse -- Gemma
Bel-Enguix, Tarragona
Formal Languages -- Carlos Martín-Vide,
Tarragona
Declarative Programming Languages: Prolog, Lisp -- various
researchers at the host institute
Procedural Programming Languages: C,
Java, Perl, Matlab -- various researchers at the host institute
Main courses (July-December 2006)
POS Tagging, Chunking, and
Shallow Parsing -- Yuji Matsumoto, Nara
Empirical Approaches to Word
Sense Disambiguation, Semantic Role Labeling, Semantic Parsing, and
Information Extraction -- Raymond Mooney, Austin TX
Ontology
Engineering: From Cognitive Science to the Semantic Web -- M. Teresa
Pazienza, Roma
Anaphora Resolution in Natural Language Processing --
Ruslan Mitkov, Wolverhampton
Language Processing for Human-Machine
Dialogue Modelling -- Yorick Wilks, Sheffield
Spoken Dialogue Systems
-- Diane Litman, Pittsburgh PA
Natural Language Processing Pragmatics:
Probabilistic Methods and User Modeling Implications -- Ingrid Zukerman,
Clayton
Machine Learning Approaches to Developing Language Processing
Modules -- Walter Daelemans, Antwerpen
Multimodal Speech-Based
Interfaces -- Elisabeth André, Augsburg
Information Extraction -- Guy
Lapalme, Montréal QC
Search Methods in Natural Language Processing --
Helmut Horacek, Saarbrücken
Optional courses (from the 5th
International PhD School in Formal Languages and Applications)
Tree
Adjoining Grammars -- James Rogers, Richmond IN
Uni?cation Grammars --
Shuly Wintner, Haifa
Context-Free Grammar Parsing -- Giorgio Satta,
Padua
Probabilistic Parsing -- Mark-Jan Nederhof,
Groningen
Categorial Grammars -- Michael Moortgat, Utrecht
Weighted
Finite-State Transducers -- Mehryar Mohri, New York NY
Finite State
Technology for Linguistic Applications -- André Kempe, Xerox,
Grenoble
Natural Language Processing with Symbolic Neural Networks --
Risto Miikkulainen, Austin TX
Students:
Candidate students
for the programme are welcome from around the world. Most appropriate
degrees include Computer Science and Linguistics, but other students (for
instance, from Psychology, Logic, Engineering or Mathematics) can be
accepted depending on the strengths of their undergraduate training. The
?rst two months of class are intended to homogenize the students’ varied
background.
In order to check eligibility for the programme, the
student must be certain that the highest university degree s/he got
enables her/him to be enrolled in a doctoral programme in her/his home
country.
Tuition Fees:
1,700 euros in total,
approximately.
Dissertation:
After following the courses, the
students enrolled in the programme will have to write and defend a
research project and, later, a dissertation in English in their own area
of interest, in order to get the so-called European PhD degree (which is a
standard PhD degree with an additional mark of quality). All the
professors in the programme will be allowed to supervise students’
work.
Funding:
During the teaching semesters, funding
opportunities will be provided, among others, by the Spanish Ministry for
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Becas MAEC), and by the European
Commission (Alban scheme for Latin American citizens). Additionally, the
host university will have a limited amount of economic resources itself
for covering the tuition fees and full-board accommodation of a few
students.
Immediately after the courses and during the writing of the
PhD dissertation, some of the best students will be offered 4-year
research fellowships, which will allow them to work in the framework of
the host research group.
Pre-Registration Procedure:
In order
to pre-register, one should post (not fax, not e-mail) to the programme
chairman:
a xerocopy of the main page of the passport,
a xerocopy of
the highest university education diploma,
a xerocopy of the academic
record,
full CV,
letters of recommendation (optional),
any other
document to prove background, interest and motivation
(optional).
Schedule:
Announcement of the programme:
September 12, 2005
Pre-registration deadline: November 30,
2005
Selection of students: December 7, 2005
Starting of the
classes: April 18, 2006
Summer break (tentative): July 25,
2006
Re-starting of the classes (tentative): September 4, 2006
End
of the classes (tentative): December 22, 2006
Defense of the research
project (tentative): September 14, 2007
DEA examination (tentative):
April 27, 2008
Questions and Further Information:
Please,
contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martín-Vide
Postal
Address:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i
Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tàrraco, 1
43005 Tarragona,
Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543, +34-977-554391
Fax: +34-977-559597,
+34-977-554391
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BOOKS, DATABASES, SOFTWARES
PHONETICA Journal-Editor: K. Kohler, Karger (Kiel)
Website
Special offer to members of ISCA members:
CHF 145.55/EUR 107.85/USD 132.25 for 2006 online or print subscription
Phonetic Science is a field increasingly accessible to experimental verification. Reflecting this development, ‘Phonetica’ is an international
and interdisciplinary forum which features expert original work covering
all aspects of the subject: descriptive linguistic phonetics and phonology
(comprising segmental as well as prosodic phenomena) are focussed
side by side with the experimental measuring domains of speech physiology,
articulation, acoustics, and perception. ‘Phonetica’ thus provides an overall
representation of speech communication. Papers published in this journal
report both theoretical issues and empirical data.
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Collection Que Sais-Je.
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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/jobsas
well as http://www.elsnet.org/Jobs)
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION at LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY (SWEDEN)
A position for a postdoctoral associate is available within the
Sound
Technology Group , Digital Media
Division at the Department of Science and
Technology (ITN) Linköping University at
Campus Norrköping, 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
. Sound Processing
. Spatial Audio and Hearing
. Time-Frequency and Wavelet Representations
. Acoustics
but those with related research interests are also welcome to apply.
Inquiries and CVs must be addressed to Prof. G. Evangelista (please
consult the sound technology web page in order to obtain the e-mail
address)
Professor of Sound Technology
Digital Media Division
Department of Science and Technology (ITN)
Linköping Institute of Technology (LiTH) at Campus Norrköping
SE-60174 Norrköping, Sweden
EDINBURGH SPEECH SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY (EdSST) project - PhD positions in speech science and technology
Five PhD positions funded by the European Commission under the Marie
Curie Early Stage Research Training (EST) scheme are available on the
Edinburgh Speech Science and Technology (EdSST) project. EdSST is an
interdisciplinary research training programme that aims close the gap
between speech science and technology, focussing on a number of
overlapping research areas, each of which includes components from
speech science and speech technology:
* Articulatory instrumentation and modelling
* Speech synthesis
* Speech recognition
* Human-computer dialogue systems
* Inclusive design
* Augmentative and alternative communication
for further details see:Research Website
You should have a first or upper second class honours degree or its
equivalent, and/or a Masters degree, in Informatics or
Linguistics. Informatics includes areas such as Artificial
Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Information
Engineering, and Computational Linguistics. Linguistics includes areas
such as Phonetics, Speech Science, Speech and Language Therapy, and
Human Communication Sciences. Applicants with degrees in these
disciplines will also be considered: Electrical Engineering,
Psychology, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Physics.
You must also fulfil European Union Marie Curie EST selection
criteria.
EdSST Fellows will be expected to register for a PhD with either the
University of Edinburgh or QMUC, depending on PhD topic.
Application details and further information: Information Website
MSc researcher at UNIVERSITY of ULM (Germany)
The Dialogue Systems
Group in the Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Ulm is
seeking
a researcher at MSc level to work on aspects of Spoken Language Dialogue
Systems Development in close cooperation with our industry partner , Tell-Eureka New York
(USA).
Task:
building tools for rapid design, adaptation and
improvement of high performance statistical spoken language understanding
systems.
Perspective: PhD Degree.
Requirements:
Good programming skills in C, C++, Perl, VoiceXML, Java, JavaScript
and experience with Unix/Linux are highly desirable; expertise in speech
and dialogue technologies would also be appreciated.
Financial
support is envisioned on a grant basis within the framework of the
Graduate School: Mathematical Analysis of Evolution, Information and
Complexity - University of Ulm
Candidates should send their application
electronically to Wolfgang Minker.
The application should include a short resume and a transcript of records
with the results of exams relevant to the Diploma/MSc Degree. A
pdf-version of the Diploma/MSc Thesis may also be included.
Professor
Wolfgang Minker
University of Ulm
Department of Information
Technology
Albert-Einstein-Allee 43
D-89081 Ulm
Phone: +49 731
502 6254/-6251
Fax: +49 691 330 3925516
Several open positions at the NATIONAL CENTRE of COMPETENCE
in RESEARCH on AFFECTIVE SCIENCES (NCCR) (Switserland) .
We invite
applications for two research fellowships in a new National Centre of
Competence in Research on Affective Sciences (NCCR) financed by the Swiss
National Science Foundation and the University of Geneva
Project 1
Klaus Scherer/Guido Gendolla - Appraisal and Emotion Elicitation
We
are conducting research on the role of motivational factors in
emotion-antecedent appraisal using a variety of ANS response measures. We
are looking for a person having recently terminated a doctorate involving
psychophysiological research who might be interested in running such
studies as part of a one- or two-year postdoctoral fellowship (a stipend
of approx. CHF 45'000 per year plus travel expenses) in the Leading House
of the Center at the University of Geneva as well as develop their own
research program. Alternatively, we could imagine a graduate student
well-trained in psychophysiological methods to use this opportunity for a
research internship or a year abroad, allowing participation in the
Center's Graduate School (stipend approx. CHF 33'000 plus travel
expenses).
Project 2 Klaus Scherer/Susanne Kaiser - Emotional
Response Patterning
In the context of empirical research on the
synchronisation of multimodal response patterning in emotion episodes, we
offer a postdoctoral research position for a signal processing and
modeling specialist. The applicant should have a strong background in the
mathematical and statistical bases of biosignal processing and have some
experience with modeling, including the use of Matlab including Simulink
(or other simulation and modeling software). Salary level: Between CHF
50'000 to 60'000 a year depending on age and experience. The postdocs will
participate in all activities of the interdisciplinary Center for
Affective Sciences, which provides a stimulating and enriching academic
experience as well as additional training in both emotion theory and a
variety of pertinent methods. Potential candidates can find further
information about the NCCR as well as an application form at the following
website
Inquiries
can be directed to our email
address.
PhD Studentship on 'Communicative/Expressive Speech
Synthesis' at UNIVERSITY of SHEFFIELD
Recent years have seen a
substantial growth in the capabilities of Speech Technology systems, both
in the research laboratory and in the commercial marketplace. However,
despite this progress, contemporary speech technology is not able to
fulfil the requirements demanded by many potential applications, and
performance is still significantly short of the capabilities exhibited by
human talkers and listeners, especially in interactive real-world
environments.
This shortfall is especially noticeable in the
'text-to-speech' (TTS) systems that have been developed for automated
spoken language output. Considerable advances have been made in
naturalness and voice quality, yet state-of-the-art TTS systems still
exhibit a rather limited range of speaking styles, a general lack of
expressiveness and restricted communicative functionality.
The
objective of this research is to investigate novel approaches to
text-to-speech synthesis that have the potential to overcome these
limitations, and which could contribute to the next-generation of
speech-based systems, especially in application areas such as assistive
technology.
Funding is available immediately for an eligible UK/EU
student. Applicants should possess a computational background and should
ideally have some knowledge/experience of speech processing.
Thesis
Supervisor: Prof. Roger K. Moore
For further information, contact Prof. Roger Moore or see our
website for how to apply.
The Speech and Hearing research
group in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield has an
international reputation in the multi-disciplinary field of speech and
hearing research. With three chairs, four faculty, five research
associates and around twelve research students, this is one of the
strongest teams worldwide. A unique aspect of the group is the wide
spectrum of research topics covered, from the psychophysics of hearing
through to the engineering of state-of-the-art speech technology systems.
JOURNALS
Call for papers for a Special Issue of Speech Communication:
"Intrinsic Speech Variation and Speech Recognition"
Current
research in ASR is emphasizing deficiencies in dealing with speech
intrinsic variations like speaker gender, accent, emotion, speaking style
and rate. Investigations on factors affecting speech realization and
variations within the speech signal that make the ASR task challenging are
hence very valuable for future developments of spoken language systems.
The goal of this special issue is to present recent advances, trends and
reviews that deal with these topics. Studies and algorithms related to ASR
sensitivity, genericity, user-independence, robustness or adaptation to
variations in speech should be covered. This issue and the Special Issue
on Speech Enhancement mutually complete
eachother.
Topics
Topics of interest to this issue include
(but are not limited to) the following:
• Foreign and/or regional
accented speech modeling and recognition,
• Children and/or elderly
speech modeling and recognition,
• Speech non-stationarity and relevant
analysis methods,
• Speech spectral (e.g. vocal tract length) and
temporal (e.g. speaking rate) variations,
• Spontaneous speech modeling
and recognition,
• Speech variation due to emotions, fatigue,
frustration,...
• Speech corpora covering sources of variation,
•
Acoustic-phonetic correlates of variations,
• Impact and
characterization of speech variations on ASR analysis, models and
performance,
• Speaker adaptation and normalization (e.g., VTLN);
Speaker adapted training methods,
• Novel general or specific
compensation and adaptation algorithms,
• Novel analysis and modeling
structures and algorithms for handling speech variations,
• Alternative
Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for General ASR (e.g., no-HMM
methods),
• Experiments making use of the OLLO speech corpus ().
Guest Editors
Prof. Christian Wellekens
Eurecom, France
Prof.
Alfred Mertins U. Oldenburg, Germany
Prof. Pietro Laface Politecnico
di Torino, Italy
Prof. Renato De
MoriUniversité d'Avignon, France
Mr. Denis JouvetFrance
Telecom, France
Mr. Olivier Deroo
Acapela Group, Belgium
Mr. Luciano
Fissore Loquendo, Italy
Prof. Richard
RoseMcGill University, Canada
Mr. Stéphane Dupont
Multitel, Belgium
Important dates
Submission deadline: April
1st, 2006 (earlier submission encouraged)
Notification of acceptance:
August 1st, 2006
Final manuscript due: November 1st,
2006
Publication data: First quarter
2007.
Submission
Papers must be submitted by April 1st, 2006
at Elsevier website. During
the submission mention that you are submitting to the Special Issue on
"Intrinsic speech variation..." in the paper section/category or author
comments and request Jean-Luc Gauvain as managing editor for the
paper.
Call for papers for a Special Issue of Speech Communication:
"Bridging the Gap Between Human and Automatic Speech Processing"
This special issue of Speech Communication is entirely devoted to
studies that seek to bridge the gap between human and automatic speech
recognition. It follows the special session at INTERSPEECH 2005 on the
same topic.
Schedule
announcement sent out in January AND February 2006
submission date: April 30 2006
papers out for review: May 7
2006
first round of reviews in: June 30 2006
notification of
acceptance/revisions/rejections: July 7 2006
revisions due: August
15
notification of acceptance: August 30 2006
final manuscript due:
September 30 2006
tentative publication date: December
2006
Topics
Papers are invited that cover one or several of
the following issues:
- quantitative comparisons of human and automatic
speech processing capabilities, especially under varying environmental
conditions
- computational approaches to modelling human speech
perception
- use of automatic speech processing as an experimental
tool in human speech perception research
- speech
perception/production-inspired modelling approaches for speech
recognition, speaker/language recognition, speaker tracking, sound source
separation
- use of perceptually motivated models for providing rich
transcriptions of speech signals (i.e. annotations going beyond the word,
such as emotion, attitude, speaker characteristics, etc.)
- fine
phonetic details: how should we envisage the design and evaluation of
computational models of the relation between fine phonetic details in the
signal on the one hand, and key effects in (human) speech processing on
the other hand.
- how can advanced detectors for articulatory-phonetic
features be integrated in the computational models for human speech
processing
- the influence of speaker recognition on speech
processing
Papers must be submitted by April 30, 2006 at Elsevier website. During the
submission mention that you are submitting to the Special Issue on
"Bridging the Gap..." in the paper section/category or author comments and
request Julia Hirschberg as managing editor for the paper.
Guest
editors:
Katrin Kirchhoff
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352500
Seattle, WA, 98195
(206) 616-5494
Louis ten Bosch
Dept. of Language and Speech
Radboud
University Nijmegen
Post Box 9103
6500 HD Nijmegen
+31 24
3616069
Papers accepted for FUTURE PUBLICATION in Speech
Communication
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Jinfu Ni and Keikichi Hirose, Quantitative and structural modeling of voice fundamental frequency contours of speech in Mandarin, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 26 January 2006, .
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Francisco Campillo Díaz and Eduardo Rodríguez Banga, A method for combining intonation modelling and speech unit selection in corpus-based speech synthesis systems, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 24 January 2006, .
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Jean-Baptiste Maj, Liesbeth Royackers, Jan Wouters and Marc Moonen, Comparison of adaptive noise reduction algorithms in dual microphone hearing aids, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 24 January 2006, .
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Roberto Togneri and Li Deng, A state-space model with neural-network prediction for recovering vocal tract resonances in fluent speech from Mel-cepstral coefficients, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 24 January 2006, .
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T. Nagarajan and H.A. Murthy, Language identification using acoustic log-likelihoods of syllable-like units, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 19 January 2006, .
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Yasser Ghanbari and Mohammad Reza Karami-Mollaei, A new approach for speech enhancement based on the adaptive thresholding of the wavelet packets, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 19 January 2006, .
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Mohammad Ali Salmani-Nodoushan, A comparative sociopragmatic study of ostensible invitations in English and Farsi, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 January 2006, .
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Laurent Benaroya, Frédéric Bimbot, Guillaume Gravier and Rémi Gribonval, Experiments in audio source separation with one sensor for robust speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 19 December 2005, .
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Naveen Srinivasamurthy, Antonio Ortega and Shrikanth Narayanan, Efficient scalable encoding for distributed speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 December 2005, .
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Leigh D. Alsteris and Kuldip K. Paliwal, Further intelligibility results from human listening tests using the short-time phase spectrum, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 December 2005, .
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Luis Fernando D'Haro, Ricardo de Córdoba, Javier Ferreiros, Stefan W. Hamerich, Volker Schless, Basilis Kladis, Volker Schubert, Otilia Kocsis, Stefan Igel and José M. Pardo, An advanced platform to speed up the design of multilingual dialog applications for multiple modalities, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 December 2005, .
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Ben Milner and Xu Shao, Clean speech reconstruction from MFCC vectors and fundamental frequency using an integrated front-end, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 November 2005, .
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Min Chu, Yong Zhao and Eric Chang, Modeling stylized invariance and local variability of prosody in text-to-speech synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 November 2005, .
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Stephen So and Kuldip K. Paliwal, Scalable distributed speech recognition using Gaussian mixture model-based block quantisation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 November 2005, .
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Junho Park and Hanseok Ko, Achieving a reliable compact acoustic model for embedded speech recognition system with high confusion frequency model handling, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 November 2005, .
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Amalia Arvaniti, D. Robert Ladd and Ineke Mennen, Phonetic effects of focus and "tonal crowding" in intonation: Evidence from Greek polar questions, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 26 October 2005, .
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Dimitrios Dimitriadis and Petros Maragos, Continuous energy demodulation methods and application to speech analysis, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 October 2005, .
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Daniel Recasens and Aina Espinosa, Dispersion and variability of Catalan vowels, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 24 October 2005, .
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Cynthia G. Clopper and David B. Pisoni, The Nationwide Speech Project: A new corpus of American English dialects, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 October 2005, .
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Diane J. Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley, Recognizing student emotions and attitudes on the basis of utterances in spoken tutoring dialogues with both human and computer tutors, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 October 2005, .
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Carsten Meyer and Hauke Schramm, Boosting HMM acoustic models in large vocabulary speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 October 2005, .
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SungHee Kim, Robert D. Frisina, Frances M. Mapes, Elizabeth D. Hickman and D. Robert Frisina, Effect of age on binaural speech intelligibility in normal hearing adults, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 October 2005, .
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Tong Zhang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Stephen E. Levinson, Cognitive state classification in a spoken tutorial dialogue system, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 October 2005, .
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Mark D. Skowronski and John G. Harris, Applied principles of clear and Lombard speech for automated intelligibility enhancement in noisy environments, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 October 2005, .
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Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Speech coding through adaptive combined nonlinear prediction, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 October 2005, .
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Praveen Kakumanu, Anna Esposito, Oscar N. Garcia and Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, A comparison of acoustic coding models for speech-driven facial animation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 October 2005, .
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Srinivas Bangalore, Dilek Hakkani-Tür and Gokhan Tur, Introduction to the Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 September 2005, .
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Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou and Tetsuya Ishikawa, LODEM: A system for on-demand video lectures, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 27 September 2005, .
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Marián Képesi and Luis Weruaga, Adaptive chirp-based time-frequency analysis of speech signals, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 September 2005, .
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Hauke Schramm, Xavier Aubert, Bart Bakker, Carsten Meyer and Hermann Ney, Modeling spontaneous speech variability in professional dictation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 September 2005, .
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Srinivas Bangalore, Dilek Hakkani-Tür and Gokhan Tur, Introduction to the Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 13 September 2005, .
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Tong Zhang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Stephen E. Levinson, Extraction of pragmatic and semantic salience from spontaneous spoken English, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 August 2005, .
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Hilda Hardy, Alan Biermann, R. Bryce Inouye, Ashley McKenzie, Tomek Strzalkowski, Cristian Ursu, Nick Webb and Min Wu, The Amitiés system: Data-driven techniques for automated dialogue, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 15 August 2005, .
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Ye-Yi Wang and Alex Acero, Rapid development of spoken language understanding grammars, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 August 2005, .
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Johan Boye, Joakim Gustafson and Mats Wirén, Robust spoken language understanding in a computer game, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 August 2005, .
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Christian Raymond, Frédéric Béchet, Renato De Mori and Géraldine Damnati, On the use of finite state transducers for semantic interpretation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 July 2005, .
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Murat Saraçlar and Brian Roark, Utterance classification with discriminative language modeling, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 July 2005, .
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Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katsuhito Sudoh and Mikio Nakano, Incorporating discourse features into confidence scoring of intention recognition results in spoken dialogue systems, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 July 2005, .
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Patrick Haffner, Scaling large margin classifiers for spoken language understanding, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 July 2005, .
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Ruiqiang Zhang and Genichiro Kikui, Integration of speech recognition and machine translation: Speech recognition word lattice translation, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 July 2005, .
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Qiang Huang and Stephen Cox, Task-independent call-routing, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 July 2005, .
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Yulan He and Steve Young, Spoken language understanding using the Hidden Vector State Model, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 July 2005, .
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Giampiero Salvi, Dynamic behaviour of connectionist speech recognition with strong latency constraints, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, .
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Christopher Dromey, Shawn Nissen, Petrea Nohr and Samuel G. Fletcher, Measuring tongue movements during speech: Adaptation of a magnetic jaw-tracking system, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2005, .
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Erhard Rank and Gernot Kubin, An oscillator-plus-noise model for speech synthesis, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 April 2005, .
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Chai Wutiwiwatchai and Sadaoki Furui, A multi-stage approach for Thai spoken language understanding, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 April 2005, .
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Kevin M. Indrebo, Richard J. Povinelli and Michael T. Johnson, Sub-banded reconstructed phase spaces for speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 24 February 2005, .
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FUTURE CONFERENCES
Publication policy: Hereunder, you will find very short announcements
of future events. The full call for participation can be accessed on the
conference websites
See also our Web pages (http://www.isca-speech.org/) on
conferences and workshops.
FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES
Call for papers-INTERSPEECH 2006-ICSLP
INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP, the Ninth International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing dedicated to the interdisciplinary study
of speech science and language technology, will be held in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 17-21, 2006, under the
sponsorship of the International Speech Communication Association
(ISCA).
The INTERSPEECH meetings are considered to be the top international
conference in speech and language technology, with more than 1000
attendees from universities, industry, and government agencies. They
are unique in that they bring together faculty and students from
universities with researchers and developers from government and
industry to discuss the latest research advances, technological
innovations, and products. The conference offers the prospect of
meeting the future leaders of our field, exchanging ideas, and
exploring opportunities for collaboration, employment, and sales
through keynote talks, tutorials, technical sessions, exhibits, and
poster sessions. In recent years the INTERSPEECH meetings have taken
place in a number of exciting venues including most recently Lisbon,
Jeju Island (Korea), Geneva, Denver, Aalborg (Denmark), and Beijing.
ISCA, together with the INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP organizing
committee, would like to encourage submission of papers for the
upcoming conference in the following
TOPICS of INTEREST
Linguistics, Phonetics, and Phonology
Prosody
Discourse and Dialog
Speech Production
Speech Perception
Physiology and Pathology
Paralinguistic and Nonlinguistic Information (e.g. Emotional Speech)
Signal Analysis and Processing
Speech Coding and Transmission
Spoken Language Generation and Synthesis
Speech Recognition and Understanding
Spoken Dialog Systems
Single-channel and Multi-channel Speech Enhancement
Language Modeling
Language and Dialect Identification
Speaker Characterization and Recognition
Acoustic Signal Segmentation and Classification
Spoken Language Acquisition, Development and Learning
Multi-Modal Processing
Multi-Lingual Processing
Spoken Language Information Retrieval
Spoken Language Translation
Resources and Annotation
Assessment and Standards
Education
Spoken Language Processing for the Challenged and Aged
Other Applications
Other Relevant Topics
SPECIAL SESSIONS
In addition to the regular sessions, a series of special sessions has
been planned for the meeting. Potential authors are invited to
submit papers for special sessions as well as for regular sessions,
and all papers in special sessions will undergo the same review
process as papers in regular sessions. Confirmed special sessions
and their organizers include:
* The Speech Separation Challenge, Martin Cooke (Sheffield) and Te-Won
Lee (UCSD)
* Speech Summarization, Jean Carletta (Edinburgh) and Julia Hirschberg
(Columbia)
* Articulatory Modeling, Eric Bateson (University of British Columbia)
* Visual Intonation, Marc Swerts (Tilburg)
* Spoken Dialog Technology R&D, Roberto Pieraccini (Tell-Eureka)
* The Prosody of Turn-Taking and Dialog Acts, Nigel Ward (UTEP) and
Elizabeth Shriberg (SRI and ICSI)
* Speech and Language in Education, Patti Price (pprice.com) and Abeer
Alwan (UCLA)
* From Ideas to Companies, Janet Baker (formerly of Dragon Systems)
PAPER SUBMISSION
The deadline for submission of 4-page full papers is April 7, 2006.
Paper submission will be exclusively through the conference website,
using submission guidelines to be provided. Previously-published
papers should not be submitted. The corresponding author will be
notified by e-mail of the paper status by June 9, 2006. Minor
updates will be allowed from June 10 to June 16, 2006.
CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
We encourage proposals for three-hour tutorials to be held on
September 17, 2006. Those interested in organizing a tutorial should
send a 2-3 page description by electronic
mail
, in plain ASCII (iso8859-1) text as
soon as possible, but no later than January 31 2006.
Proposals for tutorials should contain the following information:
* Title of the tutorial
* Summary and relevance
* Description of contents and course material
* The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of
the tutorial speakers, with a one-paragraph statement describing the
research interests and areas of expertise of the speaker(s)
* Any special requirements for technical needs (display projector,
computer infrastructure, etc.)
IMPORTANT DATES
Four-page paper deadline: April 7, 2006
Notification of paper status: June 9, 2006
Early registration deadline: June 23, 2006
Tutorial Day: September 17, 2006
Main Conference: September 18-21, 2006
Further information via Website or
send email
Organizer
Professor Richard M. Stern (General Chair)
Carnegie Mellon University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Fax: +1 412 268-3890
Email
INTERSPEECH 2007-EUROSPEECHAugust 27-31,2007,Antwerp,
Belgium
Chair: Dirk van Compernolle, K.U.Leuven and Lou Boves,
K.U.Nijmegen
Website
INTERSPEECH 2008-ICSLP September 22-26, 2008, Brisbane,
New South Wales, Australia
Chairman: Denis Burnham, MARCS, University of West Sydney.
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FUTURE ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP (ITRW)
ITRW on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing
(MULTILING 2006)
REMINDER: Early registration deadline is
February 10 2006!!
Organized by: Stellenbosch University Centre
for Language and Speech Technology
in collaboration with ISCA
9-11
April 2006, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Keynote speaker: Tanja Schultz -
Interactive Systems Laboratories, Carnegie Mellon University
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: 12
September 2005
Notification of acceptance: 14 October 2005
Deadline
of early registration & full paper submission: 10 February
2006
Workshop dates: 9-11 April 2006
Contact: Justus Roux or consult the workshop website
ITRW on Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation (SRIV)-
Toulouse, France
May 20th 2006, Toulouse, France
Satellite of
ICASSP-2006
Website
email address .
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EXTENDED DEADLINE for submission February 8th, 2006
Topics
-
Accented speech modeling and recognition,
- Children speech modeling
and recognition,
- Non-stationarity and relevant analysis methods,
- Speech spectral and temporal variations,
- Spontaneous speech
modeling and recognition,
- Speech variation due to emotions,
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Speech corpora covering sources of variation,
- Acoustic-phonetic
correlates of variations,
- Impact and characterization of speech
variations on ASR,
- Speaker adaptation and adapted training,
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Novel analysis and modeling structures,
- Man/machine confrontation:
ASR and HSR (human speech recognition),
- Disagnosis of speech
recognition models,
- Intrinsic variations in multimodal recognition,
- Review papers on these topics are also welcome,
- Application
and services scenarios involving strong speech variations
Important
dates
Submission deadline: Feb. 1, 2006
Notification
acceptance: Mar. 1, 2006
Final manuscript due: Mar. 15,
2006
Progam available: Mar. 22, 2006
Registration
deadline: Mar. 29, 2006
Workshop: May 20, 2006 (after
ICASSP 2006)
Workshop
This event is organized as a satellite
of the ICASSP 2006 conference. The workshop will take place in Toulouse,
on 20 May 2006, just after the conference, which ends May 19. The workshop
will consist of oral and poster sessions, as well as talks by guest
speakers.
More information
Website
email address .
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ITRW on Experimental
Linguistics
28-30 August 2006, Athens Greece
CALL FOR
PAPERS
AIMS
The general aims of the Workshop are to bring
together researchers of linguistics and related disciplines in a unified
context as well as to discuss the development of experimental
methodologies in linguistic research with reference to linguistic theory,
linguistic models and language applications.
SUBJECTS AND RELATED
DISCIPLINES
1. Theory of language
2. Cognitive linguistics
3. Neurolinguistics
4. Speech production
5. Speech acoustics
6. Phonology
7. Morphology
8. Syntax
9. Prosody
10.
Speech perception
11. Psycholinguistics
12. Pragmatics
13.
Semantics
14. Discourse linguistics
15. Computational linguistics
16. Language technology
MAJOR TOPICS
I. Lexicon
II.
Sentence
III. Discourse
IMPORTANT DATES
1 February 2006,
deadline of abstract submission
1 March 2006, notification of
acceptance
1 April 2006, registration
1 May 2006, camera ready
paper submission
28-30 August 2006, Workshop
CHAIR
Antonis Botinis, University of Athens, Greece
Marios Fourakis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Barbara
Gawronska, University of Skövde, Sweden
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Aikaterini Bakakou-Orphanou, University of Athens
Antonis
Botinis, University of Athens
Christoforos Charalambakis, University of
Athens
SECRETARIAT
ISCA Workshop on Experimental Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
University of Athens
GR-15784,
Athens GREECE
Tel.: +302107277668
Fax: +302107277029
e-mail
Workshop site address
2nd ITRW on PERCEPTUAL
QUALITY OF SYSTEMS
Berlin, Germany, 4 - 6 September 2006
WORKSHOP AIMS
The quality of systems which address human perception is difficult to
describe. Since quality is not an inherent property of a system, users
have to decide on what is good or bad in a specific situation. An
engineering approach to quality includes the consideration of how a
system is perceived by its users, and how the needs and expectations of
the users develop. Thus, quality assessment and prediction have to take
the relevant human perception and judgement factors into account.
Although significant progress has been made in several areas affecting
quality within the last two decades, there is still no consensus on the
definition of quality and its contributing components, as well as on
assessment, evaluation and prediction methods.
Perceptual quality is attributed to all systems and services which
involve human perception. Telecommunication services directly provoke
such perceptions: Speech communication services (telephone, Voice over
IP), speech technology (synthesis, spoken dialogue systems), as well as
multimodal services and interfaces (teleconference, multimedia on
demand, mobile phones, PDAs). However, the situation is similar for the
perception of other products, like machines, domestic devices, or cars.
An integrated view on system quality makes use of knowledge gained in
different disciplines and may therefore help to find general underlying
principles. This will assist the increase of usability and perceived
quality of systems and services, and finally yield better acceptance.
The workshop is intended to provide an interdisciplinary exchange of
ideas between both academic and industrial researchers working on
different aspects of perceptual quality of systems. Papers are invited
which refer to methodological aspects of quality and usability
assessment and evaluation, the underlying perception and judgment
processes, as well as to particular technologies, systems or services.
Perception-based as well as instrumental approaches will complement
each other in giving a broader picture of perceptual quality. It is
expected that this will help technology providers to develop
successful, high-quality systems and services.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
The following non-exhaustive list gives examples of topics which are
relevant for the workshop, and for which papers are invited:
- Methodologies and Methods of Quality Assessment and Evaluation
- Metrology: Test Design and Scaling
- Quality of Speech and Music
- Quality of Multimodal Perception
- Perceptual Quality vs. Usability
- Semio-Acoustics and -Perception
- Quality and Usability of Speech Technology Devices
- Telecommunication Systems and Services
- Multi-Modal User Interfaces
- Virtual Reality
- Product-Sound Quality
IMPORTANT DATES
March 31, 2006: Abstract submission (approx. 800 words)
May 15, 2006: Notification of acceptance
June 15, 2006: Submission of the camera-ready paper (max. 6 pages)
September 4-6, 2006: Workshop
WORKSHOP VENUE
The workshop will take place in the "Harnack-Haus", a villa-like
conference center located in the quiet western part of Berlin, near the
Free University. As long as space permits, all participants will be
accommodated in this center. Accommodation and meals are included in
the workshop fees. The center is run by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and
can easily be reached from all three airports of Berlin (Tegel/TXL,
Schönefeld/SXF and Tempelhof/THF). Details on the venue,
accommodation and transportation will be announced soon.
PROCEEDINGS
CD workshop proceedings will be available upon registration at the
conference venue and subsequently on the workshop web site.
LANGUAGE
The official language of the workshop will be English.
LOCAL WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
Ute Jekosch (IAS, Technical University of
Dresden)
Sebastian Möller (Deutsche Telekom Labs, Technical
University of Berlin)
Alexander Raake (Deutsche Telekom Labs, Technical
University of Berlin)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Sebastian Möller, Deutsche Telekom Labs, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7,
D-10587 Berlin, Germany
phone +49 30 8353 58465, fax +49 30 8353 58409
Website
ITRW on Statistical and Perceptual Audition ( 2006)
A
satellite workshop of INTERSPEECH 2006 -ICSLP
September 16, 2006,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Website
Topics
Generalized
audio analysis
Speech analysis
Music analysis
Audio
classification
Scene analysis
Signal separation
Speech
recognition
Multi-channel analysis
Important
dates
Submission of a 4-6 pages long paper deadline (double column)
April 21 2006
Notification of acceptance June 9, 2006
NOLISP'07: Non linear Speech Processing
May 22-25, 2007 , Paris, France
6th ISCA Speech Synthesis Research Workshop
(SSW-6)
Bonn (Germany), August 22-24, 2007
A satellite of
INTERSPEECH 2007 (Antwerp)in collaboration with SynSIG
Details will be
posted by early 2007
Contact
Prof. Wolfgang Hess
ITRW on Robustness
November 2007, Santiago, Chile
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS SUPPORTED (but not organized) by ISCA
2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TONAL ASPECTS OF
LANGUAGES TAL 2006
La Rochelle (France) April 27-29th,
2006
CALL FOR PAPERS
Jointly organised by La Rochelle
University and Paris 3 University( Phonetics & Phonology laboratory,
UMR 7018 CNRS).
Satellite conference of PROSODY 2006 that will be held
in Dresden (Germany) in May 02-05, 2006.
The aim of the TAL 2006
conference is to bring together researchers interested in all areas of
tone languages.
The conference welcomes papers on the following
topics:
- typology and phonology of tone languages
- tone languages
acquisition
- speech physiology and pathology in tone languages
-
tones production
- perception in tone languages
- tone languages
prosody
- modelling of tones and intonation
- speech processing in
tone languages
- cognitive aspects of tone languages
-
others
PAPER SUBMISSION
The deadline for full paper
submission (4 pages, 2 columns, simple-spaced, Time New Roman 10 points)
is January 15, 2006.
Paper submission is possibly exclusively via the
conference website, in accordance with the submission guidelines. No
previously published papers should be submitted.
Each corresponding
author will be notified by e-mail of the acceptance of the paper by
January, 31, 2006.
IMPORTANT DATES
Intention of
participation: before October 30, 2005
Full paper submission deadline:
January 15, 2006
Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: February
1st, 2006
Early registration deadline: February 28, 2005
final
paper: March 31, 2005
INFORMATIONS
If you want to be updated
as more information becomes available, please send an email.
SPEECH PROSODY 2006
International Conference on Speech Prosody
May 2-5
2006
International Congress Center, Dresden, Germany
For further
information, visit our website
Topics
We
invite contributions in any of the following areas and also appreciate
suggestions for Special Sessions:
* Prosody and the Brain
* Prosody
and Speech Production
* Analysis, Formulation and Modeling of
Prosody
* Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Prosody
*
Cross-linguistic Studies of Prosody
* Prosodic Variability
* Prosody
of Dialogues and Spontaneous Speech
* Prosody and Affect
* Prosody
and Speech Perception
* Prosody in Speech Synthesis
* Prosody in
Speech Recognition and Understanding
* Prosody in Language
Learning
* Auditory-Visual Production and Perception of Prosody
*
Pathology of Prosody and Aids for the Impaired
* Annotation and Speech
Corpus Creation
* Others
Organizing Committee:
Ruediger
Hoffmann - Chair
Hansjoerg Mixdorff - Program Chair
Oliver Jokisch
- Technical Chair
Important Dates:
Proposals for special
sessions: November 11, 2005
Full 4-page paper submission: December 31,
2005
Advanced registration deadline: February 28,
2006
Conference: May 2-5, 2006
Post-conference day: May 6, 2006
ISCA 2nd Workshop on Multimodal User
Authentication
A satellite conference of ICASSP 2006 in Toulouse
France.
May 11-12,2006
Workshop
website
Topics
Iris identification
Eye and face
analysis
Speaker recognition/verification
Fingerprint
recognition
Audio/Image indexing and retrieval
Joint audio/video
processing
Gesture analysis
Signature recognition
Multimodal
Fusion and Integration Techniques for Authentication
Intelligent
interfaces for biometric systems and data bases and tools for system
evaluation
Applications and implementations of multimodal user
authentication systems
Privacy issues and standards
Important
dates
Electronic submission of photo ready paper January 15,
2006
Notification of acceptance March 8 2006
Advance registration
before March 15 2006
Final papers due March 15, 2006
HLT-NAACL 2006 Call for Demos
2006 Human Language
Technology Conference and North American chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics annual meeting.
New York City, New
York
Conference date: June 4-9, 2006
Submission deadline: March 3,
2006
Website
Proposals are
invited for the HLT-NAACL 2006 Demonstrations Program. This program is
aimed at offering first-hand experience with new systems, providing
opportunities to exchange ideas gained from creating systems, and
collecting feedback from expert users. It is primarily intended to
encourage the early exhibition of research prototypes, but interesting
mature systems are also eligible. Submission of a demonstration proposal
on a particular topic does not preclude or require a separate submission
of a paper on that topic; it is possible that some but not all of the
demonstrations will illustrate concepts that are described in companion
papers.
Demo Co-Chairs
John Dowding, University of
California/Santa Cruz
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research,
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon
University.
Areas of Interest
We encourage the submission of
proposals for demonstrations of software and hardware related to all areas
of human language technology. Areas of interest include, but are not
limited to, natural language, speech, and text systems for:
- Speech
recognition and generation;
- Speech retrieval and summarization;
-
Rich transcription of speech;
- Interactive dialogue;
- Information
retrieval, filtering, and extraction;
- Document classification,
clustering, and summarization;
- Language modeling, text mining, and
question answering;
- Machine translation;
- Multilingual and
cross-lingual processing;
- Multimodal user interface;
- Mobile
language-enabled devices;
- Tools for Ontology, Lexicon, or other NLP
resource development;
- Applications in growing domains (web-search,
bioinformatics, ...).
Please be referred to the HLT-NAACL 2006 CFP
for a more detailed but not necessarily an exhaustive list of relevant
topics.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 3, 2006
Notification of acceptance: April 6, 2006
Submission of final demo
related literature: April 17, 2006
Conference: June 4-9,
2006
Submission
Format
A demo proposal should consist of
the following parts:
- An extended abstract of up to four pages,
including the title, authors, full contact information, and technical
content to be demonstrated. It should give an overview of what the
demonstration is aimed to achieve, how the demonstration illustrates novel
ideas or late-breaking results, and how it relates to other systems or
projects described in the context of other research (i.e., references to
related literature).
- A detailed requirement description of hardware,
software, and network access expected to be provided by the local
organizer. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their
requirements (possibly preparing different demos for different logistical
situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what you
absolutely must be provided with. We will do our best to provide equipment
and resources but at this point we cannot guarantee anything beyond the
space and power supply.
- A concise outline of the demo script,
including the accompanying narrative, and either a web address to access
the demo or visual aids (e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). The
demo script should be no more than 6 pages.
The demo abstract must be
submitted electronically in the Portable Document Format (PDF). It should
follow the format guidelines for the main conference papers. Authors are
encouraged to use the style files provided on the HLT-NAACL 2006 website.
It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their proposals use
no unusual format features and can be printed on a standard Postscript
printer.
Procedure
Demo proposals should be submitted
electronically to the demo
co-chairs.
Reviewing
Demo proposals will be evaluated on the
basis of their relevance to the conference, innovation, scientific
contribution, presentation, and usability, as well as potential logistical
constraints.
Publication
The accepted demo abstracts will be
published in the Companion Volumne to the Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL
2006 Conference.
Further Details
Further details on the date,
time, and format of the demonstration session(s) will be determined and
provided at a later date. Please send any inquiries to the demo
co-chairs.
HLT-NAACL 2006
Call for Tutorial
Proposals
Proposals are invited for the Tutorial Program for
HLT-NAACL 2006, to be held at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
from June 4 to 9, 2006. The tutorial day is June 4, 2006. The HLT-NAACL
conferences combine the HLT (Human Language Technology) and NAACL (North
American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
conference series, and bring together researchers in NLP, IR, and speech.
For details, see our website
.
We seek half-day tutorials covering topics in Speech Processing,
Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing, including their
theoretical foundations, intersections, and applications. Tutorials will
normally move quickly, but they are expected to be accessible,
understandable, and of interest to a broad community of researchers,
preferably from multiple areas of Human Language Technology. Our target is
to have four to six tutorials.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Proposals
for tutorials should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain text, PDF,
Microsoft Word, or HTML. They should be submitted, by the date shown
below, by email. The
subject line should be: "HLT-NAACL'06 TUTORIAL PROPOSAL".
Proposals
should contain:
1. A title and brief (2-page max) description of the
tutorial topic and content. Include a brief outline of the tutorial
structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in a
three hours (two 1.5 hour sessions). Tutorials should be accessible to the
broadest practical audience. In keeping with the focus of the conference,
please highlight any topics spanning disciplinary boundaries that you plan
to address. (These are not strictly required, but they are a big plus.)
2. An estimate of the audience size. If approximately the same
tutorial has been given elsewhere, please list previous venues and
approximate audience sizes. (There's nothing wrong with repeat tutorials;
we'd just like to know.)
3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers,
and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of
their research interests and areas of expertise.
4. A description of
special requirements for technical needs (computer infrastructure, etc).
Tutorials must be financially self-supporting. The conference organizers
will establish registration rates that will cover the room, audio-visual
equipment, internet access, snacks for breaks, and reproduction the
tutorial notes. A description of any additional anticipated expenses must
be included in the proposal.
PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS
Accepted
tutorial speakers will be asked to provide descriptions of their tutorials
suitable for inclusion in all of: email announcements, the conference
registration material, the printed program, the website, and the
proceedings. This will involve producing text and/or HTML and/or
LaTeX/Word/PDF versions of appropriate lengths.
Tutorial notes will be
printed and distributed by the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL). These materials, containing at least copies of the slides that will
be presented and a bibliography for the material that will be covered,
must be submitted by the date indicated below to allow adequate time for
reproduction. Presenters retain copyright for their materials, but ACL
requires that presenters execute a non-exclusive distribution license to
permit distribution to participants and sales to others.
Tutorial
presenters will be compensated in accordance with current ACL policies;
see details
.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: Jan 20, 2006
Notification: Feb 10, 2006
Descriptions due: Mar 1, 2006
Course
material due: May 1, 2006
Tutorial date: Jun 4, 2006
TUTORIAL
CHAIRS
Jim Glass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher Manning, Stanford University
Douglas W. Oard,
University of Maryland
Call for papers:11-th International Conference SPEECH AND
COMPUTER (SPECOM'2006)
25-29 June 2006
St. Petersburg,
Russia
Conference website
Organized by St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of
the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS)
Supported by SIMILAR NoE,
INTAS association, ELSNET and ISCA.
Topics
- Signal
processing and feature extraction;
- Multimodal analysis and
synthesis;
- Speech recognition and understanding;
- Natural
language processing;
- Speaker and language identification;
- Speech
synthesis;
- Speech perception and speech disorders;
- Speech and
language resources;
- Applied systems for Human-Computer
Interaction;
IMPORTANT DATES
- Papers and proposals
submission start: 15 January 2006
- Proposals for special sessions: 1
February 2006
- Full paper submission: 1 March 2006
- Notification
of acceptance: 31 March 2006
- Early registration deadline: 15 April
2006
- Conference SPECOM: 25-29 June 2006
The conference venue and
dates were selected so that the attendees can possibly be exposed to St.
Petersburg unique and wonderful phenomenon known as the White Nights, for
our city is the world's only metropolis where such a phenomenon occurs
every summer.
CONTACT INFORMATION
SPECOM'2006, SPIIRAS, 39,
14th line, St-Petersburg, 199178, RUSSIA
Tel.: +7 812 3287081 Fax: +7
812 3284450
E-mail
Web
IEEE Odyssey 2006: The Speaker and Language
Recognition Workshop
28 - 30 June 2006
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Spa
& Casino
San Juan, Puerto Rico
The IEEE Odyssey 2006 Workshop on
Speaker and Language Recognition will be held in scenic San Juan, Puerto
Rico at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. This Odyssey is sponsored by the IEEE, is
an ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop of the ISCA Speaker and Language
Characterization SIG, and is hosted by The Polytechnic University of
Puerto Rico.
Topics
Topics of interest include speaker
recognition (verification, identification, segmentation, and 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 corpora and evaluation; use of extended
training data; speaker recognition with speech recognition; forensics,
multimodality, and multimedia speaker recognition; speaker and language
confidence estimation; language, dialect, and accent recognition; speaker
synthesis and transformation; biometrics; human recognition; and
commercial applications.
Paper Submission
Prospective 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.
At least one author of each paper is required to register. The workshop
proceedings will be published on CD- ROM.
Schedule
Proposal
due 15 January 2006
Notification of acceptance 27 February
2006
Final papers due 30 March 2006
Preliminary program 21 April
2006
Workshop 28-30 June 2006
Registration and
Information
Registration will be handled via the Odyssey website
. NIST SRE
‘06 Workshop
The NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation 2006 Workshop
will be held immediately before Odyssey ‘06 at the same location on 25-27
June. Everyone is invited to evaluate their systems via the NIST SRE. The
NIST Workshop is only for participants and by prearrangement. Please
contact Dr. Alvin Martin to participate and see the NIST website for
details.
Chairs>br> Kay Berkling, Co-Chair Polytechnic
University of Puerto Rico
Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo, Co-Chair MIT
Lincoln Laboratory, USA
7th SIGdial workshop on discourse and
dialogue
Sydney (co-located with COLING/ACL)
June 15-16,2006
(tentative dates)
Website
Contact: Dr Jan Alexandersson
International Workshop on Spoken Language
Translation
ATR Kyoto (Japan)
November 30-December 1 2006
Website
IV Jornadas en Tecnologia del Habla
Zaragoza, Spain
November 8-10, 2006
Website
Call for papers International Symposium on Chinese Spoken
Language Processing (ISCSLP'2006) Special Session on Speaker Recognition
Singapore Dec. 13-16, 2006
Conference
website
Topics
Papers are invited to cover, but not
limited to, the following topics:
* Text-dependent and
text-independent speaker identification
* Text-dependent and
text-independent speaker verification
* Speaker detection
*
Speaker segmentation
* Speaker tracking
* Speaker recognition
systems and application
* Resource creation for speaker recognition
This special session also provides a platform for developers in this
field to evaluate their speaker recognition systems using the same
database provided by this special session. Evaluation of speaker
recognition systems will cover the following tasks:
* Text-independent
speaker identification
* Text-dependent and text-independent speaker
verification
* Text-independent cross-channel speaker identification
* Text-dependent and text-independent cross-channel speaker
verification
Final details on these tasks (including evaluation criteria) will be
made available before registration opens (February 1, 2006). The
development and testing data will be provided by the Chinese Corpus
Consortium (CCC). The data sets will be extracted from two CCC databases,
which are CCC-VPR3C2005 and CCC-VPR2C2005-1000. Participants are required
to submit a full paper to the conference describing their algorithms,
systems and results.
Schedule
* Feb. 01, 2006: On-line
registration open
* Mar. 01, 2006: Development data made available
* Apr. 03, 2006: Test data made available
* Apr. 14, 2006: Test
results due
* Apr. 28, 2006: Results released to participants
*
Jun. 01, 2006: Papers due (using ISCSLP standard format)
* Jul. 25,
2006: The full set of the two databases made available to the participants
of this special session upon request
* Dec 16, 2006: Conference
presentation
This special session is organized by the CCC . Please address any enquiries to
chairman of the session Dr. Thomas
Fang Zheng , Tsinghua Univ., Beijing.
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FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS
TC-STAR Openlab on Speech Translation: Trento Italy
TC-STAR Workshop on Speech Translation
Trento, 30th March
2006-1st April WARNING New dates!(before EACL 2006)
Openlab 2006 Website
Call For Participation
OpenLab 2006 is a training initiative of the European Integrated
Project TC-STAR, Technologies and Corpora for Speech-to-speech
Translation Research.
OpenLab 2006 aims to expand the TC-STAR research community in the
areas of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Spoken Language
Translation (SLT).
Students and young researchers in these areas are invited to
contribute on shared TC-STAR project tasks.
The translation of European Parliament speeches from Spanish to
English is the application domain of interest. Contributions on the
following and other closely related topics will be welcome:
- Integration of ASR and SLT
- Statistical Models for SLT
- System combination in ASR and SLT
- Morphology and Syntax in SLT
- Error analysis in SLT
Several months before the meeting in Trento, language resources and
tools will be made available to interested participants. Word graphs
and n-best lists generated by different ASR and SLT systems will be
provided, as well as training and testing collections to develop and
evaluate a SLT system.
Participants will present and discuss their results in Trento, and
will have the opportunity to attend tutorial speeches held by experts.
Participation in OpenLab 2006 is free. In addition, for a limited
number of applications, lodging expenses will be covered by the
organization.
Organizers:
Marcello Federico,
ITC-irst, Trento
Ralf Schlüter, RWTH, Aachen
TC-STAR Second Evaluation Campaign 2006
TC-STAR is
an European integrated project focusing on Speech-to-Speech Translation
(SST). To encourage significant advances in all SST technologies, annual
competitive evaluations are organized. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR),
Spoken Language Translation (SLT) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) are evaluated
independently and within an end-to-end system. The project targets a
selection of unconstrained conversational speech domains-speeches and
broadcast news-and three languages: European English, European Spanish,
and Mandarin Chinese. The first evaluation took place in March 2005 for
ASR and SLT and September 2005 for TTS. TC-STAR welcomes outside
participants in its 2nd evaluation of January-February 2006. This
participation is free of charge. The TC-STAR 2006 evaluation campaign will
consider:
· SLT in the following directions :
o Chinese-to-English
(Broadcast News)
o Spanish-to-English (European Parliament plenary
speeches)
o English-to-Spanish (European Parliament plenary speeches)
· ASR in the following languages :
o English (European Parliament
plenary speeches)
o Spanish (European Parliament plenary speeches)
o Mandarin Chinese (Broadcast News)
· TTS in Chinese, English, and
Spanish under the following conditions:
o Complete system:
participants use their own training data
o Voice conversion
intralingual and crosslingual, expressive speech: data provided by TC-STAR
o Component evaluation
For ASR and SLT, training data will be made
available by the TC-STAR project for English and Spanish and can be
purchased at LDC for Chinese. Development data will be provided by the
TC-STAR project. Legal issues regarding the data will be detailed in the
2nd Call For Participation.
All participants will be given the
opportunity to present and discuss their results in the TC-STAR evaluation
workshop in Barcelona in June 2006.
Tentative
schedule:
Registration: October 2005 (early expression of interest
is welcome)
ASR evaluation: from mid January to end of January
2006
SLT evaluation: from begin February to mid February 2006
TTS
evaluation: from begin February to end of February 2006
Release: April
2006
Submission of papers: May 2006
Workshop: June 2006
Contact: Djamel Mostefa
(ELDA)
tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33
Call for papers: 3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction
and Related Machine Learning Algorithms
Washington DC, USA
1-3
May 2006
Workshop
website
OVERVIEW
The third MLMI workshop is coming to
Washington DC, USA and will feature talks (including a number of invited
speakers), posters, and demonstrations. In common with MLMI'05, the
workshop will be immediately followed by the NIST meeting recognition
workshop, centering on the Rich Transcription 2006 Meeting Recognition
(RT-06) evaluation. This workshop will take place at the same location
during 3-4 May 2006.
Topics
The following areas of interest,
related to multimodal interaction:
* human-human communication
modeling
* speech processing
* visual processing
* multimodal
processing, fusion and fission
* multimodal discourse and dialog
modeling
* human-human interaction modeling
* multimodal indexing,
structuring, summarization and presentation
* multimodal
annotation
* applications and HCI issues
* machine learning applied
to the above
Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer, in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
GUIDELINES FOR
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions may be:
* full papers for oral or poster
presentation, and inclusion in the proceedings
* extended abstracts
for poster presentation only
* demonstration proposals
Full papers
and extended abstracts should be submitted as PDF, and follow the Springer
LNCS format for
'Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes'
Length:
Full papers
- 12 pages maximum
Extended abstracts - 2 pages maximum
Submissions
should be made following the link on the workshop website.
Final
versions of accepted full papers, which will appear in the proceedings
will be due approximately 2 months after the workshop.
Demonstration
proposals should be made using the form on the workshop
website
IMPORTANT DATES
17 February 2006: Submission of full
papers
10 March 2006: Submission of extended abstracts and
demonstration proposals
24 March 2006: Acceptance notifications
1-3
May 2006: MLMI'06 workshop
30 June 2006: Submission of final versions
of accepted full papers
MLMI is supported by the US National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST), through the AMI and CHIL Integrated Projects and the
PASCAL Network of Excellence funded by the FP6 IST priority of the
European Union, and through the Swiss National Science Foundation National
Centre of Competence in Research IM2.
AMI
CHIL
PASCAL
IM2.
LREC 2006 - 5th Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation
Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center, GENOA -
ITALY
Deadlines for proposals of panes, workshops, tutorials and for
paper submissions are extended to October 20
MAIN CONFERENCE:
24-25-26 MAY 2006
WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 22-23 and 27-28 MAY
2006
Conference web site
The
fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC
2006, is organised by ELRA in cooperation with a wide range of
international associations and organisations.
CONFERENCE
TOPICS
Issues in the design, construction and use of Language
Resources (LRs)
Issues in Human Language Technologies (HLT)
evaluation
Special Highlights
LREC targets the integration of
different types of LRs (spoken, written, and other modalities), and of the
respective communities. To this end, LREC encourages submissions covering
issues which are common to different types of LRs and language
technologies, such as dialogue strategy, written and spoken translation,
domain-specific data, multimodal communication or multimedia document
processing, and will organise, in addition to the usual tracks, common
sessions encompassing the different areas of LRs.
The 2006 Conference
emphasises in particular the importance of promoting:
- synergies and
integration between (multilingual) LRs and Semantic Web technologies,
-
new paradigms for sharing and integrating LRs and LT coming from different
sources,
- communication with neighbouring fields for applications in
e-government and administration,
- common evaluation campaigns for the
objective evaluation of the performances of different systems,
-
systems and products (also industrial ones) based on large-size and high
quality LRs.
LREC therefore encourages submissions of papers, panels,
workshops, tutorials on the use of LRs in these areas.
ABSTRACT
SUBMISSION
Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster or
demo presentations should consist of about 1000 words.
A limited
number of panels, workshops and tutorials is foreseen: proposals will be
reviewed by the Programme Committee.
For panels, please send a brief
description, including an outline of the intended structure (topic,
organiser, panel moderator, tentative list of panelists).
For workshops
and tutorials, see the dedicated section below.
Only electronic
submissions will be considered. Further details about submission will be
circulated in the 2nd Call for Papers to be issued at the end of July and
posted on the LREC web site (www.lrec-conf.org).
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 14
October 2005
* Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers,
referenced demos: 14 October 2005
* Notification of acceptance of
panels, workshops and tutorials proposals: 7 November 2005
*
Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters, referenced demos: 16
January 2006
* Final versions for the proceedings: 20 February
2006
* Conference: 24-26 May 2006
* Pre-conference workshops and
tutorials: 22 and 23 May 2006
* Post-conference workshops and
tutorials: 27 and 28 May 2006
WORKSHOPS AND
TUTORIALS
Pre-conference workshops and tutorials will be organised
on 22 and 23 May 2006, and post-conference workshops and tutorials on 27
and 28 May 2006. A workshop/tutorial can be either half day or full day.
Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no longer than three
pages, and include:
* A brief technical description of the specific
technical issues that the workshop/tutorial will address.
* The
reasons why the workshop/tutorial is of interest this time.
* The
names, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of the
workshop/tutorial organising committee, which should consist of at least
three people knowledgeable in the field, coming from different
institutions.
* The name of the member of the workshop/tutorial
organising committee designated as the contact person.
* A time
schedule of the workshop/tutorial and a preliminary programme.
* A
summary of the intended workshop/tutorial call for participation.
* A
list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room
requirements.
CONSORTIA AND PROJECT MEETINGS
Consortia or
projects wishing to take this opportunity for organising meetings should
contact the ELDA office .
Email
Web Elra
Web Elda
XXVIèmes Journées d'Étude sur la Parole
12-16 juin
2006
Bretagne
Website
OBJECTIFS
Themes
Les
principaux thèmes retenus pour la conférence sont:
1 Production de
parole
2 Acoustique de la parole
3 Perception de parole
4
Phonétique et phonologie
5 Prosodie
6 Reconnaissance et
compréhension de la parole
7 Reconnaissance de la langue et du
locuteur
8 Modèles de langage
9 Synthèse de la parole
10 Analyse,
codage et compression de la parole
11 Applications à composantes orales
(dialogue, indexation...)
12 Évaluation, corpus et ressources
13
Psycholinguistique
14 Acquisition de la parole et du langage
15
Apprentissage d'une langue seconde
16 Pathologies de la parole
17
Autres ...
DATES À RETENIR
Date limite de soumission des
propositions 1 mars 2006
Notification aux auteurs de l'acceptation ou
du refus 3 avril 2006
Soumission des articles finaux 1 mai 2006
Date
du congrès 12-16 juin 2006
CONTACTS
Pour les questions
scientifiques, contactez Pascal Perrier, Président de l'AFCP.
Pour des
renseignements pratiques, jep2006@irisa.fr.
PERCEPTION AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES (
06)
Kloster Irsee in southern Germany from June 19 to June 21,
2006.
Website.
Submissions
will be short/demo or full papers of 4-10 pages.
Important dates
February 10, 2006:Extended deadline for Long, Short and Demo
Papers March 15, 2006: Notification of acceptance/rejection
April
1, 2006: Deadline for final submission of accepted paper
April 1, 2006:
Deadline for advance registration
June 7, 2006: Final programme
available on the web
It is envisioned to publish the proceedings in the
LNCS/LNAI Series by Springer.
PIT'06 Organising
Committee:
Elisabeth André, Laila Dybkjaer, Wolfgang Minker, Heiko
Neumann, Michael Weber, Marcus Hennecke, Gregory Baratoff
9th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference(WESPAC IX 2006)
June 26-28, 2006
Seoul, Korea
Program Highlights of
WESPAC IX 2006
(by Session Topics)
* Human Related Topics-
Aeroacoustics
* Product Oriented Topics
* Speech Communication
* Analysis: Through Software and Hardware
* Underwater Acoustics
* Physics: Fundamentals and Applications
* Other Hot Topics in
Acoustics
WESPAC IX 2006 Secretariat
SungKyunKwan
University, Acoustics Research Laboratory
300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-ku,
Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
Tel: +82-31-290-5957 Fax:
+82-31-290-7055
E-mail
Website
Call for papers:AAAI Workshop on Statistical and Empirical
Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Boston, Massachusetts,
USA
16 or 17 July 2006
Workshop
website
OVERVIEW
This workshop seeks to draw new work on
statistical and empirical approaches for spoken dialogue systems. We
welcome both theoretical and applied work, addressing issues such as:
*
Representations and data structures suitable for automated learning of
dialogue models
* Machine learning techniques for automatic generation
and improvement of dialogue managers
* Machine learning techniques for
ontology construction and integration
* Techniques to accurately
simulate human-computer dialogue
* Creation, use, and evaluation of
user models
* Methods for automatic evaluation of dialogue systems
*
Integration of spoken dialogue systems into larger intelligent agents,
such as robots
* Investigations into appropriate optimization criteria
for spoken dialogue systems
* Applications and real-world examples of
spoken dialogue systems incorporating statistical or empirical
techniques
* Use of statistical or empirical techniques within
multi-modal dialogue systems
* Application of statistical or empirical
techniques to multi-lingual spoken dialogue systems
* Rapid development
of spoken dialogue systems from database content and corpora
*
Adaptation of dialogue systems to new domains and languages
* The use
and application of techniques and methods from related areas, such as
cognitive science, operations research, emergence models, etc.
* Any
other aspect of the application of statistical or empirical techniques to
Spoken Dialogue Systems.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
This will be a
one-day workshop immediately before the main AAAI conference and will
consist mainly of presentations of new work by participants.
The day
will also feature a keynote talk from Satinder Singh (University of
Michigan), who will speak about using Reinforcement Learning in the spoken
dialogue domain.
Interaction will be encouraged and sufficient time
will be left for discussion of the work presented. To facilitate a
collaborative environment, the workshop size will be limited to authors,
presenters, and a small number of other participants.
Proceedings of
the workshop will be published as an AAAI technical
report.
SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
Prospective authors are
invited to submit full-length, 6-page, camera-ready papers via email.
Authors are requested to use the AAAI paper template and follow the AAAI
formatting guidelines.
AAAI paper
template
AAAI
formatting guidelines.
Authors are asked to email papers to Jason Williams.
All papers
will be reviewed electronically by three reviewers. Comments will be
provided and time will be given for incorporation of comments into
accepted papers.
For accepted papers, at least one author from each
paper is expected to register and attend. If no authors of an accepted
paper register for the workshop, the paper may be removed from the
workshop proceedings. Finally, authors of accepted papers will be expected
to sign a standard AAAI-06 "Permission to distribute"
form.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Friday 17 March 2006 : Camera-ready
paper submission deadline
* Monday 24 April 2006 : Acceptance
notification
* Friday 5 May 2006 : AAAI-06 and workshop registration
opens
* Friday 12 May 2006 : Final camera-ready papers and "AAAI
Permission to distribute" forms due
* Friday 19 May 2006 : AAAI-06
Early registration deadline
* Friday 16 June 2006 : AAAI-06 Late
registration deadline
* Sunday 16 or Monday 17 July 2006 :
Workshop
* Tuesday-Thursday 18-20 July 2006 : Main AAAI-06
Conference
ORGANIZERS
Pascal Poupart, University of
Waterloo
Stephanie Seneff,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jason D. Williams, University of
Cambridge
Steve Young,
University of Cambridge
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For
additional information please contact: Jason D. Williams
submissions
Phone: +44 7786
683 013
Fax: +44 1223 332662
Cambridge University
Department
of Engineering
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1PZ
United
Kingdom
Call for papers: 2006 IEEE International Workshop on Machine
Learning for Signal Processing
(Formerly the IEEE Workshop on
Neural Networks for Signal Processing)
September 6 - 8, 2006, Maynooth,
Ireland
MLSP'2006
webpage
Deadlines:
Paper Submission March 31,
2006
Data analysis competition March 1, 2006
The sixteenth in a
series of IEEE workshops on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)
will be held in Maynooth, Ireland, September 6-8, 2006. Maynooth is
located 15 miles west of Dublin in Co. Kildare, Ireland?s equestrian and
golfing heartland (and home to the 2006 Ryder Cup). It is a pleasant 18th
century planned town, best known for its seminary, St. Patrick's College,
where Catholic Priests have been trained since 1795. Co.Kildare.
The workshop,
formally known as Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP), is
sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing society (SPS) and organized by the
MLSP technical committee of the IEEE SPS. The name of the NNSP technical
committee, and hence the workshop, was changed to Machine Learning for
Signal Processing in September 2003 to better reflect the areas
represented by the technical committee.
Topics
The workshop
will feature keynote addresses, technical presentations, special sessions
and tutorials, all of which will be included in the registration. Papers
are solicited for, but not limited to, the following areas:
Learning
Theory and Modeling; Bayesian Learning and Modeling; Sequential Learning;
Sequential Decision Methods; Information-theoretic Learning; Neural
Network Learning; Graphical and Kernel Models; Bounds on performance;
Blind Signal Separation and Independent Component Analysis; Signal
Detection; Pattern Recognition and Classification, Bioinformatics
Applications; Biomedical Applications and Neural Engineering; Intelligent
Multimedia and Web Processing; Communications Applications; Speech and
Audio Processing Applications; Image and Video Processing Applications.
A data analysis and signal processing competition is being organized
in conjunction with the workshop. This competition is envisioned to become
an annual event where problems relevant to the mission and interests of
the MLSP community will be presented with the goal of advancing the
current state-of-the-art in both theoretical and practical aspects. The
problems are selected to reflect the current trends to evaluate existing
approaches on common benchmarks as well as areas where crucial
developments are thought to be necessary. Details of the competition can
be found on the workshop website.
Selected papers from MLSP 2006 will
be considered for a special issue of Neurocomputing to appear in 2007. The
winners of the data analysis and signal processing competition will also
be invited to contribute to the special issue.
Paper Submission
Procedure
Prospective authors are invited to submit a double column
paper of up to six pages using the electronic submission procedure
described at the workshop homepage. Accepted papers will be published in a
bound volume by the IEEE after the workshop and a CDROM volume will be
distributed at the workshop.
Chairs
General Chair:Seán
MCLOONE, NUI Maynooth,
Technical Chair:Tülay ADALI , University of
Maryland, Baltimore County
MMSP 2006 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal
Processing
October 3-6th, 2006
Fairmont Empress
Hotel
Victoria,BC, Canada
Website.
Topics
Multimedia
processing: all modalities
Multimedia data bases
Multimedia
security
Multimedia networking
Multimedia Systems Design,
Implementation and Applications
Human Machine Interfaces and
Interaction using multimodalities
Human
Perception
Standards
Important dates
Special sessions (see
website) March 6, 2006
Papers April 8th,2006
Notification of
acceptance June 8th, 2006
Camera ready paper July 8th, 2006
Call for papers: Workshop on Multimedia Content
Representation, Classification and Security (MRCS)
September 11 -
13, 2006
Istanbul, Turkey
Workshop website
In
cooperation with
The International Association for Pattern Recognition
(IAPR)
The European Association for Signal-Image Processing
(EURASIP)
GENERAL CHAIRS
Bilge Gunsel,Istanbul Technical
Univ.,Turkey
Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University,
USA
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR
Murat Tekalp,Koc University,
Turkey
SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIR
Kivanc Mihcak, Microsoft
Research, USA
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended
summaries of not more than six (6) pages including results, figures and
references. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of
the program committee. Conference Proceedings will be available on site.
Please check the website for
further information.
IMPORTANT DATES
Special Sessions
(contact the special sesions chair): March 10, 2006
Submission of
Extended Summary: April 10, 2006
Notificatin of Acceptance: June 10,
2006
Camera-ready Paper Submission Due: July 10,
2006
Topics
The areas of interest include but are not limited
to:
- Feature extraction, multimedia content representation and
classification techniques
- Multimedia signal processing
-
Authentication, content protection and digital rights management
-
Audio/Video/Image Watermarking/Fingerprinting
- Information hiding,
steganography, steganalysis
- Audio/Video/Image hashing and clustering
techniques
- Evolutionary algorithms in content based multimedia data
representation, indexing and retrieval
- Transform domain
representations
- Multimedia mining
- Benchmarking and comparative
studies
- Multimedia applications (broadcasting, medical, biometrics,
content aware networks, CBIR.)
Ninth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2006)
Brno, Czech Republic, 11-15 September 2006
Website
The conference is
organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the
Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The
conference is supported by International Speech Communication
Association.
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum
for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language
processing from the former East Block countries and their Western
colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in
their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
series.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are
not limited to):
text corpora and tagging
transcription problems in
spoken corpora
sense disambiguation
links between text and speech
oriented systems
parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken
texts
multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue
systems
information retrieval and information extraction
text/topic
summarization
machine translation semantic networks and
ontologies
semantic web speech modeling
speech
segmentation
speech recognition
search in speech for IR and
IE
text-to-speech synthesis
dialogue systems
development of
dialogue strategies
prosody in dialogues
emotions and personality
modeling
user modeling
knowledge representation in relation to
dialogue systems assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue
applied systems and software facial animation visual speech synthesis
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.
ORGANIZERS
Frederick Jelinek, USA (general
chair)
Hynek Hermansky, USA (executive chair)
KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS
Eduard Hovy, USA
Louise Guthrie, GB
James
Pustejovsky, USA
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference
program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations,
and a poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary
or topic oriented sessions.
Social events including a trip in the
vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal
interactions.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The conference program will
include oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with
sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised. The conference will
welcome three keynote speakers - Eduard Hovy, Louise Guthrie and James
Pustejovsky, and it will offer two special panels devoted to Emotions and
Search in Speech.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 15 2006 ............
Submission of abstract
March 22 2006 ............ Submission of
papers
May 15 2006 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31
2006 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
July
23 2006 ............. Submission of demonstration abstracts
July 30
2006 ............. Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to
the authors
September 11-15 2006 ..... Conference date
The
contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will
be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
of the conference will be
English.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference
should be addressed to
Dana Hlavackova, TSD 2006
Faculty of
Informatics, Masaryk University
Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech
Republic
phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29
fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
email
LOCATION
Brno
is the the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of
almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno
is the capital of Moravia, which is in the south-east part of the Czech
Republic. It had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six
universities it forms a cultural center of the region.
Brno can be
reached easily by direct flights from London and Munich and by trains or
buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).
Call for papers 8th International Conference on Signal Processing
Nov. 16-20, 2006, Guilin, China
website
The 8th International Conference on Signal Processing will be held in Guilin,
China on Nov. 16-20, 2006. It will include sessions on all aspects of theory,
design and applications of signal processing. Prospective authors are invited to
propose papers in any of the following areas, but not limited to:
A. Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
B. Spectrum Estimation & Modeling
C. TF Spectrum Analysis & Wavelet
D. Higher Order Spectral Analysis
E. Adaptive Filtering &SP
F. Array Signal Processing
G. Hardware Implementation for Signal Processing
H. Speech and Audio Coding
I. Speech Synthesis & Recognition
J. Image Processing & Understanding
K. PDE for Image Processing
L. Video compression &Streaming
M. Computer Vision & VR
N. Multimedia & Human-computer Interaction
O. Statistic Learning & Pattern Recognition
P. AI & Neural Networks
Q. Communication Signal processing
R. SP for Internet and Wireless Communications
S. Biometrics & Authentification
T. SP for Bio-medical & Cognitive Science
U. SP for Bio-informatics
V. Signal Processing for Security
W. Radar Signal Processing
X. Sonar Signal Processing and Localization
Y. SP for Sensor Networks
Z. Application & Others
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